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If you did some research, you would discover [pdf] that in the last full term, Breyer and Sotomayor were the most in agreement (87% of the time the agreed in full, 93% of the time they agreed at least in judgement) while Thomas and Scalia are not even in the running for being the pair that agrees the most (61% of the time they agreed in full, 75% of the time they agreed at least in judgement).

In non-unanimous cases, Breyer and Sotomayor agreed in full 82% of the time and agreed at least in judgement 86% of the time. On the other hand, in such cases, Thomas and Scalia only agreed in full 37% of the time and agreed at least in judgement only 53% of the time.

It's true that In 5-4 cases, Thomas and Scalia were the most aligned of any pair of justices and agreed at least in part 100% of the time and no other pair of justices were that close -- but Breyer and Sotomayor agreed at least in part in all but one such case so the difference is probably not statistically significant (Ginsburg and Sotomayor also agreed at least in part in all but one such case).

You also realize that Thomas' failing to ask questions during oral arguments just reflects his belief that justices derail the oral arguments by asking questions - I believe he has actually said that he thinks oral arguments should be eliminated at the SCOTUS and everything should be done via briefs. His failure to speak in hearings is not just a tacit approval of what another justice has said.

So that it immediately sticks out instead of using an alphabetical character which would probably be lost as "noise."

> The point is that it's not standard.

That's not the entire picture.

GCC Tokenization says this:

Punctuators are all the usual bits of punctuation which are meaningful to C and C++. All but three of the punctuation characters in ASCII are C punctuators. The exceptions are â@â(TM), â$â(TM), and â`â(TM). In addition, all the two- and three-character operators are punctuators

  In ASCII, the only other characters are â@â(TM), â$â(TM), â`â(TM), and control characters other than NUL (all bits zero). (Note that â$â(TM) is normally considered a letter.)

Why is $ even considered a letter in the first place? GCC gives this reason:

As an extension, GCC treats â$â(TM) as a letter. This is for compatibility with some systems, such as VMS, where â$â(TM) is commonly used in system-defined function and object names.

The more interesting question is why is Microsoft emulating this non-standard behavior?

> Macro names must follow the same rules as variable names, ie, letters, numbers, and underscores only;

That is an artificial rule; one would think that the preprocessor is supposed to be independent of the language. i.e. Why can I use C's preprocessor for a language like Perl ? The problem is that the pre-processor's definition of what constitutes a character token is too limited, it should only reject existing symbols that have are predefined operators (i.e. have a mathematical definition) and not blacklist other non-used symbols. If the preprocessor was properly written to do a search-and-replace then this wouldn't be an issue.

This points to a bigger problem though. Why is my source code limited to sub-set of ASCII? Why can't I include Unicode in comments?

I cringe at the thought. This here illustrates pretty well what it would be like.

Actually, the engine case is designed to withstand blade failures, including fan blades, compressor blades and turbine blades, but not disc failures. Usually, discs fail when the engine is overspeed, when the centrifugal forces are higher than what the disc was designed to withstand. This is why the ECU/FADEC/EEC will shut the engine down immediately when it detects an overspeed condition on any of the shafts.

The case of QF32 you cite was indeed a disc failure. You can see a section of the failed disc here. The turbine blades were mounted in the notches you can see on the outer diameter of the disc. The disc punctured through the wing (including the fuel tank), as you can see here and here.

It does happen, but it's not common. They end up on opposite sides of the judgment about 5% of the time. If you exclude unanimous cases, it's about 16% of the time.

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/...

Nonsense. Maybe Republicans have been more successful in gerrymandering, but both parties have engaged in this practice. That's why there are so many "reliable" Republican and Democrat seats.

Indeed. For anyone interested in the overall trend, I'd encourage them to have a look at this report, which does not appear to be biased toward or against any particular party and makes use of a number of different measures of gerrymandering.

