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The 30% figure seemed rather low to me. I haven't found a good source of data on this, but we can make some projections if we're willing to stipulate that one must fall under simple height & weight thresholds to fit comfortably in an airline seat. (Height affects your need for legroom; weight [BMI] affects your need for seat-width.)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hxj532K3BvCaMFcNZ-frDcgbbQlhtxKzAKEo3erKjCo/edit?usp=sharing

The 30% figure seems to hold if you assume that weight (BMI) is the key driver -- and that only people in the "=normal/healthy" weight-class can fit comfortably in an airline seat. I'm skeptical of that assumption -- "overweight" (but not obese) is a big range, and it accounts for a huge swath of the US population, and anecdotally (when I was at the high-end of "overweight") I was "snug" but not really uncomfortable in an airline seat. (Now-a-days I have 1-2in wiggleroom in each direction. It's hard to sleep or work on a laptop but OK for sitting.)

If we make assumptions that are favorable to the airlines, the best I can imagine is that 60% fit in their seats comfortably. That's still not good enough for a service that's sold to the general public without transparency or negotiability or refundability.

Elxsi Fortran had it long ago.

Richard Maine in FORTRAN IV program illustrating assigned GO TO on web site

The Elxsi compiler in the mid 80's actually implemented the comefrom
statement (and several variants) as a continuation of this spoof. It
wasn't documented, but I found out about it when Ralph Merkle (one of
the developers) suggested that I might be amused by looking at a certain
area in the compiler executable file. When I did so, I found a list of
strings containing mostly familliar Fortran keywords. Amidst those, I
spotted comefrom. A quick check verified that the statement actually
compiled and worked as "expected".

I later heard that the statement was pulled from the compiler after a
customer submitted a bug report (I think it was a
performance/optimization issue) related to the comefrom statement
implementation. The joke wasn't worth actually investing scarce support
resources on.

bam!

Emeril Lagasse, don't be tossing your ESSENCE around here...

You would be just about right on that 10%

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On top of the property tax they pay. They have no state tax which means usually property tax is MUCH higher to cover that cost.

MS could play hardball too and say 'Oh you want to play that game? We can go to nevada im sure they would like to have our 30-40k of employees paying property and sales tax'. They have the money to make it happen and it would be 'one time cost to offset' in a byline in a investor report and leave Seattle in the lurch.

Fair is for 5-year olds.
Fair is for everyone. But no one plays fair. Even these people yelling for money are not playing fair. They are using coercion to get their way for a perceived slight.

I don't think apathy needs an advocate. There really is no sense in loudly proclaiming defeatism. Sure, some people don't care, but the defendants would not have worked so hard to keep documents sealed if *nobody* cared. This case is being widely covered by the media:

Reuters: http://uk.reuters.com/article/...
Time: http://time.com/42322/steve-jo...
Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ee7535...

And over 186 more articles just from the past few days

So I don't know about what you said right there. I don't believe that "no one cares".

/there is always some subset of people who claim no one cares about any given news story.

My understanding is because the tax-free 'HQ' , oops, I meant the Operations Center in question is located in Nevada of course, and that would obviously present a financial hardship on these common Washingtonians whose means to earn a living have been diminished.

That image in particular has as close to zero chance for confusion as anything. The color is different, the ear size and placement is different, and the white areas are way different.

A more stylized version like this is closer, but the white areas are still very distinctive.

I can see where an image _derived_ from his mark (by removing the white areas) could be confusable with a Disney mark, even though the ears are different. But the mark itself seems pretty non-ambiguous to me.

On the other hand, I am not a lawyer, and it will unfortunately not surprise me at all if one manages to convince a judge that they are too similar.

On the other hand, (if my understanding is correct), military and law enforcement agencies are free to fly UAV's whenever and wherever they please.

That is not true. The FAA issues a certificate of authorization for valid use of drones. Here is a map of authorized drone use in the US. Click on the dots and you will see that their areas of operation are quite restricted. The issue is that commercial aircraft require a COA and the FAA has yet to certify drones for commercial use.

