When I lived in London I cycled everywhere. I never felt it was unsafe. The excellent visibility and one's agility make it difficult to get into trouble. To do that takes recklessness, never in short supply.

100+ temps are OK. I cycle in the low desert in Summer and don't have any problems. The slipstream has a sufficiently cooling effect for what is a low-power activity.

Innovation or not, I'd rather be reading a story about a student using his undoubted abilities to advance the human cause. Remaking Mario is the depth of irrelevance.

Well, I am "willing to penetrate" certain young female celebrities. Doesn't mean I did. Doesn't even mean would. Certainly won't get the opprtunity.

"You" might "want" to "back off" on the "quotes".

We interviewed the top contestants for a software developer position supporting internal systems such as accounting, claims processing and inventory.
- one had severe Aspergers.
- one never tested, on principle.
- none of them ever documented anything.
- one refused to code in anything but Haskell.
- no-one had ever heard of accounting, claims processing or inventory.
- one did not speak any English.
There was one old guy who came last in the contest. He was slow but he wrote good code, tested thoroughly, documented, had mastered several languages, had extensive experience of common corporate information systems and seemed quite personable. In the end we went with the Aspergers guy. He accepted minimum wage so big win for the company. Right?

I want this judge on the Supreme Court.

The oath is, after all, a plot device. The oath one should desire for every sentient being, not just magic users (people in positions of power), is to uphold the highest standards of integrity. No lies, no misrepresentation, but bias is acceptable when disclosed. Universal personal integrity will transform politics and decimate religion. But not on this planet.

Politicians are known to lie. Mostly they misrepresent the truth. People still vote for them, because they are voting for their favorite misrepresentation of the truth. In a democracy amongst all ocracies there is no escaping to whom to assign the blame: the People.

Good point about the writing. In fact, the director did a great job in that first story. I still have a clear memory of the first shot containing a Dalek. It was taken from the Dalek's perspective and the only visible part of it was the plunger closing in on a terrified Barbara. And the terrified me at 12 yrs.

Shouldn't Japanese pop be called Nippop?

TFA makes it clear Kaufman understood the issues and cleared them. Data visible to "friends of friends" is visible to potentially anyone and should be considered public. It looks to me like Michael Zimmer the privacy scholar has chosen Kaufman's work as fertile hunting grounds for fame and future grants.

Does anyone else find "pwn" to be fucking annoying?

WTF

I prefer to characterize my acceptance of scientific results as 'trust'. There is a worldwide community of scientists reviewing and attempting to duplicate results. I trust that the system weeds out incorrect or inadequate hypotheses and what is left is science's current best model of reality. I may not understand most science but I understand how the system works. Faith, as applied to religion, is a mental illness involving the acceptance of ludicrous statements made by religious authority figures without evidence.