Sure. But that would be quite weak protection, especially where there is little or no risk of consumer harm. I've written about the name change a couple of times but I've never found a primary source on the issue and I'm curious to hear whether or not is real.
If anyone has a link to some primary source on this that would be great.

So I've heard. However, I've found no filed trademark "SSL" from Netscape. The trademark database is easily searchable.

If you want to write something highly performant C is still the preferred option. Not because C produces faster code, languages with advanced run time environments like Java are in a better position to optimize your code, but because you know exactly what is going on. In my experience, the two things you should avoid in a highly performance application are system calls and locks.
In a high level language you can never be sure when a lock is taken or when a system call is fired off. In C, well, you'll have to be pretty explicit about both.

This is simply not true. It might be true in parts of the world and I suspect that the person who wrote this lives in the US, where HR seems to have a lot more power than in the rest of the world.

Being able to showcase actual work and relevant experience outweigh a college education any day of the week. At least in small and medium sized businesses most of Europe. IBM might not accept you without a degree, but who would want to work for them?

The really compelling part is that electricity stored in aluminium can be transported without any energy loss. Alumina can be found in most of the world, so if you have local access to cheap power you can create aluminium there, be it in Iceland or the Saharan desert. Then you can fill up a freighter with it and go nice and slow across the atlantic ocean and deliver it in the US or China.

I met these people last year and they talked about filling up a supertanker with Aluminium in Norway or Iceland and then having it connect to the US power grid and deliver electricity.

What incompatibility? Btrfs is fully POSIX compliant.

And I'd be curious to hear what's so fantastic about NTFS.

ExFAT is designed for use on SD cards and other portable storage units that get moved around.

According to an episode of This American Life suicides often inspire other suicides except in situation where it has somehow gone wrong and has led to a gruesome death or mutilated corpse or something similar. In Norway, where I live, there is a policy of not commenting on suicides if it can be avoided. So, whenever a random 18 year old boy or girl kills him/herself it goes without notice in the media. If a minister kills himself it is of course reported upon. I think the media in your town has gotten it right.

which is derived from the indian word "vegitarianash" meaning something akin to "bad hunter".

What is it with this fear that someone will make a buck? It does not diminish the value of the original work, rather it ads to it. The county should focus on what their job is and if somebody actually manages to create something valuable from that - great!

I think there are uses for non-newtonian fluids. My wife's car uses such fluids to power the 4x4 drive. When there is a difference in speed on the front and back axial the fluids tense up and block, delivering power of the rear axial. A very simple and robust solutions that works fairly well.

It fails to load in Chrome but works flawlessly in Firefox. Is somebody not eating their dogfood?

and it leads to increased efficiency. Those people can on to fulfill other functions. This is mainly the reason we're not all farmers anymore like in the stone age.