My numbers are wildly out of date (from the 1960s), but in India, about 700 million tons of cow dung were collected per year, about 300M tons of which were used as fuel, providing about the same heat output as 35M tons of coal. See Marvin Harris' work on the myth of the sacred cow.

Slashdot has meaning though. /. could refer to hidden files in the root directory (although it doesn't, feel free to look up cmdrtaco's joke in the /. name)

I am using an nVidia ION based system running Windows Server 2008 with a ton of storage. Boxee works quite well, but XBMC has trouble with DXVA content (aka hardware decoding). Linux has better decoding/playback software, but MUCH worse flash support for the anemic CPU. There are lots of apps for both Windows and Linux with "10 foot interfaces" for use in an HTPC environment. Additionally, there are several wireless keyboards and remotes out there suited for HTPC use.

Who are you? I also live in downtown Silver Spring and commute to Columbia. Try taking Wayne or Ellsworth instead of Georgia.

A 1 TB drive is less than half that: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150014%20103530090%201035313496&name=1TB Unless you're referring to 2.5" drives or enterprise SAS drives... but you didn't specify.

I get a huge kick out of the fact that the name is a likely play on the X-Men hero "Dazzler", who used light to disorient people.

You can see that none of us are signed in based on the screenshots.

The commission doesn't seem to be concerned about the consequences of its actions, just the consequences of the merger. Since business thrives on stability, promoting instability is a powerful weapon in the marketplace, and they seem to be wielding it with abandon. It's like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - government scrutiny changes the direction of a company.

Yes, what Metalitz says is true, that rightsholders cannot be expected to provide copies that work in perpetuity, but never have rightsholders had the ability to REMOVE the legally purchased right to consume said product. Either rightsholders must accept the burden of maintaining availability, or they must not require DRM. Not a legal opinion, a moral one.

Guess nobody bothers to read the article anymore, but this article is old and largely irrelevant.

As both a Jew and a human being, it deeply offends me that David Miscavige feels that being deprived the right to post on Wikipedia is equivalent to genocide. While I disagree with Wikipedia's decision, I think it is a ridiculous statement to compare the two. Not every wrong committed should evoke the Nazis.