On Dice.com "GitHub for Enterprise, Yes, Enterprise When I talk to developers, they go on and on about how Github is one of the most amazing resources"
Guess what dice just bought today... yes, sourceforge. Great product placement guys. Heck of a job.
But just vote libertarian. Some people see it as a throw away vote
You only throw away your vote when you vote for someone who doesn't represent your interests, like for 99% of the population a -R or a -D. I'm voting -L. I used to vote -R and if they toss out the current crop of lunatics I might go back.
What does this even mean? Is it the same 0-day? Is it a different 0-day? Can we get some editing up in this bitch or what?
There's so many it doesn't really matter. They'll be another next month, and the month after that, and the month after that.... You can safely assume that at any given instant there exists at least one active zero-day infecting IE users.
I mostly agree with you, other than something you're overlooking.
That being said, why would you NOT want to release emails/research?
According to GOOG analytics my gmail account got over 2000 emails last month, times 18 months... You can't "just release everything" because some conversations have to remain private. HIPPA violations for students providing way too much detail about why they were out sick, etc. NDA info for unrelated topics. Closed source code license issues (so you're talking about a bug in non-free software and including code excerpts). Its a non-judicial punishment assigned by politican... err, until a judge overturns it, which is exactly what just happened.
Not conservative. A conservative would want things to stay the same, to oppose human change for good or bad solely because its a human change, would want to conserve natural resources, be a "good steward of Gods creation" or whatever religious claim floats their boat of preserving the status quo.
Yes I know "political conservative" means the exact opposite since the neo's kicked all the normal people like myself (uh, more or less) out, so all we have left is the Santorums (the politician, not the "frothy liquid") and Rmoneys. The bigger point is you know a society is completely F'd when its words become doublespeak. When I was a kid it was a running joke that any country name including "peoples" "democratic" or "republic" almost always was the opposite. Its a dark day in America, I'm sad to say.
Making this whole concept work is what Google calls its True Time API, which combines an atomic clock and a GPS clock to timestamp data so it can then be synched across as many data centers and machines as needed.
I'm guessing there's a little more to it than reinventing and installing ntp on your DBMS server. That little bit more is the actual interesting part.
So the USSR was financially strangled during the Cold War by low oil prices while at the same time they had these diamond deposits?
This was before the Canadians were shipping their rocks, so dumping diamonds on the market to implode the market would only piss off the south africans, who were on the west's sh!t list at the time for the whole apartheid thing. So if anything, dumping their diamonds would make "us" happy. Maybe not happy enough to give them oil out of the goodness of our hearts, but...
I have no idea how to prove that the S.A. were not paying a bribe in metals to the russians to keep their diamonds off the market. That would have been the intelligent thing for them to demand. But even confiscating the entire production of S.A. isn't going to keep USSR afloat, so...
Diamonds are only of spectacular value, when they achieve very large carat size, without flaws or inclusions
HUGE industrial demand, compared to gold. Gold has some industrial demand, but if diamond was as cheap per pound as carbide or HSS you'd see a lot more cutting tools using it. Imagine metal cutting tools using a diamond insert instead of a carbide insert. I wonder if they'd ever wear out?
You don't want to know how much I paid for my diamond wheel and diamond stone. Well, I'm sure gemstone quality would make it cost as much as my house instead of just as much as a (cheap) car payment for industrial diamond grinding tools.... Maybe its cheaper now? donno.
Diamond wheel is the only reasonable way to sharpen carbide cutting tools. Word to wise do not cut plain steel with diamond... something about the carbon steel metallurgy makes the diamond break down fast and its a waste of money. Diamond being carbon can supposedly dissolve into low carbon steels so it wears extremely quickly.
You know what would be cool, in a cheap diamond world? One of those dremel cutoff fiberglass wheels impregnated with industrial diamonds. That would probably be $30 to $50 now, but in a cheap diamond world could be as little as $5 each. You'd only buy one per lifetime, as long as you don't cut steel with it.
Ah so thats what the website meant WRT to glance holding configurations. I was wondering where the images were kept. Presumably it stashes the actual config items elsewhere (ip addrs, etc). Maybe they should build that stuff on top of the swift thing, like self hosted sorta..
So swift as the DB is replicated mysql, I was confused thinking they were doing some nosql stuff but requiring mysql installation in the notes.
The docs are just awful. Its like a PR team just made a bunch of stuff up, trying not to use any real world technical terms so no one would steal the secrets. Ugh.
