Yeah... a year of high school chem is a survey class. If you liked it enough you can major in it in college. So we already do exactly that.

Unless they wrote all the code from scratch, you may request and receive a copy for GPL'd code (and only GPL!). That was the way Freeside downloaded it and the restriction placed upon them in order to use code like Linux. You may not add further restrictions (like paying for source). Now, anything they wrote themselves, they can release under any license.

Let's say I want to donate to the best organization for Linux today, which if I don't see the desktop as the priority surely wouldn't be Canonical. Who would that be then?

Oh god the splines! They should not be used for discrete data.

Haha! His bank logo is a pirate ship! Why? Why would anyone give this guy their money?

I read somewhere that the Nigerian scam is designed to be obvious since they're mining the population for the most gullible of the gullible. Or find people investing in bitcoin and have them keep it on your PIRATE SHIP.

I'm going to go with different reason. Ancient cultures lived in the ancient world, where there wasn't (good) medicine and people died young. They did lots of things, like avoid pork, to stay alive, that just don't matter today. I'd imagine most similarities of medical advice between then and now to be coincidental.

They're using their existing airforce vocabulary. Which means they're using their existing airforce thinking.

You don't "intercept", "locate", "target", or "plan" with information technology the same way you do those things with enemy aircraft. We do have problems with information security and systems security, but they're not the same kinds of problems as bombers flying overhead. And we have solutions, too, which just don't detect or respond or work in the same ways. They need to find someone in the field and ask questions about what they should be looking for before setting their goals.

Report linked stated cost to be "$216-601 across the nation." But they weren't using dollar amounts as the results to maximize, rather quality of life.

However, it appears to be a very small average (average is important in this discussion) quality of life improvement. And this is something, if I were becoming a parent soon, I wouldn't worry much. There's important decisions like saying "yes" to vaccinations that matter much more.

When I first saw the OBD2 data recorders that can give you an insurance discount, I figured I would have done this but make the plug do nothing. This limits your liability of breaking someone's car. Also, I'm under the impression that a driver will change their habits and drive safer when they feel like they're being watched. The actual data doesn't matter. An insurer doesn't care what your car does. They care how safe you are, and someone conscious about being safer is safer.

Your office sounds boring.

My desktop only works at home too. But it's still cool.

Well, I watched the video, and it's apparently quite difficult if you try to cut it with your shirt.

Pretty sure they were using by volume. Possibly the 2010 numbers

I'm pretty sure that their consumer services just decided to break export restrictions. Doing something doesn't mean it's legal. And illegal doesn't mean you'll be prosecuted.

So did Georgia. Not a bad place, but touristy, and the most redneck Bavarian village I've ever been to.