Given that the effect of nutation is ~20 seconds over a period of 18 years, it's measureable but minute. It's circa a second difference per year, which seen per day can be effectively ignored. It was seen first with changes in latitude, and was some time before the changes in longitude were measurable.

The one second per year difference is more than 3 magnitudes different to with the 35 minutes a year that solar time varies by.

Trapped in a walled garden, are we?

Watergategategate - conspiracy theory regarding why this retrofitting has not yet been done.

But, but, but you don't understand! Gamers are having games that are no good forced on them through an evil conspiracy by game companies with journalists! They are having to spend hours trudging through dull games that are not fun! They are being blackmailed into spending thousands on in-game purchases, otherwise they won't reach level 100 and their lives will be worthless!

The number of basic human rights that are being violated here are beyond count! Why does no-one care??!!

Clearly. Especially so when compared to the average North American who is of course manly, buff and (like, totally) heroic.

Exactly. Both Android and Apple phone and tablet products are produced in sweatshops no Slashdotter would like to work in themselves, myself included.

Apple and Android manufacturers can pay as much lip-service to worker rights as they want. Until they actually employ staff in Western countries they're just talking spin. They know damn well nobody could afford a current smartphone or tablet if Human labour exploitation in 3rd-world conditions wasn't a reality.

Uh.. umm.. Oh. *head-desk*

Note to self: GF can also stand in for grandfather.

Sidereal time does *NOT* have a variable length day. Since it's defined as the average time between successive transits of any particular star, it's *ALWAYS* 23h 56m 04s (approx, or for the decimal preferrers 23.9344696 hours). Apparent solar time does have a variable length, due to the Equation of Time - the function of the difference between a perfectly circular Earth solar orbit and the actual elliptical orbit that we follow.

The sidereal day was always much easier to time, with transit telescopes.

Umm... so in a war, before we shoot the guy that has been shooting at us, we should stop and read him his rights?

Another internet tough guy.

Look at it this way. Are you prepared to go see a mediocre movie, where there's a slight chance of the cinema being targeted for a terrorist attack (made greater because it is the only cinema showing it), just to prove a point? And if the worse happened, you (or your bereaved family) would in no way ever consider suing both cinema and Sony for negligence in showing it, when they knew there was a chance of this happening?

If you aren't prepared to do all the above, why should anyone else?

They are pushing back the release to give them time to put that scene back in where Kim Jung Un gets his head blown off and his glasses and the top of his head can be seen flying. That scene was cut in the current version.

Mod this guy up please

They could make a comic book version and send that over.

Did you like these guys, Bin Laden and Hussein? Would you have prefered they got a trial and a court appointed lawyer if they couldn't have afforded one? As a matter of fact, Hussein did get a trial as I recall. Only Bin Laden didn't. Was that a miscarriage of justice do you think?

Umm... Thanks for the mod points guys... but (Score:4, Funny)? I was being serious, and I don't see what I wrote could be funny. I mean, if I managed to amuse you somehow that's fine, but I don't get the joke myself.