I wonder if the PBS reporter saw the same Joe Scott video I did

And in all the school districts around me, they're teaching only Google Docs and Sheets. They don't use PCs at all. Kindergarten through 12th grade is all Chromebooks.

Most important feature: Using Walmart pay is now the only possible way to submit a receipt to get money back with price matching. Also, the money that is refunded goes into the Walmart Pay account and is unable to be withdrawn or spent elsewhere. But more to your point: Our local Walmart now has grocery pickup. With the receipt stored on the app via Walmart Pay, it keeps track of frequently ordered items, allowing for quick reorder and pickup from directly within the app.

I'm pretty sure that it's this one

You really think Steam Machines affected the Windows Store at all? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

As far as I know, I'm the only conscious being in this simulated universe and nothing else is rendered or precisely computed until I observe it. What appears to be fundamental laws of the universe could very well be high level abstractions that are run at "good enough" quality for my personal experience to be believable, and only have more dedicated and precise simulations when I'm measuring the data personally. And even that could be unreliable. When you live in a system that controls everything, can you trust even your basic observations? Also, if the fundamental laws of physics are determined by a simulation, why would anyone assume that the operators of the simulation would copy their own laws of physics exactly?

All of their patents are open, sure. That's not stopping them from having trade secrets that they haven't patented.

They use the helium to pressurize the oxygen tank. In low gravity with no engines ignited, the liquid oxygen just sloshes around, floating everywhere. They need the liquid oxygen to be at the back of the tank in order to reignite the engine for later burns. Having the tank pressurized with helium pushes the liquid oxygen down to the back.

GAH, *Losing. Stupid typos.

I can't wait to hear the rant Tim Sweeney goes on when he hears this. The only gaming store he hasn't insinuated is evil is Steam, and that's probably because he knows that's a loosing battle. I wonder how much money Epic has spent to develop their Epic Games Launcher.

The problem with this is that in a lot of red/blue states, the third party candidate is getting a huge percentage of votes. Take Indiana: It typically votes Republican for president. And if you go by the current end result estimate, it'd vote for Trump. But Trump is only leading by 6%. Gary Johnson is getting 10% because there's a lot of "Never Trump" people. If those Never Trump people voted for Hilary instead, they'd actually accomplish their goal.

I prefer Hanlon's razor. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." The most likely reason, in my opinion, is incompetence.

Here's law verbatim

In other words, if something is preventing you from accessing content, bypassing it is a violation. Blocking ads itself isn't a violation, but blocking something that hides content unless you turn off ad blocking is.

In a probably not unrelated event, Microsoft has agreed to invest $100 million into Uber.

Some time in the future, SpaceX *does* plan on performing landing at Cape Canaveral. They already have control of what was formerly called Launch Complex 13. SpaceX has now renamed it "Landing Complex 1".