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Because hydrogen goes boom in a big way.

Actually, if you read the article that you just linked, it does a very good job of explaining why the Hindenburg fire was not a hydrogen explosion (especially on page 3).

Yes, and one bullet to the main fuel tank and you've got another Challenger on your hands.

Because hydrogen goes boom in a big way.

Because Sony is NOT going to change their mind -- nor should they, because as you list their failures, I could make an equally large list of successes. Things like the Trinitron tube, the Walkman, the compact disc . . .

I'm with ya until the bold part. Sony didn't invent the CD, James Russell did, and it was popularized by Philips.

Otherwise, your good points are well made.

I don't know how you managed to do it, but you have a virtual catalog of the lies, distortions and strawmen being used by the left to try and discredit the administration.

Didn't Saddam turn over something like 13,000 pages of documents?

Yes, and they were filled with incomplete, misleading, or already known information. Look for yourself. Apparently your position is "Bush lied", but Saddam tells all, and only the truth? If that is your position you are either incredibly na?ve or stupid.

Didn't he cave in and allow UN inspectors anywhere in Iraq?

Not without interference, delay, and attempts to keep them out of various places.

It boils down to this, Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney declared that Iraq was an "imminent threat"

A tedious, often repeated lie. The administration described Iraq as a gathering threat which we could ill-afford to allow to become an imminent threat.

and tried to link it to Al Qaeda.

Iraq did have links to Al Qaeda. There is no evidence Iraq was behind 9/11 though.

Both turned out to be false.

Your strawman is false, the other is true.

Or when he disregarded the findings of weapons inspectors made since the 1990's?

The problem is Saddam admitted to having WMDs that were unaccounted for, and the inspectors kept finding problems with Iraq's disclosures. You might also find the Kay report interesting since it chronicles a number of findings even if they hadn??t found much in the way of actual WMD at that point. Of course, you would have to have an open mind.

Or when he refused to listen to the "yellowcake uranium" claim being disproven?

The UK government says that its source is the the forged documents, and stands by the claim.

Heck, I knew about that disproof in late 2002, it made some headlines in anti-war sites.

The anti-war sties have "proven" many things "false" that are still true today.

In addition, they had claims that they knew were the WMDs were. "We know where they are" one said, indicating that they knew exactly where they were stored. Even Colin Powell's UN speech seemed to sure, but it all turned out to be completely false, and none of it has been substantiated since.

We've found two so far, uncovered research for biological weapons, work on missiles that constitute serious breaches of the UN resolutions, and many other activities Regarding WMDs, even if we did know exactly where they were, are you saying Saddam's government couldn't have moved them? That is silly. It would only take a couple of tractor trailers to move them and they had a country the size of California to hide them.

Then you haven't been paying attention. The US promotes General Jerry Boykin, the general who goes to a church and tells the people that Muslims worship an idol and not a real god?

The General's personal beliefs have nothing to do with suppressing religion practiced by others. He is free to believe what he wants, or don't you believe in the 1st amendment for all US citizens?

Mr Grainer, the guy who tortured Iraqis in Abu Ghraib, beats the people until they curse Allah and Islam?

So, you are saying random criminals now determine US policy? That is a foolish notion.

The US is doing military incursions into Karbala and Najaf, some of the holiest cities to the Shiites? They knocked down a minaret, flattened half of a sacred mosque, and put bullet holes into the dome of the Imam Ali mosque (which is really frightening to all Shiites worldwide).

Once again you a

I suppose because it's aulic, the original quotation from Virgil says exactly: 'Audentis Fortuna iuvat.'
You can check from the original text, here and here.

Yes. Let's not forget about what radical politics has brought to this world. Things like the 8 hour work day, women's right to vote, the Civil Rights movement, etc. That's just last century.

Take it back two or three and you have radicals taking on the Britsh Empire to found their own country, the birth of the labor movement, abolitionism of slavery, etc.

