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I disagree:
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What?

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This isn't about the plates- which are regulated by the state as you describe, although because it is regulated at the state level, plates look different, state to state- but by the plate *frames*, which I don't think I've seen in the UK. E.g. http://goo.gl/h6vxc2 it's the silver bit around his license plate. Some of them have logos or sayings or whatever around them.

Not that it compares, but I always found this rather humorous.

This is not a new idea http://goo.gl/AaEJCk

Vandenberg AFB is just a couple hours northwest of Los Angeles. It handles the country's launches into polar orbit (stuff like spy satellites and scientific monitoring satellites - polar orbits cover a greater percentage of the earth's surface area). The viewing is not as good as Kennedy Space Center (most of the launch platforms are behind foothills inside a restricted access military base). But about 10 seconds after launch the rocket is above the hills and the show is the same.

http://goo.gl/HzF12p

Exactly, however the build time, often takes days, for any given especially where non-perishable goods are being shipped.

You might have feeder lines coming in from regional hubs, ports, mining, manufacturing centers to a train yard, for assembly into a trans continental train, and each of these loads has different destinations. So the train is built for ease of disassemble, so that entire segments can be dropped along the way. Putting the closest destinations last on the line of rail cars, so they can just be disconnected when you reach your first stop, and maybe others tacked on.

But that is not the only consideration. You have to consider weight distribution along the train, You can't necessarily put a long slug of very light empty flat cars between longer much heaver materials cars. The light cars can be pulled off the track in certain cornering situations.

Train building is all done according to computer generated assembly lists. And if yard engineers are very lucky every segment is found on a specified track, in the proper order, but they often need to move other cars just to get to the segment they want. In large yards like The Bailey Yard that segment could be many miles away by rail, but only 500 yards away as the crow flys. Each trim up and down the yard can take half an hour. Google maps view: you will have to zoom both In and Out to comprehend the scale of this yard. These yards are everywhere.

Google: Schadenfreude

I'll listen to the guy who designed the Dutch suits: Bert van der Tuuk, the designer of the Dutch Olympic team's suits, said Thursday he had tried a similar ventilation panel on the back of a prototype three years ago, but it slowed his skaters by letting in air and creating drag. "The suit was blowing itself up," he said. http://goo.gl/YaDlg8

Fortunately, we don't have to deal in "suggestions". People have actually *gone* to the glacier and taken measurements. It is thinning dramatically since 1997 [1]. Nor do we have to deal in suggestions about the temperature of Greenland, because people have been measuring that too. It is warming, dramatically on the western coast, somewhat less so on the eastern. [2]

The glacier in question, by the way, is considerably less than 100 km long (as you an readily see), so the interior doesn't enter into the question of what this glacier is doing at all. However if you're interested, ice core data shows that the interior has warmed over the past several decades. [3]

I can certainly buy the argument that this event doesn't prove *global* warming, because it doesn't. But the argument that it proves *local cooling* doesn't hold water, because it we know *from measurements* that there hasn't been local cooling, especially in southwestern Greenland where this glacier is *entirely* located.

--- Citations ---
1: Liu, Lin, John Wahr, Ian Howat, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Ian Joughin, and Masato Furuya. "Constraining ice mass loss from Jakobshavn Isbræ (Greenland) using InSARmeasured crustal uplift." Geophysical Journal International 188, no. 3 (2012): 994-1006.

2: Hanna, Edward, Sebastian H. Mernild, John Cappelen, and Konrad Steffen. "Recent warming in Greenland in a long-term instrumental (1881–2012) climatic context: I. Evaluation of surface air temperature records." Environmental Research Letters 7, no. 4 (2012): 045404.

3: Muto, Atsuhiro, Ted A. Scambos, Konrad Steffen, Andrew G. Slater, and Gary D. Clow. "Recent surface temperature trends in the interior of East Antarctica from borehole firn temperature measurements and geophysical inverse methods." Geophysical Research Letters 38, no. 15 (2011): L15502.

