What is this?

"One Court to Rule them ALL?"

And here we were thinking the Supreme Court was maybe throwing a bit too much weight around making laws up.

I guess SCOTUS is just not secret enough, and FISA is.....

Comcast has those creepy surveillance sysems where Mom at work can breathe a sigh of relief when she spys on her children when they get home from school. What is Comcast and mom's liability when say, one of her underage daughters decides to prance around the house naked?

I had a friend back in Junior high who used to do just that - it's not uncommon. So is Mom and Comcast now disseminating kiddie pr0n?

Fun History fact. Winston Churchill used to run around the house naked.

So that's where all the ultra hairy women sites are!

The local big box store has a receptacle for toner cartridges. Hit Best Buy, chuck them in there, call it done, the end.

I had a lot of toner cartridges as well, but no use in keeping them. They are not going to appreciate in value, and as time goes on, that toner cartridge format will be used by fewer printers, so might as well dispose of them properly (and properly isn't the trash can.)

I'd likely waste more $$ on gas packing up and driving to a Best Buy to drop off a single cartridge, than would be saved by recycling.

And as other posters say..what guarantee is it that BB is recycling them in some fashion?

Some things are trash, and crap like this isn't worth my time to drive all over town trying to find a specialized bin to toss it in. I'm not going to keep 3-4 different trash cans taking up limited room in my kitchen to sort shit out, why would I drive all over town to throw out one toner cartridge.

My taxes/fees pay for garbagemen to pick crap up and haul it off. Why not use them for what they are there for?

ALL AF bases and the majority of the the other services did away with base stickers several years ago and now everyone in the vehicle over the age of 16 has to display a valid Government issued ID to get on base.

All? I'd swear last time I accompanied my father (retired AF) on base at either Nellis or Wright-Patterson, the skycop just asked for his ID, not mine. It might be different overseas, and it's been different here at various times in the past, but unless they've changed things yet again since this past December, they most likely only care about the driver's ID.

I've near cities all my life. So everything in the sky is pretty much "out of sight, out of mind" to me. I didn't know what the Milky Way was until I saw a picture of it in a book.

Needs more cool soundtrack.

Ugh..it is trash.

Throw it away, let the garbagemen earn their pay and haul it away for you.

Then you need to be shouting that from the rooftops. Because down south you are electing people like Rick Perry, and active hypocrite traitors like Canadian Ted Cruz. People who would stop the Government (an act of treason in my book, then go on the program they stopped government for.

That's who people are voting for, and electing to the highest state offices and they are shaping the South's image. And that is the image the South presents to the world. You have a Governor in Florida that won't allow mentioning of Global Warming, you have elected people in Oklahoma who would put biblical or Crystal or Astrology non-science as legitimate science class courses. You wave that second place finish flag like it was your primary one.

One fascinating thing, is that in Texas, apparently they cannot force a women to not eat her placenta. Personal freedom you know. The freedom to self cannibalize.

http://www.npr.org/sections/he....

And they passed a law! Global warming is fake, but eating your placenta is great science.

Copraphagics are next in line for the personal freedom train? I'll pass.

Am I foolish enough to think that 100 percent of the people down south think that way? Hell no. But enough do that you present that image to the world. Don't want that image? Change it. Don't blame anyone else for your image - it's well earned.

My experience is that people who show up for a product or service (or pizza, whatever), get what they ordered and are content ... do NOT generally stop what they're doing to run off and tell the world, "My $10 pizza was satisfactory." Anybody who has ever worked retail (and paid attention) can tell you that a hundred happy customers will simply return for more business when they want, but not take time out to communicate to the business or to anyone else that they're happy customers. Life's too short, they just carry on. People who are truly dismayed about their experience, however, will take to every communication method they can dream up to make sure the world knows of their displeasure. And some of the people who do that are just plain nuts, or have very poor judgement, or are either hobby-level or professional trolls. That's who we all hear from, well out of proportion to the real-world experiences of most people. And the internet echo-chamber tends to greatly amplify that effect.

When I read the comments, in here, and the general attitude in the outside world, it always comes down to some form of this:

"We know exactly what a student will need for their career, nothing more need be taught."

Or some other such truism, focused on the job as it presently exists. One thing for certain, is that if you train a student in the fully practical, the student will know how ot do exactly one thing, and will become redundant rather quickly.

A programmer knowing what a netmask is? Hell yes.

I have found through personal experience and general logic, that a person who knows more about what they are doing knows more about what they are doing. A programmer that can answer questions that do not relate 100 percent to his narrow job description is more valuable than one who cannot. KNowing bout more things can lead to nifty stuff like promotions, raises and the like.

My extraneous and supposedly non-relevant knowledge has over the years served me quite well, as relevant solutions are often found outside the normal solution set. In addition, I can never tell where a solution might pop up from.

disclaimer: I read Wikipedia for fun.

But if you want to teach someone off the street the programming language du jour, and set him or her in a cubicle raking in that minimum wage, then yeah, you can teach that in short order. That isn't worth much more than minimum wage, as you are producing an almost valueless throwaway employee.

The vast majority of slashdot users are not americans, the editors know and don't care.

Where did you get that?

Slashdot has always been a US centric site.

A bunch of taxi drivers start rioting in the streets, blocking traffic, and burning cars. France's response? Arrest the people they're protesting AGAINST.

Is it any wonder they keep getting invaded, or that the only decent tactician if the history of their country was from Corsica?

So are Anonymous cowards - what's your point?

That's the point. It is a little difficult trying to envision us doing anything about Sol going red giant.

And imagine a Shoemaker-Levy type incident with a whole batch of space objects flying into the earth in short order. The only thing I can think of is nuts as diverters, but would there be enough? and would we want to build more as a just in case scenario?