I haven't read other comments (I do not want to be a subject of the study :-) ) , i am sure somebody already brought the subject of correlation and causation: namely, the hypothesis that people who are already depressed and friendless tend to go to social networks.

The level of anti-"terrorist" propaganda is 10 times more than after 9/11, and there is no event even remotely close to that nowadays.

Notice the change in the level of dissent. After 9/11 there were Stockhausen and Maher. Granted, both of them were slapped at their dissident hands, so that contributed to deafening silence that followed.

I haven't heard a single voice that dares to doubt the propaganda.

Thanks for providing an answer that at least remotely fitting to Muslim during this month of Ramadan:

> I mostly care about the food

Fireworks started at 9pm, right at the time I just started to eat my Iftar. At first, when I was still hungry, it sounded like pop-corn was finishing last pops in the microwave.

>social pressure

"Firing someone" is not simply "social pressure"

To begin with, the article is speculation:

>although no one knows for sure whether the bacteria survived the inter-planetary ride.

> The key part here is that when you are looking for life

You should be able to tell if the life is extra-terrestrial without arbitrarily excluding possibility of contamination.

For example, I do not need a whole history of specimen to determine if genome sequence was contaminated. There are computer programs that will do that fairly easily.

"and releasing more energy than a large atomic bomb" in the first reports it was "a small atomic bomb".

Imagine

"Your 60-hour police work is not a badge of honor" and then in the text: "it's a sign that favelas are screwed up organizationally".

>The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

In this particular case, it's more of an opposite, since American law enforcement is known for baiting people into committing crimes.

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?