Do you have any idea how many windmills it would take to replace just one nuclear power plant?

Then you would probably simply be arrested and charged with disrupting justice and some kind of contempt.
Either that or they would detain you for several hours or perhaps hold you in jail over the weekend until they can obtain a warrant on Monday morning.

At home I replaced my two 21" monitors with a single 28" Hanns-g monitor. Bad Idea I cannot wait to get back to what I have at work 2x22" monitors. The only advantage of my *single* 22" monitor is that I can sit further from it. I am only wasting physical desktop space with this monstrosity.

If a body is spouting Lava from its outer surface then that's more often than not a sign that its subsurface is also hot.

The right to bear arms is (or at least was) the second amendment, I suppose you can consider it the first now since what used to be the first amendment is now considered null and void.

I have had problems with the concept of "probable cause" for several years now since I was in a car with a friend who was stopped for going about 10 Mph over the speed limit. When the police officer asked if my friend would mind if they searched his car he politely stated "You may not search my car without probable cause or a search warrant". The officer then called for "backup" and 3 other police cars then showed up and we were promptly detained there at the side of the road for 4 1/2 hours until they could obtain a search warrant: so much for the 4th amendment. At the end of it all after searching the car they let us go with an $80 fine for speeding. I suppose the cop could have said there was "probable cause" because we were speeding and that we could have been fleeing the scene of a crime but even that would have been tenuous at best. I wonder why police don't use such an argument at all traffic stops whenever they want to search a vehicle? All it would take is a convoluted Latin expression to justify the concept.

It is simply amazing how Americans' civil rights are being thrown right out the window while just about anyone wearing a government issued uniform is deified as a "hero". The parallels of what is going on in the US now and Germany in the late 1930s frightening; e.g. there is a lot of talk now about how illegal aliens [gotta' love that word!] are much to blame for the country's problems and that they could also be terrorists. Sound familiar? I find it ironic that as an American living in Germany I feel as if my rights are more safely guaranteed here than they are in the US. I am not as concerned about my personal right to bear arms (If I want a gun here I could probably go through the trouble to get one but I can't be bothered) as I am about the right to open my mouth and be safe from undue search and seizure which is definitely not the case in the US. Americans seem to be far more obsessed about their 2nd amendment rights but their first and forth amendment rights be dammed unless it has to do with defending the KKK or Black Panthers' freedom of expression.

Just asking.

Government arrogance never ceases to amaze me. Whether is be Russia US or anyone else. All governments exhibit the same sick arrogance that the citizens whom they "protect" should not be in any way protected from themselves.

Back in the 80s the closest thing to a real computer that most people could even barely afford was the Atari 2600 which was a console device. At the time I really wished that I could have had a "real" computer but my parents couldn't afford it and I was too young to work. Now people actually argue about the virtues of consoles over computers. There shouldn't even be an argument there. Anyone who thinks a console is somehow "better" than a PC should probably not be around computers at all.

I don't have time to look for the Slashdot article, but I think there was a similar story a few years ago about the EU attempting to create an "elite" university to complete with US schools such as Harvard and Yale. When will they ever learn that you cannot just one day decide to create these things from scratch? There are many factors that must first be present in order to allow them to come into existence then become what they are on their own merit. Where do the Europeans and Russians get these ideas from?

What about North Americans of Japanese decent?

Would this constitute a zero day vulnerability?

"....if they are out there to be found." They are out there whether we can find them or not. What I find really strange is why just prior to the fist exoplanet being discovered that scientists bothered debating the existence of exoplanets in the first place.

Scientists are more likely to design a warp drive before they do a truly effective translation program. Anyone who is bilingual would be happy to tell you just how difficult translation is. Human languages are not just sets of words and phrases that can be converted 1 for 1 back and forth. They are extremely complex with shades of meaning and varying context which must be inferred based on associations that only humans are able to make. It seems that monolingual Anglophones are the most difficult people to convince just how terrible computer translators are. In my office in Germany we usually get two or three pieces of correspondence a week where some Anglophone, ignorant of foreign languages, tries to translate their English to German and send it to us thinkiong they are doing us a "favour". It's always good for a laugh....

Most slashdotters are too caught up in their own world. Typical computer users out there don't even know what an operating system is much less know about Linux. Just the word "Linux" comes across as sounding like technobabble. Just mentioning word "Linux" to these people is liable to be as big of a turnoff as would mentioning the word "religion" to a bunch of hippies in any context. All they want to hear is their music.