This report wasn't leaked, it is a near verbatim copy of a DRAFT report put out for public comment in Dec. 2016 and pulled from the site at the end of the review period, as is normal. We know this because several of the authors of the report said so on Twitter after the 'explosive leak of this blockbuster report.'
See, this is fake news, taking something no one noticed, and then pretending like it never happened before.
The NYT didn't bother to do a basic fact-check before publishing it's 'leaked' gov't report.
Would love to see a valid comparison between getting in a car in midtown manhattan and driving to an arbitrary destination in Washington DC, say, the White House, and starting at the same spot in midtown msnhatran, head over to the NYC hyperloop 'station', riding it into Washington, then arranging transport to the White House from the D.C. Hyperloop 'station'. Of course, hyperloop travel will likely require a TSA-like security screening, and the trains will run on a certain schedule.
A driver in a private car can make the trip in 4 hours (230 miles approx.), will the hyperloop trip really be much quicker?
(Co-worker that was in the federal gov't during 9/11 got to WTC from D.C. in just over two hours, but their suburban averages over 100 MPH the entire way.)
What was way-cool was that around 1984 someone was making an extension card for the Apple with an 8088 CPU and firmware CP/M, that used the Apple IO devices and memory.
Also the TRS-80 didn't put worms on any nearby TV the way the Apple, with its lack of shielding, did.
The TRS-80 had a modified TV for a monitor, the Apple ][ typically used an RF modulator (the do-called Sup'r Mod was very popular) to put it's display on a TV.
The issue wasn't the Apple ][ and it's lack of shielding, the TRS-80 was equally unshielded.
later upgraded it to 48k (the max, 16k was used by the display)
No, it wasn't.
The base Model I supported 16 Kilobytes it the main unit, another 32 Kilobytes could be added to the Expansion Base.
The video display in the TRS-80 was character-based, and displaying 16 lines of 64 characters did not occupy 16 Kilobytes - the base model only had 4 Kilobytes.
Susing the responsible party is the proper thing to do, otherwise the victim's insurance premiums go up after an accident, not the at-fault party's premiums.
Why shouldn't the responsible party pay for damages?
The Trump administration simply wants to change legal immigration in the following ways:
End chain immigration, Require immigrants to speak English, Have a useful skill to offer, And not participate in welfare programs.
I'm confused, is Silicon Valley, let alone the us economy, really so dependent on skill-less immigrants that can't speak English and that require welfare assistance?
These proposed policies are consistent with Canadian and Australian immigration policies, how do their economies manage?
Oh wait, I get it - Trump didn't propose the Australian or Canadian immigration policies, so they are OK...
It will me like a mesh network, like in Cory's book. It will really cool and fucking shit.
Among the stupidest things I've ever read.
Let's say it's possible, and let's go even further and imagine it works exactly as you imagine - there's a few PAINFULLY obvious issues:
A mesh network built on current cellphones is really a network based on cell towers, they aren't cheap and weren't designed to handle anywhere near ALL internet traffic.
If your cellphone really is an element on the mesh network, then it will need to be on 24x7, transmitting and receiving at all times, and will at the very least quickly grind your battery life to nothing.
Since cellphones wander with their owners, and absent any form of backbone, how is communication maintained when cellphones wander away from each other (cellphone transmitters and antennas are NOT designed for peer to peer comm., they are designed to operate in the shadow of a cell tower or wifi access point.
But ignore all that, mesh networks work best with a few users and many nodes - a near one-to-one ratio of users to nodes all but ensures a pitiful, pathetic throughput rate as available bandwidth is shared by all users all the time. (Remember, mesh networks aren't routable, packets ping around for a handful of nodes and die if they don't reach their destination.)
How would a Netflix or Amazon get their servers and data centers on this new inter-mesh-net?
Coaxial cable makes a horrible SW antenna element - it is a convenient, relatively low-loss feed line designed to neither 'leak' transmitter energy or 'pick up' signals.
I suppose you could do something useful if you use the shield as an antenna element (long wire), but having it snaking through the walls of your house is less than optimal.
Exactly. Increased arousal does not increase sperm count.
I wonder if this study took into account the new, evolved definition of 'male' to include people lacking the body parts needed to actually produce sperm?
I can see the point you're trying to make, that this definition is important to compare unemployment rates between different countries, but that doesn't explain why the long-term unemployed, those taking more than 6 months to find a job, are simply dropped and no longer considered as part of the unemployed population.
And honestly, I struggle with the value of comparing our 'adjusted' unemployment numbers with another country's 'adjusted' unemployment numbers...
The insurance company has already been paid through all of its customer's premiums.
You have a very child-like understanding of the insurance industry.
They are trying to get double their money back here.
Double? That take in premiums, pay out losses, and try to recoup losses when they feel someone else is to blame. This happens with auto insurance all the time - when they feel another driver is at fault, etc.
Premiums are based on value of risk assumed and probabilities of payouts, with the expectation that losses caused by outside forces will attempt to be recovered if possible.
the law and the facts favor state farm, what do you think apple's defense will be?
