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Take a look at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport and you will notice the squares in all the runways and most taxiways. Those are the joins between the concrete slabs. So that airport is almost completely concrete and has very little asphalt. Yes all runways and taxiways could be made of concrete but concrete does not last long in cold climates and costs a lot more.

Actually you have it the wrong way around. Most runways are asphalt with concrete landing areas while taxiways are concrete so aircraft can sit on them or long periods of time. Asphalt is used because it does not have expansion joints and is less susceptible to heaving. Here is an example of a USAF airfield with just that configuration. Note that the taxi ways are a light colour while most of the runway is dark. In the text it explains exactly what kind of asphalt was used. Here is another example in Alaska. Notice that the aircraft are sitting on concrete while most of the rest of the taxiways and runways are asphalt.

My meter is locked inside my house, and unless I unlock the door and let them in, they aren't allowed to force their way in.

That violates almost every building code I've heard of for decades. You're probably grandfathered in, but don't expect to see this in new construction, and if you ever remodel that general part of the house, expect a hassle from them demanding the meter be moved outdoors. The theory is if the building is burning the FD wants to come in and rescue your kids but they can't shut the power off before spraying water if the meter is inside the building. Ditto the gas meter which is also almost always located outdoors for the same reason.

Since my house was built in the 1920's, I'm sure it doesn't meet any current building codes. Until about 5 years ago it still had a lot of knob and tube wiring and heavily corroded steel water pipes.

I've seen a number of bare-stud rebuilds in my neighborhood, but haven't seen any that moved the electric meter out to the street where it's accessible. In my neighborhood houses tend to be built so they are right up against the neighbors house, so the only way to make a meter accessible would be to put it out on the sidewalk

Here's a Google streetview picture of a house similar to mine. The gas/electric meters are likely behind that little square window:

http://goo.gl/maps/6QmX

Most houses don't have a little window like that, so they hang a meter reading tag on their door on meter reading day (and I assume the electric company periodically schedules an appointment to physically read the meter).

I did all the hard work for you:

http://goo.gl/maps/jMYi ;)

I looked on google maps http://goo.gl/maps/1eta based on comments about the actual city name. I wasn't able to see anything special. Does anyone else have a better fix on the location?

Looking at the Map there is nothing to worry about.

His building is far from any significant stand of trees. Two guys with chainsaws and another driving a 4 wheel drive truck can
drop every tree close to the building in 20 minutes, and tow them to an open field.

Use a backup generator to keep his well pumping (if no city water) and put a lawn sprinkers on the roof.
One wonders if this wasn't just out out there to drive traffic to his website.

He lost his credentials to practice in Manitoba, and was charged with professional misconduct in 2009. http://goo.gl/O3zdd

TFA, at least, doesn't even mention segmented sleep or how that might alter this alleged dynamic. Since there seems to be irrefutable evidence that the Industrial Age is the specific cause of this change in our sleep patterns and a prescriptive (if subconscious) effort to pigeonhole our sleep into one neat temporal compartment, why do these supposed experts continue to promote the Industrial Age myth of a single eight-hour sleep cycle? Why don't they consider the possibility that it might be our efforts as a civilization to force our sleep patterns into a single tightly regimented box that is causing the increased risk of stroke and other problems?

Where do you live that only rich people have fences or hedges?

A lot of places, including some in America don't have fences.

Sygic http://goo.gl/zu0UJ

I just finished using it on a trip. Very nice and only $20. All maps are stored locally and it didn't falter once. I used it on a Galaxy Tab 7.

People are stupid, and greedy, and they have a real poor memory. If you let'em they will stick their head right in the lion's mouth to see where the lamb went. That's why we pass laws to protect us from ourselves. Sadly who will protect us from the greedy buggers who buy the people who are supposed to protect us. Sigh!

The same is true of closed maps too, try comparing Vladivostok on Google Maps to on OpenStreetMaps.

