No, healthy skepticism allowed us to realize that the mass of an object won't affect it's acceleration due to gravity in a vacuum and yet not be on repeated expeditions looking for a unicorn nest. Cynicism would have us still believing that an object set into motion remains in motion until it gets tired, then it falls.

Not necessarily. Leading WAGs include that it is thrusting against dark matter or space itself. In those scenarios, momentum is still conserved.

But it's not generating thrust by microwave emission. If the thrust is of the form of action-reaction, we have yet to detect what it is pushing against. Hence the wild speculation about virtual particles or the fabric of space. Even those seem more likely than it being truly reactionless but it wouldn't be any less useful if one of those proves to be the case.

So the reproduction of the reproduction of the reproduction of the experiment still leaves you disbelieving?

I agree, a scale-up is in order so we can get a better look, but surely by now, it's clear we are looking at something new even if it's not what we think it is.

Have you used broadband at all lately? The only thing they care about is prompt payment.

Apple is the best of the bad, Google is slipping and breaking promises and as usual, the carriers are making squishy sounds in the slime pit.

But since the entire concept of the free market depends on well educated consumers, the FTC should make the market stronger by forcing them all to state the service life up front and stick to it. For the good of the market.

But the devices won't last forever, so that's not what is being asked of vendors. Support as long as the hardware can reasonably be expected to last in significant numbers is a much shorter period of time and probably not so much of an ask.

If they don't want to commit for that long, perhaps they should advertise their product as disposable.

Your brother in law was killed by hitting a moose TWICE? Resilient fellow, isn't he? :-)

We all take 'unnecessary' risks daily. Is the food network horribly irresponsible for encouraging me to use a sharp knife? After all, if I just buy the frozen dinners I need not expose myself to the minuscule risk of a fatal injury. Some of those psychos even suggest a blender! I could order the frozen dinners online to avoid the risk of driving to the grocery store.

That's because it gets shoved in there by the OEM and can't be removed without rooting the phone.

Doubtful. People doing password guessing attacks don't use an actual browser to do it.

The government was not asked to give him a microphone. The promoters did that. Meanwhile, he was never at the park.

The KKK and Neo Nazis march all the time with permits in hand because the government DOES have to let them. They are often jeered by bystanders when they do.

I presume your sig is meant ironically?

And then the cops will snap the leash, the dog will bark, and they will claim that means you have narcotics on you. Then off to jail you go, having never breached the peace.

This happens because they 'happen' to know that selling narcotics is illegal, not from any function of maintaining the peace.

As long as we're being pedantic, Pepper's Ghost is actually limited 3D. If you move your head, you can see around obstructions in the projected image. It's more 3D than a 3D movie is.

If the court that wants him is part of the government that blatantly violates the 1st Amendment, he may be justified in questioning if his other rights will be honored should he appear.

Like it or not, once the government starts sliding down the slippery slope, those questions become justifiable.