Except that if the goal is to get people to adopt a password manager (like the article suggests)
then having a bunch of overlapping and conflicting standards for passwords is probably the
best way of doing it. That's one of the things that has made me consider a password manager
because I can't remember which sites require a symbol or disallow a symbol or require a capital,
etc... The only thing that keeps me from using a password manager is that I use lots of
different computers, phones, tablets, etc... and I don't know of any password manager than
can manage multiple devices. Does anyone know of a password manager that works with
apps? Even if I wanted to, I don't think my android banking app would work with any type
of password manager intentionally or unintentionally.

Maybe it shouldn't delete it but maybe more than one folder or putting a confidence level might be nice.
It has multiple categories for the inbox now, why not multiple categories for spam? There is spam and
then there is SPAM. My spam folder on google is full of stuff like viagra, russian bride, nigeria scams,
emails written in chinese I can't even read and other 110% obvious SPAM. There are also a few emails
or newsletters from companies with mediocre records. If my spam was split into 2 categories, my
guess is that 100% of the messages that occasionally get misplaced in my spam folder are in this
questionable category not the blatantly obvious category.

Also, by outsourcing space exploration, congress can outsource failures and liability.
When a private spacecraft kills someone, congress can shutter the company responsible
without taking any responsibility itself.

I also think a third factor in a plane crash is the lack of control. It's the same reason people
fear school bombings so much. In a car, you feel (probably wrongly) that you can prevent
an accident. In a plane you are at the complete mercy of the pilot with no escape route.

It still killed a very small percentage of people. Also, I'm personally suspect of the H1N1 killing "healthy people".
Everyone "healthy" that I heard of that died of H1N1 were almost "too healthy". It seemed to be attacking
marathon runners, body builders, etc... I wonder if there was something about them that made them more
vulnerable (like possibly a very low body fat percentage, etc...)

I'm sorry about your friend but ebola scares me ALOT more than the swine flu, h1n1, or sars.
Shutting down airports for sars was probably a bit of an overkill. Yes, sars is contagious but
it's also highly survivable. My guess is that your friend was already compromised in some
way whether it was extremely old, extremely young, weak immune system, etc...
Until we have an effective cure for ebola (80% survival rate or better), then it's much better
to be overly cautious with ebola. Can you imagine what would happen if this made it to
an elementary school where hundreds of kids are in close contact? Give me sars any day.

They specifically mention treating "a large number of patients". Even if extraction was simple, and
ignoring getting permission from next of kin, there is not a large enough supply of transplant quality
cadavers for the number of people with diabetes. Also, doing anything with the pancreas is extremely
time sensitive because it starts digesting itself pretty much as soon as a person is dead.

I agree. I think we've added more than enough labor saving devices that we should be able to start redefining
"full employment" as less than 40 hours per week. We have a long way to go though as (at least in the USA)
we can't even seem to get people and companies to limit their work to 40 much less something less than 40.

That's a second problem that needs to be solved. Finding full employment for people after all the shit jobs are eliminated is important
but that still doesn't mean that we shouldn't be trying to eliminate all the dangerous and unhealthy jobs that we can.
There are certain jobs (like old fashion coal mining) that you're probably better off sitting at home on welfare than you are being at
the bottom of the coal shaft slowly dying.

It's not the goodness of their heart. They are doing it because they want people to focus on a problem that they want to solve.
My guess is that the reason the prize money is so low is because the problem has been simplified and they don't expect a
perfect commercial ready solution. I would also guess that if you managed to solve it well enough to impress amazon then
they would offer you considerably more than the 20k and try to buy you out and/or hire you.
They are looking for original ideas and/or new employees with this contest. They are not looking for a complete solution.

Sinister conspiracy?? I vote money was someone involved. Maybe they wanted money from oculus rift or
oculus rift wanted money from them. Maybe they wanted to do more testing or charge extra for it as an
addon later. I bet in one form or another it can be traced back to money.

It would be interesting to experiment with this. microclimates are interesting. I know in the winter
I tend to like it warmer inside than in the summer. I also know that if it's really cold outside wood
heat seems to warm me better even if the thermostat is the exact same.

One possible theory that might make antartica and mars behave differently is that maybe there is
a minimum amount of cosmic radiation that is needed for proper healing of injuries.
That is one place where mars will have a lot more while antartica has a lot less.
This theory could be tested with an underwater biodome or possible with a tanning bed in antartica.
Mars and antartica are definitely a little bit different but antartica is probably the closest to
mars condition that we have on earth and failure wouldn't necessarily be quite so catastrophic.

So you state it's a cop-out answer and then go on to trash all the remaining languages. I was specifically thinking
of php when I wrote that answer. Php is a mix of randomness. So, yes, in theory you can write a better language.
The bar's actually rather low. You could even branch off an existing language if you were willing to break backwards
compatibility (add threads to python, standardize all the conventions in php, etc...) but that still doesn't disprove
my point that all the languages kindof suck especially in the web development and interpreted domains.
Java and C are ill-suited for just in time compiling and web development. Ruby, python, php, and perl are the best
we have. They all 4 suck but pick your poison or write a decent language and try to get everyone else to join you.
Oh, and I might go ahread and throw this in: on the frontend, javascript/html/css are even worse.

I would like to see a list of languages that are not known-shitholes. Yes, perl and ruby have their problems
but so do python, c, c++, php, and java. Each has a place where they excel and each has places where they suck.
Name a programming language that doesn't start to have major problems somewhere when you start getting
into the details.

Exactly. I didn't understand this part. If there really was too much it seems like it would be a simple
enough solution to either let in some co2 from outside, vent the excess oxygen out, or a combinition
of the two. Assuming you had proper ways of measuring the concentration of oxygen and co2 then
getting the right balance seems relatively straightforward.