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Rising CO2 levels reduces the nutritional value and increases the toxicity of eucalyptus leaves which is bad news for koalas.

A slightly less breathless account is at the Seattle Times: http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

or bhttp://www.wmsym.org/archives/2014/papers/14178.pdf

supposed to be http://www.wmsym.org/archives/... obviously

A slightly less breathless account is at the Seattle Times: http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

or bhttp://www.wmsym.org/archives/2014/papers/14178.pdf

A slightly less breathless account is at the Seattle Times:
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

A note to the poster of the original story, if you find yourself citing Russia Today as the primary source you should probably double check your facts.

A slightly less breathless account is at the Seattle Times:
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

Thanks to steady Democrat rule in Seattle/King County (including an actual Socialist (not the Sanders kind) on the city council), Seattle has become a cesspool. "Sanctuary city" status plus homeless handouts have resulted in tent cities not only under freeways but also suburban encampments with the attendant rise in criminal/drug activity. Other cities know that Seattle has these programs, so they ship their homeless to the Pacific Northwest.

Enjoy your police state creep you have going on there. Next thing you know you'll be arrested for climbing a tree or something. No, nothing to see here citizen.

I didn't miss it, I ignored it as its a nonsense attempt at a semantic trap.

I'm sorry, but arguing with a clear understanding of the terms is what slines do.

Language hasn't caught up with the reality of what transgendered people go through.

Is transgenderism so new a phenomenon, that language "hasn't caught up"?

mental health professionals diagnose gender dysphoria as an actual condition

Sorry, but that's merely an appeal to authority. And a highly questionable authority too — not only because most of their experiments can not be verified, but also because politics would cause any "health professional" disagreeing to lose his license, job, and access to pornography.

There's no "species dysphoria".

Says who? How anthropocentric and speciist of you!

And what about the White woman "identifying as" Black? Why should be fired from a "colored-only" job, but a muscular penis-owner be allowed into a women's bathroom?

mirroring only protects against hardware failure

Wrong. A COW mirror with automatic snapshots protects against many other scenarios, and most (but not all) hardware failures. A COW mirror with frequent scheduled incremental snapshot replication to a remote location protects against just about everything, with no USB drives involved.

Unfortunately, COW mirrors won't win any write performance benchmarks against XFS, as the internal write path tends to be far more complex. But seriously, use the Volvo for 90% of daily errands, and haul out the turbo eggshell only for special occasions.

Insurance tests show cars have become far more fragile — 2007

A 6 mph frontal full collision racked up $5,486 in damage to a Mercedes C class sedan. The Infiniti G35, Acura TL and Lexus IS weren't far behind.

The winner was a 1981 Ford Escort, a sturdy little car that is no longer made. When the institute tested an old model it still had around, the Escort came out of two of the crash tests with zero damage and a fraction of the damage that the best performing new cars had.

In my books, UFS is the 1981 Ford Escort, ZFS is the mythical Volvo, and Btrfs is the Tesla Model S—totally awesome, but I wouldn't touch it myself.

Tesla Report: Two-Thirds of all Tesla Model S Drivetrains Replaced by 60K Miles

Breitbart News reported in October, with Tesla's stock plunging by 10 percent, that Consumer Reports had pulled its "best car ever" rating from Tesla's Model S.

(BTW, I fixed the -10 percent stock "plunge". Happiness is a left-leaning plungeometer. Somehow I don't think that's what they meant.)

Likewise, a bakery run by Christians who oppose same sex marriage don't have to bake a cake with a pro-SSM message.

There's a bakery in Oregon that would disagree with you. There's also a farm in New York and a florist in Seattle. We are absolutely not free to refuse, unless it's against someone not on the Approved Victim List.

I live close to the real-life episode that likely inspired that. Or else it was a case of life imitating art. Either way, we had a pretty good chuckle at those women's expense since no one was hurt.

It isn't too much of a surprise that the economics of producing biodiesel from used restaurant oil are shaky; and it also wouldn't be much of a surprise if on-site/near-site illicit dumping by individual operators looking to avoid paying for collection would be pretty common; but I am a little surprised that, if you are going to go to the trouble of collecting the stuff, it isn't economic to burn in less demanding applications.

