your not helping

Unless you consider that we're doubling the number of cases every week, not increasing by 1. In which case we've got about 26 weeks left before the entire US population is infected or dead.

Average is closer to $70k for an RN, which puts them in the to 15% of all wage earners in the US.

The rest is true, though. It's a pretty hectic job, and corporations will look for any market advantage (LVNs, overworked residents, image over process, etc.).

If the Onion is right, I think we're still like 46 white people away from a cure.

Plus there are reasons for recording a loss in one business unit to show a profit in another. Tax avoidance is the most obvious, but there are others.

If, for example, Amazon isn't charging itself market rates for it's streaming services it can show positive cashflow for that (new) service while absorbing the losses in the datacenter books.

I find that local backups are *a great compliment* to cloud backups.

For $100, I can back up all of my business data locally (we have less than 300GB of actual, unique data); I presume a 3 yr failure on external drives
For $100/yr, I can backup and synchronize all of my business data in the cloud*

So for $133/yr I can have a backup in case the cloud provider goes belly up overnight (cough*Livedrive*cough), and I can have a cloud backup in case the building catches fire (or floods, or gets hit by a tornado, or is an extra in the next Avengers movie).

Considering the value and/or convenience of the data we have from almost 12 years in business, it's worth the extra to keep it safe.

*actually, I have two cloud services. One is for real-time sync and access to the files from remote locations, one is solely for backup. It's likely they use the same vendor through (prob. AWS) so there's no actual redundancy there.

Actually, markup on beverages can exceed 500%. Soda costs about 1.5c-1.7c/oz for consumables in a cup which is typically filled 30-50% by volume with ice. That's about 50c all in for a 32 oz cup that sells for $2, or 30c for a 20 oz cup which sells for $1.80. Still, your point stands.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Damn, that was the best laugh I had all day. Thank you, sir (or madam).

Okay, I moved because I had someone spoof my email a couple times, and the IP range of the server farm I was based out of (The Planet) on my shared box got flagged in spamhaus twice in 3 years. For a business, that's death to have everyone in the world reject your (legitimate) incoming emails.

I might get 1-2 actual spam emails a month through Google's filter, with hundreds blocked every day - easily four 9s. Now, that doesn't include the friend who's email got hacked and now needs $1200 wired to him because he's been detained in [insert favorite European coutry here], or the Constant Contact emails I get from one or two of the vendors at the last business conference. As for false positives, I know of one in the past year that got accidentally flagged, so if there are/were more, the people sending the emails didn't care enough about it to follow up.

You go to a store to buy a storage for your valuables. You go to a big name - a national chain - because your not in the valuable storage industry. You pay your money, and your cash and affects are available to you based on the store's terms. That seems silly, right? Who stores their valuables in a business operation?

But lets give that place a name. Let's call it Bank of America. And lets call your storage space a safety deposit box. Now is your money and jewelry safer than in a box in your bureau? It's quite arguable that your valuables are safer in a safety deposit box than in your nightstand. And who's fault is it if there's a security breakdown and your stuff is stolen? You for putting your gold coins in the Bank of America local branch safety deposit box instead of keeping them in your house? If you kept $1M in cash in your mattress and it was stolen, wouldn't you wonder about the sanity of the person of doing that instead of storing it in a bank?

Now change it to your nude selfies that you stored in that safety deposit box. Are they now less secure because they're in a remote (aka cloud) location, and who's fault is it if the selfies get stolen.

I don't think it counts as victim blaming to say, "use a stronger password next time (non-dictionary)."
      Education of online activities is clearly lacking
I don't think it counts as victim blaming to say, "don't stick your finger in that light socket next time."
      Education of online activities is clearly lacking
I don't think it counts as victim blaming to say, "don't put anything on the internet that you don't want to get spread around."
      You don't have any fucking idea what you're talking about. Please go back to the 1920s. All modern business and government - which means everybody and everything - is based on transmitting things - which means storing things - on the internet.

Actually, if you want to take a physical analogy, I store my valuables in the cloud. So do most old people. They're called safety deposit boxes. I send sensititive information all the time, as do doctors, lawyers, and other business people by simply handing it to a stranger and telling them to give it to someone else, to give it to someone else, to give it to someone else, ..., to give it to the person I've identified with nearly zero physical security (security by obscurity, to use the IT parlance). It's called mailing a letter, and people do it with highly sensitive material every day.

It is interesting that people who do many things on the internet find storing sensitive information online to be the stupidest thing in the world when many of them do exactly that. You may be one of those luddites who pays for everything in person, in cash, from the stash under your mattress or in Mason jars buried in the back yard. Because otherwise you're doing the same with your finances (and medical and legal records) that these people are doing with their nude selfies.

Especially for a desert data collection mission.

Basic principles aren't patentable but implementations are. If it's patentable, then very similar configurations will be forbidden. And patents don't keep people from making the inventions - all sorts of stupid shit is patented - it's the actual fabrication and economy of scale that does so. Patents protect the ability to *make money* off of an invention.
Ignore the scary bits. This isn't going to be used to power drones or eliminate the fuel industry. This (presumably optimized) experiment had a coefficient of performance of 3.6 and is thermal. That's pretty much useless for anything that moves fast (i.e. anything that flies).

Damn, cold fusion and reversal of the elephant population decline solved in the same week. The world really is an amazing place!!

(I need a :rolleyes: emoticon)

So he's really just in it for the money. Good; that makes me feel much better.