You will likely claim I am being pedantic about an unimportant detail, but this does matter in this case. The first attack started a bit before 4am Washington time. Hillary gave her response the following day. The question then is how much time elapsed between when she would have received this information and when she gave her speech to the press.

Had she waited longer to give that speech, you would be bitching that she was waffling and ineffective. Instead she took what she thought to be the most credible intelligence at the time and spoke about it.

And hell, it's not like we wasted 6 trillion dollars and over three thousand American lives on the mistake.

We've learned from other bridge collapses in the past that it is more important to place - or relieve - blame after the collapse than it is to actually do something about it. Will the satellites speed up that process as well?

Unless, of course, you're talking about Andrew "Dice" Clay, right? Really, can you be more up-market than him?

That said, I've been around here a lot less in the past few weeks. I get more useful and current tech news through google news and if I want to know what conservatives are yelling in an echo chamber I can witness that through other places as well. The utility of this site is dwindling rapidly.

I recall someone posted the directions for how to make sudafed from crystal meth. Being as the latter is easier to buy than the former, you could start with that. For obvious reasons I'm not going to search for that method myself.

I don't recall if you get drain cleaner back out of it or not, though.

How would they restrict them to something that someone with enough money couldn't buy their way around? Being as the drug cartels have no shortage of money, it seems like a pointless move.

I'm pretty sure they own more than this crappy site, so I'd say no :)

That said, it also reminded me of DHL, which left me thinking it was a crappy web site associated with a third-rate courier service.

To the conservative majority here on slashdot, few things are scarier than the notion of something evolving. They are extremely selective about acknowledging changes to the constitution as being valid at all - notice their new war on the 17th amendment as one example - even when they are ratified by congress through the proscribed methods for amending the constitution. The idea that the constitution could itself evolve is nothing short of heresy for them.

Several reasons come to mind:

• There is a lot more diversity in end product in the automobile industry today than there has ever been in the PC industry. A Hyundai Sonata is a lot different from a Chevrolet Suburban and neither is similar to a Ford Mustang in any meaningful way beyond they all have four wheels and run on gasoline.
• The OS as a deciding factor was important to PCs because it dictated how users interacted with their PC and how software and hardware was developed for the same. There is no unified "OS" for a car, nor is there reason for one to exist.
• The closest that Apple and Google can actually get to changing how people interact with cars is through the touch screen multimedia interfaces - which are often the most problematic parts of cars. Even through those though there are not that many avenues for selling more stuff to most users, so the potential gain there is not that great.
• As cities grow, more people use public transportation on a regular basis and interact directly with cars on a less frequent basis. A new car "OS" matters almost not at all to the millions who don't have cars.

I haven't seen any indication of them violating his second or third amendment rights.

For anything other than a keyboard that is generally true. In the case of the keyboard though the people who hate the sound of a mechanical key (and even more so the buckling spring) are almost always the younger set who don't appreciate them because they have only typed on domes and chiclets their entire lives.

I actually watched this video. It appears about 1/4 of the video is the guy saying "um" or otherwise stammering through his statements. Everyone would look better with a little trimming of the fat in this video.

How do they classify calls as Legitimate Emergencies? It is known that plenty of people call 911 for things that are not significant regardless of how they are placing the call. Is 30% lower than the rate for land lines? Of the remaining 70% are they all kids calling to ask the operator if their refrigerator is running or are they mostly people calling because of non-emergency matters that they don't realize don't warrant a 911 call?

You almost created an argument there, too bad you posted AC which will prevent us from being able to tell if the person who posted it ever returns to see the response.

Nevertheless, it does warrant some exploration. The point I was after is that merely saying something doesn't work is not at all the same as actually doing something about it. Your electrician example is pretty good for this; just about anyone can tell when they have plugged something in to a faulty outlet, but not everyone is capable of fixing the wiring. With the education system, we have a lot of people who recognize that something is wrong, but very few people who are proposing any kind of solution. We also have a few people who want to call in plumbers (educational equivalents of venture capitalists) when we need electricians (people with experience in education), apparently under the notion that wiring is pretty similar to plumbing.

The other problem though is that it is really hard to tell if common core has actually failed. Someone else pointed out there are three main components to common core; they really should be evaluated independently. Another thing is that at the start of the experiment no criteria were laid forth to evaluate success (or failure) which makes it that much more difficult to score. Finally, without having comparable control schools to compare to common core schools, it is that much more difficult to show what kind of "failure" this has brought on. Any time you change the system there will be turbulence.

Wasn't ambroshia supposed to be a less-buggy clone of the last release of Exitilus?