Trying to claim that the Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010 was not influenced by the insurance industry is even more ridiculous than claiming that Reagan's silly speech directly led to the Berlin Wall coming down. The simple fact of the matter is that there are vastly more elected officials on the payroll of the insurance industry than not. They did not spontaneously decide to be charitable to the insurance industry for the hell of it; they gave them the return on investment that they had been setting up for over quite some time.

I am a gear head myself. I really enjoy driving cars that are made to be fun to drive. However I can tell you that as time has marched on I have found routine driving to be increasingly less enjoyable. I despise my commute and do everything I can to take my own driving out of the equation so I can do things that are less aggravating and wasteful of my time and money.

I can definitely see merit to the idea of not owning a car. The only reason why I currently own one now is because I live too far off the bus line to walk there easily in the morning. If I lived in the city instead I would almost certainly not own a car at all.

And don't get me started on the Ponzi scheme that we are all required to contribute to in order to hold a valid driver license.

That explains everything! The guy in the riced up Honda whose engine sounds like he's doing 90 while he's in the next lane doing 10 alongside me is just trying to retain some tiny piece of freedom and power in the face of the soul crushing workday commute where he's truly as powerless and ineffectual as the rest of us.

Every morning when I get in my car, my psychology says I'd rather be doing anything else.

The way to make them was shown at Defcon years ago, and there is plenty of information online on how to make a femtocell.

You could make one and use it, but unless you're only intercepting your own phone, you'll likely get some unwelcome attention from law enforcement.

The problem though is that if you flip something and find out that it lost value, then you lost the money you put in to it. Thankfully for dice, they wanted the other parts of the organization and if they just end up shutting this operation down entirely they still can come out ahead.

And you really really needs carbs to live. What is your point?

You need carbs to live, but it's fine for as little as 0% of those carbs to come from your diet. Your body can manufacture all the glucose it needs given the right protein and fat supplies.

I was going to say something like that, but not as well. I've been in interviews where someone is asked about their experience.

"What experience do you have?"

"I spent 6 years at [university] earning my Masters degree."

"Ok, what *work* experience do you have?"

"I worked for 6 years earning my Masters degree."

"Lets try this again. Have you ever been employed and paid for work in this field?"

"We had projects at [university] where we worked on various projects to earn my Masters degree."

I'm not saying that the original post is that kind of person. He says he worked in IT infrastructure for years. I would think he would have been exposed to the development side, at least a little bit.

Unfortunately, with the questions asked, I suspect it may be more like my example above. If he had the necessary experience, he'd already know, as the owner of whatever new company he's starting, the lead dev is going to provide the best answers to those questions. The lead dev is going to have their own opinions and methods that everyone on their team is going to work with. Unless he's going to do the CEO/CTO/CIO/lead dev rolls all at the same time, which isn't going to work as well as he'd hope.

That is a great idea. The problem though is that it takes money to do it. You need editors to review the papers. You need a web page that can handle traffic for distributing the papers. You need a physical space to store the hardware. You need a communication system for editors and reviewers to communicate with authors and with each other.

Even if a faculty member at a research university were to propose to do this, they would still need to dedicate money from their grant or their salary to fund it. Universities charge faculty for physical space, for internet access, for hardware, for electricity, for security, etc. Even if you push the hosting out to a cloud service that is only a small part of the cost. A lot of universities are also increasing the precision to which they track faculty time (both during the "regular" 8am-7pm work day and beyond) which means they would crack down on faculty who were spending time working on such a project if it was beyond the scope of their established funding.

I would love to see someone propose a solution to those problems. Don't get me wrong, I wish that publishing costs were lower for the legitimate academic journals, but I'm not sure how to lower those costs. I've published research articles in a variety of different formats and I know their costs to the PI.