After the 2010 census redistricting, they conclude the following regarding both parties' effects:

The mean Polsby-Popper, Schwartzberg and Reock scores indicate that districts drawn with total GOP control have a higher compactness score than districts drawn with total Democratic control under those measures. States with split control fall in the middle. Nevertheless, districts with a political party in control remain less compact than the national average by every measure. . . . Using the convex hull measure shows a different story. Districts drawn by a split in control come out with a higher compactness score, with districts drawn by the GOP not far behind. Districts drawn by the Democratic Party are much less compact than either.

While districts drawn by Republicans in this decennial redistricting process may be somewhat more compact than those drawn by Democrats, it is also clear that both parties appeared to take advantage of their situation and draw districts more favorable to their party's election. For example, Democrats took advantage in Maryland and Illinois while Republicans took advantage in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Republicans just had many more states, which may have buffered their average.

In other words, Democrats controlled fewer state legislatures than Republicans, but where they did control them, they introduced even WORSE (i.e., "less compact") gerrymandered districts than Republicans on average.

But since Republicans had control of more states, overall they may have ended up ahead THIS TIME in the gerrymandering war... maybe. Note that this crap goes on after every census, and whichever big party happens to be in control tries to exploit it. The Dems are certainly not more innocent than the Reps. They all should be thrown out of office for it.

That was... quite a wall of rambling text, so I apologize - was quite sleepy when I typed up that book above. lol.

But, to follow up:

Sony's Playstation 4 has never (to my knowledge) been modded and there are no hacks other than account sharing and cloning at the present time. It was released in Nov of 2013. I frequent homebrewer sites... and basically, they've given up trying to mod consoles altogether declaring the age of the mod chip over. People are also afraid of jail time as some have been charged with DMCA violations for selling mod chips.

The Playstation 3 was never modded either - it wasn't even really hacked as someone leaked the keys, so everyone used those to make software mods.

The hardware mods only worked b/c the manufacturers weren't expecting them. Now, they hide the internals better so you can't solder between chips and perform man-in-the-middle attacks. They also check firmware versions and test for mod chips, then disable online access if anything abnormal is found. I wouldn't say hardware modding is over yet, but it's getting there. Most mods I see these days are for controllers, not systems.

As for PC miniaturization, I thought this was impressive:

Look at the latest 12" Macbook motherboard:

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-co...

http://i.imgur.com/19nDmFc.jpg

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-co...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/digita...

It's smaller than a Raspberry Pi 2, and only a bit bigger than the tiny Iphone 6 motherboard. It holds a Dual Core Pentium M 1.2 Ghz with hyperthreading and turboboost to 2.6 ghz with 8 GB of RAM and Intel HD Graphics 5300 that supports the retina display.

This article basically goes on to say what I've been saying - you can't service this kind of device, you just replace the entire mobo if it breaks:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...

The system is hardly top of the line, but it does support the idea that the internals of PCs/laptops are shrinking to credit-card size at a rapid pace and that the current GHz speed plus a decent graphics chip are "good enough" for most people. The high end macbook pro and macbook air motherboards aren't much larger, really - just some additions for more I/O and fans. If it's that small now, just wait another 10 to 20 years. We already have the tech to put that entire mobo on a chip smaller than a dime, but it'd cost a fortune to design and get a decent yield off of a wafer that size.

Of course, in 10 to 20 years, desktops will be gone. We'll maybe have a something that looks like today's PCs acting as a "home media server" with lots of laptops, phones, and tablets that connect.. maybe all on the same domain or "home network" of some sort. Maybe a few small form factor devices like mac minis, roku, tivo, etc. None of the devices will be upgradable or repairable as it'd be cheaper to buy a new one than to bother. I expect in 30 years, all of them will be locked into one walled garden or another.

(manned missions)

Still, I have to point out that this amount of research could have been done by a motorized human in half a day. For a rough estimate, look at the path the rover traveled in these 4000 days:
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws....

The bypass allows at network-level remote attacker to inject executable code (a dylib) into a legitimate download (.dmg/.zip) without it being detected. When the user goes to run their download - the injected unsigned code is then also executed. IMHO Gatekeeper should block that -so yah its a Gatekeeper bypass not a remote code execution vulnerability. The RSA slides are somewhat short on details ([PDF] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.sy...) - for full technical details see: [PDF] https://www.virusbtn.com/pdf/m... (page 15+ describes the Gatekeeper bypass).

