Communication between the projectile and the gun is the key and possibly the weakest link. Given the range, it is using radio waves. Why can't I turn on a cheap EMI jammer? Shouldn't that break the whole thing

There is a fundamental problem with the DHS thought process here. Terrorists are not interested ONLY in blowing up planes. They are willing to do anything that can bring peace/economy down. Single act of failed terrorist plot is costing american taxpayers and travelers so much money. This is exactly what the "terrorists" want. If planes become difficult to bomb, they will bomb the airport. If airport becomes difficult, they will move on to bombing embassies. If you patch that, then they will move on to UPS cargo planes. How many patches will you put? The real solution is a holistic economic development, one where all these "terrorist havens" are economically developed. If people have real jobs to work on, they don't have time to go around bombing others. They might just have enough time to vent their anger on /.

The problem is that the article takes pains to explain that it was shot at the same place, but cleverly (or rather dumbly) leaves out of the fact on the timing. Secondly, the question "what time of the year in 2010 would correspond to the same time as the 1929 photo was shot" is quite tricky so answer. There is the variability due to earth's revolution not being 1 year exact (Given that we take 365.25 years, he needs to have visited the place 20 days later in 2010 than when it was visited in 1929), other factors (non-global warming related) such as direction of the wind and its changes, etc Only after this has been well scrutinized, one could possibly conclude that the loss is due to AGW.

A week is short even to make TV Soaps. How do they do it? Typically, the soaps are shot continuously for an entire season and delivered piece meal over several weeks. I suspect the model will be quite similar here too.

Actually, RIAA needs all the money that they are making. They need it because, they can pay their lawyers $16million every year to recoup $391K.

The 2kw load is based on the fact that you would plug in at home and charge it only at night times. This business model of plugin hybrids is impractical on many fronts. Alternatively, where by electric recharge stations are set up to charge the cars much faster (typically under 15 mins). The load of each one of those charging stations is close to 75 kw. If you replace 10-12 pumps (your typical gas station capacity) with 10-12 charging station each one will be running close to a MW!!! Thats enough power to power 1000 homes!! How is that for overloading the grid?

There are three possible explanations 1. The size of proton depends on how you measure it. 2. The 1960 measurements were done in Summer, while this was done in Winter. 3. Global Warming

1. The reason why healthcare insurance policies are counterintuitive to other insurances is to foster preventive care. If I am covered only for catastrophe, then I will sit and wait for the catastrophe to happen rather than going and getting things fixed early. Because, from my perspectives, my costs are identical in both cases. 2. What constitutes a catastrophe varies wildly with person to person. For someone earning 1,000,000 per year, it could be that a bill of 500,000 is a catastrophe. But for someone who is earning only 10,000 per year, a bill of 5,000 is a catastrophe. The cost of covering a person earning 10,000 per year would be orders of magnitude higher (which he wouldn't be able to afford) than the cost of covering a person earning 1,000,000. For this reason, the insurance HAS to be provided by some agency like a government which can take losses on covering someone who is earning 10,000 and recover some of the insurance costs by charging a premium to the person earning 1,000,000. 3. The model could be as follows. Currently, govt collects 7.5% as Medicare. This 7.5% can be increased to say 10%. But now Medicare will also come cover the person paying the premium in the following manner: The person is covered 100% above a certain threshold which is the function of his/her yearly income (So for example, a person earning $10,000 is covered for all medical expenses higher than $1,000. Someone earning $1,000,000 will have their coverage begin after they spend $500,000). In addition, all are allowed to purchase secondary insurance from the various insurance companies if they so desire (to limit their loss during catastrophe).

Bah! Already done and perhaps much better than what these guys have. http://earthblips.dailyradar.com/story/the-kiran/

The only solution to real 3D gaming is direct Retinal Projection. One step Better, wire your brain like in Matrix.

Are there similar horror stories about car repair?