We used ALICE in a highschool programming class. I found it to be a lot of fun, and it's a good way to grasp coding concepts without getting bogged down in learning syntax. I'd recommend it, though it'll seem pretty basic compared with today's 3D engines.

For those unfamiliar with a "compute hour", the supercomputer in question is capable of 63,000 compute hours per hour. To put this into perspective, the NSF seems to have allocated about 15 hours of supercomputer time to this project. 15 hours is, of course, not nearly as sensational as 1 million compute hours. ;)

Slackware hasn't officially packaged GNOME since 2005. There are various community projects which allow you to use GNOME on Slackware, however.

Gotta love some good hyperbole. Not only are they evil corporations, but they are after the brains of dead children!

Sounds like the submitter is suggesting we artificially slow the rate of innovation. Hey, maybe we should just not release new devices with new features at all. That way no one will feel left out!

CentOS might be a better choice than Fedora.

Tell that to China.

Just to go one further: a phobia can often manifest itself as avoidance. Not just of cockroaches, per se, but one might avoid places they believe could contain a cockroach. Depending on severity, it could cripple one's ability to function normally.

The only reason that they haven't done this (that I think is realistic) is that the logistics of such are just not practical. Gathering something heavy enough, large enough, and that can survive at that depth might be very costly.

This is of course just speculation, but perhaps it would be cheaper to use explosives to displace material already on the sea floor than to move a block of concrete to the location. Or maybe, as you suggest, they just aren't interested in plugging the leak.

To be fair, most everything is more likely than the LHC producing a (catastrophic) black hole.

One thing occurs to me: BP can look towards limiting liability and fixing the problem at the same time.

Now, I'm not sure if BP is doing all that it can, but I think often people see a company doing one thing and forget that it could be doing other things in parallel.

The fact that something may not work is not a valid reason not to try. I could understand the objections if the failure would result in catastrophe, but I think the mantra "it can't hurt (much) to try" applies.

Of course, it might wake Cthulhu, in which case: oil is the least of our worries.

The point of the GP is that Britain/Poland/ETC should have declared war on Germany earlier (during the invasion of the sudetenland, for example). Essentially, you're saying Britain should not have preemptively struck Hitler, which (considering hindsight) is asinine.

You can build it from source here. The instructions are pretty straightforward.

I'm not sure why Apple apologists think it is the media's responsibility to protect Apple's trade secrets.

It is not reasonable to expect other people to guard your secrets. Don't put them out into the open.

Bringing litigation against Gawker Media for trade secret violations would be an abuse of the legal system and, I think, irresponsible. Apple would essentially be attempting to acquire compensation for misplacing their own device.