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It's designed to solve a deployment problem, not a security problem. People really like VMs for managing deployments - everything together in one image, no conflicts to resolve, very easy. Images can be shared internally or in an open-source way. Docker gives you that with far less overhead, so if you have a lot of very small "servers", you can cram them together in a VM (just like with jails), but without the security of VMs or jails.

For a single server, jails just seem better, but for managing a fleet, especially in the cloud, Docker has the infrastructure built.

Disclamer: I will not research how well they keep their promises, or acts they voted for and against or sponsored. I do not endorse or oppose any of these candidates.

I looked at their website, mayday.us It referred me to a different site, repswith.us describing five proposals they support. The plan of Democrat Mr. Sarbanes was first. His site seems to directly address various issues, with little double-speak. The Government By the People Act is its own section of his site, listed under "issues", but in its own section. The plan hinges on a tax credit for political donations to encourage small donors. Also this:

"Allow candidates to earn additional public matching funds within 60 days of the election so that citizen-funded candidates can combat Super PAC"

which doesn't explain how superpac donations won't apply to the matching funds. To be fair I didn't look into it.

Next is Democrat David Price. His site isn't as straight-forward, but does present mostly solid stances on the issues. I couldn't find the Empowering Citizens Act(pdf warning) without using the search function, which tells me he's not staking his reputation on it. This one is more complicated but the main theme seems to be limiting per-donor donations. Obviously loopholes that allow present donors to give more than they need to declare (such as giving bonuses to employees who promise to donate most of the bonus) remain. It also limits total public funds available to candidates, which my intuition tells me will have the opposite effect. This plan looks pretty slimy to me. Your opinion may vary.

Republican Jim Rubens plan, Political Money Reform Proposal" isn't on his site at all, so the link is back to repswith.us. It involves a larger tax rebate for donations and "Require searchable, realtime online reporting of contributions above $200" and removes all political spending and contribution limits.

Republican Richard Painter literally wrote the bookon ethics reform. His site is his university's site, so wouldn't naturally have details on supported initiatives. According to repswith.us the Taxation Only With Representation Act involves a $200 tax rebait for private donations and nothing else.

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

Try to find a microscope or science kit that ISN'T marketed exclusively toward boys.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

A pink steam engine trainset for girls.

Well, here's my anecdote with a sample size of n=2. I have a son and a daughter.

When I bought my very first LEGO set for them, it was a generic box of plain shapes. Something like this.

My son played with them. My daughter didn't. So I bought this and mixed the pieces in. The "draw" of the cutesy pieces drew my daughter in. Now she plays with all the pieces.

So...yeah. I guess what I'm saying is, I don't think they just "color it pink". Probably a bunch of focus testing and playtesting occurs so they know what draws girls to the toys.

Now, a related question...why did pink and cats draw her in? Is it innate? Or is it something she was taught by society? To that question, I have no answer.

Well, here's my anecdote with a sample size of n=2. I have a son and a daughter.

When I bought my very first LEGO set for them, it was a generic box of plain shapes. Something like this.

My son played with them. My daughter didn't. So I bought this and mixed the pieces in. The "draw" of the cutesy pieces drew my daughter in. Now she plays with all the pieces.

So...yeah. I guess what I'm saying is, I don't think they just "color it pink". Probably a bunch of focus testing and playtesting occurs so they know what draws girls to the toys.

Now, a related question...why did pink and cats draw her in? Is it innate? Or is it something she was taught by society? To that question, I have no answer.

reviews and upvotes paid for by the author removed.

They should also ban all the "top reviewers" that sell their votes.

reviews and upvotes paid for by the author removed.

They should also ban all the "top reviewers" that sell their votes.

Chaos is life. [...] Order is static.

You sound like you've read this but not understood it.

Different models are definitely a problem, what's worse though are completely different products. Like this UTech Mouse --- also lists 3 other mice, and two keyboards. The reviews and "product ratings" are *shared* by 5 different products.

