He's the guy who writes about how everyone doing space-space at the end of a sentence is "wrong".

Basically, he's a famous Troll.

The other half are ninjas.

This lie by Scott Thompson is pretty minor compared to the lies told by Joe Biden about his academic credentials:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign,_1988#Academic_revelations

One thing I miss in my home is 240V electric supply for my computer equipment. In most North American homes, the only places you find 240V is by large appliances like the oven, clothes dryer, water heater, HVAC, and perhaps the electric car. But you also want it for your home computers. You can get twice the watts per outlet, and your power supplies run more efficiently with 240V. Most (though not all) technology equipment has switching power which plays nicely with 240V, so the only nuisance is managing different cordsets with funny looking plugs.

However, SPF still stops phishing emails forged from BANKOFAMERICA.COM. Sure, it's not perfect, but it helps.

To put it another way: "The perfect is the enemy of the good."

nslookup of SPARDA.DE. shows no SPF record for the German bank's domain. They probably haven't implemented DKIM either.

I'd say the bank is liable. Any bank should a security IT professional telling them that a combinationof SPF and DKIM is a necessity for any bank with customers prone to pfishing. It's not enough to tell customers to "watch out for pfishing". If the bank acknowledges pfishing, then it needs to do something to prevent it. This usually means a strict SPF setting to filter out spam, plus a DKIM/Domainkey infrastructure to distinguish false positives.

The best reason I heard why The Hurt Locker beat Avatar is that the Academy members who vote on the awards, are themselves mostly actors. So, they are more likely to give awards to "actors'" movies which are usually dramas featuring characters showing a range of emotions that can show off the lead/supporting actors' talents. On the other hand, your typical sci-fi movie where the acting is secondary to the story, special effects, action, or epicness of the production is not going to resonate with your typical professional actor as much as a character film. So, the Academy won't value it as highly as you might.

The problem is not that the Academy awards needs to adapt, but that the world needs to recognize that the Academy's perspective is not necessarily representative of the audience's perspective when it comes to picking the 'best' films of the year.

6.002x is an MIT subject. VI is an MIT course.

Many of those telco facilities will probably remain as data centers, not office space. They're already built out as data centers.

Several years ago when Lipitor ads started playing on TV, they would say near the end of the ad, "Lipitor has been shown to lower blood cholesterol. High cholesterol has been shown to be an indicator for increased risk of heart disease."

They made it quite clear that Lipitor does not lower your risk of heart disease. Basically the marketing was saying, "Our skin lotion reduces the appearance of wrinkles. Wrinkles are a sign of aging", which definitely does not claim "Our skin lotion actually prevents aging". The lotion just hides the symptoms.

So, the problem is not with science, but with pharma marketing.

1) Include some XKCD style cartooning. What would Randall draw?

2) Make the envelope self opening: you cut a notch in the envelope on one end (like just below the postage stamp), exposing the inside invitation with a label "Pull here". On that end of the invitation, you also chamfer the corners BSG style. On the other end of the envelope, you cut a notch in the inside invitation, and above that notch, you draw a thumbprint on the envelope with the label "Press here". So, when you pull one end while pressing the other end, the invitation C-sections itself out of the envelope.

Dropping support for compressed folders and hard links? I use those features all the time. Especially when you troubleshoot a server with a subfolder containing 12GB of log files, and have no direction or policy about what to do with those old log files, you could safely enable compression on the folder and they magically take up less space.

Since licensing cost is a major concerns with MSSQL, the question turns on which license you would need to pay for. For a small instance you might do okay with a free express download. You could save money by picking up a (used) SQL2005 or SQL2008 standard license. Maybe you need the features of SQL2008R2 which would be more money. Maybe down the road you will need something that can scale really big in which case you would need to budget $$$$$ for enterprise licenses instead of standard.

And of course there's SQL2012 RC which you can use for free for maybe six months before it expires.

The TSA offers don't care if you want to protest or walk to the next station as long as they can put in for overtime pay for the time they are there.

These security measures are mostly driven by overtime pay for public safety staff. Without that overtime pay, the security nonsense would fade away. It's really just about the money.

To me, That's a big reason why I don't buy Samsung !!

Samsung seems to be the worst when it comes to dropping support and development for legacy devices. I have a 2009 version Samsung TV which cost something like $1700 new, heavily promoted for it's support for "Yahoo Widgets" to internet-enable the TV. As soon as it got to be 2010Q1, Samsung stopped making any updates for the TV, not even fixing well documented DLNA bugs. Sammy soon released their 2010 TV's which supported a totally different framework of "Samsung Apps".

The moral of the story is if you ever buy Samsung Electronics, don't expect the long term support you usually get from other vendors.