American schools are NOT underfunded. They receive more funding than almost any other country in the world. Only Norway and Switzerland spend more per student on education. Many of the countries spending a small fraction of what America spends, get far better results.
However, America's education spending is mostly based on local property taxes, which results in very unequal funding. But it is not clear if more spending will help much. New Jersey's "Save Our Schools" program poured millions into poorly performing schools, and resulted in negligible improvement. After Freddie Gray was killed in Baltimore's Sandtown slum, people pointed at the terrible schools as a source of the social decay. Yet Sandtown has some of the best funded schools in the country. The Feds have poured in millions spread over two decades. Yet, on a typical day, only half the kids show up for class. Whatever the problem is, it isn't just money.
I use randomly generated passwords of lowercase letters and numbers. Most "password checkers" tell me they are insecure.
A random 8 byte password using only lowercase letters and numbers is more than a quadrillion times easier to crack than one that also includes uppercase and special characters.
This just shows how bad they are.
No, it just shows that they are designed for the common situation where a normal person is using a mnemonic password, rather than a geek using something random.
they have to do things to appease shareholders that are actually pretty dumb... splitting their enterprise x86 stuff from their PC stuff is mind numbingly stupid as hell.
So if they are "appeasing shareholders" their stock price should go up in the short term. But if it "mind numbingly stupid", then their stock price will go down in the long them. So, since you are so much smarter than the market, you should be able to make a fortune shorting their stock today, and cashing in when the share price crashes. When that happens, please come back and post a photo of your new yacht.
It destroys some jobs, and creates other jobs. But by eliminating repetitive work, it raises overall productivity. Economic progress comes from the more efficient production of goods and services, not by "keeping people busy".
Software is one area where communism actually works. From each according to his (or her) ability, to each according to his (or her) needs. It is ironic that it is a capitalist country that is making it happen.
You can't prove she's not trustworthy! All those other guys - they must be fools!
Except the problem here is not lack of "proof", but lack of any evidence whatsoever. Even worse than that, the accusations are so nebulous and non-specific that they are meaningless. Somebody somewhere that isn't named, and works for an "agency", that is also unnamed, did something wrong to some other anonymous person, at some unspecific place and time, maybe, and nothing can be named or specified for reasons that aren't given. Are we really supposed to be outraged about that?
they are trying to take the tray of "food" you are "served" two to three times a day that you would not feed to a stray dog
When I was in jail, the food was fine. I am a vegetarian, but there were always people willing to trade my baloney for a packet of peanut butter. There was very little conflict. Mostly everyone cooperated, and did their cleaning chores, etc. It was a great opportunity to improve my conversational Spanish, and make a few friends outside my normal social network. I look back on it as an overall positive experience. This was the jail in Santa Clara County, California, so it is probably better than most.
These are the agencies that, at least in the US have sadly been able to blockade access to the evidence that would confirm wrongdoing.
This is just more vague accusations and hand waving. Like TFA, you don't actually name the agencies, and you provide no information whatsoever to substantiate your allegations.
I love a good conspiracy theory, and I am always more than willing to believe the worst about the American government, but you have to do better than this. Even the 9/11 and moon landing kooks have a better argument than you.
What does it mean to be "locked out of tenders"? My Google-fu fails me here.
It means their grant application wasn't approved. That could be because their research is crap, or it could be, as the TFA claims, proof of a vast government conspiracy to silence them.
The prisons need to enable inmates to call only the numbers they've been authorized to call.
Last time I was in jail, there were no restrictions on who I could call. I don't see any need to maintain a "whitelist". A "blacklist" of numbers not to be called would be easier. But even then, it doesn't have to be enforced through the phone system. It could just be rule-based: You call your ex-girlfriend (the one you are in jail for beating up) and you will lose your phone privileges. Phone policies vary widely between different states, and even different prisons within states.
Inmates have lower recidivism rates when they keep social contacts with the family and friends. Isolating these people from society by restricting phone calls arbitrarily, and charging extortionate tolls, is not sensible policy.
Many data centers run "hot" at about 100F. Modern servers can easily handle the heat, and HDDs actually have lower failure rates at the higher end of their temperature range. Some data centers are cooled to lower temperature, but that is usually based on superstition rather than any real benefit.
Real data centers have dedicated cooling systems, piping cold air into the racks directly.
What about unreal data centers? Or data centers run by Scotsmen?
But they also complained about POWER LINES!?!?! WTF?
There are people out there that will complain about ANYTHING. Where I live, there is a proposal to build an aquatic recreation center in our neighborhood. This sounds great to me, and I would certainly use it. But there are a group of very active activists, using petitions and lawyers, trying to stop it. One of their complaints is that it would make the neighborhood nicer, thus raising home valuations, resulting in higher property taxes.
Why should America be a bolt hole for the monied elite of Asia when are own kids don't have a pot to piss in?
