What about the elderly? Are you setious? So you think an ISP, throttling your internet connection (which runs from the San connector on your router to their year-end equipment) somehow will prevent a an elderly customer, sitting in their living room, trying to control the temperature in the thermostat on their wal!? How? Because the app on their iPhone reaches out over the phones cellular connection, passes they the UPS network, into their home, and then as a Wi-Fi signal to their thermostat? That sounds a litt!e rube Goldberg to me.
More likely the app communicates with the thermostat as a peer on the internal Wi-Fi connection they share, never touching the public internet.
And let's not forget, this warning explains the implications clearly, it won't be a surprise to anyone.
He has $11m in Intel's stock right now, before the sale he had $22n in Intel shates. He just works there, the board could boot him at any time, why does his investment portfolio need to be 100% Intel stock?
He executed similar sales at about the same time of year in both 2016 and 2015 - it would have been suspicious of he placed the sale order in early July, because that would have been out of character with previous behaviour.
Large users of Xeon processors will likely get a deal on replacements and future purchases if they are significantly affected - but we won't be privy to it.
You mean, perhaps, "purchasers" of Xenons? Few large scale users of Xeon processors actually purchase CPUs independent of servers.
How would a discount on future, corrected, CPUs help end-users overcome the performance hit their pre-fix CPUs took?
Please explain "Net Neutrality" and specify how a municipal network replaces the protections lost with the repeal of the 2015 Net Neutrality regulations...
Too many people use the label "Net Neutrality" as a catch-all for anything and everything they don't like about their ISP - i've seen Net Neutrality held up as the solution for expensive monthly costs, slow speed, ensuring streaming data all treated equally, low infrastructure investments, slow pace of innovation, etc.
It's a serious question - I'm looking for the impact Net Neutrality has on the last-mile provider, and curious how Ft. Collins will become a peer on the internet, ensuring, for example, Netflix (or a startup competitor) isn't throttled or blocked "upstream."
They could teach a few hard-working, incredibly smart middle eastern refugees to run the recycling plant - they happen to have a few hundred thousand sitting around doing nothing.
Or they could burn it to generate electricity instead of cutting down forests in North America and carting the wood across the Atlantic Yes, they really do that. Honest.
No, they really don't - they don't generate electricity in the UK by burning wood.
If you insist they do, please provide the locations and capacity of these wood-fired electricity generating plants.
But we can't build an infrastructure to recycle our plastic waste?
We had one, it's called China, but China is trying to break it's addiction to our trash, so now we need a NEW plan - build a recycling plant locally, don't ship your trash half-way around the globe.
The is the UK - America's outpost for neoliberalism in Europe. The correct answer is that we should give more tax cuts to the rich so they can come up with a solution to the problem for us. Our ruling class promises us that this is how the economy works...
Trump Derangement Syndrome much?
Seriously, just build your own damn recycling plant... Shipping waste half-way around the globe was never a long-term solution.
This is an EASY problem to solve - simply build your own plastic recycling plant! It's a known science, and think how much better the planet will be when you don't have to ship your recycling half-way around the planet.
If you start recycling plastic, you'll have the raw materials to create plastic trash in your own UK factories - a huge environmental win and a great job creator. You'll have new jobs building and then running the plastic recycling plant, and then when you realize you have a glut of raw materials in country, you'll likely start manufacturing plastic item domestically, creating more manufacturing jobs.
Like that story about the banned words at three CDC. Anonymous sources, but confirmed by the CDC on the record and by leaked memos.
You need to look a little deeper into that CDC story - what the press called "banned words" were actually recommendations to assist in getting grant approvals. It's as if their bosses said "calling republicans pin-heads is a bad idea", and after finding the note from their bosses the press claimed they had proof their bosses were limiting their employees first amendment rights by limiting their speech!
The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources
You ignore the fact, driven home by every account of the Watergate story involving the journalists Woodward & Berstein - their editor, Ben Bradley, spent WEEKS reminding them they needed to get second or in some cases third sources for everything their "anonymous source" told them in the parking garage.
After we teach the students to be more critical about their information sources, can we turn our attention to the teachers?
I spent a few years in a public K-12 school district, and the teachers were among the least-worldly people I've spent time with - they imagined public funds came from the sky, they attributed capital purchases made through a voter-approved bond effort from 2007 to President Obama (who was elected in 2008, took office in 2009) and despite every teacher earning more than the median family in their state of New Jersey felt they were over-worked and under-paid.
The US is ranked lower by the WHO because of cost and "access to care", not because of quality of care.
Agreed, people love to cite positions in lists, assuming the title on the list accurately explains the criteria used in assembling the list...