Could be that their fuel tax has something to do with it:

With state gas taxes now up to 44.5 cents a gallon, adding in the current federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, the total per gallon gas tax in Washington is now 62.9 cents.

A free barrel of grease used for fuel now costs $18.69 in Washington State.

Or idiot cops that leave guns sitting on the trunk of their car or stolen from the vehicle ...

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-yor...

Actually, there is plenty of voter fraud. For example, in my home state (which has mail-in voting with no ID check instead of polling places), a civic group hired some stoners for a voter registration drive. From the Seattle Times:

To boost their output, the defendants allegedly went to the downtown Seattle Public Library, where they filled out voter-registration forms using names they made up or found in phone books, newspapers and baby-naming books.

One defendant “said it was hard work making up all those cards,” and another “said he would often sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out cards,” according to a probable-cause statement written by King County sheriff’s Detective Christopher Johnson.

Prosecutors in King and Pierce counties filed felony charges Thursday against seven employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claiming they turned in more than 1,800 phony voter-registration forms, including an estimated 55 in Pierce County.

It happens, but groups that support voting without identification willfully ignore instances that are reported.

from the linked article:
"None of the phony registrations led to illegal voting.
“This is the worst case of voter-registration fraud in the history of the state of Washington. There has been nothing comparable to this,” state Secretary of State Sam Reed said"
there is a difference between voter fraud where an ineligible person actually gets a vote, and where somebody just puts "I. P. Freely" on the voter rolls without an ineligible voter waiting to use it.
also, from the article it doesn't sound so much as the perps were stoners as they were homeless people and folks with violent criminal histories... i'd prefer stoners.

Actually, there is plenty of voter fraud. For example, in my home state (which has mail-in voting with no ID check instead of polling places), a civic group hired some stoners for a voter registration drive. From the Seattle Times:

To boost their output, the defendants allegedly went to the downtown Seattle Public Library, where they filled out voter-registration forms using names they made up or found in phone books, newspapers and baby-naming books.

One defendant “said it was hard work making up all those cards,” and another “said he would often sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out cards,” according to a probable-cause statement written by King County sheriff’s Detective Christopher Johnson.

Prosecutors in King and Pierce counties filed felony charges Thursday against seven employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claiming they turned in more than 1,800 phony voter-registration forms, including an estimated 55 in Pierce County.

It happens, but groups that support voting without identification willfully ignore instances that are reported.

For a person to become economically unviable a few things have to happen. 1) A machine has to match or exceed a typical worker's productivity AND flexibility AND trainability. 2) The machine has to be produced at such a low cost that the capital costs can be amortized over a very small number of units produced, possibly as small as 1. 3) There has to be no other economically valuable activity available to people replaced by automation. 4) There has to be no regulation restricting the use or application of automation.

Once again, AI does not have to be more capable than humans to be dangerous. It just has to be good enough that it empowers more educated and/or wealthier humans to be productive enough that most humans hold an economic value so low they cannot maintain a living wage. We already see that happening today. The middle class is shrinking, but not just because everyone is getting poorer. In fact, of the 11% of households leaving the middle class over the last 45 years only 36% of them became poor. The only 64% became upper middle class or higher.

Those 7% of households that left the middle class for an even better lifestyle show how beneficial increased technology can be for society. But it also increases the gaps between those with significant economic value and those with very little. Advanced in AI will only make this problem worse.

You will almost certainly need plenty of human workers for your manufacturing company for decades to come for the many reasons you provided. But if your company behaves like most successful manufacturing companies, you will need much less human labor in the coming decades (as a percentage of your income that is, you may still grow your payroll if your company becomes much bigger). Many if not most employees still on your payroll will see their pay increase much faster than inflation, but many more fellow citizens will be put out of work.

Even if [AI can make most workers obsolete], people can simply artificially make automation economically unviable via legislation.

