Hate to rain on your parade, but didn't you realize that Apple will wait three years then have a media conference introducing iSPDY as their own invention?
Actually, it seems the NYT borrowed their content without attribution (so unlike them) from a 4-Mar-2010 article from the Joplin Globe:
PICHER, Okla. — Theft of copper from utilities and other businesses is nothing new, but officials say some brazen thieves took the crime up a notch — and should consider themselves lucky they’re not dead, even if they haven’t been caught yet.
The thieves made off with 3,000 feet of copper wire and some aluminum wire after cutting down numerous utility poles northeast of Picher, causing a temporary power outage for a handful of Empire District Electric Co. customers.
“They were sawed off at ground level with a chain saw,” Empire spokeswoman Amy Bass said of the six poles.
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Nine residents were without power for several hours Wednesday. The lines apparently were cut about 7:30 a.m.
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Empire District Electric Co. is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the copper-theft case at Picher. Officials said they are asking people who might have information about the case to call local law enforcement.
Is there any source on the Pitcher utility line theft story?
I believe it's the first link in the summary, but I could be wrong: NYTimes, 7-Feb-2011
Thieves broke into a muffler shop in Chillicothe, Ohio, and stole cash — and 130 catalytic converters. Pervasive thefts of copper wire from under the streets of Fresno, Calif., have prompted the city to seal thousands of its manhole covers with concrete. And in Picher, Okla., someone felled the town’s utility poles with chain saws, allowing thieves to abscond with 3,000 feet of wire while causing a blackout.
For such a Christian nation - we sure don't know how to read... Cuz i 'm pretty sure God wrote on some tablets, something about not killing...
Pulling any little morality play out of the Christian bible to apply to your arguments doesn't make you right. Might I remind you that at one time God himself killed every single person on the planet bar Noah and his family?
I used over 12.5GB in a few hours just watching some of TotalHalibut's "WTF is...[Game]" videos on YouTube. I'm sure 250 GB in a month would be a cinch.
A lot of people will mention gaming, but this could make it pretty difficult for VOIP, Skype, etc. Basically any kind of application that requires latency to be less than 100ms.
On a good day it's 220ms from our AU office to one of our other US offices... Skype works just fine, thanks.
I know, I have it already. It's just another example of ASUS being bone-headed by making a tablet with two batteries and only displaying the charge status and levels for one of them.
I have an ASUS Transformer and generally like it. The dock's keyboard is nothing to write home about, though - if you're a little bit off-centre when striking keys then they're likely to catch on their sides and not register.
Also I highly recommend the Dual Battery widget from Artiom Chilaru - ASUS deserves a slap upside the head for not including an indication of the dock battery's charge.
They fucking train minimum-wage counter jockies at McDonalds better customer service skills than that idiot displayed.
Not for years, they haven't. McDonalds used to have a great reputation for training, so much so that job applicants with Maccas on their resume would be viewed in a better light than those that didn't regardless of what industry they wanted to work in. Today, however, instead of "Welcome to McDonalds, how may I help you?" you're lucky to get a slurred "Are you riiiiight?" from someone who can't even tuck their shirt in properly.
Actually, Dick Smith is a great guy. Dick Smith Electronics on the other hand has been owned by Woolworths for over 20 years now and is useless compared to its former glory.
User enters password in password field. Browser consults a salt database, keyed by hostname. If entry for this host is not found, adds one, and generates a random salt. Otherwise, uses previously generated salt. The browser then concatenates the password in the input field with the salt. Hashes the result. Represents in base64. The result of all this is what is actually submitted to the form.
I guess you can say goodbye to federated authentication schemes like OpenLogin.
The ability to print effectively shouldn't cost you $9.99.
I agree that tablets aren't a replacement for desktops and notebooks, but it was only a few years ago that if you wanted to utilise any of the useful features of your Canon printers from Linux (e.g.: print on a CD/DVD) you had to pay a $30 tax to TurboPrint. Thankfully CUPS has improved significantly since then.
IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition, natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining. All of these factors were perfectly combined to beat Ken Jennings in Jeopardy.
Except that speech recognition wasn't used in Jeopardy - it was sent questions via text format.
It drives me up the wall when someone (usually an older secretary) calls my office phone with some non-urgent question that could easily have been put in email form; if you are going to interrupt me, at least have the decency to come to my office in person. In fact, we had a meeting the other day to discuss whether or not office phones were necessary anymore.
Yes, this. At my last job I unplugged my phone and kept it in the bottom drawer. People would often email me or come to my desk to ask their questions along with "I tried to call you but you didn't answer." In my current job there is a shortage of phones so I happily gave mine up to the newer guy.
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It's weird they called them counterfeit Apple products, twice, when Apple doesn't make anything like it.
No ads here. Maybe I clicked that "Disable Advertising" thingy on the front page at some point.
Hate to rain on your parade, but didn't you realize that Apple will wait three years then have a media conference introducing iSPDY as their own invention?
