In case anyone else was completely confused about the ''estimate of just 660 meters" in the summary:

But let's do the math: even if these particles are moving at almost the speed of light--300,000 km/s--and they live for 2.2 microseconds, they should only be able to travel about 660 meters before decaying away.

Yet I told you these particles are created at the top of the atmosphere, which is some 100 kilometers, or 100,000 meters up! From our perspective, that muon should never make it to the ground. And yet, it's Einstein to the rescue, thank to the fact that when objects move close to the speed of light, their clocks run slow.

Now we have Chinese grade farmers.

Either way, you end up dead - but for a lot of people, option two looks more appealing.

Until they try it. (Though a small number will actually take to it.)

Anyone who's a fan of Opera back when it was still innovative and highly configurable (way back in version 12) might want to keep an eye on Vivaldi, a browser being created by a number of people who left the Opera team after the change in focus. It's based on the Blink engine and the developers are working on incorporating many of the features of Opera 12. It still has a way to go, as it's currently still at the technical preview stage.

And give us bread, too!

We really couldn't have worked 'Oregon Trial' into the headline?

Maybe it would have been good to give at least a brief description of the game itself?

From a philosophical or pure cause and effect approach, sure, the makers of an app have some responsibility for the effect it has on people and what they do as a result. From a legal/liability standpoint, generally not.

The article writer is just saying to keep in mind that how your app behaves, how it looks, how it presents data, can have a real effect on its users, so you should consider the implications of your decisions.

All the restaurants are full of mothers and their children on Mother's Day. I'll be taking her out next Saturday.

With the decline of civility, asking a woman out and being rejected is no longer, "I'm sorry. I appreciate you asking but I'm just not interested" to, "Fucking loser! Why would you talk to me? Get the fuck out of here."

It is?

Just create a script on a computer somewhere that has it every so often send an update consisting of '[date] Still dead.'

Yeah, it's the easiest thing in the world to come up with an encryption scheme that you can't break.

95% of climate models 'have been found to be in error'. Of course, if he's defining being in error as having any sort of mistake in the model, it's not only true but 5% low.

No. Please also list the ones you don't know about.

What I want to know is where in the world the word 'city' came from in the article's title. There's nothing anywhere close to a city mentioned in the article itself, with the goal of the challenge being to 'establish a technically achievable, economically sustainable human living space'. I don't know about anyone else, but to me, that sounds like an outpost rather than anything like a city.