poorly programmed extensions are not Mozilla's fault. The attitude that emulating browsers like Chrome's development cycle is a good idea is Mozilla's fault. They're working on features like having the tabs way up top rather than fixing trivial things like Java plugin incompatibility (which works fine in chrome but crashes firefox) or dealing with the massive memory leak problem that firefox has had for years and has yet to actually try to fix. they need to get their priorities straight or they're going to die.

It depends on what you consider a "positive effect" on society. If you consider dirt cheap labor that results in a high export to import ratio then no it certainly doesn't. But if you look at what percentage of the population is consistently below the poverty line, then social programs are very positive. If you combine that with the correllation between the financial desperation of the poor and crime rates, it looks even better.

I seriously doubt many atheists (myself included) would consider themselves socially conservative as most of the reasoning behind social conservatism is religious in nature but you may find a few atheists that are economically "conservative"/libertarian. The majority however, are likely secular humanists which are more often than not, liberal socially and economically speaking.

if someones' "morality" leads to bad consequences i.e. a higher crime rate and they *know* that this is the case, then I'd say they are definitely not being a moral person because their morals on the whole do not benefit anyone. I don't care what that book says, if what you believe inevitably causes more suffering than alternatives then what you believe isn't moral.

P.S. So in the next round I helped my friends actually cheat by hacking the game's database and producing written spy reports of enemy movements. Ha.

You weren't a cheater the first time but you are now.

cell phones, desktops, laptops, microwaves, any hand held device, dvrs, receivers, game consoles... although really a brain cell is a type of cpu each one being capable of performing (analog) calculations... humans have ~20-30 billion that aren't glial support cells, cats a few hundred million, dogs in the billion range, birds tens of millions etc.

So that makes a PS2, Sega, NES, an Mp3 player, 2 microwaves, 2 desktops, 2 dual core laptops, a satellite receiver, probably 3 or 4 calculators, 4 cell phones, a tivo, a gameboy, some random hand held game that is ancient which makes a total of 24 not counting that ancient apple in the basement, the child's toy 128k one embedded in a "keyboard" and other stuff that I can't find but I know are somewhere in the house...

It always amazed me how such an industrially worthless metal ever became as valued as it is. Now in so far as Gold being used to dodge inflation; not so much. Historically, it's been a poor choice for currency in that while it can sometimes be used to avoid inflation, it also has horrendous price shocks routinely reaching 10+ percent rates of inflation over the year with matching degrees of deflation later. What you'd really want is a basket of various commodities that tends to reduce the instability of any single commodity.

harnessing just .01% of the sunlight that falls on just the Earth's surface can provide the current power requirements of humanity. Never mind all the solar power that is just flying past the Earth with nothing interacting with it. It is a massive, effectively unlimited power source that can sustain several billion times what we use today.

Helium-3 in the long term. Solar energy is also extremely abundant above Earth's atmosphere. It's easier energetically speaking, to manufacture solar cell components from resources extracted from the moon and ship it to LEO than it is to do so on Earth and ship it up to LEO. The idea is to have solar cells in LEO or Geostationary orbit and beam the power to ground stations in the form of microwave power.

isn't it likely that the lawyers will go after the programmer who designed it or the manufacturer who built it? In our society, the liability concept is upwardly mobile, searching always for the deepest pocket.'"

If there's someone that will pay them for doing so, then sure, they may try. But why single out robots when there's already a device in most peoples' homes that is already being hacked for malevalent purposes? When is the last time anyone has brought a suit against Dell (and it went anywhere) because someone's computer was hacked/infected with malware and started acting as part of a botnet?

In all seriousness, I wonder how much of it is purposeful. Every time there's a blatant spelling error or TFA is irrelevant, what do we as Slashdotters do? We make a fair number of comments which tends to attract attention/page views. This time, the summary didn't even link to the actual article at NASA; TFA was just a re-hashing (almost copy pasta) of the original. The last time, he managed to misspell Photonic despite it being spelled correctly in the copy/paste of the first few sentences of TFA. So either we have a consistent editing problem or a problem of self interest gone awry.

Some specimens were preserved well enough for people to try to take a bite. Most accounts of this are dubious at best but a few more credible accounts of having eaten mammoth flesh described it as being quite nasty. This is to be expected of a carcass that has been sitting frozen and half rotten in the Arctic since the last ice age. Now supposing that we found a few cell nuclei that looked good, the most likely outcome would be several hundred failed attempts if prior cloning experience is any indication. Genetic damage could in principle be corrected to a degree by hybridizing the broken strands with a very closely related species (in the case of dinosaurs it would be bird DNA; Ostriches to be specific, not frogs as was suggested in the Jurassic Park movies)

for the last time it is: "I could'NT care less"... meaning it is impossible for you to care even less about something

Clearly if he could not care less he wouldn't have bothered saying so. Now to get back on topic, this gem of a story by the star is actually popular on twitter now which means a whole ton of people ought to care less.

I think that Bad Astronomy summed it up perfectly.

Current prototype digital integrated transmitters are designed to support tuning over 32 wavelength channels, each carrying 10 gigabit-per-second data rates. The associated digital receiver can support the selection of any combination of four simultaneous outputs from the 32 channels.

Assuming that a typical Cat5e cable can do about a Gbps, each of these cables are equivalent to about 30 cat5's. So unless these things weigh over 30 times what a cat5 does, they'll be significantly lighter.