Perhaps you should read the The Robespierre Conspiracy

Ultimately it means you'll be able to find a recipe online, have the ingredient list and preparation instructions sent to your mobile device,

I already have that. Its called allrecipes (allrecipes.com) and conveniently allows me to check off ingredients I already have. Best of all, it is free.

and your smart oven will be automatically configured with the correct settings.

My oven is a device that if misconfigured can start fires or fill the house with explosive gas. It is about the last thing I would connect to the internet, especially with Micros~1 running it.

This is apparantely not a joke. I would never actually read the article but I did carefully hover over the link and it is from the whitehouse.gov website. If it had been from, whitehouse.com that would be an entirely different story...

SAN Administrators? Man you guys nned to be paid some serious $DOUGH. That shit is gnarly. An EMC (Even More Complicated) tech tried to show me mapping and zoning and my head was ready to explode after 10 minutes. I'm just a user, a low life DBA. All I know is how to set up BCV backups and restore from them. I practice that shit because my job depends on it, but everything else, no, I'll leave it to the experts.

In about 1996, Oracle introduced the "Oracle Webserver", allowing you to serve dynamic webpages generated from stored procedures in the database. The beauty of this is that all of your website code is in the database, making it centrally managed and all application security logic is enforced by the database. The webserver is just a dumb client with no code, and has no permissions on any database tables.

In 2001, it was now a mod for Apache and as since been opensourced (mod_owa). I convinced our client try it for a central website that we were developing, as the middle tier crap they were using didn't work. That system went live 2 weeks later with a few very simple webpages. It has been in production ever since and the website has over 50k users and 20+m hits a day.

But what will happen when someone contracts a disease from a dirty telephone?

Nah, Powerball jumpped the shark when they went to $2 a bet. Mega Millions is still $1, so you can bet 2 numbers for each Powerball one. Sure the jackpots are bigger, but I would rather have 2 chances of winning $100m over 1 of winning $200m

I would agree, The key point is that the NFL doesn't actually have the test results. That would imply that the refs didn't check them properly. Tom Brady probably approved the the balls because they were the way he like them, and probably didn't give a shit if they were 10 PSI or 14 PSI. Never attribute to Malice what can be explained by incompentance.

Outside of the RDBMS, pretty much everything Oracle makes or buys is crap. The funny thing is, PHB's suck that stuff up like us DBA's drink beer. Then when The Shit Don't Work (TSDW), they need someone to fix it. If you can make the shit work, you can make some good money. Just be prepared to switch to the next crappy Oracle technology when the original falls out of fashion.

White Sands Missile Range is right next to the Spaceport America and has 4,000 square miles of uninhabited desert. The Army tests rockets there all the time, and sometimes closes highway 70 (which passes through the range) when they do. Since the goal of cheaper launch costs is something the miltary would find useful, I am pretty sure Spacex could come to an agreement to do some testing using the range. Before talking to the Army, Spacex would probably want to run several real tests at sea, where they would expect the landings to fail until wthe worked out all of the bugs with the aerodynmics, winds, etc. Not so much to ensure you can land on a ship, but to ensure you can land within a few miles of where you want to. If you can do that, there are lots of places you can land.

The funny thing about Sandy, is that the Capitol Weather Gang correctly predicted it about a week in advance, based on a very similar storm in 1878. We didn't quite as many SUVs nor coal plants back then.

I mean, I understand the PHB/corporate group think that thinks this useful, but why, when I can get a perfectly good non-DRM official Keurig from amazon for less than I would pay for a Keurig 2.0? And no, it is not some discontinued model, it is the #1 best seller on Amazon.

You mean like Wonko the Sane, who also lives in California? According to ancient legends, when Wonko saw instructions on how to use a toothpick on a packet of toothpicks, he became convinced that the world had gone crazy and so built the house as an asylum for it, with the insides and outsides reversed. Apparently he also received a fishbowl from the Dolphins before they left.

Right here.

You mean VI, the notepad for Unix? Since it is by default installed on pretty much every Unix system, including Macs, I would say it is cross platform. It is even easy to get for Windows. As far as stability goes, it has never crashed in the 20+ years I have used it on any platform. An it is easy to replace. All you have to do install another editor, i.e. sudo apt-get install emacs.