They may be referring to facebook as an intranet because it doesn't allow google in. So it's somewhat isolated.

Hindsight works a lot better for spotting potential. I'm ready to switch.

Further compromise to the enemy?

There goes my Friday nights.

Possibly. You may be weighing in relatively short distance sea travel as being more complex than the actuality.

What's long, hard and full of seamen? Stone tools, of course!

what may be a better way to phrase the question is, can people with vested interests in seeing a desirable outcome from an experiment, create such a synthetic experiment that their desired outcomes are manifest. It's like some people are actually frightened of discovering the truth and hide behind contrived models. fear

I'm not getting a lot of these posts. Microsoft is a software business, not a computer science business. I think some of you may be confusing one for the other. This is par for the course.

I mean if this thing has been show to cause people to panic, what better way to get a crowd riled up then to hit a couple of blasts. Later the report will naturally show that the crowd started the whole thing and required some crowd control. Back in my day we just used frost traps and sap

It would probably help if you had read the article about the "horrible weapon"

I am sure this will only be used on unruly crowds. And not on crowds that just need a little pushing to become unruly.

Does the Times ever actually contain timely news articles that slashdot would need to link to? I can't remember the last time I even looked on their site

Wow, I want a pet nanobacteria now. The infinitely trustworthy (groan) wikipedia suggests that some form of replication can occur with them so I am putting in an order for my nanobacteria farm fun set now!

Ah, nm. I was reading so many related articles I missed the part about the asteroid impact. Still, that's quite amazing in itself. Considering it would probably take NASA a few billion to get the same payload delivered back. This was free delivery!

Exactly what is the theory of how rocks from Mars got here? Was there some eruption so great that it hurled chunks of Mars into space, out of its planetary orbit and made the trip here? I think I am missing something here.