Yup, exactly this. The Harper administration has for the past few years been increasingly exerting control on how the public service disseminates information to the public. In the past (before 2007) a bureaucrat usually only needed the approval of their direct supervisor to respond to media inquiries, unless the topic was particularly sensitive. Now it the system of Message Event Proposals created in 2007, approval frequently needs to come directly from the Prime Minister's Office, even for totally routine and innocuous communications.

I think the biggest problem is, reports on the last ice age might offend the Conservative Party's core supporters - who know that there's no such thing as 13,000 years ago, and even if there was there'd be both dinosaurs and cavemen at the same time.

In the academic world you can. Why do you think authors cite themselves, when referring to research they've previously published? If you couldn't plagiarize your OWN WORKS, they wouldn't bother to do so - at least if being lazy was the prime motivation for plagiarism.

I was going to post exactly this. The sample Google Chrome image in the article is immediately obvious as a fake because real Chrome warning pages have proper subject-verb agreement and don't have character encoding images. I imagine Firefox warning pages don't have the two buttons overlapping.

I'm really forced to wonder this about a lot of malware and phishing scams - I somewhat frequently get e-mails telling me I won an "iPhone-4G" on "Facebooks", how hard it is to get those right?

At the same time, I think you hit on exactly why they don't bother with this. The bottom side of the intelligence bell curve is still half of the people who will see the page, and they are the same people who are more likely to fall for it even when there are no errors with the English. I imagine it simply doesn't pay to shell out any amount of money for proofreading.

I am a software tester. I find bugs. I document them thoroughly. When I get a chance to poke around in a release, often most of the bugs I've found are still present.

Bug-fix development, especially close to release time, is all about triage. That late in the process, the goal isn't to have the software be bug free - far too late for that - but rather to fix the very worst ones. Unfixed bugs either get patched in the future or sit around as known issues, which hopefully the support team is made aware of.

It's not being cheap, and it's not being wasteful - at a certain point you can't afford to delay the release any further.

I believe this is a drug-addled reference to the phrase in section 3 of the Java license agreement: "You acknowledge that Licensed Software is not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility."

What that has to do with jailbreaking, however...

I don't have a car

I don't have a mobile phone

My public health care is supplemented by employer, not paid out of pocket

I don't have a gym membership

I don't have an account with a drug dealer

I don't have ovaries

I don't have an NPR membership

So I only have a home phone line, incl. broadband. what kind of poll is this?

Are you seriously thinking of stealing a rare book from a public library? Wow.

The only options a decent person has is to tell them what they have, or to read & return it like any library book.

Quoi?

I'm in Ontario. Passports work fine and are commonly used, photo health cards do under somewhat more limited circumstances, (I believe people aren't allowed to ask for them but they are valid ID if offered - I don't know if that's law or merely common practice) and, if 18 or older, you can get an an Age of Majority card which is as valid as a drivers license or passport.

Me, I carry my passport when I anticipate a situation where I will need to show ID, maybe once a month at most.

I don't know about bluetooth, but for lots of applications USB serial ports won't work because USB operates at 5V and serial is supposed to be 12V.

Some devices handle the far-below-spec voltage gracefully, but results are unpredictable at best. But that's ok, I've got my trusty PCI serial card... oh.

Citation dutifully provided.

In particular, figured 3C, 3D, 3E. Of course this isn't exactly what GP was saying. It's more like "Real wages for American male workers below the 50th percentile declined rapidly through the early 80s and have not fully recovered."