That's an amusing problem. I'm not familiar with trace tones, but can you adjust the frequency of the tone to match a specific key? If you can set it to a telltale tone that is very dissonant to the common keys of salsa tunes (I believe they're usually in horn-friendly keys, like F, b-flat, and e-flat), a dissonant interval that rarely appears --such as a minor ninth-- it might make the song sound "out of tune" enough to hear the trace tone.

Sort of like adding a trace of toothpaste flavor into the gallons of orange juice. If it tastes/sounds "off", you've got a trace.

The problem is that selfishness promotes itself in the form of amassing wealth, luxury, and power, and conspicuous demonstrations of these things seem to appeal to base parts of human nature.

Not sure I'm getting your gist. Can you try a car metaphor?

Docs was designed to eat Word's lunch. Sure, Word is more mature than Docs. Docs was created in an environment to compete with Word.

Besides hundreds of formatting functions, what does Word have that Docs lacks? And when was the last time you read something that came out of a local printer? Sure, Docs functions are not particularly mature, at this point. But Docs is free, and platform independent. Docs never relies on local device storage.

The useful features of Word are one part of the development path of Docs. The killer feature here is revenue stream. Docs gives the license away, and profits by mining ad data from original content. Word profits by selling you a license to use Word. Aside from the format compatibility issues, how many crucial Word 2012 features do you use that weren't present in Word '95? Why would a business pay for the same thing, repeatedly?

I've heard the claim that bread goes faster in the fridge *a lot.* It even appeared on an episode of Big Bang Theory. Well, turns out Sheldon was wrong.

It's not accurate that bread stays fresher outside of the fridge, and this is easily testable and verifiable at home. Buy a loaf of bread. Use the same type of packaging --doesn't seem to matter as long as it's relatively airtight. Two breadbags if you have them, or even just put a couple slices in ziplock bags. Keep a few slices in the fridge, and a few outside of the fridge. Take a bite every few days, and notice how the texture develops over the course of time.

After about a week (often much sooner), the unrefrigerated bread will be unmistakably stale, or crumbly enough to be well on its way to stale. The refrigerated bread will still be noticeably fresher: it won't crumble or break as readily, and the texture will not have changed noticeably from the first day. Give them both another week or two if you're curious. Leave the unrefrigerated bread out until it goes fully stale, and you'll find that the bread in the fridge will still be quite moist. Bread in the fridge lasts for weeks.

While the fridge-stales-bread theory might hold true if you're leaving the bread out on unwrapped (because it's in a drier environment), in any relatively airtight container -- such as the bread bags that most bread comes in-- bread will stay fresh much longer in the fridge than it will outside of it.

Don't just take my word for it. Try it. This is one of those culinary conceptions (like letting wine "breathe") that is very easy to test, and where the difference is noticeable even to those with the crudest senses of taste and texture.

I've been holding an invisibility demo in the downtown area of a major city for over a week straight now, and nobody's noticed yet. It's going great!

I wouldn't bother with Dewey or LOC call numbering, unless your collection approaches 10,000 or more books (about 800 shelf fee), or unless you want to be able to search your collection by subject heading. Just use alphanumeric ordering, either by title or author last name. Whichever you choose, decide ahead of time on the exceptions --whether to ignore titles that begin with articles (A, An, The), if compilations should default to editor or first listed author, etc. Have an exceptional shelving area for oversized books (anything that can't be faced on your normal shelves, see below.)

This requirement makes things more difficult for you:

RFID tags, barcodes, and stickers are nifty and serve useful purposes, but they usually cannot be removed from a surface without causing damage, particularly after the adhesive has cured. So you're talking custom book jackets for every book. Given your reluctance to go with RFID, think optical, such as UPC codes or QR codes... but carefully consider their purpose. It sounds like you basically just want to keep track of lending books out. It doesn't sound like you need subject searching capabilities for your collection, and it doesn't sound like you'll be circulating thousands of titles per year. So what would take less time over the remainder of your life span: manually entering a title and the borrower's name into a calendar (w/ a reminder set to go off after a ~4 weeks) a few times a year, or creating thousands of book jackets, cataloging the data, and syncing it with QR codes... then manually entering the name of the borrower? Or will you create a circulation account, and give your friends cards, as well? (You'll still need to enter their personal info once, anyway.)

So keep track of the physical collection this way: face your books. This means align them so that the spines rest at the edge of the shelf (rather than pushing them as far back as they can go.) While it won't fool a careful book thief, most people don't even notice when a shelf is faced. When shelved this way, it's easy to see what books have been dislodged. Keep track of your circulation by just entering borrower name/title into a google calendar as a future appointment, and have it set to email/text you a reminder to get it back.

It's not easy, but it can be done. The work of courts is complex. While it is inevitable that politics will on some level guide a court's composition, the task of a judge differs from that of a legislator or executive. It's rarely the kind of sexy work that makes big headlines, and judges are really supposed to avoid the grandstanding, campaigning, and sloganeering we're used to for legislative and executive elections.

So start searching for the work of your local trial, regional appellate, and state supreme courts as part of your newsgathering. This is usually easier with high profile cases, but the less sexy property disputes of local business bigshots will be a good source, too.

At trial, a judge is there to ensure the fairness of the process, not to guarantee a specific verdict. So you want to look at how they shape the process, rather outcomes. For example, the judge in the Colorado movie theater shootings eliminated cameras from the courtroom after that early hearing that resulted in orange-haired pictures being plastered all over the place. The sort of thing you should consider: do you think that kind of move will enhance the integrity of a fair trial, or do you think that it would be in the interest of justice for wide-open media access?