It's an incredibly misleading article they omit to mention that it is to do with the way Amazon divvies up royalties from the Kindle lending library, not to do with the way Amazon passes on royalties from actual purchases, until about half way through. At the end of the day the latter would be unambiguously wrong, the former seems not to be an unreasonable approach: It means the difference in value of books is recognised (i.e. a longer book, that requires more to write, earns more than a shorter one) (rather than a flat rate for all books, which is what the article implies is currently paid) and it rewards authors that add value to the library rather than authors whose books customers check out and then decide aren't worth reading.

They're starting to address this. I was shopping for a parabolic wifi antenna recently. Amazon lumps the reviews for 4 different types (different dBi) with 2 different connectors together even though they're all very different products. If you scroll down to the reviews, you'll see above each review is what specific product the reviewer purchased - dBi and connector type.

Well, yes and no... http://www.amazon.com/gp/custo... ... This person's one star review was posted three years ago and has garnered 76 responses. The most current was 20 days ago. It's amazing seeing the "You're right" - "No, you're wrong" conversation. Even when the company, right from the beginning, stated, "This is how your testing methods are faulty...", people are still saying this one star review has convinced them not to buy the product. [BTW: 88% of 4,121 people gave this product a 4-5 star review. ] So, while this review has survived the test of time, the only usefulness it has achieved is to show how bad testing methods are readily accepted if it's buried in enough data.

The Web is designed to not need APIs or dedicated documentation. You might have heard of REST - it's a set of constraints on network architecture designs, which are: client-server protocol, layered interface, caching, stateless connections, code-on-demand (e.g. Javascript), and a uniform interface (e.g. HTML). REST is defined by the principal author of HTTP, Roy T. Fielding.

Lots of people call themselves RESTful (Amazon, Twitter) but aren't even close. A RESTful service is pretty much just like a website: You enter at an entry point, then start following hyperlinks and filling out forms to manipulate the state of your client and the server (respectively).

If you have an existing plain-old-HTTP API, you might want to build a hypertext interface on top of it that users can browse and submit documents with. Use a hypermedia data format like JSON-LD, Hydra, or JSON Hyper-schema to expose machine-readable hypertext. HTML is perfectly fine too, and preferable if you want to navigate the API with a Web browser.

See:

http://martinfowler.com/articl...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-...

Hows this for click bait http://www.amazon.com/Amanda-R.... Pay careful attention to the nature of both books by that author, what the titles seem to claim and what most knowledgeable people really understand about both of those situations.

"The smartest kids in the world and how they got that way" - one simple paragraph, they were born with the right genes into the right socio economic environment (buying the book will in, no way, shape or form alters this). "The unthinkable who survives when disaster strikes' - one simple paragraph again, either you are lucky or not as random situations over which you have little or no control play out. What are the books selling, pretty much scammy false hope that buying the books will turn you children into geniuses and make you meteor proof.

Reality in a terrorist situation, you are just as likely to get killed charging the terrorist as running away, depending upon which direction the terrorist faces when and depending where random chance places you when the terrorist event starts and the method chosen. Blocked at an exit with everyone else trying to do exactly the same thing, shot in in back or trampled in the panic, those nearest the exit get away and those furthest tend to die or Charging the terrorist because you are close enough. Well, the more that do it the fewer that die, simple hard up fact, you might not survive but then it is you choice how you die and the way you will be remembered and there is a chance you will end the attack and survive with you genitals intact (nothing wrong with female heroes and the whole idea of feminine cowering in fear, kind of last millennium).

The narcissist lie, how we can only survive as an individual looking out for no one but ourselves, the hard reality, the only way we survive is by doing so together, through thick or thin. The more we work together and the more we cooperate, the more we succeed and ensure 'OUR' survival.

ShanghaiBill,

Your home or the high-rise in which you work are unlikely to be consumed by fire. Are fire drills important?

Is it important to know where, for example, the nearest exit is on an airplane or in a theater, even though it is extremely unlikely that you will be confronted with a disabled airplane or a theater massacre-in-the-making?

Preparation for disasters - whether in terms of visualizing the scenario or actual drills to practice response - can be extremely effective in boosting survival.

If you are interested in some of the academic study on this and related topics, see this book, The Unthinkable - Who Survives When Disaster Strikes, and Why. The author did a tremendous amount of research, distilling academic papers and studies of recent and not-so-recent disasters to explore human behavior both culturally w/r/t preparedness and engineering, and in the context of the disaster events.

