DCFusor, you forgot one thing to be informative.

The article states their power density around 13wh/kg in one of their diagrams.
While l-ion batteries are up to 1500 wh/kg (common ones are however much less often around 500 wh/kg)

I think the answer is, that the payload is a command and control utility.
That way, the people who deployed it can use it at any / from any location, which is infected.

It could be used to escalate privileges on the local computer or many more useful things, and would reduce the need to be tied.
Sure similar things have been achieved in different ways, this is just speculation

I was merely enjoying the retardness of the situation:
Al says Betty must be forbidden !
Betty says Al must be forbidden !
Carol realizes, they're both retarded for stating those things.

This is not a computer security class!

Anonymous Online person: Corporate people must go away !

Completely Obsolete Boring Old Language

The problem is that this will mean that they end up forcing critical infrastructure projects to rely on rot13 encryption.

Yes, but those are the Exception

Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,...

There are many others missing, but this is the most obvious.

(example: Yellow, G, Round, Striped, Toy Train, ...)

what bothers me even more, is that the now picture for the little dipper, isn't even remotely near how it looks outside my window.
also she writes it won't be a dipper, which is wrong, it's just that two of the stars change roles.

is clearly the year of the linux desktop commercial success

and this post was brought for you to test your sarcasm-meter!

Then they couldn't index it for advertisement, which is Google's business

as many will presumably say: See a lawyer.

While slashdot can give you eggcelent legal advice, It'll hit you in the face that you don't play dice with the important parts of your life.

So please mods, don't put redundant to the people who say "Get a lawyer"

as it is a wethack.

Being made from jellyfish just makes for even more bad jokes about wethacks.

As far as i remember, homo sapiens is about 200.000 years old.
Even assumnig that the technology was no problem, I wonder if we would survive such a trip, both on earth and on the ship, and how different we'd be when we arrived.
I think it would be fair to assume, that those in the ship evolved quite differently than those on the planet.

Parent is right.

I've lost out of more or less a generation of games.
I stopped pirating after in my last year of uni, then realized that the drm was too intrusive.
I'm stuck playing civ 4 (all expansions, all paid) and a few steam-games, like defcon, some hl-mods and portal.

DRM has basically been a wedge against cultural proliferation, and as such it sucks much more. I almost cry, when I realize that there are games, that I would love to play, but I just will not install them on my computer, due to digital rights management. Bioshock, spore, assasins creed 2, company of heroes, silent hunter 5 and many many more.

DRM is the reason i buy music anymore, i got a sony-infected cd and apparently hadn't turned off auto-play after adding a new dvd-drive.

the people who do install this fit the description:

Bunch of cocksuckers ramming their shit up our asses.

Because they deprive the world of cultural enrichment. They do so without regards to the fact that promoting cultural enrichment is the very reason they have copyright in the first place.