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taiwan.gov.tw just causes an error message. Not sure if that means it's blocked, or the site doesn't like the address

There are guards all the way down.

I think it's what does sex have to do with getting clicks? And the answer is, a lot.

Less programmable, more like selectable.

The impact cats are having has been greatly overstated for two main reasons.

1. Original studies over estimated the amount of animals a typical cat kills.

2. Cats roam over a lot less area than you'd think, rarely going even half a mile away from their home. Putting the majority of wild animals out of reach of a house cat's range.

When you're thirsty, drink. Otherwise, don't.

I'll admit I know next to nothing about this subject, but aren't the parts of a gun which can be machine printed, also fairly easily manufactured using widely available metal working tools?

Surely the hard parts of manufacturing a gun, would the the ammunition, where you'd need propellant and percussion caps?

So, 3D printers don't really change things much, since they can only make the parts that can already be fairly easily made, and can do nothing about propellant or percussion caps.

Nice how the negative aspects are nicely pushed into a small box at the right side, and a single a few lines at the end, as if they matter less.

I tried it out briefly, and it came across as extremely buggy and unintuitive.

It's true. Most animals with good night vision have blurry day vision.

One way you test it is by having one card with stripes and another card that is grey, each over a different button, and training the animal to press the button with the striped card to get a reward.

Then you just keep making the stripes narrower and narrower, until it can't tell the difference between the grey card and the stripes, and starts guessing.

It should be illegal, but I'm not a fan of people going to prison for non-violent crimes.

A heavy fine would probably be most fitting here, since I'm guessing he ran it for profit.

Posting videos and photos of real people being abused, hurt, tortured or even killed, can cause real distress to the victims and relatives of the victim.

Earth's atmosphere had more oxygen in it back then, which it easier to be big.

Ignoring the fact that China was at a near continuous state of war during the time of Confucius, with many huge and bloody battles as the various Chinese states tried to conquer each other.

What do you think our default joke should be?

You can have mandatory voting with a "none of the above" option on the ballot.

Really?

How about if you're trying to show in detail a small change in a large number? If the scale started at zero, all bars would look equal.

It's in the dictionary.

Seriously! Ibexes are insanely good climbers.

Random example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmEPbA2R-s8

"Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. fell $12.05 to $180.95 — the stock's biggest one-day decline since July 16."

Wow, that's the biggest drop two and a half months. Truly the end is in sight for Tesla.

Is there any evidence of these two events actually being linked, or is it just the fact they both happened, and therefore must be connected?

I'm not a fan of direct democracy at all. The majority of people's knowledge of important statistics on subjects such as crime, employment, taxation, etc, has been severely twisted by media sensationalism. Putting people who have a shaky grasp on reality in charge of a country is a recipe for disaster.

Though Liquidfeedback doesn't seem to be quite as direct as that. Whether it would work in reality would depend on how these proxies get their information. From reliable sources, or newspaper headlines and angry blogs.

I think "ever" is an exaggeration. The ships from Elite aren't there for one.

I started as a 7 year old kid in the mid 80s learning BASIC, from type in programmes in magazines and from a few books. Though don't over estimate what I was capable of back then. It was mostly dozen line programmes that made cool patterns on the screen.

A gradually got better, and in the mid 90s as a teenagers I taught myself Assembly language, again from books and magazines.

And then as an Adult starting about 8 years ago, I started learning C, from a couple of books and lots of websites.

Got to admit though, "cyber" sounds very 90s.

Now excuse me as I continue surfing the information super highway!

I've often thought they should get rid of pilots from Aircraft, and fly them by autopilot. The number of accidents caused by human error is terrifying.

But also have a multiply redundant remote control system for emergencies the autopilot can't handle. So if something crops up, a crew of pilots trained to deal with nothing but emergencies can take over remotely.

Many Linux distros come on a live CD allowing you to try them out without changing anything on your hard drive.

Or you could try a virtual machine.

I'm gonna need a lot more convincing than "Thing A happens every 11 years, B also happens every 11 years, so they must be connected, by err... quantu... ummm electro.... nah, hmmm... ah! Dark matter"

I hadn't heard about super fast optical transistors, but a few months ago I was reading about ultra fast transistors that operate at 600GHz.

The idea came to me, to write a x86 emulator in 6502 assembly. Run it on a 6502 CPU built using ultra fast transistors, and boom, you've got a faster x86, just it's an emulated x86, MMU and all!

Typical 6502 instructions take 2-8 cycles if I remember rightly, so as long as it takes under 200 6502 cycles to emulate one x86 instruction, you're beating a 4GHz x86 processor.

I'm sure there are practical problems that make it difficult or impossible in reality. But still fun to think about. :)