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Apple PRESOLD an item that they did not yet have.

It is irrelevant whether Apple sold or presold an item in the lawsuit. And Amazon never presold a DVD box set in their store? How is this relevant?

They offered a SEASON pass to a series. They collected money for items listed for sale on their iTunes site. Apple sets the rules and terms of service for offering items on their store.

Again, Apple nor Amazon determines what is in a Season. They resell the pass. That's it. AMC decides what is in a Season and which pass is attached to which seasons. You keep ignoring the simple fact that Amazon and Apple are resellers.

Looking at AMC's website (the only authority you seem to believe has any say on the definition of season) confirms that they did not deliver what AMC considers and identifies to be part of season 5.

And AMC has sold Season 5 as 8 episodes to everyone in both digital and physical formats. Apparently, AMC lied. Not Apple, not Microsoft, not Amazon, not Best Buy.

This has nothing to do with Best Buy selling a boxed set.

Are you smoking something? AMC sold to Best Buy and Amazon DVD/Bluray sets of "Season 5" which only have 8 episodes. Therefore, AMC considers "Season 5" to be 8 episodes regardless of what they say on their website. Unless you somehow believe Apple is controlling AMC's DVD/Bluray supply chain.

Best Buy makes no promise (implied or explicit) to anything besides the goods they deliver. That is the difference. You need to re-evaluate your pathological need to exonerate Apple.

HELLO? Neither did Apple. Apple never said Season 5 was 8 episodes or 16 episodes. They only sold AMC's "Season 5" to consumers. AMC says it's only 8 episodes when they previously said it was 16. Also have you failed to notice or acknowledge that Microsoft and Amazon and Best Buy are in the exact same situation as Apple?

It's rather clear that you don't have a grasp of concepts like liability or contracts or copyrights. For a look at how a class action lawsuit involving consumer protection, look up the VitaminWater lawsuit. Consumers and the CSPI feel that Coca-Cola (the manufacturer) falsely claimed and mispresented health benefits. Whether they win or not, the most important part of the suit is who is not named as a defendant: wholesalers, distributors, and retailers. They didn't sue Walmart or Target or your local grocery store. The CSPI could have filed suit against them but it would be a waste of time and resources as those parties are resellers.

Of course you won't be seeing my response. You don't have any real grasp of the facts to backup your misconceptions about resellers, contracts, or copyrights.

You can do a battery swap in a Model S in under 100 seconds.

Maybe he told them he was going to use it to find their missing maple syrup.

Taxing transactions is one of the most moronic ideas in human history. Financial markets are fungible and global beyond almost anything else. All it will take is one country looking to add to it's GNP and ALL markets will move there.

France has been pushing this. If they ever implement it will provide an interesting object lesson in dumb.

Ultimately the fact is that HFT is self-defeating. Once you implement it competition between the robots will eventually eliminate all financial gain through HFT. It's already happened to a large extent.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall

Ridiculous.

Human beings are FAR more corrupt than any machine could be.

I remember my father having to place stock orders over the telephone. The prices for this process were horrific compared to modern practices. Plus you got much worse execution and bid-ask spreads.

The fact is the advantages of HFT are being worked out of the market and volumes are declining. Profit is being wrung out of the system. A few minor tweaks to the regulations (say imposing a 100 millisecond order delay) is all that one should even consider.

The fact is the robots are losing money now.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall

Yeah, because the *reputation* of the software companies doesn't matter at all. (roll eyes)

Not when you can just buy it with a marketing campaign it doesn't. Or do you think they spend tens of millions because they like hearing the sound of their voice?

What a load of crap. A fat handout? Do you have any clue at all what you're talking about?

Living under a rock and missed the Too big to fail fiasco that landed our economy in the longest recession in US history?

rove it by showing some instances of the government giving money to companies because of claimed losses due to piracy.

Check.

I can't think of any companies that have made a bunch of money by "beating people in their homes until money falls out".

You need to think harder. But snark aside... There was that raid in Guatemala, and this one in George Town, and oh hey look... here's an article in Business Week offering advice because it happens so often CEOs need to be aware of it. But if you don't believe them, ask Kim Dotcom how things are working out for him.

