So imagine if some researcher somewhere manages to prove that plants actually feel pain...
What's PETA's next move? Sustain themselves on a diet of willpower and positive energy from the universe?

Honestly I don't want to wave a tin foil here, but you have to admit certain parties would benefit a lot from an eventual panic or a "wide spread" Ebola occurrence.

I hear that, as of right now, posting one of the noodies of Jennifer Lawrence is an autoban ticket. As far as I know posting one without modifying it a little is impossible... Why? I know that you value the "organized anarchy" and self moderation of 4chan in general, and /b/ in particular, and I do understand the necessity of at least making sure that no CP is posted there (who am I kidding?) and I will not question that. But don't you think that the autoban on JLaw noodies might be the start of a trend? What will happen next when X decides to force your hand and ask for an autoban on his images too since, after all, JLaw already did it.

Kanedaaaaaa!!!

(It sounds like the SimCity4 OST soo much too)

Maybe this is the point? Maybe it was accepted as a form of irony, of self-criticism? Maybe the editors realized that the process of filtering and reviewing submissions lost so much of it's quality that, in a wake-up call, /. editors decided to accept the crappiest of fake stories and front page it anyway. Maybe this story is supposed to be the epitome of what plagued /. for so long now... News that doesn't matter. News that's not for nerds.

Or maybe they'r just lazy fucks.

Old age... True enough, but this doesn't say much about testicular or breast cancers, who hit people in their 20s and up.
Understanding why testicular cancer, for example, can be diagnosed in kids as young as 15 might be an interesting venture, me thinks.

In this case, it's the publishers who are being generous, and not the players. Did EA participate?

Am a bioengi and, a long time ago, I had to choose between what I will study in university, biology or mechanics... I chose biology because I wanted to have >fun tinkering with mechanical things... Looking at my biology/chemistry sets that I abandoned long ago, I think I made the right choice.

Funny how making a good product to get a lot of satisfied costumers became such a vintage concept...

They will do what they always did. Bury it somewhere and pretend it never existed.

Looks like I still can't download a car... but I sure as hell will be pirating one!

This was obviously written by a bacteria.

It's a marketing stunt to spark interest. I don't have one, nor was I ever that interested in it, but when I read the /. headline, the first thought that came to my mind was "I might as well buy one now".

"They build their houses right next to active volcanoes, and then wonder why there is lava in the living room."

i don't think that the richest 1 billion people on the planet read /., either...