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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Distant Death

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++.

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.

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.

I wonder if this is related: 'Cultlike' Devotion: Apple Once Refused To Join Open Compute Project, So Their Entire Networking Team Quit - Slashdot

When we hear a sound and can tell what direction it comes from, the volume in one ear compared to the other usually helps only a little. Direction is determined more from which each the sound reaches first. There can be up to 0.7 ms of difference in time. So any sync issue that's anywhere near 0.7 ms will make it so the sound sounds like it's constantly coming from one direction, even if the volunteers are the same.

Is analyzing 90.7% of the year enough to establish most talked about in 2016 facts? What if a more iconic person dies tomorrow? There's still 23 days to talk about that.

Yeah, the theory of cognitive dissonance is where people rationalize their choice in order to avoid buyer's remorse. This isn't my field, buy it may be that the phenomenon is stronger when more expensive or more socially valuable or more powerful items are chosen. There was an upheaval in the theory in 2007 when researchers used monkeys choosing m&m's, and a mathematician saw that and said the experiment was invalid because they feel victim to the Monty Hall Problem. I think later experiments avoiding Monty Hall got new, valid evidence for the theory.

Sounds like a violation of the Maine implied warranty law. I don't know what the state can do to Apple, but there is an Apple store in the state's largest mall.

No class action needed.