You're seriously in fantasy land with this one. But, hey, whatever fantasy makes you feel good about pirating other people's hard work without paying a dime. You're a real hero. The world owes you everything for free.

I'm no hero. I'm just the girl with all the facts on her side.

Oh, so if a malware infested piece of software is uploaded, Bittorrent will make sure you're downloading the same malware-infested software that someone uploaded? That's reassuring.

As opposed to a malware infested piece of software downloaded from the company's official website? Because if you think that's never happened, Google for 'Sony' and 'root kit'.

Bill Gates prefers you pirate his software over someone elses because it helps block other people out of the market.

The one thing you actually got right. Here's a cookie.

OMG, talk about an something Obvious. Shit, the Chinese, the North Koreans, the Russians, hell every country on Earth is trying to get their people into the CIA, and if they can't do that I'm sure they'll find some agency they can get into. If that fails there's always Industrial Espionage as well. Even a ex-CIA official thinks it's worse than in the cold war.

It's time to realize that a) we spy on the world and b) they spy on us and Industrial Espionage is probably more common than you think, even when the spies are employed to spy on companies in the same country!. http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20110919/famous-cases-of-corporate-espionage#slide6

The BSA if you are a member. Simple, no?

Also, straw man. Laws are not enforced the same in different cities due to different priorities. Barney Fife might chase a stolen tractor to the end of the earth, but cops in a large city with piles of murders are going to wait it out unless there's a pretty white girl inside.

SWAT team should not be involved for copyright/patent issues, so you shouldn't be able to call anyone. but it happens (yes that is an old article, but feel free to search for bsa raid 2013 on your own)

Are the Feds going to stop harassing banks that accept marijuana businesses as customers? Currently, medical dispensaries have to operate as cash-only businesses, which leaves them vulnerable to robberies.

"I think that the lesson here might be that if you're not on the very latest release of a Microsoft product, even if what you're running is still supported, you'll be low priority for security patches." - by cbiltcliffe (186293) on Saturday August 24, 2013 @11:09PM (#44667275) Homepage

What's that? See here (26 vulnerabilities in Linux core) http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2719/ and here http://secunia.com/advisories/product/40714/ in older builds!

(Funniest part here = That is the 'technique' you used & it's funny how I turn THAT very "trick" on you with ease, by showing FAR MORE holes on "your end" in "Open 'SORES'").

Clue: That's more than the entire body of Microsoft vulnerabilities you put up from older builds of their wares! I didn't even look @ dev tools, browsers, or anything else either that ships with Linux for Pete's sake... lol!

(I didn't have to look much further, & were I to dig up browsers & dev tools? I'd find even more odds are, but as is?? You're WAY behind still)

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On MS old stuff you found "bugs" in? Ok:

(The IE browsers = easily freely upgraded to IE 11 too mind you + Patch Tuesday fixes them as we go every month for both old browsers & OS builds!)

Additionally - Most of your 'holes' in old wares by MS aren't remote (bulk are local exploit only), & IF/WHEN they are? Easily fixed, by hand, no coding needed!

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E.G. #1 of 2 -> The 1 'remote' DAO one in Windows 7?

Easily fixed: Use ADO instead! Besides - it's more scalable & modern anyhow! Heck - there's even RDO too, OR, custom middleware drivers (e.g. Oracle has/had OO40 for example)!

Plus as was noted earlier in reply to you:

E.G. #2 of 2 -> The Environment variables fix is easy if you can type from System Icon %environment% strings, and oddly enough, the ONLY app that exploits it is SAFARI!

(Does Apple even make that anymore? Bad coding on their part!)

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* Lastly, seeing such a "fine showing" on Linux @ NASDAQ lately this week -> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-22/after-nasdaq-shutdown-its-time-for-electronic-markets-to-shape-up-or-face-regulators ?

APK

P.S.=> You fail, badly - So much for "Open 'SORES'" & Linux's 'great showing' @ NASDAQ this week (not) - Falling over 3x in a ROW, & Lol, for longer than that stock exchange has EVER gone down!

