FWIW, Landsat and Terra AM are operated by civilian agencies (NASA/NOAA/USGS), not by the military.

My favorite thing to do is dress up in a gorilla costume, sit in a trash can at the end of the driveway, and jump out at unsuspecting trick-or-treaters.

I'm an Air Force missileer. 2-3 days out of the week, I'm 80 feet underground behind an 8-ton blast door guarded by guys with guns, with 12 cases of MREs. ;p

Don't trust Google and Facebook with your personal information! Store it with Anonymous instead!

one of the oldest, largest, and _most respected_ UFO investigation organizations in the world ... and how respected is that, exactly?

PenFed is not affiliated with the Pentagon, except that the majority of their members are Pentagon employees.

Just publishing documents and files is one thing.

Editing them into questionably accurate videos with misleading titles while their founder flexes his e-peen about how he's "busy ending two wars" is another.

Which they're not even consistent about, since apparently they'd rather hold back certain files to try and blackmail the US government rather than follow through on "the public's right to know."

"whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"

About as many people who want to listen to source files, I imagine.

No, it made it through the Judiciary Committee.

Then again, I don't have a lot of hope that the remainder of the Senate will do much better.

"Without porn the internet would still be a dry and barren wasteland where only the most computer savvy could tread." ... those bastards!

... at least once a month, I get an e-mail informing me that there's a commander's call, or some such event.

It never actually says this in the e-mail body, though. The actual date, time, and location, is in a single-slide Powerpoint file, attached to the e-mail.

Powerpoint isn't the problem, people's over-reliance on it is the problem.

Uh, wouldn't it be more responsible to maintain limited logs, but only for a reasonable period of time, and with the stipulation that they'll only be surrendered when ordered by a court? We already have plenty of ISPs out there that just don't care about the conduct of their users (I'm looking at you, HiNet), and half their assigned IP ranges are in a blacklist somewhere. But I guess being deliberately irresponsible just to annoy the MPAA/RIAA is okay by Slashdot.

Seriously, the last thing the Internet needs is another abuse haven ISP.

... lasers which, peculiarly, eject spent shell casings from the rear of the cannon.

It's not technically a violation if they asked nicely and the host complied voluntarily.