How long before they big providers are able to detect if you have a larger display attached and insist you buy an extra package to be able to use the added on equipment?
They already did that with the Motorola Atrix so as to render the laptop keyboard accessory unusable.
I say faux video as it shows two actors supposedly coding on identical macbooks. Tabs vs spaces.... gad, I remember an editor that came with a "C" package that would always change any tab character into five spaces unless you designated the tab character to be an ANSI code insertion which took as many keystrokes as doing five space characters.
"Unnecessary Code" that is punctuation and comment for clarity is only "unnecessary" for scripts instead of programs. Programs are "compiled" which ignores comments and extra punctuation. So, the extra comments and punctuation only exists in the source code and is often beneficial for clarity. Try going back to an assembler program you wrote a decade before and try to remember what you did and why you did it that way. Or, worse yet, get assigned to update someone's code that retired a decade ago.
Do they still teach the difference in a compiler, an interpreter, and a scripter? So much pop literature doesn't seem to know the difference in a program and a script.
"Call a "switchboard operator"? "patched through" to your desk? What is this, 1946? The mid/highclass hookers aren't asking their customers for identification. Who writes this garbage?"
Naaa, the rich and powerful don't have to live in the current decade and insist on keeping the trappings of yesteryear they perceive as showing they are powerful and not just clueless out of touch with the rank and file.
Norway has its own problems. The homogeneous culture that gained such a high standard of living is being diluted by huge amounts of immigration. http://sciencenordic.com/norways-problem-immigration
Hmmmm, repeatedly insisting that a solution that has failed to work repeatedly over the decades is the answer to all our problems. Inflation has eaten our economy alive. For decades the rate of inflation has been higher than increases in wages to the point of destroying the middle class. And all the federal reserve wants to do is explain to the fellow whose savings have been eroded to near worthless how a rate of inflation is "good for the economy" which seems to mean "good for the richest 1% who can leverage over 10% return on investments".
Do you know the worth of a dollar? Yep, it is less than a nickel candy bar from the 60s.
It was Oregon. And it was protesters of a railroading of local ranchers by the Bureau of Land Management who took over the public welcome station of a National Wildlife Preserve to continue their peaceful protest and be sheltered from the weather.
And to further correct the record; Clive Bundy is from Nevada and not Texas. Nevada, a state where the Bureau of Land Management controls over 80% of the acreage and the casinos seem to control the rest. I find it insane that some people are surprised that there are vehement protests of the BLM changing the rules that have been in effect for over 100 years in order to disenfranchise local citizens in favor of big business.
The whole aversion to unlimited plans on the provider side started with the introduction of the iPhone that insisted on repeated calling home. Then there came "streaming services" as a way to keep DRM on content as you weren't allowed to download but required bandwidth heavy handshaking the whole time a display was in progress.
The end result was that business users who loved the unlimited plans because they allowed not only working from home but a wholly un-tethered work model were left out in the cold.
AT&T kept the unlimited plans but if you wanted to use your data for a laptop you were left wanting. You could pay through the nose for an addition limited plan to "allow tethering" to your plan. In other words; you had to pay for your data twice with their model.
Verizon simply deleted all their unlimited data plans and forced users to plans that had HUGE charges for data overages if you used your data for computer access.
Thus was the promise of technology turned into a false hope yet again. One can only hope that the regulators will someday get hit with a clue bat and use a regulatory model where data is data you can use in any fashion you want once you pay for it. Yeah, clueless regulators, voice minutes is just one use for a data stream and NOT something separate except for in the delusions of the greedy.
"And also on farms as we know them today? Why not have farming more distributed if it can be indoors? If everyone is their own farmer then goodbye traditional farms."
With full blown mechanized farming using plenty of herbicides, pesticides, and nitrate fertilizer; it takes about an acre and a half per person for subsistence level farming.
Back before mechanized farming and man made nitrate fertilizer and there was nothing BUT organic farming; it took 4-5 acres per person for subsistence level.
If you want to go paleo and hunter gather for your food; you need about 8 acres per person in your foraging range.
The 8 acres for a hunt and gather economy comes from an explanation to the Harrison administration why the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw claimed more land per person than Scots-Irish settlers. The 4-5 acres for organic farming and 1-1.5 for fertilized farming come from a text on the importance of the Haber process to modern civilization. Following the statistics of Malthus; the world was headed for a malthusian catastrophe with the food supply by 1920s. The scaling up of the Haber process for artificial nitrogen fixing in 1913 made a gigantic difference in crop yields.
