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She needs to OD on nicotine.

or Google Nose? https://www.google.com/landing...

Luigi Colani has been working on improving the efficiency of trucks since the 1970s. His designs are eccentric, but they are said to drastically reduce fuel consumption. What Walmart has done is incorporated the electric motor and switched to a carbon fiber trailer. While this would produce good results in theory, I have to imagine the practicality of getting batteries big enough to keep that truck running for hours uninterrupted would be a huge challenge and is why this truck is not going to be deployed any time soon.

there shouldn't be a lot of Sr90, considering the ratios measured from ground contamination

I think you are assuming the primary "vector" of contamination is the air and are discounting cumulative effects. Do all foods pull in Cs and Sr in equal proportions to ground contamination? Does Cs and Sr have the same biological half life in humans?

You don't have to trust them to want to know what they are doing, and where they are dedicating the funds allocated to decontamination.

I want to know, but how much control do have when they decide not to tell.

They gathered evidence in an illegal manner. Thanks to their gathering of evidence in an illegal manner, any case they might have had against a known rapist is now gone. As they botched their case, now a known rapist gets to walk free, with impunity.

Seems the definition of moronic to me.

This: http://www.google.com/patents/US2279615

Trivia: what is the difference between a simplistic computer and a fancy automaton?

I had a hard time finding a translation "walgvogel" other than as dodo, so I'll put it here for others. From An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language I discovered that:

Walgvogel in Dutch means "nauseous bird;" it seems that the sailors killed them so easily that they were surfeited of them.

I also discovered that both dodo and booby (the bird) are probably portuguese words.

It means the plane was the size of a warehouse and could help the pilot with his math homework.

Really though, I can find nothing about computer directed flight controls on the bugatti100p.com site. It seems to be something made up by some article writer.

Tcsh, nvi, slrn, irssi, mutt, fetchmail, bogofilter, esmtp, moc, ctwm, VLC.

Software I can't live with, so I remove if present: sendmail, Vim, any desktop environment and its associated garbage.

Well - yes and no.
The fundamental problem with the patent system is that it gives patents to 'actual engineers that create things'.
This wouldn't be a problem - but for a major fundamental flaw in the system.
Patents were originally granted (amongst other less noble reasons) to foster innovation and encourage the spread of knowledge, rather than having ideas locked up as trade secrets and lost.

Unfortunately, it should be clearly obvious to anyone that if:
An averagely skilled engineer, faced with the same problem could solve the problem in under the time it takes to do a full patent search, and apply for the patent including all the time to write the patent and get it through all the steps - patents are not actually fostering innovation at all.

Should patents be abolished - no.
But - patents should only be granted for inventions that take - at the very least - several months for the averagely skilled engineer in the same field to come up with a solution to the same problem.

Patents should be for the benefit of society.
If society is burdened by patents - innovation and business is slowed, competition is harder - and advances in technology are slower - why do we have them?
In their current state, they are broken.
https://www.google.com/patents... - is the most recent english patent I can find.
It describes - broadly - something very similar to NTP - and is basically the same way any sensible engineer approaching the problem would do it.
The problem is it has a lot of superfluous crap implying it's special to one tiny area - and hence as it's not been patented before - it gets a patent.
This helps _nobody_.
There is no inventor in the conventional sense in this patent - as there isn't in most patents.
If you claim there is - you need to claim that every 4 year-old faced with the problem of making a lego model that looks like something is an inventor.
It's plugging obvious blocks together in obvious ways.
May sometimes the blocks be hard to fit together, and require a bit of thought - sure.
This doesn't make the arrangement of blocks not likely to be replicated in 17 (or more) years if anyone else hits the problem.

There's a pretty major intersection in the town I live in that was wildly reworked in around 2005 or 2006, and Apple's maps still don't know about the change. Every single other mapping site I've looked at has it right. Take a look at the wonky intersection here:

https://maps.google.com/?ll=35...

and compare it to the same view in Apple's maps. It's like going back in time 8 years!

