Social engineering, use evolution and AGW as tests to remove undesirables from the species. Then test for things like civil disobedience, denial of anything deemed as fact by a government panel and take their kids to a state run education center. Because scientist now know everything, instead of funding expensive experiments they can be put to work raising children. Since all of the Slashdot crowd are also experts in how children should be raised they can back fill where no PHD's are available.

How would you know, when I viewed the linked quiz it was helvetica. The 1.5% might be linux users!

I can't view the article because NASA web filter blocks it. You can view the NASA's curiosity video here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=18895

No, Lebanon is not your typical Arab or Persian country. Try holding that conference in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen , Iran, Kuwait, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Or pretty much any country that has an overwhelming Islamic majority. As posted before, Lebanon is nearly 40% Christian.

Played this game before. As soon as the food arrives they will go back to business as usual. Maybe pump a few more billion counterfeit $100 bills on the European markets.

Except it wasn't a one time thing, there were dozens of incidents. The only good thing is the courts finally wised up and threw out most of the cases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTBuDIybwWw&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

I have found that once the professor has tenure, his output is reduced to having his name added to papers he didn't have much input on and classes taught by grad students. Age isn't the issue.

If you filmed a policeman raping a women with your cellphone, they would arrest you.
http://www.pixiq.com/article/maryland-police-once-again-use-wiretapping-laws-to-crack-down-on-videographers

"Of course you know, this means war!"
A laser armed rover sounds a lot like a high tech tank.

I expect them to try something novel like work for it! I paid for my own education by joining the military and going to school while working. I ended up with 3 degrees and working for NASA. The Air force paid for 70% tuition and I paid for the rest and books. No loans! My parents wouldn't even pay for community college. But guess what I did just fine! I have 2 daughters that I have paid the first two years of college. They are now working and paying for the rest! My oldest daughter has a loan for $5k and graduates next spring. That's called being responsible!

Yes, I loved driving my 2nd generation RX-7. That car was a lot of fun to drive. I've owned a BMW and a Mercedes while living in Germany. But there was just something about that RX-7 that was fun!

5Mbs both ways, and their customer service has been excellent. I've had them for internet about 13 yrs now.

If your breaking the law by hacking them, whose to say that what you released is even real? Whenever you commit the same crime to expose a crime you lose all credibility. Fighting ethical misconduct by committing your own misconduct gains nothing! You end up being as big a piece of excrement as the people you say your trying to expose. Looking forward to hearing about more arrests. At News Corp International and members of Anonymous! Knock ! Knock!

If its anything like the Air Force DCGS-1 its a mixture of both. Drones are operated in theater far enough away from any action but close enough for control. Data is relayed to a stateside base, our case was Langley AFB. Individual segments of the system can be operated anywhere. That is where data is analyzed and compared with previous missions data. And then the reports are sent to theater commanders and units world wide VIA SIPRnet. At Langley our system was fully deployed to Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War, that changed after Khobar Towers. Then it was decided it was safer to use a much smaller foot print. They use a system called MOBSTR (Mobile Satellite Transmitter Receiver) which only required a maintenance staff and not the intelligence analysts. Unfortunately I was a Senior NCO in charge of the maintainers! Since the addition of drones the need for larger in theater segments were required. The ability to deploy is still a requirement for the entire system as I understand it. So even the stateside system is in trailers that can be connected to for a large facility, Aircraft external power units and HVAC units were deployed. The trailers had raised floors and everything you would expect from a data center.

Your mean DCGS-1? The A stands for Army. I used to work at the 10th Intel Squadron, Langley AFB. Before it was called DCGS-1 it was called CARS (Contingency Airborne Reconnaissance System). It also didn't have any windows fail screens. Everything was UNIX (IRIX & Solaris) and just worked! I retired from there in Dec of 99.