The Pyro has always been an ambushing class. The reason you can be killed in two seconds when you meet a Pyro coming around a corner is that you are meant to. Keep your ears open! Be aware of your surroundings! Stay near teammates!

You can click on the yellow rule nodes to change their value. Click the green play button to start the machine.

I have to take issue with your whale vomit illustration. Whale vomit is actually a very valuable substance and is described as having a pleasant, earthy scent. Due to its use in luxury perfumes, it's worth almost its weight in gold.

Mine has been down for about 45 minutes.

TV might not be the best place for fiction, but I hear book reviews and interviews all the time on NPR. (That said, don't forget how influential Oprah's book club was, though that might have an exception.)

In today's world, a person can see an author interviewed on television and buy the book in seconds without leaving the couch. That seems a much more likely way to find new readership than hoping they will stumble across your book in the mall.

I think you'll find engineers who work at Apple are very well compensated: $90,000 and up. The people who developed the technologies that make the devices possible are also doing very well. I had a professor who developed an electronic component that was used in the original iPod. He was a millionaire several times…

The problem with models like this one is that they are based on first-order thinking. They assume people have motivations and desires which remain fixed no matter what is going on in the world around them. The World3 computer model, from which these predictions come, didn't allow for people to respond politically or…

My problem with Gizmodo's usual dismissive criticism of BitCoin is that Gizmodo never criticizes it for the right reasons. Saying it's "worthless" is a tautology. The argument boils down to "It's worthless because it's worthless." Saying it's "risky" is just saying something everyone already knows. It's a crazy…

That's too bad, because I just found a great product on Kickstarter that disposes of bathwater (and babies) extremely quickly. I think you guys would have loved it.

Stuxnet was tailored to Iranian systems and used zero-day vulnerabilities that have since been fixed. If whoever made Stuxnet waited, Stuxnet would have become ineffective as the Iranians updated their software and then completely useless as the Iranians replaced the machinery and electronics that Stuxnet was designed…

I think they were abusing the word 'literally'. Either way, it's a stupid headline.

She is uncannily similar to Jodie Foster. Her voice even sounds the same.

I can't believe people aren't understanding this. Hopefully it's reading comprehension failure rather than financial comprehension failure.

The Moon doesn't rotate relative to the Earth, so, for the astronauts, the Earth was always fixed in the same position in the sky. (Well, almost. The Moon does appear to wobble a bit from our perspective.) To get such a picture, we would need to land at some point near the "edge" of the moon from our perspective here…

Thanks for that interesting comment. This is not directly a reply to what you wrote, but you know what you're talking about, so I thought I could ask you.

The plural of "Slinky" is "Slinkys". Source

No one has said this. There is an imaginary character in your head saying these things and that imaginary individual is who you are offended by right now.

So if I'm understanding this correctly, they have clocks at either end to keep track of when the neutrinos are produced and when they are detected.

I demand my money back!