There is an on-going discussion of note taking during lectures over at Math Overflow.

See: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/12638/taking-lecture-notes-in-lectures, especially Anton Geraschenko's comments on Live TeXing. It works!

It is spelled sudo in the game (it's spelled that way in the subtitles.) Legion is the character who says it. The only time I encountered that line was when he was hacking into a turret.

Oh please, Mark Sanchez and Rex Ryan smacked that ass ;)

Face it, the NFL are brilliant. They are not about football. They are about revenue. They had two goals in mind when setting out on their broadcasting endeavor:

a) Sell high-cost adspace
b) Get people to care about the adspace

Now you hear people always saying "I watch the superbowl for the commercials!" Mission A-Ccomplished NFL. Was that enough? It's never enough. So the last 10 years have been their attempt to make more money by becoming some of the biggest douchebags in the IP industry.

"That's the thing about greed, Arch, it's blind. And it doesn't know when to stop" -- Lenny Cole

Never. I'd love to believe that this will be some great new leap forward, but it is just a massive mis-step by a company trying to find new revenue streams. BR adoption is tepid at best, and that doesn't even exclude most of the population by requiring special glasses. It's always been a gimmick and nothing more. 3D offers very little to the viewer and certainly not enough to warrant wearing glasses for every movie you sit down to watch. Majorly flawed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net/i/pix/2009/12/09/article-1234430-07887B10000005DC-48_634x421.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net/i/pix/2009/12/09/article-1234430-0787DEA4000005DC-908_634x348.jpg

The European Space Agency's ESA Portal has a short article on the unexplained variations in orbital energy experienced by these spacecraft.

See http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEMUCV3VU1G_0.html

Is the 'pain' part really reflexology?

I've always been skeptical of the claims about curing diseases - which is what I really understood as reflexology - because I haven't seen any consistent evidence.

But the idea that applying localized pressure relieves pain seems sensible to me, and matches my own anecdotical experience (anecdotical by population size, but has been consistent). For that matter, so does a good movie or a deep conversation.

Focused sensation distracts from 'normal' sensation, and it is easier to focus on sharp, local stimuli over dull, distributed discomfort or pain. Never thought it had much to do with reflexology - although I could see how it could support its less ambitious claims.

Actually, the equivalent single axle load (ESAL) is 0.000019425 for the Fit and 0.0007716 for the F-150 (assuming equal distribution on axles). So really that F-150 does over 39 times the damage the Fit does. To be fair though, that's nothing compared to semis for which the legal single axle load is 18,000lbs for an ESAL of 1.0. Either way though, it doesn't take away from the fact they are doing the same amount of damage by traveling the same number of miles they were previously, and paying less to do so which is the entire point of the VMT tax. ESALs explained. http://pavementinteractive.org/index.php?title=ESAL

all the other absurd lying pieces of worthless trash out there who profit off of the superstition and naivety

fyi, these guys actually believe in what they are doing. So they aren't lying - deluded is more accurate. It's an epistemological problem, something which many of us know little about.

Online voting doesn't solve any problems. If you can't get your arse down to a local school/town hall etc every 5 years to tick a fucking box then you don't deserve a vote. You want a paper trail so you can do recounts and prevent fraud. It's not so hard to understand.

I guess Safari for Windows on generic hardware (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3657) doesn't yet exist in your continuity.

Professor Andy Adamatzky has published a number of papers on plasmodium computing. See his web page at UWE Bristol:

http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/

and the video complimentary material for the article "Physarum boats: If plasmodium sailed it would never leave a port" at:

http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/physarumboat/

The video requires a Intel Indeo 5 decoder plugin.

...the woman is -- at the very least -- a sexual predator.

That's an ignorant statement of reality if I've ever heard one. Please bother to understand the definitions of your terms: sexual predator. There was no motive to seek out a sexual partner in this case. Motive was to humiliate. Period.

...intent to cause serious detriment...deserves everything she gets coming...

There you go. Leave it at that.

...she clearly contributed to this girl killing herself...

Bullshit. Sure, she was nasty, verbally abusive, etc. But she certainly didn't kill this girl - the girl killed herself. Sorry but suicide is a single-handed act by the individual. This woman contributed nothing but words. She did not tie the rope or provide a stool or even so much as be present in the room or vicinity. Yes, this woman deserves plenty in respect to her verbal treatment of another. Yes, she is obviously an awful person with a hateful mentality. But simple reality is that she did not cross a life/death line - she spat nasty words. That is not a crime in itself. And you should thank those who clearly have more reason than yourself for not allowing it to carry on to that level or we would all suffer a loss of liberty over a single individual's foul mouth.

All outcomes in this are miserable, in some way.

Of course they are. Someone is dead. However any person so mentally distressed to take their own life over written words from someone they have never met nor spoken to clearly demands its own responsibility. Let us not forget the real tragedy in this and become yet another brainless mob, slave to emotional outrage, without thought or consideration of the realities of life or the facts in this particular situation. Burning witches at the stake is a backwards mentality.

Yeah, that's a fascinating and little-told part of the X-33 history. "Ready to fly" is perhaps a slight overstatement, but the tank problem had basically been solved in two different ways (switching to an aluminum-lithium tank was feasible with the tech demonstrated by the second generation Shuttle external tank, but also, cryogenic carbon fiber technology improvements were demonstrated and ready). X-33 certainly could have been made ready to fly, and DoD was ready to fund it. The other successes of the X-33 program have been overlooked, largely because the vehicle didn't fly. The program was not able to demonstrate the turn-around time and other aspects of the overall system design, which were intended to reduce operations cost.

Bush also torpedoed NASA by giving them the directive of going to the Moon and Mars without funding the directives. This led NASA management scrambling to "get on board" with the Bush directives, with the only mechanism available to them being to cancel all the programs which were designed to advance technology and lower cost of access to space. Oh, and shut down the ISS prematurely.