On my Mac, 8.1-point Helvitica is more readable, has more leading, and takes up only a tiny bit more space. With a tweak to your system prefs*, 7-point Helvitica takes up about 2/3 the space and is equally readable. *Go to System Preferences > Appearance > Turn off text smoothing ..., and change the setting to 4.

"No, your Honor, this isn't a lottery ... it's more like a gimmick."

For end-users maybe not, for developers a lot of tools are Java, with IDEs at the top of the list. Say goodbye to Eclipse on Mac??

I don't want this. Why should I have to expose an open port to download something? And opening an outside port is not even possible for a lot of people.

Hasn't worked for me even once. Anyone want to help me start a class action law suit? (Female replies only, please.)

The summary should have said U+00A1 (decimal 161).

What makes it special is the higher likelihood of accidentally giving offense.

What about inserting individual genes (from humans) into animals to see how they work? Isn't a lot of research done that way? Example in today's news: http://www.physorg.com/news194796686.html

The faster the roads are, the farther people are willing to drive. So an increase in driving counteracts the hoped-for savings to some extent.

See various papers on "time travel budget".

See also Rebound effect and Downs-Thomson paradox.

Let's have another one for colors. People can rate the color they find most attractive, and the site can come up with an average.

'any application that pleases you' to play music and video

... does that include iTunes?

"I think Opera is honest" is not the point. You're being asked to trust criminals not to figure out that Opera is probably an easy target, since they probably don't have a big security team and mandatory audits the way banks and large ecommerce sites do. You're being asked to trust Opera to perform well in an area (security internal and external) that isn't their core competency.

So they think a 30-second commercial is long enough to disclose drug risks? Or anything else than a many-page highly technical report that assumes the reader knows all the implications of the implications? And when the risks are often not even well-known in the first place?

By their definitions, * North Carolina is a "subversive organization" since it "conducts" its government through the use of force (via the police). * Anyone who interacts with the global economy meets the "affiliated...indirectly" part of being under "foreign control". * Anyone who hears a foreign government official quoted on the news and has their opinion influenced (no matter how slightly) meets the definition of a "foreign agent".

Is it really possible to make a prediction on black holes of this size, without a theory of quantum gravity? I'm no physicist, but I keep reading that the current theory of relativity is not usable at the quantum scale.