It's a nine-TIMES increase. An X-fold increase is a power of 2. Since the claimed increase is from 2% to 17½%, usage occurs nearly nine times as often, or a bit over a four-fold increase. A nine-fold increase (2^9 = 512×) would require hype to exist in every single one of the more than five times as many papers as are actually published, and then in some more.

> Are people being shadow banned for being involved in unpopular sub-reddits?

Yes. It first became apparent in various Middle East-related subs. Participation in any "undesirable" or "enemy" thread would get an account banned in all the "friendlies" (much like how passport stamps work over there), and due to the power and pettiness that some mods have amassed, this could become a site or shadow ban.

The shadow ban is truly insidious in its dishonesty. It may have been a way to combat bot recognition at first but that was long ago cracked. What we have now is a site eager to cash in and clearly having made the decision on how it will do so: through the highly vocal, easily offended SJWs. The lessons taught by decades of evolution witnessed in USENET, Slashdot, kuro5hin and others are being ignored.

I'll go out on a limb and call the ouroboros flame-out and decline here, to become more visible by late '16. The offense grows exponentially, as does the self-entitlement, so it's going to be a bumpy ride. At that point figure some of the advertisers finally getting tired of the blackmail and other threats because they didn't send a private army to take on some AC for a joke that wasn't moderated away inside 30 sec. Whether reddit will recover will come down to whether the SJWs manage to retain control.

< Seriously. SILVER? Silver tarnishes.
When exposed to air, yes. The outermost layer. That's a funny thing about insulated cable...
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< Is plain old gold like the cheap cables at Office Depot sells for $5 too pedestrian for them?
Silver is considerably more conductive than gold (1.59×10^-8 rho vs. 2.44×10^-8 rho), and "pedestrian" does not mean what you seem to think it means.

In other news, the sky will be cloudy tomorrow regardless of whether your eyes are brown, blue, or green.

My bullshit meter always starts kicking into life when the hyperbole starts flowing, like the reading comprehension or random amount of payment received having a causative effect on the function of an organic process.

Decommissioning costs (including storage, disposal, and demolition) never seem to figure into these numbers.

I confirm. I've been using dreamhost for years.

Sensationalism. Propaganda. We'll be sure to think of the children as ew teach the tairists a lesson.

"...aboard a NUCLEAR aircraft carrier..."
Because the US also has a bunch of coal-fired carriers and a couple of old-fashioned pedal-powered ones?

HACKED network... while ABOARD
So... he accessed other networks. While he was working or when he had a rack pass and time to kill?

Though I was primarily a SYSOP for our internal mini mainframe, I also coded for other sections. To do so we connected using dumb terminals via 300baud to a Boeing datacenter and paid for connection as well as processor time. While it was government work, Reagan was just starting to take money away from the agencies, so we were encouraged to compile and run as little as possible.

Meanwhile, by 1983 there were a couple of COBOL packages for the Atari 800, a machine I happened to have at home. So I'd code on that, allowing me to compile, link, and execute, all in real time!! Every bit of my submitted code was fully tested. The downside was that I had to print it out and then type it back into those fucking dumb terminals where the occasional typo might slip in.

Prior to that I had the misfortune of batch programming on punchcards, dropping off decks of cards to pick up a day or two later with greenbar printouts full of the most obnoxious fatal errors.

Obama outed his atrocious attitude toward privacy back when he "halted his campaign" to run back to Washington to vote for FISA.

I'm considered a "far leftie" in the US, in case you think this comment came from the GOP noise machine.

Abusing chickens using existing infrastructure is by far the cheapest option. If it wasn't, the massive ag industry would have already scienced up the cheaper meat analog.

That rationale is why we only get energy from horses... I mean steam... I meant oil...

It's also why we still can't fly heavier-than-air craft. Well, not more than a few hundred feet... certainly not distances over 100 miles...
OK, well definitely not across oceans...
Fine, but flying them for days on end is utterly impossible

This comment was a lot cleaner and cleverer with the <s[trike]> tag, no longer available on /.

The prize was bogus to begin with, as explained in this Slate article from 2008. In short, it wouldn't be paid out unless the contestant was selling a ton of the stuff in stores and restaurants across 10 states over three months... at the same price as real chicken.

Science prizes are supposed to encourage development of things not yet commercially viable; this was a phony small tip for someone already successful. "Phony", because even if someone had the breakthrough needed on the day after this was announced, there's no way in hell that it could be approved for use and on market shelves in time to meet even the extended deadline.

And then there were the contest requirements, including full disclosure of ingredients and methods (trade secrets), carte blanche use of any- and everything related for PeTA's promotional purposes, rules subject to change without notice, and so on.

This was never a serious offer, just serious marketing, something PeTA mastered long ago. This "prize" retraction just got them some more free air time and, no doubt, some new members & donations... saith an older and hopefully wiser former member & supporter.

Even if institutions are non-profit or not-for-profit, cost have been running amok. Schools are paying outrageous sums to executive staff (but -- surprise, surprise -- not to teachers) and spending money hand-over-fist on projects and buildings and anything else they can think of. As long as this spending remains unchecked the best financing plans in the world can't and won't fix the situation.

Along with FAA bullshit like increased ramp checks and the resulting harsh punishment for the most minor of infractions (OhNOES! There's an old sectional map buried under the back seat!), the biggest killer is -- not surprisingly -- DHS. Loads of additional bullshit regulations, security theatre, outright bullying. The surprise searches-- conducted under any auspice (ICE, CBP, general Tairism) -- are claimed (currently untested in court) to be superconstitutional, meaning they do this without warrant, court order, active investigation, or any other reason. And in inspecting the aircraft they also inspect all private contents of all pax, not just that of the owner or pilot being run.

Here's a story from last September that no one saw. Pay careful attention to the harassment about 2/3 of the way down:

Gabriel Silverstein of New York flies using flight plans as standard procedure, said the Iowa state troopers who detained him in Iowa City this spring were more blatant [than those in another case]. “It was, ‘We are inspecting your plane,’ not, ‘May we search your plane?’ ” Mr. Silverstein said.

In the two-hour encounter one of the lawmen advised him to confess to possessing “a little personal-use dope and it’ll be all over and easy.” Mr. Silverstein said he was hardly about to make such a confession, considering that he refrains from drinking coffee, much less anything illegal.

The Iowa City stop was the second for him in four days. Mr. Silverstein also had been visited by two Customs agents in Hobart, Okla., during a fuel stop on the outbound leg of a business trip from New Jersey to California and back with his husband. They checked his paperwork and quickly inspected his baggage while he fueled the plane, he said.

That's a pretty damned clear set-up for a slam-dunk civil forfeiture case with a bonus uncontested drug possession charge.

There is a legal mandate: suitability to task. TOS/EULA be damned (or at least finally tried properly in court), they have contractually obligated themselves to provide the necessary materials (hardware/firmware) in making a sale/lease/licensing agreement and, as bugs are exposed and updates required, demonstrated a failure at the "manufacturing" level for which they are liable. It's only going to take one large customer and an otherwise slow news week to resolve this one.