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while not human feces, you could send him a nice bag of manure as a gift using amazon.

prime eligable!

https://www.amazon.com/Hoffman...

This may well be overkill for your needs, and it's a bit pricey, but the book Building Scientific Apparatus has been on my wish list for a while. It has chapters on working with glass, vacuum technoloy, charged-particle optics, and electronics, among others.

Sigh, too many projects (including a pair of novels to finish) and not enough time.

Ah, who'd have thought it might have something to do with printer cartridges?

https://www.amazon.com/INKUTEN-MFC-J4310DW-MFC-J4410DW-MFC-J4510DW-MFC-J4610DW/dp/B00K0RF2S8

Thank you.

https://www.amazon.com/Glow-Da...

Hey hyperslow, I wasn't the one who wrote "TouchID didn't work either with the physical button if you had gloves on" then added "that's why i got myself a pair of fingerless gloves".

That WOOSH noise you're ignoring is that you wouldn't need fingerless gloves with these or any of the other gloves that have silver threads in them to be used with capacitive screens.

Is that still to fast for you hyperslow?

Gosh, whatever will we do? Oh, wait. Problem solved. Funny enough, some first-world problems have a first world solution as well.

Can we go back to bitching about the loss of the headphone jack, or is that already passé? I think we're just trying to find things to complain about at this point.

There's nothing suspicious about that data usage at all, Mate.

She was thinking of buying an Amazon Fire TV Stick and decided to read all of the reviews first.

I forget.. Did the apple II use 5.25" floppies, or 3.5" floppies?

I remember seeing both...

That said, here's some 360k 5.25" disks.

https://www.amazon.com/5-25-fl...

Even eligible for amazon prime shipping!

https://www.amazon.com/Double-...

You may need a floppy drive to write to them on a modern system though.

No, I have tons of those, can even tune them

Even eligible for amazon prime shipping!

https://www.amazon.com/Double-...

You may need a floppy drive to write to them on a modern system though.

I use an old Android 2 device for an alarm clock. Old phones make the perfect alarm clock because even if the power goes out, it can last for a day on battery.

A whole day? Will wonders never cease...

Seriously, just go spend 5 or 6 bucks on a travel alarm clock. They'll run for months on a single AA battery.

Their basic mouse are crap, especially the wireless ones. Been there, done that.

Try one of these to see what you've been missing:

* G500s or
* the the earlier G500.

I've been using these for years without any issue. I finally wore my first G500 out after ~ 5 years of heaving FPS gaming.

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Dark Matter is the aether of the new millennium. Where is the physical evidence??

Their basic mouse are crap, especially the wireless ones. Been there, done that.

Try one of these to see what you've been missing:

* G500s or
* the the earlier G500.

I've been using these for years without any issue. I finally wore my first G500 out after ~ 5 years of heaving FPS gaming.

--
Dark Matter is the aether of the new millennium. Where is the physical evidence??

Former CIA Officer: President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden

Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and is the author of 12 novels, including The Detachment

He let Americans evaluate omniscient domestic surveillance for themselves

This week, Edward Snowden, multiple human rights and civil rights groups, and a broad array of American citizens asked President Obama to exercise his Constitutional power to pardon Snowden. As a former CIA officer, I wholeheartedly support a full presidential pardon for this brave whistleblower.

All nations require some secrecy. But in a democracy, where the government is accountable to the people, transparency should be the default; secrecy, the exception. And this is especially true regarding the implementation of an unprecedented system of domestic bulk surveillance, a mere precursor of which Senator Frank Church warned 40 years ago could lead to the eradication of privacy and the imposition of “total tyranny.”

That today we are engaged in a meaningful debate about whether such a system is desirable is almost entirely due to the conscience, courage and conviction of one man: Edward Snowden. Without Snowden, the American people could not balance for themselves the risks, costs and benefits of omniscient domestic surveillance. Because of him, we can.

For this service, the government has charged Snowden under the World War I-era Espionage Act. Yet Snowden did not sell information secretly to any enemy of America. Instead, he shared it openly through the press with the American people.

For this service, Snowden has been accused of having “blood on his hands“—the same evidence-free cliché trotted out every time a whistleblower reveals corruption, criminality or anything else the government would prefer to hide. That this charge is being aired by the very people responsible for wars that have led to thousands of dead American servicemen and servicewomen; hundreds of thousands burned, blinded, brain-damaged, crippled, maimed and traumatized; and hundreds of thousands of innocent foreigners killed, is more than ironic. It’s also a form of psychological projection, or propaganda, intended to distract from where true responsibility for bloodshed lies.

