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numbers were way off.. but still 5 more cars per minute is impressive.

4 way stop average number of cars through in 15 minutes was 385.
Roundabout average number of cars through in 15 minutes was 460.
Improvement of about 20%.

If you don't care to watch the video they set up a 4 way stop course and then a roundabout course. They used a bunch of drivers and did two 15 minute tests of each course counting the number of cars that got through and averaged them. The roundabout was a 20 percent improvement over the 4 way stop. And even though they let the drivers practice a bit on the roundabout before the tests they were American drivers that for the most part don't have the day to day experience that European drivers do with roundabouts so I am thinking the efficiency of the roundabout is even greater.

http://webcache.googleusercont...

A few years ago, Google published a study of hard disk failures. Failures were not correlated with how much data was written or read. Failures were correlated with the amount of time the disk was spun up, so you should idle a drive not in active use. Failures were negatively correlated with temperature: drives kept cooler were MORE likely to fail.

Actually the paper says that the Google guys approximated power-on hours with a notion of age, which I assume was approximated by a knowledge of either the manufacture date of the delivery date. From the paper, annualized failure rate (AFR) is somewhat correlated with age, but not necessarily strongly enough to predict probability of failure. Even with their large drive population, the paper points out that the drive model mix is not consistent over time and therefore, not much can be made of the apparently weak correlation between AFR and age, which could be perhaps be more greatly influenced by drive model.

The negative correlation with very cold temperatures is interesting but hard to understand without further analysis. Perhaps some drive models didn't handle fly height adjustments well at low temperatures. It's hard to figure out without more data. It should also be pointed out the temperatures were obtained via SMART, and the SMART standard doesn't mandate how temperature is reported. So, different manufacturers could report temperatures in different ways, i.e., different locations (which can easily vary by up to 30 degrees C), different aggregation methods (time windows, sampling frequency), etc. So, the aggregate data is probably not as useful as the data per drive model.

has anyone tried this with platter drives?

A few years ago, Google published a study of hard disk failures. Failures were not correlated with how much data was written or read. Failures were correlated with the amount of time the disk was spun up, so you should idle a drive not in active use. Failures were negatively correlated with temperature: drives kept cooler were MORE likely to fail.

https://lh4.googleusercontent....

Trying again on that link... there's a good study on it somewhere, can't locate it right now.

Fermi's Paradox makes one major assumption: "the tendency to fill up all available territory seems to be a universal trait of living things"

This is a false assumption. While most species that come into an area that can sustain them tend to rise to 120% of the sustainable population then die back to 80%, humans do not follow this pattern. We've concentrated ourselves and while we've spread over a huge portion of the planet there's one curious thing that happens: the birth rate decreases with education:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... //Birth Rate

https://lh4.googleusercontent.... /National_IQ_Lynn_Vanhanen_2006_IQ_and_Global_Inequality.png //IQ

Now imagine a society that is intelligent enough to go to the stars - would they continue to expand in the same manner as a less intelligent species? Even if they do, the massive resources required to mount a successful single colony expansion would likely only occur every few hundred years at most. Small outposts might crop up here and there as they explore but a full blown spread is highly unlikely or would take thousands upon thousands of years. And what about Earth? we're just starting to expand into our oceans and only for industry, very few of us go where it's cold, or where there's lots of insects, etc - who knows what the tolerances of an alien species might be?

but public pensions aren't self-funded, they have shifted liabilities to future taxpayers.

[Citation Needed]

Usually the story of underfunded pensions goes one of two ways:
1. pension contributions being diverted to other purposes
2. overly optimistic assumptions about future returns for the pension's investment fund

if your idea of "the way things used to be" is that a select few lived from the pockets of many, then don't be surprised if that way is now gone.

"Select few"?
Again, you're to slanting your language to make pensions some kind of personal offense.
The reality is that "many" had pension plans and the reason that today, only "a select few" have them,
is partly a result of their unions fighting to retain what was once considered a basic part of the American dream.

