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The Kleargear.com address at 2885 Sanford Ave. SW in Grandville MI is really a mail forwarding/disguised address popular with companies doing horrible things to people, and is run by a company called Mailbox Forwarding, Inc.: The mail-forwarding service is not unfamiliar to the BBB. “Over the years, we’ve had many issues with businesses that use that address”

Here's another address for them, thanks to this press release through United Business Media's PRNewswire. If they try to retract it, here's a copy at The Sacramento Bee:

Christophe Monette, CEO of Kleargear parent Descoteaux Boutiques, has been pleasantly surprised...

Margaux Banet
2885 Sanford Ave SW #19886
Grandville, MI 49418
United States

Descoteaux Boutiques
ZAC Paris Rive Gauche
118-122 Avenue de France
75013 Paris
France

And this press release also says "Kleargear is donating 2% of net sales between November 17th and December 17th to The American Red Cross in support of our friends and neighbors affected by Sunday's devastating tornado outbreak across the Midwest." Who wants to bet any of their money gets to anyone who's ever seen a tornado? Best to check on the legitimacy of these charity solicitations of course. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has been making charity fraudsters one of this pet projects lately: See "A Michigan Crackdown On Charity Fraud". I'll bet Schuette's office would be more than happy to hear about any problems from companies that happen to officially give their state of residence as Michigan and claim to help Michigan tornado victims. The Michigan Attorney General has a specific phone number for Questions About Charities.

Of course, maybe the French address is fake too. They're a bit pickier about that in France though, I think. Anyone have the contact info for the corporation regulators or charity regulators in Paris?

Also: The BBB gave Kleargear.com an F rating, before Kleargear.com inserted this ruin-your-customers-lives clause in their terms and then faked the A+ rating on their website. For those of you who can't see popups on the BBB site: As of November 28, 2012, the BBB became aware that the company's website is displaying a BBB Accredited Business logo and BBB Rating A+; however, the company is not a BBB accredited business and the BBB rating is not A+. The BBB contacted the company regarding these issues and this matter is pending the company's response. As of November 28, 2012, the BBB discovered that some pages of the company's website display the BBB Accredited Business Logo and state "BBB Rating A+", when neither is true. The BBB contacted the company at the Michigan mail drop address instructing the company to immediately remove the incorrect BBB logo and reference from their site. This matter is currently pending.

The Kleargear.com address at 2885 Sanford Ave. SW in Grandville MI is really a mail forwarding/disguised address popular with companies doing horrible things to people, and is run by a company called Mailbox Forwarding, Inc.: The mail-forwarding service is not unfamiliar to the BBB. “Over the years, we’ve had many issues with businesses that use that address”

Here's another address for them, thanks to this press release through United Business Media's PRNewswire. If they try to retract it, here's a copy at The Sacramento Bee:

Christophe Monette, CEO of Kleargear parent Descoteaux Boutiques, has been pleasantly surprised...

Margaux Banet
2885 Sanford Ave SW #19886
Grandville, MI 49418
United States

Descoteaux Boutiques
ZAC Paris Rive Gauche
118-122 Avenue de France
75013 Paris
France

And this press release also says "Kleargear is donating 2% of net sales between November 17th and December 17th to The American Red Cross in support of our friends and neighbors affected by Sunday's devastating tornado outbreak across the Midwest." Who wants to bet any of their money gets to anyone who's ever seen a tornado? Best to check on the legitimacy of these charity solicitations of course. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has been making charity fraudsters one of this pet projects lately: See "A Michigan Crackdown On Charity Fraud". I'll bet Schuette's office would be more than happy to hear about any problems from companies that happen to officially give their state of residence as Michigan and claim to help Michigan tornado victims. The Michigan Attorney General has a specific phone number for Questions About Charities.

Of course, maybe the French address is fake too. They're a bit pickier about that in France though, I think. Anyone have the contact info for the corporation regulators or charity regulators in Paris?

Also: The BBB gave Kleargear.com an F rating, before Kleargear.com inserted this ruin-your-customers-lives clause in their terms and then faked the A+ rating on their website. For those of you who can't see popups on the BBB site: As of November 28, 2012, the BBB became aware that the company's website is displaying a BBB Accredited Business logo and BBB Rating A+; however, the company is not a BBB accredited business and the BBB rating is not A+. The BBB contacted the company regarding these issues and this matter is pending the company's response. As of November 28, 2012, the BBB discovered that some pages of the company's website display the BBB Accredited Business Logo and state "BBB Rating A+", when neither is true. The BBB contacted the company at the Michigan mail drop address instructing the company to immediately remove the incorrect BBB logo and reference from their site. This matter is currently pending.

