This post is an excellent example of why this attitude is so... well, laughable. Because (with a few exceptions, like Scientology, but that's a scam, not a religion) most religions don't believe god is magical, space-dwelling, or grant-wishing. As far as "physically impossible", well, that's manifestly false (something not physical can by definition not be physically impossible, in the same way that an algebraic equation can't be geometrically impossible). And invisible? Shit, air is invisible (well, mostly). Gravity is invisible. I suppose you don't believe in gravity?

What this kind of post shows is ignorance about what religious people actually believe. And making fun of someone out of ignorance is far more ignorant than actually believing in a sky faery.

Yet, surprisingly, polls in the US can be used to predict the presidential election results quite well. Polls are garbage if you expect a 95%+ confidence interval. For a general trend of the way people feel? They're usually pretty good. Polls aren't scientific, but they don't need to be.

I can choose not to use Google (yes, I can even choose to disable their trackers on websites, like, say Slashdot). I can't choose not to have the NSA snoop on email. So it's more like the merchants criticizing the taxmen. One will happily take your freedoms if you give it to them, the other will take your freedoms willing or not.

The thieves probably assumed the warnings were fake, meant to deter... well, people like them. I know people will ship containers labeled things like "bull semen" and the like so that shippers will handle it carefully. The thieves probably (wrongly, of course) assumed this was something similar: drugs, money, or something else valuable labeled with radioactive symbols to discourage theft.

Except they do have to prove it's safe, to within a certain margin. GM foods generally have a substantially similar composition and nutritional content as existing foods, which means if that food is safe so is the derived food. Believe it or not, but the FDA and equivalent organizations do have regulations for GM foods to ensure they're safe. Of course you can't definitely prove it's safe: that's an impossible burden of proof, because you can't prove anything definitively, in science.

Far more GPIO (the Pi only has 8, which is rather pitiful), compatibility with Ardiuno (so lots of expansion modules readily available), built-in SATA/COM/parallel port support, etc. Not everything is about speed. Also, it's x86, so it's compatible with a totally different set of programs/OSes.

He never said it was a successful attempt.

The bit TFA and TFS omit in the story is that (to quote from the local news source)

Assuming they are telling the truth, there is reason to believe the compartment was in fact used to transport drugs. There are more strict chemical tests they could run on the compartment to tell if it actually did contain drugs in the past which, to be honest, is most likely the case (I grant that not all electronically-sealed secret compartments are used for illegal purposes, but I'd be a little surprised if that wasn't the purpose of the majority).

Then we'd have both China and Japan mad at the US, and they'd still be mad at each other. Sadly, you can't treat nations like children, even when they behave like it. Especially not when those nations are the second and third largest economies in the world.

Yes, and neither TFA nor TFS claim "is". Beyond "is a part of the standard bundle", which will be true soon.

I think anyone who has ever been bird hunting (or clay pigeon shooting) knows exactly how hard it is to hit small moving targets hundreds of feet in the air.

Kinda both. TFA mentions that the Oculus guys were shown a hands-on demonstration of Valve's headset and plan on implementing some stuff they learned there in the Rift. I have no doubt they'll be sort-of competitors, in that people are unlikely to buy both, but Valve's position on hardware so far has been to let other people handle the manufacturing and only do prototype and design work themselves, so it remains to be seen if Valve even directly produces a VR headset. They are, however, producing at least a prototype version of their own set.

However, competition is good. It'll drive anyone who makes VR headsets to produce a headset better (at least in some ways) than the other guys, and give consumers a bit of choice. Plus highlight problems that one set has that others don't, and maybe give everyone some ideas how to fix those problems. Provided, of course, games are intercompatible with all sets on the market (otherwise you just get fragmentation which in practice can be worse than a monopoly).

That is decidedly not what is happening. TFA specifically states that Chrome, when it downloads the PDF, opens it itself, instead of handing it off to the system handler (i.e. the default application for filetype .pdf). In fact, Chrome is adding a menu option to open it with the default application if you want.

And fuel is a high explosive under the right conditions (ANFO is often used as an explosive for mining). Hell, almost anything can act like a high explosive in the right conditions (even flour). Batteries are generally designed so they never reach such conditions. The advantage to a battery is that it can be contained entirely inside one container, with only fuse-protected wires leading out. Fuel, OTOH, by definition has to travel from one end of the car to the other (and "the other end" in this case houses a device that deliberately sets off small fuel-air explosions), and tends to spread itself out everywhere if there is a leak.

In theory, a properly designed system would have a local physics engine that takes over when the remote engine is unavailable, albeit at reduced fidelity.

Of course, that's not how it will end up working, especially with Ubisoft involved. The real goal here is more control disguised as improvements.