>You will find that the top execs there were republicans, which is part of why they pleaded the 5th. Citation needed. Open Secrets doesn't know anything about Brian Harrison and Bill Stover, the execs who pled the 5th.
Yeah I could go on but I'll let Biden tell us how their first choice for financial advice was Jon Corzine.
n.b. Jon Corzine recently admitted he didn't know where over a billion dollars of his customer's money had disappeared to.
Costco already beats online retailers with three strategies:
1) It sells extras with the package that are not included with the regular offering. My roomba came with extra room markers and extra filters. 2) When the first two roombas I purchased crapped out, Costco exchanged them no questions asked. I had to try three units before I got one that worked reliably. Had I bought from Amazon, I would have had to pay to return the units and that's assuming they would have accepted them back. 3) Costco prices goods very aggressively.so they're usually around the same price as what's offered online.
> No kick-backs to friends he has in big business.
Except for Solyndra execs taking the fifth when asked about their ties to the White House. Except for George Kaiser, a Democratic fundraiser and Solyndra investor. Except for the Keystone pipeline being killed when it just "by accident" benefits Warren Buffett's holding in railroads that transport oil and coal in Canada and the midwest. Except for the raid on Gibson Guitar for using Indian rosewood and ignoring Martin Guitar's use of same. Just a coincidence that Gibson is owned by a Republican and Martin is owned by a Democrat. Except for the peculiar way the Feds rammed General Motors through the pseudo-bankruptcy that stiffed the bond holders and the share holders but kept the contracts intact to the benefit of the unions. Except for the fact that the "green jobs" stimulus funds went to companies owned by Democrats.
I could go on but the fact is Obama, a politician out of Chicago, is crooked. Quelle Surprise!
P.s. Don't forget that Eric Holder's Justice Department broke numerous statutes when they ran the Fast And Furious program that resulted in 1000's of firearms going into Mexico and some later returned to kill American Border Guards.
What if it's a hoax and we incur societal costs we can't afford?
California is levying carbon taxes on business and as you might expect, businesses are leaving California. That means more unemployment in a state that already leads the country unemployment figures.
Adobe has a mixed record. For every surviving adobe house, there are scads of adobe ruins in California that didn't survive the numerous quakes we have here. I suspect it's a matter of luck as to how a particular site moves versus the alleged benefits of adobe. Unreinforced masonry just doesn't cut it when the land starts shaking.
Even if rebar is used, concrete has been known to fail. The Oakland Cypress Overpass which was made of concrete and rebar collapsed during the Loma Prieta quake because the contractor skimped on the rebar. He was supposed to have tied the rebar together to form a metal fasces and he either used substandard wire or in some cases, none at all.
I can't see a printed house working in California if the printer can't properly lay and tie rebar.
They're on record as supporting SOPA and Protect-IP.
They're also the guys who dragged George Hotz to court for revealing their random number generator always returned 42
They're not as easy to boycott as Go Daddy is but a nice, polite email reminding them why you're not likely to buy, or recommend, their products wouldn't be amiss.
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How you can own a monopoly in an environment where switching to a competitor who offers a better product at zero cost is beyond me but evidently some people in Washington seem to think differently.
Odd that the issue is being raised (yet again) just as Google publicly comes out against SOPA and Protect-IP.
The threat comes from the same politicians who are clueless enough to think they can tinker with the Internet's infrastructure without harming it.
I am not a tax attorney but I believe that tax exempt programs can lose their tax exemption if they engage in political activity. The tax issue comes up with regard to churches from time to time.
6Km under the ocean is probably the safest place for it.
Putting it on the Moon would probably had been safer.
Safer for whom? The battery saved the astronaut's lives by providing power and heat after the command module failed. Had they dumped it on the moon, the astronauts wouldn't have survived the return trip.
Since we're trading anecdotes, let me tell you Peter's story. Peter was diagnosed in first grade as "special needs" aka "retarded" because he didn't engage with the other kids, never paid attention and didn't seem to know what was going on. When the school told his parents, they said "Bullshit. This school isn't meeting Peter's needs. He's bored shitless. We'll school him ourselves." which they did.
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When Peter reached high school age, they sent him to a private high school that is well known for its bright student body. Even there, he exceeded most of his teacher's capabilities.
