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It's not the same thing, but Virgin Births reminded me of a report from 1860 of fish near Santa Barbara releasing live young.

https://archive.org/details/up...

"On Wednesday, March 20 (1860), we walked along the beach to the asphaltum beds, and over the hills, a long walk of eighteen or twenty miles. Some interesting things turned up during the day. We found a whale stranded on the beach. I had no idea how huge they look when fresh. He was forty-five feet long, and about thirteen to fifteen through from back to belly. Such pile of flesh I never saw in one mass, it was equal to at least half a dozen large elephants. We also found a crab that was just shedding its shell. We secured it in its soft, velvety, new shell, and the old one alongside. Not the least -- a half-naked Indian fishing on the shore had caught two of the remarkable vivaparoa fishes, which instead of laying eggs bring forth their young alive, a thing nowhere known except on the coast of California. We saw the mother fish with a number of little ones."

US says ‘no evidence of Russia’s direct involvement’

** Russian provided BUK-M1... then captured BUK from Ukraine army. There is also BUK driver "released" from separatists confirmed that (Where is he now??).

** No Russian involvement, so how separatist could launch the BUK. New theory:
http://touch.latimes.com/#sect...

U.S. intelligence agencies have so far been unable to determine the nationalities or identities of the crew that launched the missile. U.S. officials said it was possible the SA-11 was launched by a defector from the Ukrainian military who was trained to use similar missile systems.

Robert Parry confirmed that: https://consortiumnews.com/201...

2+3. Unverifiable. Also, fake photo, provided by SBU (Ukraine security agency), which claimed BUK no.312 launched missile downed the MH-17, is still in Ukraine service:
http://rt.com/news/174868-ukra...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/cont...

The last photo was **DELETED** (silently).
The first photo, is interesting too.
This is the first, and **ONLY** photo which captured the smoke-trail of missile, provided by a pro-Kiev "witness", here some analysis from Dutch blogger (he may be hired by Kremlin, but his logic is interesting):
http://7mei.nl/2015/05/18/mh17...

Here some fact:
* This is the **ONLY** photo about smoke-trail, despite several video from locals capture the moment of the planed burning.
* The photo was in BMP, no EXIF data (Bellingcats to "protect" the "witness", yes here have contact with pro-Kiev medias, blogger, too)
* His interviews contradicted themselves.
* Minor detail, the blogger of 7meil.nl wen to the room of "witness", taken a photo as "witness" described, and there is (electric) wires in photo, not like the "original" photo.

4. After the incident, locals, in some videos, cheering because they thought government airplane shot down. May be, the separatists think so, too.

5. Which satellite images!?
IF satellite images provided by Russian Government after the accident, there not claim that is fake (yet).
Meanwhile, the satellite images provided by Ukraine Government, to counter the Russian ones, was analyzed by Russians, that was faked

Thanks for the tip! Kilobaud is available on Archive.org. Issue #2 has a full article on "The Remarkable Apple Computer."

It contains the hilarious quote "'We're not in the business of making things more expensive,' say Jobs and Wozniak."

A police bullpen or typing pool may be fine in a big open area. The same goes for sales and marketing types. However, if you're talking about any work which requires stretches of concentrated effort then it's just a Bad Idea. Engineers? No. Programmers? No. Accountants? No. Any kind of researcher? No.

Have you ever seen a picture of an engineering/drafting office from say... anywhere between the late 1800's and the mid/late 1980's (when draftsmen started to be replaced by computers and the size of said offices began to shrink dramatically)? Big ass open plan offices - sometimes thousands of square feet of big ass open plan offices. The same goes for accounting departments. One of Frank Lloyd Wright's most celebrated designs (from 1936) had a big ass open plan office as it's centerpiece.
 
We went to the bloody moon in vehicles designed in big ass open plan offices.
 
Somewhere in my book collection, I have a book intended for professional engineers and engineering managers from the 1950's... which devotes three whole chapters to the knotty problem of laying out (invariably open plan) engineering offices and drafting rooms - mapping a 3d object onto a 2d arrangement of desks and drafting tables.
 

This is the only real reason they're pushing this model. It's a clear terminus of the erosion that's led us from offices, to cubicles, to the little half walls, to just acres of desks.

