A successful global effort to "put democracy on hold" for any reason would be proof enough to me that this planet is not worth saving.

To "own"? Let's not kid ourselves here... there's no real ownership involved unless there is a way to get DRM-free files in 720p off the device using anything other than your eyeballs. I seriously doubt there is, which makes this just a really expensive rental service. I'm sure there are already lots of services which feature renting movies from all 6 major studios while taking your money and laughing about it.

In this case we aren't talking about spacecraft under extreme conditions. We're talking about a typical consumer vehicle under normal operating conditions.

Similarly, in my area it's because of requirements for schools based on the number of families in the area. In many instances the county will force the builder to make age-restricted communities or not build at all because the surrounding schools cannot handle additional kids.

I keep pretty much everything I ever wrote for fun or school in ~/Code. It's more than I thought it would be, actually.

~$ cd Code
~/Code$ find . -regex ".*\.\(php\|c\|h\|cpp\|hpp\|cs\)\$" -print0 > list
~/Code$ wc -l --files0-from=list
362698 total

Not including code for work, of course.

The IT department at my company actually refuses to allow anything newer than IE 6 because of security concerns. (Seriously.)

From TFA

Feschotte said this virally transmitted DNA may be a cause of mutation and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorders. In his article, Feschotte speculates about the role of such viral insertions in causing mutations with evolutionary and medical consequences.

The article doesn't go into much detail, but one type of virus that looked at specifically is a brain virus, definitely interesting implications for mental health research.

It doesn't need to be precisely eye sized right now. Just use a high bandwidth short range communication (like blue tooth or some such) to communicate with the "eye". You could much more easily fit the optics and radios and nerve interfaces into an eye with all of the computation (and don't forget power) in something like a wallet sized object in your pocket.

That's an incredibly simplistic view of the situation. Lowering taxes isn't a "reward" for bad companies. It is an "incentive" to all companies to do more business in the US (rather than in other countries where the taxes are lower). It is more of a "decreasing a penalty" than a "reward".

Usually when the government lowers taxes they see an increase in tax revenue because of increased spending since taxes are lower. Instead of easing penalties or adding incentives to do business in the US, the administration has instead elected to add more penalties. Two guesses how that will turn out.... Not like it hasn't been tried before.

I use a MoGo mouse with my laptop. Its a tiny rechargeable mouse that first in the PC Card/x54 slot in the side and recharges there. So it's storage is *inside* the computer which is pretty cool. It uses bluetooth for connection, and I've never had any issues with it.

I don't know how the battery life is though, all I know is it outlasts my laptop and I put it back in its slot and they both charge at the same time.

I love that little thing.

It is preferred that the client not support outside protocols such as AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc.; if it does, I will have to promulgate and enforce yet one more policy that my techs not connect to them.

It sounds like your network, which contains confidential medical records, is connected to the internet.
So I have just one question: Dear God, why?

Really naming it the "Colbert" room isn't as lame as if everyone voted for "i can haz space station" or something. Plus he may have actually raised public awareness of space programs a little bit. He certainly drove traffic to NASA's website. And if 200,000 people actually voted for him, you can imagine how many people voted for a "real" option or read some of the NASA content.

The summary says the information is encoded in the frequency and amplitude of the light. Quantum systems encode information in the spin of photons...

So is it just me, or is this not really a quantum system at all?

From TFA (and TFS):

This just emphasizes what we already knew about C, even the most careful, security conscious developer messes up memory management.

This doesn't follow from TFA. The blog points out two instances of buffer overflows. The first one you could argue they messed up "memory management" because they used the wrong bounds for their array in several places... but they don't sound very "careful" or "security conscious" since checking to make sure you understand the bounds of the array you're using is pretty basic.

But that's not what bothered me. The second example is a typo where TFA says someone entered a "3" instead of a "2". In what dimension is mis-typing something "messing up memory management"? That just doesn't follow.

Yes, I can't wait for managed Linux to come out. That sounds like a great idea....