Pedestrians are safer in the UK (well, in London) because they've painted "look this way" with big arrows on the ground at most crosswalks in an effort to protect visiting pedestrians who are used to driving on the right side of the road from looking the wrong way.

..the government will not only allow autonomous cars to go as fast as they want, they'll let the owners collect toll-road rebates for taking up less space on the freeways. Because, you know, they spend less time on the road going a million miles an hour than you do in your pathetic yugo.

If Ron Paul could go back in time, the best thing he could do for his political career would be to choose a "better" name for his son. Something like moon-unit, or mamma's boy. Or even Betty Sue.

Don't forget Steve Balmer wanted to buy Yahoo.

And then in the mid 90's Microsoft added the I/O completion port routines to the API that *significantly* increased the efficiency of dealing with a 1,000+ TCP (or UDP) socket connections by avoiding a dreaded polling call to ::select(). "Yeah, but you can still use select" responses from the unix/linux crowd became the litmus test for determining ignorance when discussing socket development.

MSDN in the mid 90's was second to none. It was the gold standard in supporting developers. To this day, there's not a c/c++ debugger that competes with Visual Studio. (You know, on-the-fly modify/update/compile/run code without stopping execution). I sometimes watch expert linux developers debugging, and have almost lost my tongue from biting so hard.

http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html

Notables:

Set a record number of trades in 1 second: Over 12,000.
Over 1.5 million trades by end of day. SPY - often the most active, rarely breaches 1 million/day.
Nasdaq quotes went radio silent for 2 hours, but traded just fine.
Many other stocks were affected right before and after it finally opened (AAPL, NFLX, INTU for example)

I can confirm this. In my field (financial), the number of Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, and Financial Times reporters that understand how trading works is ZERO.

It is unbelievable. I've been saving up emails for writing a memoir when I'm old and gray. Which I get closer to every time I fall for the trap and talk to one of them.

I keep thinking about poor number 9.

"Why is 6 afraid of 7" ?

"Because 7 ate 9".

Overbooking. A person who sold 110 trees when they had only 100 (or had 110 but 10 were destroyed before delivery) has a forest with -10 trees. Street-smart people without math skills will understand this immediately.

Citations please? The odds of airplane parts dropping out of the sky after the explosion killing more people than those on-board is pretty close to zero. So thousands of people? Nope. Not going to happen. Timing a bomb to blow up an airplane so that its parts correctly drop in the current prevailing winds to inflict major damage ? That is rich. Think of all the bombs dropped in wars (like airplane parts, only with high explosives designed for death) that resulted in zero or few casualties. Bombs dropped by people trained to hit targets. Not by some guy who only has a window to look out of. You kill me.

Please tell my wife that!

How is it you are moderated "5" for being on both sides of an issue?

Which half?

Function level linkers have been around for a long time now. None of that dead code will end up in the binary.