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a practice also done by previous secretaries of state (including ones working for Bush)

No, no previous secretary of state has ever run their own email server.

UPI: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice got classified email on private accounts
Guardian: Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails
NBC: Condoleezza Rice Aides, Colin Powell Also Got Classified Info on Personal Emails

Here's a quote: "Powell, who served as secretary from 2001 to 2005, said he used a personal email account because State's email system was slow and cumbersome. Powell is credited with modernizing State's computer infrastructure, which did not at the time allow each employee to have the internet at their desks. "State's system at the time was inadequate," he said."

...The practice was illegal at the time that Hillary started as SofS.

Wrong again.

Addressing the Federal Records Act, NPR's Scott Horsley reported last month on the question of whether Clinton's exclusive reliance on a private email account violated it. Here's some of what he reported: "A State Department spokeswoman says Hillary Clinton did not break any rules by relying solely on her personal email account. Federal law allows government officials to use personal email so long as relevant documents are preserved for history." The law was amended in late 2014 to require that personal emails be transferred to government servers within 20 days. But that was after Clinton left office. Watchdog groups conceded that she may not have violated the text of the law, but they argue she violated the spirit of it.

and that some e-mails on that server were later reclassified as classified information.

No, HUMINT is classified as TOP SECRET//HCS from the source, and is at no time permitted to be UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO.

Sorry. The emails in question were classified later. In fact, the .gov address wouldn't have been secure, either. Here's probably the best discussion: http://www.politifact.com/trut...
"To send classified information electronically, the State Department has a secure, closed system. So even if Clinton had used a state.gov email address, this would not have been secure enough to transmit classified information. Procedurally, emails would get a label marking them as containing classified information. Clinton has said she viewed classified information in hard copy in her office. If she was traveling, she used other secure channels. Some of the emails released this month actually show Clinton’s team talking about how they can’t email each other classified information."

Incidentially, that is what happened with Rice's aide's and Powell's email accounts: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

https://www.google.com/search?... (pick whatever source you don't disbelieve..)

Wow, pages of links to blogs and unreliable sources that contain speculation but no real information. Scrolling down to the first one I found that even comes close t

Phone lines are taxed.

As are Internet connections. Or at least that's what my Suddenlink bill says. Also worth noting: this is a VoIP line, not a POTS line.

If you actually go to the Fibre Phone link, you will see where it says $10/month plus taxes and fees.

And if you actually go to the pricing pages for Google Fiber Internet (e.g. Austin's pricing page), you'll see where there's an asterisk providing additional information regarding "taxes and charges". Yet, despite that, the other responder says that he's not paying any taxes or charges. Whether that's because Google silently rolled them into his base charge or because he's lucky enough to live in an area where there are none, I can't say, but it stands to reason that Google is doing what it can to make their advertised prices their actual prices, since he's apparently paying the advertised price and not a penny more.

So when someone says a completely different bill for a completely different service has no extra taxes and fees, it's irrelevant.

Past behavior is more often than not an indication of future behavior. If a company already has a related service with identical caveats and handles it a particular way, it's likely that the new, related service will behave similarly. Does that always hold true? No, of course not. But that doesn't mean that past behavior is irrelevant either.

You might want to qualify that as a Asus Transformer T100, as I don't think you loaded Ubuntu onto a pickup truck:

https://www.google.com/search?... :)

a practice also done by previous secretaries of state (including ones working for Bush)

No, no previous secretary of state has ever run their own email server. Rice has indicated that she didn't even use email, and Powell turned over the emails that were sent to his private email account despite his use of State's email system.

The practice was illegal at the time that Hillary started as SofS.

and that some e-mails on that server were later reclassified as classified information.

No, HUMINT is classified as TOP SECRET//HCS from the source, and is at no time permitted to be UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO. Incidentially, that is what happened with Rice's aide's and Powell's email accounts:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

https://www.google.com/search?... (pick whatever source you don't disbelieve..)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (look under HUMINT section)

. but was, as it turns out, probably safer on her server

You mean the server that failed security reviews by Qualys?
https://politics.slashdot.org/...

