But adding a middle name and other information only helps if the article includes a different middle name (unlikely) and age (likely out of date).

I'd like to also mention that many job applications ask if you've ever been convicted of a felony so any competent HR person should see apparently conflicting information and research a bit further.

On a more realistic note, try contacting the newspaper and explain that you'd like them to add his middle name to the article so that when you add your middle name to your resume/CV it will be obvious if it isn't you. If they refuse, I would probably threaten to sue them for libel or contact the legal department or the "agent for service" and generally try to make it clear to them that it would be far easier to update the article with additional details differentiating you from the pedophile than to debate how the thousand-year history of defamation law applies to two people with the same name in court. Obviously consider consulting a lawyer if you're thinking about actually suing them. I'm pretty sure that if you sued the newspaper for libel it would make a pretty interesting court case because on one hand the article is defaming you and yet everything printed is (presumably) true about someone else with the same name.

PS. A good strategy to bump it down a couple of notches might have been to get a slashdot article about this above it in the search results by mentioning your real name.

Our qualifications for slashdot posting are way too slack. We let plenty of people who don't use proper grammar on the tubes.

First of all, going from 45nm to 32nm means that every transistor takes up half the space it used to. The choice then is between the same number of transistors per chip resulting in lower per unit cost or twice as many transistors per chip resulting in better performance. As usual, there will be some of both.

Some people need better single-core performance, some people need more cores, and some people just need lower power consumption. Not everyone needs the same thing, which is why there are different product lines (Server, Desktop, Mobile, and Netbook) each with different models.

Anyway, I'll go back to waiting for my program to finish; it's been almost 10 hours so I obviously fall into the needing better performance category.

The problem is that every large company (like banks) don't sign contracts with their customers. They have policies (which are impossible to find online by the way) but they change them and then claim they told you and then you're stuck paying $10 or something that's a pain in the butt but not worth fighting about.

And no, the free market obviously hasn't fixed it.

I've always wondered why bothering writing over a disk 5 times with zeroes. Generally, the read out from a bit is something like 0.980 or 0.020, which is obviously a 1 or a 0 (respectively), but look like they used to be a 0 or a 1 (respectively) before the last time they were overwritten or else they would look like a 0.995 or 0.005 or something. So wouldn't it make more sense to alternating writing over with 0's with 1's so that it would even harder to recover.

On a similar note, as a grad student in physics all the computer code I generate belongs to the university. However, most of the code I've written is either too short for anyone to care, or an expansion of something I GPLed before I became a student. So as an employee I can modify that code a whole bunch, but in the end it's still GPLed.

At least, I think so since IANAL.

The features I want to see in Mathematica are the ones that have been present since at least the last version of WordPerfect for DOS that I used: being able to press undo more than once and being able to press redo. Autosaving (or not crashing) would also be nice.

For those of you who have never used Undo in Mathematica it works like this: you're typing along and want to undo the last sentence. You hit Control-Z and one of two things happens:
1) It deletes one word; you get to delete the rest by hand.
2) It deletes a half dozen equations/formulas/programs. Sucks to be you if you didn't save before hitting undo.