There are international grants?

I object my tax dollars going to support this kind of crap studies.

How do I check if my card number is compromised?

Does this affect only cards used in brick-and-mortar store cashier machines?

I am disappointed that there are no insightful comments about the area, actual danger, chemical composition.

Does reading a PERL script that implements company phone book and taking plain text user and password to implement a better phone book for personal use constitute hacking?

>Thinking about the eventual fate of the universe and our current home is something that we should all do at some point.

Valid point. Question: why does one need to make unverifiable extrapolations to do that?

Can somebody explain why this stuff matters? I mean speculation without a chance of experimental verification?

I listened to a dramatic program on NPR about licing in India and they mentioned that "green revolution" had significant harmful effect of using chemicals in agriculture of the Third world. They are getting out of it now, in the process.

>Maybe I'm an idealist

"Something wrong on the internet" :-) I am familiar with that feeling.

Take it easy, bro

That is not true. Just yesterday I saw a highly upvoted (32 votes as far as I remember) Reddit comment linked to Slashdot article.

>Ok, what's the point of this stressed metaphor?

Fun? :-)

When people meet fun they often forgot that the purpose is to laugh, and being too hard on a person who tries to make you laugh does not benefit that purpose at all. :-)

If something intended as fun does not seem funny to you the best thing is to ignore it.

At the risk of repeating Lord Kelvin's folly: science is almost over, that's the root of the "data" problem. Data is so complex, because we exhausted simple systems, and we are trying to tackle irreducible systems.

It's a fallacy.

Obama is the worst POTUS in modern history. He chose to push his controversial radical and divisive medical reform law in the worst possible moment of history, amidst the worst economic world crisis since 30s.

All in all it's just another brick in the wall

>because they asked me to make one for work.

Mind blown.