> I work on a school campus that happens to have a gender-neutral restroom [...]

In a world where we acknowledge that gender is not binary and sexual preference doesn't care about your physical attributes, we must start to move towards a more sane system. This is the start of that system.

It is laughable that we've split men and women into open-plan facilites where you have to strut around naked in front of everybody, and it's OK to ogle someone as long as they share the same genitals as you. And now we get the inevitable problems because someone with different genitals wishes they had your genitals and now you need to either x-ray everyone before they enter a bathroom or basically allow a free-for-all....

It's just stupid, STUPID tradition that is blinding everyone to the fact that this could all be solved very easily and simply: Take the floorspace that 2 different bathrooms take up, knock that dividing wall out, and consolidate it into one huge one: Then have closed showers and properly closed toilet stalls (fucking CRAZY I know) where people can have their shit/shower with some actual privacy and can get dressed while they're at it without getting ogled by anyone at all.

I'm well aware that some older "gentlemen" would quite prefer to brush their teeth with their balls hanging out, but quite frankly I think we can all do with a lot less of that kinda thing. Hell, maybe I'll be able to attend a gym again one day without needing to pack my eye-bleech.

> but I think the speed is limited by how fast you can actually spin the cube faces.

I imagine the limits here are how fast you can turn your steppers against the friction combined with how fast you can turn the faces before he internal surfaces melt. It's possible that this cube doesn't melt simply because the operation only lasts a fraction of a second. Perhaps if this turn rate were sustained it'd fuse the internal surfaces. THAT experiment I want to see!

Yes, even though competition cubes are very fast and very easy to turn there is still friction. As an aside some pro cubers prefer to have a bit of a "scratchy" feel for tactile feedback... Humans are different to robots like that, we don't have perfect control.

Well, Forbes doesn't like AdBlock and just last week ON SLASHDOT it was reported that they'd served malware to those who did turn it off...

But what do the editors of /. care?

Not even necessary, for a low-low price I can sell them a device that will 100% reverse any light suckage caused by said Solar Panels, or your money back! I guarantee that if my device is bought and run 24/7, any and all effects of the solar panels.... including the cancer they cause.... will be eliminated entirely.

Is that a bargain or what?! Call me NC!

As a non-american I have no idea what that means.

But I'd also like to say: I've never experienced DST in my entire life, yet I still hate having to code for it.

So screw DST!

Then don't build the poles.

On my linux machine I run the native steam client AND the windows steam client via wine (+PlayOnLinux). You'd be surprised how well Wine works these days.

To re-iterate others: You don't need to re-purchase your games to get Linux ports, you already have the game on steam regardless of platform. If you are in doubt, run linux steam from a live-cd and see for yourself.

Yep, I guess finally the year of linux on the desktop is here...

I'll admit I'm loathe to switch my gaming box to all-linux and deal with the fallout. But suddenly I feel like I have no real choice. It's Linux or bust now. :/

Wish I could return Windows 8 now on grounds of bait-and-switch.

I can't watch this video in Firefox.

Actually, it gets worse once you realise that you _are_ overweight and now have to taxi back, attach the walkway again, open the plane again, remove some people... find their baggage, remove that.... then taxi back to the scales....

I'll bet by that point even you would say: "Why don't they just weigh the passengers?!"

Weighing the passengers before they ever get close to the apron means it's one less thing you have to do once the plane is available. Remember that a lot of stuff , like check-ins, happen on purpose before the plane you're flying on arrives at the airport. Usually when the plane hits the ground the airline's #1 priority is getting the plane re-filled (in all senses) and back in the air... weighing would add significant time to that, and you can bet travellers would complain about the extra wait (pun intended) on the ground. Especially if an airport only had one set of the mammoth, hugely expensive scales you'd need to have.... and planes couldn't simply push back and head for a runway using the shortest path, they'd all have to go through (a) choke point(s).

If the main consideration were money, you would think an open-source OS would win.

Reverse Streisand like a FOX!

One little problem with this: I bought a Samsung and it has been installing tons of unremovable bloatware ever since. The stuff was not all there at the start.

It's not like there was a sticker on the box saying "Comes with 50 mandatory apps, will install 50 more once you've paid" either. I'd read a ton of reviews and still had no idea about the extent of the iron-fist they take over your device.

And yes, there's no way I'm buying another Samsung ever again, so whether this changes anything is largely immaterial to me.

Does one really have to state the obvious? Snowden didn't "create" anything.

Companies don't find those entities untrustworthy because Snowden reported it, they find them untrustworthy because it turns out they are untrustworthy. If Snowden didn't report it they would've found it out eventually some other way.