1) As others have pointed out, not all humans are on Facebook. I'm sure the FB researchers would be hard-pressed to believe that, though.

More importantly,
2) The "six degrees" is supposed to be the MAXIMUM linkage between any two people -- not the average. Good job disproving something nobody ever claimed, guys!

One link says 50-70 times faster, and the other says 50-70 percent faster.

Does anyone actually feel like watching the video to see what the claim is?

I've only ever done the slots thing once... I was in line for a Vegas buffet with my girlfriend and her family, and her little sister (not quite 21) handed me a quarter to play for her. I picked a machine, dropped the coin, and brought her back a handful of quarters. She picked one out of the pile and handed it to me, and I went and repeated the feat. We did this 5 or 6 times, before the line was up and we went in to eat. Not sure I should ever touch a slot machine again, after that run!

Yes. To simplify the math, assume the pancake is a sphere...

They're still using awkward wording. Neither the computer on the plane nor the computer the pilot is sitting in front of runs Windows. In the same trailer, there are also several machines used for data analysis that DO run Windows, and are the only place this malware (virus? worm? trojan? I never could keep them straight) could possible have taken hold. Also, the "credentials" in question are video game registration keys. Good luck finding many of those on these workstations!

Nope. The planes and the ground stations that control them both use environments other than OS X or Windows. There are, however, also some data analysis workstations that sit in the same trailers as the Pilot bay, that happen to run Windows.

Incidentally, you have the salt thing backwards. The meatier the opinion, the more salt it takes to season or preserve it. Which is, of course, kind of the whole point of taking something with "a grain" of salt -- "sure, I'll take your opinion, but it isn't even worth wasting a dash on". So taking the pundits' articles with a full shaker of salt implies you're planning on living off their opinions for a good while to come!

That's also where you'll be launching all your applications from...

That is also where you'll be launching all your applications from...

Lame.

Sorry, did you just say you only expect four hours from your phone? Out of curiosity, what brand do you have? (So I know to run the heck away from it)

Stacking these things is all well and good, but at what point do heat considerations become a primary concern? Lately I haven't gotten the impression that volume of ICs is our biggest bottleneck.

...I actually used Sets on a fairly regular basis. Check out it out before it's gone!

Man, don't tell 4ch or Anon about this -- they'll start a campaign to use stolen credit card numbers to start mass-closing accounts... and not even cost the card anything! It's like a VISA ping of death...

well it's 2011, so it must have been at least 27 years ago...