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This is what space ships look like in the real universe.

Pejorative: expressing contempt or disapproval.

The acronym "SJW" is a pejorative for a certain kind of person. A phrase can be pejorative without being obviously so when removed from the larger context of its usage.

Scientists predict the arctic ocean will be ice free by2012. Or maybe by 2015. Or by the year 2000. Hard to say, really.

How is it legal to not have enough to pay your employees?

Laws vary from state to state. But, in general, companies must pay their employees for time worked. If the company runs out, then principals can be held liable. Smaller company, wealthy principal, employees have a reasonable chance of getting paid, enforced by their state Department of Labor. But of course if what is owed is way more than the principals' assets, then there's not much to be done.

So that's how employees are different than investors, the "corporate veil" does not protect the company owner from liability for their wages.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Unpaid wages can only be recovered via civil suit if the employer is not in bankruptcy; if the employer has declared bankruptcy, workers simply become creditors in the legal proceeding. In some jurisdictions, workers may become preferential creditors, in others they get in line with everyone else who is owed money. In no case (in the US) are owners personally liable for unpaid wages or any other unpaid creditor.

I would suggest you read this article to begin to educate yourself on the topic. Check here for further information on the matter.

Just go to http://google.com/ncr to bypass it.

How, exactly, does a "no country redirect" (i.e., "ncr") help in this situation? That's just intended for you to be taken to the "regular" (US English) Google.com homepage

Right to be forgotten is not recognized in the US, therefore using the US version will not be restricted.

Just go to http://google.com/ncr to bypass it.

How, exactly, does a "no country redirect" (i.e., "ncr") help in this situation? That's just intended for you to be taken to the "regular" (US English) Google.com homepage in case it's incorrectly detecting your location or you otherwise don't want to be redirected to a country-specific site. I'm pretty sure there's nothing else special about it.

The computer has 72 processors and 144 GPU's. That's tiny. Seriously tiny. Sure, GPU's are powerful, especially for image processing. But the larger computers these days are running tens to hundreds of thousands of processors in parallel.

For example, assuming each shelf has 2 processors and 4 GPU's, and they can fit 12 shelves into a single rack, that's a total of 2 racks. Compare that to this image of one of Google's datacenters, where you can see dozens of racks, each containing 14 shelves by my count. And that's just one row. These are gigantic warehouses, with row upon row of racks.

The level of processing power claimed here is closer to the level of a university processing cluster. The larger scientific clusters can be ten or a hundred times larger, and it's not clear just how big private datacenters are.

So overall I'm very, very skeptical. There's a very good chance that they fudged the data somehow to make theirs appear better. But if it is better, well, there's no reason why Google and Microsoft couldn't easily outcompete them in short order.

This is not a competition of hardware. It is a competition of software and algorithms. The hardware is somewhat irrelevent, and a smaller hardware footprint would actually be more impressive! You also seem to think that the #1 search provider in the chinese market is incapable of standing toe to toe with an American company. I think you need to get out a little more.

The one search engine we almost all use

The last dozen or so times that I have used any of googles search products was specifically with Google Scholar ( https://scholar.google.com/ )

Googles regular search has turned to shit. Even bing is better.

The computer has 72 processors and 144 GPU's. That's tiny. Seriously tiny. Sure, GPU's are powerful, especially for image processing. But the larger computers these days are running tens to hundreds of thousands of processors in parallel.

For example, assuming each shelf has 2 processors and 4 GPU's, and they can fit 12 shelves into a single rack, that's a total of 2 racks. Compare that to this image of one of Google's datacenters, where you can see dozens of racks, each containing 14 shelves by my count. And that's just one row. These are gigantic warehouses, with row upon row of racks.

The level of processing power claimed here is closer to the level of a university processing cluster. The larger scientific clusters can be ten or a hundred times larger, and it's not clear just how big private datacenters are.

So overall I'm very, very skeptical. There's a very good chance that they fudged the data somehow to make theirs appear better. But if it is better, well, there's no reason why Google and Microsoft couldn't easily outcompete them in short order.

Just go to http://google.com/ncr to bypass it.

Didn't someone publish a report stating that the bees were getting addicted to the nicotine?

