Lol, I literally grew up in PA TX and BC, and live in WA. Don't try to tell me you can't use solar and wind pretty much everywhere in the world, I've literally built bridges and airports as far north as Alaska and as far south as Texas.

I said pumped water up an incline, if you can't use batteries. They use it in places like Norway and Zambia.

It's 2019, not 1969.

AC why should wealthy nations have to "pay" to give their own money to poor nations?
Worst case scenario AC the wealthy nations become poor. The poor nations stay poor.
AC "mass famine, lack of potable water, civil unrest, insane expenditures" are all part of living in poor nations.
The money given to "upgrade" water pipes, educate police, stop corruption never reaches the engineers/police/gov/mil in that poor nation.
Let rich nations enjoy the wealth they had they had the skill to create.
Poor nations will have to slowly work out what their "skill" is and sell that globally.

Cant manage oil, wood, mineral exports, fishing, tourism, logging, faming. After decades of advice/investment/loans/support/the UN?

Thats not the rest of the world doing "something" with climate.

Thats the fault of a nations own workers, bureaucrats, engineers and gov AC.
The failed nation wanted to stay Communist, a theocracy, a kingdom, as a dictatorship.
With that type of gov the "potable water, civil unrest, insane expenditures" are not a priority.
The gov/mil have other projects to spend UN "climate" money on AC.
More money given by the UN as "climate" spending will just feed more gov/mil corruption in that nation AC.

Open up google news. Enjoy all the editorials as the top links. Notice how the headlines are clustered to present a very slanted perspective. Notice how Google's own "authorative sources" are always linked, sprinkled with the occasional Fox piece.

If you can even call them editorials, and not just blatant DNC propaganda.

I'm sure it's all about the "fairness" of presenting an interpretation of the world they want you to have, even if it isn't factually correct.

Point is, it isn't just the headlines and the sources. It's the aggregators too. Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.

How does reducing the acidity of our watersheds hurt the local economy?

Do you want to pay extra for Canadian lobster and clams and oysters shipped?

Don't you want to save American fisheries and use local materials instead of offshore it?

I think they'd say that they're happy to pay royalties in general. And they recognize those who make the product.

Why can't a dispute like this simply mean that there is a disagreement as to what's fair? And not an evil plot?

What makes you think the actual artists are going to get the money?
That's not what royalties are for. Royalties are for record companies to grab.

So working with paper is as dangerous as working with arsenic treated wood? That's basically what you're saying here, the process used to make the wood is similar to that of making paper. I believe you're confused about other dense-wood products which used more dangerous chemicals.

The sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfite weaken the lignan and hemicellulose, just like in the paper process. However, instead of grinding it into dust before processing it into a mash, the beams are left whole. It's then pressure and heat treated, resulting in wood that is 80% less volume for the same mass. Processing it is no more dangerous than processing paper, because it basically is a solid block of very dense paper.

I regretted mine until about 7 years later when I encountered a problem at work that I could not have solved without the knowledge I gained in one of my third year subjects. Not only did it allow me to solve the problem, none of my 'undegreed' colleagues could even comprehend the issue.

The article doesn't mention anything about the amount of lapsed time since completing their degrees, so I wonder if it was even considered.

There were no "facts asserted". There are no facts about future.

You want evidence about probabilities of single events?

I've noticed that one of the commoner "predictive dialing" tools (i.e. the ones that save human employee salaries by calling people first, then connecting a salesman {or hanging up if none are available} if somebody answers) makes a characteristic "boonk" sound as it's connecting the human.

Does anybody happen to know the name of the particular brand of hardware or software tool which does that?

(I suspect it's a product, rather than some company's one-off, because it's present on a lot of very diverse promotions, and occurs with salespersons with both Indian and various regional US accents.)

Personally, I regret not having the wallpaper. I am a college dropout. I left college and came back several times for another 'dip in the pool of knowledge.' I have enough credits that I would be a college Junior if I returned and my credits transferred.

What I really regret about not just plowing through and getting the degree is that when I first entered college in 1977, the full-time tuition at the 'Big 10' school that I enrolled at (University of Minnesota) was about $800 a quarter. I could have just persisted and gotten the wallpaper for cheap.

Assuming there is still some intrinsic value in doing what you enjoy, regardless of the pile of dollars you leave on the table, shouldn't happiness factor into the equation?

That's true.

A lot of hacking going on. Keeps me busy and well paid.

'round these parts they are called "douche nozzles" because everyone that vapes from one lectures those that smoke tobacco every chance they get. Sort of like how whenever food comes up a vegetarian/vegan is compelled to tell everyone about their virtue.

The people wish they would not have chosen.

If parents tought respect and morals. The problems childern/people would not need these skills. As it is, they don't want them. Read back.

Respect and morals for others, being tought from child hood. Even when you disagree. Would resolve a lot of the hate we see.

But, people don't have it. And karma is kicking in. When you hate someone, that is what you receive back.

That works great for video - assuming the glued-on cover is in fact completely opaque to both visible and near-infrared light, which a coin or pretty much any other piece of metal is. Plastic, paper, or most glues or paints on the other hand probably will not. And modern video processing can recreate an astounding amount of the original detail from the dim and distorted patterns of light that penetrate through a translucent object.

Unfortunately, microphones are actually far more challenging - almost nothing is opaque to sound, and even if you fully encase the microphone in a solid blob of glue, fully bonding the diaphragm to the electronics, the acoustic vibrations within the solid itself will still generate a signal, the only question is whether electronic noise is sufficient to fully obscure it against sophisticated reconstruction.

