I think the whole point of this is that he wasn't speeding in the first place. He's not beating the system...he's exposing it as either flawed or fraudulent.

Reminds me of the time I was in the Army at Fort Ord, California, on a training mission in the woods. I laid down against a tree and asked someone what poison oak looks like, since we'd been warned it was everywhere. He looked at me and said, "It's that stuff you're laying in." D'oh! But it didn't affect me at…

Sure, I used a phrase as an example, but I could easily give you an example of a word whose original definition meant one thing, and that definition is still valid, but archaic, while the main definition now is not only something else, but the exact opposite of the original meaning: egregious. Originally it meant…

Language evolves. Lucked out used to mean that you ran out of luck and a bad thing happened to you. Now it means luck got you out of a bad situation, or a good thing happening instead. The reason language often evolves is due to people not really understanding what a word actually means, and using it wrong, and it…

I have a 3GS that I bought in December 2009, so when the iPhone 4 came out, I was only a quarter of the way through my 2-year contract and therefore ineligible for an upgrade. As long as the iPhone 5 comes out sometime this year, I'm good to go, because I'll upgrade at Christmastime. Meanwhile, my 3GS has been good…

Correlation doesn't imply causation. That doesn't mean a correlation does not mean causation. All results are correlated with its cause. But to obtain causation, they need to show more than a correlation. They need to manipulate variables and use random assignment. Then they can show that a given independent…

If it's a well-designed study, they've accounted for these variations and still found a significant difference. The article doesn't specify the method, though, so I can't really say if there are design flaws that could lead to internal validity threats.

Lots of vacations require advance payment. Have you never booked a trip through a travel website like Travelocity or booked through a travel agent? Payment up front.

I say we get Improv Anywhere to show up, pretending to be some of these lovelorn dudes, then they put on a musical performance that both bemuses and amuses these poor fellas. That way we get a YouTube viral video out of it.

So you're suggesting a flash mob...to flash the flash mob? I like it.

I think he meant clubs like book clubs or other activity-in-common social clubs...not clubs as in overpriced, overrated bars blaring loud music with people grinding on each other.

Probably not. Without using the gravity wells of other planets to slingshot the spacecraft to escape velocity, it'll never make it past the heliopause. That's how probes like Voyagers 1 & 2 achieved enough velocity to make it out to the outer solar system and beyond.

I'm with you...I dumped paying for AT&T U-verse television service and upped my Internet service to the max, then bought an antenna for my HDTV. I watch what I can over the air, and the rest I either stream via Netflix or PlayOn (like Hulu) using my PS3, or on Blu-ray/DVD from Netflix. I don't miss paying for…

Brown dwarfs apparently fuse deuterium.

You just described the original dark matter hypothesis: lots and lots of brown dwarfs.

It's a myth that the seasoning packet is where all the sodium comes from in a serving of packaged ramen. The vast majority of the sodium is in the noodles. The seasoning packet adds a negligible amount. With or without the packet, you're getting almost exactly the same amount of sodium.

The problem with this particular issue is that subscribers to Time Warner Cable have already paid to view this very content. Networks want them to pay twice. This isn't about watching online content for free. This is about streaming the content you already paid for to your mobile device, which happens to require…