It is not even a matter of reproducible results. This whole affair is a logic exercise, the experiments performed cannot rule out other trivial explanations for the results. Science does not only require an experiment showing the plausibility of one explanation, but also the implausibility of alternative reasonable explanations.

This whole affair is an example of peer review gone wrong. It is clear that Science in their haste to publish this article probably didn't do the best job of picking reviewers of this paper. Had they sent this article to even one critical reviewer, none of this would have happened. The paper would have been delayed for publication for a few months while the authors did some more rigorous experiments.

Its even more than just this. In the US and many other countries there are patient privacy laws(see HIPAA). Normally on Yelp, a customer posts a negative review about a store or restaurant. The owner can come along and acknowledge it, dispute it, or comment on it. In the case of medicine, the doctor is barred by law from commenting on any specific patient's care. For example, if a patient, says my wound became infected because of this doctor. The doctor could not respond, proper care of the wound would have prevented that infection. In any case when in comes to medicine, the conversation becomes completely one sided.

Green phosphors while easy to construct and high brightness are a disaster for eye strain. After staring at a terminal for 4 hours straight you come to appreciate amber and paper-white terminals.

Because of quantum entanglement, if you have a long cat in a long box when you open the end in New York and find a tail, the end in Los Angeles is definitely a head.

I don't know how it works in your state, but if you sell something by a unit of measure, your measurement methodology and accuracy must be guaranteed or you are setting yourself up for an epic fine. It doesn't matter if it is pieces, pounds, tons or bytes. You fake it and the cash strapped counties will come after you.

This is pretty much the definition of restraint of trade. If financial companies run this course, they might find themselves on the receiving end of a different kind of lawsuit, anti-trust. Imagine the following scenario. Company A makes a product. Company B decides that this infringes on their patent and goes to the ITC. ITC decides that Company A's product is infringing. Would all companies selling this product be conducting illegal business under Mastercard's rules?

This sort of campaign accomplishes about zero in the real scheme of things. All they are doing is removing the public face of piracy while the sources and distribution networks still exist. It will just push piracy off of Google and back to the dark reaches of the internet where it has always existed. In fact, why even bother with the internet when there are plenty of DVD fabs in Southeast Asia cranking out true physical copies. Those have real economic harm to the entertainment industry as they redirect actual sales vs phantom sales lost to piracy over the internet.

Hah I tried this in 9.0.597.0 without incognito and it detected... startpanic.com only

Unfortunately the DHS and the TSA are arms of the Federal government and as such civil suits against them can be very difficult. This is because most federal agencies have sovereign immunity. There are only 2 avenues where sovereign immunity has been waved tort(FTCA) and contract law(Tucker Act). You'd probably have better chances if the police officer did arrest the TSA officer because it would cause FUD within the TSA itself.

There are a couple of different things going on here. First atmospheric pressure of mars is low, about 1/200th of Earth atmosphere. This is not a good thing for a balloon. This would mean that a balloon would have to displace 200x more volume per pound of lift. The good thing is that the atmosphere is mostly CO2 which has a higher molecular weight than Earth which is mostly N2 and O2(44 vs 29 g/mol average molecular weight). Add it all up and you would need a larger balloon, but less gas to inflate it than on Earth(for a theorhetically weightless balloon).

I think the glider might be a bit more unrealistic. It would seem to me that there wouldn't be enough lift with the thin atmosphere to get anything off the ground. The size of the wing needed would seem to be rather large.

I know for the TSA personnel you often see radiation dosimeters. The government isn't unaware of the risk. I'm sure they are much more worried about the carry on bag scanners than the backscatter machine. Those bag scanners have much higher energy and higher intensity x-ray sources. You know those black rubber things and lexan shields on those machines? Those are to block as much of the radiation as possible. The lexan of course doesn't do much against x-rays, but they prevent passengers from grabbing at a bag coming out of the machine which could get those rubber things swinging and exposing everyone.

I have a bet running with some friends that at some point a very frequent flier(daily) or a member of the flight crew will get melanoma from the backscatter x-ray machine(remember the x-ray dose is only to the first few millimeters of skin). The lawsuit against the manufacturer will be huge, because of course the federal government is shielded from those lawsuits.

Once upon a time I worked in a metal foundry. There people used induction furnaces to melt all sorts of alloys for castings. Skin depth is key. If you have tiny skin depth in your material it will take forever for something interesting to happen. Step 1 find an insulating container which will not burn. Glass can work(assuming your metal melts before the glass does) or ceramic is better. Place fun things in it like steel wool. Turn on the coil. Be astounded by steel wool. Aluminum cans are thin enough to melt, but be cautious they can ignite in air and if they do you can be poisoned or otherwise injured by the alumina.

I think it might be fun to use a thin metal implement in a glass bowl to cook something from a hot rod.

I agree so much. You hit the core of this whole issue. What is a kill-switch in their mind? Even if you switched off MAE-EAST or MAE-WEST, there is no guarantee that routers wouldn't find terribly slow ways around such a massive disruption. There is really no way to "turn off the internet" in the same way there is no way to "turn off radio". You might be able to disrupt a few places here and there causing the internet to go painfully slow or to shut down the servers of this or that business, but how would you shut off the internet outside of the US? Under what authority? Also think of all the people using VOIP who you would suddenly cut off as well. I'd love to see the political fallout of Grandma Smith being snuffed out by an internet kill switch.

You assume that if piracy was impossible, that those who would pirate would buy. This isn't the case. The lost revenue to piracy stats are hopelessly inflated.