I call troll, but I can't help feeding you. If a bug made the phone into a brick that did nothing but execute nop instructions at 1 Ghz when idle, and just flashed random lights when a button was pressed, your definition would not classify this a performance bug.

First rule of spaceflight #9: Most of your early attempts end in tears. I hope to see India's space program try, try again until they get it right, and not let the inevitable early failures dampen their spirit. With the United States government bound and determined to cede our #1 status as a spacefaring nation (unless Elon Musk already has designs for a rocket capable of taking us beyond the moon), I can only hope another democracy like India, and not a fascist regime like China, takes the lead.

By the time I read this news item, the site Reid posted, www.therealsharronangle.com, was redirected to a site that is clearly mocking Angle. However, if I understand correctly, Reid's campaign originally reposted her entire website verbatim, with no indication that it was not being hosted by Angle's campaign.

If so, Angle's complaint may not be without merit. She seems to deserve a lot of mockery, but you don't get to pretend you're someone else in a political campaign, especially when you have a functioning mailing list sign-up form on your 'fake' site.

Nevermind what the extra load will do to their already-fragile servers. The stupid whale is the only thing I've seen for two days now.

Wrong. You stop drilling and eat the $10 million you've dropped on the well so far. If that's not acceptable to you, don't drill off my damn coast.

I don't think Microsoft goes so far with its April Fool's jokes as to file an actual patent application.

In the movies, whenever a billionaire builds a nuclear reactor, James Bond usually has to save the world from his evil schemes.

Except his employer isn't "corporate", they're a U.S. state, funded by taxpayers. As a taxpayer, I demand to know if there are security (or "configuration") holes that have been actively exploited at the institutions my taxes fund, unless the dissemination of such knowledge would hurt an ongoing police investigation. There is no mention in the story of such a request from the police, just a general indication that the police are investigating.

You're right, we should cancel that plan. Oh wait.

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Please refer to http://www.tineye.com.

This Google visual search seems more targeted at recognising locations, tourist attractions, and billboards.

The mother crocodile reacts because she thinks you are going to harm her young in some tangible, concrete way

Most of these "child-protection" measures exist because there is a social stigma attached to adults having sex with children

The former is driven by a biological imperative, the latter is not; it's socially-constructed

In fact, one could argue that the general biological imperative for the male of the species to spread his genetic code far and wide actually explains why many/most adult males are aroused by the sight/thought/presence of nubile teen females, and some percentage of those will, despite the social taboos, act on those impulses.So, when viewed through the narrow lens of "biological imperatives", it's actually more expected that these liaisons occur than for them to be prevented. More "natural", as it were.

(I'm sure those who read this casually, or selectively, will be aghast at the thought that Wowlapalooza is claiming that raping children is "natural". But that misses the point that I'm trying to make here; that viewing a complex, multi-variable issue like protecting children from abuse, from one limited, academic perspective like "biological imperatives", is superficial, does a disservice to both sides of the debate, and can lead to surprising, perhaps even repugnant conclusions. This reductio ad absurdum is offered in direct opposition to circletimessquare's approach, to which I was directly responding.)

Linked videos show testers taking photos of consumer products such as books and food items (a Tabasco label, for example). If Google Goggles can identify any small item I'm looking at using only my GPS coordinates and orientation, we should just surrender now and pray that Richard Brautigan wasn't being too optimistic.