Warning! Potentially dumb question:

What value does a Python IDE provide? Given that Python is strongly typed only at run-time, the IDE cannot perform syntax-completion, rename variables, provide warnings/errors as you type, provide context sensitive help, etc., that you would normally get with an IDE for a statically typed language such as Java. Might as well just stick to using your favorite text editor.

Most folks think that the law will be overturned by an oppressed minority or by some do-gooder as part of a noble crusade.

In reality, it will be used to pander to the extreme right wing in order to fire up their support base by making some minority look bad in the upcoming elections.

Contrived example: Someone sends a offensive picture of bacon to an American Muslim. The offended Muslim invokes the law. The extreme right wing gets righteously outraged, wraps itself in the Flag and First Amendment and challenges the law in court. Obviously the court strikes down the law. The extreme right wing portrays this as a victory for real Americans (aka right wing voters) over Muslim extremism and as a defeat of Sharia law in America.

Great, just great. I can see the calls for banning solar energy technology since it allows drug lords to escape detection via electric meters.

Just imagine the rhetoric: "Only pot-farmers use solar energy." "Support HB123 to place export controls on drug energy technology to Mexico!" "Off grid, on drugs!" "Tell the police if your neighbor has gone wireless!"

Question: in order to receive the free games, will you have to accept a click-through agreement and sign away your right to sue Sony over the breach?

I'll take a stab at explaining the excitement with a really, really, really, tremendously bad analogy.

If you could build a warp drive (something that bent space) in order to cross vast distances quickly, then it should also, in theory, be capable of time travel (since time and space are interrelated.) Showing N=NP is analogous to proving that a warp drive would allow time travel. This would mean that Captain Kirk (or any other captain of a warp capable starship) is a Time Lord.

If you can show that N=NP, then *all* of those really hard, can't be solved with a million computers performing a million operations per second in a million years, would instead be solvable by a million computers performing a million operations per second in a few hundred years or faster.

The counter is why is Obama being held to a higher standard than other white presidents or presidential candidates? Why should Obama have to produce twice the birth certificates as other (white) presidents and presidential candidates? It's insulting.

Asking why Obama didn't show his long form birth certificate earlier is akin to requiring one form of identification, such as a driver's license, when writing a check, but then asking a black person to show a second form of identification (their passport) and then accusing the black person of identify theft for not showing the second form of identification. Finally, when the black person relents and shows their passport, you then accuse the black person of having caused all the trouble by not showing their passport earlier.

I'm at the point where I really do think that the birther nonsense is based on racism. I read an opinion piece that made the point that because Obama isn't white, he has to continually prove that he's good enough to be President. The short form birth certificate wasn't good enough, the long form isn't good enough, his grades are being called into question implying that he got into college because he was a minority instead of on his merits, etc.. Basically, the op-ed's point was that, even in today's society, a black person has to show that they're twice as qualified in order to be accepted and even when 'accepted' their qualifications will be constantly questioned by whites. Unfortunately, I think the opinion writer is correct.

The cloud saves are there to encourage folks to buy the same game on multiple platforms.

Or they want to hold your save games hostage in order to discourage jailbreaking, piracy, mods, etc..

Or they want to be able to insert advertisements into your save games.

Or they want to send targeted emails based on your save games. "We noticed that you haven't played (aka created any save games) for game "Foo!" in a while. Here's a discount code for some downloadable content for "Foo!".

Yes, guns make it easy to kill people.

Which is why slaves don't have guns.

If you have allergies, try eating some locally produced honey. The theory/wive's tale is that it will help your body adjust to the local pollens and reduce your allergies since the honey was made using local pollen.

Obviously, YMMV, ask your local beekeeper.

The Governor (and legislators) know that the funds will never be approved. They're just building support with their constituents while waiting for a judge to shoot it down just so they run around blaming 'activist judges' and the ACLU for being un-American and anti-Christian and generally distract everyone from the real problems and issues.

The anti-public-money-for-the-ark people will claim a "win" when in reality they've just become the a political target that the Governor (and legislature) can point to and yell "Look! Liberal boogie men trying to abolish American Christianity! Vote for me and I'll save you!".

Meanwhile, the smart people, the entrepreneurs, will be busy printing t-shirts and buttons with the slogans 'Save our Ark!' and 'Keep America Free' and make a small fortune off of everyone else.

I just have to post copyrighted material in the user comments section to get an entire website taken down! Mauhahahahahahahaahahahaha! Say goodbye to slashdot, cnn.com and foxnews.com!

To secure his internet fame, he should head to Saudi Arabia, do something seriously un-Islamic and get himself beheaded.

On a side note, who would own the copyrights?

We've already seen this problem with technology "altering" people's perceptions. Back during the Nixon/Kennedy debates, the radio listeners thought that Nixon won the debate whereas the TV viewers thought that Kennedy won the debate. Perception defines reality. Fast forward to the world wide web and we often see information being propagated ahead of the actual truth. Sound bites, images and situations are taken out of context to create drama, and that drama takes on a life of its own as people "believe" the drama over the actual truth.

Perception defines reality, and technology has made it faster and easier to ignore the "truth" be it religious or factual, while creating a mis-truth in its place. An example of which would be commenting on an article without actually having RTFA. How can you discuss the merits of the contents of an article, if no one has RTFA but still comments anyway? If everything is slightly to grossly off-topic or irrelevant to what was actually in the article, what kind of "truth" is being created?

The MJ MMO will just be "Hello Kitty Online" but re-skinned...

3rd party software vendors could pay Intel and Microsoft to enable additional CPU resources when their software is running. Advertise and sell incredibly "cheap" CPUs, advertise and sell "cheap" software, and let users pay for a "premium" upgrade to get better app performance. It would take the CrippleWare concept to a whole new level. =P