Indeed, there are a lot of countries that have been sovereign nations at various discontinuous periods in history, with varying degrees of continuity between those periods. Iceland was independent for a few centuries at the beginning of the previous milennium before merging with Norway again, and counts its legislature as continuous since that time, but the map only counts its most recent independence. On the other hand, France is listed as having been independent since the end of the rule of Charlemagne, despite having changed types of government several times since then and being conquered by Germany in World War II.

The banner ad above the poll for me is advertising a T1 line for $199/month. Now I really feel like I've been transported back to the 90s. Does anyone use anything as slow as a T1 anymore, much less pay $200 for it? I guess if you need high reliability but don't care about bandwidth...

Of course, wind powered boats have been circumnavigating the globe since the 16th century, and can be faster, too. So this is interesting, but not exactly that impressive as a demonstration of eco-friendly sea travel.

There will be angst from the Republicans no matter what. Heck, if he proposed sticking to the status quo, they'd still angst that he wasn't doing enough to support business. But setting loftier goals might result in a better compromise when the Democrats inevitably cave to Republican demands.

What the summary fails to mention, and even TFA glosses over, is that Amtrak still doesn't have WiFi at all on many of its routes, and this upgrade does not include plans to add it to the ones that don't have it. Still, with luck this will be a significant improvement for the ones that do.

Depends -- if it could be combined with traditional insulin therapy to help prevent the serious highs, it could still be pretty beneficial for overall control. I don't know if that would work or not, but it seems like a possibility, at least.

I'm also not sure what normal blood glucose levels are for mice. They refer to source that I found says that the mean level for mice is about 174 mg/DL.

No, SaaS is the exact analog of services like Pandora and Spotify. It's just paying a continuous fee to have the same previously recorded bits put on your computer repeatedly. The equivalent of a live performance would be paying the developers to manipulate your images on the fly when you needed to do something that you couldn't do yourself with the software. (Not quite equivalent, but more realistic, would be paying for support on an as-needed basis.)

Yeah, I mean, look what happened when governments and companies tried to record everything that happened on streets, in parks, in businesses. There was such a huge public outcry that... oh, wait. That's right. The vast majority of people are content to be recorded constantly.

I keep hearing the "people won't tolerate being recorded everywhere" argument, and it seems to be demonstrably false: people are already accepting being recorded 24/7 by security cameras in an increasing number of public places. You could argue that Google Glass crosses some threshold of obviousness or ubiquity, but that's at most a matter of degree, which suggests to me that people will stop caring about it soon enough if they still care at all.

Is Hyundai actually calling it that, or was that name just invented by some random person who has forgotten high school geometry? It doesn't have 16 sides, more like 4. You could call it a hexadecacopter, but hexadecagon has an existing meaning, and it's not this.

Record keeping. Did you think that it was all passed down as oral tradition?

Now I'll be able to set my window manager to use look-to-focus.

I actually have an inkjet printer now, but there was a period of a couple of years in the middle of the last decade when I had no working printer at all, and if I needed to send something official I typed it out on my ancient Smith-Corona. It's still more reliable than any printer I've ever had.

... and it's rotary dial.

They raised the alarm first because the aircraft that had to make an emergency landing was in Japan -- it has nothing to do with their air safety experts being better, just with them getting the first news of the problem.