I agree. I think the point is to make a lot of different, small, custom modules, and document them properly.

The Mindstorms way is probably well-suited to the target audience, especially if a text-based solution is also available (unfortunately, EV3 has no easy way of programming using text yet). In the end, I prefer to write someone an e-mail instead of giving them a rebus.

Much like installing Chrome, right?

Slashdot's mobile interface makes the title really small. That makes understanding these comments sort of difficult.

This would be a great Philip K. Dick story.

In the birthday problem, you are not matching your birthday to the birthdays of the people present. It's the probability that in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. See wikipedia.

Perhaps I'm not getting what you're saying. Because you say "YOUR", and I'm not sure if you actually mean me.

I don't think you do. One of the sets is fixed, because it was found on (in) the victim's body. The bday paradox occurs because you match everything to everything else, inflating the probability of a match.

There is no jury in a Dutch court. The judges decide.

I appreciate this perspective a lot, especially the first part. My problem with the second part is that you are arguably not a free person anymore if you're addicted. You're still being abused by some producer/seller. This is where freedom is impaired in quite a subtle way. It happens continuously, of course, and is a slippery slope. For example, my own limit in freedom of choice lies somewhere between THC and cocaine. This opinion is formed by my culture, as the former is considered a "soft" drug and the latter a "hard" drug. Incidentally, my culture is another one of those subtle impairments of my freedom.

Your mistake is linear extrapolation. Firefox' versioning seems to be exponential.

That's how I calculated it, so I'm not sure what Google does.

then couldn't you subsidize the food? if that were the real problem?

my car, a peugeot 508sw does about 54mpg. By European standards, it's not a small car at all.

Possibly he meant to export the HTML-tags in the CSV, but slashdot parsed the tags to what we see.

The galaxy tabs don't have home buttons.