Not here in the uk, and of course this price is very volatile anyway , more so then diesel with massive swings year on year.
With the north sea fields, you used to be an exporter, but they peaked and declined a couple years ago so you're an importer. Its only going to get more costly in the future, plus or minus economic decline. Not sure how europe is going to be heated in the near future. Russian gas helps, when they want...
Microsoft says diesel generators are 'inefficient and costly'
The real prob, assuming you live outside 3rd world areas, is the local electric power co is more reliable than transfer switches and generators.
Its legendary in the telco biz how many outages faulty transfer switches and generator testing "accidents" cause.
Local power causes many fewer outages, but the PR of "we're down because of no generator" "competitors have gens" means we have to lower our quality of service by installing generators, which is too bad. The customers are so dumb they'd rather have 10 hours of outage per decade due to x-fer switch issues than 1 hour of outage per decade due to power failures.
Manage it with their software and service client requests for things like VM's to run app servers/applications/databases etc. It handles the disk sharing, memory and processor allocation and allows you to oversubscribe your system.
That's pretty close. I'd correct that because the underlying software is what does this. I do this on a small scale with homemade shell and puppet scripts. Openstack is basically a web gui on top of the underlying software that does what my scripts do.
In fact I'd make an excellent analogy to CPANEL for webhosting. CPANEL does not fling bits out port 80, but it does / did give you a web GUI to mess with the apache config, basically.
I feel after an investment of only 15 minutes I finally figured out what openstack "is". Not sure if thats good or bad. Bad I guess.
I've gotten a little further along in trying to figure out what "openstack" is.
Apparently its like the apache software foundation, in that there is no "apache software foundation" code or executable or command line, there are projects such as apache or mod-perl that live under it. So openstack holds a handful of subprojects that theoretically work together. Like an office suite.
Basically the Nova is a "fabric controller" aside from the fancy name its a GUI on top of the kernel virt layer and sysadmin scripts and puppet recipes that everyone uses if they don't have a "fabric controller" to do it for them. The swift is yet another distributed non-rational database, looks very key-value-ish, although mysql is a dependency, which is confusing.. The glance is just a database schema for a cloud system. Good idea. I store my DNS in SQL at home and a Really simple script outputs the BIND files for fwd and rev, this is just a much bigger scale.
It looks pretty stand alone. For example Apache integrates into my LXC / custom scripts / Puppet managed / OpenAFS backend system at home without any real issue. Well, integrating afs expiring tokens and apache is interesting, but its nothing that wasn't solved 20 years ago (seriously). Openstack does not appear to integrate with anything but itself, its self contained like an appliance. So its gonna be scrap everything and start over with openstack.. Not too interesting to me at this time because I'd have to scrap / convert so much existing infrastructure, but for a new deployment it looks simple enough, and reasonably full featured. Historically projects that are non-integrative tend to make integration hard, who would have ever guessed.
What is openstack? Other than something with a board of directors, that per the front page is "simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich". Thats great, so is EMACS and apache and linux.
I clicked around and it uses git and the install instructions show it fdisks something, presumably my hard drive (whoa there nellie) and uses mysql as a backend and whatever keystone and glance and nova and horizon might be, their installation is pretty easy. But what is openstack? Basically a linux distro that installs that stuff, or... ?
Note that I'm no noob... its just that I can't figure out what openstack is. I've done tons of NFS/AFS/Samba over the decades and some virtualization stuff with vmware and I have a little 4 node 20-30 LXC image "cluster" at home. LXC because its simple and the hardware is ancient aka free so I can't do "fancy" hardware virtualization.
(A Medical Event may indicate potential problems in a medical facility's use of radioactive materials. It does not necessarily result in harm to the patient.)
Yeah not directly. They're full of stories like "shipping envelope received torn and empty" (would not want to be the fedex driver at a hospital) and seemingly endless reports along the lines of "shipping manifest listed 4 sources only 3 found in shipment". Where are all those things going, anyway?
Because the US, EU, Russia and China will in all probability never go to war with each other.
Alex, "what is proxy wars for fun and profit?"
Would not be surprised to see.cn and.jp going at it in a limited way over those stupid islands in the next month or so. My guess is some amphibious "beach storming" foolishness plus or minus some aerial bombardment to make a point before they kiss and make up diplomatically.
