which the same environmentalists now say is evil

Do you know this for a fact, or are you idiotically assuming all environmentalists are legitimate and all believe the exact same things?

Actually, it sounds like you believe environmentalists are responsible for the nation's energy policy and the choices of billion dollar energy companies. Bless your heart.

people selling snake oil or people whining about "solutionism".

Since when is a documentary required to promote every possible agenda? I haven't seen the documentary, but I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that it does not ignore nuclear power's downsides, especially considering its focus on previously anti-nuclear environmentalists.

"Solutionism" is a thought terminating cliche, a way to dismiss any solution because it doesn't encompass every possible solution. It's a ploy for people who only know rhetoric and politics to wrestle control of the debate from people who know science and engineering.

Consider the vacuous absurdity of the closing of the article:

A more powerful approach to this complex threat to humanity would be to film a fact-based, passionate debate that explored the alternatives, trade-offs, and consequences of various energy options. Such an exploration might move us from the usual politics of zealotry to new habits of thought, and perhaps to new forms of action based on all the facts.

No one is under any obligation to please you, the head of an anti-nuclear activist group, which is no stranger to zealotry. If you want other options, make your own documentary to promote them. You can make it "fact-based" too!

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by global warming.

Tech venture capitalists typically want to cash out fast by having their investments sell to {Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc} and those companies typically don't want to go outside the Valley because integrating a remote team is hard. Also, the VC's don't want to go outside the Valley because checking up on their investments if they're the other side of the world is hard. Result: if you can't be reached by driving down the US-101 for an hour then it suddenly gets much harder to get huge piles of venture capital and if you don't have that, there is a serious risk you will end up being out-spent or out-integrated by a company that does.

I'd be happier if it were touted (and designed!) as such: a tool to protect the public as well as aid the police. The camera itself might still fail to work (intentionally perhaps), but if it does work, the video should be uploaded to secure storage immediately and treated as evidence, i.e. the coppers shouldn't be able to conveniently "lose" the footage.

The Cray-1 was a cylinder.

It was great.... FOR ME TO SIT ON.

You know, because it had seats.

Though I suspect many an Apple fanboy will attempt the same with the Mac Cylinder, despite it being so small, or perhaps because of it.

Is this the thread where fat bearded forever alone guys make fun of girls doing stuff they do without needing their help or approval?

That might not be the best choice of hiding place, given the current talks on hacking and espionage between China and the USA. Snowden may have made himself into a bargaining chip; perhaps China will be happy to extradite Snowden as a gesture of goodwill.

"NSA officials have repeatedly denied under oath to Congress that even producing an estimate of the number of Americans caught up in its surveillance is impossible. Leaked screenshots of an NSA application that does exactly that, prove that the NSA flat out lied (surprise)" (emph. added)

So, "denied [...] impossible" means not denying that it's possible, right, so then they didn't lie :P

And many don't, which you've acknowledged. So, how is this different from any number of other hypocrisies that human beings regularly commit in all areas of life? What you're describing has had entire books written on it that have nothing to do with tech or IP rights or law. What you're saying, essentially, is that Slashdot commentators are a fairly typical swath of human beings.

This is still a bad example, as it is an issue of credit for work done, not copying, as the person who did the work doesn't own it nor claim to have any right to it. It is a simple case of wanting credit for the work he or she did.

That won't work. What might scare them is protests on the streets of Washington, but good luck getting that organised.

The guy doesn't need copyright (which he probably doesn't even have in this case), he just needs credit for his work. I'd be very careful to even mention the word "legal" or "copyright". Imagine that you, as a manager or an employer, get a phone call about disputed copyright on a bit of software you had done way back when. What do you do? That's right, you refer the matter to your lawyer/legal department. Nothing good will come of that.

If you parted ways with your former employer on good terms, just call them and ask they they would mind giving you a nice written reference, specifically mentioning your contribution to that software.

"Something with two network jacks on it that disconnects the port after a set time"

No wonder some people have a hard time finding jobs, since a lot seem to be taken by cheap labor with unrelated or irrelevant knowledge or workforce repurposed from other departments to cut the costs of hiring someone who has the proper knowledge. I am not in IT, never was, never will, yet even I know of the device the poster seeks with multiple jacks and connection handling functions, which are magic boxes brought by blue fairies in the middle of the night and are called... wait for it... MANAGED SWITCHES!

I mean come on, really?

If you really don't know what to do, then at least run a google query with managed switch session timeout or vpn router session timeout.

Im gona use movie revue to bitch about Google. Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch.... [8K text later] .... btitch. Thank u 4 ur time.

According to other news stories, PRISM is the name of the analysis side and the collection/wiretap side, which is presumably much more expensive, is called BLARNEY. You can't assume that the slides are indicating the entire costs of the entire NSA dragnet system.