This smells more of "art project" than an actually practical RFC of how to effectively exchange information in secret offline.

This is possibly the one thing you could do both so computationally irresponsible and absurdly dorky that even your obscure *nix machine is going to be royally pwned if you use these frequently.

It all depends on if the particulate, after settling, causes a net reflection or absorption of radiation. This would depend on the precise chemical makeup of the particulate, the altitude dispersed, and the process that dispersed it(temp, pressure, velocity, etc).

Crude oil will still be useful for petrochemicals, regardless of innovation and policy in green energy. And using crude oil as the source for such chemicals can in some instances be more green than alternative processes, assuming they even exist for the desired compounds, and don't require price-raising re-purposing of the food supply for product materials, either. Probably the second best reason to stop burning fossil fuels for energy after environmental concerns is preservation for other useful purposes.

A military force is not really trained to pick targets; they are trained to efficiently kill enemy combatants once given an order and to wait and act on further orders. They were given such an order before acting, and they pretty much responded the only way they were trained to respond.

This is just a fundamental problem in using law enforcement officers not trained for riots, much the less actual professional soldiers trained mostly for combat, as police when BS like this happens. Yet it seems like the USA we have a record of consistently using the wrong tool for the job when it comes to resolving crisis situations, or in this case more of situations politicians and citizens with outdated world views and value systems don't like, whether at home or abroad. And then we in hindsight blame it on the wrong tools chosen why they responded wrongly rather than the engines of society that stupidly selected them.

It's not as simple as that as you still need a DC-DC converter assuming we can't come up with some magical DC supply that matches the forward voltage characteristics of diode designs now and in the future, and this still needs some way to dump heat(albeit, far less than also needing to sink the inefficiency of the AC-DC process as well). Even then I'm guessing eventually most LEDs will actually be driven with a PWM still which would need to be in unit, as well as requiring some sort of moderately sized capacitor to deal with the huge inductance long DC wall wiring would have.

He didn't saying that Commodore USA is a hoax or con merely that he is "assuming" they are, which I presume is a way of trying to say he will treat them with such skepticism in his actions. While probably not the clearest wording those still mean different things. Something like the difference between writing"Joe is a murderer." and "Until proven otherwise, I am going to assume Joe committed the murder."

Yeah, look at any fat kid and you will notice one constant among them: fat parents. Its not genetics, but overall lifestyle.
I play video games more than ever now and have attained a below-average BMI and am well past what my doctor calls "clinical fitness" since ditching a car and biking to work every day. Singling out any one factor of lifestyle is missing the point; its overall lifestyle composition that matters.

Flash cookies FTL! And when that starts to fail more, advertisers can always rely on server-side stateful tracking using whatever identifying tokens they can get(ip address, user agent, etc) to track users. The only real way to stop tracking is to compel the trackers to stop trying. Even elaborate measures like TOR can and have failed to completely prevent tracking.

It does not checks to make sure it has access to enough memory to load the string "hello world" into standard output. It also do no checks to see that the stack size allows it to return 0.

I don't know, while for almost anyone reading this thread such a mentality is true, if I were a millionaire gamer I guess it would be stupid NOT to get one of these. Mind you some people in this world pay more than $1200 for clothing, or even dinner.

Increasing the VAT will barely raise revenues if it does at all; it will mostly just lead to less consumer spending. A "handout" for the games industry might encourage a studio or two to move to or increase its operations in the UK, which would almost certainly raise revenues at least directly, maybe even net them some direct tax, and the halo effect on the surrounding economy from new jobs and investment cannot be underestimated. And I'd assume it would be a relatively effective incentive measure vs. using similar incentives for other industries as AFAIK they'd be the only nation with such a program.

From TFA:

My guess from this is that DMP probably already had a buttoned-up solution for integrating 3D stereo vision with their GPU, saving Nintendo the development costs and enabling this super-fast time to market for the 3DS, and that's probably why they went with it. I'd expect for version 2 they'd perfect something with a more conservative architecture.

If the trillions of present day dollars that went into the space race alone were just diverted to pure R&D to better humanity do you think the accomplishments would not have been similar, if not better? Saying we would never have happened upon velcro or microwaves without NASA just because that is historically what played out is simpleton logic.
There are definitely some things we learned from the space race we probably wouldn't have learned nearly as quickly other wise. But we are past that. There should be diminishing returns technically from near earth limited space exploration like any other technology. The automatic justification should be revoked and hard ROI criteria should be set for any future programs of significant costs.

But consumer choice is necessarily impacted by price and availability. When oil prices get high, consumption does drop, its happened several times before, and consumers get used to the changes. Its just when energy is cheap and conveniently available everywhere, its naturally leads to greater consumption. That roadtrip for the weekend instead of just staying at home or running a home server instead of just using an external drive seem like nicer options in a cheap market.

Energy IS cheap and available largely because lobbyists for the industry, often against popular opinion and the opinion of the consumers themselves, have rigged laws and regulations in their favor and against regulation and accountability. In a universe where this oil well didn't exist or the oil it produced was significantly more expensive because of safety measures, it is very likely consumers would have cared, at least much, as people would have just gotten used to such a world. The only parties that WOULD care are the oil companies who would see lower revenues and profits, and the government who would see less tax revenues from those profits. And so they work to rig the system to make consumers choose to consume more, not the other way around, which is why leaving the choice to consumers [alone] will never work.