Any other way? How about this way:

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It means you have to take a charger with you if there's any chance you might not be spending the night in your own bed when you go out... Of course that won't happen because you're wearing a nerdy watch.

He's suing the editors, the people who wrote the stuff. A few years back, people would have sued wikipedia for showing the page, the hosting company for hosting the page, the company that maintain the DNS record for WIkipedia and Dell (or whoever) for running the site on their servers.

Not really news.

Expected riposte from bitcoinfanbois insisting that bitcoin is a form of cash in 3...2..1..

Headphones. Or dummy jack-plugs.

If the Turing Test is a test to see if universities can release press releases that the media churn out without doing any basic thinking or background checking then yes. Otherwise no. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism

UK university staff are getting more and more pressure to get publicity for their work. Why? Because the student market is much more competitive than it was. Every Uni now has a small army of press and "impact" people who aim to get the Uni in the papers, on twitter, etc etc. Not that Kevin Warwick needs much help with that, he's been doing it for years.

The press release about this so-called Turing Test was pretty much written in a style ideal for lazy journos to cut and paste into Quark Xpress. http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR583836.aspx

Put your hydrant tap points near ground level and go _under_ the car? How many cars don't have 6" ground clearance?

So anyway its clearly a cultural thing. In the UK there's no mention of parking and fire hydrants in driving. So either we burn or cars get smashed or our firefighters' hoses are smaller than yours or something.

It might be more effective to put "Do Not Park Next To Fire Hydrant - Your Car Will Get Splashed With Dog Piss" signs up.

There's a fire. The firepeople can park in the middle of the street and run a hose past your car.

I'm guessing its because they won't be able to **see** the fire hydrant rather than be able to physically get to it. We have "H" fire hydrant signs on the pavement (US: sidewalk) in highly visible locations to indicate hydrants which are usually accessed via flat metal panels in the ground.

I think the poster knew that, and I also think Apple should have looked a bit harder to see if there was a similar thing with a similar name before naming their language. However I doubt the original swift-lang people are too keen on getting into a legal dispute with Apple.

..as they say on Dragon's Den. Engineer this down to *cloth* and I might be interested. So I can roll it up and stuff it in my backpack. And make it not black when the batteries fail. And make it only slightly more expensive than one of those hi-viz cyclist vests. What? They give those away for free? Could you sell one of these things for $5/£5 and still make a profit?

For a fiver I could wrap my bike and myself in reflective material and not have to worry about batteries.

Not only have they had to re-image all their PCs, you've now slashdotted their web server!

So... if LibreOffice Base is not functional enough... and if a web solution is "too techy" for them... and if other proprietary solutions are too proprietary for you... and if an extant CRM isn't okay for them... and if a single-user single PC solution is acceptable...

Write a standalone Python app that uses PyQt for its GUI, design the forms in the Qt UI form designer, use the Qt database abstraction to use an SQLite DB on a local file.

If this is a solution that is going to be dropped on them and left without support, then you don't need a super-flexible (read "buggy") database-designing framework, so knock it out in PyQt and run.

If you are going to be around to support it, then just use your preferred django/mysql system. I'm sure the org can stretch to a couple of RPi's to run it on. Oh, and backups.

Are Adobe going to make a Linux version of the DRM module? Because their record with Linux versions of their PDF DRM tech is VERY POOR. We get research articles from the British Library which are DRM'd, and our Linux users can't read them. One solution is to complain to BL at which point they will often just email you a plain old unDRMd PDF. The mega-facepalm thing is that the British Library came out against DRM-content a few years ago, and have done a massive backtrack because the publishers didn't like it.

Whether DRM is a bad thing or an insanely bad thing (ok, or a good thing, whatever), I don't ever want to see "This Content Cannot Be Viewed On Your Nerdy Linux Operating System" popups ever. But if this is Adobe's shitcreek we're wading through, I think I will.

"Programmers have all the time in the world to get it right". HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No, we have deadlines like everyone else. And even then we only have all the time in the CPU. Yeah, we can add more CPUs to the system, but that makes it more complex, and that makes it harder to hit that deadline. What kind of idiot made that statement?

Braking power isn't infinite. Wheel braking will eventually skid the wheels (which is why we have anti-lock brakes now, so you can still steer while braking). Are you thinking cars should be equipped with dragster-style parachutes, or retro-rockets? Or just a bloody great anchor that the computer can deploy and tear up the road?

Even when the car has deployed the parachute, the anchor, and the retro-rocket is still firing, the computer might still not be able to stop going into that tree that's just fallen over. Plus all those negative G forces are going to smear the drivers eyeballs over the inside of the windscreen.