Eh? There was an Symbian app like that well over half a decade ago on my Nokia. How's this news?

My first grade song book from my Finnish elementary school had staves and notes, and I distinctly remember being shown how to read sheet music for extracurricular pre-school recorder lessons. Why wouldn't you teach kindergarterners the basics of sheet music, pitch and note duration seem to me a lot simpler than trying to teach reading the alphabet.

I kept reading through the comments and couldn't believe nobody had pointed that out before, so thank you. It seemed pretty clear to me that they said chances are that one of the lines around you moves faster than yours, which is probability 101 and just common sense.

That's actually kind of what the bill says, to my reading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44617300/Federal-Wi-Net-Act

What I want are European style plans. They have unlimited data, but depending on how much you pay per month your actual bandwidth, not the amount of data, is shaped. So the 15 Euro plan caps at 384 kbps, the 50 Euro plan at 2 Mbps etc. That allows people to use a 3/4G modem as their primary network connection if they just want to do email, web browsing and basic youtube; and it won't kill the network, and it's cheap.

The one blind person I once tutored at my university completely ignored all those signs -- she had no way of knowing they were there, and she didn't spend time groping the walls looking for signs that might or might not be there. Elevator buttons and such yes, but random wall signs no.

Or when Ebay refused to show me a bunch of listings because my browser included German in the list of accepted content languages -- not even the preferred language, just in the list. Ebay tech support advised me to only allow US English and no other languages if I wanted to see all US listings.

You need to get quality / modern CFLs. Unless I picked them up from Wal-Mart or Ikea, my CFLs are almost instant on. What I hate is that nobody is properly disclosing the CRI of CFLs. I'd gladly pay more for a proper spectral response, but the only data anyone ever gives is color temperature.

Or the teenage son visiting one of your neighbors and borrowing dad's car with his friends. Or the CEO's daughter checking her facebook games and clicking on the cool new links her friends sent her on daddy's computer.

Here, based on police radio before they went all digital, it seemed to be one officer. And they were low priority calls, so it would take them a while to get there because they'd be busy responding to traffic accidents, backup requests etc.

Be sure to check on the alarm discounts before getting excited. In my case, in a house, an unmonitored alarm gets me no discount. A monitored alarm system gets me about $30 off -- a year. So the discount is less than the service fee for a month, not a winning financial proposition. Or, in the words of my insurance agent, "Don't bother."

Spoke with a local cop across the street. His take on the best defenses: 1) know your neighbors so they know who does and doesn't belong so they'll call the cops when they see something out of order - this is what he says catches most of the burglaries that he's seen; 2) a dog. As to alarm companies and such he says he doesn't recall a single instance where they managed to catch anyone in a residential burglary because of an alarm going off, monitored or unmonitored. Take this as hearsay.

My fellow grad student wanted to use et alia, and was promptly advised to knock that out if he wanted to graduate and stick with et al. That being said, we grew up with flavors of TeX, and only heard about this two space stuff recently. I had always used and seen other people use one space.

How is it not the responsibility of the card vendor to engineer their cards so they won't overheat? To me this is black and white; if a laptop or video card melts when running a program that taxes some part of the system, unless you've gone out of your way to turn off sensors or block airflow, it's an engineering fault.