If someone has a problem with laptops and/or smartphones (which we can assume to be silent and not playing 100db porn) in lectures disturbing their learning, the problem isn't the person using said device. The problem is your attention sucks and you need to figure out a way to get around it yourself. Electronic devices are absolutely non intrusive in lectures and if the prof has a problem because not everyone is looking attentive to the front then tough shit, chances are that person is paying attention even while using the device, wouldn't pay anymore attention without the device, or would not even be there.

3.0 is only for tablets, so they won't update the phones to it. Next major update for phones will be Ice Cream Sandwich which isn't out yet.

This is not big political news here in Switzerland, it's a twenty line side note on page 15. Slashdot just likes to pick out the curiosities.

Not really. It would be more like a tow car rental company. Amazon only provides the basic hardware, they were used as anonymizer, just like a rental would if you provide fake information (which was done in this case).

Riiiight, because the z isn't used as a 'cool' substitute for s and apps isn't the plural of app. Clearly nothing at all to do with app.

Incidentally, this is what they are doing. But since power isn't restored just by clapping your hands, they're doing whatever they can to delay meltdowns and spread of radiation.

Yea, i do this as well. Move into white space, centered between either horizontal or vertical lines, or both. And when i scroll i will recenter it in the new white space... What?

you might be interested in monte carlo algorithms.

And the fact that the article is about emotions helps you how? You said the protagonists in avatar are scientists, they aren't. The scientists are very clearly side characters. That this qualifies for their "it just needs a bit of science sprinkled in to help us grow science-interested kids" is obvious since they point it out as an example, but it still doesn't make your statement true. How about you read what you write next time?

Oh really? And there I was thinking the main character was a former marine who had absolutely no understanding of science and simply stumbled into everything. I was also under the misconception that the whole movie was resolved in an armed conflict, where scientists were hardly more than feel-good side characters that provided the necessary moral frame for the main act, which was senseless war.

Pointing out your mishap with a third account won't undo it. But don't worry, life goes on.

So what you're saying is that laws are made up by judges as they go along.

There are loads. The first that just came to mind was xkcd. Most websites of corporations do not have any kind of ads since they do not need to make money over their internet presentation, it's simply an additional service. Web shops generally do not have ads either, they only feature their own products. Then there are tons and tons of personal web sites without ads because they are low traffic and hardly cost anything per month/year. The whole ad thing only comes into play for sites that have high traffic requirements but do not have anything to sell themselves (other than space for ads). So in conclusion mostly social platforms and information providers that aren't able to sell registrations because the information they provide is too easily accessible from thousands of other sources.

If you read the article you linked to, you'd know that they didn't. People are just linking to the article explaining the honeypot, which is exactly what happens if you release an article about the experiment at the same time as the honeypot. This whole thing is utterly senseless.

Considering that even the Slashdot summaries (and many comments) refer to anonymous as a group, you can't really blame the mainstream media for doing so. I think we all have the urge to personify everything. We're not much interested in anonymous doing something. But if it's that headless dude in the suite, you know: Anonymous, it's much more interesting.