Emails to and from her Governor-work related email addresses are considered public records. Various media outlets requested the release of all correspondence related to then Governor Palin back in 2008 while she was John McCain's running mate - it just took the state of Alaska this long to actually come up with the emails.

The only image I could find was a drawing depicting what it might look like compared to the Blackhawk.

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It must have been a Stealth Blackhawk in BETA - never seen before and bound to crash at least once.

All kidding aside, it is quite unfortunate that it's debut was the result of a crash in a country that has been known to export nifty knowledge and new technology they acquire (i.e. A.Q Kahn and nuclear weapons).

Actually, if history is any indication, Blizzard really doesn't care about its players.

A brief history of Diablo 2...

When everyone realized they could run Pindle many many times per minute, who was easy to get to (3 clicks) and dropped ALL the best items in the game (even if infrequently) Blizzard instituted waiting lines for new games to slow this down. They didn't change where Pindle was located or that he dropped the best items because it wasn't about the players, it was about their own resources being over utilized. It didn't stop the botters since they just added more keys and clients - a bot waiting doesn't get annoyed like a player waiting does.

Well, players got annoyed having to sit there and watch a number count down showing how many people were ahead of them to create a game while the botters kept getting rich. Blizzard's answer was to implement Realm Down - a system by which you can join X amount of games in Y minutes and if you join more than X games in Y minutes you were temporarily banned for anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. Again, this did not address the actual problems since the botters just set their timing variables to be X games in Y+1 minutes and they were never affected by Realm Down. Legitimate players, on the other hand, got screwed just by joining buy games or transferring items from one character to another because, unlike a bot, a human player cannot calculate their games per hour to an accurate enough degree to avoid realm down.

And I don't need to mention duping, which is still prevalent to this day in Diablo 2. Blizzard's answer to this was to implement a delete-dupe-on-joining-a-game method that ensured the people who actually created the dupes NEVER lost their stuff but any NORMAL LEGITIMATE PLAYER who happened to spend their hard earned loot on a duped rune/item (50/50 chance, really) had it disappear on them at some point when they joined a game. Again, cheaters not affected at all while legitimate players got screwed.

Too many SoJ's got duped? Blizzard implemented the World Event (aka Diablo Clone) which dropped a super charm when ~100 SoJs were sold to the merchant. Who benefited from this? Not the legit players since they didn't have caches of duped SoJs to drop at the merchant to make DClone spawn. But the botters and dupers, they got rich spawning dclone! Then the legit players worked together and started collectivly using SoJs to spawn DClone... well, the dupers had a field day and just kept duping SoJs to sell to the legit players now, which is what the World Event was suppose to stop?

I have been both a legitimate player and a botter, so I can speak from both sides of the equation. Blizzard never really cared about either legit players or botters - it was all about what it cost them after you've already paid for the game. That makes lots of sense from an economical stance, but it was one horrible decision after another from a PR and attitude perspective.

I cannot, however, speak to how they have been regarding WoW. After my experience with them in Diablo 2 I could never fathom paying them monthly for anything..

A serious question to any lawyer-type people out there:

When I first read about this court ruling I was left wondering how this applies to citizens using these devices on police, government officials, candidates, etc. I had just read a different article about iPhone apps that let people know where speed traps and DUI checkpoints are set up. The cynic in me thought this ruling must mean that citizens can now GPS bug police cars and the whole process of collecting data for speed traps and stuff would be automated instead of world-of-mouth. Is that a logical conclusion? Or are police and government officials somehow different from citizens in this regard?

Except that it doesn't use AT&T's network to download torrents, it lets you start downloads with ImageShack doing the downloading. Think of it like the iPhone as a remote control for torrenting - it controls the torrents, but does not actually receive them. From TFA...

"As of 2005, 17% of the population of the emirate was made up of UAE nationals. Approximately 85% of the expatriate population (and 71% of the emirate's total population) was Asian, chiefly Indian (51%), Pakistani (16%), Bangladeshi (9%) and Filipino (3%)." - Demographics of Dubai

Less than 20% of the population of Dubai are actual citizens of the UAE. The vast majority of the people in Dubai are imported non-citizen expats. Given that, I'm just surprised stuff like this doesn't surface more often in the name of 'national security' etc.

Because otherwise the computer would interpret any mention of "Enterprise" to open communications, even if Picard was, say, telling someone how many years he has been aboard Entreprise, or calling out to LaForge who was right across 10 Forward.

And who talks to themselves in the 3rd person? It was a somewhat safe way to activate the communicator.

I'd say it could be a security measure too, but there were too many episodes were random people successfully used someone else's communicator for one reason or another.

That's my theory anyway :P

It's certainly bad for CONTENT distributors who also happen to be ISPs. When ISPs are also content distributors (as will be the case when Comcast buys NBC, for example) they have a profit motive for making their offerings more appealing than their rivals. Comcast would LOVE to be able to make NBCs offerings look 'better' than Disney or Netflix while controlling the entry point for both internet and cable TV access, ensuring the commodity internet access does not cannibalize the lucrative content distribution.

Net neutrality is a huge conflict of interest for anyone providing both the means to connect to content and the actual content.

CNN has a nice video of the launch which shows everything up to the 2nd stage ignition. Apparently the Dragon capsule was put into orbit, which was the ultimate milestone of the launch. Congratz, SpaceX!

BP's original estimate was 1000 barrels per day. After doing their own estimates from satallite images and viewing the first available footage shown from the leaks publicly, various scientists/engineers disagreed with BP and claimed it looked more like 5000 barrels per day. After a day or so, BP and the various government agencies relented and agreed the 5000 barrel estimate was probably more accurate. The most recent, and supposedly more accurate estimate, is 12,000-19,000 barrels per day.

Moon Zoo is one of many projects on http://www.zooniverse.org/

It's a great way to learn about the various images/data being captured, both in our solar system and beyond, while actually contributing something to the scientific community. There is something extremely exciting about watching a clip of the sun and seeing a comet appear out of nowhere and zoom around the sun with its tail pointing away. Or being among the first to notice a new solar storm which might affect astronauts in orbit. Or spotting tiny little foot prints on the lunar surface from one of the Apollo missions in one of the images presented! It does get tedious at times, but the little discoveries make it interesting and rewarding overall. Plus they are great learning tools for curious people, both young and old - the scientists seem to frequently answer all sorts of questions on the forums regarding the images, projects and basic science surrounding them.

I'm not associated with any of the projects, I just find them interesting from time to time. I've learned a lot from the projects and have SEEN a lot more of the Universe around me because of them.

Sorry, this is a dupe and I missed the original post. Please reject it. Thanks.

In the context of being an important part of the web, what is the page rank for the species homo sapiens?

If the incompetence of some of the drivers I see on the roads is any indication, I doubt an internet license will ultimately be very effective either in many cases.