Simple. The report from the fire inspector that points to something other than this silly claim made by State Farm.
State Farm will have to prove whatever the fire inspector claimed was the probable cause of the fire wasn't, and all they have is a forensic analysis done by a scientist on their payroll with no history of anything similar happening.
The lawsuit further claims that "preliminary investigations show evidence of a significant and localized heating event in the battery area of the iPhone."
Yeah, when the battery caught fire sitting on a burning table inside a burning house, it burned hotter than the wooden table, creating a 'hotspot'.
It also declares that there were "remnants of internal shorting, indicating that an internal failure of the iPhone's battery caused the fire"...
And these 'shorts' were found after the fire, after the phone essentially melted, and were determined to be manufacturing defects how, exactly? Because there was no insulation on the wires? Hello! The phone was in a fire...
It was more likely a crappy "Five Below" charger that burst into flames, not the iPhone that worked fine for who knows how long before purportedly burning down the house.
Apple has been dropping support for their computers for years... they cut off older machines for technical reasons they choose not to accommodate. Which is funny, because unlike Windows, Mac OS only has to support devices hand-picked by Apple and Apple alone. Where Windows releases need to provide support for literally hundreds of sound card, network interfaces and drive controllers, along with thousands of video cards.
The tracks would then carry only freight and the number of tracks would be reduced in favor of green space and walking trails.
You can't have walking trails alongside active freight lines, and most places in the northeast are single-track already, not many places where there are multiple parallel tracks for any meaningful distance.
Amtrak would go bankrupt and there would never be a public train service in this country again.
Amtrak IS bankrupt, as evidenced by the massive subsidies we shovel into the system each year.
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I cannot fathom how some people with my same complexion cannot notice the skin colour and genital makeup of Congress, company boards
Because they don't have X-ray vision?
Are you really groping towards an argument in favor of racial, gender quotas in all positions of power, public or private? I sure hope not...
IBM famously posted 'Think' signs all around their buildings
Apple famously posted 'Think Differently' in their stores and in advertising campaigns.
Google will soon be putting up signs that say 'Think Like We Do'.
Progress!
This report wasn't leaked, it is a near verbatim copy of a DRAFT report put out for public comment in Dec. 2016 and pulled from the site at the end of the review period, as is normal. We know this because several of the authors of the report said so on Twitter after the 'explosive leak of this blockbuster report.'
See, this is fake news, taking something no one noticed, and then pretending like it never happened before.
The NYT didn't bother to do a basic fact-check before publishing it's 'leaked' gov't report.
Would love to see a valid comparison between getting in a car in midtown manhattan and driving to an arbitrary destination in Washington DC, say, the White House, and starting at the same spot in midtown msnhatran, head over to the NYC hyperloop 'station', riding it into Washington, then arranging transport to the White House from the D.C. Hyperloop 'station'. Of course, hyperloop travel will likely require a TSA-like security screening, and the trains will run on a certain schedule.
A driver in a private car can make the trip in 4 hours (230 miles approx.), will the hyperloop trip really be much quicker?
(Co-worker that was in the federal gov't during 9/11 got to WTC from D.C. in just over two hours, but their suburban averages over 100 MPH the entire way.)
What was way-cool was that around 1984 someone was making an extension card for the Apple with an 8088 CPU and firmware CP/M, that used the Apple IO devices and memory.
It was a Z80 card, it was called 'Z-80 Softcard' and it was released by Microsoft.
Also the TRS-80 didn't put worms on any nearby TV the way the Apple, with its lack of shielding, did.
The TRS-80 had a modified TV for a monitor, the Apple ][ typically used an RF modulator (the do-called Sup'r Mod was very popular) to put it's display on a TV.
The issue wasn't the Apple ][ and it's lack of shielding, the TRS-80 was equally unshielded.
later upgraded it to 48k (the max, 16k was used by the display)
No, it wasn't.
The base Model I supported 16 Kilobytes it the main unit, another 32 Kilobytes could be added to the Expansion Base.
The video display in the TRS-80 was character-based, and displaying 16 lines of 64 characters did not occupy 16 Kilobytes - the base model only had 4 Kilobytes.
Susing the responsible party is the proper thing to do, otherwise the victim's insurance premiums go up after an accident, not the at-fault party's premiums.
Why shouldn't the responsible party pay for damages?
The Trump administration simply wants to change legal immigration in the following ways:
End chain immigration,
Require immigrants to speak English,
Have a useful skill to offer,
And not participate in welfare programs.
I'm confused, is Silicon Valley, let alone the us economy, really so dependent on skill-less immigrants that can't speak English and that require welfare assistance?
These proposed policies are consistent with Canadian and Australian immigration policies, how do their economies manage?
Oh wait, I get it - Trump didn't propose the Australian or Canadian immigration policies, so they are OK...
You act like police haven't used a robot to hand deliver bomb to kill a civilian causing then grief (Dallas).
I'm sorry, calling a sniper attack 'grief' is just a tiny bit dis-honest.