Because the moneyed elite bring their money, skills, and connections with them, and create jobs here.
You should read up on the Lump of Labor Fallacy. There is not a fixed number of jobs in the economy, and there is no zero-sum-game where a job to an immigrant means one less job for an American. Real economies don't work that way. More liberal immigration policies, especially for skilled people, have historically led to lower unemployment.
Isn't it wonderful that Spain appreciates that we kept a certain person from waltzing through France and down the Iberian peninsula
Spain was an ally of the Nazis. The Nazis helped Franco win the Spanish Civil War. Spain sent more than 45,000 troops to fight with the Germans on the Eastern Front. Hitler pressured Franco to attack the British and drive them out of Gibraltar, but the British made it clear that if Gibraltar was attacked, they would immediately seize the Canary Islands.
The whole planet is struggling to keep up with energy demands and you think it's acceptable to waste 90% of the energy you use?
The amount of power used to charge cell phones is negligible. So it doesn't really matter if it is inefficient. It is still negligible.
I get into a similar argument with co-workers about water here in California. They wanted to save dishwater and use it to flush the toilet. Then I pointed out that we can flush the toilet twice a day for a year with the amount of water saved by eating tofu for lunch instead of beef ONE TIME.
Gosh, I thought it was POOR people who were the homeless problem in the Bay Area.
Nope. I have co-workers making $120k that are living out of a van. If you are working 80 hour weeks, you don't have much leisure time anyway, so why waste $4k/month on rent? It is better to pay off your debts, fully fund your IRA and 401K, and sock away some extra savings. Then wait till the next crash to buy a house.
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Where are our famously underfunded schools going to get the money ...
American schools are NOT underfunded. They receive more funding than almost any other country in the world. Only Norway and Switzerland spend more per student on education. Many of the countries spending a small fraction of what America spends, get far better results.
However, America's education spending is mostly based on local property taxes, which results in very unequal funding. But it is not clear if more spending will help much. New Jersey's "Save Our Schools" program poured millions into poorly performing schools, and resulted in negligible improvement. After Freddie Gray was killed in Baltimore's Sandtown slum, people pointed at the terrible schools as a source of the social decay. Yet Sandtown has some of the best funded schools in the country. The Feds have poured in millions spread over two decades. Yet, on a typical day, only half the kids show up for class. Whatever the problem is, it isn't just money.
I use randomly generated passwords of lowercase letters and numbers. Most "password checkers" tell me they are insecure.
A random 8 byte password using only lowercase letters and numbers is more than a quadrillion times easier to crack than one that also includes uppercase and special characters.
This just shows how bad they are.
No, it just shows that they are designed for the common situation where a normal person is using a mnemonic password, rather than a geek using something random.
Stop making us change them every 3 months and we could come up with stronger passwords.
None of the websites I use require me to periodically change my password. Are there any well known sites with this requirement?
Try on brand on Monday. Try another brand on Tuesday. Try another on Wednesday.
Or let others do that for you: Just go to Amazon, and buy the brand with five star reviews.
they have to do things to appease shareholders that are actually pretty dumb ... splitting their enterprise x86 stuff from their PC stuff is mind numbingly stupid as hell.
So if they are "appeasing shareholders" their stock price should go up in the short term. But if it "mind numbingly stupid", then their stock price will go down in the long them. So, since you are so much smarter than the market, you should be able to make a fortune shorting their stock today, and cashing in when the share price crashes. When that happens, please come back and post a photo of your new yacht.
Open source destroys good paying developer jobs.
It destroys some jobs, and creates other jobs. But by eliminating repetitive work, it raises overall productivity. Economic progress comes from the more efficient production of goods and services, not by "keeping people busy".
Software is one area where communism actually works.
From each according to his (or her) ability, to each according to his (or her) needs.
It is ironic that it is a capitalist country that is making it happen.
You can't prove she's not trustworthy! All those other guys - they must be fools!
Except the problem here is not lack of "proof", but lack of any evidence whatsoever. Even worse than that, the accusations are so nebulous and non-specific that they are meaningless. Somebody somewhere that isn't named, and works for an "agency", that is also unnamed, did something wrong to some other anonymous person, at some unspecific place and time, maybe, and nothing can be named or specified for reasons that aren't given. Are we really supposed to be outraged about that?
they are trying to take the tray of "food" you are "served" two to three times a day that you would not feed to a stray dog
When I was in jail, the food was fine. I am a vegetarian, but there were always people willing to trade my baloney for a packet of peanut butter. There was very little conflict. Mostly everyone cooperated, and did their cleaning chores, etc. It was a great opportunity to improve my conversational Spanish, and make a few friends outside my normal social network. I look back on it as an overall positive experience. This was the jail in Santa Clara County, California, so it is probably better than most.
