So PGP and VPN is often used by companies to secure it's data. So all the top Fortune 500 companies support terrorism? Encryption of data is a legal requirement for some of our work.

Because /. has a anti-Chinese government bias, so they quote Falun Gong backed sites, which obviously is against the Chinese government.
I think the truth is somewhere in between what the Falun Gong has to say and what the Chinese government has to say. Both use propaganda very well. But then again all media agencies are bias in some way and either sensationalize their reports or tries to achieve a political agenda.
Now I'm not saying the Chinese government is right for abusing human rights, in fact I think the Chinese government has a long way to go in that arena. In fact it's doing really poorly and its actions should not be acceptable. However, at the same time, I AM saying Falun Gong is full of crap, and I cannot support anything they say or do. I'd support other human right activists that aren't full of crap though.

This just proves my point, there is an additional mapping from the entire word "compare" to the sound for it and "able" to the sound for it. When you see it together you'll pronounce it as it were two separate words, which is odd. And this doesn't contradict the fact that you have a visual storage for initially recognizing the words. I guess I'm just saying you don't go letter by letter and sound out the word. Because if people did they'd pronounce comparable correctly every time. Comparable has no special tricks, and follows all the rules of English pronunciation (at least in American English).

Biological Sciences have a lot of need for Computer Sciences right now. Everything from Genetics to Molecular Biology spends on staggering amounts of Statistics and CS work. I have a few friends of mine working for the National Health Institute and at Medical Schools and they all need CS and Stats background. So there is a pretty deep connect between Biology and CS right now. So yes, there is a very close relationship.

Obviously, a software firm may ask you why you got a Biological Sciences Ph.D. as opposed to a CS one, and why you are qualified. You may also get filtered out if CS is not on your resume as well. So, if you do get the Ivy Ph.D. you'll have some work cut out for you on your resume to make sure you come off the right way on paper.

Also, if you end up working for a Bio Tech, then this argument is moot, they would take a Biologist any day of the week.

You're missing the point.

The fact that the non-native reader tries to read it as compare+able shows that sounds are associated with the entire word as opposed to individual letters the same way as an ideogram would.

I don't know why this is even up for debate. If you look at any ideogram languages, you can't just sound out each word. Especially Chinese, where there are character that sound the same but have different characters. Or even the same character can be read differently depending on context. You definitely memorized the shape. The article is definitely right that we must be storing a visual dictionary of sorts. If we had to sound out each word, then ideogram languages would have never been invented, too inefficient.

But this also doesn't mean that you don't also associate shapes to sounds. The reason you pronounce it like "compare" + "able" is because you associated the shape "compare" to its sound and "able" to its sound. When put together, it would come out as "compare" + "able". This doesn't prove that you sound out the words as you see them. However, English is a language that runs on syllables, and "compare" is a multiple syllable word, so it gets broken up in the official pronunciation of the word comparable.

I guess it's better than the PETA.xxx they tried.

Mad props to Nintendo if they add an DLC that gives the skinless Tanuki an appearance in game.

Seriously? If anyone it's inept, it's the cable companies. Government mandated you to do a test. You screwed up. How this is a government failure is beyond comprehension.

I'm pretty sure they meant in China, China hasn't built a supercomputer that didn't use Intel or AMD chips before this one. They were listing reasons why this computer is significant for China.