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Comment Coincidence? (Score 1) 157

“All this begs the question,” Ditto said, “what is fundamentally going on with these stars that they end up with a ratio near the golden mean?”

Yeah. What is fundamentally going on with miles and kilometers that they end up with a ratio near the golden mean?

Comment Not towers (Score 2) 237

The article doesn't say they are towers. It says that, to phones, they look like towers. Presumably, to people, they don't look like towers.

Interceptors look to a typical phone like an ordinary tower. Once the phone connects with the interceptor, a variety of “over-the-air” attacks become possible, from eavesdropping on calls and texts to pushing spyware to the device.... Interceptors vary widely in expense and sophistication – but in a nutshell, they are radio-equipped computers with software that can use arcane cellular network protocols and defeat the onboard encryption.

Comment Re:Dangerous... (Score 2) 399

California parent of public school HS students here. It takes two years to get tenure in CA. That's just not long enough.

There are some cheap, inexperienced, (and bad) teachers with tenure. Overall, I'm very grateful for most of my children's teachers. But this year one of my daughter's teachers was clearly completely incompetent: young, arrogant, lazy, and intellectually vacuous. We complained to the principal (we were not the first to complain). Their hands are tied. It's almost impossible to dismiss an incompetent, tenured teacher.

Submission + - Jury finds Google guilty of standards-essential patents abuse against MS

recoiledsnake writes: A federal jury in Seattle ordered Google to pay Microsoft $14.5 million in damages for breach of contract for failing to license at reasonable terms standard essential patents covering wireless and video technology used in the Xbox game console. Motorola had demanded Microsoft pay annual royalties of up to $4 billion for use of patents that are part of the H.264 video and 802.11 wireless standards, which are baked into Windows and the Xbox video game console. Microsoft said it was willing to pay royalties but not at the 2.25 percent of the product price that Motorola sought. We previously covered Motorola's exorbitant demands.

Comment Lots of things (Score 1) 416

See here: http://www.ams.org/profession/career-info/early-careers/early-careers

For example, stockbroker, research scientist, urban designer, public utilities analyst, animator, foreign exchange trader, population ecologist, estimator, epidemiologist, statistician, technical writer, market research analyst, cryptoanalyst, quantitative analyst, commodities trader, air traffic controller, climate analyst, financial aid director, pollster, forensic analyst appraiser, banker underwriter actuary, computer programmer, production manager, professor, claims adjuster, benefits administrator.

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