If Michael White is that stupid then it explains a lot. The Direct TV UI is completely horrid in every way. The guide sucks the menus suck, the remote sucks. It's better than the garbage that Comcast has, but only marginally. All of the Cable or Satellite providers have the crappiest UI possible on their boxes. Because they refuse to spend any money on them so they have the box engineers simply slap one together for the least possible cost.

Apple is going to wipe the floor with them. If apple finds a way to have a $45.00 a month subscription to most of the desired channels out there but in a On demand form, They will utterly destroy Dish and the others.

Ever hear of NIMBY? It's easy to be against all regulations that protect other people's property.

Wanting protections for your own backyard makes you a concerned citizen. Wanting protections for everyone's back yard makes you an environmentalist -- and apparently a socialist.

Anyhow, the concerns raised by the group are reasonable, but raising a reasonable concern should not amount to veto power. The sensible way to respond to a reasonable concern is to commission an environmental impact assessment, give the public a little time to critique the study, then make a decision one way or the other. Either way there will be people who aren't satisfied, but there's no point in even talking to people who will only be satisfied unless they get their own way.

The long coexistence of wildlife and launch operations at the Kennedy Space Center is promising, but not conclusive. You can't generalize or reason from first principles one way or the other in cases like this. You have to work from location-specific data. While it is hard to put a precise cost on an environmental impact assessment, the cost of determining whether there's a reasonable concern here isn't likely to be a significant financial burden to a project like this.

As if laying on your couch and simply watching your TV is the pinnacle of Western Civilization?

"TV, I'd like to watch 'Boardwalk Empire'"

"Mobile Tata - I don't understand boardwalk empire."

"TV, play 'Boardwalk Empire'"

"I couldn't find 'Boardwalk Empire' in your music, Mobile Tata.

"Oh fuck it, make me some popcorn"

"I'd blush if I could"

Somehow, I don't see this as working out too well
(Dialog pulled directly from yeah-but-it's-still-a-beta Siri)

Did you just whoosh us?

Are you trying to be subtly humorous?

Or have you completely missed the fact that the little "Apple TV" picture you linked has been for sale for a couple of years and isn't the mythical Apple "Living Room Killer" device that the Jobsian disciples are fervently praying for?

Yeah. There are a number of local sites I'd like to look at. Especially the ones that are located in the water. I'm assuming the data comes from the forest edge, but it looks odd. If you look at the data for, example, Southeastern Alaska you see giant swaths of dots that occur in a regular pattern. I'm assuming that the center location of the data point and that area surrounding it has evidence of vegetation change from the sensor.

Zoom out and you see that the entire boreal landscape is dotted.

So, either 1) forestation changes (not necessarily de forestation, but some sort of change profound enough to get picked up by the system) is happening all over the boreal landscape (an enormous amount of the planet, larger than the Amazonian Rainforest) or 2) the data doesn't mean a whole lot - that there are two many false positives (at least in this presentation) to be particularly useful.

Either that or there are one hell of a lot of Canadian lumberjacks jumping about.

That's true, but it's also true that we older folks don't have the memory for arbitrary strings of data that we used to. So our choice is to use the same password for everything, use weak, easy to remember passwords, or use some kind of memory aid. I've opted for the last. I use KeepPassX religiously and generate unique, strong passwords for every site I use. I only have to remember one, moderately strong password which never gets transmitted over the wire.

In fact a few people like me probably skew the results if you're going by averages. According to TFA the average user chosen password has less than ten bits of entropy. My low-sensitivity site passwords have about 40-50 bits of entropy but my banking and ecommerce passwords have over 80. Remembering a half-dozen 80 bit passwords including mixed case, numbers and symbols would be a challenge for anyone, but it's a cinch if you don't even try.

Another trick I've recommended for people to use for sensitive data is to write down a several strong prefixes, carry them in your wallet, and concatenate them with weak but easy to remember password.

My right to privacy does not mean that I have no expectation of accountability - especially in terms of city governance, if the city will not avow of the cameras, then how do I know who to impeach or vote out of office in the next election for misuse of funds?

Commissioned sales are done exclusively in intensely competitive markets. Why? Because the only money to be made is off the suckers who will fall for high pressure sales. Even if you alienate the other 80% of the market, you're just driving them to your competitors, where their negotiating prowess will make them a net COST to your competitor. As an example, the moment a dealership figures out you are a '500 over dealer price' negotiator, they should stop talking to you. Their net on those deals is risking going negative (and the situation gets worse the longer it takes you to haggle them to that price, so it's best if they can figure you out quickly and send you on your way). That frees them up to focus on the people from whom they can actually extract some profit.

The people that voted to pass it never even read it.