No, bangpaths show that you're old.

{well known host}!mcnc!unc!scotte

https://groups.google.com/foru...

I thought that was Greenpeace.

And isn't their thing these days defacing world heritage sites in more or less irreversible and environmentally damaging ways?

Since when is Greenpeace spelled ISIS?!?

From a legal/liability standpoint, generally not.

If you're a lawyer, you suck miserably. In product liability cases, some jurisdictions allow the manufacturer to be held liable for "reasonably foreseeable misuse", e.g. use of a product that is not within the scope of what the product is defined to do but that nevertheless a normal user would commonly do. An example is a person standing on a chair to change a lightbulb; if the chair breaks while the person is standing on it and the person is injured, the manufacturer can not get away with saying "a chair is only for sitting in, not standing on, so we're not liable."

What the article is talking about is basically the same thing, except for software.

(I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.)

Oh and, by the way, a reasonably good summary of how "reasonably foreseeable abuse" works can be found at: http://www.productliabilityprevention.com/images/DRI_Foreseeable_Spring_2009_KRoss_.pdf

I didn't see this mentioned by anyone else, but there is also a phenomenon called creep corrosion (and other things, the only common word is creep that I've seen) that applies to a lot of situations that PCB's are also subject to. It can cause solder joints and traces in close proximity become shorted. I think temperature has an affect, but I think it can also happen at close to room temperature in low-temperature solder situations. This would most likely spell death for the majority of our PCB based technology (it not others as well). It could cause a system running continuously to fail eventually or I think even dormant non-powered electronics to fail even if not stored improperly. There was an article here recently about a darpa program for self healing software http://www.tomsguide.com/us/da... that was interesting, but I feel like we would have to design more redundant hardware to avoid problems like this or potentially metals that aren't subject to these problems that could run long after we are gone. It wouldn't be economical though since so much hardware outlives its usefulness in our fast paced economy. Here are some pictures of creep in action: https://www.google.com/search?...

From a legal/liability standpoint, generally not.

If you're a lawyer, you suck miserably. In product liability cases, some jurisdictions allow the manufacturer to be held liable for "reasonably foreseeable misuse", e.g. use of a product that is not within the scope of what the product is defined to do but that nevertheless a normal user would commonly do. An example is a person standing on a chair to change a lightbulb; if the chair breaks while the person is standing on it and the person is injured, the manufacturer can not get away with saying "a chair is only for sitting in, not standing on, so we're not liable."

What the article is talking about is basically the same thing, except for software.

(I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.)

To be fair, it really isn't true that there are no companies focusing on security. Indeed, every IoT Journal I read talks about it quite a bit.

With annual revenue of $2.5 billion, probably.

That page shows net income of $120m in the last year, so a P/E over 36, or 2.7% yield. Must be a growth stock.

Honestly, is AOL worth $4.4 billion? Someone better be doing some proper due diligence on this one.

With annual revenue of $2.5 billion, probably. Seriously, this is something you could have checked out.

After dialup disappeared, AOL had plenty of cash in the bank. So they became a type of venture capital. They bought Huffington Post, Tech Crunch and many others. Since they actually have a lot of web traffic, they started an advertising business.

If you consider that Google and Facebook are essentially ad companies, with ad networks that span far beyond their own website, AOL is another one. Any time you see a video ad on the internet, there's a decent chance it's from AOL (but please use adblock, malware gets into those things).

And something like half the integrated circuit output of the entire world at the time.

great, until you hit a pothole and kill the guy in the car behind you on the highway

i don't know about regulating hauling, but i wouldn't mind seeing the police pull over and arrest some of the flimsy crap i've seen barely secured to trucks and SUVs going 70 in the highway

I'm all for sensible precautions, but is this really a problem?

We can imagine all sorts of things happening and require enormous levels of bureaucratic process and safety procedure for just about everything, but without evidence of likelihood that'll just be wasted effort.

In the manner of Bruce Schneier's movie plot security, this is "movie plot safety". We *imagine* what *might* happen, then burden it up with preventive measures.

What we should be doing is looking at what *actually happens*, and then analyzing *why* it happens and making sensible requirements from that.

