Or get together with your neighbors and petition your government to build a commuter train?

The failure (foam knocking off heat shield tiles) occurred during launch. Nobody noticed said failure until fiery disaster ensued upon reentry.

This. I've spent my entire post-pubescent life telling girls this. Invariably they give me a quick grin like "aww, the geeky kid just gave me a clumsy compliment!" and then resume slathering on the glop on their faces. Of course then I hear "aghh, the universe hates me I keep getting pimples!" No, YOU hate YOU. Let your skin breathe damnit.

I won't read content on sites where every 5th word is an advertisement link to something totally irrelevant. It makes me think its a wiki or something. If I'm on your site and I click a link in the middle of a sentence of content and it doesn't take me to something sane, your whole site just got put on my shitlist in my hosts file.

My understanding is that with current technology one would have to expend more energy manufacturing the capacitors and such than would be collected over the life of the system. Not to mention that if something went wrong the failure mode for an extremely overloaded capacitor is a large explosion. Not something you want happening in a dense population center.

You call peacefully assembling to voice your grievances "breaking the law" and consider toilets "special privileges" and I'M the one threatening the future of America.

Right.....

I'm really getting tired of all these "ZOMG, Poop!" comments. The protesters tried to bring in porta-potties but were denied. If you want to bitch at anybody about the terrible health conditions, bitch at the city for not allowing the protesters to provide the sensible sanitation arrangements that they tried to.

Since we all know they literally burn the money for fuel in the rockets. It doesn't get spent on the components and then keep circulating in the economy or anything. Nope, burned to a cinder, never to be spent again... -sigh-

Kind of like Whuffie in Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?

This has been probably been going on since drugs were first made illegal, and has definitely been happening all over the country since the 70's when funding became tied to drug arrests.

Lets see, I'm not at the house so I may miss a few things..

3 routers
5 TV boxes (CenturyLink IPTV)
4 Desktops
4 Laptops
3 Smartphones
1 HTPC
1 Xbox

So 21 devices total. Of course this is if everybody is at home. The laptops and smartphones fluctuate as we come and go. Either way it always well over 10.

I'm posting this comment from my "Mobile command center": Laptop with wireless keyboard and mouse using a fold out clipboard as a table in the car, tethered to my samsung intercept running ubuntdroid on sprint.

.... if we on slashdot had enough Verbs it would be possible in theory....
and with capitalization sentence structure grammar punctuation in out of reach - NOT possible!

If only the patent office still thought this way, maybe we could do something about the patent trolls (at least the ones who generate their own patents, the ones who buy others patents already granted wouldn't be affected).

Because it said so in the first half of the sentence (which just happened to be in the comment's title for some reason)? ;-)