We don't know. But it's still worth detecting them.

Should we stop looking for planets until we have the capability to get satellite imagery of the cities on them?

Well there's at least one reason to assume that - mirroring all the parts would mean a hell of a lot less re-use between LHD and RHD cars.

Umm... 25kg of Aluminium, i.e. something you can easily lift with one arm - I think that might fit in the trunk.

You're assuming that you start from nothing, or from pure energy. Creating dark matter could just mean converting ordinary matter in some way.

Converting hydrogen and oxygen into 1 tonne of water doesn't require E = 1000*c^2 (rocket engineers might tell you it actually gives you energy out), but you get 1000kg of water at the end.

Looks like Slashdot has the same issue.

For example, this. No user authentication required at all.

I love the new HTC One for that reason - they reduced the camera to 4MP to improve low-light performance. As it should be.

No, I mean those who do use it, and are now having second thoughts about everything Google.

I think this has finally got the message through to many people (myself included), that Google will can anything. Reader wasn't exactly an experiment - it was almost 8 years old. Not really in sync with their push for us to rely more and more on the "cloud".

Maybe they've underestimated how many people really care?

Maybe it's a very unpopular decision within Google, and those employees can back up their complaints with this petition (I'm sure not everyone has access to Google usage statistics).

Surely it's worth a try anyway.

What about an oil patch on the road, a sudden puncture, brake failure, a heart attack - is it still 100% their fault? Sometimes an accident can be nobody's fault.

What is true 100% of the time is that purposely not preventing an accident you could easily prevent, is definitely your fault.

Example: Some idiot overtakes where he shouldn't, doesn't see a car coming the other direction. Driver who's being overtaken DOES see the oncoming car, but chooses not to slow down to let the overtaking car back in to safety - because "it's the other guys own fault". Yes, the guy overtaking is an asshole for risking his and other people's lives, but the guy being overtaken is also an asshole, and in my opinion culpable, for not taking action to prevent another asshole (and innocent others) getting hurt/killed.

How many of those surveyed believe humans never landed on the moon?

If other polls are to believed, there's more than likely some overlap between the two!

Did it wrong?? So a perfectly working function that took slightly more initial effort is wrong? Even though it might be easier for a non-infallible coder colleague to re-use or adapt? There, see - I've just added another metric - reusability - you could keep adding more metrics forever.

My point is that sometimes there is no perfect solution - there are trade-offs. You could argue that one day, eventually, maybe it could be decided that one or the other trade off was the better choice - but that conclusion will still be an opinion, based on a certain set of priorities. I don't see why two infallible beings couldn't have different priorities and opinions.

Is that really true?

How about two "infallible" coders who write the same function (let's say, in Perl) in two different ways - both of which produce the exact same result, processor usage, and runtime.

Could they not disagree on coding style yet remain infallible?

If you're a fan of a particular [insert sport here] team, you tend to be interested if a big change of leadership occurs in an opposing team.

If you're an atheist or just an enlightened citizen of the world, I reckon it's newsworthy when the leadership of a 1 billion-strong team is about to change.

They're not great though - my experience on a Macbook Pro with Windows 8:

• Two-finger scrolling is so sensitive it's almost unusable.
• Keyboard backlight always comes on at startup, have to hold the dim key down for 2-3 seconds to get rid of it, EVERY time you restart.
• Screen backlight intensity is unreliable, especially after a restart. The max available intensity seems to vary.

These are known issues for a long time now, and there are even 3rd party drivers written to fix them (but they only work if you put Windows 8 into devel mode). It's almost like Apple wants your Windows experience on a Mac to be slightly imperfect...

Desktops won't go away, they'll just become a more niche product, and thus more expensive.

It could happen very quickly though, as it will act like a positive feedback loop - with prices going up, fewer home users / enthusiasts will buy them, thus they'll get even more expensive.....