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"If you use all the physics that we know now and you do what you think is a straightforward calculation, it's bad news,"

That's exactly it, there is much more physics to discover and count in. People always think they know everything, at every point in history.


I'm pretty sure that scientists don't think they know everything. What leads me to believe this is that they keep building theories and doing experiments.


No, they don't.

If we thought we knew everything, we'd stop researching. They're called "theories" for a reason.


That's not exactly the way the word "theory" is used in a scientific context. I'd say the scientific use of the word is more like that in "music theory". It's not intended to imply a lack of confidence.


The Kevin Mitnick of piracy. What a shame.


Sendoid is/was a great service! Too bad, it's shutting down.


Finally an OS company has seen and grasped this big business opportunity. This could mean a big boom in Ubuntu users. A win for linux.


Looks promising. Trying to alter the workflow of people wanting specific content they can both get illegally and legally.

If in the warning there are direct links to the exact same content on the legal services this could start a wave of more and more people using the legal sites. Since it's that easy to switch.


Steve Jobs cared about the experience you have when using his products. It has to be simple to use, reliable and look nice. Elegance


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