I don't know if you know many rich people, but any established wealthy person is not going to taint themselves with this junk. The likely market will be teenage kids of rich people, and new and upcoming rappers/football players.

That's "many rich people." What you're describing are self-made entrepreneurs, who maybe break 1-2 million of net worth -- a small subset of all rich people, almost by definition -- their spouses and children outnumber them without even counting athletes, celebrities, successful startup (i.e. Facebook) employees, and lottery winners (but I repeat myself), actual and pseudo-royalty throughout the world (especially the middle east), and successful criminals with gaudy taste (loan sharks, bookies, etc.). And many self-made entrepreneurs are still subject to ostentatious displays of wealth. Never underestimate the allure of the status symbol, regardless of practicality. Where do you think high heels came from?

Ooops, my bad #4 is a fake... Still a couple more to cover up :
Don't laugh at us
This is my body
A mole in The Vatican : Different than usual altar boys.
Gay Lobby in Conclave : where is the smoke?
Private catholic schools : if you are nice, you could come with me to the anti-gay-marriage rally.

Google did not say they support regulating broadband as if it were POTS. Their letter is pretty short - the first page pretty well covers their position, then there are 2 1/2 pages supporting it.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.do...

If one page is too long for you to read, here's the one sentence summary of what Google said:

If you assholes have bureaucrats set our pricing under title II, you'd better also give us access to poles under title II.

It's like telling the dentist "if you pull out my tooth, use novacain" - that doesn't mean you want the tooth pulled.

As large as possible time displayed when an alarm is going off with high contrast
Like this?

Only in the sense that it is also a striking copy of every robotic arm in existence. The mechanical design is significantly different to the uArm. Compare MeArm versus uArm and look at the design of the support and actuator arms.

Only in the sense that it is also a striking copy of every robotic arm in existence. The mechanical design is significantly different to the uArm. Compare MeArm versus uArm and look at the design of the support and actuator arms.

I'm assuming Cyanogen is this kid, he's the first to show Googling Cyanogen Human. Close enough for my conspiracy theories!

In most states over 10% of the voters register as Independent. How do you gerrymander those to vote Republican?

You don't. You set gerrymander so the Republican has a 11% lead* so even a solid lock on Independents doesn't matter.

Democrats cluster in large cities. How do you evenly distribute their votes out into Republican districts on the other side of the state?

Austin, TX Area Congressional Districts, Chicago, IL Area Congressional Districts. You give Republicans/Democrats one district which they'll win overwhelmingly and the rest you win by 10-20 points. And every 10 years you get to refix the maps as people move, ideology changes, etc. Still, with the Parents Vote R -> Child Votes R, Parents Vote D -> Child Votes D being such a huge trend, for a lot of states that have large R or D populations and not much immigration, then that's enough.

*Obviously if the distribution is that most of that 10% is in the high-Democrat area, you just allocate most of the people into the easy-win Democrat area to undercut their vote and don't have to consider the Independents in most districts.

I've heard the rumors of parallel construction, but we have no examples of such.

Rumours?

DEA training material isn't rumours.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1011382/responsive-documents.pdf

No examples? Of course you have no examples, that is the whole point of parallel construction!

from The Office
http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws....

obligatory

Time to update the charts again.

The design is, kinda nice.
But the layout is awful.

The bedrooms should be near each other, with a bathroom separating them. (preferably on the side away from the living area)
Using this image of it, switch the 3D print room and utility room around to the other side with the bedroom and bathroom. Literally just translate them over as-is.
That gives a nice working area on one side, bedrooms and bathroom in one area, entertainment in middle, then the eating space in another.

Equally, if we are going to go with a design that had a reasonable amount of oxygen available for it (so, not that anyway), you could go further and add 2 of those beds in a room. Quite easily. Not even stacked, you could add 4 if stacked. 8 beds to one of these constructions.
You'll need a tree farm somewhere for oxygen though. Or a greenhouse with efficient oxygen-generators.

Here's what I got when I gave it every pic in my photo library.

