Why would it be a surprise
It's not a "goes against what you'd expect" surprise, but if you had never thought about it before, it could well be a mild surprise.
or a discovery to see
That's what a discovery is - to see something for the first time.
Just because this seems obvious in hindsight, that doesn't mean it's not interesting or useful that it has been shown scientifically to be true.
That is pretty much what the article suggests. Concatenating string involves creating objects, blah blah blah...
I doubt you'd see the same "9000 times slower!" kind of results with standard C strings.
Heh, it's opt in for now.
Unless Uber achieve actual, literal, world domination, using Uber will always be opt-in.
seven feet wide and 20 feet high
Doh. I made mine six feet wide. No wonder it didn't work!
Are aliens still a big thing?
Aliens only featured in a minority of episodes*, and they were never the best ones. Episodes, I mean, not aliens.
*yeah, I'm guessing, but I think I'm right.
Gillian Anderson will you ever stop getting hotter?
If anything, then, I'd say they've hacked the air gap, not the computers.
Yeah, and are these patients consenting to this?
Why are you assuming they aren't? The summary says "recruiting," not "press-ganging."
Costa Rica is #1 on the Happy Planet Index.
"Development" isn't everything.
the personal data was almost certainly culled from publicly available sources
IS has called for the deaths of:
Sgt Bilko
Captain John Carter
Colonel Jack O'Neil
Colonel Jack O'Neill
Major Dad
General Hospital
Though as for how far or how long, no idea. But it does have some onboard power, at least.
ATRIAS now has onboard power, wireless coms
ATRIAS looks like it's constantly bursting to take a leak.
I don't think there's anything missing, although it doesn't name a specific "syndrome" or such:
In severe cases, the deformation stretches and thins the inner parts of the eye, which increases the risk of retinal detachment, cataracts, glaucoma and even blindness. Because the eye grows throughout childhood, myopia generally develops in school-age children and adolescents. About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia.
I think the middle sentence makes it harder to connect the two outer sentences.
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
