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So is this a kind of a reverse-Denial-of-Service-by-misinformation attack ? You can bet some people in the Ad industry will insinuate this is a kind of "hacking".

Very interesting. How come there are a bunch of people with $0 base salary ? Are those contractors, interns ? Also, some of those low-base employees seem to have very high employer contributions to medical/dental/vision plans. How does that work ?

I suspect this is just Putin trolling (needling) Obama and the US. He knows very well that "approval" from Russia will not sit well with many Americans.

"Life will find a way"

I learned much from PCQuest during its early years. Thank you Atul Chitnis.

>> "Like slavery in the 18th century"

This person is clearly a troll. Ignore. [Edit: or is this a joke that I didn't get ?]

This is an unexpected gem. I wouldn't have thought such footage existed, with sound.

This title is misleading - the patent dispute is about the design and placement of the headset, not about Bluetooth itself.

Yes it is fraud, organized fraud. I assume they don't need to advertise because it's likely to be a word-of-mouth thing.

Yeah cheating by students is a reality but this is taking it to a whole new level.

Plenty of people died (directly or indirectly) due to the cold war.

Its a pity they didn't give him the Nobel for Medicine while he was alive. He certainly deserved it. (They can't grant it posthumously)

While its true Darwin gets most of the credit, its not as if Alfred Wallace is completely unknown or unsung. I recommend an excellent Nova feature made a couple of years ago called "Darwin's Darkest Hour". Its available to view free right now on the PBS website : http://video.pbs.org/video/1286437550/ . Wallace gets plenty of mention.

I usually read something - book/paper/magazine every day but I find myself using my tablet more and more mainly for reading online articles, blogs, watching videos etc. This takes away from my traditional reading time. Recently I've taken active steps to curtail my tablet time so I can have more time for books and in-depth reading.

There should be measures put in place preventing lawmakers from sneaking in questionable (or any) legislation. It is a wanton subversion of democracy to employ underhanded methods to pass unpopular laws.

Awful, I feel really bad for his family. First he goes missing, then he's suspected (by mob decision) of being a bomber/terrorist, and then they find his body. What a nightmare.

Yeah, House of Cards with Spacey is excellent. I started and liked it so much I finished watching all episodes in 2 days. Its really good to see companies like HBO and Netflix giving the traditional TV media houses a run for their money. BTW, if you liked House of Cards, check out Game of Thrones.

Glad to hear they got him alive, it must have been hard to do that. Having him alive is important to understand and analyse the sequence of events, the motivation, the planning etc. There is also a possibility they had help and more people may be involved and if he were dead that would be very hard to discover. Kudos to the FBI and the Police authorities of Boston.

No I wouldn't, but that's not the question being discussed in this thread.

Would washing them get rid of all the pesticides ? I doubt it. Wouldn't there be some absorption of pesticides into the fruit ?

I dont really care about the anti-corporation aspect of it. In the past, I preferred to buy organic foods in the hope that my overall intake of pesticides would decrease. I was recently dismayed to find that organic foods have known to be contaminated with synthetic pesticides - i assume due to proximity to conventional crops. Also, it seems that plenty of pesticides are used in growing organic foods so my original reason for preferring them is gone.

CBS News reports - police confirm (somewhat) that these were bombs and mostly likely planted in Trash cans. Also, it appears at least 1 other unexploded bomb found and disabled by the Boston Police Bomb Squad. (may be more then 1 found)

Just to be clear here : is it that Monster was reporting race to the potential employers or is there something about her name (Yolanda Spivey) that is a give away ?

Very nice video but it makes me sad. It appears there are no places left to discover, to explore. People and cities everywhere.

How is this a good thing for readers and other book retailers ? Will we still be able see links to buy books from a number of different retailers such as B&N or Indigo ? I doubt it.

I don't really believe the story but its an entertaining read.

We use both in our production and staging environment. I've been using both for the last 3 years (5 years for MySql). My opinion at this time is that in 80% of cases MySQL is easier to setup, use and manage.

I think you're taking it too personally. Step back and look at the big picture. PyCon was by all accounts a success and this incident a minor distraction that's gotten way too much attention and blown out of proportion.

Arxiv link : http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4969

Interesting read and well written. Unless I missing something those SMSs the prof sent that appear to be referencing drugs are a huge red flag. Either he is unbelievably stupid or was in on it somehow.