The funny thing is, we know less about gravity than we do about evolution.

We know that there is something that causes attraction between objects and can make predictions based on our observations of that effect, but we can't explain with any certainty how it actually works or why it exists. There are a variety of competing theories, but we don't have enough evidence to determine if any of them is even close to correct.

Thanks to the development agriculture, selective breeding, the sacrifice of billions of fruit flies and the
abundance of fossil evidence we've uncovered, we actually understand evolution far better than we understand gravity.

The thing is... it's a lot harder to deny the existence of gravity when someone can throw you off a cliff to prove it.

It doesn't really matter what authors think.

The public decides what they're going to buy and that, in turn, decides whether the publishers will continue to exist and the authors tied to those publishers will continue to make a living.

And there are authors who will argue that self publishing is the future and is great for writers, despite your insistence that they don't exist.

The dumbass who wrote "jet fuel" is you.

The word "jet" does not appear in the summary nor does it appear in the article. Nobody else is referring to kitty litter as jet fuel. Just you.

McVeigh knowingly targeted a building with a day care center in it and killed 19 kids along with the rest of his victims.

That isn't patriotism and it isn't "action against the government." That's straight up terrorism.

You're confusing the 1993 game by Bullfrog with the 2012 remake by Starbreeze.

Your definition of "epic" seems to be the same as the rest of the world's definition of "mundane."

I never said I was an expert on chemistry. I can, however, read and comprehend the statement that our main source of industrially produced hydrogen is from hydrocarbons.

In other words, our main source of hydrogen is, in fact, pumped out of the ground.

Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen. Currently the dominant technology for direct production is steam reforming from hydrocarbons.

Much like the person I responded to, you seem to know absolutely nothing about chemistry and the commercial production of hydrogen.

What do think the "hydro-" prefix in hydrocarbon means?

Really? Because data theft is actually quite a big problem and is legally recognized as a form of theft.

The legal definition of theft covers making unauthorized copies of intangibles such as data, intellectual property and trade secrets.

To add to your points, the big problem with taxonomy is that it treats two closely related species as if there is a definitely dividing line between them so that every animal can be categorized.

In reality, categorizing closely related species should probably be treated more like making a Venn diagram. Sometimes two species will have a definite dividing line between them, sometimes there's some overlap (especially when you get into tracing the evolution of species).

Google doesn't throttle or have bandwidth caps on their fiber.

From their network management page:

In times of acute congestion, Google Fiber Internet service bandwidth will be fairly allocated among subscribers without regard to the subscribersâ(TM) online activities or the protocols or applications that the subscribers are using.

Google Fiberâ(TM)s Internet services are priced on a flat-fee basis (plus taxes and government fees). Google Fiber does not charge subscribers a usage-based fee for Internet access service and does not employ volume-based data caps.

Most other large ISPs in the US, however, do have bandwidth and data caps.

That might work if 14 year old girls were making the rules, but they aren't.

And yet you'll see the actual post was put up by someone (samzenpus) who is a paid employee. God forbid the editors actually edit anything, though, right?

Nonsense. Every time there's a change in the tech sphere, Slashdot is one of the last sites to notice, much less voice skepticism and discomfort.