Do you REALLY want a 175W card in a mini itx system? How are you going to keep it cool?

Or, in this case, you had me at "Giant Rolled Joint'. Count me in.

Does Direct TV own some piece of the wireless spectrum that AT&T could make use of, or vice versa?

As an old mentor once told me: They say living well is the best revenge. But there's a lot to be said for the old Screwbowski

So you, and other scientists, don't "know", as TFA suggests. I'm not trying to troll, but a majority of scientists having the same general feeling on the topic doesn't ammount to settled science. Relativity is settled science -- it, or at least major aspects of it, can and have been proven. The same cannot be said for some of the topics cited.

To be fair, TFA actually refers to an "opinion gap" rather than referring to "what scientists know".

If anything, the statistics indicate that Scientists aren't in agreement on the topics discussed-- in other words the science isn't settled or in some cases, hasn't been done.

Doesn't it end with them picking his teeth out of the canyon wall??

It is, only in that it redistributes money from the healthy to the insurance companies. Saying that "these people are better off because they now have insurance" is misleading. They now have to pay for that insurance, and the cost of insurance has skyrocketed since the law was passed. Furthermore, they can only be said to have benefited from having insurance if they get sick, or if they were already sick and would have been denied coverage.

It hasn't been breached... they just got a hold of their email mailing list! This is the crappiest bad summary of all crappy bad summaries.

It's actually just a re-do of Windows 8, but they wrote it in octal.

You CAN choose to run a private server. My older son does this. It's not too difficult to set up-- he did it himself and only needed help with port forwarding in the router. . I believe that Minecraft Pocket Edition works in a similar way.

But you have to go our of your way to run this way. And if you were to run this way there is still nothing to prevent a child from logging on to some other server (there are thousands).

On the one hand, playing minecraft can be like playing with legos. I've seen my kids create amazing things in minecraft.
With some mods, it can also teach basic programming skills and simple electric circuits.
OTOH
It can be modded into a pvp shooter. Not the worst thing in the world, but it sort of kills the educational value of it. It is not a safe, walled environment because, you know, other players are coming to kill you. Moreover, even in other forms of minecraft other players can come and destroy your stuff. They can also yell at you and call you names and otherwise annoy you via the chat window.

newegg has a 1TB one on sale for like 390... which would be 39 cents per GB, 50 cents a GB has been the rule of thumb for SSDs for over a year now.

RTFA?... but isn't this slashdot?

how long before the NSA hacks these into spy-benches?