... to have a lots and lots of PDFs about the sites to watch and the possibly suspicious activities.

I'm sure the terrorists(tm) will never ever read those PDFs and even if they do, will not at all use the information found therein to obfuscate their activities.

First, "iWATCH"? Really? Apples lawyers are going to be all over this.

Second, âoeThe majority of citizens want to do whatâ(TM)s right,â? "Wanting to do what's right" is usually the exact opposite of "Doing what's right."

And third, this sounds like an excellent way of getting back at those annoying neighbos. There are so many suspicious activities that they're bound to engage in a least one or two of them. Nothing like seeing them "evicted" by a SWAT team someday.

I don't like injections either, but I sure as hell got my tetanus shot after I stood on a rusty nail.

A tetanus shot usually doesn't leave permanent neurological damage. Having a hole drilled into your skull and bits of brain tissue removed for a biopsy will.

Then again, you might not notice the difference.

How the hell can a doctor prescribe SSRI without measuring the actual levels first?

Most patients would object to a brain biopsy.

And even doing one would give very little insight into the actual dynamic processes inside the synaptic clefts. It's not a simple issue of "there's too little serotonin in your system", but rather a "there's too little serotonin within the synaptic cleft for the sensitivity and number of receptors to reliably cause an action potential in the receiving cell when required" ...

.. are a *bang* when you expected a click, and a click when you really, really wanted a *bang*.

I guess this system will increase the occurence of scary sounds of the second kind.

Last I checked, satelites were in space. :-)

Yes, but you could be sitting right next to the servers physically and still have a 500-1000ms ping if your network connection involves satellites.

I'm using IARs IDE. However, starting with version 5.50 (EWARM) it seems to have an issue drawing its GUI elements which, over time, leads to interesting screen corruption and an eventual crash to the desktop (running under XP, when running under W7 the screen corruption doesn't happen, but the crash eventually occurs, too). Version 5.42a was still fine.

However, I'm stuck with it, so that's what I'm using.

Anyone else having CTD issues with IARs IDE?

All you need is internet over satellite.

I'm on Welbutrin which is an SSRI not a *Meth*

Err. Wellbutrin is a substituted amphetamine, and it's not an SSRI since affects norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake and not serotonin reuptake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellbutrin

I saw a TV program that showed electrodes connected to one person. That person was able to move an avatar around a 3D environment. Sure doesn't seem like they have come very far...

20 years ago, it was fake. Today, it actually works.

... a rocket-powered crane, a power source that lasts a few years, a laser that can vaporize rocks and a fusion reactor that spits out neutrons?
Thought so.

And I'm not even getting into allowed temperature ranges, radiation hardening and so on.

... to sodium. Instant, on-demand hydrogen!

I hope by the time humans finally walk on Mars, it's still there so it can be preserved.
However, the implications of the rover no longer being where it is assumed to be would be ... interesting.
Might make for a good start of a sci-fi horror movie ... or comedy.

I don't put the cup on top of my computer. But the status is "with cream and sugar".

People with 15 years of "experience" on their resume would regularly fail or give up.

I'm curious ... can you elaborate on how exactly they fail?

Do their attempts just have stupid bugs or is the whole approach wrong?

I'd probably fail at "printing". Only writing code for devices without any human-targetted outputs does that to you. :P