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| Authored by: hardmath on Sunday, April 21 2013 @ 11:30 PM EDT |
(This article and the last) Go, artp!
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Recursion is the opprobrium of the mathists. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Thank you - Authored by: artp on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 05:47 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 01:10 AM EDT |
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/21/what-legal-rights-should-bosto.html
"An array of perspectives on what legal rights the 19-year-old American
citizen suspected of co-executing the Boston Marathon bombings has, and whether
law enforcement is obliged to honor those rights under the circumstances."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: designerfx on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 01:15 PM EDT |
Interesting!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/04/state-
secrets-showdown-looms-162193.html
basically, gov't is trying to assert executive privilege of
the no fly list and Alsup is pushing back.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 02:29 PM EDT |
They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place,
but Steve Jobs
made it strike not just twice, but several
times, with the iPod, iPhone, iPad,
Pixar, and others. A
visionary combined with the new opportunities provided by
the early decades of the Digital Revolution, Steve Jobs
plucked all the low
hanging fruit off the tree.
That tree has matured and keeps on growing
but the
Digital Revolution is over now. It can no longer be
described as a
revolution when digital technology has become
taken for granted as an intimate
part of our daily lives.
All the low hanging fruit are gone and so is Steve
Jobs.
Apple is now just another company like Microsoft that
having
clawed its way to the top, preoccupies itself more
with how to keep its
competitors at bay than in developing
new products. There is no more reason to
believe Apple can
continue to innovate like before than to believe Microsoft
can. Its shareholders are just now
realizing that.
Shares of the word’s most fawned over company
have slid from
an all-time high of $705 last September to
about $391 as of Friday’s
close. Apple stock is the lowest
it’s been since the death of Steve Jobs in
2011. Apple’s
industry-best gross margins peaked at just north of 47% a
year
ago. In January Apple reported gross margin of about
39%. With ongoing pressure
from Samsung and lower-priced and
lower-margin gadgets running Android, Apple
will not be able
to regain its former hefty margin.
I
would suggest that the hords of people who have bought
iPhones and iPads are
not part of the core Apple fandom but
rather, people who bought these products
based on same
decision making process that leads others to by Galaxies and
Nexi, rather than through blind loyalty. There is no reason
to believe these
people continue to buy Apple products for
any reason other than familiarity and
inertia, and the fact
that Apple still makes good products. At any time
however,
any one of these people could buy something else. There is
no reason
to judge Apple's future performance on its past
performance. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 02:31 PM EDT |
http://gizmodo.com/5995187/senators-are-trying-to-rush-through-a-massive-online-
sales-tax-hike?utm_source=feedly
"The bill would see online business in states that don't impose sales tax
having to pay up to to governments that do. It wouldn't, however, impose any
such expectation on brick-and-mortar stores. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the bill is
being supported by the likes of Wal-Mart—but also Amazon."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Amazon? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 03:36 PM EDT
- I wonder. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 24 2013 @ 06:47 PM EDT
- I wonder. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 24 2013 @ 08:17 PM EDT
- Rebuttle - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 02:58 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 02:32 PM EDT |
| As if we needed any more proof.
Showdown looms over State Secrets privilege in 'No-Fly
List' case
I don't usually think much of the U.S. court system. People
like Carmen Ortiz turn my stomach. But IMNSHO, Judge William Alsup is
_officially_ super-awesome. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 22 2013 @ 05:52 PM EDT |
| Some readers here, may have read with dismay the news that U.S. Attorney Carmen
Ortiz would be prosecuting the Boston Marathon bombing suspect. (The same Ms.
Ortiz who was supervising the case against Aaron Schwarz before he committed
suicide; that case was being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Stephen Heymann
and Scott Garland, working under the supervision of Ortiz). Well, she's the
U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, so I guess there's no surprise
that she is involved in this case.
Anyway, this case (the federal case
against the suspect in the marathon bombings) will be "prosecuted by Assistant
U.S. Attorneys William Weinreb and Aloke Chakravarty from the Anti-Terrorism and
National Security Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of
Massachusetts, with assistance from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice
Department’s National Security Division."
USDOJ: Suspect in
Boston Marathon Attack Charged with Using a Weapon of Mass
Destruction
Like all civilized human beings, I am enraged by the attack
that occurred at the Boston Marathon, and I hope this case will be able to
deliver at least some closure to all of those who were affected by this heinous
crime. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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