Sounds like he was in Maniac Mansion, not a licensed nuclear facility. Dr. Fred's security seemed to consist of two disembodied tentacles and an ornery nurse.

Fred never did a good job of keeping people away from that pool.

It's an option. They cost a helluva lot more (The $S is currently $549, I presume the 5 would be $100 more), and I don't know if the carriers give much of a discount for no-contract BYOP plans. (T-Mobile does, but you're not going to get 3G, no less LTE with an iPhone on T-Mobile).

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone/iphone4s

Pick a color, then "Unlocked" is an option instead of carrier.

The science issues are not tied to public policy positions of the left.

The public policy positions of the left are tied to the science issues.

There's a considerable difference.

I haven't played the game in years, but it was the only MMORPG I ever played in which I actually made it to the endgame.

The combat seemed faster paced and generally less grindy than other MMORPGs at the time.

It helped that I played a Tanker, which was a horribly unbalanced class at the time. I remember forming a team, and single-handedly holding aggro on an entire instance worth of mobs, herding them into a corner, and letting the blasters let loose all at once. Good times.

That should be "assuming MS is not tracking individual"... Way to use the preview there, self.

There's no indication that Microsoft themselves keeps track of which individuals downloaded/installed which programs.

The issue this article seems to propose is that somebody could sniff the network traffic between yourself and Microsoft to grab the SmartScreen data and see what you'd installed when Windows contacts MS to see if the file is marked as safe/unsafe/unknown.

If they're in a position to do that, wouldn't they theoretically be in a position to have potentially snooped on the download of the software which is triggering the SmartScreen traffic? (Depending of course, on where in the network their sniffer is at.)

The only valid complaint seems to be that Microsoft is using a known-insecure version of SSL for the website all this data is sent to. If they fix that, I'm not sure what reasonable issue would be there.

I would argue that for the average user, SmartScreen is a useful feature and having it turned on by default (assuming MS is tracking individual user downloads of software for some nefarious purpose) is a good thing.

Forcing Metro on desktop users to keep the experience consistent between tablet and PC is like selling SUVs that you steer with handlebars to make driving consistent with your scooter.

Unfortunately, I suspect it comes down to "Can the next guy after you maintain that code you just wrote using calculus?"

My guess is it'll go back to a linear calculation as soon as the function needs tweaking, and you're no longer there.

Congratulations on your job with Microsoft.

Propaganda? The summary comes straight from the policy guideline document.

Knowledge-Based Education - We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Exact same situation here. Maybe it works well on something that's not a no frills work PC, but definitely not on this one.

Science Max: It just so happens that your moon here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.

Inigo Moontoya: What's that?

Science Max: Go through its craters and look for loose helium-3.

If somebody doesn't trust vaccines, why are they going to a doctor in the first place?

The sound science behind vaccinations is by and large the same sound science that doctor is going to be using when he diagnoses you and prescribes a treatment. You can't reject one without rejecting the other.

Libraries don't necessarily enjoy removing materials from the collection, but the two main reasons to do so are to make sure we have current/accurate materials and make room in our always limited shelf space. (The first is of presumably higher importance in an academic library.)

Unless libraries can get an unlimited budget for expansion of their physical space or off-site archives, weeding materials will be a necessary evil.

I'm not worried about my Steam password, I can go change it when I get home, it was fairly complex, and it's not a reused password anywhere else, but how hard would it be to crack these?

For those of us who aren't cryptography experts, does cracking one of the easy passwords (love, password, money) then help crack the more complex ones (m4sT3rm!nd)? I'm guessing this is crypto 101 stuff.

I am glad I no longer store credit card information with steam, and only used PayPal (and have an authentication card attached to my PP account.)