As an 11th grader, Peter designed his own CPU using an FPGA, reversed engineered the braking system on an American car, and installed his CPU to improve the car's handling on slick surfaces. That project netted Peter an 8th place in the Intel Science Fair.
Bottom line, public education may be fine for the majority of us but when the Peter's come along, public education is hard pressed to meet their needs. Fortunately for Peter, his parents could meet his needs.
Wow! I would have been *very* impressed had the link gone to a recording three days from now.
CERN only managed to get the neutrinos in 60 nanoseconds ahead of now.
This web page has a graph that shows the different light curves for type 1 and type 2 supernovae.
A Type 1 supernova reaches it's peak light output around 10-15 days of the initial explosion and then exponentially decays over a period of years. As the curve is exponential, a good chunk of the luminosity is lost within a couple of months and then the loss rate tapers off somewhat.
A type 2 supernova reaches its peak output in a few days decays, plateaus for a few months and then begins decaying again over a span of years.
The mechanism behind a type 1 is fairly well understood but the variation in modeled and observed luminosity is greater than 2%. A paper a few years back suggested that the variation might be evidence of dark matter but subsequent modeling has shown that the 2% variation can be accounted for by where the observer happens to be relative to the explosion as the explosions aren't symmetric.
Really, there's a ton of whining about the Ribbon that I see from people that strikes me as nothing more or less than someone whining about how ignorant they are about the Ribbon or how to use it.
You know, when a lot of people are reacting negatively to a UI, it suggests that maybe the UI isn't all that great.
It took Microsoft three years after adopting the Ribbon to bring back user customizable menus. Seriously, who the fuck thought that having to break out an IDE to install a menu into Office was a good idea? With the kind of group-think going on at Redmond that would even think of dropping a user-customizable interface, it's probably not a good idea to preach to us that you understand us better than we understand ourselves.
I wonder if it matters to the threat scanner that who ever setup the list of threats at North Canton City Schools doesn't know how to spell encrypted.
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And why would a school block.jobs and.museum? It's as if the school district doesn't want their students to find a job or be educated outside the school.
I have to have the car so insurance and taxes are an expense regardless of the bike. Every dollar I spend on the bike primarily saves me gas money and it hasn't gotten anywhere near doing that which is why I initially bought it.
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The bike cost me $650. I rode enough in college to know that a light bike makes for a more comfortable slog than a heavy bike does so paid for light weight. The helmet was $50. Went through a variety of clothing looking for what would keep me warm and dry finally ended up springing for a Goretex jacket so when all was said and done, clothing cost around $550. Had I known what I know now, the clothing would have been $350 so the $200 was the cost of getting educated. My dog got a hold of my first set of gloves which cost me another $40. First backpack cost me $25 and a sore back. The second one set me back $130 but saved my back.
That alone is $1500 to go 8000 miles. Figure gas at $4, that's 375 gallons of gas. My car gets 30 mpg so the $1500 bike acquisition expenses would more than buy enough gas.
We haven't gotten to the maintenance and accident expenses. I pay a mechanic to do the harder jobs and handle the easier jobs myself but as you've figured annual maintenance isn't free even though I have 32 spokes on my wheels.
I'm healthier than I would otherwise be so for me, it's worth it but I don't try to justify it as saving money. The most gratifying part of old fart biking is passing men who are forty years younger than I am. I hope to still be able to say that ten years hence.
I'm a skeptic when it comes to climatologists having the forecasting chops to make the claims about what's going to happen 20-100 years down the road so carbon footprint calculations strike me as a cultural activity that'll be regarded as something akin to arguing about how many angels could fit on the tip of a pin.
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Based on my personal expenses, bike commuting and car commuting work out to be about the same. I'm old fashioned enough that I figure carbon costs are a proxy for energy costs and energy costs are reflected in dollars. Some of you will disagree but it works for me. Over the past four years, I've spent about the same commuting by bike twice a week versus driving 3 times a week. It's a twenty mile commute so I've logged about 8000 miles over the past four years. The obvious cost of gas is missing from the bike side of the ledger but the biking gear and upkeep on the bike more than offset that savings. Expenses like tires, tubes, wheel truing, cassettes, chains and replacing torn gear from the occasional spill add up. Moreover, I figure some drunk or texting driver will probably hit me one day and that expense will add several multiples to the biking expense.