Yes you can private citizen, though It would be very difficult for you to photograph everyone's license plate at various locations all around the city 24/7 and store them forever. And you certainly can't link that person's phone records, bank records, browsing habits, etc.

I agree with the sentiment, but sadly it is out of date. License plates need to be completely rethought in lieu of the new capabilities available to both big brother (government) and little brother (citizenry).

First it was only repo-men: License plate data not just for cops: Private companies are tracking your car

But the allure of monetizing those databases was too much, so the lobbying began: MVTRAC Spearheads Victory Over California SB 1330

And now the same companies that do track your phone calls, your bank records and your browsing habits are also selling license-plate tracking data:
Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online

And just for shits and giggles I'm going to throw this one in, brought to you by those data brokers: Your employer may share your salary, and Equifax might sell that data

First it was basically technology and development, where corporations (most from Silicon Valley, just program managed by the big DoD firms), abused the arrangement by just delivering vaporware and overpriced consultants. Of course the tech eventually got there (at least by 2006) with the aftermath...

And now with Snowden, it's shows the failure (?) of Eagle Alliance (EA was created to make IT into a COTS like effort, in the end to reduce IT costs and keep the agency 'current' in skillset); where it appears you had a group of competent IT admins, but regardless of right OR wrong, the bottomline truth is these admins had the same ethics as any IT guy in a Fortune 500 company. And we all know fortune 500 IT admins think with their convictions than follow the rules.

Trust is one of the biggest things in the intel community, hence why it's a tight knit group and honestly a bunch of really nice folks. It's the orders they get from the politicians that make things messy, but you take an oath to trust and execute.

What electric vehicles are selling in large numbers? The article in question mentioned how Tesla has about 2k vehicles selling per month, which puts it on par with the Chevy Volt and even the Nissan Leaf. Compare that to what is just a random month picked out for a Honda Accord, and those sales figures pale in comparison.

Strangely, in the market of electric vehicle, Tesla seems to be very much a major competitor in spite of the very low sales figures you seem to be complaining about.

The one thing about a Yugo was that they were extremely cheap to buy and cheap to maintain. That encouraged sales. Perhaps Tesla can get there with a cheap low end consumer vehicle, but at the moment their capital is tied up with producing luxury sedans and possibly re-introducing the Roadster again. There is also the Model X, which is going after the SUV market. My point is that Tesla is still ramping up production. We'll see who produces more cars.

Pushing more traffic into Verizon's network than you pull, means that Verizon's users are requesting data from you.

Umm, no it doesn't. We're not talking about last-mile links here, we're talking about backbone. If I'm Cogent, and I need to get traffic from San Francisco to New York, I can dump that on Verizon's network (or anyone else I'm peering with) and their network will dutifully forward the traffic all the way to NY. The end-point could be AT&T, Comcast, or even another Cogent customer, but dumping it on Verizon's network saves Cogent money, not having to utilize their own backbone.

And this is exactly what Cogent has been repeatedly accused of doing in the past, by pretty much EVERY TIER-1 ISP. Here's just a few examples:

https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/92749

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/31/peering-dispute-between-cogent-sprint/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/level-3-issues-statement-concerning-internet-peering-and-cogent-communications-55014572.html

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/22/peering-disputes-migrate-to-ipv6/

http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/cogent.htm

Verizon referred it to their Chief Security Officer:

NEW YORK, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) today named Michael A. Mason, currently the executive assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to be the company's new chief security officer. ...

So don't worry.

Society needs one of those to nag people who don't use turn signals. Make it so.

I remember reading this when it came out
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-survey-reveals-why-drivers-dont-use-turn-signals-55355907.html

A new national survey reveals that 57% of American drivers admit they don't use their turn signal when changing lanes, but what is most startling are the excuses drivers gave.

          According to Response Insurance, a national car insurer,
42% of those drivers say they don't have enough time,
23% admit they are just plain "lazy,"
17% don't signal because when they do, they forget to turn it off,
12% admit they are changing lanes too frequently to bother,
11% say it is not important,
8% say they don't signal because other drivers don't, and perhaps most disturbing
7% say forgoing the signal "adds excitement to driving."