I used IFTTT for all of about twenty seconds. It seemed interesting but once you advance beyond "take this data and send it to Twitter, take that data and send it to Facebook", it becomes useless. I wanted to use my smartphone's built-in abilities more and IFTTT wasn't giving me the capabilities. I found an app called Automate that lets you set up a process flow to do things such as upload to Google Drive or an FTP server, send e-mails, take photos with the camera, etc.

Wisely, the app comes with minimal permissions and you need to enable further permissions as scripts require them. For example, I wrote a script that takes a photo of someone if they don't put in my correct unlock code and e-mails that photo to me. Of course, before this script could work, I needed to grant Automate access to my camera. If I remove the script, I can easily disable the access and keep Automate from accessing the camera in the future. Much more powerful than IFTTT.

If he aint talking about government ownership of all means of production....he isn't a communist.

He may not be talking about it openly, but there are enough dog whistles in there to attract vast packs. But, whether he talks about it is irrelevant — whether he believes in it is important. And he does... Bernie Sanders is a member of an organization, that is a thin front for Communists.

They know of the toxicity of the "Communist" label (preferring "Socialist" instead), but aren't shy about their admiration for Marx. For example, here DSA speaks fondly of the founder of Communist Party of Italy. Separately a member of DSA's "National Committee" David Green once wrote:

Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production. Our immediate task is to limit the capitalist class’s prerogatives in the workplace.

— David Green, 2007 (page 10)

Ah, you'll say, that's all from capitalist haters, just can't be true, right? Well, here is fresh from DSA's own mouth (emphasis mine):

And while Sanders’ platform calls primarily for government to heal the ravages of unrestrained capitalism, it also includes more radical reforms that shift control over capital from corporations to social ownership

Good enough for you? Far less evidence was used to claim "Trump is a KKK-supporter" or something like that...

Anyone replying to this post and expecting to continue the conversation, please, be sure to state unambiguously:

• Whether you dispute DSA being a Communist organization (at least in substantial part).
• Whether you dispute Bernie Sanders being a member.
• Whether or not you think there is anything wrong with Communism to begin with.

Responses missing clear answers to the above will be returned unopened. Thank you.

Yes, Bernie Sanders is a Communist. And that particular article came out before he started to run for Presidency. The "Socialist" label he prefers is hardly better (Socialism is nothing but Communism-lite), but he was and remains a member and supporter of openly Communist organizations. As recently as 2014 Bernie Sanders was hailed by Democratic Socialists of America — a "New Left" organization comprised of what was left of the Socialist and Communist movements of the "Old Left". And he was not merely endorsed by these assholes (the way, Trump was endorsed by Duke) — Sanders was a distinguished speaker at a DSA gathering that year. On the same page the Senator is also called "DSA member".

The funny part is, most of his defenders would dispute — often angrily — the "Communist" label while also disagreeing, there is anything wrong with being a Communist. So, before going any further, please, state for the record, whether you are one of such people... Thanks!

While Fascism/Nazism is largely extinct from public life (though, sadly, not from government), Socialism/Communism — the far more murderous school of thought — is rearing its even uglier head... And not only on Slashdot.

Yes, Bernie Sanders is a Communist. And that particular article came out before he started to run for Presidency. The "Socialist" label he prefers is hardly better (Socialism is nothing but Communism-lite), but he was and remains a member and supporter of openly Communist organizations. As recently as 2014 Bernie Sanders was hailed by Democratic Socialists of America — a "New Left" organization comprised of what was left of the Socialist and Communist movements of the "Old Left". And he was not merely endorsed by these assholes (the way, Trump was endorsed by Duke) — Sanders was a distinguished speaker at a DSA gathering that year. On the same page the Senator is also called "DSA member".

The funny part is, most of his defenders would dispute — often angrily — the "Communist" label while also disagreeing, there is anything wrong with being a Communist. So, before going any further, please, state for the record, whether you are one of such people... Thanks!

While Fascism/Nazism is largely extinct from public life (though, sadly, not from government), Socialism/Communism — the far more murderous school of thought — is rearing its even uglier head... And not only on Slashdot.

Weev was one of the early proponents and e-celebs in the now-defunct #gamergate movement. He wrote, "Gamergate is the biggest siren bringing people into the folds of white nationalism." You can look it up yourself, if you don't believe me.

Here is an admiring profile on him written by a guy that runs the biggest White Supremacist podcast in Europe:

https://plus.google.com/+Henri...

