They don't? I don't know how they happen in the USA, but I'd think they're performed by police officers. If a police officer notices a strong marijuana smell (like in this stop & search), isn't that enough for a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity, allowing a search anyway?

The problem isn't how invasive it is, but how arbitrary it is. DUI checkpoints aren't as arbitrary as the 'legal' tool described in TFA.

I think Ted Nelson et al. would love to say "I told you so."

Since 37% is a pretty magical number in probability theory (exp(-1)), this study might either

• have hinted that there's a very simple mathematical theory behind the purchase vs. usage of Steam games, or
• be systematically and deeply flawed.

It's random enough.

(And ironically enough, I can't even get my grammatical number right in the first TL;DR.)

Another native Dutch here. If you want to read poor Dutch, go read the shit HR writes.

First off, many Dutch are anglophiles: they think English sound really much cooler than their 'boring' mother tongue. People in HR are no exception. Many Dutch also think they read, write, speak and understand English really well. Few do. Even fewer don't have an accent thick enough to stop a bullet -- which is strange, given that the majority of movies, TV series and music we get here is anglophone, with a native or 'neutralized' accent. You'd think that people pick up on that. Well, no. It's really painful to hear our Prime Minister's English, not because it's sounds bad, but because the average Dutch person speaking English sounds like this. Again, people in HR are no exception. It's even worse with HR: they copy a lot of management speak, which is invariable chock full of English-sounding terms, most of them made up or literally translated from Dutch. So, TL;DR: HR prefers to speak English, but are too stupid to notice they can't.

Secondly, we have a linguistic phenomenon called "Engelse ziekte" (lit. 'English disease'): ignoring that Dutch is an agglutinative language, and forming nouns through juxtaposition (e.g. "*tomaten zaden" for 'tomato seeds') rather than agglutination ("tomatenzaden"). Formally, this results in ungrammatical Dutch, hinders fast reading comprehension ("zaden" isn't a verb, but many plural nouns and infinitive verbs both end in "-en"), and may even change the meaning of sentences. You'd think that HR people know their own language well enough to know this; well, in many cases, they don't. Another thing that seems rocket science to some native Dutch, especially the kind of people that end up in HR, is basic verb inflections. The "dt-probleem" (not knowing whether a verb ending in an alveolar stop needs to be written with "-t", "-d" or "-dt", even though the rules are very regular) is mostly cosmetic, but it is exactly the kind of thing that makes you look "uneducated". Guess what: it's hard to find a newspaper or website that has more than a dozen descriptions that don't make those mistakes. TL;DR: HR probably won't notice basic grammatical errors in Dutch, because they make those mistakes themselves.

(Nota bene: I may be a tiny bit cynical about how well the Dutch master their own language.)

1. You can "buy" Google Glass for one day only.
2. Anyone can "buy" Google Glass, provided that they live in the United States of America.

It didn't. PEAR couldn't reproduce its own results.

Counter-example: in League of Legends, harassment and complaints happen more often towards people in the same team than to people in the opposing team. That's because, in a way, inexperienced and unskilled team mates are 'opponents' too, by stealing kills, bounties and buffs, by not assisting the team member when they are being pursued, and by not understanding champion synergy, roles, and overall strategy, all things that can potentially cause the team as a whole and players individually to lose.

I guess I just have to read some more ;)

I can't speak for Grosseteste, who lived in an environment where coming out as a physicalist was pretty much suicide, but coming up with something like "resolution and composition" must come from the trust that similar things behave similarly. Combined with the fact that observations of similarity are based on observations of physical properties, it must have crossed his mind at some point that there may be nothing more than just the physical, since all else is irrelevant when trying to formulate the single set of natural laws which govern the universe.

Barely. Again, to call opinion polls valid measurements for the scientific method, you must agree that similar things behave similarly: you only need to choose the right boundaries for your black box (i.e. a good idea of what this 'similar' means) to analyze and predict someone's behaviour. That goes against the notion that there must always be something inside the black box (a consciousness, a soul, whatever) that doesn't obey a natural, universal law, which is AFAIK something you need to refute physicalism.

It might seem that way until you realize that (proper) science must eventually be based on physicalism. Unless you accept the notion that the world can be fully understood by observing its physical properties (the question "what is a physical property?" is of course an important one), you'll have to reject science as an ultimately pointless endeavour. You can't trust the foundations of science, and thus science itself, if you believe there is "more" than what can be measured. Specifically, if you believe in divine beings, you must logically reject the scientific method.

FTA:

The Foldscope design accommodates different optical configurations, including spherical ball lenses, spherical micro-lens doublets (such as a Wollaston doublet), and more complex assemblies of aspheric micro-lenses.

So W^X is still not necessarily a problem. I interpreted ThisIsNotAName's post as "requiring execheap rather than execmod smells like Bad Things(TM)," which is true: it says something about a project in general when you need to be able to violate W^X (execheap), rather than explicitly switching between W and X (execmod). Whether you'll be granted execmod or not is really a separate problem.