But seriously, I've seen the same technique used to discredit a movie of a UFO shot on 8 mm film. If you just watch the movie, you see an elliptical blob flying. Someone scanned the blob from each frame, aligned them, and averaged them. The increased contrast (bit-depth and resolution basically) let you see that the elliptical blob was more a diagonal prism, and that there were dark features underneath it. Basically it was a Cessna with the sun reflecting off the top of the wing.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/flh/fa...

It's worth noting that it was the DEA who gave 'parallel construction' its notoriety (check out the delightful lesson plan!). I would not want to be the guy whose continued freedom depends on finding a court willing to poke the issue, much less for The Notorious Silk Road Internet Drugs Kingpin; but it certainly seems like a case where the matter would be very likely to come up.

Just tried to do a Photostream sync to my PC while running Wireshark. Guess where the HTTP-GET requests point? http://eu-irl-00001.s3.amazona... so yeah, they are definitely still not able to handle their own cloud-business, but instead relies on Amazons dirty cloud... So much for their 100% renewable BS.

According to the user manual, no internet connection is required.
http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BitTorrentSyncUserGuide.pdf

On page 2:

Connection
The devices in sync are connected directly.
Ðonnection is established by use of TCP,
UDP, NAT traversal, UPnP port mapping, and relay server. If your devices are on a local
network, BitTorrent Sync will synchronize them without the Internet connection.

The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.

In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.

Well, one of the picturesdoes hint at something

A m3.2xlarge costs 4905.6 per year. You can buy a 32GB RAM 8 CPU core Dell R320 system for $2,666.80 in it's entirety.

If you are comparing with a fixed purchase, you should use the 3-yr reserved price for the M3.2XL, which is $162/month ( includes the initial payment ). This gives you a yearly cost of $1944. And that includes all NOC costs.

If you do not factor in NOC costs in your estimate then you clearly haven't been doing this very long.

Source http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

I'd paste the whole text here if it weren't an image.

Sounds like nobody wants to live there. Wonder why that is..

Yeah, I wonder... it's so awful here:

http://www.peterurbanski.com/d...
http://www.michaelyamashita.co...
http://vtsports.com/wp-content...
http://summit.jacksonwhelan.ne...
http://mediad.publicbroadcasti...
https://img0.etsystatic.com/00...
http://www.usappleblog.org/wp-...
http://www.discoverkillington....
http://qcc-vt-photo-media.s3.a...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
http://girlgonetravel.com/wp-c...
http://www.bangngangan.com/ima...
http://www.discoverbristolvt.c...
http://www.waterskiingvermont....

So this is what boeing will put on the pamphlets then who ever actually buys the craft will say "I like it but i need you to quadruple the number of seats

in reality it will be more like this http://s3.amazonaws.com/thumbn...

Currently the leaf is 29k, it'll be interesting to see what Tesla actually ends up with, and where Nissan (and others presumably) are by then, but I would expect a 10k price difference still.

Nissan Leaf: sub-100mi range, might get to 150mi in TFA, $29k base. Looks like this.

Tesla Model E: Maybe 200mi range, $35k base. Looks like this.

Tesla is going to always appeal to the luxury market. And that is where the profits are. (Reportedly Lexus alone earns over 2/3rds Toyota's profits.)

Plus the Model E will appeal to people who find $39k cheap, whereas the Leaf will only appeal to people who find $29k expensive. Leaf is not competing with Telsas, it's competing with $16k conventional small cars. (NIssan's own Pulsar, for example, is the same size and style as the Leaf, but costs $10k less than the Leaf. For a base-model Leaf, you can buy a top-of-the-range Pulsar. (Oh, and that also gets you 350km range. And $10k buys 50,000 miles of fuel.))

The Nissan Leaf will really be competing with the Tesla E, not the Tesla S,.

But Nissan being Nissan, there'll inevitably be a "boy racer" body kit.

Great! You're "insured". I hope you don't have to put it through any kind of "stress test"... Getting insurance is easy. Just make sure the hospital sends the bill to them.

Amazon has a detailed AWS cost estimator:

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws...

