So it looks like some proficiency with rocket science is needed after all.

The way I understand this question is :
When we attack suspected terrorists, do you prefer when we use drones compared to other means ?
A pacifist could still answer "yes", reasoning that "if we have to attack people, at least do it in a way that doesn't endanger our own troops".

It is not the same thing as "Do you support more attacks on suspected terrorists using drones ?" as implied in the summary.

Maybe because with social media it is easy to lose faith in humanity and actually use those bombs.

In fact the japanese have a strong sense of insider/outsider. It can be at a small scale (such as a school club) or large scale (such as all japanese people).
Outsiders are usually treated with respect, in a way that show the best side of the group, often tolerating behavior that whould be unacceptable for insiders. However, if you try getting too close they will remind you that you are not one of them.

I wish I could patent patents, just to prevent abuse of patents.

Aren't they what they call "schlüsselkinder" ?
Kids that carry with the keys to the house so they can go home when they parents aren't there.
IMHO it isn't something to be proud of.
To be truly independant, experience is required, something that kids don't have. By letting kids do as they please, they will find someone else to fill their parents' role a model. It can be your friendly neighbor's kid but it can also be the local drug dealer, with a higher chance of being the drug dealer because he will have plenty of cool stuff that the other don't have.

Well if there are only helpful people and no drug dealers, kids like this will probably grow up to become respectable people. It is probably the case where the pictures were taken but not every place is like this.

Where I live, non-compete agreement are valid only if there is some kind of compensation.
Because this compensation is there to make up for the potential loss of not being able to work for competitors, it can be quite high. Like getting full pay for several years after termination of contract.
Of course, this is rarely mentionned except for the most sensitive jobs. Meaning that non-compete clauses are usually (but not always) meaningless.

Here is what most probably happened (investigation is underway, so we can't be sure) :
In fact the guy entered a wrong password and wasn't given access to anything.
However his action triggered an intrusion alert and as a result the system was shut down for two days as a safety measure. Time to understand what happened.

Moreover, only an outsourced call center was shut down.

Source (in French) : http://www.pcinpact.com/news/73975-non-systeme-informatique-banque-france-na-pas-ete-pirate.htm

Properly mastered CDs are "perfect". Unlike vinyls, they exceed the capabilities of human hearing in both frequency and dynamic range (http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html).
Of course, FLAC, being a lossless format, is just as good. And I also bet that very few people, if any, can distinguish between a properly encoded >192kbps MP3 and the original recording.
So unless you are a dog, there is no problem with what we have now.

Note : Studios tend to use higher than CD quality material but it is primarily to make editing more convenient.
Note 2 : Properly is the key word here. Loudness war CDs are highly distorted and some encoders are so bad it is possible to identify them just by listening to the result.

I think that a photodiode is much simpler and reliable.
Same idea as yours except it is EM radiation of a much higher frequency ;)

TFA part 2 : http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/avoiding-game-crashes-related-to-linked-lists

The author suggests to ditch the STL in favor of "intrusive lists". In intrusive lists the links are part of the data structure. It breaks the data/container separation but provides many benefits in term of performance and reliability.

It is very difficult to write "self-documenting" code in assembler. Most variables are not even named (registers).
Also, people usually do assembler for a reason, either it is for heavy optimization or direct hardware access. In both case there is usually a lot of things behind the code that is not visible. For example situations where there is a good reason for doing b+a instead of a+b are much more common in assembler than in high level languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury
This notice means that if you lie, you are committing a crime, like for witnesses in court.

Your story is just about a clueless salesman.
The problem is not that he did price discimination, it is that he did it wrong. And I wouldn't be surprised if this story was just a cautionary tale.

In some contexts, such as bazaars, bargaining and thus price discrimination is part of the culture. Yield managment, another form of price discrimination commonly used with plane tickets, also seem to be well accepted.

With a UNIX shell :

find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' > md5_list
perl -e 'while (<>) { /(\w+)/; push @{$d{$1}}, $_; } for (values %d) { print @{$_} if (@{$_} > 1); }' < md5_list

First command makes a list of all files with their MD5 checksum. With 4.9 TB of data, il will probably take a full day to complete but it is completely unattended and you only have to do it once.
The second command lists all duplicates and is much faster.