First problem: the poverty line is variable. For one person under 65, it was ~$11k, for a family of two (single mom + kid, for instance) it's $15k, for a family of four it was $23k. Would you advocate a different minimum wage in each case? Or would you choose one? Those create, respectively, a $5.37, $7.27 and $11.08 minimum wage.

Second problem: at the minimum wage, you have to work every day of every week just to not be impoverished. There's no way to retire if you can never save, no way you can take an unpaid day (sick day, vacation day, personal day for your kid's doctor's appointment; I didn't have paid leave when I was a wage earner)... Heck, if your hours are reduced one week due to factors outside your control (your boss schedules your hours), you're in trouble. You're basically fighting every day just to tread water.

Or he has a knife or is lobbing home made pipe bombs or spoofed the GPS signal so it thinks it's at a firing range or he stole a cop's gun...

Radiation for all!
Boooo!
Very well, no radiation for anyone!
Boooo!
Hmm... Radiation for some, miniature American flags for others!
Yaaaay!

Out of curiosity, is there a list of games that are expected to be released on Linux? Is it everything that says "SteamPlay" or some subset therein?

That grocery store was fully stocked. It was odd that they ran out of one particular item. Now, however, it makes perfect sense! Twinkies were discontinued, then zombies showed up, and now Tallahassee can't find any.

Not quite true. Teddy Roosevelt in '12 (27.4%), La Follette in '24 (16.6%), Wallace in '68 (13.5% of the final vote, but was polling higher than that), Anderson in '80 (6.6%; was polling closer to 20% at the time of the debates) and Perot in '92 (18.9%).

That's why I got Old Glory Insurance.

Also, "DANGER: LANDMINES".

My socially awkward and geeky personality led to pretty much every pre-med I met in college trying to diagnose me with autism. One of the diagnosis criteria that I remember them mentioning was food acceptance or preference issues (eating the same thing all the time, refusing to try new things, etc.). It's since been removed from the diagnostic criteria (it's not nearly selective enough), but it still occurs in a significant majority of cases. I'm curious if there could be a link here. The mice in the study were treated with a diet high in branched chain amino acids. According to livestrong, those foods are... well, I'd generally call those "kids food": red meat, chicken, nuts and cheese. I wonder if food acceptance issues in autism have a biological underpinning and kids are, essentially, trying to self-medicate with chicken fingers.

Though I don't visit as often as I used to, SlashDot is still the top link in my "Daily Sites" folder. Thanks for all the hard work and best of luck in the future!

News Corp closed at ~15 yesterday. At the end of January, it was ~15. So, while they lost some of the gains for this year (to be expected with the scuttling of the BSkyB deal and NotW), they're not exactly going to be hard up on cash.

The TSA actually has a new section dedicated to their successes at http://www.tsa.gov/press/goodcatch/

There are currently three stories: on March 30th they found some pot in a jar of peanut butter, on April 15th they found what appears to be a really tiny knife (or a normal knife in a gigantic DVD player) and on May 5th they found a knife in a shoe (knife not shown).

So, they have had some successes, but these are small, meaningless victories (and, in the first case, completely unrelated to safety).

Really? I thought Objective-C was Brad Cox's attempt to create a message-passing object-oriented extension to C in the manner of Smalltalk.

The article isn't forthcoming about details, but radioactive material falling to earth is only a concern if this uses nuclear power to reach orbit. If they're just talking about a small nuclear reactor as a power source for electronics and an ion engine (or something like that) then the fuel does not become significantly radioactive until it's safely out of earth's atmosphere. Until the reactor is turned on, you can handle the fuel with bare hands.

Modern x86 processors translate instructions into a sequence of RISCy operations (which takes quite a bit of silicon), and then operate like any other high-speed processor internally.