No. Wikileak's original mission of publishing otherwise unavailable documents from governments all around the world is what got them on the map, well before anybody knew who Assange was. Remember when wikileak's was an actual wiki? Go to the homepage now. Nothing but the cables and the Afghanistan docs are up there now. What happened to the rest of it?

Your post says a lot without saying anything at all. What is your point?

I think the real "horror" story here is that the Treehouse of Horror Halloween special will not be aired until November 7th because of post-season baseball!

*woosh* over my head.

Citation needed, please. Google returns nothing.

That was an article from the state run news organization and you accepted it hook, line, and sinker: Its as official as anything ever is out of china..

We wonder how the Chinese people can so easily succumb to their goverments propoganda and yet there are Westerners like you who fall for the same thing.

Exactly. Look how long we've been mining the Earth and we have yet to make a significant dent in its mass.

I'm sure the kinetic energy of the train was a tongue in cheek reference to the spate of articles and debate in recent weeks regarding what practical effects the LHC beam would have on physical objects in its path. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725592

The second and third comments are pretty interesting.

"It came from the cows"

We may have been starring at the stars for a long while but it's only until recently that we've had the methods to detect extra solar planets. Looks up on the discoveries of recent exoplanets and you'll find that it's not by direct observation but by indirect methods that we've "seen" these planets.

The /. front page this evening looks like The Register this morning.

Ending my boycott of Steam was the best choice I ever made as a gamer. Steam can go dark tomorrow and I still won't regret having purchased games through them because the convenience and flexibility of being able to download my games on any PC anywhere has significantly increased my ability to replay the older titles that I own.

The /. editors fall hook, line, and sinker for these advertisements for Ksplice submitted by an 'anonymous reader' every 6-8 weeks. Get used to them.

I've said this before. I think it's time that Mozilla release a stripped down, lean, mean version of Firefox without all of the bloat.

They can call it something like Firebird, or Phoenix, to distinguish it from the main branch.