These are the agencies that, at least in the US have sadly been able to blockade access to the evidence that would confirm wrongdoing.
This is just more vague accusations and hand waving. Like TFA, you don't actually name the agencies, and you provide no information whatsoever to substantiate your allegations.
I love a good conspiracy theory, and I am always more than willing to believe the worst about the American government, but you have to do better than this. Even the 9/11 and moon landing kooks have a better argument than you.
What does it mean to be "locked out of tenders"? My Google-fu fails me here.
It means their grant application wasn't approved. That could be because their research is crap, or it could be, as the TFA claims, proof of a vast government conspiracy to silence them.
Why are the government spy agencies unnamed?
Because that would require actual evidence, and TFA has none. It is much easier to make vague accusations and include lots of scary handwaving.
You question greed and capitalism in the privatized prison system running in the United States of Incarceration?
In America, about 8% of inmates are incarcerated in privately operated prisons. This issue has very little to do with privatization.
The prisons need to enable inmates to call only the numbers they've been authorized to call.
Last time I was in jail, there were no restrictions on who I could call. I don't see any need to maintain a "whitelist". A "blacklist" of numbers not to be called would be easier. But even then, it doesn't have to be enforced through the phone system. It could just be rule-based: You call your ex-girlfriend (the one you are in jail for beating up) and you will lose your phone privileges. Phone policies vary widely between different states, and even different prisons within states.
Inmates have lower recidivism rates when they keep social contacts with the family and friends. Isolating these people from society by restricting phone calls arbitrarily, and charging extortionate tolls, is not sensible policy.
Cooling is not a problem for real datacenters.
Many data centers run "hot" at about 100F. Modern servers can easily handle the heat, and HDDs actually have lower failure rates at the higher end of their temperature range. Some data centers are cooled to lower temperature, but that is usually based on superstition rather than any real benefit.
Real data centers have dedicated cooling systems, piping cold air into the racks directly.
What about unreal data centers? Or data centers run by Scotsmen?
But they also complained about POWER LINES!?!?! WTF?
There are people out there that will complain about ANYTHING. Where I live, there is a proposal to build an aquatic recreation center in our neighborhood. This sounds great to me, and I would certainly use it. But there are a group of very active activists, using petitions and lawyers, trying to stop it. One of their complaints is that it would make the neighborhood nicer, thus raising home valuations, resulting in higher property taxes.
Natural gas on the other had would take an asteroid strike to potentially wipe that out.
Or an earthquake. The same earthquake that takes out the electric grid. Oops.
If there's a plausible scenario under which you'll find a billion real dollars in your pocket, I think many of us would love to hear it.
Here you go.
Why should America be a bolt hole for the monied elite of Asia when are own kids don't have a pot to piss in?
Because the moneyed elite bring their money, skills, and connections with them, and create jobs here.
You should read up on the Lump of Labor Fallacy. There is not a fixed number of jobs in the economy, and there is no zero-sum-game where a job to an immigrant means one less job for an American. Real economies don't work that way. More liberal immigration policies, especially for skilled people, have historically led to lower unemployment.
Then it should have just said "up to 51x faster" ... or more ...
"Up to" is just a weasel word way of saying "less than".
I have up to a billion dollars in my pocket.
Isn't it wonderful that Spain appreciates that we kept a certain person from waltzing through France and down the Iberian peninsula
Spain was an ally of the Nazis. The Nazis helped Franco win the Spanish Civil War. Spain sent more than 45,000 troops to fight with the Germans on the Eastern Front. Hitler pressured Franco to attack the British and drive them out of Gibraltar, but the British made it clear that if Gibraltar was attacked, they would immediately seize the Canary Islands.
Americium is NOT an isotope of plutonium, it is a decay product of Uranium/Plutonium, specifically
Americium is the highest element on the periodic table that you can buy at Walmart. It is used ionize air in some smoke alarms.
I thought the popping out handles was only an option. And a $10K option at that. Or part of a $10K package anyway.
I don't think so. My wife has the base model (only $70k), and the handles pop out.
The whole planet is struggling to keep up with energy demands and you think it's acceptable to waste 90% of the energy you use?
The amount of power used to charge cell phones is negligible. So it doesn't really matter if it is inefficient. It is still negligible.
I get into a similar argument with co-workers about water here in California. They wanted to save dishwater and use it to flush the toilet. Then I pointed out that we can flush the toilet twice a day for a year with the amount of water saved by eating tofu for lunch instead of beef ONE TIME.
Keep some perspective.
Gosh, I thought it was POOR people who were the homeless problem in the Bay Area.
Nope. I have co-workers making $120k that are living out of a van. If you are working 80 hour weeks, you don't have much leisure time anyway, so why waste $4k/month on rent? It is better to pay off your debts, fully fund your IRA and 401K, and sock away some extra savings. Then wait till the next crash to buy a house.