This is the way education should be, available to anyone with an interest. MIT has a similar program with content freely available I believe: http://ocw.mit.edu/ . IMHO this is what libraries will eventually evolve into. This type of knowledge sharing is the root of a libraries books are about, and getting that content from the expert source in the field is hard to beat. Definitely cool stuff.

Right! All this wasted research when anyone on 4chan could easily have told you how many friend requests it would take to find the neighbors hot daughter who just went off to college and joined a sorority...

I'm not sure they are overblown at all, stuxnet being the poster child for this as it actually impacted real world nuclear reactors. Another example being the guy using the handle pr0f that hacked a SCADA system the same day as this water pump and offered conclusive evidence to the fact. If stuxnet was deployed as a method to weaken the security capabilities of a perceived enemy, then it strikes me as a tool of war. I'm pretty sure though what everyone is calling "cyber-war" is likely to evolve into "war-prep" or steps we take prior to landing boots on the ground.

Chinese government goes open source with spy calibration tools!

I'm not sure how the article missed this but they have been testing this thing locally for a while now. The other day I saw one of these massive ordinance penetrators being delivered right into your moms house. It's a good thing you weren't in the basement at the time.

I'm not sure how to break this to you then... but uh this place is a sausage fest. Naturally when we communally parade our sausages over to some gov site, its bound to feel a bit meaty.

Also the reason for the camera that faces you, when your holding the iPhone properly. Really FaceTime... no one ever uses that. It is made so you can admire yourself actually being on the screen of an iPhone. Its the closest you ever get to iHeaven.

Similar story, equally odd. An older person that lived in the neighborhood used to sit on his front porch all the time. Come Halloween there was a scarecrow in a plaid flannel shirt on the porch. Turned out a day later, the mailman realized he had died sitting in his chair and on one realized. Thankfully found him before actual Halloween night.

*This is not the post you are looking to Buzz Kill with facts from the article*

How about the specific items OWS would like to see changed:

1. CONGRESS PASS HR 1489 ("RETURN TO PRUDENT BANKING ACT" http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1489 ). THIS REINSTATES MANY PROVISIONS OF THE GLASS-STEAGALL ACT.

2. USE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY AND OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE APPROPRIATE FEDERAL AGENCIES FULLY INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THE WALL STREET CRIMINALS who clearly broke the law and helped cause the 2008 financial crisis

3. CONGRESS ENACT LEGISLATION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY BY REVERSING THE EFFECTS OF THE CITIZENS UNITED SUPREME COURT DECISION which essentially said corporations can spend as much as they want on elections.

4. CONGRESS PASS THE BUFFETT RULE ON FAIR TAXATION SO THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE & CLOSE CORPORATE TAX LOOP HOLES AND ENACT A PROHIBITION ON HIDING FUNDS OFF SHORE.

5. CONGRESS COMPLETELY REVAMP THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION and staff it at all levels with proven professionals who get the job done protecting the integrity of the marketplace so citizens and investors are both protected.

6. CONGRESS PASS SPECIFIC AND EFFECTIVE LAWS LIMITING THE INFLUENCE OF LOBBYISTS AND ELIMINATING THE PRACTICE OF LOBBYISTS WRITING LEGISLATION THAT ENDS UP ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS.

7. CONGRESS PASSING "Revolving Door Legislation" LEGISLATION ELIMINATING THE ABILITY OF FORMER GOVERNMENT REGULATORS GOING TO WORK FOR CORPORATIONS THAT THEY ONCE REGULATED.

8. ELIMINATE "PERSONHOOD" LEGAL STATUS FOR CORPORATIONS.

I'm not exactly sure what point you are trying to make, but I hardly see where concepts like the 8 above are "fooling" anyone into doing something bad for this country.

Thank you for posting this, it is driving me nuts that people say there isn't a coherent message. There is a coherent message evolving, a five minute Google search reveals actionable content OWS is pushing for. Its also not party specific, in Denver this weekend Tea Party people were matching right along side Occupy people. If I had mods points they would be for you.

This is Slashdot, but lets take a stab at adding a bit more information here than "the FBI is evilz and training cute puppies to eat people!":

''There is no information to indicate he was connected to a foreign terrorist organization. It appears he was radicalized watching videos on the internet. He was given the opportunity to back down, but he never wavered from his intention to carry out the attacks, the source said."

Doesn't exactly sound FBI trained and hand held through the process, but lets read further:

"Ferdaus began planning a violent "jihad" against America in early 2010, authorities said, and he began supplying the FBI undercover agents with cell phones rigged to act as electric switches for improved explosive devices, intended to be used to kill U.S. soldiers overseas."

It sounds like all the FBI did in this case was give him someone to talk to, and some fake weapons/explosives. Everything else this guy did indicated he was entirely serious about this all on his own. He was even given a chance to back down and didn't. Its probably for the best the FBI picked him up prior to him finding someone that actually had malicious intent.

Sometimes tinfoil is just for baking people...

Ahem: "pew,pew"