There are a series of spots near the south pole you can also be. Start by drawing a circle 1 mile circumference around the south pole. Start a mile outside it. also works with a circle 1/2 mile circumference or 1/3 mile or 1/4 mile and so on.

Heaven forbid these politicians ever learn about the one time pad, they'll outlaw addition and subtraction too. Not to mention xor.

I have had several keyboards for 20 years with no sign of deterioration. I don't know if you can still get em like that any more tho. One point is I never have liked the "silent" keyboards. I like a good clacky feedback one so I know when I have pressed a key or not.

Perhaps he hasn't heard all about the one-time-pad?

Did they compare their results to countries without sports scholarship programs. Grit might be more important in sports than in acedemic pursuits

The light speed delay to Saturn (from Earth) would make it silly to even try. Even a 1.5 second delay to the Moon disorents most people to unusability.

Somehow this robot doesn't seem as creepy as the "big dog" we have seen so much of.

Well, you do learn to code in colledge too. It may be not the style the employer wants, but people who learn coding outside of classrooms may not be all that much better in the long run. Of course there are exceptions on both sides.

The guys who invented unix were trying to reinvent multics for small computers.

If you prefer to be locked in with with your propritetary software/codec/hardware, thats up to you, you can start your own wiki with your own rules.

For the rigorous definitions software needs to work with it seems text is better. It might be just cuz I am used to text for software but outside of trivially simple programs, I'm sure I would rather work with text. I even think I can read and write text definitions FASTER than I could create diagrams. We used to try to use flowcharts to document and support development but they fell out of popularity for a reason I think. They were not as good.

I thought it was there in the original too. I remember being let down before it even started that it was some sort of series. I don't know how these other people can be so certain it wasn't there, they could have missed it. Its not like they have a copy of the original screening to verify it.

"Lucas retroactively subtitled the first movie to be Episode IV."

Did he really? Exactly when was this? I seem to remember the episode IV subtitle when I saw the first run in the theatre. Is my memory fooling me?

I think a much bigger issue that I have not heard mentioned in these debates is how much access to bank and credit card records do these outfits get? It would seem if they pressure Google and Facebook to release records, they would do the same to the banks.

One math course particulaly comes back to me again and again when I am programming. It was called "Numerical Analysis" when I took it but might be called something different elsewhere/now. It involved analysing the errors inherent in computer arithmetic and calculations. Especially floating point inaccuracies and aproximations. Whenever people tell you to not use floating point it is usually because they don't understand this subject and don't know the techniques to work with it and avoid the problems.