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Can you give some examples of countries that have no natural sources of fresh water that currenly benefit by importing water at "below market" prices?

Such places may exist but I am not aware of them.

You can take good phone pictures if you are outside in the daytime or are shooting stationary subjects. Any motion combined with less than daylight guarantees blurry pictures or that lovely cell-phone-flash look.

That being said: The big jump is from cell-phone to DSLR (even an inexpensive one). The jump from $400 DSLR to $4000 is less noticeable.

1080p is via the HDMI port, I reckon.

Comparing:

Processor: Atom n450 (single-core 1.6ghz vs Arm 15 (dual core 1.7ghz)

Fan: Yes vs No

HDD: Spinning rust vs. SSD

Weight: 2.75lbs vs 2.lbs

Screen 10.1" 1024x600 vs 11.6" 1366x786

Innovation continues apace from what I can see.

What was Tesla's "one overriding idea" in your opinion?

The major pursuit of his life was wireless power over great distances which was (and is) wildly impractical.

That traversal doesn't traverse. It just skip list to entry->next and would keep resetting.

You could do something like this instead:

  link = &((*link)->next);

The amount of control you can exercise with hooks as well as the features available in repository management systems like gitolite should be more than adequate to enforce whatever policy you may dream up.

> "Did you even read TFA?"

Yes. Did you miss this?

>"If you update an app to an iOS 6 version in iTunes on your computer and then try to sync your iPad 1, the old version of the app will just get removed from your iPad 1. The home screen on my iPod Touch 1G is pretty barren."

Without commenting on the rest of the article: The claim being made, as I understand it, is that the anesthesiologist is there and administers drugs to paralyze but not to anesthetize. So the presence of an anesthesiologist administering drugs does not necessary contradict the claims of the article unless you wife can confirm that the drugs both paralyze and anesthetize the patient. </pedantry>

UN Food and Agriculture Organization website:

http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesind...

They are largely boilerplate answers to softball questions. Nothing you couldn't get from listening to a White House press conference.

Questions about the state of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Iran, Egypt, et al would have been more interesting. Characterizing sending more troops as a hard decision is not too surprising.

He answered questions on these topics:

  1. Space Race
  2. Internet Freedom
  3. Favorite Basketball Player
  4. Small-Business tax breaks
  5. First Activity on Nov 7
  6. Most Difficult Decision
  7. Money in Politics
  8. White House Beer Recipe
  9. Jobs
  10. Work/Life Balance

Hard hitting stuff there

The child was 9, not 12. http://www.creators.com/opinion/lenore-skenazy/why-i-let-my-...

Futhermore "attachment parenting" is not the antecedent to "helicopter parenting" and certainly does not require constant contact past 1 year of age much less fife.

> If I'm at a cybercafe somewhere, there's a high degree of probability that it won't let me just run some untrusted binary from my USB stick or the web.

1. You shouldn't be typing in high value passwords at <random cyber-cafe>.

2. You can get KeyPassDroid for your smartphone.

3. writing your master-password down somewhere may be useful to your next of kin.

> Also, someone mentioned "garbage" being underground citizen. I think that's wrong.

It's true. Roosevelt Island has an underground network of "trash-sucking tubes".

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/trash-sucking-island/...

> Remember the 'roaring 20s?'

Yes.

Remember what followed? The Great Depression.

The trend in China may be upward but is that because of real growth or just due to the inflation of a huge bubble?

> And while we're at it, have you noticed how few $10 bills you see in the wild?

Most ATMs stock only 20s and 5s. THe only place to get a $10 is from the teller or as change.

It still was a $440M pre-tax loss. The $270M figures is post-tax.

I believe their new datacenter is in New Jersey now. They still have a Manhatten Datacenter but that is not where the trades are matched.

They do require it. If you remove it 2-factor-authentication is disabled.

Nothing says that number needs to be your mobile (or one that you have regular access to) but you do need to provide one.

I can guarantee you that google knows your mobile number already. Do you have friends? do they know your number? do they have you saved as a google contact? game over.

If you are sufficiently paranoid there are probably call/sms-forwarding services available for a reasonable cost.

> but not if the person that finds it opens up google authenticator (which shows the account the id is used for) and logs in to change the password before i have a chance to.

The person finding your phone would have to either have access to your password, your backup email address or the answer to your security question (which you can write yourself).

You can create a new set whenever you want. However, generating a new set invalidates the previous set (so you can revoke access with those tokens if they are lost.

Please, please, please, please RTFA before ranting.

SMS is not required (you can use the google Authenticator App).

The Authenticator app works just like a "plain old token".

Separation of accounts means squat if your passwords are intercepted. 2 factor auth requires physical access and reduces the possible pool of attackers from billions to hundreds.

FTA:

You can install a standalone app called Google Authenticator (it’s also available in the App Store), so your cell phone doesn’t need a signal.

Also:

You can print out a small piece of paper with 10 one-time rescue codes and put that in your wallet. Use those one-time codes to log in even without your phone.

Not sure where you live but auto part stores in the US accept used oils for recycling free of charge.

Yes the first time takes a while if you don't know what your doing but mechanical aptitude is higly transferrable and the investment in time pays off everytime you take on a household project. The first time you change a toilet valve it will only take 20 minutes.

Specialization is good but so is basic aptitude.

Your car can "break down" for reasons as simple as blown fuses or low fluids. Having a working knowledge of basic auto mechanics can help you determine whether something is or is not a problem. Furthermore if the problem is simple you can fix it yourself instead of waiting for a tow, getting a taxi home and waiting for the repair shop to open in the morning.

> You write a risk check gateway once. It rarely if ever needs to be touched.

Such checks are only as good as the imagination of the author.

> Then you transition everything else.

Which is all well and good until you have an issue where two independent systems creat a feedback loop. Such problems are only evident 'at scale'.

I'm not blaming or trying to exonerate anyone. I love armchair quarterbacking as much as the next guy but a small trading shop runs a little differently than america's largest electronic market maker.

Given that there was suspicious activity in ~150 names of ~45 minutes "trading glitch" is much more plausible than "bad analysis".