No is right.

Here in Texas, we have a hog problem. They're everywhere - destroying crops, terrorizing communities, and killing livestock. It's open season; see a hog - shoot it, plain and simple. Texas isn't alone, much of the south is facing the same threat.

If you want some bacon - come and get it. Make some sausage while you're at it - it's a good bacon alternative.

Definitely. I think that if it weren't for monospaced fonts - I would have gone crazy...er.

How much is it worth to you?

The exploit is for IE 9 and earlier. XP can use iE 6 through IE 8 - all of which are earlier than IE 9.

Don't you mean:
"Are are children learning yet?!!"

I disagree.... It begins much earlier than that. For me, it started with Lego and Erector sets.

Development is my adult version of Lego. The main difference being that with Lego, you must to plan for the pieces you have - with development - you just make the pieces you don't have.

Of course, I still play with Lego.

THANK YOU!

there will be a disaster in 2012

It's convenient to put a black-and-white low-res placeholder image on a page using a data uri, so the area of the page where the full-resolution image will eventually be placed isn't blank while waiting for the much larger image to download.

This would have been ok:

<joke target="for the impaired"/>

From your description, I think your friend suffers less from any handedness issue - and more from the 10% rule.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ten%20Percent%20Rule

You must be 10% smarter than the equipment you are trying to operate.

I saw it.

I'm satisfied with that answer.

Not really, but I did get a good chuckle...

From TFA:

How is it useful to have the correct answer 50% of the time? When designing computing algorithms, wouldn't you want it to return the correct answer 100% of the time?

I would further enhance the question by asking: What the hell are you collecting that each sensor stores 500GB in 24 hours - photos? Seriously, these aren't sensors - they're drive fillers.

Seriously, if "sensor units scattered across a couple square miles" means 10 sensors - that's 5 Terabytes to initialize and mount in 30 seconds. I suspect that the number is greater than 10 sensors because the rest of the requirements are so ridiculous.

And why the sneakernet? If they're in only a couple of square miles - why not set up a mesh network and deliver real-time data without the need for daily collection? 30 seconds to boot probably wouldn't be a requirement if the system is only booted once.

All of the questions about why this person is even involved are probably moot. He'll be outed as an idiot in short order.