I'd love to see some sort of proof that soldiers, sailors, or Marines are being refused exit at the end of their enlistment terms. I'm a former Marine, and I have lots of friends who are still in the service. Nobody's reported on this. Nobody's even *heard* of this.

If you've got some hard evidence that said contamination is statistically dangerous then I'd like to see it. I've heard lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth saying radiation levels are higher than before the incident but not one of them (to my knowledge) has indicated *dangerous* levels of contamination anywhere except in the immediate area of the plant.

And while you're wondering about how many lives will be cut short by radiation, perhaps you might want to consider how many were lost due to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. I believe you'll find the former is statistically unmeasurable compared to the latter.

No can do. You can thank Jimmy Carter for killing off breeder reactors in the US due to proliferation concerns. He didn't want unstable third-world dictatorships like Iran, North Korea, etc. to be able to develop nuclear weapons...oh, wait...

+100 Funny points for you, sir!

And then imagine your spherical cow on a frictionless surface...

Here's the results of a recent Steam hardware survey from December 2012:

Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit - 0.29%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64 bit - 0.26%
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS - 0.13%
Ubuntu 12.10 - 0.12%

So all in all, the Steam Linux usage is just at about 1% with Windows platforms dominating about 95% of this gaming platform. It takes considerable expense for AMD and nVidia to crank out drivers for these platforms. The economic rewards for satisfying the needs of less than 1% of the gaming market simply don't make any sense. If you want to game in Linux, don't blame the hardware companies for ignoring you and the other five or six people in the world gaming with you.

Which then leads to the question: why do they care of the 3D performance under Linux sucks? If you're tinkering with Linux -- or using it as a server, dev platform, etc. -- and not using it for Linux gaming, it's kinda irrelevant. Use the bundled 2D drivers and be done with it.

But OMG, if she did...

...scientists discover how to make fruit fly larvae develop Maximum Armor, Maximum Strength, and Invisibility Cloak powers, just not all at the same time.

And, as recently demonstrated by Cyprus, if the government arbitrarily changes the rules ex post facto and decides they're going to take your money "because we need it," how well do you sleep? You sleep well thinking the rules of the game can't be changed. They can. They are. This is a terrifying precedent.

And this makes the people who were subjected to government-authorized robberies sleep better at night...how exactly? When the government can arbitrarily decide to take your funds, does it really matter where thy put the dollar/euro limit at? This should terrify everyone.

This is semi-old news. Mt.Gox has been under attack for at least a couple of days but they appear to be handling it pretty well. I haven't noticed any problems with using them at least. Trades might be taking a tad longer but nothing big that I can see.

Instawallet, on the other hand, crumbled at least a day or two (I read about it early yesterday morning). Their problem had nothing fundamental to do with BTC but more to do with the unique way Instawallet did business with (I believe) greater anonymity. The whole "we gotta rearchitect this thing" press release was that their fundamental way of doing business made them uniquely targetable by fraudsters, thus they gotta figure out something new.

I'm no sailor, but I've read a good bit about disasters at sea. I frequently come across the maxim that the safest place for a ship to be during a storm is at sea, the logic being a ship in port will be thrown against piers, reefs, etc. and destroyed instead of at sea where, presumably, you can sail away from or around danger. Any sailors care to weigh in on this?

Care to cite what law and/or provision of the U.S. Constitution (assuming you're a citizen) that would allow the government to do this?