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Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
Cory, the whole concept of fluid ounces as a measure of volume is only valid for water. If the snowglobe in question were actually known to be full of water, nobody would care about it to begin with....
Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
In other news, volume is not measured in ounces....
Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
Well, the problem is clearly isomorphic to all real solutions of the Riemann zeta function in a four-dimensional Hilbert space. If your kid doesn't pay attention in class, you're not doing her any favors by doing her homework for her....
Commented on Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
How's that "change" going for you guys there in the US?...
Commented on Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto
Like anybody else could do a better job governing the collective headcase that is California. Throw Arnold out, and you'll be lucky if the next governor isn't just as ineffective....
Commented on Report: Woman paralyzed by E. coli-tainted hamburger
Um, what is a "completely safe product?" You can't shrink-wrap the whole world....
Commented on Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down
#26 CicadaNow what makes you assume that people who don't want social services are brainwashed? They might know the consequences of getting rid of them very well and still desire the end result. Stereotyping. It's OK when we do it....
Commented on Bach canon played as a moebius strip
#1I really wished I understood the genius of this, and I do appreciate the geekiness and coolness of the exercise, and at the same time its so far beyond me. I think I first realized this when I had to...
Commented on Random ham radio trollfight audio (explicit)
Roberta X #62: It got more uncouth when the requirement to know Morse Code in order to get a ham ticket was dropped. Sure, it was steam-powered, but it was a halfway-good troll filter. No, it didn't. The worst offenders...
Commented on HOWTO make a cheap ECG with an old PC sound-card
Proper ECG equipment uses an isolated front end to prevent leakage of 60Hz line current through the body of the person being monitored. Quite small amounts of 60Hz current can cause fibrillation of the heart and death. Also, be sure...
Commented on Anthropological images from the Belgian Congo, ca. 1900
A roaring, epic, rag-time tune From the mouth of the Congo To the Mountains of the Moon. Death is an Elephant, Torch-eyed and horrible, Foam-flanked and terrible. BOOM, steal the pygmies, BOOM, kill the Arabs, BOOM, kill the white men,...
Commented on A Fortsas Hoax of 1840
#12: I don't see how TNH's usage of "peccadillo" is incorrect. One of its definitions is "a petty misdeed or personal fault." The hoax took advantage of people who fancied themselves among the erudite but who were actually more interested...
Commented on A Fortsas Hoax of 1840
That's pretty funny. Too bad this took place in the nineteenth century, since the collection might have otherwise included the now-lost Anglo-American Cyclopaedia of 1917. Been looking for that one for awhile....
Commented on Strange Architectural Typeface Choice
Wing Commander!...
Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
A really crappy one, apparently....
Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
Crappy gun, meet really good helmet. Helmet, gun. I'm sure you two will get along splendidly....
Commented on Nicholson Baker on the Kindle
#11I'm surprised people enjoy reading on their iPhone. I love my iPhone, but it's just too small to be a good reader. Chopping up sentences to fit on the screen really wreaks my reading cadence, and I end up flipping...
Commented on Jeff Bezos's Kindle apology: please tell us what the Kindle can do
I still remember when Bezos said he was going to work on patent reform....
Commented on ATM to guy depositing California state IOU: "Come back without a [registered] warrant."
Also, I'm surprised I can't find any of these California warrants for sale on eBay. I'd probably buy a couple just for the novelty/collectible value. This is basically a case where a state is trying to issue its own currency,...
Commented on ATM to guy depositing California state IOU: "Come back without a [registered] warrant."
Nothing comical about it. Wait until people in Compton or Watts start getting those messages....
Commented on Creepy unmarked cage for people in Superior, Colorado
Mmm, fish biscuits...
Commented on 80 year old wind up bear polishes his spectacles, over and over and Over
Have we really come so far in eighty years?...
Commented on Hackers on a Plane: American hackers tour European hackerspaces
#11 Matt: There's not much point in answering people like #8 and #10. Once you agree not to travel by jet, they'll come back and point out the social ills of supporting multinational telecom cartels, or something like that. Keep...
Commented on Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet
#57 Antinous You've made your point. Do you have anything else to add? I'll add my voice to his, for what it's worth. Xeni's headline is a factual misrepresentation. It was spun out of whole cloth for no apparent reason,...
Commented on Wear patterns as information leakage from security keypads
#4: That's actually a very common feature in entry keypads. The buttons are just clear (or red) plastic shells over 7-segment LEDs, and they randomize themselves each time a code is entered....
Commented on R. Crumb's Sex Obsessions
In other news, Taschen books are generally pretty damned awesome....
Commented on Explaining physics to a TV camera
Hmm, for a ~3000-pound car at 86 MPH, the kinetic energy would be 0.5 * m * v*v = 0.5 * 1400 * 38 * 38 = about 1 MJ, or only 240 kcal. So you wouldn't even have to...
Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
#90 has my vote. Atheist agitprop. This family so loved the world that it went full retard to show us the effects of religion at its most elemental level....
Commented on The Devil's Kettle
By a remarkable coincidence, I have just been struck by a truly wonderful idea regarding the safe and permanent disposal of high-level nuclear waste....
Commented on A library of the world's most unusual compounds
No tert-butyl lithium? Boring...

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Blaatann commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
I agree that teaching kids to view 8+3 as 10 and 1, the one "spilling over" is a good idea, this is exactly how I visualize adding large numbers. But they could have taken the time to line up the numbers, text and graphic. I think the reason I had to check the comments to understand what was going on was that I just couldn't decipher the meaning due to the wonky text alignment....
TomChicago commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
This is one of many different strategies to solve basic facts problems and it's a very good one. The ability to break apart numbers here will serve kids very well down the road when they add larger numbers (302 + 153 is easy to add mentally when you think of it as 300 + 150 + 2 + 3) or when you estimate. The number 10 is taught to kids as early as grade K as a benchmark number as our number system is based on tens. So, they first learn in grade K different combinations of numbers that make...
Yooper commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
Homework in first grade, why? I am quite sure I have read that research as found no benefit to HW this young. Instead for your child, read a book, walk in the woods, play with hand puppets - they'll learn a lot more. This practice sheet was surely closely tied to the lesson. I suspect it was meant to be in-class practice. Please don't complain about the lack of clear insturctions - they are FIRST graders! For any innovative curriculum, parent-teacher/school communication via PTA meetings and/or parent conference days are critical but very hard to put in practice. But parents...
dainel commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
What we need a is a new plot to blow up airplanes using other types of non-liquid explosives. For example, we can use a phone. Scoop out all it's innards and replace with a simple LCD screen and button battery. The phone can appear to turn on, but do nothing else. Fill the rest of the space with gunpowder. We will have 10 people boarding the same flight. They will buy tickets in pairs, all requesting seats near the back of the plane. Once on board, they pool all the explosives from all the phones, and blow it up inside...
beameup commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
770-625. Your way: 0-5, can't do, borrow from the 7, add 10 to the 0, 15-5=5, 6-2=4, 7-6=1, read off the answer left to right: 145. This requires no understanding of place value, and for most people requires paper and pencil. Students that have learned the filling 10s method can move on to filling 100's. For this problem, I need 75 more to get to 700, add that to 70 = 145. Very quick, very simple, deepens understanding of place value and number. I think learning the mental math techniques is very valuable. BUT, like you, I do think it...

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