Depends on the accounting. Is it just an advertising write-off and your city ends up with an expensive stadium instead of fixing the potholes, maybe not so much of a deal, especially if you're not into sports. If they're buying various broadcast rights or such, maybe a good deal.

I think the biggest difference between the government space programs and the private space programs is the private programs will be advertising supported. Much of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch was just designed to be good TV; next time expect the rockets to be emblazoned with Durex ads!

In the antediluvian days, before the great internet flood, CompuServe was center of the universe of the digital social space. I am sure that some readers are now asking "CompuWhat?" Then, in the Internet Archaic era, AOL arose to command the hearts and minds and social intercourse of the wired populace. "AOWhat?" Then came the Classical age of internet civilization, where Yahoo was the great Caesar. "Ya-What?". After the Dark Ages of the dotcom meltdown, a social media Renaissance arose with great city states like Myspace and Flickr. "Maybe your space grandpa, but not my space!"

[To quote from the Wikipedia article about Myspace: "From 2005 to 2008, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States. In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of unique worldwide visitors. . . As of January 2018, Myspace was ranked 4,153 by total Web traffic, and 1,657 in the United States."]

Now, Facebook has arisen, to a rousing IPO, intriguing founders and principles, and a flow of money to make the robber barons of the Gilded Age blush with envy. Yet, social preeminence in the digital age would seem to be a fleeting, precarious, and uncertain thing. Of late, Facebook has garnered attention mostly for its dark and nefarious side, akin perhaps to fascism, communism, and other dubious and totalitarian social philosophies of the 20th century.

The Greeks reminded us of the moral perils of hubris, in parables such as Daedalus and Icarus. In modern terms, "the bigger they are, the harder they fall". Given the history of internet social media in the past 20-30 years, anybody heavily invested in Facebook might want to consider their long term position. Who knows - the very existence of monolithic social media behemoths such as Facebook might be more akin to the media model of Snapchat and Instagram, here today gone tomorrow.

You're insane.

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I don't so much say cut spending, but I do believe we should either charge the other nations or stop helping them in time of crisis. That would significantly cut spending.

Lack of aluminum was an issue but the reason the all wood Mosquito was economical was that Britain had a lot of underutilized wood craftsmen during the war. Building the Mosquito would impact neither the existing workforce working with aluminum or require aluminum. Without all of the underemployed furniture makers and musical instrument makers, it would not have been economical.

Like most paranoid delusions, yours requires a few bits of technology that don't exist:

You (conveniently) leave out WHERE all this recording and analysis and other stuff is taking place.

Continuous streaming out of the device, regardless of whether the content can be read, when not "triggered", or after a command was processed, even at a low data rate, would eventually be caught with some enterprising soul with WireShark or WiFi Protocol Analyzer. So there goes your surreptitious always-on monitoring.

And the rest falls right down after that.

Parent should have been the description in the /. story.

Airports are generally even more of a natural monopoly then internet. They take up a lot of land, usually prime land that is in short supply in many cities, and cost a fuck of a lot to build from scratch.
You are right that they (international, small regional can be left to the locals to decide) should have minimal or no subsidies, with the users paying for the upkeep and upgrades. Whether a private bureaucracy mostly run by people interested in a quick profit before they cash out is the best way is arguable.
Here the government turned over the running of them while maintaining ownership and therefore still having a say and presumably making it easy to regulate. The partnership seems to be working well with the airport often voted best in N. America and in the top 10 worldwide. The airport authority has also expanded to managing various other airports including LaGuardia's terminal B.

You libs, with your data and your science. It's a religion, I tell you! You believe all that stuff just because it's been peer-reviewed. It shows just how gullible you really are.

If there really was global warming, don't you think it would have been predicted in the Bible? I'm pretty sure God would have mentioned it.

Donald Trump claims global warming is a myth... and yet he's building sea walls for his golf resort in Ireland to protect it against the sea level rising!

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Having worked for MBAs you can't fool me...

I have thought for years that Windows would be more secure if Microsoft provided a mechanism by which ISVs could hook into the Windows Update process and use that for program updates. The system could required code signatures to ensure that fakes are not being installed. Microsoft could make some money out of it by selling code signing certificates.

Obviously, they would have to take care that the ISV hooks could not overwrite any core Microsoft items and perhaps not overwrite any prior ISV hook.

The organization is 2+ billion, but from TFS, the subset is bound by "US."

Thanks for playing.

Very disingenuous. National debt != government debt != budget deficits. Talking about a budget surplus does not equate.

I see what you did here.....

The issue as I understand it is that a bit of nefarious code running in user scope can take these steps:

1) drop a properly named nefarious dll in a tmp directory
2) alter the userspace path environment variable that will cause skypes updater to search this folder first for that properly named nefarious dll
3) launch the skype installer which will then load the nefarious dll into a super user scope

We don't have any evidence of it, but the media wouldn't be talking about it so much and for so long if it wasn't true.

