Training is one thing, conferences are another. You can get trained without attending a conference. You seem to be replying with "well if you're employer wanted to keep me, this is what they'd have to do!" That's all fine and great... but what are they really obligated to do? They're obligated to pay for things they expect you to attend. If conferences aren't something they value, then they shouldn't have to pay. If you're prissy and demand lots of back scratching to stay in your job, then fine, they might want to pay for such things to keep you happy. But personally I'd prefer a higher wage and leave out the modern over-hyped version of a flee-market we now call a "conference" It's a waste of my time and often costs 10% of my sallary for me to attend. Wouldn't you prefer a 10% raise?...and I literally tell my management that. I wont waist your money, so don't waste my time. Pay me more and I wont leave.
If your employer expects you to go, they should pay. If they don't care, you should. Anything your employer expects you to be doing, they should be paying for. It's as simple as that.
I, personally, find them worthless marketing scams. At best, all I get out of them is that someone is doing something new that I should google later. Other than that they seem to be sales pitch after sales pitch. I can't stand them and would never pay for an employee to attend. If there's training or something? Cool, I'd pay for that. But lets separate training from conferences. Most real training doesn't happen at conferences anyways.
That being said... if I were running the company that was doing that marketing scam at the conference... i.e. I wanted you to attend to drum up business, that's entirely different and I'd pay for you to go.
It really irks me that we teach more about the objects of Scientific investigation in school (Biology, Physics, etc) then the actual philosophy of Science itself. Sure, there is usually about an hour in HS that covers basic Scientific approach but then it gets left by the wayside.
Schools should be spending more time discussing and learning the philosophy of Science itself.
Just my 2 cents.
The do the same thing with Math. You spend all your time learning multiplication tables, when the "Real" math is knowing how people figured out those equations.
my point of view has always been "i'm going to throw some money into this future product. I may or may not see any kind of product if I contribute, but i sure as hell won't see a product if i don't." that's when i really want a product to work out. If i'm just "kinda" into it, i'll just wait for them to release and order it then.
Right... the problem is a lot of people expect a lot more than that. They think that someone, somewhere is vetting this stuff, when the fact of the matter is you're giving a total stranger money so they maybe can do something you find interesting.
That's an incredibly myopic view of the situation and I get a bit tired of it here on Slashdot. Enforcing net neutrality is a lot bigger of a deal to the public than it appears at the outset. It would be the government is now regulating the actual traffic on the internet. You may think it's a good idea in this regard... but what about when the feds decide they want to enforce other laws via their new powers? Decency laws? Cyber bullying? That doesn't sound so great to me...
Don't get me wrong, I fully support "Net Neutrality" What I don't like is the feds touching the internet. The longer we keep them out, the better. So, I look at the root of the problem. Why do the ISP's want to break net neutrality? It's related to an ongoing fight between Netflix and pretty much every ISP on earth.
To me, if the feds have to get involved, I'd rather see them involved in the peering agreements. They are already heavily involved in a lot of inter-carrier agreements so it wouldn't be anything new. If they simply passed regulation that said Peering agreements must be agreed to by both parties prior to signing, this entire issue would die with no federal involvement in the high level network traffic.
No, they are trying to prevent themselves from gaining a reputation of being a place that's filled with Scammers. Something that's been well under way for a while now. And, to be honest, I'm not sure how they ever thought this wouldn't happened. As soon as I heard of kickstarter I thought it'd end up going down in flames. I'm rather surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
What they need to do is make clear what your money is for. People seem to expect a lot more than they really get, and need to understand that often what they are really doing is giving the company a "Gift" that may or may not lead to a product the donator is expecting. This is entirely a problem with the expectations of the users, and Kickstarter needs to work to ensure the companies involved can't mislead those users.
I've no problem at all with comment systems. I know the pitfalls. I filter and only read negative comments (positive comments are useless) Then look for things that would bother me. The idiots (which is most of them) I barely read at all. "This was incompatible with my ASUS motherboard!" THATS what I'm looking for. Books? Reviews aren't that helpful for books... At best, I look for books that there people bought along with books I really liked.
