At IIT (the Illinois one, not the one in India), the tech department didn't collect this sort of data. But if they had, they would've thought I ran one Windows machine instead of two Linux boxes, because they didn't know Linux and would not help me get the network going unless I told them I was running a single Windows or Mac computer. I ended up getting all the network settings for Windows and putting them in the right place myself, and hiding both systems behind a router. Several of my friends had similar experiences.

I will note that many of my professors, especially in the CS department, used Linux almost exclusively, and some actually would not accept Microsoft Office documents (they allowed pdfs and sometimes OpenOffice documents). There was just a huge disconnect between the people in charge of the student portion of the network and the rest of the campus.

You might even say he single-handedly changed things around.

(sorry!)

1.15 nW/m^2 * 4 * pi * (5E9 ly * 9.46E15 m/ly)^2 = 3.22E43 W

Do we know this wasn't somewhat directed?

The Funny mod doesn't grant any karma, so people will sometimes mod something they enjoy Insightful even if it isn't.

How would one go about implementing this delay?

My apologies; "Senate" dropped right out of my awareness.

Last I checked, Biden was Vice President.

...and why should they be? They're not law enforcement.

Large shell scripts, on the other hand are perfectly acceptable.

Whoosh!

This. A human should be able to override the terrain-following radar once it becomes (through whatever circumstance) terrain-seeking/intersecting radar. Allowing human override doesn't mean you can't have AI, jsut that you aren't forced to use it even when it breaks.

Alternatively, make it female and attractive, then reverse the logic.

My apologies, I did not take the time to read all the comments on the article. It seems that Happer allegedly said something implying that Gore or someone working for him said something similar to the "quote". That is to say, I wouldn't draw any conclusions from the alleged quote.

Following a few links from googling 'gore "not going to let science get in the way"' led me to this: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=13773. Seems he did say something of the sort, anyway.

It'll work just as well as any keyboard layout. Unless you manage to switch layouts every few minutes, they will simply come up with a different map of sounds to letters. It will still be successfully analyzed, since you're using the same map of keys to letters.