Lexarius

The "Choose another stance" option is important.

The default answers are simple so that people who have little investment in the quiz can quickly get through it and maybe compare results with the candidates. If you actually care about your response, you can see the alternates, which are usually the "No, but" and "Yes, and" sorts of answers that the candidates provided or otherwise stated. Choosing them can lean your score towards certain candidates more than others.

My Chrome location bar autocompletes my bookmarks just fine. It usually only takes a few characters for the bookmark to be the top result, and I can tell it's the bookmark since I changed the label.

I haven't played Minecraft in a while so things may have changed, but I recall that animals would only spawn on grass. If you wanted pet wolves or animal products, you'd need grass to spawn them on. And if someone repeatedly raids your fields, you can run out of wheat seeds. Grass is the primary way of getting more seeds.

Since everyone was always online at the same time, it would also be easy-ish to defend the island if anyone tried to build a pillar to reach it. A bow and convenient sniping platforms could knock attackers down. Lava-based murder holes in the underside could be used to defend blind spots.

For some reason I'm really bothered by the fact that it's locked to Fahrenheit if you're in the US. At least give me a query parameter or something.

But which Paris? Paris, France? Paris, Texas? Paris Hilton? There are a lot of things named Paris. Who gets to decide? Few cities have unique names, so it's better to be specific. There's already a http://www.paris.fr, and US states have subdomains assigned under .us (and often regional subdomains under those)

I do not have cable or satellite. When I want to see something, I check Amazon, Hulu, or similar places. If I can't find anyone willing to take my money in exchange for a stream, I then consider alternatives that do not involve making contracts with cable/dish companies.

The larva has to burrow into the bloodstream to begin with. Maybe it just waits until it gets stuck somewhere, and then burrows into the surrounding tissue?

Suppose that someone is able to buy up enough of your stock to essentially own your company, and they notice that the cost of doing so is less than the value of all of the things your company owns. Someone could make a profit by buying your company and then butchering it, keeping a few prime cuts for itself and selling off the rest.

This doesn't happen if the raiding company can't put together enough money to make the purchase, or if not enough of the stock holders are willing to part with their shares.

There's already Internet2. It's mostly for academics. My university is a member, so file transfers with some other universities will go REALLY fast.

I don't know about eventlet, but gevent appears to be working in pypy (for some trivial example code from the gevent page).

Have you tried your application since greenlet got built-in to pypy stable?

True enough, but for work within your company these conditions are likely already met. And while your company could easily have an internal central repository server (we use RhodeCode in our lab), not everyone might want to (or have permission to) push into the central repo.

I know a company that essentially only commits changes to their subversion server once they're ready to be shipped to the client. Their developers just work on (unrevisioned) private copies and distribute changes to one another manually. Makes me cringe. I've been introducing some of them to DVCS as I interact with them (they send me a zip file full of code to look at, I send them back a link to a repo containing their zip file contents and my patches), but I don't think they're quite getting it yet.

For reasons unknown to me, the local property oligopoly accepts debit/credit rent payments only through an outsourced web service which charges $50 per payment. Perhaps they've convinced the property owners that they have a patent on paying rent online or something. Maybe there's some sort of risk involved. Maybe there's some sort of arrangement with credit card companies to discourage people from earning reward points on their rent every month.

My bank's website doesn't list the company as one that it knows how to pay bills for, and wants you to send them a copy of the physical bill to get it added (there are no "bills" for the rent, so nothing to send). A direct transfer might be possible, but they don't seem to be advertising their account number.

Doesn't have to be ads. Suppose you run a restaurant. When someone asks their phone about restaurants nearby, how much would you pay to have your restaurant preferentially mentioned before other restaurants? How much would you pay to get access to a list of questions people ask about restaurant-related terms near you, and how the person reacted to the results? Did they ask further questions about your restaurant? Did they view your page? Did their phone's GPS indicate that they visited your establishment?

I did a little mining while it was profitable, but running the air conditioning to keep the GPUs from melting cannibalized most of it during the summer. I'll have to check back once things cool down a bit more - perhaps a drop in difficulty could make "free" heating for my apartment viable again. Not holding my breath, though.

BadAstronomy doesn't seem to think so:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/10/17/di...

> Shouldn't you be able to "tell" Siri a passphrase to unlock?

No, because that would encourage people to vocalize their passphrases.

I recall at one point that AOL would do this - I guess enough clueless people tried putting a mailing address into the "To" box that they decided to just go with it instead of dealing with one more class of bizarre support call.

Usually the symbols involved are used by SQL or some other layer, and the programmers insert the password directly into the query string because they don't know any better. This leads to SQL injection and other issues.

So rather than discovering the correct way to do things, they try to prevent you from using any characters that might be involved in an SQL injection.

In some cases the guys on the backend know what they're doing, but the requirement can still be passed down from on high from some manager who absorbed the practice from another project.

This is why, for my lab's password changer, the requirement for short passwords is simply that it must have one upper, one lower, one digit, and one none-of-the-above (and be at least 8 characters).

If you have a long password (at least 16 characters), all other requirements are waived so that you can use passphrases.

Their cert is fine, it's just that the page generally has to load content from external, untrusted sources to do what it does.

The old standard file permission system is the default on most unixy systems because it's easy to use and understand (more or less). That doesn't mean these systems don't have ACLs.

http://linux.die.net/man/5/acl

Both FYI and to confirm to myself that I wasn't wishfully make that up, I looked up the policy for my home state: http://www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/10-20-life/

Armed robbery (via gun or otherwise) and a fairly fixed area of operation (near an appropriate parking lot) probably would not last very long. In some states, merely being in possession of a firearm while committing this sort of crime would up your jail time a bit even without drawing it, and even more so if you actively threatened someone with it.

The antimatter being produced is just positrons. They're fairly easy to make: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron#Production

Making and storing entire antimatter atoms is the difficult part.