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Newton and Leibniz... http://xkcd.com/626/

It's about time we finally have a language that meets all of our needs, now we don't need so many different languages.

Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/937/

And we now have the best reason ever to go back to the moon. We must build an Olympic-size swimming pool on the moon!

Also, He3 is a very stupid reason to go to the moon. It requires level 2 nuclear fusion, and we haven't reached level 1 yet. lrn2civ noob

oblig xkcd

http://xkcd.com/505/

Well sure, and TornadoGuard will warn you about tornadoes if you can hear the civil defense sirens. ;)

Maybe there should be a new standard for when ole 927 is applicable.

http://xkcd.com/1357/

The problem with XHTML is that it would never be able to stand on it's own.
Even if all web developers started creating perfect XHTML code, we'd still have a huge legacy that would require all the browser kludges XHTML was supposed to fix.
XHTML is best described as such: http://xkcd.com/927/

Obligatory XKCD

There's an app^Wxkcd for that! http://xkcd.com/859/

Well, I'm sorry for the EFF, then, but everyone knows what the terms are to get an app in the iOS App Store.

Yes, of course everyone knows.

The headline and other content is all old news, only perhaps a first exposure to anyone who hasn't read much about the Apple development process. The linked article is from March 2010 , almost five years ago.

EFF announced a new app for Android, so the first two sentences of the /. post are great and newsworthy. Everything else in this submission is just inflammatory clickbait.

I'm not sure global warming is an exponential system.
But I get your point, and you're probably talking about treshold effects and positive feedbacks.
And yes, it would be a bitch to control this system, and very hard to stay between -1*IAU and 1*IAU : http://xkcd.com/1379/
Disclaimer: IANACT

http://xkcd.com/624/

Finding things that kill bacteria is easy.

Like handguns? :D

Finding things that kill bacteria and do not significantly harm the host, now that is the hard part.

Details.

That's so Meta, Even This Acroynm

(since, there oddly isn't any other obligatory xkcd about life on Mars)
http://xkcd.com/917/

we're talking about something that would be necessarily massive in volume. and consisting of a material that is almost completely unaffected by the energy that a star puts out. eating necessarily means stealing matter in some way, so there's that... considering the matter is 5500K at the surface of our sun and carbon sublimes at 4000? not to mention gravity, and the difficulty in resisting becoming part of the star itself. you'd need to evolve a propulsion system in space... that can put out more thrust than a star while part of you is touching said star. the surface gravity on the sun is what.. 27 times earth gravity?

obligatory xkcd: what-if
https://what-if.xkcd.com/89/

We don't even have an idea of how to go about making a vehicle now that could hope to play hopscotch with a star.
 

Well not really an XKCD but a What-If.

I'm guessing it was derived as a portmanteau of "star" and "carnivore."

Seems like a fine example of a malamanteau.

bad idea

They have agreed to merge their two organizations by mid-2015 and set up an as yet unnamed organization to “accelerate the availability and deployment of wireless charging technology on a global scale,” according to a statement Monday.

Well you know what that means.

Actually the majority of water has never been drunk by a human before. But almost all of it would have been drunk by a dinosaur at some point. Include every species ever and yes it's pretty much been piss at some point.

XKCD has it covered: https://what-if.xkcd.com/26/

I think you are over complicating this. Use the analogy of a bridge. The bridge is designed to allow people to pass over it, and if it's designed properly it will allow people to pass over it. If the bridge collapses it becomes a question of was the bridge built properly was it checked to see if it would fail before hand was it built according to the original plan. If there is a design flaw someone(typically the engineer who stamped the documents) can be held liable.

I think the same could be said here. If the design was flawed in that it bought illegal things that's one thing when it's suppose to be searching say amazon. Here I would question it's design because it was designed to buy things from where it did. In the design there was a decent chance it could hit illegal materials, and it did. I think if they didn't build anything to compensate for that it's on them. It's like asking, is it really assault if you close your eyes and start swinging at the air and just happen to hit people?

also where's the originality http://xkcd.com/576/

http://xkcd.com/576/

But what about Ballmer's Peak? ( http://xkcd.com/323/ ) This holds true for math, and calculation type science as well. You might have no hope of creativity... but you can really calculate.

First she probably used WindowsXP which has dozens of unpatched vulnerabilities which will never be patched since it is EOL. XP has no concept of user priveldges outside of programs so all services run as admin for everything. Drivers too can run as hardware and it has no ASLR or ram scrambling to prevent overflow attacks or stack smashing.

Most home users are being exploited by social engineering rather than defects in the operating system.