Clearly, this is yet more evidence that the whole thing is just a massive Chinese time travelling zombie conspiracy! They've teamed with the Knights Templar and the Masons to litter the sea floor with cheap, Chinese hair dryers, which are blowing on the ice and melting it! And the fairies, loyal to the Maoist regime, are taking our good western made CO2 from the atmosphere and replacing it with cheap Chinese made CO2! Wake up sheeple!

Don't forget Ike ruthlessly capped military spending. He knew how the scumbags operated.

That's an interesting chart.

Actually, no. You seem to have missed the words "Includes legal tender notes, gold and silver certificates, etc."

The debt on that page can increase when the government prints more money.

According to the Congressional Budget Office there were real surpluses in the years 1969, and 1998-2001. You'll have to go to Historical Budget Data and open some Excel files to see the actual numbers, but if you do you will see that the debt held by the public decreased in each of those years.

However, that's neither here nor there. Quibbling over the exact numbers doesn't change the fact that Bill Clinton (and a Republican congress) either generated a surplus, or brought America as close as it has been since 1957. But in either case, George W. Bush (and a Republican congress) turned it into the largest deficits in America's history, through a combination of new spending, tax cuts and a disastrous recession.

"But as long as the same company can't purchase both airports, "

Hahahahahahahahaha that's a good one. In every industry there has been consolidation to provide more efficienies (they never say for who. Prices will rise, services will suffer, quality will drop, and security will become an after thought. Because *that* is how the private sector thinks.

Well hopefully they are reducing their H1B visa workers first.

Bah! Pear Anjou cables are the minimum acceptable cables you should be using. Sure, they're about $450/foot but aren't your ears worth it?

(Yes... I'm kidding. But not about that pricing.)

You might be surprised; but I actually agree with you that, beyond their Pro apps (which are FINALLY getting better), Apple has had very disappointing support for multichannel, and high resolution, Audio. And even when the infrastructure support is there (which it actually has been for some time now), it just doesn't seem to get exposed in "common" Applications.

In fact, Apple does care about high-end audio; but they don't seem to want to mess with it outside the Pro arena.

And Actually, AirPlay itself can do more than Redbook audio: It can do at least 5.1:

https://www.5kplayer.com/airpl...

And also, my iPhone 6 can still record in the DAW App at up to 24/96; so that means an iOS framework has to support that for audio. But, I sure would like iTunes to allow 24/96 at least. But it would require a LOT of rewiring of a LOT of iTunes code to make that happen.

But it doesn't actually matter; because, like DAW, the VLC Mobile App is available for iTunes, and it supports, well, a LOT of audio formats, and reportedly does multichannel and high resolution audio.

And Apple most assuredly supports high resolution and multichannel audio, even in iOS!

https://developer.apple.com/au...

PRISM

CSR 867x is a self contained Bluetooth SoC. That might be the only solution that makes sense for wireless headphones, but for a device like the Homepod, using a separate SoC and HCI Bluetooth IC, and decoding the audio on the SoC is also an option. LDAC is available in source code form in Android, so there is no reason for it to be limited to the CSR SoC.

Because application choice for Windows is superior to Linux. This goes doubly so for anyone that also plays games on their computer. It also comes with virtually every computer (Apple aside) sold. Why spend time and effort switching over to another operating system? It doesn't take a genius to figure out.

Ummm... the entire point of airports is to service people from long distances.

My understanding is that the human ear is particularly insensitive to THD in the bass range... is that not the case?

Seriously, I suspect that Russia will buy these and other assets though indirectly.
Trump is paying off putin and destroying America as quickly as possible before he goes to prison for logan act violation or just treason.
Mueller needs to speed this up and get trump/pence into prison soon.

I got this, and I spend literally zero time looking for racist stuff.

I started in 1977.

Too fake! It's gotta be real since it looks so fake and all. Got to give it this much, it is more believable than any moon mission!

I code in Python and JS daily, and C/C++ occasionally. At this point in time there is no way for me to describe a system where I can describe it once, then use the corresponding sub components of the system in various languages. .NET comes close, but I'm not looking for a CLR.

There are several challenges - from straight syntax (easy) to the various libraries and approaches (functional vs OOP). Some things have gotten better, everyone has better initializers and lambdas, but other things have gotten worse (JS and Python now have async) so you don't know if you're calling a blocking function or not.

Almost 20 years after .NET we're more soloed than ever.

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Funny, you accuse me of doing the same thing you did: Look at one sentence and ignore the rest. The 62% was followed by noting it's 13-35 among a large sample of Europe+US; does knowing it's higher than that but lower than 62 in the rest of the Muslim world reduce the problem as to indicate a biased presentation? No. The following was concerning a global average, and the one after that covered both the low end and high end. I could have made the point explicitly, but even the low end in the west is a widespread and massive problem.
For polling error, unless you're proposing there's huge errors exclusively in one direction that happen across multiple polls across the last decade... it doesn't diminish the problem.
And it's not that the racist label bothers me specifically, it's that it indicates societies desire to pretend the problem doesn't exist because trying to fix it wouldn't be PC.