If you're going to question facts within fictional works, I'd start out by with the point that we didn't actually discover warp theory with the help of four thumbed aliens from Alpha Centari. After that, the properties of interstellar gas seems fairly minor.

To be clear, let me restate: I haven't seen anything directly contradicting the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea within any canon work of the fictional Star Trek setting invented for television and expanded in books and films by authors who are paid to invent stories for entertainment. This statement does not imply that I believe or have proposed any sort of belief that the vaguely defined warp drive, humanoid aliens, Q Continuum, transporters, tribbles, or an English actor playing a French captain are actually realistic nor exist in the real world. Well, the bit about the actor is technically true, but otherwise, it isn't real.

They were around several years before Star Trek picked up on them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet

For a fairly long time, in the gap between TOS and TNG, when the books were adding to and fleshing out the universe, there was the idea that the vast majority of interstellar hydrogen is antimatter (discovered by Voyager 6 or something like that, when it transmitted back what it found and was promptly annihilated). That was the key thing that allows for travel without having to carry around a ton of reaction mass. Then add dilithium crystals, which were discovered to have a very powerful resonance effect near a matter-antimatter reaction. The discovery was an lab-bench accident, similar to the discovery of X-Rays. Of course, this is back when first contact was between Earth and Alpha Centari, and the Alpha Centariuns (who look like humans, only a bit more stocky and a second opposable thumb instead of a pinky) worked with Earthlings together to discover warp theory. TNG and later canon continuity wiped out most of that, but I haven't seen anything that directly contradicted the "interstellar hydrogen is mostly antimatter" idea.

Have you tried pairing a different controller? I mean, it's one kind of fiasco if they shipped with a bad controller. That can be fixed in future versions, or by the user (with a purchase, which stinks, but hey: bleeding edge is aptly named). If it is the OS that causes the latency, they may be able to fix it. So, option two is bad, but still salvageable. If they shipped hardware that causes serious latency in basic games, then it's pretty dead.

I had to talk to AT&T recently, and they pitched U-Verse, and I gave my usual, "Oh, I have several TiVos, so I can't use your service." The guy said they now support TiVo. Could have been a idiotic sales pitch, and Google isn't helpful (years of comments that it doesn't support it overwhelm the results), but if it's important to you, might as well call and ask.

And many don't, which you've acknowledged. So, how is this different from any number of other hypocrisies that human beings regularly commit in all areas of life? What you're describing has had entire books written on it that have nothing to do with tech or IP rights or law. What you're saying, essentially, is that Slashdot commentators are a fairly typical swath of human beings.

This is still a bad example, as it is an issue of credit for work done, not copying, as the person who did the work doesn't own it nor claim to have any right to it. It is a simple case of wanting credit for the work he or she did.

In the comments of TFA, one of the judges of the fair noted that the kid's presentation looked interesting. It was indeed a Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor -- and that the kid stated he wasn't related.

I believe this initial release is still Webkit, and that they will move to Blink in future releases. Or so TFA says (could be wrong, of course).

The two major updates so far this week: Google Chrome, which now renders faster, and flickr, which has significantly more complex and larger graphics. As things get able to and display process more, more is asked of them. We aren't targeting 580px wide simple HTML, no CSS and 15 color gifs. Nor are we targeting a single platform and the simple display of information. Even if you're just displaying stuff, if you're doing it right, you're divorcing content from presentation and sending a handful of files for each page: each a solution to a problem that was at one time annoying. Or "solved" poorly with the likes of early Frontpage or Dreamweaver.

I have a feeling that will be the downfall of Canadians in space. Can you imagine gravy covered cheese curds bouncing into equipment in zero-G?

Thank goodness that people sending photographs of their genitals to other people don't have any impulsive friends, make poor choices in who to hang out with, or have ever befriended random people on the net and quickly deem them friends.

Teens in particular are well known for making choices based on long term thinking and a strong sense of never engaging in revenge or social warfare. First world schools are a shining beacon on the hill for compassion, empathy and an overwhelming sense of equality and egalitarian concern for the mental well being of others. You are right: these people would never engage in behavior that damaged another peer. Skilled bullies and social climbers are never popular in middle school and high school, and embarrassing events are quickly hushed up.

I may be wrong, but I believe they do get fined and the fault recorded. Gaming associations are intended to close down establishments who have too many "mistakes" like that.

Now, I have zero experience with the reality. The way the article reads, it seems that the Nevada’s Gaming Control Board swooped in to oversee things closely. The jaded or masturbacynical will see this as "the system is rotten, they are there just to protect the casinos run by the *man*, man!", and the naive will believe government enforcement always works for the innocent person. The reality is somewhere between Goofy and the "we are nihilists" crowd's view, and egregious errors are corrected according to regulations.

Which really hits the thing this article never covered (or I missed it). Sure there's legal prosecution going on now, but were the winnings illegitimate according to the Pennsylvania and Nevada statutes?

And pagers, smartphones, laptops and computers. Which would only have about five customers. Then the PC, which would only have about 250k sales in the first five years. The videogame industry was "dead" when the NES came out, and videogames are only for children. And so are movies about comic book characters. And cartoons on television.

It has nothing to do with "Nerdy". Society simply shifts focus: Calvin Klein revolutionized the prosaic jeans and men's underwear market and turned them into something people would pay decent money for. Popular foods, fashion and social conventions are always changing. Food suddenly starts getting delivered, and a few years later, nobody thinks anything of it. There were newspaper articles warning people never to buy anything off the web, and how internet retail was a fad. Now those newspapers are websites and sending bills to subscribers via email.

Of course people can easily accept Google Glasses, plus the dozens of other companies making them. We got used to the Walkman, and jamming small speakers next to your eardrums and blocking out the outside is far more strange and alienating. Yet it's still common today, through 30 years of changes in what those headphones or earbuds plug in to.

Or you can use your nice fission, fusion or orbital solar conversion (which does *not* fall into that last category), and make hydrogen. Why? Because then you have a transportable energy... as opposed to transmittable energy, a la power lines. Vehicles, especially those pesky planes, do poorly with extension cords.

To reproduce modern tech with a new energy source, you need to have a transportable energy "fuel". If you have a solid source of power, you can generate hydrogen and carry it from here to there, using it along the way. You're going to be doing it somehow, since the internal chemistry of rechargeable batteries is basically doing the same thing (making transportable energy). Hydrogen just allows separate (and hopefully more efficient) creation, refueling and use processes, rather than putting it all in the same unit, like a rechargeable battery. You can certainly refill an empty fuel cell faster than recharge an empty battery.

Are you sure you'e not comparing it to Sunshine laws? What you're describing sounds like the already existing set of laws that demand most government bodies operate transparently and have openly available records (often requiring they be available online for instant viewing for free, in more recent updates). The FOIA allows citizens to request sealed and classified information: it is reviewed against a set of very limited criteria, and if it doesn't fit any, it is released. If only portions fit, those parts of the information are struck out and the rest released.

There is some overlap between Sunshine laws and FOIA, and Sunshine laws tend to be State laws, versus FOIA, which is Federal. But most of what government agencies do in the US is already a matter of public record, and has been such from the beginning (in the past resulting in vast libraries of printed material).

Hey, it worked for Rapeseed oil: when they cultivated it, they renamed it Canola oil.