Not much is known about how they work, but plenty is known about their effects. Millions of people take them safely and effectively. I'd avoid newer drugs for a time... I like the buffer of a few hundred thousand people ahead of me in line... That said, I've taken them in the past. Make no mistake, they change who you are. Sometimes that's required though, so you should think logically about the situation.
Is figure out why so many who are on SSRI's or had recently stopped taking them, become suicidal or go on shooting rampages, or both.
Seriously, what the fuck? What an idiotic, close minded, asshole of a comment. 13% of the population are on anti-depressants, and go off them regularly. They do not shoot anyone or get suicidal. Sometimes, the mentally deranged end up shooting people or committing suicide. Is it any wonder that they had been medicated prior to going off the rails?!?! It's not the drugs, it's the asshole that took them. He had a general 13% of had take them even before you counted the fact they were crazy enough to commit murder.
Now stop making rude and insensitive comments about a group of people you clearly have no knowledge of what-so-ever. I took these drugs for over 15yrs and did not kill anyone, especially not myself, when I stopped taking them. If there is any one worst thing about SSRI's its the stigma people like you have put on people who take them.
Solve isn't the best word... It's more like a good fix. As long as your encryption is good, it's secure. If the NSA has secret quantum computers or something you're doomed.
The way tor works, there are 3 proxies you go through. Entry node Middle node Exit node
The entry node knows who you are, but not what you want to do or what your exit node is. It sends your request to the middle node. The middle node knows your entry and exit nodes, but not your identity or where you want to go. It forwards what you want to do on to the exit node. The exit node knows your target but not who you are or what your entry node is.
Because of that, no info from any combination of nodes will give you any information about you other than that you connected to TOR. To compromise the connection the attacker would have to either break 3 levels of encryption (not physically possible given current tech) or have control over all 3 nodes. If the NSA has broken Tor, this is likely how they've done it. Running their own nodes.
This Chat seems to use that network and then use that sole bit of info it can get (that you are indeed connect) to send a request for a connect. If you accept, it uses the same onion framework to connect the 2 of you. There is metadata, but it's encrypted 3x (at least) and none of the connections have all of the keys.
This is also why Tor is slow as hell.
Anyone feel free to correct anything I erred on. This is not my specialty.
Instead of weird exceptions like this, which are likely to cause only further problems, the US should reduce the intrusiveness of law enforcement in general. Stop the war on drugs, simplify the tax code, consistently require court warrants for searches, etc., and we could reduce online searches by 90%
The complexity serves a purpose. The tax code is the easiest example. Do you have any idea how much you pay in taxes? Any clue at all? Income tax, property tax, sales tax, Gas tax, vice tax, drivers license fees, etc... etc...
After all that you likely have no idea what you pay in taxes. Which is exactly the point.
The same goes for laws and regulation. It's often joked that everything's illegal in the United states, but that's not just a joke. If law enforcement wants to get you, they get you. You are always breaking the law in one way or another. Everyone thought it was clever when they nailed Al Capone for the tax evasion nonsense. But now that the same tactics are used on pretty much everyone, the true injustice of it all has become rather apparent.
We have a problem with law enforcement in this country. It's turned into us against them. And "Them" now have Tanks and machine guns.
What's the upside? Doesn't this just make it easier for multinational corporations and criminal organizations to evade enforcement of US laws?
Law enforcement is enforcing US laws in foreign countries. That's the problem.
Lets put the show on the other foot for an example: While visiting Russia, the Russian officials accuse you of viewing homosexual porn, which is illegal there. They then issue a search warrant and force microsoft and google to turn over the contents of your cloud drive/phone backups, etc... Does that sound reasonable to you?
So I guess Russias enemies have never had the idea to simply have compromised servers/equipment inside the Russian border... Oh No! I just gave it away! Russia's doomed!
