Was it just me or did anyone else have a hard time following that summary? At first I thought it was Yitang Zhang who settled "a long-standing open question". But the first sentence is actually talking about the eight - James Maynard.

So in summary, if a pair of primes is defined by one following the other, it was theorized that we would find an infinite number of such pairs separated by 2. Various people have proven that gap to be from 70m, 60m, 4680, and now 600. Thank you James Maynard.

People don't get it. It's the end of a really long barrel. They are going to use it to shotgun Steve's ashes into space.

Its a web I will highly avoid... even to make a point. I normally ignore the "survey" pop ups that happen. If I come across these sites that use this crap... I will totally spam that survey with negative (but valid) crap to the point that they will stop having surveys (I doubt they will stop the DRM).

Every consulting company out there has multiple off the shelf, turnkey payroll options. Just that no one wants them. Most of the time, the "consultants" just customize one of the options as per the customer's unique needs. Then the customer has even more extremely special and unique needs. Some clearly poor practices and some just not feasible. About 1/2 way through the project people realize that the customer never wanted an off the shelf, turnkey solution. They want a custom built solution. But they just keep going cause its hard to stop a train; even thou they all know the wreck that is coming.

Funny thing is that if people just bit the bullet and understood the limits of a turnkey or that they wanted a custom solution, they would certainly save a lot of money. It would cost more than the original budget but it would cost a LOT less than the end result. This is why people just don't be honest up front. No one likes approving a $100k project while there is a $90k option. No matter how wrong the second is, they just spend $9.9k figuring out how make the later look good in the summary reports.

I have spent an unfortunately amount of time & cost convincing and proving to the decision makers what basically to me was 2+2 can not equal 5. It feels insulting most of the time cause they bring us in for our "expert" opinions, but don't trust said opinions. Until there is a cost that is big enough to show up as a line item in a report or some high up gets red in the face. Its sad, but just the way of the world.

Go fly to the UK, Mexico, and India to one of their international hospitals to get treatment. They aren't the "local hospital" the internationals are coming, they are international hospitals designed for international customers. Oh, many of these also accept US health insurance. And for some procedures, the insurance company will actually encourage and pay for you and one other to fly, stay, and get the procedure done in a foreign country. That kind of says it all.

See how many people go to these places vs the US. And then figure out how behind the US is in patient care.

Don't get me wrong, we got the best medical facilities, and doctors in the world bar none. But that is all we got and the price tag that goes with it and it is all very inefficient. Most others have some thing that is 95% of what we got, at 50% of the cost or better. And also, they have options, they have services that are 50% of what we offer but at 1% the cost. We only have the best of the best of the best @ $$$$... and that's it.

In this day and age, the mighty United States of America has been reduced to feeling "terror" from "twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years."

Wasn't that a standup joke 20 years ago?

Castration is usually done cause it makes the animals more docile and easier to manage. In rage or fright an uncastrated male will kill you, but a castrated one will feel the slap you give it and stop. But no, it is not required. Normally one is kept around uncastrated (ie strongest of the litter), it also acts to calm all the other males.

This is far from true. Cows (assuming male and female) are one of the most useful animals ever. They are equivalent to dogs in terms of usefulness. They are a dependable transport, good at hauling load, provide major labor in the field, provide mike (a whole food), provide yogurt, provide butter, provide fertilizer, provide fuel for fire (in two ways), provide leather upon death, and make more cows. Historically they have even provided security and warmth (cause they used to live in the same house as the owner).

Horses are great for colder climates and drier terrain, but cows are better in hot, wetter, humid, and muddy terrain.

Cows were such an integral part of a family that the only time they were eaten was upon natural death. However natural death mean it usually died of old age or some sort of disease so it was considered unhealthy. Later this was adopted into religion and made sacred so that society saw this act as dishonorable and unethical.

For many of the situations that the parent is talking about, this is not true. Spreadsheets with massive business logic are extremely expensive and very inflexible, more so than DB apps. Just no central group/organization reviews, audits, and tallies these costs like they do for developed applications. Therefore, people assume the spreadsheet is cheaper. Do actual IT audits where these things fall into scope... and you quickly realize just how ridiculously risky the entire deck-of-cards-business is running.

A name is just a name. The code doesn't belong to either you nor the new developer (most cases). It belongs to the client. If they wanted to change the name or the new developer (agent owner) wanted to; it is completely fine and legal cause they own the work. If you wrote something and you owned it, it is your right to put your sons or wife's name on it.

Having said that, it has nothing to do with proving you wrote it in an interview. If someone said that you didn't write something, cause another persons name is on it. MOVE ON. Get your head out of your ethical ass and simply say they clearly did a lot of updates and the current version belongs to the new dev but you wrote the original. If the interviewee says you didn't create it, simply tell them you can answer any question about it's early development. Have them prove you didn't do it. If you are that uncomfortable about answering such questions, then don't have it on your résumé. Just your depth of detail in answering any questions will show people that you have intimate knowledge of the program. Let them come to their own conclusions about their developer. Don't be the dumb ass attacking their company by throwing out or implying accusations (however valid) in an interview.

Remember you DO NOT own the code, but that doesn't mean you can't take credit for your hard work. Two completely separate things.