... apk

We could build stuff just as durable as Roman buildings these days if we wanted to

No, we can't, because we don't know how to.

We're only just now discovering how Roman concrete was made:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-14/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture

The Rialto PD did a real world study, with a write up in the New York Times plus a formal report by a Cambridge University Professor.

The results were overwhelming positive. Use of unnecessary force on citizens dropped. Bogus complaints against officers dropped. Time spent dealing with he-said she-said situations dropped.

Big cities should be jumping on this technology. In 2012 New York City spent 735 Million Dollars on settlements. I suspect cameras would dramatically reduce that number, both from officers being forced to be more careful but also from bogus citizen complaints being quickly dismissed with video proof.

Is Google Glass the right answer, no. It does way more than just video, and has cost and durability concerns. However personal video cameras are the answer, every cop (and probably firefighter and paramedic) should wear one.

Sure. The whole point of Bitcoin is to establish something that makes it harder for them to "find out".

Hardly, bitcoin is an experimental currency that is designed to be beyond the power of a governmental entity to manipulate by inflation (e.g., printing more of it). Of course nobody know what happens to an inherently deflationary currency which is why it's experimental.

Of course people that want to avoid paying tax attempt to co-opt anything they can to further their aim. For example Russian folks had a penchant to deposit their money in cypriot banks (until their country went BK) where US folks tended to favor the Swiss and the Caymans... Although some people start their own church, other folks just co-opt ones that already exist...

Did this great system tell them that the Boston Marathon was going to be bombed? No, it didn't. It should have, after all, that was what it is for. But it and the NSA have failed miserably.

So they should just stop trying? There is no doubt such a system is an effective intelligence tool or they would not use it and no one would even be afraid of it. A single failure does not justify scrapping what is otherwise a very effective system. Even if they're only telling the truth about 10% of the threats they claim to have thwarted, that's 30 terror plots that would have otherwise been successful. And perhaps even more to the point, it surely slows down the development of a plot when those involved must go to such great lengths to avoid detection.

Because right now it's being abused.

According to whom? Snowden? What evidence has he presented? He has exposed the existence and some portion of the nature of these programs, but I have yet to see a shred of evidence that it is being abused in any systematic way - or even by any individuals. He has made various claims about what he could have done, but does that mean he could have done it and gotten away with it? No. There are surely abuses of every such system and oversight is necessary, but claiming that it is being abused without evidence sounds a lot like what Daryl Issa is trying to do. Which brings me to...

And if you don't believe that, remember that the IRS targeted "by accident" various political groups recently.

You're kidding right? Read this or this or this and any number of other reports about the fact that the IRS targeted any group claiming tax-exempt status in the months leading up to the election. The whole "keyword" fracas turned out to be a wash as they targeted just as many if not more progressive groups as tea party groups. Moreover, there is absolutely no evidence that anyone in Washington had anything to do with the Cincinnati office and their unfortunate use of keywords in group names to filter the thousands of PACs requesting exemptions. Why do you think no one cares anymore but Fox? And even they dont talk much about it anymore. The GOP in general has disavowed it and not even the leadership thinks that dog will hunt.

This database, as it stands now, is only being used for abuse, and/or for monetary/political gains by people with access to it.

Where exactly are you getting this ridiculous nonsense? The Weekly World News? The Enquirer? Oh, must be Newsmax. Did you see the one about Obama being an alien? (Not the foreign kind...like from space).

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-25/microsoft-learns-to-love-apples-ios-and-googles-android

Nowhere did he say that they were losing money. BUt its obvious that only samsung makes any "real money" and leaving the rest to fight for scraps. But hey.. trolls like you never seem to embrace facts so why start now..

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-16/google-makes-android-but-samsung-makes-all-the-money

Also nice deflection about nokia which had nothing to do with android phones. I guess you have to bash anyone who is not paying you. You would be a truly valuable asset on any politicians payroll..

You probably read it this article.