JASDF has F-15J mitsubishi built interceptors... basically the same as the 30 year old retired US F15 but with a really large spoiler on the back and under chassis neon lighting and a 10 kilowatt stereo system, no wait just kidding about that, its not a honda civic its a mitsubishi, which means they falsify their user survey results, as I recall. The F-2 is basically a modernized super-duper F16, a pretty serious plane, lots of nationalist whining on both sides respectively about the general topic of how they should have bought our modernized super duper F16 instead of building their own vs they wanted to make their very own homemade F16. The JASDF museum collection of F-4s are all older than I am, which is pretty creepy, but I suppose still effective if used properly.
Modern warfare is basically catching the other guy when he screws up, more so than a pure specs game. A.cn stealth fighter vs 2 or 3 F-2 in clear air VFR conditions over the ocean will eat the.cn fighter alive. Even 3 antique F-4 in perfect conditions for the F-4 could have the.cn fighter for dinner if they coordinate perfectly etc. The trick in all warfare is getting your opponent to fight on your terms not theirs.
In other words, overweeight, over budget, under performing, poor range and not quite here yet but will be real soon now we promise unless you want the variant that you actually need in which case it will be here real not quite soon now.
You forgot, an hour after you start, you're hungry for fuel again. At least its a fast delivery vehicle, even dominos doesn't deliver at mach 1. I'm sure there's some more Chinese food jokes in here somewhere.
The US military still insists on Blackberries over iPhone / Andoid. So just like with the US government's use of Iridium sat phones kept that company afloat, until the US military stops using Blackberries, the company will be "around".
Yeah, I was admining a database running under BTOS on a unisys ruggedized "mini" in the early 90s in the US Army. That sure worked out well. Probably no one on/. has even heard of either the company or the OS. That's where Blackberries are inevitably headed. Grunt gets issued a "blackberry", asks WTF is this?
What's next, RIM employees stop using Yahoo for search and tell their employees to use Google or Bing?
I think the vast majority of them are already using monster.com and dice.com, etc. Oh wait, do you mean general internet searching, not looking for a new job after the downsizing?
CEO Marissa Mayer: "so we can think and work as the majority of our users do".
VLM questions "Yahoo still has users?" Who?
But then I'm CEO of nothing.
Patience young grasshopper. Yahoo will achieve nothingness soon enough. Then you can be its CEO.
I've occasionally wondered how much it would cost to start collecting companies as a hobby. For example, mint condition dotcom 1.0 corporations. How much would it cost me to buy flooz or drkoop.com or whatever it was called? I would imagine there's some ongoing accounting/tax costs. I do know people who collected paper stock certificates, for example Disney's paper stock certs used to be really cool and artistic, and I've always thought a collection of dotcom stock certs would be funny... but why collect a paper printout of a millionth of the dotcom when I could own the whole thing? My budget for this amusement would be on the scale of three digits, four is really pushing it. Is this a realistic collecting hobby for me? I'm not going to be one of those old people collecting a houseful of ceramic frogs... no not me... I'm gonna collect mint condition dotcom 1.0 companies. That sounds like fun.
Its pretty interesting reading. I think I heard about it from RISKS digest maybe a decade ago. About a half dozen reports are filed every day. At least one will be interesting, or at least WTF worthy. The story about the weld radiographer getting the source stuck while he was up a ladder so he took the source out and wore it like a necklace as he went down the ladder a couple days ago is WTF worthy.
I'll take the possible risk of paying some money over paying up front in case of an accident any day
The mystifying part is a contract smartphone is still like $100/month bill, right? So $200 is pocket change to a smartphone contract victim, its like 2 months service.
I buy insurance for my car because I can't afford a possible million dollar liability settlement out of pocket. Buying $100 of insurance for a $200 loss seems as dumb as buying "oil change insurance" where I could pay only $15/month to avoid the immense expense of paying $30 every quarter for an oil change.
The other part that mystifies be about the story is
I've had the opportunity to file claims with SquareTrade multiple times
My god man, what are you doing? Using your phone as a carpentry hammer? Or the screen as a glass kitchen cutting board? In 15 years I've killed precisely one cellphone, by leaving it in a pants cargo pocket and running it thru the wash. That's $20 down the drain having to buy another new virgin mobile phone.
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On Dice.com "GitHub for Enterprise, Yes, Enterprise
When I talk to developers, they go on and on about how Github is one of the most amazing resources"
Guess what dice just bought today... yes, sourceforge. Great product placement guys. Heck of a job.
Motorola said the change of chip meant improved camera performance. However, it has also meant ...
The battery will only last 1/4 as long. Whoops.
Pretty soon smartphones will be just like old fashioned "cordless" phones where unless you're actively using it in your hand, its in the charger.