I don't know where this idea came from that "everyone had a private office until Evil Management latched onto the open plan" comes from, but it's complete bull. Private offices have long been the exception, proof that one was senior enough to rate one and to have Made It, not the rule.

Even simpler, you point a laser pointer at the sky, and sweep it manually over a very distant target (bigger than the moon, but further away as well). Clearly your hand is not going to move faster than light, but the point where the beam finally hits something very well might. Again, this intersection is not a "thing", and cannot be used to communicate faster than the speed of light.

A Tektronix 7104 oscilloscope can sweep its electron beam across the CRT faster than the speed of light:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

The Soviets made some oscilloscopes which could do this also but they used very long CRTs.

Did Ulbricht Pay a Hitman to Kill A Silkroad Employee?

A 'murder for hire' indictment was brought against Ulbricht but the prosecution declined to bring charges.

Indictments that aren't brought as charges infer nothing more than prosecutorial strategy, and it doesn't indicate the existence or not of a criminal action. Prosecutors typically have many more indictments than charges, and as the case proceeds they trade off indictments for the good of their case (e.g. plea bargains, shedding weaker parts, or simply the prosecutor merging indictments to bolster charges, as seems to be the case here).

The government say,

1. Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) was the operator of Silkroad, an illegal drug-related website.
2. DPR was Ulbricht which now no one disputes (even Ulbricht now admits it, now that he's lost the case),
3. The Silkroad DPR account wanted the murder of a Silkroad employee for $80k which no one disputes,
4. A DEA agent posed as a hitman
4. Someone paid $40k to the hitman before it was done,
5. A DEA agent posed as a hitman and received $40k.
6. The DEA Agent sent the DPR account doctored photos of a dead body. DPR was told the person was tortured to death, and responded "I'm pissed I had to kill him ... but what's done is done,I just can't believe he was so stupid. I just wish more people had some integrity",
7. Another $40k was paid immediately afterwards,
8. No one was actually murdered.
9. Ulbrichts recovered laptop had his journal with an April 6 entry that says "gave [Hells Angels] go ahead to find tony76," and "sent payment to angels for hit on tony76 and his 3 associates.", and finally
10. When Ulbricht was caught in the library his computer was logged into the adminstration page of Silkroad under the DPR account.
(source: 1, 2)

Then at trial the `murder for hire` wasn't brought as a charge, but it was allowed to be used to describe the character of Ulbricht.

Character witnesses, and character evidence is allowed in trials.

As Judge Forrest said "the prejudicial effect is reduced by the Government’s stipulation that no actual murders were carried out". Apparently the judge considered that prosecutors might be worried a jury in this landmark case might be convinced that Ulbricht was non-violent, detached from reality behind a computer, and that his operation was quite different to a conventional drug ring. The murder for hire charge was unnecessary, and it might be a better prosecutorial strategy to use the murder for hire to attack Ulbricht's character as a backdrop for all other charges, to brand him as a violent drug dealer.

Of course there's no visibility to the prosecutorial strategy process but that strategy seems possible, and so I don't think much of the fact that the murder for hire charges were dropped and instead used elsewhere.

I did not say I made unlicensed content, I just said it was becoming the only sound and reasonable choice. Nowadays when I here modern music and auto tune all I hear is the greed and it really is off putting, so my preferred choice is to not listen at all. Every now and again I might listen to some old content but that is to recapture the emotions recalled with specific memories associated with that content, rather than listening to the music and I really don't do that much either. Other than that maybe some bargain bin diving where their reward is absolutely minimal. Of all things I am most enjoying https://archive.org/details/ol..., it is really quite fun to listen to when going for a constitutional, walk that is.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Might be slightly out of date..

The DSGL gives Department of Defence bureaucrats incredible power over scientists and researchers. It's a blatant grab for power by a department riddled with corruption:

http://cla.asn.au/News/defence...
http://defencereport.com/austr...
http://bayesian-intelligence.c...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Being curious, I decided to see what stories were posted here a decade ago on May 18, 2005.

The difference between then and now is astounding. I didn't see a single story that was obvious out of place. Each and every one of them was relevant!

The only one that was remotely political, "Your Rights Online: Washington State Outlaws Spyware", was directly related to the Internet and software, unlike this submission.

None were about social justice.

They were all about science, technology, gaming, the Internet, and other relevant topics. I couldn't believe it!