At Dish headquarters in Englewood, a suburb of Denver, the day begins no later than 9 a.m. Badges used to be the preferred method of entry into the building. But a few years ago, after noticing that some employees were taking advantage of the system by having others badge-in for them, Ergen upgraded to fingerprint scanners. If a worker is late, an e-mail is immediately sent to human resources, which then sends another to that person’s boss, and sometimes directly to Ergen.

Or maybe on AOL

when was the last time a major newspaper or network broke a political scandal that wasn't sex.

Do you actually read newspapers, or do you just bitch about them?

Where are they when voter suppression is a fact of life in most of the Southern United states?

Why would I give a rats ass about the Zimmerman trial if I wasn't in that community?

Do you even listen to yourself?

Oddly, they seem to have been produced in parallel, with neither inspiring the other. Bugs's Life was released just 2 months after Antz, with both in production for quite some time beforehand (the final render pass for each likely took more than 2 months).

A friend of mine worked on Antz (and is still at PDI/Dreamworks). The movie itself was in development for more like 3 years, not 2 months. And WAAY more than 2 months to render the final frames. Remember, this was 1998. Each frame took hours to render, depending on the complexity. A Bug's Life reportedly took up to 100 hours to render some frames (though Pixar's tools were notably not as efficient as PDI's).

Not coincidence, but synchronicity: computer animation had just reached the point where you could take a leap forward in realism, as long as you didn't try for hair or muscles-under-skin. Toy Story was the breakthrough, but "what else doesn't have hair or muscles?"

Well... not quite. The real story of the two movies is fairly interesting, and revolves around Jeffrey Katzenberg (who left Disney to start Dreamworks). Turns out the Antz concept came first (almost 10 years earlier) but Katzenberg decided to make it largely in response to Pixar's project and feeling slighted by its competition with another Dreamworks release (The Prince of Egypt).

What exactly does Yahoo sell? Do they even have a mission statement?

From several investor calls she has said:

“Yahoo is about making the world’s daily habits more inspiring and entertaining,”

Which is a little more positive and slightly better than Yahoo!'s previous mission statement:

"Now open up all your little fucking birdie mouths because Papa Yahoo!'s got a big juicy unwanted browser toolbar to slam down your goddamn throats."

Another 787 had to turn back shortly after takeoff. From this Business Week article, "TUI Travel Plc (TT/)’s U.K. charter arm Thomson Airways Ltd. said that one of its two 787s turned back to Manchester in northern England today following the detection of an unspecified fault after it had departed for Orlando Sanford airport in Florida."

I wouldn't want to to fly on a 787.

An article describing these "Sweepstakes" parlors http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/55670-the-casino-next-door

BTW, I found this URL in a previous /. post, http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3638315&cid=43421823

why do most of the other countries in the developed world, that do have universal health care, deliver better overall health care outcomes for 60% less

Because they pay their doctors less. When government is the primary employer or leading negotiator with physicians, they can't bargain much.

The bottom line is: U.S. doctors charge 2x-3x the fees received by their peers in France and Germany

But of course doctors in those other countries do sometimes go on strike.

Could be working for a reputation management company. As Snowden was working for a private company when got that information.

Just giving those countries and everyone else the chances to protect themselves do a big service for mankind, not just US citizens.

And a little hint: if Snowden, a worker from a private company, with that access to information, as you said "did wrong" and went public, what about the rest that didn't went public? As far i could say, there is no meaning in international intellectual property by now, anything discussed by foreigners thru internet that could had some value is already traded, patented, and being used to sue the original creators of the idea when comes the chance, to put a just a sample of potential abuse.

Not any more.

Mar 2011: "Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured." link

Apr 2011: "On March 24, three workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant were exposed accidentally to high localised radiation while standing in contaminated water". link

Jul 2011: "A newly released document says the Japanese government estimated in April that some 1600 workers will be exposed to high levels of radiation in the course of handling the reactor meltdowns at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant". link

Dec 2011: "Masao Yoshida, who led the fight to bring Japanâ(TM)s crippled Fukushima nuclear station under control, steps down tomorrow for medical treatment after almost nine months directing the disaster response from inside the plant". link

Dec 2012: "Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health Organization. link

July 2012: "An executive at construction firm Build-Up in December told about 10 of its workers to cover their dosimeters, used to measure cumulative radiation exposure, with lead casings when working in areas with high radiation, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other media said." link

July 2012: "Japanese officials are investigating whether workers cleaning up in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster were pushed to shield their radiation meters so they could keep working for longer on the contaminated plant". link

Sounds to me like a plug for his startup: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-30/googles-eric-schmidt-invests-in-obamas-big-data-brains .

