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The short answer to why it remains seemingly just as far away? Money.

The single most useful, highest technology endeavor mankind has ever dared try, and we commit a mere one fifth as much to it as we do in fossil fuel subsidies per year.

In 1980, we really did have fusion 40 years away. And five years later, we got bored with that and moved on to something else shiny.

It actually matches what he's said for a long time.

You mean it matched the rest of his false campaign promises.

Iraq was the 'bad' war

More campaign rhetoric - and they were both bad wars. If Obama had been president in 2003, he might not have launched a full scale invasion. Instead, he might have spent 7 months bombing the country in full violation of both the Constitution and the War Powers Act, as he did with Libya. Fun fact: Obama's own vice president vowed to support Bush's impeachment in 2007 if he had done the same thing with Iran. And instead of kidnapping innocent targest and torturing them, he would have simply murdered them with drones. And he could have funded extremists from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to come in as "freedom fighters", and we'd have had ISIS a decade early - fun for everybody.

But Obama's extension and expansion of the occupation of Afghanistan is a complete and utter debunking of the notion that he wanted to 'cut and run' from Iraq, and that's a fact that you and the Obamabots are just going to have to deal with. Do you guys meet for coffee on Tuesdays to discuss talking points?

Considering how many cheating and thieving Chinese students we admit to our college/university STEM programs and eventually American engineering jobs, we cannot win.

How on earth can opening the footage to the public NOT compromise privacy?

Check the article. They provide examples of over-redacted footage. Had you looked at them, you wouldn't be asking the questions you are.

I asked a cop on a streetcorner for directions the other day, he gave them, I thanked him and went on my way, no problem. I consider that to be a private conversation (it reveals my whereabouts that day and tells where I was trying to go). I don't want video of it to be a public record open to "fishing expeditions" by random jerks

All audio is removed from the over-redacted footage and techniques are used to ensure that people are not readily identifiable. Seriously, just go look at the examples.

And I hate to break it to you, but any video recorded of you by an officer already is a matter of public record. Those "random jerks" just need to file a FOIA request to get the video. And in some states, such as Washington, they can even file those requests anonymously. Any interaction you have with a police officer is a matter of public record, whether you like it or not. This doesn't change that.

Unless there's an actual dispute involving the person requesting the video, nobody (including the police department and the cop wearing the camera) should be allowed to see the video and it should be deleted after 1 year.

Oh, definitely. Great plan. Hey, I think the following people may want to review any available footage the police have regarding their "disputes", but for some reason none of them are speaking...oh, that's right, it's because they were all murdered at the hands of police officers. And what do you know? In the two cases below where footage was available, the police officer is facing murder charges, while in the third one, they aren't. How strange.

1) Walter Scott
2) David Kassick
3) Michael Brown

Those were just off the top of my head. But while simply trying to dig up links for those three, I found out that Olympia, Washington police shot two unarmed brothers at a grocery store yesterday, that a rookie cop in New York fatally shot an innocent, unarmed man who just happened to step out of an apartment at the wrong time, that a cop in South Carolina shot an unarmed man at a traffic stop when the man turned to grab his driver's license, that Anaheim, California cops fatally shot two unarmed men in back-to-back days...the list goes on.

Honestly, it's really depressing. I'm finding more articles about shootings I didn't know about than I am about the high-profile ones I was already aware of. And all of those but the last one are from just the last eight months.

Suffice to say, I vehemently disagree with you.

Governments worldwide that are marching to fascism want encryption banned.

Encryption is but a tiny side-show in the global march towards Collectivism — the coin, of which Fascism and Socialism are indistinguishable sides. As predicted long ago:

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

— Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, May 27, 1788

It starts with concern for the poor, that inevitably causes the government to undertake support of the downtrodden with various "War on Poverty" initiatives.

A few decades and trillion-dollars into it, there are not only millions of recipients of the dole, there are also tens of thousands of government officials involved in distributing it. The combination makes it impossible to stop the foolish undertaking — it may be reformed and rearranged, but it can not be ended.

And then comes the idea, that, if we must support the unsuccessful among us, we should try to prevent them from doing (what we consider to be) stupid things: take drugs, drive too fast, eat fat (no, not fat, sugar!). Right here on Slashdot, the idea that our self-imposed responsibility for others allows us to control their actions, is alive and well.

And then government types begin to deliberately rearrange things to be able to attach their own strings to various incentives you can not refuse. The first example of this was, probably, the imposition of federal speed-limit by mandating, that States receiving federal Federal highway funds implement them.

