that would require a very long controller extension, possibly binoculars, and a social life.

Mod me down for off topic, but there is something so true about that statement that I can't get it out of my head.

ich ein berliner

Maybe there should be something saying where Z also belongs to integers >= 0

:P

ok ok, I fold. This conversation is quickly going the route of: should the government be able to invade our privacy but offer greater protection from threats... It's a long conversation.

That was a good pic up line tho... :D

Haha, I thought the goal was to prevent death, I mean currently the person who drops dead is our sensor, and these 1$ things are meant to replace the poor dead person.
However, I do see your point. With more alarms comes more validity. But the amount of the phones that will have this feature and with harmful chemicals and groups of 20-30 people being around them, a rare occurrence (at least I assume), I can't really see these sensors being really more than a joke in all cases but the most extreme... and even in those cases (aside from chemical warfar) those people should have sensors already.

I can imagine the many ways to abuse this feature:

Your buddies and you are drinking, someone farts... phone says it's deadly
There's a million ways this can be used with house hold chemicals brought to school to get out of a test
You notice a good looking girl (or guy) on the street about to go into a store. You go over to her, and say: "WAIT!, my phone says this place is deadly... How bout you come to lunch with me, it's much safer."

All joking aside, how many people are going to take these threats from a 1$ sensor seriously?

perhaps because china accounts for more than a fifth of the world population...

I fucking hate flies no matter how interesting the name sounds!

-actually almost double, at 24 million 12 * 2 anybody? Well it's got to be almost 24 at least...

I hope this is the case, as I can barely get steam to work properly under wine. Steam being available on OSX is a huge move to being available for Linux. The majority of the work that needed to be done was changing all the DX calls to OpenGL, now that that's done it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a Linux version of some of the more popular games.

To me it seams obvious that is statistic IS suggesting that the index starts at 0. Because we can choose between ground floor, ground, and floor N and basement. The only option that is missed out is the roof, so I just substituted floor N to mean roof.

Apple's up and coming iPhone will be able to easily compete with the Bold. Hell, with the 25 watt microwave transmitter they are installing it should be able to heat a bowl of noodles in 6 hours. Sadly the battery will only last 5-10 minutes on "iNuk" setting, but Jobs is confident that this will lead to further gains in the smart phone market.

It's bad enough that overzealous law systems stop school from doing their job, but now it looks like schools feel they have the right to invade students privacy (perhaps to save face on a possible lawsuit??)... ah the irony of an institution that teaches the constitution and doesn't feel bound by it. No matter how "good" the intentions of the school, this should NEVER be allowed.

I think I will have each limb ripped off and then my guts spread about. After that I want some exotic tree that's linked to networks of other trees to be planted in my chest. With any luck I'll be able to post crappy responses on Slashdot for thousands of years to come.