My thought was "EVERY baby needs a driveable robot!"

If that's the way they work, they should not be selling mission-critical software that is exposed to the internet.

Well I'm not sure, but my guess is that several of the test objectives did not get checked off.

> Responding to criticism, Bay thoughtfully explained that fans need to "chill."

Fans need to ignore Michael Bay and his movies entirely. I've never seen one of Bay's movies, he has never "ruined" anything for me, and I am perfectly content.

Exactly. My work email address is different from my personal one, and likewise for social networks. The profile set up by my employer is used for work purposes only - it's got nothing to do with my personal life.

Examination of the example in the article suggests a heuristic algorithm that should provide near-optimal solutions and is suitable for real-time execution on neural wetware.

1. Start by mowing around the outside border.
2. Proceed going around, from the outside in.
3. When you reach a strip <= 3 mowers wide, clear it with short back-and-forths.

Proof of an upper bound on excess mowing vis-a-vis the optimal solution is left as an exercise for the reader.

TI's lawyers will be after him for DMCA violation because he's bypassed their physical copyright protection mechanism.

But it's all the way in Australia!

Facebook has repeatedly changed their policies to publish various data that they had said was private or friends-only. But hey, no problem, they didn't charge money when they screwed people over so it's OK!

Uh, no, it's not OK.

The article says Pan-STARRS can "identify any potential threats to Earth", but it can only find asteroids and comets that are about to hit us. They don't claim to be able to spot other threats, such as:

• Dalek invasion fleet
• Berserker machines
• Chain reaction of supernovae
• Radiation front from the collapse of the galactic core
• Borg attack from the future
• Galaxy-wide iPhone recall

Stupid gadget blogs, over-hyping stuff as usual.