Seeing as how legislation has only made income inequality worse over the past few decades, I have next to zero confidence that legislation will stop companies from automating away jobs. I find it far more likely that a basic income will be eventually enacted as an alternative to the social unrest that would accompany a massive number of unemployable citizens.

Potatoes and Tomatoes might be a really good idea for space/mars...I didn't see the movie, so forgive if its obvious already...

They can be continuously harvested for some time. When we do it on earth, we generally are lazy and don't use them to their potential; we plant wait until fruit appears and harvest.. What's special about growing in confined controllable space is, they can be grown vertically in a box, and continuously produce new edible parts...
Example, Potato:
You start with a box full of dirt say 6-12" deep/walls... Plant potato after the plant gets a good start, add 6" to the box, and put more dirt against the stock.. Keep doing this as time goes by... You can eventually harvest the potatos from the bottom run, as new potatoes grow closer to surface... I'm not sure how long this can go for(potentially a lot time) but you can get multiple crops from a single plant(This is what you'd want to genetically modify if necessary, simply direct it to stay alive/keep producing)..

Tomatos are grown in massive greenhouses today and they can survive years.. They simply keep folding/rolling up the tomato vine slowly through the months in a controlled environment.. New Tomatoes flower at the top of the vine, ripe harvested from bottom.

More importantly still might be those special edibles that grow like a weed and ALL parts are edible/nutritious(Unlike potatos and tomatos) edible roots, stems, leaf, fruit...

http://old.seattletimes.com/AB...

Yes no individual or corporate income tax in Nevada, that's why Microsoft sells through there. You know if you actually crunch the numbers, you find that Corporate Income taxes shield people from individual taxes, we'd be better off not taxing corporations, so individuals would pay more individually and put a 25% tax on dividends to non-US taxpayers.

Sure, Boeing knows the plane will actually fly before it's first test flight, but there is a reason that first test flight (i.e. Dreamliner) only has the minimum possible crew, they're all wearing bright orange rescue suits, and they don't dare retract the gear. There are a ton of parts, and they all need testing. For example, the brand new 747-800 had to get software fixes for wing flutter http://www.seattletimes.com/bu.... This is something designers and software testing had missed. So yes, A & B still do flight testing, with test pilots for a reason.

Seattle Times. Key phrase: "Inverted corporations must still pay U.S. taxes on the profits they earn in the U.S." But read the story for more info.

Also lmgtfy.

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

And yes, at least some of the masks were purchased off Amazon.com - using one guy's mom's credit card.

Very simple. Just create a law that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE do they use the footage for anything but that. Kind of like red light cameras not being able to be used to track down kidnap victims.

Seattle cops can’t check red-light cameras for clues to killings | The Seattle Times

I have no idea if the law has been changed within the past three years in Washington state. But that is the kind of thing that should be done if they plan on doing something for a specific purpose. (For the sake of privacy.)

> No you are wrong, almost certainly because you are addicted and in denial.
0- Ad hominem. Off to a strong start I see.

> Sensible diet and exercise WILL reduce weight in someone who is obese.
1- Moving the goal posts. The cure rate is negligible. I didn't say "reduce weight". Don't move the fucking goal posts to something you CAN get a weak kick in. That's not the fucking topic.

> your 2% figure, which of course we understand is pulled out of your arse,
2- I think it's 2% for some groups, I'm pretty sure it can get that high. It's 1% in general.
Article:
http://www.seattletimes.com/ne...
Based on study:
http://ajph.aphapublications.o...

> is of course a silly form of self denial.
3- Second ad hominem. I guess if you don't have evidence on your side, you need that sort of scintillating distraction!

Gonzalez had endured several break-ins at his trailer when the four boys, ranging in age from 11 to 15, broke in at night. Gonzalez, who was in a nearby building at the time, went into the trailer and confronted the boys with a 16-gauge shotgun. Then he forced the boys, who were unarmed, to their knees, attorneys on both sides said.

The survivors said they were begging for forgiveness when Gonzalez hit them with the barrel of the shotgun and kicked them repeatedly. Then, the medical examiner testified, Anguiano was shot in the back at close range. Two mashed Twinkies and some cookies were stuffed in the pockets of his shorts.

