I was going to reply the same, but then I figure he was referring to the linked website. I used to use adblock to remove annoying blot out the screen flash adverts, some where along the way I stopped bothering since I think it contributed to the odd glitch on some websites (to each their own). It seems to me that those intrusive ones are not as common as they were anyway obviuos skip buttons etc, and I don't notice the others any more. Either way I never clicked on an advert unless perhaps by accident, so I wouldn't say from personal experience that slashdot would lose money if I were use adblock. I guess the parent poster needs adblock to protect himself from himself maybe?(:P) To attack the other side of the argument, it seems to me that slashdot is entitled to make money whatever way they see fit. I wouldn't recommend making money in a way that annoys the core user base, but whining about it off topic seems a bit pointless to me.

It's not just you, I don't know if it's early onset old age or what but I do feel trolls were better back in my day. I commented as much recently http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2879609&cid=40142035

You may well be right, but when you throw out a blanket "most people" you're speaking for every religion and person on the planet. I imagine there are several countries out there where sleeping in on a Sunday doesn't factor much into the equation.

A number attached to username is an obvious example of a fact.

groupthink hasn't posted anything since 2005 http://slashdot.org/~groupthink/comments, so no.

Where are all the good trolls, these ACs are useless.

One obvious difference between the two is 2234483, but then you don't really care since you're probably just trolling anyway.

:) Have you ever eaten a plate of bacon & cabbage with floury potatoes?

I'm interested to know if this would increase the efficiency of a hydrogen generator, the ones that split water using positive and negative plates. I'm sure it's been tested at any rate, seems obvious that it would be worth testing when you read the summary.

Bacon is a fairly broad term, here in Ireland boiled bacon and cabbage is common and quite tasty actually. We're not boiling rashers, it's a large cut of meat and boiling is a perfectly valid way to cook it.

if...pfff...every year is a hole year on /.

That only makes sense if they don't ever plan to make more.

The cynic is me actually assumes that this "AskSlashdot" is just blatant fishing to drum up yet more interest in the pebble. I quite like the idea of the pebble though, so hopefully the cynic in me is wrong.

I misread that and started wondering then why reduced patent length would lead to reduced patient life expectancy. Then I wondered why pharmaceutical companies would have patients at all. After re-reading it, I'm a little upset that I misread and got patients expire but bad patents came through ok. I guess I'm not used to reading about patents expiring :(

Nice try, from a quick search online (I used your favourite search engine Google btw) it seems that Adscend was also accused of supplying the code and templates required for the scam to the "affiliates". Bit of a stretch to say that's the same as AdSense

Zero as far as I'm aware. The parent is definitely incorrect because of the requirement for the meteorite to hit you on the head.

When you don't specify a time span, or the direct cause of death it gets more complicated. I've read a lot of conflicting numbers, but on a given day a person might easily be more at risk from terrorist attack, since there may be more data available to support that possibility. In the future the reverse could be true since we likely will have the means to know with certainty if there is risk from an asteroid in the near future. Over a hundred years and assuming no future ability to deflect asteroids, the risk is widely reported to be at least in excess of 1 in 200,000 for asteroid impact and 1/1300 for terrorist attack. I imagine the terrorist attack figure could be lowered or raised significantly using specific data on the person, place of work, place of birth etc.

I'm not arguing about the reduced efficiency of the plane due the constant weight, I agree with what you’re saying. My point is that I don't think fatigue will be especially worse for, and hence a hidden cost of the hybrid design. It's a relatively small plane to begin with and the weight of the batteries must have been factored in by the designers.