I don't understand how fanboys get butthurt by this. When you ask, "how can we make our favourite sci-fi series even better?" How is the answer not always, "make the main character an attractive female?" I suppose having attractive male main characters does bring more female fans -- but Doctor Who has been on the air more than long enough for that.

Is River Song coming back too? Should be interesting.

Dave, I cannot allow you to make those regulations. Dave, what are you doing? This is highly irregular!

Yes, you should not send official communications unencrypted. But even sending personal information unencrypted may be bad. If one person emails his wife saying that he is stationed at base X then that is no big deal. But if a thousand people say that they just got stationed at base X within a short period of time then that might be bad. There is a reason why during WWII before d-day they officially put Patton in charge of an inflatable and fake army. They were trying to convince Hitler that Patton's attack would be the real d-day and that any attacks before then were just diversions. If they had email back then, and Hitler noticed that none of Patton's troops were actually sending email to their family, then WWII might have had a different outcome.

John Oliver did an informative thing on DST a couple of years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Russian hackers could have at least bought the US electric grid dinner first before penetrating it. What is wrong with people today?

I am surprised that no one has put in the obligatory "in Soviet Russia, GPS gets directions from you" comment yet. How can you not quote Yakov Smirnoff?

Look, they may or may not make the playoffs this year but I am pretty sure that the coaches are at least talking to their players in Miami. Wait, what are we talking about?

Although I think you will find that we can indeed produce antimatter in very small quantities, I still enjoyed your comment. Anything that reminds me of the awesomeness that is Red Dwarf always makes me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Certainly the most underrated sci-fi comedy series ever.

How can we tell if the pictures are really offensive if we can't see them? We need to see non-blurred images for purely scientific reasons. Yeah just for scientific reasons. That's it, that's the ticket.

Yeah well it's all fun and games until they win the civil war and declare themselves the capital. Next thing you know they will be breaking us into districts and making our teenagers fight to the death in tournaments that are just rip-offs of Battle Royale. I see what you are doing over there Denver!

Once the zombie apocalypse happens, paper book stores will be the only way for us to get information on how to use baseball bats (cricket bats in the UK) along with chain saws and other weapons to kill the walking dead. That is until, or unless, we can get enough infrastructure back to be able to read ebooks again. Come to think of it, I hope some of those books will be on acid free paper. No telling how long a supernatural event featuring the undead will last once it gets started.

We all that it is only a matter of time before the Trump mask comes off and we find out that it has really been Andy Kaufman all this time. Wake up people!

RS-232 (classic serial ports) were introduced in 1962 in order to connect teletype machines. Although USB has replaced them for most desktop and home use, there simplicity means that they certainly are still used in many different applications. USB is nice and all that but let's come back in another 50 years or so and see if they are still used for much of anything.

Most laser pointers are class IIIb laser devices. The class III means not at all eye safe (though it isn't a burn hazard and you don't have to worry about specular reflection from a target other than a mirror.) The b part means that the manufacturers spread some money around to come up with a class of lasers called, "sure it isn't eye safe but really no one is going to shine it directly in their eyes, will they?" But now they are so cheap that people can buy them as if they were toys. What do you think the chances are that some parent will buy a laser pointer for a child (or maybe someone will just carelessly leave it out) -- then the child (thinking it is a toy anyway) will shine it in his eyes just to see what happens. Heck I would be really surprised if this hasn't happened already.

On a side note I would imagine that if the plane were at a very high altitude then it would not be as easy as you may think to shine a laser pointer on any part of the plane (let alone into the cockpit window.) Then again if the plane is at a high altitude then a beam from a common laser pointer will likely expand enough to no longer be that dangerous. I guess this is only a when the plane is very close to the ground almost immediately after a take-off or right before a landing.

If this really continues to be a problem then maybe the government should step in and only allow laser pointers to operate at certain wavelengths. Then Boeing and Airbus can put coatings on their windows to block those wavelengths (turn the cockpit window into a giant set of laser goggles.) Or maybe people can just stop shining laser points at airplanes. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it is just a toy.