PICHER, Okla. — Theft of copper from utilities and other businesses is nothing new, but officials say some brazen thieves took the crime up a notch — and should consider themselves lucky they’re not dead, even if they haven’t been caught yet.
The thieves made off with 3,000 feet of copper wire and some aluminum wire after cutting down numerous utility poles northeast of Picher, causing a temporary power outage for a handful of Empire District Electric Co. customers.
“They were sawed off at ground level with a chain saw,” Empire spokeswoman Amy Bass said of the six poles.
...
Nine residents were without power for several hours Wednesday. The lines apparently were cut about 7:30 a.m.
...
Empire District Electric Co. is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the copper-theft case at Picher. Officials said they are asking people who might have information about the case to call local law enforcement.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1399736758/Copper-thieves-cut-poles-energized-lines-in-Picher-buyout-area/
Is there any source on the Pitcher utility line theft story?
I believe it's the first link in the summary, but I could be wrong: NYTimes, 7-Feb-2011
Thieves broke into a muffler shop in Chillicothe, Ohio, and stole cash — and 130 catalytic converters. Pervasive thefts of copper wire from under the streets of Fresno, Calif., have prompted the city to seal thousands of its manhole covers with concrete. And in Picher, Okla., someone felled the town’s utility poles with chain saws, allowing thieves to abscond with 3,000 feet of wire while causing a blackout.
For such a Christian nation - we sure don't know how to read... Cuz i 'm pretty sure God wrote on some tablets, something about not killing...
Pulling any little morality play out of the Christian bible to apply to your arguments doesn't make you right. Might I remind you that at one time God himself killed every single person on the planet bar Noah and his family?
Most people can't even do form-to-mail pages correctly so why would you trust them on anything more complex?
I see you've never worked on anything that generates documentation from comments.
How well does that work with servers behind round-robin DNS? Or isn't that possible with DNSSEC?
Also funny that it says www.comcast.com is *not* secured by DNSSEC, contrary to TFA.
I used over 12.5GB in a few hours just watching some of TotalHalibut's "WTF is...[Game]" videos on YouTube. I'm sure 250 GB in a month would be a cinch.
A lot of people will mention gaming, but this could make it pretty difficult for VOIP, Skype, etc. Basically any kind of application that requires latency to be less than 100ms.
On a good day it's 220ms from our AU office to one of our other US offices... Skype works just fine, thanks.
I know, I have it already. It's just another example of ASUS being bone-headed by making a tablet with two batteries and only displaying the charge status and levels for one of them.
Did you get it with a dock? Have ASUS actually got a battery indicator for the dock battery yet?
I have an ASUS Transformer and generally like it. The dock's keyboard is nothing to write home about, though - if you're a little bit off-centre when striking keys then they're likely to catch on their sides and not register.
Also I highly recommend the Dual Battery widget from Artiom Chilaru - ASUS deserves a slap upside the head for not including an indication of the dock battery's charge.
They fucking train minimum-wage counter jockies at McDonalds better customer service skills than that idiot displayed.
Not for years, they haven't. McDonalds used to have a great reputation for training, so much so that job applicants with Maccas on their resume would be viewed in a better light than those that didn't regardless of what industry they wanted to work in. Today, however, instead of "Welcome to McDonalds, how may I help you?" you're lucky to get a slurred "Are you riiiiight?" from someone who can't even tuck their shirt in properly.
Actually, Dick Smith is a great guy. Dick Smith Electronics on the other hand has been owned by Woolworths for over 20 years now and is useless compared to its former glory.
User enters password in password field. Browser consults a salt database, keyed by hostname. If entry for this host is not found, adds one, and generates a random salt. Otherwise, uses previously generated salt. The browser then concatenates the password in the input field with the salt. Hashes the result. Represents in base64. The result of all this is what is actually submitted to the form.
I guess you can say goodbye to federated authentication schemes like OpenLogin.
That would be to render the store interfaces so you can be sold more content in-app.
You *can* install Ubuntu on it, but it doesn't exactly run well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/ASUS_Eee_Pad_Transformer/How_to_install_Ubuntu
Your guarantee is worthless. I regularly come across checkout operators who cannot correctly count back change.
You forgot "... and twice the battery life."
I agree that tablets aren't a replacement for desktops and notebooks, but it was only a few years ago that if you wanted to utilise any of the useful features of your Canon printers from Linux (e.g.: print on a CD/DVD) you had to pay a $30 tax to TurboPrint. Thankfully CUPS has improved significantly since then.
Except that speech recognition wasn't used in Jeopardy - it was sent questions via text format.
Yes, this. At my last job I unplugged my phone and kept it in the bottom drawer. People would often email me or come to my desk to ask their questions along with "I tried to call you but you didn't answer." In my current job there is a shortage of phones so I happily gave mine up to the newer guy.
You may not have noticed that the FOI Request was filed on 13-Aug and that the OSHA download page was only created on 27-Oct to satisfy it.