So Facebook are actually the good guys and on the 5th Anonymous are going to be all rounded up and hung, drawn and quartered?

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

Which has been developed and used for the last 20 years. What is new here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS

The more significant concern should be how complicated the device is. The Logitech Revue has the hallmarks of being rushed to market by a furiously masterbating manager in the corner of an office somewhere, refusing to listen to anything anyone is saying.

Just look at the Revue website and find anywhere mentioning how simple or easy the device is to use, no just a very daunting picture of a gargantuan remote that is some nerd's wet dream.

A lot of effort has been put into the product launch, the Logitech website is larger than any other product they ship and it also extends onto the support side. It is nice to see that they have a series of support videos until you actually view one. Oh dear. I'm wincing at these poor actors having to drive through an overly technical and obtuse script which spends far too much time discussing "HDMI capable AV systems" and optional components which only serve to make it look more complicated than it needs to be.

Wrapped in a large XML turd and not even following XML philosophy at that, randomly introducing one character tags.  How is this protocol really helping anything?

  <t p='#'>text</t>     Insert specified text at position p in message.
  <e p='#' n='#'/>      Deletes n characters of text to the left of position p in message.
  <d p='#' n='#'/>      Deletes n characters of text to the right of position p in message.
  <c p='#'/>            Move cursor to position p in message.
  <w n='#'/>            Execute a pause of n hundredths of a second.
  <g/>                  Executes a flash/beep/buzz.

I think many other companies would be happy to have remotely 'ancient, creaking dinosaur' technology. I ponder to think what the authors opinion of infrastructure technology in the rest of the world that would be lucky to be only 15-20 years old.

Citing MessagePack is certainly surprising as that particular technology is significantly worse than Google Protocol Buffers, the website is littered with bad test procedures and many errors. Google's serialization doesn't have the speed of say TIBCO's QForms or the compactness of Reuters RForms but it is pretty clear from their documentation that flexibility and easy management were preferred goals over utmost highest performing technology.

A similar story is covered by the 2005 Japanese film Hinokio, after an accident a house-bound student attends college via a robotic avatar.

The next generation protocol has already been invented too, the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) recorded as IEEE 1588, with open source implementations already available.

Both the linked article and the article that links to are overly verbose answers that skim the purported issue of whether two boys born on a Tuesday should be counted as two equal probabilities or one.

sciencenews.org:

If he’s a boy, he could have been born any day except Tuesday. (Otherwise this case would already have been counted in the first scenario: the older child a boy born on Tuesday). This second scenario generates just six, rather than seven, more possibilities.

maa.org:

When I tell you that one of my children is a boy born on a Tuesday, I eliminate a number of possible combinations, leaving the following: First child B-Tu, second child: B-Mo, B-Tu, B-We, B-Th, B-Fr, B-Sa, B-Su, G-Mo, G-Tu, G-We, G-Th, G-Fr, G-Sa, G-Su. Second child B-Tu, first child: B-Mo, B-We, B-Th, B-Fr, B-Sa, B-Su, G-Mo, G-Tu, G-We, G-Th, G-Fr, G-Sa, G-Su. Notice that the second row has one fewer members than the first, since the combination B-Tu + B-Tu already appears in the first row.

It would appear a fallacy to eliminate both B-Tu/B-Tu pairings, it is briefly discarded. However the difference of 7/378 to the answer (1/2 to 13/27) which is negligible.

In China the workers work and live together in the same complex it is a fallacy to equate the suicides in an entire day of a China worker to only the working hours of a Western corporation.

See "Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Battle of the Somme", charges were incredibly fast and successful tool of war before the automatic rifle. It's usage from WW1 and after is only due to old knowledge of poor generals.

Are you really defending the current development shortcomings of BIND 10 with the article author's inability to elucidate software engineering? Not at all continuing another symptomatic issue of the software industry.

BIND is thirty years old and a core piece of Internet infrastructure. That a completely new design and re-write of such a fundamentally important piece of software is "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs" highlights the continuing immaturity of the computer software industry.

This should be an embarrassment to every software designer, Google, IBM, and Microsoft should be screaming out how this is making the entire industry look bad.

Wouldn't this be an ideal target for test driven development, or are we to praise that at least they aware of defects?

There is also a interesting point regarding software repository support. I have a server running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server which is supposed to be supported till April 2011, however Wordpress is in the Universe repository and not updated since November 2008 and is vulnerable to a few attacks that delete content.

If these packages are not going to be updated should there not be at least a warning, or method to bar such packages from being installed after security issues have been raised?

Wordpress 2.3.3 in 8.04 LTS Universe repository.

It should be apparent that quotas have been scrapped as they cannot actually guarantee you can use the bandwidth speed they sold. So when they could have previously sold 1/5/10/50GB/day tiers, they spin that into a flat up to 50GB/day, let's call it unlimited, p.s. you'll be lucky to see 1GB.

The IBM Blade Chassis management software works perfectly fine in Opera with no popups or warnings at all. It's actually nicer to use in Opera than Firefox.