Why stop there? Why not just get rid of the lights? While we're at it, why not just get rid of all intersections everywhere and make the road a large, continuous loop? After all, if there are no intersections, then nobody can stop at an intersection to get rear-ended.

It's legally 100% the following car's fault when rear-ending a vehicle, here in NSW Australia, anyway. The reasoning? If there is an intersection and you crash into the car in front, then you were supposed to have seen the car in front and had plenty of time and space to slow down. The driver is likely focusing on the lights and the intersection, making sure that it's safe and permissable to proceed, instead of looking in their mirrors. If you're driving along and you crash into the car in front, even if they braked suddenly, then it's still your fault because you were tail-gating, which is also illegal.

From the Guardian article:

As an example to compare against, I chose a major bank in my country (Australia's Commonwealth Bank), and looked around their website. There is a page called 'Security', and the first thing I spot on that page is the statement: "100% Security Guarantee: With NetBank, the safety of your money is 100% guaranteed."

Putting aside the fact that the SAFETY of something is not necessarily the same as the SECURITY of something, what does this news mean to a banking customer? Does the bank have the obligation, under the advertised "100% Security Guarantee" to find and implement methods that hinder NSA/GCHQ access?

And this doesn't affect just Commonwealth Bank (I just chose it as an example). One of the main points of putting money in a bank is that it's SECURE. If a government agency (from another country, even) has the ability to reach into my bank account and make my money disappear in a virtual puff of smoke, then how is the account any more secure than, for example, hiding cash under a mattress?

And THIS is a classic example as to why one should never assume that everyone else uses Fahrenheit. I use Celsius, and I was uncertain as to what unit of measurement was being used here.

Is it just me that is bothered that they call the ratio 21:9 instead of 7:3?

I was taught that one should simplify fractions. 16:9 is such because it can't be simplified any further. Same with 4:3. But not 21:9.

But being in space and having no atmosphere... perhaps vacuum tubes are involved somehow.

I read a lot of webcomics, so I tend to check each one about once a month. For me I open the webcomic's bookmark, read through the archive until I read the present, then copy a permalink into the bookmarks' properties (I keep Firefox's Bookmarks window in the background).

For me, this is analogous to reading a physical book from a marked page, then before I put the book back I pull the bookmark from its previous location and replacing it where I'm currently up to.

'quark-gluon plasma,' a dense, soup or liquid-like collection of individual particles.

Maybe this is what Star Trek is referring to with its "warp plasma".

Planes don't just drop out of the sky when the engines cease working. They can glide for a short time.

Just say no to drugs!

OS X Soft Kitty Warm Kitty Little Ball of Fur?

(Alpha Centauri) 2.1 lightyears: 6.3654 x 10^7 seconds x 2 = 4.03 years
(Gliese 581 g) 11 lightyears: 1.457 x 10^8 seconds x 2 = 9.24 years
(HD 85512 b) 18 lightyears: 1.864 x 10^8 seconds x 2 = 11.82 years
(Kepler 22-b) 300 lightyears: 7.608 x 10^8 seconds x 2 = 48.25 years
(Andromeda Galaxy) 1250000 lightyears: 4.911 x 10^10 seconds x 2 = 3115 years

(Calculated using "x lightyears at 1g acceleration", followed by "(x.xxx x x^x seconds in years)*2")

Sounds like the Seefra system - I wonder if one of the suns is artificial?

Which will lead to the Emergency Secretarial Hologram, Emergency Technician Hologram, Emergency Receptionist Hologram, Emergency Lawyer Holograms, and Emergency Company Representative Hologram.

Voyager 1, famously contained a gold phonographic record.

Contained?

"Your password must be six to eight characters and contain only letters and numbers."
"Your password cannot be over twelve characters."
"You have used this password before. Please enter a new one."

I have my own password policies, and it's frustrating when I can't follow them.