I spend some time designing things in Verilog and trying to read other people's source code at opencores.org, and I recall you did some work at Transmeta. For some time I've had a list of instructions that could be added to processsors that would be drastically speed up common functions, and SSE 4.2 includes some of my favorites, the dqword string comparision instructions. So...

What are your ideas for instrructions that you've always thought should be handled by the processor, but never seen implemented?

Spectral efficiency in symbols per Hz:

2G .45
LTE 16.15

So we ~ 32 times as much data out of the 2G spectrum if we get people and devices to upgrade.

It does. It also makes us more proficient defenders.

But the trick here is for us to stop being like our parents. Something bad happened and now the debate ensues as to which of our fundamental liberties we need to infringe to "make things better." The movie these people were seeing contained no shortage of innocent crowds of people being violently attacked.

One could have the knee-jerk reaction that the 1st Amendment has to go, that people shouldn't be allowed to make movies like this, under the premise that they inspire this behavior.

One could have the knee-jerk reaction that the 2nd Amendment has to go because the tools of self-defense can be abused to hurt people.

One could have the knee-jerk reaction that the 4th Amendment has to go because if the police had searched this guy's car at his last traffic ticket, they might have found incriminating content.

Just stop. These people have suffered a tragic loss, and people with empathy want to "do something" to make it better. But there are no quick fixes. The real fixes can only be tracked by the emotionally unsatisfying math that shows when you:

            Fund the existing background check system's connection to the mental health care system (under laws that already exist), you make it harder for crazy people to buy guns.

            Fund and fix education, you give young people options and opportunities to find things they are passionate about. It is from a large pool of hopeless, directionless youth that most violent criminals are drawn.

            These solutions work, and there are others. But they work slowly over time. The goal of a high-opportunity society is achieved with patience and dedication. They don't "feel" like they are working in any one individual's life, the coefficients of variation are simply too high on any individual person's experience. But they show quite clearly in the math. To advance, we need to be the people who measure, understand and improve. The next Enlightenment will be data driven.

Who would be better suited toward trusting the math and working the solution that computer geeks. This is our problem to solve.

Kidding aside.

She and her husband continue to show the best side of capitalism. For those that assume that wealth necessarily leads to avarice, it's delightful to me to see the Gates Foundation making that case more difficult to prove.

To hear her explain the contraception issue:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415947/june-27-2012/melinda-gates

Buy your router from this enormous list which covers a huge range of budgets:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start

Re-Flash it and be done with these folk. This newer firmware is much friendlier than the original OpenWrt you may have tried years back, and if you don't like what it's doing, you get a command prompt and make it do exactly what you want.

...is found in that man's works. He is the reason my Mom understands the wonder of extraterrestrial life, the temptations and costs of technological solutions to social problems, and has any clue as to what her son is thinking.

I owe that man a great deal more than I've spent on his books.

In a company stocked by Odies.

Comment was insightful. I accidentally clicked Redundant. (Never sneeze while moderating).
Undoing accidental mis-moderation by posting as self. Nothing to see here.

I'd be curious as to whether someone has a better model in mind on how this should be done.

Given:

The Amazon Kindle Terms and Conditions: “We are entitled to determine what content we accept and distribute through the Program in our sole discretion.”

The anime.net definition of Yaoi:
          An acronym standing for YAma nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi – No Climax, no point, no meaning. It’s used
          to describe manga/anime focusing on male relationships, not avoiding strong, graphically portrayed homosexual
          themes. Very often, yaoi story focuses only on the sex, ignoring elements like true plot, emotions or characters development.

There really is zero doubt as to why Amazon didn't want this on the Kindle. I don't know why there are any “phone calls from journalists asking about the subject.” If you live in the US, clearly the Kindle's primary market, then you know that there are a large number of people here who would spontaneously combust if the they found their tweenager reading this stuff as a “Lend Me” book on their Kindle.

Given that this content is available online (and in color) it would seem a difficult niche to make money on, which would be required to re-engineer your whole e-book system to have age-sections/age-bars. Simply rating 900,000 ebooks so you could decide their category would be a serious expense.

So my questions are:

        Would such ratings be more valuable than they would be a tool for greater censorship?

        What scale would you use?

        Is this is project we should Open/Crowd-Source?

        Where would you rate: The Canterbury Tales, Sons and Lovers, 1984?

        The above are available on the Kindle store now. Would an rating system that we implemented make them available to more or fewer total humans?

To the Slovakian Minister of the Interior,

        I wish to express profound regret on the part of the US for failing to categorize and properly label DVDs obviously sold to your country. Odd as it may seem, the "Police Academy" video series was never intended as instructional.

        Sincerest apologies,

        I. M. Spending
        President of Physics

I can see two honorable paths here:

        You can find them FOSS substitutes for their existing software.

        You can find another job.

If you want to be optimistic you can stand your ground with the managers and state: "I will not install software unless I'm certain we have a proper license for it." And see if they show you the door, or attempt to find some kind of compromise. People that take the time to look seriously at Open Office often like what they find. So there is a slim hope, but odds are, these are not the class of people you want to make a career with, and you'll be happier working somewhere that ethical compromises are not a daily expectation.