OK. Mobile version is here (and I apologise in advance for the sound quality, you probably need some noise-cancelling headphones to hear it properly), I'll get the SD (which has better sound quality) up on a torrent because I don't have the space on my GDrive for a 14GB upload.

For a lot of people they are

https://www.google.com/search?...

Gmail doesn't allow non encrypted client access. The default configuration is IMAPS with SMTPS. Both of these are TLS encrypted.

I conduct research in a lab that uses EEG to measure a very different kind of processing, so it's possible I'm unaware of the relevant background literature (if indeed there is any), but the most charitable thing I can say is that it is impossible to draw any conclusions at all from the results as they are reported here.

Barnett talks about "neural engagement", but this is not a technical term. Googling around led to his patent on measuring so-called engagement. The relevant part is as follows:

“For example, if a movie was presented to a group of people, the measure of engagement could show the level of engagement the group (or a subset of the group) displayed in response to different scenes in the movie; the measure of engagement could also show how engaging the movie was overall. The method 100 preferably performs cross-brain correlations of neural data, calculated across pairs (a measure of neural similarity), as input for the measure of engagement. The method 100 additionally may function to provide a measure of engagement across small and precise time ranges. Understanding that one characteristic of engaging content is its ability to generate similar neural responses in different individuals, this preferably enables the method 100 to operate without the need to specify a model for the neural processes of engagement.”

So as far as I can tell, the fact that Trump generated higher levels of engagement means the EEG responses he elicited in viewers were more correlated with each other than were the EEG responses elicited by other candidates. This could potentially be interesting, but not without a process model explaining why. Even taking this associative, non-experimental method at face value, here's a plausible hypothesis that would render this result totally uninteresting: Everyone has seen and heard Donald Trump a lot. The same cannot be said for, say, John Kasich. It seems reasonable to me that frequent stimuli would be more likely to elicit common responses.

Maybe this hypothesis is correct; maybe it's not. The point is that without doing the hard work of showing they understand what their analytic technique measures, the results are totally uninterpretable. You can't even say that "Viewers weren't bored" without knowing what the correlations between the EEG responses of bored people would generate!

tl;dr: A poorly-designed and as-yet unpublished EEG study leads to an uninterpretable result that generated news coverage because readers like it when their latent beliefs are covered with a veneer of scientific acceptability.

(Professional quibble with the write-up: The term "lights up the brain" is neuroscientific slang used exclusively with methods like fMRI that tell you which regions of the brain are active. I know no neuroscientist who would say the brain is "lit up" based on an EEG reading.)

According to the owners, these: https://www.google.com/search?...

95% of Han Unification doesn't seem like a problem to me. The slight stylistic differences between Chinese and Japanese where it's just a matter of "these tiny strokes point slightly left in Chinese and slightly right in Japanese" can still easily be understood no matter what font. Even slightly more stylistic differences don't actually cause any problems. For example, these two Kanji: http://jisho.org/search/%23kan... and other Kanji that have these shapes inside of them. The fonts tend to show the Chinese version: In the first, the top line is the same as the 3rd/4th, but Japanese usually write the top like a tiny dot almost, as seen in the stroke diagram graphic. In the second Kanji (scroll down), the last stroke is vertical in Chinese, but diagonal and connected differently in the Japanese version. Japanese people, in my experience, don't seem to have any problem with these kinds of differences.

Other more major differences caused by Kanji simplification over the years has also resulted in two codepoints in Unicode, so the Chinese and Japanese characters that *historically* had the same drawing, are now actually usable in either language still. For example, https://translate.google.com/?... shows the Japanese and simplified Chinese "fish". Japanese still use 4 dots on the bottom, Chinese use a line. This was given two codepoints and doesn't seem to be a problem. Many other differences were given two codepoints and Chinese fonts typically don't include any definition for the Japanese version and vice-versa.

The example I gave in my original post, about the Kanji meaning "leader" is one that really baffles me. Why was such a major difference in drawing merged into only one codepoint, and why was it never separated out into two codepoints in the next version of Unicode? There are other Kanji with major difference in appearance that share a single codepoint because of Han Unification, and these ones cause a lot of trouble. Japanese people typically don't recognize the Chinese version of "leader" as having any meaning at all. It's just scribbles to them, and when a webpage or document tries to display Japanese text but Windows or whatever decides to fall back to a Chinese font, the entire meaning is lost, because of Unicode.

