Yeah, but in his position would you rather have the assets in a trust fund for your kids, or appropriated by the MafiAA? Even if the wife leaves, his kids ultimately get the proceeds of the fund.

I don't know any more. I learned to drive with manual transmission, and drove manuals for years. The few occasions when I had to drive autos were incredibly frustrating: can't control speed precisely in a low gear with just accelerator, engine braking not very effective, etc. Then I drove an Lexus IS-F. Granted, it isn't an epicyclic gearbox like a traditional auto, it's effectively an electronically actuated manual with a torque converter stuck on the front. But it was like a glimpse of the future - almost instantaneous shifts, near-perfect throttle blipping, and the torque converter stays locked up all the time when you have anything other than first gear selected.

This technology is slowly filtering down to cars that normal people can afford. The seven-speed auto in the current Toyota Auris feels like a similar setup. I think it's finally getting to the point where a manual gearbox really could become obsolete soon. Or I could just be getting old.

(As an aside, I've been pretty unimpressed with the VW DSG. It adds a lot more weight than a torque converter, and in city driving it grinds the clutches all the time - I can see why those things overheat and fail so often. Also, the stop/start thing can be borderline dangerous. For example if you come to a standstill in a position where you're having to hold the steering (e.g. waiting to turn facing down a hill), the wheel will kick very hard when the engine cuts out and you lose power steering. I'm sure it saves fuel, but it's got to have got someone into trouble at least once.

Every commercial software product I've worked on has had at least some level of unit testing, QA and UAT before it's considered ready for prime time. You'd be sacked for using, "Does it compile?" as your metric for it being ready.

You know, I wonder if that isn't just a smart business move on his part. Break up with wife on paper so she and the kids get the money and MafiAA can't take it away from them. Worst that can happen is they drag his fat arse off to jail, and daddy becomes a martyr who stuck it to THE MAN.

It's 512 words, not bytes. Each word was over two bytes long. Memory was word-addressable.

It's also a useful training exercise for the navy. It lets them practice a near-impossible salvage operation that isn't contrived.

You can't remove my State's direct democracy by simply believing we don't have it, though you're certainly free to believe whatever you want, and spew it around the internet.

I might believe in it when you vote down the PATRIOT Act, kick the TSA bullshit out of your state, get rid of civil forfeiture... None of these things benefit the people, so why do they exist in a "direct democracy?"

It's not just stupid, it's insulting to the audience. And the video will look just as stupid back in the US because of context.

Just being deprecated doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad idea. I still prefer IMAPS/POP3S/SMTPS over this silly STARTTLS nonsense. For one it can't be hijacked as easily as these ISPs are doing.

Maybe he's suggesting to just use plain SSL without the initial plaintext exchange and initiation.

Stories only visible to subscribers have the red background. All stories are initially only visible to subscribers before being made available to everyone, but there's some delay between the story being made available to everyone and the colour being changed to the standard green.

Anything pointing out that the only substantial act of cyberwar was perpetrated by US/Israel supports terrorists, I guess. Can't let people actually have a discussion about it, have to bury it in a crapflood. Yeah, it's odd that this particular story has attracted such a storm of MyCleanPC and Bennet copypasta. What are the odds that it's actually a coincidence?

I dunno, David Jones has scheduled the launch of their Christmas sales for 11/11 this year. Go to any of their bigger stores tomorrow after 5PM for free champagne and snacks while you celebrate consumerism. No-one's protesting.

Newer Airbuses limit rudder range at speed. The A300 could lose its tail if the pilot did something stupid, as happened with American Airlines 587. People seem to be happy enough to deal with the interlock.

Dell only packs the bloatware onto consumer machines. My Dell Precision T3610 had absolutely no bloatware (but the OS install was a bit weird so I reinstalled anyway), and neither did my PowerEdge R420 (no OS at all).