This makes all those kid detecive stories about kids busting international spy operations SO much more believeable.

Yep, we were all thinking the noise could be filtered, this guy just was the first to act.

The school probably doesn't realize how much it's going to cost to install 20-30 electrical outlets in every classroom. If its for learning, they can't rely on the students to keep 'em charged.

... must be really bad at math, or they would have been a little nervous about the line on the balance sheet that reads: Total Liabilities: $6,000,000,000

... if they would just install a heated driveway. Like on http://landscaping.about.com/cs/winterlandscaping/f/upfront_cost.htm

Cloud computing is just a little step above web site hosting. Instead of some online space accessible through HTTP, they give you a little more - a virtual machine with an external IP, for example. You get charged for the convenience of not having to: buy hardware, set up a firewall, set up an internet connection, obtain space, obtain electricity. Sometimes it is scalable so you can run exactly as many virtual machines as you need for a particular task, and it's great if you temporarily want some powerful, flexible web hosting.

Alternately, wouldn't it also be plausable that her immune system adapted to attack growth hormones so that they cannot exist in her system at a reasonable concentration for any length of time? This would explain why hormone therapy had little effect, and she seems to have a unique immune system from TFA. I think this would be a (relatively!) easy thing to test for.

I wish more companies would do this with patches. Historically, some non-trivial percentage of all patches (to some OS or software) also caused a new bug under some small percentage (like 10%) of the possible software configurations out there. It's better to patch, cause issues, and roll back on a few thousand users than a few hundred thousand. A week later, the quality for all users is the same.

My favorite from just last week: I opened up a brand new HP Vista box of someone I know that they got on air miles to install a TV tuner card, only to find that there were no expansion slots at all, except for the one AGP slot the graphics card was already filling. At least it had a graphics card; the on-board video was crap and even had plastic covers screwed over the connectors just in case someone might accidentally try to use it. The plastic covers and the expansion slot cover used star screws. How badly do you not want people to upgrade? This enforces my mantra "Never buy an assembled computer when you know how to build one from parts."

Some medical news, like TFA, sounds very promising. My first reaction is to wonder and hope that it is more than a few percent effective.

Look, I agree 100% that Development platform != Target platform. It's just a joke given the amount of technology we have that a single c++ source file witha moderate number of header files included takes 2 seconds to compile, so that a few hundred thousand lines of source code takes more than 3 hours to compile, and updating intellisense drowns one of the processors on the machine for a full 5 minutes after a rebuild all. It's no wonder we need 4 GB of RAM and 2 processors and 200GB hard drives on all of our dev machines, which is ridiculous overkill for running our CRM application, which still installs from a single CD and has a 15MB or so footprint in RAM. P.S. it's good BC bud.

Just try ESXi if your hardware will support it.... we have it running at work like a dream.

And the easiest way to do it is make Visual Studio (or your compiler and IDE of choice) faster. If Visual Studio is fast, developers won't feel the need to upgrade their machines, and so do not need to perpetuate this cycle.

Now we can reliably generate a random number between 1 and 6 millions of times a day.