Well, look at these people. They've tried.

Well if you're going to be picky, they're using significant digits. 400 is accurate to within 50 pounds; 6 tons is accurate to within 0.5 tons, 1,000 pounds.

Essentially, 400 pounds +/- 50 pounds and 12,000 pounds +/- 1,000 pounds.

I agree. Why wait until Christmas to give each other presents? Why not do it throughout the year? Why wait until Valentine's Day to give each other chocolates and flowers? Why wait until Veterans' Day to honor veterans? These are all things we should always be doing. These days shouldn't be reminders or requirements for each other.

I wonder about the people who work tirelessly just to make their child's holiday 'perfect'. We should know better than that and should teach our children likewise.

Doesn't it seem awkward to you that engineers are held to a strict standard on ethics yet they're pirating Autodesk? Just throwing it out there.

Obveusly it's O(n) - O(logN)

Unless you get one with an oversized spout (is that the word?). Kind of like how fast food restaurants give you a bigger straw, so you drink more and run out faster.

I took keyboarding in 6th grade, around 2000. Schools should be teaching it at the middle school level, if not earlier. Calling a high school class 'computer science' when it's just simple keyboarding and common-sense surfing the net is misleading to colleges and not fair to other applicants. Fortunately, my high school actually tought languages, but not much beyond that. Then again I only took the first year since all future years conflicted with my required language class >:( ...

A few times throughout the year, I find that I either receive a neighbor's mail by accident or someone else receives one of my bills, addressed correctly. I know this is a bit of a tangent, but what if one of your neighbors keeps it or operates ID theft?

Well I'd prefer they do research from scholastic, peer-reviewed sources. Even that can be subject to interpretation. Wikipedia is good for general information, but not something you want to rely on. Anyone can decide to edit the article and include something false, intentionally or unintentionally. Other sites can also be unreliable or biased, but this isn't the place to discuss that.

The judge can provide additional information, when asked. Jurors may look something up in the wrong place. For example, the definition of rape is different in Webster's Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary, dictionary.com, urbandictionary.com, a medical dictionary, an encyclopedia, state law, local statute, etc. Likewise, the information on the term she looked up may have been one-sided or directed towards a specific audience or situation.

The irony behind this is, the Patent website does the same thing in its patent searches (try it), except it bolds instead of highlight and it's on a web page and not on a "tool bar". Can the PTO hire competent employees to determine 'prior art'?

Yes. The low level IT guy (or PHB) shouldn't be handling, accessing, or even seeing the information in the first place if s/he isn't responsible and knows how to take proper precautions. That takes a high level of trust having people's lives in your hands, with sensitive information such as social security numbers or informants in dangerous situations. Have low level IT's work with other databases (or tables) under a different user and permission set that don't require such security.

All companies will do is take away the word 'broadband' from everything. People will still buy with commercials saying "$19.99/mo*" and "10x faster than dial-up**". Haven't you learned anything from your company's management? The * and ** will be too small and too fast to read on an 18" TV, 1 foot away.

These companies will still advertise speeds UP TO 5 Mbps. Those words mean zero to me. A cheetah can run up to 70MPH. Does that mean I'll always see it running at 50MPH? They're empty words, though numbers should be generally close to what they imply, or at least have an "ideal" location where a customer actually gets at or very near the maximum speed.

Personally, I'd force them to advertise their median (or mean/"average" if you must). Have them be accurate within x standard deviations or x%.

Yeah, why would you encourage him towards a life of living in his mom's basement, fighting brain-dead management, and with a computer as a girlfriend.

Oh, is that just me?

I'd rather do 4 months and not pay a dime, just like Sunde said. Then again, that' probably not a real option either.

If Sweden's courts are anything like our courts, the courts will adjust their fines to more realistic amounts on appeal.

It's more like they hoped 911 would accept texts. What seems riskier to you: making a phone call and lowering the volume on your phone or pressing keys on your cell phone?

Personally, I wonder whether insufficient information will create more deaths, indirectly. 911 can't text back. What if your phone makes noise when a text is received? How are police supposed to know what they need to do? Do they need SWAT? Where is s/he exactly? Sure, we think we can just rely on the police to do something, but they're people too. Without more information, they're going into the unknown and take more risk.