I personally think profiling would be a good idea but any time it is brought up in America it is shot down.

The reason for it being shot down is you alienate loads and loads of good people.

How would you feel as an American citizen if you were always strip searched every time you boarded a plane, or were followed wherever you go, just because your father was from a worrying country? You'd get bitter. Racial profiling is a somewhat self enforcing problem. Those that are more of a risk are persecuted more, and thus become more of a risk.

I don't think racial profiling is the answer.

Despite what some people would have you believe, "kill as many civilians as possible" is very rarely the point in terrorist attacks. They usually focus on specific things, and targets. The 9/11 attacks were an obvious example of this. The 7/7 bombings in London were aimed at infrastructure of the city, and causing chaos. The recent attacks in Kenya were focused on an expensive mall.

Whereas since banning handguns in the UK, handgun crime has gone up (that is, crimes involving handguns, not possession of one), and all firearm crime has gone up by more. Look at the graph on this page. about 1/2 the way down. Handguns were banned in 1997, when gun crime was on a downward curve.

Also, see this(PDF, sorry about the google cruft, can't be bothered editing) police statistics report. It shows that serious handgun crime more than doubled in the 4 years after they were banned, despite having been dropping for the previous 10 years or so, when they were legal.

I don't own a gun, probably never will, but I dislike the government telling me what I can and can't have based on poor logic. Also, It had been demonstrably shown that in the UK, barring other factors (and I doubt there were _that_ many other factors), banning handguns increased handgun crime.

The arms race simply converted finite physical resources into desert boneyards filled with billions of dollars of scrapped and utterly useless aircraft: http://chemtrailsplanet.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/boneyard-a.jpg

Sometimes we write code quickly as a proof of concept. I enjoy the challenge of "that chip's not powerful enough to do what we need," because it means a day or two of fun to prove the assertion wrong. However, that code might not be pretty simply because my goal is a proof of concept, not a production system. Of course, ever once in a while pieces of that rushed code end up in a production device. At any rate, the early proto-Google systems were all about demonstrating that something was possible. And it worked - they attracted seed money and the rest is history.

Navy still uses magnetic cores. It's se rom EMPs.

Umm... powerline networking, are you referring to a method developed by power monitors, Inc, communicating data as the voltage crosses through zero, then disconnecting as the voltage spikes high?

Fact is, though I love the slogan of "Dude, you've been Delled!", for the most part, Dell has handled its rise from small to large quite well.

They've really -- for the most part -- avoided becoming the characteristic fortune-500 company, that decides to profiteer on their customers and supliers, and sees quality fall through the floor [followed by stock price], and ends up in the compost heap of an infinite loop of mergers with other fortune 500 companies, losing money [but never vanishing] the whole way.

Hopefully, that won't change.

Could I say, "Ea is my copilot"? Ea, the clever prince, Ea, the one who said that to rescue the dead, an immortal would have to give up his immortality? Ea -- ummm, EaShua, 'salvation of Ea' --- who did exactly that, 2000 years ago?

We've already been hit with a massive asteroid, and it made the Chevrons of Madagascar; it caused the few survivors around the world to focus on building pyramids; and it is recorded in the stores of Noah.

Excerpt from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI:

