Science Max: It just so happens that your moon here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.

Inigo Moontoya: What's that?

Science Max: Go through its craters and look for loose helium-3.

If somebody doesn't trust vaccines, why are they going to a doctor in the first place?

The sound science behind vaccinations is by and large the same sound science that doctor is going to be using when he diagnoses you and prescribes a treatment. You can't reject one without rejecting the other.

Libraries don't necessarily enjoy removing materials from the collection, but the two main reasons to do so are to make sure we have current/accurate materials and make room in our always limited shelf space. (The first is of presumably higher importance in an academic library.)

Unless libraries can get an unlimited budget for expansion of their physical space or off-site archives, weeding materials will be a necessary evil.

I'm not worried about my Steam password, I can go change it when I get home, it was fairly complex, and it's not a reused password anywhere else, but how hard would it be to crack these?

For those of us who aren't cryptography experts, does cracking one of the easy passwords (love, password, money) then help crack the more complex ones (m4sT3rm!nd)? I'm guessing this is crypto 101 stuff.

I am glad I no longer store credit card information with steam, and only used PayPal (and have an authentication card attached to my PP account.)

Fortunately, the linked story addresses this, and the author talks about how he'll meet with local officials to get permission before playing fire inspector.

Ubuntu using Wubi is pretty brain dead easy to install. No partitioning required, it lives inside your Windows filesystem and handles adding itself to your boot menu.

Performance is slightly degraded, and bugs can come up with regards to hard reboots, but really it's the best option I know of if you're not running off a USB stick or DVD.

What would be particularly surprising, would be if only one of them was on Slashdot.

It's a Schrodinger's ocean. All quantum-y, you see.

I have one of these already. It's a NETGEAR WNR3500L. I've not seen any impact on my connection quality. Quite the contrary, I've used its reporting functions twice already in trying to get my ISP to track down connection quality issues at their end.

It keeps a running log of your ping, throughput, packet loss, etc. which you can access freely through their website. I was able to use this to document periods of latency spikes and massive packet loss.

I guess if you think the FCC is taking a particularly convoluted route to spy on me, rather than just, tapping in at the ISP itself, you're free to do that. I'll just think you're probably more than a bit daft.

The problem is, when you look at relativity and do the math, time acts just like another dimension. In fact, it has to, or else relativity just won't work.

There's certainly something odd about it (re: thermodynamic arrow of time) but if it looks like a dimension, and quacks like a dimension, it's probably a dimension.