You don't know BMW. It would void a warranty if you keep their car in an unapproved or incompatible garage. Only BMW approved soda compatible soda cans are permitted in the drink holders. I would not be surprised if it has a list of approved shoes that are compatible with the damned accelerator pedals.

The article has a picture of a BMW going through a brush wash. It would void the warranty. BMW says only BMW certified brushless car washes are compatible. Using unauthorized car washes will void the warranty.

In general the mainstream media in India and almost all of the intelligentsia, thought leaders, meme generators in India are very hostile to the West in general and USA in particular. They will dutifully line up days if necessary for a visa to the western countries, but in their hearts and mind, they just don't trust USA.

We can argue till the sacred cows come how why it is so, or whether it is justified, or whether it hurts or helps USA or India. But ground reality is, USA has no real credibility. If it monitors air quality and announces the results, people would find thousands of hidden agenda and subversion in it.

It is not just India. This old lady in northern Iraq passionately pleads for peace to ISIS militants, (assuming the sub titles are true) tells them their ways are un-Islamic in their face. But thinks America is providing ISIS weapons and money!

I grew up in India and visit it every year. It is very hard to convince even highly educated and informed Indians that "USA is not a monolith. Parts of it are purely profit driven. Parts of it are genuinely altruistic, desiring real democracy and good life for all of the world. No, President Obama is not conspiring with the CEOs of Coca-Cola and Pepsi to drive your hometown soda maker out of business, your rose-flavor-soda is safe from Pepsi. No, the President can not order CEO of Warner Brothers to censor a movie". I am talking about people who have very advanced degrees, worked in Middle East, Africa and far East outside India, people who have visited USA and Europe as tourists and visited friends and relatives there. They just don't believe any part of USA could be altruistic.

All the goodwill earned by all the people doing tremendous charity work, altruistic work, is squandered by a few bad players, mostly corporations corrupting the local politicians for their profit.

If machine learning is such a great thing, why is Microsoft giving it away? It probably hired dozens of machine learning PhDs from top schools, used their insights in its product designs and made a colossal failures out of them. Now their thinking goes, "If machine learning lured us in and fooled us, may be our competitors also would be lured in, made fools of and waste their resources here, and they will pay us a fee to use Azure! win-win!"

In the Joint Entrance Examn for the IITs it used to be a common problem. I know from memory it would oscilate back and forth. 90 minutes period of so.

It has been embraced. So you know what comes next.

Please do not link to any site that autoplays a video. Chrome handles html5 natively. It is not easy to block it in chrome. That alone is going drive users away from Chrome to Firefox+NoScript. It is just a matter of time before advertisers and sleazy websites add autoplaying videos. It is back to X10 popup and blinking text of geocities.

Thanks for the warning, you will see the drastic reduction in hits for such links from Chrome. You will create a policy of not linking to any site that has auto play video. Also why do you include it directly in read? Can't you just put up a link and say click to play?

.. this was the company that sought world domination using a product named "Betamax". Pushed mini-DVD disks and mini-CD-R based cameras, pushed its memory stick relentlessly... Tried to be incompatible with the rest to lock their users in. Eventually it was able to kill Phillips' HD-DVD and got its Blue-ray to dominate the market, only to be blind sided by decidedly low-def streaming videos.

So it is going to push weirdo glasses with cameras without the a history of "not being evil". With a wired handheld controller no less. Good luck with that. After the walkman in 1970, did Sony ever invent a new market category by itself?

At least now you could protect yourself from the bad guys if you want to or if you care to. In the bad old days of IE domination, you could not even if you wanted to.

All the tabs as a tree on the left. Very useful. All links opened from a tab nest under it. Trees can collapsed at any node. Most important feature is that I can collapse the tree to keep the logos and first website names from prying eyes at work. When I use WebEx or Google+ to share a desktop, I don't want sites like DailyKos, Mother Jones or Salon to show up in the tab line. Now it gets conveniently collapsed under "C++ STL Reference" ;-)

This is nothing compared to what University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is doing. It calls itself a non-profit and pays no taxes. Classified all its employees as contractors and dodged pay roll taxes too,. With such inherant cost advantages, it has driven all competition out. It also is fully vertically integrated. From general practioners to specialists to pharmacies to ambulances to parking garages to ...

The game is not between Dyson and Press. It is Dyson and Press on one side, and clickbaited eyeballs, (that would be us), on the other. They managed to extort far higher number of page views from us than they deserve. Thus proving their point about the research.

More children die choking on small parts of toys, or drowning in backyard pools. Many suffer serious injuries to their eyes etc. Radiation does not kill, not immediately. I am not sure the kids picked enough radiation to get cancer or something.

So many parents assiduously sanitize every damned surface their precious child might come into contact with, their immune system becomes hyper sensitive to everything and they grow up to have so many allergies. That behavior has harmed and is harming more children today than this toy ever did, or this toy ever could.

Yes, Rajnikant is balding and getting on the years. But still he is not that old. I would say he is 120 years, tops.

The telling thing about the description, (I could not get the math) is that the strategy with longer memory loses! They are using a concept of "strategy with a theory of mind". Basically it tries to predict if the other person is rational. If they think the other one is, then it pays to be irrational. It is basically a game of chicken and the player who is reckless will win against the one who is prudent.

There is some real life applications for this. Since I am a bleeding heart liberal I see the Republicans being reckless with government shutdowns and pushing the envelop on filibusters etc as this "I will first show you I am reckless then let us play chicken". (If you are a Republican you might strongly disagree with this example).

I also see this as the explanation for being reckless revenge and disproportional response. Typically in India riots would erupt on the rumor Some boys of set A teased some girls of set B. The sets could be caste, religion, language. In the over the top response for something minor the riot inciting group suffers as much damage as all others. It is totally irrational. But the purpose is to set the stage for others for all future interactions, "Malabar Muslims or Dharavi Tamils or Biharis are known to be violent. Be more careful around them".

Or like John McEnroe's tantrums in the tennis matches is to intimidate the line judges into giving him the benefit of doubt in the future calls.

So the theory is not without its merits. But, as usual, the title is more provocative than warranted.