The (flawed) methodology they’re using for the Wifi speed test is that the routers they rent out to their customers have wifi built in. The Google Fiber modems do not. Hence “faster wifi”. It’s ridiculous, and just another way to confuse the consumer.

I don’t think even the FBI thinks there’s anything useful on that phone. If you’re a terrorist asshole planning an attack, do you really use your government-owned iPhone to do it? I’d just assume that thing was compromised.

I feel dirty for even explaining in such detail, but it’s an ambiguous pronoun joke.

add to that that salt, acids and sugars all create a hostile environment for bacteria

Well... also in the report is “...Because many imported spices are treated after entry to the U.S. to reduce contamination before they are sold to consumers, we knew that the 6.6 percent contamination rate found at the import level did not reflect what was actually reaching consumers. We needed retail data to better…

When I’m gaming, I don’t care what I look like. I only ask that I’m hard to hit.

Also flaring is absolutely critical to Safety systems. Depressurizing a system to prevent a high pressure loss of containment (i.e. explosion) requires the gas at pressure in the system to be released to atmosphere, burning in a controlled manner to prevent it from exploding uncontrollably is a critical safety aspect.

Ooh, I had my fill of Sharepoint developing before 9 was out. Glad I’m not dealing with that!

Yeah, I’m probably a bit colored by my experience as a developer, but IMO if you can develop better content for it, they’re better from an end user view point. :) Barring, of course, the UX of the browser itself, which probably IS worse if you actually try to use it much.

IE 9 and 10 are relatively bad, but that just means that they’re the third best browsers available for operating systems. Maybe I’ve just been around too long, but I was thrilled when 9 and 10 started getting uptake because it made my life so much easier than when I had to support 6/7/8, which were objectively bad.

You’re off by quite a bit. We’re talking about methane (CH4), not carbon dioxide (CO2).

It’s been leaking 1,300 mt CH4 daily since the end of October and it’s slated to be fixed in March (let’s say the end of the month). So that’s 150 days with ~195,000 mt CH4 released in that time span.

Methane causes much more…

Except it’s not leaking CO2 at all, it’s leaking CH4 (methane) rich natural gas. Without knowing the make-up of the gas that is leaking, it’s hard to provide any context. I can tell you that CH4 is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Most of what I’ve read puts CH4 somewhere between 25 and 30 times more…

Exactly. This isn’t a big leak, yet everyone is freaking the fuck out. And then they go to the store in their huge SUV and buy tons of meat. Animal farming produces like 50% of the greenhouse gasses and nobody gives a fuck.

Unfortunately, this sort of context is always lacking from these articles.

Nope, typically natural gas is stored in naturally formed, underground structures, i.e. salt-domes, hard rock caverns, or depleted reservoirs, where said gas can be recovered at a later date. Maybe there does need to be more regulatory oversight, but that is only going to drive your electricity prices up, which most…

Job creators, bless the smog!

I did the opposite: Applied Math major with CS minor. All the needed CS courses were either in the math core or electives, so no extra effort.

Totally agree. A CS degree gets you in the door. After that, IMHO, then it’s more a matter of social skills.

I can’t speak to the “Computer Science Major” side of things, because I have a GED and I’m entirely self-taught. (My dad was a computer science professor at Georgia Tech, and it was just a culture I was raised in. I was naturally curious, and started asking my parents to purchase me self-learning books in middle…

Seems like the linked article addresses this point: