Despite being operated by nuns, The little sisters of the poor is an equal opportunity employer. The health services they operate employ people who are not nuns or priests themselves. The catholic church wants to be able to deny coverage to their "secular" employees on the religious grounds.

Medical insurance should be considered only as a employee benefit with cash value. The catholic church can not dictate how an employee can spend their pay check and they shouldn't be able to dictate what health care options the employee uses.

May the honorable judge Edward R. Korman be subjected to warrantless searches and having his personal data copied by the government as often as possible. He should be okay with it... he legalized it.

As for certifications, like virtually all of them, this one (CMMI) is totally useless in assuring quality.

Proof:

CGI Federal, the lead contractor at Healthcare.gov, is a veritable black belt in software development. In 2012, it achieved the highest possible Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) level for development certification, only the 10th company in the U.S. to do so.

During the Automotive Linux Summit Greg Kroah-Hartman talked about the progress of kdbus.

He did a really poor job justifying the need for kdbus since he talked about QNX type messaging on Linux and how that was already provided by the SIMPL API in which Greg said "works well". Within that same article it is mentioned that the speed increase to D-BUS could be accomplished without moving it to the kernel. He did say that being in the kernel allowed for the order of messages to be guaranteed but it's debatable if message ordering is justification enough.

I don't really see this as something to get too upset about. Like most experimental things within the kernel, you can simply choose to recompile the kernel without kdbus. If Red Hat can live with the additional overhead within kernel space (even with the use of bloom filters to help with message classification and delivery) and support it then it probably won't make much of a negative impact. Red Hat is Gnome based and their architectural decisions are biased towards it anyways.

It was considered scandalous if a newspaper reported something that wasn't factual. Prestige newspapers still won't print anything that wasn't verified, and then work hard to regain their credibility when they find out one of their staff falsified the report. The reputation of the paper is valuable and affect subscriptions. Compare that to blogs that appear and disappear constantly with very little credibility to lose in the first place, or with services like buzzfeed that are geared towards click-bait and not actual news.

You want citations? Look up Jayson Blair, AP fires reporter and editor over McAuliffe, and many other examples are available from a simple Google search

It's already on a UPS. The thing that irritated me the most was that while I was out of town they upgraded my cable modem with a self install kit. The person who did the install left the rechargeable battery in the old modem thinking that the new modem had a battery in it (they are both Arris brand). It wasn't until I returned later that week and noticed that the new modem was lighter than the old one, that I discovered that they no longer send a battery with the cable modem. When I called Comcast about it, they offered to fix the situation for $35 while referring to a policy change that occurred 8 months ago.

You can collect a lot of morse code traffic in the wild. Just get yourself a good HF receiver with some filtering (notch filter and a DSP). Set up a dipole as your receive antenna cut to 1/4 the wavelength of the band you will be monitoring. Here is a handy band plan to guide you to where you will be able to find morse code which is normally called CW for continuous wave communications.

I recommend this over any attempt to collect samples directly from hams. I know I do morse code differently when using the radio for casual contacts than I do making exam tapes back when I was a volunteer examiner.

Another attribute that will affect morse code transmission is the type of morse key being used. I use either a straight key which is completely manual and my dots and dashes do vary depending on fatigue, or a paddle key where one paddle makes a dot and the other key makes a dash. The dots and dashes are consistent in duration but the space between them will vary depending on fatigue. I did try using a vibroplex key. The dash will vary in duration but the dots are constant in both duration and time between each dot. Most of my friends still use them (A mutual acquaintance owns the company), but I found myself constantly having to slow down because I would let that pendulum swing speed up my keying.

Happy hunting and 73.

Technically main isn't a class it's an object. Class implies that a new instance can be generated. An object is an instance of a class.

In Ruby, functions do not have to be explicitly placed in class definitions. Compare this to Java which requires every function to be placed in a class definition.

The fact that Ruby places all of its global functions and values within the application object doesn't change anything and does provide some syntactic sugar since the same reference mechanism can be used for the global functions and values as well as user defined object attributes.

They finally flipped the switch and capped their "unlimited" internet to 300GB. They will automatically upgrade my service (with increased monthly fees) for every 50 GB over the original 300 GB. I can manually downgrade my service back to the original 300 GB whenever I feel 300 GB is enough. Xfinity video service doesn't count towards the cap but YouTube and Netflix does.

Other shenanigans from Comcast includes: Charging extra ($35) for the battery inside the cable modem to keep the telephony working during blackouts and starting in January they will charge $2 each per month for the simple digital converters they gave for free more than 3 years ago when they eliminated their analog signal. Funny how it was free when converters were on sale everywhere. Now that the supply dried up, they'll start charging for what they gave away.

Welcome to Comcast!