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Are you sure about that?

Seriously, MS still envies google in that area. For all the hot air Ballmer spews about googles' "cute" apps, and how their hire rate is "insane".... MS has lost this round of the search match, they're not able to compete. Look at the emphasis they've put on it. Why pay people to use windows live if you don't care? Microsoft is becoming the one thing that Bill Gates hoped he'd never see.... a lumbering behemoth not dissimilar to the old IBM. They are having diffifulty keeping up with the present, just look at vista for connfirmation. (Disclaimer: I don't mind vista).

But vista brings forth features that I've had in linux for years. gkrellm does a great job as a sidebar, without the resource usage. The latter part of... scratch that.... MOST OF XP's cycle was spent chasing holes and vulnerabilities.

I like vista, and see it being fairly well adoped in a few years time. But it's not a forward looking technology, just as Live Search isn't forward looking. They care, but there isn't much they can do about it besides pay people to use it.

Canadian Environment Minister Christine Stewart (a nurse by training, if you can believe that)

the public faces of the global warming scare are building vast energy-hogging mansions

We are being asked to overturn the very edifice of free-market capitalism

wild speculation about the significance of mere statistical noise, teased out of scant and questionable data by grant-chasing academics

draconian regulations they advocate for the rest of us

I doubt that many run into skyscrapers.

You might wanna do a little research before making claims like this. For example, ignoring the clear sensationalism (it's MSNBC, after all), I have here an article where a researcher claims to have studied skyscrapes which kill 200 birds per day .

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I could keep going, but I don't really feel like patronizing you. You do read the news, don't you?

link to UPI and msnbc It looks like their moving their CEO and their headquarters overseas.

This is from a company who's been dealing with Iran on a pipeline with a very thinly veiled subsidiary in the caribbean. Really, truth is more complicated and stranger than fiction.

If you wanted to run a Slashdot style mod system and invite both Reps and Dems to your site, you should have moderation based on their political styles instead of an additive approach. For example: Dems mod an article up 77 points, while Reps mod it down 20. For Democrats, it will be a prime article to read. For Republicans it won't even show up. I think this may be the future of moderation on websites. It doesn't have to stop with just Democrats and Republicans, there are tons of groups that are at odds, or simply different than mainstream.

This is why I'm glad the country I live in has a democratic system that doesn't automatically dismiss anyone who doesn't fit into one of two main categories, but actually fosters a government that's formed by people with all kinds of different views, in a structure that actually encourages them to negotiate and work together.

I don't mean to criticise you personally, but I think the fact that you leapt straight to the democrat/republican divide, just as everyone else does when referring to the US federal political system, exemplifies one of the biggest problems with the US Federal democracy. Most people seem to be so accepting of the status quo that there's little or zero opportunity for anyone different to have a chance. This results in large amounts of inefficiency and corruption, and a system where it's not possible to get anywhere in politics without aligning oneself with one side or the other.

If that isn't enough, people's alignments are thrown around to score political points. For instance, it shouldn't be an issue that Bush's Science Advisor is a democrat, but it's been a fallacy used over and over again to justify that Bush's science policies must somehow be "scientifically neutral" and fair to all. Everyone who's analysed by the media is thrown into one of the two sides, and the have to be on one side or the other or they get dismissed and ignored as irrelevant.

MWC was bought by Alltel last year. In fact, they just announced plans to lay off many of the MWC employees at the company's headquarters in Mankato. They were a great company customer service wise, and in terms of how much they supported charities in Mankato & southern MN. It's kinda sad to see them get swallowed up.

For central/southern Minnesota, Midwest Wireless is by far the best carrier in terms of coverage. I laugh at the people who get a "good deal" with Sprint/Tmobile/etc, only to have dismal or no service as soon as they step off of a major highway.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17498096/

No, the average net worth in the USA is under $100,000, including the home.

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If the police see a drug deal, both the buyer and the seller will be arrested.

"Google takes the position that everything may be freely copied unless the copyright owner notifies Google and tells it to stop," Mr. Rubin said. Microsoft, he said, asks the copyright's owner for permission first.

You've drank the evil coolaid!

It's really not as bad as you say.

The phenomenon you point to is real. Especially in the tech world, moreso in the computing world, and most of all in the world of video games.

