It's true. Linus has been quite vocal about whose fault it is when a kernel change breaks an application...

I think that a delay in congress approving this scheme as a factor in funding would be a good thing. I doubt that US News and World Report had their ranking system perfected in just a year; even if the executive branch hired the most brilliant minds (for which they have neither the budget nor the appeal) it would be impossible to come up with a system reliable enough to guide billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidy. By all means, come up with a system, publish the results each year, and see how it works. Refine it over time, and maybe 10 or 15 years in the future, if it is respected by students and employers as a metric of educational quality, start to apply it to funding decisions.

Any amount of development time might not be enough though: like any channel for federal funding, this thing is going to get turned into a political tool. What starts as a system to determine if an education will give you a good start in your chosen field will rapidly devolve into a contest for which colleges have the most puritanical health centers or are located in the home state of a ranking member of the controlling committee.

The problem with RHEL is that the true version of any package (for compatibility purposes) is the part after the dash. They'll call it "2.6.18" (I think that was the RHEL5 kernel), but really it's got most of the patches (but not all!) up to a much more recent version. If you have a piece of software from outside the RH repositories, and you want to know if your libraries are sufficiently up to date, you need to go dig up the SRPM for the version of each that you have installed and peruse the changelog feature checking for what has and has not been backported from the "real" latest version. I've never been able to find a magic decoder ring from RH proper to make this process of getting the true package version anything less than absolutely hellish.

They detained him for exactly the reason you kidnap the action hero's wife/girlfriend/mother: people are a lot more likely to break if you threaten someone they care about than if you threaten them directly. Added bonus: not technically a journalist, not technically protected by whatever media shields are available in the UK.

In the special case of a plate issued to a public official, wouldn't making the claim that someone else was driving the car be an admission to misuse of public resources? It seems like every time a governor runs for a different office, someone goes back and brings up everyone who ever used their official car.

Poor industrial hygiene isn't particular to the nuclear industry. In fact, the energy density is so much higher, you need to do a lot less of the dangerous mining and processing for nuclear fuels per unit energy. Her actual cause of death being a car accident also seems to point to a hazard which, while a lot could be done to improve things, has nothing to do with nuclear power.

I don't know about yours, but my Pebble is awesome. Like 6 months late, but awesome.

I think the most important thing for these "preorder" type Kickstarters to do is limit the number of backers for the physical reward pledge levels, and if they do add additional slots move the estimated reward date out. Pebble screwed up by not having an initial limit, and then finally set a limit after the campaign exploded that was unreasonably optimistic given the original estimates. They had zero units available by the original date anyway, but the difference in ship dates between units 1000, 10000, and 50000 was significant.

Also, if they'd limited the first batch they could have made it on-shore while the China factory was being set up. A major part of the delay was the extremely late decision to off-shore production. Tooling up the factory and Chinese New Year probably contributed at least 2 months to the schedule slip that could have been avoided for the first set of backers by sticking to the original garage lab plan for those units.

We're fighting them so we don't have to fight them over here, buying time for our scientists for complete their work on Prozium, which will make terror but a distant memory ...

Just having an hoa is enough to make me walk away; having to deal with someone else's opinion on your house sounds like a rental.

This isn't about checking plates as they're scanned, this is about collecting long term data linking a plate to a sequence of places and times. If an incumbent wished to discredit an upstart opponent, they could quite easily query data going back years to develop a defamatory sequence of events. The implications get worse as you consider the cross correlations that could be made between vehicles.

The DMV has data on how many times per month I visit the liquor store?

The Fisker Karma was the ev with a solar roof option. The available area and current efficiency didn't make it reasonable to use as the sole charger though.

This is my biggest gripe with TFA: He says "the data access APIs are complete, and you can effectively accomplish the same thing". Sure, you could, with only a slightly smaller amount of code than accomplishing the code in C. The ability to both filter data and synthesize new records through combination easily, even as a feature of the standard library, is powerful. That it is a syntactic feature is amazing on the order of Perl making regular expression literals a thing. Java has absolutely no construct that allows that kind of functional programming to happen.

Companies that provide both internet and television service in the same package would fight that one for sure; slippery slope to a la carte cable!

Mechanical stabilization has the advantage of keeping the focal center in the center of the image. If you're moving a crop box around a frame, you're going to get this weird effect where the point that parallel lines meet bounces around the frame.