And they really did apologize, not use the typical "We're sorry that you were offended by our perfectly reasonable actions" fake apology that are so common in these situations:

It'd be nice if Slashdot could mention their apology in the summary.

NASA isn't using "IMAX" as a general term for high def camera, they use actual IMAX branded cameras:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedi...

Your belief that IMAX is a generic term is exactly why IMAX has to vigorously defend their trademark, even if they've overstepped this time.

What are the headphones that compare to the surround sound experience of an IMAX theater? Or did you just mean that headphones can be loud?

One fiber goes out to the street where it connects to AT&T's fiber ring, a single fiber cut could take out our building, but it would take 2 cuts to take out AT&T's ring.

The second fiber connection goes up to the roof where it's connected to a (microwave?) transmitter that hits an antenna about 5 miles away where the provider has their own backhaul to an IXP.

I thought the current push was for the smallest web projects to run on a public cloud like Google or Amazon, so if you need this kind of scale, you can have it, but you don't have to pay for it until you need it. Is there some other push to drive companies to create their own datacenters to give them the ability to scale?

I know my company is completely in the cloud, there are literally no servers in the "server room", just switches and a firewall. Oh, and two 1 Gig fiber connections from 2 providers.

Dividing by zero is, by definition, undefined, why would you want divide by zero to be equal to zero? If you don't trap it and handle it appropriately, you'll be generating undefined results.

What is the use case for having divide by zero equal to zero? (except, perhaps for 0 / 0 where you really want it to be zero, but I can't think of any other case where having any number divided by zero equal to zero would give correct behavior).

I remember when the iButton (and the Java ring with a java iButton embedded in the ring) came out, *that* was going to eliminate passwords - just hold your ring up to the iButton reader on your door, your computer, or any thing you want to secure. Passwords are a thing of the past when you have your iButton.

It's only been 17 years, so I'm sure we'll start seeing the readers built in to computers any day now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You should try that excuse after you get a speeding ticket: Sure officer, I knew that going 100mph was against the law, but if you would have stopped me at 56 mph instead of taking your time and waiting until I reached 100mph, the fine would be much smaller. I shouldn't be punished proportionally with the slowness of law enforcement

Too bad strong encryption wasn't available to him -- was whatever "weak encryption" he used known to the NSA as being vulnerable?

I haven't come across anything that this won't cover:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/KIL...

Not even when the tenants thought it would be cool to paint a hexagram on their bedroom wall in black paint.

I think many sellers would see less business if they stop accepting Paypal -- I like paypal payments because I don't want to give out my credit card number to random people on the internet -even if my money is not at risk, credit card fraud is annoying to deal with (have to identify all of the fraudulent charges, update payment info for recurring charges, etc). There's a lot of smaller merchants that I just wouldn't buy from if I had to give them a CC number.

Is there a viable competitor to Paypal? Google and/or Apple could probably come up with a competitive service, but they seem to want Android/IOS lock-in more than they want to provide a service. Maybe Google Wallet already offers everything paypal does?

Where would you go? you signed up with Paypal for a reason, what is the next best alternative?

Really? That's how you define bad parenting? A parent that's excited about a learning opportunity after a messy accident rather than being upset about something that a few dollars of touchup paint can cover over?

Some parents have literally killed children over far less, this parent gets an A++ in my book.

I haven't seen what a septic engineer makes, but I'd imagine that they make the same thing as that guy's son, but larger (though 6 figures sounds like exaggeration unless you're measuring in milligrams). Of course, it all goes the same place when it's flushed.

The headline seems to have a typo, it shouldn't be Australian ISPs Will Be Forced To Block (Some) Pirate Websites, but rather Australian ISPs Will Be Unable To Block (Any) Pirate Websites