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As I understand it, these cars were designed with a simplified system for maintaining low emissions that used fewer parts. Evidently, software can allow the system to pass the emission test but at a significant loss of power.

Another important point is that users already consider passwords to be a hassle and have little patience for anything that makes it harder to access resources online.

His phrasing might be improved, but whether or not you believe that water will freeze at a certain temperature has no affect on subsequent tests. Not trying to troll, but isn't that unique to science?

Les Quizerables. Brilliant!

If I remember correctly, which is doubtful, picture posts became more popular, and while Reddit has the ability to shape the types of content that make it to the front page, they chose not to as this seems to express the will of the users.

I'd say we split middle class into groups, and the meat processor might be something like 'lower middle', while a professional would be 'upper middle'.

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground.

Super cool. Wondering if the prices are the same for original art as for the artist generated works.

Some sites force you to add an item to the cart in order to see the price -- I can understand how 97% are abandoned if these are included.

Are all wedding announcements posted, or does The Times have an editorial role in which announcements are printed?

Yes. When you do something it has bad results, don't do that.

Linus is probably a brilliant engineer, but he could learn some lessons in leadership from Mr. Hoare.

In a former life, projects were paid for either from 'expense' or 'capital expenditure' buckets. Investors like expenses to be low as possible, but capital expenditure is investment in the future. Managers were always trying to creatively finagle projects in whichever bucket had some available money.

I'd love to continue this but I have garbage collection to attend to.

Interesting question -- googled this which answers it pretty well:

Additionally, unless the slogan is in itself inherently distinctive and qualifies as a mark in itself, the USPTO requires that the slogan be identified with the product or service so that the consuming public, upon hearing the slogan, relates it to the particular product or service. This requirement means that the slogan has developed what the law refers to as a “secondary meaning.” The best examples of this type of slogan are “Just Do It” (Nike) and “Finger Lickin’ Good (KFC).

Original link: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/04/15/why-i-let-my-st...

S/MIME and an email client like Thunderbird?

Thirded. It seems to be more aggressive about shaving time of your trip than Google Maps.

Pauly Shore.

from the CPSC press release:

Since 2009, CPSC staff has learned of more than two dozen ingestion incidents, with at least one dozen involving Buckyballs. Surgery was required in many of incidents. The Commission staff alleges in its complaint that it has concluded that despite the attempts to warn purchasers, warnings and education are ineffective and cannot prevent injuries and incidents with these rare earth magnets.

Could you illuminate 'but only about at the 0.5 level' this a bit?

Wrong. If you owned 10% your voting power: 100% - big shots share: 37.6 + directors share: 61.4% == 1%. So your 10% share = .1% voting power. They said as much in the IPO:

>> New investors will fully share in Google's long term economic future but will have little ability to influence its strategic decisions through their voting rights.

Did miss something? I thought Oracle was claiming copyright infringement on Java code related to APIs and for patent infringement on specific techniques. Are they seriously claiming that use of the Java language itself is subject to copyright? Or is the judge going off on a tangent?

Too little, too late.

PandoDaily appears opaque about their bias to me, so I don't read it.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'finished', but I almost always do. I try to be functionally complete (albeit sloppy) at about the half-way point, then I can start refactoring.

Looks more like REST 2.0.

Agreed and to expand on this, there's a big difference between the advanced architect who takes a year to build an incomprehensible framework, and the multi-paradigm programmer who solves problems efficiently.

I'm calling false dichotomy on this. Continue to lobby the government AND influence the influencers.

Agreed, but this is a major building-block in that it allows evildoers to make multiple trips through security to deliver small amounts of items without detection.