TFA quotes the e-mail:

Is that feature so important that it has to mentioned? It certainly doesn't seem like it should be months of work to add it to the in-house webmail client if Outlook can do it! I'd certainly press for having the feature added to the in-house solution *before* sending out an e-mail lambasting employees for not using it!

What I find really funny is that Zimbra belonged to Yahoo, and Zimbra definitely can add a delegate to a calendar.

Searching for Ben Bernanke brings up as first news "BERNANKE: Bitcoin 'May Hold Long-Term Promise'
Business Insider - 4 hours ago
Ben Bernanke sort of endorses Bitcoin."

Do you think he knew of the bounty?

If you're really being DOS'ed with more bytes per second than your little DSL can take, there isn't much you can do to mitigate it on your side. Either your ISP helps out, or you change your IP and they *don't* find your new one (how are they finding it?), or you make them stop (fat chance).

Lucky you don't have any elections this week!

Wrong, see previous comments. To put paid to the discussion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie has it right: "a military force charged with police duties among civilian populations", which is the case in France. There is also non-military police (uniformed or not depending on assignment and rank and whatever), and the French territory is carved up between these two police forces, mainly Gendarmerie in the countryside and Police Nationale in cities and towns (plus municipal police which do not have the same rights, usually not armed, etc.)

I remember some gendarmes were already using OpenOffice (or something similar) over ten years ago, I've found references to an official announcement of migration to Openoffice in 2005, and to Ubuntu in 2010, so this is just the latest step.

vi and clones have 26 named buffers + 9 delete buffers + 1 yank buffer. I actually remember one day using up some 10 named buffers. I have one mouse buffer that works everywhere and one Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V that only works in certain programs.

I've read through the wiki page linked, and sure, they have a point, even several points. At least one won't have to use Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to copy (imagine the havoc in a terminal). However, it all falls down on the fact that I *like* having two distinct buffers, and that I *want* to paste with a single click.

I also want focus-follows-mouse (I managed to do that in Gnome), and I'm extremely annoyed that when I click-to-select or click-to-paste(!) in a window Gnome seems to think that I also want the window to go to the front (never did manage to correct that in Gnome, but it was a breeze in KDE). I've yet to try out XFCE et al.

A lot went to Peru. That brought the world Nikkei cuisine, and the world is thankful.

So in 20 years, the average age went up by 11 years. That probably simply means that living in your mom's basement is not immediately dangerous to your health.

You sure about that? I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the people using COBOL are the same people who pay insane amounts of money for a backup site thousands of miles away and offsite backups in nuke-proof shelters. If you want to get rid of COBOL, make something better. A nuke certainly won't do it.

In my company I'd be very surprised if the mean age of the COBOL developers is over 35. But yes, of course, I work in a bank.

Won't Skype tell you the IP that was used by the thief?

The equivalent exists in France since 1978. There are quite heavy fines and even prison terms for inappropriate collection and use of personal data. There's even been at least one spammer convicted on the grounds that his use of a list of e-mails constituted illicit use of infringing data.

TFA says it's "very strong and extremely elastic, bouncing back after being compressed". The application they project is swabbing up oil spills, but there have to be lots and lots of other applications out there.

Well, it should be possible to make it less squishy (carbon makes diamonds, after all). Cover it with some other graphene variant in low pressure, and one just might manage to make a lighter-than-air solid. I'd avoid the torch, though.

For fiction about intelligence under the sea, try Franz Schätzing's The Swarm: http://www.amazon.com/Swarm-Novel-Frank-Schatzing/dp/0060859806