Not being Scottish, I have to say that I'm relieved. Granted, if I lived there I'd probably have voted Yes. But from the outside? How would that split have worked out in the end? The UK would swing wildly right... Quickly get involved in lots of wars, crack down on "terrorists" etc... Scotland would have swung wildly left, and quickly bankrupted themselves with social programs. Balance is a good thing, even if you're currently getting the short end of the stick.
I'd like to say that perhaps the powers that be can now see the discontent and will change things to keep Scotland happy enough that this wont come up again. But that would require long term thinking and I don't see that as something modern politicians are capable of. Is some Tory going to do something that will cost him the next election just so his grandson can win one in 20yrs? Not on your life.
I suspect that after a few years this will come up again and you'll win. I'll be glad for you. But keep in mind, getting what you want is rarely as great as you planned. And some (but not all) of the conservatives concerns regarding "What you want" will end up being dead on. Starting a new government is never easy. Just ask Iraq.
How exactly is this supposed to make the end user feel good about either U2 or Apple?
Both are disconnected from real life. You get that rich and you start believing your own marketing teams blather. There seems to be this idea that "Real" musicans are hurt by piracy. It's not even remotely true... most real musicians can't get a record deal or a show because Bands like U2 have the industry locked up. They are part of huge machine that produced devices that could play their music for them (CDs) then locked that format up in such a way that no regular musician could ever afford to produce one. The one album I was involved in back in the 90s cost $20,000 to finish. We got 600 copies and sold them all making a little over $6k back. That market only worked for huge bands like U2. And local bars don't have live music anymore because local bands aren't allowed on the radio. Bands like U2 pay to have their music played, which gets the public accustom to those songs even if they would have like the local bands better... So now the bars playing a CD they had to pay for AND pay royalties back to the RIAA. Often the live band would have played for FREE! But still can't get a gig.
Now... granted, my Band at the time was DeathMetal. So yea, our lack of gigs had a lot to do with our choice of styles. But this is true of pretty much all live music. I've been in dozens of bands since, from Blues to Bluegrass. It doesn't matter. It's a club and the doors are closed. But, unfortunately for them, they've made it far too easy to consume their product. Now people don't even want to pay for it!
The real solution? You can't pirate a live show. Go do some gigs U2.
Well, considering the two of them ran all the small local hardware stores out of business, enjoy shopping at Lowes, instead.
There are plenty of small hardware stores around me. Dozens actually... I'm always at the hardware stores. They thrive specially because Home Depot doesn't have everything... They only sell things that are of high profit and easy to sell. If you have an account with them you can order pretty much anything you want and have it ready for pickup in a few days. But stop in for some odds and ends? Good luck. Better luck at the local hardware store.
I, unfortunately, live blocks from a home depot however... so I'm on occasion lured by convenience.
I'm currently on the phone with my bank dealing with this. Thanks Home Depot! After you're done cleaning up this mess, could you clean up the bolt isle so I can actually find what I'm looking for should I ever decide to return to your store?
I order a lot of stuff from Shenzhen via Alibaba. I've never had a problem, and what I order seems to be of high quality and all the vendors I've dealt with have been reasonable and even accepted returns. Long story short, they're as good as any US vendor I've dealt with.
I wanted to do this when I was about 30... We have a very prestigious college here so I went there, to the physics lab and sat down with a professor.
He said if I came in with strait A's in math... maybe... otherwise it was an unqualified "No" He went on to say that if I didn't have strait A's in math to go to the local community college and take math courses that were specifically linked to the University. They have classes that do carry credit at the university. If I could get a 4.0+ in advanced math classes they'd let me in. He said if I was older, I'd qualify as a "Returning adult" and would have lower requirements... 3.0+ I think "returning adult" is in the 35+ age range. But you'd have to contact your local college.
Then I asked if I could at least push the button on the accelerator. That also was a "No" but he at least chuckled.
It might be different at your local school. I wouldn't know.