The funny thing is that so much of radical history has taken place in the United States, yet we try so hard to forget it. Example: Why don't we celebrate Labor Day in May like the rest of the world?

Another question: Why is anyone that challenges the status quo labeled as a "leftist" that is unable to critically think? Why is it that officially sanctioned "propaganda" that supports that status quo is viewed as balanced - and other views are not?

Your comments also just go to show "leftist" is relative. Frankly, I don't find Michael Moore all that radical or even "leftist". He's just getting some discussion going on regarding the current travesty that goes by the name of "War on Terror" and which I would bet - is funneling cash into the pockets of Bush's handlers and their cronies. I think its a pretty important dialogue we should all be having - irrespective of our political views.

You may not like what Michael Moore has to say - I haven't seen it so don't even know what he is saying - but at least see the movie for yourself and talk about it with people rather than trivializing it through a few select quotes from movie critics. Based on your selection, should I also label you as a right-winger that is outrageously manipulative in your quote selection?

the gaming industry is in the midst of a crisis of innovation

Two words: online gaming

If we continue down the same path as we have in the past, people may become tired of gaming

In economics they call this Diminishing Marginal Utility. The more you consume something, the less gain you experience from consuming one more unit of that thing. To combat this, marketers need to offer you something novel. I don't know why anyone would think that video-games are imune to this...

Robert Oppenheimer: My God, what have we done
Porting the analogy to F/OSS is left as an exercise to the reader.

RTFM about roasts for fun and profit.

Dark roasts, such as used in espresso, have less caffeine compared to the same bean in a lighter roast. Therefore espresso, bean for bean, has less caffeine than a normal roast, however the technique results in a highly concentrated coffee beverage.

And yes, nobody cares... caffeine is the only thing keeping our society functional, dammit ;)

Procedure Add(X: In Integer);

--#global in out Total;

--#post Total=Total~ + X;

--#pre X > 0;

I finally got Windows installed properly on my computer, and now this. I bet that by the time I turn my cell phone on, they'll have it running Lin... oh crap, too late.

Is the problem. The cellphone thing might have just been a coincidence. See here.

I live in the Washington DC area and we've had a few of these caught on video in the last 6 months. It's really crazy to see. One minute your pumping gas, the next your catching fire. Guess you should pay attention to those warning stickers at the pumps that say turn your car off, no smoking and no cellphone usage, eh?

The integrity of Enigma relied heavily on keeping the machines and codebooks out of allied hands

Or in at least one well-documented case, getting fake info into enemy hands. Have you heard of The Man Who Never Was? Interesting story, there's at least one book and a movie about it.

Has a turbo-prop engine, not a turbofan. Dont know about the bombardier, but it may be the same. The 747 has turbofan engines. The C-130, designed for short field, rough field existance is likely more "proof" from FOD to the engines. Some visuals/descriptions on the engines for you.

The next flying vehicle to take out a skyscraper won't be piloted by a suicidal terrorist, it'll be piloted by some asshat yuppie on a cell phone.

Unlicensed people piloting aircraft is definitely a big concern, but I seriously doubt that an M400 or similar craft could take out a skyscraper, thanks to its relatively small size and fuel capacity.
The Empire State Building survived a direct hit by a B-25, which is much heavier than an M400.

Actually, the modern zipper was designed by Gideon Sundback, a colonial from Canada. American Whitcomb Judson is credited for the invention, but his device worked poorly and bears little resemblance to the fasteners we now use. It was Sundback's fastener that was marketed by B.F. Goodrich as the "zipper".

Really? Strange, since the modern zipper was invented by Canadian Gideon Sundback.

Try fifteen hundred years: Stained glass windows are translucent, are they not?

John Vincent Atanasoff was credited with the invention of the computer, following a lengthy court battle, built 1939 to 1942, predating the Colossus by at least one year. The Z3 was begun the year before the ABC was finished per this page, so if the court decision is to be believed, America gets credit for the computer.

