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Comment Re:[H]ackers? (Score 1) 80

What's with that bracket?

Normally, you would put [sic] right behind the misspelled word, but in this case it is not. Here is the original quote from TFA...

Basically, what this means is that hackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability using .MHT files, which is the file format used by Internet Explorer for its web archives. Current web browsers do not use the .MHT format, so when a PC user attempts to access this file Windows opens IE by default.

Basically, the summary took a portion of the whole paragraph starting from 'hackers' and later on. As a result, the summary wants to start a sentence with a lower case without quotations and it seems to be grammatically incorrect. Normally, a pair of square brackets is used to correct certain incorrect word in-place for readers. As a result, the word 'hacker' becomes '[H]acker' because it is the starting word of a sentence.

To me, they should simply quote the whole paragraph and stop being smart to just take a portion from TFA. Besides, it is only a small portion that they took out.

Comment Re: One Purchase, One Review (Score 1) 156

Because fake reviews are usually positive, five stars. It tends to make people purchase more (because most people don't know or care much about fake reviews). And I'd like to remind you that Amazon first objective is to sell, not to ensure reviews and comments are safely true.

That's the reason why I always read 3-star reviews before I buy all the time. I sometimes read 4-star and 2-star reviews but always ignore both 5-star and 1-star. I'm looking for the "cons" of a product when I want to buy one, not "pros" because I already expect certain satisfactions from the product. Why do I need others to confirm my satisfaction? I want others to tell me what they don't like that might be aligned with what I also don't like as well.

Comment Re:Absolultely shocking... (Score 1) 449

Yes, it's been done that way for a very long time. The taxable income is the adjusted gross income (ADJ). You can see the table here. Remember that the amount of income in the table is ADJ, not your raw income.

Normally, the people who make a complain about the bracket is the people who are in the highest bracket (top 1%) because all of the exceeding income they get will be taxed at the highest rate. I'm not going to go into whether it is good or bad because it is too subjective.

Comment Re:Streaming has better content (Score 1) 53

I think another reason is that TV and home sound system nowadays are much better than back then, so you can enjoy a movie at home with similar (and possibly better) experience compared to at a movie theater. Besides, all the drink (both alcohol & non-alcohol) and pop corns are free at home. You could even invite your friends to watch it together without extra cost (besides pop corns and drink). Even better you can pause the movie, if you need to go to the bathroom so you won't miss anything. Let alone the price of streaming a movie. So why go to a movie theater?

Comment Re:It makes me feel good when I'm early... (Score 1) 219

I don't understand why this is a surprise for many people. I guess that not many people really listen to what the captain pilot said when the flight was about to take off. The captain will always mention the "length of the flight" and it is always shorter than the time said when you book a flight.

The thing is, all delayed reasons are not from any flight operation (as it said in TFA) but rather something else around it. You know, when you deal with more than one person at a time, there will always be problems. These problem can be varied, and often times not every problem can be solved the same way. Even worse, not every problem can be solved either even though there could be only a few of them. The more people you need to deal with, the more problems in different varieties you will encounter. And that will cause more times you need in order to deal with those problems. No, you will never be able to fix all of these problems in time in reality (but you can dream of) regardless how much money you have to spend on. So to me, it is reasonable to bake some times into a flight time when they sell tickets for the flight. Just need some understanding after all.

Comment Re:Patents expiring soon anyway (Score 1) 163

Here is the link to all the patents listed to assignee 'Toyota'. There are 29,770 patents, and there are many that are granted not that long ago (10 million number). Here is another link that are specified with the word 'hybrid' in the patent title. There are 792 patents. Similarly, there are many patents that are granted not long ago too.

Comment Re:Self interest (Score 1) 163

How about not everyone owns a single home? Where would you be able to charge your plug-in when you are living in a condo or townhouse? Especially when your parking is an assigned spot because you do not own it? Please don't tell me that you can wired the power down from your unit which is a couple stories up. The plug-in system is not for everyone, so it shouldn't be forced to be standard.

Comment Re:The catch? Possibly patents expiring soon? (Score 1) 163

Why guessing when you can do a quick check on the USPTO site?

Here is the link to all the patents listed that 'assigned to Toyota'. There are 29,770 patents, and there are many that are granted not that long ago (10 million number). Here is another link that are specified with the word 'hybrid' in the patent title. There are 792 patents. Similarly, there are many patents that are granted not long ago too.

Comment Re:Waiting for the followup (Score 1) 49

Aaaaannd this is where the "white hat" crossed the line.

So you mean because the company did nothing at all for over a year?

... after the watch vendor ignored vulnerability reports for more than a year, leaving thousands of GPS-tracking watches --some of which are used by children and the elderly-- open to attackers.

Comment Re:Something missing in the head (Score 1) 419

So why is the anti-vaxxer movement so heavily tied in many countries to the especially affluent, highly educated? They wouldn't get where they are lacking critical thinking skills and/or logical reasoning ability. Hell there's massive swaths of people teaching in universities(i.e. subject expert professors) here in Canada, and they're the core demographic of the anti-vaxxer movement.

Here is my opinion on your question because I'm seeing a similar situation -- bias reasoning. When someone is very bias toward a certain topic, the higher intelligent the person is, the more bias the person goes into the topic. As a result, the person can come up with any reasoning to support the person's point of view. The problem is that the person does not see his/her fallacy of the reasoning and will not accept any counter reasoning at all. It is very difficult for one to see one's own wrong. This similar issue applies to any other thing else including politic.

