P.S. Why is it that the best American investigative journalists work for British publications? Do British investigative journalists work for American publications?
The Private Eye (UK publication) seems to do a lot of the investigations into British affairs that a lot of the rest of the British media avoid.
Dear slashdotters, The Guardian is quickly becoming one of my preferred references. Can you help me broaden my horizons by naming other good newspapers? (English/French/Spanish language only sorry)
Not sure if it counts as a newspaper (it comes out fortnightly), but in the UK there is the Private Eye. A lot of the content is satire, but they also report on topics not covered by other papers.
As an example, when the Leveson report was being released, they covered the bits that the other papers were not reporting on (namely the bits that made them look bad), and also recently have reported on some of the big the tax evasion techniques being used by big companies (again, some of the other newspapers either use these techniques or are owned by someone who do, so miss out on this reporting)
"Any idiot can solve 100-(20/(37-5)*100) especially if they have a calculator."
What are these slash and star things? How do I do parentheses on my calculator?
I selected the equation text, right clicked and went "Search Google for..." and it told me the answer - no typing or calculator needed.
"- using what practically amounts to slave labor at Foxconn"
The same company that a dozen other companies use
Just because "someone else does it!" doesn't make it ethical. Everyone else who does it is also behaving unethically.
Episodes from Tom Baker's era onwards exist in their entirety. The catalogue of stories from before this is rather patchy, and I've put a list of what exists and what doesn't on my website (though you'll need to make sure Javascript is running to see the what the key of icons represents.)
There is the Tom Baker episode Shada which wasn't completed as opposed to being wiped.
Moderators shouldn't have complete freedom in choosing which comments to moderate. In each discussion, they should be given a random sampling of comments from which to choose, and not just those high enough to pass the browsing threshold. Then every comment would have an equal chance.
That might be interesting. I always browse at a fairly high level even when moderating because I don't have enough time to read everything (this usually means I don't use up all my mod points because a lot of things are already scored correctly). Actually having two settings of comment thresholds ("General" and "Moderating") would be useful to make it easier to change quickly.
they will tend to refuse short trips, trying to hold out for the more profitable longer ones, so taxi availability gets worse.
They already do that. Routinely. Regularly. You simply CAN NOT get a taxi in many parts of San Francisco. They will refuse to come.
So if the monopoly solution is a failure, and you're saying the free market solution is also a failure, guess we need a third solution.
I would like to think that a self driving car would be a good third solution.
Well, I am going to defend Stack Overflow here, because I think it fills a very useful niche, which is "what is the best way to do X."
Most of the time I use Stack Overflow is after pasting an error message into Google and it coming up towards the top of the results. The responses are usually reliable, although I have found a couple of unanswered questions.
Sure, but he was merely offering an example that most people here are likely at least somewhat familiar with. He never made any claims to its originality. I mean, if I was making a car analogy, I'd likely reference a car that people here know, rather than the earliest one that exhibited the traits I was referencing, just because the purpose of the statement is solely to supplement understanding of a separate topic.
Autocomplete is fairly common though. It would be like referencing a specific car when talking about something that is common to all or most cars - "driving using tires, as used on Fords" may as well be "driving using tires, as used on cars".
It is also possible to turn it off on the Google+ Android app, Settings->Camera and photos->Auto backup
Put him in a team with experienced programmers.
As a team you decide all code will be reviewed. All code. Comply.
The team I am in tried this for a little bit, but recently relaxed it slightly as we were spending time reviewing non-contentious code changes that we didn't need to (like renaming something, or minor refactoring). I think it was good to review all code changes for a while, just so we could find what did and didn't need reviewing, instead of just guessing.
A little while ago I was able to get all the emails addresses from Facebook, albeit in a somewhat convoluted way. I had to have a Yahoo email account, and link that to my Facebook account, and I was then able to import my Facebook contacts into the Yahoo account which, thankfully, had an option to just export that (to CSV I think). This was maybe a year or so ago, so I don't know if it will still work, but it was after they switched everyone to the @facebook thing.
TFA does not say what OS this is running. Anyone knows?
I don't think it is running an OS at the moment, it has not been completed yet:
"Once the prototype of the product is ready"
I am an Android developer and am curious about your experience with older apps on Android 4.2. Could you provide some examples? My experience matches the GP in that apps "just work" on when placed on newer versions of Android.
For a while the BBC iPlayer app didn't support newer versions, but that was because it was built on Adobe Flash, which was discontinued in later versions of Android. I think you could install them by installing both apk files manually, but you got a message in the Play Store saying that your version was not supported if you tried to install it through there.
Most of the cameras in the UK are privately owned, plus everyone can request a copy of the footage of them from whomever owns the camera in question. All this "oh no the cameras!!!" stuff is pretty annoying.
There are a load of cameras going up the M1 that you can view online. Handy to see whether it might be worth it to take an alternate route...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
