If there ever was a time that the "small comment" penalty was wrongly applied, that'd be it.

This brings new meaning to the phrase, "And by Prior Logic, ..."

From the Key Points sidebar on that page: "After a period of approximately 2,000 years of little change (not shown here),...."
1880 is pretty close to being the end of the Second Industrial Revolution. That graph doesn't show what you think it does.

Thank you for the research, OP is indeed full of "it".

You can''t win. You can't break even. You can't stop playing the game.

The abstract of the paper seems to imply TCR is likely to be around 1.05-1.80... one of which is well south of 2. However, this doesn't seem to be a denier position, nor a denier getting a peer-reviewed paper published.

correct.battery.staple is in a swamp in Newfoundland, northeast of Smallwood Reservoir.
stupid.coordinate.system doesn't seem to be in that coordinate system.

So, no, not nearby.

Only sensors required to determine which wheels are moving are wheel speed. Any ABS equipped car needs those for at least 3, and usually 4 wheels so that ABS works properly. Does not require conspiracy to put in extra hardware.

If he'd bothered to speculate, he probably would have realized he was wrong. Day appears to be good at summarizing physics, but cars are more complicated than they appear at first glance.

First three paragraphs of the story tell of thieves breaking in to the office and stealing information about how this thing works. Is this not worth putting into the summary?

Android has had a "set fake location for testing" feature for a long time. Even my mostly locked down Virgin Mobile phone has that allowed.

"Settings -> developer options -> Allow Mock Locations"

If you don't have developer options, you may be able to get them turned on from "Settings -> About Phone" by clicking the Build Number, at least 7 times.

Then install one of several location setting tools from Google Play. Set location wherever you want.

Other permissions are harder to fake, but location results are pretty easy to change.

I just restart firefox once in a while, and it updates then. Never seen Firefox hollerin' anything about updates. I've got it set to auto update though. Perhaps if you chose an option other than "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them" it'd be quiet. It's in Tools->options->advanced->updates.

If you're talking about the Flash plug-in update, that's a problem you can blame on Adobe for releasing something more insecure than IE. Talk about something that goes through more versions than Firefox.... that'd probably be it.