I was under the impression that the transformers on residential electrical poles could cause small (relatively speaking) EMPs when damaged/detonated. Is this not the case?

"Remote sensing operations" being what exactly? /spideysense

I know this is slashdot, but you could at least read the article before the knee-jerk response kicks in.

They used a drug to temporarily paralyze the hand. They didn't break its spine, they didn't kill it. There was probably a tiny bit of pain and fear, no different from vaccinating a child. Please try to keep things in context.

How is that abuse? A crime was committed. He didn't lift the prints off of a public place. I see nothing morally wrong with investigating a legitimate crime when the police can't be bothered to do so themselves.

...and yet, here you are.

How this comment looks to critical thinkers:

And so... It has come to this.

You can tell it to not to auto update, you can play offline, and you can make local backups of games. Just sayin'.

The spindly protrusions off of the wheels, are those somehow helping to stabilize the flight trajectory after launching? How come they don't cover the plastic wheels with some kind of rubber tread to increase traction and decrease the scratching/scrambling noise the plastic makes. I would imagine a bit of stealth would be necessary for the environments this will be used in. Or would that not actually help in the dirt/sand?

That said, launching off of a roof and landing on concrete and still working perfectly afterward... that's some solid engineering. Most things would have shattered into about a million pieces after that.

Part of the problem here is they've effectively cordoned off the other services. There's us and them. Now all they have to do is squeeze them out with increasingly smaller bandwidth caps so that you'll use more Comcast controlled services to not go over your cap (and likely justify it with their inability to handle the traffic volume instead of actually upgrading their damned equipment which we paid for years ago, which they just pocketed the money for instead.) or they'll just start charging for anything non-comcraptastic. This is why it's a net neutrality problem.

Part of the problem is that the applications for most jobs have all these fields listed to fill out and a little note on it that if you don't completely fill out the application you may be disqualified from employment. It's a sneaky little way for them to get around the law.

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Just sayin'...

Granted the torrent file itself might not be encrypted but many torrent programs utilize encryption of the transfer of the file pieces. Deluge and Azureus/Vuze off the top of my head.

And molestation.

How very convenient. Perhaps they should train them in a uniform way so that we (the public) have a way to refute the evidence against us.