how about a million dollar coin? https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

It wouldn't take that long. The tweet was directed at SWA so they would have access immediately. It mentions the city, gate and name of the employee, so it would probably be very quick to get in touch with the gate crew and get the other details from them - I doubt that there were many people on the flight with small kids who got arsey because they couldn't jump the queue

the graph compares all of 2013 with the first half of 2014. The implication being that, if so far this year there have been as many vulnerabilities as all of last year, then by the end of the year there will be twice as many. It is very poor analysis as there might be no more bugs found this year, a million bugs found this year, or something in between.

SHILLED, I think it was

Surely there is no point if there are no other drivers behind you. As soon as you've gone past, the road will be clear.

The NSA would be the Colonial Cousin, not GCHQ. As far as I know, the UK has never (officially) been a colony of the US!

As social creatures much of our knowledge is built from social interactions, where we integrate our own experiences and beliefs with that of others to build new knowledge and understanding (i.e. Social Constructivism). The current dominant MOOC model is extremely procedural, teacher-centred and discourages these types of social interactions. While this works well for some subjects (particularly at introductory levels), it is much less effective in other situations. How can the large MOOC platforms, and EdX in particular, encourage a more social method of learning?

I've just given you one of mine. Oh,.....

Exactly! I live in Sheffield and 99.999% of the posts on Slashdot are about "$TRIVIAL_EVENTS" happening 4000 miles away from where I live. So what! If a story is interesting, what does it matter where it happened (not that this is an interesting one, mind you)

Educational Technology is my field and this has been gaining traction for a few years now (often under the name 'Bring Your Own Device [BYOD]') and, to be honest, it is attractive to institutions because they feel it will reduce the amount of hardware that is purchased and unused (or, worse, is switched on 24/7 but doing nothing). I don't think that it is something that lecturers or students would really want if they thought about the (many) downsides. However, the reason that laptops didn't take off is because of the patchy Wifi coverage when they were first becoming mainstream, the relatively poor battery life and few places to charge in most institutions, the weight of the devices and the startup time. With a tablet it is possible to switch it off, put it into your bag and start it up instantly in your next class - not so with a laptop. Tablet use is obviously going to continue growing as they become more affordable lifestyle devices, but for many people they will be unlikely to replace the general-purpose abilities that you get from a full-fat PC. That Smartboards are rubbish doesn't mean that tablets will replace them. Perhaps there is a fundamental problem with 'smartboard-style' teaching so that there will always be issues...

you are thinking of a processor simulator. here is a GPL'd one for the 8085 processor http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnusim8085/. THere are also others for other chips, including the Z80, just search for 'assembler simulator'. I remember using one at Uni about 12 years ago and it was a very useful tool.

Perhaps this island is where Saddam stashed him WMDs - it appears to be just as real.

Probably due to most people not being interested in any of the authors or genres on offer here, and paying more just gets you more of the same. At least with the games budles there is usually a variety of different genres so there is typically something for everyone in the bundle. Here, unless your preferences are strongly waited towards Science Fiction and Fantasy there is no interest - why not throw in a geeky non-fiction book?

Really? So any book-lover will have got/read most of the things here? I consider myself a reasonably avid reader and have no interest in any of these books - and I read a fairly varied range of genres and subjects (see my profile at http://www.shelfari.com/irglover). I realise that one data point isn't statistically significant, but niether is a sweeping generalisation.

It went away.

Not Here!