Perhaps Bennett Haselton should use an anonymous blog instead of Slashdot to pour out all his half-baked novel-length thoughts. That might be a better way to see how much luck plays a role in determining whether anyone cares what he's blathering about.

This:

is very different from this:

I have no idea what this is doing once you strip out all the buzzwords

They already use one like that. Every letter is thick black line.

The PC market has hardware fragmentation, but you know what operating system you'll be running on. Mobile OSs change much more quickly.

I always find it funny how legal briefs are typically anything but.

Well most of us don't need to drive very far to find the URL bar.

I've never quite been comfortable with the idea that we should be disappointed with detailed confirmation of the standard model. Yes there's obviously a more fundamental theory at work that we don't understand yet, but there's no reason that it has to be visible at human-accessible energy scales when the natural (Planck) energy scale of the universe is 16 orders of magnitude larger than the collision energy of the LHC. It's easy to theorize new physics at those energies, but when you don't see anything that shouldn't take away from our wonder at the accuracy of the existing model, which is still behaving nearly flawlessly after almost 50 years.

Color charge is easy: anti-quarks have anti-color, so the right combination of quarks and anti-quarks will still balance the color charge of the composite particle. This is well-known in two-quark particles so why wouldn't it work for four?

I think I've posted this before in response to that article, but it's amusing that parody of a decade ago is the reality of today.

Remind me again why Bennett Haselton gets to use the Slashdot front page as his personal blog?

Wow, I hadn't realized igoogle was still up. They announced it's closure much earlier than reader and yet it's going to live three months longer.

I've been looking at commafeed and old reader and liking them both. Neither has a mobile app though which is one thing I'll miss from google reader.

Who cares? Nobody's going to read it.

Well I'm glad Slashdot headlines are at least becoming honest about the substance-free stories we've been seeing lately.