The most recent example here is the federal take-over of education loans, which allows the Administration to better control, what the colleges teach and what students do. Because it raises the tuition costs so much, fewer and fewer students will be able to forgo such federal aid and will be forced to accept it — with all of the strings attached to them and the colleges they attend.

Compared to these aspects of the Collective increasingly controlling the Individual's life, use of encryption is of little to no consequence. Maybe, a new Republic in Antarctica, on the Moon or Mars will take the lessons of our errors to heart — the way our Founding Fathers studied those of the Romans...

you might also enjoy this one about the economics of being a /. editor.

That might explain it.

In 2011, the Iraqi PM made the same offer. Even he acknowledged it was pointless, since the Iraqi parliament had to agree to it, and they were unwilling to do so. In other words, as I said, this latest offer of immunity is different, and doesn't say anything about 2011.

If you think it would have been easy to negotiate US troop immunity with the Iraqi parliament in 2011, then I must say I'm impressed by your negotiating skills. Remember, the Iraqi people were sick of incidents where Americans were seen to be committing crimes but not being prosecuted. The situation with the security contractors, like Blackwater, was especially on their minds. Remember, no one in Blackwater had been found guilty of killing 14 unarmed Iraqis in Nisour Square until 7 years later. It really was not a simple thing to "negotiate away".

Let me quote the Iraqi PM, who said, in 2011 - "When the Americans asked for immunity, the Iraqi side answered that it was not possible". Your arm chair quarterbacking doesn't convince me.

It's an interesting tack you take in your last paragraph. It's illogical, but interesting. You're saying, basically, the Bush administration was willing to negotiate a troop pullout that would happen during the following administration, but they were unwilling to negotiate an agreement to keep troops in Iraq during the following administration. You can't have it both ways, sorry.

These are both good approaches. They're the first 2 on Schneier's list of the 4 ways to "protect yourself from digital surveillance".

Unfortunately there is a counter example with the shooting of a homeless man in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

Officer Sandy, who was involved in the shooting, was fired from the New Mexico State Police in 2007 over accusations of fraud. He was allegedly making money doing private security work while also on the force, KRQE reported.

Just sayin'.

Industry will vanish along with cellphone ban
Savvy entrepreneur sees school cell phone bans as opportunity - runs mobile rental space for gadgets
More Unpredictable Side Effects of Technology: Cell Phone Storage Trucks for Students
Businesses make $4M off NYC students by holding their cellphones during school NYC Plans To Lift Ban On Student Cellphones In Schools

Men and women have different advantages and disadvantages in life. Men's Rights groups, while it's true that they are often filled with men who have gotten burned in divorces and child-custody battles (and therefore biased and angry), they do actually have a point with regard to certain issues. It's nice and easy to pretend that men have all these advantages over women and no disadvantages, but that's simply not the case. For example, did you know that in France and Germany it is illegal for a man to test the paternity of his children? Courts have ruled that it might cause a man to find out that "his children" aren't actually his biological children, and therefore abandon his wife and the children that aren't his. France and Germany decided they don't want that to happen, so men who attempt to get paternity tests on their children can be thrown in prison and hit with a fine. Men commit suicide at four times the rate of women. Men are the victims of 80% of homicides. Men are far more likely to suffer workplace fatalities. Studies have shown that men get prison sentences 60% longer than women for the same crime, and women are much more likely to serve no time at all in prison after being convicted of a crime ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). Men who are victims of domestic abuse or rape are taken much less seriously than women. Men are far more likely to end up homeless than women. Men are scared of the idea pushed forward by feminist groups that, when it comes to sexual assault, you should always believe the woman rather than giving due process and trying to get the facts.

There's a variety of bad feminist statistics which serve to help reinforce the "female victim" status, but it's annoying when you find out that it's not the truth. Some articles to read:
"Economist’s Glass Ceiling Index Distorts Reality" - an example of biased reporting about women's equality in the workplace http://www.feministcritics.org...
"When Is 19 More Than 940?" - regarding workplace deaths, where the white-latino gap is talked about but the male-female gap is ignored http://www.feministcritics.org...
"Yet Another Example Where Equality Isn’t Equality" - An example of biased lifespan data being used to paint women as oppressed - http://www.feministcritics.org...
"More Workplace Gender Lies From HuffPo" - regarding workplace deaths, where HuffPo pretends that women die as often as men on the job: http://www.feministcritics.org...

TLDR: It's silly to say that men have the best of everything in life.

