I wish I could remember more details, but about 10 years ago a UCSD professor did a statistical analysis of how often "creationism" and "intelligent design" where mentioned in news articles over time. The results was that use of the word "creationism" dove-tailed right into use of the term "intelligent design" right at the same time that teaching creationism in public schools was loosing ground in the courts. Basically, "intelligent design" was just a marketing ploy to extend the life of teaching creationism in schools. A "Creationism 2.0" if you will.

Okay, so how is it that the identity of this FTL trader is not already known, and being questioned by investigators?

Now will someone please explain to me how "someone" can collect on a trade and have it totally anonymous and untraceable?

For example, does anyone remember the millions of dollars in put options on airline stocks that were placed just before 9/11 (also placed at the Chicago Exchange)? Somehow investigators couldn't figure out who placed those orders. Last I heard the orders were traced back to an investment bank that CIA director Alvin Krongard had been chairman of. Then the investigations mysteriously ended with no one arrested and no one named as the person that placed the order. How is it possible for an order to be some untraceable?

FYI, GlobalStar was a low earth orbit satellite communication system. Same CDMA signal, but different RF bands, higher power levels (about 5W max), and usually connected to multiple satellites simultaneously (instead of connecting to multiple cell towers simultaneously, which is typical for CDMA cell phones).

But I get what you are saying. It is true that there was some concern about radio interference in the past. But it hasn't been for at least a decade now. And speaking of close to the ground, even when AMPS phones were the thing, there was coverage at airports. So there would have been the potential for radio interferences even from people that weren't passengers on the planes.

Back in late 90's/early 00's I was working for Qualcomm on a system that used eight GlobalStar UTs in parallel to offer a mix of phone and data service. In the experimental jet we had wifi routers connected into this system, and the jet's diagnostic bus was wired into it too, also a GPS receiver going full time as well (part of the UTs actually). We had several laptops, webcams, and phone calls going all the time - on the ground, in the air, during take off and landing - not one single problem, ever.

The ban on electronics, with the claim that it interferes with the plane's electronics, has always been bullshit. If that were true the ban would be for the entire duration of the flight, and it would be pretty scarey if flight electronics were so delicate that anyone with a cell phone turned on could screw it up. It's about controlling people, nothing more.

The beauty of this is that people who don't RTFA enitrely, will out themselves by complaining how stupid this idea is.

All depends on your perspective. To people outside the US, the CIA is the most well funded and brutal terrorist organization in the world!

I disagree. I saw no value with LinkedIn. I don't need to duplicate my real life connections at an online service that can then sell that information or harass my connections with solicitations.

This was the exact moment I dumped LinkedIn... when recruiters started trying to harvest contact info for my former employers out of me. They already do that in the real world. I don't need to get twice as much of their bullshit.

Just to clarify, if a web site is being blocked, then that web site can not send an error page to the client making the request.

The error would come from whichever device is blocking the web site, and it would prevent forwarding of any data packets to the blocked site. The blocked site can't return an error page because it has no way of knowing someone trying to access it was blocked. Whatever device is doing the blocking is the one that can send an error code, if at all.

Returning an html error page would be entirely optional, and I seriously doubt whomever is doing the blocking would give a rat's ass about a fancy custom error page. If they did, it might make for a nice amplifier in a DDoS attack. ;-)

...or better yet, analyze each home page, if it has no links to other pages within the same web site assume it is a parked domain (or spam domain) and ignore it.

You do realize that your statement illustrates exactly what happens when you hit peak production of any limited resource, don't you? The invisible-hand-of-the-free-markets don't spend money on developing new technology to better extract resources if those resource cheap and abundant to get to.

The weakness with this kind of communication is that at some point before the sending of the signals, the meaning of the signals has to be communicated. But interception of that point of communication that reveals relationships and makes later communications easier to detect and decipher.

Help me out here. The Adapteva sales pitch is claiming you get faster time to market by not having to do any FPGA programming (ANSI-C and OpenCL for the multicore coprocessors). The Zynq processor seems to be just for the host OS, which they say can run Ubuntu out of the box and they provide open source development tools for everything else. No mention of Xilinx anywhere that I can see. Am I missing something?

...or maybe it is something else like social media. I've noticed recently that more of my friends post their opinions on new movies and when they pan something, their friends listen and don't bother going to see the film themselves. True, this happened before social media, but now I think these reviews by friends reach more people in a shorter period of time and are much more effective than a review by a paid movie critic.

You mean kind of like this case where a black woman, in the same state as Zimmerman, fires two warning shots in the air when an ex-husband she had a restraining order on because he had a history of violence, gets 20 years in prison and no one was hurt! And to add insult to injury the judge refused to let her use the Stand Your Ground law as her defense!