Saskatchewan -- the only truly rational province in Canada. Seriously.

- a British Columbian

It is a crime to waste the time of Slashdot readers with idiotic drivel like this.

The first of your suggestions is ludicrous. The second is (surprisingly, coming from you) indeed possible -- provided they can find him. They are criminal enterprises, after all. And there's hope for you! You actually had a coherent thought!

By this standard, anyone striving to enhance general knowledge in a field is an elitist. Albert Einstein was an "elitist". Richard Feynman was an "elitist". Carl Sagan was an "elitist".

As you didn't invent PHP yourself, you stand on the shoulders of giants to achieve what you are doing. Those giants quite possibly benefited from the work of Donald Knuth -- one of the true trailblazers of the field. Unknowingly and unwittingly, therefore, you are a vicarious beneficiary of his work. Have some respect.

Time to break out the popcorn, sit back, and watch the fun on Lombard Street

That's because you're making good sense. This is certainly not the forum for that.

I thought the same thing until I read TFA a second time. The authors mention oil production practices -- depletion without fluid replacement, which is rarely done anymore -- and they specifically cite an instance of an existing well located over the epicenter of the 1933 quake being deepened and surging in production 9 months prior to the actual quake. They go on to say that because production practices changed after 1935, no further correlation of quakes with drilling/production activity in the LA basin have been found. So there are mechanistic hints here: pressure depletion (evidenced by land subsidence) changing the energy balance in underlying strata.

I wonder if anyone has looked at the Middle East oil fields -- where primary production was common practice for much longer and wells are hugely prolific -- to see if there is a similar correlation with seismic activity there?

I'd really rather hear from the stomped cockroach.

Or, you know, they could use the hard drive LED to blink out the information they want to extract in Morse code with the cell phone camera set to record the transmitted data. I mean, holy crap, at some point this all becomes a little ridiculous.

The same Visual Studio that phones home with telemetry about what you're coding and how well it's going? Yeah, thanks very much but no thanks.

I mean, the irony is hilarious: Microsoft (MICROSOFT!) being concerned about language safety issues!

And one more:

In what dreamworld of Assange's was Gaddafi a "sovereign" leader by any stretch of the imagination? That's just ludicrous! Gaddafi seized power in a military coup in 1969 and clung to power for the next 42 years as a murderous despot. He is not forgotten and he is never missed. Libyans themselves shot him when they finally got the chance.

So ... that part is just complete horseshit, Julian.

Without teenagers we'd never have found out how a Tesla will behave in a real-world crash situation because the only people who can afford to actually buy one are loaded old geezers who drive like their grandmas.

Now we know.

Look, if they cherry-pick for juries from the population, then they're clearly selecting for those individuals more easily manipulated/swayed/persuaded -- so to precede that information with a generalized statement like "[all] People are programmed" is potentially self-contradictory and therefore illogical. But don't mind me; you just go on thinking that way.

Say, wouldn't you feel left behind without this shiny, new, latest-generation iGadget? C'mon right over here ...

Oh well, there's always Pale Moon

Nope. My hardware (apparently) won't support Windows 7. Ergo, the upgrade wouldn't make me any happier; quite the opposite, actually.

Plus, under XP, I escape the constant nagging / threats to upgrade to Windows 10. We are the Forgotten Ones that Microsoft has (thankfully) left behind.

Does anyone actually edit Slashdot article summaries anymore? Both the 3rd and 7th sentences of the summary read, "low-level criminal attackers are even creating call center operations to increase the impact of their scams". I think we all got the point the first time it was made. Does anyone actually edit Slashdot article summaries anymore?