Most people around here probably haven't noticed or don't care, but Yahoo! Sports is one of the finest online sports outlets there is. When the rest of Yahoo! collapses, I hope its sports department gets scooped up and kept in tact by someone. In particular, Fox should buy that division and replace everything it has with the Yahoo! equivalent.

Going off of the 2011 tournament for any generalized method of picking games is a bad idea. It was a particularly chaotic tournament for a variety of reasons. Having a system that failed last year is potentially a good thing because last year didn't work like the majority of tournaments do.

Notably, four representatives on the committee—Darrell Issa (R-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Jared Polis (D-CO)—are fighting against SOPA all the way. Issa proposed an amendment yesterday that would have gutted the worst parts of SOPA out of the bill, though it unfortunately failed. Chaffetz's appeals to the potential compromise of DNSSEC finally got the thing shelved until real Internet experts can testify before the committee.

As the chief opponents of the bill are equally split, it shows this isn't a partisan issue (for once) but largely a who-is-bought-and-paid-for issue. I've watched a fair amount of the committee's meetings. The actions and attitudes of the bill's proponents has been shameful. Lamar Smith (R-TX), SOPA's sponsor, appeared determined to railroad the thing through the committee as-is no matter what. That he accepted a temporary end to discussion on the bill is a minor miracle. Smith basically lives in Hollywood's back pocket.

Was trying to work out why they named there subsidary H211.

Are they referring to the Hydrogen line, which has a wavelength of 21.1cm?

Every right can be abused. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be a right.

Now let's be careful here. It's DC Comics that have been rebooting themselves over and over, and even then only for about 30 years, 50 if you want to call the Silver Age a reboot. Marvel have never rebooted their main continuity, and nor have a lot of other major series.

They'll reboot the franchise and start again. Just like with Batman and Spider-Man.

To be fair, if you haven't purchased anything, you're not a customer.

I wonder how this will affect all my single player games.

If I remember rightly, Valve said that they no longer intended to make purely single-player videogames at all.

Any thoughts on HTTPS only for the login page, or for all pages?

All pages. When you log in to begin with, if the login page is HTTPS then your username and password are encrypted. This is good, because it means nobody else can snoop your password and log in as you later. You are then sent back a cookie. Later, when you want to prove that you are logged in, you just send the cookie along with the HTTP request. Of course, if all the other pages are not encrypted, then the cookie is sent in the clear, which allows anybody to collect it and use it. So, obviously, any request sending a cookie should be sent encrypted too, which means that all pages should be HTTPS.

This is an extremely obvious and trivially-fixed security vulnerability. The fact that so few sites bother to fix it is disappointing indeed.

Yes, if an attacker roots your box, you have a much bigger problem. But the point is that you now have two problems: your box is rooted, AND all your customers' passwords are exposed. Using bcrypt reduces that to a single problem, namely that your box is rooted.

A lot of people are afraid to sit at home without getting shot.

And that's just considering the end result of this thing, namely Watson itself. Looking at the sheer amount of original research and work that had to be done to create it, it's unthinkable that there wouldn't be results in there that are worth spinning off and applying to other applications.

A hot mantle isn't something that happens by chance. When a planet forms, it involves large chunks of *stuff* coming and binding together - that is, coming from a dispersed position of high gravitational potential to a compressed position of much lower gravitational potential. All of that GPE has to go somewhere, and most of it went into thermal energy, hence the heat at the Earth's core. Mars is much smaller than Earth = less GPE to liberate = less core heat. Of course the fact that Mars is too small to hold on to a substantial atmosphere also plays a part.

What I'm saying is that any sufficiently large rocky planet almost by definition has substantial core heat. It's not really much of a coincidence that the Earth has a hot mantle. Probably, any large rocky planet of about the same age as Earth (i.e. orbiting a population I star) has plenty of core heat left.