This Response Insurance National Driving Habits Survey of 1,000 adults was conducted 8/18-21/2005.
The survey has a margin of error of + / - 3%.

try this

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/topcoders-open-community-challenge-process-yields-970-fold-increase-in-speed-for-big-data-genomics-sequencing-algorithm-190258111.html

What utter bollocks. You google apologists will bend over backwards to put this sort of thing in a positive light. You're hilarious.

Thanks for the laff.

That researcher is an antivirus company using proprietary software

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nq-mobiletm-threat-alert-bill-shocker-mobile-malware-takes-remote-control-of-more-than-600000-users-phones-to-send-costly-messages-188991261.html

Only some 6% of the wealthy inherited their money, with another 25% gaining wealth with a combination of work and inheritance. Effectively 69% fall into the rags to riches category.

Some half of those with an inheritance say money causes more problems than it solves.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/most-affluent-americans-earn-their-wealth-feel-more-secure-during-economic-downturns-pnc-survey-reveals-57351597.html

This would make sense because lottery winners almost never retain their wealth.

I searched for more than the BBC article

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marvell-technology-group-seeks-to-overturn-jurys-patent-infringement-findings-184920041.html

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/jury-slams-marvell-with-mammoth-1-17-billion-patent-verdict/

There's also some more info behind the WSJ pay wall.

SCO (or The TSG Group, as it is now called) is no option at all. The UnixWare/OpenServer business was sold to a new company called "UnXis Inc" over a year ago. (TSG retained the lawsuits.)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unxis-completes-purchase-of-sco-unix-assets-119609744.html
The new company does advertise migration consulting services for UnixWare 2.x.

How much is this old server worth to you?

That's unfair, it's not a "non-issue". There is some hysteria as usual, but there are valid reasons for avoiding HFCS. It's not just another sugar, but it does depend on who you listen to. I'm by no means a fanatic, but I have read my fair share of research on the subject. According to research from one the world's most prestigious Universities, Princeton;

"A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. "

"These rats aren't just getting fat; they're demonstrating characteristics of obesity, including substantial increases in abdominal fat and circulating triglycerides," said Princeton graduate student Miriam Bocarsly."

"Rats on a diet rich in high-fructose corn syrup showed characteristic signs of a dangerous condition known in humans as the metabolic syndrome, including abnormal weight gain, significant increases in circulating triglycerides and augmented fat deposition, especially visceral fat around the belly.

The central issue being the amount of adipose tissue (fat around the belly).

Adipose tissue or body fat is loose connective tissue composed of adipocytes. It is technically composed of roughly only 80% fat; fat in its solitary state exists in the liver and muscles. Adipose tissue is derived from lipoblasts. Its main role is to store energy in the form of lipids, although it also cushions and insulates the body.

Far from hormonally inert, adipose tissue has in recent years been recognized as a major endocrine organ, as it produces hormones such as leptin, estrogen, resistin, and the cytokine TNF. Moreover, adipose tissue can affect other organ systems of the body and may lead to disease. Obesity or being overweight in humans and most animals does not depend on body weight, but on the amount of body fat—to be specific, adipose tissue.

However I did read a recent report from Harvard (2012) that stated there was no difference in how the human body digested sugars (HFCS or not). The case is certainly not clear, but I do not want to be a "guinea pig" to increase some corporation's profit.

Sources:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/scientists-conclude-high-fructose-corn-syrup-should-not-be-blamed-for-obesity-170179136.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue

Well for a start by 1999 MS had 15 colleges: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-announces-grants-to-community-colleges-for-it-training-programs-73559917.html

The industry responded today with this, saying the research distorts the real world use of triclosan based on faulty comparisons to overdosed test subjects : http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/research-on-key-antibacterial-ingredient-distorts-real-world-use-166179966.html

• Many more Americans remember that Michael Jackson sang "Beat It" than know that the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.
• 60 percent of Americans can correctly identify the number of children in reality-TV show couple Jon and Kate Gosselin's household (eight), but more than one-third do not know the century in which the American Revolution took place (18th). Half of those surveyed believe the Civil War (1861-1865), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), or War of 1812 occurred before the American Revolution (1775-1783).
• More than 50 percent of Americans surveyed wrongly attributed the quote, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" to George Washington, Thomas Paine, or President Barack Obama, when it is in fact a quote from Karl Marx, author of "The Communist Manifesto."

-- "83 Percent of U.S. Adults Fail Test on Nation's Founding"
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/83-percent-of-us-adults-fail-test-on-nations-founding-783

Short term ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster : 0), medium term ( http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medical-journal-article--14000-us-deaths-tied-to-fukushima-reactor-disaster-fallout-135859288.html : 14,000), long term (nobody knows)?
And what if/or when reactor 4 blows up?