*However*, while you may feel this pull, not everyone does in the world. How many people do you know who are happy with an outdated Windows? And how long have they been using it? Furthermore, how many people do you know who are happy with an older car? Or, for that matter, an older TV, or older sound system? Sometimes, our perspective may paint the world as dimmer than it actually is.

Did you know, for example, that most American's have minimal credit card debt? .

Just because there are excellent negative examples out there doesn't make them the norm. Not everyone lives at the tech forefront.

Rather, the issue is that the media/advertising/corporate drones out there needs to make it look like this is as the case. "Everyone" has credit card debt, and "everyone" has the latest X-station-360-ii console, and "everyone" has the latest Toyota/Lexus, because that's an effective marketing talent. Luckily, there are quite a few companies who actually, for the most part, try to respect their customers, and generally act quite reasonably. Like, Costco. Or T-Mobile. How about Newegg? Or Dreamhost (who plays nice with even very, very loud critics). Even in the utility industry, I've found WideOpenWest, a cable company, to be more than reasonable. Hell, Nintendo and Apple, both the subject of much (deserved) criticism are generally quite a bit more human friendly than Sony and Microsoft, neither of whom I've ever heard of being more generous than "fair", and whom are often considered quite dastardly.

And don't knock elections. Yes, your vote doesn't matter in the US Presidential election. Get over it. However, have you ever voted in a local election? Are you aware of just how much power the local authorities have over your life? And for that matter, consider the House; most electoral districtions are smaller than you think.

The media/corporate/advertising "vision" of our society is pretty dismissal, but surprisingly, they're often wrong. The vast majority of Americans don't really fit into that fold. Consider DRM/P2P. Literally _most_ Americans who use the internet pirate music. It's not just that most Americans, if they really understood it, wouldn't reject DRM. It's that it hasn't really touched them much yet, because they're still watching SD DVDs on their 27" CRTs, even if they've got a gigantic LCD in their living room, and they used to download music off of Napster, and now download it off LimeWire. They simply don't know about it; the entire view of the tech sector, that Patents/Copyright are king, and you should be buying the next-best thing. Most people don't even understand the advertising, and haven't really been pulled in by it, because they are too busy focusing on things they actually enjoy. Those of us in or near the tech industry see it in a slightly different way, and as a result, I believe, get too dismissal of a picure.

This isn't to say there aren't real problems in the world; but if you think you're the only person that cares about Peace, Global Warming, and a variety of other topics, you're quite wrong. A large number of wealthy, powerful, and famous people worldwide also share your concern; no matter which angle you pick (pro-Fossil Fuels, pro-Environmentalism, pro-Jihad, anti-terrorist, pro-drug, anti-drug, pro-space, anti-space).

Just because the debate doesn't manage to win out over Anna Nicole Smith doesn't mean that it isn't going on, and doesn't mean that it is inaccessible. It just means that the people who control your media would rather sell you something with bling than focus on the serious, and unmarketable.

Figure out a way to make a buck advocating carbon dioxide sequestering, and you, too could make an Oscar Nominated film. ;-)

*shrug*. It ain't all rosy, but try and perk up :)

The definition as per M$N Encarta - 4. comput publicly available computer system: a product or system whose internal features and interfaces can be used or modified by users or developers in any way they wish.

M$ obviously doesn't make use of M$N Encarta when it comes to defining there own software, perhaps the M$ marketdroids should look up words in their own dictionary before using them.

perhaps m$ just needs to buy out the Webster and Oxford English dictionary

Done and done. If that's all it takes for them to conquer the English language, boy, are we in trouble.

(Although, more seriously, did you know that Microsoft has its own dictionary? They haven't quite figured out how to embrace, extend, and extinguish those other, legacy dictionaries, but I'm sure they're working on it.)

How much CO2 is human activity producing?

