See Grimmelmann's post about the real situation at his blog, The Laboratorium.

I am sorry that I commented based on a reporter’s description of the filing rather than asking to see it myself.

Fire an editor or two, starting with the consistently worst-performing, and Dice will have rediscovered a time-tested method by which employers have dealt with employees who don't even try to perform their jobs competently.

As it stands now, they have little or no incentive to produce quality. If they had a sense of shame, embarassment, or pride in their work then that would at least be an improvement.

Also a military submarine is a hell of a lot bigger than an octopus or a fish. Eventually you would reach a size where the solution doesn't scale anywhere near as well. Otherwise you could conceivably build one of these so large that moving 10 times its body length in one second would travel faster than light. While that would require a rather massive vessel, it's quite obvious that the idea wouldn't work even if we could build such a vessel.

So I am a bit confused about why that is a problem. The cost to the insurer of offering maternity care to post-menopausal women should be about zero. Why not tack that onto an otherwise good plan if that's what the law requires? Wouldn't that make more sense than scrapping the plan for such a flimsy reason?

I think the problem comes from medical professionals only or almost always dealing with the people who are having terrible health problems. If the only time you see older people is when they're in pain or suffering from horrible illness, you wouldn't want to be old either. I suspect that as many of them actually age they find that they still enjoy life and that when they retire they're able to spend time with their families and grandkids and that being old isn't a constant state of suffering or misery. However, medical professionals are only exposed to the worst of old age, so it's hardly surprising that they have such a negative outlook.

It's easy to sit back from my position and say that, but I would imagine that my opinions would change if the vast majority of my day were spent being confronted with what happens to people who don't take care of their bodies or experiencing other illnesses that aren't currently preventable. If nothing else, one would think that this would motivate medical professionals to take good care of their health, so they can avoid finding themselves in that position.

Supply me definitions for what it means for something to be a rock band, by what criteria one might rate a rock band, and how much of history you'd like to cover and an answer can be given.

You can still apply the scientific method to such a problem, it's just that at some point a particular critic might die or someone else might disagree with the rating system, etc. which can make the result difficult to reproduce.

If you went with something as simple as album sales and whether or not Wikipedia listed a band as being a "rock band", then you could get an answer. However, you or anyone else might well say that record sales are a terrible metric to evaluate who is the best and find the answer to be nonsense. However if your method is equally reproducible it's still scientific in that someone else can apply your criteria and arrive at the same result.

Even asking random people on the street is still a form of observation, though not one that is exactly repeatable. Not every piece of knowledge requires the same amount of rigor to obtain. As long as people are aware of the methodology, they will be able to take it into consideration when commenting on that particular bit of knowledge.

So if you were to posit the question to me, I would answer Led Zeppelin, but that's based on my own subjective methodology and not some form of objective measurement that is precisely defined. However, if you asked me again tomorrow, you'd still get the same response so if you were to claim that your basis for determining who was the best rock band in history was to ask me, anyone else could repeat your experiment and get the same result.

There's also some debate as to whether that counts as knowledge at all or if it's merely a fact, opinion, or something else entirely outside of that realm.

Glad to hear. I've been holding off on updating to see if there were any serious performance issues. However, I wish someone would release a comprehensive benchmark list for some of the older devices just so I can have a better idea of how much of an impact it will have on performance. Ideally I'd like to think it might improve a little, only if because iOS 7 felt rather rushed and they've likely been able to tune some of the code.

A while back my wife had to go to Jeruslaem on the same day George W. Bush was visiting there. I let her know she was going to spend the day sitting in stand-still traffic.

Turns out, I was wrong. So many people assumed the same thing that nobody travelled to/from the city that day. The roads, when not blocked, were empty.

Shachar

I always thought that he should have made it a $5.38 wrench, instead...

Which just goes to show that sometimes closed-source is truly for the best.

Worse is that it makes the rational move from the perspective of the non-ignorant to either quarantine the entire country and let the disease run its course or to take other measures to cauterize it if the risk of it spilling outside of a quarantined area seems highly probable.

It might come down to putting the entire region on lock-down and shooting anyone who tries to leave.

Actually there is an airborne strain of ebola. Fortunately it's not one that is infectious in humans, but given enough time some strain of ebola could mutate to be both airborne and capable of infecting humans.

More likely is that we'll get something that's less deadly, but more easily spread as one of the major containment factors for ebola is that it kills too many of the infected. Something that's only 30% fatal, but spreads more easily would probably kill off as many people percentage-wise as the Black Death or Spanish Flu.

If you wouldn't believe Tim Cook, why would you believe anyone else from Apple? They might be able to provide a better technical description of precisely why Apple can't access your information, but does that really matter as to whether or not what they're claiming is true?

> I switched away when they made the up and down arrow keys...

Didn't notice that yet. What's putting me on the verge of switching is Google's phasing out (or appearance thereof) of any kind of "hard" searching. Unfortunately, I haven't found any good alternatives with better "hard" search capability.

That's one way to look at it. Another is that we'll strive to develop the techniques and technology that can be used to correct this problem through medical intervention. That ability would go a long way towards being able to cure several other hereditary diseases as well. Perhaps being able to meddle with our own genetics will end even more poorly, but we'll likely learn something along the way.