When stuff falls into a black hole, it gets measurably heavier. If a charged particle falls into one, the black hole retains a measurable electric field. If a black hole picks up angular momentum from gas circling in sideways, the hole spins faster, and the gas fired from the jets comes out at a higher speed.

Your argument that mass or energy exists that isn't measurable since it isn't observable sounds a little illogical... how would you even know there was such a thing if nobody had measured it for you in the first place?

Actually Stephen Hawking would have agreed with you in 1997, but by 2004 he decided he had lost the bet with John Preskill of Caltech.

As screwed up as this sounds I would take modern IE 11 over Firefox anyday.

I would have a psychotic episode seeing me type this 5 years ago but Firefox has gone to shit starting with 4. Actually 3.6 U noticed slowness too.

IE is great for running ancient shit intranet sites. Java is negligent to run as a plugin. Only few good reasons for IE is group policy to allow java to run on only intranet or trusted site lists. If your mcses at work have it enabled globally they should be slapped up the back of the head.

Go read IE 7 goes RTM from slashdot circa 2006?

Webmasters freaked by SSL https:/// won't display pictures with non secure hyperlinks.

This is not news as for 9 years ancient IE did not allow

On Rina 4, that's how they spail it.

Can we peak under alien skirts, or is this only virtual?

In the case of iOS, it's Apple's fault. In the case of Android, it's usually Verizon's fault.

Many of the Android phones from Samsung, HTC, and Sony have a working FM transmitter as long as they are not purchased from Verizon. However, I'm not sure that makes a difference with most consumers. The FM transmitter needs the wired headset to act as an antenna. And who carries one of those around all the time? Personally, I keep my wired headset unused at home (and I usually use bluetooth instead). And if you're at home, or at your office, it probably means you have access to a standalone emergency FM/AM radio anyway.

From a bluetooth headset, the FM transmitter from the phone doesn't really work, but there is one headset model for instance from Sony that has a FM transmitter and an mp3 built into the headset. I have that model and it works, but I can't really recommend it because it's too easy to lose because of its dangling headphones and because the clip of the base often gets unclipped when I slide in or out of a car.

Not possible since life created our oxygen rich atmosphere.

I'm not sure why the submitter/story takes a conspiratorial tone about surge pricing but then proceeds to basically explain that surge pricing successfully solves two of three scarcity problems.

The most immediate way to increase supply is to reallocate available resources to where demand is higher. You WANT cars on the road now to go where there is greater demand.

Price increaes help reduce demand from people with lower priority travel requirements and allow those with higher priority travel obtain transportation by allowing them to use willingness to pay a signal of their greater needs.

The only thing it appears to be failing at is increasing the aggregate supply. Uber many need to provide an additional incentive to draw in inactive drivers, like some kind of bonus for drivers inactive for the N previous hours to become active again (such as guaranteeing at least one surge priced fare if surge pricing stops before they can obtain a fare within some time window, even if Uber has to cover the differential).

The only conspiracy in my mind with surge pricing would be if Uber enables it WITHOUT a concurrent increase in demand. If they are just enabling it because its raining even if there's no increase in demand, they're just opportunistically increasing fares. I might buy into the notion that they may be predictively enabling surge pricing IF they coud produce the data that says that some event X results in a Y percent demand increase historically; in that case they may actually be signalling additional supply and doing some good.

Missionaries taste like chicken.

listen to is the NOAA weather radio - around here its 162.500 megahertz, and the voice was recorded by Stephen Hawking

"There is a black hole approaching from the south-east. Please evacuate as fast as possible..."

Go to Amazon and search for the Intel drive? $2400 now??! The Kingston is much cheaper oh and I have 950 megs a second from my ahci Samsung pro 80s running on fake raid 0 from intel rst. So speed is still possible as 14000 cpu cycles is nothing when an i7 can do 180,000 instructions a second. Kind of sad that an inefficient design is that poor? Shouldn't we have solved this with an external i/o chip? Or have a component in the cpu? The point of Scsi was for this reason back in the 1990s

Why?

If you answer build your own dvr which only represent 5% of users then you need just a fixed long sequencial access. Ah a mechanical disk is up your alley. You don't do random 4k burst dependent on latency. You gain nothing and a mechanical disk is like $60 a tb. So buy some cheap WD green's in a raid and call it a day. Use an ssd for pc use.

1 tb = 2,400 page word document for every man, woman, and child whoever lived! Most consumers never come close to filling 200 gbs. No need.

And there are external drives you can use for TV shows which is the only use for 98% of all uses

When I open your search engine, I want the focus of my cursor to default your search form.

After I found out that you didn't even have this, which requires no more than one single attribute in html, I didn't have the confidence to go to any further. Usability testing is cheap. The idea that you would forgo any kind of basic usability testing, before asking for feedback from Slashdot users, tells me you don't have the experience, nor the real desire, to make a decent halfway usable search engine.

Summary: God went bowling to knock some sense into wayward particle clumps.

In most legal systems, you can't just directly ignore a court order without it becoming a criminal case. Even if it wasn't criminal before, violating a court order is itself an offense.