The main building is about 150m wide. The two vehicles parked inside it, on the right side, are bulldozers / tractors. The "weird U-shaped thing" is the size of a house... might even *be* a house. The whole thing looks like an ag school field station or, at worst, a work camp (see the stuff to the right of the main building).

See you again in another few years.

How many other industries have consequences of the same magnitude when they fuck up?

Ethics aside: If you can't absorb the risk, you shouldn't make the wager... unless you have no qualms about being forced to walk away from the game.

Being an oil company is a choice. Being an oil company that does deepwater drilling is a choice. Being an oil company that does deepwater drilling poorly is a choice.

Since when does being bad at your risky job entitle you to privileges unavailable to people who aren't as stupid as you are?

(Oh yeah, sorry, that's a long list right now. I guess we know how this will turn out.)

The summaries were intriguing but lame. Here's the real thing (preprint):

http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2858

Author's page is here:

http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~massimo.franceschet/

Interesting stuff.

How the hell was he let off the hook the first time?

Maybe because it was a first offence?

And how serious was the nature of the "child exploitation material" the first time, given this is also classifed as such?

OTOH wanting to throw the book (or something even heavier) at him for looking like that I can understand!

MAC Addresses are 48 bits.
12:34:56:78:9a:bc = 8 bytes = 48 bits

I want a stylus so I can draw, paint and sketch, and for that the Pogo stylus and those homemade ones just aren't good enough, it needs to have an active digitizer.

/Mikael

I second.

Well written instructions (preferably with images, if it's an app) that are kept up to date with the current version are crucial to attracting new users. I think this is the number 1 most overlooked part of any software project. (there are others as well: unit testing, upgrade planning, etc.)

While noone in China uses twitter enough to care even if Twitter found a way to "uncensor itself", if they could succesfully find a technical workaround that required no effort from end-users, it might be worth talking about (if my reading of TFA is right, any site could use such hacks to unblock itself, even google or dissident websites). However, if it forces end-users to install software to route around firewalls (a la Freedomgate and other already available software), the sites will remain unaccessible to the majority of users, who just don't care enough to bother.
I'm honestly very curious as to what technical methods are out there for opening access through government firewalls that would not involve illegal and nearly impossible invasions into foreign computer networks. The Chinese and Iranian governments control the "pipes"; what software solutions could twitter possible be thinking of? Nice goal, but technically possible, beyond current "hacks/proxies"?

. If the phone meets a video with no H.264 version it just says "cannot display movie at this time" or something like that.

Actually, it seems like the act of requesting the h.264 version for the conversion process. When I receive the "cannot display movie" message, it'll usually play just fine if I request it a second time. Perhaps by second attempt youtube has converted the video.