Windows has a hosts file too.

Really? His 'stock' was hovering around $6-$7 on Intrade right up to the election, well past the point where Nate Silver and everyone else knew Obama was a lock barring something catastrophic. That means you could have made 30%+ returns on money in just a few weeks. If anything, Obama was undervalued at Intrade.

Not that I think this wouldn't be a brilliant strategy -- you are right, to buy up all of the Intrade shares for a candidate would probably be peanuts to an American political campaign, but I just don't think Obama's camp actually, you know, did it.

Which article?

Could you link to the edit history? Usually that only happens when people add stuff to lists that doesn't have it's own wikipedia page (usually complete with external links to a website).

Seriously though, link it. I'd be happy to help correct the error.

Depends on what your kid is correcting? I've never seen ClueBot or XLinkBot eat a spelling/grammar correction, even from an IP with a single edit.

If your kid is adding "Bobby was here!!" or Facebook links to random articles, they tend to do a pretty good job of reverting his edits.

What was the foundation and background that your consider necessary? I'm actually that guy right now (as long as we're all being brutally honest). I've been thrust into this role and I don't know what the fuck. Have any good books I should read, college degrees I might be missing? Should I get a PMP cert?

Seriously it's only a matter of time before they get me but I figure I should try to learn something in case I ever want to do this again (i don't).

Best search engine? Have you forgotten AltaVista?

That monitor is not in a laptop, that's why.

I love my iPhone, but it would be extremely cool if I could pop out the battery, mostly because that means I could keep a 2nd charged one in my bag in the event that I used it heavily and drained it in the middle of the day.

When (if?) the day comes where portable batteries can power a system (phone/laptop/whatever) for a solid 12-16 hour day, then I'll be totally behind sealed-in batteries -- I can always plug the thing in at night, and I don't mind deconstructing it or sending it in once every 3 years.

African or European?

actually no one says that.

I'm pretty sure you're getting "science" confused with "the media". Scientists were legitimately studying things like saccharine and breast implants, often coming up with inconclusive results and findings that are different levels of grey, and don't really fit on a pretty headline. Then the media would take some study that says "CANCER CANCER CANCER!".

Or, in picture-form: http://xkcd.com/882/

How is this accomplished in Minecraft? I though the only way to place text was to use signs.

As a non-astronomer, can somebody explain to me roughly what we're talking about with a 140m asteroid?

I'm assuming (I could be way off) that a 1m "beach ball" asteroid probably just breaks up and burns in the atmosphere, with little appreciable hitting the ground/ocean.

How about a "car" sized asteroid? Does it burn up? Possibly take out a house? City Block?

How big do asteroids have to be before they could take out a whole city? How about to create a Tsunami (since they are most likely hitting ocean anyhow). How big to impact yearly weather patterns and destroy crops?

I know the Chicxulub one is supposed to have been 10km, so that's "extinct most species" territory -- What does 140m mean in comparison?

Seems to me the flaw in this plan is that people are cheap -- you'd encourage a lot of them to sit out for the drop, drop, drop in prices in the last 12 hours. So you'd miss out on:

A) the logistical sanity of just having the plane mostly full well in advance.

B) A good chunk of the interest you make from holding on to several hundred dollars per passenger for what is often a few months.

plus, you'd probably end up with a lot of grumpy people who missed out during the last minute firesale. Sure, its their own fault, but people don't care -- you spill your fries, it's McDonald's fault, you show up late on Black Friday, it's Best Buy's fault that they only had 8 doorbuster sale HDTVs. People who missed out on a seat due to their own lack of planning would probably just rage at the airline.