Some fossilized questions for a transitional and healhty debate, for instance: is there evolution if there is no time? How will evolutionary biology meet new physical paradigms about time, space and so on? Will new conceptual changes deny evolution? Or on the contrary, will it become a more extraordinary process, full of astonishing implications? If so, will past human beings and the rest of living beings become something different as science progresses? After all, is life something fix-finite-defined? That is, can one understand it by means of using a flesh brain and its limited words, axioms and dogmas? Does the whole of life fit inside a bone box? Indeed, will science add indefinitely without understanding completely, is there an infinite pool of knowledge and ignorance waiting for us? Otherwise, will religions use the word God forever and ever, as if it were a death thing, a repetitive thing that is part of human discussions? And, in order to speak about God, are they using his limited brain or do they use unknown instruments? Along these lines, there is a different book, a preview in http://goo.gl/rfVqw6 Just another suggestion in order to freethink for a while

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The lot to our south is empty, and according to long-time residents of the neighborhood, has been since the 1960s. At the time, an old lady lived in a little house there, and it blew up due to a gas leak. The property is still owned by the lady's daughter. No idea why she's never sold it or built on it again.

There was a similar explosion a neighborhood over a few years ago. The burnt out frame remnants of this house are still there, behind the chain link fence. The house next door (on one side) was knocked a foot off its foundation and is still there, condemned. The house on the other side was fine because there was a row of trees between them to disrupt the force of the explosion. The only thing they've done to the site besides the fence was haul away the metal hulk of his car, I presume to recycle.
http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/crews-battle-north-austin-house-fire
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Two-injured-in-North-Austin-home-explosion-136939943.html
http://www.kvue.com/news/Family-of-Austin-man-killed-in-gas-explosion-suing-Texas-Gas-Service-141829703.html

Here's the google street view, still showing the house almost two years later:
http://goo.gl/maps/mk8ck

And here's basically what it still looked like the last time I drove past:
http://media.kvue.com/images/459*264/9JessExplosion011012.jpg
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/960/img/photos/2012/09/22/ed/61/020412gas_1323574a.jpg

They appear better because of how the "data" are framed, but if you measure the academic performance of each individual student as they transition from traditional public school to charter schools they actually perform worse on average. The reason charter schools are able to look better on paper is because they cherry-pick their students so their test averages are higher, while at the same time they are pushing down competing public schools' averages. Further, charter schools are exempt from many very expensive requirements of the education code. For example, in California, public school buildings are required to meet stringent seismic safety standards over and above standard building codes (the Field Act). Public schools are required to provide a certain number of acres of playground space according to the student capacity of the school, but charter schools have no such requirement. Public schools are required to provide a gymnasium and auditorium for middle and high schools, but charter schools are not. Charter schools can simply rent office space in any commercial building, a house, or even rent a parking lot and put mobile homes on it (which is exactly what one Los Angeles area charter school did ... next to a major freeway interchange). What does all this mean, it means charter schools are much cheaper than public schools - not because they're more efficient with their money, or because public schools waste money, but because they don't have to play by the same rules.

The fact is that the current rules concerning charter schools were designed to stack the deck against public schools. It's like setting up a baseball game where one team us allowed to use cork-filled wood bats, aluminum bats, and sap on their balls while the other team is only allowed to use hockey sticks as bats. It's not even a competition, let alone a fair one. The funny thing is that, despite all those economic advantages many of the charter schools in Los Angeles performed so poorly compared to public schools over the last few years that they sent representatives to the public schools to how they could emulate the public schools' successes.

Charter schools and public vouchers are nothing but an anti-government movement to transfer public education dollars and property to private for-profit businesses at little or no charge.

I had the same instinct about the word "roadable". Here's the Google N-Gram on the word's use in books throughout history: http://goo.gl/gd4xJh

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So true - http://goo.gl/9Bf9m

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I've obscured the name of the company so as to avoid a messy copyright battle, but this is the photo selected for the "Security Threats" chapter of my networking class: http://goo.gl/R67PWF

Takeaway message: be wary of inter-dimensional black guys in dungarees...

