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Fast forward to 2006... we have the Samsung Q1

And here we have a Samsung digital photo frame that looks very much like an iPad. The "sleek featureless design with rounded corners" idea predates the iPad and iPhone by a long way.

Take a look at this concept device from 1994, for example. Black, rounded corners, screen nearly to the edge, no front buttons...

Apple's entire design philosophy and many of its products were ripped off from Braun by your logic.

The! Science! Says!

Women drivers are more likely to be involved in an accident, according to scientists.

Researchers looked at 6.5million car crashes and found a higher than expected number of accidents between two female drivers.

The scientists also found that women were more likely than men to crash at a junction

But I thought there aren't any gay people in Iran!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107374/Fuel-tax-British-motorists-pay-60-duty-VAT-petrol.html

Without all of the UK taxes, gas would be 53p/liter.

That was back at the end of February when gas was $3.77 per gallon in California. Gas tax is about $0.68 of that (35c CA gas, 15c CA/local sales tax, 18c federal), so $3.09 actual gas cost.

That's $0.82 / liter or (wait for it) about 52p per liter, or nearly exactly the same cost for gasoline.

Excuse me while I grab my bullhorn and get a train ticket to NYC.

You sir are incredibly insightful. I researched this company and this topic. In the local paper they described how this company managed to build a 15 floor building in 15 days! Yes 15 days!

The reason why this company can do what it can is because it builds these buildings using a pre-fab approach. North American's, and Europeans partially are not yet used to prefab houses. In Europe it is slowly trickling in, but nobody wants them to be built because they seriously undercut the housing lobby. Take for Ikea homes. Yes Ikea sells homes, using this method. They are cheaper than any other home. Look at this Ikea home for 86 K, which includes everything in the inside as well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108775/Ikea-launches-80-000-flat-pack-DIY-house.html

It is hard to beat with all appliances and furniture of 86K. Now is it the final dream? No not really since Ikea is just partnering with a prefab company. BUT imagine if the Chinese managed to put it all together like this company. Then the west has serious issues!!!

This is easier said than done. Google, like Facebook, has become tightly integrated with our society

I wouldn't go so far as to say Google is independently having societal ramifications, but I definitely agree that avoiding them is becoming harder and harder to do. Google Analytics is all but ubiquitous across the commercial net, as is Facebook, and they build profiles of users even if they're not logged in to any of their services, which obviously means they're tracking your activity either way.

This is why I always give the friends and family I do computer tech support for a primer on NoScript. Adblock Plus, and their equivalents. It's funny how amazed people are at the increased responsiveness of their computer on the net when all the extraneous bullshit isn't loading alongside the desired content. I worry, though, that as more people start filtering their web through these extensions that the companies being blocked won't start more aggressively shoving their shit out there and tying core site functionality to these trackers, because Lord knows there is a ton of money tied up in this data-harvesting.

Yes the UK where onto voice from the first telephone satellites links, love voice intercepts from war zones and it seems your chats in queues too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html

Try reading from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html
See what words trigger the US voice to text dictionary alerts.

I blame a Daily Mail lobotomy. The majority of it's very sizable reader base (who tend to wrongly self-identify as intelligent, educated and middle class) sing to the tune of, "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear", "only pedos are private" and "my government loves me and will protect me from harm".
Seriously though, here are three articles from today's front-page:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159370/Soldier-childminder-farmer-paedophile-ring-hosted-depraved-sex-parties-isolated-country-farmhouse.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159207/Police-Community-Support-Worker-fostered-children-abused-teenage-boys-years.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159317/Troubled-teenage-girls-given-cash-drink-cuddly-toys-exchange-sex-middle-aged-men.html
Based on this, is it any surprise that a large proportion of the UK population seem to consider the three biggest threats to be immigrants/terrorists (few make the distinction), pedophiles and rising taxes? Very few of them seem to remember much history and ever fewer have any common sense...