From browsing the list of his patents it looks like most of them are written with overly generalized broad claims which don't actually describe anything that wasn't obvious at the time. This gem filed in 1972 describes a "Machine control system operating from remote commands". Whoopty do. Remotely operable computers existed before the filing date. Why the USPTO awarded him so many patents on obvious things is beyond comprehension.

From browsing the list of his patents it looks like most of them are written with overly generalized broad claims which don't actually describe anything that wasn't obvious at the time. This gem filed in 1972 describes a "Machine control system operating from remote commands". Whoopty do. Remotely operable computers existed before the filing date. Why the USPTO awarded him so many patents on obvious things is beyond comprehension.

The fact that all the answers so far point to VIM is no coincidence: VIM is actually winning that war.

First off... Windows 7 is the only way to go. It is stable, and you get to access all those sweet videogames. But before all that, the standard software. Your specific hardware drivers. The latest ones. set the schedule now. Defrag should run once a week, I run mine in the night on Wednesday. if you shut the PC down after every use though. get AUSLogics Defrag. It will run if the computer is idle for 15 mins. Google Chrome - https://www.google.com/intl/en... Google Picasa - https://www.google.com/picasa/ Ccleaner - http://download.cnet.com/CClea... Try and find a version of Office that does not require a monthly bill. Office 365 is a very horrible idea and I have no idea why someone would pay for it monthly. then again there is open office which is free.

First off... Windows 7 is the only way to go. It is stable, and you get to access all those sweet videogames. But before all that, the standard software. Your specific hardware drivers. The latest ones. set the schedule now. Defrag should run once a week, I run mine in the night on Wednesday. if you shut the PC down after every use though. get AUSLogics Defrag. It will run if the computer is idle for 15 mins. Google Chrome - https://www.google.com/intl/en... Google Picasa - https://www.google.com/picasa/ Ccleaner - http://download.cnet.com/CClea... Try and find a version of Office that does not require a monthly bill. Office 365 is a very horrible idea and I have no idea why someone would pay for it monthly. then again there is open office which is free.

This is why rates almost constantly move up.

Continual inflation, ever-rising demand (even with increasing efficiency), increasing emissions / safety regulations, etc., would account for all of that. This isn't something you need to speculate about... You can find the recorded profits of energy companies in the public record quite easily, and point out specific examples of growing and excess profits, if you can find them.

In fact, I'll give you a start...

http://www.google.com/finance?...

To (over-simplified I know) compare with inflation, click the "S&P 500" box to show the two side-by-side. Expand it out to 10+ years, and show me where this big spike in profitability (far in excess of inflation) is for the energy company... And you can check all those "related" companies linked just below, if you think some others might be more sinister...

By all means, let me know when you find something significant.

Do NG customers get NG delivered at anywhere near its real cost to deliver? No. It's horribly expensive, it's been horribly expensive, and it's going to stay horribly expensive. And all the while, energy company executives receive salaries in the eye-popping range.

Those "eye-popping" executive salaries are a problem across ALL US industries, certainly not just energy. And I don't see any evidence that natural gas companies are pulling in ridiculous profits, either:

http://www.google.com/finance?...

And more to the point, natural gas prices absolutely have been falling, with only a few brief spikes when the aging and inadequate pipelines can't handle sudden huge demand:

http://www.indmin.com/Article/...

Conspiracy theories are nice, but you need something... anything to back them up. Any little bit of solid evidence will do.

For instance, right now, the US has a huge surplus of natural gas. There's so much they just burn it right off at the oil fields

They don't burn it just for the hell of it... Whether their storage / transport / pipeline capacity is exceeded, or it's excess pressure that blows a valve, incidental seepage they can't capture, or something similar... burning (flaring) it is the proper and safe way to release/dispose of it. Technology is improving how much of it can be captured/stored, and increasing energy prices are making it more economical to go to great lengths to capture it. The use of flaring has been gradually declining over the years:

http://triblive.com/news/14420...

http://www.energyandcapital.co...

It is a wholly corrupt system.