The issue of iTunes deleting music is very much related to a DRM issue.
One iteration of iTunes when installed as an "update" broke the authorization to the Apple Store. The software then proceeded to look for files in its database with DRM and delete them as the computer was not "authorized". And, if you tried to authorize the computer installation, you got an error because Apple's database for the account showed the device was already authorized.
The history of patches to iTunes causing deletion of music and thrashing of a music library is long and convoluted and so many of the bugs deal with bad handling of DRM.
Songs usually cost the same at the Amazon Music site and come with the ability to download onto a new device whereas the Apple Store only allows download to one of the same type device.
Cloud storage is only a convenient way to keep revisions of a file concurrent between several terminals. Anything that only exists only in a cloud is as ephemeral as a daydream.
Web based email is for when you want a quick check from another's terminal. Get a real email client and learn out to archive. Oh, wow, even some of the free email clients will back up correspondence automatically! Leave web based email for grandmothers discussing the latest cat video. (Yes, you can even pop serve gmail and hotmail to keep a record copy on your hard drive.)
Face it, leaving the only copy of digital art out on a hard drive hosted by someone with no fiscal interest in the work is like leaving a large format oil painting in the hands of volunteers for a sidewalk art expo and not asking about the work until a month after the show.
I thought the rare earths were found in the magnets used in the motors and in the manufacture of the high electrical density batteries. If not magnets and batteries; where are they using rare earth compounds?
I've been challenging the concept of electric cars being better for the environment for years. Looking from a total system point of view; very change in energy form has inherent losses. For an electric car you go from chemical fuel or nuclear energy to mechanical power to electrical power to chemically stored electricity then back to mechanical power. It is inherently more efficient to burn your fuel and go straight to mechanical power where you need the power. With the power factor of motors and generators being, at best, 28%; it seems that an electric car is a huge NIMBY issue as it causes more fossil fuel to be consumed overall just not in the car. No decent engineer will ignore entropy but politicians and salesmen don't even acknowledge that law of nature.
And one of the silly things in the U.S. are the horrendous restrictions on people "processing hazardous waste". We really have a huge stockpile of trans platinum metals left in the piles of toxic mine tailings in the Rockies. If you want to do an extraction from mine tailings for mineral sthat were of no interest when the tailings were first dug, you are considered to be repossessing hazardous waste and get hit with a huge number of restrictions that would not apply if you were mining fresh rock for those metals. It is estimated that there is more platinum sitting in old gold and silver mine railings in the Rockies than the world supply in a given year. (Heard that tidbit from a professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Sounds plausible but I've not fact checked his figures.)
Personally, I think it is criminal to be sending tons and tons of hazardous waste into controlled landfills when the majority of the "hazmat" could be recycled into useful material. i.e. only 30% of the fissile material is used up in a "used" nuclear fuel assembly. We should be recycling and using MOX (Mixed Oxide) fuel as they have been doing in Europe for decades.
I can see that. Many countries resist having massive strip mines. The countries that don't give a moldy fig for the health of the peasants are economically positioned to roll with plenty of massive strip mine operations. Keeping your costs down can go a long way to controlling a market.
"HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GRATE EVEN MORE THAN BEFORE!!! "
What type of grater are they using on the country as a whole? Is it large hole cheese shredding grater or is it a fine spice grater? What is the Guiness record for grating? What is the prize for being the most prolific grater?
Ok, yeah, I'm being pedantic. Spelling and punctuation do make a large difference in conveying meaning.
Some people just don't want to read history. Until they decided to spin doctor themselves in 1968; the Democrats had demonstrated over 100 years of being the party of Jim Crowe Laws, the "Yellow Peril", pushing through anti drug laws to provide ammunition for prosecuting black neighborhoods, and the stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan. (Look at pictures of the Democratic National Conventions in the 1920s and 1930s to see the Klan robes on the convention floor.)
Democrat vs Republican is really old money elite families vs new money greedy business. Neither controlling faction really gives a crap about the majority of people or any country in particular.
Or, is it like the HP Envy line. Sure it will run games at max rez..... for about half an hour then you can get second degree burns if you touch the case after it trips off on high temperature.
I'm convinced there is a cult of planned obsolescence built into computer cases. Every one of them runs at a negative internal pressure so every speck of dirt in the air is sucked in over the drives and memory card slots.