Ea, the Clever Prince(?), was under oath with them
      so he repeated their talk to the reed house:
          'Reed house, reed house! Wall, wall!
O man of Shuruppak, son of Ubartutu:
    Tear down the house and build a boat!
    Abandon wealth and seek living beings!
    Spurn possessions and keep alive living beings!
    Make all living beings go up into the boat.
    The boat which you are to build,
    its dimensions must measure equal to each other:
    its length must correspond to its width.
    Roof it over like the Apsu.
I understood and spoke to my lord, Ea:
    'My lord, thus is the command which you have uttered
    I will heed and will do it.
    But what shall I answer the city, the populace, and the
                                                              Elders!'
Ea spoke, commanding me, his servant:
    'You, well then, this is what you must say to them:
      "It appears that Enlil is rejecting me
      so I cannot reside in your city (?),
      nor set foot on Enlil's earth.
      I will go down to the Apsu to live with my lord, Ea,
      and upon you he will rain down abundance,
      a profusion of fowl, myriad(!) fishes.
      He will bring to you a harvest of wealth,
      in the morning he will let loaves of bread shower down,
      and in the evening a rain of wheat!"'
Just as dawn began to glow
the land assembled around me-
the carpenter carried his hatchet,
the reed worker carried his (flattening) stone, ... the men ...
The child carried the pitch,
the weak brought whatever else was needed.
On the fifth day I laid out her exterior.
It was a field in area,
its walls were each 10 times 12 cubits in height,
the sides of its top were of equal length, 10 times It cubits each.
I laid out its (interior) structure and drew a picture of it (?).
I provided it with six decks,
thus dividing it into seven (levels).
The inside of it I divided into nine (compartments).
I drove plugs (to keep out) water in its middle part.
I saw to the punting poles and laid in what was necessary.
Three times 3,600 (units) of raw bitumen I poured into the bitumen kiln,
three times 3,600 (units of) pitch ...into it,
there were three times 3,600 porters of casks who carried (vegetable) oil,
apart from the 3,600 (units of) oil which they consumed (!)
and two times 3,600 (units of) oil which the boatman stored away.
I butchered oxen for the meat(!),
and day upon day I slaughtered sheep.
I gave the workmen(?) ale, beer, oil, and wine, as if it were river water,
so they could make a party like the New Year's Festival. ... and I set my hand to the oiling(!).
The boat was finished by sunset.
The launching was very difficult.
They had to keep carrying a runway of poles front to back,
until two-thirds of it had gone into the water(?).
Whatever I had I loaded on it:
whatever silver I had I loaded on it,
whatever gold I had I loaded on it.
All the living beings that I had I loaded on it,
I had all my kith and kin go up into the boat,
all the beasts and animals of the field and the craftsmen I had go up.
Shamash had set a stated time:
    'In the morning I will let loaves of bread shower down,
    and in the evening a rain of wheat!
    Go inside the boat, seal the entry!'
That stated time had arrived.
In the morning he let loaves of bread shower down,
and in the evening a rain of wheat.
I watched the appearance of the weather--
the weather was frightful to behold!
I went into the boat and sealed the entry.

Yes; we know it is legally defined as copyright infringement.

Why don't we just call it that then? We know exactly what it is, it's got a pretty normal definition. Copyright infringement seems obvious to people who know what it is

Stealing is another matter entirely, which involves taking something from someone else.

Yeah, when people don't act the way I want them to act I feel justified in stealing from them too.

You are confused about the word stealing. It does not mean what you think it means.

If someone else tells a joke I made, I've not been stolen from.

at least Nick Griffin of the BNP for all his flaws had the courage of his convictions to admit what he was even if I think his views are sickening.

What's actually interesting is that economically the BNP are most definitely not a far right; they are further left than Labour, for example.

From that website : It's muddled thinking to simply describe the likes of the British National Party as "extreme right". The truth is that on issues like health, transport, housing, protectionism and globalisation, their economics are left of Labour, let alone the Conservatives. It's in areas like police power, military power, school discipline, law and order, race and nationalism that the BNP's real extremism - as authoritarians - is clear. It's easy to see how the term national socialism came into being. The uncomfortable reality is that much of their support comes from former Labour voters.

Very few younger people wear watches these days, because mobile phones serve as a reasonable replacement. As a result, the sudden interest in wearable tech seems slightly odd. It's almost as if Apple's R&D team prototyped a watch just to see what it would be like, and someone leaked the news in a frantic frenzy, ignoring the fact that it is - by and large - a dumb idea that Apple might very easily shelve (along with the silly notion of an Apple-branded TV set).

It's controversial, because the evidence is extremely questionable. If primates evolved to recognize snakes, then how do you explain the entire politics esction of slashdot???
You darwinists are just nuts. Eve couldn't recognize a snake before, and she has enough trouble recognizing one now. Oh, and Adam still tags along for the ride.

Listen, the guy who wrote this blog piece for the Telegraph didn't grow up to become a doctor,engineer, astronaut, scientist or programmer. He writes op-ed pieces for a newspaper. According to LinkedIn, he holds an LLB in law, then pursued an MSc in Business Entrepreneurship and followed up with a brief tenure as a music festival coordinator, PR agency account exec and finally became a freelance TV presenter and magazine editor. It might just be that he considers technically gifted individuals to be "exceptionally dull weirdos" simply because he doesn't understand what they're saying.