I blame a Daily Mail lobotomy. The majority of it's very sizable reader base (who tend to wrongly self-identify as intelligent, educated and middle class) sing to the tune of, "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear", "only pedos are private" and "my government loves me and will protect me from harm".
Seriously though, here are three articles from today's front-page:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159370/Soldier-childminder-farmer-paedophile-ring-hosted-depraved-sex-parties-isolated-country-farmhouse.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159207/Police-Community-Support-Worker-fostered-children-abused-teenage-boys-years.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159317/Troubled-teenage-girls-given-cash-drink-cuddly-toys-exchange-sex-middle-aged-men.html
Based on this, is it any surprise that a large proportion of the UK population seem to consider the three biggest threats to be immigrants/terrorists (few make the distinction), pedophiles and rising taxes? Very few of them seem to remember much history and ever fewer have any common sense...

I blame a Daily Mail lobotomy. The majority of it's very sizable reader base (who tend to wrongly self-identify as intelligent, educated and middle class) sing to the tune of, "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear", "only pedos are private" and "my government loves me and will protect me from harm".
Seriously though, here are three articles from today's front-page:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159370/Soldier-childminder-farmer-paedophile-ring-hosted-depraved-sex-parties-isolated-country-farmhouse.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159207/Police-Community-Support-Worker-fostered-children-abused-teenage-boys-years.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159317/Troubled-teenage-girls-given-cash-drink-cuddly-toys-exchange-sex-middle-aged-men.html
Based on this, is it any surprise that a large proportion of the UK population seem to consider the three biggest threats to be immigrants/terrorists (few make the distinction), pedophiles and rising taxes? Very few of them seem to remember much history and ever fewer have any common sense...

Well I'm sure if you go down to your local rape crisis centre and say that you'll find no women who disagree, nope, none at all. Anyone who has been involved with rape victims, either because they themselves were raped and went to the crisis centre and met other victims, or simply because they like to help them out will be able to point you to many cases, perhaps even their own.

Seriously, if you hate Assange, that's fine. But don't talk bullshit and trivialise the issue with it simply because you want to try and bolster the view that the decision against Assange was nothing unusual.

The only point you could really bring up that would be valid is that it's usually jury cases that decide this sort of thing, but perhaps there's the problem, that Assange didn't get the benefit of having the case decided by his peers.

See this article, which highlights the problem well and has many parallels to Assange's case:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-422969/Not-guilty-rape-surgeon-slept-women-night.html

Still, I look forward to those citations that prove that there has never been any inconsistency in this sort of thing when you're back at your desk and that all, if not at least the vast majority of such decisions have been the same.

Except that other countries have high levels of other violence. The UK has more violent crimes than than the US, and they've banned guns outright.

Gun bans don't prevent violence.

They have a list of terms, just like the NSA had back in the day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html

Ceiling cat now obsolete. Welcome copter cat.

Did somebody say Copter Cat?

it was the artist's own pet, and it died after getting hit by a car. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html . why are you so mad? outside of the artistic value (which is subjective, so i'll leave that up to you to discover on your own) have you never seen someone have a beloved pet stuffed and posed before? maybe it makes him happy to still have his friend around. personally, i think it's tasteless to dig a ditch to dispose of a corpse like so many people do these days, and i'd much rather be turned into beautiful art a la the 'bodies' exhibit (again, subjectively speaking, i'd say it's far more artistic than educational). but hey, to each his own i guess.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ITO=1490

this isn't some mad scientist-type murdering strays to build controversial art. this is an artist who taxidermied his pet after it was hit and killed by a car. the cat was already named 'orville' and the artist thought it befitting to send his pet to play with the birds it so loved in life. the article posted with the /. story tells none of the real info and offers only inflammatory and barely-relevant commentary.

always good to hear that someone is excelling at a young age like this kid. i just hope he doesnt feel like he missed on life experiences later in life. i cant imagine if prodigies feel that they missed out on college-keggers, or proms or things like that.

Don't worry, he's 21

Yeah, not quite doogie howser. I mean much respect, 21 is young, but I still feel a little let down, he's not a teenager graduating from medical school like doogie so he's no doogie howser so the /. post is very misleading

I use GHB recreationally, it would be very hard to slip it in someones drink without them noticing it. For good times one may take 1-2g's of GHB. I have found no liquid that can mask the absolute horrible taste, tried everything. It tastes like sea water and is difficult to drink. I mix 1.5ml of liquid with a 355ml soda and I can barely drink it. If I wanted to "date rape" someone I would need to give them 5-10g's of GHB, they would instinctively spit out their drink. On the subject of "drug rape" the London police service did a study of all reported "drug rapes" over a extended period and found 2 percent of a pool of 1014 "drug rapes" had any sedatives, all the other were binge drinking. Drug rape is mostly a myth.

