The reason the repubs have stalled this is because they are happy to let it be privatized.

They have seriously tried to shut down NOAA because they wanted to privatize weather data collection in the past.

The most insulting part of his statement is that a hands on trades type job is just for the less academically adept.

While I am partial to electrician work, a trades type job is great for just about anyone.

I am actually getting out of software development full time and working toward becoming a professional electrician because I am very into renewable energy and would love to work outside installing solar and wind equipment.

Electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic, heavy equipment operator, landscaper, etc are all great jobs for a person who wants to do them, academically adept or not. Suggesting they are only for "less"er people is insulting, stigmatizing and shameful.

Language and application support email lists.

I had a perl project, I monitored the perl dev list and then mentioned that I needed some one for a job and fully described the job.

I had 2 or 3 super high quality people reply off list and I selected one and everything went great and I had good support on that code for the life of the application.

I have done things like this on several occasions and it has never failed to work out well. And I feel like I support the community.

Unlike elance and odesk, which I did not have a lot of success with for the projects I wanted to do.

And yet, where I live, the city buses are timed to drop people off at the train station at just before the train arrives, so a city 100k can efficiently use the train to get to their jobs about 1 hour away, where, get this, more trams and buses are there when the train arrives so they can spread out into the major city and get to their jobs.

The city buses all along the route of the train (which also basically follows the highway) arrive at times for people to make their trains.

Works great in a country of 10 million, not sure why Americans can't seem to get it to work.

I just want let people know, if you have a local community workshop or hacker space, I strongly encourage you to check it out. I am lucky to have two in my area, one of the 8 TechShops around the US and a smaller, more community driven workshop (Maker-Works).

I found both to be amazing resources as far as tools, classes and community support are concerned.

I am one of those very introverted people, I do not go out much at all socially and really avoid going out in general if I can. I am also pretty geeky, programmer, hardware hacker type.

I was amazed at how friendly, accepting, encouraging and similar to myself everyone at these two shops were. I really could not get over it. I went to one of the meetings at the local community hackerspace shop and literally felt like I was in a room full of people very very much like myself for the first time in my life (I'm 45).

I can not say enough good things about these places. I realize my experience is only at two of them, but really, even if there is a 50/50 chance one of them in your area might be as great of an environment as the two in my area, it is really worth it to go check them out.

What the government entity is doing here is making sure that one company cannot leverage its monopoly position in one area (operating systems) to prevent competition in another area (web browsers), otherwise known as "leveling the playing field."

No one is be disadvantaged, one company is prevented from being abusive of its market position in an unrelated area to web browsers.

That is exactly what a regulator should do, ensure a competitive market to increase consumer choice which will then determine who succeeds in that particular market.

I am not expert, but it is possible that the current find is the ancestor of a whale that was transitional to modern day whales. So modern day whales and these current discoveries shared a common ancestor so it helps us further understand what lead to modern forms.

Maybe imagine it as the end of twig that came off of a larger branch and modern day whales are somewhere further down the larger branch. It would help to know what came off the larger branch earlier in the process.

Even before this find, whales are one of the most well documented transitions from one "kind" to another "kind" (as the creationist idiots like to call them).

Not really surprising to know that hippos and cows are the whale's closest living land relatives.

And this is totally supported by both fossil evidence and DNA evidence.

So what is your excuse for ignorance if not youth?

Development of flagella has been gone over again and again, it is basic evolution re-using existing structures and processes to build cellular structures:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flagellum

And further, abiogenesis, what you seem to call OOL, has nothing to do with evolution and natural selection.

And then some lame appeal to philosophers, not biologists or scientists, making arguments from ignorance. For a reasonable refutation of the first work of dreck, see what an actual biologist has to say about it:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/awaiting-new-darwin/?pagination=false

You are wrong and that is part of the problem. I know it seems almost impossible to believe, but in the US, literally 46% of the population reports to believe that humans were created exactly as they are now within the last 10,000 years.

The problem is, rational folks just can't imagine that such a huge % of the US population could believe such utter nonsense so we don't treat it with the seriousness we need too.

It is frightening as all hell.

For reference:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx

It is worse than just the mistake about still serving up torrent files. He seems to think TPB actually served up the copyrighted content files..

This shows a basic misunderstanding of how BitTorrent works.

TPB never had any copyrighted content files on their servers ever. They served up .torrent files which were files that pointed to trackers for the content files being shared.

Now they use magnet files, which allows users to get .torrent files from other users instead of from TPB.

Raspberry Pi supply problems are long over. You can get one overnight now if you want.
I still wouldn't order one from RS though, their performance during the supply shortage was terrible, no more of my business for them ever.

Yes, it has been done with the Raspberry Pis.

Beowulf clusters in the Raspberry Pi world are called "Brambles"

Visit the RPi forums and search for that for real world feedback on how to do it.

Early models did not have mounting holes, all the recent models do have mounting holes.

USB issues have been improved greatly.

What seems not to be possible is pumping video larger than 640x480 over the USB ports, otherwise, it is apparently working fine.