I rip all my albums using --alt-preset standard, and I transcode them to 128k ABR for my handheld mp3 player. I've never been able to hear any perceptible difference between this and a direct-from-CD 128k ABR encode. See this test here for more info.

Philosophy of science (especially "The Justification of Scientific Statements")

Scientific Method (especially "Scientific Method and the practice of science" and "Philosophical Issues")

Dogma

Dogmatic

Agnosticism vs. atheism

That's all I'm going to say, because our philosophies are so far apart that this would be an endless and fruitless discussion. At least through /.

Ok, first of all, while the test was DISCUSSED on HydrogenAudio, and most of the participants are HA regulars, Roberto Amorim did all the hard work of organizing the test and compiling the results, dealing with complaints, etc. To not give him credit is not very nice.

Second, there was a 128kbps test a month or two ago (which for some reason got repeatedly rejected when submitted to slashdot). You can see it here. Unfortunately, the results there aren't quite as interesting (it was mostly a big tie). Unfortunately, tests at higher bitrates are difficult because detecting problems at, say, 160kbps often requires well trained ears and good audio equipment.

Third, it's a good idea when commenting on an article to actually read it and click around on a few links to actually have an idea what you are talking about. Many /.ers seem to be only half-literate (can write but not read). There is a hilarious number of denegrating comments here by people who know nothing about either statistics or psychoacoustic audio compression. ABC/HR type methodology is the standard for comparing the relative quality of audio sources. Also, a great deal of effort went in to assuring that the best settings for the best encoders for each codec were used for the test. A little reading of the pre-test discussions would reveal this. Further, HydrogenAudio is not a club of audiofools who spend zillions of dollars on fancy speaker cable without any science to back it up. It is an objectivist forum. Anyone who makes statements without backing them up (with something like ABC/HR or ABX results) gets flamed HARSHLY. Some of the regluars have PhDs on various audio topics. They know what the fuck they're doing.

Fourth, just because you don't have a use for 64k audio, doesn't mean the results are meaningless. Lots of people have small-capacity players, and some codecs can tolerate that bitrate for very casual listening (such as in the car). Lots of streaming audio sources are at this bitrate or lower. Satellite radio is at 64k or lower. Also, it's not a good idea to try to extend these results to other bitrates. MPC for example, isn't even worth considering at 64kbps, but at bitrates over about 140kbps, it will beat the pants off of anything else.

Finally, for those who want to know more, or want their audio collections to sound best, read the FAQs at HA. Many codecs have a preset where they are transparent for the vast majority of samples; usually a VBR setting that averages somewhere between 160 and 200kbps (such as lame --preset standard, mppenc --standard, oggenc around -q5 or -q6).

There's hardly a point in testing formats at 128 Kbps. As shown in this previous test, 95% of the participants couldn't hear ANY difference between WMA, OGG and MP3 at 128 Kbps. Where the main difference in formats lies is how good they can encode lower bitrates; there is a huge difference between MP3 and OGG at 64 Kbps...

Did you ever wonder why Slashdot only supports 7-bit ASCII, i.e. no extended ASCII, Unicode or ISO-8859 characters?

Because Slashdot is a wholly American and Patriot website, that's why.

Think about it! Do you want Slashdot to become a forum for terrorists, where they can freely discuss plans for taking away our freedom and killing our brave soldiers through HORRIBLE ACTS OF TERRORISM in their own language and the heathen Arabic script? Unicode, a system that enables terrorists worldwide to plan terrorist actions and communicate through the Internet. Though most try to cover it up, it is no secret to most IT-savvy Americans that Unicode development is partly funded by Al-Qaeda and partly by the French, dictator-supporting government.

There is none of that anti-social trash here. Slashdot supports only AMERICAN, PATRIOTIC CHARACTERS. Eurotrash, look out, because you can't use your fucking umlauts and ~'s here. We saved your sorry asses in World War II -- the least you can do is show some fucking respect and use our alphabet. Slashdot does not support your anti-American characters. 7-bit ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is commonly known as US-ASCII. This speaks for itself. The one and only choice for PATRIOTIC AMERICANS is US-ASCII, the STANDARD CODE for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I'm proud to be an American, and I'm PROUD be a member of this patriotic, American Slashdot community. I am not going to let freedom-hating terrorists plot evil plans on an American-owned, FREE SPEECH website.

