you dont want to do test driven design. You want to use formal methods and static verification of the correctness of your code.

I wonder how many car accidents this failure has caused.

This is why I don't trust drive by wire systems

Here in Switzerland you can buy your phone at any shop that sells mobiles and sign a contract with a phone company.

The cool thing is, if you do so, you get a phone which came directly from a factory, e.g. no sim lock, no bloatware, etc. It is a really cool approach, but I dont know how heager us companies would be to adapt this approach.

How is this not a violation of the data protection act? I quote from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998)

Is any of the above true? I certainly did not consent for my data to be processed when I am not on Facebook. Also note, it is not important who has given the data to Facebook, the DPA talks about the data subject -> The person the data is about.

Finally!

I was working on drawing a perfect circle and 5 trillion digits were just not good enough.

Thank you for wasting the earths resources (electricity, etc..) to make the world a better place!

From the article:

how do they know the radio frequency codes without actually reading the signal? Communication in this sense means the phone signal, not the actual talking on the phone. It doesnt matter whether you are actually talking on the phone.

While I totally agree with you, the lawyers of the mall might not. They probably will come up with some lame excuse, quoting a dictionary that:

source: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/intercept

They will probably argue that they do not prevent the signal from reaching its destination

It is not.

Some people might want to be reachable while shopping. Was this not the point of mobile phones? To be reachable independent of your location? To me this is a clear privacy invasion, since it seems that I cannot opt out of this scheme.

Thank you Dennis Ritchie.
Thank you for making the world a better place.

Had this guy been beaten to death and had he not worn a costume, he would be now hailed as a hero and probably given a medal or two.

Since, this guy survived and hides his identity (one way or another) he is treated like a common thug.

WTF? Its ******** pepper spray. It is not like he has caused any irrepairable damage. Such treatment only discourages people from helping each other >_>

It might be a combination of multiple existing technologies.

Assume that Sony buys out the stake from Erricson. What becomes left of Erricson? Does Erricson make anything else?

Sex is one thing, but think of the big picture:

You could finally play WoW 24/7 without missing your sleep!