Hmmm. There's also Alaska.

We do have this place called Nevada.

Really? Safety? That's the angle they're working?

If there's anything I've learned in life with the many jobs I've had and the situations I've been in, safety is a secondary concern of Americans. When the DHS requests something like this, it should raise some eyebrows. After all, they groped my junk at the airport last I was there. Privacy is of no consequence to them... in the name of "safety".

Son of a bitch. Anywhere but government would I be laughed at with such a proposal. "5 years before yielding any results" would normally require a "fuck off" by normal people.

...my food eats plants, then I eat the food. *rimshot*

What is the running patent life of an idea these days? Used to be until you got off your ass and built it and others imitated.

This is an elegant use for an accelerometer. Obvious? Now it is after they said it. But imagine being able to punch your pocket to shut your phone up. Really the guy that came up with this needs more than the $1 he will get from Microshaft for the patent.

My use: PC for when I want to get things done and produce things of value. iPad for when I just want to dick around and not really do anything. The iPad or any tablet platform really isn't fit as a content producing platform. It's awesome for consuming content though.

They nixed it and rightfully so. Think of all the damage caused by hail. Their insurance premiums would go through the roof in no time!

Rage is an emotion right?

Unless this is going to be dispensed from a boat in international waters, I really don't see this monopoly working. I'll bet you dollars to donuts that neither the US or Russia is going to sign-onto this goat rodeo.

About 5 seconds after midnight GMT a Java server app running on my Debian Squeeze server decided it was going to eat-up ALL THE THINGS and for some reason, the server rebooted itself. Glad to know I wasn't alone in shitting myself over odd behaviours.

I've been using the same thing since Ubuntu drove the bus off a cliff with Gnome3 a year or so ago. I never really was into the "make look pretty" aspect of customizing a desktop. XFCE4 is just so damn flexible. I still have yet to run into a limitation of my own personal and development uses.

Estimated? Hell, measured by .5 of actual. What about the places with emissions checks on vehicles? If the findings in this study are true, I want every fucking dime that I've spent on emissions checks over the years back.

I agreed up until the SSD bit. Yes, there does need to be some geographic diversity in manufacturing. I'm still not 100% sold on SSDs for Terabytes of information.