Indeed, I have seen some very questionable behavior with OTIS elevators, too. As an engineer, I think there is some juice to report here!

...and when the financial meltdown has touched many if not most, I will be again in Greece with a fishing line (iRod), trying to check if the Med sea can still feed me. 15 centuries before or later, it's all the same stuff really!

And then, what if the screenshot was taken by another man-in-the-middle and reposted?
something like this: original poster -> MitM -> fb-poster
and what if there was: original poster -> MitM -> fb-poster
and what if there was: original poster -> MitM -> MitM -> fb-poster
and what if there was: original poster -> MitM -> MitM -> MitM -> fb-poster
and what if there was: original poster -> MitM -> MitM -> MitM -> MitM -> fb-poster
and what if there was: original poster -> MitM -> MitM -> MitM -> MitM -> MitM -> fb-poster
[...]
You get the idea.
Now, I want to see the decision tree and the guilt attribution specified in a functional language!

Yes, agreed, the original poster had bad taste but the law is pervert and the one to be "put in jail".

Furthermore, the Arma 3 developers seem to only care for DirectX10/11; this being Slashdot, they should be put in jail temporarily and never released.

Enough crap said by some so, can you post on flickr or such, the pictures *you* have taken of a protected military base in *your* own country with *your* legal name next to in bold letters? We will make sure you prove your case in due course. Then, you might be able to come around to comment laws of other countries. As regards Greece, these guys missed the scenery obviously, so bad luck for them.

It seems that on the other side of the pond you still can not invite a female colleague for dinner without having the fear of it being called sexual harassment, call a black guy black, a Phillipino Phillipino and so on. Lately, a video mixing a science subject and high heels is a no-go zone. Whatever! (and yes my gf agrees, so this is not an isolated one-man view). So, attempt to suspect there might even be good intentions, some times. Give it a try.

In short:

• AWS could be good value for money, if you DON'T have data-intensive tasks (otherwise it gets expensive quickly)
• Grid could be even better value for money, assuming you can get the service AND assistance in your lab, for low or zero cost (eg. in US/EU this should be fine)
• Owning hardware is a MUST if you have sensitive data (medical, financial etc) or just need to build local expertise (more input needed here)

Assuming the later, check among Supermicro & Dell servers. Last time I needed to setup a cluster, the Dell R610s were a good pick, giving great manageability over the LAN, low volume and decent features (balanced storage space along with cpu capacity, around 8 cores + 8 TBs per 1u blade). Don't rule out also options like Shuttle XPCs, they are damned robust in thermal aspects (hey, you'll be running these continuously, won't you?). Finally, don't underestimate the need for local sysadmining; you will likely need to setup a queueing system (Torque, *PBS*, SLURM, SGE, LSF, NQS, Condor) and manage the whole thing. This won't happen automatically, take a note on that. If you run something of the pbs or sge family I can happily help with setting up a tool called qtop

....link!

... seen Borat, yet?

If Morgado's invention is at present tested and reliable enough to do all that, it worths more than 10^7 $ and everyone who has that money not investing it is stupid. If not, don't make us cry for his uninvested intellectual property, he is just a hacking good inventor who can build something lesser to raise 10^7 $s until the next stage. In short, if he has faith about this invention, then he should make a business compromise. btw. oil supply is controlled by OPEC, prices are not really an accident.

...why people don't take backups 364 out of 365 days of the year!

This is the most ethical list most money can buy.

Let's recall this is the company in the 80s which provided vital parts of the DOS "OS" under undocumented function calls, leaving competitors with crippled options (technical or business wise): http://www.htl-steyr.ac.at/~morg/pcinfo/hardware/interrupts/inte8980.htm . I was reverse engineering much code at those times, only to find out that Microsoft was using the undocumented calls, games were using them, any virus around was using them, ONLY competitors were left in cold! It is also the same company which cripples content, on recipient basis: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/95555 . It is also the same company which does not honor even its own standards, with an incredible impact on consumers (and crippling their freedom): http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/iso-ooxml-convener-microsofts-format-heading-for-failure.ars & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML -> Compatibility_between_versions . If you don't get this, check well the attachments in your mailbox. Is tampering with government and standards bodies "ethical" "business" "attitude"? I think Ethisphere Institute has no place near any ethical list.