All this does now is slightly increase the cost to the credit card holders as it is just charging them rather than spreading it across the customer base. It also makes it very transparent to the consumer and becomes another factor in choosing to purchase at a certain retailer.

Some retailers will choose to not pass on the cost to those generating it. Others will pass on the cost similar to a tax. Yet others will pass on the cost via discounts for cash and maybe debit. It will be interesting to see which of the prior wins. 2-3% isn't much, but today it does affect where people shop for gas. So I think it will have an impact on sales and retail is a low margin business.

The whole point of credit is to increase volume. I think the retailers who do NOT pass on the cost will eventually win. Also the cost of manually handling cash is not small, just better covered up and has more unknown risk. So for small to some parts of middle level retail this may make sense as they already have the infrastructure for handling cash and it is underutilized. But for semi-large to large operations, any increase in cash transactions probably mean additional costs.

For the former, they will choose the discounts for cash. The later will continue business as usual. I don't see my normal shopping retails like Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, and Target changing anything. But maybe Walgreens and CVS will go the Aldi way. I am a credit card guy so I will probably adjust by lowering the volume I do in the smaller group.

Make sure that you read up on all the building codes or talk to an inspector for the below.

1) A 2-3" conduit from top to bottom. Possibly two depending on the number of wires you will be running which depends on the number of rooms on each floor. Don't forget to fire stop and steel plate the floor/ceiling studs.
2) 1" electrical (grey PVC) conduit in each room, including garage. Top floor goes to attic, and bottom floors go to basement. If no basement, all conduits go to attic. Same regs as #1
3) Drop a HDMI over ethernet where ever you are going to put a TV or system. All lead back to the command center so you can do & change what links to what there.
4) Put in a magnetic circuit trip on each window and door. Most homes already come with this (security system) but you can better segment the house (ie: a circuit for sets of living room windows). Of course leading back to command center.
5) Wire in motion sensors in rooms and hallways (cameras are a bit creepy). Again, this may already be done for you. Wireless is fine too.
6) In wall speakers in every room (hey, you said you have 10k plus) (I haven't done these)
7) In wall mics (I haven't done these)
8) Camera for front and back door.
9) UPS (w/ 2x cheap car batteries) at the command center.
10) Tablet on fridge for kitchen inventory & movies

1-3 & 8-10 are obvious. 4 & 5 you want to hook up to an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. It can email you a SMS when your phone (you) isn't in the house and someone trips one. 6 & 7 if you want to do voice commands with playlists or your TV(s).

I think the above pretty much summarize the demands on your command center.

Why was this marked +4 Interesting? The poster basically posted a random all-encompassing opinion with out any sources.

In North America? Have you traveled to parts outside of the Continental US to make that claim? I don't think Mexico & Canada would like to be put into the same bucket.

Least Respected? You said NA so I am guessing compared to the world. There are many countries out there where the senior students run the school and/or the teachers only show up to work on pay day.

Poorest Paid Professional? Google: http://www.teacherportal.com/teacher-salaries-by-state/
Average HOUSEHOLD income? Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
Nuff Said (if you compare to most other countries, foreign teachers make less or about the same relative to other jobs there).

Longest hours? Google: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/survey-teachers-work-53-hours-per-week-on-average/2012/03/16/gIQAqGxYGS_blog.html

53?!? And 6-8 weeks of PTO? WOW. Talk to any IT Developer, 50-100 hours per week. Average, easily 60. I was in Accounting & Auditing and averaged 55 hours (60+ for month, quarter, & annual closes). In IT, averaged 55; 100+ for deadlines. As an IT PM, 50-70 hours. 15-20 days PTO + 10 holidays.

And no, that does not count the hours spent on further education, certifications, and air travel for clients. And in the consulting world, not seeing home Monday to Thursday. Yes, our salaries are higher, 50k starting and growing to 80k+ over 5+ years, but considering the hours, I think comparable to teachers.

BUT COME ON, "consistently one of the least respected, poorest paid professionals... longest hours of anyone"? BULL! Go see a few episodes of Dirty Jobs.

Seniority has nothing to do with teachers becoming "heroes". My teacher heroes can be counted on both hands and they were some of the least paid in the schools (except 2). I respect them to the Nth degree. But the worst teachers, although just 4, made some of the highest salaries (90k+). Every time this topic comes up, I remember those 4 and think how much of a handicap each generation that they touch start off with. All the other teachers were mediocre but I still thank them for their contribution to what I am today.

THANK YOU. I had to come this far down to read a post where the poster may know SOMETHING about HFT and trading in general. People see "$450m" mistake and instantly think that is a BAD thing and that HFT is the culprit that must be stopped. I was losing faith in Slashdot.

People, believe it or not, HFT is one of the few things that migrates power from the centralized, connected elites to the little guys (and if you aren't making $500k+ a year, you are the little guy). It is one of the few equalizers that is on your side. Before, being on the trading floor or in the box was worth the massive cost to be, now a days, it is more a symbol of "Wall Street" and "Markets" than anything else of real value. This is because electronic trading & HFT have made the location of the end user and their position in society less relevant.

I think the modern day equivalents of "Export Tea leaves to Britain, buy back, and pay taxes on tea" and "Have coastal territories pay taxes on salt" is Design and Software patents.