Cue the idiots who have personally seen one ("I've actually seen two, so it's definitely a problem") tied-down item come loose, thus proving that excess bureaucracy is required.

What you maroons[] are missing is that there was a study on the flatness of states that was on the nerd news sites recently, and Kansas was not even close to winning. States like Florida are much, much flatter. Kansas is actually rolling hills, even in the part of the State people like to claim as being flat. Just find a topo map.

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
Anywhere you zoom in, rolling hills. Flat areas are just small patches between hills. The hills are mostly the same height, so it looks pretty flat when you look out across the land and are only looking at the tops.

http://news.nationalgeographic...
Not even in the top 5. My explanation is that perhaps your State has the worst vision?

Row houses like these are commonly rather narrow, but 12 feet is ridiculous.

12 is an even number.
These row houses have 12 feet.
12 is an odd number of feet for row houses to have.
The only number that is both odd and even is infinity.
Therefore, these row houses have an infinite number of feet.

With a squelchy dull thud, Amazon has impacted Ballard like a Monty Python foot descending from the sky. The massive toes wiggle hither and thither, condemning single unit clapboard homes and crushing them, each bursting and releasing a little spurt of growth. A drunken real estate bacchanal has ensued. The streets are slippery with impending wealth. One-click yuppies are a-comin'.

These 'houses' are constructed like a giant foot with four toes. Each toe has a door which leads into a long corridor into which someone has squeezed out a kitchenette and laid a showerette. When you reach the end of this corridor you must turn back. The upper reaches are obtained by ascending a flight of stairs that look vaguely industrial. Then upstairs, more stairs. Then on the third floor, no more stairs, you must turn back. An upright piano would tire quickly on those stairs.

It appears that these toe-house residents will spend half their time on those narrow stairs. A wife cannot even carry her husband to bed without risking injury to them both. Carrying bulky objects like dish trays and laundry baskets up and down stairs a chore because we Yankees have forgotten how to build dumbwaiters. Perhaps the plans have been lost. Perhaps it is because of strict building codes that mandate shaft firewalls, door interlocks and braking safety features similar to that of passenger elevators, so your dishes feel safe. Some of the most exciting children's adventure books involve dumbwaiters. Yet stairs are as dangerous as ever. You could always place pillows at the bottom of a dumbwaiter shaft, and the number of children who have been harmed in dumbwaiter tragedies does not even hold a candle to those who have been killed or disfigured by stairs. No one ever blames the stairs.

But who is this legion of mostly-singles who will be jellifying these toe-houses? Here we see them at work storing and retrieving session tokens for visitors to the Amazon website. Those engaged in Special Services rate private offices. Here we see a glimpse of the layout of DZ stroke 015's private office, after which these stacked toe-houses were designed. And here we see the hidden ductwork that also contains broadband fiber, so those who have made thousand mile pilgrimages to Seattle can work from home.

Is this toe-house life an experiment crafted by our furry friends to explore our response to dense neighborhoods, afternoon gloom and stairs? Or are they all following the example of a single trend-setter? Why is there no spiral slide? Families will be raised (and lowered) in these odd living spaces, and incessant front-to-back motion of countless people will probably perturb our orbit and make the moon recede faster. The children will probably have sturdy legs up to their shoulders and evolution will favor large padded craniums from tumbling down stairs.

There's an app for that.

There are worse things out there...

(link is not for the squeamish...)

As far as Eastern European country bank heists go, this guy is an amateur. The way professionals do it is by first controlling the government and the media. Then you steal the money (say some 7-8 billion) by funneling them through a chain of hollow companies to offshore accounts. Finally you set one of your partners with whom you have unsettled depth as the fall guy, while you yourself use your political connection to become the head of the local equivalent of the FBI:

Bulgaria's CorpBank: A Tangled Web Of Fraud

Or just become President like Putin did

As far as Eastern European country bank heists go, this guy is an amateur. The way professionals do it is by first controlling the government and the media. Then you steal the money (say some 7-8 billion) by funneling them through a chain of hollow companies to offshore accounts. Finally you set one of your partners with whom you have unsettled depth as the fall guy, while you yourself use your political connection to become the head of the local equivalent of the FBI:

Bulgaria's CorpBank: A Tangled Web Of Fraud

9 USD = 10.88 CAD

Not according to Coursera where USD49.00 == CAD96.00

9 USD = 10.88 CAD

Stick the subject line into a search machine and look at all of the pictures of single atoms.

