These kinds of stories have been popping up on Slashdot for a while, but I note Slashdot *STILL* doesn't have an IPv6 address even though it's a site supposedly run by and for technologists. Meanwhile, Facebook, a site made for teenagers to post selfies on, has had IPv6 support for three or four years.

It doesn't matter who, anyone trying to get you will exaggerate the numbers.

Years ago I once ran an unauthorized MUD on one of the university's servers, and a friend wrote something in LPC which had a bug in it (which caused the MUD to fill the partition my home dir was on to fill up overnight). When the sysadmin was trying to make me look like the biggest monster to have logged onto the university's Sun box, he was pointing out that the system had to support over 10,000 users and I had singlehandedly denied access to all 10,000 users with my antics.

The problem was (and the sysadmin well knew this) this number was grossly exaggerated. To start with the discs were partitioned so each course was in its own separate filesystem, so I only filled up the filesystem for those on my course. Out of my course perhaps only 5 people used the central Sun system. Secondly, there may have been 10,000 users in /etc/passwd, but 9000 of them had never logged in (and never would log in). After he unlocked my account I was going to rebut his angry email by mentioning this and running a shell script to show how few users had ever logged in, but for some reason 19 year old me had a rare flash of good judgement and decided to let sleeping dogs lie.

.gb would be less accurate than .uk - Northern Ireland is part of the UK but not part of Great Britain.

My landline phone still is rotary dial, you insensitive clod.

Are they increasing prices though? Everything I've seen indicates HFT *decreases* the spread between buy and ask prices, in other words, HFT is reducing the costs to long term investors.

No, technology won't fix the infinite growth problem. Even if we were to have vast amounts of cheap fusion power, the waste heat alone would start to cause a problem. If current growth rates continued indefinitely then the waste heat would raise temperatures enough to boil the ocean within about 300 years.

During the sermon at a Sunday service in Worcester Cathedral. I was forced to go to these services on a Sunday, but fortunately I had one of those Casio pocket computers. While the priest droned on about something irrelevant, fictional and boring, I could make good use of the time writing some bit of code on my pocket computer.

* They speak English in Scotland.
* Buying a phone is not complicated. "Hello Mr Phone seller, I would like to buy a phone".
* You don't have to do it on your first day.

The manufacturing example will also be somewhere where a wage increase has only a small effect on the finished product. The increase per item will be very small for manufacturing, too.

Sure, it'll affect a service industry like a hairdresser's where labour makes up the vast majority of the cost of sale, but manufacturing industry is not like that any more.

Please be a UI person *not* a UX person. If a user interface is giving me an experience it's doing it wrong. I want user interfaces to melt into the background so I hardly notice them.

Every language has its quirks. While with German you might be able to tell how to spell a word on how it's spoken, on the other hand what gender a noun has in German is completely nonsensical (and German goes one step further than the Romance languages in having a neuter gender, so now you have three possible genders to guess at!) whereas in English the gender of nouns is entirely straightforward and logical.

If you're a skilled worker with good qualifications, not too difficult in general. It's more of a paperwork exercise; if you really want it you can do it.

Nope. You don't want to survive it, a nuclear war of that scale will lead to a devastating nuclear winter and you'll just end up freezing to death.

The CFM-56 could do the job now since the highest rated version of that engine is as powerful as two of the B52s current 50s tech engines (and the AF have experience re-engining planes with the CFM-56). The nice thing about the CFM-56 is that it could be shoehorned onto a B737 by moving the accessories to the side of the engine solving the ground clearance issue that the 737 had. I'd imagine a CFM-56 doesn't weigh any more than the two existing engines.

This is why USB drivers should be in userspace (libusb).