If an officer of the law requests to see your ID, you must present it. Don't be stupid, just show it. If you feel that is wrong, lobby your representative.

Is the ground so dense in the mountains that the telcos don't lay cable? Fiber or copper?

Oh CO doesn't mean colorado... We had years with men digging out by the sidewalks. Do you mean to say you can't remember the fiber being laid? If you can't you are don't have access to broadband. I believe the term is sneakernet. Or workboot-net. I prefer the hyphen.

A friend had a bitter complaint about the recent United States Supreme Court ruling about dog fighting videos. She thought that any video that depicted cruelty to animals...yada...yada...yada. If people actually looked at what words were spoken and written by the people producing data, this question about public release would go away. It is that people are not able to look at the data that there are requests for it. If professional statisticians are not working on the data, at least let amateurs. I will get a citation (of the global warming statistics questions) if you absolutely are unable to find it yourself on google/yahoo/bing/askoxford.com

If you are counting anything more than 70% of a total person's mass as human then you are being too generous.

How do I go to slashdot and filter stories that reference any "broadband" story that references stories over 24 mbps? I buy 22. But the local "fastest" advertised speed is 24. Really though, maybe a filter that just cleans 100 mbps and above? Oh wait. In my imagination I have 1000 and don't live in my mom's basement. ps the latter isn't true.

Racist. jklol

Anyone familiar with footage taken by soldiers on the ground will be able to cite incidents where 500 lb bombs are used on enemies as close as 70 m. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e14_1251741282 Seeing the shock wave and then having repeated blasts enter the helmet would most likely compound the problem even further. Danger close bomb strikes are most likely contributing to the TBI. Damn. Revert to hellfires? Precision must increase if the blast diameter decreases. Sometimes, a Hellfire will not even destroy everything in the blast radius. I am not familiar with other kinds of warheads, but what I see on footage from liveleak.com is a focused blast. A 500 lb bomb is intensely destructive.

Or a novel use could spring up just out of the sheer accidental luck of being alive. Like Nobel and his prizes versus making weapons with his money. LSD...

The data about globalization is globalizing. Information is sinking to the lowest priced real estate. All monetary costs to generate value are depreciating while the value increases. As soon as it is cheaper to build on the Moon, it will be done. I can't wait till the cloud is actually rival to the combined human intelligence. Its core neural network dispersed across all our available processor cores. Wasn't Sony's use of the CPU in the PS3 supposed to dedicate one core to network processing of shared CPU cycles?