The half-finished, mostly-paid-for SSC was slated at 20 TeV. You'll forgive my shrug at 1 TeV. This is an embarrassing footnote on the state of physics in modern civilization. Thanks Clinton.

This question/assumption is exactly why this initiative is doomed to fail. Institutions don't get 'hacking' (cracking).

Hacking isn't about computers. Hacking is about a thought process. If you don't have it, you probably never will. Learning to 'think like a hacker' is about saying 'hmmm' when something unexpected happens and letting your mind explore a thousand options instead of shrugging and moving on. The true, scary-smart hacker types do exist, but the average profile is someone without a CS degree (likely no degree at all) very little evening social life (or none that you'd recognize), and they are tickled by finding a goofy little exploit with a piece of technology just because the engineers that created the system never intended it... and they ignore the fact it took them 2 weeks of mercilessly poking at the system to find it. They aren't high-power career types, they don't often look the part. (The few I know are terribly non-stereotypical nerds. One's kind of a gun-nut in fact, one used to work at car-stereo shop during daylight hours, one's married with 2 children.) Music ranges from Bob Dylan to bubblegum rock to hard-core trance.

The 'not quite ripe' profile is the kid who likes to figure out what his christmas presents are before he gets them without opening them, and later the puzzle of trying to read bank statements he gets in the mail through the security envelope without any evidence its been opened... (hint, try different frequencies of light) but doesn't know the first thing about computers.

Put another way, the best 'hacker type' I've seen in fiction recently is Gregory House MD., a man driven by 'the puzzle' above all else. Find a guy like that, sit him with a stack of about 5 O'Reilly books, and *that* is a hacker.

"Crash" used to refer to a specific failure of a drive where the head (meant to fly micrometers above the platter) collides or 'crashes' into the platter with catastrophic results.

As is the case with many edge-of-understanding terms, people (the media is famous for this) fixate on words they feel cool using and repeat them endlessly. (Examples I remember off-hand include; "hacker" (cracker tyvm), "computer virus" (very few true viri remain- mostly worms and trojans now), "stealth fighter" (its a Nighthawk goddammit), etc..)

When people hear techs using the oh-so-satisfying phrase "hard drive crash" reenforced by gesturing to 'the big box' when mentioning a hard drive in the past, its an unstoppable urge to try their hand at using the words so they can demonstrate their newfound technical prowess when their POS Windows install craters on them.

This hasn't been helped by the fact that M$ persists in making an OS that locks up regularly or that the term 'software crash' is so easily shortened to 'crash' which reenforces the clueless user's feeling that they used their newest definition for the word correctly.

This is one of those "amazing advances" that just isn't either.

I'm sorry for the guy dumping all the effort into this, and maybe its just me, but I have 3 dozen of these ideas a day, I spend a fleeting 15 seconds thinking about implementation, and dismiss each for the types of reasons that are already mentioned here (to which I'll add a couple of my own).

clunky- thicker and less elegant than a glass display

non-durable, repeated use and puncture vulnerable

fixed layout, defeats the purpose of touch-screens

visual bumps, not really tactile buttons

just a rewrap of projector technology

use of projector/cameras cannot be made flat

power consumption and noise

Seriously... Look, if you're so sold on solving this "problem" then do it right: Use a variation of existing braile text displays made with translucent plastic and use tri-color LED as the display technology with force-feedback sensors on each 'bank' of pips. The term 'expensive' comes to mind, but 10x the quality solution as this crap.

I applaud the Eve gang supporting its fan base.

Unfortunately, the Eve UI remains the worst I've seen in any game made in the last 20 years. You'd have to pay me to play this thing (see Worst IT Jobs).

Furthermore, while a back-story is nice, its rather difficult to be part of a story with ships and voice-overs. Eve still doesn't let you get out of your spaceship, still doesn't let you even see around your ship, you are your spaceship, its about the most aseptic stage to ever try to create a "story" unless you've got the power of Pixar behind you.

English is the most sophisticated 'adaptive' language ever put together by humankind, the language is many times larger than german, the second-largest language, which is several times larger than french.*

English doesn't need 'saving' as you put it, but America needs saving from the scourge of multilanguageitis that infects Quebec, much of Europe, and arguably killed the Roman Empire.

English is the standard for every organization that needs to communicate across cultural boundaries (commerce, law, medicine, science, math, aviation, shipping). Americans push for English from our immigrants to help them become better Americans and thereby strengthen the country.

Leave your superficial, liberal, USA-Hate at the door please.