Am I the only one laughing at the thought something from the early 90s is now considered antique?

Ha, darn kids probably can't fathom the idea that there were real computers in use by companies and organizations before those flashy single chip microprocessor based PCs were all the rage.

No mention of minis like PDP, VAX/VMS (RIP DEC), CDC Cyber (12-bit bytes), Data General, or IBM & Unisys mainframes.

Thankfully there was at least mention of Zilog's Z80, terminal servers, RS-422/485, and green screens.

Bunch of whiny kids. Next they'll complain their first automobile or hand-me-down cathode ray tube colour television doesn't have WiFi and a web browser. Get old my lawn.

Heck, I develop, maintain, and extend software that's over 20 years old. I've worked on software written before I was born. Software approaching 50 years old is more like what I would consider ancient. Like much of the insurance and banking industry in Europe and North America.

So. my serious bit: Learn about industrial computer market, products, and vendors. Use industrial USB to RS-232C converter in most cases (where timing or bit banging isn't used), not the $5 USB-to-serial adapter from the big box electronics store. Take a class from your local community college if PLC or ladder logic is relevant to your environment.

Guns cause violence, more guns cause more violence and NOT the other way around.

Gun ownership in the US is at an all time high, and yet:

Good News on Gun Violence Could Shape Gun Control Debate - May 07, 2013

... Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government...

Florida Crime Rate Tumbles to 42-Year Low

Just to add a little concrete to what you wrote . . .

Good News on Gun Violence Could Shape Gun Control Debate - May 07, 2013

... Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government...

NRA Director, Ted Cruz Slam Obama on Gun Prosecutions

... Cruz also slammed the president for failing to prosecute felons and fugitives who illegally tried to purchase guns, saying in 2010 of 48,000 illegal gun purchase attempts, the administration only prosecuted 44. Instead, Cruz said, Obama is going after the "constitutional rights of the people who are complying with the law."...

It's really about control, not guns.

Good News on Gun Violence Could Shape Gun Control Debate - May 07, 2013

...Firearm homicides have declined 39 percent since 1993, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released on May 7. A separate study by the Pew Research Center put the decline at an even more impressive 49 percent. Nonfatal gun crime also dropped over two decades—by an eye-opening 69 percent, according to the government. ...

Saturn failed for many reasons, but having a single price wasn't one of them. The brand became so successful that it was taking customers away from Pontiac and Chevrolet which, similar to this article, griped dealers trying to sell those cars.

Then there was the fact that they lost money on every car sold and when they ran ads during the Super Bowl, didn't have cars available for people to look at after they saw the ad.

Here are three articles which give a bit more depth to what I just said:

Businessweek

Christian Science Monitor

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The figure for May 9 has now been revised down to 399.89 ppm.... http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-13/u-dot-s-dot-revises-down-co2-reading-that-showed-key-threshold-passed

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-13/u-dot-s-dot-revises-down-co2-reading-that-showed-key-threshold-passed The figure for May 9 has now been revised down to 399.89 ppm....

Don't feel too cocky yet, my American friend. The difference between America and China is that China doesn't make the headlines with such a military/scientific/technical achievement. When time will come, they'll show up..

Although it is possible they'll invent their own - assuming they feel a need to have it - the more likely outcome is they'll wait till it is perfected by the US and then use espionage to steal the design and make their own copy. In the unlikely event that the US is able to foil the Chinese attempt at stealing the design, the Russians will probably build their own at some point and the Chinese will steal it from them. It is an old pattern.