My idea of "the way things used to be" is a corporate culture where businesses balance the best interests of their share holders with that of their employees.

Costco's Dilemma: Be Kind To Its Workers, or Wall Street?
March 26, 2004

"From the perspective of investors, Costco's benefits are overly generous," says Bill Dreher, retailing analyst with Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. "Public companies need to care for shareholders first. Costco runs its business like it is a private company."

Costco appears to pay a penalty for its largesse to workers. The company's shares trade at about 20 times projected per-share earnings for 2004, compared with about 24 for Wal-Mart. Mr. Dreher says the unusually high wages and benefits contribute to investor concerns that profit margins at Costco aren't as high as they should be.

10 years later and you can still read similar complaints about Costco.
As a whole, America used to be more like Costco than like Wal Mart (2013)

http://webcache.googleusercont...

My beef with trying to use Android on a desktop or laptop form factor device is this requirement in the Android Compatibility Definition Document: "Devices MUST NOT change their reported screen size at any time." This rules out use of any nontrivial window manager, despite that the screen of a laptop or tablet is big enough for 2 to 4 phone apps at once.

Thousands of apologies. I had that page book-marked, but — employing the best web-masters there are to be found, no doubt, the Department of Education has rearranged their pages. The information is now here, or, if you (like myself) are having trouble accessing the Windows-powered site, here the Google-cache of it.

On the page, there is a table. In 1962 the "total expenditure" per pupil per year was (in 2011 dollars) $3,915. In 2010 it was $13,692...

Maybe he can't get a date because he's a creep? Please Google "Nice guys of OKCupid." Look at the women who actually commented on his post: http://webcache.googleusercont... It's the same error as always: correlation != causation. The guy isn't actually a techie, but a manager (overhead), who has no credentials whatsoever: http://resume.jeffreifman.com/

I noticed that US-CERT changed it site. It said "the complete compromise", but now the web site says "could allow unauthorized remote code execution."

It said "US-CERT recommends that users and administrators enable Microsoft EMET where possible and consider employing an alternative web browser until an official update is available. ", now it says "US-CERT recommends that users and administrators review Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983 for mitigation actions and workarounds. Those who cannot follow Microsoft's recommendations, such as Windows XP users, may consider employing an alternate browser."

Check the Google cache against the versus actual site.

Almost everything you said there is wrong. Broccoli has more protein per calorie than steak does, and there are plenty of plants with tons of fat. In fact, healthier fats (mono and poly unsaturated) mostly all come from plants. Try some nuts or an avocado if you don't think you're getting enough fat. This is exceedingly unlikely though, since you don't really need much fat to get by. The recommended minimum is 15% of your calories, but it's not like you're going to die within three months if you don't eat any fat - this guy didn't consume any calories at all, including fat, for 382 days with no ill-effects.

Your statements about carbs are a little difficult to deal with, "one of the main contributors" is a hard statement to disprove. Really, type 2 diabetes is (mostly) caused by obesity and certainly you can get fat by eating carbs. But you can get fat by eating too much of anything. It's how much you eat (calories), not how you eat it, that determines how much weight you loose. Fad diets, like a low carb diet, do work, but they work by restricting your calories, not by some special voodoo.

For whatever reason, WSJ seems to give Google a pass when it comes to the paywall
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303663604579504691512965308

This sort of thing has happened before, and it will happen again. An even better example was when the MV Cougar Ace almost sank, and 4700 brand new Mazda cars hung at a 60 degree angle for several months. They never moved, and they were all in seemingly perfect condition.

Mazda chose to err on the side of caution, rather than risk a lawsuit. Or even worse, there was a very valid concern that they would become "Katrina Cars". A coat of paint, and they would be bundled up and sold in some other unsuspecting country. (On a side-note, the destruction process is really cool!.)

With waivers not being worth the paper they're printed on, it's simply not worth the risk of getting sued.

