er35826's comments

But right now, it's a legal cat and mouse game for both sides. With DRM, it becomes illegal for the mouse to do anything but get eaten.

I'm not sure his evidence given supports his statement of "no correlation" between a state's Business Tax Climate index. He says the most business-unfriendly state is showing the smallest decline, while the business-friendliest state is showing the smallest decline.

While the full data may actually show no correlation, his highlights show the correlation "business friendliness -> lower business creation."

It's only right if you believe there's no cost to your spying being uncovered.

If you don't think there's any cost to being caught spying, I welcome you to try spying on someone, anyone. Then you can answer the question of "Is it worth it?" which leads directly into "Is it a good idea?"

There's money in both places to be made. They're not exclusive.

I don't understand the utility of this boot to desktop feature. The moment you want to do anything, you're back in the start menu launching programs.

What problem does it solve, besides moving the first thing you use to the second thing you use?

My first game was 1 point. I tried clicking on the falling bugs and saw some numbers lighting up, but I didn't quite realize I had to click on the numbers at the bottom to 'prep' rockets.

My next game was a much more respectable 25.

The problem is not the HFT firms buying stock cheaply and reselling it for a profit. As the article points out the problem is investors placing a buy order, and the HFT firms seeing this buy order and snapping up the remaining stocks before the original buy order is fully completed.

This has the negative side effect of essentially making it impossible to buy for the listed price, even when there are supposedly enough shares available for purchase at that price.

As I pointed out in another comment, it's not just buying low and selling high; it's like Walmart interrupting a customer to jack up the prices on a purchase in the middle of that purchse, precisely because that customer is buying that specific item.

If computerized grocery checkout machines would stop halfway through the 10 cases of discount soda you bought to raise the price on the remaining 5 cases, then this analogy would be what the article is talking about.

It's also a problem if you're an artist that makes something 'close enough' to Mickey Mouse, and you don't have the resources to both fight the legal battle, and support yourself while your income stream is shut off due to the legal battle.

The article mentions that 'full control' becomes increasingly unlikely as you lose rotors, but partial control is still possible. You can influence how fast the quadrocoptor falls, reducing impact velocity or steering it to crash in a more favorable location.

That is essentially correct, though the math was completely hidden.

The justification for higher contract rates was because they were using that difference to subsidize new phones whenever you signed a new contract. So, 80 bucks a month for basic service and a few hundred MB of usage.

The problem was that after the 2 year contract ended, when they supposedly were able to recoup the cost of the original phone subsidy, your rate never changed. You'd still pay 80 bucks a month, even if you were happy with your current phone.

T-Mobile's change, much like the rest of the world, was to break out the math explicitly like you show. Then once you've fulfilled the (PRICE_OF_PHONE / CONTRACT_DURATION) term, it would simply vanish.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: He chose Russia and China because priority #1 when you're running FROM someone, is to not get caught by them. Those were large nations he could (relatively) easily get into, that are not friends with the US and would not immediately turn him over to the US.

I'm sure he would have preferred to run and hide in Switzerland or Canada, or Japan, or any one of a hundred other countries, except that they would have hauled him in and stuck him on a plane/boat/truck back to the US as soon as he was identified.

This is a perfectly reasonable 'not a spy' reason to run to those countries, in case you lacked the imagination to go any further than 'he only went there because he was a spy.'

As was already pointed out, the AP Calculus test has been designed assuming that you have a calculator to handle the 'easy' number crunching portions for you.

The test is designed so that you still need to have a fairly high-level understanding of calculus and how the functions work. They aren't testing your ability to crunch out 56/7, but your ability to understand that the rate of flow of a liquid out of an irregular trough changes as the fluid level drops, and that you can model each portion of the equation correctly. A calculator isn't going to help you know that you need to account for a changing volume, and that the volume is directly correlated to the outflow.

It'll help you get the right formula for the area of a circle or volume of a cylinder, but not the higher-level reasoning that is really important.

I've lived in three metro areas, and only one had significant choices in provider, and that was a decade ago, 2004. I had the choice of three cable providers, and I was just on the edge of a local ISP's service area so I was able to get a decent price and great service.

I lived in northern Bothell, in Seattle, and I had one ADSL provider (not even 'fast' DSL) and one cable provider to choose from. In the metro area I live in currently, I've had exactly one DSL and one cable provider, and I've moved across the city and the variety didn't change.

Somewhat. Most people in the US only have a choice between the specific type of line they use (Cable, DSL, Satellite). There are typically only one provider for either Cable or DSL in an area, and you're not even guaranteed to have an option between either.

Start the countdown to Disaster Area.

You should be able to.

See the regular launching of "Sherlock" shows, and the multiple on-air concurrently.

Edit: Though Sherlock does have some limitations. Elements of the Sherlock stories introduced after 1922 are still copyrighted, but things from the vast majority of Doyle's stories are public domain and usable by anyone.

> Just look around at people wearing headphones right now. Have attitudes really changed? As a technologist, do you see someone with headphones and think "progressive"? Of course not, you meerly ignore it unless there's a practical reason to care.

I don't normally consciously acknowledge that someone is wearing headphones, and that is the point. The article is pointing out how little we think of people wearing headphones in public now, while they used to be very noticeable and with largely negative connotations.

Anecdotally, I've found it's quite common with alot of European ESL speakers. I have worked with quite a few other people from varying countries, and it's somewhat common that they end many sentences sounding like a question.

Don't be alarmed citizen. They only 'know' about your movements if they actually look at them. Until then, they don't 'know' anything as long as it sits in their archives untouched.