30 Minutes of ads and moviegoers showing up late? That was something I started about 20 years ago. Then theaters stopped selling tickets as soon as show times (with ads) started, so now you either watch the ads or wander the theatre lobby. I'd like a little more light during the ads so I can write down the movie titles I might like to see since I'm not going to remember any of the ads after the movie completes.

Moderators : Please delete. My post was meant for someplace else. Not sure how it got in this discussion.

Its the whole Idiocracy theme again.

I was IT person and asked to check on a problem in the engineering department. New college electrical engineering grad was soldering a circuit board with it being powered and tripped a circuit breaker. I politely asked college person to power down circuit board while soldering, and they replied they know what they are doing. And this person told the engineering manager I was a moron. Engineering manager fired college person on the spot, called me into the office and said I'm now part of the engineering department as software engineer and overall troubleshooting.

"Do any competitive type FPS games use all server side calculations?"
Only the ones that don't mind being slow. :)
It means the server calculating how much of the environment to each player, because sending too little and weird physics starts happening and sending too much lets a player with a hacked client look through walls.

Ex : Has been or used to be
spurt : Drip under pressure

Then that's on the customer. Customer shuts off their security system, that's their fault.
Burglars will have no idea if customer switches that feature off, and don't know if it was on in the first place.
Security systems CAN detect jamming.

Security systems frequently check all WiFi devices every 30 or 120 or 240 or 0 (disabled) minutes depending on settings. If device isn't present the owner is alerted that the device is missing. Usually this is after the device already sent a low battery message that customer ignored and the battery is dead. Many systems will detect jamming because they can't find any of the Wifi devices and alert the customer about that.

Back in the 1980's, a friend of mine asked me to try Linux as a platform since he liked it.
I got a basic package for evaluation and thought of a project to start. I brought up the project to friend, he suggested using these libraries, I started to code and wanted to add some other functions, friend now said this level of functionality needed a different basic package and I have to start over essentially from scratch, refactor for all of that, then wanted to add still more functions, and friend again says the new functionality level needed another different basic package and I had to refactor about half it again and some of the previous finished functions were not supported on this new different basic package.

At this point I lost faith in Linux. Adding features required not using other already implemented features. Having a more uniform Linux would help.

For future reference I made a comparison in the 1990's that has worked well to show the scale though it is US measurements.
Sun to Venus as 1 inch, Earth as 2 inches, Mars as 3 inches, Pluto (back when Pluto was a planet) as 54 feet, and Proxima Centauri as 60 miles.

I seldom here if craft like this needs a pilot license. You can't just land a plane to a random airport, you have to book the landing and storage last time I checked. Flight takeoff should be done from an airport too, even a small airport.

Everyone in the team has been using it and they are going off of that. They internally know the process and work with that, but someone who isn't in the team has no idea what the process would be.
Personally, I can segment memory and can sit down in front of a manual and forget I've been working on it for a year and pretend like this is new to me.

I would think the US is a good candidate for these stories because there's more resources and people to make Area51 and similar test zones. I seldom hear these stories from Europe, but occasionally from Russia.
If it indeed were public about captured alien craft or aliens kept in the US, I would think various governments would like to get them just to take them from the US, and various religious groups would want to have an opinion.

Its a dumb question because its asking one question but the followup is a different question.
"Can You Use an Unsafe Computer Safely?" should have been "Ask Slashdot: Can You Use an Unsafe Computer Safely on the internet?"

I have a "trip laptop" where it has the independent games I want, documents, and text editors. Internet and USB is disabled.
Very usable for the purpose intended.

Won't happen but it would work and be hilarious.

Any robot needs a motion shield around it to stop movement if there is something in its motion area as a safety system. Anyone who sets up a robot should know this.