I'd like to have a case with HEPA filtered intake blowers with peltier junction air cooling. Add some passive liquid cooling for CPU and GPU.
I've actually built a couple of positive pressure desktop cases as a proof of concept. You can pass NEMA 12 (ISO IP52 rating) tests for dusty environment enclosures by mounting a MSA Powered Air Purifying Respirator blower on the side and pump 6 cfm of filtered air into the case and a thin gasket on the sheet metal seams. (3M viton double sticky auto accessory mounting tape)
Actually, Phillips is only common down to a #8 screw. When you get to smaller size such as used in computers; Reed Prince and JIS are much more common. And you have at least three screws with head stripped out when one comes into the shop from someone using a Phillips driver on Reed Prince or JIS screw heads.
Get a set with all the small bits and save some grief. Even has the wonky tiny torx drives for mobile phones.
I'm usually a big believer in patent protection and truth in labeling. In this case; I actually went to buy the product called a "Bed Band". When I saw how they were made I concluded whomever set the MSRP was smoking something. I went over to the sewing notions corner of Walmart and spent about $6.00 on the materials to make about a dozen bed bands. The first set went on the mattress in the RV so the sheets would not work off when bouncing down the road then used the leftover material for making more as a "kid's project" making something for mommy that is useful. All you need is elastic strips and the slide clasps from a garter belt and you have the gadget to hold a sheet onto the mattress.
You can't patent a concept. You patent a design complete with materials specification. You can't sell a "Bed Band" made exactly the same as the patent holder but a concept so self evident will allow for at least three points of design difference without breaking a mental sweat.
Remember the "Rubik's Cube"? The designer didn't patent the mechanism for the block hinges; he patented the whole toy. Well, the patent on the whole toy included the specification of the colors on the faces. Hmmm, the cheap knock offs were out within six months of the fad taking off with only different color stickers from the original.
Compare the patented original: https://bed-band-store-llc.myshopify.com/
Then compare with the competition, none of which is close enough to even hint at a patent violation.
I can see the average for the country as a whole being low for law enforcement. I've known several police that did a 30 year career and only saw a weapon drawn other than on the range once or twice.
What I would like to see is a breakdown of the police injury rate from the 7 major urban areas that purportedly account for over 80% of shootings in the country. Then compare the workplace injury rates with the rest of the country.
I admit it has been several years since I dug into Occupational Safety & Health statistics. I was surprised to see farm work not topping the list of dangerous occupations the way it had for decades prior to 2007. (The last time I had to run a company comparison with national statistics was 2007.) I wonder if in the years I was looking at, logging was lumped in with other agriculture?
I also look at the high number for aircraft pilot and flight engineers; is that including combat flights? If not including combat; what has happened as commercial air flights have been one of the lowest risk occupations since WWII was over.
Hmmm, the latest is 2014 for OSHA to have a complete tabulation online. If you want to see fatal injury rates broken down by industry; have a look at http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm#2014 PDF chart download.
I note that law enforcement was not even in the top ten of risky occupations. Mining and Farm work have the most fatal injuries. Again, you really can't gauge your local jurisdiction based on national averages. Crime rates in Hot Coffee Alabama are orders of magnitude lower than D.C. Metro.
Trove looks similar to the U.S. repository at www.archive.org which is administered by the Smithsonian Institution.
I wonder if Trove could get funding as Archive.org does with a mix of public monies from a few branches and private funds like the Prelinger Grant for their digitized film library?
If you look back to incidents in the past; Blizzard tends to jump on people who manage an unfair advantage in their games diluting the experience for other players. Intentional cheat bots will get a game account banned. Even using exploits from a programming glitch can get a person suspended for a time.
Blizzard has managed to get rid of most of the gold sellers in World of Warcraft by making it unproductive with the in game economy. Their antics in game is a pain that will not be missed.
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How long before they big providers are able to detect if you have a larger display attached and insist you buy an extra package to be able to use the added on equipment?
They already did that with the Motorola Atrix so as to render the laptop keyboard accessory unusable.
I say faux video as it shows two actors supposedly coding on identical macbooks.
Tabs vs spaces.... gad, I remember an editor that came with a "C" package that would always change any tab character into five spaces unless you designated the tab character to be an ANSI code insertion which took as many keystrokes as doing five space characters.