This isn't really a new concept. Rosum was doing this years ago, calling it RadioCamera. They used GPS to record a broad range of signals, including reflections, and map them out. Using that data they built a map that could be used to locate a receiver.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trimble-and-rosum-team-to-develop-universal-positioning-technology-74497582.html

When Rosum liquidated it's assets they were bought by TruePosition: http://www.trueposition.com/technology/

One interesting challenge not mentioned in the description of BAE's system is how they create the map. GPS has relatively few satellites and they broadcast their positions which is used by a receiver to determine it's own position. Relying on other radio sources will mean having them all mapped. Either the receiver needs knowledge of all of these ( unlikely) or it gets updates for it's local area periodically over a data channel. The map is also likely to be more than just an antenna's location, but data as to how it's received based on local topography. Alternatively it could send a snapshot of what radio signals it receives and the position is actually determined back at a server and relayed back to it. Either way seems to presume a separate data connection to the receiver to either load the whole database of signals sources ( and update it ) or a continuous connection to get the local database as it goes.

Using other signals of opportunity would be a good way to augment GPS, but surely not a replacement. Not being a replacement, I'd have a hard time calling it a rival.

The href attribute was left off the link.... clicky not work so well.

Here's a year old alternative.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/juliet-marine-systems-inc-announces-the-first-super-cavitating-ship-ghost-127461283.html

But there is no way that Slashdot will call attention to this in a regular story:

http://investors.geek.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=672629

Excerpt:

FAIRFAX, Va., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Geeknet, Inc. (Nasdaq:GKNT), the online network for the global geek community, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the Company and its advisors to explore strategic alternatives with respect to its online media business, including the SourceForge, Slashdot and Freecode websites. The Company and its advisors will evaluate a range of options to maximize shareholder value, including, but not limited to, a potential sale of the Company's online media business, investing additional capital to expand the online media business, or other possible transactions involving the online media business.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120510/MM05555LOGO)

Ken Langone, Chairman and CEO of Geeknet, stated, "After much discussion, our management team and Board of Directors have decided to begin a formal review of our media business to realize the full potential of these valuable assets and maximize shareholder value. With more than 46 million total unique visitors last month, our media properties have a large community of engaged users and we are committed to creating the best online experience for them."

I'll try to resume some data in this message.

Vitamin D supplementation was found in years-long, randomized interventional trials, to slash cancer incidence - by, for example, 77%. ( http://www.ajcn.org/content/85/6/1586.short [ajcn.org] , http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/7/451.short [oxfordjournals.org] ) Even mechanisms of action are known ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076010001822 [sciencedirect.com] , http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.24762/full [wiley.com] , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20936945 [nih.gov] ), althought not all are fully understood.

Vitamin D RDA was 200 IU, which is a joke, almost the same thing as nothing. Specially if we consider the human body will produce 10.000 IU in a 15-minute tropical noon-day sun full-body exposure ( http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/3a0/1e8/00e/Cannell-Vitamin-D-study.pdf [nccdn.net] The FDA was faced with this new Vitamin D pleiotropic effects, and given that the RDA was old and obviusly innadequate, it asked the IOM (Institute of Medicine) to review it. They dismissed a Vitamin-D -cancer connection in a completely biased, and non-scientific report, cherry picked some articles, ignored many articles. It shocked the vitamin-D research community, as this link is more than clear. ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbmr.328/full [wiley.com] , http://brn.sagepub.com/content/13/2/117 [sagepub.com] ). The committee had conflicts of interest, and deliberately suppressed the favourable studies ( http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8225367 [cambridge.org] , http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/today-the-food-and-nutrition-board-has-failed-millions-111112159.html [prnewswire.com])

It's interesting to note that people in the committee were hand-picked to have conclicts of interest and are developing vitamin D analogs (that work the same way, but are patenteable), so their best interest is to keep natural vitamin D the lowest level possible. Like Glenville Jones, from Cytachroma, developing CTAP101, a medicine to treat vitamin D insufficiency. Or Hector F. DeLuca, that has 101 patents of vitamin D analogs. Or J. Christopher Gallagher, working for GlaxoSmithKline, that develops Sirilux, a vitamin D analog to treat psoryasis. There are other to cite, but you got the point.

Links or it didn't happen.

I'll try to resume some data in this message.

