Oh yeah, I got burned by this way back with their Tegra 2 chips. Never buying another nVidia mobile chip again.

Amazingly enough, people that go through with these mass shootings post their plans to social media more often than not. It sounds crazy, but you have to be a little crazy to want to do shoot up a kindergarten or assassinate the president in the first place. The problem is of course the noise level. We had the same problem after Columbine when suddenly all of those teenagers weren't just sullen outcasts, they were potential madmen. Correlation is not causation.

Sexism absent from the tech industry? Where have you been seeing those claims? Because there are a lot of articles, many of which have appeared on Slashdot, talking about exactly the opposite.

He wouldn't transfer it into his personal bank account. He would set up a LLC who's sole purpose in life is to distribute the winnings, half of which happen to go to the original guy. As long as he doesn't suddenly start trying to live like MC Hammer and trigger an IRS audit he'll probably get away with it.

This guy was caught because he was an idiot.

Another article I read on this had quotes from the AM CEO saying that he knew who did it and was looking at the guy's profile during the interview. We will see what comes of this.

One can argue that Perl is more featureful in its implicit behaviors that are massively confusing to people who don't them. In C you generally have to be pretty explicit with what you're doing, but in Perl you can leave out some of the details and let the interpreter figure them out for you. This is the first area where newcomers get lost. Much of the "crazy punctuation" ends up being helpful once you spend a couple of minutes understanding the basics of the language, clearly denoting which tokens are variables and what kind of access the coder wants. Complex data structures are far far less ugly now than they were in the early days of Perl 5 too, and a normal human being can actually make them without trying a thousand different combinations of dereferencing operators to figure out exactly which one they need. I wouldn't call them "good" or fun to use, but it's not like pounding nails through your dick anymore.

We're also cooking everything else we share the planet with. It's not just humanity that suffers, it's everything on the planet.

I was hoping the solar minimum would give us a little breathing room to get CO2 emissions under control before we cook the planet.

Is the wind resistance from an atmosphere 0.6% as dense as Earth's a major problem? It seems to me that you wouldn't need the tunnel at all, saving considerably on building costs. Or if you need the tunnel it is only to keep the dust from piling up on the tracks and doesn't have to be depressurized.

They are saying there is a 1 in 3 chance that California will experience an earthquake sometime in the next 50 years? Doesn't California suffer Earthquakes on a regular basis? I thought maybe they were talking about major quakes, but the summary immediately goes on to talk about the odds of a major quake.

Is 3 less hours in the air worth $10,000 to you? Fuel prices aren't going to drop back down to 1960s levels without some sort of major energy revolution, and drag still goes up with the square of your speed. One also has to consider how much CO2 they release when they take a flight, and if they're willing to release an order of magnitude more to save 3 hours of their life.

Back when I looked into flying via Concorde (this was obviously several years ago), the price difference was closer to 10x. $1,200 for the traditional flight from NYC to LHR, $12,000 for the Concorde. That sort of difference made it hard to justify.

That assumes a tail chase scenario. If the Fighter launches from a base in front of the jet then the top speed doesn't matter as much, and it is definitely slower than a AMRAAM.

When you say it would be "worth the money" that is certainly true of some people, but the honest truth about the Concorde is that seats on it were out of most people's price range. IIRC ticket prices ran from $7500 to $15000 depending on the vagaries of airline ticket pricing. Compare that to a traditional flight at $1,500 and you really have to ask yourself if 5 hours of your time is worth $10,000 or not.

I wonder how much those tickets would cost? That would be one hell of an expensive tunnel, just judging from the construction costs of the far more modest Chunnel.