"Unnecessary Code" that is punctuation and comment for clarity is only "unnecessary" for scripts instead of programs. Programs are "compiled" which ignores comments and extra punctuation. So, the extra comments and punctuation only exists in the source code and is often beneficial for clarity. Try going back to an assembler program you wrote a decade before and try to remember what you did and why you did it that way. Or, worse yet, get assigned to update someone's code that retired a decade ago.
Do they still teach the difference in a compiler, an interpreter, and a scripter? So much pop literature doesn't seem to know the difference in a program and a script.
"Call a "switchboard operator"? "patched through" to your desk? What is this, 1946? The mid/highclass hookers aren't asking their customers for identification. Who writes this garbage?"
Naaa, the rich and powerful don't have to live in the current decade and insist on keeping the trappings of yesteryear they perceive as showing they are powerful and not just clueless out of touch with the rank and file.
Norway has its own problems. The homogeneous culture that gained such a high standard of living is being diluted by huge amounts of immigration.
http://sciencenordic.com/norways-problem-immigration
Hmmmm, repeatedly insisting that a solution that has failed to work repeatedly over the decades is the answer to all our problems.
Inflation has eaten our economy alive. For decades the rate of inflation has been higher than increases in wages to the point of destroying the middle class. And all the federal reserve wants to do is explain to the fellow whose savings have been eroded to near worthless how a rate of inflation is "good for the economy" which seems to mean "good for the richest 1% who can leverage over 10% return on investments".
Do you know the worth of a dollar? Yep, it is less than a nickel candy bar from the 60s.
It was Oregon. And it was protesters of a railroading of local ranchers by the Bureau of Land Management who took over the public welcome station of a National Wildlife Preserve to continue their peaceful protest and be sheltered from the weather.
And to further correct the record; Clive Bundy is from Nevada and not Texas. Nevada, a state where the Bureau of Land Management controls over 80% of the acreage and the casinos seem to control the rest. I find it insane that some people are surprised that there are vehement protests of the BLM changing the rules that have been in effect for over 100 years in order to disenfranchise local citizens in favor of big business.
Yeah, there is more than one point of view.
The whole aversion to unlimited plans on the provider side started with the introduction of the iPhone that insisted on repeated calling home. Then there came "streaming services" as a way to keep DRM on content as you weren't allowed to download but required bandwidth heavy handshaking the whole time a display was in progress.
The end result was that business users who loved the unlimited plans because they allowed not only working from home but a wholly un-tethered work model were left out in the cold.
AT&T kept the unlimited plans but if you wanted to use your data for a laptop you were left wanting. You could pay through the nose for an addition limited plan to "allow tethering" to your plan. In other words; you had to pay for your data twice with their model.
Verizon simply deleted all their unlimited data plans and forced users to plans that had HUGE charges for data overages if you used your data for computer access.
Thus was the promise of technology turned into a false hope yet again. One can only hope that the regulators will someday get hit with a clue bat and use a regulatory model where data is data you can use in any fashion you want once you pay for it. Yeah, clueless regulators, voice minutes is just one use for a data stream and NOT something separate except for in the delusions of the greedy.
"And also on farms as we know them today? Why not have farming more distributed if it can be indoors? If everyone is their own farmer then goodbye traditional farms."
With full blown mechanized farming using plenty of herbicides, pesticides, and nitrate fertilizer; it takes about an acre and a half per person for subsistence level farming.
Back before mechanized farming and man made nitrate fertilizer and there was nothing BUT organic farming; it took 4-5 acres per person for subsistence level.
If you want to go paleo and hunter gather for your food; you need about 8 acres per person in your foraging range.
The 8 acres for a hunt and gather economy comes from an explanation to the Harrison administration why the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw claimed more land per person than Scots-Irish settlers. The 4-5 acres for organic farming and 1-1.5 for fertilized farming come from a text on the importance of the Haber process to modern civilization. Following the statistics of Malthus; the world was headed for a malthusian catastrophe with the food supply by 1920s. The scaling up of the Haber process for artificial nitrogen fixing in 1913 made a gigantic difference in crop yields.
"What has DRM to do with this topic?"
The issue of iTunes deleting music is very much related to a DRM issue.
One iteration of iTunes when installed as an "update" broke the authorization to the Apple Store. The software then proceeded to look for files in its database with DRM and delete them as the computer was not "authorized". And, if you tried to authorize the computer installation, you got an error because Apple's database for the account showed the device was already authorized.
The history of patches to iTunes causing deletion of music and thrashing of a music library is long and convoluted and so many of the bugs deal with bad handling of DRM.
