Should that be, "for fuque's sake"?

Those were "development" releases. How many of those releases could anyone confidently use in place of Perl 5 in a production environment?

Thanks for muddying that up for us. Are those 99 decimal "Gigs" or 99 binary "Gigs"? Your comment doesn't say.

More importantly, by rounding off using normal conventions the difference is 100 GB or 93 GiB.

a) The man for emailing the spyware?

b) The woman for opening it and infecting the computer?

c) Yahoo for not blocking it?

d) The hospital for not only allowing internet access from a computer with personally identifiable information, but for also allowing the spyware to get installed.

e) Some combination of the above?

f) Nobody. It was a failure of the "system", so nobody has to take responsibility.

Apart from BEER, humanity itself, controlled fire, language (probably), sterilisation of food and water, the world's tallest building (a pyramid) until recently, the roots of most modern popular music genres, airmail (by homing pigeon), the pendulum, the tunnel boring machine, stone tools, knives, pigments, burial, housing, bread, plywood, cement, river boats, sutures, the aqueduct, candles, glass, the water clock, toothpaste, metal block printing, coffee, the astrolabe, the ventilator, explosive gunpowder, the cannon, handguns, cartridges, heart transplants, the CAT scanner, ....

You mean, apart for all that?

It does not cut "all power to the car". Think of what would happen to your headlights and your power-steering!

TFA explains that it limits the fuel going to the engine by instructing the engine management system to do so. In effect, it is just overriding the input from the electronic throttle that most modern cars have.

Just buy a car with an old-fashioned cable throttle connected to a carburettor and see how they cope with that. That $12m Ferrari that was sold yesterday would do the trick!

(You're going to correct me and reply that the Ferrari has fuel injection or something, aren't you?)

Do terrorists have distinctive brain patterns that would cause an alarm to go off?

All this does is help to confirm that the passport holder is the person to whom the passport was issued. The 9/11 bombers would all have passed this test, as they were travelling on their own passports.

This word you keep using; I do not think it means what you think it means.

No, a radio does not count at present in Ireland, though we needed a licence for a radio until 1971. Until recently, there were also separate licences for colour and black-and-white televisions.

Only one licence is required per household (or business premises) regardless of the number of televisions. Of course, if you have more than one household (e.g., a holiday home) you need more than one licence.

The vast majority of households already have a licence, so this change will probably affect very few people. The licence costs Euro 160 per year (about US$210). If you don't have a licence and you have a TV, you get fined about Euro 650 and then still have to buy the licence.

Sure, it's "-1: Offtopic" now that they fixed the article summary. Before that it was "+1: Special Needs Assistance".

2/12 can be expressed more simply as 1/6.

Less than ten years, then.

Or my personal favourite: "You know how we said X was critical to the success of the company and how you spent several months of your life implementing it? Well, we changed our minds. Now we think Z is critical. And can you make a few changes to Y while you're at it to make it more like W, so that when we change our minds again next week and resurrect X, Y won't work with X anymore and you'll have to redo X a different way from scratch? Thanks. Oh, and if you can have it on my desk by COB on Monday, that would be good, as I have a status meeting to go before my golf game. How's the documentation coming along? Not good? Nevermind, you can get back to it later."

OK, so I'm reading a little between the lines, but I get that most weeks.