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  1. Three fundamental paradoxes on The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart · · Score: 1

    * Why does something exist rather than not? * What is time? * Why do people laugh at Don Rickles?

  2. P&M? on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    I used Protter and Morrey, lo these many decades ago.

  3. global cooling--global warming--global cooling on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    Back to global cooling?

  4. Hunka Hunka Burnin' Byte on Ask Slashdot: What Good Print Media Is Left? · · Score: 1

    I remember when Byte was 600+ pages, and could break a nerd's arm when it was picked up.

  5. Thanks for the warning. on Stephen Colbert To Be Letterman's Successor · · Score: 1

    Crypto-ideologue replaced by overt ideologue.

  6. Grow up and smell the corpses on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 1

    The world is neither a faculty lounge nor a museum. It's a Darwinian battlefield where those who can, do (for as long as they can), while those who can't, fall. But you'll find that out soon enough.

  7. We are the Borg... on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Government control expands. How long until they implant chips in citizens, to shut them down at will?

  8. A more apropos app on The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You · · Score: 1

    How about an app that tracks who's tracking you, then mails thousands of junk e-mails to every officer in the companies tracking you.

  9. The pressure's off on Studies Say Earth Won't Die As Soon As Thought · · Score: 1

    Whew! I was worried.

  10. Global Whatevering on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    This, too, is caused by Global Whatevering.

  11. Grow up, children on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Silly. Every major country has multiple agencies that conduct Internet espionage. Canada, for example.

  12. Don't assume on End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation · · Score: 1

    The end of Moore's law is a concern only if it is assumed that transistors will be used indefinitely.

  13. Researchers, hurry the hell up, please on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 2

    We all get cancer many times in our lives, but our immune system normally eliminates it without our awareness of the close call. The problem with most cancers is that they are not cause by something present, a mutagenic virus, for example. Instead they result from something absent, a healthy, raring-to-go immune system. Therefore the focus should be on boosting the immune system.

  14. Think seignorage on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    In a word, seignorage, the profit made by a government by issuing currency, esp. the difference between the face value of coins and their production costs. No government would sacrifice that.

  15. If the NSA were on the ball, it would release mountains of spurious, preposterous information to muddy the waters and discredit what's-his-spying-ass-name. Plus any scraps of gossip (real or not) might discourage the misguided critter.

  16. Somebody didn't study astronomy on Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Must I remind yet again? The largest structure in the universe is the universe, because it's a subset of itself. No more largest structure pronouncements, please. The matter is settled. Also sprach Zarathustra.

  17. Egomania on Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Like Virgin and Trump, Wolfram is such as egomaniac that he probably has his named stamped on his toilet paper.

  18. A very short-sighted conclusion on How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy · · Score: 1

    Rather than hurting the American economy, it has helped, by keeping tabs on the technologies and business plans of foreign competitors. What do you think industrial spying is? And don't you think that the Federal Government is involved in such espionage. In fact, every major government in the world conducts industrial espionage. Groweth up.

  19. Obvious place to start: on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    One-third of prisoners in federal prisons are illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico. To fix the prisons, first secure the border.

  20. The Real Punishment on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    The punishment is not the imprisonment, because most hackers spend their waking hours confined to a room, cut off from physical contact with other humans. The punishment is isolation from the Internet, which leaves hackers with nothing to do but ponder their sorry, childish selves. That is what hackers truly and deeply fear.

  21. When all you have is a hammer... on When Does the Universe Compute? · · Score: 1

    Scientists quantify the universe, so hither, thither, and yon, all they see is computations.

  22. There's dumb, then there's Northeastern dumb on Utility Sets IT Department On Path To Self-destruction · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the Russians and Chinese would never take advantage of American infrastructure information India.

  23. Balanced attack on IDF Hackers Test Readiness In Israel For Cyberattacks · · Score: 2

    Offense and defense.

  24. Atomic bombs are not hydrogen bombs.

  25. The end is nigh... on BlackBerry Confirms 4,500 Job Cuts, Warns of $950 Million Loss · · Score: 1

    High-tech companies, one failure away from oblivion. With shortening cycle times and increased numbers of competitors, it becomes even more unlikely that a company will never flop a generation of products.