It didn't specify *what* efforts. I was going with asteroids as they are the most immediate threat to life on the planet. Work out how to keep ourselves safe long enough to do the rest.

Mogambo!

I'd go with Betty. But I'd be thinking about Wilma.

I'm so not a maths geek, but why is this useful other than being able to say "hey, we found the first trillion congruent numbers"?

I know that certain branches are useful for cryptography purposes, but what awesomeness does this let us do?

I'd like to know the difference between a site emailing you the new password and the site emailing you a link to reset your password (in both cases assuming you have forgotten the original one). In either case if someone intercepts the email they can achieve the same effect. I suppose that a reset link at least gives you a chance that you'll be there before an eavesdropper and the link is one use?

Or are you explicitly talking about the site emailing your existing password, which means they are storing it in either plaintext or reversible hash?

If you think Wil Shipley is making "probably about $5 a month from their software" you've clearly never heard of him.

Put it this way, he's currently selling his super charged Lotus pending delivery of his Tesla roadster.

If you listen to the same music over and over and over, then there's not much incentive. If you're the sort of person constantly on the lookout for something new to listen to then you get, essentially, unlimited new music for the price of only a single album each month. Sure, you could use Last.fm, but if you're an "album listener", Last.fm is horrible.

It is classified as a tax, but, since it isn't collected for the government it technically isn't one. The government doesn't handle or distribute the funding. For complicated reasons the money goes into the government account and the exact amount is then "voted" on as the amount to give to the BBC who then allocate as they see fit. It is a rigmarole to keep the BBC accountable.

Technically, the BBC is neither government owned nor taxpayer funded. Of course, by law if you operate any equipment capable of receiving broadcast material you have to pay the license fee, but the government doesn't handle or distribute the funding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc#Governance

As an interesting aside, you can use the BBC iPlayer to watch previously shown material without a license, but you can't watch the live stream without one. As long as you watch everything an hour later you're good.

I wish people would stop insisting marriage is a church thing. The church had no interest in marriage until the Council of Trent in the mid sixteenth century where they suddenly realised that by deciding a marriage couldn't be recognised unless it was sanctioned and carried out by the church they could turn what had previously been a mostly business proposal into a nice little money spinner.

Twitter apps can set your location (many do it at the same time as you tweet), but this is a single location associated with your profile, so it will be changed as you move around. The new API assigns a geolocation to the specific tweet so you will have historical data for users location which, no doubt, someone will think of a good use for. It's pretty much building on top of the location that currently exists, but you will be able to set a "home" location that specifies the area you are in, making it easy to find people in the same town as you, for instance, but still be able to update your specific location over time.

I'm planning a service that, for a couple of bucks let cheating spouses and teenagers send tweets from a specified location and time to act as an alibi for their indiscretion/unauthorised trips to make-out point.

Not statistical anecdote, but my wife is useless at finding her way places. We've been within 2 miles of our house and she doesn't know where we are. She is also the type that, when attempting to play FPS, spends the whole time staring at the floor and wondering why she's not able to get away from the wall in front of her. Portal just confused her completely.

On the other hand, I only tend to get lost if I attempt to follow signs. Let me know roughly where something is and I seem to be able to homing pigeon it. I'm useless at FPS, but only because I'm a terrible aim. I always know exactly where I am when I get killed though.

Part of me deeply wants the 'sol' in the URL to be an amusing in joke created by the developer. Sadly, I'm going to assume it is "Sun OnLine".

I usually try to hit a round number when filling up since it makes it easier to balance your bank account.

Of course, now it's all done on a computer it's not really an issue so I've been trying out just letting it stop wherever it automatically knocks off, but it feels weird.

I also can't have a numeric volume control at an odd number unless it ends with a five :(

That seems like you are implying that atheism and theism are both irrational viewpoints. I assume you don't believe in the tooth fairy, but are you really saying you don't believe in a lack of the tooth fairy? Are you only agnostic about the tooth fairy or are you an atheist with regard to the tooth fairy.

There are an infinite number of things to not believe in, but saying that not believing all these possibilities is the same as believing in them seems rather ludicrous.

See also: Burden of Proof.