In recent years, we’ve learned quite a few of our elected representatives not only think being fondled is no big deal, but they either like being fondled by other men or like to fondle other men themselves (while publicly stating that homosexuals will burn in hell to boot). It is no surprise that many of our security measures call for hot man on man fondling action.

The US Supreme Court ruled that unilateral secession from the Union is impossible and that any law or resolution passed by a state declaring unilateral secession would be absolutely null. Dissolving the Union would require revolution or the consent of the states to dissolve the Union.

That’s a good question. Personally, I’d be inclined to call the police and inquire about random dudes wearing SWAT gear and carrying guns on the street with no apparent reason to be there.

That's a big Merry Christmas from Anonymous to the families of myfax.com's employees that will probably be getting let go because of this.

I think he meant selling people 6mbit cable that will almost never see 6mbit and will often be about as reliable as a 56k modem during peak hours.

Mass murder (espeically that of potentially innocent people) isn't immoral?

The Constitution only limits Congress to passing military appropriations with terms of up to two years. They pass appropriations bills annually so they are certainly well within that limit since they only pass appropriations with terms of one year. There's a reason why those bills are considered "must pass" and Congressmen are so successful tacking on riders.

It's pretty efficient if you don't have to go running to the court and instead have something taken down by nothing more than a friendly phone call from the aide of a Congressman.

The US State Department disagrees. I imagine if they can get hold of him in a country that would happily extradite him, he'll be on his way to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act.

You can download the full (but probably unpatched) Enterprise Edition of Oracle 11g.

And file the lawsuits.

It's a sneaky sales tactic they've been doing with Android phones for quite a while. They could do a sale for 50% (of the upfront price, not the inflated monthly payment cost) off or go the sneaky route and score a contract or contract extension for two phones by making you buy two of them to get the "deal".

It just means nobody else is going to have Lightpeak devices at first. Apple is playing the early adopter here.

Shipping a Linux distribution didn't stop SCO and to my knowledge nobody ever pushed hard on the "they were shipping Linux angle" because SCO stopped distribution, and if their allegations were correct someone else put it in there anyway so they could still sue.

Most compilers should be doing this. Hell, even IE9 is supposed to do it for JavaScript now. It gets great scores on SunSpider because of it (the JIT can throw away entire tests).