Whenever somebody says that the standards around here haven't fallen, all we need to do is look back a decade to see how bad things actually have become. Slashdot today really is just a ghost of its former glory.

That the Big Education discriminates against Asians and Whites has long been very well known.

Citation needed.

Asians in particular have been advised to not identify their race [usatoday.com] at all â" this would put them into the same category as Whites, which is an improvement. For ultimate win, claiming to be Black [washingtonpost.com] â" if you can pull it off â" is the best. The suit, apparently, compares the treatment of Asians with that of Blacks â" which is a safer ground â" but the real outrage is the Black privilege [almostblack.com]... Too bad, the claimants in this suit are too chicken to go all the way.

None of these links cite any studies. The first is the story of a girl who believes that claiming Asian ethnicity would hurt her. The second and third are both the same guy's story, who believes that claiming he is black increased his chances. Nobody cites studies, and the guy even admits he hasn't proven anything (emphasis mine):

This page has extensive documentation [...] that supports my story that I applied to medical schools in 1998/1999 as a black man. And that I likely gained admission because of it.

That said, I'm not surprised that this sort of thing goes on at Ivy League schools like Harvard, but primarily to allow them to admit "legacy" students, who are children of other Harvard alumni. Harvard has been open about this practice, and has also been open about the fact that they do it to collect more money from alumni: https://web.archive.org/web/20100414175342/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_11/q_a.html

Yale Alumni Magazine: So part of it is straightforward financial self-interest. And what about the alumni who were legacies themselves? Are they better donors than the non-legacies?

Rick Levin, Yale President: Absolutely. No doubt about it. Legacy students, when they become adults, are on average significantly more generous donors. People develop an allegiance to the institution that strengthens over generations. Look at the people active as volunteers -- many are legacies.

So years ago I was in varying positions at an ISP, but regardless of title "head tech" pretty much applied. We kept getting kids right out of high school that claimed to know computers well but had never used a command line, didn't know what an IRQ was etc.. As this was the Windows 95/98 era and this was a dial-up ISP some manuals had to be written.

I of course wrote them.

I made flow charts for email troubleshooting (I hated Visio so I used a graphical editor instead), I had grids for IRQ/Address settings, I had step by steps for undoing AOL I.P. stack sabotage (how many of you remember that?) Fact was I wrote really good documentation that anyone from teenager to adult could use to troubleshoot the "normal" day to day issues a worker at an ISP faces without making a condescending script. If you used it for reference it was an answer key, if you read every word you often would know why that problem occurred. I'm of the belief understanding an issue is always better than just knowing what the fix is.

Long story short - the documents leaked out of the company. On the north side of town there was a help-desk outsourcing company that tended to have a lot of employee migration with our own - in both directions. A buddy of mine went to work at a different ISP and saw my documents turn up there with my name replaced on the credit line (he knew I wrote them - he watched and knew the marks I put in things that were dead giveaways it was my stuff).

I no longer worked at the old company and was still finding out about my documents leaking all over the damned place. I decided to put the documentation GPL on the things and throw them out on my webserver. If figured if I put them out on the web myself then there was a verifiable copy out in the wild, it would shine a light on the plagiarizers, and I was hoping to maybe get offered jobs or something. Later I was criticized with "that really should have been Creative Commons". Fuck you, I did this before Creative Commons even existed.

My web server and the backups were physically stolen from my home, but there's still an archive. To this day I still write in the "explain it, don't step it" method.

Turns out lots of places want idiot guides and don't care to understand.

Modify your robots.txt and allow the Wayback Machine to archive it. Once it's there, feel free to shut it down. People who need it, will find it in the archive.

Nope, SA is turned off even in war zones, in fact the newest birds don't even have the SA feature.

True, Selective Availability is disabled or otherwise not available on the new satellites, but the government still retains the ability to deny GPS on a regional basis.

See :

"Why are you turning [SA] off?
A. The decision to end the degradation of civil accuracy on a global level was made by the President based on a Secretary of Defense recommendation coordinated with all applicable departments and agencies. This decision is based on the U.S. military commitment to develop and employ technologies to deny the civil services of GPS on a regional basis. Under this approach, it will be possible to deny GPS to potential adversaries in areas of operations while preserving the peaceful use of GPS services outside those areas"

That said, civilian GPS receivers are often quite a bit better, more handy, and more advanced than military ones and a lot of soldiers use them in combat areas. Sure, the military ones are more rugged and get the encrypted military-only channel with better accuracy, but sub-meter accuracy is only really needed for smart bombs and the like. It's less useful for driving a Humvee down the street somewhere or finding out how to get back to base. Handheld civil GPS receivers are typically accurate down to the 3-5 meter range, which is only slightly worse than the military ones.

