I don't know if it's a good idea or not(probably depends on who you are, and I'm sure that there will be some people who chose incorrectly); but is it really a surprise that OCP would be doing their testing on the cheap 'n cheerful side of things?

It was my understanding that their premise, from the beginning, was that existing hardware vendors were excessively focused on adding costly, thermally demanding, and often proprietary, features at the hardware level that were unnecessary if you were willing to compensate for their absence in your software design.

There is obviously some level of reliability below which no compensation at the software level is possible(if you can't run the algorithm for detecting errors because it keeps glitching out, it's probably not going to work); but the impression they always conveyed was that many of the more sophisticated reliability mechanisms are really features aimed at people who are substantially less able to cope with failure; and are therefore willing to pay substantially more for hardware that can invisibly paper over a variety of moderately serious failures and allow the software on top to run without incident; rather than buying lots of cheap hardware that has a risk of going down in a screaming heap.

So long as nobody gets any stupid optimistic ideas, I don't really see the issue. Sure, if Facebook were about sending men to mars, they should seriously consider having three CPUs running in lockstep and voting on all operations and so on; but this project is about delivering as many ad impressions per dollar as possible; no reason to get worked up over the occasional glitch.

I'm not the one (or perhaps it's more than one?) posting a page full of crap every time.

What punishment? He killed himself before he was punished, so we'll never know.

why are you commenting when you don't even understand the fucking topic?

http://thinkprogress.org/justi...

http://reason.com/archives/201...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/...

it helps to understand the bare basic facts of a topic before you open your ignorant mouth

please educate yourself first next time, then talk

you completely misrepresented my point or showed that you did not understand it

meaning you failed to read my comment or you failed to understand my comment

you can't make accusations about anyone else's conversational acumen if you lack the intellectual honesty or intellectual ability to even have a fucking coherent conversation

The bond purchases are at trick that might get used more often in part because of the slow rate at which additional money enters circulation. Social Security has done it for decades, but that's been even more of an accounting trick because the first step of the money stays within a smaller group (namely, retirees and the disabled). The profits from the Fed can get paid out to government contractors, employees, tax refunds, and anything else the government chooses to spend its money on.

There's a tipping point, of course, but I think it's far above what's being used now. Still, QE purchases ended last year because the Fed believed the economy to have stabilized sufficiently, so if it does get used again, it's going to make a lot of news, and may rattle the markets.

lets also mention the test equipment vendors that have almost all been bought by the evil danaher: tektronix, fluke and keithley being the big 3 that come to mind. why can't companies stay around, these days? oh, right, if they are honest and provide a product that lasts, that's 'no good' for the current disposable economy. sigh.

audio companies, include, too; harmon kardon and nakamichi come to mind as they are now shells. shit, even b&w (used to be high end speakers) now make fashion headphones for the apple crowd. SQ does not matter, only looks, for that audience.

everyone is engaged in a race to the bottom. pretty depressing, actually.

So what?

Over Twitter and Facebook? That kind of person probably flips their shit over bedsheets not folded the right way. I would wager that at least half the US wouldn't even notice.

Don't forget the space goats with space AIDS. We have much hysteria to do.

At least, till they send some dude out into the field to power cycle the webcam.

From the Wikipedia article:

Perhaps the soot is increasing the effect of the capping inversion? But I'm sure it's just more scientists so colossally ignorant that they failed to check Slashdot first.

He's already a member (presumably a registered doctor in the US), the AMA. That's a labor union.

Less than a quarter of all doctors in the US are members of the AMA.

Except God didn't; man did.

Pope Leo XIII, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis would disagree with you. But you would probably know more about God than those losers, right?

http://w2.vatican.va/content/l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.usccb.org/upload/Pr...

And labor unions would not necessarily make things much better. Many nurses work for under a union, and it tends to create the "well, it's not my job to do X" mentality, because if you're in a union and you do your job but could have done X that is Jane's or Joe's job then you get penalized despite it being faster for you to do it than calling Joe or Jane to do so.

You've never been in a labor union have you?

It's also why it costs $19 to get an aspirin in the hospital.

I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. You think the hospital's markup on drugs is because of the unions?

https://web.williams.edu/Econo...

you completely missed the fucking point

i never said what he did wasn't a crime. i was speaking to the brutality of the punishment

jaywalking is a crime

murder is a crime

should jaywalking and murder have the same punishment?

no?

then ask yourself: did aaron's punishment fit his crime?

do you understand the point now?

I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://rt.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.news.com.au/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com....
http://news.sky.com/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/
http://rt.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.projectcensored.org...
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...

I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.

Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.

Have fun!

So what? Merely having sociopathic desire for wealth and power, which really is normal behavior for anyone who actually can achieve wealth and power, doesn't imply that one is running the Department of Justice.

Says the person who has yet to provide even a shred of evidence in support of their assertions. Here's my reasoning, we are comparing a person actually running the Department of Justice, with full control of day to day activities (including the FBI which is the largest and most powerful federal-level law enforcement organization) and considerable power both as themselves and as an officer who reports directly to the US President, who has access to a variety of top secret info, and a very considerable staff, is somehow less influential than their reincarnation as yet another lobbyist, admittedly one who probably has some manpower for making copies and keeping the schedule straight with a great travel and entertainment budget? I don't buy it.

Sorry, I'm not willing to take your word for it. I'm not willing to merely assume that there are "events". Where's your evidence?