And if they somehow had negative mass? Would that not account for the (purportedly) observed results?

What other kind is there? :)

"The main problem with internet quotations is that most people don't verify their authenticity." --David Hasselhoff, 14th President of the United States.

Something that takes as it's input random psychological output from many sources does well at predicting the performance of a system that takes as it's input random psychology? Makes sense, actually. The stock market isn't always governed by rational decision making. What they seem to be attempting is to cut out trying to evaluate the rationality of people's though processes, but just observing them. The danger here is that if enough people behave stupidly, this thing might enhance that through it's transactions and the resultant feedback, but that's a danger of any system.

. . .that the Beatles will need to change the lyrics to Polythene Pam?

This sounds like a job for Project Gutenberg, since this stuff is public domain. http://gutenberg.org/

You mean *GPG* key block? ;)

Not sure. :)

Unless, (tinfoil hat on) Wikileaks is a CIA program to destabilize forgeign governments in exactly this manner, and Assage and Manning are both on the payroll. The leaks about the U.S. are a smokescreen. (tinfoil hat off)

Oh, come on, I think you're letting Scientology, the Vatican, and the GOP off awfully easily. :)

So was I. I was upstairs, messing around with one of my telescopes, and my mom called up to me that I needed to get down there right away. I came down, saw the TV, and like Charliemopps, I watched the news the rest of the day. What I remember most are two things. One, how they played the tape of the launch and explosion over. . .and over. . .and over. . . Two, that I still wanted to be an astronaut. Didn't happen of course, but even at age 8 I understood that risk was a part of space exploration. I need to get on explaining that to my kids, since at least my daughter, and to a lesser extend my son, want to be astronauts, which scares the living shit out of their mother.

Fedora as well, which also has Drascula and Lure of the Temptress.

I was traveling recently and it had me do the social login thing because I was outside the usual range of IPs. I actually liked it. It was a no-brainer for me to do, and very few people that weren't me could have done it correctly, since the pictures of people were from all over my social map. +1 to Facebook for this one.

A bit slow scrolling on my FF 3.6.13 on CentOS 5.5 with dual Core2s at 2.4Ghz, but I assume that'll be rectified in due time. It'll take some getting used to, but in general I like it. Keep up the good work!

I have a NOOK, and in addition to the B&N content, I can load damn near anything I want on it myself, epub, pdb, txt, pdf, etc. And I do. Google Project Gutenberg, and Calibre.