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Another thing to focus on is the infrastructure. Telephone lines and data networks must be clogged, it just goes to show how much we need reliable networks and data infrastructures for such vital occurrences!

So it's like Minecraft?

So when can I install linux on it?

This seriously pisses me the fuck off. Just how the hell do we not have the technology yet for accurate touch-screen technology in voting machines?

I didn't think to doubt the validity of the story when it first popped up in /r/Minecraft, even in the comments section of the forums people don't start to get skeptical until later.

Why would someone hoax this? What would they gain from it?

Does anybody know what version of Minecraft the experiment took place in? That could explain certain mechanics that will make sense, it looks like it was before enchanting/potion making.

People seem to underestimate the power of grass, grass + bonemeal means seeds for wheat, if the factions kept raiding the other players it seems very possible they looted the players from all wheat and seeds they might have had, the original forum post also details that factions keept stealing saplings from other players, thus allowing the possibility of wood for becoming very rare.

It seems like there exists a simple temporary fix for servers—to not use minecraft authentication, which seems like a very viable temporary solution while this exploit gets the proper attention. (such as x-auth that the author mentions or the server immediately asking the user to enter a password when connected via console)

I always felt that the start button was the only thing keeping some windows users from switching to other operating systems. Now that there's not going to be a start button, I hope that more people will be open to Linux/Mac since the "clutch" of the Start button will no longer be an issue.

Neat article, then I read the last sentence. That was a very large leap from Earth cycle to blaming global warming...

Isn't this happening because of the moon being farther away from the Earth?

source: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=124

Oooh Netiquette!

Interesting, but I strongly dislike the use of whitespace indentation for new statements/segments of code,

it

   will

         get  
             tedious  

                   when
                         you
                              are
                                  nesting
                                           multiple
                                                    blocks
                                                           of 
    code.

And I like it when Xcode highlights the brackets/parenthesis because it's just easier to pick up ( and ) and { and } from a line of text.

There's still reddit..

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there and I guess the author had to find out the hard way. He'll have to consider that this might be a lost cause, but remember that you have the knowledge that they did this to you and can share it with everyone else, people will be less likely to buy the VC-funded app if this bit of information was out in the open :)

edit: clarity

Kudos to the mother and father for not giving up and to figure out the medical mystery, it read like a House episode with the various diagnoses then you realize that it's real life, not a TV plot. I truly believe that future technological advancements have an obligation to serve humankind for the better and that real progress is made though breakthrough medical and scientific breakthroughs.

This is definitely an interesting point of view on the recent Wall Street interest on social media. I am glad someone brought it up, I do see the use and how social media and related innovations are convenient, but is a company that adds a vintage filter to a photo really progress in the long term? This is the question the author is suggesting. Personally I just roll my eyes over the next cutesy named "start up" that uses Bootstrap for their website. It seems like most of it is just an extension of social media or it's something that just causes more fragmentation in coding. Personally, VC investment should be focused on scientific and technological progress, personally I see that investment in Facebook is just misallocation of resources when it could be invested in scientific research into microprocessors or circuits or other real innovations. We need to promote the ideals and innovations of the next Steve Jobs, not the next Zuckerberg.