Huh. Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly:
Tamerlan, 26, perished soon after the struggle in the rear of an ambulance, described by Sullivan, from wounds inflicted during a shootout with police.

... and face the wrath of ignorant pilots?

What many of you guys don't understand is that vaccines can cause harm. The vaccine compensation fund has paid out over $3 billion+ in damages due to people getting brain damage and all sorts of irreversible problems. They don't want to admit that vaccines cause harm because then people would stop taking them according to this AP news article: http://www.nytimes.com/aponlin... People used to be able to sue the vaccine manufacturers directly but now the government has made them immune from prosecution so that we can all get vaccinated, its because they love us all and care about us so much. Remember, this is the same government that said that the 9/11 dust is safe, that agent orange is safe, that GMO foods are safe, fluoride is safe, that blowing up chemical weapons is safe (aka gulf war syndrome), that DU (depleted uranium) is safe, etc. They care about us so much, we just need to do whatever they say, its for the collective. And there has been one case where someone with autism was given compensation for damage from vaccine: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Question: How many of the people who got sick with measles at Disneyland were vaccinated? Why haven't they released the numbers?

By making drugs illegal, they become expensive and create a pool of dark money which can then be rerouted to:

1) Banks ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... )
2) Federal agencies and lobbyists ( http://www.thenation.com/artic... )
3) Three letter agencies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... )
4) Local police ( http://my.chicagotribune.com/#... ) where traffic stops are now an entrepreneurial opportunity, as in "I had a thought about drugs, so give me all of your money."

We already spend more per student than the rest of the developed world, how much more should we spend? Maybe it's how it's being spent, not now much is being spent...

Education is a hot button. When a school district rolls up all their expenses and divides by N students
we have no notion about the content of the roll.

Retirement is a big expense.
Management is a big expense.
Compliance is a big expense.
Text books are a big expense.
Interest on bonds is a big expense.

Teachers with a clue in front of students priceless.

The United States spends more per pupil than most other countries with less to show for it.

Same for healthcare.
Same for defense.

Not so for the prison/industrial complex.

Maybe the US of A should put more money into public schools

The United States spends more per pupil than most other countries with less to show for it. There are many problems with the American education system; a lack of money is not one of them, at least in the aggregate (there are obviously individual school districts that are hard up)

We already spend more per student than the rest of the developed world, how much more should we spend? Maybe it's how it's being spent, not now much is being spent...

The Egyptian government began slaughtering pigs today as a preventative measure to stop the spread of the swine flu.... Over 300,000 pigs will be killed immediately despite no reported cases of the pandemic in the country.

There's some speculation that addiction is a reaction to social situations - essentially, addicts become/stay addicts because they don't have anything better to do. Studies on mice with (I believe it was) heroin showed that mice with a better social setup (ability to connect with other mice) had both a lower addiction rate and a higher stop-being-addicted rate than mice kept in isolation. Let's see... ah, here's the article I saw about it. Very interesting stuff.

I think a major problem with the current generation is, despite an increase in communications technology and cell phones, the younger generation has larger lost the ability to communicate and interact. Yes, they can text and they can communicate instantly with all of their "friends" in the world (100% of them, anywhere at any time).

The Toyota Venzia commercial says it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The tables with the Milliennials will mostly have people staring down at the cell phones tapping away, and very few words will actually be said. If this is how these kids are socializing, I can only imagine how they are in the workplace.

One we had was constantly on Facebook. Fortunately she quit before we fired her.

And, a surprising number check their phones during sex. And not the one handed looking at porn version, but actual sex with another person.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Widespread corruption led to many records of Shor's actions being "lost" or outright deleted.

As we all know, not a smidgen of corruption was involved in the disappearance of certain e-mails at the IRS recently. And the only emails deleted by the former Secretary of State from the private server she illegally used were those about yoga routines and the like.

So, if America's public figures can lose important records without being corrupt, why are we automatically making such accusations against the little Moldova?

They are calling for a better understanding of the waste water management fo fracking fluids.

"We can't show that there is anything wrong. And there are no plausible health effects. But, hey, if you give us a lot more money to study is, maybe we can find something"

But hey why don't drink the fracking fluids and tell us how safe it is.

People have already done it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The fracking fluid injected into the ground is already pretty harmless, and the miniscule dilutions that may reach the water table have no effect at all.

Moron.

Hint: your personal signature goes below the double line.

TV is a high profit partially exclusive business with little competition, internet is a low profit comodity with lots of competition. Why would anyone choose to abandon all that money?