Once you get a better sense for what you think a good judge is, you can then investigate the records of various candidates to determine their qualification. Many will come from DA offices or large practices. Some will already have time on other benches, but you have to extrapolate how qualified they will be in ensuring a just process by their work as an advocate.

Good heavens, how could this be modded "informative"?Taking the story of your extortionist at face value is a very bad move. Let's talk it through.

An extra $1,000 or so later... you find out from the documentation that the "competitor" is in Lebanon, that the Lebanon legal system has no concept of tortious interference, their criminal evidence standards do not consider back stories and documentation from the actor to have any credibility, that extortion of $1,000 or so is the Lebanese equivalent of a nonviolent misdemeanor and that Lebanon has no extradition for misdemeanors, and when you spend even more money to try to pursue a civil action it turns out the documentation you paid a grand for is fraudulent and that there was no competitor, neither in Lebanon nor anywhere else to begin with.... etc.

I can keep going, but you'll need to pay me $500 to give you more detail.

What's worse is that huge numbers of people proudly post every real, factual detail of THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS to it as well. The day one well-meaning aunt finally joined f/b was the day they got my: full real name, real birthday, personal (not junk) email address, and dozens of tagged photos of my face --both with my fake f/b name and real name--, from childhood to present. And we weren't even friends.

The same person had previously given my real name, real birthday, and real email address to a questionable "genealogy" website, and we had had a long talk after that. If she knew my SS# she'd probably have put that out there, too.

That's the part that troubles me the most. You can take all reasonable precautions, even paranoia level precautions, but if anyone else has access to the info, it is simply and ultimately out of your control.

I believe they've accomplished this by ensuring that NTFS fails safely to a state of corrupt registry hive errors instead.

Reread what I wrote. I was addressing the affects of non-prescription use of ADHD drugs. To be clearer, this means its use in people without ADD/ADHD, those whose working memory and executive function system is already at a normal level before they use these drugs: for example non-ADD/ADHD students using them solely for an academic boost.

One problem with ADD/ADHD meds is that they don't enhance cognitive capacity, they alter it. For those with ADD/ADHD, they alter it in a manner that mimics non-ADD/ADHD brain function. For others, it's more like what happens when using methamphetamines. For all the increased focus, concentration, and attention one might gain for singular tasks, one also sacrifices the broader abstract capacity needed to understand larger swaths of a field, or that required to create original work or research. Adderall might be great for things such as memorizing lists or sorting thousands of bits of metal into various jars, but not so great when it's time to come up with an original topic for a paper that incorporates disparate concepts in a field.

So if you use these types of substances through school, you should prepare to continue to use them through the course of your professional field. Otherwise what you will have done is artificially alter your cognitive abilities in such a manner that your academic record won't accurately reflect your abilities. Essentially you'll be performing a bait-and-switch. When you land in the workplace you will not have the abilities that your educational record will reflect.

So for all those kids out there using Adderall to study, to be fair you should plan on using it for the rest of your working days.

...the frame of which was constructed entirely of pressed straw.

I recognize that people tend to try to justify their purchases after the fact. And, at the risk of sounding like I'm doing exactly that, after more than a year of using ChromeOS on the 1st gen Samsung Series 5 model, I remain happy with my purchase.(For comparison, my previous laptop was the last plastic MacBook, and before that a 1000 model of the Asus Eee, which I think was their 3d revision.)

The biggest criticism I have is that power supply plug will probably be the first thing to finally break. It has the same issues anything that isn't MagSafe does -- you can trip over it, bend the pins, and/or have your book go flying. What people seemed to overlook when pricing out the Chromebooks last year was that the 3G version included 2 years' worth of 100 MB per month of 3G access. Limited yes, but I've used it while traveling, have yet to exceed the limit before I'm back within WiFi range, and still have a year left to go. My usage pattern on my previous devices was already mostly browser based. No portable device that I've had has yet to prove sufficient for media or games, and I still have a desktop machine for that.

ChromeOS is a linux flavor. So if you must go with anything from Mint to Slack, it's no harder than it would be with any other laptop. Easier probably, because all of the hardware will necessarily have available linux drivers. If you've had to go through the pain in the ass that is/was ndiswrapper for wireless access in previous portable machines, you should understand why that's a nice perk. If you want you can install any other flavor of linux you can, and local storage is all of a USB cable away. You do miss out on the advantages of Trusted Platform Module, but might gain a bit in the way of speed. Speed -v- security is always going to be a compromise; encryption/decryption just takes time. ChromeOS has the fastest hard boot I've ever seen in a device-- you can cold-cycle the thing in twenty seconds, and it defaults to your last browser state. That's... really fucking nice, it turns out. Machine freeze on you after being left on for the past four weeks? Hold the button down for five seconds, and the longest part of your restart will be however long it takes you to enter your password.

What I've had was a low budget machine with excellent battery life --easily five times the length of a MacBook with an extra large battery-- a full size keyboard, a TCM, and native 3G connectivity to cover the areas where WiFi is out of range. If you're balking at the daring concept of minimal onboard storage (the horror!) I'd recommend you reconsider the respective value of features such as: TCM, two years' of basic, free 3G backup, guaranteed Linux support for all hardware, really good battery life, and not only a price range at which total loss or destruction of the device isn't particularly painful, but a forced use pattern that means you will probably not even lose any *data* in the case of theft or destruction.