In truth, these pants direct the electricity to the wearer's nutsack, slowly sterilizing stupid people that buy these pants.

Exactly, how does more government controls of all industrial companies' software make for a more secure application? If anything, they'll want their own special back-door access which will itself be a security risk.

The reason we live in a Republic is because a true Democracy almost always degrades into mob rule and eventually an Oligarchy. When stepping back and looking at the big picture, it becomes more obvious that's it's happening right now.

Correct, because those have a rule that lets you bypass the filibuster. (3/5 or 60 Senators or the Constitutional Option which it a majority.) I doubt the DDOS attack had a window that asked, "Do you want to be DDOSed? Yes/No".

They do more than just take great pains to never teach those qualities, they go out of their way to punish students that disagree with their views.

But can it survive an X5, or higher, solar storm? All the wires that must run to the surface would be definite weakness.

Wait, wait, this "new" type of crime requires a whole new level of police enforcement. Therefore, we need more tax revenue to pay for that department.

So don't be angry about the taxes, it's for the children. If you're against this tax, you're against children!

/sarcasim

I'm still waiting for the Cyborg-whatever crimes. Those will be much more interesting times.

ISPs can outsource this job to China. They already have decades of experience and this allows the ISPs to lay blame on the next customer service call.

It's surprising how simply varying the time it takes to release the energy makes such a large difference. Take candles for instance; The combustion of paraffin wax released about 42 kJ of energy per gram. Pretty impressive.

No, but I once ended up in the Twelfth Plane of Torment on my way to the kitchen.

How well will it determine half truths? Will a person voting something as truthy actually know if the tweet is the truth or will it simply be a vote for or against a political party? I feel it will be the later. Does it include SEIU memos along with Twitter feeds? How about Acorn memos? DNC news feeds?

From the FAQ, it says that it uses crowdsourcing to determine a tweets truthiness. So it's basically a competition between left-wing and right-wing truthiness voting.

The problem is that liberals use unions and political organizations to organize astro-turfing while conservatives seem to use word-of-mouth and social networking to a much larger degree.

I guess the best test will be the upcoming "Million Moderate March" on Oct. 30th.

Exactly. While I was in Iraq, I had the chance to meet a lot of nice Iraqi's. It's those 1% douchebags that like to bomb markets with innocent civilians that get all the attention. And it's not like you run into a lot of those when hiking out in the mountains.

This, of course, is only true under the assumption that it's the neutrinos that are really causing the increase in radioactive decay. The article does mention that there were many unknowns in the measurements. It may be something else that causes this increase, or even a combination of two. It may also be the case that more neutrinos, the rate at which they're emitted, or other interacting fields alter the effect.

Sometimes you have to play as the enemy. Otherwise it's just a bunch of people in an empty arena and nothing to do.

This is probably the reason that people start to think that the only way to solve ALL problems is to sit around a campfire and sing songs and share out feelings.

I really hope that this was a 2 part project. Where you have to also come up with a cost effective way at avoiding such attacks.