Yep, that's my reaction as well. The US Dollar works so long as the US Government promises not to manipulate it. Err....

Engrish so much. But seriously [folks?] you don't want robots displaying any more emergent behavior any time soon.

No really.

I took a pass at Python 3 a while back. The amount of hoops I needed to jump through, to deal with compilation errors around Unicode handling, was terrifying. It was simply a poor user experience.

Python 2.7 just works. Sure, it's a nightmare past a certain scale point. But until you get into the dregs of OO it really is executable pseudocode.

Python 3 is some other language that lost that property.

The big problem is that we don't ship languages with telemetry that reports when they fail to work. So things that are completely obvious to outsiders never make it to inner circles. Not that I can really see any way for Python 3 to mend its errors.

I would love to educate her on the finer points of systems administration, and she would rather I fix her computer when there is a problem with it, and will trade some security. Luckily, I am a scrupulous fellow when it comes to other people's data.

They have a legal expectation of privacy that the search metadata won't be used for illegal purposes. The illegal acts of others are not their responsibility unless they had reason to believe that they would be committed. If they were googling the information of a political refugee, there would perhaps be more grey area.

Well, look at the current case. The medical test was used to make the diagnosis, the social networking data was only used to determine whether the person had likely been drugged without their knowledge. In this case, it suggested that she probably hadn't been (since she had a history of cocaine use) in spite of her protestations to the contrary.

Some computers do understand such a distinction at the hardware level. They are slightly more hassle, so we mostly don't use that kind of functionality. That is looking like a mistake.

drink@alexander:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 13.10 \n \l

drink@alexander:~$ ps auxw | grep X
root 1267 2.3 1.1 348276 96612 tty7 Ss+ Jan05 105:36 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch

hmm.

It says, more or less after translation, everything seed-bearing is for our use.

I can only speak to the walmart and gamestop nearest me, and they don't stock new wired controllers and the gamestop seldom has a used one.

The Earps would reportedly consistently take the side of the local businessmen over anyone else whether they were in the right or not. Kind of sounds like now.

You can use PS3MediaServer to "watch a fucking MKV file", but it will require your PC to be on and transcoding. Works on other players as well, including the Xbox 360. And it's free. Happy new year.

Some shows yes, some shows no. It's not unusual for Anime series to have canned credits on the way out which change in no particulars. And guess who actually uses MKV?

Most people don't live near the supermarket of electronics. And you can't actually be sure that Fry's will have anything in stock that they claim they have, if you've been there more than once you should know that by now. Sure you can order one, you can order anything.

It's still true that first-party wired controllers are relatively rare on the 360. You rarely see them at all.

Not this argument again. Nobody cares, they just download, even if it's illegal. In practice you're not going to get in trouble for only doing that.