According to some calculations the margin on Internet is around 97%, while the margin on video is only 55%. After all, the cable company doesn't actually have to share Internet revenue with any of the content creators, but powerful TV content, like ESPN, TNT, TBS, and FOX, can demand awfully high royalties from the cable cos. The physical infrastructure is identical, and most of it was laid to provide video. They basically get the internet for free.

Now that is exactly why unions where created and why corporates hired thugs to murder union leaders and bought off politicians sent the national guard to physically abuse and even kill strikers. So it was before, so it will be again and those idiot screaming toddlers who want more, more, more, will instead find prison more accommodating to their corrupt life style. With four decades of continuous propaganda attacks by main stream media, unions were weakened but with the internet they are resurrecting as strong as ever. No IT unions, IT workers will be screwed over, IT Unions and abuse corporations and abusive corporate executives will be the ones facing real criminal penalties. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... (Vive La Guillotine!).

Every Corporation is a giant Ponzi/Pyramid scam in Globalization;
http://www.businessinsider.in/...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

There are two major reasons why people incorrectly think aspartame causes cancer:

Just because al gore gets on TV and spouts unsupported nonsense about climate change does not mean climate change isn't real.

Here is another link you might be interested in:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The problem as I see it stems from well deserved suspicion and lack of trust in government institutions. People see the revolving doors and power of money (Ag lobby especially) and influence... they simply don't trust authorities for historically defensible reasons.

Even if you take the question of safety off the table and simply grant for the sake of argument aspartame is perfectly safe... industry and government still seem quite deserving of every last bit of public rejection.

ask putin: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Let me guess, your search term was "Zionist lies from Slashdot"?

Because a few moments of googling for ME turned up the following links, which certainly suggest that the climate in France is certainly not particularly warm to Jewish people and moderate Muslims:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.theatlantic.com/int...
http://time.com/3694100/france...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb...
http://forward.com/news/breaki...

Please proceed to tell us about how all of these articles are just more examples of crackpot, Zionist activity.

So maybe not the norm, but it does happen.

They're only "completely effective" when so thoroughly and effectively used that the bacteria or virus is completely eliminated. That's why smallpox is believed eradicated, there haven't been any new cases since 1978. Polio has repeatedly been close to eradication, but has failed in countries like Nigeria and Pakistan.

        http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The vaccine was tied in local political and religious leader's speeches to harassment of Islam, with claims that the vaccine was designed to sterilize them. By the time the vaccine supply could be examined and verified as untainted by local leaders, it was expired and no longer safe to use. This is why polio remains an infectious disease: according to the "Global Polio Eradication Initiative", Nigeria and Pakistan have the last major reservoirs of existing polio cases, and until it's cleared out of those nations, all other nations are at risk and have to spend their limited medical and educational resources on annual vaccination drives to prevent a resurgence, much like that from Pakistan in 2013. And immunization is _banned_ by Islamic militants in parts of Pakistan. And innocent refugees from the fighting there remain a dangerous vector for polio to be brought to other communities.

Politically, I'd be hard pressed to invent a more dangerous mix of medical issues, religion, and politics if Israel hadn't already been caught forcing refugee women to accept birth control shots, and some of the women injected hadn't thought they were flue vaccines.

                          http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Note especially that it was the government of _Israel_ doing this, and Israel is an icon of Western civilization and religious strife for Muslim countries. It lent credence to the most paranoid concerns of the Islamic who've been banning immunization. I admit that it quite incensed me at the time because it discredited the genuine immunization efforts of WHO and helped waste the polio eradication effort in Nigeria.

Huff Post about Lamar Smith http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Why worry?

"Smith, however, has worked to undermine climate science in his position as chairman of the committee. He's investigated National Science Foundation grants to researchers working on climate change on the premise that those grants aren't in the "national interest."
Nor does he seem particularly interested in finding out more about climate science. His committee has held more hearings on aliens than they have on climate science in the 113th Congress. "

"The chair of the Science, Space and Technology Committee" looks good on his resume. I'm sure he'll get a job as a lobbyist for some right wing corp if he ever decides to move on.

