Is that over the price of doing the surgery?
Because from what I could find, it's in the 2-3k range; so if you have to pay $2000 to save $313, that might not be the best idea.

Luckily for criminals, those exploits are made public the day following the quarterly update.

Seriously though, they don't have out-of-schedule updates for critical security bugs?

When you've got a website that use comparative charts of all the products they have reviewed, you can have some trust in their value.
That doesn't mean they there are no review that were paid for, or that no bad side of a product were purposely omitted, but at least that way they can't fake every performance, because they still have to compare them against each other.

Apart from that, I guess it's best to stick to the website(s) you know you can (more or less) trust, and to always triple check, or more, with user reviews and other websites.

On television tonight, they showed a picture about the 2000 Tour de France (IIRC) with the first ten cyclists.
All of them (if we count Armstong) had been tested positive to one thing or another, so the title would go to the eleventh guy. He's not positive because he probably hasn't been tested as much.
Add to that that if I were to take the same drugs they did, I'd still not be able to compete with them (without doping) by a huge margin.

So regardless of whether he took drugs or not, he still arguably was the best at that time.

If the judgement is upheld, and he has to pay the $675k, he's most likely not going to be able to pay that sum.
What would happen then?

I guess they would probably seize and sell his properties, but that's probably not enough.
So would he go to jail and have his debt written off, or is he going to kept them for his whole life?
Something else maybe?

Basically, why fine someone a sum the judge knows that the defendant won't be able to pay? To make an example I guess, but is there something else?

I'm a Rome Total War modder, so my knowledge of modding is mainly restricted to the Total War franchise, and how The Creative Assembly deals with modding.
But I think that it's probably the same thing everywhere.

When people think of mod tools, they often think of an editor which allows to modify textures/models and scripts, for the most part. While that's great because it allows beginner to easily mod a few things, that's only minor modding.
The problem is that while it's fun to change the texture of a horse to a bunny with a hat, it's not those kind of mods that TFA is talking about.
It's the total overhaul mods that make modding so good, like Counter Strike. And with the amount and diversity of modifications needed, no tools is going to be able to do it.

In RTW, most files are text files, which means that basically everything that is not hardcoded in the exe can be changed using Notepad. The only place where a tool is needed is for art ressource, as those are packed. And for RTW, it wasn't CA that released this tool, but a guy who reversed-engineering the packing system. In the subsequent release Medieval II Total War, CA actually released a tool to unpack things, because they had added protections.

The newer TW games however don't have the same major mods, because they changed the way data is structured. Things which used to be rather easy to do are now (almost) impossible, simply because no one can access the data in a useful manner. Because of the thriving modding community created by the previous games, there are a few people that are painfully trying to make sense of things, but HEX editing is a huge pain, and has huge limitations.

All of that to say that modders don't really need tools like editor (though they are quite nice).
What they need is a way to access and modify data easily (which can be through a tool like an unpacker, or a converter), and documentation/information to make sense of it.

Looks like the story from the other day about knowing Romney's VP from Wikipedia edits was wrong.
Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick

Iain Banks is a Scottish writer of the Culture universe, among others.
He's considered by The Times as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945, and yet he's relatively unknown compared to many people discussed here.

On religion :"The Streets of Ashkelon" by Harry Harrison. On a planet where lives natives with no concept of religion or belief, one person tries to teach them the scientific method while a missionary tries to convert them.

Auto pilot for landing exists, but it requires ground equipment that is only available in the biggest airport, and it's only installed in the biggest airliners.
The vast majority of landings are done manually by the pilots, while the autopilot is sometimes used in extreme conditions (fog especially).

Not even a year ago, almost the same thing.
http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/01/1414234/ask-slashdot-how-to-securely-share-passwords

Forgot a few things.

-When you close your shutter, don't do it entirely, make sure enough light goes through so you don't have to switch the light on.
-Hot air rises, try to stay at the bottom of the house. If you have a basement, it can be quite cooler than the rest of the house, think about installing a few things there like a seat to read.
-Have quick showers if you really can't bear it anymore. Don't use cold water, only cool.
-Remember, water absorbs a lot of heat when evaporating (7x more than ice melting IIRC). After the shower, don't dry completely, especially the hair. Also, if you have troubles sleeping, use a thin towel to dry yourself after, and then use this towel either as a sheet, or under you (or what you like best) when trying to sleep.
However, you don't want to increase the moisture in the room, as hot and wet is far worse than hot and dry.

I'm not an American, I live in Southern Europe where temperatures often go over 40C (*9/5 +32 = 104F IIRC the conversion).

Our ancestors managed to survive without AC using common sense.

1. Close every shutter early, and open them late (when the temperature is cooler outside). You don't want curtains, it won't work.

2. Limit your movements : you don't want to open the front door very ten minutes.

3. Shut down every electronic devices, or isolate the room in which they are.

4. Have a nap during the hottest hours of the day ( 2-5 PM), and profit of the coolest hours of the day : early in the morning, or a bit hotter, late at night. (Obviously, if you're not working, and have the time to do it.)

5. Drink often, and drink water.

6. Take care of the young, and the elderly. The latter are usually forgotten, and left alone. Have a look at the 2003 summer in France/Europe if you want to know what not to do. Sometime people were found dead days or even weeks after they actually died.

That's basic things that can make quiet a difference.

I find it funny that TFS talks about a Xi_b^* baryon with usb quarks, and goes on about its spin, as if it was common knowlegde, but has to precise that 3/2 is 1.5.