They're not asking to control their own internet. They can and do that today. They're asking to "jointly" control everyone else's internet.

Specifically these people. Don't worry ! He was cleared of all charges ... by his nephew. I'm sure they had a big laugh about it around the dinner table. What do you expect from islamic theocracies ?

Telepathy will be more like voice communication. Reading other people's minds against their will is still going to be difficult.

See:
http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/12710
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1081332/The-Jennifer-Aniston-brain-cell-How-single-neurons-spring-action-pictures-favourite-celebrities.html

One person's "Jennifer Aniston" cell is going to be different from another person's. Or it may not even be present till that person knows more about her...

The only way you can figure out whether a cell is a person's "Halle Berry" cell is if you present a "Halle Berry" stimulus to them and then do the measurement.

That's what a person's wearable computer + BCI could do, and that's how it may be possible to do the virtual eidetic memory + thought pattern store and recall thing. You have an object/media recording, you pick a thought to associate with it, test recall, confirm. So if you ask your computer to do a recall/retrieve and the previous particular bunch of brain cells are firing, your computer recalls that object. You could associate a particular "Jennifer Aniston" picture with a "dancing purple barney" if you want...

Someone might be able to figure out some of what you've been thinking by stealing/accessing your wearable computer or backups, and going through the logs/history (activity, location, storage/recall, etc). But the security conscious might have the stuff encrypted and without the right thought pattern sequence and/or passphrase it might be hard to crack.

It's clear that many people here share your beliefs. It's not at all clear that they're well founded.

That's what the *tinfoil hat on/off* tags are suppose to indicate, but the fact is Sweden does have the strict sex crime laws in the world, and apparently having consensual sex with someone, but not using a condom is ground for rape charges. Based on the material I've read it seems this might be more of a case of two women finding out the slept with the same guy, felt duped and charged him with rape... Well one of them is charging him with rape, the other one is just accusing him of molesting her.

The part about the women could be being paid off is the conspiracy theory part. There's no evidence to back that up, but it seems fishy that these charges were brought against him at the height of the wikileaks scandal and politicians like Sarah Palin were calling for blood. Feel free to look up alternative referances for that link, google's got tons of them

This reminds me a lot of another Twitter fiasco, where a couple were barred entry into the U.S. because of his tweets that he was going to 'destroy America' ('Destroy' being British slang to get drunk and run amok, but no, they thought it was a literal threat).

He also said they were going to dig up Marilyn Monroe and the fucking idiot immigration people actually searched their bags for shovels. Because they wouldn't buy one here in the states from one of the eight-fucking-million stores one can buy a shovel if they were actually going to do this...no, they'd bring one with them from England.

We have a seriously disproportionate number of dumbshits in our police agencies, it seems.

You don't know any prostitutes? You are very lacking in knowledge. But you are right that the depiction they get in sci-fi TV series is misleading. Here, let me show you what real prostitutes are like.

I'd have to change sex and adopt an Ethiopian before they'd give me a council house.

Good luck changing sex. Officially, this is a process which should take 18 weeks to obtain an appointment, two years prior to surgery and a further two years before legally being recognised as the opposite sex. Unofficially, the process can take more than a decade. It is for this reason that people pay £28,000 to go private.

I suspect that adopting an Ethiopian is equally costly or slow.

Traffic Cameras: Government Surveillance?
http://usahitman.com/traffic-cameras-a-part-of-big-brother-police-state/

Scariest speed camera of all... It checks your insurance, tax and even whether you are tailgating or not wearing a seatbelt
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1326035/Speed-camera-checks-insurance-tax-wearing-seatbelt.html

Talking Surveillance Cameras Coming To U.S. Streets
http://usahitman.com/tsccts/

"it's just a light!" ... not anymore!!!

And that whole dark ages thing, you get that from where? Argument by anal extraction? Well, straw-men are carbon-neutral...

From science, from their own mouths, and from what, how and in the ways they act. Don't worry if reality has to kick you in the chops every now and then.

