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https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/UsingAndAvoidingNullExplained

http://xkcd.com/605/

Carbon dating is not used (rather, can't be used) for dating stuff older than a hundred thousand years. I can't say what method was used here, but it's probably not measured using material from the actual fossil but from checking the age of the geological strata it was found in.

The alternative is to not produce the food in the first place. It's not like they are suggesting that americans should eat more food...

Talk about blog spam... Here is the news article which actually contains some information: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1290410--man-arrested-in-athens-over-id-theft-of-most-of-greek-population

Can you mention any other definition of the size of a black hole that makes sense?

It's not about how close the stars are, nor about how fast they travel. It's how long it takes for them to complete a full orbit that's interesting. You need to observe several (or at least one and a half) full orbits before you can measure the precession. Btw, our sun completes a full orbit in...

The google cars have 360 degree vision. Unlike a human, they don't have a blind spot. Also, for a computer the driving speed doesn't matter at all. If it can see a human while driving 10km/h it can see a motor bike while driving at 110km/h.

They are perfectly happy with the government except that they speak the wrong language and have the wrong interpretation of some book most of them probably haven't read. Thinking about it, that probably isn't the real reason. There probably is a real reason hidden somewhere but it's much easier...

Your source says that 97% percent of all rare-earth metals are mined in the Gobi desert. Hatebreeder still has a valid hypothesis though.

Doesn't hang for me, however there is indeed an error. The problem with the loop is that you never declare the variable index in the scope of the function so it will be a global variable (undeclared variables are global variables in javascript). Since you do the same mistake in several places...

But it wasn't compromised because it was weak, which is what you claimed. If you read my post carefully you'll also find that I never said it was you who claimed that a brute force attack was used, nor did I claim that anything else than social engineering was going on. Just to be clear about...

You're wrong and the article is dated. The victim guessed that his password was brute forced, but this turned out to not be the case. Simplified, the attacker called customer service and asked for access to an account that wasn't his and customer service gave him access. The more complex story...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Biological_half_life

In the interest of staying factual: The article is about effects on intelligence. The dose required for minimal measurable effect is likely a lot lower than LD50.

Something like that, yeah. The paper doesn't tell. This parasite is typically not treated, something like 30% of the US population (this study was in Denmark, I have no idea what the numbers are for them) has it without any obvious adverse effects. As with everything else, it's a trade off...

They took blood samples from women that where at a hospital to give birth.

The common way to do studies like this is to take everyone in, perform some test (check for parasite) then wait X years and see what happened. It's entierly possible that the people involved in the study only meet with the researchers once 30 years ago and then only to take blood samples...

You're missing the point. Blizzard aren't getting sued because you can't play without Internet, they are getting sued because you can't play at all. Customer protection in the EU is pretty straight forward: Customer: "I bought X because I wanted Y" Did you get Y when you bought X? Yes => Good...

I don't think "X makes sense" is a good measure of the correctness of X. If science has taught us anything its that human intuition about the world corresponds very badly with how the world actually is.