Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

It's not like they need to put a back door on it. There will be about 500 exploits found within the next year as it is.

Maybe you should try the many current events news websites out there if you want more pressing stories. This is slashdot, not CNN.

If the mix doesn't sound good on almost any device, it wasn't mixed well. Audiophiles seem to think we don't take the fact that most people don't have high-end audio gear and lossless audio into account.

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So you're saying humans evolved to play with things that didn't exist when we became humans?

What? The nerve! Everyone knows fathers are supposed to ignore their children at all times, even if they're on fire.

It's definitely a problem, but as you said, it's a decades-old problem. It is not a top headline and certainly not more important than the economy or the wars.

NASA's budget is such a small fraction of the overall budget ($17.318 billion out of $2.9 trillion in 2008) that it really has very little effect on the economy. If you want to worry about the U.S. economy, fighting two different expensive wars is a much bigger problem. Less than half a penny out of every tax dollar goes to NASA. 5 cents goes to the 'global war on Terror.' [see: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Fy2008spendingbycategory.png%5D

Their remade web page now puts fluff pieces and human interest stories as the most prominent headlines and images. As I am typing this, the largest headline and photo on us.cnn.com is "Obese kids are coronary time bombs" while stories about the economy and Obama's position on Afghanistan are moved to a small sidebar. The most trusted name in news indeed.

Because, of course, that never happened when he was in office, right?

Apparently, some people still don't understand this whole 'representative democracy' thing. Many Americans- millions- never supported and never will support torture. We didn't vote for those who did, we didn't support their policies and some of us would even like to see them do prison time for them.

You've obviously never been to Sedona, AZ.

Many laptop makers (and probably makers of other electronics too) design their power supplies to be universal. All you need to change is the (usually removable) cable that goes from the outlet to the transformer. I was able to charge my American Macbook by taking the cable out of the clock radio in my room and plugging it into the little square Macbook transformer box thingy. Since that's a feature they don't even bother advertising, I imagine it's cheap and easy enough to make no one's socket better than anyone else's.