It isn't clear to me how sea water would affect a neutron flux, especially after it had boiled a bit. I don't think it is clear to anyone else, either, but certainly the lack of boron absorb stray neutrons and keep them out of the chain reaction makes criticality more likely.

There is a special place in hell for P-value fishers and other scientific sinners:
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/11/9-circles-of-scientific-hell.html

Yes, physical access is required. I used to have a cheap pocket lcd terminal could have plugged in to access the machine, but it's likely that if I have access to the room I already have admin access to the hardware anyway.

You aren't going to see email spammers pulling this, but state actors who can afford to train people in real cloak-and-dagger operations might find this back door useful, in that it allows quick--virtually instant-- rootkit installation if you have the right piece of hardware ready to plug in the jack. If this hardware is not actively protected then someone walking by might quickly be having it phone home.

I remember my father being really disappointed that I was studying dead-end stuff like programming back in 1982

Super-large plant genomes are usually the result of chromosome-doubling. This is usually quite fatal to animals, but plants tolerate it well, and often use it to create new genes as duplicates are free to evolve in new directions. Most of the extra genes are simply redundant, however, and do nothing but consume resources. If a plant species undergoes repeated doublings it can quickly become the genomic monstrosity we have here, which is likely to become extinct if it does not fix itself.

They aren't supposed to go that fast... I'm calling zombie bullshit on that you know? i mean they're not supposed to run so fast" -Zoey, Left 4 Dead, a character who's backstory involved a lot of watching horror movies instead of attending classes.

Cable modems are maintained by the ISP, even if you own them. Otherwise they would not let you connect them to their cable. Otherwise people would be hacking their firmware to remove speed caps. The cable modem firmware can only be upgraded on a downlink from the ISP servers, using Simple Network Protocol over the cable. It's part of DOCSIS, and it keeps the cable companies in control of their own network. If you have a hackable modem and tinker with it they will ban you like Comcast did to all the kiddies who tinkered with their own parameters. I discovered this years ago when I needed a firmware update for my crippled linksys and was astonished that there was no way for a user to upgrade. And my ISP didn't even know this, either. "If that were true we would have to keep firmware upgrades for all brands of modems." D'oh! That's exactly correct.

That being said, a router is not necessarily a modem. Mine is separate. I own it and I and hacked my router firmware first week I had it. Technically, my router is just a linux computer attached to their modem, so they better not be changing my passwords.
   

Oh. My. God.

STILL using Ada because it is specified in the contracts by default and no one has the sense to ask for anything else. Fifteen years ago our contractor had to send people to school to learn it in order to support the contract. Still using MS-DOS probably for the same reason. I worked on a little training system that ran on PC's and I made sure the DOS licenses were were stored under the floor boards so that they would never get lost. We had to have them in case we ever got inspected and Lord knows there was no way at that time to obtain MS-DOS 5.1 any more. I didn't know Perl existed (maybe it didn't) so I wrote string-handling utilities in C++ in my spare time.

Odd. In the USA newsprint is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration for the simple reason that is is often used in food preparation. For example, dangerous metals and volatile organic compounds are prohibited in newsprint.

So go ahead wrap that fish, it's prolly more toxic than the newspaper.