Ummm, none of these tips help you if you're boxed in on all four sides by cars that have been abandoned by their drivers.

The phrase "black ice" refers not to a special type of ice, but generally to ice that is invisible on the road at night time, catching drivers by surprise. It is no different than the "solid sheet of ice" that you describe. Ice is ice. Although it isn't much fun, I have driven on ice, that hadn't yet been salted or gravelled, and it is treacherous, but by driving slowly and understanding how to control your vehicle, it can be done. People in Canada and the northern states do it all the time. I won't say I've never seen cars in ditches here in Canada during such conditions, but I've never seen the kind of 24 hour traffic jams that occurred in Atlanta.

I think he said that young people shouldn't be put in management positions. They can work other positions in a company, particularly in groups where they can develop people skills, and by working for a manager, observe what works and what doesn't. An aspiring manager could meet with an actual manager in the company and ask questions like "Why don't you check employee's Facebook pages? I heard in school that it can really help." And the actual manager can reply "We've found that in the real world, Facebook profiles don't correlate with worker performance." Then when they actually do get a management position, they will have benefited from their own experience working with others, and from the managers' experience as a manager.

The magnetic north pole does move around.

I do the same, and I have a special rotating toilet in my house for that purpose.

Including the first ever Easter Egg that I'd heard of, probably the first Easter Egg in any console game. To this day, I still remember the name Warren Robinett.

I can't help but think that if this really were something sponsored by Norton that they wouldn't have had a free product (Avast) score so closely to Norton (which is a paid product.)

Win95 was also the first to incorporate Internet capability (a TCP/IP stack) in the operating system, which by 1995 was a very big deal. On Windows 3.1, you had to use third party software (such as Trumpet Winsock) if you wanted to get onto the Internet in a meaningful way (such as running a web browser.)

Although I disagree with the parent, I think he/she was modded down unfairly, as some valid points are raised. The problem is, in America, there are two right wings: the libertarian wing and the social conservative wing. They agree on some issues and disagree a great deal on others. It is the libertarian wing that favors smaller, less powerful federal government, and the social conservative wing that favors restrictions on abortions, restrictions on gay rights, etc. Their positions on those types of issues are often opposed. So, in America at least, it isn't so simple as a right vs left or liberal vs conservative split.

I think the point here is that these laws are federal laws and these are state police. I'm not sure how much deference the FCC pays to state police.

Doesn't the FCC regulate the frequencies used by cell phone towers? Do state police have the authority to use them as well? Do they have a special license from the FCC?

There's more about it here. This recent work basically suggests that the theory might be true. It is a doubly useful theory in that it allows certain difficult problems in string theory to be solved in the language of conformal field theories and vice versa. If nothing else, it means string theory can be used as a computational tool in certain problems of condensed matter physics even if string theory doesn't pan out as a theory for quantum gravity. But it also makes string theory more likely as a theory for quantum gravity as it makes it in some sense compatible with the holographic principle, which among other things provides a solution to the information paradox of black holes.

Actually, it's not a statistical tautology. A statistical tautology would be "have of us have below median intelligence."

One thing I was unable to ascertain from the article was whether Elsevier was going after authors who share the preprint version of their paper, or the one that is typeset by Elsevier. I have published in Elsevier journals before, and I send the preprint to arxiv.org where it will be permanently available for free. Then, after they accept it for publication, they send a PDF of the article typeset as it will appear in the journal, which is the same content, but laid out more professionally. When signing over the copyright, I signed a non-exclusive right to Elsevier, meaning I retained the right to distribute the preprint version of the paper. (This is required as the research was funded by the U.S. government.) I do not have the right, however, to publicly redistribute the Elsevier version of the paper. (Although I don't think they mind my sharing it privately with colleagues).

Unfortunately, it's not that simple. In the scenario you're describing, there is hidden information inside the envelopes, as the direction of the cards has already been determined. The quantum mechanical analog is this is so-called "hidden variables", aspects of the state of a system that we simply can't see. But experiments have ruled out this possibility, so quantum mechanics is actually much weirder than that.