When we migrated to the cloud, our actual costs were within 15% of the estimated costs.

But really, the easiest thing to do is just build a test environment and try it -- you only pay for the time you use.

When we migrated to AWS we knocked 70% off our colocation bill (we had more space at the coloc than we needed, but it's hard to move production hardware to a smaller space without downtime, plus we had significant savings in equipment leases and maintenance contract costs).

Our dev/test hardware was aging and becoming unreliable (and no longer matched production since we moved to AWS), so we moved that up to AWS as well, but even after that migration our total AWS bill less than half what we paid at the colocation center. We only run the dev/test hardware during business hours, or on-demand as needed -- we set up a simple web interface that lets developers spin up test instances as needed. AWS keeps dropping prices, so we're even as we've grown, our costs have remained relatively constant.

http://2012bloghoax.s3.amazona...

This article has the picture released by China, coordinates are stamped on the picture: 90deg 13' 43" E / 44deg 57' 29" S. Those positions are now dated due to expected drift of any debris in the local currents and wind.

Here's earlier satellite photos with coordinates from DigitalGlobe, as released by the Australian search team (Australian Maritime Safety Authority - AMSA).

The AMSA is coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean and all their AMSA news updates are here, and images/maps are here, including the cumulative area searched as of March 23 [PDF].

The information is out there if you go looking.

Take a look at the quality of the objects that can be printed by Peachy. It appears to use a very large beam with very rough placement. Just because it uses UV does not mean it creates the same quality. I doubt very much if you could do the tape or calipers on the Peachy.

Precisely. It's not an investment; Kickstarter expressly disallows project creators from granting equity, a share of the profits, or other such things. Nor is it a store; Kickstarter explicitly states as much in their FAQ documentation.

In this particular case, it sounds like the reward may not be fulfilled in accordance with the terms of the contract, so the contract stipulates that the project creator must grant a reward to the backer, which it sounds like WB is indeed doing, as per what they agreed to do when they created the project. Most people never read the fine print and noticed that offering a refund is a valid way course of action for WB according to the contract they entered.

Use tape.

only if it moves and its not supposed to: http://s3.amazonaws.com/37asse...

And of course they'll be sent to a different part of the country then where they're from.

Then what happened?

"Then vs than", care of theoatmeal.com

There is a very interesting project underway to recreate the ZX Spectrum and more.

No, there isn't. Certainly not "more" - I don't know where that's come from.

This is the link you're looking for. The one that tells you that, actually, what's been kickstarted is a bluetooth keyboard in the style of a ZX spectrum.

Speaking of that link, though, what's with the shitty JPEG details page? Don't we has text on the internets now?

Happily enough, Alexa offers a download of the top million domains. Even calculating the MD5 hash for every domain every time and doing a simple string comparison using node.js, it takes only a couple of seconds to run through every single entry in that table.

arth1's domain isn't in the top million list, though.

But still, there are plenty of sites in the top million list you may not want to share with Valve that you visit, like #83, pornhub.com, or #84, huffingtonpost.com.

Or just use: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.do...

The problem with Bill Mitchell's approach to monetary theory (Chartalism), is that it is focuses on public debt when it's the inevitable deleveraging of private debt that cause recessions and depressions. Given, it may be a workable approach, but it's not very direct. Steve Keen, on the other hand, focuses directly on the role of private debt in the macroeconomy. He's currently working on a dynamic model fully capable accurately simulating booms, recessions and depressions in all their glory, and he already has some very instructive models. You can check out his blog here, his "manifesto" here, and his research papers here.

is Snowden's reports wrong?

RTFA... Snowden's released [PDF] documents says nothing specific about what apps were targeted. Don't make it sound like he's to blame.

Not only is it vague and mundane, it also says GCHQ, not NSA.

I'm starting to think all these people spun up on the NSAs business are about the same people who get really spun up on /. headlines. That would actually explain a lot.

is Snowden's reports wrong?

RTFA... Snowden's released [PDF] documents says nothing specific about what apps were targeted. Don't make it sound like he's to blame.

Have you looked at the thermometer?

http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazo...