You're forgetting the old USA mantra: if it was good enough for Britain, it's good enough for us.

The 5mm Hg error isn't...too terribly bad, but 10mm Hg error or higher is unconscionable.

I don't think looking at it as 4% error is the most useful comparison. It might be better to compare the error with the distance between different blood pressure categories, which is generally a 20 mm Hg jump for systolic, or 10 for diastolic.

Someone with hypertension problems (i.e. the kind of person that might have a blood pressure cuff at home) would care quite a bit about an error of 10 mm Hg.

I saw the headline and immediately came to the comments looking for this post. Thank you for not disappointing :)

I revile hatred and bigotry. Yet I love the internet.

How can these both be true? Oh internet, you are a sweet sweet mystery.

"Do the riskiest part of starting a business somewhere else. Then, when it reaches maximum future potential, bring it to Silicon Valley so we can buy it out from under you for a song and make a ton of money."

Still less infuriating than patents.

That's hilarious. You go right ahead and then come back and tell us your cool idea about a global infrastructure that can't be controlled by the organizations who build and maintain said infrastructure.

What are the chances I've slept with your girlfriend? There are effectively infinite potential girlfriends. If we take it as possible that I can pick up girls at all, we must assume that somewhere along the way I become a philandering charlatan, switching girlfriends regularly, and that over a truly infinite timeline, I will sleep with infinite girlfriends. So we must assume that yes, I have slept with your girlfriend, along with everyone elses, ever.

I don't accept the premise that we can establish a theoretical scenario describing the number of real vs simulated universes, postulate that we are a in randomly selected one of those universes, and then satisfactorily conclude that we are probably in one category or the other.

"Amazon: 61.0% male, 39.0% female"

Wow, really? I mean, it's not proportional to gender population, but it's so much closer than what I expect to see everywhere else in the tech world. Good job, Amazon!

"AMX claimed that the two accounts were only used for debugging,"

No, you only use them for debugging.

Even if we choose to trust that you're not using these accounts for nefarious purposes (which we shouldn't), that's not the point. The point is that they exist at all, and just because you created them doesn't mean someone else cannot use them.

For enthusiasts, the most relevant part of the live feed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"Firewalls are supposed to prevent campaigns from viewing data gathered by their rivals."

Firewalls? Please. Anyone who knows anything about what a firewall is knows that firewalls do not do this sort of thing. Firewalls are 100% about controlling which ports are open or closed on a computer, and under what circumstances. They have nothing whatsoever to do with separating customer data, and anything you have that does that is called something else.

Listen, DNC: I know you need to give us a lie that minimizes your legal liability in these sorts of situations. Please prepare a plausible lie in the future.

The USA's continued cooperation with Russia on the ISS mission has been one of the many things that keeps me assured that we're not going to just completely devolve into war, because nobody wants to come to blows over that particular asset. And now we're trying to get out of ISS involvement "as quickly as we can."

Wow.

Two reasons:

1. The expected moral indignation of those in our population who believe prostitution is just bad. I don't think there's much constructive discussion to be had here one way or the other.

2. Prostitution is *heavily* associated with human trafficking, along with other behaviors that boil down to a girl being forced to sell her body, rather than wanting to. This is the reason that really matters.

News flash: companies are trying to sell you things, and most companies will lie as much as they can without losing face or legal reprisal to get you to buy their things.

I'm still glad the story is posted, but it's not even remotely surprising.