Securing your data is a completely different problem, and a much more difficult one, than securing your house.

Lots of Japanese like natto, lots of Japanese don't like natto. Go to France and you'll find the same thing is true of blue cheese.

Maybe natto is slightly more popular in Kanto. Maybe it wasn't common in Kansai 100 years ago and that's how the myth started. But let's stop staying Kansai people don't usually eat natto, when it's plain to see that's not the case.

Please don't look at a screen while driving. You might end up killing people.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp

The small keyboard of the CF-18 is perfect for little hands, the rugged construction means he probably won't break it whatever he tries, and Linux Mint just works, as usual.

He uses it mostly for watching movies, playing educational games (GCompris and such), looking at small things with a USB microscope I got from DealExtreme, taking to Grandma on Skype, and recently, he has started making little Scratch programs. He's really proud to own a real computer.

Preschool children are not the target market of Panasonic Toughbooks, but they actually are a great fit.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Wernher von Braun."

I'm sure Facebook will give Carmack, and now Abrash, all the tools they need to build their rockets. Where they will aim them is another story, and will be decided by others.

In addition to several algorithms already mentioned, I feel that suffix trees and suffix array algorithms should be there as well. They are making all kinds of approximate searches feasible in bioinformatics.

Two years later I got a '386 clone, bought Turbo C and all the fun came back at once.

Applesoft (licensed from Micosoft) had 16-bit integer variables (such as A%) as well as floating point, but you are right that it converted them to and from real with every operation, which was slow. They were useful for saving memory (2 bytes instead of 5) and not much else.

There were BASIC extensions published in places like Nibble and Call-A.P.P.L.E. that added native integer math to Applesoft using the & command, so you could write things like "A% = B% &+ C%", and the operation was performed without conversion to real.

Let's also not forget SWEET-16, Woz's software emulation of a 16-bit kind-of-RISC processor on the 6502, that had 16-bit arithmetic. Reading the source code of SWEET-16 blew my young, impressionable mind.

Well, before a few weeks ago, I couldn't really expect my government to spy on all its citizens, use secret courts to bully companies into giving them access to my data, share it with law enforcement for "parallel construction" (intelligence laundering) purposes, and lie to congress about what they were doing.

If you had told me a few decades ago that this would be the situation in the United States at the start of the 21st century, I would have laughed in your face and called you a crackpot, a lunatic, a conspiracy theorist. Absent something like losing World War III, there was no way the United States could become a totalitarian state in my lifetime.

Yet here we are.

It is the tragedy of the modern connected world, one that Stallman and others saw coming years ago. And it will keep getting worse.