"look for them here in earth. Use them to sieve the thousands of stories about aliens"

That truly would be a complete waste of money.
All these loonie stories kidnapping, anal probes, etc, etc, is why serious SETI gets treated as a joke.

Anyway,it's been done.
The answer is 99% proven nothing happened, 1% unknown.

Use your brain. If aliens are visiting us with such frequency, WHERE IS THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE?
Any artefact made off-earth will have a different isotopic ratio, even if we don't know what it is.
Where is one drop of alien sweat with their DNA or equivalent?

"If the search for extraterrestrial life leads to that life deciding to destroy all life on earth, would it
still be a "good investment" ?"

The proposed plan is for listening only, not broadcasting a "here we are" signal,.

If there are indeed malignant and hostile aliens who extermiante every other species that pops up, it would be even more important to know all we can about them.

"Too many variables to know what is really going on atm." Yes.Which is why actually doing some legwork rather than just theorising makes sense. $100m is nothing compared to the potential consequences of discovering ET life. Even if the chance is 1 in a million, it's a good investment.

Again, its not the "dating profile" that matters, but the membership in the site. You need real details for the financial transactions.

(Yeah, they could use bitcoin, but this isn't a geek site, they'd just use their AmeX.)

Slashdot editors don't use, or ignore, spellcheck anyway.

They don't check anything really. Multiple dupes, ten-year-old stories resubmitted, obvious bogus stories, etc, etc. Offences against grammar are the least (but still irritating) of their sins.

3 "decent" fails actually.

The tit size and penis length parts are probably unreliable. The names, addresses and credit card numbers (since it's a pay site) must be real.

Unless for some bizarre reason you are purposefully trying to avoid non-GMO food, then you shouldn't care.

If you want to ensure that you are buying non-GMO food -- which is what the anti-GMO activists want -- then all you have to do is buy food that is so marked. This law doesn't change that at all.

When it comes to copyright, never attribute to ignorance that which can be adequately explained by malice. They always try to enforce the rights further than they know they are entitled to.

Considering this, I find the fact that the numbers of spouses with the same college major is as low as it is -- 10% on average according to TFA -- to be a little surprising.

Also, it is better for the guilty to go free than for the innocent to be punished. Saying that someone who agrees with this fundamental principle of our legal system doesn't want rape prosecuted is simply an ad hominem.

No, "why one is a problem" is only obvious to SJWs. The rest of us don't see that targeting advertising towards a particular demographic is a problem.

They only want people who are at least slightly tech-savvy to think it's a totally new browser. They want stupid people who don't know anything to think it's the same old browser they're already familiar with. Changing the name while keeping the icon seems like a good way to accomplish these goals.

That's usually a pretty funny bitcoin comment, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the situation in this case.