But just vote libertarian. Some people see it as a throw away vote
You only throw away your vote when you vote for someone who doesn't represent your interests, like for 99% of the population a -R or a -D. I'm voting -L. I used to vote -R and if they toss out the current crop of lunatics I might go back.
What does this even mean? Is it the same 0-day? Is it a different 0-day? Can we get some editing up in this bitch or what?
There's so many it doesn't really matter. They'll be another next month, and the month after that, and the month after that.... You can safely assume that at any given instant there exists at least one active zero-day infecting IE users.
I mostly agree with you, other than something you're overlooking.
That being said, why would you NOT want to release emails/research?
According to GOOG analytics my gmail account got over 2000 emails last month, times 18 months... You can't "just release everything" because some conversations have to remain private. HIPPA violations for students providing way too much detail about why they were out sick, etc. NDA info for unrelated topics. Closed source code license issues (so you're talking about a bug in non-free software and including code excerpts). Its a non-judicial punishment assigned by politican ... err, until a judge overturns it, which is exactly what just happened.
When did the party of Lincoln, TR, and Eisenhower turn into the party of Nixon, Regan, and Dubya?
Sometime between Eisenhower and Nixon?
Close, wiki for the "southern strategy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
The state's conservative attorney general,
Not conservative. A conservative would want things to stay the same, to oppose human change for good or bad solely because its a human change, would want to conserve natural resources, be a "good steward of Gods creation" or whatever religious claim floats their boat of preserving the status quo.
Yes I know "political conservative" means the exact opposite since the neo's kicked all the normal people like myself (uh, more or less) out, so all we have left is the Santorums (the politician, not the "frothy liquid") and Rmoneys. The bigger point is you know a society is completely F'd when its words become doublespeak. When I was a kid it was a running joke that any country name including "peoples" "democratic" or "republic" almost always was the opposite. Its a dark day in America, I'm sad to say.
Making this whole concept work is what Google calls its True Time API, which combines an atomic clock and a GPS clock to timestamp data so it can then be synched across as many data centers and machines as needed.
I'm guessing there's a little more to it than reinventing and installing ntp on your DBMS server. That little bit more is the actual interesting part.
So the USSR was financially strangled during the Cold War by low oil prices while at the same time they had these diamond deposits?
This was before the Canadians were shipping their rocks, so dumping diamonds on the market to implode the market would only piss off the south africans, who were on the west's sh!t list at the time for the whole apartheid thing. So if anything, dumping their diamonds would make "us" happy. Maybe not happy enough to give them oil out of the goodness of our hearts, but...
I have no idea how to prove that the S.A. were not paying a bribe in metals to the russians to keep their diamonds off the market. That would have been the intelligent thing for them to demand. But even confiscating the entire production of S.A. isn't going to keep USSR afloat, so...
This makes me wonder if there has ever been a more successful cartel
DeBeers annual revenue 6 billion per year per wikipedia
OPEC 33 million barrels per day shipped at 100 bucks a barrel = 3.3 billion bucks per day or "about one and a quarter trillion" per year.
Diamonds are only of spectacular value, when they achieve very large carat size, without flaws or inclusions
HUGE industrial demand, compared to gold. Gold has some industrial demand, but if diamond was as cheap per pound as carbide or HSS you'd see a lot more cutting tools using it. Imagine metal cutting tools using a diamond insert instead of a carbide insert. I wonder if they'd ever wear out?
You don't want to know how much I paid for my diamond wheel and diamond stone. Well, I'm sure gemstone quality would make it cost as much as my house instead of just as much as a (cheap) car payment for industrial diamond grinding tools.... Maybe its cheaper now? donno.
Diamond wheel is the only reasonable way to sharpen carbide cutting tools. Word to wise do not cut plain steel with diamond... something about the carbon steel metallurgy makes the diamond break down fast and its a waste of money. Diamond being carbon can supposedly dissolve into low carbon steels so it wears extremely quickly.
You know what would be cool, in a cheap diamond world? One of those dremel cutoff fiberglass wheels impregnated with industrial diamonds. That would probably be $30 to $50 now, but in a cheap diamond world could be as little as $5 each. You'd only buy one per lifetime, as long as you don't cut steel with it.
Ah so thats what the website meant WRT to glance holding configurations. I was wondering where the images were kept. Presumably it stashes the actual config items elsewhere (ip addrs, etc). Maybe they should build that stuff on top of the swift thing, like self hosted sorta..
