Here in the real world, the Secretary of Defense is proposing budget cuts.
The DoD has two problems:
1. The sequester
2. Wildly over-budget acquisition programs for the F-35, the Littoral Combat Ship, IT efforts, and a bunch of other stuff
There's also the issue of the Navy buying a large number of submarines it doesn't have the money to pay for, despite the submarines coming in under budget.
You are Netflix Customer
You are Verizon FIOS Customer
You are already paying for their service (both sides).
You are a potential customer for Verizon's (in-house) streaming offerings.
Hence the conflict between Verizon and Netflix.
Verizon owned 65% of the now-defunct Redbox Instant.
Speculation is that the Redbox Instant team will be retasked to work on Verizon's new digital video service.
But if you miss a critical email because Google accidentally thought something was spam when it wasn't, then Hello lawsuits.
I'm betting you've never read the TOS of your e-mail provider.
For Gmail, the short version is that that they make no commitments about anything, including reliability.
When permitted by law, Google disclaims all warranties and liability for damages.
To the extent permitted by law, Google limits its total liabilities to the amount you've paid them.
Also, you agree that Santa Clara County, California is the controlling jurisdiction for any dispute.
I'm not saying you can't sue Google over misdirected e-mails, just that it'll be a tough case to make and you'll have to rely on California or Federal laws.
The law needs to track down that car if it is stolen but the person doing this is still an idiot.
A basic primer on contributory and comparative negligence
It's not exactly victim blaming if the victim could have acted in a more prudent manner.
But in this case, a user of online storage isn't being negligent in assuming their backed up files are secure.
The next time, I wouldn't have a problem blaming the victims, as now everyone should know their nudes can get hacked.
We have the same in Europe. At least one health care worker here has been infected and will probably die because someone thought it's smart to bring people infected with a 90% lethality virus home for treatment. Good job.
From March till now, the mortality rate for ebola infected Government and NGO workers has been around 55%.
It's higher for the the rest of the infected, as they usually have preexisting medical problems which renders them less able to fight the virus.
There was a piece on NPR a few days ago that said that the Doctors Without Borders people use a buddy system like this - and despite having hundreds of people on the ground in Africa for a month or more, have only had three staff infections.
I heard that too, so I went looking for more information.
October 04, 2014: Since March 2014, 16 MSF staff members contracted the virus; nine of them have died.
The "three" that NPR reported is probably Doctors Without Borders international staff, with the other infections being local staff.
Conveniently these "alternative trial designs" are not detailed in any way. Doing something different for the sake of doing something different is rarely a good idea.
The alternative I've repeatedly seen mentioned is the stepped wedge trial.
Basically, you take your sample, create subgroups of random patients, then give the treatment to one group at a time.
This allows you to use the upcoming subgroups as controls, while avoiding the ethical problems of denying people treatment.
The ethics are something reasonable people can and do disagree about. The problem in this particular situation is that you're trying to run a clinical trial during an active pandemic against a disease with a high mortality rate. And, IMHO, those facts tip the ethical scales quiet heavily in favor of giving everyone experimental drugs that aren't known to be actively harmful.
Am I the only one that is still wondering why these "snowden leaks" are still coming out in the way that they are?
Yes.
The rest of us remember the wikileaks document dump and how important stories got did not get appropriate attention because of the sheer volume that was getting reported at once.
Another (perhaps unintended) aspect of the continuous reporting is that almost every time a denial is issued, the NSA is subsequently revealed as lying to the public and Congress.
He can't get the access he wants, so he just pushes his way in and takes it.
As opposed to the bittorrent user(s) who are pushing everyone else out of the way and preventing their access?
Assuming that both parties are wrong does not logically lead to the conclusion that their wrong acts are equivalent.
I'm on the side of preserving the common good, not protecting the random data hog.
What I Learned from My Time in Prison
Andrew Auernheimer
I have some new tattoos that mark the wisdom I gained from my time in prison, which happens to be the same as the wisdom of my ancestors. [...] My first tattoo is a 4.5 inch swastika on my chest featuring Odinn, Baldr, Freyr, and Ãzor. My second is a Jormungandr-wrapped Ãzorshamar flanked by Huginn and Muninn on my forearm.
There's also some comprehensive antisemitism in that article.
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This is not the hero you are looking for.
Rent or trial a VPS. You can get them for literally a few pounds/dollars per month.
The old timey way of doing speed tests is to hit up FTPs and see what your max sustained speed is.
Technology didn't cause the purchasing power of a dollar to collapse nearly 66% over the last 34 years. Federal reserve and congressional policy are the direct culprits. You don't have to be "anti-government" to pin much of this squarely on the federal government and Federal Reserve.
Between inflationary policies and allowing nearly unrestricted (even incentivizing by tax law) exploitation of arbitrage, we've see various government policies annihilate all of the savings and benies that technology would have brought to our economy.
I don't follow.
As in, your conclusion doesn't naturally follow from the facts presented.
I'd suggest you look up the stats on worker productivity.
You'll discover that there have been enormous benefits from technology,
but all of those benefits (profits) have accrued to the executives and shareholders,
instead of being distributed in anything resembling an equitable fashion.
Productivity has massively improved over the decades, employment has declined, and profits are up.
This is true in agriculture, manufacturing, and white collar jobs.
we don't know yet if the experimental vaccine is effective
Effective?
We don't even know yet if it's safe for a large population.
Of course, this is all ignoring the fact that US is a democracy. You don't need a revolution to change the people in charge, you simply need to express support for someone else, and anonymously at that. So if the rulers approve of bullshit like this, and still get re-elected, then don't blame the Government, blame the citizens.
I think you underestimate the power of political gerrymandering .
It's one of several reasons that change is very hard to come by in the USA's political process.
There's also the separate issue of our De Facto dual party system which has gone to great lengths to create roadblocks for alternative political parties.
TLDR: The two parties have rigged the electoral process in their favor, damaging the democratic part of our democratic republic.
For most cars, fuel economy declines as speeds climb past 55-60mph (wind resistance being non-linear).
The truth is, it doesn't take much horsepower to maintain highway speeds.
With the current/coming flood of 7/8/9/10 speed transmissions, we can optimize the final gear or two for highway cruising speeds without compromising acceleration at lower speed.
If you want to get technical, here's a calculator that you can use if you know lots of details about your particular vehicle.
Even an F-150, which has about the same aerodynamics as a brick, only needs 80~90 hp to maintain 75 mph.
That's trivially available at super low rpms, it's just a matter of gearing down far enough to get there.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