Do not believe the terrorist propaganda lies.
Boycott Unicode -- it is a tool of terrorism.
USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN US-ASCII AND THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.

Unicode and its links to Al-Qaeda

It reminds me of that light from the classic show, "The Prisoner": "Why don't you just lock us all up and be done with it?"

I call upon the self-proclaimed conservatives who never tire of claiming they're against "big government". Stop for a minute punctuating every sentence with "terrorism," and "support the troops; we're at war!" like some sort of right-wing Speak and Spell. Remember this on election day: Bush believes the PATRIOT Act should be renewed and celebrated. There's your big government, pal.

Sheesh. Someone get me a valium.

Did you ever wonder why Slashdot only supports 7-bit ASCII, i.e. no extended ASCII, Unicode or ISO-8859 characters?

Because Slashdot is a wholly American and Patriot website, that's why.

Think about it! Do you want Slashdot to become a forum for terrorists, where they can freely discuss plans for taking away our freedom and decapitating our brave soldiers through HORRIBLE ACTS OF TERRORISM in their own language and the heathen Arabic script? Unicode, a system that enables terrorists worldwide to plan terrorist actions and communicate through the Internet. Though most try to cover it up, it is no secret to most IT-savvy Americans that Unicode development is partly funded by Al-Qaeda and partly by the French, dictator-supporting government.

There is none of that anti-social trash here. Slashdot supports only AMERICAN, PATRIOTIC CHARACTERS. Eurotrash, look out, because you can't use your fucking umlauts and ~'s here. We saved your sorry asses in World War II -- the least you can do is show some fucking respect and use our alphabet. Slashdot does not support your anti-American characters. 7-bit ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is commonly known as US-ASCII. This speaks for itself. The one and only choice for PATRIOTIC AMERICANS is US-ASCII, the STANDARD CODE for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I'm proud to be an American, and I'm PROUD be a member of this patriotic, American Slashdot community. I am not going to let freedom-hating terrorists plot evil plans on an American-owned, FREE SPEECH website.

Do not believe the terrorist propaganda lies.
Boycott Unicode -- it is a tool of terrorism.
USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN US-ASCII AND THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.

Unicode and its links to Al-Qaeda

If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.

more on global dimming here

And let's not leave out good ol' GWB. He is right up there with the rest of the religious nuts. How do you know when to start a war? Talk to Jesus. Get into an argument with your mother about if you can get into heaven without accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, what do you do? You call up the Rev Billy Graham to come over and mediate your argument. Read more...

How about Moran?

AHH, to be young, single, in love with the world, and filthy rich enough to ride around it in 3 yrs.

anyhow, while I understand you want to burn pics to cd from storage media, the question is why? if for archival purposes until you get pics uploaded then by all means go for it. if you are doing it in order to upload pics because you are afraid of running out of space, that may not be necessary. you are carrying more than 1 quantity of digital pic storage, are you not? many photo processing places in the US nowadays allow you to bring in your xD/SD/Flashmem/etc storage media and create printed pics right on the spot as well as burning them to cdrom. uploading them to the web is up to you, though.
now, if you had a wireless PDA that accepted Sony mem sticks and your digital camera also happened to use those, I foresee an easy way to bypass needing cdroms to upload to the 'net.

As for your travels, swing on by, we'll hold a cold one for you and keep the view beautiful.
I have no idea who these guys are http://www.texastrials.com/subwebs/txtrials/defaul t.htm

Why do Japan, China and Korea get the coolest phones years before we do?


Because they are the guinea pigs and the phones get tested there before trying it in the "final" markets. Oh, and also demand

As I was writing in my web blog, I think that piracy is going to kill Gmail. The only way to stop it? Bandwidth constraints, but with those, the 1GB offered is useless.

