Essentially, that was Feynman's rationale for learning Portuguese over Spanish. And he did pretty well by it.

Location is specifically not protected as Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII).

This does not mean that location is necessarily public information to be provided by the government, but FERC specifically sought to keep the location of particular bits of infrastructure out of that data which is considered confidential.

If Schumer has a beef, he should bring it up with FERC.

I currently am within the United States' Eastern (Standard|Daylight) Time and think it's fine. Central always seemed like a redheaded stepchild to Eastern, and since we have NYC and Washington pretty much everything's arranged around us. But there's one minor issue: I hate mornings. And I love dusky late summer evenings.

So, a novel concept. I'd like to stay within Eastern Time, but move to permanent double daylight-saving time -- a permanent UTC-3. On June 21 that puts sunset about 9:40pm where I am, and sunrise about 6:20am. On December 21, sunrise is 9:25am and sunset 6:25pm. It certainly means darker mornings, but who's really awake then anyway?

Because the change is permanent, no changing of clocks ever.

Yes, I may be crazy, but this is my ideal world here.

They're just trying to achieve the Ballmer peak! http://xkcd.com/323/

This number is entirely meaningless.

Is a phone conversation "consumed" as its transcript (a few hundred bytes) or as an audio file (a few hundred kb) or a really well sampled audio file that conveys nuance perfectly (a few Mb)?

A tweet is 140 characters, but if I were to take a screenshot of a screen with Twitter (and about 20 tweets) that could be a couple of Mb.

And much of that "data" could be compressed in a meaningful way. I spend most of my day in my cubicle staring at my monitor. Does all of the visual data that my eyes are receiving (about eight hours' worth of grey walls and a small computer monitor's contents) count?

He didn't. I saw "Coming to America".

Very cool... I'll have to poke around for it on eBay.

I always thought Dante's Inferno would have made a great Dungeons and Dragons module; unfortunately I never got around to writing it.

As long as his contracting period is less than 60 days, he can elect not to take COBRA and then retroactively take it and get full benefits if he needs it.

So if he falls down the stairs and breaks both legs on the 57th day after his benefits are terminated, he can notify his plan administrator on the 58th day that he wants COBRA, submit a check for the premium difference, and his bills from the previous day's fall will be covered.

Most public school teachers are clueless when it comes to technology. At best, half of the math and science teachers will be technically savvy, while less than 25% of the English and social studies teachers will know the difference between a browser and a word processor. At the elementary level, you're talking 10%, tops.

It's the whole "teach a man to fish" thing. Having a single teacher on staff that is technically savvy breeds dependence on that one teacher and continued naïveté. If all teachers on staff except for a handful are clueful, the others feel obligated to catch up out of peer pressure.

The fact that you're installing Edubuntu is great, but teachers will go to the one technological in-service they get per year and wonder where the "Start" menu is when they get back to their school and sit down in front of one of your machines.

I'm a former high school teacher. Teachers are under exceptional amounts of stress in a classroom. You're performing in front of an audience for several hours every day. Anything that they're even slightly uncomfortable with will be left behind in favor of the familiar. You can either give up or you can work to breed familiarity.

I'd say keep up building machines, but also volunteer to offer in-service or after-hours training. You might not have to do it alone — you could probably get one of the clueful teachers at the school to teach sessions during the day or after school. But I promise, if you build machines and don't provide any kind of support for how to use them, they'll only gather dust.