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yes, Ghostery (firefox plugin) might stop it also.

I hope you all get chromebooks, hahaha.

SL has a couple full time employees building it. Also, they publish a lot of info about their build process. Centos doesn't. Sometime their releases are slower.

I think you can layer data on top of tiles from osm with the openlayers api without licensing issues.

about 54 TB. But only about 2% of tiles have ever been seen. Each zoom level has 4 times as many tiles as the previous level and zoom level 18 (the highest) doesnt have a lot of data.

Stock options are a fools game. Equity and cash are the only thing that matter.

20%? Over 60% of our electricity is consumed when the sun shines. Currently we get less then 1% of our power from solar. Storage will not matter for a very long time.

No tracking system. Here are some average numbers of hours of peak energy a day for a fixed system Portland Or 4.0, Chicago 4.4, Tampa 5.3, San Francisco 5.4

Total hardware costs are currently about $1.75 watt for panels, inverter and hardware. Fed Tax rebate is 30%.

In Tampa FL with optimal tilt and no shade a panel rated at 1 peak watt would generate 5.3 watts a day X 30.4 days a month * 4500w panels = 725 Kw per month

sunelec.com, PV Panels $1.28 Peak watt, Inverter $0.5 watt, Rails and Cables $0.27 watt.

In my area I expect to save .18 cents per year per peak watt.

Prices have been falling at 1-2 cents a week since june.

http://pvinsights.com/

Some counterpoints to the article

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/five-ethanol-myths-bust...

Foundations have quite a good tradition in Germany, and the benefits in terms of taxes, limited liability and international credibility are high. With the German-based model, activities are not limited to one country: the foundation can and will be active worldwide.

In addition, the German model provides a high security and stability, as the foundation's statutes cannot be changed and, therefore, cannot be abused. Setting up a corporation or an association, on the other hand, would expose us to the risk that, if a majority of all stakeholders so decided, the statutes could be changed, even as far as removing charitable purposes. In order to provide safety and stability, not only for our users, adopters, developers and enterprises, but for the whole community, a German-based foundation is ideal.

In addition, we have many active community members in Germany: the roots of the product originally lie here, we expect a lot of support from corporations and governmental bodies, and the adoption rate for free office productivity software is very high.

http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/why/

Its not all about you. There are a lot of reasons you could have been rejected. Its difficult to say what went wrong. You need to try this ten more times. If you get rejected all ten times try modifying your approach.

He did make a comment, however the way he was holding his phone dropped the call.

So you think Apple would outsell Android if they licensed their OS, not a chance. If Apple customer's compared features and not style they would be out of business

Whats the big deal, its not like you have flash on these things anyway. The only decent site you can get content from is Itunes. 2G of Itunes product is a lot of $. A little extra for the bandwidth is no big deal.

Since Apple remotely disabled it and Gizmodo didn't have a license agreement with them couldn't Gizmodo sue Apple for vandalism and destruction of their property?

yes really, its set by a 1979 amendment.

One reason Texas avoided the housing bubble is the property taxes are very high here. The tax rate is 4.5-5% of value. In California its 1%. Also, interest rates are lower in California, a foreclosure can happen in as little as 120 days which reduces the lenders risk and your interest rate. The result is a lot of carrying costs for investing in residential real estate.

cost of living has nothing to do with attracting manufacturing jobs. The lower the labor costs the more jobs you get. Same reason China has more manufacturing that California

Texas's per capita income is 20% lower than California's

Techcrunch says Adobe: “Go Screw Yourself Apple”, but the post was by an individual employee on a personal blog. Please stop posting Techcrunch articles.

I've had a couple of close friends and relatives have health issues that almost killed them. Afterwords their personality changed. They became much more negative and harder to be around. The things I have read about Jobs is that he is a health nut. To have the problems he has had might have been a big emotional blow for him.

Since he has come back, things have gotten much worse for partner relations and there is almost a continual barrage of news about Apple jerking someone around. I really think they could do better with a new CEO.

A couple of years ago Ubuntu went to Google asking for a revenue sharing deal, Google refused, even though they had done it many times before. Search was going to be Ubuntu's primary income in the netbook space. At the time Google probably thought they owned search. Its amazing what a little competition will do.

I would love to see Firefox and Safari change their default search to Bing (I would still use Google). Who knows, Google might start getting serious about things like privacy.

2 things

1. about 80 red flags of why this is a scam, yet 92,000 affiliates. Just shows how peoples greed will let them ignore the little things.

2. its an amazing combination of crowd-sourcing and network marketing. I can see lots of interesting problems being solved like this in the future.

Published on April 1st

Forget the whole a/b testing thing. The real value of this blog post is that it shows a great way to utilize personal skills to help someone else. That's the real genius, out of the box thinking here.

The article explains why the VC doesn't want to give the referral, but it doesn't explain how it can hurt me to ask. If you have ever sold something, you know, you have to ask a lot of unlikely people for help before you get any.

Ok, so ICMP is easy to turn off. But why couldn't this technique be done over UDP or TCP? The server could send a UDP packet to a known "fake" address and the client could spoof its source address to penetrate the nat.

Page one of the study supports the original claim. Is this blog post just a test to see if we will really read it now?

Per the study...... 3. Results 3.1. Male rats with daily 12-h HFCS access gain more weight in 8 weeks than animals with equal access to sucrose Animals with 12-h 8% HFCS access gained significantlymore weight in 8 weeks than animals with 12-h 10% sucrose access