For many researches it takes more than 3-years to get a federal grant (if they don't falsify results that is), how is a 3-year ban from federally-financed research any sort of punishment for such dishonesty?

Wow, you must be doing something wrong. Perhaps crappy PSUs? I just got my 4th UPS in about 10-11 years (I get a new one when I move to a different Voltage country, or the battery dies), my company is in their 2nd or 3rd batch for the same duration, and I've never seen what you describe. In fact, I have lived in places where we would get brownouts several times per day and without a UPS there was a reboot each time.
Funny story. The first time I got a UPS was when I went to NY for grad school. I ordered all parts from NewEgg, assembled a machine, hooked it on a UPS and the same day I had arranged for the cable internet to be connected. So, I was all up and running and I distinctively remember saying "perhaps the UPS was overkill for NY, I don't suppose they have such problems here" just a few minutes before the power went out! It was August 14th 2003, and the power went out for several hours over NE USA & Canada... No, my PC did not reboot.
But, yeah, if you say you get good UPSs, it could be the PSU. I always get rather expensive units from the likes of Antec.

I don't get it. x86-64 doubles the general purpose and SSE registers over x86. This alone makes a (usually quite big) difference even for programs that don't use 64bit arithmetic. The point of the x32 ABI as I understand it is to keep that advantage without having 64bit pointers.
But you just compile with 32bits losing all the advantages of x86-64?

I have a large TV/monitor for 16:9 content, I actually want to do work on my laptop. Give me at least 16:10 please (4:3 would be so much better, but I don't want to be difficult) and I don't care for super-ultra-high rez - I REALLY can't see the difference from where I'm sitting...
Oh, and I don't want a fucking mirror for a display, I don't work in a dark dungeon.

It is Bean the one who first sees the potential in those misfits and castaways and assembles the team for Ender to command.
I avoided Ender's Shadow for a few years thinking it would be just a rehash of a great book (if you haven't read it don't watch the mediocre movie before reading the book), but it is actually pretty good.

People with my thinking make up for a big chunk of the US population (including 4 out of 9 of the Supreme Court Justices), and the majority of the citizens of the rest of the (first-world at least) nations.
So, yeah, just me and some others...

That is almost correct. SpaceX is like any other commercial company, so there has to be a commercial reason to go to the moon, except that the company on the whole is the intermediate step for Musk's plan to go to Mars. So when the time is right, expect manned flights to the Moon and beyond from either SpaceX or a related Musk endeavor, whether or not it makes financial sense.

Yes, when I said "misread" I did not mean just a few people in the US. I meant a lot, including the majority (5-4) of the SCOTUS. Read the dissenting view of the same case. It says the exact opposite, which is basically the obvious if you are not trying to please the NRA. Allow us non-Americans to read your constitution as it was meant. It is not like you cherish it that much anyway, more and more parts of it are abolished (or "clarified" if you wish) in the name of "safety" or whatever other excuse.

No, "well regulated militia" does not mean what you think. You are certainly not "well regulated militia". Do you suppose "well regulated" is just ornamental in there? Like how the constitutional is in general full of long colorful descriptions, poetic constructs, eloquent metaphors etc? Hint: it is not.
If the freedom of your State is endangered, the constitution grants you the right to be part of armed, organized (and I would hope trained) militia to defend it.

Yeah, sorry, I don't know the American Constitution by heart, although I' ve read it at least once (since it is a great document - too bad it does not apply post-9/11) and I know what it says. But to correct things (and it is actually more restrictive - it talks about "well regulated"):

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

So, the forefathers in one sentence put two very significant but non-related rights. One right for the state to keep a well regulated Militia and another right for every yahoo and his dog to wave around a gun. Right, that's what it says. And they put it in the same sentence because it would not fit in their PowerPoint slide otherwise?

Never gonna happen in the US. The even deliberately misread their constitution (Second Amendment) to proclaim their "absolute" right to bear arms (forgetting the "in a militia"). They will give you millions of reasons: it is their culture/tradition (as was slavery I guess), bad guys will always have guns so you need to defend yourself etc. Even seemingly intelligent people cannot grasp the fact that if guns are controlled, only few resourceful criminals will be able to get them. And they are traditionally not the type to walk in a school and shoot dozens of students for no reason...
I don't know, perhaps some people like the fact that there is a Columbine or a Zimmerman incident every now and then to reminisce of the old west...
At least they are marginally better than Mexico in gun related deaths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

I remember Intel trying to stuff some stupidly expensive, high latency RD-RAM down our throats around '99-2000 in some sort of deal with Rambus (a company probably even more unethical than Intel) where they both would win and consumers... not so much...
Anyway, depending on how you see it, "decades old' is either an exaggeration, or a very appropriate statement, in line with the usual factual and to-the-point slashdot summaries.

Ah, yes, it is well known that many birds are slain,
by the false azure in the windowpane...

Sounds about right. And the outdoor hose is a good analogy.
But you went off topic, the question is, if you were not there and police saw that stranger and arrested him for theft (without even asking you wanted to press charges), would you think that was OK or perhaps "a bit" too much?

I switched from an N9 to a Galaxy S3 about a year ago (because the N9 lacked some apps I needed - thanks to Nokia abandoning it and alienating developers) and I still think the N9 was a much superior experience to both my Galaxy and my company-issued iPhone.
I' ll keep an eye for this. Hopefully if it catches on it might get a lower price-tag (given that it doesn't use very expensive hardware). The hardware does not seem very high-end, but the native apps are fast (the single-core N9 seemed faster than dual-core Android phones). Plus you get to run Android apps, if they run without problems this should allow people like me who had to switch to Android for the apps to get the phone.
One thing I don't like that much is the IPS screen. I don't mind it has a lower resolution than the current flagship phones, but I would prefer the S-AMOLED that the N9 had (with an always-on clock that did not use almost any battery power!).
Oh, there is also some talk that they will develop replace-able backs, e.g. you will be able to remove the back cover and put in a slide-out qwerty keyboard N900/950 style.
So, keeping an eye out for this, if it is really better than the N9, it could be the phone to have.