And finally, there's the "soft damage" to take into consideration? Remember the kid in preschool who "had cooties"? That kid KEPT those cooties, right up until graduation day in high school. Costco might never allow a single jar to hit their normal distribution system, but just the simple fact that the peanut butter even exists at all, is a risk that someone, somewhere, will say, "Whoa, Costco peanut butter might have salmonella."

Play "Telephone" with that for a while, and suddenly Costco can't pay someone to take a jar of peanut butter. This is actually a very safe, very beneficial tactic for Costco.

Now consumers can be absolutely guaranteed that they will never have to think about whether Costco peanut butter is safe.

And in retail, that's money in the bank.

Well, if you are allergic to the portable document format then you could read the html google cache of the document:
http://webcache.googleusercont...

As for acrobat, well, Adobe don't call it that anymore and you don't have to use their bloated reader, I use expertPDF and SumatraPDF.

And if you think longer paper = worse paper then this is for you:
UK Tabloid Public mental health warning, this is trash.

Penny Arcade Twitter comic: https://lh6.googleusercontent....

Here is a picture of that fat loser samzenpus AKA Robert Rozeboom.

What a catch, eh ladies??

Full article from Google's cache

https://static.googleuserconte...

for 84601 you should get

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/...

also they seem to be missing the BIG TEN overflow channels.

Veracity seemed to least have root sports.

http://residential.veracitynet...

Polish Subway paid $180K after getting bogus "hey, we are your maintenance company and we changed our bank, please pay us using this new account number kthxbai" snail mail. Some companies are just too stupid and will pay any bill received in mail.

http://translate.googleusercon...

I searched on 4+ comments, and didn't see anything, so here is Google's study> (they go through a lot of drives)

Technically, its all on one ticket:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wGWz67UiN0g/UnCHBioxUSI/AAAAAAAAY60/FwnoTiWm69g/w609-h520-no/Ticket+Google+Glass.png

Not with a view like this!

1. Thomas Gagnon A lying cheating boy who has no selfworth. He makes you fall for him and then rips everything out from under you. Be careful when near him. May occasionally act immature and like a girl. WARNING: He will say he loves you but is just saying that to get into your pants. Avoid at all costs. Thomas Gagnon has small man parts...mark as favorite buy thomas gagnon mugs & shirts cheater lying immature egotistical rude by love,exgirlfriend :) December 15, 2010 add a video

When it's said google knows all, it really means it.
Don't know what this guy did, but it seems as though this woman is using a restraining order as a tool for revenge rather than to prevent violence. If this is true, for shame!

I'm still looking for a list of files, but for that size, it might be EVERY MAME ROM in the MAME database of over 7000 ROMS.

What I've got that I can find quickly, these will even show you how to build the arcade cabinets for individual ROMs.

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.mamechannel.it/pages/bios.php&usg=ALkJrhh2HqT-Dm9Szquc1fgWTubW-OSIXw (Italian)

Same link English

http://www.mamechannel.it/pages/progettosnaps.php

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/arcade/mame.html

Hardly true. Plenty of asset forfeitures based on simply being involved with illegal activity. Oh, that car with the completely empty secret compartment? Ours now. The house you bought with your inheritance that we caught you dealing drugs from? Ours now.

For example:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Yea5RW9iAJYJ:ij.org/how-a-philadelphia-family-lost-their-home-to-asset-forfeiture-3+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

(Cached, the original site wasn't answering...)

Next it's the computer you uploaded it from and the house your computer was in.

Regarding your first line regarding Iraq lying and cheating, yes, that is correct.

As to your second line, yes, I am openly and directly disputing the assertion that the US supplied Iraq with Weapons of Mass Destruction. To the best of my knowledge that is false. The closest that you can get to the US supplying Iraq with WMD as far as I know is that the US allowed the export of some dual use materials that had legitimate industrial uses, as well as some samples of biological pathogens intended to be shared for medical research and vaccines. But none of that constituted actual WMDs. If you have hard evidence of something other than that I would be interested in seeing it.