At this point, the various big ISPs have taken so much taxpayer money, and provided so little in return, that I'd say we should stop providing them with any subsidies, and still require the same level of buildout. They can take the balance out of their execs' bonuses from next quarter—which should be enough to cover a fair amount of infrastructure.
Dan Aris
I believe that he is referring to the Universal Service Fund (correct me if I'm wrong) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... If that's the case, these are fees the Telcos are required to pay to the feds, who then turn around and redistribute to "Target" customers. Generally the poor or Rural customers. For example, Lifeline (which AT&T hilariously advertises as their own charity) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
So, to call this a "Bailout" or subside is kind of misleading. The telco industry charges more to everyone to pay into this fund, and then the feds award the fund to areas where service would otherwise be too expensive. There have been federal initiatives to fund broadband expansion. Namely Obamas program that basically failed miserably. There are areas of this country that will likely never get wired broadband due to cost. They'll have to wait for wireless services to mature.
Does HFCS count as a sugar substitute, or real sugar ?
A while back Mt Dew had a 'Throwback' drink that had 'real sugar'. Haven't seen it lately.
It's still very popular here. Though, I live in hippy central. I know a lot of people that refuse to eat fake sweeteners and corn sugars. They're switching to these "throwbacks" and, for example, Hunts Ketchup because it has regular sugar. Anecdotaly, none of them have lost weight as a result that I know of. But they certainly have gotten more annoying.
Flash and Silverlight, Adobe and Microsoft, again -- and again and again. Is it the year of the Linux Desktop yet?
Netflix requires sivlerlight. And, I suspect, 99% of the people out there with silverlight installed, only have it for netflix. I can't think of a single other reason I'd install it. And I specifically banned netflix in my house because of the silverlight requirement.
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Training is one thing, conferences are another. You can get trained without attending a conference. You seem to be replying with "well if you're employer wanted to keep me, this is what they'd have to do!" That's all fine and great... but what are they really obligated to do? They're obligated to pay for things they expect you to attend. If conferences aren't something they value, then they shouldn't have to pay. If you're prissy and demand lots of back scratching to stay in your job, then fine, they might want to pay for such things to keep you happy. But personally I'd prefer a higher wage and leave out the modern over-hyped version of a flee-market we now call a "conference" It's a waste of my time and often costs 10% of my sallary for me to attend. Wouldn't you prefer a 10% raise? ...and I literally tell my management that. I wont waist your money, so don't waste my time. Pay me more and I wont leave.
If your employer expects you to go, they should pay. If they don't care, you should. Anything your employer expects you to be doing, they should be paying for. It's as simple as that.
I, personally, find them worthless marketing scams. At best, all I get out of them is that someone is doing something new that I should google later. Other than that they seem to be sales pitch after sales pitch. I can't stand them and would never pay for an employee to attend. If there's training or something? Cool, I'd pay for that. But lets separate training from conferences. Most real training doesn't happen at conferences anyways.
That being said... if I were running the company that was doing that marketing scam at the conference... i.e. I wanted you to attend to drum up business, that's entirely different and I'd pay for you to go.
It really irks me that we teach more about the objects of Scientific investigation in school (Biology, Physics, etc) then the actual philosophy of Science itself. Sure, there is usually about an hour in HS that covers basic Scientific approach but then it gets left by the wayside.
Schools should be spending more time discussing and learning the philosophy of Science itself.
Just my 2 cents.
The do the same thing with Math. You spend all your time learning multiplication tables, when the "Real" math is knowing how people figured out those equations.
my point of view has always been "i'm going to throw some money into this future product. I may or may not see any kind of product if I contribute, but i sure as hell won't see a product if i don't." that's when i really want a product to work out. If i'm just "kinda" into it, i'll just wait for them to release and order it then.
Right... the problem is a lot of people expect a lot more than that. They think that someone, somewhere is vetting this stuff, when the fact of the matter is you're giving a total stranger money so they maybe can do something you find interesting.
