>The Slate article claims that Jewish religious law allow most other laws can be broken to save the life of a Jew

Actually the article states that "for the sake of saving a life, a Jew is allowed to break just about any commandment." No mention of the person being saved was Jewish or not, a big difference.

IO9 has an interview with Neill Blomkamp giving a lot of the back story explaining #1, #2. See http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-director-tells-us-all-about-his-alien-back-story

The really big question - what happens in three years when the alien says he will return? Do the Prawns get picked up by a few transport shops and leave peacefully or is there a fleet of really well armed and angry aliens coming to Earth? Will the humans end up working in cat food factories for their alien overlords?

Batteries and remove the wires leading to your house.

>Microsoft's proposal opens the door for Google to work with PC manufacturers to get Chrome on new machines.

This has always been an option. If Google wants to pay PC manufacturers to install Chrome as a default they can do so both in the US and the EU. It's one of the results of the anti-trust cases of the 90s.

I don't think you can make the assumption that an internet connection is available during the time of install so a binary will be needed in the Windows image.

Of course all the browsers included in the ballot should auto update themselves on first run.

I think the Apollo landing sites should be off limits. One mistake and Armstrong's first boot prints could be destroyed. I cannot believe that a group of scientists have the audacity to mess around with the Apollo 11 site.

It was not a 40% improvement in individual scores. The article states that in some schools it was a 40% improvement in the number of kids meeting some exam standard. What the prior or new scores and what the standard is was not given. Paying may help but I doubt by 40%.

From Gaiman's posting:

>George R. R. Martin is not working for you.

Yes, but the publisher basically is. Unless they start publishing books 1-4 with a warning label, "This series is unfinished, and may never be completed" any new readers have right to complain.

It's somewhat useful in that you can say "suppose the screen was 1/2 the current price?" and get an estimate on what that could do to the retail price of the whole unit.

It also tells people don't expect an $100 or even $200 unit any without a change in the pricing model.

What this the big deal about the Beatles' music being online or not. Just rip your CDs!

Unless your O(n^3) in house app was apparently tested against a dataset of about 10 items and is now being used for thousands. Having a good initial design is the best way but when that is missing sometimes it is better to redesign an app than try to throw more hardware at it.