That's not all that astounding of a claim, there are many such organisms that have not changed much for many tens and hundreds of millions of years. They are often called Living Fossils. Examples include the nautilus, crocodiles, horseshoe crabs, and the hagfish as in TFA.

They determine this by examining fossils from a wide range of geological time frames and see that present day organisms are virtually unchanged from whats in the fossil record.

There are in the scientific literature published algorithms that produce approximate results well in the "good enough" range, 2-5% larger than optimal, to be worthwhile. For large and small datasets, with millions of points.

Furthermore, it doesn't matter that the warehouse has millions of items, the complexity of the problem depends only on the size of the order, or the sizes of how many orders can be fit in your rolly bin.

It's wouldn't be objectively any nastier than the other toxic substances such as hydrazine that would be sprayed all over the place in an explosion. "Dirty bombs" are not something to be taken seriously. Blowing up an equal mass of mercury would be more dangerous than the uranium, and the damage uranium would pose is more that it is a heavy metal than due to it being radioactive.

There are people with empathy that can still make the hard decisions, as opposed to the psychopaths in TFA that consider only themselves. Not all people with empathy are blubbering idiots.

The ketchup comment was in response to Zare's 1996 claims of organic compounds on meteorites found in Antarctica. NASA's discovery is something different.

Not all policies, many will still payout on suicide. Sometimes there are conditions, like the insured has to have the policy for a certain amount of time before its in force, often 2 years, but either way, the claim "All life insurance policies become void in case of suicide" is false.

What makes you think leaving is going to make the terrorist organizations flourish? We are their best recruiting tool. It's a lot easier to recruit people to fight against an enemy, when that enemy is flying drones around constantly blowing shit up and murdering people.

We are absolutely creating more terrorists than we are killing. The US is going to have a far worse 'terrorism' problem on its hands in 10-20 years if this shit continues.

Hey, I've got a crappy 93 accord a friend and I bought off another friend for $125 bucks. I think it would be fun to enter one of those races. How much did it cost you to install all the safety equipment into your vehicle?

It takes a seriously long time for water to get back into the aquifers. If you are drinking a glass of water from a well, it could have easily been 50 or 100 years since that water was last above the surface. If you're pumping the water out faster than its being replenished, the ground can sink, and close up the voids resulting from extraction. Over time, that will reduce the aquifers total capacity. And this change is not reversible.

Except it is also a physical problem. The subsidence of land, as a result of groundwater extraction, is not reversible. In some places, such as the San Joaquin Valley, the ground has literally sunk nearly 30 feet. Those aquifers require geologic periods of time to form. The aquifers in that valley will never again be what they used to be.

The destruction of ground water systems is a classic tragedy of the commons.

Fighting harder is not what is important. What matters is fighting better, and that will usually go to whoever is the best trained and has the best equipment.

from your link:

What went wrong

They Split the 8 digits into 2 sets of 4. All that has to happen now is the first 4 have to be found first. 4 digits only have a 10,000 possible number combination. Once the first 4 numbers are found, the router proclaims "You've found the first four" giving, in essence, a checkpoint at which to save the progress before finding the last 4. So instead of having to guess an 8 digit combination, all that has to be guessed now is two 4 digit combinations and that takes considerably less time. So we've now gone from taking 6.3 years down to about 1 day. But of course, in some cases it gets worse. Some routers do not even go into a lock-down state for 60 seconds after 3 failed attempts; it allows as many guess as can be thrown at it. This means someone could potentially connect and compromise your secured WiFi network in less than 1 day.

How on earth did anyone think the 4 digit confirmation was a good idea?!?!? Wow.

The United States started work in this field back in the 60s, trying to build cruise missiles that would be able to fly around continuously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

The lesson of Mythical Man-month is more that you can't make up for bad scheduling by throwing more people at the project in the middle, that adding more people to a late project will make it later. It especially focuses on productivity with respect to time.

If you throw more people onto a project from day one of a year+ long project, you sure can expect more productivity.

10 engineers can be 10 times as productive working for a year as 1 engineer. What fails is if you have 1 engineer working for 11 months, then adding 99 more the last month, and expect to equal the productivity of the 10 engineers working for a year solid.

9 women can't make a baby in a month, but 9 women can make 9 babies in the same amount of time it takes 1 woman to make 1 baby.

It is better to have 5 engineers rather than 4 overworked ones, if they all start projects together.

My guess is most people probably simply haven't though about it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_coleman_the_moral_dangers_of_non_lethal_weapons.html

A highlight of this video is a datapoint from Australia, when pepper (OC spray) was introduced. Officers were specifically instructed that it was to be used only when the officer would have otherwise been required to use lethal force. The years before the OC spray was introduced, there were about 6 people shot to death by the police year. The two years after the spray was introduced, in a trial, there were 2226 usages of the spray.

Surely, had OC spray not been available, that the police would not have shot 2226 people.