Oh no, that's reference to climate change 'deniers', in that they deny climate change.

There certainly is such a thing as a Holocaust Denier (although even then I personally wouldn't have associated the Nazis with Holocaust *denial* as such) but they deny a separate thing.

There was a good point made that only people who aren't thought of as smart have anything to gain by joining MENSA. For example, if you found out Stephen Hawking was a member of MENSA you might just about manage a "well, figures" but if you found out Sarah Palin was in it you'd go "wow, never expected that".

Even then, I didn't realise he made a Nazi reference.

Ridiculously ambitious guarantees are common from small companies in lots of industries. You'll find sole trader carpenters who'll happily slap 200 year guarantees on house repairs because why not? It sounds good and they probably won't be around for it.

I'm not sure we mean the same things by "Goodwining"

Flashcrashes usually end when the exchange halts trading. I don't recognise "...and then quickly recovers", I do recognise "[someone pulls the plug and then] the SEC undoes transactions to protect..."

The thing that gets me about this story is the sheer number of "I was born following my GPS into a desert, you merely adopted it" comments that say "you obviously/clearly/etc haven't driven in Australia" Is it all the same guy?

Its noxious and thick atmosphere. It's hotter than Mercury as a result.

I suppose there's definitely no reason to stop the elevator for calls made inside the car if the car's at its unloaded weight (ie. empty). I think you don't want to start clearing instructions for UX reasons if there are people inside the car, though. I imagine face recognition technology could lead to situations of even identifying which passenger pressed all the buttons..

The community will also only validate code that is frequently looked at. The vast majority of Github will never be accessed once it's been committed, never mind carefully analysed by experienced third parties for security issues.

Absolutely. When you're sued you can go to court and try to prove it was fair use. All of the costs, none of the certainty.

That said, this is not to say that failing at something can never have consequences. Sure, you're just messing about with things you don't (initially, anyway) understand and you're learning new things but that doesn't make it all OK if you do something wrong.

Perhaps this is an issue with the way people learn to code. The coder who doesn't understand what a license is a kid with the internet -- there's no senior programmer watching over them providing supervision and pointing out mistakes.

Yeah, it's definitely regional. I'm Scottish and even we don't deep fry turkeys. You roast them in the oven and it's delicious.

What do you mean by "seems to"? Does the other side not say they're agreeing to your changes?

No, this has actually been tried. It's very difficult to show that someone is using information in any particular way. The main way is to take their data processing software apart and see what it does with what. Doing that on a large scale is seriously not going to fly with anyone -- neither businesses: revealing trade secrets, nor individuals: it's not an effective way of protecting privacy.