And it should be possible to use a hacked Mega client that lies about the pre-encryption hash.

Why ask what a landline phone is when you could just vote 'What's a Landline Phone?'?

I take it you haven't watched videos of Asimo trying to climb stairs.

I'd say you likely nailed it there, sir.

There may be some mutation that led to the tumor, but the chances of that mutation leading to the same symptoms again could well be miniscule. Even if she were to be cloned, that is.

After all, the biological systems we're talking about here are unfathomably complex, and so are their failure modes.

And then there's Barbie as Rapunzel.

(I lost it at 'Furby as Ghandi'. See how far you get.)

People see 'whom' in print, so they start using it to make themselves look smart.

A few examples from my work email:

New Zealand here used/uses 111, but that was at the long end of the dial, so took 9 clicks rather than 1. Not easy to dial accidentally, but unfortunately slow to dial deliberately.

If you tried to dial 999 (being the UK emergency number), rather than emergency services, you'd get a recorded message instructing you to dial 111. I always thought that was dumb, but your explanation makes sense.

Then again, IIRC, dialling 911 also gave the recorded message, to cries of 'Just put me through already, I'm dying here!'.

Logging is a good candidate for Haskell's 'get out of FP jail free' function, unsafePerformIO.

Apparently there's a standard function Debug.Trace.trace for this.

It'd be good for a laugh to try some of these approaches out. Wouldn't take much - maybe some PIL code to take a full-color bitmap, encode, and then convert back to full-color. Then compare results.

Looking back on some Amiga game art, I'm sure some of the better ones were on to the two-dimensional-color-space trick (e.g. cyan/red rather than RGB) for their palette selections. Limiting the color space can work well as a stylistic concern (e.g. give the game an 'old movie look') as well as giving better color resolution.

Commenting on the color resolution, on the Amiga with (for simplicity) Extra Halfbrite mode (32 color palette plus an extra set at half brightness), for a three-color space you can get 4x4x4 possibilities, whereas for a two-color space you can get 8x8. That is, lose one color and double the resolution on the other two.

BTW, I fully appreciate the irony that I posted an off-topic rant about obscure technical details of interest to no-one but myself against a story titled 'No More Asperger's Syndrome'.

That sounds good, but the devil in the details is how you map the HSV space on to 12 bits.

Presumably they had this as 4+4+4, just as they ended up with for RGB. Now, 4 bits of hue would be pretty limiting, as you'd have just 16 distinct hues compared to the 96 hues that RGB had at maximum saturation and value.

A perceptually better alternative might be 6+3+3, but as HAM works on 4+4+4 this would take multiple pixels to set just H, S or V (and we were hoping to do this with one pixel).

Taking that 6+3+3 idea a step further, the bits could be interleaved so that one HAM pixel gets you to the ballpark, and the following one or two pixels refines it, e.g.:

H5 H4 S2 V2 | H3 H2 S1 V1 | H1 H0 S0 V0

or if that makes the hues too smudgy, maybe:

H5 H4 H3 H2 | H1 H0 S2 V2 | S1 S0 V1 V0

OK I'm living in the past.

I previously brainstormed some counterexamples here, of reasons why companies are affected by their own share price.

Another thing to add is that a company's share price can affect its inclusion or placement in stock indexes (e.g. S&P 500), which I'm sure would have some effect on brand value (it's free advertising). A low share price or market cap can even get you booted off the exchange.

There's always been a little shit in the chocolate.

Tangential, but the story of how E.T. featured Reece's Pieces instead of M&Ms is a good yarn: http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mandms.asp

I wonder what the Darwinian impact of motorcycles was on human gene stock in the 20th century...