So, are you saying there should be no investment in defence or counter-terrorism or space programs just because people are (quoting you) "pissing and shitting on the streets"? One Idea is that Investing in security will create a safe environment that will create jobs that will eventually decrease poverty ( I guess a more dignified way to put it? )

I am going to investigate of if China is building Arc ships

Fox news is entitled to its opinion. Censoring news to only allow news or opinions that you like is another form of censorship. As long as Fox news is not doing anything illegal it has the right to do what it is doing. If you think something is wrong you should bring about a new legislations that punishes people who distort news.

What if the person who wrote grammatically incorrect comments is not a native English speaker? Engligh not fluent, C++ very fluent!

My password is ****** Your password is ****** Somebody tells me that Slashdot masks all passwords replacing them with 6 '*' If for some reason you are not able to see your password, that is because slashdot is not able to resolve among the many passwords that you have used in your life up until now. Am I a magician or what?

Blood is not channeled to the head (Disambiguation: located on the anterior region)

I guess the article should have been titled 'deficiencies of techniques that measure your IQ today' and what it means to be 'smart'?

You are making an argument against competition. Collaboration is not necessarily the only way to do things. The premise on which you are making the whole argument(competition is bad) is not necessarily true.

Dude, in any economy, the money trickles down to the poor. When rich people get money, they end up spending on food, maids or other luxuries which will eventually go the less fortunate people. The change is slow, but it is happening. Earlier in China, there was an idea that people used to use to overcome severe famine Yi Zhi Er Shi. Google it. We dont hear such stuff nowadays..care to guess why?

Since you understand the social implications of his questions, you are definitely not a programmer!

What about talking to kids in the back-seat who are not aware of tricky driving moments? Is that accounted for?

If you use me and a torch as the storage the size of the petabyte could be my weight + weight of the torch(155 pounds). For every set bit, I would point the light towards a particular direction and for every bit that was not set, I would point the light towards a different direction. Of course if you decide to use me as the storage, read and write operations would be very slow, well I guess that is something we are not interested in! I am also guessing we are not interested in the amount of power consumed to perform the operation( in my case, the number of batteries necessary for the torch and the amount of food you would have to feed me to read/write data)!

that apple has a "keep everything secret" policy... oxymoron?

What is that? Sometimes, between my science projects and working on my toys in my parent's basement, I need more context when talking about such topics

Till now, poorer countries were thriving because of American way of outsourcing I guess now few thousands may thrive in Buffalo N.Y as opposed to millions in Bangalore, India