airlines are allowed to have "yield maximization" algorithms, but customers are not allowed to have "cost minimization" algorithms... that would be unfair.

ARPA was also called DARPA at various times, where "D" stands for "Defense", and the ARPANet was therefore called DARPANet at those times.

Back in the day when the only people on the 'net were military, schools, and tech companies... long long before Canter and Siegel's Green Card spam.

Technically speaking, the parents separated themselves from their children. Not necessarily a wise idea at a large event. This was just one thing out of many possibilities that kept them from rejoining them. For example, the halls could have been evacuated for a half dozen reasons, fire alarm, actual fire, bomb threat, gas leak, etc. And finding people under such circumstances is extremely difficult.

ORLLY? Is there a discount for cash?

Corps screw you coming and going. I love making electronic payments via ACH where they charge me the $0.25 ACH fee, when the alternative is sending them a check which costs them far more to process. But they figure I don't have to use a stamp, I don't have to burn a check, I'm making out so surely I can afford a $0.25 convenience fee.

Such a parochial worldview. Ebola is a global problem and threat, which is why the CDC has been talking about controlling Ebola *in Africa* since at least July. So far the evidence is that it is just hot air with no substance. For example see: http://www.cdc.gov/media/relea...
A July briefing on the situation in Africa containing such gems as: " CDC along with others are surging to begin to turn the tide. It's not going to be quick. It's not going to be easy. But we know what to do. " and " In fact, any advanced hospital in the U.S., any hospital with an intensive care unit has the capacity to isolate patients. There is nothing particularly special about the isolation of an Ebola patient other than it's really important to do it right. "

Yes, nothing special, 100% routine.

This.

Since at least August the CDC has been spouting the line "We know how to control Ebola" yet months later we were caught with our CDC protocols around our ankles. So far that mistake appears not to have snowballed in the US.

Meanwhile, no signs of progress controlling Ebola in Africa, despite repeated claims by many that "we know how to control Ebola".

Ebola just keeps on keeping on, doubling and re-doubling and re-doubling. Getting harder and harder to control, if that's even possible at this point.

Meanwhile we get stories like the "extraordinary success", the "spectacular success" in Nigeria... about how Ebola was stopped after one air traveler imported Ebola and only eight people died and twenty secondary infections. Yay team! A few more successes like that and we'll really have Ebola on the run.

But seriously if every existing case of Ebola ONLY led to 8 more deaths and 20 more infections before the outbreak was controlled that would be (at this point) a spectacular success. That's not going to happen... those numbers aren't small. The real numbers are going to be bigger, and that's only if the global community gets their act together and stops merely pissing on the fire.

The performance so far does not inspire confidence. Mistake after mistake and being reactive instead of proactive.

So far neither the CDC (nor WHO) has explained exactly how more cases of Ebola in more locations leads to eventual control. Texas is an informative example of what to expect when Ebola shows up in a new location that has no experience with such an unusual and deadly disease.

[And the flu trolls have to stop. Flu is already endemic. Meanwhile Ebola must be prevented from becoming endemic. There is a very rational reason to be agitated by the apparent lack of competent response. Ebola has never before been contained after an outbreak this large. This outbreak is already twenty times larger than the largest successfully contained outbreak.]

This report also shows that our first case of Ebola was screwed up.

How does a hospital release someone who just traveled from Liberia and has symptoms consistent with Ebola? They allowed this person to expose people for twice as long compared to if they had handled the situation as common sense would dictate. [Isolate and test]

Give it a few weeks.

In Lagos the primary case didn't conduct life as usual for days while contagious before being isolated. 1 initial case, 8 deaths, 20 additional cases, hundreds of exposed people monitored for infection. A 'successful' containment of Ebola.

In a few weeks we'll have the numbers for Dallas. We have to believe it'll be a 'successful' containment as well.

Fever, headache, aches, chills?

Sounds like flu.. isn't it flu season? Oh yes, yes it is.

Can we isolate and test everyone with flu symptoms for Ebola?

Yeah my bad. Damn slideshow wouldn't run and of course it was after I hit submit that I was thinking "wait.. is that called trigraph or some other cryptic operator?"

Since this operator exists in C/C++, Java and Perl at least, it's hardly obscure

Generalists do better in small shops because they can't afford to hire a specialist in 10 different areas when they only have budget for 4 people.

See bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

Scalia has it right, they wanted aereo to be illegal and they waved their hands to make it so. Cloud computing is at risk as a result of the ruling.

Breyer's attitude of "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it doesn't matter if its a robot" is idiotic. If technologic details didn't matter we wouldn't spend so much money designing around existing patents.

That still doesn't help. I've lived in apartment buildings with an antenna on the roof and a coax jack coming out the wall. Not my wire, not my antenna, no cost.

People rent equipment all the time, that doesn't make the company you rented it from a provider of the service you get out of the equipment.

And this was EXACTLY the argument about why this case affects cloud computing. So I use AWS to stream video, now Amazon is a TV service provider because I hired that labor out to Amazon? If not explain the damn difference and stop waving your hands that aereo is just illegal without explaining where the magic is.