Anybody with any background or just causal knowledge of US history can say, yes, there is plenty of corruption, but it's a tiny and continually declining fraction as much as there was in previous decades and centuries. It's believed technology has a lot to do with gradually reducing it. The level of corruption 100 years ago just would blow your mind, yet people look back with nostalgia at a sanitized version of history, without the warts you see living day-to-day.

This is why rates almost constantly move up.

Continual inflation, ever-rising demand (even with increasing efficiency), increasing emissions / safety regulations, etc., would account for all of that. This isn't something you need to speculate about... You can find the recorded profits of energy companies in the public record quite easily, and point out specific examples of growing and excess profits, if you can find them.

In fact, I'll give you a start...

http://www.google.com/finance?...

To (over-simplified I know) compare with inflation, click the "S&P 500" box to show the two side-by-side. Expand it out to 10+ years, and show me where this big spike in profitability (far in excess of inflation) is for the energy company... And you can check all those "related" companies linked just below, if you think some others might be more sinister...

By all means, let me know when you find something significant.

Do NG customers get NG delivered at anywhere near its real cost to deliver? No. It's horribly expensive, it's been horribly expensive, and it's going to stay horribly expensive. And all the while, energy company executives receive salaries in the eye-popping range.

Those "eye-popping" executive salaries are a problem across ALL US industries, certainly not just energy. And I don't see any evidence that natural gas companies are pulling in ridiculous profits, either:

http://www.google.com/finance?...

And more to the point, natural gas prices absolutely have been falling, with only a few brief spikes when the aging and inadequate pipelines can't handle sudden huge demand:

http://www.indmin.com/Article/...

Conspiracy theories are nice, but you need something... anything to back them up. Any little bit of solid evidence will do.

For instance, right now, the US has a huge surplus of natural gas. There's so much they just burn it right off at the oil fields

They don't burn it just for the hell of it... Whether their storage / transport / pipeline capacity is exceeded, or it's excess pressure that blows a valve, incidental seepage they can't capture, or something similar... burning (flaring) it is the proper and safe way to release/dispose of it. Technology is improving how much of it can be captured/stored, and increasing energy prices are making it more economical to go to great lengths to capture it. The use of flaring has been gradually declining over the years:

http://triblive.com/news/14420...

http://www.energyandcapital.co...

It is a wholly corrupt system.

Anybody with any background or just causal knowledge of US history can say, yes, there is plenty of corruption, but it's a tiny and continually declining fraction as much as there was in previous decades and centuries. It's believed technology has a lot to do with gradually reducing it. The level of corruption 100 years ago just would blow your mind, yet people look back with nostalgia at a sanitized version of history, without the warts you see living day-to-day.

It's a nice, poignant-sounding story you tell. Pity it lacks the benefit of factual support.

First off, your link that was supposedly one of the "hundreds of lawsuits" by Monsanto--one that "went to the supreme court"--is a case that was filed against Monsanto, not by Monsanto. I understand this is Slashdot and it's considered a sign of immense weakness to RTFA, but I would think you might at least glance at the one you yourself provide in support of your argument.

Now, giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that what you really meant to provide with your link was "proof" of your "protection money racket" theory (i.e., that the poor lil' farmers [who somehow scraped together enough money to pay lawyers to appeal this all the way through to the Supreme Court, without a single one of them even having been sued by Monsanto] were suing because they were afraid of being sued for "pollen drift" or whatever excuse was raised by the first wave of farmers who got busted for saving seed from year to year), that doesn't work either. Why? To answer that question, let's tiptoe beyond your activist journalist's rendition of reality and consider what the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals actually said in its opinion:

Because Monsanto has made binding assurances that it will not "take legal action against growers whose crops might inadvertently contain traces of Monsanto biotech genes (because, for example, some transgenic seed or pollen blew onto the grower's land)," Defs.' Mem. of Law in Supp. of Mot. to Dismiss at 5, Organic Seed Growers & Trade Ass'n v. Monsanto Co., 851 F.Supp.2d 544 (S.D.N.Y.2012) (No. 11-CV-2163), ECF No. 20, and appellants have not alleged any circumstances placing them beyond the scope of those assurances , we agree that there is no justiciable case or controversy.

