The media does a great job glossing over a fundamental problem with dirty bombs. You have to shield it well enough to get it to it's deployment before it kills you, but it then has to disperse it's contents widely to be even vaguely effective.

A dirty bomb isn't about killing people, it's about scaring people. A pipe bomb will blow out a few windows and maybe kill someone who was unlucky enough to be standing next to it when it went off. A pipe bomb mixed with the guts of a hundred smoke detectors won't be any more deadly, but the resulting radiation scare will keep a few city blocks evacuated for weeks or months.

It's not a bug; it's a *feature!

No, this one is very definitely a bug.

If the hackers decide to use a dictionary attack, then an xckd-style password is about as good as one 4 characters long.

Four characters, yes, but four from a bloody huge alphabet (2048 characters). An XKCD-style password is almost as strong as four random Chinese characters.

This may explain why the incredibly ancient feature request for an "Outline View" in OpenOffice has gone over a decade (Reported: 2002-04-10) with no resolution.

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/...

The mental mapping of code for programmers and the mental mapping of text to those of us who write literature and non-fiction is totally different. They can't visualize how an outline and headings and the cues fonts give readers differs from all the "mind maps", "document navigators", and other inadequate replacements they keep suggesting will fill the need.

I'd just like to note that a will o' the wisp is not the same thing as ball lightning.

Rock? No, it's a CIA camera and microphone, cleverly disguised as a rock.

Fine. Split them up like a normal double slit experiment. As stated, neutrons in both arms.

If it's like the standard double-slit experiment, each neutron travels through both arms of the interferometer. Under quantum mechanics, any particle behaving in a wave-like manner can do this sort of thing, even if the particle is of a type (such as a neutron) that people normally think of as being a discrete object.

This is where my understanding gets fuzzy, but I think what they've done is rig things up so that the position-like attributes of each neutron's wavefunction are detectable in one arm of the interferometer, while the magnetic-property attributes are detectable in the other arm.

If you'd read the article, you'd see that he did use an industrial linescan camera for some of his work.

You realize this statement is 100% meaningless, right? Look at the demands and tech from 200-300 years ago. Now tell me how you can extrapolate today based on that.