I for one have no interest in such targeted advertising, and until they become ubiquitous I'll avoid any store that has these.

Can you imagine where this will go? Shelf notices that you're overweight and you picked up a candy bar? Screen says, "Are you sure you want to buy that?" This will work great until someone puts a sticker over the sensor bar.

Ha, if people think C is dangerous, then they should definitely switch to Forth.

"Otherwise, crashing from sufficient altitude is usually sufficient."

Except in the two cases where Iran claims to have captured our drones, presumably while they were flying.

I understand the safety concerns. I would argue that you have similar safety issues with ordinance as well, and there are well known ways of dealing with those.

One has to wonder why these machines don't have some form of self-destruct mechanism built in for situations where they are legitimately shot down or otherwise captured.

Or perhaps it's a nefarious CIA plot to sneak a Stuxnet-like virus into Iran's C&C infrastructure:

Tech 1: We have successfully downloaded the ROM from the drone into our systems. Allahu-Akbar!

Tech 2: Huh. Why have our radar and air defense systems suddenty gone off-line?

Amen times 100. Our admins recently upgraded our Confluence install and now all I have access to is the WYSIWYG editor, and I hate it. I used to write a lot of longer documents in Emacs with Confluence wiki markup and then paste the text in when I was done... now that doesn't work so well. Editing any non-trivial document is a RPITA now. And people wonder why I still work a lot on the command-line : I don't need someone else's thoughts on how I should work getting in my way. P.S. Get off my lawn.

It's the second time a Dragon has berthed with the ISS and delivered cargo. The first one occurred earlier this year and was a "demonstration" mission showing that it was possible. This was the first "real" mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTS_Demo_Flight_2#Payload

I keep a 17oz bottle on my desk at work: if anything it needs bigger bottles. :-)

Running twm on my university's portrain mode gray-scale X-Terms...

Until she starts laughing...

Piers Anthony's Xanth series can be a lot of fun, especially the early ones. Eight may be a bit young for them though. I'll second the suggestions of Narnia and The Hobbit (LotR is not engaging enough for the average 8 y/o IMHO).

Let's not beat around the bush! I say Microsoft has known USG agents working on the systems intentionally putting holes in the OS that can then be leveraged for zero-day attacks against other governments. Balmer is in cahoots I say! CAHOOTS!

I did not mean to infer that you, or any of the creators of Julia, were making the comparison, and I hope it was taken as such.

C : GeneralPurposeProgramming :: Fortran : Numerical Computing The title of the post is off, or misleading, or ignorant.

My wife suffers from insomnia and often reads in the middle of the night: having a light on her kindle would be a godsend.

And now that we've been paying AT&T for 4.5 years of unlimited service, they are taking it away because our devices made it easier to consume the data. [...] Now AT&T is calling foul? AT&T should either stop grandfathering the plan forward or leave us alone.

Amen. Are so many people grandfathered into the unlimited plans that they feel the need to throttle us? Really? Piss off.