Some of the source articles from which Gizmag stole this story referred to this being the closest flyby of this particular asteroid. The wording was such that when I first skimmed one of them even I thought the claim was that this was the closest approach to any asteroid. When I went back and parsed the whole sentence it became much clearer - Gizmag must never have read their sources carefully.

Citation needed.

Install a system-wide ad blocker on your phone.

Hit up up down down left right left right b a select start and you get full broadband access from any SNES emulator.

I often start from the advanced search page when I don't feel like typing out behavior-modifying operators and I too have problems with things like allintext just being ignored in my results or some of my words being replaced with a list of supposed synonyms that don't make any sense for me.

Thanks to Google, the majority of results on most of those search engines is a steaming pile of fake linkfarm websites. That's not to say you shouldn't go try other search engines - Google is the main target of the SEO that leads to the linkfarms and it does a pretty poor job of avoiding them. But they were better back before Google, when well planned (often boolean heavy) searches were more likely to lead to relevant results.

I'm not sure what the speeds in the article actually mean - they may be an average capped to the maximum bitrate of a Netflix stream, hence the clustering at such slow speeds around 2-2.5 mbps. The cheap Charter service in my tiny podunk midwestern town gives me 30 mpbs in terms of real performance whenever I connect to a fast server, for instance when I'm downloading something off of Steam.

Help me out with my iPhone 5: how do I get rid of the Newstand App? How can I even hide it? The "create a folder and then quickly drag the app onto the folder" thing doesn't seem to work for me, by the way.

Why does my iPhone 5 often need to be plugged into my PC 3 or 4 times before it will be recognized in iTunes?

Once Siri bugs out and stops letting me speak into the microphone to give voice input, how do I get it to work again? Resetting the phone doesn't work, but usually after a few days it starts listening again.

I want to put apps just in the four corners of my display, not all over it in an ugly and rather unusable grid. How can I do that?

I want to quickly copy a 10 GB folder onto my iPhone from my computer. How can I do that?

Why does the mail app show that I have 5 unread messages but show none in my inbox? Why does the gmail app show the messages correctly if the iPhone mail app can't?

Once I get a telemarketing call, how can I block all calls that share the same area code and 3 number prefix as that number?

These are a small handful of the things I'd really like answers for on my iPhone. I was able to do them all trivially on my SGS2 by either flipping through menus for 30 seconds or doing an obvious search in the stupidly named Google Play Store. Despite all this I like the iPhone 5, mostly for its great battery life.

Both of those are excellent examples of something beginning. You're either discussing the beginning of time or the beginning of this cycle of the universe. It's almost impossible to come up with a better use of the noun "beginning."

I just moved from Android back to an iPhone for the first time in a few generations and for the apps I want I'm seeing something of the reverse. A lot of the apps I used on my SGS2 for free cost $1-5 to unlock a similar feature set in iOS. A lot of the things I did with Android can't be done at all until the iPhone 5 gets jailbroken (like a robust call blocker).

On the other hand, last night I didn't have my expensive new lightning cable near my bed but I saw that I still had 68% of my battery charge left after a day of moderate use, so I didn't charge my phone while I slept. When I woke up this morning I still had 62% of my battery life remaining. I'm impressed, but I'll probably still leave iOS when another upgrade becomes available on my Sprint account in six months.

A full term baby can't collect food for itself, effectively locomote, or do much of anything without assistance. If left unattended for a few dozen hours it perishes. It's fully adapted to function as a biological unit it its nominal environment...providing that environment includes caretakers to manage nearly every aspect of its existence required to survive. A fetus is also fully adapted to function as a biological unit in its nominal environment...a uterus. I'm not seeing a sharp distinction.

My first thought was "Huh? How would a car have a warranty?" Then I remembered that many, many people buy new cars and I'm probably in the minority.

Not really. When dealing with a cognitive "defect" that's been diagnosed as a "disease," psychiatrists are more concerned with the questions you ask than anything else. Psychiatry isn't about finding the abnormal and forcing it to conform. It's about finding ways for people to be happy and functional regardless of their various psychological peculiarities.

Big Picture didn't exist last year, and last month you could do it but it was still in beta.

I think this is the norm in any innovative company. I don't know anyone who does science and doesn't spend a third or a half of his or her time developing personal projects.