Songs usually cost the same at the Amazon Music site and come with the ability to download onto a new device whereas the Apple Store only allows download to one of the same type device.
Cloud storage is only a convenient way to keep revisions of a file concurrent between several terminals. Anything that only exists only in a cloud is as ephemeral as a daydream.
Web based email is for when you want a quick check from another's terminal. Get a real email client and learn out to archive. Oh, wow, even some of the free email clients will back up correspondence automatically! Leave web based email for grandmothers discussing the latest cat video. (Yes, you can even pop serve gmail and hotmail to keep a record copy on your hard drive.)
Face it, leaving the only copy of digital art out on a hard drive hosted by someone with no fiscal interest in the work is like leaving a large format oil painting in the hands of volunteers for a sidewalk art expo and not asking about the work until a month after the show.
I thought the rare earths were found in the magnets used in the motors and in the manufacture of the high electrical density batteries. If not magnets and batteries; where are they using rare earth compounds?
I've been challenging the concept of electric cars being better for the environment for years. Looking from a total system point of view; very change in energy form has inherent losses. For an electric car you go from chemical fuel or nuclear energy to mechanical power to electrical power to chemically stored electricity then back to mechanical power. It is inherently more efficient to burn your fuel and go straight to mechanical power where you need the power. With the power factor of motors and generators being, at best, 28%; it seems that an electric car is a huge NIMBY issue as it causes more fossil fuel to be consumed overall just not in the car. No decent engineer will ignore entropy but politicians and salesmen don't even acknowledge that law of nature.
And one of the silly things in the U.S. are the horrendous restrictions on people "processing hazardous waste". We really have a huge stockpile of trans platinum metals left in the piles of toxic mine tailings in the Rockies. If you want to do an extraction from mine tailings for mineral sthat were of no interest when the tailings were first dug, you are considered to be repossessing hazardous waste and get hit with a huge number of restrictions that would not apply if you were mining fresh rock for those metals. It is estimated that there is more platinum sitting in old gold and silver mine railings in the Rockies than the world supply in a given year. (Heard that tidbit from a professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Sounds plausible but I've not fact checked his figures.)
Personally, I think it is criminal to be sending tons and tons of hazardous waste into controlled landfills when the majority of the "hazmat" could be recycled into useful material. i.e. only 30% of the fissile material is used up in a "used" nuclear fuel assembly. We should be recycling and using MOX (Mixed Oxide) fuel as they have been doing in Europe for decades.
I can see that. Many countries resist having massive strip mines. The countries that don't give a moldy fig for the health of the peasants are economically positioned to roll with plenty of massive strip mine operations. Keeping your costs down can go a long way to controlling a market.
"HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GRATE EVEN MORE THAN BEFORE!!! "
What type of grater are they using on the country as a whole? Is it large hole cheese shredding grater or is it a fine spice grater? What is the Guiness record for grating? What is the prize for being the most prolific grater?
Ok, yeah, I'm being pedantic. Spelling and punctuation do make a large difference in conveying meaning.
Some people just don't want to read history. Until they decided to spin doctor themselves in 1968; the Democrats had demonstrated over 100 years of being the party of Jim Crowe Laws, the "Yellow Peril", pushing through anti drug laws to provide ammunition for prosecuting black neighborhoods, and the stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan. (Look at pictures of the Democratic National Conventions in the 1920s and 1930s to see the Klan robes on the convention floor.)
Democrat vs Republican is really old money elite families vs new money greedy business. Neither controlling faction really gives a crap about the majority of people or any country in particular.
Or, is it like the HP Envy line. Sure it will run games at max rez..... for about half an hour then you can get second degree burns if you touch the case after it trips off on high temperature.
I'm convinced there is a cult of planned obsolescence built into computer cases. Every one of them runs at a negative internal pressure so every speck of dirt in the air is sucked in over the drives and memory card slots.
I'd like to have a case with HEPA filtered intake blowers with peltier junction air cooling. Add some passive liquid cooling for CPU and GPU.
I've actually built a couple of positive pressure desktop cases as a proof of concept. You can pass NEMA 12 (ISO IP52 rating) tests for dusty environment enclosures by mounting a MSA Powered Air Purifying Respirator blower on the side and pump 6 cfm of filtered air into the case and a thin gasket on the sheet metal seams. (3M viton double sticky auto accessory mounting tape)
Actually, Phillips is only common down to a #8 screw. When you get to smaller size such as used in computers; Reed Prince and JIS are much more common. And you have at least three screws with head stripped out when one comes into the shop from someone using a Phillips driver on Reed Prince or JIS screw heads.
