Fine.

mov eax, 60
xor ebx, ebx
int 0x80

Because it's really difficult to prevent malicious actors from placing characters that screw up the formatting of the whole web page. You'd have to go through the entire Unicode space to look for the characters that are acceptable to display, to make a giant whitelist.

Given the NFL's record, I don't think that anyone having been sacked a bunch of times will be able to do much more than count change when they're done.

If computers were allowed, it might have far-reaching effects. A computer could know the entire state of the game, and look through every game in history to determine the outcomes of each choice a coach has at a particular moment. It could present to the coach a list of choices along with the expected outcomes given the probabilities in the past. In a way, it would eliminate some choices of the coach.

I think baseball would be affected much more than football. Baseball has ten times the games per year as the NFL, so statistical analysis would be more effective.

This is why I more or less will ignore quantum computing unless they can get the number of qubits up enough to be useful.

Wake me when scientists make a 2048-qubit computer. The Xbox 1 public key and I have a score to settle.

He'll have more than enough money to beat the yahoos on the other side. And even if he signs SOPA, I'll still vote for him, only because I know the fascist on the other side would have signed SOPA *and* reinstated Don't Ask Don't Tell.

I am a native speaker and I've learned many words in writing before I learned them in speech. As a result, some of my pronunciations are nonstandard. I pronounce "comparable" as if it were "compare" + "able", even though the standard way is irregular, "comp" + "arable". I tried to pronounce these words from how they were written before I'd heard them.

ECC is still the discrete logarithm problem, just applied to a group other than integers mod another integer.

My company has something like 20,000 diskless servers running Linux. Red Hat wanted us to pay for that level of support, which is ridiculous. Groups of several hundreds or thousands machines all netboot from the same image. Because of this, our needs for support is far lower than the number 20,000 suggests.

In the end, it was far cheaper for us to use CentOS and hire people to maintain the machines and their OS image than to pay what Red Hat demanded for 20,000 machines. Red Hat's business model just didn't fit, even though we wanted to have their support.

I'm fairly sure that Windows does not use the zoneinfo database. Their time zone list is organized in a very different way, and it doesn't even use the time zone names the Unix world is used to, like America/New_York.

But pretty much everyone else does.