(...)Unless you consider turning away from nuclear energy as a panicky reaction(...)

(reposting because I'm an idiot and wasn't logged-in)
Funny you should say that, because the first thing I thought when I read that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel suddenly decided to shutdown 7 power plants http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-germany-nuclear-merkel-idUSTRE72D51520110315 after the incidents in Japan was "wtf!?".

I could only come up with 3 scenarios:
1) she did know that the power plants had urgent issues, but delayed any action until now
2) she didn't know of any urgent issues, and just found out
3) she knows that there are no issues, but the Green's votes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party are just too appetizing.

This is "going apeshit" by any fair and reasonable measure, and this reaction seems to be is both unwarranted and unhelpful to Japan and any country where nuclear power is the sustainable solution.
Also, the general behaviour of the media hasn't been something to call home about, sensationalistic, biased, and altogether agenda-driven (which seems to be a common-place nowadays.)
---- Gravity sucks

The code could be a function of the sender's address, the receiver's address, and the date of issue, and...
That could keep the codes short, unique enough, and easy to validate.

Do they mean they have "invented" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing? I'm puzzled.

"in which case the tax-payers should compensate the airlines"

There, fixed that. People seem to forget this too often.

The question here seems to be "have you tried Opera yet?"...

Quite right!
And:
"If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car"

Really, when did this happen? Any 15min driving in any major traffic area contradicts this immediately.

They couldn't have missed it.
Maybe this is Apple's new stance when facing trademarks and patents (see the latest love affair with Nokia...): ignore them :)

I'd rather see the title "FTC's concern that consumers don't understand the implications of buying DRM-infected data and hardware."

If they don't actually sell a product then they're not infringing anything, and they can invest everything on litigation. Great business model, really.

Europeans also would like a "Red Button" for shutting down Parliament. Wishful thinking.

Shouldn't shutting the damn thing off and "go to your room" be enough? Or just throwing the dvd out of the windows? Jeez...

Unarguably the true descendant of Norton Commander, and it has gone open source recently!
Proper archive support, plug-in architecture, etc,etc.
http://www.farmanager.com/

I don't even consider touching any pc running Windows without a copy of this jewel.

"It's not that difficult to make an enemy FPS "bot" have superb tactics, coordination, timing etc. Especially if the map is pre-known (which is usually the case). You can code the tactics and heuristics in. If you hear the player in position X, group A enemies head to position Y and group B head to position Z, and bye bye player."

I'd say the holy grail is to have the AI without pre-knowing the maps, and without having to hand-code the small details.

Totally serious! Got one of those, and have tried it to charge the cell phone, pda, and mp3 player. Works fine!
Some examples (german sites):
http://www.pearl.de/a-NC5026-5460.shtml
http://www.pearl.de/a-SD3333-5630.shtml
http://www.pearl.de/a-PE5484-5630.shtml