There's an Arduino library called Time Lord that will calculate sunrise and sunset times with a given lat/long. It's C++ but it looks like it wouldn't be too hard to convert just that calculation.

You've obviously been very lucky if you've never lost data by simply unplugging a USB drive. Anything left in cache that hasn't physically been written out will be lost and, occasionally, the drive will end up corrupted. I've had both of these happen.

That's been a pretty common sentiment in the journal circle for years now. I can't remember the last time I went anywhere on /. besides friends' journals.

You can read all of Chuck Lorre's vanity cards (for BBT and his earlier shows) at www.chucklorre.com. Bonus: Occasionally the network will censor one of his vanity cards and you can find the originals here too.

That trailer is awesome and I don't have a copy. How about mirroring it somewhere?

The bill has been out of committee for months, but amendment discussion was ongoing (it was only a couple days ago the student loan overhaul was attached to it). If the Democrats had wanted cost control in the bill, they could have put it in the bill and passed it. They didn't.

You can play "blame the conservatives" all you want, but ZERO Republicans voted for the bill that passed yesterday. So there were clearly enough votes to do whatever the Democrats wanted without any bipartisanship. Why didn't they?

Many Toyotas are built in America with American workers. And these days, a lot of "American" cars are built in Canada and Mexico. Look before you buy!

There's no way the bill will be rewritten significantly in conference. The only option are to pass the reconciled version when it comes back, or kill it. Killing it means introducing new legislation which likely won't happen until the next Congress in January. Passing it does no good, because modifying it would still require new legislation that again won't happen until the next Congress.

In this case I would say that killing the bill would be accomplishing something. It may do nothing, but it spends a lot of tax money doing it. Might as well kill it and save the money.

They also broke /my/amigos, which really sucks. The whole site is virtually useless in IE6 (I know, IE6 sucks, but it's all we have here at work).

I was always amused by the comment about Famke in this review.

I'm LordBodak! One of the "old guard" around here I suppose, but I've been away for a long time. Get off my lawn you whippersnappers!

That would be a logical explanation except... that's not what I did. /. kept timing out (here, never!) and I had to hit the button a few times before it went through... but apparently it went through more than once.