mattraibert

You can't compare Bastoy's reoffense rate directly to that of a traditional prison. Prisoners have to apply to Bastoy and get kicked out if they break the rules.

Here's the actual paper: http://www.springerlink.com/content/dlp3455520r4lqk2/

Android has multi-tasking which is a pretty fundamental difference in how the phone behaves -- it seems odd to call it a copy of iOS. It also doesn't look that similar.

There is not a shred of content in this article. The beginning restates the title and introduces a quotation that restates it several more times.

> most of the video to the home is cached on the edge of the network rather than going through the backbone.

I'd like to know more about what this means exactly. Do they have complete copies of their streaming library all over the place so that everyone is downloading from a relatively local source?

Any reason? Or just a pet-peeve?

After hearing about this, I'm going to clean up my Facebook friends based on whether I'd let them crash in my house.

Do you have a source?

Provocative article. Really solid advice to write 1000 words about a belief. Too bad he starts with such a sexist preamble.

"The United States remains primarily a civilian economy. The military now takes about 8 percent of all durable goods, up from 3 percent in 2000."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/business/economy/01charts....