You missed one: to quote Jeff Hammerbacher,

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads

Her PhD is in philosophy. However, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, so we should all still be pretty worried.

Java 8 sort-of has unsigned types.

"New" is an important qualifier in the summary, because Java has had a Javascript engine since version 6, which included Rhino.

If the Wikipedia description of presidential vetoes is accurate, the checks and balances are as reasonable as in most Western democracies, and in particular they parallel the USA in requiring a supermajority of the legislature to overturn the veto. (As a point of comparison, the last president of the USA not to veto a bill was Garfield, and the last full-term president not to use a veto was Fillmore).

Good museum of Viking ships there, which they'd found sunk in the harbor.

And for anyone based in London who thinks that sounds cool, they've loaned one of them to the British Museum for their current exhibition about the Vikings.

"Direct payments to individuals" would seem to include your pay during those 40 years too. It's obvious to me that the wording is chosen to be deceptive.

But ultimately, they are separate for a reason. Otherwise, CS would just be another area of mathematics rather than a subject in its own right.

That's how it started. The first CS degree was Cambridge's Dip.Comp.Sci., taught out of the Mathematical Laboratory. I think that the best way to see CS is as an interdisciplinary subject which sits between pure maths, engineering, and psychology.

I suppose that for consistency you always refer to Nintendo as Marafuku and AOL as Quantum Computer Services?

UK salaries aren't that high: it's more like the annual salary of about five professionals, and it seems to be about three times their annual "governance" spending according to the summary of their accounts on the Charity Commission website (although since they apparently have the equivalent of 354 full-time employees they must be filing the bulk of their wage bill under "charitable activities"). Perhaps more pertinently, it's about 1% of annual turnover, which is not an unreasonable level to pitch a fine which can't be treated as a cost of "doing business" badly.

And if you read the sidebar you'll see that its name changed to BP Amoco plc in 1998 and to BP plc in 2001.

Calling it a British company is debatable, but more defensible than calling it "British Petroleum (BP)". British Petroleum isn't even its previous name.

They had something similar for mathematics back when I was in primary school, except that rather than 10 booklets there were dozens of cards. The teacher would assign each pupil 10 cards, and then we could do them in the order we wanted (as long as no-one else was using the card we wanted). I loved it.

If they do it right, they can even make a profit on the call centre and pay down some of their dollar/yen liabilities.

Because when people are pointing guns at your head, your first priority is going to be to reach into your pocket for your phone, and not to get your hands above your head...