Stop eating refined sugar, and switch to Gur and Jaggery.

Gur, Jaggery and Panela taste much better and are more healthful.

We make our own, and that's the only sugar we have used for many, many years.

Sorry, but if a last name of "Null" breaks your code, you're a shit coder.

The same for name fields- a 50 character limit should be the minimum. Database space is cheap, what exactly do people think they're saving by restricting a name field to 20 characters or so?

It pisses me off when a site insists that your last name HAS to be more than 2 characters, or that your first name can't be a single letter. Believe it or not, some people DO have names like that. If he was still alive someone like e. e. cummings wouldn't be able to sign up for jack shit these days because most sites insist that a period simply cannot be a part of your name, and a one-letter name is somehow illegal.

It makes sense to restrict some fields to some maximum value when the upper limit is known (i.e. phone numbers, zip codes, US state names, etc) but for any arbitrary data it makes no sense to enforce an unrealistic maximum. Yes, most last names are less than 30 characters, but not all are. Why would you put in some stupid hard max limit like 30 characters?

Seriously, what the fuck does it cost you to define a column as 100 chars wide instead of 30? What benefit are you supposedly gaining by restricting it to 30 chars? Are you being charged by the letter or something? Sure, a 100 character limit seems unduly generous, but the moment a customer can't create an account because of your mindless stinginess, you're the one that loses a sale, not them.

I've been coding for decades and it's both gratifying and disheartening to see so many large, well-funded companies making these idiot-level mistakes that I don't make. I have a hard time believing that I'm smarter than all the coders at some of these large companies, but the evidence seems to show I am, at least in some areas.

In another post in this same thread, someone disagreeing with me linked to some Australia data. In my reply I pointed out that the numbers on the site he linked to show sexual assault increased about 20% after the Australia law was passed. Again that's based on number linked from an anti-gun person trying to prove me wrong.

Another of the more clear examples was the UK gun ban. Official crime rate data (linked below) indicates that in the five years prior to the ban, 1.2 million violent crimes were reported. After the ban took effect, there were over 5 million violent crimes in the following five years. Home Office data shows that rape went from 27,000 to nearly 47,000 when potential attackers were assured there was no risk that a law-abiding woman might defend herself with a firearm. Other serious crimes show the same pattern. Total sex offenses increased from 158,000 to over 245,00.

For more examples, analysis, and a pair of laws (with accompanying advertising campaigns) which did work, see this analysis:
https://docs.google.com/docume...

Raw data:
UK Home Office. A summary of recorded crime data from 1898 to 2001/02.
https://www.gov.uk/government/...

UK Home Office. Recorded crime statistics for England and Wales 2002/03 - 2013/13.
https://www.gov.uk/government/...

One of the more clear examples was the UK gun ban. Official crime rate data (linked below) indicates that in the five years prior to the ban, 1.2 million violent crimes were reported. After the ban took effect, there were over 5 million violent crimes in the following five years. Home Office data shows that rape went from 27,000 to nearly 47,000 when potential attackers were assured there was no risk that a law-abiding woman might defend herself with a firearm. Other serious crimes show the same pattern. Total sex offenses increased from 158,000 to over 245,00.

For more examples and analysis ( and accompanying advertising campaigns) which did work, see this analysis:
https://docs.google.com/docume...

Raw data:
UK Home Office. A summary of recorded crime data from 1898 to 2001/02.
https://www.gov.uk/government/...

UK Home Office. Recorded crime statistics for England and Wales 2002/03 â" 2013/13.
https://www.gov.uk/government/...

Yes we are.

https://play.google.com/store/...

Have a look at Cortez Street here. It has a CANYON in the middle of it!! Typical for this area.
Cortez Street

> I just don't get it.
That's because you don't manage multiple domains. Uploading files is D-O-G slow. I get ~130 Mb/s down, ~12 Mb/s up (bits) which is 16 MB/s down and 1 MB/s up (bytes) and it STILL takes ages to upload anything. Other sites upload wicked fast.