Eisenhower signed the American-British-Soviet test moratorium in 1958. It was indeed 'a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries', or what intellectually honest people call a treaty. There is no requirement for treaties to have that word in their title. There is no requirement for treaties to not be reciprocal or non-binding. What is a requirement is for a person to be intellectually honest while attempting to prove a point, a pointless point in this case, should they wish to not appear as an asshole.

So, would you like to try again with less weasel word bingo?

OK, nameless coward. Show me the test ban document that was "signed" and ratified in 1958 in the form of a binding bilateral or multilateral treaty or equivalent. You can't, because no such document exists or ever existed.

Read:
"October 31, 1958. The United States began a voluntary nuclear test moratorium in hopes that the USSR would agree to do the same. The Soviets resisted at first, completing tests on November 1 and 3, before beginning a self-imposed twelve-month ban."

Read:
"On 22 August 1958, the day after the experts had finished their report, Eisenhower announced that the United States would halt nuclear testing for one year if the Soviet Union (and the United Kingdom) would do likewise. To determine whether they would make the moratorium permanent, the three powers agreed to begin test ban negotiations in Geneva on 31 October. ... The Geneva test ban negotiations, which lasted from late 1958 through early 1962 ..."

Read:
"As a sign of good faith, Eisenhower proposed a 12-month moratorium on further U.S. nuclear tests. This voluntary ban was to begin on October 31, 1958 - the date for the opening of test ban negotiations ... and was conditioned by similar restraint by Moscow. ... The Soviets, who had never agreed to the moratorium, fired two more shots on November 1 and 3. [discussion of U.S. restraint in continuing the moratorium anyway] In fact, both the United States and the Soviet Union observed a voluntary moratorium for the next 12 months. ... on August 26, 1959 Eisenhower extended the one-year moratorium ... [and so on]"

Words, and especially terms, have meaning. Making up a "treaty" where none existed is either prevarication or heedless ignorance.

Who's the blowhard?

In C, the first time I saw the size of elements of a struct specified (i.e. int something : 3) it threw me (and that's a hard problem to google). [...] (though a comment woulda been nice unknown dev!)

The first hit from Google(struct) is the Wikipedia(struct) entry which starts with:

A struct in the C programming language (and many derivatives) is a complex data type declaration that defines a physically grouped list of variables to be placed under one name in a block of memory, allowing the different variables to be accessed via a single pointer, or the struct declared name which returns the same address. The struct can contain many other complex and simple data type in an association, so is a natural organizing type for records like the mixed data types [...]

Furthermore, I really don't think a comment should be used to explain a language element that is clearly defined in The C Programming Language (K&R) by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. A C programmer should assume the reader is familiar with what is in K&R, otherwise the comments become a language tutorial.

As for Perl, once I really learned Perl I found it to be extremely intuitive. It is a very powerful and very expressive language. All of the sigils (and related "line noise" characters) make the code much easier to read and they make it extremely trivial to define and understand complicated data structures. Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, got an undergraduate degree in natural and artificial languages and then went on to do graduate work in linguistics. The Wikipedia says:

Wall's training as a linguist is apparent in his books, interviews, and lectures. He often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale.

Your comment about Perl seems to boil down to the fact that it is different from languages you are familiar with and you never bothered to learn it so it makes no sense to you. Your gripe about the C struct element seems to be similar, like everyone else in the world, you have trouble reading languages you are not familiar with. I have the same problem with Russian and other languages I have never learned.

BTW, have you ever noticed that nuclear missiles tend to be only targeted at countries that use a different alphabet? Perhaps it is only a coincidence but I think it may be related to your problems with Perl, an oversimplification that equates foreign with bad.

lmgtfy

It's 14M already...

"Islamists" were in power in Egypt for over a year, which pyramids were turned into mosques? What known treasures were looted? When was the Sphinx defaced?

Here you are.

OMFG, there is an alternate universe where everything just works.

Inferno for the Nintendo DS. I am getting nothing done this weekend.

> the Hex output that is entirely useless

useless??

If you don't know how to search for the first error code you probably shouldn't be using Windows ...

My university is on this list
Google's Apps for Education "Customer Stories"
61, and now 66 of the "top 100 schools" use it.

