No kidding. The iPhone app the article mentions is rated 2 stars on the app store. Tons of complaints that it doesn't do what it is described to do.

And eventually we wouldn't need to spend a quarter of our life times in school.

Funny, but not really accurate. The concept of an absolute sense of time doesn't make sense when we're talking about objects so far away.

Maintaining standards of aesthetics in your code is the cheapest and easiest way to ensure it does what it's supposed to do. Simple logic: if I have a hard time reading your code, I might misunderstand its intention and modify it the wrong way.

The university has LAN based connectivity as well as 802.11 connectivity. 802.11 connectivity is free - as long as you can get on at the network level you're free to use it. LAN based connectivity is obviously only available in classrooms and in dorm rooms.

Now at the beginning of school year, each LAN port is "reset", in the sense that it becomes unregistered. When a user connects next (this means the new student to move into that dorm room), it will be served a special page upon any HTTP request. That special page will check the UserAgent of the browser and, if Windows is indicated, will be prompted to run a security scan of the PC (windows-only software). If any other OS (or a router) is indicated, then the user is let through un-scanned, for the rest of the year.

Seems to me, that while technically more support is provided to Windows users, anyone would prefer to connect as a non-Windows user.

Actually the IT you see at Joe Papercompany is different from the IT you need to successfully run a large company whose business is tied to the IT (such as Google or certain types of finance companies). So "most IT" that most people here think they know about is dramatically different from the top 10% of IT.

I believe the point is to model how people are using the trains rather than the status of the trains. How many people/who/when are the questions they want to answer.

Such as in any subway system in China. Where reception doesn't end at the subway entrance. People are making calls and surfing the web while riding the train.

I wonder what happens when people start selling portable "camera controllers". The intended purpose can be overridden and the nefarious purpose can propagate easily.

While funny, the sad thing is that technology doesn't really exist: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shield[/url]

The idea is that if they're chained together in the direction of flow they have less probability of hampering with each others' flow. But if they're lined up perpendicular to the flow wouldn't that just cause a clog?

I'll respond to your proposal directly and point out the flaws. Patent trolls only exist because a) the patent system exists and b) it's not possible to differentiate the "trolls" from the legitimate inventors. Either you solve b) and remove this problem of trolls altogether, or any solution targeting patent trolls would altogether undermine a). So in short, your solution is the roundabout way of removing the patent system.

Is going to know the master character's password, dig a tunnel through the sewage, and get the warden arrested!

Sure this is a site for nerdy news, but this literally has no impact on anything. It's just a number.

Can someone in the know help interpret the article? Is this an engineering breakthrough or a scientific breakthrough? From my understanding the wavelength of light is a physical limitation to optically viewing small objects. Does this somehow provide us a way to go beyond that limit or is this simply getting closer to it?