I took a trip to Florida with my son a couple of weeks after 9/11. The flights were insanely cheap and there was no way in hell another 9/11 would happen. No one on the plane would have sat idle. Look at the crazies who have tried to get into cockpits since 9/11. They have been tackled, pummeled and held down. The stupid scanners don't do anything anyways. Look at the people who have managed to get things through inadvertently (Adam savage with a rapier like razor) or through testing. Also, anything implanted below the skin doesn't show, so there's your next attack.

I've flown with my kids a couple of times in the last few months. When a parent or family with young children comes through, the metal detector suddenly becomes "good enough" for them. I was conflicted when I went on my trip. I had a 3 and 10 year old girl and I wasn't going to have them groped and I was seriously worried about the exposure to the machine, but surprise, off we went to a separate line and through the metal detector, myself included.

Of course on the other side was a guy in a wheelchair who obviously had some kind of muscle problems, his legs were like sticks, but they had to reach under and check out everything since he couldn't stand up.

Sigh

I've avoided it my entire life here in New Hampshire.

Jamie want big boom!

Please do not lump Afghanistan in with Iraq. The Taliban harbored the mastermind of September 11th. There are other countries who might have just gone in and leveled Afghanistan. Iraq is another story all together...

Actually, a better argument is modding a boiler so you don't have to buy a particular gas companies gas, but now can use 'homebrew' gas.

The sinkhole or crater is nothing. Look at the patterns on the right and the mysterious impression below. I can just about make it out "G..o..o.." damn. The aliens are telling us something.

What is the half-life of radioactive rabbit dropping?

The only reason I run windows on my computer at home and my kids computer is games. Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Civ5, Steam. If all of those were available under Linux _At the same time_ as the PC counterparts, I would wipe windows off my PC tonight. I am writing this on my work laptop HP DV8t running opensuse 11.3.

A 1000 meter cable obviously means that it's only orbiting 1000 meters off the ground. That's the cable is the plug into the grid, right? Sheesh. It would have to me at least twice that to be practical. Do I have to think of everything around here.

I have the Ipad and I like the form factor and battery life.

there are two fetures they missed which would make this a killer for me:

1) A file system. Right now, I have two PDF viewers.
One I can use to markup, but doesn't work as well as the other one. However, There is no way to share data. I have to load the PDF twice or in some cases I can send the data from one to another which is dumb.

2) A way to capture something with a stylus. I have been looking for years for an easy note taking device. I don't want the Ipad to do handwriting to text, but capture the strokes and store them. They can be post-processed later. But it seems like the perfect device to do this. The issue now is twofold.
2a) Because of the multi touch filtering algorithm, you can't get a fine point.
2b) bacuse the touch is capacitive, you can't have your hand rest on the screen while writing which makes it difficult to write.

Finally, the price is rediculous. I so want a good tablet, but I got an OK one since the android ones aren't out and windows is not a tablet OS.

Someone will figure out how to hack it and use it for whatever you want.

Sign me up