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I'm literally here to bitch about how fucking inflammatory this title is. Fuck titles, man.

This has been around for quite a while, I distinctly remember it doing the rounds on Twitter. Still nice, though.

Guilty, ha. Recommend editing to: "New Evidence Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial (no, not aliens you fool) Impact"

This. This is why I love games. There's so much passion and humanity in every little pixel.

rant/ Nothing instills rage in me more than companies, knowing how essential what they sell is, slagging each other for petty, pointless money. I hate to be dramatic, but these are…

Kind of difficult to ignore being litigated. Kinda stupid too.

What if it goes wrong? There's very good reasons why drug trials take so long.

I can't reply to the five or so comments that say the same thing but I'll put it to you this way: My grandparents are both dead of cancer-related complications in the last few mont…

Well, the fact it's not causing liver failure/brain damage/bouts of pedantic arguing/etc is a good thing. Waiting another decade to see if it actually works isn't too bad either, w…

Braille would be easy to implement too, both Android and iOS control fonts at the system level (well, usually on Android) so all you have to do is add a Braille font and you're don…

I can sorta do that with the ICS keyboard, the actually half decent predictive/auto-correct's what makes it possible.

The immediate benefit is that this makes, or with a little refinement (not sure how small the tactile areas can be), touch screens properly accessible to the blind without changing…

Oh, the beautiful but saddening irony.

Upvoted a thousand percent. This sums up everything that is wrong with education. (EDIT: spellchecking my dumb arse)

I think that we're largely missing the point here. He's worried that his fundamentally harmless research will end up powering horrific weapons of mass destruction, enabling them to…

Indeed. So there's no small degree of irony in taxing people on their tax funded benefits.

Actually, most benefits count as taxable income in the UK, it's just the tax is taken before payment. And no there isn't a correlation, I'm not saying there is. I'm pointing out th…

Not where I live. I live in a largish town called Ipswich, in the UK. Now, we have a wildly diverging GDP demographic, we have people from the poorest 5% and people from the riches…

It's fascinating how subtly our environment reflects our livelihoods. For example, I look out of my window and see two, make that three trees. I advance fifteen minutes up to a muc…

Nice! One of the biggest issues I have with jQuery is the fact that animations are just JS and not CSS with JS fallbacks. I suppose that's a deliberate design choice, but still.

Thanks, and the same to you, IPF isn't fun and neither is lung cancer. That's one of the reasons something like this is important, it's a life extending drug that's from legitimate…

No, it's no wonder drug, it's not a cure, it's a treatment. Yes, it probably will become redundant eventually, but as cancer's a genetic thing, it'll be on a patient by patient bas…

As someone who's grandfather and grandmother both died of cancer-related complications (edit: in the last four months, my grandmother not even a week ago) and with a grandfather-in…

Well put. I'm no kid, and it excites me! I think it's important we don't overlook the levelling effect stuff like this has, the same way Gutenberg took books to the masses, things …

Exactly. Each device is potentially a self-contained unit of a whole, and things tend to get a damn sight more efficient if each is exclusively host to a specific tool, with the en…