Wonder how well the laser works through glass or plastic windows, or other common transparent stuff you might want to take pictures through.

Does that apply to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some of the prices here look kinda steep: https://robertsspaceindustries... :)

Somehow that reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/606/

BTW I'm still playing Guild Wars 1 - an old good but dying game...

It's more like hoarding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's in the interests of the city to have parking spaces that are used for only as long as they are needed.

Allowing this "auctioning" thing causes parking spaces to be held longer than otherwise just so that someone can try to make money from it.

There is no significant increase in efficiency if parking spaces are in great demand - the moment you leave your spot, someone else is likely to take it. And even if there is some inefficiency there are other ways of solving it without this auctioning.

As long as voters can still vote and elections aren't terribly rigged/diebolded, I don't really consider protests that hold public spaces hostage a good thing. It's fine if they rented out a public space (stadium or field) for their "event".

If you want to protest publicly you could wear a particular hat, shirt, colored item, etc as a sign of protest and move about without preventing others from going about their normal daily lives. Causing massive disruption does not endear me to your cause. If you let random bunch of people start disrupting stuff, you cause problems for everyone else - and another bunch of people might start to do similar or _worse_ things if they disagree with the first bunch.

There are additional/alternative ways of communicating and spreading your message. Many people claim social media is useless -tweets, facebook shares, etc. But there are a number of governments that don't think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And looking at various "campaigns" social media can actually be useful.

It's a different case if people don't have other options- they can't vote and communications are blocked/censored.

Yeah. Teaching people to detect bullshit and think scientifically would be good.

As for getting a problem and finding a solution, it's still good to teach students to think and solve problems, rather than be an inferior "Google" and regurgitate memorized solutions or follow very specific memorized processes. Because I actually know adults who can't do basic problem solving- say there's a problem with something, their default is getting stuck. They don't go - it could be caused by A, B, C, D and perhaps other stuff I don't know yet. If it's A and we do X, Y should happen. OK lets try doing X. OK Y didn't happen, so it's not A. Let's see if 's B now, and so on. Or let me use Google to get a list of possible causes and then figure out one by one which it might be. Being able to finding possible answers that way is more important than being able to memorize and retrieve answers.

Yeah we should encourage the people who want to start cooperatives instead of companies :).

Citation please? What makes you so confident that's true? Fish oil oxidizes easily.

The smell is at least partly due to oxidation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Effects of oxidized fish oil:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... (affects lipid profile)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... (but does not affect oxidative stress markers)
See also:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... (fish oil easily oxidized)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Might not even be procrastination. From the perspective of some ISPs especially those that have strong ties to media companies the increased scarcity of IPv4 addresses and limitations of carrier NAT might be considered an opportunity and a feature.

Carrier NAT would make P2P protocols less efficient. Conventional media companies may prefer a world where "publishing/broadcasting" to many is restricted to those with $$$$$.

If you're getting bad breath from your fish-oil capsules, it may be that they contain oil that's _rancid_ or oxidized.

Bust open a capsule, if it stinks, it's rancid and you shouldn't be eating it anymore than you should be eating rotten fish. Or expecting it to convey health benefits anymore than rotten fish would. Fresh fish doesn't stink - might just have a mild fish smell. Same goes for fresh fish oil. If you eat sashimi or ikura you'd know what I mean.

The big problem is it seems that rancid/oxidized fish oil is not that rare. That's why I don't have that much confidence in those fish oil studies - I don't see much checking on the oxidation/rancidity of the oil.

So it may be that fish oil is good for you, but only if it hasn't gone bad.

The foreign countries might already have similar tech, maybe even years ago:
http://www.rslab.ru/downloads/...
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl...
http://repository.tudelft.nl/a...
https://encrypted.google.com/b...

Maybe that's what Ballmer is counting on - people paying to watch him doing crazy stuff and not just the teams. ;)

But in our universe is there really a Time dimension to travel through to the past?

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-p...
http://discovermagazine.com/20...

I've never found it convincing that there is a past to go to, at least from the perspective entities in our universe bound by its laws (from the perspective of "someone outside" running the "simulation/VM of our universe" all bets are off ;) ),

Or India but your mileage might vary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More choice is not magically good. More stupid/bad/needless choices is bad - since users are more likely to make the wrong decision, or have to waste their time making decisions. More good choices can be good but even then many users don't want to have to make zillions of decisions.

That's why many go to a restaurant and pick from a menu which doesn't have zillions of choices and they expect the chef to use his/her experience, talent and judgement to make good decisions - how much salt to use, when to use it, where to use it etc. They don't want to have to "configure" their entire meal from scratch, just so that it's edible. If the restaurant/chef expects them to do that most will just go to another restaurant. Same goes for cars and most other consumer products.

And that's why good defaults matter. If your defaults are good then most users will stick with them and when users call support, your first level can handle >90% of them.

It's true Microsoft doesn't really pick good defaults either, but they are in a monopoly/dominant position.

OS X gained share vs Windows not by giving users a choice of desktop environments. OS X has a greater market share than Desktop Linux. I personally don't like OS X and actually prefer Windows XP/7 (once I've configured it to not hide stuff from me).