Apparently they dismissed schools more than an hour and a half after the snow started. But the point is they had a severe weather warning. I was saying that in Athens usually you don't even need a warning, but when there is a warning it is even more obvious that schools won't open...

I usually joke about the Athens (Greece) snow situation, but it works. You see in a city that can get an inch or two of snow for a day every 3-4 years you don't need any planning. You wake up in the morning and you see some snow. Hey, no school! You can switch on the TV/Radio to verify, but when people wake up and it is snowing they stay home, no prior warning required.
Then, there are a few snow-plows, which are obviously parked outside the city since they are almost never needed in the city. And equally obviously, the one day they are needed there is no way for the drivers to actually go there and fetch them. So, you have to wait for the snow to melt by itself (quickly), and you go to work/school the next day.
Having lived in NY, I used to make fun of the fact that Athens is paralyzed with half an inch of snow, but after seeing the Atlanta mess, I guess they are doing pretty good!

If this thing takes off, I can imagine in a few years the highly subsidized corn industry trying to sell high concentration fructose batteries, marketing them as "corn sugar fuel cells".

Eh, are you serious? You can't just trademark the names of products that are not yours in countries where they have not yet applied just to blackmail the company. If you have a legitimate product and you are the first to register that name for it, it is all good and they will have to pay you to get it back. But this guy just registered the name and made a fake "Tesla Motors China" website, complete with the Tesla logo and a car he had no relation to, then asked for millions.

Hmm, I always read it as: "Malicious, Software Removal Tool" and opted out to avoid having it maliciously remove my software. I would even be shocked that MS would even propose such a thing, but I read slashdot, so I did expect such and worse...
But in retrospect, perhaps you are right, and it is just a Tool that removes Malicious Software?
Honest mistake, I mean that's how Pythia had all the success...

I mean, the whole problem is the legal framework, which is focused on dealing with the wrong issues. Imagine if instead of malware you attempted to host copyrighted content on Amazon or GoDaddy or whomever else. Immediate takedown of the content and people coming after you. If you host malware on the other hand, meh, as long as Amazon gets paid they can host it without getting into trouble.
When I say it is a national issue, I don't mean it is only a US issue. It is a national issue for every country that writes the laws that corps ask for. Well, of course, it is the only country that I know off where corporate bribes are institutionalized, but that's another story.

I mean, if you are in business of stealing something to sell, you can never have "too much". You just have to sell in packets or whatever is the usual instead of advertizing "hey! Anybody wanna buy 110 million CCs wink, wink, nudge, nudge!".
But most importantly, they had been stealing at least since November. And CCs are a "commodity" with an expiration date. You think if they wanted to sell them they have sat on them for all these months (when there was supposedly no "problem" finding buyers), waiting for something?
Low article even for /.
Not that I read it of course ;) The summary was too much already!

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.