Of which ~20,000 were suicides. Oh, I'm sorry did logic ruin your talking point?

Or use helium instead, so that everyone's last statement has that extra layer of humor on top of it.

Umm....look, I think beating a bag of cats to death is horrific and all, and certainly the product of a disturbed mentality, but beating a bag of animals to death isn't in the same ballpark as rape and murder of a person. With the animals you're looking at a psych eval and if that passes then 5 years prison time (maybe) for cruelty to animals charges.

You make some good points (indistinct tabs is already annoying me), but one thing to point out - if you right click View Source is right there like it's always been. Still just two quick clicks away.

Though burying it in the menu bar strikes me as off-putting.

Super glue in all the USB ports pretty well prohibits them from being used and is cheap and effective. You'd need a PS/2 mouse and keyboard though.

I will be extraordinarily impressed if you can get your Galaxy S5 to communicate with an 8" floppy drive (or the computer using it), even assuming you have some hypothetical proprietary/non-standard connector to make the physical connection with.

2003 is supported until 2015, this is true, but the codebase is sufficiently different that the 32-bit Windows 2003 patch won't directly run on Windows XP. Now the 64-bit 2003 patch will run on XP-64 but only because XP-64 is exactly Server 2003 64-bit with some XP logos thrown about (good luck finding drivers for that on standard desktops).

This will also affect vanilla Windows 7 installs and Vista as well. As those are still under support I would expect Microsoft to issue an IE patch for version 7-11, but just not make a specific patch for IE7/8 on Windows XP. Kind of like how IE6 patches for Windows 2000 stopped happening after 2010.

Not lead, iron, actually. It's the element with the maximum nuclear binding energy. Below that you perform fusion for a net gain, and above that fission produces a gain. Iron is kind of the "ground state" from a nuclear perspective.

In good sci-fi literature we see this come up again and again in many hypothetical scenarios. Ian Douglas answers the Fermi Paradox by positing a future where a galaxy-spanning race of hyper-darwinist xenophobes mercilessly wipe out any space faring "other" race much to humanity's horror when they stumble across ruins, relics, and artifacts left by other races.

In the Crystal Spheres by David Brin we see a future where all intelligent life is closed off from habitable worlds until they themselves become space faring, and humanity is among the first to reach the stars.

In To Outlive Eternity by Poul Anderson we see a possible scenario in which humans are first by design.

Peter F. Hamilton takes us through another possibility in the Night's Dawn Trilogy where intelligent life is fairly rare and what there is out there doesn't really have an interest in "lesser" forms.

In all, we won't know for sure for a long while yet, but I think there are some good possibilities out there. And until we actually do make contact or prove ourselves to be alone, good sci-fi keeps us company in the meantime =)

The brilliance of calculus is the usage of infinitely many infinitely small rectangular slices to nonetheless derive an exact measurement of the finite area under a curve. At its core, calculus is the merging of the infinite and the finite. When you truly understand it, it is one of the most elegant and beautiful discoveries in human history.

Few programmers actually do sorts and list manipulation at that level anymore, but any of them worth a damn should be *able* to do them at that level and understand the underlying theory to make the most effective use of them.

You may not need to be a mechanic to drive a car, but you'll damn sure get better performance out of it if you are.

Honestly, I would just look forward to geeking out about my phone screen being made of transparent aluminum.

Yeah it's a funny thing - management screwed up, obviously the solution is to fire all of the workers.

No, ignorance of the contract is a defense - without a meeting of the minds there is no contract. Ignorance of the law will still absolutely get you penalized, incarcerated, etc. if you break it. But in one case you're talking about a private party or company and yourself, in the other you're talking about your relationship to the state.