These "Islamist nutties" are an offshoot of the organisation that killed thousands of people in the US on 9/11

Israel has been doing this ever since it was created, and look how far that has got them. If overwhelming military might was the answer to peace in the Middle East then the Israel/Palestine problem would have been solved a long time ago.

In reality, using overwhelming military might in the middle east just creates an overwhelming amount of chaos.

Both sides are guilty in that conflict. But going back to the topic of this story, it is interesting to note that the Hamas "execution" of 18 civilians in Gaza didn't receive anything like the same coverage although it happend only a few days after the Foley murder.

The video wasn't aimed at you, it was aimed at other muslims in order to get them on their side. Millitant Islamic groups are full of factions and always fighting each other. Attacking a common enemy is a well-worn method of creating some level of unity. The biggest threat to IS comes from within, not from the US.

We find the video abhorrent, but some muslims will not, and they are the ones that IS are targetting with this video.

The same package is already commonplace, but the same die is problematic because RAM processes are significantly different from CPU processes.

This is a very bad idea. Moving bits uses orders of magnitude more energy than computation, so you need to concentrate the computing behind multiple caches and move the data as little as possible. So the model will continue to be based around islands of high-performance computing connected by slow, expensive busses, but the "CPU" will contain many smaller parallel processors.

More registers means more area and more power for little benefit (though that is not the reason that Itanium failed).

As for x86, it was displaced by ARM a long time ago as the most popular 32-bit architecture.

You really think that Israel would kill their own citizens and blame Hamas just so that they can grab some land that they pulled out of a few years ago?

I prefer the version where Israel is trying to stop the palestians attacking Israel and targetting civilians with rockets (which happens to be a war crime). In fact Israel's behaviour is best explained by them wanting peace and Hamas's behaviour is best explained by them wanting to destroy Israel. And by amazing coincidence that is exactly what the two side say they are trying to do.

This is about Computer Science, not Science/Math, so you need a language that teaches the basic principles of languages and programming, not something that just "gets the job done".

Python lacks features that have been shown over the decades to be a good idea for creating solid, reliable codebases, such as strong typing and a class/library system that allows proper data hiding and abstraction.

I used X10 at College and I still have a reel of tape labelled "X11.3 Tape 14/11/88"

I also have multiple shirts from speaking at X Window System Technical Conferences and I contributed one of the standard X11 extensions.

Those were the days...

This is another (non-anonymous) vote for Go (golang). Here are some reasons:

* Type Safety
For any serious project type safety provides a massive boost to productivity and correctness. Go's type system is powerful but not too intrusive to more generic coding.

* Fast compilation
Although it is not interpreted the language and package design allow very fast compilation so that it can be treated as a scripting language and compiled at run time.

* Good libraries
There is a large and growing collecting of libraries, mainly focussed on web service applications but other areas are also supported. You can create a web server that handles multiple concurrent requests in a single page of code.

* Good package (module) support
Go provides the ability to create packages with a certain amount of encapsulation and data hiding without it being a burden on development time.

* Built-in concurrency
Language support for concurrent execution and synchronised communication makes it very easy to develop modular applications that support multiple activities.

* Clean Syntax
Go code is easy to read and missing lots of fluff from other languages. The gofmt command tidies up code and makes it consistent throughout a project

* Built-in unit test framework
Go makes it easy to check that you code does what it is supposed to

* Good performance
Not quite up to C++ standards but faster than interpreted solutions

* Can generate JavaScript!
There are at least two solutions for converting Go code to JavaScript, so you can can use one language for client and server code.

I also like the type system (interfaces) and other language features, but these are more a matter of taste.

Science in cheap, Big Science is expensive. So, yes, let's shut down some of the expensive Big Science experiments and fund hundreds of other smaller experiments in a range of different fields. No so flashy, but much better value.

Interesting theory, but I'm not convinced it is backed by evidence.

I have not tried it (unless you count passive smoking!) but I am against marijuana because I have seen the ill effect it had on someone else.

Sounds like Intel, except that they lost nearly $1B into the mobile market over last three months not a palty $300M in 9 months.

Even if you could build a workable internet-wide multicast streaming solution it would still not reduce the bandwidth to your phone. The same number of packets come over the air to your device whether they are multicast or unicast. The benefits of unicast are in the network infrastructure not the transmitters or receivers and, so far, these benefits have not been seen to outweigh the disadvantages.

Accepting the Big Bang as scientific fact doesn't necessarily mean that you think that Big Bang research should be publicly funded. And it is arguable that the public visibility of these large science projects draws funding away from smaller, more valuable efforts. We are going to make many more interesting discoveries by spending millions on 1000 widely different projects than spending billions on just one narrowly-focussed project.

And just to be more contentious I would point out that the Space program is engineering, not science, and people don't have a problem with engineering because they can see that it works.

Or the AC knew that you could play Warcraft without the disc.