Now maybe its just me... But this seems like saying to a debt collector "this bit of string is worth the $50k I owe you". Just because we can assign any value we want to a coin, does that really mean that we owe aren't going to demand a meaningful payment. Even if we just use it as a way to print more money we devastate the value of our own money. So what happens if they say well since your money is worth 50 times less, we are going to demand 50 times more of it in repayment.... I make no claim at understanding this but that is what it sounds like to me, Average Joe on the street. Just because you say its worth something, doesn't mean anyone has to or will agree on its value, Gold based money had that going for it as i recall, but we stopped backing money with real stuff some time ago.

Could be wrong, but I always thought that the 1st Amendment stated you had the freedom of speech in so much that it does not impede or infringe upon the rights of others. In the same way that Libel and Slander is technically not protected free speech, neither is the raising of a false alarm. And to go off on a tangent of a footnote it also means you cant barge into private gatherings or the like and protest things as it infringes on others rights to privacy. As the internet is a sort of gray area in most legal frameworks (probably since most law makers barely know how to work email and probably think its a system of tubes) Its mostly considered a public forum of sorts. Although if you posted false alarms or threats etc, I'm fairly sure the authorities will come knocking sooner or later...

I forget, is OMG a subsidiary of Ontario Mega Finance Group? Silly Canadians, Hungery is for europeans.

I have you all beat! Rather than pay rent I get PAID to live in a barracks and/or a ship. If the enemy doesn't get you the galley food will. Go Navy!

Out of morbid curiosity.... if its thin and flexible, wouldnt it just kill you from blunt force trauma instead? Even with a kevlar vest its like getting hit with a hammer. Just deflecting a round will still impart large amounts of energy and force into you.

Ewar planes are already a standard part of navy airwings. From what I read in the article it seems like a natural evolution from simple jamming which denies the enemy use of their radar equipment to making it work to our advantage. When you jam all the radars in 250 miles from your position, they may not know exactly where you are but they sure as hell know your inbound. On the other hand if their radar is showing a wing of freindly planes returning or a massive wing of enemy planes where there are none its gonna make things even harder on them. Simply put "dont break it, take it".

Yum gotta get me some Meef Tacos! They're so good, they're extinct! I bet it will be a limited time offer too.

Next Listen to MC Lars rap the whole story of Moby Dick!

I was always given to understand that when it comes to Wine in Linux the trick to containing Windows virus infections revolves around ROOT. If the "fake" windows install is infected it will run the virus or try to. But this should only become a problem for the actual Linux system should wine be running with root privileges. That is what I've always understood though i admit to being a relative novice in Linux still.

However that said I don't know enough of the nuts and bolts, I would suppose that might only apply to virus that is attempting to hijack the Linux system specifically. I'm guessing it might be possible for the windows virus to work with in the confines of wine and request access to the Linux resources in the same way as say an online game in wine gets access to the internet.

Hot dang! I want a Corvega and a fission battery for my Gameboy! Fallout here we come!

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!! Come on you know that is how they are going to solve world hunger, obesity, and illness in one fell swoop! Though I will stick with the solyent red, green is above my security clearance.

Of course its the chair! The only two chairs that are better than what I have now would have to be the Emperor's chair from Return of the Jedi or Professor Farnsworth's floating lazy boy armed with lasers! It just doesn't get better than that.

I think the real point is electronic voting machines make the not so simple task of election rigging into something that is literally push button simple. It only takes one person with physical access to a single voting machine to change the outcome of a national election.

Where is the one to vote for Dr. McNinja???? Or perhaps Dr. Girlfreind?

Wait I need to get a real life to spend time on slashdot!? When did that happen!? I reject your reality and substitute my own!