So, what you're saying is that if I kill Hitler, then in a really roundabout way, I prevent 9/11?

Also, I didn't even say I was going ti kill Hitler. I was going to get to know him. I doubt I'd have the guts to kill him, especially once I know him, so the Time Corps has nothing to worry about.

Also, I think you mean there was a division of the Time Corps. Or will be, depending on your point of view. But they have to be an organization started in the relative future, who are patrolling the relative past, so they clearly can't exist at this time. Tenses are difficult, I know.

You know, if the FTL neutrinos are real, then there is every possibility that the episodes are on their way to a rescue point in the future right now. There could be a time machine in transit at this very moment, recovering this lost cultural icon for our enjoyment, as soon as they land in the recovery era.

If I were a time-traveller, you can bet that my first stop would be the 1960s, to rescue the lost episodes.

My second stop, of course, would be the mid-to-late 1930s, to have a drink with Hitler and get to know him and then decide whether I have a moral duty or even moral right to kill him.

TFA should clearly be a link to The Onion. Why is a headline such as this not a story right out of The Onion? Along with pizza being legally considered a vegetable in the US, it looks like truth really is stranger than fiction.

I use Linux as my primary OS, because goodness, it is a thing of beauty. But, I also have a Steam account, and sometimes, I like to play Portal and other video games that aren't available on Linux.

I do wish this would change, because the Humble Indie Bundles show every time that there is a market for Linux games comparable to the market for Mac games, but Linux users are willing to pay a higher average price. Developers are losing a lot of money every second they don't convert their Mac development department to a Linux development department.

You're wrong. The error bars on experimental data are a statistical thing. By the very fact that their margins of error didn't allow their confidence intervals to capture the speed of light, the speeds of the neutrinos were statistically significant in their difference from (in this case, above) c for some significance level. I don't know what their level was, but it was probably .1, .05, or tighter, since these are pretty standard significance levels. That means that if all their instruments were calibrated perfectly and their calculations were all correct, there's a 90-95% chance (if the significance level is .1 or .05) that the actual speed of the neutrinos was really within the confidence interval (and so were that much faster than c).

Unless you have a different definition of significance, in which case, you should be more specific.

Dear Science:

As soon as you possibly can, please install four Doc-Ock-like arms on my back, to be controlled in the manner described in this story.

Love,
icannotthinkofaname

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The media has been using the DJIA practically religiously to tell us whether or not our country has an economy. But if they can selectively ban companies that do well, are we really in a state of near financial emergency?

Are we only in a recession because companies who are going to say we're in a recession are allowed to be counted in the DJIA?

You'd think the retard selling the bitcoins would just use a block explorer to point to the number of the block containing the transaction and show that as proof that the coins were sent and credited to the buyer's address instead of going through all that bullshit you listed in step 5.

If PayPal wants some kind of "tracking number" for the bitcoins, the block number containing the to/from addresses is as good as you're gonna get.

(Emphasis mine)

Having never owned an Apple product in my life, I just googled images of iphone original, iphone 3g, iphone 3gs, and iphone 4. After carefully comparing the changes over the years, I think I have a pretty good guess about what the iphone 5 prototype probably looks like.

Yeah, I walked in to complain about the editor's lack of editing, too (though I guess average opinion here is that the editors generally don't edit).

As a native Pittsburgher, I demand that Soulskill correct the error in the summary, like the editor that he's supposed to be.

That's silly. You should follow Bethesda's example and trademark the word, instead.

Agreed. I'll believe these claims about Android being anti-competitive when those same accusers also declare intention to sue entities like Canonical, who also give away superior software for free on a regular basis.

I'm sorry, but I just can't get behind that idea.

Dear Science:

I would like the following to be accomplished as soon as possible:

1. Please hook up four of those robotic arms to my brain, and mount the arms on my back.
2. Please develop replacement parts for every piece of the human body, and then put them all together to make a completely artificial person.

Love,
Mike

Yeah, this seriously sounds like the beginning of any number of Doctor Who stories. "Genesis of the Daleks", "The Leisure Hive", and others, I'm sure.

I, for one, rather than welcoming our new Dalek overlords, shall take up arms on the side of the Thals.