on what you consider to be "my" media.

If "my" media is the stuff that I legally own, then 100%. If it's stuff that I own both legally and illegally, then also 100%.

If, however, you're talking about media that I consume, then then answer is in the 0-20% bracket. Almost everything I watch comes from Netflix. Music I play comes from streaming radio. Even the log fireplace with xmas carols is a 3-hour-long Youtube video.

I would consider this media to be "stored" because it remains available to me, and I can go back and consume it again with less effort than putting one of my DVDs on to play. This is in comparison to cable or OTA transmissions, which are ephemeral and cannot be watched again, unless they are recorded somehow.

Of course, I could be ultra-pedantic (who doesn't like pedants?) and say 100%. Even the stuff that is not stored locally on non-volatile storage media is at least loaded into RAM before it's displayed/output. And technically, that's short-term local storage.

Pedantically, chimpanzees are apes. No tail, you see. :)

And honestly, I wish it was everyone else's cell phone that had this feature, rather than mine.

You should not be taking a social phone call while eating dinner with friends. I don't want to hear how your grandmother has really bad hemorrhoids while I'm riding the bus. And I damn well don't want to be blinded in the theatre because you're sitting in front of me playing Candy Crush Saga during a horror movie.

Full disclosure - I don't have a cell phone.

are they going to make "unreliable transistors" that, upon failure, simply decode a pixel incorrectly, rather than, oh, I don't know, branching the program to an unspecified memory address in the middle of nowhere and borking everything.

They'd have to completely re-architect whatever chip is doing the calculations. You'd need three classes of "data" - instructions, important data (branch addresses, etc), and unimportant data. Only one of these could be run on unreliable transistors.

I can't imagine a way of doing that where the overhead takes less time than actually using decent transistors in the first place.

Oh, wait. It's a software lab that's doing this. Never mind, they're not thinking about the hardware at all.

http://xkcd.com/927/

And now I'm typing to kill some time between hitting "reply" and posting. La la la.

Man, I _wish_ I had been taught Turbo Pascal one year earlier in high school. I was taught Quick BASIC, and basically invented a hacked-together jury-rigged version of recursion using an unbounded array to store previous states for a programming competition.

It would have been way easier if:
1. Someone had formally taught me what recursion was.
2. I knew how to use tools that didn't throw stack overflow errors when you try to use it.

We learned Turbo Pascal the very next year, and one of the first things taught to us was recursive sorts.

Dollars to donuts, those vomiting Canadian drinkers _are_ teenagers.

(legal drinking age in Ontario is 19)

You have to go to the doctor (and actually see an MD) to get a flu shot?

There's tons of clinics around here that offer flu shots, usually staffed by an RN, rather than an MD. In fact, my workplace usually has an RN come in to our cafeteria to administer flu shots to anyone that wants one.

I usually get fed up with seasons by about the 2-month mark. Personally, I just like it when they change.

Seeing the first flowers poke up through the snow in the spring. That first sunny day of summer when it's warm enough to go to the beach. The crispness in the air and the changing leaves at the beginning of fall. The magic of the first snowfall of the year.

Change is what's awesome.

Right this very minute: I live in a rural location, and I'm at home.
Within the past month: I live in a rural location, but I'm posting this from work.
Within the past year: My parents live in a rural location, and I wanted to check my email while I was visiting them.
1 to 5 years ago: There was that one time my cable modem went down, and I had to use the free dial-up that came with my account to get on the internet and look up the phone number for my service provider.
5 to 10 years ago: I moved into a city and never looked back.
10 to 20 years ago: I moved into a city a while ago.
More than 20 years ago: Does anyone else remember those AOL CD's?
  I'd say it was abouY!@#*ZNO CARRIER: Shit. I guess I just hit my bandwidth cap, and now Comcast is injecting RST's into my stream.

If your SO really likes collaborative storytelling, well, that's exactly what a good pen & paper RPG is. You can hold the game over Skype, or gchat, or anything that allows you to talk or text back and forth.

If you need maps & miniatures in realtime, I'm sure there are several different solutions to that problem as well.

If you've never played a pen&paper before, the learning curve can be rather steep, depending on which system you choose to play. And I caution you that having a 1-DM, 1-PC game can also be challenging. Expect to spend as much time doing prep for the game (as DM) as you actually spend playing the game as well.

to illuminating a house with no windows is . . . to add windows? Wow.

I mean, some kudos are deserved for finding an inexpensive (almost free) way to add windows, and using windows whose shape provides some refractory scattering of the incoming light. Still though, his solution to no windows was literally TO ADD WINDOWS.

Per the article, the airport is private property, and these people have been asked to not return to it. By returning after that warning, they are trespassing.

I'm guessing you're a Canadian, as our criminal code divides crimes up into indictable offenses and summary conviction offenses, rather than felonies and misdemeanors.

Trespass is a misdemeanor in California, but the California Penal Code authorizes arrest by a private citizen when said private citizen witnesses a "Breach of Peace." Breach of Peace has been interpreted to include felonies, misdemeanors, and even infractions (offenses smaller than misdemeanors).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest_in_the_United_States#State_Statutes

Which I agree, is completely crazy.

Though I disagree with your terminology, I agree with your sentiments. Apparently, in California, citizens are allowed to make arrests any time they witness a felony, a misdemeanor, or a disruption of the peace. If you see someone toss a cigarette butt on the ground, you're allowed to arrest them.

I think the laws regarding citizen's arrest are much more sane up here in Canada, where it is only authorized for indictable offenses (what the US calls felonies), and not for summary conviction offenses (misdemeanors). Trespass is only an indictable offense if it occurs at night, so nobody would be authorized to perform a citizen's arrest for a daytime trespass.