Denying civil GPS signals in certain regions would almost certainly make things worse for US soldiers, so it's extremely unlikely that the military would ever do regional denial of civil GPS except in the most extreme situations. Even then it'd have limited effect because GLONASS (Russian), Compass (Chinese), and Galileo (EU) are or will soon be perfectly viable alternatives that bad guys could use for guidance.

It supports consoles as well, via JSMESS. https://archive.org/details/gg...

The others aren't just prepared to murder Wilders. They want to abolish democracy and replace it with sharia law, and kill the Untermenschen i.e. the unbelievers.

Please don't try and conflate Islamic fundamentalism and the Nazis.
Untermenschen does not mean "the unbelievers" it means "the under-man"

The American who first used the term in the context of inherent inferiority, which is how we understand it, said thusly:
"This term is The Under-Man the man who measures under the standards of capacity and adaptability imposed by the social order in which he lives."

That same year, he also published The New World of Islam where, if you glance at the chapter titles, you'll notice he calls Muslims "Bolsheviks."
Unsurprisingly, this is the same label that the Nazis attached to the Jews in an effort to slur them.
(And no, Bolshevism and communism are not the same as national socialism. The Nazis weren't commies.)

Oh, it happens. Protests, at least. http://www.praguepost.com/news/14559-region-photo-show-sparks-religious-uproar-in-serbian-capital.html:

A 2,000-strong battalion of police in riot gear cordoned off streets around the cultural center to prevent an outbreak of violence as thousands took to the streets to blast the portrayal of Jesus and his disciples as gay.

From Publishers Gave Away 122,951,031 Books During World War II: And, in the process, they created a nation of readers:

In 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, America's book publishers took an audacious gamble. They decided to sell the armed forces cheap paperbacks, shipped to units scattered around the globe. Instead of printing only the books soldiers and sailors actually wanted to read, though, publishers decided to send them the best they had to offer. Over the next four years, publishers gave away 122,951,031 copies of their most valuable titles.

[follow title-link for the rest of the article]

preorders began on april 10th

The wayback machine on april 11th http://web.archive.org/web/201...

The current page says it was last updated yesterday.

From the description of how the sensor works you would think that scarring, skin discoloration, and tattoos could all be a problem but it was not spelled out. {maybe extremely hairy wrists too}

As noted by FUCKING HISTORY you are absolutely full of shit, you apologist shill.

That was recently update to include the bit about the tattoos http://web.archive.org/web/201...

of course if you read how the sensor works you would know that scarring, discoloration of the skin, and tattoos would all be a possible problem it just wasn't spelled out for the masses.

"If you read the support article"

Which you obviously didn't do, or you'd have seen the page was edited yesterday, and that a wayback machine check shows they didn't talk about tattoos in the first fucking place.

No, they didn't.

Original post via wayback machine

Post modified yesterday.

Try again, Apple Apologist.

That was recently modified to include the part about tattoos check the page in the wayback machine before it was updated yesterday.

http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Just to make a note: That article currently has a "last modified" date of April 29th. For comparison, I've linked to the April 9th snapshot of the same article.

http://web.archive.org/web/201...

No mention of tattoos anywhere, to my knowledge. Granted, this is being fairly pedantic, but it surprises me that posters on slashdot would look at a page on the web in its current form and make statements that seem to imply that page has always existed in that same form.

Well, starting yesterday, anyway...

http://web.archive.org/web/201...

This article suggests the most likely source for the quote commonly attributed to Socrates was actually crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907.

Looking at the digital copy of the dissertation linked in the above article, it looks like the source for the Socrates quote is a combination of two sections of text on page 74 of the disertation.

Socrates quote from grandparent:
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Quote noted as misattributed to Socrates and suggested as paraphrased from Aristophanes at end of wiki link from parent:
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Excerpt from Kenneth John Freeman's 1907 dissertation:
[Lines 5-7] "The counts of the indictment are luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise. [Lines 19-21] Children began to be the tyrants, not the slaves, of their households. They no longer rose from their seats when an elder entered the room; they contradicted their parents, chattered before company, gobbled up the dainties at table, and committed various offences against Hellenic tastes, such as crossing their legs. They tyrannised over the paidagogoi and schoolmasters."

