State Senator Scott Sales says he spent seven months working in the Bakken oil patch, driving back and forth to Bozeman regularly. "If I could drive 85 mph on the interstate, it would save an hour," says Sales. "Eighty-five would be fine with me."

Apparently you don't need to know math to become a Senator. Montana isn't big enough to save you "an hour" by going an extra 10mph end to end, let alone Bakken to Bozeman.

I for one welcome our new dalek shaped robotic overlords.

If all of congress truly would code (blue) it could pave the way for some actual improvement.

No kidding. On the other hand, perhaps the outage was due to them not applying it soon enough......

In all fairness, it doesn't sound like they're trying to churn out geniuses. From the linked site:

Can you really become a programmer in 19 weeks?

Software engineering is a craft that takes years of deliberate practice and learning to master. Our goal is to graduate world-class beginners, and jumpstart your journey towards becoming an elite coder. Having said that, we are betting that in 18 weeks you can learn enough programming to start contributing value to an engineering team as an entry level developer, where your learning can continue on the job. In fact, we think that our most successful graduates are those that view their first job as covering their food and rent while they continue to learn.

It sounds, very much, like what you can expect after graduating from a 4 year program; it's just more of a trade-school approach.

You can do the same thing with a single B&W image and processing back here on Earth; without having to send that extra kit into space. It was good enough for Ted Turner....

If you're doing straight select, insert, update, delete operations there really isn't much functional difference between any of them. They all do locking a bit different and their are some syntax differences but it's all manageable.

It's when you start looking at procedure code, triggers and such that MySQL(or Maria) is lagging behind in that thing get a bit wobbly. We've been looking at dumping Oracle for exactly the reasons mentioned in the article. Apparently Larry needs some new toys or something because they also seem to be going a bit 'audit happy' as of late. We're completely in compliance but it's taken dozens of man hours on our side to prove it. The worst part is there's really nothing you can do about it.

Just because you value a SD slot more than life itself doesn't mean that everyone else does. I use three or four different platforms every day. Never once have I caught myself saying: "damnit, if only I had a SD card slot!"

Physical media is a pain in the ass.

Apparently, "anomaly" is a synonym for exploded into may tiny pieces.

Who knew?

Kidding aside it's a sad day for the family of the person killed.

In my case, it is an unlimited contract. You're allowed to keep your existing plan when starting a new contract.

Yeah, no kidding. Clearly it wasn't 4mm.

Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, Does whatever a Spider-Pig does. Can he swing from a web? No, he can't, he's a pig, Look out, he is a Spider-Pig!

Actually, according to links in the article, it DOES still push packets. The issue, specifically, is that it breaks DNS if it can't get it's heartbeat. It's still stupid but the device continues to be a router.

You mad bro?

Yet, in the same paragraph, you call people lemmings because of their choice of device.

Hypocrit much?