Why not go out into space? We have the resources, if we can stop wasting it. We have the technology, if we can get some projects together to actually do it. Hell, we haven't progressed in space in 40 years, since Skylab. That's pathetic. Right now small companies are doing what it took NASA and the military orders of magnitudes more time and resources to do, send stuff into space. Screw Apollo. That was not the way that the scientists wanted to do, with a couple of guys in a tin can for a couple of days, but we had to get it done before the "end of the decade." This Manhattan Project. The best and brightest given all possible resources working on a common goal. The only thing stopping us from being permanently on the moon is the apathy of the population and the corruption of the elite.

We need to stop looking inward toward made-up worlds, and just look up into the sky where the real adventure is. That's our universe, and we're still stuck on this tiny little rock. This has nothing to do with science. This has everything to do with being scared to take those first steps.

Very true, but that's 5% of normal production when there's already a shortage. The DRAM market is highly cyclical, so this is coming at the point in the cycle where prices are already on the rise due to a shortage of production, which is just about the worst time for this to happen.

Agreed. So they emailed NASDAQ. Who at NASDAQ? Who picks up and reads that email? Was it just the web site tech support number? That might get read only once a week if you are lucky. Unless they actually spoke to a manager/director at NASDAQ who is responsible for security, then they were not really talking to "NASDAQ."

Only the arrogant idiot who thinks that he is smarter than the instructors believe that lectures are worthless. Or maybe I just went to a school where people actually took classes because they were challenging, not because they were easy A's. University is probably the only opportunity that most of us will have to try to glean some of the brilliance of the top researchers in their fields. Why would you want to throw away any minute of lecture?

Yeah, it's called building where the river DOESN'T flood. Common sense is often bad for business, especially all those contractors ready for public dollars to build dams and sewers where they would not be needed except that some business decided that it's cheaper to build there.

It shows that the best or at least most respected in the business can still be stupid when it comes to simple things like backups. Seriously, there is no reason in this day or age to lose more than a couple of transactions if you are careful. Someone kick Linus in the ass for being so sloppy and lazy.

This is purely publicity and funding for the "Program." Let's be serious. Donating their $35 does not in any way make them eligible for anything. Everyone knows that, or they are delusional. If anyone is going to Mars, they will be chosen based a long sequence of qualifications and skills, and sending in $35 is not one of those.

You win a cigar! (pun intended)

The majority of people who smoke are using nicotine to increase their dopamine. Reduce this need with bupropion (wellbutrin), and you reduce the cravings for nicotine. Trying to quit smoking makes you irritable and depressed. Wonder of wonders. This is why the smokers are so vehement about their "right to smoke." Can't take away the baby's candy without a lot of crying.

Because in both cases it was displayed as something that SHOULD make you embarrassed, something to be ashamed of. That's why it was supposed to be funny. If anything, your argument is the absolute opposite of your position.

Any system that lets someone be elected by accident is absolutely appalling. Australia would do well to reevaluate their system so that this doesn't happen in the future.

Politics and national leadership is far too important to be decided by absurd errors.

The argument is that it lets minors subvert their parents' wishes. If the parents wanted their kids being able to access porn, they would have turned the filter off in the first place.

That just means that Apple is guaranteed to get the same price as any other vendor. I'm still not seeing how this is price fixing, that is, keeping a price artificially low or high when you have total control of a product. There's gotta me more to it.

The only way I've been able to implement proper security at any site has been from the ground up. You find a couple of developers or application support folks with a clue, and get their systems and processes into shape. At the same time, streamline and increase stability. Hopefully other teams will see the benefits of your changes, and follow suite. The only security that comes from on high is security theater, e.g. PCI compliance auditing, which never addresses any real security issues, only check boxes to justify the auditor's fee.

Don't kid yourself. They've been there from day 1. One of my managers 12 years ago was an ex-NSA math PhD who spent her time there cracking encryption.

I think that's the reason that so many people DO hate Microsoft, everything they've managed to do the last few decades, or in most cases, not managed to do.