So swift as the DB is replicated mysql, I was confused thinking they were doing some nosql stuff but requiring mysql installation in the notes.
The docs are just awful. Its like a PR team just made a bunch of stuff up, trying not to use any real world technical terms so no one would steal the secrets. Ugh.
Not here in the uk, and of course this price is very volatile anyway , more so then diesel with massive swings year on year.
With the north sea fields, you used to be an exporter, but they peaked and declined a couple years ago so you're an importer. Its only going to get more costly in the future, plus or minus economic decline. Not sure how europe is going to be heated in the near future. Russian gas helps, when they want...
Microsoft says diesel generators are 'inefficient and costly'
The real prob, assuming you live outside 3rd world areas, is the local electric power co is more reliable than transfer switches and generators.
Its legendary in the telco biz how many outages faulty transfer switches and generator testing "accidents" cause.
Local power causes many fewer outages, but the PR of "we're down because of no generator" "competitors have gens" means we have to lower our quality of service by installing generators, which is too bad. The customers are so dumb they'd rather have 10 hours of outage per decade due to x-fer switch issues than 1 hour of outage per decade due to power failures.
Manage it with their software and service client requests for things like VM's to run app servers/applications/databases etc. It handles the disk sharing, memory and processor allocation and allows you to oversubscribe your system.
That's pretty close. I'd correct that because the underlying software is what does this. I do this on a small scale with homemade shell and puppet scripts. Openstack is basically a web gui on top of the underlying software that does what my scripts do.
In fact I'd make an excellent analogy to CPANEL for webhosting. CPANEL does not fling bits out port 80, but it does / did give you a web GUI to mess with the apache config, basically.
I feel after an investment of only 15 minutes I finally figured out what openstack "is". Not sure if thats good or bad. Bad I guess.
I've gotten a little further along in trying to figure out what "openstack" is.
Apparently its like the apache software foundation, in that there is no "apache software foundation" code or executable or command line, there are projects such as apache or mod-perl that live under it. So openstack holds a handful of subprojects that theoretically work together. Like an office suite.
Basically the Nova is a "fabric controller" aside from the fancy name its a GUI on top of the kernel virt layer and sysadmin scripts and puppet recipes that everyone uses if they don't have a "fabric controller" to do it for them. The swift is yet another distributed non-rational database, looks very key-value-ish, although mysql is a dependency, which is confusing.. The glance is just a database schema for a cloud system. Good idea. I store my DNS in SQL at home and a Really simple script outputs the BIND files for fwd and rev, this is just a much bigger scale.
It looks pretty stand alone. For example Apache integrates into my LXC / custom scripts / Puppet managed / OpenAFS backend system at home without any real issue. Well, integrating afs expiring tokens and apache is interesting, but its nothing that wasn't solved 20 years ago (seriously). Openstack does not appear to integrate with anything but itself, its self contained like an appliance. So its gonna be scrap everything and start over with openstack.. Not too interesting to me at this time because I'd have to scrap / convert so much existing infrastructure, but for a new deployment it looks simple enough, and reasonably full featured. Historically projects that are non-integrative tend to make integration hard, who would have ever guessed.
What is openstack? Other than something with a board of directors, that per the front page is "simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich". Thats great, so is EMACS and apache and linux.
I clicked around and it uses git and the install instructions show it fdisks something, presumably my hard drive (whoa there nellie) and uses mysql as a backend and whatever keystone and glance and nova and horizon might be, their installation is pretty easy. But what is openstack? Basically a linux distro that installs that stuff, or ... ?
Note that I'm no noob... its just that I can't figure out what openstack is. I've done tons of NFS/AFS/Samba over the decades and some virtualization stuff with vmware and I have a little 4 node 20-30 LXC image "cluster" at home. LXC because its simple and the hardware is ancient aka free so I can't do "fancy" hardware virtualization.
(A Medical Event may indicate potential problems in a medical facility's use of radioactive materials. It does not necessarily result in harm to the patient.)
Yeah not directly. They're full of stories like "shipping envelope received torn and empty" (would not want to be the fedex driver at a hospital) and seemingly endless reports along the lines of "shipping manifest listed 4 sources only 3 found in shipment". Where are all those things going, anyway?
Because the US, EU, Russia and China will in all probability never go to war with each other.
Alex, "what is proxy wars for fun and profit?"