  I remember many many years ago of the atoms at the end of a pin.

A link to images https://www.google.com/search?...

ACLU for New Jersey has had a camera app that transmits to the cloud for years. ACLU just recently (as in days ago) rolled out versions for multiple states, apparently only differing by which ACLU office they notify.

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

http://www.androidheadlines.co...

Non-black people are attacked by police every day.

Really? You see any riot police in paramilitary gear in the below pictures? Any white "thugs" getting shot in the back while running away? Hell, if you're white, you don't even have to run away. White guys have walked into movie theaters armed like Rambo and murdered a bunch of people in cold blood and the police take them alive and make sure they don't bump their head on the cruiser door when placing them in the back seat.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

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

You can not possibly believe that interactions between police and white people are anything like interactions between police and black people or hispanic people. Let me ask you this: You hear about any white people who have been shot and killed in police custody with their hands handcuffed behind their back?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/in...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/vid...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

For a couple hundred bucks you can get your own meter and start measuring it yourself. You won't get exactly the same numbers as they get at Mauna Loa but if you keep a record of it over a period of time you will see the same amount of rise as they get.

Amusingly, fortnight is a well defined term still in reasonably common use in many English speaking countries. There is no ambiguity.

I suppose that's an apt analogy since the judge wrote the ruling in contemporary English as well with an equal lack of ambiguity.

Considering the number of archaic words one finds in some legal documents, you might be hard-pressed to notice that your contract was re-written into Ye Olde English. :-)

You're correct and it was specifically a poor example, but there are plenty of others to be found along with plenty of reasons we don't use language like that anymore, unless we feel like channeling Shakespeare.

Look, we can go back and forth on this all day long. At the end of the day it was a judge acting unprofessionally. Blowing off steam, adding a little variety, spicing up the paperwork are all excuses and nothing more.

Again the dangerous part with word fuckery in a courtroom is watching lawyers literally want to rip it apart letter by letter looking for loopholes or reasons to dismiss. This case is so obvious it likely won't make a difference here, but it's stupid shit like this that allows loopholes to be found and executed and cases dismissed for BS reasons when they shouldn't have.

Linux is not a copy of Minix, the code is quite different.

Yes. Linux and MINIX are both *NIX-style kernels. But MINIX uses a microkernel design while Linux is a monokernel.

Professor Tanenbaum famously told Linus "Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)"

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI%5B1-25%5D

So anyone who claims that Linux is a "copy" of MINIX really doesn't know what they are talking about.

... but alas I can't go back.

Not true. With the Nexus 5 you can go back.

Factory Images for Nexus Devices: "hammerhead" for Nexus 5 (GSM/LTE)

You just need to manually flash the OS.

I didn't realise that this was possible - thank you.

you encode 'state' on the url!

So which URL for a given resource is canonical to be listed in indexes and shared with other users of the Internet: the one with or without cookies? Your answer to this will help me phrase my next question.

with RESTful apis being so trendy, cookies are often JUST use for authentication.

OAuth 2 uses bearer tokens, which behave like cookies. Is OAuth 2 considered "RESTful"?

Even easier... Change the name of an existing city to "Mars" and you are done...

Oh yea, "I came home from Mars just last week.".. Or, "I'm going to Mars to live for the next 10 years."

You're a litte bit too late for that: Mars, PA

There are instructions at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. Note that doing so nukes the user data on your tablet, so it's kind of a pain, but it's not difficult if you've got ADB set up on your computer.

Amusingly, fortnight is a well defined term still in reasonably common use in many English speaking countries. There is no ambiguity.

I suppose that's an apt analogy since the judge wrote the ruling in contemporary English as well with an equal lack of ambiguity.

Considering the number of archaic words one finds in some legal documents, you might be hard-pressed to notice that your contract was re-written into Ye Olde English. :-)

"We've not seen a lot of pressure to standardize medical billing, but there's certainly a need."