I'm sure if you grew up in San Francisco, you'd be delighted to clear out of your hometown and let the newcomers enjoy it. I remember San Francisco before the dot com boom. It had all the charm, but it was a lot more affordable to live there. Likewise I've seen Key West go from a place where funky people lived to a place where the people who serve you your drink have to commute from an hour further north.

I was once privileged to visit Hawaii on work. I say "privileged", because I got to work with Hawaiian people rather than just have them open my car door for me. One guy took me up to the mountain headwaters of the Lao Stream, where his uncle used to drop him from a footbridge into a deep pool. He used to inner tube from there down to the ocean then hitchhike back up to the state park. Now the lower reaches of the river look like this. Why? Because the pineapple plantations have been converted to condos, and the resulting immigration boom has sucked the river dry. Meanwhile higher housing prices have forced many of his childhood friends to move to California. And you think they're happy about that because their housing dollar stretches further in Fresno than Wailuku?

The reason the free market works so efficiently is that it is, in effect, an unbeatable rationing mechanism. It mercilessly restricts the consumption of goods and encourages the production of goods where demand his high. But what happens when you commoditize a community? When the thing that makes a place special is the people, and they can't afford to live there anymore? You end up with an EPCOT center replica of what the place used to be.

You can see this in a place like Waikiki. Sheraton has mall there which is called (without any intended irony) the "Sheraton Hawaiian Village". But you won't meet any Hawaiians there, unless they're twirling fire baton or cleaning your hotel room. It's really no different from an upscale mall in Palm Springs -- with a little more swimming, a little less golf.

All that matters is Boots on the Ground.

The international "can't get there" crowd, U.S. included, can only whine and posture in the U.N. as the Chinese strip mine whatever valuable resources they find there.

There's a lot of bad stuff already in that general area.

Google Maps satellite view of the Yucca Flats area: http://goo.gl/maps/y7DcV

Each of those craters is an nuclear bomb crater, with fission products and residual plutonium completely uncontained, except by the fact that they're underground.

The waste at Yucca Mountain, by contrast, would have been very stringently contained, mixed with molten glass and cast into solid lumps, inside concrete and steel casks. Not just sitting inside a hole in the bottom of a crater.

Actually Karlsborg was supposed to be a backup capital for Sweden.
If you look at this picture I guess you can figure out why:
http://goo.gl/maps/JXSTA

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karlsborg7.jpg
(Built 100-200 years ago.)

Cooler:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodens_f%C3%A4stning
http://www.rodbergsfortet.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWLBuc12z24
That one is more north though: http://goo.gl/maps/OOvoc

Doubt either can be seen as current today though.

Wanna see more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G217tJL4_xA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EKUwNUmex0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtAPA5O3qSg

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-PmRUkgyds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv46kbHqJL0)

I don't really know why we show such things today. Sure they have been decided not to be used any more I suppose and the locations are likely already known by the one who would care the most. But anyway, just seem weird =P. Then one need to build new stuff .. (or: Don't look here! It's abandoned!)

Actually Karlsborg was supposed to be a backup capital for Sweden.
If you look at this picture I guess you can figure out why:
http://goo.gl/maps/JXSTA

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karlsborg7.jpg
(Built 100-200 years ago.)

Cooler:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodens_f%C3%A4stning
http://www.rodbergsfortet.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWLBuc12z24
That one is more north though: http://goo.gl/maps/OOvoc

Doubt either can be seen as current today though.

Wanna see more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G217tJL4_xA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EKUwNUmex0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtAPA5O3qSg

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-PmRUkgyds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv46kbHqJL0)

I don't really know why we show such things today. Sure they have been decided not to be used any more I suppose and the locations are likely already known by the one who would care the most. But anyway, just seem weird =P. Then one need to build new stuff .. (or: Don't look here! It's abandoned!)

