Comment Re:Lost socks (Score 1) 212
... I have so many coathangers. I don't remember buying most of them.
Mind blown.
Comment Preservation of proximity (Score 1) 212
The experiment seems to be based on the assumption that a particle leaving and returning our universe would be likely to enter closely to where it left - is this an inevitable part of brane theory, or could the particle come out somewhere else entirely?
Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister 328
eldavojohn writes A turnover in the Greek government resulted from recent snap elections placing SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) in power — just shy of an outright majority by two seats. Atheist, and youngest Prime Minister in Greek history since 1865, Alexis Tsipras has been appointed the new prime minister and begun taking immediate drastic steps against the recent austerity laws put in place by prior administrations. One such step has been to appoint Valve's economist Yanis Varoufakis to position of Finance Minister of Greece. For the past three years Varoufakis has been working at Steam to analyze and improve the Steam Market but now has the opportunity to improve one of the most troubled economies in the world.
Comment Re:Fake Hungarian Passport (Score 1) 182
"I will not buy this passport. It is fake."
Comment Well... could have gone much worse (Score 1) 182
At least the bot didn't pay a hitman to have random people killed.
Comment Re: Somehow banks... (Score 1) 161
Very smart people are working on how to crack any technical security measure you might come up with.
Comment What they left out (Score 4, Insightful) 200
NASA didn't decide to build that; a Republican senator from Mississippi forced through the budget amendment even though it was pointless. Apparently stimulating the economy down there with some completely useless waste of resources is more important than actual space research.
Blaming NASA for it is just adding insult to injury - what an asshole reporter.
Comment CAPTCHAs (Score 1) 134
Instead of fancy breathalizer equipment, making people read a bunch of letters and numbers is probably enough.
Comment Life-size (Score 1) 171
That's supposed to mean the size of his body, or the size of his ego?
Comment Re:obviously they should track the sun (Score 2) 327
All you need is a small black hole to bend the light towards you...
Comment Re:HIV, now friendlier than ever! (Score 1) 172
Ebola and ISIS both still have fairly bad raps, so fat chance for Comcast.
Comment Re:Misleading Title (Score 1) 213
Yes. Exactly!
On the grand scale of things, I would suggest that evolution *vastly* favours cooperation. No, really. Think about all the cells in your body working together to form a multi-cellular organism. Think about the organelles in symbiosis within those same cells. Think about bacteria sharing plasmids amongst each other, and forming aggregates. Think about ecosystems where different organisms form finely balanced cycles, where no single element ever predominates. Think about the majority of encounters you have with other people in human society, and the large numbers of colony/herd/flock arrangements in wildlife.
Comment Re:One letter? (Score 1) 127
Unary representation of your program's Gödel number. You can code in one letter, but your program may get pretty long.
Comment Re:Web Searches For These Suck (Score 1) 127
(which Google, btw, finally realized can be more than two words to be omitted from a search because they're too common)
Yeah, in the early days multiple words were just an AND keyword search. I think that changed over 6-7 years ago, though.
Comment Re:sooo.... (Score 2) 307
In the time between these bursts, maybe a few species got lucky and made it almost to space colonization before getting scrubbed.
Maybe we're one of them.