My university is on this list
Google's Apps for Education "Customer Stories"
61, and now 66 of the "top 100 schools" use it.

There are two points of view on this. One that technology can solve all these basic problems. Take unit analysis in science. You can do a google search to convert miles per hour into centimeters per second But yet you still want students to be able to know the concept and be able to evaluate their knowledge of the concept without a piece of technology doing the effort for them. You aren't complaining that Physical Education classes still teach Track and Field now that we have cars that can drive people.

There's an even simpler solution. Let the kids use one of the many free TI emulators on whatever android/iphone they have.
Here's one for $5 that runs an actual rom from an actual TI. https://play.google.com/store/...
In this case you might need to tell TI that you will only continue using their calculator if they give you a license to use their rom
on an emulator. Then when it's test time, you give them an official TI for the test. Regardless of how dumbed down the calculator
is suppose to be if you are worried about cheating it seems like a very bad idea to allow a student to bring their own electronic device
to a test. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to open the case of a ti-84 and install a 64G microsd card or the equivalent.
Instead of having an exam mode and approved apps, just provide a device for the exam. If you needed to provide android/iphones
then you could do that too as you only need one set assuming you schedule exams accordingly and you don't have to worry
about people rooting their phones, exiting exam mode, etc... If a school can't afford to buy 30 devices for exams then it shouldn't
be requiring it's students to be buying 1000+ of those same devices.

Andi Graph is the bomb... you can switch between any TI-8x ROMs. The only thing I miss about it is the tactile keys.

I own a TI-85. Therefore, I have no remorse about using the TI-85 ROM on my Android devices, as I'm not letting anyone use my calculator at the same time. I paid for the software.

In conjunction with BlueStacks on my Samsung ATIV Pro 900T, I can even project and take screenshots of the whole calculator without any special TI hardware.

https://play.google.com/store/...

Our entire government seems to think the constitution can be superseded by any other law whatsoever, as if the constitution being the highest law of the land doesn't actually overrule anything that contradicts it. It's as if the constitution is completely meaningless. Sigh.

Stop throwing the constitution in our faces, it's just a goddamned piece of paper.

we will stop throwing it in your face when you fucking understand that it is the law of the land and NOTHING superceeds it, no matter how much you totalitarians want it to

I may be wrong here, but I believe that kelemvor4's comment was in reference to a purported quote of George W. Bush, wherein Bush was snappily replying to GOP leaders who suggested that what Bush proposed doing was unconstitutional. It seems that the quote might be apocryphal.

Cheers,

Am I missing something? Reno is a ten hour drive from Mexico.

Mother of Anton Tumanov from Mari El republic, Russia tells story of her son, who struggled to get decent job,
recruited to army, was forced to participate in military activities at Ukraine, killed there August 13th with 120 others,
450 injured out of 1200 soldiers of 18-th brigade. Russian soldiers, Ukrainian soil, real bloody war.

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I do not know about actors, but as far back as a dozen of years ago, one of my friends from college was composing music for her robot musicians. Look up Christine Southworth, one of the co-founders of Ensemble Robot... ... or just google it: https://www.google.com/search?q=emsemble+robot+christine+southworth

Yeah, it's a plug, but it's not for myself, and anyway, it's another nail of that persistent meme that MIT girls are ugly.

In this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5615545&cid=47818631) I referred you to the second sentence (and first as well, for context) of this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5615545&cid=47817579).

This just got very meta. Brief aside: check out the Google News headlines related to this story. It looks like many writers are opting for the "it doesn't matter which diet you choose" interpretation I support.

Flowblade is a nice Python-based movie editor for Linux. I have been using it mostly to compose small video clips from my GoPro camera (read: slicing, adding audio tracks, creating transitions, setting encoder options, etc.) Definitely worth taking a look.

"Straight physics," prior art, obviousness, all have never prevented a patent from being issues.

Re-read the part in your biology textbook that talks about insulin and fat accumulation.

http://books.google.com/books?...

or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved

I've got android apps with only 5-10k downloads, but they fit my needs. One is Fulio Pro, a nice little application for tracking fuel usage and car expenses, the developer has been very open to enhancement requests and quick to respond on bug tickets. The guy certainly hasn't gotten rich at $10-20k in earnings from the paid app, but he's got some income and I have a useful application.