There are two major reasons why people incorrectly think aspartame causes cancer:

1. In 1975 a bad study was released saying aspartame caused brain and other cancers. This study became “legend”, and is what everyone thinks about aspartame, but it is not true. There is even an article on Wikipedia specifically about this controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
2. In 1998, a hoax was released saying aspartame caused all sorts of serious diseases, and people believed it: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp.htm. It’s also on snopes http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Due to the 1975 study, studies were launched and FDA officials describing aspartame as "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever approved" and its safety as "clear cut" (http://web.archive.org/web/20071214170430/www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_sugar.html)

1. The European Food Safety Authority concluded in its 2013 re-evaluation that aspartame and its breakdown products are safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3496.htm)
2. As do other independent studies (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408440701516184)
3. The national cancer institute has cleared aspartame as having no links to cancer (http://web.archive.org/web/20090212130028/http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/AspartameQandA)

There are many more scientific studies on it by national governments showing it’s safe as well:

• UK https://www.food.gov.uk/science/additives/aspartame/
• Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/securit/addit/sweeten-edulcor/aspartame-eng.php
• Australia / New Zealand http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/additives/aspartame/pages/default.aspx

There are two major reasons why people incorrectly think aspartame causes cancer:

1. In 1975 a bad study was released saying aspartame caused brain and other cancers. This study became “legend”, and is what everyone thinks about aspartame, but it is not true. There is even an article on Wikipedia specifically about this controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
2. In 1998, a hoax was released saying aspartame caused all sorts of serious diseases, and people believed it: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp.htm. It’s also on snopes http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Due to the 1975 study, studies were launched and FDA officials describing aspartame as "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever approved" and its safety as "clear cut" (http://web.archive.org/web/20071214170430/www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_sugar.html)

1. The European Food Safety Authority concluded in its 2013 re-evaluation that aspartame and its breakdown products are safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3496.htm)
2. As do other independent studies (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408440701516184)
3. The national cancer institute has cleared aspartame as having no links to cancer (http://web.archive.org/web/20090212130028/http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/AspartameQandA)

There are many more scientific studies on it by national governments showing it’s safe as well:

• UK https://www.food.gov.uk/science/additives/aspartame/
• Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/securit/addit/sweeten-edulcor/aspartame-eng.php
• Australia / New Zealand http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/additives/aspartame/pages/default.aspx

Indeed. Even in cases where published classical music - and its orchestration - is in the public domain for many decades, modern performances of it are often not. They involve copyrights with royalties to the performer and various technicians involved. It is necessary to either (i) get releases from the performers and possibly those technicians that the performance will be released to the public domain, or (ii) the performer releases them to the public domain, and has such a condition in the employment contracts of any technicians.

There are efforts to issue classical music in the public domain, especially by musopen.org and kimiko-piano.org, which are mirrored on archive.org. There are loads of public domain classical pieces at musopen.org. We have contributed to two of Musopen's kickstarter campaings (the Musopen DVD, and Musopen's complete works of Chopin), as well as two of Kimiko Ishizaka's (Open Goldberg Variations and The Well-tempered Clavier).

Indeed. Even in cases where published classical music - and its orchestration - is in the public domain for many decades, modern performances of it are often not. They involve copyrights with royalties to the performer and various technicians involved. It is necessary to either (i) get releases from the performers and possibly those technicians that the performance will be released to the public domain, or (ii) the performer releases them to the public domain, and has such a condition in the employment contracts of any technicians.

There are efforts to issue classical music in the public domain, especially by musopen.org and kimiko-piano.org, which are mirrored on archive.org. There are loads of public domain classical pieces at musopen.org. We have contributed to two of Musopen's kickstarter campaings (the Musopen DVD, and Musopen's complete works of Chopin), as well as two of Kimiko Ishizaka's (Open Goldberg Variations and The Well-tempered Clavier).

Indeed. Even in cases where published classical music - and its orchestration - is in the public domain for many decades, modern performances of it are often not. They involve copyrights with royalties to the performer and various technicians involved. It is necessary to either (i) get releases from the performers and possibly those technicians that the performance will be released to the public domain, or (ii) the performer releases them to the public domain, and has such a condition in the employment contracts of any technicians.