Get a set with all the small bits and save some grief. Even has the wonky tiny torx drives for mobile phones.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-High-quality-Small-31-in-1-Handy-Tool-Electroc-Screwdriver-Torx-Set-/181849395944?hash=item2a571192e8:g:GI8AAOxyVaBSzQlG
And how many people can recognize the difference in a Phillips and a Reed Prince? Hint, one has a flat snout and the other a pointy one.
Naaa, the schools have shifted to international ISO standards with common core so they teach Robertson and Torx screwdrivers in class.
As far as I know, the only thing actually water resistant that you can make phone calls on is a WWAN enabled Toughpad.
http://business.panasonic.com/toughpad/us/5-inch-tablet-fz-x1.html
I'm usually a big believer in patent protection and truth in labeling. In this case; I actually went to buy the product called a "Bed Band". When I saw how they were made I concluded whomever set the MSRP was smoking something. I went over to the sewing notions corner of Walmart and spent about $6.00 on the materials to make about a dozen bed bands. The first set went on the mattress in the RV so the sheets would not work off when bouncing down the road then used the leftover material for making more as a "kid's project" making something for mommy that is useful. All you need is elastic strips and the slide clasps from a garter belt and you have the gadget to hold a sheet onto the mattress.
You can't patent a concept. You patent a design complete with materials specification. You can't sell a "Bed Band" made exactly the same as the patent holder but a concept so self evident will allow for at least three points of design difference without breaking a mental sweat.
Remember the "Rubik's Cube"? The designer didn't patent the mechanism for the block hinges; he patented the whole toy. Well, the patent on the whole toy included the specification of the colors on the faces. Hmmm, the cheap knock offs were out within six months of the fad taking off with only different color stickers from the original.
Compare the patented original: https://bed-band-store-llc.myshopify.com/
Then compare with the competition, none of which is close enough to even hint at a patent violation.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TGPU3FC/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687502&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B003M5XSDG&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=69AD7FHRNYZTAPHBZWQK
http://www.shopko.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=95768&utm_source=CI&utm_medium=PLA&utm_term=17537929&utm_campaign=Home&cm_mmc=Google-_-PLA-_-Home-_-17537929&term={term}&productid={productid}&source={source}&medium={medium}&gclid=Cj0KEQjw5Ie8BRCJ9fHlr_bH24cBEiQAkoDQcY3VfK6exRTpr6WK2qiKBTIFvKLkePzRtyeaVF3O-LsaAsuj8P8HAQ#
I can see the average for the country as a whole being low for law enforcement. I've known several police that did a 30 year career and only saw a weapon drawn other than on the range once or twice.
What I would like to see is a breakdown of the police injury rate from the 7 major urban areas that purportedly account for over 80% of shootings in the country. Then compare the workplace injury rates with the rest of the country.
I admit it has been several years since I dug into Occupational Safety & Health statistics. I was surprised to see farm work not topping the list of dangerous occupations the way it had for decades prior to 2007. (The last time I had to run a company comparison with national statistics was 2007.) I wonder if in the years I was looking at, logging was lumped in with other agriculture?
I also look at the high number for aircraft pilot and flight engineers; is that including combat flights? If not including combat; what has happened as commercial air flights have been one of the lowest risk occupations since WWII was over.
Hmmm, the latest is 2014 for OSHA to have a complete tabulation online. If you want to see fatal injury rates broken down by industry; have a look at http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshcfoi1.htm#2014 PDF chart download.
I note that law enforcement was not even in the top ten of risky occupations. Mining and Farm work have the most fatal injuries. Again, you really can't gauge your local jurisdiction based on national averages. Crime rates in Hot Coffee Alabama are orders of magnitude lower than D.C. Metro.
Trove looks similar to the U.S. repository at www.archive.org which is administered by the Smithsonian Institution.
I wonder if Trove could get funding as Archive.org does with a mix of public monies from a few branches and private funds like the Prelinger Grant for their digitized film library?
If you look back to incidents in the past; Blizzard tends to jump on people who manage an unfair advantage in their games diluting the experience for other players. Intentional cheat bots will get a game account banned. Even using exploits from a programming glitch can get a person suspended for a time.
Blizzard has managed to get rid of most of the gold sellers in World of Warcraft by making it unproductive with the in game economy. Their antics in game is a pain that will not be missed.