The real security for blackberry apps is in that they made it such a PITA to develop for Blackberry that nobody bothers.

Never was so much owed by so many to so few bankers.

Most Tesla buyers in Europe and the US also get it more for show than the environment.

IMHO that's a good thing, you now have some people getting a Nissan Leaf because it makes economic sense in some situations, and some people get a Tesla because a Tesla is an awesome car. Electric cars are not just about the environment anymore, and that in the end will help the environment.

(I'm not saying nobody gets a Tesla for the environment, but despite what people may say it's for, lets be honest, usually it isn't really)

There is a huge difference between making a law and applying a law, obviously. This is just standards, not what you will actually find when you measure.

But here you go:

China:
SO2: 20ug/m^3 (60 in urban areas)
NOx: 50ug/m^3
PM10: 40ug/m^3 (70 in urban areas)
Ozone: 160 ug/m^3
CO: 10000 ug/m^3

Well, it may seem like a wash because it's complicated. The EU only sets broad rules, which the individual countries then must implement.

Also, you can't always directly compare rules.

However, For instance for some directly possible comparison:

SO2 Annual mean is 20 microgram per m^3 in the EU, 79 in US.
NOx: 40 vs 100 ug/m^3
PM10: 40 vs 50 ug/m^3
Ozone: 120 vs 160 ug/m^3 (way of measurement differs slightly)
CO: same for both 10000 ug/m^3

These are *huge* differences. It may seem like a wash, but on the scales we are talking about, these are enormous differences.

Of course, some regulations may be stricter in the US than EU, I didn't do a full on study on this.

(these numbers may be a couple of years out of date, but I doubt there were many changes)

Having said that, my previous comment wasn't entirely meant to be serious. In fact, I'm all in favor of applying more pressure on countries to do things about pollution. Also, the EU regulation might be a bit over the top.

Great, so will the US then also meet EU polution standards? Or does this rule only apply when you like it?

A factor of 1.5 won't matter for the drake equation, hell, a factor of 1000 is inconsequential. The only relevant parts are fl and fi (chance of life, and chance of life evolving into intelligent life), and we will never find them out even in approximation.

I brought this up with my physician. Apparently these inconvenient side effects can actually be damaging if you have them long term, while allergens don't cause harm at all (that is the definition of an allergen). Of course, in the case of something that does cause harm, the immune response would be beneficial, but it's hard to tell the difference. In the case of someone with allergies, it's just the fact that in >95% of cases the problem is just allergy and it's beneficial to suppress the reaction.

Nonetheless, you are completely right of course.

Let the one who has never missed a deadline throw the first stone...

Large healthcare IT ventures are notoriously hard. Yes, screwups were made, but lets not stamp everyone that worked on this project into the ground. It's good to level criticism at those involved to show them we are not pleased at what was delivered, but they are humans, and despite what you believe there are plenty of hard working, smart people working at these boring and incredibly hard government projects.

Did you try searching for how to disable Chrome auto-update?

Set the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes to the REG_DWORD value of "0"

That's it. A single register value change. Now, I get what you are saying, it's not a GUI option, they don't want average users to disable it, which gives me mixed feelings as well. Many users probably have never heard of regedit. However, for someone posting on /. it shouldn't be that hard.

It can add clarity to always match up the exact types of left and right sides of equations and function arguments.

So for some it will be appreciated, even though you are absolutely correct that it's not necessary (assuming C).

According to bitcoincharts.com, trading volume in the past 24h was over 540k bitcoins. Not sure what part of that is from exchanges, but I doubt 30k extra bitcoins are going to really be earth shattering. I could be wrong though, Bitcoin prices are volatile and this kind of news can affect things and cascade.

I'm from the Netherlands. Are you saying my government is spying on IBM and Microsoft? This is like being caught robbing a bank with an assault rifle, and then saying it's alright, because everyone steals something sometimes, 'Danny from down the road stole a piece of chocolate too!' or such. Newsflash for you: Most intelligence agencies spy on things that they believe are actual threats to their security. They don't go mass-intercept Facebook traffic in foreign countries of innocent people.

Now, I'm sure that intelligence agencies here do things they shouldn't do sometimes. And there are also a handful of other countries doing really shitty stuff from their intelligence agencies. I suggest we try to stop all of the wrongdoings, rather than just point and say 'they do it too!'

Obviously never been married. On both advantages.

You know what, pay me 80 pounds and I'll give you no helmet at all: apparently it's scientifically proven to produce less head injuries than your 'more hole than helmet' ones and it provides great ventilation.