Also, an hour for ice doesn't seem that bad.

I didn't see the first one, though this is not exactly the venue I'd expect to read about it, I suspect it would have been worth my read.

I thought the thought experiments on lines were a little silly. The exit one I highly suspect would have been maintainable, with people trying to cheat actually adding to the over-all exiting time as they were sent to where they should be, or to them being allowed through, in which case you're back to where you started.

The ice one I think ignored the fact that the wait time is very likely an intentional part of the price. Quicker sales would likely hugely increase the amount of ice needed, which would then require more administration of the ice, and perhaps lead to a shortage at the end.

Both were decent thought experiments, but the context of burning man was too specific without enough relatability to be interesting to me, and I suspect most of the audience.

I really liked the dissection of the responses to the breast-feeding photos using the mechanical turk though. I thought it was a great illustration by example of the utility of said tool, a decent defense for using it for non-scientific, but early probabtive functions, and illustrated some key differences in the situations that lead to knee jerk calls of racism.

This article was more meh, as I think people are either going to concur or not with the sample size, I think that 70ish each photo is probably alright to make generalities of a 50/50 choice, it seems from the comments people that don't agree don't agree.

I enjoyed the article the was the prequil to this one, and even this one to a point.

The burning man nonsense was ugh though.

Thank you. It's not a wifi issue, as the laptops actually get it right, but a very helpful post, thanks.

I think it's a personality thing (train vs drive).

I was in long island for a while, and had a 90 minute door to door commute (working in manhatten). I hated it. A couple times I needed my truck in the city and drove, it was two hours each way, but I arrived feeling much better, and having had a much nicer experiance. This is even though you can drink on the lirr.

Well, this explains why I had trouble searching.

W3C is listed as a seperate provider in tables, here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/l... (note, they chopped the direct link in my original post), and here: http://whatismyipaddress.com/g...

Note, in the first link, everything except W3C is listed as correct, which is even more baffling for me, because somewhere the wrong information is being received, and it happened everywhere in the shop at once, across platforms.

Not that smart...

It happened simulteneously on two osx comouters, safari and firefox, and six windows computers ( vista and 7) using Firefox and chrome.

The fact that it happened instantly everywhere is why I assumed it was an ip address in a database related issue.

It also appears to not be a problem for laptops, for which I assume mapped wifi is over-riding ip address

And yes, I have it all so wrong I couldn't even Google a solution (I tried).

I will look into it. I simply was going by the provider column at the linked page.

It's weird to me that providers 'a' through 'd' have my address right and w3c lists it in Ireland. It happened simulteneously to every desktop in the shop.

It's quite annoying. I definitely do not know what's going on, as I couldn't find a solution on Google and resorted to this.

Does iOS have Google Now? that's actually my killer app right now. I LOVE that it scrubs my email to track packages and fight information. It gives me driving times to work, to where Hotels are booked, to friends' houses I frequent, all at approprite times.

Tells me about concerts I want to go to correlating my searches and location, weather where I am and where I want to be.

Essentially it's using all of the information it collects on me for me, and I am happy with the trade.

My recommendation to people until 4.x was get iPhone unless you are into the Google ecosytem on your desktop, now I honestly think it's a wash with pros for both. The last real killer feature of the iPhone for me was size, they eliminated that. When the first retina displays hit, I think they were definitively the best phone until things caught up. Even now, a lot of Android phones seem to have good screens on paper, but when you look at them, they're just a little off, but I think there's actually vibrant competition, and it's not just on price.

And people that already had gmail accounts, and people that wanted larger phones, and people that wanted keyboards.

I think it's more of an admission they'll only give you fast Internet if they can absolutely make sure you can't use it.

Also, the airplane internet is too lame to work on, even when it's well worth it, if I'm going to do work, it would have to be local, or just emailing.

Mozilla M18 was when I switched from Opera, with one of the earlier ones getting usable, Netscape 4.x was horrible by the end though, completely unusable and slow.

On older systems I used Dillo, which was way more pleasant for static HTML, which used to exist.