So, the farmers' attempt at a preemptive strike got thrown out because (1) Monsanto hadn't sued a single one of them, (2) Monsanto made a legally binding commitment that it would not do so if indeed farmers just experienced cross-contamination and weren't just using that as an excuse to cut costs by saving seeds, and (3) not a single one of the farmers could say with a straight face that their hypothetical circumstances were outside the scope of Monsanto's legally binding commitment.

Now that we've worked through your distraction, could you be so kind as to get back to my original question: Why, if Monsanto's patented seeds do not provide an operational advantage to the farmers over older, non-patented seeds, is there such a market for the patented seeds?

Don't forget that once Apple switched to the Lightning connector, they also didn't release any sort of adapter that would let a person connect to a 30-pin device, nor did anyone else

"Is a British situation comedy television programme series"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... Oh wait, not the same but Mr Bean is more fun and worthy.
Not? Ok, for more Bing:

"Bing" grew up to become one of America's most popular entertainers of all time. In 1931, Crosby launched his hugely popular radio show. He soon started starring in films, winning an Academy Award for Going My Way in 1944. Thoughout much of his career, Crosby dominated the music charts with nearly 300 hit singles to his credit. He died in 1977.

And there is more Bing to enjoy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... #1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

There is more just use Google:
https://www.google.com/search?...

I was browsing around really old newspapers in the Google archive. One thing that caught me be surprise was the amount of advertisements for various elixirs and pills, tons of them. A lot of people were selling snake oil back then. Oddly I saw one for a new product "Bayer Asprin", it was promoted as yet another new wonder cure for back pain, headaches and so on. In the really old papers, there were small advertisements totally disguised as actual articles about Sally who had a problem and she tried some elixer and it cured her of malaria. I wonder if that is why we now see "this is an advertisement" in periodicals.

Way unrelated... Hotels used to post their check in and check out logs in some local papers, giving the name and where the person was from and even hospitals posted admissions by name and why the person was checked in.

http://news.google.com/newspap...

No, almost all table salt is recently evaporated sea water.

You may find this link helpful. Don't even bother reading if you want, just look at the pictures and tell me if that salt got there "recently".
Maybe you're really long lived and measure time on a geological scale?

Seriously? I thought we were on Slashdot, a place where nerds hope real nerd worthy news is aggregated. My mistake. We must be in a middle school classroom. Here let me explain how you can find simple answers in the future: GOOGLE IT! need the link too? https://www.google.com/ - there ya go. type in "what is a quart" and you get a definition and a converter on that very page. I know, I must be some technical wizard to have solved this so fast.

LMGTFY

Somehow I don't think you are interested in the answer to this question.

Hydrogen bonds causes water to behave very different in micro and zero gravity. What you propose may make sense under Earth gravity, but not in orbit.

Article and video on Live Science

Fun youtube video

If you find that at all interesting you should look up how fire behaves in space.

Do you?

I'm not sure about the reassembling part. I don't think it is capable of that without maybe some extreme heat and pressure or something.

Good point. And actually comparing it to lead ore shows it's not that different.

While I don't disagree with the notion that leaded gasoline is a major contributor to lead in the environment, I was a little curious how much naturally-occuring lead there is.

Uranium has a 4.5 billion year half-life, and the end-product of its decay chain is lead. Since the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, you should expect to find about equal amounts of uranium and lead in the environment overall (I'm not an expert on how minute quantities of these elements act in seawater). The trace uranium in seawater is about 3.33 parts per billion.

According to TFA (which didn't give exact numbers), "the lead concentrations are roughly equivalent to what youâ(TM)d get if you dissolved a small spoonful of frozen orange juice in 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools". An Olympic-sized swimming pool is about 2.5 million liters. According to Google, 1 teaspoon in 2.5 million liters is about 2 parts per billion.

So the amounts of lead they're detecting are about 0.01 parts per billion, or two orders of magnitude less than the amount of naturally-ocurring uranium in seawater. The charts linked in TFA bear this out. Clicking through random charts, lead concentrations are around 25 pmol/kg, while uranium concentrations are around 3 nmol/kg (3000 pmol/kg).