And for this service, the usual suspects have claimed Snowden has caused “grave damage to national security.” As always, the charge is backed by nothing but air, and ignores—in fact, is intended to distract from—the real damage caused by metastasizing governmental secrecy. This includes not only disastrous government mistakes and cover-ups (see the Bay of Pigs, the “missile gap,” the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraqi wea

I love my second gen Motorola 360. Having used it daily for a year, I don't think I could go back to not having one. It's just so convenient to have it buzz on your wrist when you have a notification, and to be able to glance down at it and see what it is. Honestly that's mostly what I use it for. I don't use any apps on it or anything, it's really just for notifications. The heart rate monitoring is neat, but I rarely look at the data in Google Fit.

It's also stylish (I have the black one with black metal band, https://smile.amazon.com/Motor...), I've had many people comment on it that they really like it. Or sometimes people ask "Is that an Apple watch?" knowing that it isn't, but more curious what it is since it doesn't look like a traditional smartwatch.

However, because it serves its purpose well, and is still in style, I can understand why they didn't release new ones this year. There's just no reason to upgrade yet. It still performs fast, I get 24 hours on a single charge (with the screen set to be always on, I can double this if I turn off the screen), and it has all the features I need.

A mooncake is a pastry consisting of a crust and a filling. The filling can be sweetened red beans, lotus paste, nuts, etc. They are pretty good. They are eaten during the harvest moon festival, with is tonight.

They are not at all "hard to get". You can buy them on any corner bakery in China. Also they are easy to make using molds you can buy on eBay or Amazon, and they taste WAY better fresh from the oven instead of the sodium-benzoate laden crap you buy on-line.

Pro-tip: The hard part is getting them out of the mold, and they slide out of the plastic molds way easier than the wooden molds. I use this one.

Disclaimer: My wife is Chinese.

There are actually some "smartwatches" out there that are in fact standalone phones, which makes much more sense to me than something that has to be paired to your existing phone, though they all appear to be of dubious quality. Here is one example: https://www.amazon.com/Eversho...

And by did that....I mean my PHONE camera, because I would never leave a camera connected all the time to my desktop PC anyway.

BOTH cameras on my phone are covered by pieces of plastic that need to be moved aside physically in order to take pictures. Did that the very day I bought the phone.

However, I looked for actual products to do this....couldn't find a one. Not a single case with camera covers built in, not a single accessory available.....sad....very sad.

Hmm...apparently you fail at searching teh interwebs.

Mind you, these only seem to be available for iPhones, which sucks, although I did come across these which intrigue me. Maybe my days of electrical tape are over!

Good book on related topic: "The Clockwork Universe"

For this narrative of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, Dolnick embeds the mathematical discoveries of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz in the prevailing outlook of their time. God was presumed integral to the universe, so discerning how it worked was a quest as theological as it was intellectual. By directing readers to the deistic drive in their famous achievements, Dolnick accents what otherwise strikes moderns as strange, such as Newton's obsession with alchemy and biblical hermeneutics. Those pursuits held codes to God's mind, as did motion and, especially, planetary motion, and Dolnick's substance follows the greats' progress in code-breaking, depicting Kepler's mathematical thought process in devising his laws, Galileo's in breaking out the vectors of falling objects, Newton's and Leibniz's in inventing calculus, and Newton's in formulating his laws of gravitation. Including apt biographical detail, Dolnick humanizes the group, socializes them by means of their connections to such coevals as the members of the nascent Royal Society, and captures their mental coexistence in mysticism and rationality. A concise explainer, Dolnick furnishes a fine survey introduction to a fertile field of scientific biography and history.

did some quick googling (but haven't really investigated the links in depth yet)

amazon official press release (non-multimedia version): Introducing the Newest Prime Benefit – Audible Channels for Prime

amazon official press release: multimedia version

https://www.amazon.com/audiblechannels

http://www.audible.com/channels/

I considered, but then read: https://www.amazon.com/review/...

SJWs Always Lie

Don't be fooled from the innocent aspect: as it has been pointed out by the first reviewer, this book gives through allegories a dramatized explaination of UNIX networking. Highly recommeded! This nice book has been reviewed here on Slashdot some time ago.

Chaos

One of the inspirations for me in pursuing education in Chaos Theory (and applications of course).

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Thi...

Originally published in 1988, it was one of the books that sparked my interest in engineering and science as a child. The illustrations were both fascinating and informative without being too technical, and at times funny.

might have known it would be you.