What the hell is up with this recent flood of anti-google articles and comments on Slashdot? Has Slashdot been hired by Microsoft, Apple and/or Facebook to do smear attack campaign on Google?

Just leave Google alone. They're a great company and don't deserve this bullshit with half-truth stories. They actually care about you. They give you free things. They release open source. They fight for your rights. SO LEAVE GOOGLE ALONE!

Slashdot used to be a better place. We would fight against evils like Bill Gates and Microsoft (a convicted monopolist). We would promote open source. But now.. now you are attacking the very companies that make FOSS great.

go away shill! Google is a convicted unfair competitor, convicted patent infringer, copyright infringer and even paid bloggers (yes they had paid shills working for them!) to promote their web browser!

Microsoft is evil, Apple is evil, Oracle is evil, Facebook is evil and so is Google! The only reason there is a perception that they aren't is that they have the motto 'don't be evil' and morons like you lap that up and just ignore it when Google does wrong.

If terahertz wifi cards become generally available, how long before we see articles about people repurposing the hardware to do terahertz reflective imagery like the security guys already do for looking through walls to spot people in a room or look through cloths to see "weapons"?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131932/The-REAL-X-Ray-spex--new-terahertz-scanner-lets-mobile-phones-walls.html

Narcissistic, insecure, low self esteem, they're on facebook to "be seen" and try to feel that their lives are worth something.

Social media is a failure.

I assume he's talking about this. Which says that branded British beer cannot be sold at the venues because of Heineken's sponsorship of the Corporolympics. Bizarrely, it can be sold unbranded; a tap marked "Bitter" would be acceptable.

First, they have you on camera? So? Only a problem if you do something illegal.

Eh? Did you really just make the "if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to be worried about" argument?

Second, if people wear masks they're going to feel like they can get away with things. It encourages violence and mob behavior.

And if people are allowed to own handguns, it will just encourage violence and mob behavior. Sorry, but this seems to be a bit of a tautology.

Third, you see people wearing masks at protests in third world countries where they worry about a secret police tracking them. This is not a reasonable concern in the first world.

The first world that has FBI files on nonviolent actresses and civil rights activists?
The first world where undercover agents go so far as to impregnate the nonviolent activists they are spying on?
The first world that constantly uses entrapment to prosecute "terror" cases?
The first world which has recently passed both laws allowing military detentions of citizens and criminalizing "disrupting events" where someone is under Secret Service protection?

Lets say you decide to protest a Bank of America shareholder meeting at a convention center. You're peacefully protesting in the street and the parking lot, but totally unknown to you, Jill Biden was quietly on her way to meet some Democratic donors in another room at the convention center.

But she was a few minutes late getting past the crowd, so you and your fellow protesters "disrupted an event" where the Secret Service was protecting someone. That spiffy new spy center in Nevada runs CCTV footage through their facial recognition software, and not only picks you out of a crowd, but is able to cross-reverence your location with a warrantless wiretap on your cell phone. Presto, you receive a summons in the mail a few weeks later.

It'll be the new speed camera fine-by-mail.

Why not just lease one of China's ghost cities? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html

Are you a slave? Are you property of IRS or any other part of the US government?

Record number of Americans renouncing their citizenship to avoid paying taxes.

those of more modest means renounce, too. They say leaving America is about more than money; it's about privacy and red tape.

Two filing requirements affect Americans abroad: the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts - which has been around since 1970 but now carries penalties for noncompliance - and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, passed in 2010 with the aim of reducing offshore tax evasion.

The first regulation requires all Americans, including those living abroad, with at least $10,000 in overseas bank accounts, to file a supplementary form disclosing all of their foreign accounts.

That includes any accounts in which the U.S. citizen has a financial interest. That could include a joint account with a spouse or child, accounts for corporations in which the American owns more than 50 per cent of the value of shares of stock, or any trust or estate that benefits the U.S. citizen.

The tax compliance act - the newer law - asks foreign financial institutions such as banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds to provide the IRS with information on U.S. clients.

Also practically speaking, do you have money to waste?

The additional compliance costs for companies to ensure that Americans they hire are filing the correct U.S. tax returns and asset-declaration forms are at least $5,000 per person, said Ledvina. Where individuals are getting their returns prepared, the expense may amount to $1,500 to $2,000, which is pushing expatriates to consider giving up citizenship.