As much as I hate spam, I have major problems with the guy going to jail for 16 years for sending emails that people don't want to receive.
The penalty is way out of line with what he did.
The graphs don't give enough information to evaluate the claims. To tell you the average speed isn't useful without giving some indication of the data spread.
For example if one customer gets 300% over advertised but 3 customers get 33% of advertised then service averages out to 100% of advertised.
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A box-whisker graph would give a much better sense of how customers are faring.
Moreover, the tests weren't run blind. The ISPs provided data to the people running the study to help them disambiguate whether bottlenecks were in the last mile or in delivery to the ISP. It wasn't clear to me why that was even needed as sluggishness from the cloud would be spread evenly across all ISPs unless an ISP was cramming 100,000 users onto a single T1 line.
Virgin, despite seeing sales rise two per cent, saw 36,000 cable broadband customers leaving over the last quarter. In more positive news for the ISP, it saw revenue rise 2.2 per cent.
So revenue rose but number of customers declined by 36,000. That means Virgin raised their rates and 36000 more people than not responded by saying "That's too expensive for me." Add the losses together and that means cable/dsl has gotten too expensive for 191,000 people in Britain. Given the state of the economy, that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Spoken like a person who doesn't have kids. The fact is kids need to roam on their own and develop independence. What the guy is asking for is a search domain where he's reasonably confident his kid will be relatively OK. Something akin to letting a kid roam in the neighborhood but keeping out of the red light district. .
It already exists for text as safe-search. The guy is just asking for safe-search for video as well.
Steven Levy mentions in his book, The Plex, that one of Google's early contracts was to provide a family-friendly search service. The requirement was a significant inducement to Google to improve Google's AI component and move beyond the early success Google enjoyed from Pagerank. Though Levy doesn't state it, I presume that contract resulted in safe search becoming generally available.
The table had the opposite effect on me than what the author probably intended. I'm thinking that the phones with the highest power levels might have the best call quality. I understand that networks, phone circuits and antennas are major players in call quality but then again, if the first elements are equivalent, power is going to determine what you can hear.
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I'm sick to death of "can you hear me now..." when I'm on my cell.
This is total bullshit. There are a lot of studies show the link between EM radiation at longer wavelengths than the UV causing an increase in cancer rates. I'm not even going to bother providing a references to one of the thousand papers on this subject.
Then it shouldn't have been that difficult for you to find one or two *good* studies to link to. Absent a few worthwhile links, your post is equivalent to "because I say so...."
>China experimented with MagLev technology in Shanghai
And Japan has been experimenting with Maglev in Yamanishi and Miyazaki since the 70's.
With 40 years of active research behind them, I suspect the Japanese have a very good idea of the issues they're looking at.
Whether they've figured out a way to build and operate the train economically or the track is a political boondoggle remains to be seen though the fact that they've laid out such a leisurely timeline suggests the decision was more political than technological.
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>You will find that the top execs there were republicans, which is part of why they pleaded the 5th.
Citation needed. Open Secrets doesn't know anything about Brian Harrison and Bill Stover, the execs who pled the 5th.
Yeah I could go on but I'll let Biden tell us how their first choice for financial advice was Jon Corzine.
n.b. Jon Corzine recently admitted he didn't know where over a billion dollars of his customer's money had disappeared to.
Costco already beats online retailers with three strategies:
1) It sells extras with the package that are not included with the regular offering. My roomba came with extra room markers and extra filters.
2) When the first two roombas I purchased crapped out, Costco exchanged them no questions asked. I had to try three units before I got one that worked reliably. Had I bought from Amazon, I would have had to pay to return the units and that's assuming they would have accepted them back.
3) Costco prices goods very aggressively.so they're usually around the same price as what's offered online.
> No kick-backs to friends he has in big business.
Except for Solyndra execs taking the fifth when asked about their ties to the White House.
Except for George Kaiser, a Democratic fundraiser and Solyndra investor.
Except for the Keystone pipeline being killed when it just "by accident" benefits Warren Buffett's holding in railroads that transport oil and coal in Canada and the midwest.