Kinda like how life expectancy in US is shorter than other countries, ignoring that the main drivers are things outside the doctor's care - for example in America we include every child that comes out their mother, other countries wait until a few days after delivery, or how the current opioid crisis is cutting down so many young americans much too early. Neither is a reflection on US healthcare, but when life expectancy s listed by country, people assume it reflects only on the healthcare system, nothing else.
Perhaps some highly-specialized doctors who only perform stent surgery kick a little extra back to the insurance company, for sending all that business their way. That sort of arrangement plays out all the time.
Grow up - exactly howeould this happen, how would a stent doctor 'kick back' to the insurance company? Do they meet in a parking lot and hand over wads of cash? Are they sending crypto-currency back and forth?
Just because you can imagine something doesn't mean "it happens all the time"...
Why do insurance companies refuse new (unproven) treatments yet cover old (unproven) treatments as this article states?
The article says that stents for heart problems are 'unproven' yet year after year people get the $11-40K procedure done, presumably paid for by their insurance company.
In my own case, I had a problem for which one of the treatments is surgery. I was referred to a hand specialist who only discussed the surgical option with me. When I asked about the alternative treatment that I had discovered using Google, his response was that he didn't do that treatment and I would have to see another doctor.
Wow, a hand surgeon that specializes in hand surgery? Wow, that's amazing... it's almost like he's a specialist, focusing on one particular field of study.
Did you ask your general practitioner, the one that referred you to this hand surgeon about the alternative treatment? That would have been the doctor to ask.
You could have cancelled the appointment with the surgeon and investigated alternatives first, but instead you decided the hand surgeon should be up on all alternatives and save you the trouble of having to find a suitable doctor. Then, when the doctor didn't meet your expectations, youfault the US medical industry.
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For crying out loud, the isp isn't adjusting anyone's thermostat, they may make it harder for customers to REMOTELY adjust their thermostat.
Just another completely click-baity /. Headline.
What about the elderly? Are you setious? So you think an ISP, throttling your internet connection (which runs from the San connector on your router to their year-end equipment) somehow will prevent a an elderly customer, sitting in their living room, trying to control the temperature in the thermostat on their wal!? How? Because the app on their iPhone reaches out over the phones cellular connection, passes they the UPS network, into their home, and then as a Wi-Fi signal to their thermostat? That sounds a litt!e rube Goldberg to me.
More likely the app communicates with the thermostat as a peer on the internal Wi-Fi connection they share, never touching the public internet.
And let's not forget, this warning explains the implications clearly, it won't be a surprise to anyone.
He has $11m in Intel's stock right now, before the sale he had $22n in Intel shates. He just works there, the board could boot him at any time, why does his investment portfolio need to be 100% Intel stock?
He executed similar sales at about the same time of year in both 2016 and 2015 - it would have been suspicious of he placed the sale order in early July, because that would have been out of character with previous behaviour.
Large users of Xeon processors will likely get a deal on replacements and future purchases if they are significantly affected - but we won't be privy to it.
You mean, perhaps, "purchasers" of Xenons? Few large scale users of Xeon processors actually purchase CPUs independent of servers.
How would a discount on future, corrected, CPUs help end-users overcome the performance hit their pre-fix CPUs took?
But if you're the CEO of a mom and pop shop, you might slip by without scrutiny.
And of course, by "mom and pop" you mean a publicly-traded mom and pop, right?
Please explain "Net Neutrality" and specify how a municipal network replaces the protections lost with the repeal of the 2015 Net Neutrality regulations...
Too many people use the label "Net Neutrality" as a catch-all for anything and everything they don't like about their ISP - i've seen Net Neutrality held up as the solution for expensive monthly costs, slow speed, ensuring streaming data all treated equally, low infrastructure investments, slow pace of innovation, etc.
It's a serious question - I'm looking for the impact Net Neutrality has on the last-mile provider, and curious how Ft. Collins will become a peer on the internet, ensuring, for example, Netflix (or a startup competitor) isn't throttled or blocked "upstream."
Half fired by biomass, with the majority being imported from the US and Canada - 7.5 million tonnes per year.
First, thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
Second, the "majority" of "half" is imported biomass - that comes out to just over 1/4th of the fuel for this facility from the US/Canada
How can this be economically feasible? They really can't find 7.5M Tonnes of biomass on their side of the Atlantic?
They could teach a few hard-working, incredibly smart middle eastern refugees to run the recycling plant - they happen to have a few hundred thousand sitting around doing nothing.
Or they could burn it to generate electricity instead of cutting down forests in North America and carting the wood across the Atlantic Yes, they really do that. Honest.
No, they really don't - they don't generate electricity in the UK by burning wood.
