You're way off base here:

1. 1. The linked article is talking about a temperature measurement made 1000 miles below the earth's surface, not the core
2. 2. The measurement made is reported as 6,650 degrees FAHRENHEIT

Come on mods, RTFLAs (L=linked)

"I awoke in a daze - sticky, smelling of stale alcohol, only imagining that her head would hurt as badly as mine when she finally awoke.  Vague memories of drinks, friends, laughter, and sex.  Lots of sex.  As I picked my pants up off the floor, my cell phone fell from the pocket and by some cruel twist of fate tapped her cell phone lying nearby..."

#!/bin/bash

for submission in ${submissions[@]}; do
  if [ ! -z `echo $submission | grep -i "Bitcoin"` ]; then
    post $submission;
  fi
done

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator

Thanks?

What's wrong with being informative?

I always code for a single return statement at the end of a function but not for performance reasons, I just think it is easier to eyeball. I don't care what the compiler does with it. I hate trying to eye-debug a method/function that is peppered with return statements (aside from maybe a single "guard" statement at the top of the function), I inevitably miss one and go trundling down the wrong path, wasting a bunch of time in the process. My functions typically all end with "return retVal;" YMMV

Who's to say some significant fraction of popup adds we see in general browsing aren't injected by the ISPs? The actual content providers could be totally unaware while the ISPs are selling ad space on any site, what a cash cow.

ISP: Hey, company X - for $100,000 we can make sure your ads are seen on 3% of all requests in region R, on sites with content targeted at demographic D.
Company X: Is that legal?
ISP: Of course! It's right here on page 17 of the terms and conditions...

Why wouldn't they??

It's simpler than that, once ISP popups become a regularity blackhats have an incredibly simple popup to copy that people will assume is their ISP, so all must be well. "Click here, and enter your account ID to find out if you are affected"...

In fact, is everyone absolutely certain this is actually Cox and not some malware outbreak masquerading as the ISP?

I tinkered with this thing for a little pet project once and at that time decided that it would be a great tool for a child to become accustomed to the basic concept of programming. They can script simple macros with the visual widgets and then create more complex steps with shell script callouts and the such. There's a text-to-speech ("say" command) that is always a huge hit with kids, at least it was for me :)

How naive am I to get excited at the thought we might happen upon a fossil?

Thank god for ham and pork chops!