Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas.

Forget the 86, the NSPIRE is allowed on all major standardized tests and it's worlds better than any of the 8x calcs, and the CAS model is allowed on everything but the IB and ACT (and honestly unless you can't get a decent score on the SAT or live in a state that requires the ACT for instate scholarships there's not a ton of reason to take it). It's what I bought my son, I figured why waste $150 on an ancient platform that won't help him much in his last 2 years of high school math when I could spend $125 on the black and white NSPIRE CAS and he'd be set for his entire academic career.

I wonder how such a law would interact with federal mandates that DOT plan for sealevel rise or army corp of engineering projects that require the contractors to do the same? I'd assume that the supremacy clause would mean that the contractors/DOT would have to follow the federal regulations and they would be indemnified by the law being invalid as it is overridden by federal statute, but it certainly puts them in a pickle.

Probably because none of the vulnerabilities listed at wikipedia involve cloning the card, they all incude forcing terminals into offline chip and pin mode which is not going to be supported by most US card issuers. I've been following EMV for many years now and outside of some very controlled lab experiments involving very cold temperatures and long side channel analysis nobody has managed to pull off a duplication attack for online transactions (at least nobody that's published information, and there have been no wide scale attacks that can be traced back to fraudulent duplicates used for online transactions).

Nope, they will issue a new card with at least chip and signature by next fall, October 2015 is the deadline from Visa for the card providers to move over as well as the merchants. After that date if the card issuer has issued a chip card and the merchant uses the magstripe then the merchant is liable for the fraud, there is no way in hell any card issuer is going to give up that kind of liability offload for one moment, let alone 2 years. The idiot bots that answer the phone have no idea what's actually going on, but I can all but guarantee you that you will be getting a new card around this time next year with a chip.

Mutual authentication and off (merchant) device encryption.

or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved

I've got android apps with only 5-10k downloads, but they fit my needs. One is Fulio Pro, a nice little application for tracking fuel usage and car expenses, the developer has been very open to enhancement requests and quick to respond on bug tickets. The guy certainly hasn't gotten rich at $10-20k in earnings from the paid app, but he's got some income and I have a useful application.

No, Republic is prepaid just like Virgin Mobile. I use plan as that's the monthly rate for that service level, in fact Republic is much more flexible than anyone else in the industry, you can change your plan twice per month, so you can be on the $10 call and text only plan and if you find yourself away from WiFi and in need of data to look up some important bit of information you can change over to the $25 3G plan, grab what you need and then revert to the $10 plan and your monthly bill will be around $11.

Or spend $149 on a Moto G on Republic Wireless, use the $25 plan and save money in less than a year (or if you don't mind just using WiFi for data go with the $10 plan and you're saving money by month 5), plus you get better service because unlike Virgin Mobile, Republic roams to Sprints partner networks.

Yeah, nobody buys PC's, that's why there were 76M shipped in Q2...
Granted, it's less than the 240M smartphones sold in the same quarter, but PC's have never shipped in much higher quantity then they did last quarter.

This was NOT DNS, multiple sites nation wide on static IPs went down for us as seen by AT&T and downdetector saw nearly every point they monitor within the TWC network as down.

Remember, if something is free you aren't the customer, you are the product and so long as they're not pissing off their advertisers these companies can do anything that doesn't significantly reduce their user counts.

Pretty sure the job description for junior programmer that the DOL uses doesn't qualify for an H1B slot...

Then your company is breaking the law and you should report them. Companies are required to pay above the prevailing wage for the position and region. We paid both of our H1B workers well above average for our staff and when they worked out sponsored their green cards (and boy is that process a cluster!), we're the kind of employer that the program was actually designed for, we were looking for extremely rare talent sets and had advertised the positions for months before looking abroad. I have to say that I have much bigger problems with the screwups in the green card program than I do with the H1B system, permanently bringing smart people from abroad raises the GDP of the US and brings diversity to the country.

Google falls under the definition of service providers for purposes of the DMCA.