No knives or handguns, but more injuries, from broken fingers to knee reconstruction and the occasional concussion, broken ribs, or internal trauma. It's a true sport. http://www.sandiegolions.com/

Make sure any new building is a "net-zero" addition, with LEED Platinum level energy efficiency, and enough renewable energy to make the building energy neutral or energy positive. http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19 Include things like SolarTubes for natural light: http://www.solatube.com/ Include lots of plug-trees in open spaces for laptops (that's where you can put plants). Include a secluded quiet zone, for serious programming or study, and a glass walled meeting room for discussions and media development. Personally, I like a library with all the tech manuals, programing books, software manuals, etc. even out of date books give us valuable perspective and unique understanding. Remember you are teaching the spectrum of computer skills, from basic literacy to specialized science, include areas for business, programing, and creative visual arts. (A serious lab for robotics, AI, and smart phone apps wouldn't hurt).

Assuming that this new data is dead accurate, as we have already doubled pre-industrial levels of CO2 (from under 200 ppm to nearly 400 ppm today), and temperature has already risen 1-degree Celsius over the past 100 years, we can expect to see 1.6 degrees Celsius (2.9 degrees Fahrenheit) increase in average temperature across the biosphere in our lifetimes, presuming we immediately stop adding extra carbon to the atmosphere. Last time that kind of change happened we had an ice age. Of course that happened over a few million years, not a few hundred. I guess melting the polar caps, raising the sea levels, and killing off 1/10th of the species on the planet isn't too bad a price to pay for the fun we have with monster trucks. Hey, I'll be dead by the time the glaciers hit California again anyway, guess your kids will deal with it. Then again I could be wrong. I hear they have been scientifically measuring evaporation around the planet for hundreds of years, and that since 1950 we have seen a large decrease in sea level radiation due to particulate matter in the upper atmosphere reflecting and absorbing then radiating energy into space. Kind of a global sun-screen from industrial carbon pollution and agricultural land use. Imagine how much more temperature rise we would have in the seas if that solar radiation hadn't been blocked? ... I wonder if this study accounted for that? Hmmm... but that says nothing about the Ocean Acidification that is taking place, upsetting the balance of life in our oceans globally. There is just so much we don't know. Better just keep on doing what we have been doing until we can see an unquestionable result, kind of like a global chemistry experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming

I'm sure that someone else at LHC thought of this, but you can't send radio signals through the earth like neutrinos. So the distance from the control mechanism to the antenna on the top of the building, should be about, say, 18m, right? (plus any curve in the earth's surface, assuming that the receiver is over the horizon.) This really sounds like an error in measurement, repeat with a receiver on the moon.

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Typing should not be 'mandated' by public schools. This is an inefficient from of communication. QWERTY is DESIGNED to be INefficient. With Voice to Text technology, and Text to Voice, AI's getting better all the time, and the use of video-telephony and other multi-media, typing is becoming ever less relevant and will eventually be replaced by some new technology. Typing should still be an elective in High School, but never a substitute for learning long hand writing skills in elementary school.

For the CopyLeft software, the original should set the standard. To be true to their concept, you must not charge for this game. If your intention is just to cover costs, then ask for donations. Perhaps, you could publish a free version of the standard game, then publish an upgrade to your top version for $3. Divide your work from the original. Your project should be set up to sustain the game, but not profit off the original author's code. The concept of GPL and GNU/copy-left is to create infinitely useful tools that cost nothing. Not-for-profit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

Agreed. But like any good fiction, if this magic were miraculously plausible, the possibilities would be amazing. It would guarantee free speech forever, make money laundering a meaningless exercise, and create un-copy-able data. True freedom and real secure intellectual property are not dreams easily dissuaded.

Wouldn't this depend upon the bit length of the encrypted string. Because, as I understand it the common public key encryption algorithms use repeating periodic "chunks" and use the value of these "chunks" of data, to help randomize the code. Essentially each "chunk" of data is randomized differently, forcing you to decrypt the whole database in order to search it.

Wouldn't that set up require the searcher to share a private key with the server in advance, and send that same key (encrypted with a public key) every time? Essentially negating the ability for blind searches, because the server uses the private key to break the private key encryption locally, then uses the public key to return the results, which can be viewed by the searcher.

You're still not searching the data, so unless the index has been carefully set up with a set of key words for each article or page, then you will miss search terms, and it will never be as good as a Google AI search.

You are all wrong. Not only is it reasonable to TEST people on a job interview to make sure they have the competency that you require, it is imperative, especially in the case of homeland security and other life and death situations (like commercial banking) so that you don't end up with the kind of situations that are common under the current president. Imagine if we gave our elected officials a test to see if they understand the US Constitution. If you hire a lawyer, a doctor, a IT Pro, then test him. Otherwise you are the fool.