This would be perfect to deploy in the National Radio Quiet Zone. As it is right now no one can have wireless in their home within thirty miles of the GBT.

Google has logged something like 10,000 miles without any accidents. The car is aware of its environment, and capable of compensating for things like red lights, road closures, and map inaccuracy.

There are still plenty of places that will send you a widely accepted cert for like $10. Just search for cheap SSL certificates.

You could code your application to be tolerant of those kinds of outages. The services backing feature X aren't available? Then don't render the controls for feature X on the page.

This is a good reason. High schools aren't built like a modern college lecture hall with a set of outlets at every other seat. To support 30 students on netbooks you'd need a daisy-chained fire hazard mess of power strips.

That's just bad code. The author of the page should at the very least be putting the call to Google Analytics below the footer. Preferably, they'd make it a callback to document.ready().

How are prices in the developed world "cheaper than capitalistic pricing would otherwise allow"? What does that even mean? Do you think there's an artificial ceiling on music prices?

That's just Apple refusing to support a DRM scheme other than their own, especially one that essentially broke Apple's DRM.

Unencumbered media would still have loaded onto an iPod just fine. If Real weren't so incompetent, they would've pioneered DRM-free music sales, and might have saved themselves from becoming irrelevant.

This post is a perfect illustration of why I can use attendance at a for-profit as a signal that a candidate's critical thinking skills are deficient. They didn't consider the options and choose the one that offered the best value or best job placement opportunities, they chose the one with the best sales pitch. I wouldn't hire such a candidate, and I especially wouldn't hire that candidate if the job called for making purchasing decisions.

You'll pay more in tuition alone for a disreputable degree from a for-profit than you would for everything –books, room and board, fees –at a state school. My local community college charges less per credit hour for an out of state student than U Phoenix does for their AA credit hours! Residents pay a third of what out-of-staters pay!

Is it just me, or does this not work on Chrome?

It seems like you've confused the bay area with Los Angeles. It's currently a balmy 51 F in Cupertino.

Water is a fantastic shield. The halving thickness of water is 18cm. At 1.8 meters away, you'd only have .5 ^ 10 of the radiation being emitted at the source, or 0.098%. Increase it to 3.6 meters and you're at .5 ^ 20, or .0000954%.

Not to mention, the material that's emitting radiation, if it were to get loose, would quickly settle on to the seabed. These are the heaviest of metals.

He didn't guess her password, he guessed the answer to the secret question used to reset her password. If I remember right, the question was, "Where did you meet your husband?" The answer –"Wasilla High."

Coverage of this story would be much better if it communicated how terrible it is to secure an account with such un-secret "secret" knowledge.

Why is Bing your default search if think Google usually yields better results?

Of course you need to have elevated privileges to write to /Applications, just throw it in ~/Applications.