Your shoes: http://www.nicekicks.com/2013/... And purse: http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UT... (Not exactly matching though)

You have a point about minority voices being drowned out by majority ones, but that's just as much a problem, if not more of a problem, with voting on laws than it is voting with your dollars. If so few people have the same objections to aspartame and sucralose as you, why are the odds of getting enough people to pass a law about it any better than getting enough people to stop buying it?

And if you could get barely a majority of people to pass a law against it, what then about the now-minority who want it and now can't have it? Whereas if you had the exact same barely-majority voting with their dollars, they would get the products they want, but the now-minority who want different products would also continue to get what they want.

Odd are good that somewhere out there is an aspartame- and sucralose-free chewing gum for you. Here, first Google result for it. You can get what you want right now. So can others who want different things. That wouldn't be true if the government stepped in and said one side or the other was right and the other wasn't allowed to have what they wanted anymore.

I got me one of these fancy HDMI cables...
http://www.amazon.com/AudioQue...
It's only $13,499.75 and I got FREE Shipping! It made my TV look to realisticle that I thought it was a window, and low and behold it actually is a window! I can turn on any show and crawl through the TV set to join the show. Right now I'm inside Mayberry drinking Ottis's stash of moonshine.

Let's see - on Amazon, you can purchase:
* Hauppauge 1212 (HD-PVR)
* Hauppauge 1512
* Hauppauge Colossus / Colossus 2
* ATI ... equiv
* Blackmagic Intensity equiv
* Elgato Game Capture HD
* Sourcingbay HDMI Game Capture 1080P HD Video Capture Recorder
* AVerMedia - C875
* AGPtek 1080P HDMI One Click Recorder (plus 5 clones)
* HDMI replicators (which remove HDCP) http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-P... - BTW, there are 10 + models that work.

And just to be 100% clear - recording netflix or amazon video or DVDs or Bluray works-every-time with this setup regardless of the source.

Basically, if you can see it on a monitor/TV, then you can record it. Some of these devices record DD+ and DTS audio too. All do 1080p video. Prices range from $75 - $500, so amazon gets a "cut" - unlike with Kodi where it is $0 and there isn't any "cut" to get.

Ah - I think we just found the reason for amazon to block it. They want their CUT.

I usually prefer my veggies raw, but when I do cook them, I use one of these in the microwave. It's crap for making pasta, but works great for vegetables and cooking them in the microwave preserves more nutrients than boiling or steaming.

is an interesting book. http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Se... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... One of the things the author talks about is how drones have made a permanent state of war politically palatable in democracies. You get all the benefits of war without soldiers coming home in body bags. We see in this article some of those soldiers still pay a price. It is inevitable our scientists will take the man out of the loop and let machines do all our fighting for us.

Just looked up the ingredients.

Vegetable oil (canola oil, soybean oil, and extra virgin olive oil), water, balsamic vinegar (water, wine vinegar, grape juice), contains less than 2% of sugar, salt, dried garlic, dijon mustard (distilled vinegar, mustard seed, water, salt, white wine, citric acid, tartaric acid, spice), spice, xanthan gum, vitamin e, dried parsley, natural flavor.

Oil and vinegar are pretty much natural preservatives. So there's no need to add in artificial ones. Perhaps a little high on the salt at 350 mg per serving, but it's really not that bad. Also, studies have actually shown that sodium is not that bad for you

For veggies I like to steam them using one of these in a heavy stainless steel pot. Cook them until they are almost to the right stiffness, then take them off the burner and let them finish in the hot pan.

Bollocks. What the fuck Microsoft? At least it's controllable over USB now.

Yes. That's a dramatic change over the last controller that they made.

Or the one before that.

Or the one before that.

Bollocks. What the fuck Microsoft? At least it's controllable over USB now.

Yes. That's a dramatic change over the last controller that they made.

Or the one before that.

Or the one before that.

Amazon have Fire TV, a media hub for you TV. That is exactly what Kodi is, but its free. Sure Kodi is just software, and Fire TV is a hardware and software package, but it is very easy to use Kodi (and Kodi based Linux distro, OpenElec) to turn cheap hardware (like a Raspberry Pi) into a powerful media hub.

