I've been a subscriber since 1977 and your point of view is not representative of reality. The science based aspect has not declined at all, including the current issue that's on my dining room table right now. That you follow that up with a strange finger-pointing routine further undermines your unfounded statement.

That said I expect Murdoch will poison NG with his horseshit as he does to every media outlet he consumes. NG played a major role in shaping my view of the world and the universe beyond and it saddens me that it will soon be gutted, just another political mouthpiece added to the braying armies of hate.

Speaking as someone who was a little kid during the Apollo era these images are amazing. I feel so fortunate to be alive in the era of solar system and interstellar exploration. Pioneer, Mariner, Viking... it's like seeing what it would look like to walk on other worlds. Visualizing just how far away the Pioneer and Voyager probes are is mind-bending. And to see new views of Pluto... it's just so awesome. :)

I already had cancer you idiot. You don't have a single piece of evidence to back up your claim.

This remains complete horseshit. There's no conspiracy to keep cancer cures from the public. As a cancer survivor I'm weary of this constant bullshit being spread around by idiots.

For fuck's sake is it really that hard to at least proofread the headline? "Apples Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores"

Can someone summarize what it's value was to the tech community?

This is one of many reasons web based journalism is still a joke. No matter how small the story editors can't be bothered to proofread.

Those were the real thing. At first I thought they were going to use clever editing to work their comedy into snippets from the show.

That segment was well done but the Law & Order parody at the end was amazing.

Typo in the tagline (Fransico) and the first sentence of the article (WInter.) Web journalism at its finest.

Like any organization public or private they will do whatever they can get away with, and in this case they can get away with anything. The checks and balances don't work anymore because elected officials themselves just ignore them and on election day all we have to vote for are more people just like them.

I should clarify that I'm not blaming the digital formats for the overcompression, I'm blaming the people that are not properly managing the use of the formats. Even CDs frequently sound bad to me, like the original recording has a limited dynamic range in comparison to some of the early ones I bought, like "Avalon" by Roxy Music. I get the impression that producers are buggering up the sound before it even gets to a CD or suffers from ham-fisted encoding to MP3, etc.

People could create terrible vinyl too, like the old "one sided singles" that sounded like they were cut out of the back of a box of cereal. My brother still has one of those cereal box singles ("Going Back to Indiana" by the Jackson 5) and it's doesn't sound much worse!

I was born in the 1960s so I was brought up on vinyl, but I was bummed at all the hissing and pops and crackles even though I tried to take care of my records. The clarity of CDs was a revelation even though a certain warmth was sacrificed.

I won't ever miss the defects of vinyl, but today's common digital formats sacrifice far too much information, leaving the listener to "enjoy" the watery tones of overcompressed music.

Haha, now I know you're a troll for sure. Enjoy living in your fairy dreamland where everyone with good money management skills is guaranteed a golden retirement no matter how little money they make. ;)

I always put the maximum I could into a 401k, but most of the low-end jobs I had early on didn't offer one, and later on I was chronically underemployed. I only buy economy cars and keep them at least 10 years. I've never taken a vacation, buy no luxury items (Ex; jewelry, high end gadgets, etc.) I've gone through two recessions/depressions, and now I'm at the age where career prospects only go downward if you haven't made it to C level.

So... yes, you can blame my poor prospects for retirement entirely on my inability to earn lots of money, but not on managing my money. It's not magical: if you don't earn enough money you aren't going to be able to retire.