Lets hope not windows as I'd hate to get the BBOD (Blue Balls of Death).

ISBN: 1-56592-257-3

Obligatory xkcd post

Wait, what was I doing here?!?

I had a couple of mod points, but I honestly couldn't decide between funny and insightful. Either way, I'm going to start using this one: =[:~;X(---[

I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I think there is a top hat and a bowtie in there somehow.

Wait, they are planning a simulation using "perhaps even user-generated content". Doesn't that sound a lot like a really expensive version of...reality?

Separate the men from the boys (or some other non-sexists cliché). Granted, we don't want to "scare" people away, but CS isn't/shouldn't be easy, so why slow down from the get go?

<?php
$sql = "select 1 from mytable";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
?>

Postgres is horrible it can't even handle this extremely basic query!

One of the cities that we support recently bought a new chiller for their ice rink. Their old one was just managed in-house. You had to be standing in front of the device to do much of anything. And if it was malfunctioning they had to send someone out to eyeball the machine. Their new one has a network jack and can be monitored remotely through a web interface. So we had to get them bandwidth and a static IP address so they could keep an eye on things even when nobody was physically at the civic center.

Just curious, but can you only monitor it or could you "adjust" it to convert the ice rink into a swimming pool? If so, what is its ip address?

Seriously though, while it is cool to be able to remotely monitor the ice rink, are we (in general) being too hasty to connect too many things to an exposed internet connection? I'm sure you did your due diligence, but I'd bet that lots of companies market internet connection as features without going through rigorous enough hardening/partitioning to prevent "hacking".

Awesome, I can't wait till I can read a howto article that has the following:

...
ping toaster1.example.com

If no response, then you'll need to make sure that your toaster is connected to the internet and its DNS entry resolves.
Once your toaster is online...

I've personally found that vi(m) is the best development tool around. You can say that DW/Eclipse saves you time with auto-completion and whatnot, but as for me and my sites, I take pride in the fact that I have typed every single character.

Define safely. I've never been harmed by a cloned sheep.

There are SO many ethical questions concerning cloning of humans. First, who exactly are the parents? Second, are they allowed to live a "normal" life or will they be kept in laboratories for extensive testing. Third, its a relatively new field of study and we don't know all of the possible repercussions on their long term impact on the overall gene pool. Last (for this discussion at least), a lot of science is based on trial and error so are we really ready to err with "human lives"?

Bottom line is that there are lots of questions that could be debated exhaustively and still no consensus would be reached. There will be people on all sides of the issues that won't budge.

4) HTML + CSS + Javascript

Been working just fine for me!

Its actually pretty amazing what you can do with just those three "crossplatform API's" that (if designed correctly) will degrade nicely to mobile phones, visually impaired users, etc.

I avoid Flash, Gnash, Sliverlight, etc like the plague simply because as soon as you go down that path you do, in fact, cut out *some* of your userbase. It might be 2, 15%, or some number/percentage that you won't ever be able to truly quantify...but rest assured you do cut *some* of it, and (as a smart business man) I think that the more users I have, the better off I'll be, period.

Don't say things like that, else they'll consider any photo without EXIF to be taken by a terrorist.

I'm skeptical about the article (even though I didn't read it). I think somebody just sold their company and is now attempting to go back and re-geek-out their own childhood. They are just soliciting all of the ideas and fun things other /.'ers did when they were little and are going to make a massive Fry's run. (Hint to all non-millionaire /. readers, buy stock in Fry's)

I wouldn't be surprised if we see another story in about 6 months detailing the largest technik/lego/rare earth magnet/ landing platform for a RC helicopter that is controlled by a Commodore64 connected to a breadboard and a 300 in one Radio Shack Electronics set. This structure will have BB gun turrets as well as a special "chamber" designed specifically for playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Give the gift that keeps on giving...radiation poisoning.