By the way, the shark thing is bullshit. There are plenty of small sharks in SF Bay, but almost no maneaters. It was a rumor spread to scare potential escapees.

the subsidiary "had not been not making a profit"? Does that mean they made a profit?

It's actually OBD II, not ODB II. I bet you are in the software industry. :)

Keyword: "Texas." Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Not only didn't you RTFA, you didn't read the first fucking line of the summary. Wow.

Okay, reading the article now, it looks like only the Slashdot summary uses the word "theory" in this way, not the article. Still, in general, the point stands.

Yes, and I have a big problem with them being called "theories." They are at best hypotheses, and likely pure speculation. Scientists get mad when creationists say, "Oh, but you call it the THEORY of Evolution, that means it's not necessarily true!" and say creationists don't know the meaning of the word theory. Ok, then, use it correctly yourselves.

Citations haven't been built since the 1985 model year.

The latency for a WoW player on the moon would be a bitch, though.

...for humanities PhD grads is to add a required class in which they are taught all the nuanced ways in each regional dialect to say, "Would you like fries with that?"

To paraphrase Homer: To explosions! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.