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The newer, lighter planes are using a lot of plastic and are worse at isolating passengers and crew from the radiation at high altitudes.

What? Europe is literally world's first industrial power. Take any phone, laptop, car, etc. and trace back where the machines that made the machines that made the machines .... that made the parts of the device come from and most of the time you will end in UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland ...

With the huge R&D investments of DAPRA&Co they need fewer and fewer people to operate. It's not a problem to find a few dozens of loyal people ready to kill kids and whoever else tries to disobey the orders.

Really? Never heard of widespread starvation before the american colonies revolt or before the US civil war.

What are you talking about?

Hello admins, this would be a good time to click that hell-ban button next to samstave ;)

Let me tell you how useful an automatic weapon is against a swarm of drones: not useful at all. Those drones are very similar to the laptops and tablets we use everyday and can be mass produced in millions on the Pentagon/Occupation/etc. 1+ trillion budgets. PRISM and company will just supply the targets - leaders, current and potential, of an opposition.

Of course they are. Hopefully next time the police and the FBI will do their job properly: after killing 20 or 30 terrorists the rest will get to know their place.

Because nerd's will inevitably outcompete suits in a perfectly fair environment. So it makes sense to work towards one.

F12, browser mode: IE9 ;)

How about: 1. Use your technical skills to built something of value. 2. Use a small part of the inevitable monetary reward to pay Dropbox.

Naah, only good people get to rise to the top of the US politics. They would never abuse your data.

Well there are two types of young nerds - those who use open source and those who use cracked commercial software. It's only natural that the first type doesn't usually end employed by MS.

And often MS people would forget to upload updated VM.

8 core Xeon would be good at video rendering, but as of now for VS and R# you need single threaded performance, where a 3.9GHz Haswell shines.

VS is not there to make money directly, but to sell MS platforms - Windows, SQL Server, etc. They give it away for free to students, startups and pretty much anybody who asks. The only reason all editions are not free is to not kill the other commercial Windows IDEs.

Are you serious? That's a medium size project, just get a fast machine (e.g. i7 4770) and you'll be perfectly fine.

After reading your comment I assumed Rebecca Black is a porn star :D

It's only natural - the home is the place for women :D

Nope, where did I say that anything about making new laws? It want matter much anyway as the really rich people and privately hold companies don't keep the majority of their money in own bank accounts.

Yes, these are real problems, but how is redirecting to the home page helping in any way? When the user navigates back to the page she wanted the in-secure script will still be fetched. A MITM is still able to serve a copy of your page.

Sure, for the wealthy there are reasons, but not for the 99%.

I see no problem at all with my bank account balances being published on the Internet. In Norway everybody's total balance is published by the government. I really find irrational some ordinary people desire to keep stuff like net worth, salary, etc. secret.

Really? Absolutely nothing! Except social engineering would be extremely easy with all that data about a user.

Nooo, don't erase the address that took me 5 minutes to type. What you say doesn't make any sense. You should obviously configure the https redirect as a site wide setting and not per page.

Being confrontational is very often a great strategy, especially in front of a dumb crowd (luckily the Eternal September is yet to happen in full force here).

Yeap, the advice here is that you should use `pull --rebase` instead of `pull`. What that does is it eliminates the merge commit to the "central" branch (e.g. on github). That is it fakes the history to look as if you started to work on a branch with all the commits applied and so there were no merges necessary.

Ufff, I must be doing something very wrong. Once in a while rebase continue will just fail with cryptic error messages and nothing but a hard reset will let me continue using the repository. Never had a problem with regular git pull.

IMHO you're over simplifying. Oracle was better positioned to capitalize on Sun assets, so they were likely to pay more than Google. Microsoft or Apple may have decided to bid to prevent Google from acquisition. Merging with a huge enterprise is always painful.

There was async stuff in 1.0, but the really good stuff came with version 4.0 and 4.5. The Task Parallel Library is a very nice implementation of the Promise/Future pattern, that came from the functional programming world.

"Apparently, the TSA's official policy is (or at least was) that, if asked my me if I am allowed to remove my leg and place it on the x-ray conveyor belt, they are to tell me doing so is forbidden. However, if I simply do so, they are not to stop me. I presume the theory to be that travelers might somehow mis-understand and create a PR disaster by claiming that an amputee was forced to remove his leg."

Wow, I was reading a few books on USSR lately and this is exactly how the soviet low enforcement functioned. It's very hard for servicemen to find balance between common sense and social traditions on one side and the madness of totalitarian authority.