Finally, there is an easy way to pay for a major release directly to the studio! I'm downloading the torrent. If I end up actually watching it past 1/3 of the movie length, I will go and pay the rental fee on seetheinterview.com, after watching.

Every movie should have a voluntary payment option like this, directly to the studio. I will use it every time I watch a copyrighted movie past its 1/3 length.

Thanks the North Korea!

P.S. It must fit over my prescription glasses, though. Over the right eye please. And it must have 2 hours full HD video time on full charge. And it must go on wi-fi... we don't have reliable mobile reception at the workplace. But I don't care if the device is wired, or wirable, to an external battery that I could keep in my pocket or on my belt, and pass the power cable under my shirt. That would actually be okay.

I would really love to try skype videoconferencing with that. We do lots of calls at work to remotely troubleshot some piece of hardware, discuss an experiment in progress, etc. It may be practical if the remote party sees what the wearer sees, while his hands are free to do things. I would have already bought GG for my lab if it were freely available for purchase. And, I don't really care about the price. One of my students applied for GG developer version last year, but did not get one.

Just have one application, skype (or google hangout) working on it with good HD video on wi-fi, and I am a customer.

By the way are there any usable alternatives available today?

security of a smartphone is not better than that of a PC. What a news.

Is there such thing as independent hosting? You will be sharing your secrets with whatever jurisdiction the site is under. Does the service say which country is that?

That's 4 km not miles

I've never been to a conference with a junk submission accepted, or a junk presentation. Many conferences in my field reject submissions that are real but low-quality, even for a poster session. Talks are always competitive. I chaired a conference last year. We rejected some submissions that were uninteresting or poorly written. For most of those, the submission was read by two professors before rejecting it. We received no computer-generated submissions.

I sometimes get spammed or "invited" by suspiciously looking conferences. I never go to these. Why would anyone attend a conference that is lower-quality? There always are good conferences around. You have a choice.

Care to cite examples? In my field there are good respectful results and no scientific forgery from China.

Could you provide a link to district voting reports?

That one in Caucasus region of Russia was totally rigged, as many other districts in that region as well. Polls showed less than 15% turnout at the polling stations, reports show 100% turnout. This is a demonstration of loyalty to the central government by the local government, and of course blatant election rigging. The rissing is obvious in statistical analysis of the polling station data.

Mechanical tools: screwdrivers, wrench kit, pliers, cutters (plier style), cutters (x-acto), hammer, metal file (to round an odd sharp corner), tape measure, heavy-duty duct tape, lots of plastic cable ties. I also needed a drill to install an odd rack shelf, so throw one with some drilling bits if your budget allows. I don't know what cables you use, but tools to fix cabling may come in handy (multimeter, soldering iron and solder, shrinkable tubes, special tool to terminate cables, etc.). If you have fiber optics, get a good push-action connector cleaner.

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I second that. Install Microsoft Security Essentials, it's free. Do not turn off automatic OS updates (they are on by default, so you just install the OS). Use Firefox. Done. Setting up Windows is really no-brainer. Just a single more thing: I turn off automatic reboot after updates (several ways to do it; I use gpedit). There is nothing more anoying as being forcibly rebooted in the middle of a game :). When this setting is turned off, there will be a periodic reminder to reboot when needed.

If you do nothing more than above and install a few licensed programs (Steam, games, software from well-known vendors), the box will likely stay secure indefinitely. Now if your kid keeps installing various random stuff and shitty software himself or does other risky things in the internet, it MAY get infected (even with MSE). I don't think you should stop the kid from doing it... this is just a part of healthy exposure to the real world and learning experience how things work, whom to trust and whom don't.

I'm a half-pro electronics engineer and I have picked a couple good suggestions here for stocking my university lab.

I found these cheap and large SMD resistor and capacitor kits to be practical. Just ask the vendor to pack all kits regardless of component size into SK128A or SK128B boxes... the cheaper box they use by default for larger component sizes is of too low quality. They will do this free of charge if you ask.

For vice, I use Bernstein with various attachments.

The rest will depend on what you do.

I have new models of Weller soldering irons, and am less than impressed with their design and quality, especially for the top price they charge. Things came from Weller with manufacturig defects, broke mechanically very quickly, etc. User interface is not intuitive, and touch screen is awkward comparing to a knob and buttons. I'm getting Hakko now instead (= made in Japan), will see how it works out.