This is America. Nobody is supposed to be above the law, especially the government.

Congress may not be concerned with the NSA's actions, but they've already proven themselves willing to trade away our freedoms wholesale so that they can claim to be "tough on terror" during the next election cycle. We need to hold their feet to the fire and make them reign in the NSA.

I thought that, since it wasn't made up of sub-particles, an electron was a point particle. Since when does it have a defined size, let alone shape?

I like Clementine, mostly because it seems to be the only music player in existence which displays the image embedded in a song's MP3 file. All the others I've tried insist on displaying the same single image (which they found in the first song they happened to scan) for every song in my entire playlist.

Also, If anyone knows of a music player for Android which can do the same, I'd love to hear of it.

Worth nothing to statistics, sure. But when it comes to people's purchasing habits, emotion is huge.

Phoenix 0.2 was amazing for its day, but what we should really be celebrating is how the web was freed from the curse of "this site works in IE only". And that happened after Phoenix became Firefox.

I'd like to add my voice to this: What the hell are UI designers smoking these days? There used to be a time when user interfaces were very direct and to-the-point about what the user could and could not click to make things happen. Now we're seeing all these awful "flat" interfaces where it's nearly impossible to tell what can be interacted with and what's just there as part of the background!
The fact that Apple - who claim to be #1 in user interface design - seems to be leading this charge is mind-boggling to me. Why Windows and Ubuntu are following along is unfathomable.

Ugh, Mikulski. She supported letting the phone companies get away with warrantless wiretapping, but God forbid anyone get away with exposing government wrongdoing. She makes me ashamed to be from Maryland, and it'll be a happy day when she's finally given the boot. Doubly so if she's replaced by someone who actually cares about personal liberty and privacy.

Not trying to blame the victim, but going online without NoScript these days is simply foolish.

Concerning this entire console generation, I believe Yahtzee said it best in his buyer's guide: "Don't."

True, the left is more chummy with Iran than the right, but only because anything is more chummy than declaring "they're part of an axis of eeeeeevil!"

By the by, blanket statements comdenming groups of people as "evil" come most frequently from the mouths of those favoring theocratic totalitarianism.

Greetings, being from a bizarre parallel universe! Before you interact with anyone else, I must be quick to point out that nobody in the media or universities of this dimension praises Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot. In fact, asserting something so ridiculous will get you nothing but strange looks, scorn, or sarcastic responses!

The technology of 1995, today!

They're still around, just not in Europe anymore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Maoist)

They're not just pansies, they're also idiots. No criminal is going to spend the obscene amount of money required for a 3D-printed gun that's reliable enough to not shatter in one's hand; not when there are so many cheaper alternatives to the problem of "there is a metal detector between me and the person I want to kill".

Simulating how the neurons and connections function won't be enough. You also need an initial state for each of them. Get even a tiny precentage of them wrong, and the result would probably be a virtual seizure.