Given that your current password is not stored in plain text (hard to keep a straight face when typing that), I'd assume that your retinal password would not be stored as a plain image file as well.

Instead I can imagine that a hash of your retinal image is stored as your password, and that you can update your retinal password by rescanning your eyes and generating a new hash, which you can authoritatively tell the server is now your new password. Thus when the server is hacked and your retinal password compromised, you can generate a new one.

Note that I am not a security researcher and have no idea if what I just said is pure BS or not. However I would hope that people who ARE security researchers have already thought about these aspects.

And my desktop Mac is stuck on Snow Leopard because Apple decided that my hardware can't run any OS-X later than that, regardless of the CPU being capable of doing it.

Seinfeld was in the $600,000 to $1,000,000 range (depending on the actor) back in the late 90's

Yes I have a FB account (for various reasons) but when ever I get the chance I always flag ads as being sexually explicit with the hope that it wastes more FB resources than they gain from me. Yeah, it may not actually do anything, but it keeps me happy.

(Likewise I also report unsolicited emails from major companies as spam)

And from TFA the target is 100kg Try lifting *that* more than a few times and see how you go.

I feel sorry for you that the amazing super-strength exoskeleton capable of lifting 1000 kg, and able to run all day didn't just spring into existence at the snap of your fingers. It really must be tough living in that fantasy world where research and development don't take time and resources.

Yeah, but I'd be worried that the cruise control would punt the car into a corner at a rate at which the lane centering couldn't compensate. You really need a bit more smarts for simple autonomous driving scenarios.

So you dislike GUI's but secretly desire one?

I'd posit that your anti-IDE/GUI experience is based around tools that don't meet your needs, and your XML editing desires show that you are looking for tools that meet your needs.

I'd also posit that having the right tools would make you much more productive than bare bones editors (compared to a fully fledged IDE)

Obviously not /.

Pity that they are talking about the country in Eurasia and not the US state. Or that when the state of Georgia seceded from the US it referred to itself as the "Republic of Georgia".

Methinks you should pay more attention to the world around you.

The EPA emissions factor for electricity is about 0.69 tons of CO2 per megawatt hour, so producing the electricity used by this datacenter is, on average, dumping into the atmosphere 331 tons of CO2 per day or about 120,000 tons of CO2 per year

Given that the data center is in the Republic of Georgia and not the US state of Georgia I don't think that the EPA estimates really have any relevance. If anything the numbers are probably much much worse.

What?!?!?! The people in Gitmo actually gets chance to go to trial???? /sarcasm

As an actual engineer as well, this sort of inflating of titles is a peeve of mine right now. It makes job searches nigh impossible as every position out there has the word engineer in them, and all recruiters seem to be doing nowadays is matching keywords - sort I keep getting emails about 'engineer this' and 'engineer that', when they are totally irrelevant to any sort of genuine engineering position.

Putting aside the whole whitespace debate(*), I'm pretty sure that python has its own list of issues. Maybe not to the same extent as PHP, but they exist.

* For which I personally do have trouble with python - I want the computer to bend to my will, not the other way around.

FTFY

* Although an inverse function is typically applied here, for some reason the chicks in question don't seem to notice or care.

I saw a story last week of an AirBnB "issue" Palm Springs Airbnb 'squatter' protected under law. In CA, if a person stays in your house for longer than 30 days they are recognized as a tenant. At which point all sorts of tenant protection laws kick in, and the only way to remove them is to start a lengthy legal process.

I'd say its nigh on impossible to circumvent laws like this in CA while still keeping your house as a private home. So I see jumping into AirBnB arrangements without understanding the legal framework of what you are doing as the equivalent of skipping through a minefield - regardless of the "good" intentions of this disaster preparedness scheme.