Ada had the ability to specify valid ranges for variable.

That'll make my life as a software developer a living hell. Kinda throws off the automatic background compilation stuff Eclipse does, and the whole rapid prototyping I do in Python with interactive shells. I'm not sure that's exactly what they're going for.

We are there, have been for a few years. Take a look at handheld RAMAN Spectographers. Thermo Scientific [ formerly Ahura ] makes some: http://www.ahurascientific.com/chemical-explosives-id/index.php

Huh? This device has nothing to do with phones. It's software that goes on a windows machine that happens to be packaged on a USB stick that's branded as Apple iPad6 TV. On another note, I'm beginning to associate the "Pssh, I not own a smartphone" crowd with the "Oh sorry, I don't own a TV" crowd. It's fine either way [with / without a TV / smartphone], but it doesn't make you superior in any way, and you don't need to go out of your way to make people know.

Sentinel objects? Default NO-OP objects?

2MB = ~ 2^2048000 possibly combinations, which is a pretty huge fucking number of unique chunks.

24 hours == 8 weeks of a 3x per week course. That's a reasonable amount of time to learn something.

Feedly?

It is an probably an issue, but I'm not a biologist, geneticist, or anything related to medicine. What I do know is that females are far more likely to be chimera than males, and autoimmune disorders are far more prevalent in females than males. It seems likely that there's something going on there.

How's the performance of Kubuntu on the Transformer? What works and doesn't work?

Not even close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo

Vimperator. It's a great plugin for Firefox that adds Vim keybindings. But more that that, it greatly cleans up the UI. No Navigation bar [though that can be reenabled], Bookmarks bar, etc.

Mind you, that's not for classified materials, classified still requires some type of physical destruction.

Can you find me a study showing that even after 1 or 2 overwrites that a professional can retrieve the data? NISPOM now states that for fixed magnetic media, the clear method is " Overwrite all addressable locations with a single character." while the sanitation method is "Degauss with Type I, II, or III degausser."