Lexarius

Because companies are largely still operated by humans, who make mistakes. There's a difference between "oops" and "let's systematically abuse this system for our benefit". Granted, I think there should still be a penalty for "oops" moments, just not as bad. The penalty should exponentially increase with the frequency of false positives.

The site has a "cyborg typology" (http://stopthecyborgs.org/2013/03/03/cyborgs-a-typology/) and seems to be completely supportive of "type-1" cyborgs like yourself. It's the other ones they have issues with, particularly type-4. I wish they would call the site "Stop the Borg" or "Stop the Hivemind" or something to make the distinction clearer.

But it does sit in their bank account generating interest until used.

The "Guestbook" got a chuckle out of me. Haven't seen one of those in years.

Then I realized that we just call them "the comments section" now and put them on every article.

Many don't view it as something to be cured. Some would take it, some would not. Those who took the cure would likely be ostracized.

In Japanese, "tsuru" can refer to a type of crane, which is likely related to the origami crane on the page.

Depending on the kanji, it might also be a few different verbs:

吊る: to hang; to suspend (something from something); to be hanged (by the neck)

釣る: to fish; to angle; to catch;

攣る: to cramp; to be cramped; to contract

After toasting the iPhone, its electronics should no longer be in working order, so only the butter should be exerting its orientation preference.

This idea is good, but pretty old. I know it's used in at least Wolfpack's version of the venerable Empire family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Classic_(video_game)

Like JS from which it sprang, it lacks an integer type. Fortunately, parsers written for languages that do have integers can usually parse them correctly.

(If you don't know why this might matter, try opening your browser's Javascript console and evaluating 10000000000000001)

That's my peeve, though. I suspect that Tom is probably more concerned with readability. TOML also looks like it can be parsed a line at a time and doesn't really need to do any recursive parsing, so you could probably parse a stream of it as it arrives, which I imagine is trickier with JSON.

When Google first announced the Android OS, my first thought (after "that's silly") was "What will Google do when they want to release a line of actual androids?".

Deep down, I'm hoping they're de-emphasizing the Android brand so that they can re-use the name, like Microsoft did with Surface. Announcing Google Android, the internet-connected humanoid assistant you never knew you needed.

The PS3 does allow screenshots, but the game gets to decide whether or not to let you do it. Press PS button and browse over to the Photos section. There will be a screenshot option if the game OKs it. Sadly, most games don't seem to have it enabled.

DUST 514 has support for keyboard/mouse controls. Is that the only issue, or is it something else?

Animals on the tundra would probably have thick coats or other insulation and might be able to overheat themselves in the right conditions. A human could shed its clothing to cool down.

It's also possible that potential prey in this area is not well adapted for outrunning endurance hunters, which might make them easier to run down than animals that have been hunted by runners for thousands of years.

I just took a look using the intel map. There seems to be plenty of portals and activity in Australia, at least where I looked (in Sydney and Melbourne).

Players aren't getting any invite quota yet, so I have none. I would recommend hanging around their IRC channel. That's where I got mine.

It might eventually be, but right now it's just an overlay on Google Maps. Now if you'll excuse me, some alien scum are attacking my Health Science Library.

The only mystery here is how the blogger failed to understand what was going on for an entire viewing of the clip.

As a Florida resident, I can anecdotally confirm that the "What if we nuke it?" question circulates fairly often. Usually in years where a powerful or damaging storm appears, especially when places that don't usually get them are hit.

Anyone without reliable access to electricity, or who want to stay connected if it's lost. Hikers and other outdoorsmen. Survivalists. People who live in areas prone to natural disasters that can knock out electricity. People living in countries with poor infrastructure.

When I was in college, a hurricane knocked out electricity on my block for about a week. By careful rationing of my UPS battery I was able to briefly use the internet a few times a day, just enough to check my e-mail and get updates on the situation. I think keeping a few low-power "backup" devices (and a portable solar panel or hand crank) seems like a decent investment.

Color would be great, though I think monochrome syntax highlighting would be a fair compromise for a first generation device. Bold for keywords, italic for comments or maybe strings. Maybe a few extra monospace fonts if you need more than that. Where's the kickstarter for this I can throw money at?

Git (and Mercurial and friends) have event hooks that can be used for a variety of automation tasks. For instance, I have a repository that consists of Sphinx documentation for a project. When my webserver's copy of the repo receives new changesets, it updates to tip, builds the HTML and PDF targets, and if successful deploys them into the appropriate web-accessible locations.

Ok.

    import dawg
    with open('/usr/share/dict/words','r') as words:
        d = dawg.DAWG(w.strip() for w in words)

The private keys need never have existed on that server. On the occasions which they are used, they need never touch the server, and the machine they're actually used on (likely a laptop with a LiveCD) doesn't need to directly communicate with the server so identifying and targeting it would be futile.

How do you deal with caller ID spoofing?

Hide and Seek can work in space, even without magical cloaking technology. Space is very big, so if you're far enough away it may be difficult to tell a (properly designed) ship from random rocks or man-made debris unless you're looking dead at it already. Especially if you're flying in an area where lots of debris is already present, like an asteroid belt or a planet's ring. Doing it in near-earth orbit might be tricky, though, since people watch the sky a lot. Information from ground-based tracking stations could be used to identify large unknown orbiting objects.

People tend to make and disseminate plans to their minions prior to executing them. Thus, the plan could be leaked before the thing that is planned occurs.

I can't wait until I can install AdBlock-AR and replace real ads with pictures of adorable kittens.

You could store the password files in an encFS mount

People often forget that IEEE 754 supports representations where b = 2 or 10. 1*10^-2 should be easy enough to store in any of the defined decimal layouts.

The tags remind me of the tag support in YAML. YAML does have top-level elements, but the document break marker "---" gives you a stream of documents.