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  1. Overbooked flights on Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe sometimes airlines don't overbook their flights. Maybe sometimes when the gate desk claims the flight was overbooked, it's actually that air marshals are forcing their way onto the flight at the last minute.

  2. Obligatory... What If?

  3. Re: Beamed his voice into space? on Stephen Hawking's Voice Beamed Into Space as His Ashes Are Interred (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like that's exactly the opposite of what would have wanted.

  4. Before The Gig Economy on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will this change also affect contractors that were independent contractors long before this new gig economy trend? For example, if a family owned rug store offers to tell rug installing contractors about sales done that day (with the approval of the customer), are those contractors now under threat of becoming employees? What if the store offers to arrange the timing of the appointment for installation?

  5. 13 months on Move Over Moore's Law, Make Way For Huang's Law (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    While Moore's Law is a doubling in density every 18 months, this 25 times speedup in 5 years is achieved via a doubling every 13 months.

  6. Wehe on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    If you have an Android or iOS device, then download the Wehe app and run it while you're connected to your home WiFi. It was developed by university researchers to detect slowdowns of certain streaming services.

  7. Some arguments don't hold up on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    Changing a state to follow the DST time zone year round is saying that you want 1:00 PM to be close to solar noon, not 12:00 PM. So 1:00 PM just becomes your new clock noon. And the sunset time difference of greater than 1 hour between Maine and Detroit is completely expected. If time zones were evenly distributed and did not follow geopolitical borders, then locations inside the same time zone but on opposite sides would have sunsets exactly one hour apart on the clock. So it doesn't take much fudging of the time zones to get locations that have sunsets more than one hour apart on the clock. It's nearly unavoidable. And though we loose an hour of sleep in the Spring, we gain an hour of sleep in the Fall. So for that particular metric, short term it's bad, and long term it evens out.

  8. 2.5 Mbps is 45 times as fast as 56 kbps.

  9. For reference: 490 Mbps is 1.71 GiB per 30 seconds.

  10. Re: Mirrors your attitude on Senator Warns YouTube Algorithm May Be Open To Manipulation By 'Bad Actors' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was wondering, how does one do a systematic external analysis of YouTube algorithms? There's hundreds of markers used in the algorithms, from the geo location of the viewer's IP address to the fonts installed on the system. Can anybody really account for all those possible variables without having deep internal knowledge of the algorithms used?

  11. So, 1 trillion in American imperial?

  12. 149 results on Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I get 149 results for my name. I think a tool with a crawler needs to be created, so that only results with both my name and, say, my zip code are returned. I'm not going to manually click through 149 results to see if any use my address.

  13. NWS Mobile on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 2

    Is that why the map on this website doesn't pan reliably on Google Chrome mobile? 7-Day Forecast for Latitude 43.66ÂN and Longitude 70.27ÂW (Elev. 7 ft) I just tried Mozilla Firefox mobile. Works much better in that app.

  14. Reason people may like it on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    I have found one logical reason that people may like DST. It normalizes sunrise time through the year, at the expense of extremifying sunset time. Here's a chart showing this.

  15. I like the idea, and not just for miners on Google Engineers Explore Ways To Stop In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miners in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a documentation hub for a service out there that I noticed using 100% of one CPU core on my laptop, whenever I had a page open on it. Didn't matter whether the tab or Chrome window was foreground or not. I dug into it, and found a CSS spinner sitting underneath a Google translate button. I'm thinking the page designers wanted a spinner to show if that button took a while to load. But they designed it in CSS; it kept running forever, even after the button loaded; and it used 100% CPU. Having a built in defense against this kind of stupidity or malice would be awesome.

  16. Re: Actually... on Can The Pirate Bay Replace Ads With A Bitcoin Miner? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I just checked it out. It's JavaScript that runs in whatever browser tabs you have have open on The Pirate Bay's website. It can be seen in Chrome's developer tools and task manager. Navigate elsewhere or close the tab, and the JavaScript stops running immediately. Have two tabs open on the site, and you get two scripts running. On Chrome at least, each script tries to use up 100% of a single CPU (virtual) core. So, I have a quad core processor with hyper threading, meaning the website was using 13% of my CPU constantly. And the niceness level is equal to whatever my user space browser runs at.

  17. Maine's implied warranty law says four years. I don't know whether anyone has successfully used that against Apple, though.

  18. Once is happenstance.
    Twice is coincidence.
    The third time itâ(TM)s enemy action.
    - Goldfinger

  19. Remove the permission on Ask Slashdot: Are My Drone Apps Phoning Home? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Settings > Apps > tap the app (App info) > Advanced > Modify system settings > uncheck the Allow. That will disallow the app from enabling your WiFi.

  20. So in short on Vermont Medical School Says Goodbye To Lectures (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Instead of learn it in the classroom, and then use it at home (homework); you learn it at home, and then use it in the classroom (lab). I would be willing to try that.

  21. It was TI-BASIC on the TI-83 Plus graphing calculator. Taught myself from the calculator's book sized manual, mostly during study hall period in high school. I would print out my more complex programs (I had a serial to 3.5mm audio data cable), so I could trace the logic of my GOTO statements. I knew exactly what the professor was talking about the first time I heard the term "spaghetti code." My second language was assembly on the calculator's Z80 CPU, also self taught. And my first language taught in college was C++.

  22. It's about the variability on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that Daylight Savings Time makes the sunrise time have a smaller range over the course of a year, at the expense of a more variable sunset.

    Here is a chart.

  23. It's about the variability on Will Montana Become America's Third State To Ditch Daylight Savings Time? (missoulian.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that Daylight Savings Time makes the sunrise time have a smaller range over the course of a year, at the expense of a more variable sunset.

    Here is a chart.