There are three TB2 busses. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5918?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

"You agree to indemnify and hold Yahoo! and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders and other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post to or transmit through the Services, your use of the Services, your connection to the Services, your violation of the TOS, or your violation of any rights of another." - http://info.yahoo.com/legal/uk/yahoo/utos/en-gb/details.html Or, to put it another way, no they don't.

Ethics and social implications are an important part of the discipline of computer science, just as they're an important part of other science disciplines like biology and neurology.

...but do not, apparently, see text encoding in the same light.

Earth "is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

On the "bizarre system" (or perhaps "bazaar system") called GNU. http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts

Then, at some point in the future, Mozilla will run a campaign explaining that 10% of the interwebs is on Firefox 11 ESR, but there have been loads of new features and enhancements since then so we should all tell people to upgrade to Firefox 17. Friends don't let friends use IE 6^W^WFF 11.

Simple:

• Each card and ATM is given a public/private key pair.
• The public keys are signed by the bank's private key
• Every card also contains the bank's public key

When the card is inserted, the ATM asks for the card's public key

1. The ATM then verifies that the card's public key was signed by the bank, using the bank's public key.
2. The ATM then encrypts a block of random data with the card's public key, and asks the card to decrypt it.
3. If the card successfully replies with the same random data, it has just proven that it has the private key that it claims to have

Then it's the card's turn to repeat the same process:

1. It asks the ATM for its public key, verifies that it was signed by the bank, using the bank's public key.
2. The card encrypts a block of data with the ATM's public key, asks the ATM to decrypt it

At this point, both the card and the ATM know that they are talking to the appropriate device. Each device can then generate a symmetrical key for that session, and encrypt it with the other device's public key, and use those keys for any further communication.

"modern man" = "homo sapiens"; we were around long before 1 BC.

The way that Apple did. A single binary (whether executable or library) can contain code for multiple instruction sets. There is no need for separate areas on the file system for 32- or 64-bit support, there is no need for separate 32- or 64-bit builds of the OS, etc.

So what happens if these "bad" words come up in the context of a biology class, for instance? I see many body-part names in that list, are students going to have to use stupid, childish euphemisms in their place?

"wow", as in the English word, nothing to do with "World of Warcraft"

Couldn't these Australian Journalists use an American as an anonymous proxy of sorts? That is, when you find a good source of information, tell him/her to reveal the information to an American, and then use that person as your source. You can then freely name your source, but that source can't be compelled by the Australian courts to name the original source.

Every problem can be solved by adding a layer of indirection ... or beer :)