Why is Emil Protalinski's photo being displayed for this headline? It would lead the uninclined to think that is a photo of Mark Zuckerberg, aka Rotem Guez. Slashdot editors need a clue.

Yea definitely. Article 60: In the exclusive economic zone, the coastal State shall have the exclusive right to construct and to authorize and regulate the construction, operation and use of: (a) artificial islands; (b) installations and structures for the purposes provided for in article 56 and other economic purposes; (c) installations and structures which may interfere with the exercise of the rights of the coastal State in the zone.

Chances are ship parked there for any length of time can probably be classified as some type of installation or structure within the EEZ

http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm

Your logic is flawed. YOUR fire extinguisher may have never been used in the past 15 years but undoubtedly someone has used their fire extinguisher for the purpose of putting out a fire within the past 15 years. Also the cost of a fire extinguisher calculated against the actual risk of a fire makes it an extremely good value by any bean counters standards. It is obvious that a fire extinguisher is a justifiable in terms of the actual risk of a fire both on paper and in practice. OTOH the back scatter machines and TSA theatrics have prevented zero terrorists ANYWHERE. The cost of these scans in manpower, productivity losses, capital investment on scanners and other lost opportunity costs calculated against the actual risk of a terrorist incident makes the TSA apparatus a terrible value at best. It is not obvious that this is a good solution to terrorism. Fund what works, more counterintelligence and human intelligence operations, not this dog and pony show called the TSA.

Agreed, if this is mission critical stuff and you don't have staff living onsite there is no reason why they could not justify purchasing an IP KVM and a remote PDU for just this type of emergency. I'd imagine it would take at least thirty minutes to a few hours to have your on call person drive into the office and push a power button, whereas remote access would take what like 10 minutes?

Makes sense but most enterprises are moving towards high density virtualization. This seems to be going the other direction towards specialized appliances rather than.general purpose computing. I could see workstations/terminals going the arm route as well as highly customized and code optimized app servers. But I don't think you'll see many enterprises switching over just yet.

Who is modding this informative? No mil sites use self signed certs. Please get your facts straight.

I think they are overcoming that particular limitation with the propellor which is technically approaching the wind indirectly.

Well lets break down the AC's self righteous gloating. He said its been 10 years since graduating so he graduated around 2000, he says he was in school for 5 years so he started college around 1995. Now let's take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_tuition#Disproportional_inflation_of_college_costs and you will see how divergent cost of attendance has become to the standard inflation rate. Furthermore if you take into consideration the oversupply of college graduates, erosion of earnings potential for a 4 year degree and extremely limited job market then its pretty clear its almost impossible for most students to be able to work off their tuition/room board/etc while working college jobs. Sure it may be possible to go to night school and work a full time job but that significantly limits your choice of schools and coursework.Taking less credits each year is another option but that may mean you are taking the 6 or 7 year plan to graduation which is ultimately not worth it when you consider the lost earnings potential (unless you are working towards a degree within your current field of work).

Mod UP. Parent is a damn fool who obviously has no idea how BES works. This is not BIS we are talking about.

Counter to what you say, I would venture to say caffeine is better regulated than most the herbal garbage out there. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 limits the authority of the FDA in regards to dietary supplements. Its scary but they have more authority over your chocolate milk than your multivitamin. And if for some reason one of these supplements turn out to actually have efficacy then chances are they will be locked down just look at ephedra. From: http://www.fda.gov/food/dietarysupplements/default.htm FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products (prescription and Over-the-Counter). Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the dietary supplement manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that a dietary supplement is safe before it is marketed. FDA is responsible for taking action against any unsafe dietary supplement product after it reaches the market. Generally, manufacturers do not need to register their products with FDA nor get FDA approval before producing or selling dietary supplements.* Manufacturers must make sure that product label information is truthful and not misleading.

Sadly you are also flat out wrong. McAfee is worth a boatload of money for their various other offerings. Antivirus is the most public to the general user so we have all this flamebait floating around here about how much their AV sucks. Mcafee has tons of government and fortune 500 contracts, that alone is worth a bundle. They also have a huge IP portfolio and tons of actual commercial products that are very valuable to large enterprises such as IPS or HIDS systems as well as data security and email protection and compliance technologies. Thinking all Mcafee does is sell crappy AV software for thirty bucks at best buy is a very myopic view of their operations. As a Intel shareholder I am glad they made the decision they did.

From the article: Police in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., investigated and believe driver error was to blame, Chief Steven Riffel said Tuesday. He said surveillance video showed that the brake lights didn't illuminate until after the crash. But Mr. Riffel said that determination is preliminary and that his agency has turned over the investigation to NHTSA. Based on the black box data, NHTSA investigators found that the brake was not engaged and the throttle was wide open, according to a person familiar with the matter. Ms. Marseille sticks by her story. "It makes me very angry when someone tells me, 'She probably hit the gas pedal instead,' because I think it's a sexist comment, an ageist comment," she said.

Brake lights are controlled by a simple switch in the brake assembly. Regardless of how much TOyota may have jacked up the throttle system I doubt they were able to screw that up too. Sounds like most these idiots are too stupid to own a car

Download a copy of Server 2008 demo is good for 60 days. Set it up on a VM and enable TS gateway functionality. Basically it will let you tunnel remote desktop to any computer on your local network over SSL to the internet. Or use logmein, not sure if thats blocked there?

I call BS on you, Anthracite coal is too damn expensive for use in power plants. Power plants use Bituminous coal which is softer, contains more impurities and is far cheaper. Anthracite coal is rarer than other softer coals since it require very specific geological conditions to compress out the impurities from the carbon. Anthracite is also much more difficult to mine since the locations where it is found are usually found deep in the mountains rather than on flat coal seams like some other type of coal. Burning coal and its impurities lead to air quality issues (carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and incomplete hydrocarbon burns) as well as deposition of toxic metals in the areas where emissions particulates travel such as Mercury, Arsenic, Manganese, Chromium, and Beryllium. Coal power just sounds awesome compared to the other options doesn't it.