Does this count? https://play.google.com/store/...
Or maybe this (Jitsi)? https://download.jitsi.org/jit...
Or this (Talkonaut)? http://talkonaut.android.infor...

NFC payment cards in Australia/Europe cryptographically sign a challenge from the terminal, using basically standard crypto. It's EMV all the way. In-person magstripe payments are carefully controlled and risk analysed to ensure they only occur if, for example, the card is broken - or outright banned.

You know nothing about bank security.

First off, the NFC cards are not cryptographically secure in the slightest. In fact they give out your card number, name and expiry date to anything that asks for it and once a crim has your CC number they can do all manner of things with it from online transactions to cloning the card itself. This app for any NFC enabled android phone can read your card, last I checked the source code is available for the uncensored version. This is not top secret info, it was based on the specifications publicly available on Visas website.

Secondly, there's no requirement for EMV on any Australian terminal. We're closer to the US than Europe in that regard. Magstripe transactions are not controlled in any way, shape or form. I've got a Citibank Plus card that's a few years old and it hasn't got a chip. 100% magstripe and it's never been rejected anywhere (in fact it's been rejected less than NFC in my Mastercard and I use the Citibank card at least 10 times as often).

A few years ago, those Google NFC payment terminals were all over Silicon Valley. Nobody used them. Newer credit card terminals show no sign of supporting them, although some apparently have the hardware inside for it.

Another problem is that if the technology just requires the phone's presence, not interaction on the phone, it's insecure. "Near field communication" is only supposed to be up to 20cm, but a 2013 paper at Black Hat demonstrated connectivity at 100cm, which is good enough for crime. If it does require interaction on the phone, the user has to activate the phone, navigate to some app, and deal with the app. This is slower than swiping a credit card.

It's easier to do than card-reader skimmers.

This is why a phone is better than the NFC cards most people have in their wallet right now.

The Paywave/Paypass NFC cards will give the card details to anything that asks for them. All the malicious software has to do is follow the spec available to the general public on Visas and Mastercards websites. That's how this little app came about (actually this is the censored version, the source code is available on github). The card gives out the number, name and expiry date... basically everything written on the front of the card. So harvesting CC numbers has become a lot easier.

With a phone at least you can control who gets that information, a simple popup message saying "x terminal wants your details" with confirm or deny buttons (and an automatic deny in 15 seconds). Above this, you can actually implement some kind of cryptographically secure encryption like a PRNG or at the very least a 2nd factor of authentication.

But it's going to take a government like the EU to force banks to do this. Right now it's easier for them to swallow the cost of fraud (which gets passed on to you anyway). Banks simply dont care about security because it costs money (capex, fraud is opex).

It's rather unknown but I use it every week to do my grocery shopping. I think it's the first real innovative app for doing grocery shopping in years. It will use your headset and the text to speech engine to read your groceries. If you click the headset button it will read the next item. This way you have your hands free for picking. It also learns the optimal route once you sort your first lists in the best order. It's only available for Android: https://play.google.com/store/...

An account of the history of the remark is given in a brief report prepared by the Atomic Industrial Forum (AIF), a nuclear advocacy organization. There is a good chance that Strauss was thinking of fusion power, not fission power, although he could not be explicit because the practicalities of fusion were secret in 1954, with the development of the hydrogen bomb only recently started. The AIF report quotes Lewis H. Strauss, the son of Lewis L. Strauss and himself a physicist: "I would say my father was referring to fusion energy. I know this because I became my father's eyes and ears as I travelled around the country for him."

Agreed. I think a "War on Drug Users" and a "War that Enables Free Confiscation of US Citizens' Property" are more appropriate labels. If it were a war on drugs we would take strike teams to the cartel members (Mexican government?) and remove the source. The US populace wouldn't have known about the largest meth lab in the world sitting 100 miles south of San Diego for two decades. Sigh.

