I usually touch it in a frantic bid to find the "open door" button. My feeble mind can never disentangle the subtleties between <|> and >|< in the few milliseconds available when I wish to hold the door for someone. I take comfort in knowing that my mistakes do not hasten the door's closing, but I take umbrage at the thought that if the elevator didn't have the placebo button, I could find <|> more quickly and to better effect.

I read an article in the Washington Post ~20 years ago about people waiting in lines. A hotel was constantly receiving complaints about the speed of their elevators. They kept tweaking the elevators, but the complaints continued to roll in (despite the quantifiable improvements). Rather than continuing to pursue the problem with technology, they turned to psychology and installed mirrors in the elevator lobby. Seems that if people have something interesting to look at (to them at least), the time passes more quickly and they do not notice that the elevators are slow. After they made this final change, the complaints stopped. I think about this every time I see a mirror in an elevator lobby.

True, but that still doesn't make skin easier to come by than blood.

Just how much skin does it take to make a pint of blood? I would think a lot, but not having read the article, I wouldn't know.

Seems to me they invented the reverse of the process that's really needed. It's a lot harder to get enough skin for grafting than it is to get blood for transfusions. Wouldn't blood-to-skin be a better conversion?

iPads are just a teardrop on the ocean. What about phone browsers? My guess is that browsing from a phone is becoming a bigger part of the pie, and IE just isn't in that game. Note that the browsers that are growing are the ones available for phones.

Though fuel efficiency is a good candidate, the number ONE issue will be liability for the manufacturers of said flying cars. Consensus here seems to be that they would have to be computer controlled. All it takes is one bug, and they're on the losing side of a multi-[mb]illion dollar lawsuit. The second suit will cost even more.

My answer was to bite my finger enough to make it bleed. Then squeeze some blood onto the ice and wait for it to freeze. Then I'd have something to push against. I got a zero.

If an acoustic shutoff is anything like putting your fingers in your ears, then I think the US may have that in spades.

Software can be badly written on any platform, and in any language.

That's because INTJ's don't do social.

Can I call it a Superb Owl party?

The really sad thing here is that if some white hat wrote a script to find these and upload to them an image warning the owners of the vulnerability, said white hat would almost certainly get smacked down by a DMCA suit or face civil/criminal penalties. No good deed goes unpunished.