Yes, it is me — the guy, who debated you into a corner on the inexplicable failures of Blacks in America, which are in such sharp contrast to the successes of Asians, who, presumably, are (or recently were) just as much a target of "racism" of the Whites dominating the country...

People criticising the guy who was trying to harm them by denying them equal marriage are not "SJWs".

Yes, of course, they were. But, if you wish to talk semantics, let's see your definition of "Social Justice Warrior" — one, which does not cover 90% of folks calling for boycott of Firefox over Mr. Eich.

They are people who want the right to marry whomever they like

The above statement is wrong in itself, unless you think, "equal marriage" must also include incest. For better or worse, you still can not marry "whomever you like".

No, the case was explicitly about gay marriages — and that term is about as sensible as "low-sodium salt" or "meatless steak". You can market a product like that — freedom of speech and all that — but an attempt to legally require equating it to a real thing is a legitimate target of opposition.

because the only other option is to deny their freedom of speech rights.

Does not follow.

At any rate, whether or not Brendan's position on "gay marriage" was valid or bogus, he was a fine programmer and software engineer. Ousting him for the "inkorrekt" opinion did a disservice to the Mozilla project, negatively affecting millions of users.

https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-...

I'm pretty sure you won't find a high quality line-level USB DAC that doesn't also have a headphone amp. They pretty much all do. Even this one here, which is about the cheapest decent one you can get, has a headphone amp. However, what it doesn't have is a volume control that messes with the levels coming out of the RCA sockets - which I presume is what you wanted since you were asking for line-level outputs.

Whatever you do, don't buy one of those tiny USB DACs with just a couple of 3.5mm jacks on them. They are universally terrible.

You seem to be going in a lot of wrong directions. Maybe this will help:

World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories

In the PBS documentary America Rebuilds, which aired in September 2002, Larry Silverstein, the owner of 7 WTC and leaseholder and insurance policy holder for the remainder of the WTC complex, recalled a discussion with the fire department in which doubts about containing the fires were expressed. Silverstein recalled saying, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it". "They made that decision to pull", he recalled, "and we watched the building collapse." Silverstein issued a statement that it was the firefighting team, not the building, that was to be pulled.[72][78][79]

And this:

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report

The extensive three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation found that the fires on multiple floors in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event. Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.

In response to comments from the building community, NIST conducted an additional computer analysis. The goal was to see if the loss of WTC 7's Column 79—the structural component identified as the one whose failure on 9/11 started the progressive collapse—would still have led to a complete loss of the building if fire or damage from the falling debris of the nearby WTC 1 tower were not factors. The investigation team concluded that the column's failure under any circumstance would have initiated the destructive sequence of events.

You might want to look into these resources:

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Introduction to PM Expanded Investigation

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report

You might want to look into these too:

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Introduction to PM Expanded Investigation

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

That is misinformation.

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report

The extensive three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation found that the fires on multiple floors in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event. Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.

In response to comments from the building community, NIST conducted an additional computer analysis. The goal was to see if the loss of WTC 7's Column 79—the structural component identified as the one whose failure on 9/11 started the progressive collapse—would still have led to a complete loss of the building if fire or damage from the falling debris of the nearby WTC 1 tower were not factors. The investigation team concluded that the column's failure under any circumstance would have initiated the destructive sequence of events.

You misunderstand the quote:

World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories

In the PBS documentary America Rebuilds, which aired in September 2002, Larry Silverstein, the owner of 7 WTC and leaseholder and insurance policy holder for the remainder of the WTC complex, recalled a discussion with the fire department in which doubts about containing the fires were expressed. Silverstein recalled saying, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it". "They made that decision to pull", he recalled, "and we watched the building collapse." Silverstein issued a statement that it was the firefighting team, not the building, that was to be pulled.[72][78][79]

You might want to look into this:

Debunking 9/11 Myths: Introduction to PM Expanded Investigation

And maybe: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Not quite a roll of tape, but check out LightDims. You get one set of stickers that dim "50-80%" (or rather three sets, in black, silver and white) and another set that, as far as I can tell, are completely opaque.

They only really stick on flat surfaces, but they look better than using a random bit of tape, and the opaque ones really are opaque.

Who needs Brawndo, when you can have Pussy in orbit ( https://www.amazon.com/Pussy-N... )? :-)

In any case, water, carbon, and electrolytes are available in the Chondrite type asteroids ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... ), so at most you would have to supply trace nutrients.