That's an incredibly myopic view of the situation and I get a bit tired of it here on Slashdot. Enforcing net neutrality is a lot bigger of a deal to the public than it appears at the outset. It would be the government is now regulating the actual traffic on the internet. You may think it's a good idea in this regard... but what about when the feds decide they want to enforce other laws via their new powers? Decency laws? Cyber bullying? That doesn't sound so great to me...
Don't get me wrong, I fully support "Net Neutrality" What I don't like is the feds touching the internet. The longer we keep them out, the better. So, I look at the root of the problem. Why do the ISP's want to break net neutrality? It's related to an ongoing fight between Netflix and pretty much every ISP on earth.
To me, if the feds have to get involved, I'd rather see them involved in the peering agreements. They are already heavily involved in a lot of inter-carrier agreements so it wouldn't be anything new. If they simply passed regulation that said Peering agreements must be agreed to by both parties prior to signing, this entire issue would die with no federal involvement in the high level network traffic.
No, they are trying to prevent themselves from gaining a reputation of being a place that's filled with Scammers. Something that's been well under way for a while now. And, to be honest, I'm not sure how they ever thought this wouldn't happened. As soon as I heard of kickstarter I thought it'd end up going down in flames. I'm rather surprised it's lasted as long as it has.
What they need to do is make clear what your money is for. People seem to expect a lot more than they really get, and need to understand that often what they are really doing is giving the company a "Gift" that may or may not lead to a product the donator is expecting. This is entirely a problem with the expectations of the users, and Kickstarter needs to work to ensure the companies involved can't mislead those users.
I've no problem at all with comment systems. I know the pitfalls. I filter and only read negative comments (positive comments are useless) Then look for things that would bother me. The idiots (which is most of them) I barely read at all. "This was incompatible with my ASUS motherboard!" THATS what I'm looking for. Books? Reviews aren't that helpful for books... At best, I look for books that there people bought along with books I really liked.
Not much is known about how they work, but plenty is known about their effects. Millions of people take them safely and effectively. I'd avoid newer drugs for a time... I like the buffer of a few hundred thousand people ahead of me in line... That said, I've taken them in the past. Make no mistake, they change who you are. Sometimes that's required though, so you should think logically about the situation.
Is figure out why so many who are on SSRI's or had recently stopped taking them, become suicidal or go on shooting rampages, or both.
Seriously, what the fuck? What an idiotic, close minded, asshole of a comment. 13% of the population are on anti-depressants, and go off them regularly. They do not shoot anyone or get suicidal. Sometimes, the mentally deranged end up shooting people or committing suicide. Is it any wonder that they had been medicated prior to going off the rails?!?! It's not the drugs, it's the asshole that took them. He had a general 13% of had take them even before you counted the fact they were crazy enough to commit murder.
Now stop making rude and insensitive comments about a group of people you clearly have no knowledge of what-so-ever. I took these drugs for over 15yrs and did not kill anyone, especially not myself, when I stopped taking them. If there is any one worst thing about SSRI's its the stigma people like you have put on people who take them.
Solve isn't the best word... It's more like a good fix. As long as your encryption is good, it's secure. If the NSA has secret quantum computers or something you're doomed.
The way tor works, there are 3 proxies you go through.
Entry node
Middle node
Exit node
The entry node knows who you are, but not what you want to do or what your exit node is. It sends your request to the middle node.
The middle node knows your entry and exit nodes, but not your identity or where you want to go. It forwards what you want to do on to the exit node.
The exit node knows your target but not who you are or what your entry node is.
Because of that, no info from any combination of nodes will give you any information about you other than that you connected to TOR. To compromise the connection the attacker would have to either break 3 levels of encryption (not physically possible given current tech) or have control over all 3 nodes. If the NSA has broken Tor, this is likely how they've done it. Running their own nodes.
This Chat seems to use that network and then use that sole bit of info it can get (that you are indeed connect) to send a request for a connect. If you accept, it uses the same onion framework to connect the 2 of you. There is metadata, but it's encrypted 3x (at least) and none of the connections have all of the keys.
