I'm not surprised at all that ISPs are throttling internet speeds. If a cable company throttles netflix and youtube data then that increases the probability that people will get frustrated and just watch cable tv (especially the advertisements). If Verizon deprioritizes VOIP traffic to reduce call quality then that increases the probability people just go back to using P.O.T.S (which they conveniently sell). Maybe my tin foil hat is a little to tight today, but I think the only real way to prevent this kind of stuff form happening is a decentralized internet.

Yeah, anytime I start a comment out with "I didn't read the article yet, but..." I should probably realize I'm about to spout out some nonsense. /facepalm

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I didn't read the article yet, but 1.5 million euros seems like kind of a slap on the wrist for a power company. They'll prob make that much profit just from people using their computers to read this slashdot story (ok, that's kind of a hyperbole, but you get the idea). If this was "industrial scale espionage" like the summary said, you'd think there would be more than just a "small" fine for punishment.

Do what I do, neglect the car clock.

I don't even bother to set the clock in my truck anymore, it is currently 4 hours and 23 minutes slow. I had a month where my truck broke down 3 separate times. Each time it broke down the mechanics would disconnect the battery while working on it, thus resetting the clock (and all my radio presets). I got tired of resetting everything, so on the 3rd time I said "screw it" and just left the clock as is. Of course once I did that, the truck no longer broke down (go figure), but now I get mental math practice anytime I check the time in my truck.

Ahem, the joke is that simply losing one's tin foil hat is not enough to say good things about EA and that something much more extreme(like a brain slug) would be needed to even think of such a thing.

"WOOOOOOOSH" indeed.

The head writer for Futurama, David X Cohen, also published a paper on pancake sorting.

You're praising EA?!?!? Did a brain slug land on your head right after your tin foil hat fell off?

I agree. It kinda reminds me of Feynman's Wobbling Plate.

Interesting, so what your saying is that aliens are also the source of lighting? Things are stating to make more sense now...

In all seriousness, thanks for sharing the videos. very cool.

Now all we have to do is figure out why the aliens are causing electric discharges and we can call this mystery solved!

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I have also wondered about dark matter and dark energy. It really feels like a band-aid theory, similar to the aether theories.

I would think that the anti-intellectuals would be a bigger threat than the pseudo-intellectuals.

It basically comes down to what group is more likely to accept proof that they are wrong. Pseudo-intellectuals at least show that they value a scientific explanation(even if it's nonsense) and therefore are more likely to accept a different (better) scientific explanation. Anti-intellectuals, on the other hand, put 0 value in a scientific explanation and are essentially imune to any type of proof or reason.

Obviously this question was directed at The Bad Astronomer, not me, and I would like to hear his thoughts on this as well. I figured it wouldn't hurt to throw in my 2 cents though.

It's notification software. OS X versions are all names of big cat's (tiger, leopard). Big cats growl.

I'm not saying it's the best name ever, but that's prob where the name comes form.

It's more likely that they have read it and thought "Man, what a brilliant idea!"