Vitamin D supplementation was found in years-long, randomized interventional trials, to slash cancer incidence - by, for example, 77%. ( http://www.ajcn.org/content/85/6/1586.short , http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/7/451.short ) Even mechanisms of action are known ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076010001822 , http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.24762/full , http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20936945 ), althought not all are fully understood.

Vitamin D RDA was 200 IU, which is a joke, almost the same thing as nothing. Specially if we consider the human body will produce 10.000 IU in a 15-minute tropical noon-day sun full-body exposure ( http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/3a0/1e8/00e/Cannell-Vitamin-D-study.pdf
The FDA was faced with this new Vitamin D pleiotropic effects, and given that the RDA was old and obviusly innadequate, it asked the IOM (Institute of Medicine) to review it.

They dismissed a Vitamin-D -cancer connection in a completely biased, and non-scientific report, cherry picked some articles, ignored many articles. It shocked the vitamin-D research community, as this link is more than clear. ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbmr.328/full , http://brn.sagepub.com/content/13/2/117 ). The committee had conflicts of interest, and deliberately suppressed the favourable studies ( http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8225367 , http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/today-the-food-and-nutrition-board-has-failed-millions-111112159.html)

It's interesting to note that people in the committee were hand-picked to have conclicts of interest and are developing vitamin D analogs (that work the same way, but are patenteable), so their best interest is to keep natural vitamin D the lowest level possible. Like Glenville Jones, from Cytachroma, developing CTAP101, a medicine to treat vitamin D insuficiency.

Or Hector F. DeLuca, that has 101 patents of vitamin D analogs. Or J. Christopher Gallagher, working for GlaxoSmithKline, that develops Sirilux, a vitamin D analog to treat psoryasis. There are other to cite, but you got the point.

69% earned it according to a study. 6% completely inherited it, and the remainder was a mixture. That's not exactly "only a couple of wealthy families."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/most-affluent-americans-earn-their-wealth-feel-more-secure-during-economic-downturns-pnc-survey-reveals-57351597.html

First, the information never should have been on the drive anyway.

How do you know this? Someone along the line should have deleted it but didn't. Maybe the drive wasn't in working order when it was returned. Maybe the tech just forgot to format it before sending it back. Former CIA chiel John Deutch was found to have classified files on his personal, unsecured computer even though CIA techs provided him with a secure one.

If somewhere down the line an investigation gets fired up to go into where all those missing drives went you can bet your ass they'll be knocking on your door, taking your drives (probably more than just the refurbished one), and asking a lot of questions (that are a lot easier to answer honestly than with little white lies). Second, most classified information is classified for a reason. If someone out there is selling drives with classified information on them, that's what we call a bad thing. Yeah, it's going to be a headache for you, but it's the kind of thing that really shouldn't be happening.

Your drives will be seized regardless in your scenario whether you looked at the data or not. The government may inspect them to see if the data still exists. A simple format will not truly erase all the data. If your SOP is to format all HDDs when you get them and never look at the data you are far safer. I don't know if the government can technically determine you looked at the data through computer forensics or more conventional means (interogation) but you are far better off never knowing the contents.

Why would it be extortion or why would there be bribes involved? Microsoft owns the patents based on years of R&D (Microsoft Research is the largest R&D center on the industry) and they legally ask for companies to pay to use their patented technology.

Microsoft has moved most of its R&D to India now, so I'm sure it's much cheaper for them these days. And how much of that R&D is actually spent researching better ways to lobby congress for more power?

You can make a real difference by volunteering and getting people out to vote in the next election (e.g. the Tea Party, which actually accomplished something in that respect)

The same Tea Party who organized efforts to increase voter challenge and intimidation, making it harder for those Not Like Us(tm) to vote?

Fuck that and the horse it rode in on.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/steelcloud-announces-new-dod-platforms-for-securing-good-technology-and-apple-ios-128885828.html ASHBURN, Va., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ ---- SteelCloud, Inc. (OTCQB: SCLD.PK), a leading developer of mobility appliance and VMware® solutions today announced the release of MobileWorks, its newest mobile appliance developed for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). In conjunction with the recent approval of the use of Apple® iOS devices within the DoD, SteelCloud is pleased to offer the immediate availability of MobileWorks DE for the STIG and security configuration guidance compliant platform deployment of the Good For Government mobile security suite.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/walmartcom-and-netflix-announce-new-promotional-agreement-online-retail-companies-team-to-promote-each-others-core-businesses-67048857.html
Was in the "past" re SOAP - anyone have any info?

You wrote all that and didn't Google it first?

