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This thread is for news stories about pretty much anything in general so long as it is interesting, and not written by a two year old. Since you can't edit new links into posts that are 30 minutes or older I won't hate you for double posting, so long as it is relevant of course.

Why Broadband is so expensive in America?

Unfortunately a thread like this I can either see getting underused or turned into a downright Clusterfuck of conversation.

It might be better just to have different threads for different news articles.

I doubt this thread will ever take off because nobody on KYM reads for fun.

White house admits that constraints are needed on spying.

I read news articles, but most of them I read are generally technology related as I have very little interest for the majority of the political-wanking news out there.

(links are as follows)

• FAA lifts electronic device usage during take off.
• Ingress is now in open Beta. (as if it wasn't before)
• Small Bitcoins miners are now being edged out of the race as Larger miners increase their power w/ the profits they make, thus making the common laptop mining unprofitable.
• Similar earth discovered w/ a surface of lava.
• Dell explains why some consumers may have a "cat pee" smell coming from their computers.

Your links are broken. Let me try to replicate the stories.

FAA lifts restrictions on in-flight electronics

Ingress Beta; thank you will enjoy this myself as I am a mind-twist freak

Bitcoin story

Dell is cat pee

US ends food stamp benefits as Congress debates more cuts

Diamond rain.

Homer Simpson's scary maths problems

My links aren't broken, I just got too lazy to relink everything after I went back added the descriptions to the articles. They just appeared in that order in my original sentence. lol.

@Diamond Rain
That's pretty cool. I used to have a space ship that talked by putting in punch cards when I was 11 and from that set I learned that Neptune actually rains diamonds. Soon after I got a cat and named it Neptune. SPACE!

@Simpsons Math

"For many people, mathematics is more terrifying than being attacked by an army of zombies, werewolves and vampires…"

Well then, have I got a gore series for them to watch:

I wonder if people could use diamond rain to forge things made of diamond. That would be pretty bad ass.

In a court case in Tennessee, the prosecutor requested not to be referred to as "the Government". The defense's response is brilliant.

There is malware that communicates with other infected machines using high-frequency sound.

This one is actually close to home. (Like an hour away from me.)
School tradition of TPing the basketball court after the first basket of the season.
Also: Facts you probably didn't know about spongebob.
(I wasn't interested at first until I started reading it. Mind blown.)

A white man jokingly implies he is a black candidate, and wins the election against a black candidate.

Waitress who claimed she was left with a receipt that said nigger may have fabricated the whole thing

Well these file under sick.

Man nails his balls to road to protest russian police brutality.

And an elementary teacher fed students semen laced cookies. With 71 cases still pending, the District's school system has settled 63 cases of abused children for $29.3 million.

This poor man, poor, poor, poor man.

^ She is not worth all the trouble. he should just leave her.

Really? That type of people exist?

I'm not sure if this qualifies as "intersting news", but for me is a sad new:
Winamp's shutting down

@elma

That's interesting to me. I use Winamp as a more powerful alternative to WMP. I'll be sad to see it go

I've looked at Spotify and Pandora, but I don't like the idea of having to manage my music like an EVE Online subscription. I just want to run files on my hard drive.

WMP is too weak (can't adjust the frequency output, etc) and doesn't support OGG files so Winamp is the obvious choice for me

Hopefully people will still keep the final version around on 3rd party hosts.

7zip is pretty nice.

@Blue
I hope AOL realse the source code and make Winamp as OpenSource project, and not fall to the abyss of abandon software.

@Sweatie

Yes, 7z is pretty nice isn't it?

I regularly use it to compress website source code so I can transfer them between servers. And also for unpacking RAR files

@elma

That would be the best case scenario. The community of loyal Winamp users can keep it going

@Blue Screen (of Death)
Yes, I don't know what I'd do without it.

Black Friday, because I've never been so scared of my country in my entire life than when I had to savagely murder five people for a gallon of Milk.

Crimes against Thanksgiving. A movement to save Thanksgiving because retail stores open on Thanksgiving.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24614830

Homosexuality Is Unnatural, Claims Nigerian Student Who Uses Magnets To Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong

Nigerian Student Who Uses Magnets To Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong

USES MAGNETS TO PROVE GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG

USES MAGNETS TO PROVE GAY MARRIAGE IS WRONG

guess the guy does not know how hard it is to find
*puts shades on*
attractive women
YYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
ive done that before, lol

All white people are racist genetically

Yes, you, you white racist bastard. What do you mean "I'm not racist", you're obviously White, therefore you're a racist because of your race. So become a Black person, or you'll never know what it feels like to not be a racist.

I mean, really, this is pushing it too far.

Valve joins Linux Foundation.

Turns out the Sign Language guy at Mandela's memorial was faking it.

The Budget Crisis who cried wolf.

Plumes of water are spouting from Europa, that's pretty trippy.

Hydrogen Stones.

Gel that can regrow.

Obama acting like an idiot.

Politics and science, and somehow the politics comes out more popular.

How NASA might build its very first warp drive.

A lot of these ideas have been around since the 80's, I'm reading a book right now called Enigma(crappy book honestly), and in it they use gravity to propel a ship to light speed. Of course people don't understand gravity yet, so it's rather pointless to make machines reliant on things that have not been yet been discovered.