I'm more concerned about Alpha and Beta radiation. Both are far more dangerous to human tissue. Of course they are also significantly easier to shield against.

Here is a link to Clang's reason for creation/existence even though GCC exists. It even mentions a few reasons people might prefer to use GCC. http://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html#gcc

The original post states "I got through grad school with OpenOffice (now known as LibreOfifice)," I thought OpenOffice was still OpenOffice and LibreOffice is a fork project of OpenOffice based on reaction to Oracle's purchase of Sun.

A centralized government database of all cell phones with mac addresses, imei numbers and such. Should be even easier for them to do warrantless tracking of whomever they choose.

It's all fun and games until the thing crashes into The White House, Congress or both. Although that may decrease the corruption there. Notice I didn't say eliminate. We have groomed plenty of corrupt replacements at the state level.

But they haven't banned cats yet either. http://www.parasitesinhumans.org/toxoplasma-gondii.html

Frank Herbert's Dune is amazing. There is a reason there have been multiple attempts to make it into film. However none of them come close to the books.

Well done Quark Brin! The Grand Nagus will be pleased!

The town I live in has a coal fired plant and a Nuclear Power Plant owned by the power company I am billed by. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess those are the sources of my electricity.

Former Iowa State Cyclone basketball coach might still be married and working at Iowa State had he had this product. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/507716-the-biggest-party-animals-in-sports/page/5