I wouldn't even say it's about killing machines or rockets. Republicans hate big government, but they love pork. They know they can say pretty much anything to the people who vote for them, so long as they also pork them up a bit they'll get reelected. As it turns out, military equipment and space equipment are two of the best means of pork.

The thing is, being "tough on crime" isn't about rehabilitating the convicts, it's about making the jailers feel good about themselves.

I'm surprised because every review process I've seen was blind. Papers are submitted with just an ID, authors are not disclosed until the paper is accepted (they are never disclosed if it is rejected, as far as I'm aware). PLoS One is reputable enough that I would've expected the same.

Or make each incremental update increase the total cost of the patent application by 10x. I'd love to see them squirm at that.

For what it's worth, LastPass will already warn you if a password is reused across two different domains. You need to explicitly set a list of equivalences if two domains share the same backend, for example.

Except that's not quite how it works. The EPA would instead ask for the study showing this link, call it utter bullshit, and carry on.

And let's not forget that even "e-diesel" is going to release chemical composites of some sort into the air, which means the whole city pollution issue is not solved with any of those alternative fuels. To me, that's one of the key advantages of moving away from internal combustion engines beyond global warming and sustainability. The only technologies so far which do not have this issue are hydrogen and electric.

Sorry, you're probably the one in a million exception in that case. There are many reasons Google+ failed, but that's most certainly not one of them.

You try lugging that desktop around in a bag and we'll see how that works out for you. Hint: laptops aren't desktops for a reason. Also, the M3800 sports Haswell CPUs (another hint! i7 indicates relative strength within a series, it's not the series itself), which were definitely not introduced 7 years ago. Better luck next time.

This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.

This is one of the few cases where I'll just go with "Yeah, throw her into jail for a solid 5-10 years, see how she likes the opulent lifestyle there."

That's funny because IQ is defined according to the population's statistical distribution of intelligence, so in doing so you would effectively cull half the population every generation. I don't think you'd survive very long either with a comment like this.

Yes, the notion of a stop sign is enshrined into law. This proposed law would do the same for vaccines. That's not what I call a difference.

Yep. And if you want your children to go to school, you agree to play by the rules that keep everyone safer.

Why yes, because herd immunity is still largely intact. This could change if the anti-vaxxer movement keeps going though, which is exactly why it's good to handle this now rather than later, when a new, larger outbreak happens.

Comparing the 147 who got infected to the entire population of the US is disingenuous and you know it. Might as well compare it to the population of the Earth for how little it matters. What matters is that a significant number of children were infected by a deadly disease. This time around, everyone was safe and nothing bad happened. How many times do you want to roll the wheel of fortune?

By that logic, SSL is also broken, and so is any form of encryption: if you have the key, you're shit out of luck. Thankfully, getting the key(s) is a lot more complicated than you make it sound.