Some of these towers have an upper lobby. So you take the express from 1 to 75, then a 'local' from 76 to 100.

Usually the 'important people' are on the top floors so the elevator ratio is better and there's little waiting in the upper lobby. Unless you stop at the bar.

Once in a blue moon there's an express to the penthouse, but to pay for an entire express elevator entirely in the rent of the penthouse apartment isn't feasible for all but the ultra-ultra rich.

I RTFA, and all it says is 440 meters in 43 seconds. I'd like to know the acceleration profile for this thing, it sounds like fun!

There's a lot of politics and BS involved, right of way costs and such. Also issues of older infrastructure. The US had widespread cable and phone back before many countries, and as such there is this lethargy with companies to just try and use what's already there rather than put in all new stuff that works better.

However one thing to be careful of when you look at your Internet is how the backhaul is. Something I've observed with a number of the "really fast, no limits, very cheap," networks is that they are basically a big WAN. They don't have the backhaul to the rest of the Internet to maintain those speeds. So big speeds to your neighbours, and your ISP, but not so much to the world.

If you do speeds tests, make sure you test to something not on your ISP, and a decent bit away. That gives you a more realistic speed test. Good internet in the US tends to be fast too all places like that.

For example I pay $100 per month (about 72 Euro) for 150mbit/20mbit Internet, with burst speeds up to 180mbit. Testing to a server in town here, I get that, actually a little over, 183mbit. Testing to a different provider in another state, about 550km away, I get 175mbit. Testing to yet another provider across the country, around 3000km away, I get 140mbit. So I get the speed promised, to a diverse amount of networks. The backhaul is there to support my connection. That is part of the cost.

Not saying it isn't for yours, just check if you want to compare it to US Internet. I've seen more than a few cases where big numbers to the home aren't backed up by big pipes to the Internet. So the speedtest server at your ISP gives you amazing numbers, but one on a different datacenter a few hundred klicks away is much slower.

It was the lack of altruistic eyes scrutinizing it.

That was a secondary effect. People who might want to analyze code want to do a good job, and there's a lot of code worth analyzing.

To do that job there are tools that help with that analysis. OpenSSL's use of non-standard internal memory management routines makes it resistant to use of such analysis tools.

Is it impossible for a code auditor to keep everything in his head? No, but it's tough and error-prone. Some people have found OpenSSL bugs before, of course, but there are ways to make it easier for auditors to stand a fighting chance.

That's largely what the OpenBSD team is doing - ripping out all of that unneeded memory management crap, killing OS/2, VMS, and MacOS7 support code, etc. The payoff should be more people looking at it, but it sure wouldn't hurt for some companies that save millions by using OpenSSL to throw the team a few bones once in a while to make it more regular. Or hire their own internal folks to do the same, if that would work out better.

$300 for the 16 GB model and $350 for a 64 GB model? Knowing what Samsung charges for comparable devices

Yes, but the recent build estimate based on tear-down for the S5 was $255 or so.
    That gives these guys in China almost a hundred bucks, which is a good margin for any business. Samsung is just making money hand-over-fist, but there's plenty of long-tail to profit in.

Now that's a neat idea hidden behind your words.

What if you had a serial hybrid, with a decent navigation system (that included such things as terrain on route) and *intelligent* battery charging based not just on taking care of the battery (like in a Prius) but also predictive (based on navigation system route). So for a 10 mile trip full charge from wall, it doesn't bother, but for a 20 mile trip battery charging kicks in after the first 5 miles of driving.

Wish I had mod points to mod this up. Serial plug in hybrid is absolutely the way *every* car on the road should be. Even a 10 mile practical range with a 50 HP generator is good.

Or in Eastern Oregon, and are a facebook engineer, working in Pendleton but living in Fossil. (google it if you don't know what I'm talking about).

This almost doesn't count because the spices *are* there, just a totally different spice palate: I've recently gotten her addicted to Vietnamese Salad Rolls.

Scalia never met a search he considers unreasonable ...

Except for this one? Did you miss that Scalia wrote the dissent while Thomas wrote the majority opinion?

13th century European Cookbooks?

I hate chili peppers with a passion, and would love to patronize a restaurant where they are not used. I'd also like to give my wife some recipies that don't overpower all the other flavors with spices.

ooops, wrong thread. Sorry. Nice to know at least one Supreme Court Judge isn't a racist and voted *against* their own race.

13th century European Cookbook?

I hate chili peppers with a passion, and would love to patronize a restaurant where they are not used.

If they're allowed to by Monsanto's SWAT teams.

But it's ... it's not ... cool.

Apparently what is cool is to buy a gaudy plastic band to wrap around the edge to make up for this design defect, then bedazzle the shit out of it.