If I die before 2045, then the important data (financial, insurance, and so on) will be available to my next of kin by virtue of their being my legal next of kin. The ultimately unimportant data (slashdot, sourceforge, boingboing) will just float around, accumulating bit rot.

If I reach 2045, then most likely I will not die, and my data and my self will be one and the same :)

Correction, I think: T cells focus on protein markers. This is why one of the patients died: the protein marker associated with the cancerous cells also turned out to be present on healthy lung tissue.

The Victorians.

The introns have also been deciphered:

AGTTACCATGGGA /* Support new standard RFC -3374, Oxygen as Fuel */ GGCTTCAAA....

Weekends I go to the NextFab makerspace in Philadelphia (US) to work on my project. That's when I feel the most productive, because I'm producing for myself.

Sunday I get to refine all the stuff I did Saturday, so that's why I chose Sunday.

Now, Monday -- Monday is my grumpiest day.

Fascinating. My screenplay is released under a Creative Commons license. There's no reason why a movie studio couldn't release a movie based on the screenplay (with my permission)... except that they want exclusive rights? That makes no sense.

OMG, that's insane! It's like that Real Genius scene came to life, where the prof teaches the students, then the students get replaced by tape recorders, then the prof gets replaced by a reel-to-reel!

Maybe they got rid of "Who, What, Where, When, How (and in investigative journalism, Why)" since the time I was in school.

So something like Zork or any interactive fiction that uses Z-Code would be banned?

I've found that the best way to help an open source project is with documentation. Not necessarily user manuals, but just code commenting. There's plenty of code that has zero explanation about what a particular function does, or how it works. If you've found a project that fits this, then start working on documentation so that (a) you will understand what the code does, (b) everyone else following you will understand what the code does, and (c) the developers themselves will understand what the code does, because sometimes you find bugs just by trying to figure out what the code does. That being said, (warning: personal opinion ahead) I second the opinion that you should stay away from template classes. There are plenty of worthy numerical projects out there that do not rely on a maze of twisty little code fragments, all alike.

"More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months." Why are they so certain that it will be different with any other employer?

I don't know, but any submission where half the sentences are questions surely demands answers!

Animats,

I read somewhere "on the Internet" that when you're given a lie detector test for clearance, they actually expect you to lie at some point, and if you're totally honest, you fail. Do you think that's true?

The Rover makes a sword out of it!

Israel has had nuclear capabilities (~20 bombs) during the '73 war and did not use it, even though the Arab military success at the beginning of the war was definitely more than "very little provocation".

Probably because they didn't need to. Israel counterattacked with conventional weapons so successfully that they were forced to give up the land they gained. It was a complete rout.