It's not. It's the evolution of journalism in the information age, unfortunately. Fox News just seems to embrace it more than most.

30 years ago, people bought newspapers to get their news and opinion in a portable convenient format. Now, people get push notifications of things happening half way around the world, minutes after they happen. You can't open a web browser without getting "opinion."

In the old days, reporters would fact check everything because their editors would bury them in some county bureau if they got taken on a story, especially if getting taken meant other newspapers could report on them getting took. Printing a correction would be ducked at any opportunity. Now, they just take the story off the web site and it vanishes from public consciousness, and they just print the newspaper from what remains on the web after a few hours of vetting by the readership for what is real.

If you fact check, you can't beat your competition to the story. And the news business is all about being first and exclusive to report.

I found a '93 4runner with only 140k miles on it. I'm waiting for the IFS to break in some fashion so I can cut all that shit off and weld on some shackles for leaf springs + a front solid axle. Unfortunately, even the IFS on the 2nd gen 4runner is good, so it's going to be with me for a while.

For what it's worth, Intel didn't buy McAfee for the shitty antivirus product. They bought them for the encryption technology and other so-called intellectual property which they are now implementing on their "enterprise" SSDs and vPro chipsets.

They know the AV product is shit; it just comes bundled with other stuff they want. Much like if you buy a new PC from one of the big OEMs.

So can iOS, if you jailbreak. But that involves a user actively smashing apart the security that this discussion is about.

That's like saying "you realize someone can totally steal your shit if you remove the front door from your house, right?"

While that episode was great, I was speaking towards the legendary performance of those trucks as off-road racers and rock crawlers. If you can find an '85 pickup, all you have to do is add a rear locking diff and raise it up enough to fit 33" tires under it, and it will drive over or through practically anything.

The Toyota Hilux is basically the Toyota Tacoma.

Before the "Tacoma" brand existed in the US, it was just the Toyota pick-up. Still a Hilux elsewhere though. And those late '80s, mid '90s Toyota trucks are indestructible.

Watts = volts * amps.

The voltage will be constant (depending on what country you're in) - either 115V or 230V. Well, we'll hope it's constant, or you're replacing that power supply.

The power supply draws the current (amps) needed at that particular moment. It is not constant. An idling computer will draw FAR less amperage than one that is busing working on something. The Dell may be rated at 1500W, but will be pulling much less than that on average.

There was an awesome sale on punctuation at the Grammar Store. I stocked up on semicolons.

It's right there, on the lens, blurring everything!

In the fantastic HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" there was an entire episode entitled "1968" that conveys exactly that point. The last bit of dialog is someone in Mission Control relaying congratulatory telegrams to the crew capsule as they travel back to earth, with one being a telegram from someone that simply says "You saved 1968."

No, they don't.

I know, why bring actual data into a quantitative discussion...

I was thinking about all the incredible things that my grandmother saw happen in her lifetime - she was born not long after the first flight at Kitty Hawk, and saw the aerospace industry develop from glorified powered gliders to moon landings to jet airliners that everyday people can travel the world on. Automobiles from something only the rich had, into something that everyone had. Telegraphs to television to digital cellular phones on global communications networks. The Farmer's Almanac to weather satellites and phased radar. Actual ice boxes to modern refrigeration. Antibiotics. Organ transplants. Eradication of polio and smallpox. Computers you can fit in a bag that are thousands of times more powerful than the ones that used to take up whole rooms, which were amazing for their time too. High-rise steel construction. The list goes on and on.

This new narrative of "OMG we don't do anything any more, not like we used to" is completely unfounded, but hardly new. In 15 years it's likely that today's bioscience research will eradicate major diseases like HIV, and the cause the survival rate of cancer to continue it's climb. And in 15 years, people will continue to bitch that we just don't do any amazing things anymore, like they were doing 30 years ago when they were laying trans-ocean fiber links and launching global positioning constellations.

Part of the reason they didn't do it when they made the landing, was because of all the hell (read: lawsuit from an atheist) that NASA caught from this reading on Apollo 8. Buzz Aldrin was (is) a deeply religious man, and observed communion in the LM after landing on the moon, after making this comment on the public radio loop:

He wanted the communion to be broadcast, but had the sense to ask first, and due to the lawsuit it was deemed to not be a good idea.

And for some people (like the parent post) the bashing of the concept of religion is their religion.