" Look at that UID. You must be like, 35! Yuck, old people!"

I must be ancient.

Because you would drive your Land Rover in those conditions. People who can spend $1.3 mill for a car have a specific car for all kinds of weather.

McLaren makes super high end sports cars. You would not drive your McLaren in those conditions.

For example, the McLaren P1 *starts* at $1.3 million.

"About 1/3 of Canadian homes currently get mail delivered to their door" WHAT?

I'm an American, and I have always lived in a city or the suburbs. I guess I take to-my-door mail delivery as a basic human right. I thought all first world countries had this.

Wow. my mind is blown.

I can't fit 500+ printed books in my pocket. For me, that's the big deal right there. I have limited physical storage space in my house, and I read about 2 books a week.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

To me, this sounds like a pretty open and shut case of "Hey, I've heard that these 'NoSQL' database thingies are trendy these days. Let's use one of those!"

There's a difference between using fun, exciting new technologies and learning something new while doing that... and doing a project which stays in schedule and budget, is based on technology you already know thoroughly, and on which people's lives can depend (well, indirectly).

But the GOP is against funding solar power because they don't believe in global warming.

Well, that what they say, but it's really because the oil and coal companies have them in their pocket.

Man, the five-digit Slashdot ID users are loonies... I'm not sure this one isn't serious.

Extended use of Slashdot.org is evil!

In the event that Google moved out of the US and moved to a country where they are twenty times the size, manpower and influence of the country's government, is that the point that some people see 'em as an independent entity on scale with a government and with their own purposes which are indistinguishable from such a government?

Folks keep going on about the NSA but I'm not really sure which is bigger or more capable, Google or the NSA. Google has nicer campuses. As far as we know...

This document is still technically a part of the United States Code,

No, the Articles of Confederation are not part of the US Code. They were superseded by the current US Constitution. They are not law in any way shape or form, except perhaps as an occasional interpretive guide to the current constitution when in court cases we try to compare it to the current document to argue that the new language means something different.

Repeat: The Articles of Confederation are not part of the US Code.

(But what would I know? I'm just a law prof who has taught constitutional law...)

Hakin9 is a magazine that's not exactly too reputable.

It looks like someone took a paper "written" using SciGen and submitted it to them. Because they didn't read the paper at all, they didn't notice it was absolute bullshit courtesy of finest context-free grammars people could code.

Brilliant work - not only is SciGen great for busting less than reputable scientific publications that don't exactly value this "peer review" thing, but now it has busted security magazines too.

Yes, and how is that working for them? At this point it is hard to tell whether Surface of Windows 8 was the bigger fiasco.

My first computer: Spectravideo SV-318: 16 KB.

Current computer: A not exactly a new PC, way behind the curve even after a few bits of RAM added: 2 GB.

So 125000x the memory, I guess.