I am very cautious about censoring so-called fake news. If you find something blatantly wrong, the proper response is to generate your own content pointing out why the other speech is wrong. The proper response is NOT to say "This is wrong remove it" or "This hurt my feelings remove it". And by the way I have the power to remove and so I will. You may be right this time, but next time someone else will be in power and thus your speech may be deemed wrong.
Youtube seems to be a platform in the town square where anyone can stand and express an idea freely. The add clicks are for the speech opportunity, not the agreement of disagreement with the content. You don't like the content, jump onto the platform and express why and perhaps generate add revenue for your clicks. You don't want to support free speech with your add payments, then don't advertise on a free platform.

The aluminum reactor weighs less than a bag of sugar

I have a fraction of an ounce bag of sugar that i just put in my tea.
I have a five pound bag of sugar on my kitchen shelf.
I just helped a local baker unload a few 50 pound bags of sugar.

Thought maybe it was just lazy Slashdot editing ignoring real technical information so I read TFA. Nope, that was about the most complete technical statement there.

I didn't know that "a bag of sugar" was a standard unit of weight.

I can't find the download for my Fedora desktop?

In the 1970s IBM had anti-trust problems and unbundled the mainframe OS from the machine architecture. This was because a company named Amdahl was making Instruction-set compatible mainframes and had complained because the OS was bundled with the hardware. This ruling let customers purchase an Amdahl mainframe that worked just like an IBM mainframe (only better in some estimates) and run IBM's OS on it.

So IBM has probably learned and would not open-source the mainframe architecture today, but it did happen in the past. So "Never" is inaccurate.

Last night I saw upon the stair
  A Little man who wasn't there.
I saw him there again today.
  I wish, I wish, he'd go away.

As with all such history this is not correct. The VAX protection rings enforced by hardware were designed (and acknowledged by the developers) as a somewhat simplified version of that used in the amazing MULTICS system. MULTICS didn't sell as many processors as the VAX, but it was certainly "put in play" in the market.

Leaving work systems out of it,
First home computer was my PDP-11/73 running BSD Unix 2.8/2.9. Dialup on a 1200 Baud modem and could connect through the TAC to the arpanet for FTP and telnet access. Never did configure email. This was shared between my wife and me. Then came usenet with UUCP. Now I had email and bunches of newsgroups on netnews and easy connection to the university's Vax. Finally, TCP/IP came along and the 11/73 gave way to a sequence of Intel PCs running Windows initially and then Linux as it became available. By then we had multiple PCs, one for each family member sharing the now-56Kbaud modem through my machine. There were a few moves into Windows for example as the youngster seemed to need something special for school. But Linux/Unix has always done what I need better than the offerings from microsoft. So now I am posting from a Fedora-based system running on Intel. A low-power system does gatewaying, local DNS, firewalling, etc through the DSL line for a variety of desktops, laptops, Ipads, Rasberry Pi's for playing...

I wonder what I will be running tomorrow?

Ok, Damn kids get off of my lawn. I started C on a PDP-11-40 running Unix V6 in 1976. Over the years I have written, read, and re factored probably millions of lines of C. One more common error seen over the years is to forget the braces around an if-then clause or a while statement or some such.

while (something is needed)
        do something;
        do something 2;
do stuff after the loop; ...

The funny thing is that the braces may have been forgotten, but the indentation was usually correct for the intent of the code. Python simply recognised this issue and made the indentation master rather than the braces because the indentation was correct more often than the braces.

I love C, but Python got this bit correct.

There is a wonderful exhibit currently at the Albuquerque Museum of Natural History showing how multi-spectral analysis was used on the Mona Lisa. There are at least three different layers and the technique allows analysis of pigment/varnish types and their ageing.

The big news here seems to be not so much the particular Picasso painting analyzed, but that there is a newer technology that is more portable and so will allow more analysis of old paintings.

I highly recommend the Di Vinci Mona Lisa exhibit to everyone interested in this technology either in Albuquerque or as it moves around the country. I saw it last week as it opened in Albuquerque and was fascinated.