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/top-50-caliber-sniper-rifle-manufacturer-barrett-firearms-boasts-that-50-caliber-sniper-rifles-are-capable-of-destroying-multi-million-dollar-aircraft-with-a-single-hit-54206857.html

That's sitting on a runway, you could shoot the engine at take off as well, that should be "catastrophic"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Explosive_Incendiary/Armor_Piercing_Ammunition

O my... it pierces and explodes I wonder what that would do to a commercial airline with "aluminum skin".

Here let me paste it for you kiddo, since you are struggling to find it on your own.
"The .50 Caliber round can accurately engage enemy targets at a distance of over 2000 meters which is over a mile away ! In fact a professional sniper can hit a 5 inch diameter target at a distance of 1½ miles and recorded shots have been reported from US snipers killing enemy soldiers from a range of 2,500 meters or just under 1.8 miles.

The angle that the gun is held, plus the amount of wind blowing, the general weather conditions and stillness of the target are all calculated to make this kind of skilful shot.

The .50 caliber bullet fired form a Barrett M83A1 or M-107 can easily penetrate 1½inches of solid steel armor plate, which is the normal amount of "protection" offered by most of the worlds Armored Personnel Carriers (APC's), Armored cars, trucks and other "light" vehicles. Generally speaking, as long as its not a main battle tank, the .50 caliber round fired from the Barrett at moderate ranges will penetrate it.

A brick or a concrete wall that is about 1 or even 2 foot thick also offer no protection and can be shot clean through. Mobile or static radio trucks, parked up airplanes engines, buildings, fuel depots, rail tank cars, machine gun 'pill-boxes', bullet proof limo's, trucks, body armor clad enemy soldiers are all easy prey to the Barrett .50"

http://www.vincelewis.net/rifle.html

That is considered the "second most powerful rifle" and it can easily take out a jet screaming down a runway, 747, 787, and anything under that, I mean how many jets have 2 inch of steel armor? I am pretty sure that wouldn't fly, but then...I didn't bother Googling that since I have seen the power of these rifle first hand at a target range with non armor piercing, non explosive ammunition.

Scary stuff

Maybe you should get off your ass and go down to a 1000 meter range for a look see, (rent it and shoot it) it will change your life son, that is if you don't live in a state where they have managed to take your gun rights from you.

I am amazed at the ignorance of the post to my comment, you people are sitting on the worlds largest database (The Internet) and you still pontificate without any idea of what you speak.

Again under 30 and part of that waste of space generation, seriously one person commented that "myth buster" told him it wasn't so, your generation and the media...*sigh* do you ever think for yourself?

Again I don't fly ever, but not because of the .50, I don't fly anymore because fascism in America is alive and thriving in the air travel industry, plus repairs in El Salvador, constant cost cutting, 8 hours or more locked in a plane on a runway with no rights what so ever, (this just happened locked in a powerless plane with no toilets...where's your rights there?) you are not any safer from "alleged terrorist" on a plane today any more than you were 10 years ago, if you think you are, you don't understand the n

I am surprised that the utilities have not worked closely with USPS to get them electric trucks.

They're trying it. Buses too. Trains are being looked at for storage. There's a huge amount of different pilots being looked at around the world with some really cool ideas. BOMA doing large scale DR in Chicago. And on and on.

Shenanigans!

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/decidecom-launches---helps-consumers-purchase-electronics-with-no-regrets-124179959.html

"No other team has the technology, talent and experience in predictive systems to solve this problem," says Oren Etzioni, Decide co-founder and computer science professor at the University of Washington. "We've built the only broad-scale model lineage, text and data mining systems that predict future price and model releases to address this complex consumer problem."

The dude is just plugging his shopping-search engine, and astroturfing a computing conference as part of his marketing campaign.

What a cock.

As I pointed out when this first happened, Hollysys claims to have designed and built the signalling system. They issued a denial that the system failed. Now we have a unit of "China Railway Signal & Communication Co" taking responsibility. They're affiliated with what used to be General Railway Signal in the US, which is now part of Alstom. It's not clear who built what here. "China Railway Signal & Communication Co" may be the installation contractor.

A little of what happened is clear. There are two separate systems involved. One is classic railroad signaling, with track circuits, wayside equipment, and cab signals. The classical designs are simple and robust. That's the safety-related system. The other is the train control system which uses a unit at the head and tail of each train, communicating to a central headquarters. Those systems are elaborate and computerized, but not considered life-safety systems. Either system is normally sufficient to prevent collisions.

