...only outlaws will have flash drives. After all, if you're going to leak sensitive information, and you get caught, you're going to get much worse than a court-martial. I think the directive will end up doing more harm than good.

Agreed. There are at least 25 people who've done it, maybe a lot more. Here's a guide to the whole process if you want to do it yourself: http://brian-mcdermott.com/fusion_is_easy.htm

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but the internet makes me smarter. (So long as I stay away from Facebook and I Can Haz Cheezburger.)

Article 11, paragraph 2 of the Moon Treaty states:
"The moon is not subject to national appropriation by any claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
Of course, England hasn't signed or ratified the Moon Treaty, so it all kinda depends on the international reaction whether or not his claim is valid.

Links:
Wikipedia -- Moon Treaty
Full text of the Moon Treaty

...it's hacked in a month. Probably wouldn't be too hard, either. Just run the current OS in a controlled environment to figure out what makes it so special, then make a Linux distro to duplicate that. Install the new distro on the hard drive through a regular computer, then transplant into the PS3.

Amen. Everything that can't be put on a list like this, including details of a treaty in the works that could severely hurt our freedom, should be made open.

A lot of todays "young people" somehow find classical music boring. This, I do not understand. Boring is listening to the exact same riff or chord over and over and over throughout an entire song without any variation. Classical music might do the same theme many times throughout a piece, but it's usually varied every time. Bach, for example, would take one theme and vary it a step at a time until it turned into a completely different theme.

Actually, there's a lot of good, free classical music out there. I have several symphonies, sonatas, and concertos from classiccat.com that are pretty good quality.

703 miles given by Google Maps from where I was born to where I am now, which W|A says is 3.712e6 feet. Divide that by 5'2", and I get...

696000

Of course, that's following roads and such, rather than as the crow flies.

Anyone want to donate to help start a new microstate? Maybe we can make an open-source project out of it: OpenNation.

No, I don't trust Google, but I trust Yahoo/Microsoft even less.

I agree with most of these Anonymous Cowards here: it all depends on the job. If the job is technology-related, I'm less likely to trust someone with an AOL address than someone with a Gmail address.

Free electricity, but your lights display a paid ad in morse code every hour.

I think we should laugh in Mexico's face and say, "forget about it." Archaeological images are always and have always been easily available to the public.

You could also argue that those pictures are Aztec writing, so the stuff on the cups are an original written work.

Example:
Workspace 1: ssh terminal, Nautilus, 2 web design cheatsheets, Gedit, Firefox w/ site I'm working on
Workspace 2: Firefox, Downloads folder
Workspace 3: Documents folder, another terminal
Workspace 4: Rythmbox w/ Star Trek soundtrack playing

Total windows open: 11 not counting tabs; 14 counting tabs