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The funny thing here is that the FAA in all their "seriousness" has become the PR department, for free. The FAA's own Altitude Rules pretty much would keep aircraft above the area covered by the town's "Rules of Engagement".

Natalie Giorgi's experience caused me to reconsider this position. When you consider the risk caused by both cross-contamination and by unlabeled products, "sure as hell expect" quickly becomes a life-risk. The "Peanut Butter table" seems like a very small price for my child to pay to help protect the life of a classmate. I have used this as an excellent example for teaching my child human compassion and how they can look out for others.

For what it's worth, CDC data supports your observation that allergies are on the rise.

300 tons (80,000 gallons) of water is approximately...

    * A city swimming pool
    * The amount they dropped on the ground
    * The amount they are leaking into the ocean each day.
    * The amount they are adding to the tank farm a day.

Wow!

If make a "dramatic exit", your pay will cease immediately (presuming no contract). If you give two weeks notice, the company has three options:

1) Let you keep working and pay you, realizing that you will be "less productive".
2) Pay you for the two weeks, but not require (or perhaps not permit) you to come in.
3) Fire you on the spot,

Employers who have been through this are unlikely to pick the "fire you" option because it increases the likelihood of unemployment claims and legal action.

A "dramatic exit" may be more "fun", but "being professional" will likely put more money in your pocket.

"Being professional" is always the best approach. You never know who you may be asking for a job in 5 years.

When human life is involved, even the first preventable death is the "main problem". Had it not been for immature coding practices, the first patient could have been saved, and by extension, the 5 subsequent deaths.

See the wiki page for a laundry list of the root causes.

One of the downsides of open-source and free-software (or whatever you want to call it) is the ability to fork the codebase, which causes maintenance problems, such as this. The other edge to this sword is that as your hardware ages Apple will not support it and nobody can fix it themselves, resulting in an entirely different set of maintenance problems.

Eliminating the sticker, would eliminate the dependence on USMail. When I send in my payment, they update their database, end of story.

Seems much cheaper, easier and robust than installing electronics and communications equipment on each vehicle. On the other hand, this may increase the desire to install anpr on patrol cars.

Amen, Ditto, etc.
If only there were some way to both make it "human readable" and to somehow reduce the bandwidth.

One immediate benefit I can see is in restaurant kitchens and in hospitals. U.S. health laws require minimizing cross-contamination in both. Smooth surfaces are popular in these cases because they are easy to clean. If you are going to introduce a bumpy anti-glare surface, it is probably best that it have anti-bacterial characteristics. Think employee phones, cardiac monitors, register screens, electronic record computers, etc.

Fixed that for ya.

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BSD is about 200-250 words, depending on version, with the newer versions being shorter.

GPL is 2000-5000 words, with the newer being substantially longer.

Is one of them really 10 to 20 times better than the other?

Perhaps a car analogy will help. Imagine there is a bridge that semi trucks hit when they try to go under, but a cars and pickups do not. Without more facts, one can't really say if the problem is that the trucks are too tall or the bridge is too short. In this case, they investigated and discovered the bridge was built shorter than the bridge building rules require. The short-term fix is to post "no semi" signs and use less-tall trucks to get to the other side. The proper fix is to jack up the bridge.

The patch announced today is the "less-tall truck".

If you are having problems with fanless devices getting too dirty inside, you might want to think about improving your indoor air quality, if for no better reason, your own health.

Cpus and other devices with fans stay much cleaner inside if they are not placed on the floor.