The Dallas sniper that was 'blowed-up' by a robot killed five officers - that's a bit worse than 'grief'.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/...
many customers saw their bills rise when their previous discounts expired and they were switched to non-promotional pricing.
Quick show of hands, who expected their rates to go DOWN when discounts and promotions ended?!?!
What a huge non-story.
"My two year discount rate ended after just 24 months - those bastards!"
It will me like a mesh network, like in Cory's book. It will really cool and fucking shit.
Among the stupidest things I've ever read.
Let's say it's possible, and let's go even further and imagine it works exactly as you imagine - there's a few PAINFULLY obvious issues:
A mesh network built on current cellphones is really a network based on cell towers, they aren't cheap and weren't designed to handle anywhere near ALL internet traffic.
If your cellphone really is an element on the mesh network, then it will need to be on 24x7, transmitting and receiving at all times, and will at the very least quickly grind your battery life to nothing.
Since cellphones wander with their owners, and absent any form of backbone, how is communication maintained when cellphones wander away from each other (cellphone transmitters and antennas are NOT designed for peer to peer comm., they are designed to operate in the shadow of a cell tower or wifi access point.
But ignore all that, mesh networks work best with a few users and many nodes - a near one-to-one ratio of users to nodes all but ensures a pitiful, pathetic throughput rate as available bandwidth is shared by all users all the time. (Remember, mesh networks aren't routable, packets ping around for a handful of nodes and die if they don't reach their destination.)
How would a Netflix or Amazon get their servers and data centers on this new inter-mesh-net?
Coaxial cable makes a horrible SW antenna element - it is a convenient, relatively low-loss feed line designed to neither 'leak' transmitter energy or 'pick up' signals.
I suppose you could do something useful if you use the shield as an antenna element (long wire), but having it snaking through the walls of your house is less than optimal.
Few countries accept asylum seekers from USA.
Then don't say you are from USA! Asylum seekers don't need papers, say you're Canadian...
Exactly. Increased arousal does not increase sperm count.
I wonder if this study took into account the new, evolved definition of 'male' to include people lacking the body parts needed to actually produce sperm?
Define 'men'.
I can see the point you're trying to make, that this definition is important to compare unemployment rates between different countries, but that doesn't explain why the long-term unemployed, those taking more than 6 months to find a job, are simply dropped and no longer considered as part of the unemployed population.
And honestly, I struggle with the value of comparing our 'adjusted' unemployment numbers with another country's 'adjusted' unemployment numbers...
The insurance company has already been paid through all of its customer's premiums.
You have a very child-like understanding of the insurance industry.
They are trying to get double their money back here.
Double? That take in premiums, pay out losses, and try to recoup losses when they feel someone else is to blame. This happens with auto insurance all the time - when they feel another driver is at fault, etc.
Premiums are based on value of risk assumed and probabilities of payouts, with the expectation that losses caused by outside forces will attempt to be recovered if possible.
the law and the facts favor state farm, what do you think apple's defense will be?
Simple. The report from the fire inspector that points to something other than this silly claim made by State Farm.
State Farm will have to prove whatever the fire inspector claimed was the probable cause of the fire wasn't, and all they have is a forensic analysis done by a scientist on their payroll with no history of anything similar happening.
The lawsuit further claims that "preliminary investigations show evidence of a significant and localized heating event in the battery area of the iPhone."
Yeah, when the battery caught fire sitting on a burning table inside a burning house, it burned hotter than the wooden table, creating a 'hotspot'.
It also declares that there were "remnants of internal shorting, indicating that an internal failure of the iPhone's battery caused the fire"...
And these 'shorts' were found after the fire, after the phone essentially melted, and were determined to be manufacturing defects how, exactly? Because there was no insulation on the wires? Hello! The phone was in a fire...
It was more likely a crappy "Five Below" charger that burst into flames, not the iPhone that worked fine for who knows how long before purportedly burning down the house.
Apple has been dropping support for their computers for years... they cut off older machines for technical reasons they choose not to accommodate. Which is funny, because unlike Windows, Mac OS only has to support devices hand-picked by Apple and Apple alone. Where Windows releases need to provide support for literally hundreds of sound card, network interfaces and drive controllers, along with thousands of video cards.
The tracks would then carry only freight and the number of tracks would be reduced in favor of green space and walking trails.
You can't have walking trails alongside active freight lines, and most places in the northeast are single-track already, not many places where there are multiple parallel tracks for any meaningful distance.
Amtrak would go bankrupt and there would never be a public train service in this country again.
Amtrak IS bankrupt, as evidenced by the massive subsidies we shovel into the system each year.
It's an underground railway/maglev system, it can be as straight as he wants it to be.
Gettting to go from Boston to NY quickly would be great.
The Amtrak train takes 4 1/2 hours and costs about $50, the Accela train shaves an hour off that trip for a bit more.
Flight time between Boston and NYC is about an hour and 11 minutes.
How much are you willing to spend to shave some time off the above current travel times?
It is easier to get approval to send men to Mars than it does to build a tunnel from DC to NY.
Space travel doesn't cross state lines.