Oh right. I might be thinking of Pavlov's Cat.

He is both Spock and not Spock at the same time?

What is this, some sort of Schrödinger's Cat joke?

Because they can't go under the 10^-14 threshold. If they stated 10^-16m then it would have caused a whole bunch of problems.

I thought you were going on about the pointlessness of destroying The Guardian's computers and hard drives regarding the Snowden documents. That is, any hacker can find those documents so why would you bother destroying The Guardian's hardware?

It's the same as the affect of 'CSI' on civilian expectations of police work.

The cynic in me says it will be a way of pointing to NASA as being a waste of money: You spent money on constructing a tower only to mothball it upon completion? You don't deserve this money, NASA.

Self-driving cars without a human operator will likely exist. Perhaps only in the form of public transport or replacing taxis.

Are their cars powered by sound?

Here, I just made a little bookmarklet to make the bitcoin articles have a lower opacity.

javascript:$('#firehoselist [id^="firehose-"]').each(function(i){var $article=$(this);if(/bitcoin/i.test($article.text()))$article.css("opacity",0.25)});

Clearly I make a draggable link but you're probably a smart cookie and can figure out where to put it.

Neither is Alaska.

Also, There is no reason to use 'an' when saying 'an US territory.'

Vogel makes me think of bread.

Also to improve GeoIP: If they connect to the WiFi, know the IP it uses to get to Google servers. Then they can provide the most probable location data back when some device on that IP asks for location information.

Wouldn't it be trivial to use the ad blocker to block the ad block detection script?

Clearly crashing and dumping is a feature in Windows to appease the NSA.

Actually they knew they should be planning a new-os version at least since Vista was released. And probably pushed that planning into a release for Windows 7.