There are efforts to issue classical music in the public domain, especially by musopen.org and kimiko-piano.org, which are mirrored on archive.org. There are loads of public domain classical pieces at musopen.org. We have contributed to two of Musopen's kickstarter campaings (the Musopen DVD, and Musopen's complete works of Chopin), as well as two of Kimiko Ishizaka's (Open Goldberg Variations and The Well-tempered Clavier).

Or had fled to a neutral country.

That he is in Russia is going to lose a lot of support from people who lived through "Duck and Cover."

https://archive.org/details/Du...

I call this engineering syndrome. I've met a lot of engineers that are good at what they do and automatically assume they understand how everything else works. Most of the people on this board are not medical researchers and are not qualified to make those kinds of decisions. We get "facts" from media, that they want us to see. Well the whole vaccine idea, is not black and white. Not all are bad and not all are good. However, there is evidence that some vaccines are bad for some people. But unfortunately, it's a multi billion dollars industry and a lot of times money takes priority. My wife is a doctor and has encountered numerous research studies that shows opposite of what the media likes to spin. For those of you interested, you can read up on MMR vaccine. http://blog.drbrownstein.com/g... http://blog.drbrownstein.com/g... This one is more technical - https://web.archive.org/web/20.... Remember form you own opinion and not what some newspaper tells you.

Here's the archive.org webpage:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Here's some google page saying the same thing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://sciblogs.co.nz/waiology...

And if that's not enough, here's a 2012 study about it:
http://waterfootprint.org/medi...

Don't be shy, google's your friend! A lots more webpage and study can be found on other site. Agriculture takes a lot of water, it's a fact and especially everything animal related.

p.s. I will let them know about the 404 page so they can fix it.

A history of the theories of aether and electricity

There is plenty wrong with Objective-C, not the least of which is the slow-as-molasses dynamic dispatch.

Oh, it's a bit slower, but not "slow as molasses."

http://web.archive.org/web/20140403054108/http://rmarcus.info/?p=488

Evidence based medicine is commonly wrong because the evidence is interpreted incorrectly.

Around the 1600s, cedar leaf tae saved Jacques Cartier's crew from scurvy, 25 died the rest were save and when he got back to France was told there as no evidence this worked.

Prior to that Vasco de Gamma nearly diet near the Cape of Good Horn but his crew found eating citrus fixed it.

Hundreds of years later, evidence showed citrus prevented scurvy and it became institutionalized. Later it was boiled on copper kettles (which neutralize the C) and nobody noticed it didn't work any more as diets had improved, until sailors and polar explorers began dying. Similarly at around the same time the new process of warming babies milk to kill bacteria also killed the vitamin C and a new disease of the rich emerged: infantile scurvy. By 1933 vitamin C had be found and scurvy became much less widespread.

The point is scurvy has been around for 20 million years, it' s in recorded history for 5500 years but as of the Scott Antarctic expedition people were still dying of it despite cures being known since Egyptian times ("bitter herbs" all have ascorbate). It's not that the evidence is lacking, it's that there's a disruptive influence from commerce and industrialization. Some unintentional, some because of vested interest. History records that "the evidence was contradictory" and while this is true it never stopped being true that two fresh citrus a day prevented and even cured scurvy, of course more was better, ascorbate does not take up into the body in hours it takes days. so any time i the past 500 years it's been true people have been saying "look I know if I eat fresh fruit I won't get sick" while the medical community insisted, no, it' something else we disproved that. During Scott's antarctic mission the medically accepted ce for scurvy was a brew called "vitriol" containing sulphuric acid. That where evidence based medicine got you and this is one of the reason it's a UN right that you can deterring your own course of treatment to any illness. Science is just a sure it's right the nit's wrong as it is when it's right and it's been worn as recently as elat year, the recent fats ans cholesterol deacle as well as finding out sugar is the cause of cholesterol is proof at least to me that the conventional wisdom is neither.

It cannot be said this does not exist today. I'm not a TV guy and have only a very casual knowledge of the claims he made. ome I know are wrong and know why there are right and I know why but are rejected by industry. Given the near complete control by industry of antu to do with pharmaceuticals they are not the best ones to adjudicate this. The belief that if it's in our pharmacopoeia it's good and anything that isn't is bad it fatally flawed in many many ways.