Link to review. Looks impressive, it's too bad Plextor drives cost so much!

From my research, he used usenet and IRC a fair bit. Here's a record. I can see that he has some social problems.

It's actually based on the stolen SCO code like everything else useful in Linux.

As I was saying on my blog , I don't think the open source community really needs to kowtow to the subtleties of Windows. Abandoning them have allowed us to go to great places.

I was reading an article about this, and found it to be pretty interesting. It is a bit technical, but I think I got the jist of it.

I was reading an article about this, and found it to be pretty interesting. It is a bit technical, but I think I got the gist of it.

I was reading an article about this, and found it to be pretty interesting. It is a bit technical, but I think I got the gist of it.

These (rather dubious) claims sound awfully like those attributed to red mercury, a mysterious (and probably mythical) powerful explosive substance. Note point 5 in the linked document, which suggests that "red mercury" may be a codeword for some kind of new nuclear material.

</tinfoil hat>

I made this a couple of years ago with my friends, was a lot of fun. link

It's here. I was really surprised to see that kind of thing, there, but I guess it is a really diverse site!

or is it?

One of the key things my psychologist pointed out to me when I was beating depression was the idea of altering your brain chemistry. If you think a certain way, you can change the nature of your thoughts patterns. With depression you are constantly thinking negative thoughts. The negativity breeds more negativity and, as the parent said, you don't "just snap out of it".

What helped me a lot was to recongize certain negative thought patterns as "cognitive distortions". Once you recognize it, you can work at changing it - retraining your brain. Or, translated into Geek: "You must unlearn what you have learned."

This link describes the concept of cognitive distortions: http://depression.about.com/cs/psychotherapy/a/cog nitive.htm

Since you're Canadian, here's some data from MacLean's survey of 15 Canadian "Medical/Doctoral" Universities - the relevant category is "Student Retention", which is exactly what you're talking about (% of first year students who return in 2nd-year)- this percentage ranges from 95.3% for Laval to 80.4% for Manitoba. None are even close to the 65% rate you're claiming most have.

If anything, retention rates are higher at major US universities- a few years ago, when the US News & World Report rankings added a "graduation rate" category, Caltech was the worst in this category and downgraded because "only" 85% of freshmen graduated within 5 years. This notably low-retention-rate school currently has 91% of its freshmen return for a second year- a more typical rate among top US schools is Stanford with 98%.

- Grandparent post makes an unverified claim saying aspartame is bad, and does not link to back up
- Parent post makes an unverified claim saying aspartame has been disproven to be bad, and does not link to back up

How about I just don't take either of you seriously?

Here's something solid. Aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the FDA. Your move.

Freon
Because Freon is non-toxic, it eliminated the danger posed by refrigerator leaks.
First result when googleing for freon.
Things can brake you know and the sound can get out.

The overly broad wording of the legislation, according to the study, could allow employees to sue employers for not doing enough to stop porn spam.

I know pretty much nothing about European law, but here in the US we can sue anybody for anything. There are horror stories of criminals suing their victems for being injured in the course of their crime and winning. I've read the article twice and saw nothing that said this legislation would "allow employees to sue".

Spam has really gotten out of hand. I run an email server and run spamassassin with many custom rules and trap very close to 100% of spams. I kinda like challenges like this, so I don't mind (regexpressions out the wazoo, trying to teach a computer to be more "humanlike" throgh pattern matching, etc). But the time I have spent on this is amazing. I'm on the spamassassin mailinglist, and its the heaviest traffic mailinglist that I am on. So much time and effort is being wasted on spam, its not funny.

One proposal that a coworker suggested, that I had never considered would to _not_ filter, but instead do exactly the opposite. Respond to all spam mails! Think about it. If there were robots to auto reply to any email remove or go and follow all of the urls recursively on their server, especially https signup pages, we could DOS the hell out of these guys with their own spam.

Oh yeah, and its salisbury steak day children!