"I'm really not sure if the name "diesel engine" is appropriate for the resulting contraption."

What 'contraption'? The engine itself requires fairly little modification, and the costs are really not so high. All around Europe there are lots of cars - and buses - running on LPG. Also, as others above pointed out, Diesel is just the name, the design itself has proven to be quite versatile.

Yes: develop hobbies, spend time with family.

I'd do that.

Otherwise, be creative. Start by being creative enough to come up with some ideas to spend that free time creatively.

If all fails, go volunteer.

"NSA officials have repeatedly denied under oath to Congress that even producing an estimate of the number of Americans caught up in its surveillance is impossible. Leaked screenshots of an NSA application that does exactly that, prove that the NSA flat out lied (surprise)" (emph. added)

So, "denied [...] impossible" means not denying that it's possible, right, so then they didn't lie :P

"Something with two network jacks on it that disconnects the port after a set time"

No wonder some people have a hard time finding jobs, since a lot seem to be taken by cheap labor with unrelated or irrelevant knowledge or workforce repurposed from other departments to cut the costs of hiring someone who has the proper knowledge. I am not in IT, never was, never will, yet even I know of the device the poster seeks with multiple jacks and connection handling functions, which are magic boxes brought by blue fairies in the middle of the night and are called... wait for it... MANAGED SWITCHES!

I mean come on, really?

If you really don't know what to do, then at least run a google query with managed switch session timeout or vpn router session timeout.

From the article - and I agree - "ranges limited, charge times long, and prices high". Nuff said.

It's really simple: I was curious. The first time I saw a computer I couldn't help myself, I had to find out what you can do with it. And there was no turning back. It also helped that since I was a 6 grader we had after-hours optional computer classes in school, which wasn't usual back then. My first pc was a c64, as fÅ'r many others. I've been using, learning of, or working on computers continuously since then. The point is, you have to make programming interesting for youngsters to care, otherwise they'll just stick to simply using devices. And today this is harder then most would think. We don't have the interesting-factor anymore to make coding fun, since pcs and all kinds of devices are too common now.

"Just experiment and use var for your types."

Well. I've been coding since I've first saw a computer (well, maybe with a few weeks delay :) ) I have yet to get to a point where I would choose a language _because_ I'd prefer those "var"s. Most things have a reason, and I've always thought of these dynamic type languages (with some exceptions of course, where you can't really do anything else) to target average people who don't want to deal with much, and who don't really create complex code. I wouldn't mind if all the world's sticky note apps would be written in Dart. Or whether checker apps. Or news ticker apps. You get my point. Otherwise, keep them out of my sight.

So, when I first saw newsflashes about this at some places, I just couldn't see the novelty in it (since it's not some actual device that you can buy, but basically a research proof-of-concept of a classical projector-camera pairing with depth and surface estimation based on projected patterns). Then, after talking to some people outside the related field, it turned out a lot of people don't know much about projecting to non-homogeneous and/or non-flat surfaces. For such people, Googling for video mapping should clear up a lot of this topic. Yes, this time they are using Kinect, which can make depth and structure estimation easier in a small room, and the effects seem nice enough, however, I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Even the paper lists implementation and feedback analysis as contributions, an I'm sorry but I just can't see the novelties in there to justify a scientific publication. A tech demo, sure, since it's working, it's highly visual and entertaining, can be a crowd pleaser. But other than that...

"cost of cleaning their desktops and servers by more conventional means to 130,000 Euro"

Whoa, whoa, wait people, I'll clean them for half of that price and still be happy with it.

They'd need to look into more efficient "conventional means".

The problem with this banning is that they _think_ these toxins cause the dying-out of the bees. Actually there are plenty of regions where they use them and they didn't see a decrease in bee population. In such regions this banning could mean a lot of problems, e.g. the need to find and switch to some other chemicals which could bring some other unforeseen problems - since the one banned is used for a long time, most effects and side-effects are failry known. But, since they don't really have a clue what causes the bees dying, this banning might just simply have no effect, only cause problems. They might say they're just banning it temporarily for seeing what happens, but it's not that easy when this decision can effect whole countries' agriculture.

