a) The various independent papers were publicly presented in August 2011 to a large group of medical physicists and professionals in the radiation oncology industry, of which I'm a member. The papers were presented by knowledgeable authorities, and a TSA rep phoned in and took questions. The only thing the audience took TSA to task for was that they did not disseminate this information very well to the public.
b) You should have a healthy amount of wariness (avoid being naive), but given what I read in these documents and the presentation mentioned above that I attended, I do not see any reason to be paranoid or cynically distrustful by assuming malevolence. The TSA is a bungling bureaucracy like so many other parts of the government, and they screwed up how they handled public inquiries on the safety of these devices. That doesn't mean they are hiding harmful effects or that the devices are unsafe.
c) X-ray devices can be compared with light bulbs, they fail off (zero dose) but due to physics it is hard to conceive of them failing in the more-powerful direction.
I worry about how much X-ray radiation I get from my dentist and my doctor. After learning about airport scanners, I lose no sleep at all about them.

The article is filled with speculation and disinformation. Here are the research links on both backscatter and millimeter wave technologies, provided by TSA:
http://www.tsa.gov/research/reading/index.shtm

You can see in the John's Hopkins August 2010 assessment that passengers get less than 2 microrem from a scan. You get about 238 microrem per hour of flight, two orders of magnitude larger (per hour!):
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.html

Stick to the science. 6 to 100 cancers per year is pure speculation, and impossible to verify. I don't believe it at all.

Swearing or cursing as a habit during general discourse is a bad thing because it is a sign of both mental weakness and lack of self control. Have you heard about the study that found that dogs bark because they don't know what else to do? People curse because they can't find anything else useful to say. Sometimes it's okay, like when you hammer your finger by accident. But wolf puppies bark, and as they grow more mature they bark less or not at all. They are able to intercept the urge, they show the self control to avoid barking. As the mental capacity and self control of people increases, they will curse/swear less. As noted by the article, people are cursing and swearing more, which means it is likely their mental capacity is also diminishing. Recent studies on how Google and the constant barrage of information has a negative effect on cognition may provide a hint as to why swearing is becoming more prevalent. That's my theory.

They're working on it: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514153022.htm http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/more-efficient-palladium-fuel-cell-catalysts/

Sometimes I can't get coding because there are just too many ways to write the code, or there are too many conflicting requirements or whatever. The solution is not clear in my head. So I write the solution in paragraph form, or bulleted list form. I write in English. This dovetails with a lot of other excellent suggestions that you break down the work into little bits. Break it down in English (or your natural writing language, mine just happens to be English).

Most of the time, as you stare at the resulting list, you think about a few of the items "I can do that in 5 minutes, it's simple". Almost reflexively, you start coding.

Then, as suggested above, tick off the bullets as you get them done.

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Yes, but the baggage is transported from the plane to baggage pickup. The mail trucks don't just drive on to the tarmac.

It's a driveable airplane. One key difference is it is marketed to licensed pilots.

I wonder how many airports are out there that have a path from the runway to the road that isn't fenced off or have some other barrier to getting this craft on the road.