Your strategy is probably quite good enough for dissuading casual spies and hackers looking for titillation or a small personal advantage. But put real wealth or power on the line, and you don't want to make the mistake of assuming that just because you can't make any sense out of a heavily muddled recording, that advanced signal processing can't restore enough of the original to provide a substantial advantage.

>" two-thirds of employees report having regrets when it comes to their advanced degrees"

Solution: ironically, educate potential students about degrees BEFORE they act- what they are, what fields are out there, what they cost, what each degree disciplines means, if they are marketable, if that person has any aptitude for any degree (much less the one they pick), alternative choices, etc.

Causing it and making it worse: having government subsidize student loans, trying to get more people to have degrees, making it "free" (yeah, as if it is free), "forgiving" trillions of dollars of debt for people being irresponsible and shifting that debt to everyone else who was/is responsible, telling everyone they have to have a degree, rewarding colleges for doing the "wrong thing", etc.

Hey, moron.

Who do you think will show up at my door if I commit fraud and start broadcasting with another station's ID/logo/callsign?

It should be pointed out that the people of San Francisco don't want you to move there.

to give to poor nations so they can be wealthy too?

How much redistribution of wealth under the cover of "climate" will make the UN happy?

Nation getting too cold? Thats climate change. Get some more UN grant money for that.
Nation too hot? Thats global warming. Apply for a huge UN grant.
Nation not getting colder/hotter? Get free UN money to get "ready" for climate change.

Free UN wealth for everyone in poor nations.

Wealth nations have to pay more and more to stay in the "UN".
Time for some wealthy nations to exit the UN?
Keep your nations wealth and walk away from global UN tax demands.

From the article:

Either they are asking questions that slant towards negativity, or people just have a skewed understanding of their potential earning potential.

Alternate headline: people who made decisions with a higher return on investment are happier with their decisions.

Call Captain Obvious!

Last March my daughter suddenly got critically ill. I flew out to Chicago and spent about a month at her bedside in the ICU. About a week into that ordeal, I began to receive medical device spam calls. Either Google or Lyft noticed I was making a lot of trips to the hospital, and they sold it to someone. Within a day my phone was ringing all day long. I had to install a spam blocker and block all calls that weren't in my contact list, although that complicated communicating with doctors.

Having your phone blow up with spam is not what you need when you are dealing with a medical crisis.

>"Caller ID is and has always been intended to be what the originating caller wants it to say. [...] There is almost never a "fake" caller ID."

By "fake" I mean what most people mean or think- The intentional misrepresentation of a CID phone number and/or label for the purposes of misleading or tricking the caller into answering the call and/or not being able to report it to authorities.

* Company has DID and relabels their CID to be mapped to their main, valid number and name? Not fake.

* Person has a VOIP and mates it to their home, work, and mobile devices? Not fake.

* Spammer picks a local number and area code where you live so you think it is a local call or someone in your neighborhood? FAKE

* Call center maps their number to something invalid or not them and has a label which has nothing to do with their company? FAKE

So use another word if you don't like "fake", but it really means the same thing for all practical purposes.

>"For a technology site, it's mind boggling how many of you don't know how things work"

I have managed corporate communications and phone systems (among many other IT duties) for 30+ years. I know how ANI and CID work...

it's child's play to extract the value from a company you're liquidating. The value is in the recognizable Toys R Us brand and the fact that most adults think of them when they think toys.

It only seems extreme to you and me because we're not venture capitalists. If you'd grown up watching your father do this to company after company and went to a school to teach you how to (legally) do it yourself it would just be how you make a (very, very nice) living.

Also, pensions are usually tens of millions of dollars of cash money, often sitting in a bank account. Stuff like this is a great way to transfer that money to yourself. Pension holders aren't as secure as the guys that loan money directly to the business. If fact they usually get paid last during a liquidation. In more liberal jurisdictions the State gov't will actually pay out the pensions for liquidated companies. This was the closest to a compromise anyone could get with the billionaires when they wanted laws changed to ensure their loans were guaranteed before pensioners.

Seriously, you are not nearly cynical enough. I miss Rotten.com. Sites like that would really let you know just how truly awful a place the world is and why we need to keep on our toes when this shit happens.

You can shit on the sidewalk, but don't you dare smoke an E-Cig!

Honestly, as much as I would hate to be a victim of this, I think in the end it will end up taking a lot of the insecure devices off the internet and force people and manufacturers pay more attention to security of these sorts of appliances.

If this additional layer adds encryption onto your files, it sounds like it will be immediately better than Google Drive and Dropbox, both of which (to the best of my knowledge) do not encrypt your data - I believe it's encrypted at rest on their side, but it's totally visible to them.

This /could/ work something like SpiderOak - which encrypts client-side before uploading. But it might just be an additional 2FA step before you can access certain files on the web/client - which probably gives a nice comfortable illusion of security to people but for me at least would be kinda useless.

If they added a client-side encryption option I would probably switch from Dropbox (especially now they've increased prices quite a bit and added a ton of useless shit into the client) in a heartbeat.

You are incorrect on a number of levels, most notably the fact that the 737 is not a fly-by-wire aircraft. I suggest you read the recent Seattle PI article about what happened.

Essentially, the system was initially designed to only engage in a high-speed turn maneuver with low authority, and all the hazard assessments were based on that condition. It was vetted for this case and considered to be very effective. During flight testing, they discovered another low-speed region that needed additional nose-down attitude, which required greater authority and could not use the high-g turn safeties, so they were removed, and the maximum trim was increased.

It appears that Boeing did not do flight tests to validate the FAA assumption of diagnosing a trim problem within three seconds with a failed AOA sensor. Testing appears to have been done by simulation only.