China also has more than 3,000 front companies in the U.S. “for the sole purpose of acquiring our technology,” . . .
Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage
Chinese Army Directing Cyber Espionage Against Western Businesses
China military unit 'behind prolific hacking'
The China Problem

Source...

Last year, profits from warranties accounted for all of Circuit City's operating income and almost half of Best Buy's, say analysts. They figure that profit margins on contracts are between 50% and 60%. That's nearly 18 times the margin on the goods themselves. For example, a four-year contract on a $3,000 flat-panel TV costs about $400. Best Buy gives its insurers $160 and keeps $240 for itself.

Some companies have margins as high as 92%.

There's always something in the fine print that screws you over.

AND, if they are such a "great" deal, then why is there such a hard sell on these things?

I was at OfficeMax, and the manager of the store was pushing it and get this, he says you MUST have one because all the electronic stuff is junk! *and he pointed to the aisles of printers and scanners, etc ....*

In this case you would get more insight from a calculator or spreadsheet than from cynicism. The US Cyber Command budget isn't that large compared to either the Air Force budget or the DoD budget. Finding some justification to bump it up wouldn't make much difference - it isn't going to be the tail that wags the dog.

Misplaced cynicism can also mislead you by pointing you in the wrong direction, as above. If you started digging into the question of Chinese espionage against the United States, you would quickly and easily lean that it is a huge effort against wide ranging targets. Why you would think this relatively minor event is in some way inconsistent wtih the total Chinese effort, and therefore not real, is baffling. Interesting who you effectively trust.

China also has more than 3,000 front companies in the U.S. “for the sole purpose of acquiring our technology,” . . .
Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage
Chinese Army Directing Cyber Espionage Against Western Businesses
China military unit 'behind prolific hacking'
The China Problem

So, your thinking is that no nation spies on another nation unless it gets spied on first? You're thinking that it doesn't go on all the time? No nation attacks another unless it is attacked first? Before any of that can happen, you have to air the "dirty laundry?" Your planet sounds like a great place, can I ask where it is? I'd like to visit.

China also has more than 3,000 front companies in the U.S. “for the sole purpose of acquiring our technology,” . . .
Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage
Chinese Army Directing Cyber Espionage Against Western Businesses
China military unit 'behind prolific hacking'
The China Problem

In 1992, US intelligence agencies started to become concerned about China's designs for its next-generation nuclear weapons. A series of explosions monitored by the West suggested that the People's Republic of China was working on smaller, lighter thermonuclear warheads, with an increased yield-to-weight ratio. US officials did not think Chinese science was advanced enough to produce such sophisticated weapons on its own. They suspected something else-that the PRC had stolen US nuclear secrets.

Three years later the US received apparent confirmation of such thefts from the Chinese themselves. An unsolicited Chinese individual--a "walk-in," in the argot of espionage--turned a pile of PRC documents over to the CIA. Among them was a paper stamped "secret" which contained design information on perhaps the most advanced warhead in the US arsenal, the Trident II's W88

You know, I don't recall any period of great public introspection and breast beating, or airing of "dirty laundry" before they started these actions. Do you think it is possible they play by different rules?

Which LNG plants are you talking about? Various facilities were damaged, along with non-nuclear electric power plants and oil refineries (Cosmo at Ichihara, Chiba), but which ones were actually wiped out? There is considerable cost involved in cleanup and damage to those facilities, but do you believe it approaches the financial damage from Fukushima?

The compensation claims alone have forced TEPCO to ask the Japanese government for tens of billions of dollars. That's just for the compensation, not for cleanup, which is going to put the final cost well over $100 billion.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-07/fukushima-137-billion-cost-has-tepco-seeking-more-aid

On top of that, the Fukushima accident led to a shutdown of reactors right across the country: at one point, no reactors were operating, now it's about two, out of fifty. TEPCO has already lost Daiichi (6 reactors, and two that were planned), and will never be permitted to restart Fukushima Daini (which has four reactors. Fukushima prefecture will never have new nuclear power plants.

So the direct and indirect costs are astronomical. For the most part, they've been passed to the taxpayer (which includes me). There's no comparison with what happened to LNG.

