Don't pay attention to any of it. Just pay your bills, and your credit score will be 800+. Mine has been 800+ for as long as I've bothered to check (15 years), with debts ranging from $0 to $100,000, including maxed out credit cards. Too many people identify credit scores with self worth. I don't think people should try to do anything special to appease these crooks. If you are financially responsible, and the credit agencies give you a low score, then to hell with them: save money and buy things outright.

I didn't know the moon was millions of kilometers away? By lunar orbit, do they mean some other planet's moon?

I also have recurring iritis/uveitis. I grew up eating collard/turnip/mustard greens, but now eat them infrequently from laziness. Might as well give this healthy choice a try.

I'm 41, and I've also been wearing glasses since I was 6. However, I don't like them, even though I always wear them. The recent invention of soft toric contacts saved me from ever having to consider Lasik, though.

Wrong! The answer is 0.

...they will discover Scully's tissue samples in that hidden file cabinet.

It would help if you didn't begin your posts with "THIS".

Actually, this is what people have always felt about mathematics. In community colleges around the US, intermediate algebra is being removed as a requirement for getting a degree. The topics in intermediate algebra are what you'd get in 9th or 10th grade algebra 2, so in the near future most Americans won't be expected to know any high school level math at all.

I'm less and less tolerant of hokey marketing filled with superlatives. I value stability and clarity.

That's easy. Just program in C.

The increase in earthquakes over time is definite. And it's NOT generally where the actual injection wells are.

If you look at the charts again, you'll notice the earthquakes occur generally near the fault line, which is not surprising, is it? And the stations are near the fault line too, which probably is a good idea, don't you think?

Fracking releases the energy in the faults, thus fracking triggers quakes. But the energy doesn't come from fracking...

That's like someone pushing you off a cliff and then blaming gravity for your death.

...And the quake would have happened anyway...

OK, Nostradamus, we believe you...

What JSTOR especially provides, and part of what Aaron was reaping wholesale, was its organization and links, basically the indexing and cross-indexing. _That_ is what makes JSTOR so useful, and what people pay JSTOR for: the breadth and searchability of the data.

This is not true. All of this existed before JSTOR. For example, the big databases for mathematics back in the day were SilverPlatter and then MathSciNet. JSTOR is just a small evolutionary step above these, which publishers starting using for convenience. It was never some amazing revolutionary tool. Essentially everything on JSTOR shows up in a Google search anyway.

If you are woman or minority that got into tech through Codeschool and the like, you won't be working in my shop.

If you even have a "shop", you might consider hiring someone to filter you careless comments. Taken by itself, this statement suggests you discriminate against women and minorities, but not white men. If you really meant to exclude everyone who "got into tech through Codeschool and the like", you would have said so, right? I see you clarified your statement below, but from the perspective of a potential investor in your company, I hope you agree this is not a good way to get your point across.

...In relation to programming, stat is very nearly worthless...

Have you ever needed to make an informed choice of pseudo- (or quasi-) random number generator? The first 200 pages of Knuth volume 2 (Seminumerical Algorithms) is highly enlightening for programmers, in my opinion, and reads better if you know the standard statistical distributions. Also, the more you know, the more likely it is for you to establish important relationships between concepts which are seemingly unrelated. People seem to miss this as the dumbing down of education continues...

Everybody says this. It has been repeated hundreds of times on Slashdot. And it is just wrong. Fuzzy text looks fuzzy whether you're 2 inches away or 2 feet away. You might not be able to see individuals pixels, but you can clearly see the resolution is not sufficiently high to allow clear and crisp font rendering. I'm over 40 and my eyesight is worse than most people, but I sure as hell know that zooming out does not make a fuzzy picture look smooth.