Good point about the Starship Troopers movie. It's one thing to omit some events for the unofficial two-hour limit, but that thing was really untrue to the essence of the book whose title, plot and characters it lifted for a contrary theme and message (or absence of any, which is also contrary to the book's intent).

Good use of the book as analogy, too. Rights logically imply responsibilities. What's the problem?

Using the incompetence of George Walker Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, almost everybody is talented enough to suspect these losers are cheating us. Surveillance is just one possible means. Handing auto workers', and everybody else's income who works for a living, directly to their cronies at AIG and Citi is another, and the latter is a documented fact. Suspicion of other, similar pursuits of the same agenda via other agencies is not paranoia, it's true intelligence. As opposed to the euphemistic language invoked to describe the same incompetents' failure to apprehend terrorists who took flight lessons and skipped landing, more than one month after George Walker Bush was delivered a CIA document titled "Bin Laden Determined To Strike US" and describing the plan to steer airplanes into buildings.

The general opinion of this board, as I see it, is that process patents retard production, especially but not only innovative production, more than they advance it. Can you quantify the "great amount of US GDP currently derived from services and intellectual properties which include such processes"? Once you have, can you honestly claim that taking all those patent-enforced methodological [I will not call this farce "intellectual"] monopolies off the open market really reduces GDP?

It isn't. Somebody obviously got in, either by socially engineering a soldier or by being a double agent.

Hardened? Is this about placing the aforementioned plastic box into a steel vault?

With proper security measures installed, and with decent firewalls and traffic monitoring on both the outbound and the inbound, and with intelligent account restrictions in place,

... including prohibiting external storage devices,

Not close.

Provide one other "example of the applications it's been used for after it was already a mature commercial product," shit-for-brain. It was developed for my military, after it received a contract from my military. I own it, bitch.

Less finesse? Bush has been caught, repeatedly, and for much worse than Watergate. He has not been prosecuted, not because he has skillfully evaded detection but because his crimes are so terrifying, and his accomplices [Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Perle, PNAC, Sauds] are so shady. Is that what you consider "finesse"?

Now, do you suppose it was given to my military, as a xmas gift? Do you suppose development even began before a no-bid, cost+plus contract was signed? Like I said, I funded the development as a taxpayer already. I own that. Hand it over.

Given the dual constraints of (1) programming language & (2) action to perform, one "right way" exists, defined by loads on processor, memory/cache/'page file' & [rarely] storage. This means that MegaCorp. programmers are half right, not that they plagiarize half their work. Corollary: "software" & "patent" are inherently antithetical concepts [because only one "right way" exists to write "software" for any given task, and therefore no useful solution is ever novel, nor non-obvious].

Programmers, CS students, know that software is a necessity, a prerequisite for computer hardware to be useful. It is not a "value add" but the MegaCorp. MBA dufi have fallen for that sales pitch, and inflated the market for the rest of us so that we pay extras for ... what Microsoft sells!?! WTF? Every programmer / CS student knows their software is shit.

Did this exploit originate in a Chinese Free Enterprise Zone, ie, is it possible for US citizens to buy information about our own government? Our government and our "free" press certainly aren't giving us what we want! I have to pay for Elite Cable Package 2 to get any believable news.

From the summary:

We all experience greed, but knowing that everybody else does too, we are naturally suspicious of "something for nothing," especially if offered by another human. Plants and animals we expect to be able to eat. Thus, the survival advantage of action based on reciprocal trust. Social conventions complex enough to turn this mechanism to any individual's disadvantage are relatively recent in homo sapiens' time on Earth, thus the yet-unsolved problem of con people.

As a female professor of mine put it, CS is about "using the computer in order to use the computer." Women ask "How long until we do something useful?" Boys ask "How long until we get to video games?" which are less popular among females, last I checked.

Any news about re-purposing used computers for similar purposes here [United States] instead of dumping them in Asian landfills?

This article is about staying close to the ~59% theoretical maximum predicted by Betz' Law over a wide range of incoming wind speeds, not magically eclipsing it. Save your sarcasm until you really know what you're talking about.

http://www.windpower.org/en/tour/wres/betz.htm

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I have been using Chrome since it was announced on /. whenever I'm stuck on Windows [usu. briefly] but I did not know that. Kewl.