Idiomatic expressions like "First Base" are unfortunate for international readers. Oh, wait, I forgot we don't actually have editors. I'll retract my criticism.

No, not at all. It was 97 km. The article is titled "Teleporting independent qubits through a 97 km free-space channel".

Wait a second..
Summary says: "The Dutch Pirate Party (PPNL) just won a court-case against BREIN"
Article says: ".. a temporary court order has been issued. As of now, with the trial pending, the Pirate Party can continue to operate the proxy site."

So the court-case is not won at all and the summary is wrong?

Or, as James Gleick's reports in his 2011 book The Information:

    In a lecture at Cambridge, the physicist James Clerk Maxwell offered
a scientific description of the telephone conversation: “The speaker talks
to the transmitter at one end of the line, and at the other end of the line the
listener puts his ear to the receiver, and hears what the speaker said. The
process in its two extreme states is so exactly similar to the old-fashioned
method of speaking and hearing that no preparatory practice is required on
the part of either operator.” He, too, had noticed its ease of use.

"Democracy is 51% telling the other 49% what to do."
You are among the many who have not understood what democracy is. It's not the power of the majority, a democratic organization tries to determine how the distribution of opinions is amongst voters. If 30% are not supporting the issue, steps are being taken to try to make these 30% also "a bit" happy.

Cool, now we are all waiting for the first Black Female Linux Team Leader?

What is also quite impressive are the protests planned by Pirate Parties and others in numerous cities all over Europe (+ some other continents). Many events are to be held this Saturday, February 11st. The map looks absolutely breath-taking:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212120558776447282985.0004b7b33e16f13c710c7&msa=0

Wow..

1) Install a Quake-like terminal like Yakuake, Guake or Tilda
2) Press the configured hot-key
3) Type in cat file.txt | mail "user@host.tld"

I've actually spent quite some money recently on games produced by EA and Ubisoft. When I learnt about the bad behaviour of the Ubisoft activation scheme, I stopped playing the game immediately and reinstalled my workstation to clean up. Shortly afterwards I wanted to sell an EA game and got told on the hotline that there is no way I can transfer the activation key to another Origin account (Steam à la EA, with lots of privacy issues). I told them they have just lost a customer who paid lots and lots of money for their games. Because of the privacy issues I again reinstalled my system and I will not buy games from large producers anymore. I will either choose DRM free indie games, or ... well you know what the other option is.
Video game industry, you can thank EA and Ubisoft for not getting any money from me anymore.

:-)
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=nerd

Watching planet earth from outer space will be fascinating for an hour and the fascination will be renewed whenever lighting chances or any other circumstances lead to a new view. However, staring 8 hours at a blue ball will not be fascinating enough.
Maybe for a Zen buddhist, yes, but not for scientists/astronaut hybrids.

How on earth should an algorithm know how to infer the symbolic value of the flag rising image?! As far as I understand the Pulitzer Prize is not about artistic and aesthetic value, but rather about journalistic impact, isn't it?

This is at least a start:

http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/sites.html

A list of sites using NetBSD...

Hip implants, pacemakers, piercings, screws, RFID chips (pets), etc.
It's not like objects have never ever been placed underneath the skin :-)

Wow, I'm impressed: Clicking the link to this mighty "Stupid Fun Club" results in a "This page needs Flash 10" popup and I get redirected to the Adobe website. Wow, just wow...