In the US, that is false. See wikipedia for details; essentially there are several criteria that must be satisfied for work by an independent contractor to be work for hire, including in particular that there must be a written agreement between the parties stating that the work is made for hire.

I'd really rather if they not do that. If it becomes standard to link to the print version of articles, sites will just remove the print option entirely. As it is, we, who care, get to enjoy these articles in a relatively clean form for minimal work, and the people who don't care effectively subsidise us (thanks!) with their ad impressions.

The MOVE bombing wasn't even remotely similar. Firstly because it was a row house, i.e. physically connected to the adjacent buildings, secondly because the firefighters at that site did nothing to control the resulting fire, and thirdly because the area was not evacuated prior to the bombing. This is a ranch house, so the fire is unlikely to spread, firefighters are on site to control the resulting fire, and the area will be evacuated.

Try Combat Mission, though the troops can require a lot of manual pathfinding. Simultaneous turns (RT optional in the latest).

There is a fascinating account of building a radio in a Japanese POW camp during WWII virtually from scratch.

.1111... is understood to stand for the supremum of the set {0,1/10,11/100,111/1000...}. See Rudin, "Principles of Mathematical Analysis", page 11. Likewise for .3333..., .999999...., and 3.14159+... where the sets are defined accordingly.

Calculators produce such results because they are useful approximations of the supremum.

Here you are in error. 7*.111111...= 7*(1/8+1/8^2+1/8^3+...) = 7/8 + 7/8^2 + 7/8^3 + ... = (7/8)/(1-1/8) = 1; the reduction from an infinite geometric series to 7/8/(1-1/8) is a common result from any high-school algebra course.

Note in particular that 7/8+7/80+7/800+... is not equal to 1.

Perhaps they should consider banning the ADS-B transmitters, then?

In any case, banning the app would do nothing to anyone with the funds for a SAM. See this document to make your own reciever.

The caldera is not a synonym for lava puddles. They're talking about putting a sensor in the caldera where it can detect gasses. It's not likely to be floating, much less submerged, and in fact that would presumably interfere with the mission of detecting various gasses.

(I've only read the article, not the papers)

On Emirates 407:

On the others, I will agree with you.

I played it for the first time only last year, and was pleasantly surprised. The controls are perfect. I felt like the shareware Episode I was most enjoyable, perhaps because I was reluctant to use the plasma and rocket weapons when they became available. The later episodes also seemed to involve me getting hemmed in more often.

Personally, I prefer Doom: The Roguelike overall, but Doom is still a fine, if ugly, shooter.

I'm currently a college Junior and have never encountered this. What programs require a Mac, and why?

For all of you concerned about not having complete control.

The summary doesn't effectively explain when this would be useful. At most lights, it won't matter. The example the patent gives is a 2 minute light, for which it is inefficient to restart the engine state. It suggests "waiting for 10 minutes for a railway to clear" as a case where this would be useful.

The patent seems very vague. It talks about processing information about the movement about other cars, doesn't comment on what should be looked for, how that information is to be determined, or how wait-time should be estimated. It basically seems to be a patent for the idea of signaling the car when a long wait is anticipated.

Again, horozontal Gs (e.g. normal to the spine). Fighter pilots experience vertical Gs (parallel to the spine). From wikipedia "Early experiments showed that untrained humans were able to tolerate 17 g eyeballs-in (compared to 12 g eyeballs-out) for several minutes without loss of consciousness or apparent long-term harm."

You might want to take a look at the Gloster Meteor F8 Prone Pilot, an experiment to control a plane from a prone position to better cope with Gs.

Do you really need all those keys on you? It seems to me that the *three* keys for your girlfriend's place are probably somewhat redundant. Maybe they're front/back/basement keys, in which case you probably need only one unless you're living there. Your roof key can probably be stashed at home.

Cargo pants are really nice, if you can wear them. In general, keyfobs aren't worth the hassle. If you need what they have--the SAK, for instance--take them off the keychain and carry them either in your pack, which you apparently have with you most of the time, or in some other pocket. Though the later doesn't reduce the total volume of hardware, it does spread it out, and is thus much more comfortable.