You are assuming that the object is solid enough to be nudged from a single point

I would much rather that we look into splattering it with a bunch of white material

This will significantly alter the pressure that it receives from the sun and deflect every single piece of it that you can get 'paint' on

Thanks, you really summed up my response to the submitter, which would have been along the lines of, "What makes you think that we will ever NOT have nuclear weapons?"

For the very reasons that you mention

Trust, it takes a long time to build and just a few seconds to destroy

Maybe the tipping point that Bill Gates worries about is when enough people are out of work, they notice who has all of the money and have the skills and motivation to do something about it

In the old 'world of the future' exhibits they prophecized that we would have machines doing the work for us and that all humans would enjoy more leisure time

We end up with is the masses being commoditized out of jobs and the wealthy reaping all of the benefits

What happened to get us all to sell ourselves out so cheaply and willingly accept the idea that a few bastards should end up with the bulk of the nations wealth while our children are faced with a future with no jobs and parents whose retirement funds cannot pay to take care of them?

Dystopia? We are living it and don't even see it

I wonder what effect it would have had in recent cases where posters were held liable for making threats towards sitting judiciary

You should see the 'preening' that goes on in the Discus forums. The EU would be pleased

That seems like a stretch

Either the demographic of /. has changed dramatically or simply clickbait

I have not read InfoWorld in a while, but I was kinda surprised that they would be the source of such a, *ahem*, mundane article

In 'Brewster's Millions', Richard Pryor runs for office to waste a lot of money and has his election motto be, 'Vote for none of the above', but he throws the election because the major plot point is that he needs to be penniless to inherit his fortune and the salary of office would blow it

Then there was 'Dave' where an actor is a stand in for a President who dies, then finally fakes his own death to get eh right person into office.

There still seems to be something out there that is closer to what you are mentioning but it isn't ringing a bell right now. If we are not careful Adam Sandler will use it as a plot for a movie

Rollerball

It brought it to common desktop computers

If I wanted to put forward a game that pushed the limits of home gaming (at the time) it would have to be Commander Keen, followed quickly by Wolfenstein

More likely, somebody's "thesis on impact of biological factors of equine performance" was not as substantial as they may have thought

What is that Scientific Method again? Form hypothesis, test, prove/disprove, reconsider...

I think that they are at the reconsider step in regards to their hypothesis, but the scientific method works just fine as long as nobody assumes that a hypothesis is some unalterable biblical truth