From TFA "Tri Alpha’s 23-meter-long device..."
Won't fit into my car damn it.

I told ya you should have got the hatchback.

When the question instead became, "we're going to put things into space for $50M - how are we going to do that?" a whole new engineering methodology unfolded.

If NASA never existed, do you think there would be any private space exploration today, much less "putting something in space for $50M"? You think there would have been nuclear energy in the 20th century without a Manhattan Project?

It's easy for a company to pretend they hit a home run when they start the inning on third base.

I want my money back, Slashdot!

Rand Paul made just enough noise to make it seem like something good was happening, and disappears into the Sunday morning talk shows.

Meanwhile, the handful of legislators who have been working to oppose the Patriot Act are left dangling by that skeevy SOB.

All those slashdotters who were going all RAND JESUS! should take this as a lesson. The man is a shit-sodden self-promoter. He gives absolutely no fucks about what powers the NSA has. He's just desperate to get the BitCoin vote. Maybe score some contributors off the Silk Road customers.

Here is the full list of House members who voted against the Patriot Act

Democratic Caucus:

Tammy Baldwin (WI-02) Thomas Barrett (WI-05) Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) David Bonior (MI-10) Rick Boucher (VA-09) Sherrod Brown (OH-13) Mike Capuano (MA-08) Eva Clayton (NC-01) John Conyers (MI-14) William Coyne (PA-14) Elijah Cummings (MD-07) Danny Davis (IL-07) Pete DeFazio (OR-04) Diana DeGette (CO-01) John Dingell (MI-16) Sam Farr (CA-17) Bob Filner (CA-50) Barney Frank (MA-04) Alcee Hastings (FL-23) Earl Hilliard (AL-07) Mike Honda (CA-15) Jesse Jackson (IL-02) Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18) Eddie Johnson (TX-30) Stephanie Jones (OH-11) Dennis Kucinich (OH-10) Barbara Lee (CA-09) John Lewis (GA-05) Jim McDermott (WA-07) James McGovern (MA-03) Cynthia McKinney (GA-04) Carrie Meek (FL-17) George Miller (CA-07) Patsy Mink (HI-02) Allan Mollohan (WV-01) Jerry Nadler (NY-08) James Oberstar (MN-08) David Obey (WI-07) John Olver (MA-01) Major Owens (NY-11) Ed Pastor (AZ-02) Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Collin Peterson (MN-07) Nick Rahall (WV-03) Lynn Rivers (MI-13) Bobby Rush (IL-01) Martin Sabo (MN-05) Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) Bobby Scott (VA-03) Jose Serrano (NY-16) Pete Stark (CA-13) Bennie Thompson (MS-02) John Tierney (MA-06) Mark Udall (CO-02)
Tom Udall (NM-03) Nydia Velazquez (NY-12) Peter Visclosky (IN-01) Maxine Waters (CA-35) Diane Watson (CA-32) Mel Watt (NC-12) Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
David Wu (OR-01)

Republicans
Bob Ney (OH-18) Butch Otter (ID-01) Ron Paul (TX-14)

Here is the full list of Senators who voted against the Patriot Act:

Democratic Caucus

Russ Feingold (D-WI)

Only one person voted against the Patriot Act as a congressman AND as a senator, and that's Independant Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

let's wait a couple of years before we get too excited.

I am in a constant state of over-excitement. This story doesn't even move the needle.

Personally, I think this is great news. My T-shirt collection will probably double in size over the next year.

Nobody with such a low Slashdot UID should still be wearing t-shirts with clever sayings or Star Wars characters on them.

It might be time to grow up and switch to Hawaiian shirts.

and those same numbers are often used while talking to ATC by radio. That wireless thing that anyone can listen in on.

Heck, in 5 years when ADS-B becomes mandatory you won't even have to listen, just fire up a receiver and you'll know everyone who is overhead.

I live in a house over 100 years old with original heavy wood frame windows. The windows have rope that goes to counter-weight anchors inside of the window frame to balance the weight while the window is open. On one window, the rope broke...

I now open the window and place an old AT keyboard from the '80s on the side to prop the thing open.

I have a feeling you're not kidding.

Listen, it's really an easy fix. I'm one of the least handy people around and I was able to fix a broken sash rope. It's like a half-hour job, including the removal of the wood trim. Lots of good instructions online (google, "fix a broken sash cord").

If you like the look of the keyboard holding up the window though, never mind. I used one of those miniature baseball bats they give out at the ball park for like 4 years before I finally broke down and fixed the damned thing.

The new Macbook has USB-C as does the Chromebook Pixel 2, expect the next wave of ultrabooks and convertibles to have them as well.

"you sir are guilty of jaywalking, but because the arresting office has alluded to the fact that you might be a pedophile, I'm going to give you 15 years".. right.

Well, 15 years isn't within the allowable punishments for jaywalking so that's a specious argument. However if you think Capone got all that time in jail for simple tax evasion you're nuts. Sometimes people of bad character are charged with what the prosecution can prove beyond a reasonable doubt but everyone knows the score and so they'll get the top end of the scale for what could be proven. That's not necessarily against justice even if it isn't within the letter of the law.

Again, what makes you think only non-Americans buy what they sell?

I'll bet the number of Americans who buy an Israeli newspaper is pretty small in proportion to the amount of money that Sheldon Adelson gives to candidates.

That's great. A stable, intuitive, responsive desktop is sorely needed. Linux desktop environments lack polish. Always missing features, configuration settings are confusing, and the file manager is too easy to crash. Why for instance is it such a pain to set colors in LXDE? Themes are icons and colors together, makes it difficult to have one without the other. In Openbox, I don't want the scroll wheel to flip between desktops, or "shade" and "unshade" windows if on the titlebar, and that's the first thing I turn off in that environment. Have to find and edit a text file to do that too. Too many times I'm scrolling a window and the mouse wanders off the page, and then suddenly I'm spinning through desktops or shading several open windows the next time I scroll.

As to responsiveness, where's Wayland?

I figured this out when I was like seven years old. You just hook up one of these to a space ship and fly straight to Jupiter.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Or in the sense of adding a spoiler and neon running lights to a beat up Honda Civic "might be really cool"?

Oh, you've seen my whip. Pretty badass, huh?

The people collectively? Yes

Adelson owns among many things casinos, hotels, an Israeli newspaper.

So, what you're trying to say is that Sheldon Adelson is representative of people from other countries. Then we agree.

Those casinos, newspapers, investment management companies, etc. get money by selling things to customers, and not just other elite rich people customers.

So, what you're saying is, we have a "representative democracy" but it represents the people of a different country?