I saw the video for the "comedy tour" John Cleese did most recentl

Eh. I thought this was funny, and it's only 5 years old....

The arab countries never really worried about energy efficiency in the past. The problem there is every drop of drinking water is effectively sourced from desalination. The town water in Qatar tastes absolutely crap and even the hotels typically provide 2L bottled water bottles in the rooms (can't wait to hear the complains from the upcoming world cup).

This creates a very interesting problem for farming in the desert which looks absolutely fascinating on Google Maps

Check out the green irrigation circles dotted all over the place.

Compared to that this is almost more of a traditional farming method.

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State/County Road are one thing, neighborhoods are a whole different issue. The cost accelerates dramatically.
Zoom in on Google Maps to developments around any city.
You are literately talking about trenching both sides of every street, and rip up every single lawn.

Since you like to pretend you know something about this industry, why not take a shot at figuring the cost.

$100USD for 50MBps? Americans are seriously complaining about getting those kinds of speeds for that amount of money? I would do unseemly things for those internet speeds! Here in Australia we can get 12MBps MAX (top of the range) at about the $100 mark per month (and AUD almost equals USD these days) with heavy download/upload limits on our aging, unreliable copper cable network. America has nothing to complain about. In fact, they should be lobbying to help us poor Aussies. http://goo.gl/OXkz5t And that's in the CBD. Anyone outside the CBD is practically on dial up. It takes me several hours to download Ubuntu whenever there is a new iso and watching a youtube video in HD renders the internet unusable to all other devices in the house. Yeeeeees there is a new broadband network being implemented (which is outdated technology in itself), but our new "elected" government is considering pulling it out and keeping the crap we've got now instead.

#BadBIOS - BIOS Malware

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- Copernicus: Question Your Assumptions about BIOS Security

http://www.mitre.org/capabilities/cybersecurity/overview/cybersecurity-blog/copernicus-question-your-assumptions-about

- "Seems to have a BIOS hypervisor, SDR functionality that bridges air gaps, wifi card removed."

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388512915742937089

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- #BadBIOS

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BadBIOS

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- "More on my ongoing chase of #badBIOS malware."

https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365/posts/9fyh5R9v2Ga
https://plus.google.com/103470457057356043365

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- Nobody Seems To Notice and Nobody Seems To Care: Government & Stealth Malware

http://slexy.org/view/s2otvoDuKW

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- Gpu based paravirtualization rootkit, all os vulne

http://forum.sysinternals.com/gpu-based-paravirtualization-rootkit-all-os-vulne_topic26706.html

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- #badBIOS (and lotsa paranoia, plus fireworks)

https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/badbios-and-lotsa-paranoia-plus-fireworks/

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- Air-Gap-Breaching BIOS Rootkits with SDRs Inside (and smartphones, Snowden, NSA, Wikileaks)

"A little while back I covered a paper on FPGAs that could turn themselves into SDRs. I suspected this would be one way to breach an air gap.

It seems I was right on the money. If a little behind the times.

Researchers have found an incredibly persistent BIOS rootkit in the wild that includes SDR functionality⦠literally turning your computer into a radio transmitter to exfiltrate data even if youâ(TM)re not connected to the Internet." [..]

"The researchers were using a new tool, Copernicus, which sadly seems to be Windows-only. Nevertheless a number of you might be interested in checking it out.

There is one enduring mystery of this rootkit⦠how does it survive BIOS reflashes?" [..]

https://kabelmast.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/air-gap-breaching-bios-rootkits-with-sdrs-inside-and-smartphones-snowden-nsa-wikileaks/

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388511686744764416

- IMHO Copernicus is the most important security tool in recent history. Already found persistent BIOS malware (survives reflashing) here.

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388512915742937089

- and thatâ(TM)s not even interesting part. Seems to have a BIOS hypervisor, SDR functionality that bridges air gaps, wifi card removed.

