It's factories all the way down!

The DoD responded to Oracle:

"I am not altering the deal. Pray I alter it further."

Last I checked, 15 is still < 16.

Einstein's theory of relativity explained in words of four letters or fewer:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~bre...

For people without immediate access to digital cameras, they'll provide a phone number so you can just hold your face up to a fax machine...

The ring is above the equator. I was surprised to read the rotation period is 3.9 hours for something that large. Then I started wondering, "that's gotta create some significant (relative to gravity) centripetal force. How much would gravity be reduced if you were standing on the equator on the long axis?" Calculemus!

Haumea (according to Wikipedia):
Size along longest axis: 2322 km
Mass: 4e21 kg

Based on this we can calculate centripetal acceleration using a = v^2/r:
v = angular velocity = 2.322e6 m * pi / 14040 s = 519.571 m/s
r = 1.161e6 m
a = 0.2325186 m/s^2

The acceleration due to gravity at that point on the equator is g = G*M/r^2:
G = 6.674e-11 m^3/kg/s^2
M = 4e21 kg
r = 1.161e6 m
g = 0.19805315 m/s^2

Which (if my calculations are correct) means that centripetal force at that point is actually 17% HIGHER than gravity. You'd have to hang on (it wouldn't be hard: if you weighted 200lbs (91kg) on Earth, you'd only need 11.25oz (320g) of force). Maybe that's where the ring comes from? Material just rolls off the planet?

Note: This assumes lots of stuff that may be incorrect.

Note 2: This would mean that an object attached to the surface at that point, if released, would immediately enter into an elliptical orbit with a period GREATER than the rotational period of the planet. You could very easily launch and capture orbiting vehicles with tethers extending some distance up from the surface, assuming the surface was solid enough to anchor them. Alternatively, you could build a hangar structure, and orbiting vehicles, facing retrograde, would land on the ceiling.

It's time for TempleOS Mobile!

Running it in Golly on my PC right now it maxes out at 4-5 million generations/second with a step size of 8^6, periodically slowing down presumably to hash some new cell configuration. It uses ~550MB of RAM. I've run the other metapixel patterns that come with Golly, but this one is mind blowing to see.

Ironically, there's not much to look at, since there doesn't seem to be a display of the Tetris board built in.

Specifically, we learned that Enceladus has a large subsurface ocean, at the bottom of which may lie hydrothermal vents. Since those on Earth are often teeming with life, we didn't want to risk contamination of Enceladus' oceans.

I got cheap (< 10USD) HDMI switch box for my TV that doesn't require power and automatically detects signals and switches based on port priority. No remote, although you can get one if you want - there are also buttons on the box to force it to a specific input. I currently have my XBox360 and Steam Link plugged in, and maybe the rPi.

So they could advertise bigger numbers to dumb customers.

You need to type &lt; and &gt; to get the symbols.
And you need to type &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; to type the previous sentence.
And &amp;amp;amp;amp; .........