Not to mention, today's server spec is comparable to tomorrow's laptop spec.

In the past, the press was the only way of distributing news widely, and celebrities were the only ones who got press coverage. Depending on your definition of 'celebrity', I suspect the Internet has changed that. Consider oh, I don't know, Tardar Sauce -- if he got a disease while he was still well-known, everybody in the world would know about it. A couple hyperlinks away is a detailed description of the disease, and you soon have worldwide visibility and education on what was otherwise a local concern.

For those with smaller circles of influence, the same holds true to a lesser extent. When these people experience problems, information just as detailed can be spread just as easily by their followers through networking effects.

Yes, yes, I know, but it is difficult to find a job when I'm not in the country entirely legally, and have a wife and eight children to feed. Nevertheless, I do very much appreciate your concern and advice.

-- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

Maybe it'll then point the finger towards the need to reform the laws themselves; assuming that better enforcement of an imperfect set of laws reveals more underlying problems.

This initiative, in particular, is unusually progressive.

You can't make a statement like that without at least linking to the video.

A working programmer and a computer scientist are two different things, but the computer scientist should be able to write a basic program:

For programmers, this is a basic test, but when a computer scientist can't do something this fundamental, it calls their higher-level qualifications into question; and even if it doesn't, it makes you worry that their architecture or design will consider real-world issues and implementability.

Well, the survey really only considered scientific literacy in moose and beavers. I think that was mentioned in a footnote.

The additional research you did is definitely very valuable, but it's going to take a lot more than a simple 'sorry' to make up for all the self-posting so far, Bennett.

huh-sorry-what-did someone say Ukrainian oil interests? Oh, sovereignty -- never mind ... zzzz ...

Are we sure about this? In the end, cops are individual people, and they're interacting one-on-one on the ground with people in their own community, most hopefully for the better, some for the worse. This looks like a step towards involuntary ubiquitous surveillance for the individual, civilian cop or regular civilian, while visibility into decisions and actions of larger organizations, those that affect large groups at once, is still hazy or completely unavailable:

• basic text of US legislation before voting
• lobbyist discussions with legislators
• international agreements like the trans-pacific partnership
• centralized government surveillance via NSA

Along those lines, were paleolithic human diets composed of foods that suited an organism with a paleolithic human life span?

Those are both true, and there's even a generally applicable term for them: filthy casual

So she's, what, a grad student?

Pfft, that quote is so old. We have much newer, more relevant ways of describing your relationship to your cable/internet provider. Get with the times!