âoeThe compliance costs are high and theyâ(TM)re getting worse,â Ledvina said. âoeItâ(TM)s hard to serve two authorities and the problem for Americans abroad is that the IRS doesnâ(TM)t care.â

Read more: Flood of Americans Give Up Citizenship to Dodge Tax Probe

If you are aware of history and have a background on US government it is pretty simple but as you mentioned below there are an awful lot of individuals in the US who are absolutely clueless. I have seen a number of people (doesn't matter which side) who believe that the president has absolute power and should be able to rule by dictate. Toss in some more esoteric stuff like the US constitution being the supreme law of the land and they look at you like a deer in headlights. These people would have a hard time naming the 3 branches of government let alone being able to tell which house must originate any legislation that deals with taxing or spending. When my buddy passed his naturalization test his comment was that it was really easy but yet it appears that a large fraction of natural born citizens would fail it.

That is nothing compared to this fine upstanding example of how much the UK is screwed by it's worthless government and police

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141740/Rochdale-child-sex-trial-Police-fears-branded-racist-left-grooming-gang-free-abuse-teenage-girls-years-says-Labour-MP.html?ITO=1490

This monster came and gave his hate-fest speech to a happy audience.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126914/Sheikh-Raed-Salah-wins-appeal-UK-Governments-attempts-deport-him.html
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/04/party-in-london-to-celebrate-anti.html

The UK is going to hell.

and no, moving out of the country is not the next best answer here, hopefully for obvious reasons

It's happening right now after the French elected an avowed socialist who is putting in exactly the schemes you recommend:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139537/French-Greek-elections-spark-property-boom-London-rich-buyers-flood-UK-escape-euro-crisis.html

Capital for investment is, by definition, fluid. It flows to the best situations, in all cases. Borders are virtually irrelevant - especially in the modern age where funds are so much easier to move than trying to pack gold bars in a suitcase.

Go ahead and tax it; it'll disappear like a fart in the wind before the bill comes due. Or to put it more precisely:

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers

I think this is a great initiative by Microsoft. They have shown that they greatly care about the environment and common good. Not only that, but they spend lots of money on their R&D (Microsoft Research) which has come up with tons of great things that has made the world better. On top of that Microsoft's founder Bill Gates has spent most of his fortune to help the world, especially for healthcare and making the poor countries better. Even if you don't like MS products you have to have deep respect for them for this reason. Compare this to Google CEO's who spend their money on luxury yachts.

I have a better idea. How about stop raping the planet and exploiting the human inhabitants under wage slavery and see if food/medicine distriubtion doesn't improve. Sorry, but I'm not going to get all weak in the knees because some douche put the 50 billion he received by monopolizing into what amounts to a mutual fund where the profits go to vaccinating and helping people who never had to be in poverty in the first place, but for the inequitable economic system they were exploited under in the first place. Show me a poverty stricken country and I'll show you how it's capitalism and usually directly the US's doing. History goes back a long time, most of you seem to have a poor grasp of even current events. Take a look at what caused all this misery and you won't be so impressed by these generous foundations that are all the rage these days. And by the way, they're over reported (for a reason); most rich people sit on their money and leave it to their brats.

I think this is a great initiative by Microsoft. They have shown that they greatly care about the environment and common good. Not only that, but they spend lots of money on their R&D (Microsoft Research) which has come up with tons of great things that has made the world better.

On top of that Microsoft's founder Bill Gates has spent most of his fortune to help the world, especially for healthcare and making the poor countries better. Even if you don't like MS products you have to have deep respect for them for this reason. Compare this to Google CEO's who spend their money on luxury yachts.

now, who's the most radical idiots?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1317079/Richard-Curtis-exploding-schoolchildren-climate-change-video-withdrawn.html

I *think* the commenter referring to this:

Who: Professor Norgaard

What: "Resistance at individual and societal levels must be recognized and treated"