Another boy, Jesus Soto Jr., 16, testified that Gonzalez ordered them at gunpoint to take Anguiano’s body outside.

Amazon, a large tech company, is hiring a bunch of highly-paid confederate-flag waving gay-bashing white men in Seattle, they're turning the whole county white, and they're going around beating up gay people and burning down gay bars?

Does this even pass the smell test? Of course not. Has anyone involved in this story ever worked for a large modern tech company, or talked to anyone who does? Of course not.

Check the actual references and you get a different story. First of all, King County is not the whitest in the nation. It's the whitest of the top 20 counties in the nation by population. But at 62.4% white non-Hispanic, it's just below at the national average for whiteness (63.7%). Second, "the county's fastest population growth is happening among Asian and mixed-race people."

Third, let's take a look at those attacks. The arson? Committed by one Musab Masmari. White tech company employee? Nope. Unemployed drunk raised by Libyan parents mostly in Libya. Race unclear; Arabs are usually counted as white but Libyans are mostly Berbers who are mixed. The other complaints don't mention the employment or race of the perpetrators, though none of them apparently were traced back to tech company employees.

As the Bloomberg article says, "an industry that's otherwise showering Seattle with jobs and money has become a scapegoat".

For every 100,000 Seattle residents, there were three hate crimes based on sexual orientation that year, the most recent data available. Among cities with at least 200,000 residents, only Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., have higher rates of anti-LGBT hate crimes.

so 3 for every 100K people in a city you said has 650K people which makes the numbers exactly what i said 19.66 attacks

19.66 attacks in a year in your city. that is a really REALLY small number.

The science to it is basically this: When sitting, your metabolism slows, you burn less calories, and all the fun that goes with that - higher likelihood to be overweight, thus higher blood pressure, cardiac issues, and so on. We have studies that prove this too.

So, don't sit right? Well, standing isn't very good for you either, not for long periods of time. We're lacking any really hard science on what the optimal time period really is, although we know that it's variable depending on the person. We do know that you're more at risk for immediate health problems from long periods of standing rather than sitting (which results in longer term, less immediate issues). For example, even with a soft gel mat, after a few weeks, one stander ended up with medical conditions.. They're not just an anomaly either; back pain, carotid atherosclerosis - a circulation issue, varicose veins, pinched nerves, and more are associated with long periods of standing.

The fact is that we don't really know how much standing is enough to ward off the dangers of sitting, and worse, we don't know how much standing is too much and will result in health problems. There's probably an optimal healthy point, but we don't have any studies that show where that optimal healthy point is on average, much less how it needs to be adjusted for an individual.

It's also important to note that positive claims associated with standing desks that are not associated with physical well-being, such as increased mental capacity, creativity, memory, attentiveness, productivity and so on, are largely due to recirculating personal anecdotes, which we know carry a strong bias and use no objective measures for comparison. What few studies there have been show no evidence of benefit, nor of detriment. In a obvious note though, they show that treadmill or cyling desks DO reduce attention and productivity by a significant amount, and they haven't been shown to result in any impressive health gains either - users average weight loss of only about 3 lbs a year, for example, and that's about the only study you'll find on the subject!

What this all means is that, scientifically speaking, advocating for the health benefits of a standing desk is about the same as advocating for the health properties of barefoot running, clay cleansing (or really any cleanses, including charcoal, pickle juice, and others), and the whole genre of fad diets.

There's no scientific proof that shows they are a net benefit, which means you shouldn't assume they provide one. They are just standard junk science until then - taking a fact or finding and running with it past the point and on to speculation and pure fantasy. In fact, these are more akin to the fad diets, in that you're not only not gaining a benefit, you're that much more likely to cause harm to yourself. Standing desks are the new fen phen.

If you're worried about staying healthy, skip the fads and just add an exercise plan to your day. Take a 40 minute walk at lunch. Maybe workout a few times a week. Eat healthy, but more important in most western countries, eat a proper portion size. That's all it really takes.

