@tig66208: so block the okgo tag, instead of taking the time to comment on their posts?

It's interesting that Portugal seems so much more involved in Facebook than Spain. I wonder if it's a population density thing, a quirky artifact of an incomplete sampling, or if there's some societal reason behind it.

It's interesting that Portugal seems so much more involved in Facebook than Spain. I wonder if it's a population density thing, a quirky artifact of an incomplete sampling, or if there's some societal reason behind it.

@ampersands: depending on the situation in which the question is asked, and the severity of the accusation being made, the truthful person's brain could be in overdrive because he doesn't understand why he's being accused of something of that magnitude.

@katstermonster: Using the solutions manual as a guide to work out the problem in a way that you can understand because your professor failed to spend time on anything more conceptual than working out a simple example in class - not cheating.

@Cilos: And how did you think the sun managed to transmit heat across that same vacuum to heat us up so far away?

@orthorim: don't reduce the severity of the accusation, regardless of their veracity- he's being arrested for raping women. It doesn't matter that they would have consented had he worn a condom- according to the women, they refused when he refused, and he did it anyway.

@wætherman: Unfortunately, their servers couldn't really handle too many people at at time, which I believe is why the kepy it invite-only. Several guys from my dorm all got it at the same time, and it could barely handle a wave between 4 of us, never mind the 25 of us, even when only one or two were actively editing…

I downloaded this a few days ago and have been using it for my university programming assignments. Overall, it's great- the only feature I've looked for and haven't seen yet is an intuitive git mv feature (as in, drag and drop files into a folder). That's probably on the way. That and maybe some caching so that it…

@bender123: my point was that the Star of David has represented Jewish people for MUCH longer than Israel has existed; as far back as the 17th century, in fact, and possibly even farther. The holocaust example was just that- an example.

@buckleyneko: The spy (and wikileaks) both made the choice to transmit information to foreign nationals. The difference is indeed that the spy is typically directly at fault- the powers world has had centuries to refine techniques to coax or coerce otherwise loyal people to divulge information. They also have ways to…

@MifuneT: The Star of David has represented Jewish people for quite some time before the existence of the modern state of Israel. A nice verifiable example: Jews were forced to wear yellow stars on their clothes during the Holocaust, the events which led pretty much directly to the formation of modern Israel.

@Jack Musick: Why on God's green earth do you think transparency is the end goal of government? Where in the Constitution does it talk about the people's right to know everything every sub-branch of the government does?

@sototallycarl: it's not the agencies that declared the information classified to begin with. It's judges, members of the judicial branch, which is as independent of the executive branch as we can get. Yes, there is room for "corrupt" refusals to FOIA requests, but I have yet to hear of any.

@XanderCrews: My mom is smart enough to use netflix streaming through the wii and through her laptop. She is not smart enough to know the difference between our ISP throttling data, the wireless router dropping packets, her network card being disabled, or a website being down. To her, it's all "I can't get on…

@buckleyneko: if a person contacts an insider at a lab or military base, and convinces that person to obtain sensitive/classified information for him, then the spy broadcasts the information, or transmits it to another country or foreign national, is that person not a spy, simply because he's not the one that turned…

It sounds like some of the commenters have been spending more time watching V for Vendetta than considering why countries employ espionage and counterespionage tactics.

@ryszard: That's true; the key difference is the method used to generate the dynamic tactile feedback.

@popsbackagain: The man was purposefully using a high energy laser to blind the pilot- he's lucky there was equipment between him and the pilot's eyes, or there would have been no re-calibration possible, and the copter would have gone down.

@Sticks Calhoun: Seconded.