Read "A Deepness In The Sky", by Vernor Vinge

No thanks. I, like many autistic people, have no interest in reading fiction. And I think it is silly to cite a work of fiction in a discussion about reality. For a better insight into the world of Auties, try reading Thinking in Pictures, written by an autistic woman diagnosed as retarded, who went on to earn a PhD in engineering.

Your description of autistic people as helpless children, incapable of making their own life decisions, is paternalistic crap.

I think this one would be pretty good.

3rd most expensive thing

Then you are dumb. I'm sorry that there's no easier way to put that. I have a tracfone that I use for emergencies. Once you learn how, it's quite easy to get by in modern society without an iphone. If you need to carry around a super computer in your pocket show people how much money you have to blow, then while you may not be poor, you certainly are not on the way to building wealth.

Here is a phone from Amazon. It costs $10 dollars with double minutes. I bought the same phone 3 years ago and still works perfectly. It was $3.25 when I bought it and goes on sale occasionally down to that price. When I was 8 years old, I saved money I found on the street for 6 months to save up $34 to buy a calculator ($100 in inflation adjusted terms).

After you save up your $10 (or $20 if you want to buy an hour of talk time), go to walmart and buy a prepaid visa to use on Amazon. I do realize that I am significantly more in intelligent than most people, but really, it is not that hard.

Get a AP or Wifi router with removable antennas and put a yagi antenna on it, configure it as a wireless client (rather than AP) and plug your computer into the wired port. That should allow you to access the city AP by pointing the yagi at the city's AP.

Or something like this should do what you need:

https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiqu...

The Surface TABLETS are more than $1,800.

Surface Pro 4 starts at ~780USD.
https://www.amazon.com/Microso...

Seriously though, you can't be bothered to spend 5 seconds on Amazon before posting?

Actually, the tablets start at $700 at Amazon. Depends on the specs you need.

Mountain Dew does come in cans: https://www.amazon.com/Mountai...

WTF, indeed.

OK idiot, I can't believe I have to spell this shit out for you.

Mountain Dew (the product) does come in cans.

"mountain dew" (a natural phenomenon) does not.

Mountain Dew does come in cans: https://www.amazon.com/Mountai...

WTF, indeed.

A smaller version of the headphone jack already exist, I had it in my Nokia phone 6 years ago. And guess what an adapter for that cost 3$ instead of 30$

Yeah,

Except that is a solved problem already.

Complain that you need to spend a few extra bucks, but don't bitch that you can no longer do it.

Still overkill, but here's a $50 case that adds less than 1/4" to the thickness of the phone and doubles capacity. That leaves it thinner than the iPhone 3G.

My point isn't that an external battery pack will solve every user's problems. I take issue with OPs the claim that the marketing and design staff of two of the largest electronics companies in the world are either incompetent or controlled by some vast conspiracy because they aren't making a phone that suits his needs.

These?

Well, this is what goes on Amazon; G4 at 149.99. Not sure if they will bump it to 199.99, but for now the price seems to be the same: https://www.amazon.com/Moto-4t...

Love it! My initial thought was that 250bar of H2 may start to stabilise copper hydride and the whole block would disintegrate. But I just thumbed through my copy of Barin and note that CuH is not listed. The Wikipedia page is actually pretty helpful, and I notice there that copper is stable in hydrogen all the way up to 50GPa, so absolutely no problems at 250bar.

We're looking at colleges now, and nowhere on the computer science curriculum is there a course on "Stuff You're Really Expected to Know."

At Carnegie Mellon University, it's called 15-213: Introduction to Computer Systems. The textbook (https://www.amazon.com/dp/013409266X) was written by the former dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.

They don't cost much, have great battery life and, oh my goodness, getting music on them is as simply as copying files to a USB stick.
https://www.amazon.com/Sony-NW...

Oh, I guess I got the "not practical" part. It's soo not practical to NOT have to install piece of crap like iTunes to do basic operations with your music player.

Coincidentally, the Industrial Revolution occurs in the same time and is entirely oligarchic in nature. You may be interested in reading some works by Robert C. Allen, in particular the very concise Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. There are a number of hypothesis for Europe's industrial success and subsequent increased living standards, from Braudel's coal and colonies to Black Death changing the institutional structure of Europe to be more capitalistic to Europe always being richer but having less food due to lack of rice. However, I am afraid that I am yet to hear a persuasive argument for peasants' suffrage being one of them. In fact, if we look at late comers in East Asia, you would get the very opposite impression with unelected elite bureaucrats largely detached from the political process running the country much more successfully than their democratised counterparts with democracy only coming as a latter bonus and in a form factually very different from liberté, égalité, fraternité.