More so, if you feel that an area doesn't have enough coverage, sure that's a pain the first time you go there, but once you've been there, and know what's going on, just add it to the map, and bam, coverage improved :)

"In some places, like where I live ... However, Bing Maps is the best one of them with most information"

Yeah, we really really really need a new moderator option, -1 marketdrone

I hate to say it but GP is telling the truth in the case of the UK, especially when it comes to walking trails. Look at this bing map view of a nearby valley. It clearly shows footpaths, contours, wooded areas, etc, you can see where to walk and how difficult the terrain will be. On the other hand the google map view of the same area shows the valley as a blank! I certainly find bing much better for hiking route planning, in fact I would go as far as to say its impossible on google.

I found the solution here!

If you look at the EXIF data in her logo ( http://goo.gl/cHTtq ), it says it was created with Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery. So it's probably generic clipart available in that tool.

Yup. Exactly how it happened in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, we have these license plate scanners around all big cities. They were installed after politicians promised they would never store license plates that weren't linked to serious crimes. Just a few years later, ALL license plates are stored for a longer period.

And know what the good part is? Real criminals don't fear the camera's at all. Last week a report on this subject was published: http://goo.gl/W8OF8 . The total of 230 camera's placed on just 40km of highway around Rotterdam generate more than 10.000 notifications every single day. About 60% of these notifications were discarded. If any action was taken, it was mostly people who had outstanding tickets, a tax debt, or whose license was revoked.

Why I Quit OpenBSD

FreeBSD.org: FreeBSD X: Berkeley Unix, Apple Quality

The German judicial branch's approach is often a fascinating contrast to that of US state and federal courts. Germany has specialized highest courts for specific subject matters: tax, admin, labor, social, constitutional... and the high court in TFA.

As an example: the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the highest German conlaw court, not the highest "ordinary" court in TFA) decreed it unconstitutional to publicly print (or run big news stories about) the names of notorious, convicted criminals, once the criminals have completed their sentences and have been released. The idea is that imprisonment is supposed to be such a thing that, once a person is released, they have actually been rehabilitated to the point where they can once again function in society without posing a threat to the well-being of others.

Given the depth of the cultural grab of the US first amendment --freedom of speech, baby!-- the thought that one shouldn't be able to print the names of convicted criminals in news media probably sets off all sorts of knee-jerk 1st amendment concerns. But given the realities of prison, enforcing that the prison goals of rehabilitation and public safety over raw punishment seems to me a wise approach that I wish the US would adopt. But over here, such a concept probably sounds like something that would be characterized as deplorable, pollyannish weak liberal democrat thinking.

I've read a handful of English translations of the decisions of the Constitutional Court/Bundesverfassungsgericht (the German conlaw court, not the "ordinary" court in TFA). Last time I checked, most of the text of the most useful read I found is here: http://goo.gl/dlwi9 [goo.gl]

Place your bets on how long 'til it hits eBay - scam or not.

What decline?

http://goo.gl/yRwK5

Compared to their competitors, IBM seems to be doing okay if the markets are to be believed.

Communities Dominate Brands: These Steps or Nokia is No More - the way back to profits and growth http://goo.gl/fzi3u Communities Dominate Brands: Nokia Profit Warning (again) - Here is what you need to know why it is actually far worse http://goo.gl/MZxIA

Communities Dominate Brands: These Steps or Nokia is No More - the way back to profits and growth http://goo.gl/fzi3u Communities Dominate Brands: Nokia Profit Warning (again) - Here is what you need to know why it is actually far worse http://goo.gl/MZxIA

You can see an interesting thing about infographics design at the NYT here.

I'd first look at KhanAcademy. They have courses on Python. See http://www.khanacademy.org/#computer-science-container Python in general is a good first language. I first learnt it with http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ But, I would highly recommend Head First books to start learning any language. I think they'd be great for an 11 year old. Head First Python http://goo.gl/tKRMu Another option that has been discussed recently as a good first language is JavaScript. It has the advantage of running in every browser and allows the ability to see nice visual feedback right away. When I was in high school I learnt a bit of Java using , which I also enjoyed because Swing gave me the ability to create GUIs right away.

As it mentions in the code, it's an approximation of pi using concurrency. The number of "goroutine" calls used determines the accuracy. In the code comments, they refer you to http://goo.gl/ZuTZM if you want more information on the algorithm they are using. Increasing the accuracy is just a matter of increasing n in their example.

