And the third link requires you to log into the new york times website. I guess that's what it means by "highly secretive"!

Pot calling the kettle black? :-)

That's not how law works. You can't object that the police are holding you in the jail after the indictment but before the trial without "due process," because that is the process that is due you. If (unlikely) Megaupload is found innocent, then their servers will be restored and service resumed. If they had announced the indictment but not shut down the servers, I bet people would rush to download things pirated content while they could -- just the opposite of their intentions.

Do you even know what most of that defense spending goes to? A huge amount of it is for scientific programs, well, not just like the JWST, but that's because space telescopes are NASA's job. To tell the truth, their work in optics has probably made these telescopes a whole lot more possible. If we cut all of that, people all over would be whining that we had cut a huge amount of the USA's science donations

Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous... I'm still on FF 3.6

The first link appears to not have any reference to the stuff, only DNA bases.

We're looking for people who don't have morality. The only problem would be if someone with morality that's 180 degree opposite to ours had more money to pay them. Besides, Roman mercenaries were at least better than Roman slaves...

I guess it's a good thing that that isn't one of its labels then!

I thought the former has been known for a while now.

I assume they won't bother since it's being replaced soon(ish).

From TFA, the patent seems a lot closer to an implementation than an idea - they might not have actually written code, but they didn't just patent "anything that blocks annoying content."

And Scalia (doubtlessly the most conservative person on the court) WROTE the majority opinion. Basically what we see is that conservatives and liberals are divided among themselves. As always.

What is that - a laptop that comes with a cramped keyboard, poor resolution and no terrible processing power weighing 30 pounds?

In slashdot's defense, that was the TFA's title.