Locking down PCs, reducing privileges, "attack surfaces"..etc is worthwhile yet default even with XP is a stealth mode firewall where very little of this shit even matters to external adversaries home users face. Various software and hardware memory guards to prevent exploitation of software defects continually demonstrate themselves to be insufficient even in latest versions of windows. While escalation of privilege is easier you can still cause a lot of damage running code as the user.

Do these and you eliminate 90% of infections.

90% = 1:10... Or to use slightly different wording out of any 10 untargeted infections your likely to still get one.

Oh and of course I use a standard user account. I have that and an admin account which is occasionally annoying with UAC but this helps and puts in another layer of security as now the payload will need to bypass this.

http://xkcd.com/1200/

Don't wake up the sheeple.

That's funny, I was thinking of the iPhone or Droid strip.

Did you warn them?

http://xkcd.com/619/

The most infamous example is probably the ...

I see your hobby is extrapolation. Unfortunately something that has happened earlier is not guaranteed to keep happening.

she has Ph.D. in Physics

Chemistry, not physics. "Physical chemistry" to be exact (with a thesis on quantum chemistry), but that is a discipline pretty much exclusively sorted under chemistry at institutions around the world. But sure, we also have: Purity :-) .

Are you a practicing climate scientist who has personally checked all those facts? Not many people who would agree with you are. But they are looking at something written down that they- perhaps even you can never check or verify other then asking someone else if it is correct. But it's your version, it's real and factual, just like the faith Jews or Christians, or Muslims have.

Bullshit. First, there are degrees of wrong. Plus, you know, science works.

I am actually a published, practicing scientist. I can do the basic smell test on the papers, if not understand the tiny details.

To come to the conclusion that "the concensus is probably right and that in any case, I have no compelling reson to doubt the conclusions" the only "faith" I need to have is to discount the preposterous notion that the world's climate scientists are engaged in a vast conspiracy to defraud us all.

I have some guesses about how they're doing their research.

http://xkcd.com/1244/

YesIKnowIt'sSuborbitalGoAway.

We shouldn't forget that Isaac Newton's birthday is Dec. 25th, 1642. His work transformed the world. Happy Birthday!

or

Happy Birthday Isaac Newton, b. Dec 25, 1642. Thank you for the laws of motion, the universal law of gravitation, and calculus.

or

Happy Birthday Isaac Newton (b. Dec 25, 1642)! He did more before age 30 than most of us do in a lifetime. Thanks for transforming the world

Or so many others. If his point was just to alert people that Isaac Newton was born on Dec. 25th and we should celebrate that fact, he wouldn't have phrased it to intentionally mislead people.

Instead of writing some vague stuff about an almighty NSA, do tell how they are supposed to break properly configured encryption algorithms? Do you think they have magical quantum computers in their basement which can crack AES-128 during coffee break?

The actual NSA attacks are most likely focused on exploiting improper configurations (which are unfortunately far more common than one would think), side channel attacks, or outdated and broken encryption algorithms. Or they simply wrestle US CAs into forging certificates and then do a MITM attack.

Always remember http://xkcd.com/538/ .

... authentication is that even if all of the security measures associated with storing and authenticating your fingerprint were utterly unbreachable, your fingerprints can still be taken without your consent, while if you do not want someone accessing data that is guarded by a a secure password, however, then barring vulnerabilities in the security facilities associated with it (which would apply equally to fingerprint security as well anyways), then that information can only be obtained by you voluntarily surrendering it.

http://xkcd.com/538/

I hope they tested in the proper program before the big announcement.

http://xkcd.com/927/

Which leads us to the sadly all too true obligatory XKCD which is why Linux on the desktop is so low its getting its ass handed to it by "other" and has gotten so low its literally below the margin for error.

Considering that every time Linux starts to get stable the devs take a big steaming shit on it, Pulse, KDE 4, Gnome 3, Systemd, not to mention Torvalds constant kernel fiddling, is anybody really surprised by the plummeting numbers? Its a damned shame but as long as devs would rather put out yet another release instead of fixing the bugs in the previous release Linux will always remain in alpha quality.

http://xkcd.com/927/ Obligatory.

Obligatory XKCD.

Yup I agree... and for good measure:
http://xkcd.com/488/
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/g...

http://xkcd.com/1181/

obligatory xkcd btw:

http://xkcd.com/1443/

Ob XKCD 806

Ob XKCD 806

http://xkcd.com/323/

It's only off by a factor of 2... good enough for experimental physics, I suppose.

Have you ever tried shining a hand-held laser at the moon? Even if you did, it wouldn't be visible. It spreads out too much.

But what if everyone pointed a laser at the moon, at the same time?