Except for the raid on Gibson Guitar for using Indian rosewood and ignoring Martin Guitar's use of same. Just a coincidence that Gibson is owned by a Republican and Martin is owned by a Democrat.
Except for the peculiar way the Feds rammed General Motors through the pseudo-bankruptcy that stiffed the bond holders and the share holders but kept the contracts intact to the benefit of the unions.
Except for the fact that the "green jobs" stimulus funds went to companies owned by Democrats.
I could go on but the fact is Obama, a politician out of Chicago, is crooked. Quelle Surprise!
P.s. Don't forget that Eric Holder's Justice Department broke numerous statutes when they ran the Fast And Furious program that resulted in 1000's of firearms going into Mexico and some later returned to kill American Border Guards.
What if it's a hoax and we incur societal costs we can't afford?
California is levying carbon taxes on business and as you might expect, businesses are leaving California. That means more unemployment in a state that already leads the country unemployment figures.
There are very real costs to carbon reduction.
Adobe has a mixed record. For every surviving adobe house, there are scads of adobe ruins in California that didn't survive the numerous quakes we have here. I suspect it's a matter of luck as to how a particular site moves versus the alleged benefits of adobe. Unreinforced masonry just doesn't cut it when the land starts shaking.
Even if rebar is used, concrete has been known to fail. The Oakland Cypress Overpass which was made of concrete and rebar collapsed during the Loma Prieta quake because the contractor skimped on the rebar. He was supposed to have tied the rebar together to form a metal fasces and he either used substandard wire or in some cases, none at all.
I can't see a printed house working in California if the printer can't properly lay and tie rebar.
Sony should be next.
They're on record as supporting SOPA and Protect-IP.
They're also the guys who dragged George Hotz to court for revealing their random number generator always returned 42
They're not as easy to boycott as Go Daddy is but a nice, polite email reminding them why you're not likely to buy, or recommend, their products wouldn't be amiss.
How you can own a monopoly in an environment where switching to a competitor who offers a better product at zero cost is beyond me but evidently some people in Washington seem to think differently.
Odd that the issue is being raised (yet again) just as Google publicly comes out against SOPA and Protect-IP.
The threat comes from the same politicians who are clueless enough to think they can tinker with the Internet's infrastructure without harming it.
I am not a tax attorney but I believe that tax exempt programs can lose their tax exemption if they engage in political activity. The tax issue comes up with regard to churches from time to time.
The first 90% of the hhvm project is done; now we're on to the second 90% as we make it really shine.
6Km under the ocean is probably the safest place for it.
Putting it on the Moon would probably had been safer.
Safer for whom? The battery saved the astronaut's lives by providing power and heat after the command module failed. Had they dumped it on the moon, the astronauts wouldn't have survived the return trip.
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When Peter reached high school age, they sent him to a private high school that is well known for its bright student body. Even there, he exceeded most of his teacher's capabilities.
As an 11th grader, Peter designed his own CPU using an FPGA, reversed engineered the braking system on an American car, and installed his CPU to improve the car's handling on slick surfaces. That project netted Peter an 8th place in the Intel Science Fair.
Bottom line, public education may be fine for the majority of us but when the Peter's come along, public education is hard pressed to meet their needs. Fortunately for Peter, his parents could meet his needs.
Wow! I would have been *very* impressed had the link gone to a recording three days from now. CERN only managed to get the neutrinos in 60 nanoseconds ahead of now.
A Type 1 supernova reaches it's peak light output around 10-15 days of the initial explosion and then exponentially decays over a period of years. As the curve is exponential, a good chunk of the luminosity is lost within a couple of months and then the loss rate tapers off somewhat.
A type 2 supernova reaches its peak output in a few days decays, plateaus for a few months and then begins decaying again over a span of years.
The mechanism behind a type 1 is fairly well understood but the variation in modeled and observed luminosity is greater than 2%. A paper a few years back suggested that the variation might be evidence of dark matter but subsequent modeling has shown that the 2% variation can be accounted for by where the observer happens to be relative to the explosion as the explosions aren't symmetric.
Really, there's a ton of whining about the Ribbon that I see from people that strikes me as nothing more or less than someone whining about how ignorant they are about the Ribbon or how to use it.
You know, when a lot of people are reacting negatively to a UI, it suggests that maybe the UI isn't all that great.
