Comparing the cost of B-52's and B-2's isn't really fair, they were built with very different political requirements.

The B-52's were made with WW3 in mind, and the basic MAD mission would have been to send hundreds of bombers across the USSR in the hope that most of them would reach their target. During all-out nuclear war it wouldn't matter too much politically if 20-30% of the bombers didn't make it back home, as long as the others scored a hit.

The B-2, however, is designed with the assumption of a much higher survival rate, and no politically embarrassing lost/captured crews. This basically requires that you have a few very expensive aircraft, as opposed to lots of cheap ones.

In other words, the B-2 is much more expensive because it puts a much higher value on the lives of the crews.

This does seem like a bizarre reaction from the hacktivists. The Polish government is in the news because they're one the longest holdouts in signing up to ACTA. Surely one of the governments that signed up quickly and quietly, with the minimum of public discussion, is more worthy of our scorn.

I had one of those, it was really cool, even as a kid you could see it was designed better than most other toys. Thanks for the back story.

Since he said he has a 5GB file of secret banking industry documents to be released at a later date.

I'm not sure about Gnome, but KDE already works on non-X11 platforms (e.g. KDE 4.4 is available for Mac), and there's already an ongoing port of Qt to Wayland, so it shouldn't require a big effort from the KDE developers to support this move.

Well, in the case of Germany, first you allow a fascist party to rule for a few years, and then allow a communist puppet state to rule part of the country for 40 odd years after that. With that experience its very easy to convince people that personal privacy is an important issue.

If anything, these new laws are aimed directly at the later group. Just having been a member of the Stasi (east German secret police) was not a crime after reunification, and many of them later became private "security consultants". There's been a few high profile cases of them using their old techniques to help companies track employees.

Oh. Belgium!

Well, the image is really cool, I'll give it that.

The "Quotes" from TFS are all from the author of TFA. If you want to see what the real description of the work, best look here http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/terapixel/default.aspx

There's still some artifacts left though, have a look near (seriously overexposed) Sirius for a ghost of the telescope pupil (the thing that looks like an alien solar sail) (Constellations -> Canis Major)