I wish that it was possible to mod something up further than 5 in special cases, because the post from hellkyng really is giving the best advice for what you want to do, namely making sure that the people whose data is being stored insecurely becomes stored securely. None of the other 5's in the comments are doing that, they're just "Cover your ass" advice.

Now I'm going to mod up the other post that I've seen which gives advice in line with your goals - contact some famous security professionals and see what they have to say.

This kind of experimentation provides research to something relevant to all of us, namely the Sun. It's something that very few people put any intense thought into, but is very important to us. There's also quite a bit about it that is not understood and every little bit helps, due to our dependence on its existence and how various unusual and not-well-understood (or not understood at all) phenomena can affect us.

Two quotes from the article stand out to me:

First:

"In space, molecular diffusion draws oxygen to the flame and combustion products away from the flame at a rate 100 times slower than the buoyant flow on Earth"

Talk about a slow burn...

When one considers that less than 2% of the Sun is something other than Hydrogen and Helium, and Oxygen being only another chunk of that 2% with other elements having their chunks of that respective small percentage, that quote gives us considerable insight into why the Sun and other stars burn for as long as we believe they do.

Second:

"Thus far, the most surprising thing we've observed is continued apparent burning of heptane droplets after flame extinction under certain conditions. Currently, this is entirely unexplained"

With that perspective, I wonder what unusual phenomena we might now observe (or have been observing) with the idea that there is likely burning ejecta from the sun that we might not ordinarily detect as they are much less visible without any flames.

Of course, the second quote does bring up questions about what strange phenomena might be happening terrestrially or already observed unusual terrestrial phenomena may be closer to being explained with that observation.

This second quote from the article definitely merits more research.

Looking at this quote in the article: "an overflow of workers whose skillsets don’t match with the needs of the export-led, manufacturing-based economy", it really doesn't look like China is thinking long-term.

With how quickly more human-like robotics is coming along in recent years, it looks more and more like over half of those "manufacturing-based economy" jobs could be replaced by a robot that works better for those roles for less money than a human could.

So, what does China do when all of those people are now without jobs. The same problem could be said to apply to all countries around the world as technology moves forward, but China is the one that is currently looking to concentrate people into this area that has has 'long-term obsolescence' stamped all over it. What do they do with all the people that they've trained to be unemployable, then? Soylent Green?

I've got to admit that when I read that they were looking to build the world's largest Tesla Coils, I was wondering how loud the music they would be playing on them would be.

The show from playing the Dr. Who theme with Tesla coils that huge would be unbelievable.

And like earlier commenters, I think they're missing out on too many variables as to how lightning accomplishes what they're trying to duplicate in order for this endeavor to be of any practical use or gain any substantial further useful knowledge.

A change in bias is actually the norm for SCOTUS Justices. Most gain a more Liberal interpretation the longer that they serve.

This would seem to be a logical change to be expected from them performing their duties properly. They are supposed to be interpreting cases based on the Constitution and the mindset of that document's authors.

Given that the mindset of the Founding Fathers of the USA and the rights they attempted to set forth for the people that would be governed, they were very Liberal for the time (one could even call them Radicals considering that they had just gone through a bloody revolution). Going through the Founding Father's other writings to solidify an image of their mindset, shows them to be even more Liberal than their general historic portrayal.

Looking at that, on the basis of the principles of resolving cognitive dissonance in Psychology, a SCOTUS Justice that properly preforms their duties becoming more Liberal in their interpretations is to be expected.

This leads one to wonder why the Conservative appointees from the Reagan-era onwards are mostly acting as exceptions to this norm.

Don't take it off.

Right now it's probably police/gov't doing their violation of the 4th amendment.

In the future, it could be anybody sticking a tracker on you, since even if the government starts putting 'Property of U.S. government' on it, so could anyone else. It's not like you know the difference. This is also a nice way for criminals to disguise a bomb now.

So, take that last one to heart now. If you find one of these things, call 911 and tell them "I found a suspicious black box planted on my vehicle. I don't know what it is or who put it there. I'm scared it might be a bomb, please send the bomb squad."

The bomb squad getting deployed always causes lots of attention and gets on the news. It's also expensive for them to deploy. Suddenly, warantless GPS tracker deployment will start looking much less attractive to the police/gov't with the bad publicity and the actual expenses racking up.

Inevitably, we have a comment from the "didn't RTFA crowd" (since that's generally the majority of /. readers for the past ~7 years), though at least this one isn't as bad as most. FTFA:

"The vision loss seems to be due to a swelling of the optic nerve, a condition similar to a disease on Earth called pseudotumor cerebri, which mostly afflicts heavy women. Nobody knows why pseudotumor cerebri occurs ... Doctors believe the redistribution of cerebral spinal fluid in weightlessness is to blame, though that doesn't fully explain the situation."

It is extraordinarily unlikely that artificial gravity will help given that they really don't know exactly what's causing this. Especially since this is similar to a condition experienced by people who could be (euphemistically speaking) considered to be living under conditions of "slightly higher than average gravity".

How long do these changes last?

If this were a permanent change, one would wonder why all those Southeast Asian people who consume white rice regularly don't end up with high LDL counts counts and subsequently a high per-capita rate of heart attacks.

Is this a short-lived change, like until the affected cells undergo Mitosis again (~30 mins.), or is there another food in tyhese people's diets that counteracts this genetic change?

Since you are "one of the engineers that run the DNS at Comcast", can you answer a question is not answered by the FAQ that you have pointed everyone to:

Will your DNS servers running DNSSEC be implementing NSEC3 to regain some of the "security through obscurity" lost in the DNSSEC protocol?

Yes, keeping the fire ants in "more of a natural check" is the most that could be accomplished by the insects that are being introduced this time.

According to TFA, this is the 4th phorid species introduced to Texas. The 1st was released in 1999.

The article notes there are 23 known phorid species. Even those, with native pathogens, only keep South American fire ant populations "controlled".

When you've seen pictures of the 5 to 6 foot tall fire ant nests that can occasionally spring up in South America (where these have managed to cross paths with expanding cattle farms, there are cases of cows being killed by attacks from the ants when the cow in question brushes up against the nest), you'll probably be inclined to indulge the introduction of another "control" every now and then...

The whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag is obviously from someone who has neither RTFA nor knows how bad fire ant populations can get.