This is also why Tor is slow as hell.
Anyone feel free to correct anything I erred on. This is not my specialty.
Instead of weird exceptions like this, which are likely to cause only further problems, the US should reduce the intrusiveness of law enforcement in general. Stop the war on drugs, simplify the tax code, consistently require court warrants for searches, etc., and we could reduce online searches by 90%
The complexity serves a purpose. The tax code is the easiest example. Do you have any idea how much you pay in taxes? Any clue at all? Income tax, property tax, sales tax, Gas tax, vice tax, drivers license fees, etc... etc...
After all that you likely have no idea what you pay in taxes. Which is exactly the point.
The same goes for laws and regulation. It's often joked that everything's illegal in the United states, but that's not just a joke. If law enforcement wants to get you, they get you. You are always breaking the law in one way or another. Everyone thought it was clever when they nailed Al Capone for the tax evasion nonsense. But now that the same tactics are used on pretty much everyone, the true injustice of it all has become rather apparent.
We have a problem with law enforcement in this country. It's turned into us against them. And "Them" now have Tanks and machine guns.
What's the upside? Doesn't this just make it easier for multinational corporations and criminal organizations to evade enforcement of US laws?
Law enforcement is enforcing US laws in foreign countries. That's the problem.
Lets put the show on the other foot for an example: While visiting Russia, the Russian officials accuse you of viewing homosexual porn, which is illegal there. They then issue a search warrant and force microsoft and google to turn over the contents of your cloud drive/phone backups, etc... Does that sound reasonable to you?
why does anyone other than netflix need to know who their customers are?
Why does a government regulatory body need to know who your customers are? Are you kidding?
So I guess Russias enemies have never had the idea to simply have compromised servers/equipment inside the Russian border... Oh No! I just gave it away! Russia's doomed!
People who thought a virtual item could be unique and valuable find out the hard way what anyone with common sense knew all along?
Not being Scottish, I have to say that I'm relieved. Granted, if I lived there I'd probably have voted Yes. But from the outside? How would that split have worked out in the end? The UK would swing wildly right... Quickly get involved in lots of wars, crack down on "terrorists" etc... Scotland would have swung wildly left, and quickly bankrupted themselves with social programs. Balance is a good thing, even if you're currently getting the short end of the stick.
I'd like to say that perhaps the powers that be can now see the discontent and will change things to keep Scotland happy enough that this wont come up again. But that would require long term thinking and I don't see that as something modern politicians are capable of. Is some Tory going to do something that will cost him the next election just so his grandson can win one in 20yrs? Not on your life.
I suspect that after a few years this will come up again and you'll win. I'll be glad for you. But keep in mind, getting what you want is rarely as great as you planned. And some (but not all) of the conservatives concerns regarding "What you want" will end up being dead on. Starting a new government is never easy. Just ask Iraq.
How exactly is this supposed to make the end user feel good about either U2 or Apple?
Both are disconnected from real life. You get that rich and you start believing your own marketing teams blather. There seems to be this idea that "Real" musicans are hurt by piracy. It's not even remotely true... most real musicians can't get a record deal or a show because Bands like U2 have the industry locked up. They are part of huge machine that produced devices that could play their music for them (CDs) then locked that format up in such a way that no regular musician could ever afford to produce one. The one album I was involved in back in the 90s cost $20,000 to finish. We got 600 copies and sold them all making a little over $6k back. That market only worked for huge bands like U2. And local bars don't have live music anymore because local bands aren't allowed on the radio. Bands like U2 pay to have their music played, which gets the public accustom to those songs even if they would have like the local bands better... So now the bars playing a CD they had to pay for AND pay royalties back to the RIAA. Often the live band would have played for FREE! But still can't get a gig.
