Well I'd recommend a tripod if using a camera, or something to keep whatever you're using very steady. I didn't have anything and a few of my shots have a less than circular moon surrounded by the corona. My more sensible friend did bring a tripod and got many more good images.

My attempt at the diamond ring picture at the end of totality didn't work well either. I think that might have been a shortcoming of the digital camera but then they have moved on a bit in the last 11 years.

The only total eclipse I've seen was in Turkey in 2006. Only 11 years ago. I didn't have a smartphone then. All I was interested in was taking photos with my camera and just looking all around to take in the moment (as an aside if you're going to see this one and have never seen a total eclipse before then make sure you do a 360 look at the horizon during totality; worth it). I just didn't feel any need to tell anyone else about it there and then. Other people got to see the photos several days later when I returned to the UK.

I think you misunderstood the rolling news feed. The attack last night was a muslim attack in that muslims outside a mosque were attacked not that muslims were the perpetrators.

Most of the respondents wouldn't have understand the question because they actually use whatever their IDE does.

Well except for all those Bitcoins they just made out of WannaCry (allegedly).

This reminded me of a sci-fi novel in which an AI arranges for people to die in bizarre and apparently accidental ways by interfering with other automated systems.

As mentioned in other comments, this is just an algorithm but maybe it's not a huge leap to a more complex system doing the same this and given the goal of improving the accuracy percentage... well there's one option that would work, just kill off individuals that have already been flagged at risk.

There are 650 Westminter seats so in a full house, 326 votes are required to win anything. Many votes are carried on less than a full house but full house can be pretty much guaranteed for budget or confidence vote.

There are some other factors though. Sinn Fein (who only ever have seats representing Northern Ireland) traditionally will not attend Westmister (reasons) but nobody can really make a plan based on them not ever doing so because they have on occasion suggested that they might; I'm sure I recently saw something about Sinn Fein possibly attending if a Brexit vote went before Westminster. Also the speaker, who is an elected MP and therefore represents one of the parties, does not get a vote except as a tie breaker.

So here's the figures for your number crunching (but note that some combinations are simply impossible, reasons again).

Conservative: 318

Labour: 262

SNP: 35

Liberal Democrat: 12

Democratic Unionist Party: 10

Sinn Fein: 7

Plaid Cymru: 4

Green Party: 1

Why did you qualify that with a question mark. Without that, it's a statement that your boss does not trick you into unpaid overtime. The addition of the question mark means that it is not a statement. Which suggests to me that you're not sure if your boss tricks you into unpaid overtime or not.

You'd think the fate of the Lib Dems might make any prospective coalition partners think twice but the political map is slightly different in Northern Ireland. The DUP are unlikely to lose their unionist support if they prop up the Tories; even if they assist in seeing through policies that are detrimental to that unionist support.

Threats don't cost them anything so they must have reason to believe it's not a threat. For whatever reason Apple have arrived at the tipping point where the cost of providing these machines becomes less than the cost of not providing them. It certainly won't be because of benefit to customers.

I bet that they looked at transport data around the weekend of the 6 nations rugby game between the two and said "Holy shit! Look at those numbers.", completely failing to recognize that there is probably close to zero demand for the rest of the year.

Many commentators are saying the congressman clearly does not understand what he's proposing. The truth will actually be that the congressman doesn't care in the slightest about what he's proposing. He'll just be doing what he's being paid to do. Find the money source and you find the reason.

So, given a few articles ago, I wonder if Putin could claim ACDC legitimized retaliation against the CIA.

In the UK it's a minimum of 12 weeks between donations. In theory that would allow for 4 donations a year but in practice I've never done more than 3 a year.

If you do ever visit Edinburgh I'd recommend refraining from calling it Edinborough because that does tend to irritate the locals. I don't know the international phonetic alphabet, and I don't think slashdot could handle the symbols anyway, but we say it something like ed-in-burr-uh. And sometimes as ehm-bra which is supposed to a mocking impersonation of how a weegie (citizen of Glasgow) would say it.