Understandable, most people have moved on from film so I think the screeners just have no idea what they are looking at with a basically all mechanical camera. The bulb cable also seems to cause them a lot of confusion as well. I have been tempted to take my Pocket Kodak No. 1 series II to see their reaction.

There were lots of benefits to the plug-in setup. The primary social justification for the setup was to prevent bad behavior/crime.

Having an perfect AI referee watching everyone through their own senses is far-fetched, but I took it to be more of a thought experiment than some attempt at non-fiction.

Personally I would put coordinates of various Geo Caches on there, might as well actually have them go on a treasure hunt.

Was it a SLR or DSLR? The TSA can't seem to figure out my SLR and have asked me to turn it on because they couldn't figure it out. On numerous occasions they have also opened it up ruining the film (I no longer fly with film in it), removed the lens to what I presume was checking to see if it was a firearm, and have wiped everything down checking for explosives. I find to really perplex them bring a set of macro rings as well.

Give it about 2 weeks then it will be implemented TSA wide.

So wait. You're saying China's most secure spy bureau does not subcontract their sysadmin duties to Dell, to be filled by an unvetted and frankly suspicious temporary worker? Not Iran, nor Syria either?

At this point all a new nuclear plant creates is a jobs program for lawyers. It would be more effective power generation to hook the lawyers to a windmill directly.

The main purpose of government is to deplete the surplus productivity.

Our future does not hold hovercraft. It holds hoveround.

Nice catch, Captain Obvious. That was my point!

...is that really a property of Javascript, though, or just your computer? Do the ECMA standards prescribe memory or reference size limits?

...And somehow, HTML is both on the list and lower than Java. Anyone got any theories?

Just increasing the fuel capacity seems to be a lot easier.

They own the switches and the servers so where the user thinks his data is stored doesn't matter. They have versioned copies.

This is true. But it is not a weakness of the language. And do not confuse "insane syntax" with what Perl is doing.

Perl holds the author responsible for using the correct syntax in the context of the author's intent. It does not hold the author's hand, as if they were some kindergartner just starting out. One of Perl's axioms is that the author must be allowed to do whatever he wants without regard to some imposed notion of what is reasonable, for who but the author can know what his intention is?

That means a lot of shitty scripts are written in Perl. But a lot of shitty verbiage is written in English. Neither language should be judged by the great volume of shitty work that has been done in it. Each language should be judged by the quality of the most elegant work that it can support. There has been some really elegant work done in Perl.

For critical work, Perl should not be used by programmers who do not yet know what they are doing. While it is a great language for studying things like Knuth's work on algorithms (TAOCP), it should not be used in mission critical applications until the student has mastered those studies.

And determining which programmers are sufficiently capable to be allowed to use Perl is a problem for the IT managers and software team leaders. It is not a problem with the language.

Don't try to use Perl in anything that is mission critical until you no longer need the training wheels.