The real advance will be ultrasonic welding of metallic-glass beads.

I'm serious :)

Yeah, sure.

And for 20 years, grateful Neanderthals left choice carcasses by the cave of the one who figured partridge soup helped the a'choos.

They were happy the inventor of this diagnostic test and theraputic method was licensing his discovery on an FRAND basis.

Because sin is still sin.

Regarding the two Old Testament commandments above:
- the first doesn't describe a squinty person as sinful
- the second - the 'hair commandment' was apparently against an idolatrous fashion of the time.
    (Source: http://bible.cc/leviticus/19-27.htm)

To be fair to your point, the Catholic church is itself idolatrous due to its worship of Mary, belief in apparitions and superstitions.

uh. replying to undo mistaken negative comment

0 to infinity? :D That's makes it hard on us summary-readers! Now we must go read the article.

What _is_ that "blur" thing you spoke of?

Uh, no... Merely getting the top 20 motherboard manufacturers to do thiat would do just fine...

In fact after 4 or 5 include the keys, the rest will be scrambling over each other to "let their computers run Linux"

Signatures can be revoked. Is it more difficult (or attractive) for 20 manufacturers to revoke keys, or for Microsoft to?

If you think you're luggage makes you pretty, you're carrying some serious luggage 'up there.

Unless the rotate the surface to cool it down (with what? something with high thermal mass)

Rotating, shimmering, armor plate on every inch of a tank surface!

1. Don't be a theorist -- profile your code! Only consider code for deletion that's not actually used in production
2. If the code you want to delete code can't be profiled (e.g. its within a method), be creative... refactor it out into a method and profile.... Or write a log entries to disk.
3. Now delete the code - be bold!
4. ... But make sure your tests pass
5. Get your change reviewed
6. Get your build UAT tested by 'the business'... perhaps by bundling with other minor changes
7. Along with a deployment plan, have a rollback plan (and a rollback build).

You notice I didn't say "use version control". Version control is good for managing the development process. Its not a shortcut to manage the entire software change process.

Have your forward-date tested the edibility of your canned spam?

If you plan to eat it in 2038, you really, really should, :)

I've seen a vendor issue a super-urgent patch. IIRC, it contained an update to an expiring CA certificate. They could have forseen this issue with time-shift testing of the type you did (which 'breaks' your test, but it also proves the need to install update CA certs by a future date)

My other post has an example why time-shift testing is important.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3356429&cid=42472583
(It was the same vendor in both cases)

See this link for an example: http://www.wmusers.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-5470.html

webMethods' 'Trading Networks' B2B integration software (now owned by Software AG) used a GUID-generator routine which created 24-byte GUIDs for processing B2B documents. One of the inputs to this routine was the number of milliseconds between UTC and UNIX epoch.

One day in 2004, the progress of time caused 25-byte GUIDs to be created. Trading Networks tried to insert these into a database column whose width was 24 bytes. So, at the same instant worldwide, none of their customers used this software could process B2B transactions!

Cool, but keep count of those rapidly decreasing neuronal telomeres... as pot snips them away.

Me, I prefer my brain cells regenerate when I need them. Like, when I get old

One last thing - marijuana is neuroprotective, but the likely mechanism is this...
[ http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_science1.shtml ]

"Perhaps the current best guess for how these chemicals [Cannabinoids] provide their protective effects is that their general dampening of neural activity reduces excitotoxicity (damage caused by overly excited neurons)."

That's right, it dopes the brain down...

A friend of mine is a heavy pot smoker in his late 40s. It has damaged his intellect and health (shaky hands, etc.) But he continues to defend his drug habit, except for this one thing...

He told me about a young friend of his, that he once introduced to pot. The young fellow had a psychotic episode _when smoking pot the first time_. Since then, he's not been right in the head (i.e its caused some sort of permanent mental damage).

Others can count this as hearsay, but I heard this first hand from someone who _loves_ pot. This study just backs that up. I'd urge you to kick the habit.