Exuberant inventors or VC chasers? Sometimes it's difficult to tell. When it's part of a press release, I'm inclined to think it's the money-siphoning department rather than the engineers doing the talking.

I am not a Californian lawyer, but a quick use of a search engine would indicate general public access is required for it to be considered a "public place". A laboratory behind security doors that's restricted entry to a few professors and selected students surely can't be considered a public space. It certainly wouldn't be under my local jurisdiction but we have a very different legal system.

Happy to be corrected.

Not Mexicans but Indians seem to be filling the void in New Zealand. "Singh" was the most common surname for babies born in the country for the seventh year in a row.

Then there was the word "vascillating" at the end. An odd combination of vacillating and oscillating, I guess.

Would you set foot in a building constructed by labour who are working 90 hours a week? Designed by a structural engineer working 90 hours per week? That seems like a recipe for disaster.

I expect this ruling (and /.) will boost traffic to that site significantly.

Well done.

I have no idea. I'm not someone who questions Freedom units, I just wield them irresponsibly.

Absolutely. it seems ludicrous to spent such large sums of money helping people. $300m here, $386m there... that's almost enough to buy two F-22 Raptors.

Would citing "Betteridge's Law of Headlines" count as a reason?

New Zealand went a step further and eliminated 1c, 2c, and 5c coins. So it's currently rounded to the nearest 10c. I expect we'll lose the 10c coin in my lifetime. Maybe even 20c or 50c depending how bad it gets.

Look I'm sure this has been said before but the spelling is C H A R L E S.

1. Scroll down
2. Click the Accept button.

Reading licences is for nerds. NERDS, I tell ya.

In a past life I had to develop for Oracle and lemme tell ya... I strongly disliked every second of it.

Might want to see a doctor about that pinched nerve.

No. Mostly generic white dudes.

From my experience working with recent CS grads in the software industry (outside the US):
* How to use a toilet brush.
* How to compose sentences to communicate basic ideas.
* How to put cups in dishwashers.

I don't know how some of these kids graduated from university, tbh.