Wow...I had never heard of the electric fan theory. I just looked into it and found information about South Korea's government touting this idea. That's just...wow. Thanks for that one.

I just wanted to say thanks to Derek for answering my and everyone's questions.

Thanks!

I noticed you said the temperature at its lowest was -32C, and the pressure was only 93 Pascals. Did you need special electronics/cameras in order to operate under these conditions?

Where/how did you learn the information needed in order to pull off a feat like this? Related: How long have you been working on these types of projects?

FYI, as of right now the insurance companies are still denying people with pre-existing conditions. If you're under 19 they can't deny you now. But if you're over 19, you have to wait until Jan 1st 2014 before the insurance companies are forced to insure everyone. This date was made to coincide with the time that everyone is forced to have insurance (which further enforces your point of the compromise.)

I'm curious how they determined who were civilians.

I'm not actually disputing the numbers, as I personally don't have any additional facts on the subject. However, when I looked at that wiki page, I didn't see anything that addressed how the civilians killed were actually classified as civilians. Did their family members say that they weren't insurgents? Obviously that data could be skewed as many people may not want to admit that a relative was an insurgent. Hell, they may not even know for that matter. Perhaps it was based simply on whether weapons were found near the bodies, that sounds pretty logical, but it has its faults as well.

It wouldn't surprise me to find that the numbers were actually much higher or much lower, as I can only imagine it to be a very difficult thing to determine.

That's an awesome quote. In looking into it though it appears that Larry McDonald didn't include the "please use in that order" part. Ed Howdershelt, a science fiction writer did though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_boxes_of_liberty

The lineup of the text and radio buttons has been completely off since the latest changes.

On a separate note, I still have problems seeing older articles on my phone.

I find myself talking to my android phone on a pretty regular basis. Whenever I want to do an internet search that's more than a couple words, it's pretty fast and simple to hold down my search button and just speak the search phrase. The accuracy is pretty damn good even when speaking normally. The only problem is the background volume level; it doesn't work well in loud areas. It's great for the gps too: "navigate to 1122 Main St" "navigate to Joe's Bar". I don't see myself using this same technology with my work computer, but as far as my phone goes, I'm already talking to it and expecting it to react.

I thought that overall the movie was pretty well done (I have not read the comics.) I think the reason it didn't do as well as hoped was not the actual rating itself, but some of the reason for the rating. Violence, nudity, adult situations, etc. are all pretty common in well-performing R-rated action/fantasy movies. But the gore (did we really need to see that much detail when the guys arm was broken), and the overwhelming dark overtones made myself and others leave the movie feeling slightly disturbed.

Slightly less gore, and slightly more levity could have gone a long way to improving the box office performance in my opinion.

I'm rather upset that the older stories section is gone from the right side bar. That was a really nice, quick and easy way to glance through the stories from the weekend or any other day that I missed and see if there were any headlines I wanted to explore further.

Along the same lines, whatever happened to the xkcd link that used to be over there. I noticed that and the other links around it disappeared a couple months ago, and haven't had anywhere to bitch about that.

or lawyers off of Enron?

Too late?

Maybe Google's plan is to finally make it clear to the general public why we need laws to protect net neutrality. When there were no deals like this in the works, many people didn't understand why net neutrality mattered.

I heard a report about this on NPR last night. The researcher talking about it said the whole thing was basically BS in terms of altering one's state of mind. They did a small study (ok, really small, only 4 people), and found no shift in brain waves at all when listening to binaural beats.

Yeah...right....