Even more so when you consider the question of how many of those 1 million units, were "sold" to their marketing division to give away to NFL and others for promotional purposes.

Try looking at it from a different angle.

I think it's pretty clear that high business profits are a forcing function for this transition, and I don't think it's something we really want to force. Ideally, it would be better to slow it down, at least in terms of the human cost, though the most obvious mechanisms for slowing it (better wages) may also improve the economy.

Chasing profits might be the goal of most businesses, but there's no compelling reason it should also be the goal of a Government for the people and by the people.

P.S. Minimum wages are both (1) low relative to decades of inflation and (2) historically low relative to worker productivity. You can look it up.

It's great that Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency out there, and there are absolutely no advanced alternatives with serious anonymity. After all, Bitcoin was released in 2009 and there's no way for the scene to evolve significantly in mere 5 years.

"Data" is the plural of "datum" in the same way that "recta" is the plural of "rectum". I suppository you are talking out of a single rectum only.

You're just a little ray of sunshine aren't you?

If you read the actual document from the Texas Repubs, they were against a specific program called "Higher-Order Thinking Skills" which teaches "critical thinking skills" for some value of "critical thinking skills."

I don't know anything about the program itself, but one could just as easily name an initiative to dump raw sewage into the reservoir the "Protecting Kittens, Puppies and Small Children Act" and when someone opposes it call them a monster for being against kittens, puppies and small children.

I have no love of the Texas Republican party, but this is a straw man.

So this supports both sides of the article. First its hard to get infected in the early fever stages. Even Ducan's bedmate did not become infected. On the other hand two medical workers who thought they were taking precautions got infected when Ducan's disease had progressed further.

This attack on binaries requires a MITM attack. The attacker must be in a position to intercept and modify the data. SSL only prevents that if it's end to end SSL. Using SSL over Cloudflare doesn't eliminate the possibility of an attack on binaries, because Cloudflare is a MITM itself. The exit from Cloudflare is vulnerable in exactly the way the exit from Tor is.

Cloudflare offers a fake SSL service called "Flexible SSL". Cloudfront gets a cert generated with a long list of domains. Users connect to Cloudfront, Cloudflare sets up a secure connection from the user's browser to Cloudflare, acts as a man-in-the-middle, and makes an unencrypted connection to the destination host.

And, of course, there's an exploit for this.

Even if you buy Cloudflare'ss "most secure" option, and have SSL to your own server using your own certificate, you have to give Clouldflare your SSL cert's private keys. Does Clouldflare take responsiblity for the security of your private keys? No.

So do not use Cloudflare for sites which handle any valuable data, such as credit card numbers.

Infrastructure. We need to stop spending billions on bombs and put people to work fixing bridges, building roads, etc. There's tons of work to do, and plenty of people to do it, and the money exists.

I see the appeal of the minimum income, as something will have to be done with the unemployed and starving masses. Hell, we're already massively subsidizing Wal-Mart and fast food companies because their employees are on food stamps and living in section 8 housing. Might as well cut out the bureaucracy and just say "here's money."

But practically, I don't see how we afford it. The middle class pays the taxes (and the middle and lower classes actually work the jobs that produce new wealth). Mitt and pals dodge all that shit with their offshore tax havens. We're already paying for the poor (not that welfare and medicaid are worth shit), we're supporting the old with social security and medicare. How much more are we supposed to produce to take care of everybody else?

Can I have your dollars? Since it's just fake monopoly money?

Oh, wait I bet you just realized they can be exchanged for goods and services. Guess they're not worthless after all.

Sadly, the most informative comment I've read on Slashdot in weeks is about McDonald's.

I'd noticed that too -- that there's a broader range of physical types among Africans than everyone else combined. And as I once put it, turn everyone the same shade of green, and the African faces will retain the most individuality.

It's the same with other animals. Males beat each other up, settle their differences, then go have a beer together. But females never quit til the target is dead.