I totally agree, I was just trying to point out that TFA seems too exuberant about future prospects, and while happy for them, that isn't the aspect of the story myself and the majority of /. readers care about.

mod parent +1 interesting. As in 'I'm sure Homeland Security will find it interesting that you posted information of potential use to terrorists'

They'll probably want to 'mod you up' in person. They have an app for that too. It runs on phone book. Or rather, the phone book runs into your head repeatedly.

...approved 'Heisenberg' version will only give either the position or the speed of the plane, but never both.

cheap hookers provide comfort and aids to terrorists

For those who are curious, the link is about Beeffalos and not one of the other many Buffalos in the USA.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092010-yahoo-opens-chicken-coop-green.html although the original link does a great job of showcasing local boosterism in a rust belt town feverishly hopeful for a better future ('Yay! 100 jobs! Some interest! The town is saved, paw'!), this link actually has details more likely to be of interest to a slashdot reader. The long and narrow design placed in consideration of prevailing winds seems clever, sure, but I don't get the big deal over it. Maybe using common sense really is so rare as to be considered innovative.

Israel has never attacked it's neighbors in the way they have attacked Israel. Israel's attacks have been preemptive and limited to it's own immediate security needs. Israels neighbors have repeatedly attacked Israel with the express intention (still very much expressed today) of wiping it off the map and pushing every Jew into the sea.

Not that I think Israel should have nukes, but they do. And I don't find it hypocritical to deny an enemy threatening to kill you a weapon whether you have that weapon or not.

Why wouldn't Israel think this? They took out Saddam's surface facility, and he never got the bomb.

I'm actually not one of those Western folks, but you wouldn't know it from my original post. But it was with them in mind that I sacrificed strict accuracy in favor of readability. I did not think it detracted from my point. My apologies if it did.

The whole idea could be is that it doesn't prove anything, but still tells everyone who's responsible. Perhaps a threat veiled enough to not be actionable legally, but still heard loud and clear. I see pulling that off as evidence of smarts, not stupidity.

Watching the news reports on Iran's nuclear program about a month ago, I started to wonder if Israel would rely on diplomacy alone to resolve the issue. They sure didn't in 1981 when Iraq was building a nuclear reactor in Osirak, they flew in F-16s and bombed it. So it's not without precedent for the Israelis to attack Arab nuclear facilities.

I for one respect their taking direct action in the interest of their national security. And if they can do so in a way that does not cost human life, all the better.

Social networks are great at disseminating ideas and information, but nothing beats face time to motivate or sell someone on an important decision. I'm not going to take an action with real implications for making my life harder (like getting arrested at a demonstration, or 'direct action') based on something I've been sent online. But I might if someone I respect sits down and talks with me, and sells me on it.

Online discussion of issues is important, but real life follow through is essential.

Now I can watch FX without holding the remote in my hand the whole time. That network really seems to allow much louder commercials than any other network, sometimes to the point of it being too frustrating to even watch a show on it when others are trying to sleep. Often I'll resort to closed captions and just keep the volume down to far to hear the shows without straining.

So, while thankful, let me just say if I were to write an ordered list of problems for congress to resolve this would easily have a four digit line item number.

but then politicians would have to stop using kids in their ads. So that's not going to happen.