Sure buddy, here you go.

http://goo.gl/rIh07 [goo.gl]
Backblaze backs up your data on your computer for $5 or less a month for unlimited storage. It has a free trial so you can see how it works, and has options for backing up which files you want as well as upload speed and scheduling and backing up from external hard drives.

Unless he has data caps, this is actually a very easy solution. The initial upload will be huge though (but they even calculate the amount of time that takes too). I use it for my computer, and it helps when I accidentally delete a file.

Aviation has come a long way so far. Starting from Leonardo da vinci to Peoples like Henry Cavendish, Montgolfier Brothers, Sir George Cayley, John Stringfellow, Francis H Wenham, Otto Lilienthal, The wright brothers and many others contributed a lot.. http://goo.gl/2HBEJ

Apple should get into the car business.
For starters, they could add SIRIc, SIRI for the car.

-cellurl
Speedlimit aware cruise control

I have an unlimited 3G plan with Verizon Wireless for my smartphone, and this made me curious. Verizon has a nearly identical throttling policy: http://goo.gl/RIXbF

The deeper one looks into this, the more bizarre it looks. The current law is here: http://goo.gl/f0OyQ. Section 14-2 is the real meat of it, its amendments are 94-183 and 91-657, and it was introduced by 79-781.

According to Senator Millner, at the time in 1994 it was actually a class 4 felony for police officers to leave their dashboard cameras running. (pdf, @ page 32 http://goo.gl/sJlf7)

Going back further, the original motivation for the committee that started drafting the bill in 1975 seems to track back to then Senator Partee's mention of a report from the IL State Comptroller which claimed that there were a number of electronic eavesdropping devices unauthorized by any court around and within the State Capitol (pdf page 9 http://goo.gl/vssR9.) The outrageous abuse of this law to prevent police accountability certainly doesn't seem to have been the original intention of the bill at any point down the line, at least from the legislative material I've seen.

The deeper one looks into this, the more bizarre it looks. The current law is here: http://goo.gl/f0OyQ. Section 14-2 is the real meat of it, its amendments are 94-183 and 91-657, and it was introduced by 79-781.

According to Senator Millner, at the time in 1994 it was actually a class 4 felony for police officers to leave their dashboard cameras running. (pdf, @ page 32 http://goo.gl/sJlf7)

Going back further, the original motivation for the committee that started drafting the bill in 1975 seems to track back to then Senator Partee's mention of a report from the IL State Comptroller which claimed that there were a number of electronic eavesdropping devices unauthorized by any court around and within the State Capitol (pdf page 9 http://goo.gl/vssR9.) The outrageous abuse of this law to prevent police accountability certainly doesn't seem to have been the original intention of the bill at any point down the line, at least from the legislative material I've seen.

The deeper one looks into this, the more bizarre it looks. The current law is here: http://goo.gl/f0OyQ. Section 14-2 is the real meat of it, its amendments are 94-183 and 91-657, and it was introduced by 79-781.

According to Senator Millner, at the time in 1994 it was actually a class 4 felony for police officers to leave their dashboard cameras running. (pdf, @ page 32 http://goo.gl/sJlf7)

Going back further, the original motivation for the committee that started drafting the bill in 1975 seems to track back to then Senator Partee's mention of a report from the IL State Comptroller which claimed that there were a number of electronic eavesdropping devices unauthorized by any court around and within the State Capitol (pdf page 9 http://goo.gl/vssR9.) The outrageous abuse of this law to prevent police accountability certainly doesn't seem to have been the original intention of the bill at any point down the line, at least from the legislative material I've seen.

http://goo.gl/Fq4NM

Hey! You know Johnny too :)

I'd like to second this recommendation. The main omission from this device is the lack of Amazon Prime streaming support. Also, there is a problem with switching audio in a mp4/m4v file sends video racing ahead, however, strangely enough, mkv's work fine. No sub-$250 device I'm aware of does it all perfectly, but overall, I recommend the WDTV Live it and would buy again.

A cloud of noble gases has been detected near Ringmusculaturus II.

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It's quite frightening how straightforward (here: old, CFC-based foam piece killed Columbia*) the facts can be, and still not work with those people... but then, myths and their collections seem to also have a much stronger grasp on them, on average.