> Yahoo mail is fine
Maybe for you. But it blows for multiple reasons:

0. Ad spamfest
1. For the rest of us searching still sucks compared to Gmail. (Their Javascript rewrite was horrible for months: slow, crappy UI, etc.)
2. Their offline mail archive blows. Where the fuck is the ability to download ALL my mail FOLDERS + contents offline?? This may have changed recently -- I changed checked in years. For years they only offered folders via "mobile only" bullshit.
3. Gmail's UNDO is _awesome_.
4. You've never had to deal with all the spammers trying to hijack your account
5. You've never had to deal with technical support. Good luck even getting in touch with a live human to report an issue.
6. You've never had their mail system fail over without any explanation.

It this poll of 579 people is any indication, Yahoo sucks far more then Gmail or Hotmail.
* https://yahoomailreview.wordpr...

> why do people seem to dislike them so?
In addition to all the stuff mentioned above another reason is because of all the other bloated shit they throw on their "portal" page. I don't want nor need their crap. /Oblg. Yahoo vs Google Homepage
* http://i.imgur.com/kOjcHU5.gif

Back in the day they used to be good for custom domain + web hosting. Today they are overpriced.

Here's another opinion:
* http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/...

I use my phone paired with a set of bluetooth headphones and the 5x5 app when I work out. Hardly just walking to and from the fridge.

https://play.google.com/store/...

I do the 5x5 workout then 15 minutes on the cardio setting on a treadmill. It seems to be working as I am sore all the time for now, I expect it will pass soon though.

This is cool and all, but for those who don't read TFS (let alone TFA), you may want to look at the requirements (bottom of page), and you'll discover that you will need either Photoshop of some flavor installed (no effing way I'm coughing up money to Adobe for just a hobby), or Aperture for OSX.

BTW, no love for GIMP? dafuq?

I could see it as being something that's not only long-term fiscally advantageous but also something that enables them to push the envelope and thus give their products a lead. Part of the picture I have in my head means that they'd be selling the chips themselves instead of limiting them to their own devices. That sort of goes against business practices seen by Apple in the past but I guess it's possible, however unlikely. As a long-term strategy, it might be worthwhile.

I did mention one of the larger drawbacks in my earlier reply. It puts them at a place of a single point of failure - unless another company *also* has the tech and can spin up the fab style/tech quickly in case of a crisis. I'm thinking that's really antithetical to typical corporate behavior with regards to Apple.

But as I said before, fab lines are assininely-expensive, have to be continuously updated, and pretty-much have to be run 24/7/365 to make ends meet. Apple has wisely stayed out of that game, IMHO.

That said, if Apple made server hardware that was not a fashion accessory and had the longevity, durability, and build quality associated with the consumer lines then I'd absolutely consider purchasing it for my home use.

Apple has had many, many forays into the Server market throughout the years, including at least one home-grown variant of Unix, plus Dedicated (non-Mac) Server machines that ran IBM's AIX, and a short-lived Port of NEXTSTEP in 1999, branded as "OS X Server 1.0", and all of this long before the XServes. And I would hardly call any of them a "fashion accessory". That is a blatant slap-in-the-face to the hundreds of software and hardware engineers that worked long and hard to bring those very serious products to market.

I don't refresh nearly as often, as a home user, so it's okay for me to buy a server and expect to get five to seven years out of it. Quality isn't so valuable a metric (but is still a metric - just not as valuable) when you're going to refresh in 2-3 years already and have already factored in the MTBF with your purchase.

As a home user, that metric becomes more heavily weighted, at least it does in my choices, and I'd give Apple a serious consideration at that point. I'd SERIOUSLY want to be able to have some alternatives. I'd really rather a different operating system on the bare metal. It is BSD and is Unix-like so I could live with it but it is not my preferences. So long as it had a decent VNC server and I could get VMWare up and running then I'd almost certainly opt for it - if it were an option and I was in the market for one.

Well, Macs can run VMWare, and VNC is the built-in "Screen Sharing" feature of OS X, so...

Now the question remains: What do you really need from a home-server, and will you accept something that isn't in a 19" rackmount package as a "real server" (keeping in mind that HP and Dell sell many boxen they call "Servers" that are simply glorified tower designs).

I'm sure there's a VNC server application package that exists or could be converted easily enough. I want something better than SSH. RDP is nice but I prefer VNC. I'm not sure but I bet there's an RDP app for OS X so that's an option.