*'size of language' being defined here by many factors including raw vocabulary, homonyms, homophones, homographs, possible constructions, possible meaning subtleties, word order, prefixes, infixes, suffixes, tenses (and tense-subtitles ex: past pluperfect), etc., many of which don't even exist in other languages.

Spoken like a true 'hit it with a bigger hammer' mentality if I've ever heard it. Stay away from my servers, stay away from my internal organs, and stick to the ditches of Windows-workstation-maintenance where you belong.

People like you cause airliner crashes, Warships to become impotent, and ATC to shutdown for 3 hours endangering millions.

There are those who belong in enterprise, and there are those who do not. Know which you are, those on the other side of the tracks sure as hell do.

You know, the framers of the constitution wanted inefficiency to be built into the government, it prevented it from being 'too good' at robbing citizens of our rights before we knew it was happening.

This whole administration is dangerous.

Flash is a interpreted programming environment using its own video rendering, its own code-base, and in most cases, its own internal language-within-a-language API-set to make matters worse. All of this runs floating high atop the application-layer. Even Java, as a language, has the *possibility* of JIT and hooking native graphics/text engines.

Flash is simply the most inefficient way to build anything today. Yes, all that inefficiency buys compatibility, but at a tremendous cost that no portable-device hw engineer should have to bail-out. I don't blame Apple in the least for baring the biggest sham bloat-ware to hit the internet to date. Flash is a shining example of all thats wrong with the computer industry today. Kudos to Apple for realizing this.

(Now, the fact is that I've not seen this said here, so either the Adobe Flash Gestapo has mind-controlled the slashdot mod's or else there's not true OSI-wielding code monkey left in these parts, sad.)

Get a fscking clue here people, This "leak" is a marketing project from the word go.

Step 1: Build a virtually-nonfunctional but highly stable show-off OS with all of the important (and wildly unstable) compatibility turned off.

Step 2: Leak said software as your next great release and bemoan the loss of your great surprise unveiling.

Step 3: Pay lots of reviewers to fill comment sites about how terrific the fantastic OS is before most have ever seen it.

Step 4: Enjoy a *positive* rollout on the heals of your abomination of a release called 'Vista' and that horseshit "not vista" campaign that followed.

Step 5: Profit

Forgive me this rant... but Yale is a great school, Stanford is a great school, MIT, Caltech, and a whole score of others are truly a cut above. Harvard is... a has-been that now rests on its name, not alot more.

Do yourself a favor and don't be so in awe of an epic name and lose sight of reality. Harvard has repeatedly demonstrated its cluelessness about anything but dead novelists.

Not questioning this crap is exactly why people with an H-brand resume walk into jobs ahead of *gasp* qualified people.

Finally, I think its amusing that a Harvard apologist couldn't do better than "... eat shit and die you shit-flinging pin head mother fuckers..."; just wow.

I'd like to see the in-depth math on this, I don't buy these numbers, its smells of environmental-shock-value reasoning... Example - if they are dividing the total power used by google by the number of searches, that would only be applicable if google were working at 100% capacity and if *all* they did was searches...

This is kinda like the Greenpeace founder who hated nuclear power till they read a freaking book. Boo.

Thats corporate speak for "we're going to change the name of our stuff so SCO haters don't know they're buying SCO". This guy needs to go down in history appropriately for destroying SCO.

I'd really appreciate an ongoing list during this process so that we know what clever new names the software is marketed under so that we can all boycott anything software-formerly-known-as-SCO.

While the theatrics of tank-rolling, smashing, etc. are alluring, the fact is that this is more a symptom of incompetent users. If a competent security geek (they're a scary lot) puts out a physically non-destructive data-erasure procedure, take a guess on the likelihood that users will *actually* follow the procedure any better than the last 30 procedures they were sent that involved a mouse... Its low. Guess who gets the blame when the data is "loosed"? The security geek.

Instead, said geek issues a 'meatspace' method to make the data totally irrecoverable and the chances of erasure go up astronomically. That, and that alone, is the reason for the ongoing list of these inane and wildly extreme procedures.

(Most people are stupid, we know this; I imagine the HD's being smashed by the apes with bones at the beginning of 2001.)

On a technical front, random-data rewrites work. If you don't feel safe with 7, 13, or your favorite random lucky number, use 30. the data WILL be gone. If you're the theatrical type, fire isn't very hot at all: prepare some nice 3.5" pucks of thermite and when you want to destroy a drive, take the condemned outside, put a thermite cookie on top (covering the platter), and light'er up. Problem solved.

"I will not weaponize space." (and technically, weaponize doesn't mean what his puppeteers think it means)