That's why you find a reference that lists beer by ABV; like this one: http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php

Also, you got the difference backwards: ABW ~= 4/5 ABV so your 4% ABW is about 5% ABV

Apparently you can accidentally mod while trying to move to the next post. Sorry about that.

Right, he still wouldn't be able to play... The EULA is a condition of playing in the first place

Not weeks later... people were ripping the songs off the radio station (by either sampling the OTA broadcast or ripping it from the online broadcast) so the old model looked more like:

• Hear a song on the radio; like it
• Weeks before it's released, somebody rips it from the broadcast; posts the torrent to it
• Pirate song weeks before it is released

That's because there's more than one (main) company involved in getting you that tv show. You have the network which produces the shows and comes up with a schedule of broadcast they get their money from ads. The other company is the cable/dish/whatever tv provider. They pull the satellite feeds from the major networks and bundle it into one package (coax, or a small, singular satellite broadcast) for your convenience (you could buy a big dish and related hardware and do this yourself). Obviously, this is where your cable bill goes.

I, incredibly rich dude, being of sound mind.... give my entire fortune to X charity retroactive to 5 minutes before I am pronounced dead.

There may not be another station with the same show on, but that doesn't mean that that's not the only way to legally watch the show. Most shows, you can wait a day and watch it online through Hulu or the network's website (yes I know these have commercials too). Or, you can wait until the end of the season when the DVDs come out. Those two actually show the network that you don't want to watch their shows on the TV with the commercials. The second option especially shows that you don't want the commercial aspect of it. The third option is to record the show and skip over the commercials with the fast-forward/skip button or via an automated editing process. This option doesn't give any feedback to the network though because you were tuned into it when it aired.

All of these options require a bit of wait before you see the program of course, and apparently for most people, the cost of the loud commercials doesn't outweigh the benefit of seeing the show at the same time as everyone else.

According to the wiki, the senate majority leader can still require actual talking. If you ask me, they should do away with filibustering all together, or at least require that it be on topic. If you were at a local town hall style meeting and were trying to vote on something important, but a small group of people were adamantly against it, would you let them talk forever, or would there come a time where you would say that they've had their chance to sway opinion and it's time to vote? You don't want just a mob rule, yet, you also can't let a few people hold up things that need to get done.

He could be convicted of those sex crimes and as long as the appropriate laws were followed (=> reasonable certainty that he committed said crimes) I wouldn't care. But public figures running around saying he should be charged with treason? That's beyond stupid. Charge him with the espionage laws if any of them apply, but really, if you want to blame somebody, blame the informant. Of course, you can't make headlines with that.

I haven't figured out all the blame is trying to focus on Wikileaks/Assange. To the point where people are being polled on if Assange should be charged with treason. I'm almost certain you need to be a US citizen before you can be charged with treason against the US.... Further, Assange didn't sign any agreements with the US gov't that he wouldn't release their information, that was the original informant. The information isn't (or shouldn't be) copyrighted, so the only thing to prevent anyone from distributing it is signing what is essentially an NDA.

Oddly enough (unless the TV network is owned by TWC and shares the revenue of the cable portion) none of your cable bill goes to the TV networks. That's why they have ads. Your cable bill just pays TWC to bring the TV network content to you. Last I checked, you could still get a large satellite dish (multiple foot diameter, does anyone sell those anymore) and pull down the TV network content yourself.

You could have summed that up just by linking to this: XKCD: 538

You realize that you can download and install new soft keyboards from the market, right? (Assuming that your provider/manufacturer didn't decide that you couldn't have the market...) In fact, here's a list of soft keyboards on the market. (Granted most of these are for non-English languages, but there's a few out there that try to improve on the stock keyboard.)

Since when is a single gunshot lethal to everyone on the plane? I can think of only 4 real possibilities here and for the most part they don't pan out that way.

1. The hole somehow causes everyone to get sucked out of the plane where they fall to their deaths.
   Unless the gunshot somehow causes the skin of the aircraft (inside and outside) to rip apart like a punctured balloon, there's no way a person is going through a hole less than 1" in diameter unless they've been deboned first.
2. The cabin depressurizes and everyone suffocates at 30k feet.
   Pretty sure that's what those masks they tell you about "in case the cabin loses pressure" are for
3. The bullet kills the pilot, plane falls out of the sky.
   More reasonable, except the cockpit doors are bulletproof now. Isn't there normally a copilot too?
4. Bullet hits a vital control mechanism, plane crashes
   This one is the most feasible of all the options but doesn't seem incredibly likely. I'm not sure, do commercial airplanes have backup control systems in case of failure. It seems like a good idea to have in any event.

OT: Why does an ordered list get rendered so oddly on slashdot?

Sure it can. Effectiveness and invasiveness are orthogonal in this case.

Invasiveness: does this machine invade your privacy? Yes.

Effectiveness: does this machine prevent planes from being blown up/hijacked? Probably not.