You can have all of that and more with OS X. Oh, and Apple has a spectacular Remote Admin package based on VNC, called "Apple Remote Desktop". It can also be used to admi

Android devices pretty much all support bluetooth gamepads

Android system updates have a habit of breaking apps that act as drivers for Bluetooth gamepads. For example, large changes to the Bluetooth stack from Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" to Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean II" broke the Wiimote Controller app permanently, and the app had already been broken on several phone models. The Sixaxis Controller app purports to connect connects official Dual Shock 3 controllers to select Android devices. But it requires a rooted phone, has to have a second app just to check its compatibility with your particular phone, and is reported to fail on Android 6 "Marshmallow" and later.

Android devices pretty much all support bluetooth gamepads

Android system updates have a habit of breaking apps that act as drivers for Bluetooth gamepads. For example, large changes to the Bluetooth stack from Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean" to Android 4.2 "Jelly Bean II" broke the Wiimote Controller app permanently, and the app had already been broken on several phone models. The Sixaxis Controller app purports to connect connects official Dual Shock 3 controllers to select Android devices. But it requires a rooted phone, has to have a second app just to check its compatibility with your particular phone, and is reported to fail on Android 6 "Marshmallow" and later.

Google Omega will crush this startup. This is nothing but a tweak of some previously existing open source software, hardly worth this kind of investment.

> No mods is supposed to means no cheating in online multiplayer against strangers but yet cheaters still abound

FTFY.

Likewise, the console industry and dumb fanbois remains completely clueless about why PC's kick the ass out of consoles for good reasons:

* Mouse+Keyboard is a superior input combo which blows gamepads out of the water for sub-pixel pefect FPS accuracy with multi-level DPI precision such as the classic Logitech G500s weighted 10 button mouse.

* Dedicated keyboard makes web surfing fun and trivial to reply with long detailed info. to people on forums such as /. and Reddit, not to mention GameFaqs instead of typing on some shitty virtual keyboard.

* No bullshit proprietary USB -- standard Joysticks, Gamepads, and Throttles such as the excellent CH Throttle Pro work awesome in Space and Flight sims.

* Allows the user to pick their favorite case such as the excellent Corsair Graphite 780T

* Online Digital Game stores (Steam, Gog, Origin, etc.) with user ratings give gamers a wide access of games -- consoles are so crappy that they can't even run some of the genres such as RTS's!
  * RTS's such as excellent Starcraft 2, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 & 3
  * RPG's such as the free Path of Exile, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 1 & 2, Ultima, etc.
  * Space games such as Master of Orion, Freelancer, Elite, Star Citizen

* Tons of innovate indie games played first on PC; most which are exclusive to PCs

* Allows anyone to make games & content; no shenanigans of overpriced dev kits

* Allows gamers to upgrade to a real GPU such as the GTX 980Ti at their convenience instead of throwing the entire box out

* Aren't overpriced like consoles

* Isn't a gimped 5 year old PC

* Allows anyone to run applications such as Photoshop, Krita, Inkscape, etc., Text Editors for real work such as the excellent WebStorm, etc.

* You decide what software to run not some arrogant third party dictating what is "legal"

* TONS of Emulators to play all your old favorite games!

* Superior 4K resolution @ 60 Hz, not 720p and 1080p wannabe resolutions

* True 120+ Hz framerate not some crappy 30 Hz stutterfest.

* TONS of Mods for your favorite games: Skyrim, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead (SourceMod), etc. not to mention photo realistic graphic ENB shaders such as Skyrim ENB that are a slideshow on consoles.

* Systems aren't obsolete with an artificial console upgrade cycle

* Allows water-cooling for super Over-Clocking of CPU and GPU if desired

* Wide range of choice in Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD based on what your needs are

/Oblg. /r/pcmasterrace

And the thing is, Ike could have been so much worse for Galveston. If landfall had been ~10 kilometers to the southwest (which in hurricane terms is just a wobble), he would have done to Galveston what he did to the Bolivar Peninsula.

I was so mad with the mayor of Galveston, constantly playing down the building storm until the last minute out of fear of driving away tourist money. The NHC was taking the storm very seriously and giving warnings about its size, its growth potential and the potential range of its impact location, and then the mayor would come on and say, no, no, it's going to hit way south of us, and even if it did hit it'll only be a little category 1 or 2...

