This gave me a mental image of some sort of unholy union of Clippy and HAL 9000.

"It looks like you're trying to violate constitutional rights. I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave. Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?"

So much truer on the quantum level.

I have my desktop, a file server and a couple of laptops, I actually have RHEL dual-booting on one of the laptops but I haven't booted it in months.
The thing is, I have a nice desktop with three monitors, I'm not going to switch to one small screen with a cramped keyboard just for the sake of using Linux, I'm not going to boot Linux on my desktop just to browse and listen to music and then have to boot into Windows when I want to do something else, and when I'm away from home I want to have the same software options I have on my desktop.
The only reason I'd use Linux right now is just for the sake of using Linux, and that doesn't sound so appealing.

And a VM is actually not too bad, I've actually had an occasion recently to use a VM of Ubuntu recently, to recover files from my old NAS device (which I might have screwed up with careless use of 'rm -rf' over SSH).
My main laptop is Windows because I want to run the same software when I'm traveling.
Basically the only reason I'd install and use Linux on one of them is just for the sake of using Linux

Over the years I've only ran Dos and Windows as my main OS.
Every few years I install Linux in a dual-boot or in a VM, download all the updates, mess with config files, boot it up a couple more times, look at it with satisfaction and then go back to Windows because that's what runs most of the software that I use.

The number of leechers and seeders is available to everyone, the media already uses that as a measure of popularity.
Other than that I'd imagine they have deals with social networks to check how often their products are mentioned, which adjectives are used in context with them and such.

Every pilot season the torrent sites are full with new pilots, I was under the impression 'leaking' those was a matter of policy.

And if they're not using the information from those torrents they're bigger idiots than I give them credit for.

I wonder, if someone takes a survey of reptilian verbal aptitude and concludes that the talking snake bit is highly unlikely, would that be admissible?
Or does he want a complete certainty, which makes what he's asking for unscientific?

I believe that's Utnapishtim, not Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh just tried to bum some immortality off him after the fact.

NO.

Alright, I'll take a crack at explaining how it's not selection-biased against distant or small planets.

The scientists making the observations are only making claims based on the scope of the evidence they have and their understanding of the science.
Now to make observations without any backing evidence or understanding, reporters are employed (or clergy but not in this specific case).
Hope that cleared things up.

I believe this is just an extension of the research done by this guy.

They'd have to develop a similar algorithm for audio though.

I think I'd find a mute Jar Jar far easier to tolerate than an invisible one.

Maybe they could have him do the Jedi Mind Meld.

Also reports of presumably the same one passing over Cuba.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6VBWhny54c

Sort of looks fake to me, with with trail fading really fast and the object looking like a certain lensflare plugin preset but I guess that might be a testament to the accuracy of the plugin.

Multitouch onscreen keyboard in Stereoscopic 3D, it's like, the future, man.