I had eye surgery a little less than 2 years ago on my right eye. My left eye has horrible vision, worse than my right. I detached and tore my retina. They lasered it all back together again, which was fantastic. Certainly better than the other alternative which would have been "blind in that eye in less than 2 weeks". So, in the surgery, they poked 2 holes in my eye (maybe 3, but I can only see 2 incision marks), drained all the vitreous gel and fluid from my eye, re-positioned my retina, lasered it back in place, and did more lasering to shore up perceived weak points. Then they filled my eye up with some kind of gas and sealed the incisions.

During the early healing phase, which lasted 2 weeks, I had to keep my nose pointed at the floor, 24x7. I couldn't see more than 1 cm in front of my eye, and over time, my eye slowly refilled with vitreous fluid. As my eye slowly refilled, my ability to see further and further increased. I could hold my phone almost to my eye and be able to read things, but needed to move my phone a LOT to read a full page of information. I always wondered if something like google glass could have allowed me to view a page of information from my phone (or computer) without all the problems of holding a phone so close to my face, and accidentally selecting something on the screen, because my nose "pressed a button".

It says 773M email addresses and 21 million *unique* passwords.

I think the key here is that associated with those 773 million email addresses, there are 21 million unique passwords. So, they have 773 million email address entries and there are passwords associated with those 773 million email addresses, and of those 773 million passwords, 21 million of them are unique.

So, if I were setting up a password cracker, I could preload it with those 21 million unique passwords and I'd have a pretty good start.

The description says "a first officer promoted unexpectedly to the position of captain by her mentor".

No, he's correct. Drones are autonomous. Definition: "an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight". Real drones *might* be setup to allow a human to interfere with the controls, but the beauty of a drone is it just flies on its own.

Most of the things, around the world, which are being called "drones" are actually RC (Remote Controlled or Radio Controlled) aircraft. Most the "drones" used by the US military (and CIA) are actually called UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).

Also looked and thought it quite weird. Looked further, no mention in the PC-BSD forums either.

Okay, finally found something. Here on the Blog (http://blog.pcbsd.org)

I'd love to search using regular expressions, failing that, at least a much more precise way of indicating what must and must not be in the returned results.

If you can handle a LOT of abuse, you're welcome to join the OpenBSD developers.

Seriously, people whinging about abuse from Linus know nothing about abuse when compared to Theo.

I obviously meant "water" in that second sentence and not "land". But the Chinese are claiming all water and land in the South China Sea, plus a buffer.

To an extent, not exactly the same. When the US annexed/took-over Hawaii the US didn't claim all land between the US coast and Hawaii as US waters. My "I haven't checked Google to be sure" guess is the waters within 100 miles of the US west coast and a 100 mile circle around Hawaii are the only waters declared as US waters.

From the Hugos' webiste:

"Science Fiction? Fantasy? Horror?

While the World Science Fiction Society sponsors the Hugos, they are not limited to sf. Works of fantasy or horror are eligible if the members of the Worldcon think they are eligible."

Because NoSQL, does not stand for what it appears to stand for. It's a really crappy acronym. NoSQL really stands for "Not Only Structured Query Language" as compared to "Doesn't support Structured Query Language". So, something that is "NoSQL" will do SQL styled queries as well as other types of non-SQL queries

Actual implementation for us is also SSH'ing to a *NIX box, then tipping over to the PortMaster.

At $WORK we have used Livingston PortMasters to deal with our serial console issues. Network connected and logins can be setup to only have access to certain ports. Have worked well for us. Usually found pretty cheap on eBay.

Personal weight is most commonly reported in Stone.
Auto speed is reported in Miles Per Hour, yet I don't know if travel distance is measured in Kilometers or Miles.
Is gas/petrol/benzine dispensed in Gallons or Liters?

In grade school for me (late 70s) we were taught that soon the US would be switching to metric, so this was VERY important for us to know.

Then in Jr. High, metric was used for the sciences, taught as something everyone was using and we would someday switch to metric all around.

Sr. High, metric was used only for sciences, taught as being best to do things the way everyone else was.

I'm curious about England and metric/imperial/whatever... It's so common to hear Brits talk about weight in Stone and distance in Miles. Do they use Fahrenheit or Celsius for temp? Gallons or Liters for gasoline/benzine/petrol?