That's what the title suggests, especially with the "super bacteria" moniker.

The same reason a 30 year old woman wants to spend all day in a room filled with first grade boys: some people actually enjoy teaching.

Can we stop parroting the media's current trend of "all adult males want to molest children"?

To be fair, most salary gains come through negotiation. Men tend to negotiate more aggressively than women, so it logically follows that men would tend to get higher salaries than women. I've met women in the same field as me with salaries as high or higher than mine; it's no coincidence that they were aggressive negotiators.

If person X will accept the job at $N and person Y will accept an equivalent job for $N-5000, why on earth should the employer pay person Y $N?

Sorry, but this is one situation where I believe the person feeling they're discriminated against is at fault. Want more? Ask for it. Not happy with the offer? Don't take it. I'll bet you'll also find that shy/introverted men tend to make less than extroverted men, also as a result of trying to avoid confrontations (read: negotiating).

I'm sure there's employer-caused discrimination in the hiring process in many places, but I don't think that comes through in wages. There are of course counterexamples all over the place, but I'm referring to the overall trend.

Depends. If you genuinely appreciate life more in spite of (or due to) the daily hammering of your hands, is that a bad thing*? The point of religion is to feel better about your life. Some people feel the need to make me feel better about my life using their methodology and try to shove their religion down my throat (or through my chest, depending how important it is to them) and that's not OK, but your peaceful church-on-Sunday folks that just say some crazy crap that doesn't compute tend to not hurt anyone.

* Medically, yes, duh. Your example might be a little more realistic if it was drinking your own urine, which is relatively harmless albeit weird. Most religious activities are (IMO) relatively harmless albeit weird, so that fits right in line. It's when people start fighting over it that we get problems.

Well, you either use the signed (secure) distribution method and guarantee that you got what you asked for, or you don't. If they don't want to distribute it in such a way that their signature can be verified, that's their business - but that means this kind of thing can happen.

Not that it would likely matter. Their lack of support for signed code means they probably would leak their private key, thus negating any gains it would otherwise bring (and then some, as you have misplaced trust rather than no trust at all)

Cue the Joker references.

iPhone 5 preorders more than doubled that of the 4S. Both their stock and profits are at record highs. Care to explain how that is a decline in momentum? I suggest not just repeating the same nonsensical crap tech pundits spew in an attempt to grab a few extra page views.

Google Maps (iOS = 5) never had turn by turn directions. If you care about the public transit directions, bookmark the web app which works nearly identically to the old native one.

I'm seeing apps that are only just starting to require iOS4... so it will probably be a while before 6 is a requirement. Certainly well after Apple sorts out its launch jitters (assuming they finally put a competent engineer on search, which numerous products of theirs over the years indicate has not happened)

Know your audience. As long as DARPA's research comes to the public eventually (we got the internet, after all) it's still beneficial. Quite possibly delayed and almost certainly more expensive than it should be, but slow and expensive progress is still progress.

It would be a false comparison if people switched their 3G (or LTE) phones to use EDGE. They don't.

Maybe you're working in the wrong industry? Everyone's different of course, but I've worked jobs I liked and jobs I disliked (to put it mildly), and also jobs I was merely content with. Someone would have to probably more than double my salary to make me go back to something I didn't actively enjoy.

No - tablets just aren't good for long-form writing (which happens to be very common at schools). I use mine for content creation all the time... just not stuff where I'd want a keyboard (anything more than two paragraphs).

Insufficient funding for public education would be fixed if CA could manage it's budget, and stop pissing away my taxes on ridiculous expenses. As would the awful roads, poor public transportation, and any other number of things.

*woosh*