Consider: g = -GM / ( r^2 - e^2 ) where g is the acceleration, G is the gravity constant, M is the mass of the black hole, r is the distance from the black hole's center, e is the radius of the event horizon. From Wikipedia: "Attempting to make an object near the horizon remain stationary with respect to an observer requires applying a force whose magnitude increases unbounded (becoming infinite) the closer it gets." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon#Interacting_with_an_event_horizon

General Relativity states that nothing can cross a black hole's event horizon. How can anything in the article be believe when it has such an obvious error?

NSA was set up from the start to spy on foreign transactions. Its purpose was to provide inside information to Wall Street from its beginning. Spying on people is just a sideline.

Even death by torture didn't stop copying. Time to eliminate copyright completely.

Using an X-no-wiretap header is like putting your emergency flashers on when illegally parking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcHXgY0KKo

The internet has always been open. There have been fools that think adding "security" to it will change this. It doesn't. Get real, people. There are only two rules to security on the internet: 1. Never put anything on the net that you can't afford to be viewed by the public. 2. Never put anything solely on the internet that you can afford to lose. Corollary: Never put anything in a cloud that you can't afford to be viewed by the public.

By law, corporations in the US must enhance their shareholders value. That means they're cheap. Cheap infrastructures are not robust. They are built to fail. Another blackout that happened in the NE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965

You could use a magsail to push items away, at least, any item you can induce a current in. And I do believe there were a few prototypes tested. Anyway, here's a NASA paper [PDF] on it, so yes, NASA thinks it may work.

They're the same thing but a magsail has way more power. And all technology was nothing but an idea at one time.

Why don't they just use magsails?

It takes a female chimpanzee 4 to 5 years to teach her offspring enough to survive. During that time, she does not come into heat. Humans, on the other hand, can have babies about once a year. A single female could not raise them all on her own without some help. Today, we call that helper a husband and father. Monogamy means more babies.

What makes you think that the current patents will be allowed to run out? After all, copyrights have been extended forever; how long before patents follow? And can you imagine what computers would be like if Knuth's books were patented?

All software patents are illegal. All software is algorithms and by patent law, algorithms cannot be patented. Someone should sue the US Patent Office for allowing them.

Yeah, I got the creepy feeling the first few times I watch real-time weather satellite images. It's strange to realize that you're looking down on yourself even tho there was no possibility of seeing yourself at that low resolution. :)

Go out, buy a RC model plane and stick a cell phone on it. DIY drone. Try regulating that.