...or dinosaurs?

I'll try it. What harm can it do?

Xi Jinping looks like Winnie Th--- hang on someone is at the door.

*distant screams are heard*

*somehow I am still able to click Preview and then Submit*

Ah, your first mistake! You admitted to actually reading the article! Bot! No real slashdot user ever reads the article!

I'm joking, don't come guns a'blazin' at me now!

*throws down smoke bomb and disappears*

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." -Obi-Wan Kenobi

At least in New York City, this is not true. If a meter is broken, you can park there and get no ticket... or maybe I have just been incredibly lucky.

He didn't say he was driving in a turning lane. Consider it is one lane and you are the third car. The person in front of you will (hopefully) see the person in front of him's blinker (if used) indicating that they are going to turn. You may not see that. "Suddenly" that second car slows down (again, hopefully) to avoid rushing the first car in line that is turning and/or potentially rear-ending them. You, in the third car, are at a disadvantage. In most situations you would perfectly know exactly what's going on, see that car's blinker as well as brake lights, but the desire for car to car communications is reasonable in my view.

Agreed. What most people also don't realize is it doesn't necessarily take a full win to still be a win. If a certain third party candidate received just a few percentage points, it could change the conversation and give at least some validity to their platform. It's the same reason why people in certain states knowing their vote won't "change the election" still go ahead and vote. At least hopefully this means they are trying to give some weight to that viewpoint. One of the greatest problems we have in politics we have right now, in my opinion, is that people believe they have no power when they do indeed have all of the power. The real shame is those that blindly vote election after election for the same party just because that's what they've always done. Educate yourself, engage your family and friends in polite conversation if possible, run for local office, school board, get involved.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ ...or slide 15 if you actually read the summary and follow the link.

Dear Scientists, Please stop trying to create black holes. I would prefer not waking up in the middle of some random night feeling a tug on my body and seconds later falling into the aforementioned black hole to my death. Thank you.

He should post something on kickstarter and then donate all of the money to NASA. It seems to be working out for LeVar Burton.

Here you go: http://xkcd.com/287/

I recently ran into the same problem you are having, just on a lesser scale. The program I had the best success with was Auslogics Duplicate File Finder .

It includes two options that I absolutely needed: Ignore File Names and Ignore File Dates. I'm pretty sure those were off by default, so check that if you try this. Considering I knew that I had done the same thing you are describing, and even renamed some files in the process, I really needed those options otherwise it would not have found the dupes.

I was paranoid there would be false positives, so I did a quick test on a select few folders. It worked perfectly, so I let it run... then blindly allowed it to do its thing in the last step and delete duplicates. I found about 600GB of dupes out of 3TB, and it took less than a few hours to run.

There are four lights!

It's there, it's always there, at the end of the website address line... the classic "reload" symbol... unless I'm misunderstanding what you're griping about not having access to?

Does the statement "and nothing of value was lost" apply here?

On a more topic-related note, the flight crew does not need to have attention from 100% of the passengers. Likely they would need less than 50% and hopefully at least 1-2 per row. If you are sitting there, completely not paying attention, and you don't notice the flight attendants waving their arms and shouting instructions, you will probably notice the person next to you flinging themselves forward and putting their head between their knees.

While I understand your point that the chances of survival increase if people are paying attention to authority figures / those in-the-know and actually listen to their instructions, it is naive to believe that just because someone isn't playing with some toy that they are actually paying attention. There are those that will be daydreaming out the window, dozing off or engaged in some conversation with their travel companion.

It makes sense for people to read the instructions in the seat-back pocket at least once in their life. It makes sense for people to actually listen to the flight attendants during their overview of safety procedures at least once in their life. And it makes sense for people to actually be aware of their surroundings, to at least know that something is not right and that they should seek out someone that might be able to help them (i.e. flight crew)...

In the end, no matter how many things we ban or how many rules we impose on having to pay attention, there will always be some people that will be over-prepared in a crisis and those that are under-prepared. If some crisis happens, I just hope I'm sitting next to an over-prepared person who notices I'm asleep and nudges me awake. Thank you in advance, fictional person!