Oh man, do we ever. Did you read the article written by our transportation director?
http://www.seattletimes.com/op...
The summary is that he wants to redo all the sidewalks around schools (most of which are already abundantly signed, reflective, and lighted/flashing), implement massive lane reductions, and a 5-mph speed reduction across the board (lowering it to 25mph on arterials), all of which are very expensive projects. I'm sorry, but anyone who is old enough to walk alone has an infinite number of stupid ways they can kill themselves and an infinite number of places. If you're going to speed money anywhere, fix the key dangerous spots (if any still exist) and then spend the rest on mental health. Or police/fire/ambulance are good services too (most of the time), and they safe innocent lives. They are going to ask us in the Fall to vote a nearly billion dollar road-fixing proposition that only spends around $200M on fixing roads, $100M million on fixing bridges, and $600M on other stuff, like "safety projects." I wonder if the voters know that passing that means they will get fixed roads, but not for their cars to travel on!

Seriously? Have you never heard of a police blotter?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/...

So the mistake your side makes is misunderstanding that at every incremental raise of the min wage, jobs are lost. It doesn't matter that workers have more money to spend, unless that increase in volume leads to inflation of prices, this resulting in Sally's output being worth $14+ from inflation. But your side insists min wage increases do not cause inflation and only lead to higher demand (volume). If volume demanded increases without inflation, that actually has no impact because Sally's company will not produce more units at negative margin. In fact Sally's company will produce less than before the increase in demand.

And if it does lead to inflation, Sally may not get canned, but that is a regressive cost that will hurt many lower wage workers and definitely the unemployed, whose benefits are not indexed to local inflation.

...and the mistake your side is is not looking at the reality of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS, and instead spews the same ignorant bullshit over and over:

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/cepr...

so you are telling me businesses in seatle are opening in record numbers now right?? no one is leaving right???

Seattle is not only the fastest-growing city in the United States, but employment is growing there faster than the national average. Anywhere you go in Seattle, you see new commercial buildings going up. You think that's because businesses are leaving?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/...

http://jobs.seattletimes.com/c...

so you are telling me businesses in seatle are opening in record numbers now right?? no one is leaving right???

Seattle is not only the fastest-growing city in the United States, but employment is growing there faster than the national average. Anywhere you go in Seattle, you see new commercial buildings going up. You think that's because businesses are leaving?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/...

http://jobs.seattletimes.com/c...

Perhaps you would like to read the story somewhere other than the NYT because paywalling is stupid and offensive, even if you know how to bypass it.

Yes, paywalling is stupid and offensive, ads are also stupid and offensive. Everyone should give me content for free because gimme!

Perhaps you would like to read the story somewhere other than the NYT because paywalling is stupid and offensive, even if you know how to bypass it. Thanks, Seattle Times, for just showing me the flipping article.

Here's a news flash: You can get the same AP newswire article anywhere. Yet people still link the NYT. That's poor internet etiquette given that they paywall.

Perhaps you would like to read the story somewhere other than the NYT because paywalling is stupid and offensive, even if you know how to bypass it. Thanks, Seattle Times, for just showing me the flipping article.

Here's a news flash: You can get the same AP newswire article anywhere. Yet people still link the NYT. That's poor internet etiquette given that they paywall.

Overturn murder conviction?
Murderers belong to a electric chair. Keeping those morons around is total waste of taxpayers money.
Before you start your hippy bull shit about "what if he is innocent..." find out, how much it cost to keep one of those scumbags in prison for a year.
I bet most of you wish you could spend that much on yourself for the rest of your life :)

Gas/chair/needle all the violent repeat criminals and be done with those morons.

