I'm going to watch it, but as an amateur filmmaker, I'm bracing myself after looking at its imdb listing here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2066040/ ... The actors are all not real actors. I expect it's going to be silly in a painful way. The idea behind it is great, but, for the major roles at least, you can easily find actors willing to work for free who are worlds more believable than some lab rats trying to make fun of themselves.

I'd say the claim does have some merit. Would you choose susceptibility to the mac viruses, or the much larger variety of PC viruses? However, if you flipped the marketshare (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10444561-245.html), OSX would likely be ill-prepared to deal with the incoming exploits.

I've worked with secure documents before too, and can verify this, especially the PITA part. However, I haven't had to send docs before.. are the fedex guys that handle the copy cleared as well? Also, I know transporting the docs yourself can be quite an ordeal, because you're not supposed to let them out of your sight, even through security.

Privacy concerns aside, I hope these researchers take into consideration the gamers' safety when sending them into bad neighborhoods.

Well, for starters, they're unlawfully hijacking other computers via their botnet to get the volume of gum purchasers they need. That'd equate to holding those 100 people at gunpoint. And also, they're not actually purchasing anything. It'd equate to the 100 people going in and out of the store without buying anything. Just clogging up the doorway. Lastly, a store owner can legally request the 100 people to leave, and they would not be lawfully allowed to go back in the store nor block it (otherwise police can deal with that). In a DDOS, there's no way to restrict unwanted traffic.

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Securities/News/2012/03_-_March/SAIC_to_pay_NY_City_$500_mln_in_fraud_case/

"SAIC agreed to pay $370.4 million in restitution to the city, as well as a penalty of $130 million, according to a deferred prosecution agreement made public on Wednesday. The city will get $96 million of the penalty, with the rest going to the federal government."

So that would be $466 million total, but..

"In addition, New York City will not have to pay about $40 million of the bills it was charged."

So all in all, the judgement nets NYC $506 million.

A full blown investigation takes a lot more resources than the 2 minute check on line at the airport. For those who travel often enough where it becomes a serious issue, I can see offering this rather expensive option, while also removing these frequent fliers from the everyday security traffic. If they're turning a profit on this, using this to generate revenue for the TSA, then we have the right to be angry.

I'm going to mention the Finns like the other guy who replied, but I'm also going to point out that they don't merely just "respect" and "compensate" teachers better. It might be the underlying cause, but being a teacher in Finland has higher REQUIREMENTS. I certainly feel I had an unrewarding experience in the US education system, and I think that goes with the mentality "Those who can't do... teach."... but putting knowledge of the subject matter they teach aside, I think there's something to be said for knowledge of how to teach. In the days we live in, with the technological means and needs to research alternative education models, I think teachers should be capable and trained to actively participate and help direct this research. I 100% believe that my teachers at least through high school could have easily been substituted by a book and an exam proctor. I'm sure it's different for others, but if you're not able to offer me personally some real value above that, I don't want you hired to be my babysitter.

If anyone is curious (I was), the successful bidders were Finmeccanica through SELEX Elsag and VEGA (based in the United Kingdom) together with its partner Northrup Grumman Corporation team. So it looks like that involves Italy, the UK, and the US: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/33224/?SID=45a71f6bf4374255010ce6a71de99974

The majority of travelers don't complain about the TSA because an airline ticket is usually tied with a very expensive, intricately planned vacation/trip of some sort, and the last thing they need is to be forced to miss their flight and be overly stressed, send everything into disarray, waste possibly thousands of dollars, and disappoint countless loved ones and friends. That's at least from my personal experience... but I am 50% of the time finding myself WANTING to complain for various reasons, usually because the TSA agents are acting fairly condescending.

I have a feeling, based on this blog entry from an attempted Playbook developer that unfortunately it's not going to be "properly utilized".

That's a downer. Maybe Programmer Day should be decided by two unsynchronized threads, and the date isn't final until they deadlock.

FTFA: "Programmer Day has been celebrated on the 265th day of the year since" .. that's a typo.. 256 is correct of course, as explained by other comments.

Welcome to the advancement of technology.. FTA "NeuroSky say its latest sensors can operate through fabric, such as the outer layer of a vehicle's headrest" .. they also say they know they can distinguish between brainwaves of someone awake and at rest, but it doesn't specify if that's through fabric or not.

Upon installing, it says "Welcome to Firefox Beta". In "About Firefox", it doesn't mention anything about beta though. So I'm not exactly sure if this is beta. If it is beta, it's weird it's available by a URL that has no mention of "beta", no?