Ghostery + Adblock are redundant with RequestPolicy + Noscript. And I prefer Self-Destructing Cookies, since it can get rid of all sorts of persistent storage objects and doesn't tend to break things. It deletes all cookies set while on a tab when you close the tab, unless you whitelist them.

Well, even when you can refactor it you have to figure out what the classes do before you can give them sensible names.

Cut off the bottom of my post on accident. It's supposed to be that CVE, but the actual CVE hasn't been published yet. They went with the press release first for some reason.

It's CVE-2015-3456. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/...

Use a locally hosted caching DNS server. It's very fast even with large blocklists. Unlike a you-know-what that slows down significantly as the blocklist gets larger.

Not during an abort, only during a normal landing. During an abort the landing fuel is used to get the capsule away from the (shortly exploding) rocket as fast and as far as possible.

You do NOT want to drink substantial amounts of distilled water. It will leech the salts out of your body through osmosis. Distilled water with a pinch of table salt is likely fine though.

And yet government contracts somehow continually manage to go over budget, and the government pays the cost instead of the contractor.

It is a regional dialectical usage, mostly in the midland US. It's spread, but is less common elsewhere, and pretty much absent in New England and outside the US. In most other places it requires a preceding negative construction, eg "Activists aren't as effective any more because they get caught up in this sort of shite, leaving important worries like electing good people to govern us laguishing on the back burner." It is often a rather confusing construction to people who haven't seen it before, because they're used to the negation beforehand. So it seems like you're trying to negate your own point, decreasing clarity.

It is a set number. It's not an integer, but real numbers are certainly numbers, and pi is a constant in Euclidean geometry.

No, if you want an easy and unbreakable encryption system for your text just use EBCDIC. No programmer has stayed sane long enough to implement it.

You just described the Everettian model. That model doesn't have any paradox for Schrodinger's cat. Several of the others (the ones Schrodinger was criticizing) do. EG de Broglie-Bohm theory, Transactional QM, and Objective Collapse theories don't have the issue, while von Neumann/Wigner does.

The cat is fully capable of observing its own state of being. It can't be in a superposition of alive and dead without collapsing it.

Actually, it was that if the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory was correct then that would be the absurd conclusion.

So the Copenhagen interpretation is wrong, as is any other interpretation that necessarily comes to the same absurd conclusion.

The interpretations that don't make such a conclusion are unaffected by the thought experiment.

Well, they're funded by Yahoo now, so if they take after the practices of their funding source I'd expect them to annoy and drive away their users.