The differential diagnosis: If you are also bleeding from your ears, it was the Kardashians.

Probably because we don't feel that it's abuse; once we've paid for a certain diameter of pipe to the rest of the Internet, it's their job to let us send or receive whatever we want over that pipe, without editorializing.

Of course, if they really want to editorialize, and demonstrate a technical ability to do so, I'm going to hold them legally responsible any time my 13 year old son is successful in accessing porn over this pipe that they are supposedly capable of exercising content control on, since by *not* exercising control on that particular content, they are responsible for the porn.

How did the American Indians detect the Europeans?

I suggest we *not* do that...

Also how did the Poles detect the Mongols?

Let's *not* do that, either...

Almost all of the microarchitecture changes and die shrinks come out of Haifa, Israel. Not Hillsboro. The Itanium came out of Santa Clara, California. Willamette came out of Hillsboro (the Pentium 4, which was arguably a pretty big failure, with 35%-50% of the 115W power consumption lost to leakage power). There was also the well-know SMT issue, where the dispatch ordering was (effectively) random, meaning the IPC between SMT cores never really scaled very well. Prescott never really scale above about a max of 3.8GHz, when it was (in theory) designed to allow derivatives of the microarchitecture to run at speeds of up to 10GHz.

Generally, most of the machine-building companies I've worked for (Apple, Google) tend to skip the Hillsboro designs for anything but prototypes, and they wait for the every other year die shrink out of Haifa for the actual shipping product.

You mean the "shirked responsibilities" that would be being paid to the lowest bidder in Topeka or Wichita Kansas, rather than in Oregon, were it not for the tax breaks?

The people who build data centers don't care where they are located physically; they care about taxes, land costs, and power costs. If power were more reliable in Kabul Afghanistan, and the local government a bit more stable, they'd be located there, instead.

Because everyone wants to live next door to a data center because of all the jobs there, or why? Why would it be more expensive to live near a data center, than not, if there were no economic benefit to doing so?

If only there were some way to make Oregon economically desirable to businesses...

So you can give the tax breaks, and have the data center built locally, and employ construction workers, ongoing site maintenance workers, etc., which you don't count as employees because they are contractors, yet they have jobs.

Or you can *not* give the tax break, and have a vacant lot, as the data center is built in Kansas or wherever instead.

Pick one.

Sure it can.

It *does*, therefore it can. Proof by example.

Where are the big arrows coming into California from Mexico, China, and Russia, among other countries? That map seems incomplete.

Exactly. That was my take-away as well.

(1) Get a huge government contract

(2) Ignore robots.txt

(3) Profit!

There are commercial emulation chips available, used for testing everything up to the flat panel. You could build your own FPGA if you wanted to, I suppose.

Well, then, very clearly, we need to start giving government contracts to your brother in law's company which manufactures deep oceanic temperature sensors. You know, "just to be sure"...

Think "anomalously long backscatter times"/"anamalous diffusion of backscatter" for energetic cosmic rays. You can refine the specificity for the location utilizing synthetic aperture techniques, but you end up with very thin stripes for each pass over the scanned region. I *did* say "long term observation"...

Note that the Fukushima detectors are a pretty long ways away from the reactor itself, as well as the containment vessel, compared to straight tomographic techniques used to examine cargo containers, say in Oakland.

NB: These days, it's pretty obsolete as a technique, and we use neutrino tomography instead, but there are enough "dark spots" that it's not possible to cover everywhere with the technique. Interestingly, Vernor Vinge "outed" the neutrino tomography technique in his novel "The Peace War", although his details are a bit hand-wavy and wrong.

Generally we don't have to worry about being shot down when we fly a constellation of high altitude aircraft over North Korea without their permissions in order to create a synthetic aperture large enough to be meaningful, so it's OK for filling in the dark spots there. You wouldn't want to run the same flights over Russia, even at 90,000 feet these days.

PS: In case you missed it, there was a story the other day bemoaning the lack of noble gas detectors to detect by-products of fission plant operation, but they also wanted some better generalized climatological models (read: give us lots of money for supercomputer hardware to play with) in order to determine the origin, should noble gasses be detected with their new detectors.

This article is specifically about Silicon Valley Day Care.

Which I think is probably code to "The day care next door to Marisa Mayer's office", but even if it's not, in the companies I've worked in in SV, they were a substitute for a babysitter to get mothers and fathers back to work as quickly as possible following a birth, without paying them enough to be able to afford a nanny. They took kids from a few weeks old up to age 4.