As bad as the damage was, they could have lost half the bloody island (along with all of the people who waited too long to leave due to listening to idiots like their mayor) had it made landfall just a bit further to the southwest. The northeast quadrant is the dangerous part of an Atlantic-basin hurricane. A more southwesterly track would have added nearly a meter to the storm surge and significantly increased winds and wave heights. And it would have also attacked the island on less well defended areas.

Maybe men are better at negotiating salary. Negotiating makes a huge difference. When I was promoted at my last job, I did not negotiating because I was afraid I wouldn't be given the job. The person (a lady) who was promoted next did negotiate and started about 5 thousand more than me.

I'd be interested to see what the starting offer was for men and woman and what disparity was there.

A strong negotiator needs a high degree of self-confidence. The ablity to maintaining high self-confidence in situations where that confidence is questioned is often correlated with sales ability. This issue is always framed as a gender issue, but I am not sure it is. There are plenty of men with no self confidence who negotiate like overcooked spagetti, and many women who are very strong negotiators. My theory is that the testosterone/estrogen balance is more important than simply gender in this situation. Obviously that relates to gender but this is not a black and white issue.

In any case, a 5.4% difference in pay is an indication that small continuous-improvement adjustments are needed, not the sweeping social changes that are often proposed. We need to be very careful with any change that tilts the bar since women have outnumbered men in college graduation for some time now and the long-term ramifications of that may not have shown up in salary data yet. We may find in 10 years that significant action is needed to balancing the playing field back towards men.

So your answer is that the governmental regulations and taxes(permitting and hearings) are the majority of the cost. That isn't an economic argument for solar being the better option. Your simply stating that the governments have chosen solar as the winner. And that also leads back to my argument that it is in fact misallocation of resources. You are clearly economically ignorant. I suggest you go read Hayak's The Road to Serfdom .

My same question. Found this extension to let you do it from the browser: https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Clearly you don't read Slashdot all that often.

https://store.google.com/produ...

I have no problem fitting my Nexus 5X into my front pocket, and it has a 5.2" screen. Are you like 5'4"?

Implanted Cell phone? Hell yeah!

https://www.google.com/search?...

Many people wrongly labeled as "deniers" aren't denying anything. They're merely taking a far more stringent and critical look at the data than those who have political agendas to push do. The wrongly-accused "deniers" are just doing science as it's meant to be done.

No they're fucking not.

It's like you go to 100 doctors, 99 of them tell you have cancer, one doesn't.

Are the people who go with the one doctor "doing science as it's meant to be done"? No, they're idiots. They deserve to die of it.

Except this time it's not cancer, it's a contagious disease.

PS: "Political agenda"? Really?? The only political agenda here is the people selling you the oil and funding the denialist movement.

I don't have enough facepalms for the people who keep repeating the crap you just repeated.

What bothers me most is that while the police was preparing to raid the safe house, a mob of 200-300 north Africans gathered around their terrorist friends house/area and became verbally violent against the police. Some fully covered woman even started to 'hug' police men. When the police didn't react they started throwing stones and bottles. They tried everything to start a riot to get the police's attention so their friend could escape. Fortunately there was enough police, the riot police that is trained against football hooligans could control the mass while the specialized police could capture the terrorist.

This only shows that it is not modern communication, but old fashioned real life networking. Friends, families, people with the same interests, culture and religion. That's what needed to stay out of the hands of the police as the most wanted person in Europe. He just lived next to a school with at least 5 Kalashnikov's. He lived just around the block of his parents. The old (socialist) major keeps on repeating that there is nothing wrong in the community. This happens everywhere he claims. He calls it 'fait divers', a 'trivial accident'.

Apparently all major parties, politics, media, charities, religious institutions etc... seem to agree. These images have been censored. Nobody talks about what happened. Only eye witnesses talk about it but don't want to be recognized. They live in that city and don't want to live in danger for telling what really happened. Speaking the truth gets you labeled as a racist. These kind of events have been happening for 30-40 years. It's the first time that the world press is all pointing the Molenbeek. But there were so many previous attacks that started or had connections in Molenbeek. The attack on the train in Madrid. The first western suicide bomber during the war in Iraq. The terrorist events around 9/11. The attack on a Jewish museum. The stoning of a homosexual couple. The burning of the police station. The attacks on Charly Hebdo.... Many more terrorist attacks had a connection in Molenbeek. But it are just 'fait divers', it happens everywhere.

