Wait ... you mean there are still companies that allow personally-owned devices and media to connect to their networks? I guess it saves the cost of hiring an IT staff - I can't imagine anyone taking that job.

Coal-burning plants in the Appalachians, and a massive transmission line that Dominion Power wants to run across large swaths of W Va and VA. Now that the administration is behind the idea, the local opposition doesn't stand a chance.

the relentless flash pop-up ads on that site (that re-open immediately upon clicking close) made it impossible to read the article. Something tells me this isn't what the site had in mind when it sold advertising space there ...

I agree - the fact that BMI was used at all in the so-called "study" means it has zero credibility and apparently wasn't performed by anyone with a medical or epidemiological background. There is no science at all behind BMI - read Devlin's history of it (linked in slashdot about two weeks ago) at www.maa.org/devlin

My daughter is in the same situation. JAWS for Windows, from what I gather, is a kind of video driver that intercepts Win API calls to display text and turns those into speech. Seems straightforward enough, right? However, in a misguided bid to "distinguish" their software, many vendors choose to skip the API and display their own proprietary widgets on the screen, consisting of text and graphics. JAWS is lost, and if those contain system-modal dialogs, a blind user is out of business. Norton Antivirus is an insidious example of this. Likewise, Flash, Silverlight and all those graphics-based content systems are completely inaccessible to the blind. Frankly I have yet to see one flash-based web site that offered any advantage over text-based sites. We went from cave paintings, to the written and spoken word, only to have the computer return us to the cave painting days. Short of developing and enforcing standards for accessibility, I don't have any ideas of how to tame this rampant abuse of the disabled.

NASA and DoD have dramatically different sets of standards they build to. Trying to modify Delta and Atlas for NASA's man-rated qualifications would probably cost twice as much and take twice as long as staying the course with Ares. There was a program that came before Orion, called the Orbital Space Plane, that pretty much figured out that existing EELVs simply aren't suited for launching manned payloads. And I think Griffin's comment was that Obama's transition team, not NASA, doesn't have the chops to make those kind of evaluations.