It is likely the marketing bods at Amazon have been seeing slow Fire TV sales and also noticed that their own app store is serving up a free alternative. As an app Kodi does add key functionality to Fire TV, but if Fire TV users get used to Kodi then sooner or later they wouldn't need the Fire TV.

They can't just outright state that they are pulling it to promote their own competing product; there would be public outcry. However, a 'facilitating piracy' claim does accomplish this and also damages Kodi's reputation as a result. Look to see Amazon pumping the Fire TV as a piracy free alternative in the very near future.

Fine - shortening containing trans fats http://www.amazon.com/High-Rat...

It's easier to say crisco....

You're implying that people of the same ethnicity find it easier to agree politically. Reality suggests that's far from the truth. The Finns fought a pretty nasty Civil War, even by Civil War standards, within living memory.

The reason the Finnish system works on consensus has to do with the structure of their political system and the rules in their Parliament. I suggest reading Finland: Myth and Reality; it's a bit dated, most of the foreign policy stuff lost relevance after the Cold War ended, but the domestic discussions are still applicable.

Its not so simple as the "evil corporations"...

Oh, but that's a hell of a lot of it. Just take a quick skim of this and get back to the adults at the table.

When you're down to putting people into an MRI machine to gauge the optimal sweetness and attractiveness of a food and then having Cargill make salt crystals in a certain shape for optimal performance, you're entering RJ Reynolds territory.

From the book:

At Cargill, scientists are altering the physical shape of salt, pulverizing it into a fine powder to hit the taste buds faster and harder, improving what the company calls its ‘flavor burst.'

Scientists at Nestle are currently fiddling with the distribution and shape of fat globules to affect their absorption rate and, as it’s known in the industry, ‘their mouthfeel.'

To make a new soda that is guaranteed to create a craving, it requires scientists employ the high math of regression analysis and intricate charts to plot what industry insiders call the “bliss point” – namely, the precise amount of sugar (or fat) that will send consumers over the moon.

Speaking of Comcast, here is a list of supported DOCSIS 3 cable modems:

* http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.ne...

You can pick up a Motorola SurfBoard SB6121 for $65 from Amazon. This saves you the shenanigans of the $7/month cable modem rental fee. It will pay for itself in less then a year. :-)

* http://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-Mo...

The procedure I use with Comcast is: 1-800-945-2288

1. Verify Address
2. Say "Operator"
3. Say "Internet"
4. Say "Request Tech"

Getting a technician to come out is the only real way to get Comcast to fix an ongoing issue.

No, he's wrong and you're right, actually.... eliminating outliers, women aren't really interested in tech jobs - especially when at the ages they need to be interested in STEM - the puberty years. Men and women have different physiology, it's not just the "naughty bits" that are different - certain parts of women's brains are larger than men's, and vice-versa. It's not that anyone is better or worse, it's that we're different. Of course, when women are doing tech jobs they should be paid similarly to men, so I'm not justifying different treatment - but women generally actually do steer clear of STEM (generally) as a function of their physiology.

See "The Female Brain" .

Political correctness is running amok - I'm all for respecting other people, but we're NOT all the same.

An interesting novel that touches on this subject.

California farmers have in the past, and continue to, wreak havoc on California. Read a bit about this asshole and his environmental catastophe: J.G. Boswell. His wikipedia page has been sanitized by his minions, but Amazon has a fairly good book on his rape and pillage of the state. http://www.amazon.com/The-King... Now the farmers are sucking the underground water table so dry the state is sinking at an unprecedented rate. http://www.motherjones.com/env... California wasn't such a desert until we "improved" the farming environment.

Actually yup. :-) The wife got me this awesome gift:

http://www.amazon.com/CODER-MA...

Try the Lifestraw, it removes the dirt: http://www.amazon.com/LifeStra...

