I hear that if you tightly wrap your phone with tin foil, then it will disable these alerts.

And the look will coordinate nicely with your hat.

Maybe that's why Linus wrote his own revision control system that has as little to do as possible with people 'holding files".

Anyway, with probably close to one billion "customers", whether a particular release happens by midnight tonight isn't really relevant to this organization. What matters is productivity averaged over time.

I'm fairly serious. Those songs have little more range than one whole note.

I've also noticed that another feature of most of those restaurant chain birthday songs is that unlike the real song, they're written to require a vocal range of only about one eighth of an octave. I presume that's done to match the voice talent typically available in the random collection of waitstaff who "sing" them.

You know how they always say "80% of the users only use 20% of the features". Well, those features look like they belong solidly in that 20% that they should have focused on. I'm pretty sure that even 1980s vintage copies of WordPerfect running on DOS supported those features.

Please by specific.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who can't figure out WTF you're trying to get at.

Cryptography, as understood by speakers of the English language, means encoding information with algorithms to make them difficult or impossible to decode without the secret key.

What, pray tell, is this "idiom" of yours?

A good crypto algorithm is about 30 orders of magnitude harder to crack than decompiling a binary executable.

Can you even begin to comprehend the difference?

It reminds me more of the science demo where they set up a room full of mousetraps, each with a ping pong ball on it.

There is no way to make tampering with the process impossible.

Like most geeks, you seem to think that some air-tight technical solution exists that will fix this political problem.

It's not a silver bullet because of the biggest risk of fission power technology: nuclear proliferation.

If the nuclear energy is the one solution to the worlds energy needs, then ALL countries, including Iran, Syria, and every single state in Africa will need its very own nuclear power industry. And every one of those countries realizes that a nuclear weapon would be the trump card that prevents them from being invaded by hostile neighbors, and it would make even GWB think twice about an attack.

With orders of magnitude more nuclear facilities sprinkled around the world than we already have, and huge amounts of fuel reprocessing added on to supply all of that, it would be easier than ever to hide weapons programs or feign plausible deniability. And of course, with more and more unstable countries cranking out nukes, that just increases the odds of getting these weapons into the hands of The Terrorists.

Every single country that has acquired nuclear weapons since the 1960s has hidden their work under the guise of nuclear power generation or "research" (and you wouldn't have much excuse for "research" if not for power).

And no handwaving about how some new and untested reactor technology is going to make that impossible, or somehow today's dysfunctional international regulators can be fixed. All of that is just rehashing the No True Scotsmen line.

So, it's not "High-Tech Hotbed", but just a fucked up mess. And a fraudulent one at that.

Thanks for clearing that up.

So you're saying it's done by word of mouth.

So much for "Supermarkets: Hight-Tech Hotbed".

No, the ads are usually in the correctly dated flyers. The problem is that either: (a) the computer system that correlates the promotions and the actual prices is just plain hosed, or (b) as you suggest, they're not using a computer at all -- in which case the whole premise of the article is invalidated.

Looks like I struck a nerve. You must be one of the incompetent developers who programs these systems. "Oh! but the margins are so low! Don't blame *us* for fraudulently shafting the customers! There isn't enough money to do it right!"

Gee, it looks like I did make a careless mistake.

However, making grammatically correct posts on blogs isn't my career. OTOH, the people who can't seem to program their pricing systems are failing at their life's work.