Hey, do you happen to have any info on that Russian NOTAM? I can't seem to find it anywhere, and I have no idea what the russian equivalent of "NOTAM" is... googling NOTAM just brings up the FAA warnings.

FYI, Iranians are not the biggest sponsors of "Islamic terrorists." That would be Saudi Arabia (and per some friends who are in military intel, UAE is up there too). Remember, sectarian divisions are very real in the extremist community. Iranians are predominantly Shia, whereas Jihadi terrorists are predominantly Sunni. That's not to say that there's not some mixing - which there most certainly is - but by no means are they a majority. The reality is actually the opposite of what you'd expect, considering Shi'ites have a big focus on martyrdom because of the the death of Hussein Ali. Otherwise, I agree with the rest of what you have to say. Ciao!

That's wonderful for future reference. However it doesn't help me when posting before it becomes common knowledge. I was more interested in trying to figure out where exactly the plane would have been attacked.

In that case, it sounds like they got a new weapons system and had no damn idea how to ID what they were shooting at, and brought down a plane they didn't intend to.

Ooof, I didn't see that article. Here's the great circle route, and it looks like it went right along the north/eastern borders of Ukraine. http://www.greatcirclemapper.n...

I'm not sure. It was at 32000 feet when they last had contact, which means it wasn't quite at cruising altitude, but it was still several miles up. The 777's cruising speed is mach .84, about 630 MPH. I'm not going to do the math (i'd love it if one of you aerospace guys would, especially since we know where it landed and the last known altitude and the great circle between Schipol and Kuala Lumpur), but I think it would be safe to say that on the ascent it would be going about 350-450 MPH. I can't see terrorists getting their hands on that kind of hardware. Both Ukraine and Russia on the other hand...

Pretty much this. Modeling is based on taking previous data points and doing one of many regressions to create a trendline and figure out what data *should* be in the future. It's imprecise at best, especially with datasets that have very high standard deviations. That's not to say that it can't be somewhat close with a large enough dataset, but no one should be surprised if it ends up being significantly different from actual observed data.

She's a sometimes model whose non-modeling job also involves looking very professional. I'm not even allowed to look at the laundry for fear of destroying something by washing it wrong. She bought a ... shirt? blouse? I dunno, something you wear on the upper half of your body, the other day, and I was all "that's very pretty!" and she's all "it should be. It cost 800 euros." So, yeah, I don't go anywhere near her clothes. And clothes like that don't have pockets. It ruins the lines/aesthetic. Definitely not something Woz considers, nor would he have any reason to, but there are a whole bunch of people who do.
Even her painting-the-house pants have these microminiature pockets that you can fit, like, a credit card and a car key into. Whenever we go out I carry her wallet, because even that doesn't fit. Totally different clothing regime from my ten-pocket dungarees, where I could carry most of a toolkit for doing bicycle maintenance and still be able to sit down comfortably.

There aren't any current cellphones that fit in the pockets of the sort of clothes she wears. Size zero/one fashion clothing often doesn't even have pockets, much less ones that'll fit the half-tablet-sized cellphones these days. She had an HP Veer, the size of a credit card, that she loved, until it died. So now she has the same smartwatch and has what she calls a GIANT cellphone in her purse or stuck in her desk at work, and takes calls using her watch.

Size zero clothing is probably not on Woz's radar, but there are people who want tiny connectivity.

Up at 5:30 for a 2-2.5 hour commute. Last half of the commute is when I start working because I'm on a train. Thank god I only have to work from the office 2-3x a week.

Some drugs do lead to brain damage. For instance, there was a study (later retracted) which showed 3,4 MDMA caused brain damage in recreational doses in rhesus monkeys. The study was retracted because the chemical provider had goofed, and provided pure reagent grade methamphetamine instead of MDMA. So, while MDMA was clinically safe, it put a BIG warning sign on meth, and for good reason.

For home use I'm usually in zsh (god I love that tab completion for non-server use), and bash on my servers save for a few which run ksh because of vendor requirements.

"A balanced set of headphones are technically superior to an unbalanced set if perfect sound reproduction is your metric."

Seriously. When I'm in a *nix box, it's always terminal, all the time. I don't install GUI's on my boxes because of the additional bloat.

You do realize that classical music is used for rating headphones, yes? It's not because I listen to it exclusively, it's because it provides opportunities to see if there is enough clarity and definition of sound to do things like determine if you can tell violins from violas from cellos, or tell the horns apart. Read professional headphone reviews. It's not a matter of "superiority," it's stated because it's a tool in determining quality. Given you didn't know that, I'm pretty sure most of your other points are moot about determining fidelity. I'd rebut your statement about frequency response, but I think this image does a much better job. You sound like you're A) butthurt because someone is saying a brand you don't like is technically inferior, and B) like you simply have no idea what you're talking about.