Reservella? Seriouslly!? Did the executives just get drunk at happy hour one day and come up with the fake company to sue with then?

Red Suit: We-We need a name that says the company totally reserved the rights for the stuff.
Blue Suit: How abouuuuut...Re...ser...vella?
Red Suit: Yes. Yes, write that down and we can count this entire Bangkok trip as a business expense!
Blue Suit: Awesome, someone get an 8-year-old boy to deliver us some blow. We'll use 'em both up!

How else can he afford another solid gold Humvee? And diamond studded swimming pools? These things don't grow on trees.

Believe it or not, the people over on Fark are being very measured about what we should and shouldn't do. Mostly, we've been getting proxies to reliable collectors and figuring out which Twitter feeds are reliable by checking how much of their information is later proven true. The other focus is assembling an accurate picture of what exactly is going over there without endangering protesters since the mainsteam media is completely dropping the ball on this.

It sounds like you haven't even glanced at the Fark effort. If so, you're making the exactly same mistake you just accused us; blindly blurting out uninformed and detrimental analysis on a situation you only know a tiny bit about. So before you go and discredit the hard work of Tatsuma, why not scroll up to his pasted summary and point out what exactly about it is false or is hurting the Iranian protesters' cause.

Send your proxy to me@austinheap.com. This guy is responsible for one of the best keep list for Iranians. He's the one in the final link of the story.

Represent!

We've hit that point a long time ago. It's called caffeine.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

It would only be fair. If anyone is allowed to download those episodes, it's him.

I disagree. You're hand picking facts. Everybody suffers in Battlestar, not just the women. Saul loses an eye. Cavil describes being left to die and having to take his own life by scraping open an artery using a bullet casing. The first time we meet Leoben, he's dying of radiation. The second time? We get to watch Starbuck torture him for a whole hour before Roslyn tosses him out the airlock. Surely you didn't miss the part the part where Anders gets the bullet in his head and is then flown into the sun by his own wife?

Sorry, but I don't see any bias against any sex in this show. Not even in sex appeal with the way women keep oogling that towel shot of Apollo.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

The 'higher power' in Battlestar is probably not a divine entity, but a remnant of the ancient society of Kobal that wants to see humanity survive. This chessmaster knew what it was doing though, so it's origin and motives are never explicitly stated.

We're all familiar with the term already.

Google and Matlab. Google is great for units. Matlab is great when you want to remember a lot of variables.

I'm pretty sure he would get fired if he didn't show up at the office and other stupid things. This is supposed to be a revenge, so there must be strings attached. If you actually read the full article twice you'd see he's given trivial and tedious work as as bare minimum. Also, some people actually enjoy their their work. Taking that away is the worst thing you can do to them.

This has to be one of the most ignorant statements I've ever seen on Slashdot. Between microgravity experiments and the need to engineer new technology for space missions, I doubt a single American goes a single day without technology directly or indirectly resulting from the space program. We have gained tons from going into space, especially in materials science and biotechnology. Lots of good science goes on in space that can't be done on Earth. If anything, we should be doing more, not less.

So now that we have software that can extensively check proofs, what's next? I don't think it's too far-fetched to someday expect programs that can construct a proof from a given statement. I imagine some sort of approach where axioms are manipulated to reach a desired conclusion either through blind or guided permutations, or even the beginnings of coded innovation. Considering how logical and orderly mathematics is, could discoveries be left to computers while humans are forced to specialize in adapting mathematical models to solve problems?