I suppose it depends on how do you phrase the question.
"Do you want complicated checks, having to provide multiple forms of ids, proof of address etc to open even a simple account?"
versus
"Do you want terrorists and criminals to be easily move their money, without any checks, allowing them to fund bombings and reducing your chances of getting your money back after a fraud/scam?"
Both are exagerrations, but I suppose people would answer 'no' to both of them.

I have been playing America's Army a lot when it started. Back then, as far as I understand, it was a recruitment tool for advertising army careers, not something used to evaluate possible candidates or to be used in actual training.
That is quite different from 'play this game if you want to pass an interview', which I think original statement was about?

From a quick look at NEON, it seems to be 128 bit only, which means it doesn't extend even to 256 bits. It looks to be an equivalent to SSE2, which is a year 2000 tech for Intel.

Snickers got introduced only in 1930. Gold stopped being a reserve for dollars in 1933, so I suppose he has to come from somewhere around that period? ;)

Interesting way of naming things, to define cyborg as amalgamate of robot and AI without any biological part, when 'org' in cyborg stands for 'organic'...

Probably not. But we would also not see old, balding, male professor on every news front page out there (Einstein doesn't count, he is more a meme, rather than a real person now).

She would not end up with so much publicity if not for being female (quite cute on top of that). It is normal that some people will get suspicious and wonder if this is pure merit, or maybe journalists just want to push woman-in-STEM agenda.

I sincerely hope she is as accomplished as newspapers claim - it is heartwarming news to hear about young people being really passionate about real science (regardless of gender).

I think there is a bit of misunderstanding there regarding word arrest.

"They fingerprinted me. Took my mug shot and gave me a court date,"

  I don't think he was put into holding cell/prison waiting for the trial (which is the meaning of arrest in case of flight risk or possibility of muddling up the case). I think he was handled as arrested person, with mug shot and related paperwork and let out, asking him to come back to court (which did not happen, as case was dismissed beforehand).

I suppose that story would be a lot weaker if instead of saying 'arrest' and 'mug shot' it would instead say "they invited me to police station and took picture to compare with one taken at the ATM, but before case went to court, they realized timestamps were mismatched" ;)

I'm all for him suing Wells Fargo/police/whoever was involved, but it doesn't sound like he was put into prison cell in meantime.

No? Planet A at 1AU orbit and Planet B at 2AU orbit have distance between 1AU and 3AU. Planet C at 1000AU has distance to planet A between 999AU and 1001AU. Whatever are their periods, some average of 1-3 won't get anywhere close to average of 999-1001.

Not sure how you came up with number 45. 8 planets give 28 combinations, so it should be 'any other of 27 combinations'. Even if you didn't get memo from 2006 about Pluto, it would be 36-1=35 combinations.

If I understand you correctly, you suggest that comets are flying directly towards sun, get decelerated by ablating gas, stop and then accelerate away like a rocket. I suppose that you imagine that at some point they stop spewing gases, but gravity still works, so they will finally come back. Just in case - this is completely wrong image. Comets are orbiting Sun and 'missing' it when they fly in, getting around Sun on tight gravity leash and flying back, still in very elongated orbit. Comet tail is way too weak to pull the 'stop and reverse' trick, plus, which is even worse, it points into wrong direction (away from sun, so if anything, it would accelerate comet towards Sun even more)

I don't see a reason why world in which simulation hardware runs should be in any way similar to ours. It can be as well 4d spatial dimensions one, with multiple spin axis for elemental particles etc. I think it makes sense for each deeper simulation level to be significantly simpler than previous one (same way as we would not run full quantum-level, universe scale simulator in our world, but rather do a lot of simplifications to reduce required data complexity).

So, bees can smell minimal amount of quinine or sugar from dispenser, even when it is still closed. This would require very sensitive sense of smell, only possible in animal which has to go large distances to find food based on smell alone. Yep, basic hypothesis is that bees can add and subtract. Only after we prove they cannot, we can look for other explanations.

Please note that while it seems like they cracked translating thought into speed, it is really about something very different. They decode what person is hearing into sound. This is very, very far from being able to interpret actual thoughts - they attach themselves to very early stage of hearing process, where things are still looking very much like sound waves. Additionally, it is tested on just 10 words (numbers from 0 to 9). On top of that, given neural nets are magic, I wouldn't be surprised if instead on brain activity, they focused on some measurement artifact, which is caused by skull vibrating to the sound, turning all that setup into overcomplicated and underperforming microphone. Sure, it is a worthy research, but it is light years away from thoughts to speech conversion.

Not necessarily. It might be physically impossible to express bio-machinery required to synthetize X and Y using normal DNA+XY. That would explain why those extra bases never happened in natural world - even if some mutation happened, there was no chance it would be self-sustaining.

You need to move few meters and GPS will tell you where north is. Take mobile phone navigation for example - my phone has horrible internal compass and often shows direction off by 90 degrees or so. But it is enough to start driving and suddenly it corrects itself. Thinking about it, maybe they skimped on compass and put super secret GPS inside instead?

Bottom of the stand in the picture reminds me of mirror setup magicians are using on stage to pretend there is empty space under the box, while in reality, there is enough space to fit their assistant there. By making it few inches higher, they could do the same without any foldable screen, just slide existing flat panel down. Or, if their OLED display is so good, just point backward facing camera on the stand and display area behind it on the screen itself as it lowers and don't use mirrors at all.