I don't think they'll pursue this very far. All it's going to take is one thing Oz says that works that they say doesn't but actually does and now everything else they say is in question.

If you have unwavering faith in the pharmaceutical industry to be acting only out of the best interests of your health in an ethical manner at all times then you must not have seen these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://projects.propublica.org...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/soci...
http://www.plosmedicine.org/ar...
http://www.nature.com/nature/j...

If my memory still serves me correctly, the domain 'internet.org' used to belong to an independent organization which had nothing to do with fb

Take a look at archive.org copy of internet.org - https://web.archive.org/web/19...

The fact that the domain has been taken over by fb and is being used by fb to co-op (and con) people whom still without stable connection to the Net is that fb has proven itself to be a not-so-nice entity

Forget about CPUs. At the dose rates dealt with in this case, even ordinary transistors have a tough time.

NHK has frequent brief stories on both their international tv channel and the web, but they seldom last more than a day on their front page, and the links usually die in two. So even though it's current, here's a wayback link.

http://web.archive.org/web/201...

Usually one thinks of possible long term harm from too much radiation exposure, but the levels seen by the bot cam apparently would cause death in about 40 minutes. I guess no one will be going in after that dead bot anytime soon.

The robot isn't the type we usual think of. It's more of a mobile snake camera. I think the light output goes through an optical cable. Camera image sensors don't do well in radiation. It's reminds me of how some of the craft monitoring the sun have sensors go nuts when there is a proton storm. Some feeds just get a burst of firefly-like snow. It's almost funny when one of the video feeds shows the sun jumping around and doing a 360 degree spin (as the spacecraft briefly loses lock on the stars and does a roll).

Can we get a FAQ please? Here are the common answers:

* Visually with Angry Birds characters: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1
* Scratch
* http://coderdojo.com/
* Minecraft mods
* http://www.learntomod.com./
* https://pragprog.com/book/ahmi...
* http://codecombat.com/
* http://boardgamegeek.com/board...
* http://boardgamegeek.com/board...
* http://www.gamebooks.org/show_...
* http://venturebeat.com/2014/06...
* http://meetedison.com/
* BASIC
* Vic-20 C64 Compute! magazine
* Raspberry Pi
* Arduino
* Logo

Same for "the first time the start menu, task bar, minimize, maximize and close buttons are introduced on each window" (style errors aside: "start menu"/"task bar" on every window?), again min/max/close buttons were present on every window in early Lisa/MacOS, AmigaOS, Atari TOS, even Geos for C=64 way before MS copied it from Apple (who copied it from Xerox). The only thing Microsoft keeps (re)inventing is history. I guess stock prices aren't inflated high enough yet.

Not only this, but also Windows 2.0 and Windows 3.0 had minimize and maximize buttons. The only addition to window titlebars in Win95 was the close button (which was previously achieved by double-clicking on the menu button at the left of the window titlebar). Some quality research has obviously gone into this article.

Obligatory link to The Microsoft Hall Of Innovation. Looks like the site hasn't been maintained in quite a while and has been gone since 2010 or so, gotta love the wayback machine. I'd love to see an updated version.

You could host the multimedia files on your own website, which would let you move your domain and/or provider to an amenable ISP whenever needed while retaining the same URLs for your visitors. There are ISPs such as Dreamhost.com that will host email and websites and their accompanying data files at reasonable costs with lots of bandwidth should your show become popular. I don't work for them but I've worked with their hosting and found it to be reasonable.

You could host files on archive.org (the Internet Archive) for no fee which will deliver files to all comers also gratis. I'm not aware of IA discriminating against people doing what you're doing.

You could consider delivering pointers to your shows delivered cooperatively via BitTorrent with magnet URLs posted to popular BitTorrent-based sharing sites so the public can keep your shows downloadable even if you find hosting hard to come by.

You could combine these ideas, they're not mutually exclusive. And I hope you'll consider distributing your multimedia in formats that favor free software such as WebM. Finally, be wary of any provider's changing terms of service should you start talking about something they someday consider important. Commercial organizations and nations don't have permanent friends, they have interests which change.

They could start by releasing updates to source code that used to be distributed, before it became the property of Microsoft and promptly got squashed.

