People who suffer from epilepsy is a population that is unlikely to experience growth in panic attacks since it's already a common symptom for them. That's a totally different situation.

The science on this is not bullet-proof yet, but there are studies that link unexplained panic attacks and associated syndromes to vagus nerve problems. There are multiple theories, including one that proposes that physical symptoms of panic are experienced, and this triggers the psychological ones.

I don't know if this thing will help fat people, but I'd bet a dollar on the fact that it will definitely boost sales of paxil and valium.

Good question. You should ask them.

Of course. That explains things like the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. You know, right about the time when Iran and Iraq were throwing chemical weapons at each other.

Shame on you, Bush. Your warmongering knows no limits, it even defies the forward-only nature of time.

Electronic security against what? Bearded, illiterate hackers running sql injection scripts they found on astalavista using a mikee dees free wifi connection?

Have you seen those beasts? They come with earthquake kits (hydraulic suspension, gyros, etc), waterproof cables connectors (to keep working in a small flood) and nitrogen-rich fire-resistant enclosures. Drives are snapped in a backplane because loose cables are a liability, and IBM even provides an optimal distribution of redundant components inside the case based on their extensive records of hardware failures experienced by all their large customers in the last 20 years (because of course those machines are not serviced by the customers themselves).

This kind of big iron is definitely not a pimped pizza box. It is an amazing piece of engineering. Loud, expensive, inflexible, but truly amazing.

Besides the price, I'm always on the fence regarding IBM's approach to licensing. On one hand it feels like having an itemized bill with individual licenses and fees for everything down to individual screws gives more control to the buyer (as opposed to a "bundle" where one could feel like he's paying for stuff he doesn't need), but in my experience it's almost impossible to seriously weed out (or even understand) items from the list.

My best billing experience has been in a small business that was using Dell's financing. No big upfront cost, a simple monthly amount to pay. Need one more server or ten more workstations? No problem, the stuff is delivered and the monthly amount is increased by $200. Awesome.

No. PaaS is scale-out. while a mainframe is scale-up. A scale-out architecture is good at processing a lot of different requests, but does not offer very good results for high-frequency complex operations because by nature the distribution of workloads over a large network is costly. Anything similar to Newton's method would be a good example of a workload that doesn't translate well on a scale-out architecture.

I'm not saying that many mainframe applications couldn't be replaced by a cloud computing solution, but there are situations where latency and expensive orchestration are not acceptable.

We can't shut them down like that. It's one of the two most powerful and wealthy Koreas in the world!

Awesome! At last a way to hack North Korea and steal all their... valuable things?

This is exactly what those terrorists think. Don't you understand that in real life conflicts, neither side usually considers itself to be "the bad guys"?

when someone posts a link that points to the mobile version of a website, I always wonder if they did it while taking a shit.

I'm sure they fear you personally

I don't know about transformers, but I have tried a lot of distros lately on Lenovo convertible laptops, and my best experience has definitely been with Fedora. The setup is almost as easy as Ubuntu and the touch screen works well.

I'm not a Debian fan and I typically pick CentOS, but I was surprised to see how Fedora is more polished and convenient.

What if you use someone else's identity for fun? Like writing their names on a pair of soiled underwear and leaving it in the middle of the school cafeteria, like we used to do in high school?