The only way to make something unpiratable is to have it be a continuous interaction between a client and a server where you control the server.

I guess this music "format" is essentially going to be Apple's answer to Pandora, Spotify, et al.

As long as URL:s are visible to viewers .com and .org will remain as status markers. The fact that these people couldn't afford to acquire the .com is evidence that there isn't a lot of financial muscle behind the project.

Another piece of evidence is that the site is now down. I'm going to go ahead and guess that they are on this plan: http://mediatemple.net/webhost... with "unlimited bandwidth" for $29 a month, laws of physics be damned.

Artificial fertilizer, tractors, better crop varieties. Maybe some GMO.

Africa is huge and has a lot of good soil waiting to be turned into efficient industrial farms. What it lacks is peaces, stability and institutions. But they're working on it.

It is sometimes said that Africa would eventually end up feeding the world, but if these new figures turn out to be true then it will perhaps merely end up feeding itself.

Yeah, those plagues in the middle ages sure prevented Europe from becoming densely populated...

24 Mb/s is pretty good for most any everyday household use, assuming it has consistently low latency and no packet loss.

The real question you should ask your ISP is: what's the network like when the weekend Netflix streaming surges kick in? Or: is my friday night deathmatch going to lag terribly? Of course if you ask that of their sales people you'll get blank stares and answers along the lines of "Netflix and games work great".

Simple. Don't mess with linux. Not for them.

Also consider the ancient wisdom about giving one a fish or teaching them catch a fish... and spend six months training them to masquerade as Nigerian princes.

We have been putting out forest fires for so long, there is so much of fuel accumulated in the brush. It is extremely expensive to fly in water to fight these fires.

It is high time the Government declares regions of the country where people live at their own risk. Why should the general tax payer at large should bear the burden of saving the tails of all these people who insist on living areas unfit for human occupation. You want to live there, create your own underground fire proof chambers, may build a few public underground fire shelters scattered around these parts. After that no more fighting wild fires. Same thing goes with flood prone areas.

Just like in tornadoes, government will provide warnings, predictions and rescue/recovery afterwards. There is no onus on us to protect their property.

Hmm, I don't know.

Suppose you build a tube (radius = 100 m) out of concrete where the water is 200 m deep. If I'm not mistaken you could then store up to this http://www.wolframalpha.com/in... much energy in watt-hours. That's not a lot in the big scheme of things. To store one terrawatt-hour you would need a tube that's 2.5 km in radius, or lots and lots of smaller tubes.

Unless I messed up my high school level physics calculation there.

If the gigafactory pans out and the battery price actually falls low enough to support mid-luxury sedan (BMW 3 class, Lexus 3xx) at 35K, the real action will be elsewhere. All his patents have been made public domain, gigafactory proves the ability to make battery cost that low. There will be shortage of investors for more giga factories. Nissan Leaf would go from 25K to 18K. That is the price point where that segment becomes a very very serious threat to gas car market. Till we hit Peak Lithium of course.

Some possible explanations in order of highest likelihood:

The media got it wrong and they're not banning math.

The media got it wrong and they're only banning math for girls.

The great leader... or.. uh.. caliph? Well, the guy in charge doesn't like math.

It's not possible for practical reasons. Maybe the math teachers have all fled the country or something.

I think these planes have used up their allowed number of pressurization cycles anyway, before they are converted.

At some point in the future someone will probably make good money converting old airliners into drones, which will make them cheaper to fly and solve the problem of pilots dying if the airframe gives in during flight.

Fundamental problem with DC-10 was the poor management. They made a stupid decision to make the cargo door open outward. Designed a complex locking arrangment using pins to be done by the cargo handlers. If not properly locked, the door flies off. The passenger door floor buckled when that happened. Very first time it happened the engineering team gave a very clean way to fix the issue. Pressure relief holes between passenger and cargo compartment, better locking pins.

But the management persuaded FAA not to issue a "must fix it" notice to avoid bad publicity. Gentleman's agreement between McDonnel-Douglas chief and chief of FAA. Never followed through. Happened again, law suits followed, all the dirty laundry got aired and they never recovered from that.

Added to that the airlines were using some home grown procedure to dismount and remount engines. Recommended process called for removing some 198 bolts. Airliners detached three loading pins on the pylon. In the process damaged the pylon. They had the engine on a fork lift truck while someone shouted directions trying to slide in the loading pin. The mistake was by the airlines. DC-10 paid the price for it. It got a reputation for being a badly designed unsafe aircraft. Only third world airlines like Biman Bangladesh would even touch them.

Good plane, killed by the same stupid management that killed US Auto industry too. At least in the case of US auto they were actively aided and abetted by the unions. But McDonnel-Douglas was just self inflicted wounds. The third player Lockheed (L-1011 tristar) survived on military cargo plane contracts.

In highly competitive markets the competition will eventually force you to use every tax avoidance trick that your competitors use in order for you to stay in business, unless the corporate tax rate is something negligible.

One solution would be to not have a corporate tax and instead try to go after the owners themselves with capital gains taxes and inheritance taxes and what not.

Sorry, that should obviously be revenue and not turnover. Swedish financial lingo is easy to mistranslate.

Would have been funny though...

Mojang had 1.5 billion SEK in cash at the end of 2013, or about 220M USD at 2013 exchange rates. Their turnower for 2013 was 2 billion SEK or about 300 million USD.

Source: http://www.allabolag.se/556819...