Well, Egypt is not an oil exporter, but it did cut subsidies on oil. Prices at the pump were raised this weekend by 78%. The only reason why this can be done is Egypt just had a year of 'Muslim Brotherhood' rule, a revolution to overturn their rule, and a population that is willing to accept everything as long as the government will keep the MB at bay. So the speech president Obama held in the beginning of his first term in Cairo in which he told Mubarak his time was up and the MB would be the new representatives of the peoples may have had at least one good side effect.

And conclude that the article has very little science value at all, and does not warrant any conclusion.

here is a link to a report by an Amsterdam news channel: http://www.at5.nl/artikelen/58203/rechercheurs-keken-toe-bij-liquidatie-hillis

This looks much more like a police operation. A couple of years ago a small nondescript trailer was parked in Amsterdam to observe a meeting between two criminals. One of those started a shooting spree and the police officers inside the trailer were lucky not to be hit. They couldn't get out of the trailer from the inside quick enough to chase them. There probably is a notorious criminal living within sight there. The Ziggo employees were irresponsible in publicizing this. Ziggo is a cable company.

In the city of Groningen (pop. 200.000) in The Netherlands the cable company has split each wifi access point of almost all subscribers into two different wifi access points. The subscriber uses one frequency, the other can be used by all subscribers in the country, using their own username and password. It works very well, even if you walk or cycle on the street, your smartphone or tablet will keep the connection as you move from one subscriber to the next. The phone company meanwhile is busy upgrading most of the country to glass fibre.

Serious, first thing to look for a thermal is the local town, absent mountains or hills. A large parking lot already does do fine. I know of a military airport which has a cemetary nearby, the dense black marble is sufficient.

Absolutely, it is just an attempt by the cable company to keep it's customers from going to the competition for commercial reasons. The cable company does not have a cellular phone network and in this way tries to add functionality to compensate for that. It might become an interesting development.

In the city of Groningen, The Netherlands, population 180,000, the cable company has converted the wireless routers of most of the subscribers into dual private and open Wi-Fi access points. Almost all subscribers agreed to participate. In return the subscribers can use each others access points using their own username and password. As you walk or cycle down the street the connection stays permanent as you move from one access point to the next. Both the cable company and the wireless phone operators are in fierce competition with asymmetrical infrastructure. This move by the cable company seems to be designed to undercut the need for 3G/4G access for tablets and smartphones. There are plans to roll out this new type of usage throughout the country.

The Hubble Telescope has done great science. It's successor in time is the James Webb Telescope but the Webb is designed to scan the sky in a very different part of the spectrum. The Atlas Telescope is supposed to be it's successor in functionality. The design goal for the Atlas Telescope is more than three orders of magnitude better than Hubble. We better spend our money on such a telescope than on a Hubble v 1.1.

OK, this guy was widely respected as one of the top hackers of the world. Smoked a lot of pot for some time but later abstained and he remained on top of the game. But he died at the age of 54 because of a haemorrhage of the stomach. To counter the effects of previous marijuana use he had to take quite some prescription drugs that in turn damaged his stomach. A good coder gets his kicks of writing good code I believe.

The main obstacle to world peace is the fight for control over scarce resources. We've had quite a few of such resources, the main one we're still fighting over now is energy. Human ingenuity will overcome that and more efficient transportation systems will do the rest. Actually, world peace is achievable by 2070 or so.

The sole reason Europe has not gone down the drain is the good stewardship and cooperation of Merkel in Germany and Sarkozy in France. Freaky Wilders in The Netherlands just wiped himself out of politics the day before you made your comment. If Hollande wins the elections in France it will no longer be Paris and Berlin helping Athens and Rome out of their problems but just Berlin having to provide for the three other governments and Madrid. I doubt the Germans are willing to do that and I am sure they cannot do that. Lots of troubles ahead of Europe.