(icon of plane) + (icon of computer) = (icon of computer)

Or, that there is an entirely different option: we've been getting Genesis wrong due to approaching it with the wrong worldview (The Lost World of Genesis One, John H Walton). I don't hear this being talked about much, even though it really does seem to be a good way to link "believing the Bible" and accepting science (i.e. it makes most of the points of contention disappear), and I think being able to find some common ground between the two sides of the debate would be good. I am a little concerned though that my hope of "let's consider all ideas, even if they disagree with what we previously thought" is too courageous a position to expect, so this very thoughtful book might get missed by those who most need to read it (defenders of Creationism)...

This changed my life (only slight exaggeration). Roughly 150DPI, it is amazing for Photoshop & Fallout NV never looked better (yeah, there's better games visually, but I'm a FO junkie - FO4 later this year, woot!). I don't even use anti-aliasing in games anymore (in part because when you quadruple the pixels, 16x AA takes a LOT of GPU), it's dense enough I don't feel like I need it.

I can sympathize, Granted, I live in a house, so I've always just unplugged the smoke detector with the low battery. But for some reason, they always seem to do this in the middle of the night. It's annoying as hell trying to get back to sleep after you find the one that's chirping and then unplug it, remove the battery and put it someplace you won't hear it until it finally stops chirping.

Get some 10 year "smoke detector batteries" My smoke detectors are hard wired, and the batteries are only there in case of a power failure. Since smoke detectors should also be replaced every ten years, I use a permanent marker to date the battery cover and replace all detectors and batteries at the same time.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...

What I really hate about the media, they never talk about the horrible job market for nurses, electrical engineers and pretty much all new grads. This gives a false impression that the only folks who have to worry are the ones who are "unmarketable" degree programs.

We have structural unemployment in this country. Contrary to the pundits who insist that it's "government polices" (whatever those may be), there are the trends of off-shoring, the Third world catching up with us, automation, and an aging population that are all working together to lower our standards of living. The easy days are over.

Unfortunately, the rich and super rich aren't doing enough to invest in our economy. The only billionaire I can think of doing old school investment is Musk the rest stick money into a hedge fund (zero sum game), buy a sports team from another billionaires, and do reality TV shows - their qualifications for being a business genius being that they won the dot-com lottery 15 years ago.

Then I see the CEOs who offshore jobs, get their $10million bonus - even if they fuck up the economy - and I'm supposed to buy into the fact that we live in a meritocracy and all of my problems are all my fault?

I'd also like to add that the job market is totally screwed up. Being unemployed means you're damaged goods - it doesn't matter that your whole department was offshored, it's all your fault because of "personal responsibility" or some such bullshit that the elite has told us to convince us that all of our problems are our fault. Yeah, it's my fault that there are third world people willing to work for less than half of what I was making. It's my fault the businesses do not hire unemployed people (go ahead, put an end date on your current job on your LinkedIN profile watch all the recruitment emails stop coming.).

Things are much more screwed up than some liberal arts major "loser" who can't get a decent paying job.

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream is spot on - and it was written 10 years ago when things were better.

You may riding high now, but one day, you will be called into a meeting one morning and your entire department will be canned and the jobs sent overseas. You will unemployed and good luck getting another job - especially if you're over 40. If you think you got the "skills" that makes you immune, well keep telling yourself that. This profession has gone to shit. We are all disposable and unless you have some really elite skills, you're headed for the waste heap too.

Rant over. I'm outta here.

"One of the reasons we are attracted to the Colosseum is because of the incredible violence that went on here. The question it poses is, how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?"

'What I would like to argue is that situations created by violence, particularly structural violence, by which I mean forms of pervasive social inequality that are ultimately backed up by the threat of physical harm, invariably tend to create the kinds of willful blindness we normally associate with bureaucratic procedures'.

In such a society the state exercises authority through the threat of violence, the 'games' act as a legitimate outlet for the populaces hostility towards the state.

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, by David Graeber

>I'm still scratching my head over the use of "she" instead of "they" in that sentence.

It's traditionally the pronoun the writer feels like using. If I remember correctly, the use of "they" is incorrect since "hire a developer" implies a singular person while "they" implies multiple people. "He/she" as in "since he/she would need less," is also incorrect. Formal writing allows the author to decide, but the author must decide. Granted, journalism and pseudo journalism is far from formal writing. The MLA Handbook.