Comment Re:Sounds good (Score 4, Informative) 180

It is bad as you said in the UK, but it is a different type of loan compared to this ISA. The ISA loan has fixed terms that has nothing to do with interest. The main term is to pay back at a certain percentage of the current annual income for a fixed period of time. As a result, the eligible amount loan will depend on the possible minimum annual salary after graduation from a selected program. There could be some more additional terms, such as the loaner may not need to pay back at all after not being able to find a job for a certain continuous period of time, there is a cap for the total pay back and the loaner can stop paying once the pay back hits the cap, etc.

Besides, the issue about going out of the country and not paying back is not likely to be in the U.S. Europeans can easily leave their home country and go to work in another European countries. As a result, these people don't pay taxes back to their home country (and not paying back the student loan because no income shows up in the home country). In the U.S., people simply move to another state. However, the loan system covers the whole nation, so it is not likely to be a major issue.

Your example is legit, but it doesn't apply to the type of loan (ISA) and the boundary in the U.S.

Comment Re:So what (Score 1) 75

Your link is paywalled and we can only read the abstract.

Below is the conclusion of the paper. The paper is somewhat hidden from public. I don't want to give the link to the free version in public because it may hurt the site that hosts this free version.

4.Conclusion

Cesium concentration factors in the same range as those for macroalgae and fish have been determined previously for other similar species (Gutknecht, 1965; Hewett and Jefferies, 1976). On the other hand, the steady-state 137 Cs concentration factors in the isopod and brown shrimp were significantly higher than those which have been reported for some marine invertebrates (Harrison, 1973; Warnau et al., 1996). The concentra- tion factors of 137 Cs in the isopod and brown shrimp species were influenced strongly by moulting. For this reason, the results expressed are for non-moulting individuals.

In general, the effect of temperature on the accumulation of radionuclides in marine organisms varies according to the radionuclides concerned. For example, the accumulation of 95m Tc by macroalgae has been shown to be metabolically controlled (Topcuoglu and Fowler, 1984) and uptake rate of 137 Cs in clams is enhanced by increasing temperature (Wolfe and Coburn, 1970). On the other hand, uptake rates of some radio-nuclides such as 110 Ag (Topgcoglu et al., 1987) and 237 Np (Guary and Fowler, 1977) have been found to be independent of temperature. According to the present results of 137 Cs uptake by isopod species, it can be said that the accumulation process was not metabolically controlled. However, the bioaccumulation rate in fish species at the present study was increased in response to increasing temperature. Pentreath (1975) demonstrated that temperature does affect the rate of accumulation of 134Cs by plaice fish. This result is in agreement with the bioaccumulation data in the fish species of the present study. In contrast, the bioaccumulation rate of 137 Cs in macroalgae was negatively related to the temperature. It is not possible to discuss this situation. However, the inverse temperature effect observed for 134 Cs radionuclide in mussels at lower salinity (8%) (Dahlgaard, 1981). It is well known that macroalgae possess a narrow range of tolerance to temperature. The degree of tolerence depends on the time exposure and on the rate of temperature change (Zattera et al., 1975). The temperature was measured to be 6.6C at the lagoon water during the collection time of the organisms. If we could have examined after long adaptation period or temperature gradually increased from 6.6C to 16C, we would have observed more reliable values for the macroalgae species at 16C.

The influence of salinity on the rate of bioaccumulation and concentration factor of metals and radio-nuclides in marine organisms is also variable. Previous studies showed that 137 Cs (Bryan, 1963) and As (Uelue and Fowler, 1979) are accumulated in marine invertebrates in high levels from water of lower salinities. On the other hand, the concentration factor of 134 Cs in some fish species increased at high salinity (Pentreath, 1975). In the present study, the accumulation of 137 Cs in isopod species is similarly affected, with significant increases at brackish water than sea water. At the same time, the bioaccumulation rate in macroalgae species also showed slight increase at low salinity. However, the bioaccumulation rate of 137 Cs in the fish species at sea water was higher than brackish water.

The present study strongly suggests that the rapid rate of 137 Cs bioaccumulation and high concentration factors make isopods suitable candiates for their use in monitoring of cesium radionuclides on the shoreline of brackish or marine environments. At the same time, the use of the brown shrimp species for monitoring of the radionuclide in a brackish environment would be a valuable approach.

Comment Re:How about NO? Lol what the (Score 1) 161

That is going to be on an individual basis. You can apply for an entry level position with a resume that says "Voted Most likely to hangglide in high school" and "Shaved roast beef with precision at Arby's for six months" or you can put those AND "Attended Modern Labor Development Bootcamp" and reference the 15-20 production projects you contributed to and show examples of your work.

Your comparison doesn't make sense. If someone, who is applying for a tech job, includes anything else but tech related experiences in his/her resume, then the person is very likely not to be selected. This is a known way of presenting your resume -- show only relevant experiences to the job applied. Though, this also enable another issue where people exaggerate their experiences/skills to look better than their real ones.

You can self study or you can do Khan's but a boot camp which includes actual inbound for profit tasks is probably going to be more efficient.

That is not the case here, at least for now. From TFA -- "Although people enrolled in Modern Labor’s income sharing agreement are not working on projects that directly benefit the company or its clients, Larson said, the company isn’t ruling that out for the future." The projects/tasks that they have been on may or may not be as good as they attempt to advertise. They don't disclose them in detail for now, so I can't say anything more about it.

To me, the overall looks good, but that is the whole marketing ploy of this type of TFA -- advertising. Everything they have in TFA is all about advantages of itself over others (including traditional way). There would never be any real disadvantages to join the company. From what I see, the company just hopes that it will become something like a training facilities for other tech companies in the future (a business type that no one yet is successful).

Well, it is still new, so people don't really see what can go wrong in the future (which it will). One thing I already see that it could be a big problem in the future is that they aren't teaching about a correct concept to solve a problem but rather how to copy-and-paste working codes. Most anyone can code, but that doesn't mean the code quality (including the way to solve a problem) would be the same...

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