Huge numbers of people find it really interesting, and there's no way nerds would want to know about the beginnings of the most recent universal adoption to the entire industry, across all platforms?

And get off my lawn!

I migrated from Opera. I sorta miss the complexity, but Chrome starts simple, and lets you make it complex.

Admittedly, the BBC should probably show much more bias considering the UK government.

Still, I want a citation of the Founding Fathers subsidizing newspapers. It would be great to crush Founding Fathers supporters.

I'd love to use this argument, but I can't find much evidence of this. Citation needed!

Websites are great and all, but they are apparently not the best way to motivate the people.

Fair use rules need to be expanded to work with the digital world. Adding a whole song to a video of your team (of whatever) playing a sport will in no way impact the original piece of work, it is very clearly a derivative, and should fall wholly and completely under fair use terms.

All of the Big Content guys have sued or DMCA'ed anyone they possibly could, regardless of fair use. They constantly fail "checks" that people put online - work that is absolutely fair use, and it still gets DMCA'ed.

I submit to you that in this situation, it is far more likely Viacom (or whoever) merely submitted a batch of DMCA's through an automated process that wrongfully flagged the same fair use (in this case, permitted) case.

This is money grubbing bullshit. Counterfeiting and idea theft are NOT the same as personal use.

And what about people who don't use antivirus in Windows? What about Linux and Mac? What if my internet is just for my phone?

I obviously understand the difference between nuclear and conventional explosives, but why couldn't we use an equivalent amount of C4 to stop the leak? Isn't it about "resetting" the area, or are we talking about the insane heat generated, which will convert the sand to glass? I find that a pretty risky proposition.

Yes, I'm afraid I just don't understand. Citation needed.

It was featured on the Colbert Report a few days ago.

I don't see why C4 or some other high explosive couldn't work, and indeed, it makes me wonder just exactly who is in charge of this thing.

They should have two separate teams, who know nothing about each others existence. One is drilling the relief well, the other is trying to stop it at the end. Hopefully, they'll work that much harder if they think they're the only team fixing the well, even though BP appears to have a very lackadaisical attitude about it, but then again, all of my news sources are satire.

You are not taking into account my experiences.

In my experiences, some random guy being stupidly sarcastic about the value of a study is a total goddamn idiot, who is questioning the validity, often, of the necessity of science itself in some way.

Furthermore, given a scenario, I would blindly (because you are otherwise correct in your rationalizations, even though its a strange assertion) go with a scientist over some random idiot on slashdot every time.

I don't think anyone would disagree with that - you can argue yourself into semantic hell otherwise. Meanwhile, us smart people will be writing things down so we can build on them, realizing that the implications of any given study may not be imminently evident.

It even sounds reasonable.

Proof?

Oh, riiiiiiiiight. You have none. Until then, it what scientists like to call a (in this case, poor) "Hypothesis".

If only they would have asked you first.

I was definitely invisioning slotting my Nexus One into the side of my laptop, on the palmrest.

RTFA Fail : (

My N1 can use wifi, which gives me excellent speeds, but really hurts the battery.

There is also USB tether, but I can appreciate something like this. Very clean and modern.