Google makes possible some rough estimates:

• Annual global coal production: 50,000 million metric tonnes (World Coal Institute)
• Global oil production: 85 million bbl/day, converts to the equivalent of 128 million metric tonnes of coal per year (as reported here and in other stories, with conversion from bbl/day to tonnage/yr here)
• Annual global natural gas production: 2,500,000 million cubic meters, converts to the equivalent of 2 million tonnes of coal per year (UNCTAD estimate of 2000, with conversion factors from above)
• Total annual release of fossil fuels into the global environment: 50,130 million tonnes
• Percentage of carbon in coal (by weight): 90% for anthracite, which is what these numbers are based upon (Encarta)
• Percentage of carbon in CO2 (by weight): 27%
• Annual introduction of CO2 into the biosphere from fossil fuels: 167,100 million metric tonnes
• Estimate of atmospheric CO2: 2,870,000 million metric tonnes (CDIAC)
• This suggests that the use of fossil fuels would have increased atmospheric CO2 by 5% in the last year, disregarding all other factors
• Measurements at Mauna Loa suggest that there is a net increase in atmospheric CO2 of about 1% per year (NOAA Global Monitoring Division).

Evidently something is buffering the increase in atmospheric CO2. While this has been beneficial in the sense that it has limited the impact of burning fossil fuels, it is also very worrisome since homeostatic mechanisms like this one tend to failover very rapidly into alternative stable patterns when the buffering capacity is exceeded. There is no way to determine how close we are to a tipping point. And there is no way to predict the nature of the new stable pattern. For instance, there are mechanisms that could kick in to significantly increase the Earth's albedo and toss us into an ice age, despite the increased greenhouse effect.

This is reintroduction of carbon into the biosphere that had been sequestered away for a hundred million years or more. The last time there was this much carbon in the biosphere was before the age of dinosaurs. It is possible that the last time there was this much carbon in the biosphere was before there was enough free oxygen for chordates.

http://www.utdallas.edu/datacompromise/

and this

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12459840/

and I think that one more campus just got hit. Not sure which one.

There actually is a law already banning obtrusive space advertising:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8292906/site/newsweek/

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_advertising

Just FYI.

~M

FTFA:

"On April 26, Hawking, surrounded by a medical entourage, is to take a zero-gravity ride out of Cape Canaveral on a so-called vomit comet, a padded aircraft that flies a roller-coaster trajectory to produce periods of weightlessness. He is getting his lift gratis, from Zero Gravity, a company that has been flying thrill seekers on a special Boeing 727-200 since 2004 at $3,500 a trip."

Zero Gravity is taking him up... NOT NASA. It's NOT the Vomit Comet (NASA's plane).

From a better article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17156385/page/2/

"Parabolic flights can pose a risk of motion sickness or more serious health effects, but Zero Gravity's flights have been structured to minimize the risk. During a typical flight, Zero Gravity's "G-Force One" jet makes a gradual transition to weightless parabolas, and provides significantly fewer bouts of weightlessness than NASA's "Vomit Comet" jet. "

Check out Hillary Clinton's padded educational credentials. (for the last 2 years)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillary_ Rodham_Clinton&diff=18494301&oldid=18493966

Once exposed (yesterday),
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/page/3/

the author updated his own profile, 'best known for his work on the Hillary Rodham Clinton article'.........indeed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LukeTH

The program is still in beta (why the university is going with a beta product I have no idea).
Use this form to contact them and tell them what you want (pop, imap support, or whatever).
http://feedback.msn.com/eform.aspx?productkey=mail beta&locale=en-us

Coincidentally, last month there was an interview with Robert Bigelow where he discussed his plans for constructing an inflatable station which would be constructed at L1, and then transported to the lunar surface. He also apparently has some plans for how to use the lunar regolith for insulation, which he'll be testing this year. From his current schedule, it's looking like he may very well have his base up and running long before NASA's. Some snippets from the article:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/22/ 65477.aspx

Once the moon base has been set down, dirt would be piled on top, using a technique that Bigelow plans to start testing later this year at his Las Vegas headquarters. The moon dirt, more technically known as regolith, would serve to shield the base's occupants from the harsh radiation hitting the lunar surface.

Bigelow is not alone in thinking about ways to do all this. In fact, Bigelow Aerospace arranged the interview in response to last month's story about NASA's plans for building infrastructure on the moon after 2020. At the time, NASA's Larry Toups had mentioned that the space agency was discussing its options with Bigelow as well as other aerospace companies, such as ILC Dover (which has its own inflatable-module project), Lockheed Martin and the Boeing Co. ...

Yes, our concept of lunar base construction would be to assemble various modules and propulsion/power buses in L1, and that would constitute the base. Those propulsion systems are full of fuel, and they are integrated into the overall structure in such a way that the entire structure lands as a unified base - which essentially was once a spaceship in L1, but is landed on the surface of the moon.