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388521551693217792

- Copernicus BIOS verification. Also if tool is mysteriously failing or weird output full of FFs you may have problem. http://goo.gl/AHLwbD

https://twitter.com/dragosr/status/388534580493287424

- This particular BIOS persistent malware sample seems use TLS encrypted DHCP HostOptions as a command and control.

https://twitter.com/drago

" The car can be trusted to drive within its own limits.."

That is not the correct way to look at it, there are parts of London where it is hard enough to try and navigate lanes without having cars going at stupid speeds.

Just because the car can drive at 50mph doesn't mean it should, that would cause problems for non-computer controlled cars, bicycles, horses, pedestrians etc.

If the car is driving down a thin residential London road with a van parked and a gap behind the van, will it slow to 5mph so as to avoid running over anyone who might step out from behind the van? ( example road http://goo.gl/maps/wu4i6 ).

Well after sunset?

Actually, when you read up on it, the storage capacity is exhausted shortly after sunset. 6 Hours max.
The efficiency falls off at low sun angles.

Sunset usually happens right at peak demand time, evening cooking, and late afternoon air conditioning.
Plus the site has high ground to the immediate west, sunset comes earlier for them.

Don't get me wrong, this is an impressive feat of engineering.

It was installed very fast, hacked out of prime farm land (or as prime as it gets in Arizona).
Google Maps Satellite view, with imagery dated 2013 http://goo.gl/maps/Qh7e5 shows nothing
but desert with truck roads laid out, and now they are up and running.

(Either that or Google is Playing Fast and Loose with image dates, because Google Earth shows the same
images but has a 2010 date on them)

What land is there in the Arctic?

This bit, for instance.

So, given the choice between disabling the car, boxing her in and arresting her or just shooting her, they shot her. How the fuck is that ok? That's called murder where I come from.

The Capitol Police tried boxing the car in. Here's the video from AlHurrah (widely copied on other outlets, but here without all the overlays, captions, clipping, and re-compression). AlHurrah was recording some protest at the Capitol when this happened. Cops got her car stopped facing into the curb, with a police car behind it, a police SUV on the car's left, a third police car on the car's right, and a fourth car behind. Six cops are pointing guns at the car. At that point, it's being handled as a felony traffic stop. It could have ended non-lethally.

At 0:24 you can see the escape attempt. The car backs up a little, denting the police car behind it, turns right, then goes forward onto the wide sidewalk (Google Maps view of location) and around the police cars on the car's right. Four cops try to jump out of the way of the car, which goes plowing down the sidewalk where there are even more cops (and possibly some non-cops; it's a busy area). Only then do the cops start shooting. Not very effectively, though; the car speeds off.

No video coverage yet of the end, which happened on the west (back) side of the Capitol. But there's probably surveillance recording.

http://goo.gl/d04pmI

I stayed in Queenstown for a week and they were scattered everywhere around town, from the residential areas through to the town centre.
Though obviously there were more of them in the centre of town.

Arrowtown has the "old" red booth that I think you were thinking of . The newer ones were aluminium white and blue and a little more subtle. (They used to be a bit uglier though

I stayed in Queenstown for a week and they were scattered everywhere around town, from the residential areas through to the town centre.
Though obviously there were more of them in the centre of town.

Arrowtown has the "old" red booth that I think you were thinking of . The newer ones were aluminium white and blue and a little more subtle. (They used to be a bit uglier though

...a microsoft joystick

the goat?

He's incorrect on the Georgia code.
http://goo.gl/rk1qmK

The verbiage, regarding sending texts and similar communications, says "is used to" communicate "with another person", not "can be" or "may be" so you would have to actually use the device to communicate with somebody to be ticketed.

Therefor, using the GPS function of your phone isn't covered under the violation.

Very insightful. Thank you.

Shiver me surprised! well, not that surprised as there's always a market for the cheapest way to solve a problem, even though I would have thought the scrap value of the metal would be worth something.

You weren't wrong when you said dozens