I think the result of a targeted drone strike would be the total annihilation of Korea (north and south).

What worries me is not the leaders at the top, who are knowledgeable of the outside world and act quite rationally (in a dictatorial sense, wanting to maintain their power and not be obliterated). It's all the generals in the military who have grown up with the propaganda, know little about the outside world and have total allegiance to their ideology.

These generals would already have standing orders to retaliate should North Korea be attacked.

This is a complete media beat up about Australians pirating GOT more than any country. The source of the information https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fgame-... quoted its statistics after collecting only HALF A DAY'S worth of data - ie. while Australia was awake and the rest of the English speaking world asleep. The exact same controversy happened last year, with the exact same source and statistical integrity.

In one of the articles..

Right now, the shipyard is in the process of making eight more Triple Es, all in various stages of completion

But what is way more impressive is this:

the Triple E is just one small part of the output of the shipyard, as around 100 other vessels including oil rigs are in various stages of completion at the any time

enough space to transport 864 million bananas

I'm so happy to see we have finally converted to the banana scale. I've been waiting for this since horsepower was invented!

Having been a bit of a North Korean watcher for a few years I don't think this will change much. There is already internet access available to certain groups of people in North Korea with restrictions applying to each group. Examples include:

Tourists who are allowed to bring in mobile phones, and for an exorbitant fee can have a North Korean SIM card with access to the wider internet - even less restricted than China's firewalled internet access

Certain students, academics and professionals may access the internet in a supervised format. Areas of research and specific websites must be submitted to a human monitor who must approve the sites and who remains in the computer room to ensure users only access what has been approved

And of course the higher level officials are assumed to have internet access

Other than that, the general population only has access to the North Korean intranet - which among other things has government sites, game sites and even a dating website. Any new access to the wider internet is surely going to come with very strict controls and monitoring.

rm -rf /sports

Salary = job type X seniority X experience + location

So I guess productivity and contribution to the business doesn't count. Great. Time to sit back and eat pretzels!

The IOC and Russia are a perfect match. No freedom of the press and endemic corruption.

In Soviet Russia, games watch you!

I for one... oh never mind, you Slashdotters are too young these days!

For those who haven't RTFA, here is my favourite photo: http://photos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2012/07/pdx_stripper_is_acquitted_1.html

In Soviet Russia, ICQ buys YOU!

What does writing a paper about finding out who is gay reveal about the author of the paper? Hmmm.. And what does writing this comment about the author of the paper reveal about myself? DAMN - I think I just outed myself.

He has now joined the "Don't pick up the soap" group