Here, I guess also the myths of glorious-looking (kinda feels like this damn French Concorde, but better / in space!) Flash Gordon style contraptions of a spacecraft which wastes most of its LEO mass on airframe ...possibly even with its designers and decision-makers being raised on & influenced by such works of fiction (FG and so on; which mostly just naively extrapolated rapid advances in airplane tech of the ~1940s; kinda like those airplanes (Wiki Unicode URL, tends to work weird on /.) from "our" times, as imagined ~130 years ago, were undoubtedly shaped by rapid advances in marine tech - and we can even build them, basically just take a Harrier & remove wings and canopy ...it's still a horrible idea vs. "boring" reality).

The STS was simply deeply flawed, foam-shedding (another fact: most severe - but lucky to spare critical impact points - in early flights, which used only CFC-based foams) being just one aspect of it ...not even the worst (other being also with the basic concept, its premises and promises - obsolete even before the Shuttle seriously got onto drawing boards, for example with automatic rendezvous & docking done since the 60s)
Oh yeah, but it looked and felt awesome, I'd be the first to give it that (hm, yeah, "emotional" as you say)

And with the news at hand... "green" fuels are also simply much easier & safer to work with; those are things which - contrary to the suggestion of (great?)grandparent poster - tend to save time and money in the longish & up time spans (so, for once aiming at thoughtful long-term choices)

*Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Volume 2, Appendix D, Section 11.3 and figure 11-1, p222

Here's a link to Wikipedia. Enjoy.

The article is factually incorrect. Here is a release containing the actual sequence of events at the Lake City library.

Any IT senior I've known who uses Apple doesn't stay in that position very long. Nor do they use their personal devices to set company policy. Yes I know the Dilbert myths, but in reality that doesn't happen.

Disagree. I've done I.T. sub-contracting at pretty much every Fortune 500 company in the SFBay area and I can't count the number of times I've ended up having to aid members of in house I.T. departments in their efforts of integrating serial modems for laptops from the early 90s into their networks because some ancient corporate officer has been using it since time immemorial and can't be bothered to be required to upgrade.

And let's not even get into the amount of hours I've spent wrestling with serial printer integration! :P

All I have to do is point out the cost of operating Apple products and whatever complaints the boss has disappears quickly.

Whereas all I have to do is point out the financial costs of lost time and productivity from wrestling with configuration hassles and cleaning out malware on Windows, the savings on non per-CPU client site licenses, cost of repeated upgrades, and cost of staff training for updates.

I'm sorry to have to destroy the myth for you, but Apple really has no place in the enterprise despite the attempts of fanboys to delude others otherwise.

I'd hardly describe myself as a fanboi of any technology, but I've definitely seen a slow but steady growth of Apple technologies in I.T. departments over the last decade and as this article shows, I'm clearly not alone in that observation, either: http://goo.gl/vY1lM

You don't have to consent to a search of your cell phone. Police have the explicit right to search it once you're pulled over for any reason. See: http://goo.gl/pKrOf This is WHY I haven't owned a cell in years; why make it EASY for them?

Hey, it's Slashdot. We can still find ways to break it.

I was thinking, this: http://goo.gl/d52rX

If you want to use your analogy and reasoning in this case the original right-owners would be the people who came up with the designs of the buildings and the bus.

Not the photographers who took a picture of them.

If you're going to say the photographer came up with a novel composition that's why it's copyrightable, then I'd say the two photos have very different composition. The first has bus, sky, skyline, _bridge_ (and stairs) and _water_, with the red bus being "in the middle offset". The other has bus, sky, building, road, with the red bus being "smack in the front".

If instead you're going to say "coloured iconic object in monochrome background" can be a monopolized idea, I think bet the original person who came up with this concept is not the complainant in this case, and it's ridiculous to allow such a monopoly. Any serious photographer would be insane to be happy with such a ruling, since it'd be hard to not infringe. Does that mean you can't take a picture of the "classic red telephone box"[1] and have the background in monochrome, because it would infringe on this concept too? How about red rose/apple and monochrome background? Or the many other images with a similar concept: http://goo.gl/VjRlb

Do people really want to spend more time in court than in taking photographs? If no, they should protest this ridiculous ruling.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_telephone_box