I for one welcome our BEAR overlords. It should also be noted that worker bears work to produce more bears.

Clean and elegant applications never sell in corporate environments. They need bloat and features that are never used.

Now I just need to install Gentoo on it with my new CFLAGS and I will have the fastest operating system in the world on the fastest booting computer in the world!

Yep. http://i.imgur.com/0qbsj.jpg

A physics professor at my university said "Maths is an auxiliary science to physics." Even though he is kidding it is kind of true.

I wonder if this dust is high in fat.

But *BSD is dying.

I was recently told by an academic in computer security that only about 13% of the web are indexed by search engines such as Google. Does anyone know anything about this?

I always knew these idiots were right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDlqR1jnKA The reptile people are just hiding it from us.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of sensible plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very cultural thing for us Westerners [especially]. In some countries [Middle East] you will find that you do not get top marks unless you copy everything your professor told you, letter to letter. If someone makes a scientific discovery and states: "I have proven that the sky is blue". Now I am writing a paper and I want to use his research as a reference and in order to not plagiarise I have to paraphrase (I could quote but I won't in this example). So how do I do that for such a simple and short statement? "It has been proven that the heavens are azure." This decreases readability, often adds to length and decreases efficiency. Conclusion: Plagiarism is a part of our [bullshit] Western culture and it is counter productive; referencing alone should be enough.

A million or two isn't a lot either. Like my uncle Einar used to say, try 10 million or so.

I listened to the UK's representative at the LHC project speak at a local society last winter. She explained this in detail and said it was laughable how the Sun newspaper talked about these things without knowing anything. The energy of the colliding particles is about the same as two mosquito flies colliding with each other at around 15ms1.

As long as the IPCC are not having their research peer reviewed I would be careful to call it science at all. Peer review is an important part of science and any scientist will tell you this, including the many names who quit IPCC because of this very issue.

Don't remind me of this. :( Worst time of my life. FML

It erupts every 800-900 years or so I believe, so it's nothing to worry about right now at least.