The solution, the scientists in the film agreed, was to prepare several nuclear bombs which could be transported to the edge of the core (below the mantle) and detonated, thus restarting the spinning core.

Nuclear bombs, detonated in the Earth's core. Seems rather Wile E. Coyote-ish. What could possibly go wrong?

If you were paying unlimited, you were not an early adopter. I'm talking about the 1980s here, not after Al Gore uttered the words "information superhighway" and the September that Never Ended began.

No, what I'm saying is if it weren't for the small ISPs, you would paying metered prices. Small ISPs had a big effect on the end market.

Because it was the small ISPs that pioneered one price, all-you-eat Internet service. Early offerings from the telcos were metered services, priced per megabyte.

The small ISPs forced the big telcos and cable to offer the pricing structure that's in place today.

Agreed. But there was an implication that one couldn't do VLC on Android because it's Java. It's Java syntax, but the underlying VM isn't Java. That means that the performance problems that plague Java do not plague Dalvik (Android) applications.

Undoubtedly Android VLC uses these libraries rather than the usual suspects.

Android programs aren't Java. Yes, they're written in Java, but the bytecode is targeted for Dalvik, which is not a JVM. Have you seen video on an Android phone? It's very smooth on 4G or WiFi, a little less so on 3G.

Not everybody with social skills is a sociopath

I didn't say that; you are reading something that isn't there. Even among "experienced" liars, there are tells. You have to watch their eyes, because that's the dead giveaway. Most people look away when they're lying, and even in those that don't, there will still be a slight shift in the eyes. It's practically unavoidable.

There are other subtle body cues as well. Everybody has a tell. Just ask any successful poker player.

I'm not sure it's a difference between "experienced" and "inexperienced" as it is a difference between "normal" and "sociopathic". The two people you just cited are likely candidates for being sociopaths. People who aren't sociopathic can't help but reveal they are lying through their body language.

Damn! I think I just broke the law by mentioning Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Linking can't be publishing. If linking is publishing, then Google, Bing, and Yahoo are breaking the law, right now. Guess we'll have to to shut them down.

I don't have to see Jon Katz' face to know that he's not human.

You can't access character by watching a persons eyes or body language. That doesn't stop people from trying of course

No, but you can assess what they're thinking and whether or not what they're saying is truthful. That can play a part in assessing their character if interaction occurs repeatedly and over a longer period of time.

I've noticed a similar issue when watching Nicholas Cage and Keanu Reeves movies.

Whoa!

Yea, there's really no chance they gave you morphine for a bulged disc, these days they pretty much won't give you morphine unless you're dying.

That's not true. They'll give you morphine if you're in the hospital. They rarely prescribe it for home use because they consider it best that you be under medical observation while taking it.

Generally, however, other drugs such as acetaminophen (paracetamol for those of you outside the States) combined with hydrocodone or oxycodone, or other synthetic or semisynthetic opiates are usually more effective at pain management with fewer side effects.

43 pages sounds a bit insane, until you actually look at it. Large print, lots of diagrams, lots of whitespace/formatting not 43 walls of text. It actually looks pretty clean and readable.

Exactly. And if you read the instructions (Google Translate is your friend if you don't speak French, or even if, like me, your French is very rusty) they tell you everything your father taught when he showed you how to wear a suit: Don't stuff your pockets, make sure there is at least space for one finger between your collar and neck, tuck your shirt in properly, the jacket should "hang" on your shoulders nicely, keep your creases neat, etc.