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I don't see how nuclear power is in any way more dangerous than hydro electric. There have been significantly more people killed by hydro electric power, not to mention the massive effects it has on the environment.

When the Banqiao Dam in China collapsed, 26,000 people died immediately. This is the worst accident in the history of hydroelectric. Chernobyl had 31-56 direct deaths and this is the worst nuclear power accident. In both cases they were from direct negligence. Banqiao continued to kill more, just like Chernobyl. Banqiao killed 145,000 additional people within a few years and Chernobyl killed/will kill ~6,000 eventually (various estimates change). Banqiao directly effected 11 million people and Chernobyl displaced the entire town, 49,400 people, and it's a mere fraction of Banqiao. The fact is the deaths from nuclear power is significantly less than hydroelectric and always will be. A nuclear power plant does not blow up like in video games such as Red Alert 2, Chernobyl was the absolute worst case scenario (for one reactor, Chernobyl would be worst if all reactors that were there blew).

The Three Mile Island incident shows the lack of education for the public. People continue to "monitor" Three Mile Island but what they don't know or are too dense to know is that their basements have more radiation than Three Mile Island outputs.

Oh, lets note that Chernobyl continued to operate the other reactors until 2000.

Banqiao Dam source

For all you computer history geeks out there, here is a clip from Computer Chronicles of Susan Kare demonstrating the Mac back in 1984:

http://www.archive.org/details/Computer1984_3?start=772

"Windows has made great strides in security over the past 10 years, but that doesn't make it a secure OS." - by Enderandrew (866215) on Monday November 21, @02:19PM (#38127292) Homepage

That's when YOU THE USER have to "make it so" (ala Jean Luc Picard)... soooo, how to do THAT? Easy, with 1-2 hours of your time, ala:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

OR

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

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I've been writing guides for that since 1997 in fact, & yes, they CAN & DO actually work (e.g.-> I haven't been "hit" by a malware since 1996, & because of what's in the guide - in fact, I WROTE IT because of that (really PISSED ME OFF is why, & when that happens, with anything? If I have the means, I do something about it))...

Also, neither have my friends, family, or paying customers that apply + follow its principles.

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

---

SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" -

I doesn't look very plausible to me that insurers are wary of people coming in 20 years and asking for compensation for their cancer, which they'll have a very tough time proving as caused by radioactivity

Judges are members of general public and not nuclear scientists (or statisticians for that matter). Being subjected to around 100mSv of ionising radiation increases your chances of developing cancer by around 9% (under the linear no threshold model, cumulative yearly exposure). All people have about 30% chance to develop cancer anyway. But it's a high number (higher that limits in nuclear industry) where everyone subjected to it would want compensation, were actually less than 9% of people are viable.

After http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7508/77?view=long&pmid=15987704

The confidence interval is wide, however, and findings are also compatible with no reduction, as well as with greater reductions[emphasis mine] of risk at low doses.

Correspondingly, Natonal Research Council http://wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&date=1183490379000&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nap.edu%2Fexecsumm_pdf%2F11340.pdf&target=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20070703191939%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nap.edu%2Fexecsumm_pdf%2F11340.pdf writes:

According to Brenner and Elliston’s calculations, “a 45-year-old adult who plans to undergo 30 annual full-body CT examinations [about 360mSv total exposure] would potentially accrue an estimated lifetime cancer mortality risk of 1.9% (almost 1 in 50)

And later in paper suggest why LNT model is very probably wrong and why it is widely used.

I fail to see how solar captors on roofs or in the deserts shut down large extents of arable land.

Small installations have pitiful energy efficiency, especially for electricity generation, not every country has deserts to use as solar power plants (most of Europe doesn't). Suggesting that Europeans can use Sahara for this is a pipe dream to put it lightly, first we would have to move other nations from there... I don't say "abandon solar, it won't ever work", I say "Solar hasn't proven itself, it's immature technology, let's stop polluting with fossil and killing people with hydro, build nuclear instead while developing alternatives like fusion and solar". When we will have solar power plants that can average 90% load averaged over a year, we should stop building nuclear and go full solar (if it won't require obscene amounts of terrain).

Renewable energy never have benefited from such massive investments, which is too bad imho.

Maybe not, but renewable energy is a concept how old? 20 years? NP may have had huge public funding in the past, but are you telling me that we should waste it just because there is a possibility that in future we will have better alternatives? We should be closing fossil fuel power plants now (because of many reasons). The only power source viable to replace them without endangering or outright killing thousands of people every year is, perhaps counter-intuitively, nuclear.

However we've been inches from a major disaster, and you're advocating multiplying the existing nuclear reactors park a hundred-fold

Bear in mind that Fukushima was a very old design and that we already produce well over 10% of global electricity with nuclear. If we had increased 100 fold the number of reactors we have, we would have more than 4 times the total energy we need (including petrol for cars, coal for heating, etc.). H

Yes, because we all want to be bound by this kind of TOS when we read a web site, lest we be breaking the law.

