My Audi S5 makes an adorable sound when it changes gear. It's the result of a device that spits gas on the exhaust for that exact purpose. I must say I dont care if it's fake - I always have a (fake) orgasm when I hear it. Here's Top Gear UK's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So you tell me it cost you $10,000+ just for asserting your constitutional rights? I bet the founding fathers could never thought about this one. Anyway, God bless you man, you're my hero. You made a lot of people think. Peace.

Nobody should expect fairness from police officers. Once you face one, you are at their merci. IF you tap on your rights you are already paying $500/hr through the nose to some shady lawyer. Ask this dude what's the size of his legal bills. You guys born in this country dont realize it but the piece of American legislation that most robs the people from their freedom (vis-a-vis Rousseau's Social Contract) is arguably the disorderly conduct's piece. It dearly steals you from all the tools to stand up against law enforcement. Alas, even quivering too much in face of being arrested might be constructed as disorderly conduct. You guys dont realize the "breaking the peace" concept in which disorderly conduct is built is simply laughable at in most countries, especially in the Latin world. As a foreigner having lived in this country (legally btw) for more than 10 years, I dont fcking dare flexing any of my rights in front of any kind of police enforcement agency. (yeah I know the Bill of Rights concerns anyone living in the US, not only citizens).

Bonuses are to KEEP employees, especially developers, not to motivate them.
See for example Activision vs Infinity Ward, where the plan was to pay less bonus so employees would feel like leaving for the new formed company.
Interesting I was reading "Drive" from Daniel Pink, which talks exactly about it. One of the examples was the SOMA experiment where people would eventually actually work LESS after receiving a "bonus".
http://www.laymanpsych.com/2009/06/money-as-a-counter-productive-motivating-factor/

In Clinton's equivalent words, "It's the KICK, stupid!".

All of you please email me. I'm sure to find a place to all of you immediately if you know what glibc is.

hyboucher [at] gmail.com

So most if not all open places owned by private companies (eg check IBM Plaza in Chicago) forbid skateboards and bicycles in its premises.

Reason? Liability. If someone gets hurt the company is fully liable. How can this argument be fully accepted for physical spaces and fully denied for virtual ones?

Maybe just because it fits very well someone's rhetoric agenda.

OMG I have tons of jobs **in my company alone** for hardcore folks, all at 100k+ and HR would find nobody. I recently hired one person after 4 months searching in Chicago & NY. The phrase "knowledge of C library/glibc" would promptly disqualify most.

Would radio be an alternative altogether? Just discard all the IP protocol stuff, we are sending a single bit. Distance between London and New York is about 5,500 km so given proper radio wave propagation conditions (300,000 km/s), which may need a bounce in the ionosphere (add 2ms) http://www.qsl.net/vu2msy/propagation.htm this trip should take around 20 ms, ballpark number. A 240m medium wave band http://www.tpub.com/neets/book10/40a.htm cycle is around 1MHz, with a respective period of 1 usec. Let's allow 1000 cycles for a proper DFT algorithm http://dsp.vscht.cz/musoko/pdf/matlab02_phone.pdf http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/TacCom/papers99/07_1.pdf to detect energy at a specific frequency, that's a single 1 msec added right there. Therefore ***theoretically*** we could use ham radio to pulse that bit faster than any fiber network given proper atmospheric conditions, even counting a trip to the ionosphere.

This post http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/012109_Hibernia_Atlantic_Lights_New_Fiber_Route says it will take 74.0 ms to go Amsterdam-Boston But this (Wired Mag) http://www.wired.com/magazine/ff_internetplaces/ says it will take 2.8 ms for a single bit to traverse the Atlantic - SouthPort, England to Canada. This path is a subset of the one above. Where is the bulk of the difference going? Routers?

Problem is to keep those lasers stable enough on the surface, sometimes kilometers away from firm rock. Also, would lasers go through heavy cumulonimbus?