The story here is that Russia has escaped the tyranny of the rocket equation, and designed a missile that is 100% payload and apparently 0% fuel.

Skype was good enough for the CIA to be discussing top-secret operations in real time when they were filming Homeland, so it ought to be secure enough for anybody.

This ought to be enough to ensure no British politician ever wears an Apple Watch ever again.

For our friends around the world who aren't aware, Michael Gove has the unique distinction of pissing off literally everybody during the Brexit referendum. He told a bunch of lies while campaigning to leave, while supporting Boris Johnson as a potential future Prime Minister. After the vote he then stabbed Boris Johnson in the back by declaring his own intent to run for leadership which was never going to win popular support, even from Brexiteers. Add in that he profoundly unpopular in education and justice (he was minister for both) and you have an individual who makes a worrying ambassador for your brand.

You'd be better off with a celebrity endorsement from Ebola.

You mean in the same way that nobody says "double oh seven?"

"We will never implement front doors or back doors into our projects..."

Isn't the whole point of the "back door" idea that people are expressly permitted to enter through the front door if they have a key? Why are they hating on legitimate receivers of encrypted data?

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"... the majority of new websites already go through testing when they are hosted to make sure that a site is intact and that files and content are free of viruses."

I did not know this about websites and I, for one, will sleep much easier tonight knowing that the majority of websites have been tested to be free of STDs.

Thanks, Andrea!

You should be wary of sample sizes of 1, but you asked for anecdotal evidence so here goes: I have multi-tasked various daily activities for the last 27 years, and I have found that taking a total break of roughly 8 hours every day helps. I come out of this (usually night-time) break period more refreshed than before and I find I don't need as much caffeine after the break.

What do I do with this break? Not only do I shut my eyes but I also lie down in a darkened room. I even lower my heart rate and activate specially developed wave modes in my brain that offer a combination of mental restfulness and reinforcing the learning that has taken place during the day. The really cool thing is that even new-born babies know this one weird trick to increase your energy levels - cosmetic surgeons everywhere don't want you to know this trick to look younger and feel more energetic!

But hey, I'm just some guy on the internet - you should take my anecdotal advice that such breaks are better than caffeine with a pinch of salt.

This list reads like a really crap version of "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel.

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Faceless Lawyer.

"Didn't lose a single Mario"

Who the hell is Mario? This is Donkey Kong. Did you mean Jumpman?

Is it just me, or is white on a dark background a terrible way to render text for any length of time spent actually reading? I'm genuinely interested to know whether other Slashdotters experience "lines" burned into their vision from reading Wired and other sites like it. When I look away from the screen I can still tell that I've been reading something with horrible contrast options. It's 2016, is it really necessary to do the whole "you're a 1337 hax0r because you used d@rk backgr0undz" thing?

"... unless an abnormal situation occurs. Which now did."

North Korea's fiery rhetoric may project some laughably inaccurate claims, but at least the grammar is better than that of a Slashdot editor.

"The word 'novel' now appears in more than 7% of PubMed paper titles and abstracts, and the researchers jokingly extrapolate that, on the basis of its past rise, it is set to appear in every paper by the year 2123."

It strikes me that in the next few years at least, this is only going to accelerate. My (UK) university's internal review procedures require you to "emphasize the novelty." The abstracts of almost all of the papers in journals I actually read (respect?) contain some description of the novelty, regardless of how small the incremental advance in performance is. This seems unavoidable since your paper must be different to other peoples' work and you must spell out to the editor how this condition is met.

As for self-promotion, I think you'd have to be an idiot to not self-promote to some extent. Job security in academia looks pretty flimsy from where I sit (surrounded by PhDs and post-docs). Publish often, otherwise you can get out of academia.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to do a spin-off of this study examining "impact."

I suspect that in the UK at least, being killed by a "Death Adder" would be enough to get your insurance claim rejected on grounds of negligence.

"You knew it was called a *death* adder right? What outcome were you expecting by going near it?"

Some Slashdotters would rightly point out if you can't claim under reasonable circumstances then you shouldn't be sold the insurance (Death Adder insurance should cover encounters with Death Adders). Unfortunately, large institutions in the UK already have a track record of knowingly mis-selling you stuff they know won't cover you (Payment Protection Insurance for students and the unemployed... neither of these groups were covered under PPI but the banks still sold it).