This is going to do...absolutely nothing! The scammers will just find some other way to create their automated email garbage.

You kidding? Thanks to allowing these new email addresses, I have an entirely new category of auto-deletable spam. These won't "confuse" me because I'll never see them. Win/Win!

Go ahead, spammers, get cute. Just makes my life thaaat much easier.

Hasn't held true for 30+ years? Success rate of 90% and up? Where are you pulling these numbers from? Citation please.

Testicular cancer has a 95.3% survival rate.
Melanoma, 91.3%.
Thyroid, 97.8%.
Prostate, 98.9%.
Breast, only 89.2%.
Overall, cancer today has a 66.1% survival rate.

You'll also notice I very specifically said "and caught early enough"... While the SEER stats (above) include all diagnoses of that type of cancer, the rates drastically improve when caught early. I mentioned bladder cancer as a good example of that - despite having an overall survival rate of only 77.4%, According to the ACS, that goes up to 88% if caught at stage I and 98% if caught at stage 0.

the only thing your contact can buy you is priority treatment (getting put top on the stack) and possibly having an advocate with the hiring manager.

While technically true, that alone means the difference between at least having a shot at getting the job, or getting lost in the stack of 400 applicants.

Yes, HR always has and always will count as the single biggest obstacle to getting the right people in the right seats; but having an inside "champion" always has and always will count as the single best shot at getting the right people despite HR's best efforts.

Are you sure of the legal basis of this? Or is it just logic?

Just logic, and yeah, I know, law != logic.

Interestingly, though, Washington (one of the 10(ish) two-party states) specifically addresses and allows the loophole I mention.

Just about every call I've ever made to a sufficiently-large company has started with the automated disclaimer that "This call may be recorded for quality assurance".

Well then, thank you. They just gave permission. This call may be recorded. Thanks, Comcast!

Most of the time chemo doesn't work, in which case I could see this being used instead.

That myth hasn't held true for 30+ years.

When used against appropriate cancers and caught early enough (which doesn't mean "before you have any reason to suspect you have a problem" anymore), chemo has a very high success rate, on the order of 90% and up. Bladder and testicular cancer, most skin cancers - considered almost perfectly curable. Most leukemias, either curable or sustainable.

The question you pose applies more out of desperation than practicality. Very few people, when told they have an untreatable cancer, will decide to just sit down and die. No, they ask the doctor to try anything, however nasty, on the off chance it will work.

We don't complain about antibiotics as a complete failure, despite the fact that they don't treat viruses. The same applies to cancer treatments: use the right drug at the right time.

You need to pay some one off to get that job

Nah, I foresee a large number of vacant positions in the very near future - Particularly as we get closer to November 4th.

Of course, any applicants will probably need to actually work for a month or two until everyone forgets about this and moves on to the next government outrage...

Google should do something (and soon) because Apple's metal API supports GPU compute workloads. Sure you can do GPGPU using OpenGL ES but that is more limited in scope than a full CL implementation...

First, I consider this a very cool development, that a major GPU manufacturer actually caught on that people use their hardware for more than just gaming. That said...

Be careful what you wish for. Offloading work from a CPU to a power-hungry GPU makes tons of sense in a desktop, or even server (for certain workloads) environment - ie, "plugged in". Doing the same on a mobile device, not so much. On IOS, people have consistently reported drastically reduced runtimes per battery charge when running "hardware accelerated" apps. And don't take that as a rant against Apple - I have no doubt we'll see the exact same problem when Android finally standardizes similar support.

Does this set of statistics have any bearing on that 2011 soundbyte that "an estimated 250,000 bullets fired for every [Iraqi] insurgent killed"?

Yes, I enjoyed Babylon 5, but then stuff like Crusade, the Ranger movie, and that "Lost Tales" compilation happened. I'll probably put this new movie in my Netflix queue, but I won't be running out to buy a theater ticket or anything.

If the systems were affordable without the special arrangements and tax breaks, this article wouldn't exist in the first place because the panels would be popping up all over Florida.

"Affordable" means different things to different people.

As the GP meant it, "affordable" means having a positive ROI with a reasonably short payback period (well under 5 years, currently, and that assumes going totally off-grid; a grid-tie installation can pay for itself in literally half that). As you mean it, someone living month to month on their minimum wage paycheck can't afford to sink $20k up-front into a PV installation.

As a cruel irony, Florida's law doesn't stop those who can front $20k from putting in their own solar array. Instead, it stops the people who most need it from using the "lease to own" model made popular by those companies already mentioned - Kinda the same idea as a cell phone subsidy with a two year contract, except on a bigger scale.

The ROI calculators show a first year 7% ROI (of course, this will increase as electricity prices increase).

Although not DIY tends to basically double the price, you realistically have a 2-3 year payboack, or an ROI of 33-50%.

I have a 5YO toy 500W DIY system, currently, and it has already more than paid for itself, without bothering to get a second meter to take advantage of generation in excess of consumption (yeah, you want to know why the utilities suddenly and "inexplicably" wanted to move to smartmeters? Unlike the old analog meters, they won't simply spin backward if you make more than you use, so FUCK YOU, consumer-with-solar).

The Brookings institute clearly analyzed this from the POV of a monopolistic unitility company, because for end-users, a home solar array practically counts as a no-brainer with current prices, assuming you can afford to sink a few grand into it up-front.

Other than a single "fix all the bugs" patch I don't think Ricochet was ever supported by Valve except as a contractual agreement to keep selling it indefinitely.

Seconding Ubiquiti gear. I use these (not your specific models, but I love their nanostations) and they simply don't die. Literally months of uptime without a glitch, and even after a power outage, they pick right back up doing their job without human intervention.

And range? I've used a pair of bridged nanostations, without any external antenna (they come with a built-in 120 degree sector), to cross slightly over a mile (with line of sight) pushing full speed without even breaking a sweat.

For about 50% more than a cheap consumer grade router (and the same price or less than the supposedly "high end" consumer crap), these suckers count as a no-brainer if you want something that just works.

Warning - These do not make a good "my first WAP". Getting them configured correctly (even legally, since they'll readily let you blow the doors off ERP and go outside local frequency restrictions) the first time can take even someone familiar with what all the features mean quite a few trials-and-error, and I'd consider that one of their weakest points. But they do it all, and they do it well... WAP? Router? Bridge? WDS node? Check.

/ No, I don't work for them.

You need a job scheduler to centralize the tasks and knowledge of the processes, so you can bring someone in to run all the automated tasks. Sure you still have a human in the equasion, but now you're down to 1 person, instead of a room of 20.