If you insist they do, please provide the locations and capacity of these wood-fired electricity generating plants.
...Or they could start manufacturing plastic crap at home, in the UK.
Millions of Americans recycle cans without a deposit - it's called recycling and most American communities engage in it.
Isn't there a higher-value cargo the UK/EU could send to China on these ships instead of waste plastic and e-waste?
But we can't build an infrastructure to recycle our plastic waste?
We had one, it's called China, but China is trying to break it's addiction to our trash, so now we need a NEW plan - build a recycling plant locally, don't ship your trash half-way around the globe.
The is the UK - America's outpost for neoliberalism in Europe. The correct answer is that we should give more tax cuts to the rich so they can come up with a solution to the problem for us. Our ruling class promises us that this is how the economy works...
Trump Derangement Syndrome much?
Seriously, just build your own damn recycling plant... Shipping waste half-way around the globe was never a long-term solution.
This is an EASY problem to solve - simply build your own plastic recycling plant! It's a known science, and think how much better the planet will be when you don't have to ship your recycling half-way around the planet.
If you start recycling plastic, you'll have the raw materials to create plastic trash in your own UK factories - a huge environmental win and a great job creator. You'll have new jobs building and then running the plastic recycling plant, and then when you realize you have a glut of raw materials in country, you'll likely start manufacturing plastic item domestically, creating more manufacturing jobs.
Like that story about the banned words at three CDC. Anonymous sources, but confirmed by the CDC on the record and by leaked memos.
You need to look a little deeper into that CDC story - what the press called "banned words" were actually recommendations to assist in getting grant approvals. It's as if their bosses said "calling republicans pin-heads is a bad idea", and after finding the note from their bosses the press claimed they had proof their bosses were limiting their employees first amendment rights by limiting their speech!
The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources
You ignore the fact, driven home by every account of the Watergate story involving the journalists Woodward & Berstein - their editor, Ben Bradley, spent WEEKS reminding them they needed to get second or in some cases third sources for everything their "anonymous source" told them in the parking garage.
After we teach the students to be more critical about their information sources, can we turn our attention to the teachers?
I spent a few years in a public K-12 school district, and the teachers were among the least-worldly people I've spent time with - they imagined public funds came from the sky, they attributed capital purchases made through a voter-approved bond effort from 2007 to President Obama (who was elected in 2008, took office in 2009) and despite every teacher earning more than the median family in their state of New Jersey felt they were over-worked and under-paid.
The US is ranked lower by the WHO because of cost and "access to care", not because of quality of care.
Agreed, people love to cite positions in lists, assuming the title on the list accurately explains the criteria used in assembling the list...
Kinda like how life expectancy in US is shorter than other countries, ignoring that the main drivers are things outside the doctor's care - for example in America we include every child that comes out their mother, other countries wait until a few days after delivery, or how the current opioid crisis is cutting down so many young americans much too early. Neither is a reflection on US healthcare, but when life expectancy s listed by country, people assume it reflects only on the healthcare system, nothing else.
See, if a Doctor orders a test and it comes up blank, the insurance company will refuse payment on the grounds that the test was unnecessary.
Doubtful - you have a very simplistic view of the way the health industry works.
Don't confuse 'safe' with 'effective' - avacados are a 'safe' treatment for heart problems, but not particularly 'effective'.
Going by my UID? What does my age have to do with anything?
Perhaps some highly-specialized doctors who only perform stent surgery kick a little extra back to the insurance company, for sending all that business their way. That sort of arrangement plays out all the time.
Grow up - exactly howeould this happen, how would a stent doctor 'kick back' to the insurance company? Do they meet in a parking lot and hand over wads of cash? Are they sending crypto-currency back and forth?
Just because you can imagine something doesn't mean "it happens all the time"...
Why do insurance companies refuse new (unproven) treatments yet cover old (unproven) treatments as this article states?
The article says that stents for heart problems are 'unproven' yet year after year people get the $11-40K procedure done, presumably paid for by their insurance company.
In my own case, I had a problem for which one of the treatments is surgery. I was referred to a hand specialist who only discussed the surgical option with me. When I asked about the alternative treatment that I had discovered using Google, his response was that he didn't do that treatment and I would have to see another doctor.
Wow, a hand surgeon that specializes in hand surgery? Wow, that's amazing... it's almost like he's a specialist, focusing on one particular field of study.
Did you ask your general practitioner, the one that referred you to this hand surgeon about the alternative treatment? That would have been the doctor to ask.
You could have cancelled the appointment with the surgeon and investigated alternatives first, but instead you decided the hand surgeon should be up on all alternatives and save you the trouble of having to find a suitable doctor. Then, when the doctor didn't meet your expectations, youfault the US medical industry.