Ahh, here's the old Slashdot post on that one.

the single thing a new iPhone will do that an Android won't is the fingerprint thing

My 2011-era Motorola Atrix has a fingerprint reader...

A Thermal Depolymerization demonstration plant was completed in 1999 in Philadelphia by Thermal Depolymerization, LLC, and the first full-scale commercial plant was constructed in Carthage, Missouri, about 100 yards (91 m) from ConAgra Foods' massive Butterball turkey plant, where it is expected to process about 200 tons of turkey waste into 500 barrels (79 m3) of oil per day.

So, while it may not be "cheaper" to burn Turkey than coal or natural gas, it is arguably "cleaner", at least from a net-CO2 perspective.

The higher octane is required in higher altitudes. 87 at sea level will give more power than 91 in Denver (caveats apply)

The main caveat being: That first statement is completely incorrect. As altitude increases, ambient pressure decreases. As ambient pressure goes down, max pressure developed in the cylinder decreases as well. As max pressure decreases, the tenancy for pre-ignition (knocking) decreases. As the tenancy for pre-ignition decreases, octane requirements are lessened.

In other words, all things being equal, higher octane is required in lower altitudes.

(But you are right in your second assertion - assuming your engine will run on 87 octane at sea level, it will indeed make more power at sea level than it will in Denver - mainly because of the increased air density at sea level.)

Same submitter, even!

A tentative deal struck late Tuesday between House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would cut federal healthcare spending by $21.1 billion.

The savings would be used to pay for a "doc fix" that would eliminate a scheduled 27.4 percent reduction in Medicare physician payment rates for 10 months.

Savings include:

- A $5 billion cut to the health law's $15 billion prevention trust fund;

- The elimination of $2.5 billion in enhanced Medicaid payments to Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina;

- A $4 billion reduction in so-called Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments to hospitals that take care of people without insurance;

- A $6.8 billion reduction in federal payments to hospitals that collect "bad debt" from insolvent patients, down to 60 percent; and

- Cuts to how much Medicare pays for clinical laboratory tests.

How is it that reducing the funding by 33% *isn't* an attack on women if reducing the fund by a lesser amount *is*?

Most "void if broken" seals can be easily replicated. It's just a matter of getting a replacement seal in time. For the most part, people are dumb. If you do a good job of cleaning off the seal, they'd never notice it is missing.

I'll go you one further--I seriously doubt that "void if broken" seals would even be honored! If they were, any griefer with an axe to grind could quietly slice a "void if broken" seal and arguably void (nullify) any votes cast on that box up until the point that broken seal is noticed -- possibly all day. Unless (of course) the seals are visually checked in between each voter, right? So next time you go to the polls, watch how the lines move, and see if you think everything is visually inspected and verified between each voter.

And if this sort of vandalism did happen, what would you bet that the votes up till then wouldn't be nullified regardless of the state of the tamper seals? What makes you think that this sort of thing hasn't already happened? In past election, seals have been found missing/cut on machines, it's been reported, and it's been ignored and the votes counted regardless, e.g. as reported here. Nice.

Agree about the lag. The current reporting period is (presumably) 3/1-3/29, but the only way I can get the reported traffic to add up is to include traffic back to 2/27 which (last I checked) came before 3/1. Plus, as of 3/29, AT&T has no detail from 3/25 onward. If that holds true at the end of the month, the reported usage won't help a whole lot.

Pretty tough to manage to "not exceed" 150GB of traffic when (on a 6 megabit connection) you could in theory consume 50GB of traffic in just those 4 missing days. (55+ GB, counting ATM and PPPoE overhead....)

Of course, AT&T doesn't *want* you to be able to manage your own Internet usage, what they want to do is to either scare you into non-utilization, or to charge you extra (note that overages are billed in chunks, as in $10 for each additional .0001 to 50 GB, instead of $1 for each additional .0001 to 5 GB). If you're a "heavy user", best to let you go over by a half-gig and ding you for another $10, eh?

One thing this whole experience has taught me -- no reason to pay for faster Internet access if all that will happen is that you'll hit your caps faster. You folks on 6mbit AT&T DSL -- why not use this change in contract to fall back to 3mbit and save quite a bit each month?

One thing this has done is to convince me to look at Cox again. I left Cox for AT&T when Cox pricing and plans went unrealistic, but now they are starting to offer tiers that compete with AT&T on price while still (at least on paper) beating them on performance. Just need to see what traffic caps are in place...

If I'm paying for PPPoE and ATM overhead, I'm gonna be pissed.

AT&T must be measuring bits at the DSLAM, if what they're reporting is anywhere close to being accurate. If a 150GB "cap" includes the approx. .5% PPPoE and 10+% ATM overhead, what I'm seeing means that my 150GB cap is in reality closer to 135GB.

Sucks.

Also seriously: One of the HIPAA loopholes that patients aren't always told about is that HIPAA privacy rules don't necessarily apply when the government gets involved. One could easily argue that Cignet shouldn't have released those 4,500 unneeded records, you bet...but one could also argue that the release of those records didn't automatically trigger a HIPAA violation, as they were released in response to an oversight request, e.g. "Covered entities may usually disclose PHI to a health oversight agency for oversight activities authorized by law." (source: CDC.gov). If HITECH changed that, it'd be news to almost everyone -- when is the last time that the government willingly adopted rules restricting their own capabilities?

Regardless, IMO if they would've done exactly the same release of information BUT responded in a timely fashion to the Government's demands, there wouldn't have even been a $43 fine. Because that's the way that the Government seems to work.