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The headline saddened me, but then I red the article and it takes the locksmith only a moment! You can't really fault people for not comprehending how much training went into that …

There should be as many scientists roughly in each party. Political parties are not static. They move and evolve and change, and grow and shrink and may become tiny and spend years…

I hadn't thought of DOS attacks as an internet equivalent to a sit-in. But I think is an apt analogy, is a sit-in not equally disrupting to a brick and mortar business?

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Let me first clarify that I'm not talking about education as a type of technical school that will teach you what ever skill is hot at the moment…

No I'm implying we should favour basic scientific research over specific narrowly focused research.

That may be true for small groups like clubs, gangs, and tribes, but I don't think you can generalize that to governments. Or in other words, the more actively engaged the electora…

Some times when I think about what it would be like to be stupefyingly rich, I think about all the money super rich people have given universities. And then I think the real way to…

Really? I've always found the number one barrier in medtech to be fact that the feds won't let you unleash cutting edge new medtech on humanity without a crushing time and money pe…

Ah yes, but with better management both could still be in business. Or in other words, Starbucks could also have been mismanaged. And http://www.peapod.com/ is still in businesses.…

Given that we have 50 states and that their politicians are a lot closer to the people and that the Federal government would still be enforce freedom of mobility between states, I'…

You must have had a truly great “liberal arts education”! I for one am extremely sceptical that a large set of deeply understood diverse experiences can be obtained in 4 or 5, actu…

News from the future: IQ found to be influenced by a whole mess of genes, and nutrition in parents, and grand parents, and hugely by the environment. And IQ tests found to be very …

What's funny about that is that it was based on a real case, and the real case was actually worse. The movie played things down a bit, to make them more believable.

I would guess car rental companies would be a better first partner, they already put cameras in their car. A lot of the videos you see on youtube, with drivers crashing thanks to b…

Having been in 3 major car accidents, one for each decade I've been alive, where I was at the wheel only once and alcohol was not involved in any of them... I have to say I do not …

You can replace Russia with almost any developing country and that sentence would be equally true. For some it would be war more then corruption and for a very few it's not true at…

Personal anecdote: I started running with an ancient pair of shoes. Flat, thin sole, absolutely no cushioning in it. After quite some time, I bought new running shoes, thick sole, …

What you don't get is that art is a social hack. A long long time ago art, craft, science and even what then passed for engineering and manufacturing, were all pretty much the same…

Well you could calculate the total damage of a spill and personally charge everybody from middle managed up for it. If that's not enough, go after the share holders, even grandma M…

That's not the way I read it. It seems to me what he meant to say is that, no matter how good and smart you are - software can outsmart you. Or in other words, debugging code is tw…

It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most brilliant human; that cleverness cannot win. The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention. I am…

It doesn't justify anything. It just shows that we are already killing people in almost every way imaginable so another new one would not be anything all that new.

Unlike the A-bomb which is lovely. Or the decidedly low-tech genocide in Sudan. Or the genocides and crimes against humanity in all the other places. Bottom line is Homo homini lup…

Shouldn't lots of redundancy be a fundamental part of which ever db you are using. As to extreme do-normalization, colour me sceptical, why not parallelise and throw more hardware …

So it's like a Newtonian fluid? Didn't the mythbusters shoot a corn starch solution to find out if it can stop bullets? It could not, but maybe this thing can?