>During the labor unrest of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, to supply guards to keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and sometimes to recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.

Great example ...

Looks like it was last updated in '09, what's the over/under on that not being current with the production code?

The point is a declaration of war and a state of war IS an anachronism to the point that summary execution during wartime isn't done because there is no war time anymore, there are extended military actions under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, usually, but not always, accompanied by a UN Security Council Resolution. So just like declaration of war is an anachronism, so is summary execution during wartime is an anachronism.

Trying to use a semantics argument against a legal framework argument by saying that semantics don't matter, except in the case where the semantics say you get to feel justified by ending another human beings life (a fellow American citizen, no less) is also completely irrational and held only by clueless, non-worldly people who can't muster the energy and attention span to actually understand consequences.

MS has been frequently under 30 a share since about 2002, and besides a dividend payout of about 2.5% (which didn't start until 2003 after their last 2:1 split, and was much less than 2.5%, though the dividend is growing every quarter), there has been really no growth of the stock, which means investing in Microsoft is barely fighting inflation off. The share price might not be in decline but there has been no reason to invest in them since the 90's, except to buy it up in '09, along with every other company that had a real product and could reasonably survive the crash.

Mining for Helium-3 for the also underfunded, and therefor non-existent, fusion projects.

A smaller gravity well launchpad for said robotic probes.

The technological breakthroughs that would come with trying to sustain life long term in a harsh unforgiving environment.

That sounds scalable. /sarcasm

The big thing all these leaks really proves is that there are too many secrets and the US govt's clearance and need to know mechanisms are wholly broken. Some info really does need to be secret, but instead of vetting everything its just way easier to sweep it all under the its a secret rug and call it a day.

Just another pentagon project to treat the symptoms and totally disregard the main cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie

One hundred years later and I still fall for this marketing ploy. Color me embarrassed ...

Probably because he's a smart guy that made more money than he knows what to do with and is trying to save is legacy Dale Carnegie style by educating himself on many of man kinds most daunting challenges and attempting to solve them. But don't let that stop you from hating on him for bundling IE with Windows 95 almost 20 years ago or whatever somesuch you need to still hate on the guy for.

Yes, the future of slashdot stories are links to reddit comments. Truly a frightening visage.

The forum text before it was blown away

From reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/unt92/russian_hackers_claim_to_have_65m_linkedin/

Python was ahead of C# , what's listed in the summary is the 2008 index, the 2012 index has C# about three and a half points ahead of python.

Ruby is a hype machine, you can tell by the huge spikes and valleys when you see its popularity graphed out individually over the years. It's seemed to have relegated itself now to about a point and a half now.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html

The real jerks will make sure they game whatever reporting tool there is in order to make other people look like jerks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process

I'm not saying whether it is a worthy consideration or not, I just had a problem with their "It's anyone's guess". All things being equal, you can certainly calculate it at scale too, but if you're in the "it's worthy thing to do" camp you also have to be honest about all things being equal (time spent reading web pages, time spent on computers making web pages conform to usability/marketing/business and energy guidelines, etc...).

That was my favorite part. I'm guessing they just hooked up a some kind of Kill-A-Watt given that:

Never mind the nomenclature, there is cost forecasting on those devices, and given a few basic parameters you could figure out the cost per year searching Blackle rather than Google on the back of a napkin, so its not "anyone's guess".

price_per_killowatt_hour: $0.10
hours_searching_google_per_day: 2 hrs
watts_saved: 17.7

hours_searching_google_per_year = hours_searching_google_per_day * 365
kilowatthours_saved_per_year = hours_searching_google_per_year * (watts_saved / 1000)
price_saved_per_year = kilowatthours_saved_per_year * price_per_killowatt_hour

Which comes out a little over a buck twenty five for a CRT and more than a quarter per year on an LCD using those parameters for one person.