Mod parent up. Math is more than calculus. At its very base it's result-driven logical thinking combined with wanting to prove correctness of everything you do, within equally well-defined premises. Precisely what a programmer needs. And head on with the discrete math and combinatorics; graph algorithms will impact the computing world more and more.

Sister Miriam, is that you?

Thanks :)

Ah, I see. Comment withdrawn then, and let's hope it doesn't get further than the first year of university. I also hope papers like that don't get any grade until it's properly rewritten.

While I definitely agree there is a problem with people not caring about proper writing (this is also the case with my native language, Dutch); I would say that "Academic papers are riddled with 'cuz'..." is a definite exaggeration. Never have I encountered such an article. I've seen some really badly written articles while still being reviewed (they didn't get accepted), and even those did not contain abbreviations such as 'cuz'.

Those two things is what statistics is based in the first place as well. Evidence etcetera comes second. If you can't blow logical counterarguments away you're probably wrong and you're indeed lacking in understanding.

A police chief who wants to use the law to shut up those who criticize him. If this doesn't ring "police-state" alarm bells then I don't know what will. This chief should go.

Build-in a kill switch for when your spyware hits the wrong machines.

Following through after 'outing' seems a non-solution; you could still start cases you know you have a small (if any) chance of winning to 'out' someone.

My initial reaction actually was people cannot and should not expect anonymity on the internet, unless extreme measures are taken which often still do not guarantee anonymity 100%. Furthermore, it is not something people should want; if crimes are committed via internet or with assistance of it, then through proper procedures law-enforcement should be able to track culprits.

This however was not the case here, and so far I can see the only 'solution' would be to keep the identity of the accused anonymous during the trial and make it known only after a guilty verdict. This won't work, however, since often the daily life of the accused is relevant to the court proceedings; the accusing party has a right to be able to research what more the accused has been up to.
Perhaps an anonymous trial is only feasible for a small subset of charges. Don't see it happening though, this is probably just a necessary evil.

On a sidenote, if the charges are too ridiculous, any court would just dismiss the charges entirely without anyone being drawn out.

That was my first thought too. In that light, can (couldn't) they still appeal, perhaps at an international court?

Best standard to date, no?

Two dual GPUs in SLI/Crossfire? Maybe?

Not only MapReduce; the global description of the patent (input, partition, repartition, output) seems just to be a prehistoric version of partitioners like MeTiS, parkway, Mondriaan, Zoltan, etc. Prior art in abondance.

Agree, but perhaps keeping track of user-accepted plugins in a (weakly) encoded file, would make bypassing an illegal act?

Is Microsoft 'correct' in downplaying, in the sense that the particular vulnerable configuration mentioned is not used by many?