Chemical

Experts say that Iraq has the largest chemical weapons program in the Third World, developed entirely with the aid of foreign firms, especially those from West Germany. Iraq can presently produce up to 700 tons of chemical warfare agents per year, according to these estimates, but its capacity is expected to increase sizeably in the 1990s. There are at least two plants at Samarra where Iraq produces mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun and sarin; and two more at Fallujah, where Iraq reportedly is building a manufacturing complex for "precursors" -- the ingredients used for nerve gas. Experts say that Iraq also has built a research facility for biological warfare at Salman Pak.

CIA report says Egypt helped Iraq build chemical weapons

The Evolution of Chemical and Biological Weapons in Egypt - ( I am indebted to the troll Anachragnome for this link)

I just don't see evidence of people who do this at an enterprise scale cheaping out on disks for the important stuff.

Google does. Though that paper doesn't detail it, what they found was that enterprise-class drives, warrantied or not, were more expensive to use than consumer-class drives being used in larger quantities with extra redundancy. Which is why they use consumer-class drives for all of their major systems.

Considering Google knows their technology and isn't going to get bamboozled by jargon when there's so much money at stake and they have the ability to simply run the tests themselves, why do you think enterprise-class drives are cheaper to use? To turn your last assertion around a bit, I don't see evidence of people who do this at Google's scale using enterprise-class drives. What I see are a lot of folks in IT and middle management making use of the old "no one ever got fired for choosing X" CYA logic, where X is [IBM|Microsoft|Oracle|some other "enterprise-class" product]. If you choose X and things go south, no one blames you. If you choose Y instead and things go south, you're the fall guy.

How many of those people you know can attest to the fact that they actually did the tests to determine that the enterprise drives were cheaper in the long-run? My guess: none.

31531.5315315... is the number of Bitcoins that must only be held in the wallet of the beast. Why, simple, because there are only 21 million to go around. Naturally if it is decided that a greater number of Bitcoins is necessary then this wallet will increase proportionally. Call this a sin tax but because of this. Here is what happens to those who send money to the beast's public key.

The voters are the ones who keep voting for status quo. If they really are desperately unhappy they should vote for something else.

Let's explain this fallacy with an illustration.

The article claims that nobody has published a study of hard drive failure rates before. Wrong, of course - Google did some time ago.

The guy ends the article by talking about SSDs as if they are some sort of unknown quantity. The failure modes of SSDs are much more consistent and better understood even at this early stage. Flash blocks become unusable after a fairly fixed number of rewrites. The drives measure the total number of historic writes to the drive and failure can be predicted ahead of time.

If you are sure that they were a relatively new model, and the refurb was a FACTORY refurb, that might be a good method. If Joe Stocking Clerk did the refurb, who knows what you will get.

When installing, and periodically there after, It is wise to run something like smartctl -a /dev/sd? on your drives and check the power on hours and power cycle count. (Not to mention the reallocated sector count and spin retry).

You would be surprised how many refurbs are actually fairly heavily used, with a lot of hours.

My current server's raid array is averaging 5.9 years, but has only seen 53 power cycles over that time. I actually tend to believe (without a great deal of evidence) that power cycles are harder on drives than running constantly.

Google actually did a similar study some years ago. Their study of over 100,000 drives largely agreed with the present study, right down to the three-node distribution of failures over time.

It's six years old now, so perhaps drive failure characteristics have changed, but this study got some different results from a study published by Google in 2007. Google's study obviously involved a lot more than 25,000 drives.

For one, Google didn't observe a strong bathtub curve. They did see some infant mortality, but it was during the first 3-6 months, and the first-year failure rate was still lower than in subsequent years, so what "bathtub" there was hit the low point prior to the one-year mark and then began to climb.

The failure rates Google observed were also much lower. Perhaps drives have gotten less reliable.

Google also reported a lot of detail about how various SMART-reported values correlated with failures. Too bad Backblaze didn't do the same. It would have been very interesting.

The Google report based on many thousands of drives showed that while some MODEL NUMBERS had much higher failure, various brand names had similar failure rates. Western Digital will make two drives at the same time, one model that's very reliable while the one next to it is crap. Same with every other manufacturer.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

If you insist on buying based on the brand name, HGST models have been very good in our datacenter.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

"Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population", dated 2007.

