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Old Espionage Ruse with a Modern Twist: Israelis Say Hamas Used Online Seduction(nytimes.com)
2 points by davidf18 10y ago|0 comments
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by davidf18 10y ago
IBM for one is converting their laptops to mostly Macs, claiming to calls to support is way down compared with users of PCs (e.g., look at total cost of ownership -- TCO). IBM has software which helps to deploy Macs in the Enterprise. The
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by davidf18 10y ago
Well, that is helpful to me because it may explain one reason why doctors have having trouble with their EMRs- electronic medical records systems. How do they expect to get quality staff if they're not going to pay competitive rates?
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by davidf18 10y ago
Most of the attacks that I'm aware of are a result of firms not deploying OS upgrades or simply installing existing security software and hiring security experts. Target and Home Depot were hacked because they disregarded recommendatio
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Microsoft, Qualcomm Invest in Israel’s Team8 Cyber-Effort(timesofisrael.com)
1 points by davidf18 10y ago|1 comments
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by davidf18 10y ago
I was referring to clinical staff. I don't know about IT staff, but I imagine that it would have to be competitive to the local market. I suspect that IT may not be unionized which is why they were able to export the jobs so easily.
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by davidf18 10y ago
> "The hospitals recorded a $42-million deficit in the last fiscal year on $3.4 billion in revenue, he told me. The red ink was partially the result of an increased caseload from Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, which was exp
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by davidf18 10y ago
Political decision, not safety. No nuclear engineers that I know of have claimed there are safety problems. The plant generates about 1/4 of electric power in NYC. Rates will increase, which is a regressive tax, adversely impacting t
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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to Close by 2021(nytimes.com)
3 points by davidf18 10y ago|2 comments
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by davidf18 10y ago
> "I'm not sure what you're advocating, actually." If you read the Edward Glaeser article, that's what I'm advocating. Briefly, by simply eliminating the rent-seeking laws of zoning density restrictions and
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by davidf18 10y ago
The author of the article is also author of https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healt... He is an expert on cities. I live in NYC and much of Manhattan is low density (4 story brownstones). It may not b
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by davidf18 10y ago
In the early 1920's NYC was building 100,000 apartments per year. Then government interfered and created the shortage: From Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser: "...Radically upping that supply would leave far more New Yorkers able
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by davidf18 10y ago
> "Actually, it can be both X and Y. In this case, both zoning restrictions and the influx of FaceBooglers." That statement might be true if there was not technology that enabled us to build tall buildings -- steel frames and e
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by davidf18 10y ago
> 'Another person quoted in the article correctly identified the housing supply issue. "For all that, Hernandez-Goff thinks the systemic problems – housing shortages, wage stagnation, inequality – are beyond her."' Wh
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by davidf18 10y ago
> "Your feeling on "rent-seeking" and zoning policy are hardly universal, and there are many scholars that have written alternative views on the subject." Please cite your sources. The rent-seeking is one of 3 forms
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by davidf18 10y ago
> '“Now you have Caucasians moving back into the community, you have Facebookers and Googlers and Yahooers,” said Pastor Paul Bains, a local leader. “That’s what’s driven the cost back up. Before, houses were rarely over $500,000. A
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by davidf18 10y ago
One way to get the money is to enforce the law and send the illegal immigrants in California out of the country. Governments city and State and other governments spend billions of dollars for K-12 education, health care costs, and even col
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by davidf18 10y ago
I own the basic 2015 15" model and it works really well. The discounted price difference between the two models is $400. The 512 GB 2016 model (as opposed to the 256 GB model) has SSD read benchmarks that are considerably faster than
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by davidf18 10y ago
But if you turn it off, then you can't use Spotlight to find files at all, whereas if it is on, then one can use it.
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by davidf18 10y ago
The Skylake processor consumes less power than the Broadwell that was in the previous model. This is particularly true on idle, but even when doing medium tasks it is about 25% - 35% more efficient. Near the bottom of this detailed review
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by davidf18 10y ago
This very thorough review: See under "Battery Runtime" "Even though the battery capacity was reduced by almost 25 % compared to the predecessor, Apple still managed to improve the overall runtimes with the 76-Wh battery. Our
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by davidf18 10y ago
What's your config?
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by davidf18 10y ago
What's your exact config?
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by davidf18 10y ago
IMHO, this is a "bug" because if you are running on battery, the indexing is a problem and it is also a problem if you are using spotlight. Is there an option to ensure that the spotlight cache is not deleted?
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by davidf18 10y ago
The paper is discussing denominators. They weren't taking into account total missions at a certain temperature (the denominator), only the numerator (# failures). One should always think of denominators (really ratio of numerator over
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by davidf18 10y ago
Ummm...where's the vision for Mac?
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by davidf18 10y ago
I live in NYC with extensive high-speed mass transit (in our case parallel lines of express which skip multiple stops as well as local) which is faster than car during much of the day. Part of combatting greenhouse gasses and climate change
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Automakers Prepare for an America That’s Over the Whole Car Thing(nytimes.com)
1 points by davidf18 10y ago|2 comments
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by davidf18 10y ago
Thank you. So for the laptop (as opposed to the desktop) if I understand you, a more powerful dGPU isn't important, but longer battery life would be. As for me and people like me at the university (e.g. students, researchers, etc), we
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Nobody Is Eating Out Anymore, They're Just Ordering Pizza(bloomberg.com)
3 points by davidf18 10y ago|0 comments

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