1. 1. If the bill passes and data is released that shows no evidence of aliens, the assumption will be that not all information was released.
2. 2. If the bill passes and data is released that shows evidence of aliens, the assumption will be that it's a psyop to divert the public's attention from nefarious behaviour by state actors.
3. 3. If the bill passes and notdata is released, despite the bill, the assumption will be that state actors are covering up something horrible.
4. 4. If the bill does not pass, the assumption will be that elected representatives are corrupt.

I see no scenario that is a win for anyone.

Basically, you want startpage.com. It does what you want, without the hassle of a VPN. Incognito mode still makes sense when you follow the links in the results.

That is *awesome*. I've been doing vim with yyyymmdd in the filenames for years. I seem to be the only person in the company who can find back his notes, ever, thanks to (ack-)grep, find and xargs. But sharing my notes with others has always been a problem. I've got monospace text recognition hardwired in my brain, but the majority of you puny humans seem to think that that's hard to read. I'm switching to markdown as of tomorrow. Thank you, and thanks to the OP for this Ask Slashdot.

Well, I submitted that too early. It has been released.

There's a draft of an English version, "Brainchains." Excerpts available here.

Belgium, the state, has three official languages. See what you're presented with on the federal government's official portal: fgov.be.

The Brussels region, and its Flemish suburbs, hosts a lot of belligerently anti-Flemish French speakers. You have to go through a lot of hassle, and can be submitted to a lot of abuse, if you want to be addressed in anything else than French. This is, though, a flagrant violation of language laws.

By "the Vlaams" I assume you mean "the Flemish" or "Vlamingen." I am one, so; fail.

Also, we are not a violent people.

TFA doesn't stop at that: "[...] the production is chemical-free [...]".

That proves that things really are as bad as the mockery in this cartoon suggests.

Wow, you guys could have googled that.

The Flemish, who make up 60% of the population (not 50% as grandparent claims), speak Dutch. The existence of local variants in the language are no basis for a claim that there a multiple languages. Otherwise you'd have very few English speakers in the world.

Belgium is a trilingual country; there is a small population of German speakers.

Brussels is a bilingual region. It is geographically located in the Dutch-speaking Flanders, historically Flemish and Dutch speaking, but currently more an international city.

... for those of you who have never been to Scotland, is that you might enjoy its landscape when flying over it.

The only thing you can see when flying over Scotland is the top of the rainclouds.

We did. It's called netlog. And then the event horizon of Facebook's socio-gravitational pull engulfed the whole planet and surrounding satellites.

The math bit is about right, the rest is bullshit. I implemented a 2-way satellite modem, with VoIP, a few years back, and 600ms RTT is what I got typically. Upstream bandwidth contention is handled with QoS on the link layer and some form of traffic shaping. After that, from the ground station, it's just a fast link to the Internet like from any ISP, which means roughly 150ms to get across the Atlantic, for example. So real-life ping times are well under 1000ms.

The Slashdot crowd seriously underestimates how much engineering goes into modems to ensure that the end user experience is optimal.

Have you checked out the N9? The top-selling, currently highest rated smartphone? It fixes all of the N9 slowness and has awesome specs.

Testing things on animals unlike humans is unethical too. It's just more convenient to ignore the ethical implications if they don't look at you in a manner that a human animal socially responds to.

Read the other Android article published today and go for something open source instead. Maemo, Moblin, Meego, Tizen, Mer or just plain Debian.