The last company I worked for gave us all T-Shirts left over from the "Better Days" swag bin. Then HR told us all not to wear them. "You'll make yourself a target for kidnapping," they said. So on behalf of that company, which if you're the Chinese hacker who compromised my information, you'll know who it is, please don't kidnap their employees! With their culture of ineptitude and recent public stock offering, anyone who knew how to build a thing that we were working on had long since left the company! Literally the worst thing you could do for your country's program is kidnap one of their employees! You will set your program back by a least a decade! You'd be much better off targetting Google's employees for kidnapping! Thanks for your understanding!

Microsoft's new forced update policy, increases the level of software monoculture. It's just a matter of time before some inventive hacker penetrates M$ security model, then it's all over.

The hacker will inevitability choose an exponential distribution model, where each newly infected machine becomes a host, and a sender. While M$ repair mechanism(update) remains stuck with a linear model. (relativity fixed number of update distribution machines).

Game over, M$ looses. Customers data is encrypted and held for ransom, if they are lucky. The end of Microsoft as a OS vendor.

I recommend that one stay's far, far, away from M$ new win 10 OS offering, unless you and your clients enjoy being part of a herd being lined up for slaughter.

Microsoft's new forced update policy, increases the level of software monoculture. It's just a matter of time before some inventive hacker penetrates M$ security model, then it's all over. The hacker will inevitability choose an exponential distribution model, where each newly infected machine becomes a host, and a sender. While M$ repair mechanism(update) remains stuck in a linear world. (relativity fixed number of update distribution machines). Game over, M$ looses. Customers data is encrypted and held for ransom if they are lucky. The end of Microsoft as a OS vendor. I recommend that one stay's far, far, away from M$ new OS offering, unless you and your clients enjoy being part of a herd being lined up for slaughter.

In general anything that creates a hazard for bystanders would be a bad idea. So even if there isn't a specific ordinance against shooting bows-and-arrows in the city limits, I'm sure the authorities would take a dim view of your clout shooting into your neighbors' yards.

What there should be is a legally mandated remote radio kill switch anyone can trigger that will cause the drone to land, or in the case of the more sophisticated models to return to base. If the switch worked within say a 50' radius it'd pretty much only work on drones buzzing your residence.

I'm not comfortable with what you wrote (yet). The easy route for me--right now--is to keep doing it the way that i know. I wonder though, which method works in more browsers (and versions) that support scripting?

Right now, i want to add a Home button to Memrise after a course review (maybe even during a review) or learning session. The top bar changes and it takes extra clicks to get home, even when the session is over.

(Source not shown to do "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters." And to think, /. used to be for geeks.)

So, the easy way out might be:

var review = document.getElementById('gardening-area');
review....= (add button here) + review.....;

What would you do?

We're using .net on our production server, and since we implemented the new optimizer our system's been running super-fast! There's almost no load on the CPU anymore, leaving plenty for our Team Fortress server! That seems pretty optimum to me!

Alrighty then, will John Corzine receive an indictment? I think we all know the answer.

What part of "without using reaction mass" did you miss?

It sounds hilarious. A machine designed to prevent people writing assembly code, designed by someone who worked on Algol68 and Ada.

If you remember the manufacturers of the most widely available machine with Cell kicked open source in the teeth. When Sony stopped the PS3 running Linux where was the incentive to develop open source software for the Cell?

No, it's since 2011.

I wonder what changed.

Getting rid of their nukes maybe?

It's amazing how you are unable to make a single posting without an important error, but you never admit to it.

Oh sure! And 100,000 years later when a cubesat travelling .9999 the speed of light plows into the Dynarri ambassador's starship, guess who they'll be coming for!

Someone needs a visit from Zombie Feynman!

If we could accelerate to relativistic velocity, the only other things stopping us might be relativistic dust specks, each and every one of which is now a bomb. For reference, see what could have been a deadly ding to the window of the Space Shuttle. If the object was larger, it might have penetrated. IIRC, it was thought to be caused by a paint chip. Velocity? Nowhere near relativistic.

Well, robbery would be a bit tougher than general mayhem. In the foreseeable future you'd probably need a human in the loop, for example to confirm that the victim actually complied with the order to "put ALL the money in the bag." Still that would remove the perpetrator from the scene of the crime. If there were an open or hackable wi-fi access point nearby it'd be tricky to hunt him down.

This kind of remote controlled drone mediated crime is very feasible now. It wouldn't take much technical savvy to figure out how to mount a shotgun shell on a quadcopter and fly it to a particular victim (if you have one). That's a lot less sophisticated than stuff terrorists do already; anyone with moderate technical aptitude could do it with off-the-shelf components. I'm sure we'll see our first non-state-actor controlled drone assassination in the next couple of years. Or maybe a hacktivist will detonate a party popper on the President or something like that.

Within our lifetime it'll surely be feasible for ordinary hackers to build autonomous systems that could fly into a general area and hunt down a particular victim using facial recognition. People have experimented with facial recognition with SBCs like the Raspberry Pi already.

You can forbid states from doing this all you want, but as technology advances the technology to do this won't be exotic. It'll be commonplace stuff used for work and even recreation.