Even if you use your debit card instead of just paying cash they only get one piece of information: "has paid EUR XXX". There's nothing you can track.

What would be the response if I posted something about, say, Eketehuna?

In other words - why is NJ outshining most others in solar energy news? New Jersey's famous for not doing this sort of thing?

Most people I know spend every minute they're at the computer wishing that the software they have to use was better, smarter, more efficient and more adapted to their way of working.

Actually most people I know either go "I'm just not a computer person" and leave it at that, or think they are already experts, but have no desire to improve the software they're using, just to brag about how good they are for assigning static IPs on a Windows machine, and are happy that they know how to do those things.

But regardless, it is still a choice. It's completely up to them if they want to invest the time and effort into learning programming and making a difference. Most people do the cost-benefit calculation, decide it's not worth it, and that's fine.

In fact, there's nothing that says people have to use computers at all. They make life a lot easier for most of us, but there are plenty of people who don't care, and get along fine without them.

People do not have this luxury when it comes to matters of law. You must comply, whether you like it or not. Educated or not, we're all supposed to obey the law.

Finally, failure to understand programming means some idle whining that the menus on this program suck, or that application takes too long to load. Failure to understand law means you get trapped with severe penalties for not abiding by rules you didn't even know existed. Be realistic.

Funny? Informative!

If we can control a bug with electrodes, it's not unfeasible that an arachnid could be controlled by chemicals from larva.

Rather scary, actually. It makes me proud to be a big mentally strong human being - which in truth, can get knocked out by about 50mg of some chemicals. :P

His talk about Star Trek *puts on sunglasses* is a big bunch of fucking bullshit *walks off camera*

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!!!!!!

On the model I've seen a couple of years ago the top of the battery has all needed informations. And you don't even have to search for cables or a battery as the compartment will beep loud enough.

If I could a range of 6 IPs and all you need to get my real name, then, yes, my IP address is peronally identifiable. You say that's not always the case and you don't know when it is? So you better not track any IP.

1000 times faster than super ultra duper slow is still slow ;)

Which is also possible with search keywords, if you combine it with bookmarklets: javascript:var+s=%s;... I've at least two such keywords.

The archivement Nazis might have a problem with this.

The usual "haven't really used PHP, but read enough rants to know it".

That's the first version of mysqli from 2003. In line 148 you'll find: "PHP_FUNCTION(mysqli_bind_param)". Mysqli had it since the beginning.

If its type is int it's an int. Nothing unexpected. Or do you mean you can't trust HTTP, because a client could send nonnumerical values in a header that should be numeric. You see it's usual on the web to have everything transfered as string and PHP is made for this usecase. But if you don't have data from outside you don't have these uncertainness.

One thing are mistakes made years ago. The other is not breaking existing code in a minor version. Someone still using stuff like magic quotes has turned it on on purpose or wouldn't read any warning anyway.

PHP isn't just a glue layer at least since PHP 5. And if C is so bad, what are all the other scripting languages written in?

cmdrtaco smells bad.

Obviously, if MSFT is interested in "Yahoo Search" as an effort to mount a challenge against Google, it isn't really interested in Y!'s technology, but rather its traffic. Obviously, that traffic flows mostly from visits to www.yahoo.com.

Now, if MSFT, say, goes through and buys just the Yahoo Search division, it sounds like Yahoo is free to go become a content/media/etc. company free of worrying about Google and search.

My question: who gets domain over the homepage, Yahoo.com? If Yahoo retains Yahoo, but MSFT owns the little search box on the page, then who decides how prominently the search is featured on the homepage, how it is integrated into the content, etc.? Yahoo would have incentive to make the content front and center, and who cares about the search box...

It might be hard for MSFT to integrate all of Yahoo, but it's even harder for MSFT to integrate part of Yahoo...

I still expect a full acquisition to occur. Whether its $32, $33, or $34 or something else, we'll see...

Weighing more makes us harder for the aliens to suck out of our cars, the reserves mean we'll last longer in the coming famine years, and if any skinny little vegans give us any lip, all we gotta do is sit on 'em to quash the noise...
Seriously, extreme obesity is a darwin rule in action, usually - nobody wants to breed with us, and heart disease/stroke usually kill us "early" - rather like gay marriage, if you don't like 'em, don't join 'em, otherwise, back off: It's hard enough living in a world that wasn't built for us without having some smug, self-righteous ass-hat making comments because, while normal, we don't fit average... only made the worse when it's people who want their particular outside-of-average needs respected who fail the tolerance test...