It means we value human life much more than animal life. Even the most damaged form of human life is considered more important than an animal. It shouldn't be a surprise considering how we treat animals like expendable commodities. It's better this way. I don't think we want to apply animal standards to humans.

And what's even more dramatic: another flight crashed for the same reason a few months later. See the video here

Iran is doomed. They made the fatal mistake of threatening Israel. They will pay the same way Sadam Hussein has paid for the Scud missiles of the first Gulf War. Iran has oil. It is the missing piece between Irak and Afghanistan. When the war profiteers go back to the White House in 2012, Iran will be invaded like Irak and Afghanistan.

It's supposed to be a 2D problem yet there is not a single graph in the proof. I don't think they found the theorem using mathemical formulas alone. I wish they were more graphics to show the origin of the problem and its connection to the real world.

Actually a similar story happened for real in France in 1976. It is known as the Spaggiari affair Spaggiari and his gang dug a tunnel from the sewers to a bank vault. After two months of work, they reached the vault and stole 60 million francs worth of money.

They're also covered in a jail cell.

I don't think so. Without cash it would be harder to hide corruption and evade taxes.

Ask the boss to follow another suggestion from Joel Spoky: private offices.

I work in a large open space without any separation between each desk. The developers are very close to each other. It's impossible to focus more than 5 minutes in a row. The only way to get something done is to arrive very early or leave very late.

In my opinion, open spaces are bad for productivity. We're not factory workers. We need calm and intimacy to solve complex problems.

You should read 1984.

I don't think so. A smartcard is much more secure than a phone. In fact, I've worked on an NFC project where the phone was just a relay between the user and the SIM card. All the cryptographic operations were done on the card. The phone was just used as a user interface to enter the PIN code.