Bad for ADD drivers.

In fact, under the US system of dual sovereignty California is sovereign in certain aspects, while the federal government is sovereign over other aspects. The states are not just branch offices of the federal government.

There's no guarantee that the feds will do anything at all if a state defaults or goes bankrupt. Maybe they will; it would be a colossal mess to have a few hundred billion in California bonds default. But maybe they won't. And even if they do, depending on the political climate, it would likely result in some group getting the shaft, be it bond holders, state employees, or pension holders.

...And government finances that are at the point of collapse in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK, and Italy, and a German electorate about to cut them all off.

It all only works until you run out of other people's money, and Europe has run out of Germans.

There are a lot of rumors floating around about Apple doing something with AMD. There's some small probability (probably less than 50%) that they'll ship some new AMD-ish server thing after the new year, at about the time they phase out the xServes.

"After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents—some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military—it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to “punish” any Afghan listed as having “collaborated” with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen."

That asshat Assange has gotten people killed, and helped medieval religious fanatics continue their stranglehold on millions of people. And idiots on Slashdot cheer, because it's the roxor to safely posture about how evil the US is from the safety of a keyboard in an air conditioned office.

Hosting Open Source is also a core competency to Oregon State. They made a rather clever decision to focus on the open source niche a few years back, and it's helped them bring in industry support and helped the student learning process, as shown by the article.

No, a scientist who was passing information about targets in Europe to an al Qaeda group.

Sheesh. Slashdot is increasingly infantile. Just because you don't want to think about there actually being Islamic religious fundamentalists who want to kill you, that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Or it could be that, you know, al Qaeda really exists, and that they are really trying to conduct terror attacks, and that the two arrested really were participating in planning for those attacks. The French had comprehensively bugged their communications and knew what they were up to. From the Daily Mail:

"Adlene Hicheur is a former research fellow at the Rutherford Appleton and still visits the UK for conferences and other meetings. He and Halim are accused of compiling information about possible targets and sending it to contacts in North Africa involved with Al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). ...
European intelligence sources said that Adlene Hicheur, who studied at Stanford University in California before moving to Oxfordshire, had expressed a ‘very strong wish to carry out attacks anywhere where Western security interests can be damaged’."

Look at the CERN data on disk error rates. They found the system error rate to be about 3X10^7.

Just open up a bugzilla ticket.

Do they have free WiFi in the room? Hope they have at least DSL.

In what way is having "real police" paw through your trash better than having citizen busybodies check up on you to make sure you're recycling?

The outrage is the nanny state, not the pay grade of the ninnies enforcing the nanny state.