Now... granted, my Band at the time was DeathMetal. So yea, our lack of gigs had a lot to do with our choice of styles. But this is true of pretty much all live music. I've been in dozens of bands since, from Blues to Bluegrass. It doesn't matter. It's a club and the doors are closed. But, unfortunately for them, they've made it far too easy to consume their product. Now people don't even want to pay for it!
The real solution? You can't pirate a live show. Go do some gigs U2.
Well, considering the two of them ran all the small local hardware stores out of business, enjoy shopping at Lowes, instead.
There are plenty of small hardware stores around me. Dozens actually... I'm always at the hardware stores. They thrive specially because Home Depot doesn't have everything... They only sell things that are of high profit and easy to sell. If you have an account with them you can order pretty much anything you want and have it ready for pickup in a few days. But stop in for some odds and ends? Good luck. Better luck at the local hardware store.
I, unfortunately, live blocks from a home depot however... so I'm on occasion lured by convenience.
I'm currently on the phone with my bank dealing with this.
Thanks Home Depot!
After you're done cleaning up this mess, could you clean up the bolt isle so I can actually find what I'm looking for should I ever decide to return to your store?
I order a lot of stuff from Shenzhen via Alibaba.
I've never had a problem, and what I order seems to be of high quality and all the vendors I've dealt with have been reasonable and even accepted returns. Long story short, they're as good as any US vendor I've dealt with.
True Story...
I wanted to do this when I was about 30... We have a very prestigious college here so I went there, to the physics lab and sat down with a professor.
He said if I came in with strait A's in math... maybe... otherwise it was an unqualified "No"
He went on to say that if I didn't have strait A's in math to go to the local community college and take math courses that were specifically linked to the University. They have classes that do carry credit at the university. If I could get a 4.0+ in advanced math classes they'd let me in. He said if I was older, I'd qualify as a "Returning adult" and would have lower requirements... 3.0+ I think "returning adult" is in the 35+ age range. But you'd have to contact your local college.
Then I asked if I could at least push the button on the accelerator. That also was a "No" but he at least chuckled.
It might be different at your local school. I wouldn't know.
At this point, the various big ISPs have taken so much taxpayer money, and provided so little in return, that I'd say we should stop providing them with any subsidies, and still require the same level of buildout. They can take the balance out of their execs' bonuses from next quarter—which should be enough to cover a fair amount of infrastructure.
Dan Aris
I believe that he is referring to the Universal Service Fund (correct me if I'm wrong) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
If that's the case, these are fees the Telcos are required to pay to the feds, who then turn around and redistribute to "Target" customers. Generally the poor or Rural customers. For example, Lifeline (which AT&T hilariously advertises as their own charity) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
So, to call this a "Bailout" or subside is kind of misleading. The telco industry charges more to everyone to pay into this fund, and then the feds award the fund to areas where service would otherwise be too expensive. There have been federal initiatives to fund broadband expansion. Namely Obamas program that basically failed miserably. There are areas of this country that will likely never get wired broadband due to cost. They'll have to wait for wireless services to mature.
Saccharin isnt used in diet drinks anymore for the most part
and who consumes pure gluecose in any quantity?
They should have tested sugar vs hfcs vs Aspartame vs Sucralose
Per the study they tested saccharin, sucralose and aspartame.
Does HFCS count as a sugar substitute, or real sugar ?
A while back Mt Dew had a 'Throwback' drink that had 'real sugar'. Haven't seen it lately.
It's still very popular here. Though, I live in hippy central. I know a lot of people that refuse to eat fake sweeteners and corn sugars. They're switching to these "throwbacks" and, for example, Hunts Ketchup because it has regular sugar. Anecdotaly, none of them have lost weight as a result that I know of. But they certainly have gotten more annoying.
Flash and Silverlight, Adobe and Microsoft, again -- and again and again. Is it the year of the Linux Desktop yet?
Netflix requires sivlerlight. And, I suspect, 99% of the people out there with silverlight installed, only have it for netflix. I can't think of a single other reason I'd install it. And I specifically banned netflix in my house because of the silverlight requirement.