You're shockingly ignorant of the greater SF Bay region if you think that statement makes any sense. It would mean multi-deck city streets, extensive car tunnels under existing roadway, and so forth.

Right...accessible transit is forcing me into poverty...by making it at all possible for me to get to work.

Dunno which MT you're referring to, but the Bay Area sees crippling traffic slowdowns during BART service interruptions such as the strike three years ago.

The argument is that adding a few more outlying stops over the last 10 - 20 years has caused doubled ridership at downtown stops in the past 5 years, which happen to coincide with major economic and population booms in the region. It's pretty clear that the latter, rather than the former, is causative for the increase in system load.

The whole idea that BART ridership increases in the past five years have been caused by limited service expansion over the past two decades is pretty dubious. Public data and statements from BART make it pretty clear that it's the core downtown SF/Oakland stations, and certainly stations between Concord/Fremont and Daly City (that is, original stations from the '71 - '72 openings) that have seen the most ridership growth. That growth in ridership has occurred because of wide spread economic and population growth in the Bay Area, not expanding service to past residents.

The number of people a transit system serves is determined by the choices of those people, not the administrators of the system.

That it is possible at all - yes. However, the Go engine was trained on many more games than a human can play in a lifetime. No doubt a 1000-year-old Go player would also defeat a 33-year-old. It would be interesting to see how AlphaGo compares to a human master when trained on a humanly possible number of games.

Downs is a bad example, since it involves an entire chromosome (thus "trisomy 21"). Huntington's maybe, since it's just dependent on copy number and you might be able to reduce that even with partially effective editing.

Many people agree, and I'm sure there will be lower regulatory barriers to "gene surgery" with demonstrated need. That said, CRISPR-Cas9 is not very suitable for either use. It has a lots of off-target effects (it interacts both specifically and nonspecifically with DNA), and replacing one allele with another requires that homology-directed repair is activated over other DNA repair mechanisms. In the laboratory, we overcome these limitations by introducing huge amounts of DNA with the desired sequence. People are trying to engineer around these issues, but we're not nearly as close to gene editing human embryos as these articles tend to claim.

This is just false, maybe it's an honest mistake but the FUD spreading has to stop. The developer of NoScript is categorical on the topic.

Sites load lots of resources from other domains, and script blocking is domain based. Right now Slashdot would like me to load scripts from 10 domains. The site is perfectly functional with just two of them whitelisted.

The point is that slashdot.org and wellsfargo.com are a lot more trustworthy than a million random ad networks and tracking services. No, they're not "trusted," but it's great that I can view, say, a random blog with just the blog framework's JS and not twenty other weird third-party scripts.

Great story, but then where are my commit privileges for Firefox or the Linux kernel?

I switched back to Firefox because vertical tabs, dynamic loading/unloading of tabs from memory, and NoScript. I don't just think that Firefox has these nice features...it really does have them (yes, add-on features count as browser features).

It would be cool to see how Firefox with NoScript does in pwn2own.

There's an infinite number of unknowable facts. I think "fundamentally" is sort of a semantic trick that makes it seems like there's a distinction with a difference even when there might not be one. Exampe: my friend crashed his bike and had retrograde amnesia for a few hours. What caused the crash is unknowable. Although it could have been observed, it just wasn't. There's no way now to go out and capture those photons, long since scattered and reabsorbed, etc. The path he was on has been totally repaved and redesigned. What happened to him is just as unknowable to human beings as esoteric facts about the early universe, the real difference is that bike accidents are mundane and the early universe is interesting.