"They (as a group) didnt threaten anyone, nor did the openly call for the overthrow of any system or government."

http://ia700405.us.archive.org/24/items/GrabYourGun/GrabYourGun.jpg

You know, just a nice friendly rally at a government building with firearms. Nothing threatening there!

As for overthrowing the government, I've heard a lot of tea party supporters quoting Grover Norquist, "I simply want to reduce [government] to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Now how could anyone possibly see that as advocating anything but loving support of the government?

This isn't reading, but for entertainment he should look at old time radio. Old Time Radio
 
Thousands of marvellous radio plays as mp3's, no reading required.
 
Just the thing for long trips in a car or commuting, too.
 
Westerns, detective stories, comedies, it's all there. And it's free and legal, too.

For better or worse the linux kernel is stuck on GPLv2, there are far too many copyright holders to make a license change feasible.

The FSF had said as far back as 2001 that they considered the MPL incompatible with the GPL.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010728064920/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Opensolaris was released under a MPL variant in 2008. It seems pretty clear to me that it was sun who chose to make opensolaris code incompatible with linux.

I have done my BEST to help try to educate & inform users VS. problems in security (& all OS have them, see my p.s. below regarding LINUX "fine showing" (not) recently on that very front, security, for example & for comparison!):

E.G. -> To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

---

Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

---

SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=3

"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid.

Sure. Why not?

You made it personal. I'm just trying to keep it that way.

But anyway, let's suppose that we simply rewind to a point roughly a couple of years ago. It sure looks like their most expensive base ("off the rack") desktop system was, amusingly, about $4k at that time, while their least expensive was about $1200.

So if you've got a point to make based on anything even resembling a fact, I'm still waiting for it.

...Why doesn't Google use its presence to promote unsigned artists and those "download friendly" guys such as Grateful Dead, Phish, Alan Hurtz, Max Creek... hell, why not mirror this? OK, hardly any of it is studio, it's 99.9% live recordings and capture quality is variable. To say nothing of the artists themselves (and some of them sound very different from their studio stuff - it becomes obvious, and sometimes painfully so, who has their studio vocals fed through a digital processor...

There's an obvious advantage to this - coverage. How many hits does Google get every single day?

Another question: how many people on here, reading this, had ever heard of etree before I posted the above link? I hope I did a good thing...

Thank you riverat1, Gadget_Guy, Arlet, berbo, and tbannist for correctly repeating that a solid undergraduate statistics education helps one to determine how long a timespan has to be in order to separate the long term climate sea level signal from short term weather noise (using a realistic noise model) by producing a 95% (for instance) confidence interval that's entirely positive.

The reason ocean levels have fallen is most likely because Thailand, Pakistan, Australia and a few other places have all experienced massive record-setting floods. There's actually been enough flooding to show up as a small dip in the measure of ocean levels. [tbannist]

Yes, the sea level has gone down the past couple of years. The main reason for that is all of the major precipitation events that have been going on around the world. The puts the water on land that take several years to return to the ocean. The GRACE satellites have shown by measuring gravity an increase in the areas where the precipitation has occurred. [riverat1]

You're both right; the GRACE analysis was performed by Carmen Boening at JPL. She showed that most of the precipitation fell in Australia and Brazil. As Josh Willis explained, this is because of a very strong La Nina.

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-at-Work-Livingston/dp/0937063053
http://www.amazon.com/Friends-High-Places-W-Livingston/dp/0937063061

From a review:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hfaw.html
"Have fun at work (Engineering Empowerment) It is dangerous, and often fruitless, to try and solve problems without considering the underlying social system. This is the message of William L. Livingston, a mechanical engineer with over 100 patents and decades of industrial experience. ... This book discusses chronic patterns of organizational malfunction that I have observed personally many times while working for computer firms (4 years at Hewlett-Packard and 6 years at Tandem, among others). Man is not well-adapted for solving complex problems, he argues. Our brains and bodies and, to a large extent, our social systems evolved for the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Faced with truly complex problems, our managers generally fall back on instinct. This can produce legendary debacles like the original baggage handling system at Denver International. The book sketches a different social structure that is better equipped to cope with complexity: the Skunkworks. The term comes from a legendary aircraft development shop that produced the U-2 and Blackbird aircraft. In general, a Skunkworks is a small (3--5) team of battle-hardened, generalist engineers equipped with the latest in software tools for simulating the behavior of all the involved systems (mechanical, electrical, software, and social). On a purely practical level, this book is an excellent survival manual for results-oriented engineers who have developed attitude problems about the structural barriers to success in their work environments. Livingston discusses how to evaluate your social structure's potential for success, ways to get working projects out the door in spite of these barriers, and how to tell when you're wasting your time even working there. "