Mark Russinov was involved with SysInternals before SysInternals got bought by Microsoft. (Bryce Cogswell is the name of the other person who was behind SysInternals back in those days.) At the time, SysInternals released source code to multiple products. The first paragraph of Winternals press release about the sale to Microsoft states, "Customers will be able to continue building on Sysinternals' advanced utilities, technical information and source code for utilities related to Windows." Microsoft withdraws Sysinternals source code notes that Microsoft lied; they promised continued access to the source code, and then squashed it. (They also entirely discontinued some software, NTFS for DOS. So then there was really no legal way to be deploying that software any further.)

If there's any source code that's really *due* to us netizens, it may be that source code that was promised. And of all people at Microsoft who may be intimately aware with the particular SysInternals situation that I just described, our spokesperson of the hour, Mark Russinov, should certainly be one of the very top people on that list.

Regarding his comment about being a whole new Microsoft... yeah... they're not about trying to hide their source code anymore. Now their about making software dependent on a centralized source, so that they can have more power to yank support at any time. The company has become less evil in some ways (namely those ways that it fears will lead to super-penalties imposed by governments who have bought into the claim of a monopolization threat), and so has decided upon new ways to be evil. Letting developers see the source code, so that they can make software that integrates better with Azure or other technologies that require servers under the control of Microsoft, isn't exactly the flexibility and freedom that Richard Stallman has in mind. I don't think he's ready to start kissing Microsoft after this recently announcement. It's a new Microsoft, in the sense that they've figured out a new way to be evil. They legally can't increase their usage share of desktops beyond the 97% that they once had, so they'll figure out a way to use wearable computing and other technologies to be with people even more often, and control their shopping experiences so that Microsoft can control the economy. And ditch the old vision (which Apple really popularized at the start) of using a mouse-based interface that lots of people are now familiar with, but try to shove a new UI that will force everybody to re-learn stuff in a way that will be more compatible with running Windows on phones, because Microsoft likes to be able to be trendy but loves forcing people to re-learn new Microsoft stuff. Microsoft still has many of its old characteristics, like being evil at heart, even if it has found a new skin/face for how that evil looks.

...During the war the U.S. Bullion Depository continued to operate at Fort Knox, receiving more and more shipments of the country's gold reserves. The Gold Vault was also used to store and to safeguard the English crown jewels and the Magna Carta, along with the gold reserves of several of the countries of occupied Europe. ...

Ah, memories! :)

He went to Nvidia to develop Gelato, and by 2008 Nvidia decided to drop all support to the software

The software - Gelato Pro - can be downloaded from http://web.archive.org/web/200...

"The case involves SCO's claims that IBM misappropriated code from the Unix computer operating system software, owned by SCO."

NO, SCO (formerly Caldera Systems) owned a version of Unix that they bought from Novell, besides which Novell still retained rights.

Unix Tree

"About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade." -- Bill Gates, July 2, 1998

8th December 2010 13:24 GMT - A group of top NASA and NOAA scientists say that current climate models predicting global warming are far too gloomy, and have failed to properly account for an important cooling factor which will come into play as CO2 levels rise.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

Why did Earth’s surface temperature stop rising in the past decade?

"Since the turn of the century, however, the change in Earth’s global mean surface temperature has been close to zero."
"Since 2000, temperatures have been warmer than average, but they did not increase significantly." Data courtesy of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center.

http://www.climate.gov/news-fe...

A hypothesis that the heat was sequestered in the ocean abyss was proven incorrect by NASA in October of 2014 - "the cold waters of Earth's deep ocean have not warmed measurably since 2005", according to a new NASA study, leaving unsolved the mystery of why global warming appears to have stopped in 1998. It started in 1978. But there really has been no warming this century.

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014...

"97%+ of geologists agreed the continents were stable. It was Settled Science. Hundreds of research papers supported it. Overwhelming consensus. And wrong. And, oddly (not really, if you think about it a moment), it was not a geologist but a meteorologist, Alfred Wegener, who ultimately showed all the mutually agreeing geologists they had it all wrong; the continents move." - Dr. Michael K. Oliver

Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide stalled in 2014
http://www.iea.org/newsroomand...

Sea ice is increasing
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https://web.archive.org/web/20...

http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
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OP is less aware of the science than Cruz is. How is that even possible?