Hmm let's see... assuming the Seattle Times is not just pushing this because they or the report authors are anti-death penalty...
Seeking death penalty adds $1M to prosecution cost, study says
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

Or according to the Nevada Legislature, "The Legislative Auditor estimated the cost of a murder trial in which the death penalty was sought cost $1.03 to $1.3 million, whereas cases without the death penalty cost $775,000."
(All the study links I can find for that one are either pdf or paywalled)

Kansas: "Defending a death penalty case costs about four times as much as defending a case where the death penalty is not sought, according to a new study by the Kansas Judicial Council. Examining 34 potential death-penalty cases from 2004-2011, the study found that defense costs for death penalty trials averaged $395,762 per case, compared to $98,963 per case when the death penalty was not sought. "

Idaho: "A new, but limited, study of the costs of the death penalty in Idaho found that capital cases are more costly and take much more time to resolve than non-capital cases. One measure of death-penalty costs was reflected in the time spent by attorneys handling appeals. The State Appellate Public Defenders office spent about 44 times more time on a typical death penalty appeal than on a life sentence appeal (almost 8,000 hours per capital defendant compared to about 180 hours per non-death penalty defendant). Capital cases with trials took 20.5 months to reach a conclusion while non-capital cases with trials took 13.5 months."

California: Assessment of Costs by Judge Arthur Alarcon and Prof. Paula Mitchell (2011, updated 2012)
"The authors concluded that the cost of the death penalty in California has totaled over $4 billion since 1978:
$1.94 billion--Pre-Trial and Trial Costs
$925 million--Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petitions
$775 million--Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals
$1 billion--Costs of Incarceration
The authors calculated that, if the Governor commuted the sentences of those remaining on death row to life without parole, it would result in an immediate savings of $170 million per year, with a savings of $5 billion over the next 20 years."

Texas: "Each death penalty case in Texas costs taxpayers about $2.3 million. That is about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. ("Executions Cost Texas Millions," Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992)." Granted, the Texas study is probably too old for immediate relevance. ...and so on...

Going purely from memory for this next little item, so I cannot provide any citation for it, I seem to recall that the cost of keeping a prisoner on Death Row is about $90,000 to $100,000 higher than keeping a prisoner in the general population.
Sounds to me like the Death Penalty is a ridiculously expensive option, considering that it is primarily there as a deterrent. Given the crime rates in the US, I would have to question whether the deterrent is working. So if it is not working, and it costs a butt-ton of money, why bother with it?

Isn't Seattle already under a "consent decree"? (That's basically when the Feds descend on a police force - ala Ferguson - because they want to clean it up.)
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

And isn't there already a full body - with it's own web site - monitoring it?
http://www.seattlemonitor.com/

During the hayday people bought windows PCs for home because they were familiar with it at work. Now... not many are buying home PCs. With competition from iPad, iPhone and chromebooks crowding in, home PC might become a relic like the VCR or the CD player.

And thus the large increase in help wanted signs is a unicorn.

Even if this "large increase" existed, it would not be evidence of causality. But the city leaders say there has been little impact on jobs: City manager Todd Cutts says there has been no impact on sales tax or property tax, and no change in the number of business licenses issued. ... “We’re not seeing the big benefits that proponents said we would because so few people are affected,” said Guppy. “And at the same time, it’s not having a ripple effect through the economy. It just affects so few jobs, it’s not having much impact.”

Yes, it's called the very low unemployment rate here. Which DROPPED after minimum wages were increased.

The unemployment rate dropped all across America, and in Europe as well. I doubt all of that was because the minimum wage was raised for 1500 workers at SeaTac.

Anyway, I appreciate your honesty in confirming that your "statistics" don't exist.

There are people who have seen this pattern and are doing something about it:

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

I'm hoping the numbers prove that it can be expanded to the many other places where simply jailing the offender doesn't make the world a better place.

daily caloric deficit of over 2700 calories, which is beyond a starvation diet. If your RMR was 2000 calories per day

36 year old, 170 cm, 111 kg, male individual has an RMR of about 2000 calories per day.
Running "about 30 miles a week, swimming for about one hour and a half twice a week and doing all sort of exercise" raises his daily calorie needs to about 3800 calories per day.
If he's also working a physical job, that's about 4200 calories per day.

That's a daily difference of 1800-2200 calories from exercise alone.
Diet-vise he could drop bread for one meal, or skip breakfast.
And that's without knowing how many calories he was taking in "after military service".

