Well, what happened when they gave the foreign students OLPCs? They just started surfing for porn. Do you really expect them to do anything else?

It can, but the problem is you can't look at the screen.

"Hypothesized." If you're going to nag on people for spelling, better spell correctly yourself.

Doesn't this then lead us to a bootstrapping issue?

If life started with a giant virus, and viruses reproduce by infecting living creatures... wence life?

How do viruses reproduce without complex lifeforms in which to do so? If it reproduces on its own, I don't think pithovirus can be classified as a virus. Then, in that case, what separates pithovius from the prokaryotes?

I feel javascript is broken because it doesn't even have an import statement (you'd have to use the awful require.js). Even the lowly C and many varieties of assemblers have in-line importation via preprocessor. Javascript's dependency model is fundamentally broken, especially if you have to use HTML script includes. Couple this with an awful object model, strange string behavior, and obscene variable abuse in a lisp-like language that wants to pretend it's C and you have a disaster language.

Would you recommend any books for learning javascript at a deeper level? My frustrations mount with every javascript project that's thrown at me.

Also, do you think Java is really hellish? It's got its quirks, but since I discovered Effective Java and made heavier use of interfaces, it's been way more delightful.

But oh man, you're missing out on all that sweet infrasound and ultrasound! Imagine a stereo system that could give your wife a sonogram! Or a barely sub-audible 18.7 Hertz signal that vibrates your eyeballs during Paranormal Activity 11, so it really feels like you're being haunted!

Hitler's revenge. The UK may have won WWII, but ultimately they became what they loathed. Sometimes men who fight monsters become monsters themselves...

Sure, fine. I know javascript. I have for some time now. Too bad the people who wrote the mounds of code I have to maintain don't. Every feature of javascript is painful and can be abused easily.

Anything that can rescue me from Javascript.

The microphone parts are pretty bad. There's no obvious way to configure your mic either...

Why should you learn Spanish? They should learn English if they come here, just like all of my ancestors did.

Someone needs to get together a wall of shame website for companies like Qualcomm. Call out and shame these bastards constantly. Boycott whoever you can on that list. Never forgive; never forget.

They don't give the power of the shock in either the summary or the article. Perhaps these people valued their time enough that they'd rather have the electric shock and move onto other things that day. I mean, if I could get money and extra 15 minutes out for my day for a brief shock, I might consider that although I enjoy being alone for long stretches of time. What is the opportunity cost here?

Also, Slashdot: a place where nerds come together to talk about being alone.

You scare me on so many levels. Another restriction on freedom that's absolutely essential for a free society is mandatory education? And without it, the population can fall prey to charismatic demagogues? I guess that's why the Prussians, the Soviets, the Nazis, the Chi-Coms, and the hosts of other nasty totalitarian assholes instituted MANDATORY EDUCATION for the masses... oh wait, they did it instead to control the populace. Plato is VERY clear in his Republic that his "Special Dictatorship" can only exist while mandatory, censored education is the law of the land. Remember, the Founding Fathers didn't need a mandatory education to establish this nation and form the well-thought out laws that govern it. Ever read the Federalist (or anti-federalist, for that matter) Papers in school? Probably not, because they're above a high-school reading level today. And, pray tell, who is going to be doing the auditing of schools, both private and public? You?