On Android, I have a lockscreen widget and the camera app is accessible without unlocking.

Scalzi actually does fairly hard sci-fi mostly. Check his Old Man's War novels. They're good.

Yes, obviously, one company should own a trademark on any product containing the work "Sky" in it.

It was sarcasm. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.

When, as a woman, she had the audacity to attend a convention.

"In Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell, author Phil Lapsley calls his book 'the untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma Bell.'

At this point, I think the editors are trolling us.

You know what's the worst part? The number of people who deny systematic discrimination exists. Every time a study comes out showing blacks and other minorities get more jail time on average for the same crimes (or in many cases go to jail at all for crimes their white counterparts get a slap on the wrist for), the usual suspects will make vague denunciations of the problem, and then whenever an individual example comes to light, try to make others the badguys for pointing out racial injustice and/or want insurmountable evidence that THIS INDIVIDUAL case was an example of racism before they'll even consider it.

Then they'll usually engage in some light victim blaming, just to spice things up.

You know what I call those people? Racists. Sure, they might not be as bad KKK members burning crosses, but they sure are doing their best to ignore racial equality issues.

I know Slashdot likes to confuse us with it's hyperlink placement, but I just feel like pointing out that puting the link to TFA on the text "a city that more closely resembles the real world" makes absolutely no sense. That's where a link to a story about the Nissan Leaf DLC should go, at best. The very next sentence, "That's undoubtedly why EA decided to partner with Crest Toothpaste. Yes, toothpaste." is where the hyperlink to go since the hyperlink leads to.... a story about Crest Toothpaste DLC!

I mean, come on! Is no one doing basic proofreading here?

Does anyone even know what the jokes were? A "dongle" joke could be anything from a lame hammy pun you might catch on a sitcom to outrageously misogynistic rape-humor. It's kind of hard to form a valid opinion of the whole thing without that bit of info.

Actually, according to this article in Wired the PS4 will be able to do it both ways. Publishers have the option of "registering" their games. Guess which they'll do? This is just a marketing ploy for Sony to be able to say "We aren't disabling used games, the publishers are!

The point when it gets very bright is most likely when it broke up in the atmosphere, and all the smaller pieces burned up. There will most likely be debris found over the next few days, but there was no major impact site.

According to TFA , DA14 is approaching from Earth's South while the videos so far make it look like this one is coming from the East, so they're on completely different orbits.

Ahhhhh. I appreciate the help. I realized the way I was testing if a number was a multiple of 3 or 5 was bad, but the % operator slipped my mind. I knew about it, but I guess I haven't used it very much. But I didn't realize bools could figure out if they were true or false when they were initialized. Thanks! I definitely learned something new from this little exercise. :)

I'm working through a "Teach Yourself to Program" book right now. Figured I'd give it a try. What do you think, want to hire me? :D

But no, seriously, I'm interested in feedback.

https://gist.github.com/4502183

So what are the practical implications of this? Can someone explain it to me? Is this going to affect, say, CyanogenMod?