Army was feeding him AT LEAST 3250 calories per day, possibly up to 6000-7000 calories per day if he was stationed in a high altitude location in Afghanistan.
And that's not counting snacks. Or fighting stress with food.

He probably came home and continued eating 5000+ calories per day.
There's plenty room there to drop all that weight with exercise and moderate calorie restriction.
Particularly for someone used to military standards of exercise.

In Seattle they have patrol cars parked around the city with special license plate reader equipment than scan and record all passing cars. They say its only for finding stolen cars and wanted felons. But when asked by news media how long they keep these records, they said forever. They don't see a reason why they should not keep a database where a person drives and how often. http://seattletimes.com/html/l...

Why we need $400 million to teach K-12 CS: 1. "Only 10 percent of schools teach it [CS]." 2. "No Girls, Blacks, or Hispanics Take AP Computer Science Exam in Some States." 3. "Currently, only 25 states allow computer science to count as a mathematics or science credit towards graduation."

Its more like blocking Tor is akin to saying "many robberies" were performed by people wearing a disguise, so we will no longer allow people wearing disguises into the bank.

FBI wants law targeting hats, sunglasses in banks

Some of us wear prescription sunglasses, so that'd have to be addressed.

Captcha: privacy

Up here in Washington State, several police agencies have embraced the idea of Body Cams. And while there has been no philosophical push-back about public access to Body Cam footage by the coppers, a recent Public Records Request illustrates a more fiscal problem...

A public records request was made for all Body Cam footage for the last year from several local departments that have been experimenting with the technology. Why should this be a probem, after all, just burn it all to a CD and send it to the guy?

The are three issues: Privacy - not every interaction a police officer has is in a public place or does not contain things than fall under privacy rules.

Second is commercial use - You know those Mug Shot Extortion sites? The ones that publish mug shots but for a small fee of several hundred dollars will take yours down? Same thing.

Third is the fiscal issue - The time to parse through a requst for "all your files for the year" for privacy issues and other things that simply should not end up on a commercial "shock" site or YouTube, this will cost a butt-load.

So it's become an issue. Here is a Seattle Times article on the subject: http://seattletimes.com/html/l...

The request for the footage was made by the police officers union or people working as their proxy in an attempt to prevent the cameras from getting implemented elsewhere.

How would the police handle a request for all of their Dashcam footage? Radio traffic? etc? You could make similar silly requests for all sorts of things and I'm sure they've managed to deal with those types of requests without incident as well. Don't let yourself get played.

Up here in Washington State, several police agencies have embraced the idea of Body Cams. And while there has been no philosophical push-back about public access to Body Cam footage by the coppers, a recent Public Records Request illustrates a more fiscal problem...

A public records request was made for all Body Cam footage for the last year from several local departments that have been experimenting with the technology. Why should this be a probem, after all, just burn it all to a CD and send it to the guy?

The are three issues: Privacy - not every interaction a police officer has is in a public place or does not contain things than fall under privacy rules.

Second is commercial use - You know those Mug Shot Extortion sites? The ones that publish mug shots but for a small fee of several hundred dollars will take yours down? Same thing.

Third is the fiscal issue - The time to parse through a requst for "all your files for the year" for privacy issues and other things that simply should not end up on a commercial "shock" site or YouTube, this will cost a butt-load.

So it's become an issue. Here is a Seattle Times article on the subject: http://seattletimes.com/html/l...

A Seattle Times list of legal actions between Intel & AMD shows cross-licensing deals dating to 1976. So Google's passing on a licensing agreement doesn't bode well... :(

"Dozens of residents in the flow path have been told to complete all necessary preparations by Tuesday for a possible evacuation. The timeline could change, based on the flow rate."

That's a big hand!!!!!

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Democrats are going to keep demanding that the government force low-skilled workers out of work... sorry, increase the minimum wage.

Now that it's been studied, it turns out this isn't the case. Raising the minimum wage doesn't force people out of work, and, in some cases, causes local economies to surge. Seattle is the most recent example.

http://seattletimes.com/html/l...