and now they are at it... why not implement some chicken DNA as well. Have bacon and egg`s in one go.
Oh, and bread DNA, baked beans DNA, orange juice DNA, coffee DNA, newspaper DNA, naging wife DNA, sunrise DNA and some razorburn DNA and we are all set for the day!
What a glorious future it will be!

Sorry, should have spelled it with capitals perhaps. RISC:

Reduced Interception Subterranean Cargo-system.

I guess that people like a 'buzz' and as long as there is demand there is a suplier willing to take riscs to deliver.
Its basically the whole 'prohibition era' all over again with some new tech.
So keep fighting it guys! We all know what the end result will be!

HIV vaccines that go back in time are the best in the world!

...but does it run linux?

Oh, and Jimmy Carter once sent his jacket to the dry-cleaner with a paper with the detonation codes still in one of the pockets. Just so you dont have to write a 'news article' on that in the near future...
I got both pieces of info via QI (Quite interesting), wich is normally considered a quiz, but for the author it is probably a news show...

Whether it`s Dutch, German or English, it should be fora... not forums.

Math is not a system, it is a abstract study of several topics.

A system that has a flaw? You! Must! Be! Kidding me!
There is no such thing as a flawless system, never has been, never will be. One could say that a flaw is an intrinsic part of any system.
When AES256 is in place and people use 12345 as a password for example.
Usually the flaw = human failure.

amen

About 0.9999999999999 Chuck Norris that is...
That said, nothing is >1 CN except for CN himself of course

First of all I think we should figure some stuff out before we give it access to weapons with the obligatory Turing test.
Then I think these are valid questions:

Does it have the urge to pull out its eyebrows, then doodle on some fake ones? (yes / no)
Does it think that an emotion is the same as a valid argument? (yes / no)
Does it answer yes, no, yes, no, maybe to questions that are in fact rhetorical? (yes / no)
Does it leak hydraulic fluid for a week a month and doesn't shutdown? (yes / no)
Does it think that eating makes it feel better? (yes / no)

If any is answered with yes... don't give it nukes... PMS is one thing, but having the bitch strapped to nukes will certainly kill us all!

If you are a journalist in a 'not so democratic' country you are probably working for the state press telling people exactly what the nice mister Dick-tator wants the people to believe. Journalists who use TOR to get the real message out are CRIMINALS! And once found, put in a cage and shot. Only criminals use TOR!
If you are a student in economics you would probably only read books because something interesting and practical like bitcoins are only for CRIMINALS! And they should be shot. Actually, money in any form is used by criminals and should be avoided! Right?
If you are a human you would only drink mercury because water, or hydrogendioxide as you will probably call it, is used for making drugs! Kill the waterdrinkers!

You must have a rather complicated life I guess...

>>Rolling your own crypto won't work well.

What if Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen kept AES to themselves, wouldn't that work for them and still be considered "roll your own"?
Still, I think that FOSS works best for encryption; many eyes make for shallow backdoors... erhm what was the saying again?
It is one of the reasons I dont really trust bloated distros like ubuntu. Too much code to inspect. (but I might be wrong;-)

My dear fellow slashdotter,

Thank you for asking these questions in exactly the right place. I would like to offer you some answers to your questions. At first I tried to answer them from bottom to top, but I found out that each question has some relation to the previous one, so I did it top to bottom. My sincere excuses for the delay coming forth from my misconception. Again, this IS the best place to ask these questions! For your convenience I have put a 'Q' in front of your question, and an 'A' in front of the Answer.

Q> What *is* space exploration? When something like the humble Voyager 1 probe can continue giving usable data for such a long time, it should cause us to ask, why haven't our other missions been as successful?
A> Space exploration is the exploration of the stuff on the outside of the planet earth (or Gaia as some seaweed-cracker eating nutjobs call it)

Q> The Mars rovers are another example. [xkcd.com] When you consider the scale and complexity of their task, the rovers comparatively performed on par with Voyager 1.
A> This is not really a way to ask something, is it?

Q> You might say, "We can't plan for what it does after the mission is over, that's kind of the point of having a defined *mission plan*" and to that I say 'hogwash'
A> Again, this is not really a proper way to ask something, is it? Please leave your comments on wired.com

Q> It is my firm belief that humans should be taking vacations on Luna *now* and soon stepping foot on Mars. We could do it. Why aren't we?
A> The main reason that we do not go on holiday on the moon, or Luna as some amateurs prefer, is usually one of the following:
1 - no bars
2 - no beaches with ladies in swimming attire
3 - more importantly: no beaches with ladies in half their swimming attire.
4 - (if you are a reader of the Guardian) no museums
5 - you *constantly* have to remember where your towel is.
6 - Flip-flops fit really badly on these so-called moon-boots.
7 - any of the above

Q> NASA is a tool. Are we using it to its fullest?
A> NASA is an abbreviation, or more specifically it is an acronym, not a tool. A hammer is an example of a tool.

Hopefully I answered your questions fully and may I add that the answers provided here are conclusive. If you somehow feel in need of a second opinion from another /.visitor you can request so by filing form 82BKO0E3#9320B/fsF-109 at your local Vogon station on each seventh Wednesday of the month on odd-numbered-months-even-numbered-years between 11:59 and 12:00AM or in the trash-bin whenever you feel like.

With kind regards,
The /.space council & climate change spindoctors.