So now Wikipedia is my backup DNS. (IP addresses at the bottom of the info box).

This is a textbook example of p-hacking. Note the plural in "measures of intelligence", along with "educational achievement" as dependent variables. Something was gonna show a correlation, to the vaunted oh point oh five. What a crock.

882. We don't even need the links for these anymore, just the number.

Homer Dudley had a working vocoder pre-WW2, which was used in the encrypted voice system SIGSALY.

From Wiki, this encoded voice into 12 signals, each with 6 levels (call it 2.5 bits) at 25 Hz. That's about 750 bits/s.

Obama is a guy that says the astronaut's prayer every morning.

It should've worked, too. Just leave things alone and the economy will come roaring back. Keep foreign troubles tamped down with a few drone strikes and the country will turn its attention to sock hops and NASA space missions. Trouble is the financial guys, now as ever, have no idea how to run an economy.

You see, a pimp's webpage is very different from that of a square.

If you have an experiment that shows a violation of conservation of momentum, the correct response is to send a grad student down to find out where the mistake is.

Not hold a press conference and start packing your bags for Proxima.

If you've read Parkinson's Law (and you should!) you'd know that institutions begin their decline just at the time they move into their perfect, palatial quarters.

This is the only comment (out of 49 so far) in this thread which is intelligent, useful, and constructive. There was a time (oh you youngsters!) when this was the rule, not the exception, on slashdot. The hamster comment deserves credit for humor, though.

Is there a better site for news for nerds?

Reducing the sound transmission is good, of course, but usually difficult and expensive. Adding more absorption inside the space is always good, will gain you a few more dB, and improve the environment for listening.

But the best and cheapest method is to add noise.

How can adding noise improve the situation? There's already too much noise! This has to do with the nature of hearing and attention - the so-called invisibility of the familiar. Ever notice that when the AC or a fan turns off you suddenly notice it, while you didn't notice the sound before? That's because the mind will tune out and ignore meaningless background.

If you can add enough white/pink noise to mask the offending noise then your attention will not be distracted by it, and eventually all of the sound will fall beneath your attention. This is the usual treatment for tinnitus, ringing in the ears, and many sufferers can gain substantial relief by it.

A quick way to try it out is with your home stereo. On FM mode, tune between stations (and turn off muting). This will provide very nice white noise with adjustable volume. Give it a couple of hours at least. There are inexpensive white noise generators available.

A little classier is falling water, such as an inside fountain. This is more towards lower frequencies (pink noise), but the particular random nature of the sound is very calming for most people.

A couple of nuke blasts on the moon would let us keep the Earth's rotation in sync with our atomic clocks. It's practice for asteroids, and good entertainment too!

"Comrades," he said quietly, "do you know who is responsible for this? Do
you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill?
SNOWDEN!" he suddenly roared in a voice of thunder. "Snowden has done
this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge
himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under
cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
      -Orwell, "Animal Farm"

Just a reminder - put a sticker over the CVV on your credit card so a clerk, waiter, or nosy bystander can't grab your numbers with a glance or photo.

Fighting cancer is fighting evolution itself.

Your body is composed of some 40 trillion cells. Each one comes from a line of cells going back billions of generations, every one of which succeeded in reproducing and projecting itself into the future. DNA is not easily squelched.

The solution is to allow a given account only a finite number of edits to a given page, something like 100-300 or so. This would discourage squatting, ownership, and edit wars.

It's a very old joke by now but...

The cockpit of the future will have two seats - for a pilot and a dog. The dog's job is to bite the pilot if he touches anything.

The pilot's job is to feed the dog.