I don't understand the expression of surprise in the first part of the summary. The "cafes" referred to are set up specifically to skirt the state gambling laws by taking advantage of the "sweepstakes" loophole. They make it appear that you're playing video poker, roulette, etc. but you're really just revealing your sweepstakes winnings, which were predetermined when you bought into the game. Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article on these things a few years ago.

Here's the thing about this moral panic. Florida allows gambling. Florida allows casinos. This is clearly just a move to protect the interests of the existing casinos by eliminating the competition that was successfully able to also provide gambling entertainment with significantly lower startup costs.

Seems like those startup costs omitted kickbacks to the politicians.

... rather than at conventional Internet cafes.

I'm not sure what "conventional Internet cafes" refers to. The idea of the "Internet cafe" as a place where people go to buy time on the Internet died shortly after it was born in the late 90's. You can still go to Starbucks, Panera, etc. and use the Internet there; this bill isn't aimed at that. This is not a big deal.

Problem is, you'll need to get money into your account somehow. To do so will take a wire transfer that the IRS will be notified about. Going the other direction would also take a wire transfer, that the IRS will be notified about.

Your "non-story" assertion is a bit short sighted from what I know ... if you divert all your income to Ireland or the Netherlands you can get it there nearly tax free. What you perceive as a hard time getting your money to the states is trivial if you find someone who will accept those accounts as collateral for you to borrow against. Oftentimes, the rate of the loan is lower than what you would lose getting hit with capital gains taxes in the US. On top of that, you can put that money in Ireland into a highly rated international fund to cut that loan rate down. Just because you had enough money, you get to skirt tax law enacted by our democratically elected politicians. Congratulations, you're a dick and I'm sure you can blame the socialists and "the system" for forcing you to do this and I'm sure you'll ask me if I donate extra money when I'm doing my taxes -- I don't. But I sure the hell don't tell my employer that I actually have accounts in Grand Cayman and they'll be moving 75% of my paycheck there for me and I'll take 25% of it here so I get a huge rebate for living below the poverty line while building bigger assets in the Caribbean.

These offshore accounts? This is just one piece of a very large puzzle ... I can't wait for the bean counters to poor over all this data and find some of the other pieces. Either give me and every other equal citizen the same rights to avoid taxes or shut this crap down.

Valve Corporation has an interesting setup.

Prompted by your observation, I read the interview and have to agree it was very interesting. Alan Kay is obviously thinking completely different from the crowd.

Can you say the same thing about the Comm/Nav systems in the MD-80s still flown by American Airlines and others which were built 30-35 years ago?

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-04-10/whys-the-md-80-still-flying-businessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice

Even when most planes now flying passenger service would suffer no adverse effects, can you see the futility of trying to get the flying public to understand that personal electronics are fine on flight A but verboten on flight B? It's just safer to make the rule apply to all flights instead of just some flights.

...no, no -- that's not how it's going to be "picked up".

Let's take a look:

NBC News: Particle confirmed as Higgs boson

Associated Press: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

Reuters: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Wall Street Journal: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

FOX News: Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Washington Post: A closer look at the Higgs boson particle that helps explain what gives matter size and shape

Chicago Tribune: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Sky News: Higgs Boson: Experts Sure Of 'God Particle'

New York Daily News: Physicists say they have discovered crucial subatomic particle known as Higgs boson

Boston Globe: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

BBC (UK): LHC cements Higgs boson identification

BusinessWeek: Case for Higgs Boson Strengthened by New CERN Analysis

The Daily Mail (UK): Scientists say they HAVE found the 'God particle' - but admit they still aren't sure what type of Higgs boson it is

The Independent (UK): Have they found the Higgs boson at last? Cern physicists say they're confident of 'God particle' breakthrough

Telegraph (UK): Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'

News Limited (AU): Higgs boson, the God particle, discovered by CERN

US News and World Report: Physicists Observe Higgs Boson, the Elusive 'God Particle'

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

The free market does not raise all boats equally, that is a myth. Again, look at history not ideology.

- oh, and the free market does not have to raise all boats equally.