When they're looking at you, fine. But congress freaked out when the CIA was looking at THEM. It's fair to say they think rules are great for us, but they should be held to a different arbitrary self made standard when it comes to applying the law to themselves:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

You see, it is often the case here that roads are built for speeds much higher than the actual posted limit

The problem with that statement is that your assuming the following:
1. That all drivers will adjust their speed to the weather
2. That all drivers will keep their car in the condition required to go the speed they want to
3. That all roads are worthy of limitless speeding
4. That all drivers have the same confidence as you and me

I used to think that way but then I realized I wasn't the only driver on the road and if drive 100km/h on city streets I'll eventually kill someone. Would I like to be able to speed more? Sure but I've settle with speeding reasonably (15km over except on highways 20km over). I've had 2 speeding tickets in the last 8 years and by being friendly with the officer both tickets were given at lower speeds than caught at

By posting a lower limit, the cops and the cities they work for have a nice juicy revenue stream whenever they please to use it

Where I come from cops don't dictate speed limits. Instead the ministry of transportation does this based on a set list of criteria that were previously defined.

As for the revenues, how do cops in Europe make their money with the autobond (unlimited speeds, except when posted otherwise)?

Anywhere else a $200 speeding ticket barely pays for itself if you consider all the time and resources that go into it.

Fact is, if you speed unreasonably you draw attention you don't have to have.

There are also US studies released in the last 10 years (you can probably Google it) showing a direct correlation between speeding and increase accidents death toll. So we know that faster speed = more death in case of accidents (that's common sense to me). What we don't know is what % difference of accidents between those that speed and those who don't. Unfortunately it's not a stat we can obtain yet.

Here are a few references (many more available):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.knottlab.com/high-p...

Here's the archive.org webpage:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Here's some google page saying the same thing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://sciblogs.co.nz/waiology...

And if that's not enough, here's a 2012 study about it:
http://waterfootprint.org/medi...

Don't be shy, google's your friend! A lots more webpage and study can be found on other site. Agriculture takes a lot of water, it's a fact and especially everything animal related.

p.s. I will let them know about the 404 page so they can fix it.

This about making country independent energy-wise too.

Yeah, yeah — and reduce Global Warming, right.

Except electric cars still need energy — so, instead of burning something inside the vehicle, we now have to burn something somewhere else — often enough losing overall. And instead of depending on our own oil, we now need the Chinese to make those wonder-batteries — so our dependence on the potential military rival only grows with each Tesla sold.

But a great idea otherwise — as great as any to come up from the so-called "progressives"... Keep at it.

No I think your maths is broken.

Current world population 7 billion. 1% of 7 billion is 70 million.

Credit Suisse estimates world wealth at over $250 Trillion - https://publications.credit-su...

According to Oxfam (biased towards putting the wealth into the 1% category) 48% of the worlds wealth is held by the top 1% - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... 48% of $250 Trillion is $120 Trillion.

$120 Trillion / 70 million is $1,714,285. Which shows if you want to get into the top 1% you need nearly 5 times as much money as you suggest.

aaaah yes, the broad-brush analogizing that passes for informed discourse! (and no, I'm not new here).

"People" implies a majority (otherwise it wouldn't be relevant to your point): Research/data, please?

Yes, money worries aren't exclusively caused by low salaries (nice hedge, btw). But to use what amount to psychological outliers to dismiss what has become accepted discourse on wage inequality is faulty logic.

Speaking of "not on the record", most rapes aren't reported which means this statistic is much higher, and contrary to your complaint, it does not "usually" end up in expulsion. We're looking at less than a third of cases ending in expulsion, and this is data for only those who are found "guilty". Suspension's a bit more likely, but I REALLY don't think it's a great idea to keep someone who has been found guilty of sexual assault on campus.

This would hold more weight if it had any basis in fact whatsoever. Men actually have a much higher chance of BEING sexually assaulted than being falsely accused of it.

a feast to mark the massacre of a bunch of native Americans

Er, citation needed.

Er, OK.

Too late.

No, we got what we got due to Obama. He was still touting the public option even after he made a back room deal with the insurance lobby to implement Nixon's health care plan:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The Ivanpah plant kills lots of birds, with endangered species among them, by literally cooking them while in flight. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Nuclear doesn't have this problem. Also, note that nuclear also causes the least number of human deaths per terrawatt-hour generated of any power plant technology: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/...

You do understand that, while the event that lead up to the arrest is similar, those are two extremely different legal circumstances, right?
In the first circumstance there wan an actual, identifiable victim.
In the second circumstance, the issue is more that the government is criminalizing what someone puts in their own body, in their own private residence, with no identifiable harm to anyone. I would add "other than themselves", except that even the DEA admits it has valid medicinal uses.

yes

this is disgusting:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Not according to this article... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://content.time.com/time/b...
http://online.wsj.com/news/art...
http://www.consad.com/content/...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/th...
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/...