Oh look, CmdrTaco published yet another story with a poorly-written, hypersensationalist summary! Par for the course.

Most of that energy gets wasted in atmospheric compression though. It's not like it all gets transmitted to the water.

Although, the black holes that can currently evaporate due to this mechanism are (as I understand it) well below stellar mass. The amount of hawking radiation that larger black holes emit is below the amount of energy they receive from the cosmic microwave background, thus they cannot evaporate.

I'm sorry, but 1994 called, and it wants its World Wide Web back. Interactive webpages are the future, they are actually really nice when they're done properly, and denying that is just holding you back. I expect that sooner or later secure programming mentalities will become deeply ingrained in Web programming, and things like this will stop happening. There will always be bugs, but that's no different from any other software.

NoScript is a much better solution than out-and-out disabling javascript anyways.

Then you escape it so it displays, instead of executing... seriously... same way you handle < and > and all the other naughty characters

You'd think people would've learned by now that you can't allow random strings of script in user-submitted data. Why is filtering this stuff out not part of standard input sanitization practices by now?

Right, because knowing that my airline provider DENIES their engineering problems, rather than providing backup systems, is what I really want.

Just use an FPGA... problem solved.

Am I the only person who says "hell no" to running that "diagnosis" program? After looking through the code real quick, I have no interest whatsoever in running a program that performs the very exploit I'm supposed to be scared of, cuz I don't have time to make sure ksplite neutralized it properly. Also, since it's only a local exploit, I'm not concerned enough about it to run a diagnosis tool that implements it.

And good lord god almighty, what 12 year old wrote this code, that they think having function names like put_your_hands_up_hooker() makes them cool?

You've heard of encryption, right? You make a lot of bold claims but I don't see any facts to back them up. Doesn't matter how many globs of data your provider is hosting, if they don't have the encryption keys to read them. Of course the challenge then becomes making sure that your friends have your decryption keys, and only your friends. Getting the keys to your friends is relatively easy. Making sure they don't share them with dataharvesters/other people is a little more complicated, and I don't know of a general solution to that problem, but that doesn't mean it's an impossible problem.

It sounds awful, but frankly I think this fact is blown out of proportion. I occasionally lose the odd dollars in my own budget, which is MUCH less complex than the national budget. It's the same thing, just a bigger scale. Nothing so ridiculous about losing a few billion here or there when you're dealing with a budget of nearly 4 trillion dollars...
Is it a good thing? No, not at all. But it's not something you should keep parroting anytime the subject of government comes up.

Yeah, but then everyone bitches if they try to raise taxes... I mean, obviously, the solution is for governments to be more efficient with the money they do have, and to pay their people properly, but for some reason it's easier to cut people than programs...

If I remember correctly, the reason is because on a nano-scale, water doesn't "flow", so you can't pump it through effectively.

Sadly, your parody of reality and actual reality are nigh indistinguishable :(

Good thing I got all my romanticized daydreaming out of the way yesterday, about what an enigma UVB-76 was, and how awesome it is that even as recently as 40 years ago we were creating "artifacts" that would remain mysteries into the modern day (and possibly forever). Thanks for ruining that for me.