A few times we've hit 15% generation by wind here in Ontario, most of the time it's 3-5% you can go weeks without any wind at all here. Solar is well crap, complete crap, even here in the summer even with the massive number of installs it's rare if it breaks 1%. Nuclear makes up between 60-75% of total daily generation as well.

Hell they threw such a fit over the waste-to-energy plant in London, Ontario back 20 odd years ago because "that was too expensive" as well. Never mind that it was generating electricity at 5c/kwh...how the hell that's expensive beats me.

Though I see some greenie has thrown a hissy fit and modded comments down because they don't like facts.

Microsoft has to prove that they won't mess up the smartphone like they did with the desktop. Consumers who use Windows do so because they have to not because they want to. Microsoft never was able to get a strong foothold in the mobile market, because there was too much bad feeling about having to use Windows on their PC. With the problems that were prevalent during the mid-late 1990's still sticks in people head.

Blackberry biggest mistake was not being more developer friendly. Once apple allowed for custom Apps, and Exchange compatibility, that started to put a nail in blackberry dominance.

My best guess is there are a lot of apps out there with the following pseudo-code.
If (OS_Name.contains("9")) {
      throw "YOU MUST BE USING Windows XP or better"
}

This is why Plan 9 OS never got popular as well.

For the most part, because the US is leaving a recession, that means there are more people hiring.
Having Linux on your resume has never been a bad thing to have. Even if you are working in a Microsoft Shop, the chances are there will be the odd Linux system for some particular application. And hiring people with more skills then less is normally a good thing.

Without reboots, how am I to know if I setup my rc.d scripts correctly? Or kill that background app a user ran nohup myscript.sh &
I mean without having to reboot the system, I am expected to do real systems administration work, not just a blanket refresh everything, once in a while. Patches gave me a good excuse to do such.

I honestly do not know. I never worked for the NSA. I do not know the culture. Me personally I would have quit, when I started to deal with information that was getting into the gray area of my morals, and couldn't communicate my issues up the chain.
However I think the line is in the details. Whistleblowing the few big issues as a general problem. Spying on US Citizens communication, having back door keys with big companies consumer products. Wiretapping our friends leaders phones. Should be enough to alert attention, without giving the detail that could disrupt a legit operation in plan, and put others at risk.

For me the real issue isn't what the NSA did, or is doing, but the fact there isn't any bottom up mechanism to alert on potential wrong doing.

The President wants to know what a country is doing. The edict goes to the NSA, The higher ups push it different departments, Each department uses its own specialty to answer the question to the best of its ability. Somewhere down the chain of direction the line was crossed. Or no one actually crossed the line, but the outcome of each legit action became an illegal total action.

Well that group of people who are fit, have altered their workout to have cardio exercise without using their legs.
If you have legs that allow you to be mobile, then the best cardio exercise is moderately high intensity, low resistance, that gets your heart rate up for a long time. Humans have evolved to hunt prey not by running faster than them, but tiring them out. While that bison can run 20 mph vs our 10mph, if in decent condition we can maintain that speed for about 5 minutes, while the bison may be able to keep that speed for 1 minute. So we just force them to run until they collapse. If you cut that speed down a bit you can go on exponentially longer. Running for hours at 5 mph.

Genes are a factor but not as great as you like them to be. The I have bad Genes argument is a copout towards working towards a better life. Your environment, has a major effect as well, and you have luck too. Changing your environment helps your odds.

Lets say everytime you smoke a cigarette you have a 1 in 500,000 chance of getting lung cancer. Lets say your genes make you more resistant so you may have 1 in 600,000 chance instead. So if you have good genes and you smoke a packs of cigarettes a day that is 20 chances in that 1 in 600,000 a day. If you have the average genes, and you don't smoke then you may get 1 chance every week from second hand smoke.

The evidence of the person who lived a long life despite having a risk factors may be due to just dumb luck, combined with other positive lifestyle choices not mentioned to get the overall odds up.

