A smarter IT person would just disable USB ports or disable additional drive support. So grats... grats on your ability to take a stupid prank and make it harm people because you are an idiot.

Almost. I remember skimming over the last two links.

The emails contain evidence of:

• Adjusting data to get the desired conclusion
• Deleting emails to avoid public records requests
• Asking others to delete emails (remember these are government employees who are required to keep an audit trail)
• Attempts to get peer reviewed journal editors replaced because they published a skeptical paper
• Additional subversion of the peer review process
• Receiving millions of dollars in green corporate funding (including SHELL!) while accusing skeptics of receiving oil money tax evasion.

The problem with pushing AGW is that the public isn't buying it. What is the purpose of the discussion? To get popular buy-in so as to push neighbors into positive action to make changes to energy policies and other things that relate to our ecology. What they have done is not only hurt their own argument, but other environmental arguments.

I have not been on the AGW bandwagon, I believe there are other things driving the changes. I have said in the past that if we hitch our horses to this argument, it would bite us in the ass. Instead, the argument should be over-all climate awareness, general environmental involvement, and third world poverty. The drum-beat-hysteria drummed up by people who the public perceive as having a monetary interest, and now the perception of scientific malpractice will hurt the larger issues.

I was already well into programming when I bought a Sharp MZ-80k. While everyone else was shipping with a version BASIC, the Sharp shipped with Pascal. That probably shaped my good opinion of Modula-2.

Let me rework my own comment: People really hate when a language does well despite their hate for the language. It rises to an almost religious fervor.

Now, I can has my edit button?

You, sir, are worthy!

If I had mod points I'd find someway to give all of them to you for insight. What follows in this thread is the same tired religious discussion. Back in my day of programming that included paper tape, teletype terminals on time shares things were tough. We were making fun of the new little "home" computers. I can't tell you how many computer languages that I sneered at. I was sure C++ would go down in flames, same for Java. I was sure Modula-2 would be the next great thing. The simple fact that people don't like that languages they hate are still seeing wide spread usage shows that the discussion is more religious than logic.

I've already patented "A Quantum Method for Parralel Copyright, Trademark, and Patent Registration".

(Note: I assert that this comment is now prior art in all Universes and proof of my ownership of said patent, including Universes that contain no processes or concepts of copyright, trademark, or patent.)

Or, you get more combinations of right, wrong, and other as answers. Now, what happens when one unit in the cluster suddenly starts throw the right answer 100%?

Or, goes 100% wrong?

Or, goes 100% OTHER?

What if it taps something we cannot comprehend?

What if it hits "other" just once. And as a result, somewhere in the timeless Eternity, God freezes, bends over, and monkeys fly out of His ass?

In some alternate universe, there's a guy who is riding a bus, a thought pops into his head, "Pick a number between 1 and 100. Now, add 3. Now, divide by 13...". 99% of the time, he does the problem in his head, 79% of the time he finishes it. 1% of the time, he says, "Screw it". 100% of the time, he wonders where the hell these things are coming from and decides to check himself into the nearest mental ward.

Quantum computing is screwing up someone's day.

This is the US Government we're talking about. One of the few entities on the planet where "Budget" is virtually meaningless. Someone sneezes funny and a million dollars goes out the door.

I'm a GS-12, I just sneezed funny. It was one of those "choo choo choo choo CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE" kind of sneazes. My boss, a GS-14 has put me in for a merit increase, I've been given 25 days of basket leave, and my budget for my new project was just doubled. Quick figuring...yes, a million dollars. I thank you for your tax dollars.

Seriously, if I may, I understand the power of the PS3 and its specialized abilities, but couldn't this be accomplished using more traditional lash ups?

I guess what I'm asking, did someone start this out as a "gee, I've 150 extra PS3's that DHS turned over to us from a mob bust, what can we do with them" kind of a project? Did it snowball?

In this case: I am a former law enforcement officer.

Sorry for the confusion. Move along.

Wrong. First, speak to the article:

He did tweet. He tweeted twice.

Had he not tweeted, it still wasn't his responsibility. If the crowd needs to be dispersed, it is the responsibility of the police to notify people.

Oh, for the record:

IAAFLEO

During the Cold War, the most effective way of breaking through to the people behind the Iron Curtain was to keep our doors open (ahem, CUBA!) and allow them free access to the 'west'. Eventually, it snowballed, fences and walls came down. The so-called "People's Army" turned their guns from the people to the government, in some cases, or were just dropped, and the people tore down the blockades.

I'm torn on this. We want freedom. Does that mean we let the companies have freedom to do business with China and follow their rules? Or, should we demand that companies from the "free world" not contribute to the human rights problems of China, and others?