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  1. So far as I know (aside from local oscillator leakage which must hardly be a problem if the rest of the phone/tablet has clocks running) it is perfectly fine to receive GPS signals on a phone while it is in airplane mode.

    If an app can store a reasonable map of the world on the phone so that it does not need an internet connection, then I see no reason why it could not display where you are, your speed and, given a destination, its estimate of when you will arrive.

    What with that and the movies I have on my sd card, I suspect all I would need is a little double sided tape to mount my tablet on the back of the seat in front of me

  2. Re: I am willing to be vaccinated against Ebola, b on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that being anti-vax correlates especially well with trump supporters, or do you have some information to share on that ?

  3. it seems silly when you can make your own black hole "photo" in gimp in a few seconds .

  4. That's not Julian Assange on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They've arrested David Letterman by mistake.

  5. embrace the suck, apply powers to other math operators, eg: 1 +^2 3 = 7

  6. Re: Seems quite a lot larger... on Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    I've seen many explanations of "integration by substitution" that involve treating du/dx as a fraction where u is substituted for an inner function - It's described as applying the differentiation chain rule in reverse.. It seems to be the standard way of teaching it.

  7. Re:Seems quite a lot larger... on Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    you can still use notations like f''(x) for brevity.

  8. Re:Give more Pesto to the People! on Machine Learning Is Making Pesto Even More Delicious (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    if it's going to shine all day may as well make them 36 hour days, get 50% more pesto per day.

  9. Re:I don't like chemical ... on New Male Birth Control Pill Succeeds In Preliminary Testing (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually there are no active ingredients, it's just a simple 8 foot diameter 2 foot thick pill weighing 1200lbs that is gently placed on the man while laying in bed, it removes all urge to procreate almost instantaneously.

  10. Re:I predict a short run on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The model will die because if it fails early it just plain fails and if it is successful early on there will be colleges with a long term income stream ahead and current running costs, so they will be bought out by asset strippers who will keep the income and gut the rest of the university.

  11. Re:OK, how about the actual shooter? on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 1

    was he trying to shoot the storm door - I don't think so.

  12. Re:Ars Technica link... on California Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Deadly Kansas 'Swatting' (fox4kc.com) · · Score: 1

    And third thing - because of crazy gun laws the cops consider everyone to be packing all the time (and I'm not sure I blame them). That cell phone - thought it was a gun, those pants, thought there was a gun hidden in there. Cops don't get to use that defense where guns are rare.

  13. Re:That isn't "math anxiety." on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    My daughter will be entering High school next year. She's above grade level in Math and doing well. The High School has an excellent teacher that teaches a geometry class - it's about euclid's postulates and how you can use them in geometric proofs. It starts with a handful of postulates and shows how to do a proof step by step. The big deal is apparently putting in the time to learn the postulates and then get the knack of churning out the proofs

    Many kids find it hard, in part because it is a different kind of math for them and in part because it's their first year in HS and the teaching methods change to place more of the onus on the student to keep up (with plenty of opportunities given). And probably in part because if they don't put the work in early on to learn the first half dozen or so postulates so by the time they realize that they are supposed to be memorizing them they get overwhelmed. They lack the maturity to approach the math teacher and get help before things slide too far.

    My daughter doesn't want to take the course, she's intimidated by it, and I suspect afraid of failing. We can't even have a conversation about it, within a few words of broaching the subject you can see a physical reaction in her

    I wish I could find a way to convince her that she will have the support she needs, that the course isn't so bad as she may have heard, and that the teacher is excellent and will give her every opportunity to succeed

  14. Re:Last thing he would do on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    your favorite flavor of politician is above all that then huh ?

  15. Have you heard welsh spoken. Makes klingon seem pronounceable.

  16. Re:Here is why pagers are so important on The UK's Health Service Told To Ditch 'Outdated' Pagers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    so load up the regular cell signal with lots of forward error correction when transmitting "high importance" messages to phones that are experiencing poor signal quality.

  17. sounds like an ideal app for a smartwatch

  18. Re:Trollvalds is wrong on Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space (realworldtech.com) · · Score: 1

    this. I do all my development in the cloud. The only difference between the dev box and the prod box is the resources (CPU, memory...). If they swapped it for arm tomorrow it would probably be just fine.

  19. eye of the beholder on A Philosopher Argues That an AI Can't Be an Artist (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If a thing causes me to gain insight or simply brings me joy then I'll take the win, however it may have come into existence. Who is to say that the insight I gain was the intent of the artist.

  20. I'm not sure why they would be likely to be so ignorant. If they have enough interest to shell out the money for an instrument and have a basic interest in the subject then they can probably be expected to have above average knowledge. Anything that raises the average is probably good, even if they are only looking for radioactive spiders to try and gain super powers.

  21. kudos on Grand Canyon Visitors May Have Been Exposed To Radiation For Years (azcentral.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Kudos to the teen with the Geiger counter. Maybe this will spark a trend of citizen radiation hunters.

  22. stolen by hackers and posted on underground forums - that's one hell of a chain of custody.Presumably the authorities went back to the source and confirmed it.

  23. Re:Classified Information on US Investigators Probing Years of WikiLeaks Activities, Report Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The stench before or after the totemization ?

  24. Not covfefe, I meant to type crvfeefe. Damned autocorrect !

  25. what a load of bull on Tinder-Style App For Cows Tries To Help the Meat Market (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    do foodies use it in restaurants, like when they pick a fish from a tank