So (1) for whatever reason uranium dissolves in seawater much more readily than lead, and (2) the amounts of lead they're detecting are minuscule even by "trace elements" standards.

It's a framework for attempting at getting to one aspect of psychology. In that a lot of studies that use it are empirical, their conclusion can be falsifiable it is anything but pseudoscience(and a number of claims have been falsified). You'll notice that criticism section doesn't use that word, because it's not really applicable.

It's not:
A. In primary usage among psychologists who have found other objective measures, that are equally if not more utilitarian
B. More pop-psych than not
C. A little vague
D. Used in situations it shouldn't be(like hiring)

But none of that means it lacks predictive utility(it does, in fact). You can find a lot of information to that effect, just by searching scholarly publications.

So, no, I'm not going to just throw it out as a means of communicating ideas to others because an AC tells me to, and links to part of wikipedia I've read before.

I'm not sure about the reassembling part. I don't think it is capable of that without maybe some extreme heat and pressure or something.

There have been quite a few bank security issues.

Some banks have had very poor website security.

Click this google search and you will see bank security is really not there...

https://www.google.com/#q=bank...

AC is right, but not to the degree that is implied. Jan 2014 was the 4th warmest global temp on record, and warmest since 2007. https://www.google.com/search?...

Thanks for the reply.

I understand that there are several viable workarounds. Especially since on Windows, ChromeSxS actually works (hello, #38598), using unstable is relatively painless. But I can't shake off the feeling that you got a nice bonus of enforcing CWS TOS on the largest chunk of your userbase.

Non-Web-Store extensions never had auto-update to begin with. The only difference between loading unpacked and side-loading is that it's a bit trickier to install unpacked, and Chrome will warn you every time you start up.

This is simply not true. I've been an extension developer for quite a long time, and I've always hosted a beta version of my extension outside CWS, with auto-update, using update_url key in the manifest.

And that's why I had to scramble to move my beta version to CWS unlisted before 33 hit stable. If I missed the announcement, it would be slightly painful to recover.
I wonder though, if you've engineered the hard block of an extension to still look for updates. So that a user who had an extension blocked by this would later get the extension back if the developer submitted it to the webstore with the pem file.

"others than myself on their forums"

That's if your posts don't get deleted.

3DR is definitely a juggernaut in the hobbyist space, give them that credit when its due folks. And the GPL'd development is run much like RedHat did in their early days (aside from the 0.0.x h/w changes no one it told about), where as the new Pixhawk platform appears to be moving to either a ubuntu style control or ETH's "Linus approach" of strict control. But there are always alternatives:

• DJI Innovations (ACE system runs waypoints and the NAZA/Phantoms now have limited waypoints)
• The one and original Mikrokopter (still the benchmark for performance and autonomy in the multicopter space)
• Blade/Horizon (their 350 is based on some research tech)
• MultiWii (active community, but less pull than the APM)
• OpenPilot (the debian of the FOSS teams)
• Autoquad (cutting edge stuff that works out of the box)
• Megapirate (fork of APM before 3DR took over)
• Paparazzi (plane bias)
• Numerous APM clones that actually work well....

Just to name a few. Some of those projects are even more cutting edge that APM takes from. And that's the hobbyist/prosumer space. There's plenty of pro/military systems out there, but cost $$$.

scarcity of materials? You are kidding. Right? Lithium is in the top 10 most abundant materials. A new lithium mine was found in Wyoming that has no less than 3/4 million tonnes of lithium. However, they believe that it is actually around 18 million tonnes. And that is just one mine in America. Many others are out there. More importantly, both japan and South Korea are working on how to get it from the ocean. And we have several companies working on seperating it from geo-thermal generators post steam.

And as to battery costs, they have been going down about 10% every couple of years. But here you go.
That leads to things like this claiming drops of 20-30% each year (pretty steep, but not as steep as what China did with solar cells) and that is just with Lithium-ion. It does not include lithium air, or even the zinc battery work, etc.