This way, you avoid the significant issues that surround having to gang modules together on the lunar surface on topographical surfaces that are not perfectly even. You avoid having to connect the air locks of modules that maybe weren't able to be brought close enough together. You avoid having to transport modules across the lunar surface, even if they were only a matter of a few hundred yards apart, and assembling them so that you have an airlock-to-airlock connection.

One module really isn't the issue. It's a matter of how you get three or five or seven down as one overall complex. Our architecture addresses that as a potential solution, using a combination of our propulsion buses and these expandable systems. The propulsion buses would have stanchions on them that act as the rigid points, to be able to deal with uneven topographical surfaces. The expandable systems themselves don't mind at all being set upon a solid surface because of the shields that they have and the durability of the overall system. The rigidity of the system is such that they don't mind at all. Even under a 1-g influence on Earth, there's no problem - so under one-sixth it would be much less.

They come equipped with their own insulation, by the way, for space debris in low Earth orbit, and to a certain extent for micrometeoroids. So they're already better insulated than the international space station is currently. Of course, the regolith is a significant additive that would be a great enhancement of the protection. ...

Our Job One is to take care of our business in low Earth orbit and try to perfect our spacecraft through these Pathfinder launches. Then try to launch our Sundancer spacecraft in 2010, our Galaxy spacecraft in '08 - and perfect our propulsion buses and our power systems, and start assembly of our first commercial space complex in 2010, 2011, 2012. By 2012, we should have two habitable modules in orbit, and one large propulsion and power system.

That will constitute the beginning of our opportunity. If we can do that, I would say that's an exercise that's applicable to the L1 scenario.

As an interesting side-note, a Geothermal power project in Switzerland was recently discovered to have caused several small earthquakes, to the alarm of local residents: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16128362/

I guess that means those well meaning Muslim men who wanted to behead the Canadian Prime Minister have nothing to worry about:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13150516

Let me pile on with the others who have said, yes you can. There are numerous cases where anti-abortion groups wanted to run ads on television showing dead fetuses and such but were denied by the stations in question. The groups claimed discrimination and other things but the courts consistently have held that television stations and such do not have to run the ads.

Here are cases involving billboard companies refusing to run ads because of their content:

North Georgia
Crawford Texas
Hollywood
Times Square

I know for a fact that Lamar Advertising refused to run ads in my area from anti-Bush people during the last campaign.

Here's a story from last year (2006) when CBS refused to run two ads during the Super Bowl. One was for PETA and the other was anti-Bush. Link

So yes, you can deny someone advertisement on a whim just like a restaurant has the right to refuse someone service for any reason they so choose.

Basically, the bigger the magnitude of the killing, destruction, and carnage, the more acceptable. The smaller the scale, the more freaked out people get.

You want fair, easy, and simple? Have the IRS tax be "X% of income over $Y minimum", with deductions only for those truly altruistic reasons, such as recognized non-profit charities.

most of us already do pay a flat rate. That magic number is about 40%. We have to jump through a lot of hoops and write a lot of checks to get there, but there it is.

I'd even take it one further: Pay the tax to your county via the real estate and property tax system that's already setup, who then pay the state, who pay the IRS. Cities would be free to still get in their little jabs via sales tax and other use taxes, which if you don't like you can move just like now (this is one of the reasons I like to live outside city limits).

You made a good post and many /.rs can't take criticism because they're crybabies. This following news story is the real value of American patriotism and pride in their country. It's all a sham. This is not counting the millions who didn't serve in the military:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17315490/site/newsweek /

Enjoy.

Software works in the same way.

If you are using your Web browser to do critical jobs like online banking, you should continue to use the latest iteration of Firefox 1.5. The latest iteration is version 1.5.0.10. If you are still using Firefox 1.5, look under the "Help" option to find the option, "Check for Updates", which will enable your to upgrade to 1.5.0.10.

Continue using version 1.5 until 2007 April 24. On that date, Mozilla programmers will cease fine-tuning version 1.5.

After April 24, switch to version 2 of Firefox. Waiting 2 more months before using version 2 will give vital time to Mozilla programmers to fix any critical problems in the new version.

I can't help but wonder what would happen to an NBA or NFL player, or even a politician or corporate CEO, if he talked like Fuzzy.

You mean someone like Tim Hardaway?

