It strikes me that software engineering is about creativity and innovative thinking as much as it is about what you can demonstrate on some academic, algorithm-centric technical test. Where's the test for that?

Interesting idea, but probably impractical. And I wonder how the trust but verify approach advocated that uses machine learning to look over the software engineer's would be viewed by the developer. Programming aid? or digital snoop?

Funny this should come up. Jay isn't the only one saying containers aren't ready for production. Just today I was reading that “58% of organizations are running Dockerized applications in production.” But that came from a select sample of "500 Docker developers and operations experts in various phases of deploying container-based technologies" per the Docker Survey 2016. Maybe they're in limited production implementations now within this limited population, but are enterprises really scaling up with container technology at this point for production apps? Or using it for core enterprise apps?

My understanding is that the information gathered is used not to uniquely identify people but to place them in interest buckets, people that fit a desirable demograhic, so that targeted advertising can be delivered to those groupings. Is that true in your situation? And if so, how small are the groupings of people? Hundreds of thousands? Hundreds? Dozens?

Whether or not you virtual keyboards will ever be good enough to replace a mechanical one may depend on what you're used to. It's a generational thing. http://blogs.computerworld.com/17622/will_touch_screens_kill_the_keyboard

The rate of energy density growth in servers has moderated (thanks to multicore designs and other developments) but it's still going up. Today most data centers still use computer room air conditioning systems to cool data center equipment. To get an idea of the size of the challenge when cooling high density racks, consider a fully loaded rack of server blades that consume 28kW of power. Now imagine putting a room air conditioner in your kitchen window, jamming nine ovens in the room, turning them all full on and trying to keep the room cool - and interior of the oven - no warmer than 81 degrees. That's the total BTUs of heat that must be removed from one rack of blades at Industrial Light and Magic, which is referenced in the story. And they have rows of these servers.

Still not great for the brand, but this site has more of a case that it's parody than did freelegoporn.

Interesting point. Here's another angle: Are they increasing compared to the number of brands? I suspect that the number of cybersquatting instances out there has grown faster (in percentage terms) than the growth in the number of brands that could be targeted. Cybersquatters tend to focus on the bigger, more well known brands. Instances of cybersquatting against the more well known brands is, apparently, still on the rise.

The blanked out image in the image gallery shows two Lego people engaged in a rear-guard action sex act. If you owned a company that had spent decades building a reputation for quality children's toys would you sit idly by while someone appropriated the name for a site dedicated to using your building blocks to create pornographic images and stop-motion animation movies for people with a Lego fetish?

I visited this site. There was nothing on the site to suggest it was parody. It looked like a site serving those with a Lego fetish.