I'd take PINE over either. And I don't even like PINE.

Grasshoppers do not taste even slightly like shrimp, sorry.

One byte at a time?

It's ROT13 so there's any number of websites that will instantly "decrypt" it for you, but really, it's a gag article that's not worth the effort.

It IS, in fact, news for nerds. You will notice it is posted in the "games" category, which you are welcome to ignore if it takes up too much of your important time.

Which is all well and good until you face another power with modern manned airplanes which have instant response time. I'm not supporting these projects, but comparing a manned fighter to a drone is pretty apples to oranges. Drones tend to occupy fairly different roles like observation and hitting motionless or slow ground targets and children.

Given the extremely slow comparative airspeed and the 2-second lag on controls, I'm guessing the Reapers would fare poorly.

Ah, the article was poorly written. My mistake.

It is a talk about hackers as a high risk population. That is the subject matter. The title does not change that fact.

Right, so like going to a store and asking for a product that they don't have and being directed to similar products. As mentioned in the case and equally insane.

His machines weren't "robots" any more than Predator drones are: they were remote controlled by radio.

Yes, but the gun will get pretty hot with nowhere to radiate all that heat.

Curiously enough, yes: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2282/would-a-gun-work-in-space

I also demand screenshots of homebrew video games that are the obvious main purpose of having this thing in a boring math class. (And I wonder why I have trouble with even simple arithmetic)

Your loss. I'm not a fan of "the free market fixes everything" but that's not what he said (the key word here is "often") and despite my usually mdoerate position he had a lot of thoughtful and intelligent things to say.