For proof, I guess he could show the court his balls, after his wife has cut them off...

So, because the judiciary is very conservative, his appointment is being suspended until the allegations are cleared.

They're not doing this because the judiciary is very conservative; some judges are, some are very liberal. It's just because our court system has centuries of experience with this type of thing and knows that judges are like Caesar's wife. They not only need to avoid doing anything that would call their impartiality into question, they have to be above suspicion. Being investigated on a "morals" charge could jeopardize every case he works on because his integrity would become an issue on appeal, and the easiest way to avoid that is by not having him hear cases where the charges against him might become significant.

At the time, Mandriva was in serious financial trouble (but then, when was it ever not so?). And they had just announced yet another change in direction.

Mandriva seemed directionless, etc... so the Mageia team forked.

Hotels have offered power outlets, network connections and (sometimes) usb connectors on desks and tables for years, now, both in rooms and in their lobbies. I don't remember seeing any on couches, but they often have easily accessible outlets in the wall, or on the floor. The last time I can remember having to get under a table to get to a socket in a hotel lobby was back in 2010. It's not exactly hard to do, you know, you just have to take the same precautions you'd use if you were putting a new outlet into the wall, and make sure your work is up to code.

The most charitable thing you can say at the moment is that they apparently have more power than they can manage is a responsible way, let along legal way.

It may be more accurate to say that certain IRS agents think they have far more power than they actually do and have let their mistake go to their heads.

AIUI, cops tend to follow this type of ruling very, very carefully and do their best not to violate any new guidelines handed down. This isn't because they have such a great respect for the law (although many individual cops probably do) but because they don't want to have their evidence declared inadmissible, with the chance that the entire case might be thrown out. After all, they don't have to agree with the rules of evidence, they just have to make sure they follow them.

A friend of mine wrote a book about the state of virtual reality over twenty-five years ago. Back then, special glasses, headsets or other similar viewers were state of the art. Now, your average first person shooter video game has better 3D than anything he wrote about.

Well, this is Slashdot, you know. What else did you expect other than unfounded speculation by people who didn't RTFM and hyperbole?

If you'll go to the post I originally replied to, you'll find this: "For all we know, 97% of those researchers were ungrad-students doing research for a professor that required them to assume AGW was man-made." I was just remarking that using the term AGW includes the assumption that it's man made, and that any professor who expects them to use that term also expects them to accept that assumption.

Thank you; I sit corrected. Still, the point remains that the term AGW assumes that it's caused by mankind.

For all we know, 97% of those researchers were ungrad-students doing research for a professor that required them to assume AGW was man-made.

For that matter, for all we know, almost all of the papers that took the position that the current warming trend wasn't man-made were rejected and that their position on the cause was part of the reason. I'm not saying that there was selection bias, just that it's a possible explanation. And, btw, the A in AGW stands for anthropomorphic, or, "man made," so AGW is man made by definition.

The WiFi on the Pacific Surfliner (SantaBarbara-SanDiego) sucks.

Just ask Kyle Love.

Except in North Carolina, of course....

Shhhh... he's on a roll!