The length of time spent doing something illegal shouldn't absolve guilt that it was illegal in the first place. In my mind it's the same as the mob mentality that overtakes people during riots. Just because everyone else was looting more expensive goods doesn't excuse stealing something cheap.

And he wasn't just sending some traffic to a website. He was participating in a DDoS attack and full well knew what he was doing and what the group was trying to accomplish.

If you're going to break the law to try to accomplish some 'noble'* goal, you have to be prepared for the repercussions of your own actions.

* I'm not saying that his goal was or wasn't noble, but everyone considers their own goals to be noble.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

He admitted to doing something illegal? He got caught and sentenced.

"But officer! My knife was only in his kidney for one second!"

I know a few federal employees and they hated the shutdown because they a) still had deadlines they have to meet regardless of the shutdown, b) didn't know when they were going back (couldn't travel or plan their furlough days), c) were not guaranteed back pay until the the whole deal was signed when the shutdown was ended.

Also, because of the unknown length of the shutdown, many applied for unemployment insurance because they were not allowed to look for work in their own fields.

So the shutdown was exactly like a paid vacation were you don't actually know if you'll get paid for it, you don't know how long you'll be off, and you're stressing if you'll be back to work before your next mortgage payment is due.

NASA does more than manned space flight. There's all kinds of satellites and other unmanned missions and projects that NASA is exceedingly good at. Missions like Hubble, COBE, TRMM, and even instruments like SWIFT/BAT or cheap Earth-centric projects that come out of Wallops. Lot of good, exciting work still goes on at NASA, but it doesn't get a lot of coverage in the media.

Hell, NASA is even launching a satellite going to the moon on Friday (LADEE), but no one even knows about it.

So these work like magnetic torquer bars?

I can think of two. Who Made Who and the Iron Man 2 soundtrack.

Not only that, but what about the compilation albums? Weren't they just an attempt to sell more records with minimal work? How were they put together?

NOVA and Nature are two that I enjoy. But they're on PBS, so I guess they don't count since no one watches PBS.

What a non-story. It says in the article that they began using this technology in the 2010 Vancouver Games.

" Beginning at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, OMEGA switched to the current "silent" pistol technology, erasing the thousandths of of a second that stood between runner nine and runner one."

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is in Maryland, and Glenn Research Center (GRC) is in Ohio. There is also GISS (which is technically part of GSFC) in New York.

I used the random number generator from truerandom.org to make all of my choices for a quick game. 20-5-14, I won. I figured that if the computer was trying to analyze my previous moves to predict future performance, I'd give it something to chew on. I think the statistical analysis that the computer does assumes some sort of rational play by the human.

Even if it could detect the 'random play', the human could try to fool the computer by using RNG for a while, and then switch to his own choice, and back (randomly, of course).