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Not sure what's wrong with selling Ubuntu disks.

Initially, Stallman made a living selling GNU tapes, and pre-Internet, linux was often installed by a "friend" who made the stack of 40 floppies and charged a few bucks to cover his time and media expenses.


> Citation needed (especially that they do it for everyone).

1. We know that they can. If you were designing a mass survaillance system, you would store all incoming information into unique bins now, then later select on the bins of interest.

2. Three years ago I asked an ex-govt employee who would know. When I got to that exact question, he got visibly upset and abruptly ended the conversation.


1) For those who haven't followed the Chipotle crisis, apparently they were doing more ingredient prep in-store instead of at regional kitchen centers. That meant quality and cleanliness standards were not uniform. They say they have changed that policy.

2) It looks like mgmt. did not want to do a public information campaign because then you're telling people, who may not all know yet, that there's a problem. In other words, 1960's-style crisis mgmt. to "protect" their brand.

3) Also, the executives of Chipotle simply refuse to make top mgmt. changes and in fact are among the highest-paid executives in human history (according to the article.)

4) One store had serious "HR issues" with managers preying on underage part-time staff, resulting in a multi-million dollar payout. I'll leave it at that.


In the Craigslist/Newmark case, what one of the State Attorneys said was, "We don't care about a benefit. We'll just keep prosecuting until all of the sites are shut down."

Newmark made the same case as the parent commend, but that was the last thing the last thing the law wanted to hear since they are prosecutors, not social workers.


I have a commercial rating. The HN title is wrong.

What this is saying:

1) If you don't have a yaw damper, then you'll have a rough ride

2) because the autopilot will induce oscillation (dutch roll) after loss of GPS


The HN title is literally the subject of the notice, very slightly paraphrased (abbreviations expanded, etc), so you may want to let the FAA know they got it wrong...

I also think you misread the notice. The report is stating the loss of GPS apparently resulted in the subsequent loss of a number of other systems, including the yaw damper.


I think you're right. The wording about "no yaw damper" would have been clearer as "failed yaw damper" - I guess that's what was meant.


How much oscillation? On a scale from "bumpy ride" to "holy shit my wing's off".


Dutch roll is characterized by a low frequency oscillation, with a period in the order of seconds. So it wouldn't be a "bumpy" ride but a slooow yet continuous, very nauseating oscillation (try to slowly rock forward and backward in your chair).


Actually, bsder is correct. The reason BART was never extended from Millbrae to San Jose was that the intermediate towns, mainly Atherton, refused.

Today, meaning right now, Atherton's city attorney is engaged in a battle with High Speed Rail (HSR.)

He informed the transit planning commission that Atherton would not accept planning funds if it meant losing the legal right to sue to stop HSR.)


1) opens them up to more patent infringement lawsuits

2) FCC prefers SDN radios be blackboxes

3) costs more money to document and support


1) Why would they be infringing on a patent if they open source their own code? Could you expand on this point please.

2) Seems like a small subset of devices. And the FCC only has power in the US right?

3) Surely they have to document their stuff internally anyway. And being opensource can mean free documentation. Same for support.


I read the complete article, and I'm kind of skeptical of the conclusions.

Having travelled in Asia, for example, they have the skill and parts to repair eyeglasses and cut lenses to old frames. (In fact, I get my glasses repaired in Manila since the eyeglass cartel in the USA refuses to do major repairs. I've certainly tried in Silicon Valley multiple times.)

Also, eyeglass cases are considered to be valuable and resold for $1 - $5 each.

And finally, somebody with a suitcase could haul 100 - 200 frames on their next trip at no cost.

I think if they were willing to do minor repairs and record the measurements in a database, donations could be a much more efficient charity.


At a $1.88 to make a pair of glasses, I fail to see how your economics works. Minor repairs, databases, etc all cost more than that for a potentially inferior product.


ts is very useful for timestamping unbuffered output to do simple profiling on production systems.


I always thought Mars was red and dusty. That image looks more like Earth than not!


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