I flew out of Minneapolis a few weeks ago and while on the way down I didn't have to go through the scanner (in Canada we use millimeter wave and always have), they had the backscatter in the airport. I simply, and politely, asked to have my kids go through the metal detector along-side the backscatter instead since I didn't want them to get a blast of xrays. "No problem" said the TSA person (who BTW was incredibly nice and reasonable about the whole thing). In fact, the whole fam. got processed through the metal detector instead. They DID confiscate the ~3 oz. of my kids' toothpaste however. Security theater.

Sadly, until the major networks stop blocking GoogleTV access to their broadcasts/content who cares if Google TV can contextually search shows.

It's interesting you posted this. Back in the early 90's when my friend and I were in school we both took a pile of astrophysics courses (thank you The Next Generation for making me a space-whore for life). We created all the basics for a space combat game. Down to stats, movement rates etc... all based on 'real physics'. I completely agree with one of the posters above - it was too boring to ever code as such since it involved horrendous wait times, punctuated by sheer madness over the period of a minute or two, then a lot of death. Jack Campbell has written a FABULOUS set of books (the Lost Fleet), with a serious dose of reality (with the exception of FTL travel). Iirc, he's a former Navy Captain or some-such, so the feeling of combat is very real, more importantly, he's spent some time researching relativistics so there's a lot of that in the novels as well. Well worth the read. Space weapons are largely missiles and particle weapons, both of which we have in today's age - so it's only engines/travel that are slightly futuristic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Fleet

I can see Assange being next year (if the mag has the balls to actually publish his name) - after this shakes down a bit further. Assange's story is ongoing. As for Zuckerdouche - you have to respect him as a serious contender in that his product is used by millions of people and is used as a way for drunken college kids to post pics of girls kissing girls on a dance floor. All joking aside, FB is a serious societal consensus-shaping tool - think of the activism that has been orchestrated via. FB.

Interesting article. I however have a beef with the thought that "“This gives you hope that terrorism is understandable from a scientific perspective.” " Furthermore, I have a problem with his thought that patterns of probability can be seen to develop over time, while not explicitly stating _when_ an attack will happen. To me, that's akin to stating that the San Andreas fault-system will trigger with a mounting probability over the years. Of course it will - as tension builds at some point it's inevitable that the fault will release. When world governments have bad foreign policy (which most seem to have at least some time, if not most of the time), of course you're going to create disenfranchised members of the world community - and when you arm and train them like Al Quaeda & Taliban were when the west wanted them to fight the Soviets they will turn on you. It's not a matter of if, but when. Stating that over time the likelihood of an attack increases seems to not scientific, but rather obvious as somebody (or some group) is almost guaranteed to slip through the security net in place to detect/predict such actions. My $0.02

You market it to the same people that have a Lexus, Saab, Infinity etc... The interior of the Volt is just as luxurious as any of the aforementioned vehicles afaik from looking at the website. You see a metric crap-ton of ads for Lexus' on TV, I haven't seen ONE for the Volt yet. I stand by my case, with proper advertising, the Volt would sell just like any large production model would, it's curious as to why Volt isn't really being advertised.

Problem is, if they follow the same approach as the EV-1, then they don't want the volume and intend to tank the line. I don't want to seem like a tinfoil hat conspiracist, but I don't see any real marketing on the Volt - not like they did on the Saturn line, or really any other GM-made vehicle. It smells suspiciously like intended failure at this point. 1) Let's claim gross loss-per-vehicle. We won't make it obvious it was somebody from the company saying it, but we'll allude to it. 2) Let's not market-the-hell out of it like we do our other cars 3) Let's pull the vehicle once we get sympathy for our losses once our lobbyists have softened up congress.

I was trying to figure out what programming language to introduce to my sophmores this fall - so this article was well timed. I realize that once you learn the concept of syntax/logic then you can learn any language but I was tired of the language I've been using as an intro. for the last few years. I toyed with the concept of using XNA, but figure that's still too advanced for most grade 10 students. Python - here we come!

You cannot PROVE that life existed, you can only fail to disprove it exists (or existed). Very interesting nonetheless, I'd thought they disproved it a while back.