Saying "I hate Fox News, they are biased" doesn't scream out "I just want honest, balanced coverage". It screams out "I am a biased left-winger". Take one obvious example, NBC/MSNBC have had a rash of "selectively editing" videos recently. There was the 911 call in the Trayvon Martin case, the bogus sandy hook "heckling", and taking a Romney speech completely out of context.

The news gathering in the US is atrocious. Anyone who is not completely biased can see Fox is right-wing, MSNBC is left-wing, and the rest are center-left (although CNN seems to push more to the MSNBC side these days). They are all a bad combination of sensationalist ratings driven garbage combined with a huge agenda that rarely has the viewers' best interests in mind. If you don't view the news with a filter that considers the source, you are being deceived."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-nbc-news-editing-911-call-306359
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/29/msnbc-caught-selectively-editing-another-clip-this-time-of-sandy-hook-victims-father/
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/06/19/msnbc-busted-for-editing-romney-comments-out-of-context-backtracks-sorta-video/

I think the news isn't that China has an unofficial hacking department, but that someone's managed to narrow down exactly where they work from. This makes it difficult for China to claim that the hackers are private individuals or non-government businesses.

You're assuming Opera is a browser developers actually worry about. At less than 2% market share, Opera actually concerns me as a developer less than IE7 on typical projects.

Voting for both QC and http://girlswithslingshots.com/ as my favorite non-geek strips.

And why are they suddenly so powerful?

Sums it up nicely. Using a tablet for professional work is like using a minivan to move your furniture. Perhaps it does the job, but you'll always get things done faster and better with tools designed for the task.

You need at least one other sat to fix you in time. The receiver doesn't have an atomic clock and so needs an extra point of data for the extra unknown.

Simple logic might win an argument, but that doesn't make you correct.

ICEs aren't based on the Carnot cycle (although carnot is the most efficient possible cycle). Carnot cycle engines are *not* maximum 35% efficient. Why you quote the efficiency of the motor by itself is bizarre (and also excessively high for modern electric motors over a normal drive cycle). Electric cars are not 95% efficient when you start from coal being burned to generate the electricity, and include battery, inverter efficiencies etc. Especially when you consider that coal power stations, also being heat engines, are bound by the same carnot maximum theoretical efficiency formula (although their practical efficiency is generally higher than ICEs).

I don't actually disagree with the thrust of your rebuttal, GP is an idiot.

Did you already forget what site you're on?

They do, actually. It's just not as interesting news fodder, so nobody hears it.

Even an elliptical orbit is right twice a year.

Always test a deployment of new hardware within a single department, or smaller group, before implementing it throughout the building.

> The best content on the internet is produced out of a passion for creating the content, It's best when those people can devote 100% of their time to their passion. Advertising enables that. Otherwise they have to get "a real job" and only spend their spare time (if any) being creative.

You have a house. Why not buy some gym equipment and setup an exercise area? Heck it would easily pay itself back considering how expensive gym memberships are.

Wait, urban business don't have cube farms? For me personally, living in a city would be like my entire life is Office Space. Work in a cube, come home to a cube of an apartment. Except that the cube of an apartment is ridiculously expensive.