He is probably still in charge, he simply outsourced his chair throwing to an .. oh, well.

Also, it would be against Geneva convention

First properly documented interplanetary flight sent by us, with biological specimens on board ! Pity we didnt measure the effect of zero-g or deep space radiation on these.

Next up, amoebas and molluscs to mars ! With the current pace, maybe in next couple thousand years we'll send rhesus monkeys at some point.

Of course we know that too much competition is just CONFUSING to an average american. Thats why everything is bound to converge around two "choices" of everything. Demolicans or republicrats, Lockheed or Boeing, AT&T or Verizon, Intel or AMD ..
Its all free market, yes ?

"It's pretty amazing to me that they count every electron on a particle," Shinbrot says. The tally showed that the beads start out with far too few trapped electrons to explain the static buildup,

They probably did not count every electron, then.

They are effectively "browser distros" from the brief look - and we need more popular versions of them. And you missed IceWeasel, IceCat, Wyzo, SwiftFox ..

Energy density of the fuel alone means nothing, energy density of the entire powertrain, end to end, does. Check the numbers and you'll find that they are pretty damn close due to inherent inefficiencies of internal combustion engines.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the correct answer will be calculated and given to programmers by insurance companies.
They have a very well defined and characterized value of human life - at different stages of life, too. And for situations like these the formulas will drive them. Hitting a Mercedes with a real estate agent in it will likely be more costlier than bumping a Yaris off the road.

Uhm .. Since when is star wars "science fiction" ? Its like calling tampon commercials porn..

There are hardly any ARM CPUs or MCUs around that will ever get inserted in a socket. They are all mostly SMD chips.

>> And much of is in still in use - embedded devices that last for 15+ years, for example.

Nobody in their right mind uses OpenSSL in embedded projects. There are much better suited alternatives out there.

The line between "embedded" or non-embedded systems is somewhere where you have an MMU to use or not.

Lame reply to self but, yeah, according to the most basic static analysis tools, it was broken in 2012
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/018...
and still broken in 2013
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/025...

In all this hoopla i havent bothered to look at the code in question yet, but im always slightly dismayed when i throw some popular open source stacks at commonly available but expensive static analysis tools like Coverity or Klocwork.
There are plenty of companies running full open source stack servers with the licenses available - i wonder how often things like OpenSSL and other critical infrastructure pieces go through the best static analysis tools available ? And how much of it gets addressed.

If my calculations are correct, there is a 50/50 chance of a twit being a twat.

There are dozens of ways of obtaining indirect climate data, and they are already compiled into comprehensive databases. You would have to show more than one of them being substantially wrong to disprove the full reconstructions.
These data sets are continuously reviewed, amended and further improved by thousands of people around the world.
You want to call all of it "questionable data" - please publish your papers.