Is it an anti-competition law? In many places they limit the number of licenses, which reduces competition and allows taxis to charge more.

Feynman's talk on this seems required reading: There's plenty of room at the bottom. None of the linked articles even mention Feynman's name.

Digital public libraries could be OK if they didn't make you use a certain OS and certain software to view the books. PDF downloads for everyone, searchable. The crap our local library has is worse than useless, because I spent lots of time trying to get it to work but it's clear it does not want it to be easy.

Awww, I read this as a SteGanographic keyboard, i.e. one that hides as you type. I thought the 225 WPM was due to all the noise words it added or something.

Taken further, Apple's employee profile in each branch should exactly match that of the population in the area where that branch of the company is. And don't leave out things like age, sexuality, height, hair color, eye color, religion, etc. If the company's distribution doesn't match that of the population, then it's clearly due to discrimination.

If the current plugs had an obvious up/down, it would go a long way to knowing which way they go. For a phone, up would be the front. For a PC, up would be marked on the plug by a face and side feeling/looking different. Those go up, depending on whether it's a horizontal or vertical socket. Things are market but it's not very visible and not tactile so you know what to feel for. This would fix the problem well enough without changing the mechanical/electrical specification.

Don't forget the desire for fresh hearts to keep your energy levels up.

Explanation: Light Peak causes the creation of time machines, and this author had already traveled back before 2010, written the article, and mistakenly posted it in 2011. Simple mistake, really.

I agree it shouldn't be relied upon as a troubleshooting step (you need to know what broke, why, and why it won't happen again). That said, if you go years without rebooting a machine... there is a good chance that if you ever do (to replace hardware for instance) it won't come back up without issue. Verifying that the system still boots correctly is imo a good idea.

This doesn't contradict his advice, as you're suggesting to reboot every few months when the machine is working. His advice is to not use a reboot as the first step in solving a problem. If anything, a periodic reboot when it's working is probably in-line with his advice, as it's a way to uncover more problems that may be lurking, at a time when things seem to be working (and hopefully when the downtime won't be a big issue, like during low load).

Now Stupid Coworker knows that it was me that reported him for sending me porn.

...because your boss is a dork. He should have send a message to Johnny Five (or everyone), "reminder: don't send porn to co-workers".

On the flip-side, you have to assume that anyone you email is clueless and will share your address, and will get some kind of virus that adds it to spam lists, so you share a forwarding alias that you can kill if it gets misused.

Slashdot is very friendly about signatures: you can turn them off so you never have to see their clutter anymore.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to remember this for the future, since at some point none of the CRTs will work anymore.

Both replies appreciated, and they make sense.

I read this as an algorithm that is better-suited for modern 64-bit processors, NOT one which is implemented specially in hardware. At the very minimum, this would mean that it can easily be calculated using 64-bit integers (and using the entire 64 bits, not just the low 32 bits), and perhaps also easily implemented using SSE2, and allow lots of parallelism, etc.