But the free market raises all boats. Everybody has the ability to access many of the products and services that the free market creates, that never exited before, and the market allows this to happen at very accessible prices. If the government was much smaller and less intrusive, as it was prior to 1913, the people would have really been much better off, with shorter work weeks and shorter work days by now. The 19th century allowed the farmers gatherers to work much fewer hours as the century progressed, because the free market created the wealth and investments and tools to make people so much more productive. This century just proves how much of our productivity is stolen by the government regulations, taxes and inflation, that we did not see any reduction in working hours and instead we know people must work more than half a century ago to afford a worse quality of life.

Well, the free market was mauled by the government, the default on the dollar in 1971 really did it in. But hey, it's not true everywhere, at least in other parts of the world they started figuring out that the freer the entrepreneurs is the better the economy is in the long term. They didn't even lose the sight of this everywhere equally in USA

But hey, USA lost a lot since 1913, it lost sight of what is important from point of view of individual liberties and it completely forgot where wealth actually comes from (and it's not from gov't borrowing, printing, stealing and subsidising anybody)

That's good because preserving student's privacy is more important than preserving tax breaks for the wealthy.

Don't presume my politics, or that using in-house IT staff provides any guarantee of improved student privacy.

Quick cites: "...It would require the DOE to create a web-based point for authorized researchers to gather aggregated data as well as a âoeresearch engine,â allowing access to âoestudent levelâ data...."

"Harvard University raised concern on and off campus with the revelation that the administration searched e-mails for leaks to the media during the cheating scandal revealed last year...."

"U. of Iowa Ceases Sending Student Data to Sheriffâ(TM)s Office Over Privacy Questions"

and my favorite...a school administrator spying on his students (see interview at 4:37).

Slashdot should stop the Iran bashing already

So, when the Iranian government imposes yet another new repressive measure to build on its existing repressive measures against the Iranian people that result in death, mutilation, torture, and other atrocities, your concern is that people on Slashdot don't criticize - don't say harsh things against the Iranian government? I think there is a word for that, Mr. Liberty.

If you think the Iranian government is for peace, you aren't listening carefully.

All Iran is saying,
is give cutting people into pieces a chance.

Iranian Women Prisoners Detail Torture

Iran as continual regional menace
Iran's Menace in Azerbaijan
15,000 Elite Iranian special-ops 'head' to Syria ---- Iran confirms it has forces in Syria ...
Gulf states lash out at Iran 'interference'

The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said in a statement that Tehran's actions were threatening regional security and stability.
The GCC said it "rejects and denounces" Iran's "continued interference" in their internal affairs and Tehran must "immediately and completely stop these actions and policies that increase regional tension and threaten security and stability".

Iranian Bomb Suspects 'Targeted' Israelis, Thai Police Say
Report: Turkey thwarts Iran weapons shipment to Hezbollah
      Why Hezbollah is sitting on 40,000 rockets and missiles ...
            Iran and Hezbollah: The Balance of Power Shifts in Lebanon
Afghanistan war logs: Iran's covert operations in Afghanistan
Iran Steps Up Threats to Rub Out Israel

Discussing the record of Iran's actions and behavior doesn't constitutes "warmongering."

Nokia said this during official investor conference calls. If they are lying it is fraud. Besides: LG, HTC, Apple and Motorola have all indicated they've had problems with this generation of phones. Factories like Foxconn have complained about this generation of phones and construction problems. The Ashas and the Nokia dumb phones are made in the factories you are talking about, and no Nokia doesn't have any supply problems there. But yes the targets are:

2012- 35m
2013 - 55m
2014 - 85m

and assuming that all goes well that's what Nokia is capable of doing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/nokia/9793624/Nokia-admits-Lumia-supply-problems.html
(specific to China, only able to build 30k of the 920T first quarter of sales):
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-02-06/nokia-china-stumble-risks-delaying-rebound-from-1-percent-share
If you are Finnish: http://www.taloussanomat.fi/informaatioteknologia/2013/02/23/triplamyynti-sivu-suun-lumia-920aa-saa-yha-heikosti/20132750/12

Just do a web search on lumia supply constraints there are thousands of links.