I'd say whoever made the light fixtures, and sold them for general use emitting that much interference is really the person against whom they should be acting.

The article says the lights are made by GE, who was aware that some of their ballasts were causing interference. IF the building owner was advised, and they failed to replace them, then they're at fault. If GE's replacement program was chintzy (ie they'd replace the fixture, but building owners had to pay for labor, for example), then they should be the target here.

The Olympic Games started with the ancient Greeks in Olympia (hence the name) with records going back as far as at least 776 BC, and may well have begun even earlier.

Strat

Because you want to discourage charitable fundraising unless the state APPROVES of it? This is pretty goofy.

Is it ironic that comment comes from an anonymous coward?
This doesn't say anywhere that it has to be reproducible by industry, just by anyone.

Methinks you're trying too hard to argue against something that's patently obvious, for your own political motivations.

currency market is still in beta.

For sure. But at least BitCoin is an upgrade from the fiat fiasco currencies.

The US Federal Reserve and the entire US Federal Government must all be using bootleg copies of Timmy "Tall-Tale" Geithner's TurboTax program.

Or, they're...you know...criminals. The people that are supposed to be tried in a criminal court, and if convicted, incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary to protect the public.

But, for some strange reason, Tweedledum won't prosecute nor convict Tweedledee, and Tweedledee won't prosecute nor convict Tweedledum. They're just running game on some "dum dees" because they buy into the (D)/(R), L/R, White/Black, Rich/Poor race/class/party-warfare and fight each other while they and their children are being robbed blind on multiple levels and in multiple ways.

Strat

Let me know when you start speaking without words, and that's when I'll stop programming in text.

Sherades just doesn't work as a form of communication. Welcome to visual programming.

What the hell do you have against text? Books not workin' for you? Video killed the radio star. Nothing killed the book.

It's never actually been about "amateur sports" in anything other than name and some niceties to dress the illusion. It's always been a contest of international/inter-cultural/ideological propaganda campaigns, international one-upsmanship, and a sort of warfare without armies.

Now, it's just an ultra-commercialized piece of garbage. I'm glad I don't have to be subjected to it online, and even happier that the information superhighway won't be slowed down by all those big trucks full of Olympics video internets..

I remember as a kid in the '60s, the Olympics were *covered* by the major networks. You know, as they happened, few interruptions, etc? No endless advertisements and "color commentary" with only tiny bits of actual competition "highlights". By the late '70s going into the '80s, it was well on the way to jumping the shark and I paid less and less attention.

By the time the '90s and the crap they called the "Olympics" came around looking more and more like an infomercial, I stopped watching or caring.

These days?

It's dead, Jim.

Strat

Even among programming languages you have the same issues.

You have a high level framework that seemingly does everything magically (think Ruby on Rails, or AngularJS), and the moment you throw a real world problem at it, things get really complicated. Subtle user experience things like validation (should it happen on blur? as you type? on submit? Server or client side? That date, should it be validated as the client's local, server's local? Should you be able to input it in multiple formats?)

So while the big high level framework makes the easy easier, the hard is just as hard, and often harder.

With non-textual programming, being via pretty graphics or other tricks, this problem is just magnified.

I zapped my cable three years ago. I watched the opening ceremony (and only that) of the London Olympics via a VPN. I don't care enough about Sochi or winter Olympics to be interested in watching any of it.

I don't think it's important if the FCC forces NBC to run a live stream. If NBC thinks the cost of running a stream of the broadcast they're already doing exceeds the revenue they could generate from stream viewers watching the same commercials the network is already doing, that's their problem.

Because then the carriers can't make money selling service to whomever stole the phone.

QSL, OM.

Crooks have no idea what to do with them, and neither do pawn shops. They have practically no value whatsoever except to other hams.

Nope. None. This is for your own protection. Please return to your regularly scheduled re-education.

Just use Google Maps.

In a sense, this is "look how incompetent the government is at implementing tech" story, but in another this could be interpreted as an attempt to trivialize what happened with healthcare.gov. "Oh gosh, nothing ever goes right for the government so what happened with healthcare.gov is par for the course (shrug)."

Except the healthcare.gov disaster was LEGISLATIVE, the constant, ongoing, still-unresolved tech catastrophe was only the impact-crater.

The fact that NASA's computer-replacement program was a boondoggle was meaningless, compared to the tech-failure of a program whose use was MANDATED by law.