In normal operation, the train control system does most of the work. It knows about train identity, schedules, and speeds. If the train control system is working right, the safety-related system never intervenes.

In a power failure, though, the train control system can lose contact with a train, since it uses active equipment on each train. That probably happened here. With a total power loss, the dead train isn't reporting to central control.

The safety system, on the other hand, detects trains because the wheels connect the rails together, normally has battery backup, is supposed to be very robust, and is intended to fail to STOP. Even after lightning strikes and a total power failure, it should still work. (Such systems have been taking lightning hits for a century without problems. Lightning hits railroad tracks and pole lines frequently; in flat country, they're the lowest resistance path to ground.)

But the safety system is high-maintenance. There are bits of it all along the lines; track circuits, wayside equipment, signal enclosures, and various other little and big boxes, all of which need attention. Keeping railroad signalling working right requires a large staff of dedicated, well-supervised signal maintainers. Since the systems are designed to fail to STOP, maintenance failures tend to result in red signals.

If the train control system shows the line as clear, and the safety system shows STOP, this normally triggers an emergency brake application. For a high speed train, that takes several kilometers and can cause wheel flattening. (Train wheels have steel "tires", which have to be replaced periodically. An emergency stop takes a lot of life off a tire.)

The question here is what happened to the safety system. Was there over-reliance on the train control system? Was the safety system bypassed to avoid unwanted emergency stops. That's speculation at this point.

Well said. This is just another article promoting the "Internet anonymity is bad" meme - probably scripted and promoted by The Chertoff Group. Yea, those guys. You know, the former Homeland Security Secretary who then started a security company and then sold its products to (surprise!) the DHS' TSA.

Chertoff was a major promoter of Real ID - the national ID card scheme passed purportedly to prevent terrorist attacks, even though it would actually do no such thing, but would provide a government a much better way to closely track its citizens and their activities, as well as massive profits for Chertoffs company. Note the security and online identity companies that they have now purchased or invested in. Getting some legislation mandating the ideas behind NSTIC will reap massive return for those investments.

Chertoff's group is quietly lobbying to bring back the Real ID (under a different name, of course) with new partners like the Center for Immigration Studies.

So, yea, when I see articles like this, I get REAL suspicious about who is behind it and what their real agenda might be.

iSuppli
http://www.isuppli.com/MEMS-and-Sensors/News/Pages/Japans-Digital-Compass-Makers-Work-to-Maintain-Supply-Amid-Earthquake-Aftermath.aspx

MGC
http://www.mgc.co.jp/eng/news/2011/pdf/110318-2_e.pdf

Shin-Etsu
http://www.shinetsu.co.jp/e/news/s20110322.shtml

Renesas
http://am.renesas.com/press/notices/notice20110322.html

MEMC
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/memc-update-following-japan-earthquake-118003244.html

Hitachi
http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/f_110317h.pdf

Fujitsu
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2011/20110314-01.html

Nokia has today announced the appointment of Chris Weber as President of Nokia Inc. (US), and head of Markets, North America as of February 11, 2011. Chris Weber comes to Nokia from his own consulting business focused on helping companies develop world class sales cultures. He is a Microsoft veteran, who during his 16 years with the company held several senior executive positions in sales, marketing and professional services.

Call me a cynic at this point, but I don't believe the US government any more when they claim they are trying to "help" people. It's all about the money lebowski.

The money trail -

Step 1: Find the biggest companies who have the most (or at least most potential for) money : Google + Verizon Android Deal (Basically - plans to get android on a bunch of verizon phones to tap into the iphone / apple market)

Step 2: Figure out how the government can step in to get paid while still looking good: Google + Verizon Net Neutrality Deal (Basically - WIRED stays net neutral (government looks good) ... while WIRELESS doesn't get net neutrality ... )

Step 3: Show public support for a bill that will help the big companies.. err I mean the people - "YAY! Interwebs for Allz!!"

Step 4: Avoid the headache that is the current wired infrastructure...

Step 5: $ Profit $

... Well.. except of course the people who are being forced into these crap agreements and who's money is being handed out like candy ...

Perhaps the next-generation products will get a new name, like NGP, giving him a loophole? If they really are launching a quad-core ARM-based product later this year, some might like to run unrestricted Linux on it.
Chances are it'll be expensive. And if Sony gets quad core CPUs / GPUs, others most likely will also.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-computer-entertainment-announces-its-next-generation-portable-entertainment-system-114703879.html

(admittedly I'm biased against Sony at this point; not a serious gamer and not too quick to forgive Sony for the rootkit fiasco)

Can it still be considered 3rd party if the company that generated the "phantom data" was contracted by either the carrier or Microsoft to develop the app to intentionally run up the quota, hopefully going unnoticed and generating overage charges? My ex-bank, 5th3rd has a class-action lawsuit against them for doing something similar.