HIPPAA, the entire move from NSF billing format, ansi 837pro, switch from ICD9 codes to the completely batshit insane ICD10 coding which just invites fraud by overspecification. Really it takes a truly great news outlet to discard the past 20 years in the field.

Every CPT code is specific you can google what any of them mean, example from the article

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

The rub is not only was the system easier for doctors offices before the changes, the standards had gone through many years of refinement through use. The effect of the move to the current standards was to force many small to medium medical software firms out of the business. Huzzah.

A process started during the Clinton administration, followed through the Bush administration, and still going on during the Obama administration. If you think government is going to help you, solve your problems, and make life more fair, there's some mighty good evidence that the exact opposite is what happens.

Fraud by overspecification?
How many people are really going to file V9542XA ? [http://www.hipaaspace.com/Medical_Billing/Coding/ICD-10/Diagnosis/V9542XA]

"We've not seen a lot of pressure to standardize medical billing, but there's certainly a need."

HIPPAA, the entire move from NSF billing format, ansi 837pro, switch from ICD9 codes to the completely batshit insane ICD10 coding which just invites fraud by overspecification. Really it takes a truly great news outlet to discard the past 20 years in the field.

Every CPT code is specific you can google what any of them mean, example from the article

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

The rub is not only was the system easier for doctors offices before the changes, the standards had gone through many years of refinement through use. The effect of the move to the current standards was to force many small to medium medical software firms out of the business. Huzzah.

A process started during the Clinton administration, followed through the Bush administration, and still going on during the Obama administration. If you think government is going to help you, solve your problems, and make life more fair, there's some mighty good evidence that the exact opposite is what happens.

You might want to review the Stanford Prison experiment. Giving someone power over other people and little accountability DOES turn people into bullies.

There are a lot of problems with Zimbardo's conclusions, a lot. I don't have any particular criticism bookmarked, so I can't give you a reference that I consider high-quality without spending the time reading a few. But don't let that stop you from investigating it yourself.

I didn't think NYC had "detached" homes...

They do, although some of those might be multi-family homes (for what it's worth, Trulia claims that this house at the intersection of 109th Avenue and 164th Place is a single-family home).

But their definition of "New York" is the "megacity", which includes more than New York City; it includes:

Constituent cities: New York City (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island); West Connecticut (Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties); North New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren counties), Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties); Mid-Hudson region (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties)

which, I guess, means that, as a resident of Ocean Township, New Jersey, I grew up in "New York", and there were plenty of detached single-family homes where I grew up ("plenty" as in "all the homes in my neighborhood").

... but alas I can't go back.

Not true. With the Nexus 5 you can go back.

Factory Images for Nexus Devices: "hammerhead" for Nexus 5 (GSM/LTE)

You just need to manually flash the OS.

Fragmentation???? What about product destruction. My Nexus 7 and many hundreds or thousands are now junk from the 5.0.2 update. My Nexus 7 2013 32 gb is bricked, and all I did was charge it and turn it on. Now its totally bricked and dead. Think I am the only one, Nope!!!!! I really like android, and the nexus 7. But I never expected it to kill my tab. I have talked to both google and nexus, and the only answer is send it in to Asus and pay 200 dollars for a new logic board. I can buy a used one for 100 on ebay. What about the tab I had that was working fine until the update killed it. https://productforums.google.c... Google this is how you ruin a brand. davidpbrausntein@gmail.com

Palm was successfully sued by Xerox claiming it violated their patent. I agree with the assessment that a gesture input is probably the only practical "on-screen" solution. But I also suspect it's a mine field for anyone attempting to adopt such a thing.

"In case the police come busting in" is a condition typically followed by a hailstorm of bullets here in the United States

I see. You live inside a bad television episode? How many hacker apartment door breakdowns followed by "hailstorms of bullets" can you cite from this month, here in this country of over 300,000,000 people? Please be specific.

Not hacker specific. Any police encounter in the US is with guns drawn.

That is why I use a hosts file for ad and tracking block.

Hosts files can only block traffic to host names, not to bare IP addresses.
I use the built-in iptables firewall (using the DroidWall frontend) to block any connection I don't explicitly whitelist.

You didnt check online? UnknownSoldier username already taken.