When teacher pay was linked to student achievement in standardized tests, some Chicago teachers decided to 'help' students during tests, and were subsequently caught through statistical analysis

TSA: Sir, please empty your pockets, even scraps of paper, then step into this booth and place your feet on the yellow footprints. Me: I'd like to request a patdown, please TSA: Certainly sir, please wait here. Approx 3 min wait, then someone walked over, and spent another minute explaining how he will touch my butt and pelvic area with only the back of his hand, then he proceeded to do that The actual pat-down took another 3 minutes and was quite thorough It felt a bit intrusive, but not having experienced one before I don't know if I got the new, enchanced version or not. Like parent above, this was my silent protest: let them waste time on this. I will continue to opt for the pat-down.

It clearly states this is an international effort, and the objection is not the the unit 'kilogram' but rather to using a decaying (however slowly) object as the reference mass.

That dude is a moron. Unless there was another traveler, and they took a cellphone network (tower and all) who was she talking to, and over what?

I must say I am pleasantly surprised that State Farm paid Innes, instead of finding him at fault. (whether he is also a State Farm policy holder or not is immaterial--the at-fault person's premium's are going to go up)

TFA asks: "Finally, are you one of those Nobel prizewinners who is going to go crazy now that you've won? "

The interviewer probably didn't know that Dr. Geim won the Ig Nobel for levitating a frog.

Between that and the fact that he cited saving taxpayer's money as a reason behind not filing a patent and his Friday experiments (which led to the scotch-tape on graphite) discovery, I think I have a new hero.

Or you know those dang aliens will stake a claim first and ambush us at the dry gulch.

For some very good science fiction about this, read the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter

I second that suggestion.. it takes extraordinary willpower to do something like that but if she can that will be the best gift for the kids.

You sir are a true romantic and I salute you, and I wish and hope that you and your kids will find the strength to deal with his.

Lastly, please tell your wife that she must be an extraordinary person for you to want to preserve her memory.

His mother is from the Indian state of West Bengal, his father is from Bangladesh, which is a country

How is the asset (people/equipment) location determined and sent back to the HQ? Once you have that piece of information in your database, isn't it as simple as plotting on google maps?

The story in TSNM: one programmer was asked to build something quick and dirty in 6 weeks, the other one was asked to build something much more detailed. the quick and dirty version was used until the detailed version came out 5 months after the first one. There was friendly competition, but this does not match at all the "one will fail, one will be so-so and one will be great."

I wonder what the definition of "newspaper" will be for the purpose of this law--will it be dead-tree only? Otherwise someone should generate all possible combination of words resulting in (perhaps nonsense) sentences of lets say 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 words, and then of course protect them with this law.

Once the list is generated, the now idle servers can be stuffed up the ass of the greedy bastards who want this law.

... I wanted to cry

YEAR of meteors! brooding year!
I would bind in words retrospective, some of your deeds and signs;
I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad;
I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia;
(I was at hand—silent I stood, with teeth shut close—I watch’d;
I stood very near you, old man, when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal’d wounds, you mounted the scaffold;)

I am curious: does anyone know who the old man was, why he was being hung? Was it a lynching?

If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts resident, such as a first and last name, then you have to encrypt that data on the wire and as it’s persisted.

Incorrect. The author either did not do any research at all, or got the definition of PII horribly wrong as far as this law is concerned. The directive that sets the standard based on the law states:

Personal information, a Massachusetts resident's first name and last name or first initial and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements that relate to such resident: (a) Social Security number; (b) driver's license number or state-issued identification card number; or (c) financial account number, or credit or debit card number, with or without any required security code, access code, personal identification number or password, that would permit access to a resident’s financial account; provided, however, that “Personal information” shall not include information that is lawfully obtained from publicly available information, or from federal, state or local government records lawfully made available to the general public.

It is abundantly clear that a person's first and last name alone does not constitute PII, SSN, financial account number or some other not so public information is also required.