Google: largest meth lab mexico

It's a pretty niche app, but the Slashdot crowd has a pretty large percentage of retro-computer collectors, so I thought it might be worth a mention...

tapDancer is an Android app that encodes .TAP / .TZX and many more and plays the audio out through the headphone jack. You can either direct-connect your device or use a 'cassette CD adapter'.

https://play.google.com/store/...

This might be a problem with Google Maps 7. I haven't noticed it with Maps 6, which seems to do full caching, and is a superior app all round. If you're on Android, there are various methods of 'upgrading' to the previous version here:

https://productforums.google.c...

You're still stuck with the annoying marketing-driven 30 day limit, though with a proper manager for the cached maps in 6.x it's easy enough to download exactly the same area again. There are a number of other apps that handle offline maps on Android, of course, but I've yet to find anything that's otherwise as useful as Google Maps 6. A shame Nokia seems to be making Here a Samsung exclusive - Google could use some serious mapping competition across Android.

Librivox ( https://play.google.com/store/... ) is also valuable on this front. Not all of the recordings are great, but it's free (as in beer) audiobooks for books that have entered the public domain.

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An interesting Android app is Medical ID. It could save your life in case of emergency: https://play.google.com/store/... You can test it for free since it is available as a freemium app.

An interesting Android app is Medical ID. It could save your life in case of emergency: https://play.google.com/store/... You can test it for free since it is available as a freemium app.

There are, of course, hundreds of thousands of apps you might consider installing, but I think most people will agree that only two are absolutely essential for everyone:

Hypnotic Spiral: https://play.google.com/store/...

(sample review: GREAT APP ESPECIALLY IF YOUR STONED OR DRUNK OR ANYTHING ELSE,TRIPS U OUT,I USE IT WHEN I'M ON ANOTHER LEVEL,WHEN I'M ON THE MOON STONED *****)

this will allow you to make anyone else do your bidding, making a large majority of other apps completely redundant.

I Ching - Divine Your Future: https://play.google.com/store/...

(sample review: 'Excellent! The only I ching app that uses sticks and not coins. Much more reliable. The editable entries are also a bonus. Great work, thanks!' )

This will help you make all the major decisions in your life, including what apps to install. It is also useful for understanding the plot of The Man in the High Castle. I meditated on your situation, and using the yarrow stalk method received the wisdom of Hexagram XLII ('The second SIX, divided, shows parties adding to the stores of its subject ten pairs of tortoise shells whose oracles cannot be opposed. Let him persevere in being firm and correct, and there will be good fortune.'). I hope this is helpful.

There are, of course, hundreds of thousands of apps you might consider installing, but I think most people will agree that only two are absolutely essential for everyone:

Hypnotic Spiral: https://play.google.com/store/...

(sample review: GREAT APP ESPECIALLY IF YOUR STONED OR DRUNK OR ANYTHING ELSE,TRIPS U OUT,I USE IT WHEN I'M ON ANOTHER LEVEL,WHEN I'M ON THE MOON STONED *****)

this will allow you to make anyone else do your bidding, making a large majority of other apps completely redundant.

I Ching - Divine Your Future: https://play.google.com/store/...

(sample review: 'Excellent! The only I ching app that uses sticks and not coins. Much more reliable. The editable entries are also a bonus. Great work, thanks!' )

This will help you make all the major decisions in your life, including what apps to install. It is also useful for understanding the plot of The Man in the High Castle. I meditated on your situation, and using the yarrow stalk method received the wisdom of Hexagram XLII ('The second SIX, divided, shows parties adding to the stores of its subject ten pairs of tortoise shells whose oracles cannot be opposed. Let him persevere in being firm and correct, and there will be good fortune.'). I hope this is helpful.

Look for 'Power toggles' ( https://play.google.com/store/...) . That is what I use on my nexus 5. It asks for camera permission for the flashlight, and alert window, and root for running root cmds which has no effect on non-rooted phones. It gives you a bunch of toggles, I leave mine in the main top drop down. One of which is a flashlight toggle. So you dont even need an app with this, plus lets you toggle about 30-40 other things

What does colours or icons have to do with it? It's a newssite, content is what matters. If you don't care about that, here's a good alternative:

https://www.google.com/search?...

Soylentnews is quite good and often have interesting tech-related news before slashdot. It just needs more people in the comments.