I work down the street from their menlo park/willow road campus. Right now Facebook is building an apartment complex across the street from HQ. They've promised to only rent 10% of the apartments to their employees with the other 90% being offered to the general public at market rate.

Despite the nice sounding name, Menlo Park's east side is akin to East Palo Alto. Slum neighborhoods, crime, ghetto. With the influx of google/facebook employees however the neighborhood is slowly gentrifying.

I think facebook wants to turn the neighborhood into something more appealing for their employees.

Hi Mr Harrington.

Thank you for your blog. Everything we've long suspect about the TSA's attitude and purpose was validated by your posts. It was brave of you to be the whistleblower, and I think all of us owe you a debt of thanks.

So what happens when I pull up in my model S with a relatively new battery and it gets swapped for a battery that's been to hell and back and can barely hold a charge?

Michael, Trevor or Franklin to clean it up in a submarine

Roku doesn't have the Play store (tm). If Amazon allows you to connect controllers, it will be emulation happy times.

I know my relatives up in Minnesota despite their bitching about it being -60 are glad that it's decimated the ash bore beetle infestation. Up here in the north east we're hoping it'll have the same effect on the Asian longhorn beetle as well.

Though evolution being what it is, enough of these really cold winters and we'll just have populations of these insects that can winter over these temperatures.

I wasn't disappointed! On a serious note, I thought they were building the godzilla of ice walls to fix this?

Just curious,

Instead of pumping in (then polluting) seawater, why not just let the thing meltdown? It would essentially bury the fuel. After it drops down a 1000' or so, fill the hole in with cement. I wouldn't be too worried about volcanic eruptions, radiation is what keeps the earth core nice and soft.

Let me google that for you:
Sheep Are Highly Adept at Recognizing Faces, Study Shows
http://news.nationalgeographic...

Had a friend ask me this once. I honestly couldn't come up with an answer. You look at the nuts and bolts of O/S's both realtime and non realtime, and it's basically all the same stuff, with more emphasis given to lower transaction times. Is it just a buzzword? Not trying to troll, but if someone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.

...at all times it has to enhance my vision, not distract it.

Google Glass, AFAIK, does not meet this criterion yet.

Water saving measures have drained funds from water taxes that are used to maintain the infrastructure...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

that cyclists, especially commuters, have been strapping GoPros and the like to their helmets for a while now, and they don't try to conceal them in any way, hoping that motorists will behave better on the road, knowing that they are being videorecorded.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/...

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SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
Solyndra ($535 million)*
Beacon Power ($43 million)*
Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
SunPower ($1.2 billion)
First Solar ($1.46 billion)
Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
EnerDelâ(TM)s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
Amonix ($5.9 million)
Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
Abound Solar ($400 million)*
A123 Systems ($279 million)*
Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
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Range Fuels ($80 million)*
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Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
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Vestas ($50 million)
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Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
Navistar ($39 million)
Satcon ($3 million)*
Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
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These are the 4 agencies you have to pay royaltees to.

I've seen the rates. Altogether it's about $6k per year to stream your standard shoutcast style station. When streamers like spotify, etc have revenues in the millions, that's a drop in the bucket.

The only time there is a sabot in the gears is when it's video. Then your standard mechanical/compositional licenses fees are required, and on top of that a Sync license is required which adds an entire clusterfuck of problems. With non-sync you just pay the 4 agencies, but none of them collect Sync rights. You have to track down every person involved in the production to get permission to stream any music with video in it.