Does no-one use the proper terms anymore? malware - yes, Trojan - yes , Virus - No.

I agree completely with the sentiment. The "disney princesses" suck. They just want to sit pretty and wait for 'prince charming' I find this disturbing. (Mulan is cool though)
On the other hand when i was growing up my biggest hero was "The incredible Hulk", some guy who's would get angry, totally loose it, and go on a violent rampage. Not a great role model if you think about it, but I dont think it did me any harm.

grrrraRARARAGHGHAHG!!!!!!
*ahem*

Personally I dont think creating 'artificial' role models makes sense. I think the problem is parents etc, for some reason most of them want to encourage girls to be 'girly' and boys to be 'boyish' in terms of their own preconceptions of what these roles should mean. My sister hosted a birthday party where she gave all the boys blue boxes with a car in it, and the girls pink boxes with a hairclip and a wand (which i was told is typical). Maybe boys and girls are naturally drawn to slightly different things, but many adults seem to want to actively enforce and artificially exagerate the difference.

The big change in modern web development is the shift to the clientside for dynamic html. JQuery is now so powerfull, and modern browser now so good at processing javascript, that stuff like applets, silverlight, flash, are undesirable cludge that you can live without. Also a lot of the serverside conditional html generation is also redundant. You should use just pretty much static html pages serverside, but change it dynamically on the clientside with JQuery.
So do you need the serverside code at all? of course you do, but it should be feeding the client with JSON (or similar) instead of html. For this 'feed client with info' serverside code the traditional web framewords still work fairly well even though their role has changed. there is nothing wrong with using java here if thats what you are comfortable with (i normally use either python wsgi or asp.net).
Usually the most sensible design for a modern website is a (sort of) MVC structure where JQuery is the controller, the 'views' are static html, and interfacing with the data model is the serverside framework.
Oh and DOJO is a perfectly workable alternative if you hate JQuery for some reason.

If you stop someone in the street and ask 'How do i get to the post office', would you be happy the following answers?

1) "Nah you dont want to go to the post office, its UPS you want. To get to UPS you should go..."
2) "Its 11am? what sort of idiot goes to the post office at 11am? the queues will be terrible, you should just go home."
3) "There are many ways to go the postoffice, i cant tell you which if you dont give me the exact critiera by which you can judge the best route. Is it fastest? shortest? most scenic? safest? does it need to be wheelchair friendly?"
4) "You should just use email! you fool!"

No? then dont ask slashdot...

It is as if someone is trying to create the impression there is an ongoing 'debate' about about the pros and cons of software patents. There is no debate. Software patents are harmful nonsense. and this is the general consensus amoung people who write software (supposedly the people that these patents 'protect'). I'm sure you could scrape up some guy who swears blind that smoking cured his sinus problems but that doesn't mean an article 'Smoking - good for your health?' should hit the front page.

Muslim kid: "Cor look at the bajungas on her..."
(Crazy fanatic dad walks in)
Crazy fanatic dad : "OH NO!!! you have been corrupted by the filthy western decadance!! "
Muslim kid : "No dad!! look im using their own flithy videos against them, by hiding cunning terrorist plans inside them!! honest!!"
Crazy fanactic dad : "Ahh good son. Well done carry on"
(Crazy fanactic dad leaves)
Muslim kid (whispers) : "sucker! heh heh "

Come on slashdot... If i wanted to read stuff like this i would read my email spam folder. I refuse to get sucked into discussing security when this is just blatent pulp advertising. Booo! Hisss!

whats next? studies on "black people take a shorter lunch breaks", "short men talk too much in meetings", "christians take fewer sick days" Appart from encouraging discrimination, it is worthless.

Hiya, this is not a problem with Make as such

make
make reinstall

or even

make uninstall


Could work fine in theory but it requires the code author to write a sane 'uninstall' and 'reinstall' hook. I have seen stuff like this in few source tar balls, but generally they dont. The code author cant be bothered with this sort of thing, as they assume you are using your own package manager. Just because you are building from source does not mean you dont use your package manager. I primarily use Arch Linux, when i install source build things, i either install it under /opt and not worry about it, or a wrap it up into a package and install it like any other. One reason i use Arch is that this is particularly easy to do, but you can also man .rpm or .deb packages or whatver your distro uses. They are all really just a compressed archive of the files with an extra config file or two. There are lots of other options (such as put your entire filesystem into a source control system like 'git') but I would recommend just trying to make your source-built stuff fit in with whatever distro you use (or stick it under /opt and not worry).

First - Scientific method has nothing to do with statistics. It is to do with formation of hypothesis, using that hypothesis to postulate results that are not in the current known data, and then the discovering the predictions were true (not 99% true, ACTUALLY true). For example Quantum mechanics has made a large number of weird and wonderful predictions of things no-one has ever seen before at the level of small scale things. Then, with the improvements in technology over they years we have observed all those things were actually true which means it evolves to a well respected theory. If something, anything was discovered that didn't fit, then this is a problem with the theory, not a statistical anomoly (QM doesn't work for very large scale things, this tells us that the theory is not a perfect picture of everything, and points to where to look to make a better one) You seem to have confused the fundamental principles of science with the mathematical technicalities of analysing results.

Second - Physics deal with statistics at many levels; it is their bread and butter. Quantum mechanics is largely the study of probability distributions (take a look at Quantum Statistical Thermodynamics, which is takled at the undergraduate level). To infer that (real, qualified) physicists have a fuzzy idea of dealing with statistics compared to psychologists is absurd. Its like a shop assistant saying that mathematicians dont know anything about maths because they havn't seen them work the till. If you *genuinely* believe this, then please point out a few statistical flaws in published physics papers.

I only half believe in psychology, never mind the psychic bullshit. I mean psychology is really just one step away from freudian psychiatry nonsense. The whole area is hampered in becoming a genuine manture science by the fact you cant treat human beings like lab rats without getting into major ethical (and legal) issues. So although there is undeniably 'something to it' it is a far from being a genuine mature science. In my opinion it is a bit like where western medicine was a few hundred years ago.

Yes it is safe. neutrinos pass through you all the time. They pass through you because they do not interact with anything, if they dont interact with anything they cant harm anything inside you. This is why they can 'go though the earth', it is also why the the idea is completely impractical, 99.9% of the neturinos will pass straight through your reciever.

I suspect Dan just said this to please the suits who probably sign off on his funding, while laughing to himself. Using a "neutrino communication system" sounds a bit like buliding a house out of ice cream. It might be *just about* possible with huge expense and effort, but it is laughably ridiculous compared to the other options that are available.

I am strapping the electrodes to the elephant now...