Also, I could bet on these 3 million signatures come mostly from green-fanatic city-dwellers who know nothing about bees, or agriculture, or agriculturural economics. They'd probably vote for banning all kinds of chemicals, until the point when food prices hike to the sky or they all die of hunger.

Well, at this point, we can only wait and see.

" avalanche of requests from individuals as well as costly lawsuits"

Well, whether it would be an avalanche or not, would remain to be seen. However, no company should've gotten that broad freedom of data use as they had in the first place, so however late it is, the proper thing to do is to allow individuals to see how companies handle their data and what they do with it.

Regarding lawsuits, them being "afraid" of lawsuits means that they already think there would be reason for lawsuits, which in turn gives a lot of reasons to even more demand for proper data privacy laws. User data handling should be controlled in a way that people wouldn't have reason to sue. Yes, dream on.

Anyway, whatever privacy laws would be better than the current state of do-whatever-you-want and change your terms of service by the weather approach most companies follow.

I'm sorry but as someone working in research I have to say that these fake journals are causing problems in our mailboxes (i.e. more spam to filter), otherwise they don't matter at all. What I mean is, those who wish to publish, will either know the relevant journals of their area, or - if they are early in their careers - their supervisors and colleagues will know them.

Additionally, in all normal research institutes and universities people will want to publish in journals that have a registered - and not negligible - impact factor, which the fakes will not have.

Also, when looking into a journal that you never published in, the first thing you look at is the IF, the second thing you look at is the organization backing it, and the third thing you look at are the members of the editorial board. All have to be at least somewhat relevant. If you can't judge it, always ask someone from your field with more experience. It's not hard to get such help.

So, while the high number of fake journals seems high, I'd say those who willingly (silly) or unknowingly (ignorant) publish in them deserve what they end up with.

As always, as a researcher, what you publish is what people will judge you by, so always be inquisitive, careful and selective.

I've seen so many of these you-just-don't-get-it people in- and outside of tech, and in all cases it is very angering. Even more so when people "in power" make such statements, showing they have absolutely no clue about what they're dealing with and in that instant you see how you and a lot of other people will s*ck big time because of these guys. While gaming-related always-on internet DRM is not something that would shake the world of all people, it is something to be worried about, since it contributes toward reaching that feared point in time where everything will require always-on DRM - and do believe in that will make your life miserable.

Specifically, in these always-on internet-based DRM schemes, what angers me most is that 1). you simply can't access content (in this case the game) if your connection has problems or - which is much more frequent - the provider of the content - e.g. the game servers - have problems, and 2). if the content provider decides they want to go out of businnes or release a new platform/content/game and close down the old one then there's nothing you can do. Basically your access to the content/game and your history is at the mecry of the provider and you can only access/play until they let you. This angers me much more than "simple" DRM.

All in all, the DRM everyone now sees to want to deploy everywhere is just not good, and it's definitely not nice or user friendly, at all.

I would say next, that if they want to remain in businness, they need to be more user friendly, but look out there and see that they still get enough users to be profitable, despite all the bad DRM schemes... Most average users/prople just don't know, and don't care enough to raise havoc about this, they just go along with it.

" to treat any violation of a website's Terms of Service â" or an employer's Terms of Use policy â" as a criminal act."

Actually the article says "if you violate the terms of service on a government website ", so it wouldn't apply to your neighbor&dog's websites or Facebook. Otherwise, since in the US most ToSs can be changed as the weather changes, overnight and every minute, every website operator could turn their users into criminals as they wish. Which would be a tad ridiculous.

"and simply bury some button down in the privacy settings that defaults to consent"

Neh, nothing like that, just a popup at the first powerup saying "I forever agree to everything in the daily changing terms of service" with two buttons, OK and "I agree". Not that it would matter, anyone who would buy a Facebook phone would not loose a second's sleep over that.