But that doesn't work if this is being picked up by a delivery service...

Friends don't let friends use Bing! Seriously, this kind of shyte happens when marketing folks try to run a technology company... :(

No surprise, considering how morally bankrupt this country has become in the last 4 years...

Well, it would really help if people would read the linked article. To things for starters: a) the original manufacturer does NOT charge $11000 for a valve b) the guys doing the 3D print did not get threatened with legal action, the manufacturer just didn't give them any help, so the had to re-engineer the valve But that wouldn't make such great headlines... :(

Ruby all the rage? 10 years ago, maybe. But then it was kind of born dead, all the hype aside, just like Haskell. Objective-C got the death sentence when Apple released Swift, as they were the only one using it anyway. But I am not so sure how quick R and in particular Perl are going to die, the later has been proven pretty resilient for a couple decades now... ;-)

Yes, that is one reason why I absolutely avoid using Python. Or any of the other fad languages. I am using Object Pascal for pretty much all of my project and a lot of possible bugs won't even allow the program to compile. There are even type checks in more "open" languages, like C11, but then I noticed that a lot of people just turn off all the warnings about possible bad conversions, just to get their code compiled instead of fixing the problem properly...

...one small step for mankind...

A few years back I used to be (despite an Army paratrooper) in charge of a platoon to serve as boarding parties on pirate patrol in the Indian Ocean (Operation Atalanta) on board of one of our frigates. We moved in and out of the harbor of Djibouti, passing through the Gulf of Aden, a very busy shipping lane comparable to the situation down in Malaysia/Singapore. The ship did not rely just on radar/GPS to navigate those waters, but there were at all times at least 4 lookouts, in all directions, not only the one it was moving in, at night with NVG, that were scanning the surroundings at all time. While it was easy on patrol to miss those smaller dhows and particular the skiffs, specially in choppy sea way out on the ocean, there was no way that anyone would miss to spot a huge oil tanker or container ship on a collision course. There has to be a notorious lack of responsibility and oversight, among sailors and officers, both on board and in higher command, for this to happen repeatedly. Ignorance and arrogance kills...

And even more, the actual reason as to why the finger printing is to be done is to prevent that the same person (child) gets registered and receives services under more than one name. Children change their appearance very quickly, so a photo on an ID doesn't serve much of a purpose for them...

First programming language I learned was Pascal. First on paper only, then on a DEC PDP-8, way back in '76. Then used 6502 assembly (by hand) on a KIM-1, my first own computer...

Don't know what hair color that bimbo sports, but that last sentence certainly qualifies her as legally Blonde...

Ouch, that's stings...

At least here in LA, pretty much all of the Uber (Lyft, etc) drivers are among the worst driver on the road. Barely adhering even to the simplest traffic rules and the audacity to threaten you when you complain that they are sitting in a red curbed bus stop zone (clearly stating "No Stopping" in white letters on top of it) holding up public transit. No, this is not a single occurrence with a single driver, it's at least 80% of them, I experience this EVERY SINGLE DAY...

Makes you wonder how many more of those (armed) airheads are out there...

+1 While 40mm thick would actually bother me, some of the recent developments of those thin phones are simply ridiculous, probably because they can't come up with anything really useful to distinguish them from their competitors. So they start competing with gimmicks like how thin it is. Bending iPhone anyone? Sorry, rather keep/include (micro)SD card slots and 3.5mm earphone jacks, that makes such devices far more usable than making it another mm thinner,..