Full sentences harder. They verbs.
That why liberal arts and humanities important, otherwise sentences would no verbs.

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I'd say that's because Clear are at least as incompetent and every bit of a liar as Comcast is. Clear will say anything to get a customer and very little else. WIMAX? Please. He'd get less latency and better reliability with TCP over Carrier Pigeon.

NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY!
For n equal to one million, an O(n^2) algorithm is slower than an O(n) algorithm. Even when the O(n^2) algorithm is run in RAM, and the O(n) algorithm is disk writes being buffered and optimized by the operating system.

I'll take my Nobel Prize now, thank you.

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The mafia style tactics were probably a reference to the sad case of Karen Silkwood, a whistleblower in the nuclear industry who had died under mysterious circumstances only a few years earlier.

"Trying to do what they have been doing for years" also means "running some software without needing or wanting anything from the OS rather than a window manager, device drivers, a filesystem, and a networking stack". Just because the "platform" isn't "innovating" doesn't mean that people don't run nifty software on it.

Most of the frustration with Windows comes from trying to get the Microsoft marketing bullshit to fuck off so we can use computers for what computers are for: running software.

If this magma reaches the surface it could result in lava flows.

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Or.........
as a computer scientist you could look into the field of evolutionary algorithms, discover that evolution is an applied science used by half of Fortune 500 companies, discover how evolution does work, and write your own code and witness first hand that evolution works.

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Let's say 30% of the population are creationists.
Let's say 10% of Engineers are creationists, because creationists are less likely to pursue the field and/or because their education convinced them to no longer be creationists.
Let's say 1% of scientists are creationists, because creationists are less likely to pursue the field and/or because their education convinced them to no longer be creationists.

Result: Any creationist claiming to have a "science degree" has something like a 90% chance of turning out to have an engineering degree.... even though engineers are unlikely to be creationists.

That's the Salem Hypothesis. Creationists claiming science degrees tend to be engineers, even though engineers tend not to be creationists.

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Which only goes to prove that the negative health effects of placebos can be as severe as the negative health effects caused by EMFs.

We need a law banning EMFs *and* banning placebos.

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If you think organisms can't get rid of solid waste products, you must be full of shit. Chuckle.

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It won't even ignite things 2m away, assuming uniform diffuse reflections in the half-volume facing the surface:

30 kW / (2 pi r^2) = 1200 watts per square meter = sunlight.

Yes, but they're very cheap. They'll melt eventually but, in the meantime, should deliver enough power back to the attacker to screw up eyeballs and sensors.

It took "mere seconds" to burn through the engine manifold.

Paint it white (specifically, something with high albedo in whatever frequency range the attacker favors) and you can probably increase that time by a factor of ten. Paint it with that retroreflective paint that they make street markings out of and you've blinded anyone near the firing station.

Laser weapons look effective now because nobody's taking rudimentary countermeasures against them (because they don't need to). But if these things start appearing on battlefields, there are some simple countermeasures that will make their life a lot more difficult.

Part of the point of the internet is that it's a network of peers; how do you draw a bright line between end users and content providers?

Thank God he did this. If the GPS system had been launched we'd all be dead by now.

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