The plans from political correct left is just depressing. Translation from a plan for Brussels from a person that is very influential on the left thinking politicians (socialist party, green party, christian democrats, left side of the liberals). This is an article of 5 years ago. Nothing is wrong with Islam, it is peace. More Islam will mean no more violence in the European Capital. Applauded by many politicians. Islam is peace, white men are nothing but violence, racism and lack of tolerance. When you here that more then 100 deaths during a terrorist attack in Paris, planned and sponsored from Brussels, is just a 'fait divers' according to the left wing (cross party) politicians and their think tanks, then it is no surprise that extreme right wing parties are winning the votes.

How could it come so far? Those people wanted to fight tyranny and created it themselves. They wanted a progressive society against conservatism and to achieve that they embraced and empowered the most conservative group, namely the Muslims. I've read an article today that basically said: Finally the small bandit is caught, it was just a lone wolf, the right wing no longer have any right to criticize the Muslims because there is no terrorism anymore, lets go back to help the real victims: the poor Muslim community in Molenbeek that has been stigmatized.

My family switched from Android phones to iPhones a few months ago. Bought iPhones 5S $150 ea new. Had to do additional carrier unlock for $30 (it was locked to Sprint, I'm on super cheap T-Mobile MVNO). Can't beat that price.
5SE may have better camera and CPU but I don't see a need for that. 5S is still snappy and is not lagging.

The reason I switched, in case anyone is interested, is because Google is shit: https://code.google.com/p/andr...
Are you fucking kidding me Google? It's been a year since this regression was reported and noone gives a shit. My option was to downgrade to Android 4 and live with security holes, fix it myself or toss the phone.
Fixing it myself is an OK option but I'm too old for that shit.

Apple Pay is just Apple's name for NFC. Look for the NFC Logo

Also called MasterCard PayPass, Android Pay, Visa Pay Wave or Discover Zip.

Samsung Pay is a bit different, in addition to NFC they bought a company that fakes a magnetic swipe meaning it can be used with any old magnetic reader.

Almost every place I've tried to use touch to pay works (And I don't even use my cell phone). Most places have had the readers since ~2010 and I remember McDonalds having them since ~2007ish.

It's handy to take my wallet out of my pocket, tap the screen and continue on. If any store you go into has a newer screen the reader is behind the screen, older payment kiosks have a little ''dish' looking part on the top.

Here.

So: ask Slashdot: how do you cope with DDoS? What are the best tools to protect yourself and what to do when the attack is on?

Well, if I was media outlet, I would likely look into Google's Project Shield. For other cases where security/privacy isn't the priority number I would consider CloudFlare. To protect government sites where you are not allowed to rely on service outside of your country, you would need to figure out how much you are ready to spend. Like if you have unlimited budget, you could build your own CDN with multiple 100Gpbs of capacity per IXP and then start filtering it before passing it to your core.

As well as making labor more productive, you get the double whammy of lower prices. As long as regulators stay out of it, that is.

https://www.google.com/search?...

A variation of the tried and true knee drop, when actually damaging your opponent is not the intent.

I saw him say this on "60 Minutes" years ago: https://books.google.com/books...

In the aftermath of the loss of the Columbia, the Bush administration directed NASA to return to deep space exploration, arguing that if we are to risk the lives of astronauts in space it ought to be for big things like exploring new worlds. Part of this was the Constellation program to return to the moon to build a permanent manned base at the lunar south pole before putting a man on Mars, which congress under-funded and president Obama cancelled. But the other part was a boost to the Bush administration's re-start of the 1960s nuclear power and rocket engines programs which like everything else he did alarmed the political left.,/p>

The Bush restart of the nuclear rocket engines program was called "Project Prometheus" and was allowed to die-off as Constellation slipped its schedule, was underfunded, and the politics of the day eliminated further Democratic cooperation with Bush.

God Emperor Trump

So, I googled "God Emperor Trump" and laughed. Then I became afraid, very afraid.,

Nova Launcher Prime is much better.

Or if you are really into customisation, nothing beats Lightning Launcher, which is my personal favourite.

Nova Launcher Prime is much better.

Or if you are really into customisation, nothing beats Lightning Launcher, which is my personal favourite.