I don't think it's a bad experiment in itself. Plus doing a silly thing like that might look sort of bad on your file, but it's a sure way to get a review comitee on that issue. Which might quite possible distract them from your other performance (if it wasn't up to par).

Unless he uses Linux, FreeBSD or any other OSS, he's exposing himself to infringing on Microsoft copyright (how can that be penalized more heavily than physical robbery, is beyond me).
And he has just make a very public questioning of the legality of his software ownership.
I do think he should press to get proper licensing. How does he knows that it was properly activated and it's not a crack? WPA itself has lots of false negatives as it is.

I'm surprise you say that, having visited different countries. The variance in culture and cuisine within US is insignificant respect to the world as a whole. I live in South America, and visited South Asia, North Africa, Eastern Europe, North America and the Caribean. I've been to both coasts and center of the US, and can attest that deep down you're all the same.
You want to say different cultures, think of Tokio vs Marrakesh. That's difference.

I think he took a look at the Space Shuttle and Ares Program and decided that he could provide better technology for a 1/20th of the price. Let's charge them a 1/10th of the price. He get's a lot and sill saves the taxpayers 90% of their money AND provides better technology.

I know I use it here. It uses three angled plane connectors. The best part is that it can only be plug one way, and the plane means that's easier to make better contact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Type_I

There's a big problem with the BMI. It's a quadratic aproximation to a cubic mesure. I.e. the body should be proportional to the cube of the height. But they approach by a square. I've seen that big people is always overweight according to BMI. I was training ice hockey four times per week, playing in two leagues, and I was in top condition. My actual weight was 96kg, but I was supposed to be 82kg according to the BMI.
I don't know why don't they use body fat percentage. May be because they don't want to invest in modern measuring technology.

Please do a follow up on what was the effect of the slashdot effect.

We simply don't use Exchange. We usually keep contacts in our Blackberries, share the contacts though the send to Messenger Contact. And for email we use straight IMAP. We simply don't see the need for Exchange. That and the fact that you can recieve messages with straight gprs signal.
And for any meaningful email you need a QWERTY keyboard.
The truth is that the 9000 series is king of unstable, but we haven't ever need a factory reset. And the enforcement of auto lockon and AES encryption with a routing of weekly backups has saved us from information leaks when a device is lost or stolen.

I've been thinking a bit, and if you had HyperThreading in all processores, couldn't you simply assign the kernel to one instance of a core and the userspace to the other? You'd have context switches for free. Your only cost would be the pure IPC, not the context change. In fact, with some design like sending only pointers to whole pages and then remapping them to the new process, you wouldn't have to even copy memory in bulk transfers.

The article actually says that they've developed a process to make it on CMOS factories, although with different materials. So the potential is there to relatively "cheap" solution. Just remember that this is for backbone applications, where you count cost at thousands or tens of thousands per port.

The interesting part is that they have developed a material to reduce the "fiber" needed to demultiplex the signals from several meters to just 5cm (~2in.). And a process to easily manufacture that. Apparently this would require extreme parallelism since each drop could only handle 10Gbps. I would be very interested if someone coul explain the particularities of Optical Time Division Multiplexing. I failed to foun any references and thus I'm no aware of the difference with simple TDM.