The real problem is that the LHC and SSC were intended to be sister designs, neither an only child.

The energies needed for the current work are more than half of the maximum output at the LHC - the SSC would have been the higher energy design, capable of operating at energies ~3x that of LHC.

What that means is that in addition to at least 10 years of lost experiments, we'll be waiting for probably quite some time for the next large physics instrument to be built to explore a lot of the questions the current experiment sheds a little light on.

TAL is not an NPR show. It's an independently syndicated show carried mostly on NPR affiliates, but anyone who wants to buy it can run it.

Of course, the overlap in on-air personalities between NPR and American Public Radio (the syndicator of the show) is very large.

don't focus on bandwidth, focus on % of bandwidth devoted to porn, day to day and week to week.

Run driftnet.

Give everyone a look at what everyone's been downloading.

I think it is well worth reminding people what Obama promised and what Obama delivered, on surveillance and on whistleblowing.

The poster you're pulling the long face over did not mention parties, he mentioned two personalities. The latter personality is
doing everything he can to demonstrate the importance of contintuity over all else in US politics.

Your choice to muddy the waters by bringing up political parties brings NUTTTC. PO.

There actually are folks (quite a lot of them) sexually aroused by cruelty to animals. Hence the sturm und drang about the "crush" videos about ten years ago, when The End of Days was heralded by folks paying actual money to watch girls in high heels stomp on mice, birds, etc.

My memory is that in the UK the animal rights nutbags managed to write remarkably broad laws covering all of this stuff.

PETA will probably have, as its charter paying subscribers, folks for whom this is a thrill, and with better-looking models than they're used to seeing.

The EFF dresses up their appeal (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement) in BS rhetoric about a 'tragedy of the commons' that's
ensuing as people turn on WPA at home.

No. This is people configuring their equipment as recommended. This is what a successful education campaign looks like. The fact that when the tech first hit, everyone was setting it up wrong does not mean that's how we ought to leave it.

Even the EFF admits that the time for just leaving the door open yet has not yet arrived. Consumer routers don't do network segmentation
and traffic prioritization well enough yet.

My favorite EFF knee-slapper:

"There is currently no WiFi protocol that allows anybody to join the network, while using link-layer encryption to prevent each network member from eavesdropping on the others. But such a protocol should exist."

OK, so I should leave my network unprotected because a protocol that doesn't exist, should?

Whiskey, tango foxtrot, you digital hippies. Would you please go loiter somewhere else?

You're starting from a false premise, about what's cheap and what margins ought to be. Granted, that's reinforced by the pricing on the unlocked Samsung (500-600 in the US) and the pricing on the Motorola tablet.

Take a look at the Barnes and Noble Color Nook, a 7" wifi android tablet with an IPS touchscreen that sells for $250. It's a solid enough build that tons of folks are happily rooting and overclocking them.

And we'd want to spend time paying enough attentio to post to wikipedia why, again?

This defense doesn't work for the torrent aggregation sites (Pirate Bay, Isohunt, etc.) and it would only work here if the various spam lists really were willing to staff the "unlist us" addresses as thoroughly as the "list us" addresses.

I work at a nonprofit that has health care and gang outreach as two chunks of what we do. I have had emails inviting a group of people to a meeting around gang violence flagged as spam in the past, because the subject line was thought to be spammy. Heaven forfend that one of our providers should dare to talk about viagra or erectile dysfunction in an email.

I am not sure if it was Spamhaus per se, but one of the times we were added to a blacklist, I was able to get us pulled immediately. But I was warned by the fully automated removal system that that was a one-time deal and if we were listed again, I would have to wait patiently while they got around to deciding what to do.

With the Barracuda list, there's a for-profit company with 800 numbers that are answered, at least. I don't remember now who it was, but one of the RBL providers got into a pissing match with Yahoo over their mailing list configuration and blackholed Yahoo's outbound mail servers a few years ago.

Accountability with these lists is a problem. The court case immediately at hand isn't interesting one way or another, since it wasn't contested.

Accountability, on the other hand, is something that needs to be addressed a lot better by the RBLs.