The next challenge is to use this technique to cheat on exams.

'I don't want to write this book, but I have to,' he said.

Sounds like Mr. Assange is back to school -- this time he has to write an essay on his own life.

...a Beowulf cluster of these...

Google Pizza? Google Beer? Google Babes? Google Porn? Google Space Station? ...

Simply stop selling and sending food to New York. When people begin starving, the most resourceful will look for food in trash. When they meet competition from the pesky critters, they'll kill them and even feed on them. Finally, when the possum problem is controlled, they can send food back into New York. Next, they can finally start thinking about how to deal with the rat problem appropriately!

I suppose that each Child will also receive One Laptop assigned for her/his school duties?

These are the kind of people who could get choked on a cordless phone, if you know what I mean.

That all seems fine, but that sciency stuff really hurts people's brain and they'll have nothing to do with that ghastly business of evidence. We've also discussed this recently: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/1740208/The-Scientific-Impotence-Excuse

For us non-USA folk, could you Americans give us geographical guidance when referring to US states,

Why would they want to do that? Slashdot is hosted there, as so as the host of TFA. For what reason would they want to describe New England (or another state) in detail for non-USA folks? It makes as much sense as describing Portugal that way in Portuguese-held media.

Portugal exported some uranium ore to Iran during the early 1980s, ammounting to close to 300 tons. However, its mines have been abandoned since late 1980s to early 1990s. From http://www.iraqwatch.org/un/IAEA/s-1997-779-att-1.htm :

Iraq procures "yellowcake" uranium from Portugal, Niger, and Brazil.

However, its mine have been abandoned since late 1980s to early 1990s, mainly because of economic viability and not as much as from puny environmentalist concerns as claimed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Portugal

Where are the error bars?

I had a college teacher in one of the experimental courses who figuratively ran over me and some of my fellow students' reports for plotting graphs of measured quantities without error bars, particularly when there's a "curve fit" on it. The idea is to figure out how close/far from the "expected behavior" are the experimental point. From then on I've always paid attention to it. At least some reference to it in the preprint would be nice. For all we know, those microvolt output voltages could have errors as big as the graph scale.

You might want to listen to this for inspiration: http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_sinclair_on_open_source_architecture.html

Next up, Lord Vader replaces his breather mask with mouse lungs. Boy, he's gonna be pissed! Or else the mouse is going to force-choke someone if he doesn't get his cheese, fast! "I assure you commander, that the Mouse Emperor will not be as lenient as I am. Perhaps you think you're being treated ... unfairly?"

FUD

I don't want it printing every single frame of stupid lolcat videos my friends send me. What a waste of paper and toner!