Would not be surprised to see .cn and .jp going at it in a limited way over those stupid islands in the next month or so. My guess is some amphibious "beach storming" foolishness plus or minus some aerial bombardment to make a point before they kiss and make up diplomatically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Self-Defense_Force
JASDF has F-15J mitsubishi built interceptors... basically the same as the 30 year old retired US F15 but with a really large spoiler on the back and under chassis neon lighting and a 10 kilowatt stereo system, no wait just kidding about that, its not a honda civic its a mitsubishi, which means they falsify their user survey results, as I recall. The F-2 is basically a modernized super-duper F16, a pretty serious plane, lots of nationalist whining on both sides respectively about the general topic of how they should have bought our modernized super duper F16 instead of building their own vs they wanted to make their very own homemade F16. The JASDF museum collection of F-4s are all older than I am, which is pretty creepy, but I suppose still effective if used properly.
Modern warfare is basically catching the other guy when he screws up, more so than a pure specs game. A .cn stealth fighter vs 2 or 3 F-2 in clear air VFR conditions over the ocean will eat the .cn fighter alive. Even 3 antique F-4 in perfect conditions for the F-4 could have the .cn fighter for dinner if they coordinate perfectly etc. The trick in all warfare is getting your opponent to fight on your terms not theirs.
In other words, overweeight, over budget, under performing, poor range and not quite here yet but will be real soon now we promise unless you want the variant that you actually need in which case it will be here real not quite soon now.
You forgot, an hour after you start, you're hungry for fuel again. At least its a fast delivery vehicle, even dominos doesn't deliver at mach 1. I'm sure there's some more Chinese food jokes in here somewhere.
The US military still insists on Blackberries over iPhone / Andoid. So just like with the US government's use of Iridium sat phones kept that company afloat, until the US military stops using Blackberries, the company will be "around".
Yeah, I was admining a database running under BTOS on a unisys ruggedized "mini" in the early 90s in the US Army. That sure worked out well. Probably no one on /. has even heard of either the company or the OS. That's where Blackberries are inevitably headed. Grunt gets issued a "blackberry", asks WTF is this?
What's next, RIM employees stop using Yahoo for search and tell their employees to use Google or Bing?
I think the vast majority of them are already using monster.com and dice.com, etc. Oh wait, do you mean general internet searching, not looking for a new job after the downsizing?
My WTF was different than yours.
CEO Marissa Mayer: "so we can think and work as the majority of our users do".
VLM questions "Yahoo still has users?" Who?
But then I'm CEO of nothing.
Patience young grasshopper. Yahoo will achieve nothingness soon enough. Then you can be its CEO.
I've occasionally wondered how much it would cost to start collecting companies as a hobby. For example, mint condition dotcom 1.0 corporations. How much would it cost me to buy flooz or drkoop.com or whatever it was called? I would imagine there's some ongoing accounting/tax costs. I do know people who collected paper stock certificates, for example Disney's paper stock certs used to be really cool and artistic, and I've always thought a collection of dotcom stock certs would be funny... but why collect a paper printout of a millionth of the dotcom when I could own the whole thing? My budget for this amusement would be on the scale of three digits, four is really pushing it. Is this a realistic collecting hobby for me? I'm not going to be one of those old people collecting a houseful of ceramic frogs... no not me... I'm gonna collect mint condition dotcom 1.0 companies. That sounds like fun.
while the loss of radioactive rods occurs from time to time
This is a better link
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/
Its pretty interesting reading. I think I heard about it from RISKS digest maybe a decade ago. About a half dozen reports are filed every day. At least one will be interesting, or at least WTF worthy. The story about the weld radiographer getting the source stuck while he was up a ladder so he took the source out and wore it like a necklace as he went down the ladder a couple days ago is WTF worthy.
I'll take the possible risk of paying some money over paying up front in case of an accident any day
The mystifying part is a contract smartphone is still like $100/month bill, right? So $200 is pocket change to a smartphone contract victim, its like 2 months service.
I buy insurance for my car because I can't afford a possible million dollar liability settlement out of pocket. Buying $100 of insurance for a $200 loss seems as dumb as buying "oil change insurance" where I could pay only $15/month to avoid the immense expense of paying $30 every quarter for an oil change.
The other part that mystifies be about the story is
I've had the opportunity to file claims with SquareTrade multiple times
My god man, what are you doing? Using your phone as a carpentry hammer? Or the screen as a glass kitchen cutting board? In 15 years I've killed precisely one cellphone, by leaving it in a pants cargo pocket and running it thru the wash. That's $20 down the drain having to buy another new virgin mobile phone.