Any content you've purchased on one Wii is stuck there forever in most cases. Nintendo won't transfer digital purchases unless you have documentation showing your original Wii was stolen, and that's iffy. Why people keep paying for the same, tired rehash of their game catalog and obvious abuse of the platform is beyond me.

For whatever reason the one of the original links was no longer available when I revisited one of the links in the OP today:

http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-toyota-and-unintended-acceleration/

But Google Cache still has a copy...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-toyota-and-unintended-acceleration/

Oblg. You own a car, not the road.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JFnHSdz8ESc/UKOh5Zm3DWI/AAAAAAAABAQ/NctBNmWUu68/w448-h720-no/you+own+the+car.jpg

Wayback Machine evidently doesn't bother with Twitter, but the page can still (for now) be found on the Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://twitter.com/NatSecWonk

Also readable here.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jeffreifman.com/2013/10/20/ten-ways-to-make-nsa-spying-popular-with-americans/?sdot

If you're having trouble seeing the live site, you can view the article here in the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://jeffreifman.com/2013/10/20/ten-ways-to-make-nsa-spying-popular-with-americans/?sdot

Except the crap in the "Promotions" label turns out to be third party crap listservs, wholly unrelated to nor which came from Google, that you signed up for when you ordered that new hard drive from Amazon or put your email address on that paper form when you signed up for your Staples Rewards card. This is random shit you would have appear in your inbox (assuming you aren't using filters) regardless of whom you choose your email provider to be.

Now, if Microsoft called it the "Screwhoo!" campaign, that'd actually have at least a tiny bit of truth to it. I used the Yahoo! Mail app on my Android device to check my Yahoo! Mail inbox for the first time in who-knows-when and there was an actual "sponsored" item at the top of my inbox that wasn't even email, but a direct advertising link! Screenshot.

The submission had one article, the editors linked to two more.
ALL THREE ARTICLES REFERENCE & LINK TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Is it so hard to include a link to the source of this story?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404579119490744478398.html
(Google Cache just in case /. does this far too often and I hope to see better in the future

Thank you, asshole government.

Be sure to narrow this sentiment down to the Executive Government. It costs more to enforce the closures of the parks and memorials, than to simply keep them running... That the Administration is doing it anyway means, they aren't trying to trim the operations to the "essentials", but to cause pain to the greatest number of people.

He said he couldn't get into yellowstone. According to the following link (using google cache, since the website is down):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.nps.gov/yell/parkmgmt/jobs.htm

Yellowstone employs 3500 workers. There are only 5 roads that lead into yellowstone. How many workers do you think it takes to close each of those roads? Apparently you think it's 700.

The radio story I heard mentioned this stockpiling began WWI when zeppelins were a top-of-the-line and helium was safe in contrast to hydrogen.

Federal Helium Program

$40k http://www.nissan.com.au/Cars-Vehicles/LEAF/Overview for $85/week

Yes, they're available in the US, too.

Mine is the one on the right in this photo. :-)

I actually didn't buy, though. Given the rapid pace of change in EV technology I opted for a two-year lease instead. I pay just over $200 per month to lease it, and virtually nothing else, since there's basically no maintenance other than new tires every couple of years and I do nearly all of my charging at work. I figure my net cost, after factoring in fuel savings, is about $70 per month.

The aircraft was useless as a fighter. It cant carry anything and is just a lawn dart.

Some Dart.

Some Lawn.

How many Predator Equivalences is that.

The journal 'Metalurgia International' is a hoax in itself. I bet it has about 6 subscribers, none of whom actually read it.
It doesn't have a web site ...

True for the present, but it used to have one - the late sitemap; RIP

The journal 'Metalurgia International' is a hoax in itself. I bet it has about 6 subscribers, none of whom actually read it.
It doesn't have a web site ...

True for the present, but it used to have one - the late sitemap; RIP