Wow, late reply.

The accepted range accomplishes that the result of the following process is marked as correct:

• 1. Calculate ratio of wedge to disc using calculator: 40/360=0.11111...
• 2. Round the ratio to some strictly positive number of significant decimals: R in {0.1, 0.11, 0.111, ...}
• 3. Apply ratio to mass: 0.27 <= R*27 < 0.3

You'll notice that applying any ratio in [1/10, 1/9] will be marked as a correct response. This seems reasonable since the students are not using a scientific calculator and have probably been instructed to round in most cases.

Choosing 0.27 as the "example of a correct answer" was probably not optimal, though.

Extremely, emphatically, wrong. Documents published by the suspect show that this attack, which he has been working towards for 9 years, was planned in excruciating detail, was specifically targeted against the Norwegian political establishments, was implemented with specific goals for changes in policy and society in mind, and was designed to accomplish these goals specifically by instilling fear in the minds of the general public. He considers himself a soldier, and explicitly considers terror his weapon of choice.

There must surely be other, almost equally effective, ways to prevent a known perpetrator of a crime like this from "doing it again". His days of blending in are over. Additionally, martyrdom is a powerful force, (And also stated explicitly as an element in the suspects plan as an effective way to advance his cause) and while this guy can't do it again, those people that adopt him as their hero certainly can.

You're letting your rhetorical agenda run away with you again. I'm not here to argue for tighter security or surveillance "for the children", I personally specifically oppose those things. I'm just stating a fact: the youngest attendants at the Labour Youth camp were 14, the average age of the final list of victims is likely to be well under 20. I find "kids" to be a pretty accurate description of that group, and I assume that whether 150 of them were shot is not in debate. Again, I'm not debating, I was giving you a friendly (OK, not so friendly) suggestion to think before you post, because words can hurt and I'm sure that's not what you intended.

Well.. I guess, or maybe i just hope, that even you guys don't have firearms floating around your youth camps.

I'll keep my cheek to myself, thanks. Giving up and giving in is not the same as having to retaliate every aggression, answer any attack with a counterattack. Damn right we don't practice death penalty. What would one more dead body possibly buy us? Prevention, are you kidding? I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that this guy went out to do what he did with a pretty strong expectation of ending up dead, death penalty or no.

Nah, we'll punish this guy in the worst way he could possibly imagine. We'll take some time to grieve our dead, and then we're going to get up, brush off, and go back to doing what we fucking do.

Anyway, since you apparently didn't catch it the first time, the "fuck you" wasn't about how much we peed our pants, how hard we're hit. It was about you coming in here with your piece-of-shit know-it-all agenda, spouting off about what is and isn't terrorism, about who were and were not scared, without having all, or even any, of the facts. At the exact moment you were taking time out of your day to do that, other people were taking time out of their day to die in the street, or psyche themselves up towards gunning down 150 kids. So there's that.

For those who don't read Norwegian, the suspect's 1500 page manifesto in English can be found at http://www.kevinislaughter.com/wp-content/uploads/2083+-+A+European+Declaration+of+Independence.pdf

Fuck you.

Love, Norway

Interesting anecdotal baloney, but you can at least console yourself (based on the vague information you provide) that the average number of births per woman in your country is either well below the rate of replacement or trending heavily downwards.

Clearly the best solution is to mount a giant LCD screen on your roof, constantly minimizing power consumption by displaying the optimal shade of gray.

For what it's worth, I've bought kindle books (Wakker on prospect theory, for instance) that inlines math using images, so it is definitely possible. Of course, that sucks as much as math-as-images always does, so YMMV. Diagrams that are simple enough to not require color and small enough to comfortably fit on the screen are legible just fine. Also note that when you're buying a book for your kindle, you're also buying it for your nice, big, clear computer screen. Some material might be more legible using the different Kindle for $OS implementations.

Anyway, you are right in that mobi on kindle is a pretty poor format for mathematical content, but if it is done well it is at least workable.

PS: When I buy a DRM'd book, I do so with the explicit knowledge that I can back it up and strip the encryption off of it whenever necessary. I can see this argument in principle, but in practice the problem only exists if you can't be arsed to fix it.

Well, that's somewhat interesting. Same OS (and OS version) as well? Might warrant a bug report if you can reproduce.

Now, I'm no huge fan of the slashdot interface, but that's just bullshit. A quick test verifies that link to be left and right clickable with the expected results in FF, Chrome and Safari on OSX at the very least. If you've got your browser stuffed full of page-modifying extensions you probably shouldn't be making statements about what works, what doesn't or what someone else has 'fucked up'.

If you want to program, you should be fine with first learning to dual boot. Anyway, you can play a lot of games in OSX now.

Court documents or it didn't happen. Quoth snopes.com

To that level of specificity, certainly. I'd probably argue that those "tastes" are more likely to be rooted in a (quite possibly innate) taste for conformity.

Oh, I'm not saying that there necessarily is, just that announcing that there is not seems like an extremely bold claim with little supporting evidence. Your comparison with the "other" taste is interesting, because attraction-repulsion responses in infants when exposed to gustatory stimuli are well documented. The presence of innate preferences in one form of stimuli indicate to me that other innate preferences are more likely to exist than not. (Some evidence appears to exist for color preference in infants, for instance.)

The assertion of the GGP was that since there are animals that prefer one thing to another thing based on shininess, and since those animals are not exposed to advertising, it might also be possible for a human to prefer something over something else because of shininess or whiteness or stripedness or anything that is not advertising. It's a pretty benign claim.