What makes you think the retail stores have any advantage over digital stores? Nothing stops game developers from following the same model -- as far as I'm concerned, developers of the Humble Bundle games did just that -- all of the games were sold for several months for their full prices before they went "on sale" in the Humble Bundle.

The "pay as you want" could just be considered some kind of a "last tier" in the tiered system you described -- instead of selling products for some minimal price like $1, you can let people pay what they want, which probably gets you more money anyway.

If you access your home router administration interface from work, the attacker will be able to sniff the communication (including the password), even if you access the administration interface via SSL.

The attacker will not be able to sniff the communication between you and your bank (or any other SSL website) -- the SSL private key stored in your router (and now published) does not play any part in this.

A hexadecimal dollar is 100 hexadecimal = 256 decimal cents. There's a semantic difference in "1 (hexadecimal dollar)" (Knuth's version) vs "(1 hexadecimal) dollar" (your version).

See Donald Knuth's FAQ.

Also, it's a joke, so there's probably no point in arguing technicalities.

Actually, it was one hexadecimal dollar, which amounted to 256 (standard) cents.

Yes, because people have proven that having more than one drug store, supermarket, or fast food chain inevitably disorients them and fouls up their lives.

Actually, it does. Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. However, it also has its advantages, which is the reason we have them anyway.

Things using it will keep selling exactly as well as they did before. Maybe even better, now that people will be able to use them with Linux or other non-supported configurations.

This is not about HD movies being available on BitTorrent (they always were), but about people who actually bought them being able to do whatever they want with them.

Actually, this is a much more important result than the summary claims. Until now, there was always a gap between the proved lower bound and upper bound on necessary moves. They now proved that the known lower bound (20, proved in 1995) is also an upper bound (ie. there is no position which requires 21 or more moves to solve) and thus concluded research that lasted for 30 years.

This article could very well be listed on the Slashdot main page, it has nothing to do in Idle. The algorithms that were designed during this research are nothing to laugh at and will surely advance other research fields as well.

Babylon 5's Michael Straczynsky also had everything planned from the beginning. And it had quite a lot of plot. And humor.

Except they then told him not to wrap it up, thus the somewhat arbitrary fifth season.

I'd say The IT Crowd takes these cliches to absurd levels, which actually makes them less cliche and more just parody. I believe that if you see through it, they actually make fun of the cliches you mention it, instead of embracing them.

Now, if you want to see real cliched characters (and storylines), try watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

What is your problem with that? Is the information he provided less relevant, insightful or interesting in any way? Oh, right. You're posting that as AC, so you probably already know you're just trolling.

I'm afraid your post is a bit misleading too. They are also requiring developers to use base-10 in most places:

base-10 should be used to represent network bandwidth and disk sizes while RAM sizes should use base-2. File sizes can either be shown in both base-10 and base-2, only base-10, or a user option to choose between the two (but with base-10 set as the default).

The article also mentions that Mac OS X already does this since 10.6. Maybe there's a Slashdot article about that too?

Even when you're only using libraries, math helps you a lot to pick the right one for the job. The difference between a TreeSet and a HashSet is just math. You also don't need to know what regular languages are to successfully use regular expressions, but for some problems, it might come handy.

Or anyone else with a lip-reading mobile phone.

You don't want to know.

Trust me.

Trent

Even TFA seems to agree with you:

So they actually assumed that women don't say what they want and then published a research based on what they said? Good job!