Google wants to change people's expectations of where youtube.com/coke will take them. Their opinion, which your earlier statements actually support, is that currently the URLs don't have any meaning. They want to give them some.

Oh, so now it's possible to roll out Adblock Plus? I wonder what I've been doing by requiring the plug in via the Google administrative template in group policy.

Though, it might be nice to suppress the initial run page, which seems to be what the article is actually praising.

The summary and article:

you can play all your Xbox 360 games on your next-gen console.

Ars Technica:

Much like the Xbox 360's limited support for the first Xbox's games, more 360 games will be added to the backward compatibility list over time--and there's no guarantee that a favorite 360 game will ever be brought forward to work on Xbox One. Nonetheless, Microsoft promises over 100 titles to start, with hundreds more coming in the future.

For some reason, I find the second quote much likelier.

The result is that the atmosphere may be largely made up of helium instead. If so, the planet would look oddly colorless to our eyes,

and have a really squeaky, high-pitched voice.

GIRLS DON'T FUCKING LIKE COMPUTER SCIENCE, GET THE FUCK OVER IT.

Its not because all men in it are assholes, its BECAUSE THEY DON'T FUCKING LIKE IT. They are wired differently than men, this is a KNOWN AND ACCEPTED FACT to anyone who doesn't have political correctness shoved so far up their ass they can taste it.

Absolutely. There obviously can't be any external factors that could discourage girls from getting into computer science.

I use Citi Bike as the first/last part of my commute, between the train station and work, all year round. It's about .75 miles, and since it's not convenient (or economical) to take mass transit that short bit, it's a question of either walking in the cold or biking so I'm in it for a shorter time and generating more body heat.

I'll admit I don't bike when there's an inch or more snow on the ground or it's raining harder than a light drizzle, though.

The article itself says it isn't new. What is new is the miniaturization that allows it to go on batteries and have them still fit into existing devices.

If the plaintiff wins, I suppose all American businesses will have to pull out of China.

why not just have an 7-14 day price guarantee with an auto refund?

Because not everyone will return a game that just dropped in price (or even be aware of the price drop), and Steam gets to keep the difference for the people who don't.

You should get a Norwegian Blue. They're much calmer.

Please give a warm welcome to the new 'Skype Killer' emoticon.

Remember, cynicism and wisdom lead to the same result most of the time, only wisdom is so much harder to learn.

I doubt that.

In case anyone else was completely confused about the ''estimate of just 660 meters" in the summary:

But let's do the math: even if these particles are moving at almost the speed of light--300,000 km/s--and they live for 2.2 microseconds, they should only be able to travel about 660 meters before decaying away.

Yet I told you these particles are created at the top of the atmosphere, which is some 100 kilometers, or 100,000 meters up! From our perspective, that muon should never make it to the ground. And yet, it's Einstein to the rescue, thank to the fact that when objects move close to the speed of light, their clocks run slow.

Now we have Chinese grade farmers.

Either way, you end up dead - but for a lot of people, option two looks more appealing.

Until they try it. (Though a small number will actually take to it.)