Where: Planet Under Pressure Conference 2012

When: Wednesday 28 March 2012

The real question is was this peer reviewed and was she even capable of making decision on how to diagnose a mental illness. She only has B.S. in biology and a master's and PhD in sociology. It would be more credible if she had an M.D. Psychiatry or a P.h.D. is Psychology. My guess is that she just wanted to be controversial and didn't even consult the DSM-IV-TR.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123260/If-dont-believe-climate-change-sick-Oregon-professor-likens-skepticism-racism.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/30/climate_scepticism_racism_slavery_treatment/ http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/pup_session.asp?

current events pop quiz for you: what is happening in syria right now?

how would rate the importance of that current event in regard to the topic of the videogame industry there?

scratch that: if a syrian game developer were in this comment thread right now (something that would actually endanger his life), do you think maybe he would be saying something like, gee, i dunno "HELLO, SPOILED FAT CLUELESS WESTERNERS, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT VIDEOGAMES, THEY ARE MURDERING US"

what do you think?

this is reality, asshole:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135413/Syrian-rebel-buried-alive-gunpoint-horrific-video-emerge-brutal-civil-war.html

this guy was buried alive because he was passing video of what is going on in syria to news organizations

now go ahead, keep on talking about fucking videogames

clueless, fat, spoiled, coddled, useless westerners

I suppose this is an improvement over a design from another Dutch firm for residential towers in South Korea: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2072308/MVRDV-architects-reveal-plans-South-Korean-buildings-look-eerily-like-Twin-Towers-exploding.html

Does this mean we can pinpoint the time and place of Eden, when Adam and Eve bit the apple that led to this cell division?

No, this happened before Garden of Eden. And to the SSW of it too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html

Lying on your curriculum vitae may seem harmless. But in the eyes of the law, it is commiting fraud by false representation with a maximum penalty of three to ten years in prison in most western countries.

There are many examples of people lying on their CV to get a prestiges job. When the fraud is discovered, they get fired and maybe sued, judged an jailed. Not being an American, I guess US laws on falsifying documents are as tough as in UK and rest of Europe, as this examples shows in UK: A woman jailed for six months after lying on here CV

It's a false premises in calming that CEO's lies all the time, so adding a lie don't count as long as they earn chunks of money for their company. After the Enron bankruptcy December 2001, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) was passed by the US Senate. In short, the law can prison lying CEO's for max 20 years if they give false information to the stock exchange or to investigating authorities. In such cases, a CEO who lies will be risking jail for months or years. someone brings it to court. It's before and after Enron. Dan Lyons at The Daily Beast may live in a world before Enron. The court system are more updated, Therefore lets wait for the court case against Yahoo who Daniel Loeb at Third Point has announced, and see how that goes regarding document fraud and the Sarbanes–Oxley Act:
  The Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX for short)

...but for those who say the threat "isn't there", I guess this is just a figment of the imagination then? And they certainly didn't have any "help"...

Oh, I know, China isn't a "threat". The fact that it's on track to exceed US military spending by 2025 must be for "peaceful regional defense". This isn't really happening.

What about the F-35? Oh, yeah — that, too.

This causes Brain Damage. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137260/Tony-Pietrantonios-face-turned-mush-brutal-knockout-blow.html#ixzz1tZHbsgUi
Football is a sport for girls.

This is still a bit concerning. If the media saw AF1 land, that's one thing. If the media got wind of the POTUS arriving from the current Afghan Administration or Intelligence agencies, they have some leaks that need fixing and US Security and Intel should take note.

As for Twitter? Their role here was the non-story. Sorry.

Look, Airforce One is hardly a stealth aircraft, especially when trailed by a constantly refueled squadron of Airforce / Navy fighters.

There is no route to Afghanistan that does not cross some other country's air space, and you can bet that not every single air traffic controller between here and Kabul keeps his mouth shut all the time. The miracle is that Obama could get from the Whitehouse to the airport with no one leaking that info on twitter.

In this world, expectations of surprise visits are all to be taken with a wink and an nod. Even when the press in in a feeding frenzy over the Secret Service's bimbo in Colombia, this visit was well known in the US Press.

Its amazing that Twitter didn't break the news first. (It probably did, but nobody noticed).

You seem to have "found" the wrong poll - the one in question is the one in question is referenced here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/14/opinion/main1893879.shtml&date=2011-04-06 and here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-399352/Almost-quarter-Muslims-believe-7-7-justified.html