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From the FAQ: "Do we know the exact locations of our servers, and, if so, do we have physical access to our servers?" "We do not know the exact locations of our servers.We do not h…

Because many programmers are not in the website business. I'm a scientist, working with long-term simulation models. My problem is trying to find a good model representation of the…

He's a big data consultant, and all he has is a hammer :-).

Isn't it actually the reverse?: don't the EU actions actually stop the previous practice of Telco's to subsidize the calling behavior of the majority by adding additional fees to a…

I understand the the telco's are very competitive, but for some reason, free market competition appeared to fail to have an effect on prices like texting or data roaming. Oddly eno…

She's great (or at least the dutch think she is), and did a good job as well when she was commissioner on competition, handing out some big fines to business cartels. see http://ww…

Wish there were a bit more instructions on how to get it running using lein2 / project.clj. Maybe that happens this weekend :-). I am a bit at a loss how to start the webserver use…

So, can google put a patch in Chrome that whenever it runs at VUPEN, everything VUPEN has on that computer is shipped over to Google? :-). Google has/had the 'do no evil' in their …

They test a few different schemes, but it is sort of embarrassing that in their final summary graph (figure 9), they use the arrowheads again to indicate which representation perfo…

http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index For sentimental value: HIV sequence data (and other data) from 1980 till now. Did my thesis on these ;-). In general, there is an enormous amo…

I am trying to find existing examples (or even the name) of a network structure a colleague of mine is working on. The network looks like a number of central hubs, each with its ow…

In my perception the wikileaks of iraq / afghanistan / cablegate got far more tv-news exposure throughout the year than facebook did. It is true that wikileaks itself became only a…

Its tricky to answer, as I am limited to browsing wikipedia pages on these topics and no more knowledgeable than you are on the topic :-). One obvious alternative to your line of t…

I am not a physicist either, but your concept of vacuum does need updating. The idea of matter and antimatter particles popping up out of vacuum has been around for some time, and …

The point the guy himself makes is that lisp allows him to be a great programmer. Of course the program could be rewritten into qbasic. It is getting your ideas and thoughts into a…

trying to understand the stream. Facebook emails' biggest feature is similar to gmails priority inbox?

Dropbox works for me where bitbucket doesn't (jay to corporate firewall).

Start educating your social circle then, they are part of the electorate. At least, that is my view. I don't like things being unmovable :).

I think the Chinese government only arbitrarily declares that as they own the internet connections in their country, they can decide what information is allowed to flow through the…

The end is when you die :). Money doesn't travel over that well. But as long as you're having fun finding ways to make more money, there's really not that much wrong with playing t…

Many times, apparently (see recent articles). There's just no explanation except fraud or misformed experiments that fits well with our current scientific understanding of the worl…

Not the easiests of problems though. Do you know what statistics you would apply? IQ measurements seem to have a similar problem: doing test a, influences your score on test b, bec…

This sample-size too small thing is becoming ridiculous. You do realize that although something might not be significant, in a hundreds of situations in real life, you are perfectl…

Occam's razor is frequently misused. It is not a law, and using it to forbid something that cannot easily be explained is counterproductive. Occams Razor works nicely when deciding…