Actually correlation does imply causation, it may not be a correct hypothesis and it needs to be tested.

In my research (done in a laboratory with a bunch of scientists) if I see two things that are being tested correlate with each other, given a defined test scenario, the IMPLICATION is that they are related. I then need to go test this implication and find out if I was wrong or that I was right.

If I was to ignore every correlation as being a potential relationship, due to your stated rule, I be a pretty unsuccessful scientist.

*Sigh* Lets not bother with fundamental science, even knowing that it is loaded with assumptions and targeting experiments as a starting point for further work, along with modling that can potentially make corrective measures, I mean it's not exactly the way that the Earth works, so it's a bad thing to do. FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! This is exploratory science. It is understood that it is not perfect by a long shot, hell! it may not even have any practical applications (although this does), it may be a complete failure!. The goal is to begin our understanding and triggers the iterative process of tuning the study methods. If we had adopted your attitude for every thing that we wanted to understand, but couldn't simply reconstruct we'd be still sitting in a cave wearing rabbit-skin underpants.

I just went and check out some of the comments on Glassdoor and have to admit this one made me laugh-

"Cons: You'll work 8-18 hours per day 5-7 days per week"

I can't believe that someone would actually make you work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week!!! Now the upper end would suck, to be sure.

I'm all for this. I've been noticing ad's following me recently and it bothers me. For example the last few times I've been on /. the ads in the top right are reflecting places I have looked at on Newegg or Amazon. I would like to see this practice be curtailed and not just on facebook.

Are you sure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999

I was having a similar conversation with one of our Patent Attorney's the other day. We wanted to file something, but the landscape analysis deemed there may be prior art. His advice, don't worry about it, it'll cost more for someone to challenge and highly unlikely that they'll waste their time. Sadly, we went ahead and filed and didn't worry about it, contrary to my request for a better legal opinion.

No Dr Who movie has really been Dr Who. I mean the Cushing movies he was an Earth born inventor with the last name Who, and this was before all the copyright BS really hit the fan. In fact any movie with Bernard Cribbins in it is not really a valid movie.

Doctor Who: The Movie, was a weakly veiled attempt at a reboot pilot episode, and for the love of all that is holy, it had Eric "Best of the Best" Roberts as the Master...such a bad decision. It was obviously targetted at the American audience.

This next one, I have very little hope for. In my opinion Dr. Who is a live action cartoon strip, one I grew up with (Baker years). Any movie will just seem like a glorified Christmas special, and really I wish they would stop those.

I have a PhD in Chemistry, I love science, I love engineering, but the first 2 years of chemistry, maths, physics at university (in the UK) was probably the most boring and uninspiring period of my science/engineering life (I'm now 41) (biology was actually okay due to the lecturer). I found myself being entertained by pool and beer in the students union more than the class and am surprised that I made it through. It they want success rates to go up, they really need to figure out how to get the education across in a more accessible way, I don't mean easier, I actually mean accessible. Yes I can read the book chapter and work through board problems, and in the lab I can follow a set of instructions, but the more entertaining lessons actually followed through with practical examples and relevant demonstrations, where those demonstrations actually linked into the lesson, and weren't just for fun.

Today was award a patent by the US Patent Office for applying for patents. will now begin to require royalties from people who would like to patent things.

Just to emphasize this. I ran a business dealing with mitigating pollution. Our biggest clients were petroleum companies. We cost a lot to bring in as we were highly trained engineers and scientists in the field and were only called after they had tried the typical consulting and internal avenues to solve the problem. If it cost more for the company to pay the fine than fly us wherever we need to go globally and pay for our services, the companies would just pay the fine. The sad thing is that the solution was, often as not, an adjustment to the operation of the system to optimize the process (not always).

It's all about moderation, not this binary do or do not. My kid watched TV from around 1.5, but even today (he's now 5) he only gets 30-45mins a day, with 1 movie on the weekends.I have a friend who confesses that he and his wife used the TV as a nanny. Both kids are pretty smart, both kids play well, but what both my friend and I have noticed, is that my son is the first up with an idea for a game and his son is always happy to follow. I see this in a lot of other kids (I know I'm making a generalization here) those few who have had too much TV when younger play well, but it seems to me they need the 'imagination' fed to them, the way the TV fed the concepts to them. I'm sure there's exception to the rule, I'm not a child psychologist and this is just casual, non-scientific observation.

Why not? It's the content and structure that counts, or are you so concerned with image that the font is really a pivotal factor in transferring information? Yes I am a scientist and if the damn journal would let me I would use Comic Sans to try and add something interesting moisture to a horribly dry medium. I'd also love to use emoticons for surprising results 0.o

It is and it's not. Shatner now makes money on the image that we have given him, he is not a dumb guy by a long shot. He knows that he's replying to Slashdot and who that audience is, and while he self promotes, he's doing it tongue-in-cheek. He obviously enjoyed the questions and what I read was someone who is having fun replying. The guy has a great sense of humor and is not afraid to wield it in a not-to-subtle way. Just before this guys dies, he's going to utter the phrase "I can't believe that all those people bought that shit." Enjoy the Shatner, I know I do.

Hell with Ninjas I need to get one of Kate Beckinsale for the wife...you think they do whole body models?

Funny that's what they said about linux when Windows ME came out