The only plus side of this is that when an illegal is busted for one crime or another, and cut loose pending a trial date, there's a better chance of finding them by tracking their gas station purchases, etc.

I would think that the legal immigrants would be up in arms over this dillution of what they work so hard to accomplish.

We need to nip this in the bud, before they learn to ride horses, shoot guns

Too late

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No, but I think it would be very tempting for the government to start using the data it gathers on everybody(!) for political purposes. (e.g. "Joe Schmoe goes to AA meetings on Thursdays and is having an affair with his secretary; they meet at the No-Tell Motel every other Friday night and prefer their sex doggy-style. We'll just file that information away for now, in case Joe Schmoe ever runs for office or ends up in a position of power and we need to 'lean on' him a little"). Blackmail can be a very effective way of getting people to do what you want without anybody else ever knowing about it. Or the government can just use it to keep tabs on the whereabouts of their political opponents... in fact they do this already, just on a much smaller scale because they are limited by available manpower.

While I agree that government needs more accountability, I just don't see the V for Vendetta future. No supreme rule ever lasts.

V for Vendetta was indeed overstated (it was based on a comic book for heaven's sake!) but history has shown over and over again that left to their own devices, governments can and will do all kinds of nasty things. Power corrupts, and giving the government unrestricted access to everyone's personal details gives them a lot of power.

Can I downgrade my OEM version of Windows Vista Business to Windows XP Professional?
Yes. OEM downgrade rights for desktop PC operating systems apply to Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate as stated in the License Terms. Please note, OEM downgrade versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate are limited to Windows XP Professional (including Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows XP x64 Edition). End users can use the following media for their downgrade: Volume Licensing media (provided the end user has a Volume Licensing agreement), retail (FPP), or system builder hologram CD (provided the software is acquired in accordance with the Microsoft OEM System Builder License). Use of the downgraded operating system is governed by the Windows Vista Business License Terms, and the end user cannot use both the downgrade operating system and Windows Vista Business. There are no downgrade rights granted for Windows Vista Home Basic or Windows Vista Home Premium.

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Here is one police officer that did not find himself above the law. He wrote himself a ticket for passing a stopped school bus!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12784367?GT1=9033

BTW, I think your post is way too cynical. There are many excellent police officers out there, doing great work. Sure, there are idiots, power-freeks, and other malcontents, but your broad-brush approach is way off-base. Sorry to hear you feel that way.

The dietary supplements are, afaik, fake. The kid was big news years ago and I think that was what spawned the market for them.

Here's a story from 2004 with a pic of the kid from when he was 7 months old.

Picture of the baby: link

A quick look at a phase diagram of water shows me that the possibility of water being ice at temperatures above 0.01 degrees celsius is pretty much zero, regardless of the pressure. Also, the freezing point of water gets lower as the pressure increases, which is one of the many things that can be considered an anomaly of water.

http://encarta.msn.com/media_461541579/Phase_Diagr am_for_Water.html

A Horse ... of Course

We're so good ... after the fact.
Cleanup on isle 9.

A lot of our security people and experts in critical fields are now writing "thrillers" to get their messages across so they don't have to fend off the legions of second rate gun-slinging pundits.
(See comment about "chapter two" - PRICELESS)

Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Jan 22, 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16771741/

OLBERMANN: Joining us now with his own intelligence assessment Richard Clarke, top counter-terrorism adviser to presidents of both parties, chairman of GoodHarborReport.com, and now author of the new techno thriller "Break Point."

Sir, great pleasure to have you here. Pleasure to meet you.

RICHARD CLARKE, FORMER COUNTER-TERRORISM ADVISER: Great to be on. I love your show.

OLBERMANN: ... The book, your new thriller is called "Break Point," set in the year 2012, a kind of asymmetrical warfare is prophesied here, dismantling of global communications, information systems. How about this, just out of the blue, a week ago China shot one of its old satellites out of orbit. Is this a cautionary tale or is it informed fantasy, or how would you describe it?

CLARKE: It's meant to project us forward into 2012 so we can start thinking about the issues that I think we'll be facing then. China blowing up a satellite occurs in chapter two. I think we need to think seriously. There's a whole series of issues, Keith, that the administration is ignoring because it's playing hardball, and 99 percent of the time is worrying about Iraq. And that's sucking all of the Oxygen out of the room.

