Because resonances can often get you more bang for your energy buck than direct impulse.

That, and they want to move things carefully and precisely. This seems like it would be a lot more stable than using air flows.

Point is, there is no flicker in non-CRT displays, and thus the flicker fusion frequency isn't involved at all. Having picture motion seem fluid & realistic, and color range & perception, are separate issues.

Can the bottom of my car be a flat surface which vibrates sprayed water droplets, thus slightly levitating the vehicle and allowing forward movement via those particles?

That's not the problem. The problem is the fact that humanity does not work that way in any scale beyond small clan/tribe units.

This is no different than doing business with any foreign entity. If you buy physical product from some offshore supplier, local business & warranty laws don't apply to them.

If you're dealing in data with a foreign entity, that entity is not bound to your local data laws. The only difference is that now in the "information age" regular home users are exposed to the risks involved.

Currently, to use Tor a program must be written to communicate through Tor's SOCKS proxy, which apparently Windows doesn't support well.

This, in theory and if I'm reading the bits of the description properly, would allow you to run any program that talks basic internet protocols and route its traffic through Tor without any changes to the program. That's similar to how a firewall can change the internet permissions of a program without touching the program itself.

The funny thing is that he's recommending Automatic Reference Counting instead, which destroys cache much more than GC during regular processing.

What makes you think the republicans want to kill DHS? For some reason, "conservative" too often means desiring to blow everybody else up in the name of security/freedom/whatever, foreign or domestic. There are too many terrorized politicians and predatory opportunists on both sides of the entrenchments.

Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA.

I wouldn't necessarily credit the American education system, but American culture (which in turn does effect educational style). We're in theory the pioneers, the free people forging our own destinies from the unknown, etc. We are supposed to be new-problem solvers by cultural definition.

The only real options boil down to fragmentation or forced obsolescence. Android chose the former, Apple chose the latter. Both suck in their own ways.

Hex? No, it should use octal EBCDIC XML.

So is Linux off the table for some reason? I've had that on the desktop for years, and I'm no *nix guru.

Granting powers to someone at "his discretion" has nothing to do with limiting those powers to wartime.

Listening to the audio clip of the witness who originally said that (third video on the first-linked page), I believe he meant that the airplane began to roll left, not that it actually completed a tumble in any particular direction. The left wing hit the ground during that "beginning to cartwheel" event, then the wheels all touched down and it came to a stop.