Yeah, thankfully Google can still point me in the correct direction: https://www.google.com/search?...

Google Search Padma the Programmer

I hope she's cute!

Does it bother you that your choice of words is not of the up-most quality?

Citation needed.

https://www.google.com/#q=legal+definition+of+occupant

Google isn't all that hard to use.

1) You made the claim. It is not our job to do your homework for you.
2) Correct, Google isn't hard to use. But posting a Google search results URL? That just proves you're too chickenshit to post an actual citation, because you know you won't find one. For example:
Here's proof that the moon landing was faked.
And here's proof that the holocaust never happened.
Now then, if you have a legit citation (preferably with regard to this case, indicating that they aren't providing their own special definition of "occupant"), then please, provide it.

Citation needed.

https://www.google.com/#q=legal+definition+of+occupant

Google isn't all that hard to use.

1) You made the claim. It is not our job to do your homework for you.
2) Correct, Google isn't hard to use. But posting a Google search results URL? That just proves you're too chickenshit to post an actual citation, because you know you won't find one. For example:
Here's proof that the moon landing was faked.
And here's proof that the holocaust never happened.
Now then, if you have a legit citation (preferably with regard to this case, indicating that they aren't providing their own special definition of "occupant"), then please, provide it.

Citation needed.

https://www.google.com/#q=legal+definition+of+occupant

Google isn't all that hard to use.

1) You made the claim. It is not our job to do your homework for you.
2) Correct, Google isn't hard to use. But posting a Google search results URL? That just proves you're too chickenshit to post an actual citation, because you know you won't find one. For example:
Here's proof that the moon landing was faked.
And here's proof that the holocaust never happened.
Now then, if you have a legit citation (preferably with regard to this case, indicating that they aren't providing their own special definition of "occupant"), then please, provide it.

Citation needed.

https://www.google.com/#q=legal+definition+of+occupant

Google isn't all that hard to use.

Really.

Ok, then I guess the news media lies.

First, thank you, everyone, for the feedback. There are some wonderful stories that I recognize and others that I look forward to reading.

Second, because the solicited essays and fiction will only be a small part of the course, I will have to rely on short stories (including novellas) instead of entire novels. That is part of what makes it hard to research. It's much easier to find out about novels, which have more readers and are better publicized than short stories, especially recent ones that have not yet been widely reprinted.

Third, to those of you who think I am being too lazy to do my research myself, gathering information is part of the research process, and I'd be remiss in not making use of the hive mind if it has useful information that I might not. I would much rather be called a negligent teacher than to be one. Academics study one another's reading lists and syllabi all the time. Believe me, plenty of work remains in deciding what material to include, how present it, etc.

Fourth, thank you for letting me know the history of the word "futurism". The sense I used it ("concern with events and trends of the future or which anticipate the future") is the first one in some dictionaries and is widely used at kurzweilai.net, The Foresight Institute, and other sites I have used, but I will certainly let my students know that some people prefer the word "futurology". For those who are interested, here's a Google n-gram view of "futurism", "futurist", and "futurology".

Fifth, some commenters suggested using primary sources and biography. Agreed. I was already planning to include Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Vannevar Bush's As We May Think, and the stories of Khan Academy, Iqbal Quadir, Sugata Mitra, and others.

Sixth, it was also suggested that I look at past predictions of the future. Also agreed. I assembled such a reading list for a previous course. It hadn't occurred to me to include in my question what I didn't need, because I'd already assembled it, but I see now that it would be helpful.

Thank you again for the suggestions and even for the criticisms. Soliciting opinions from Slashdot is always a story in itself.

First, thank you, everyone, for the feedback. There are some wonderful stories that I recognize and others that I look forward to reading.

Second, because the solicited essays and fiction will only be a small part of the course, I will have to rely on short stories (including novellas) instead of entire novels. That is part of what makes it hard to research. It's much easier to find out about novels, which have more readers and are better publicized than short stories, especially recent ones that have not yet been widely reprinted.