It took Microsoft three years after adopting the Ribbon to bring back user customizable menus. Seriously, who the fuck thought that having to break out an IDE to install a menu into Office was a good idea? With the kind of group-think going on at Redmond that would even think of dropping a user-customizable interface, it's probably not a good idea to preach to us that you understand us better than we understand ourselves.
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And why would a school block .jobs and .museum? It's as if the school district doesn't want their students to find a job or be educated outside the school.
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The bike cost me $650. I rode enough in college to know that a light bike makes for a more comfortable slog than a heavy bike does so paid for light weight. The helmet was $50. Went through a variety of clothing looking for what would keep me warm and dry finally ended up springing for a Goretex jacket so when all was said and done, clothing cost around $550. Had I known what I know now, the clothing would have been $350 so the $200 was the cost of getting educated. My dog got a hold of my first set of gloves which cost me another $40. First backpack cost me $25 and a sore back. The second one set me back $130 but saved my back.
That alone is $1500 to go 8000 miles. Figure gas at $4, that's 375 gallons of gas. My car gets 30 mpg so the $1500 bike acquisition expenses would more than buy enough gas.
We haven't gotten to the maintenance and accident expenses. I pay a mechanic to do the harder jobs and handle the easier jobs myself but as you've figured annual maintenance isn't free even though I have 32 spokes on my wheels.
I'm healthier than I would otherwise be so for me, it's worth it but I don't try to justify it as saving money. The most gratifying part of old fart biking is passing men who are forty years younger than I am. I hope to still be able to say that ten years hence.
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Based on my personal expenses, bike commuting and car commuting work out to be about the same. I'm old fashioned enough that I figure carbon costs are a proxy for energy costs and energy costs are reflected in dollars. Some of you will disagree but it works for me. Over the past four years, I've spent about the same commuting by bike twice a week versus driving 3 times a week. It's a twenty mile commute so I've logged about 8000 miles over the past four years. The obvious cost of gas is missing from the bike side of the ledger but the biking gear and upkeep on the bike more than offset that savings. Expenses like tires, tubes, wheel truing, cassettes, chains and replacing torn gear from the occasional spill add up. Moreover, I figure some drunk or texting driver will probably hit me one day and that expense will add several multiples to the biking expense.
As much as I hate spam, I have major problems with the guy going to jail for 16 years for sending emails that people don't want to receive. The penalty is way out of line with what he did.
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A box-whisker graph would give a much better sense of how customers are faring.
Moreover, the tests weren't run blind. The ISPs provided data to the people running the study to help them disambiguate whether bottlenecks were in the last mile or in delivery to the ISP. It wasn't clear to me why that was even needed as sluggishness from the cloud would be spread evenly across all ISPs unless an ISP was cramming 100,000 users onto a single T1 line.
Virgin, despite seeing sales rise two per cent, saw 36,000 cable broadband customers leaving over the last quarter. In more positive news for the ISP, it saw revenue rise 2.2 per cent.
So revenue rose but number of customers declined by 36,000. That means Virgin raised their rates and 36000 more people than not responded by saying "That's too expensive for me." Add the losses together and that means cable/dsl has gotten too expensive for 191,000 people in Britain. Given the state of the economy, that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
It already exists for text as safe-search. The guy is just asking for safe-search for video as well.
Steven Levy mentions in his book, The Plex, that one of Google's early contracts was to provide a family-friendly search service. The requirement was a significant inducement to Google to improve Google's AI component and move beyond the early success Google enjoyed from Pagerank. Though Levy doesn't state it, I presume that contract resulted in safe search becoming generally available.
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I'm sick to death of "can you hear me now..." when I'm on my cell.
Then it shouldn't have been that difficult for you to find one or two *good* studies to link to. Absent a few worthwhile links, your post is equivalent to "because I say so...."
And Japan has been experimenting with Maglev in Yamanishi and Miyazaki since the 70's.
With 40 years of active research behind them, I suspect the Japanese have a very good idea of the issues they're looking at.
Whether they've figured out a way to build and operate the train economically or the track is a political boondoggle remains to be seen though the fact that they've laid out such a leisurely timeline suggests the decision was more political than technological.
Only relatively short and simple passwords can be recovered in a reasonable time.