Geolocation needs to die. Every site that uses it assumes that my location is a perfect indicator of my language preferences. Real helpful to have all websites in a language I don't understand whenever I'm traveling through Eastern Europe or Asia.

I sure wish someone had thought of a standardized way for people to automatically let websites know their language preferences. Oh wait, that already exists.

Mod parent up.

What the grandparent calls the "higher house" is actually the cabinet of ministers, headed not by a president, but by a prime minister. The Netherlands are a parliamentary monarchy, so the head of state is not a president, but (in this case) a king.

Discovery News reports that the death cap mushroom is now an invasive species on every continent except Antarctica.

So if it's invasive on every continent except Antarctica, shouldn't that mean that it is native to Antarctica? Or possibly not land-based at all?

(Hint: it's from Europe.)

I suppose they're paid in pounds of food. Though in that case it is more properly kilos.

It's hard to be cheaper than free of charge. And Monty's old company was all about selling licenses. I distinctly remember them trying to scare people into thinking that the GPL meant that no program could so much as connect to MySQL without having to become GPL itself. (This was back when the client libraries were LGPL.) Which of course could be avoided if you bought a commercial license from them. Nevermind that the GPL says no such thing.

I wonder how dissimilar the world would be, had Monte and Larry's lives been swapped. Maybe not that much.

Sure. Is a great way to spend a couple years in a small concrete room with no internet or other contact with the outside world. (You don't think the police won't cut the phone and internet, do you?) Much more efficient than letting the police in and getting a trial first. ;-)

Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force but failed to do so.

From TFA:

Cyberbunker brags on its Web site that it has been a frequent target of law enforcement because of its “many controversial customers.” The company claims that at one point it fended off a Dutch SWAT team. “Dutch authorities and the police have made several attempts to enter the bunker by force,” the site said. “None of these attempts were successful.”

In other words: Cyberbunker is not currently under assault by police, and we have only their word that they ever have been. I suspect that at one time they were successful in having visiting cops think nobody was home by being real quiet and quickly turning off all the lights.

Nope. It's already been resolved with the family promising to pay the extra 3 million.

Source (Dutch; google translate doesn't handle it well): http://www.nu.nl/internet/2990610/familie-steve-jobs-lost-geschil-rond-boot.html

And then keep both the examples and docs up to date, for god's sake! The only thing worse than no documentation is useless documentation.

As far as I know, I'm the only AmEx card holder who has a pin set to something other than the customer's mother's birthday.

You're not, or at least you wouldn't be if I still had the corporate AmEx card from my previous job. When the customer support person from AmEx asked me about my mother's birthday I told him that I'm terrible with dates (which is true) and I don't know it by heart. After that he asked me some other dates to which I gave the same reply. He then just let me have whatever 4-digit number I liked, and I picked one that isn't a valid date.

Honestly, the process was pretty painless. Apparently this is not universally true, but the AmEx helpdesk in my region (The Netherlands) has always been polite and helpful to me.

Napoleon *almost* subjugated all of Asia.

Indeed. If only he'd started in India rather than France... ;-)

The EU?