Third, to those of you who think I am being too lazy to do my research myself, gathering information is part of the research process, and I'd be remiss in not making use of the hive mind if it has useful information that I might not. I would much rather be called a negligent teacher than to be one. Academics study one another's reading lists and syllabi all the time. Believe me, plenty of work remains in deciding what material to include, how present it, etc.

Fourth, thank you for letting me know the history of the word "futurism". The sense I used it ("concern with events and trends of the future or which anticipate the future") is the first one in some dictionaries and is widely used at kurzweilai.net, The Foresight Institute, and other sites I have used, but I will certainly let my students know that some people prefer the word "futurology". For those who are interested, here's a Google n-gram view of "futurism", "futurist", and "futurology".

Fifth, some commenters suggested using primary sources and biography. Agreed. I was already planning to include Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Vannevar Bush's As We May Think, and the stories of Khan Academy, Iqbal Quadir, Sugata Mitra, and others.

Sixth, it was also suggested that I look at past predictions of the future. Also agreed. I assembled such a reading list for a previous course. It hadn't occurred to me to include in my question what I didn't need, because I'd already assembled it, but I see now that it would be helpful.

Thank you again for the suggestions and even for the criticisms. Soliciting opinions from Slashdot is always a story in itself.

First, thank you, everyone, for the feedback. There are some wonderful stories that I recognize and others that I look forward to reading.

Second, because the solicited essays and fiction will only be a small part of the course, I will have to rely on short stories (including novellas) instead of entire novels. That is part of what makes it hard to research. It's much easier to find out about novels, which have more readers and are better publicized than short stories, especially recent ones that have not yet been widely reprinted.

Third, to those of you who think I am being too lazy to do my research myself, gathering information is part of the research process, and I'd be remiss in not making use of the hive mind if it has useful information that I might not. I would much rather be called a negligent teacher than to be one. Academics study one another's reading lists and syllabi all the time. Believe me, plenty of work remains in deciding what material to include, how present it, etc.

Fourth, thank you for letting me know the history of the word "futurism". The sense I used it ("concern with events and trends of the future or which anticipate the future") is the first one in some dictionaries and is widely used at kurzweilai.net, The Foresight Institute, and other sites I have used, but I will certainly let my students know that some people prefer the word "futurology". For those who are interested, here's a Google n-gram view of "futurism", "futurist", and "futurology".

Fifth, some commenters suggested using primary sources and biography. Agreed. I was already planning to include Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Vannevar Bush's As We May Think, and the stories of Khan Academy, Iqbal Quadir, Sugata Mitra, and others.

Sixth, it was also suggested that I look at past predictions of the future. Also agreed. I assembled such a reading list for a previous course. It hadn't occurred to me to include in my question what I didn't need, because I'd already assembled it, but I see now that it would be helpful.

Thank you again for the suggestions and even for the criticisms. Soliciting opinions from Slashdot is always a story in itself.

in flames; burning. synonyms: burning, alight, ablaze, blazing, aflame, in flames;

I think you'd be hard pressed to tell me that the sun isn't alight or ablaze.

Cairo is almost dead on the equator.

huh?

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

30.0500 N, 31.2333 E
Cairo, Coordinates

Nor are Apple TV devices and Lightning to HDMI adapters "integrated so most people do not have them."

But most people use internet connectivity, most people do NOT use HDMI connections on mobile devices.

I would bet the use of tethering is several orders of magnitude higher on mobile devices that support both tethering and HDMI.

Citation needed

Just talking about smart phones, and tethering being extra on some plans just reenforces my point about some people mostly using mobile devices. The whole thing about tethering is that more people will have phones with them than PC's.

But in order for a user to contribute to a Wi-Fi list, a web application needs to know the location of the user's device and what access points are near it.

All modern mobile browsers have API to access location services on smartphones, so that works just fine as a web app on a smartphone. It would of course fail on a PC that lacked any cellular connectivity and wasn't connected to WiFi, highly likely when you are looking at a WiFi list... further proof of the assertion that smart phones are superiors to PCs.

Safari lacks such a means, as far as I can tell.

LMGTFY. Come on.