I mean like...I use MacOS but my whole Rails setup is in docker containers running linux, so ...

This only works if there is cooperation from those spreading the disease. Maybe I have an overly devious mind but one of my first thoughts was when is some ISIS nut-job going to get themselves purposefully infected and start planting bodily fluids on every subway handrail, mall restroom door handle, drinking fountain leaver, escalator hand-rail, ketchup-dispenser, and whatever else they can think of, before they get too sick to move, and then finish it off by collapsing in the middle of some very public place, causing panic. Don't tell me there aren't at least a few sick bastards out there thinking along these lines. All it would take is one or two of these cases and the shear panic it would induce would shut this country down for a long time.

Actually, 64-bit memory allows for better security. You can randomize the memory layout of a program much better with more space.

Are you a super-taster? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster

If you are, it may give you a term for the special diet you may be looking for.

Certainly a shortage of jobs there. Or perhaps, well paying jobs. It's a lot easier finding a java/web/cloud gig.

I find it interesting how much private information is exposed in that screenshot of the lab report. I would probably have cropped it differently or blurred it out before plastering it all over the interwebs...

Many of the better note-taking apps have a palm-rest/palm-detection mode for writing with a stylus.

How about we first try and get america on the 24h clock. I noticed that even this crazy posting still listed things in am/pm.

Actually, the real brilliant bit behind metric is that it has evolved so that nearly everything is derived from our definition of mass and the vibration rate of cesium. Even so, we are looking to redefine mass to be based on something more grounded.

Sony finally won the standards war but is almost irrelevant because people now watch stuff on-demand via streaming.

I joined when you used to have to belong to a university network and it tied into your university email account. It was a nice place for students so sure, and it was good to be exclusive. It kept things more intelligent at first and seemed more adult. This was the era of myspace and social networking really hadn't taken off yet. I guess the perception was that only 13 year old idiots and pervs join these contentless voids and that's really why I and my friends resisted at first. But then it started to become useful and we couldn't avoid it. Within 2 years or so, everyone was allowed on it and facebook changed it's layout and feature set about a dozen times to reflect this. It's less about professional now and more about social. Everyone is on it and the desire for exclusivity is long gone since we realize it's just better to have everyone on it. That's kind of the point of these things.

Aren't the Egyptians telling you guys to stay out!? Maybe it's better if you don't get involved for once.

It's really nice that he's decided to do this awesome thing with his money, but the system that allows this is horrible. Instead of allocation of this helpful money by democracy, we've settled on a system that appears to be out of the middle ages. We have a set of wealthy lords who then decide what to do with all the money, with basically zero accountability.

"Philanthropy" is an unethical way to allocate society's resources. When something good comes out of it, we praise that particular "lord", but we've ignored all the others who squandered their money on jewels and yachts while poor people starve and die of diseases.