It says "Profesional" in the title of the byte.com front page. I'm not optimistic.

Because that's the audience it's aimed at apparently. The article UBM TechWeb Re-Launching Popular Byte.com says this:

"IT is faced with new, pervasive user expectations – that all technology should work like the technology end users have at home, and that they can actually bring that technology into the work place," said InformationWeek editorial director Fritz Nelson. "This includes smart phones, tablets, social networks, and a host of gadgets and productivity software. IT needs to both manage and exploit the business value of these technologies."

Instead of bringing office tech into the home, they're looking at bring home tech into the office.

Falcon

Some of those games are quite realistic nowadays.

http://www.gizmag.com/lucas-ordoez-the-first-virtual-to-real-race-driver/11623/

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/from-virtual-racing-champion-to-real-world-race-winner-iracingcom-driver-wyatt-gooden-takes-volkswagen-jetta-tdi-cup-race-at-mid-ohio-97071469.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/automotive-expert-bobby-likis-demonstrates-how-to-safely-stop-a-toyota-83627467.html

"Many people think that pushing hard on the brakes is the answer to neutralize a stuck gas pedal or to re-gain control of renegade acceleration. This is not the case. While standing on the brakes at very low speeds may work without brake burnout...at road speeds (especially out-of-control acceleration), this would not only NOT stall or stop the racing engine, it would likely overheat brakes & render them totally useless."

I think we're tripping up over the reporter's choice of language here. From Marvell's actual press release:

The tri-core design integrates two high performance symmetric multiprocessing cores and a third core optimized for ultra low-power. The third core is designed to support routine user tasks and acts as a system management processor to monitor and dynamically scale power and performance.

Depending on what their definition of "routine user tasks" might be, it sounds like it doesn't actually shut off both cores and run exclusively off the third core, the way TFA makes it sound -- it only does that if the device isn't doing anything. More interesting stuff:

Marvell's ARMADA 628 tri-core CPU comprises a complete SoC design – a first for the industry. In addition to the tri-core CPU, there are six additional processing engines to support stunning 3D graphics, 1080p video encode/decode, ultra high fidelity audio, advanced cryptography, and digital photo data processing – for a total of nine dedicated core functions.

This sounds like a pretty cool chip.

Robert Uomini of Kensington CA already won a $22 million dollar lottery in 1995. And yes, it's the same person, because the patent application's name and city matches and this article says he's a mathematician and his linkedin says he has a Ph.D in Mathematics. Here's his real software website, notice anything familiar? Yep, the design is exactly the same, no doubt about it this is our guy.

Here's his facebook if you want to leave him a message

Since the ocean rig is a navigable vessel, they may only be liable for the salvage value ($27 million) under maritime law:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/transocean-claims-maritime-law-to-limit-its-liability-in-oil-spill-case-93715234.html

If you're willing to wait another 5 years, Iridium is in the process of replacing their constellation:

http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/iridium/44300/

Unless you work for the company and can confirm they didn't use their Chinese manufacturing plant, it's still up in the air.

    the press release

Arc International is present in five continents with production sites (France, USA, China, UAE), distribution subsidiaries (France, US, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Japan) and sales offices.

    I'd suspect small production runs and urgent items are produced locally (or relatively locally). Large low cost runs with plenty of lead time, like McDonalds would want, would likely be produced in China.

Do you have a link? ARC international is based in France.

"Arc International employs 12, 200 people worldwide including 8000 in France. The group, whose head office is located in Arques, in the French Pas-de-Calais region, achieved a turnover of 1 billion Euros in 2009. Armed with its know how in glassware, it developed globally and diversified its activities through the integration of materials other than glass.

Arc International is present in five continents with production sites (France, USA, China, UAE), distribution subsidiaries (France, US, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Japan) and sales offices."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/arc-international-reacts-to-the-recall-of-mcdonalds-products-95655644.html

If you actually read the AT&T press release you'll find that this applies to all smartphone data plans. It's not just about iPhones. They're basically changing the iPad plans to match.

As of right now, Apple's iPad product page still refers to unlimited data plans. It's hard to imagine AT&T didn't notify Apple that this is coming, but it almost looks like they don't know.