Great game - only shame about it is the lack of fly vs ground balls. I should really see how much it costs to get the new baseball version they published in the mid-80's... my intellivision console works and still I play it now and then (including baseball - just a few months ago).

Don't worry - our radio waves are not on their way - they may go out forever, but the weaken too... sorry to say that you'd have to be by Jupiter with a radio telescope to watch our TV. By the time aliens notice the carrier signals, they'll be in our Oort Cloud. They'll notice the oxygen and methane in our atmosphere first...

Seriously. My chances of dying are 100%. Based off my family history, it'll be cancer instead of heart disease.

So if someone offers me the privilege of continued living for only 50K a year, I'll take it. I wasn't expecting to retire anyway. And I can always decide to step off the carousel at any time by not taking the drugs.

True... if you read the fine print though, it basically says no streaming video/audio... downloading (aka - things you would use bandwidth for).

but apparently they have no way of enforcing, so why not get the cheapest plan you can get, and pretend its unlimited?

They are advertised... I mean its in the name of the mobile plan - the Verizon mobile plans are called the 250/megs a month plan or 5 gigs a month plan or something like that.

I'm just shocked they weren't enforcing... does that mean we should all get verizon 250/meg a month mobile plan, and use it as much as we want? Wonder how much video can a phone download in a month on a 3G/wireless network...

Do they sell a mobile/wireless plan that doesn't have the phrase "xBytes Per Month" in it?

Cause if they do... lemme know - I'd love to see it.

The cap is advertised in the mobile data plan - you get a 250 MB plan, a 5 gig plan, etc...they're just planning on enforcing it now.

And what does FIOS have to do with mobile data plans, which is what the CEO is talking about?

Not really... there are problems at the galactic scale - when observing galaxies, the gravitational pull is just too high to be explained by normal matter alone (assuming everything else we know is mostly correct).

I mean... whats the big deal here that NASA would care?

It has its own high altitide balloon program - where they do real science - for weeks at a time - not just cool pictures for a few hours...

http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/balloon/
http://www.csbf.nasa.gov/

Troll? Its the frigging truth.

I've been spending a lot of time with lots 2-3 year olds lately. With that day-to-day experience fresh in my mind, I can report they aren't usually a bunch of drooling morons. They're just little uneducated and irrational people. They may not comprehend death, but they definitely comprehend "this could hurt me or break something".

I saw a class full of 2 year olds see what happens when you drop a glass cup in a sink. Now they all use plastic or paper cups in the sink, and I never see them taking a glass one over. I figure a gun going off would make an impression equal to a glass breaking.

If you tell them something is dangerous, demonstrate the fact such that it sinks in, they usually don't do it again. Usually.

I questioned that also, but I wasn't familiar with the gun and didn't want to make an ass out of myself publicly speculating on the trigger... Guess I should have as I already did with my other out of whack assumptions...

A 3 year old knows the difference between a real gun, and a lightweight plastic controller. According to the parents, the gun was sitting on the table for a whole day. In a little trailer.

Apparently, loaded, cocked, and with the safety off. And then the little girl pointed it at herself and pulled the trigger? Sounds dubious to me that someone who has spent years with guns doesn't know that you don't point it at yourself.

But even if thats the case it was negligent homicide - you don't forget to keep a loaded, cocked, and ready to fire weapon out for an entire day, in plain view.

I wouldn't be shocked if the autopsy shows no signs of gun powder residue on her hands/arms, and it turns out that the father shot her, and they made up a BS story to cover.

IE did best or near best in the web browsing events most users will care about - page load time sfor popular sites like yahoo, facebook, or youtube.

So how does a web browser that apparently sucks at so many theoretical benchmarks, crush the competition in real world load times? Apparently it doesn't matter what you do, if major websites tailor themselves to you.