I must disagree. A 20% error rate rarely completely changes the meaning of a particular sentence or article.

I can use automatic translation to read foreign web sites. I notice when the translation is weird and most probably wrong, but still I more or or less understand what is being discussed. How on earth can that be worse than absolutely nothing?

Well, if you prefer to listen to whole albums, like the artist hopefully had in mind, then you don't need playlists.
I personally use the tiny folder-player 1by1 for this.

I updated parts of our production to make it Java 7 ready earlier this year. Then came Java 7u21 in April that started to break things with its changes to security. We could to use slightly older versions, but Java -really- wants us to update to the most recent version.

All in all, Java isn't very enterprise friendly for us. We have some systems that rely on applets and browser plugins working correctly, there is no way around that. As far as I see it, for security reasons we would like to block applets by default, but we would also like to be able to white-list a specific set of servers from which applets are accepted. Any solution for this? We mostly use IE.

I'm all for this change. Currently upon installation you are given the choice of whether you want to activate the filters; in effect this change just means that you would also be able to choose "yes, but only for horrible ads". It might make those who create ads think about in which category they want to be.

I love ADP, but personally I never use the built-in filters. I just create custom-filters for really annoying ads on the sites I frequent. My experience is that I don't need that many rules to make browsing tolerable.

They do say "basic-derived language". But otherwise I agree, a small and more modern language would have been a better match. Lua comes to mind.

Cheap: Disassemble, destroy platters. http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200603/00001737002

Fast: Shooting range, rifle.

The easter eggs will be in the Special Edition that will be released a year later.

the specification can be found here: http://www.unqlspec.org/display/UnQL/Home

Collections of active IP addresses will be readily available tomorrow, just as rainbow tables and collections of active email addresses are today.

The practical reason for using ascii only is interoperability between tools that deal with the source (humans with keyboards being one of the tools).

That said, I have experimented a couple of times with national non-ascii variable names, and I think that such programs are actually easier to read and more fun to write.
In particular when the problem domain is highly national it often is counter-productive to try to invent english names for variables, since these names would not be the ones used by the customer or related documentation.
So my programs use ascii for variable names (obvioulsy) but often in a mix of english and my own language, the ratio somewhat depending on the problem. Even standard english actions such as get/set/create... might be followed be national words.

Wikileaks supposedly has access to loads of US classified information. Its primary spokesman may have to flee to Iceland.
Iceland votes "yes" on proposed news haven.

In other news, yesterday US sent official greetings because of the national day June 17th, reminding Icelanders about good old times and promising friendship and support during the current financial crisis. (text Icelandic only, but there's a Hillary video)

Fractions would have been more readable. As in slightly more than 6 / 20736 inches.

It might ... maybe.

Since we're being pedantic, Eyja*fjöll* is the mountain (welcome to Icelandic). That said, the friendly natives as well speak of the cloud coming from the glacier/jökull.