The question is whether a review on Google can be accessed by someone in Japan (yes, of course it can).

The court has ordered that the offending review be made unavailable to someone in Japan. Their proposed method for doing that seems to overstep the court's authority, but now Google has to decide if they want to go along or risk sanctions.

FTFA:

So the kid received a warning the first time. He knew that what he was doing could get him in trouble, but he decided to harass the teacher anyway. Too bad they aren't allowed to paddle.

What you say is true. But the mystery is why this location has so much more methane than other coal regions. It could be that there's just much more gas escaping from the coal fields than anywhere else; we'll see.

The Power processors in BlueGene were described as having "modest" performance. The graphics coprocessors were what made it fast.

There was some discussion recently that women live longer after menopause (and longer than men) because grandmothers were useful for helping their daughters raise babies in hunter/gatherer societies. Grandfathers were a burden.

Height implies strength and vigor. My assumption is that women everywhere (not just Dutch women) prefer strong, healthy men.

That is true of most mammals, including primates. The big strong males are much more likely to mate.

The problem (as you recognize) is that the administration is trying to go about this unilaterally. Obama is still acting like it's 2009 with his "I won" mentality. But what one President can order, the next can change.

Instead, the executive branch and the legislative branch should agree on what the law should be and make it so; unfortunately there has been no effort to reach any kind of compromise.

I assume women are instinctively drawn to men who would be good providers of food and protection. A strong, healthy (or these days, wealthy) mate means more food for the children.

Why would a phone company (or any other non-government entity) even think about asking for a social security number? I was offered almost $100 off a purchase last summer if I signed up for a store's credit card, but they absolutely insisted that I had to give them my SSN, so I turned down their generous offer and won't ever go back there. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I'm more surprised at the Apple number than the combined sales of five other categories. But then, Apple laptops aren't PCs.

Actually, "working stiffs" hold a vast amount of the wealth in the US in the form of pension funds, IRAs, 401Ks, etc.

Nonsense. We can't move forward unless the experiment supports the theory. Otherwise you're not following the scientific method.

NSF's approach to cyber-learning seems to be mostly about pushing the current administration's agenda. Look at the projects - monitoring pollution, cross cultural training, environmental awareness, teaching girls to program, etc.

Those are reasonable subjects to be discussed in a classroom, but I'd prefer to see the projects identified for what they are rather than being funded as cyber-learning research.