One of the many things that it's ignoring is cyber security. And everything we do depends on the security of cyber space. The administration is doing nothing to secure it.

OLBERMANN: Are these easily managed problems right now, that you address?

CLARKE: They're not easily managed. China is building cyber warfare units. The Chinese general said publicly that if we get into hostilities with the United States, we will reach out through cyber space and turn off the American electric power grid. From what I can tell and what I learned when I was in government, that's possible.

OLBERMANN: If we don't do it first with another blackout.

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Former U.S. Cyber Security Czar Richard Clarke Discusses Data Security
Richard A. Clarke, Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting, LLC

http://www.goodharbor.net/about-clarke.html

http://www.comnews.com/cgi-bin/story.asp?story=73

Featured speaker Richard Clarke, the internationally recognized expert on security - including homeland security, national security, cyber security, and counterterrorism - shared his views on IT security threats faced by Fortune 500 companies today and new threats on the horizon. Among Mr. Clarke's key observations were:

Today's IT security threats are increasingly focused on stealing valuable data. In this environment, relying on outdated measures like focusing exclusively on perimeter security is insufficient.

Corporations vastly underrate the value of data within the enterprise. While much of the media has focused on consumer credit card data and social security numbers, the theft of proprietary company information can be just as damaging. Organizations must begin to recognize the value of sensitive data stored in a corporate database like pricing models, customer billing and payment information, trade secrets, and valuable R&D intellectual property.

The risks from data leakage, cyber terrorism, and industrial espionage are real. To stay ahead of these threats, corporations must act quickly and decisively to know what risks exist within their enterprise; harden their existing IT infrastructure; and monitor ag

I'm not sure which is more amazing, that they made Hell holy, or that they raised it.

10 GB footprint, "cursing for weeks" comments by it's advocates, broken drivers ... but no sales and a plunging stock price. That non free software would bloat that way and make users so happy is not so amazing but they have not managed to raise it by a long shot. The repetition of the M$ "we've already won" argument and missrepresentation of M$'s attitude takes articles by this AT author way down in my estimation.

"M$ is big" does not translate into technical merit. Crappy specs deserve to be shot down.

"24" is a good example. It is quite amazingly good propaganda for Islamic fundamentalists, because it portrays extreme violence as being appropriate in dealing with any perceived threat...

My wife's phone from three years ago had one. It also incorporated a dog game/simulator, and one of the ways to make the dog happy was to get your fingerprint swiped in order to pet the dog.

Now, what is new and interesting is the 813SH for Biz which has a remote control data destruct option, or even the slightly older P903i which comes with a wireless DES dongle that locks the phone once it gets out of range.

If you believe that investigative reporting is important for the public interest, then you need to have some kind of protections in place, a shield law if you will, that enables journalists to do their work without running the risk of turning into a police informant. If you don't have these protections in place, then the public will never find out about secret NSA wiretapping or you will miss stories on elements of society like sexual slavery that most of us know nothing about.

Reporters get asked for sources all the time and most times it is not a problem. However, confidentiality is something that is as important in the journalism space as it is with our legal space and journalists need some form of protection in order to do their job and pursue the public interest. Sure, justice in a particular case is also in the public interest, but investigative journalism should not be used as a surrogate for law enforcement. Doing so, perverts their role and limits the range of stories they can cover and that we hear about.

An interesting column in Newsweek International by Fahreed Zakaria http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17080934/site/newsweek /?from=rss/ says that since the problem of warming won't be solved anyway (and he gives his reasons why), we should begin making plans now for an earth that is warmer. This will be much cheaper and easier to accomplish than will attempting to reduce greenhouse gases, which when you look at projections from China and India alone, seems to be a hopeless task.

Even better, as posted in the other reply: the sign in broad daylight in context of where it was hung

Please, for the love of all that is sane and logical, admit that this looks nothing like a random collection of LEDs, no matter who you are.

I'm not in the slightest bit familiar with Aqua Teen Force. Never seen it. I don't even live in the USA.

Even still, this is obviously a character of some sort. Now, I wouldn't know if it was a cartoon, comic or video game character, but I can tell that it is definitely stylised character from something like that. He looks like some sort of grumpy fellow.

It is not a random collection of LEDs.

Those images fail to show the box at the bottom I can see how someone could mistake the crudely taped-up battery pack on one of those.