Surely the whole point of how WA works is to use natural language for the queries.

Typing in "Cancer New York" could mean anything.

If you gave that question to a human they'd have no idea what your were looking for.

Why didn't he try asking the question he was trying to ask which was "What are the rates of cancer in new york?" or even just "Cancer rate in new york"

All his other searches are equally stupid.

If you're really concerned about making sure people don't confuse C,K,or F then add types to represent them (in C++ you can do all sorts of things so that you can convert between them painlessly etc..)
Using a naming convention is a waste of time as it's not enforced by the compiler.

This has to be the worst summary ever. Please take the time to look at the article and do the maths yourself.

If your French is not too hot...

AP article (translated)

An article from 6 months ago?

Do you have some sales figures to back this up?

I think you've cracked it, if only John Carmack had hired you.

As someone who has researched image processing I know what the score it.

That is a nice website with great example, but the only examples you ever show to anyone are the ones that work well...

Did the hacker attack the backup servers through the internet? Or did he gain physical access to the servers?

Makes a big difference - you can secure the machine from the internet, it's hard to secure it from someone sat at the keyboard...

Those videos gave me the willies.

Not a nerd?