First:
I subscribe to one of the dish TV services. They rave about how great they are offering me 180-something channels. Of which I can find something to watch on exactly four. The rest are sales blurbs (lots of sales blurbs) or religious pandering for not-my-religion or Spanish language or ancient re-runs. (sorry, no offence meant, but I don't speak Spanish. Now where are the German language channels? But I digress). So I am paying all this money to watch my local city's news at 9:00, weather, an occasional old movie without commercials and re-runs of the Big Bang Theory. I don't care about the other 180-something chunks of wasted bandwidth.
Second:
I remember the early 1980s when cable was first starting to penetrate the markets. Their big claim was that rather than all the commercials on broadcast TV I only pay a single monthly fee and watch commercial-free television. Then the marketeers discovered that they once again had a bunch of captive eyeballs. So I surf past a movie that I should like. It's theatre length was 72 minutes and it runs from 6:00 to 9:00. Three hours. guess what they fill the extra time with?

Cable and satellite TV are dying because they are dinosaurs milking an old abusive business model and not understanding how the world has changed.

I attended the dress rehearsal Thursday Evening.
I am normally not a fan of the modern "let's see how discordant we can be" operas. I prefer Mozart, Pucinni, et. al.
However, this is an exception. The music blends live orchestra with electronic music in a good way. The sets use digital projects that managed to match the moods of the story well. I was uncertain at the start about the jumping back and forth in time to thread together bits of the story, but by the end I was very impressed with how well they had woven the stories together. They didn't try to sugar-coat the dark side of Jobs. And they left a very complete feeling of having viewed the evolution of a unique human being.
The soprano as his wife did well and the bass mentor/monk was delightful. All in all, I give it a nine out of ten. I think Mozart would have polished the music just a bit more, but I would pay to see it again.

OK, I tried
(first '(A B C))
and it came out:
"Car Quote A B C Damn kids get off of my lawn."
I hate getting old.

Although many don't see it, America leads in freedom of personal aviation. I can use my aircraft just as I use my car. I have proper FAA licenses and medical certificates. I am instrument rated and can fly with the same rules as the airlines. I can also get in my plane and go camping at a remote strip or visit a restaurant in the next town's airport without requesting permission from anyone just as I would with my car. If I fly into big central airports following the same rules as the airlines then I can and do coordinate with the proper FAA officials. My use of these facilities is fully funded by taxes levied on the aviation gasoline that I burn n the plane. The idea here is that as a free American I can choose my mode of transportation within the nation's transportation system on the same basis as anyone else, private or corporate. For the most part, my aircraft is like my car.

With a switch from costs coming from taxes on aviation gasoline to "user fees" for various specific operations and a switch from a government control system to a private NGO the freedom to use an aircraft much like a car for personal transportation will mostly disappear. This is exactly what has happened in (e.g.) Europe where(for example) fees for each takeoff and landing effectively stop practice at small airports.
Then a governing board that will inevitably be dominated by the airlines will set the rules so that those pesky private aircraft will be effectively gone.

If you like this idea, then please accept the same for our highways. Each time you drive to the store for some milk, every time you take a weekend at the lake, you must first file a "drive plan" with a corporate board run by the trucking industry. Then you will give a credit card number so that your driveway exit, road use, and parking use fees will be automatically paid for the trip.

And if you think that this is tin-foil-hat stuff, please look at the rules for private aircraft in Europe and the rest of the world.
This is the death of one more freedom that we currently have in this great country.

Asimov clearly covered this ground in his brilliant paper "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline".
Nothing to see here. Move on.

The headline is more general than the article. The title just says "the most influential brain scientists of the modern era". "Influential" depends on the context and the target audience.

The article does clarify in its first line "influential neuroscience research" and thus the measure of number of citations is probably reasonable within that specific community.

But the article headline seems to imply a more general use of "influential" that implied to me "in the general population", Thus before reading the article itself I was assuming that Amy Farrra-Fowler would have to rank very high. She has probably done more to bring knowledge of brain science to the general population than all the rest of the cited authors in the paper itself. If it is general awareness of brain science as implied by the headline, she would probably rank number one.

But then I had to break the primary rule of Slashdot and go read the actual paper...