I use the same player -- it works great with Rockbox

I used to play through my phone and/or computer and then would sometimes forget I was tethered by the headphone cord and walk away and either end up pulling my phone off the desk onto the floor, or dragging my laptop across the desk, knocking stuff off on the floor. The Sansa battery only lasts a couple hours now, so I keep it plugged in with a short USB cable, if yank it with the headphone cord, the USB plug slips out.

I used a bluetooth headset for a while, but got tired of keeping it charged (since keeping it plugged in while in-use doesn't work), with regular headphones I know that every time I plug them in, they are ready to go all day long.

Can you point to the studies showing the levels of these hormones and pharmaceuticals that are present in wastewater treated for reuse as drinking water? Can you point to any regulations that require that water agencies even test for them, and studies showing what a safe level of pharmaceutical ingestion is?

People have lived off of groundwater for many thousands of years and we have a good handle on the effects of consuming minerals (even radioactive elements like radon) in water, but consuming low levels of pharmaceuticals in their water is a relatively new phenomena that as far as I can tell, has not been well studied.

I don't think it's window failure that kills people in a crash, it's the delta-V of being slowed so suddenly -- the windshield is probably stronger than the lightweight sheet metal that would replace it. Replacing lass with metal might help make a car maginally safer, but I wouldn't expect it to dramatically increase survivability of a crash -- turning the seats around to face backwards would probably contribute far more to survivability (though I doubt that will happen, people don't like to travel backwards, in the train I ride to work the forward facing seats fill up before the backwards facing ones)

Either the infrastructure will need to allow for fallback to human control or not, but it can't be both ways -- you can't expect a human who has let his car drive him around for years to find his way home without street signs, or drive safely without traffic control devices. So if you want to allow for human control, you'll need to provide street signs and traffic signals.

Airplanes and cruise ships don't *need* windows, yet they are installed at great expense. It'd be a lot easier to build an airliner without having to cut a hundred holes in the fuselage then cover and seal the holes with windows.... yet no one wants to fly in a windowless tube, just like no one will want to ride in a windowless car -- LCD panels and cameras aren't quite the same as a live view through a window.

Since some municipalities pump their wastewater back into the ground, being on a well doesn't keep you safe from wastewater contaminants.

And in some areas, untreated fracking water is also pumped back into the ground (presumably deeper than "normal" aquifers, so just hope that the water doesn't percolate upwards (and that you don't need to drill a deeper well to reach water). Oh well, I guess it's better than releasing it into streams like they used to do.

For years there have been reports of trace amounts of drugs in treated wastewater that could be harming wildlife and "no one seems to know which compounds need to be removed or how to remove them from the water safely", so are they filtering out these drugs before reusing the water for drinking water?

http://www.scientificamerican....

http://www.newrepublic.com/art...

Stupid fans? I thought those were a Dyson invention, not Tesla?

How much jail time did Photobucket executives get for allowing such lax security in their app in the first place? Must be at least twice the 5 years that these two are getting. Maybe more. Right?

The last time I moved, the insurance included with my move was 60 cents per pound - for any coverage beyond that, I had to purchase supplemental coverage. So if they drop your 50 pound $1000 TV, they'll pay you $30.

I'll agree with you there -- my great grandfather started working in a coal mine when he was 17, fought in a war, smoked every day of his life since he was 16 (with hand rolled cigarettes), maintained a 4 acre yard and large garden, raised (and slaughtered) his own chickens. He spent the last 20 years of his life living alone (his wife died "young" at 60). Up until the last year of his life he maintained he house and yard on his own, reroofed his garage on his own when he was 70 - didn't even tell family he was going to do it, no one knew about it until he was done, he shoveled the coal into his coal fired furnace every winter, he eventually stopped raising chickens after one time when the wolves or coyotes got into the coop and he got tired of patching it. He lived to be 82 years old. He never could get accustomed to those new-fangled remote controls for the TV (back when state of the art was an audio based remote) and walked up to the set to turn it on and off. He still managed to keep ice cream and cookies ready for the grand kids when they visited

Me? I'm too lazy to even cut the grass so I bought a condo with no yard, and the grocery delivers my groceries so I don't even go to the store, let alone slaughter my own meat.

How do these waves affect the moon given that they are subsurface waves and don't affect the surface?

Given that their paper was published in Nature, they used the correct term for the phenomena.

Just don't complain when gas goes up again and all of that space to spare means that you have a 60 mile round trip commute so you're spending $10+/day in gas to get to work.

I live in a dense area (not quite urban, not quite suburban). When I lived 20 miles from the office, I took the train, now I live 3 miles from the office and ride my bike -- I couldn't tell you how much it cost to fill up my car because it was over a month ago.

A friend inherited a house in SF (Sunset district) that was in pretty poor shape - he looked at the cost and time to get a permit to tear it down and replace it with a 2 unit duplex that would have fit almost within the same footprint of the existing house. He quickly gave on up that due to the cost and no assurance of ever getting his plan approved -- anyone nearby could tie up the planning process nearly indefinitely and he can't really afford to sit on an unoccupied house for a year or more while waiting for planning approval.

Instead he opted to do a nearly down to studs remodel back into a single family house. Everyone in SF complains about the cost of housing, but no one seems to want higher density.