There's no war between the US and Yemen. And fighting organized crime is not a "war". Even the worst criminal has a right to a fair trial. It's a fundamental right, it cannot be revoked by anyone. Whoever ordered this murder should now be put on trial for it.

There has been a 62% increase in the last 5 years and we are definitely approaching a point where new debris are created spontaneously even if we stop all new space launches. I don't think you realize how much our economies depend on satellites today.

Unless it's the lives of astronauts, then everybody starts thinking that spending a billion dollars to save one life is a good deal. And maybe it actually is given the economical repercussions for the whole country of NASA astronauts being killed, but it's a bit sad considering that a $1 vaccine can save a kid in Africa (just to be clear I definitely don't advocate cutting NASA budget, quite the opposite).

It's impossible even for the wire frame version to be rendered in real time. Hell for those computers it was impossible even to display in realtime the pre-rendered frames. The movie has been assembled by stitching together photos of individual frames on a computer screen.

In theory the law says that they can't in practice patent offices do approve patents for them and going to court to void them is a roulette.

Can someone please post a link to the APK and/or its sha1sum so if we find it on the net we can verify that's the original one and not malware?

Thanks.

Standard disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not anyone else. None of the above should be read as an encouragement to violate the law. IANAL. I don't hate cute kittens.

This article is about WebP, not WebM. Firefox does very much support WebM, just as do Chrome, Opera, Safari and IE (these last two browser require the WebM codecs to be installed, all the other just work). And YouTube is serving WebM video (among other formats).

Before you ask, this thing has 20 kB of RAM (yes, that's kilo, not mega), still better than the 2 kB of the Arduino but do not think of this as the same ARM that runs in your phone.

And, yes, you can still do quite a lot of stuff in 2 kB of RAM (I created a pretty complicated protocol translator at work with an Arduino that even ran in the old ones with only 1 kB RAM).

That's certainly true but AFAICT the EU itself is also in the process of slowly becoming a country (arguably it already is, since December 1, 2009 when it acquired international legal personality independent of its member states). The power within it has been for decades constantly moved from inter-government negotiations between the individual members to EU-wide shared institutions (e.g. the European Commission and the Parliament).

No. The EU, the US and China all have a higher GDP than Japan, according to all the commonly used sources. You can start with a list of countries by GDP or the same list using PPP GDP if you prefer.

We're talking about their money and of course it's their choice how to spend it, but everyone please remember that the "catastrophe-struck country" is the fourth richest country in the world (even the third one, if we count individual EU states separately).

They don't need money, much less having stuff physically delivered there. If you really want hundreds of Geiger counters in Japan, don't buy them in the US and have them delivered to Japan, just send the money there and buy the thingy things directly in Japan (hint: they're probably manufactured in China anyway, think about the two alternatives on a world map).

And to the people that donated to this cause: that's your money but I assure you that there are way better ways to donate it. Like letting people that are actually experts on the subject decide which part(s) of the world need it more at any given time.

That's a very common misconception: privacy is not about criminals with things to hide.

It's about not giving some centralized entity an enormous power because they know everything about everyone. Such a huge power will be misused, sooner or later.

That's why you still need privacy and secrecy even (especially!) if you've nothing to hide. And, BTW, everyone has something to hide to at least someone else.

You're making the standard mistake that many Americans do: you use one or two significant digits in imperial units and four of them for the metric units. It's not a 2600mm ceiling, even if you wanted you wouldn't be able to achieve that precision. It's 2.6 m. And if you're a decent architect, even in the US, you should know very well how high that is.

I've read somewhere that commenting on an April's fool story gives an achievement.

Yeah, they almost got me on this one.