Also what you may call a bad Gene isn't necessarily a bad gene, but they are designed for a life style that we are not living.
There are people who keep on eating junk food and stay skinny, their body has a high metabolism. With our culture that seems like a good thing, however for these people if they are late for their meal or cannot eat, they merely go into a panic, their body had used up more energy then they took in, and they just used that energy for silly things, such as shaking their leg while sitting, or creating more body heat. Then you have someone with a slower metabolism, that means they will be tend to be heavier, and store extra fat, this extra fat can cause health issues. However if they are unable to eat for a while they are not in such a shock. Now if you have a slow metabolism, and you need to manage the risks of being fat, then you need to exercise, to force your metabolism to go up for while and burn fat, and/or adjust your diet to insure you are just taking in the amount your body needs.

That Gym membership doesn't change your Genes, but if you use that Gym membership, it will help you work with what your genes had evolved you to do.

One is taken to wondering how power prices can drop 40% when there are tons of new infrastructure being bought and labor being paid to install it. Wind power isn't *THAT* much cheaper to run. I have a funny feeling there are significant tax breaks being given to the companies installing the stuff and tax increases being levied on citizens to make this 40% drop happen...which, if true, means it's not really 40% cheaper, it's just those savings are being offset by higher costs elsewhere.

It can't compete with anything, though it's not nearly as bad as solar. In Ontario the Feed in tariff for wind is 30-60c/kwh, solar hits as high as 80c/kwh. Compared to hydro-electric 2c/kwh, nuclear 5c/kwh and NG 7c/kwh, there's no way to get that lower either, but I agree that it should be reduced to zero. The tech can sink or swim on it's own, and right now it's driving up electricity rates so fast that businesses are leaving and so are people and moving to where it's cheaper to live. We're still on track for the most expensive electricity in north america. Next year will tell for sure though.

Of course in many greenies handbooks this is a-okay. After all, they seem to want to bankrupt people and drive everyone into poverty for "feel good projects."

What is with this -200 - 200 BS
At least tell us how to get these numbers. Is it based in heart rate, O2 levels, speed /age, length of time at a given heart rate. Just saying people who score over 100 are a strong indicator is meaningless unless we know how this number is calculated. I am sick of the media hiding science details and math from the public. No wonder why so many people do not trust science, the media covering it treats it like a magic box, that only special people with a PHD can get.

Doxing isn't using public information. It's using private information. Otherwise a phone book would be doxing, so would house addresses.

The records law was brought into the 21st century after Clinton left the State Department. Also, she turned over all official correspondence.

She may not have violated any laws.

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If he is able to get a Fair trial. (This is the United States, our criminal justice system while isn't perfect, isn't so bad off that it cannot be done). There should be enough people for a fair jury, especially due to morally ambiguous issues, whistle blowing to show off abuse vs. just following order.
The trial can be used to bring to light rules on how to correctly whistle blow, and force changes in the organizations structures.

My personal view, I think he went too far, while I admire his intentions he crossed the line. However crossing that line means now the court will need to show where that line is.

I expect he will get 10-20 years of prison. Then get hired to work for some political action group.

Our history shows that people who willingly take their time for their actions, usually end up looking better in the eyes of history then the guy who cowers in some other countries borders.

But if Google gets a reputation of not showing businesses, just because they have a hissy fit, then people won't use it because it isn't giving them accurate search results.
But Google and Facebook, are very popular, but still not vital. I can change my habits for Google with Yahoo or Bing,
I can swap Facebook with Twitter, linkedin or even Google+

Telco on the other hand own the infrastructure and you have little choice but to use it, or if you are using a competing service many of them are still renting the infrastructure from them as well. So if say your local Cable provider decides that your home or business isn't worth maintaining, without regulations, they will just cut you off, and you will be SOL. And because they have a captive audience they really don't care about getting a bad repuation.