Can't we just put laser filters on the cockpit windows (or have the pilots wear laser safety glasses)? Maybe we can't filter *every* color laser (that may block too much normal light), but we could filter the green ones which the article mentions as the more troublesome type.

Charged not convicted. His defence team hasn't started to play yet.

There seems to be a concerted effort to make the government as useless as possible.

Pardus is an entertaining game. One could play for long stretches avoiding most other players.
If one joined a strong faction, one could stay within their territory, working for the "man" and have a good time. Unfortunately, it is a game with a limited number of "moves" per day.

Anyone else get all excited to see games they used to play in scientific papers? If I had known I could have published on it, I would have played more during grad school.

I have heard, but do not have a reputable source, that the overhead on NASA projects is 500%.
For those who do not know, budgets for academia and government work are calculated roughly as:
Actual Costs * Overhead = Budget
The Overhead goes to things like facilities, accounting, IT, etc.
Actual Costs include salaries (possible benefits), parts and supplies.
The Universities I have worked for have overheads around 50%.

The police report of your stolen computer should do a fine job of showing that you are not guilty of the infringing.

you sign up and are lazy and just go about posting stuff without thinking of any consequences.

there may be some need or times like causes when you want as much info about you up there.
I have little to hide but i have ONLY put up my birthdate and location , seriously strangers come to the door i have a 350 pound security guard thats gonna tell you about how privacy works

( will i get to post again?)

That's right, there's no more unknowns of the universe left. Hubble solved everything.

It's funny that just a short year ago the Slashdot herd was unanimous in its rabid hatred of Flash.

As soon as Apple, one of Slashdot's great Satans, adopts a similar stance the Slashdot herd suddenly is against Apple position and therefore by necessity defending Flash.

If Slashdot had any principles the herd's position wouldn't have changed. But Slashdot has no principles, what it has is cheerleading for underdogs. Flash is perceived in this fight as the underdog. But here's the thing, Adobe is no friend of Slashdot, quite the opposite in fact. Adobe wants nothing less than control of interactive media on the web. Does that sound like it aligns with any of the Slashdot herd's so-called principles?

No company is any more or less moral or opportunistic than any other. Not Microsoft, not Apple, not Adobe. They're all driven by the profit motive. Not even Google, the much beloved of the Slashdot herd, is above this. Google thanks you for your support and then datamines you on behalf of its true customers: advertisers.

And then there's the FSF on Ars Technica calling Apple the pot to Adobe's kettle. Here's the thing, if Apple wins and HTML5 becomes the standard for interactive media on the web, a wild-eyed true believer in the FSF cause would be way, way better off than if Flash ends up winning. Just ask anyone that uses something not quite mainstream enough for Adobe to bother supporting them, like BSD or Linux on PPC.

Well if you want to be strictly correct, and it seems that you do, some of it will be converted to acoustic noise and escape through the walls, or be transmitted out through the wires or end up changing the magnetic potential energy in hard disk platters.

But then how do you get that Internet access? If you cut your cable, you can't easily get cable Internet, and if you switch to a cell phone, you can't easily get DSL.

I think it's just been a couple years since you checked on this... A dry-loop is maybe a $10 charge from Verizon at worst, and with the deals, you'll get it cheaper. Time Warner doesn't charge extra for internet without TV, at all.

With the cost of cable, it's as easy decision there. For phone service, it's closer, but cell phone prices are dropping as well.

Depends on the climate entirely. Here the summers are brutal and the winters severe. which one is contained is pretty much up to which one we want to be exposed to. (i.e. winter it is nice to have the heat NOT just dumped outside.) Curtains and thought to the existing doors/partitions help with that seasonal flexibility a lot.

Compare 15 (1111 unsigned) to -1 (1111 signed). The answer is they are equal

when you compare the bits, yeah.. but when write "trivial" programs, you can do "(unsigned int) 5 == (signed int) 5" it will equal true. as I said, as long as all involved variables are small enough to fit into the smallest type involved.

that I would like to have.

Once your server room is to the point where you have hot and cold aisle, just contain one and go for a beer.

It is going to be tied up in the courts for years. Even if it passes every legal challenge, it doesn't change much really. Officers or the courts will check with the government databases before people are penalised, so forgetting one's papers when they run to the 7-11 won't affect much.

Depending on location (it is not legal everywhere), citizens need to produce I.D. when asked by an officer.

As for individuals being harassed by the cops, the cops can do that currently.

Also, AZ (and the rest of the US) have people from all over. People who try to blend in will be fine and will blend in. Those that try to stand out will get harassed, just like always.