NEW INTEREST IN small nuclear reactors.

SO I GUESS I’M IN THE MINORITY AGAIN: Poll: 57% of Americans Would Never Buy an Electric Vehicle.

A QUESTION ABOUT LIBERTARIANS: They’re said to only care about themselves. So why do they toil for other people’s freedom?

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY IN SHORT SUPPLY: California electric vehicle rebate program runs out of cash.

FROM THE ALCEE HASTINGS SEX SCANDAL: A lesson in how to say “no comment” with maximum verbosity.

IN THE MAIL: From Robert Heinlein, Farnham’s Freehold. I’m glad they’re keeping his stuff in print with these re-issues. It holds up surprisingly well. Well, maybe it’s not that surprising.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Italy Breaks Ranks Over NATO’s Libya Mission.

INVESTORS’ BUSINESS DAILY: As Incandescent Bulb Ban Looms, Opposition Grows. “The incandescent bulb lit up America and came to symbolize a great idea. Now on the cusp of a federal ban, Thomas Edison’s invention has become a symbol for personal liberty. . . . Late last year Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., vowed to reverse the very ban on incandescent bulbs that he helped pass. But after five months as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he has yet to hold a hearing.”

Time to put some pressure on him. But if you’re worried, it’s not too late to stock up!

UPDATE: Reader Daniel Swaim writes: “Maybe if the notion of a primary challenge is raised regarding this no-brainer issue the light will go on with this dim bulb Congressman.”

GOD AND DAMAGE CONTROL at Yale. “Having just killed its interdisciplinary program for the study of anti-Semitism, Yale University announced on Monday that it is launching a new program for the study of anti-Semitism.”

QUESTIONS ABOUT Media Matters’ tax-exempt status.

GREECE: Salonika Holocaust Memorial Desecrated. “A Holocaust memorial in the Greek city of Salonika was vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. . . . The vandalism coincided with the decision by the Salonika City Council to bestow the city’s highest decoration on the 30 Holocaust survivors still living in the city in a ceremony Monday.”

WASHINGTON POST: Signs Of A Global Food Crisis.

POLITICO: Obama’s War Dilemma.

WELL, THIS’LL HELP THAT WHOLE HIGHER-EDUCATION GENDER-IMBALANCE THING: Feds crack down on campus flirting and sex jokes.

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY (CONT’D): Arrest of woman taping police sparks controversy. “The Rochester Police Department is investigating the arrest of a woman who was videotaping police during a traffic stop in front of a home on Aldine Street. . . . The incident has drawn the attention of the National Press Photographers Association Inc., based in Durham, N.C.”

Read Morgan Manning’s article.

TODAY ONLY: A sale on AA and AAA batteries.

FIRST WEINER, NOW THIS: Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) under investigation for sexual harassment.

BILL WHITTLE AND ANDREW KLAVAN: Tea Party = Salvation.

ILYA SOMIN: Obama, The OLC, And The Libya Intervention. “I am more skeptical than Balkin that illegal presidential action can be constrained through better consultation with legal experts within the executive branch. . . . This isn’t just because administration lawyers want to tell their political masters what they want to hear. It also arises from the understandable fact that administrations tend to appoint people who share the president’s ideological agenda and approach to constitutional interpretation.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “Obama should appoint John Yoo to head OLC. Problem solved.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Related item here.

ELIE MYSTAL has a question for Stanford.

THAT’LL WIN OVER THOSE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTERS: Huntsman Gets High-Profile Endorsement — From Harry Reid. I’m not even sure that would win over many Democratic primary voters . . . .

THE HILL: House to vote on authorizing or ending Libya mission.

MORE ON THAT ATF GUNRUNNING SCANDAL: “Imagine the DEA telling pharmacists to illegally sell oxycontin to known drug dealers or they would be shut down. Then imagine the DEA using the fact that more oxycontin was on the street (and hundreds of overdose deaths) as a pretext for making it harder for patients to get prescribed narcotics. This is essentially what happened with the ATF and Project Gunwalker.”

QUESTION: What did Rep. Clyburn know about the corruption at the university center that bears his name?

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, FBI AGENTS WOULD BE SEIZING WEB-SERVERS WHOLESALE: And they were right! “A government official who declined to be named said earlier in the day that the F.B.I. was actively investigating the Lulz Security group and any affiliated hackers. The official said the F.B.I. had teamed up with other agencies in this effort, including the Central Intelligence Agency and cybercrime bureaus in Europe. . . . DigitalOne provided all necessary information to pinpoint the servers for a specific I.P. address, Mr. Ostroumow said. However, the agents took entire server racks, perhaps because they mistakenly thought that ‘one enclosure is = to one server,’ he said in an e-mail.”

UPDATE: Reader Rob Cooper emails:

There could be a fairly technical explanation for taking the whole rack and we could see more of this in the future (something similar happened to Google in an unrelated incident).

In dense server environments, best practices for CPU/processor utilization dictate virtualization on the server environment. In layman’s terms, multiple virtual servers are created inside a physical server. In a cluster of physical servers in a single rack or across several racks, the virtual servers can move around from physical server to physical server to keep the load balanced and maximize cpu efficiencies. As such, it can be difficult to pin down the exact physical piece of hardware that a piece of evidence has “touched”. The only solution is to remove all the servers in the cluster.

Server virtualization has very widespread adoption so most environments it is very likely that the administrators were using it.

Note my signature- we have dedicated practices to support virtualization as well as hosting clients’ data infrastructure. In our cloud (hosted) offerings, we make it a point to keep our clients data virtualized on their own isolated server clusters- no shared CPU/processors as a selling point (though not specifically for Fed seizures J). In the event of something like a evidence subpoena, only the violating cluster would be taken.

Hmm. That’s not consistent with what the story says about server-specific information, but that could be an error, I suppose.