The tangential links there are rotted, but try also in general:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010401000446/http://www.thefrontend.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405020550/http://www.cascadepolicy.org/dee_hock.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Have-Fun-at-Work-Livingston/dp/0937063053
http://www.amazon.com/Friends-High-Places-W-Livingston/dp/0937063061

From a review:
http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/hfaw.html
"Have fun at work (Engineering Empowerment) It is dangerous, and often fruitless, to try and solve problems without considering the underlying social system. This is the message of William L. Livingston, a mechanical engineer with over 100 patents and decades of industrial experience. ... This book discusses chronic patterns of organizational malfunction that I have observed personally many times while working for computer firms (4 years at Hewlett-Packard and 6 years at Tandem, among others). Man is not well-adapted for solving complex problems, he argues. Our brains and bodies and, to a large extent, our social systems evolved for the lives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Faced with truly complex problems, our managers generally fall back on instinct. This can produce legendary debacles like the original baggage handling system at Denver International. The book sketches a different social structure that is better equipped to cope with complexity: the Skunkworks. The term comes from a legendary aircraft development shop that produced the U-2 and Blackbird aircraft. In general, a Skunkworks is a small (3--5) team of battle-hardened, generalist engineers equipped with the latest in software tools for simulating the behavior of all the involved systems (mechanical, electrical, software, and social). On a purely practical level, this book is an excellent survival manual for results-oriented engineers who have developed attitude problems about the structural barriers to success in their work environments. Livingston discusses how to evaluate your social structure's potential for success, ways to get working projects out the door in spite of these barriers, and how to tell when you're wasting your time even working there. "

The tangential links there are rotted, but try also in general:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010401000446/http://www.thefrontend.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/20010405020550/http://www.cascadepolicy.org/dee_hock.htm

I bet he's recording some sick jams with his unsigned iOS apps.

I thought it had relocated to the Internet Archive, along with MySpace, Friendster, and GeoCities.

Or is it waiting for Yahoo, and they'll go together?

I have GMail, Yahoo! and AOL (actually, the 3rd is something I inherited as a result of netscape.net - remember that? - going away) accounts. Even had a Hotmail account at one time, which I stopped using.

As long as any service allows me to set it up w/ an email client of my choice, be it KMail, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, or whatever, I am happy. Unfortunately, Yahoo! forces me to use my browser, unless I sign up for a paid service. The others don't try to be such pricks. Although one thing I was pleasantly surprised by - iOS's mail allowing me to add my Yahoo account.

Could the lists be archived on http://www.archive.org/ ?

I thought it had relocated to the Internet Archive, along with MySpace, Friendster, and GeoCities.

Or is it waiting for Yahoo, and they'll go together?

Regarding Linux & it's "fine security" (not - ESPECIALLY ANDROID (a linux variant)), here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2504516&cid=37914046 that's VERY CURRENT on all points I posted (of sites running linux being cracked into, including ironically enough LINUX.COM &/or KERNEL.ORG as well, amongst others... including the extremely recently breached CA's too!)

Now, on this note from you? Hehe, ok:

"But yeah, continue to use that toy called Windows and consider yourself secure, I'm sure the hackers will enjoy just how easy you are making it to hack you" - by antifoidulus (807088) on Tuesday November 01, @07:28PM (#37914134) Homepage

You're talking to "the guy that wrote the book" practically, on how to secure Windows, per this evidence thereof, & yes, it really works and CAN be done (patching, security hardening, & 'smart/judicious' websurfing - user education etc. + more):

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

---

1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

---

Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

---

SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

You haven't done anything, ever, @ all/whatsoever, & you see fit to give others guff who have? Please - people call others like you, this term: "Armchair Quarterback"...

"So you haven't actually done anything in 10 years" - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

First of all - Check the dates of some of what I put up... you don't read very well, do you? They're more recent than that... far more recent.

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"The only programs you have for show are some little freeware utilities that do exactly one thing." - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

Try 40-50 different things, & over 40 of them over time online... Plus, I haven't even shown you them all, only a tiny partial list of some "favs" of mine.

I've also done 30 "enterprise class" information systems, apps that help doctors diagnose eye conditions, & far more professionally as a coder too circa 1995-presently.

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"Writing such programs isn't especially hard or time-taking. I bet I did more complicated projects when I was 10 years old." - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

Ok, big talker - Again: Where are your programs you claim to have written then??

1.) Did they make books, magazines, newspapers??

2.) Did they make top rated technical trade show contests???

3.) Did they end up as commercially sold code????

(Mine have done "all of the above", & more than once... & that's only the stuff I have put out above, I have more...)

* Like I said before earlier & I know definitely wager I am correct on - I did all that (doubtless before you were out of diapers!)

APK

P.S.=> As far as my "not knowing anything about modern operating systems"?

"and know nothing about modern operating systems? How nice of you. " - by hakahaka (2485890) on Monday October 31, @04:06AM (#37892290)

I think you'd better look @ this (how to secure modern Windows NT-based Operating Systems - I've been doing THAT type of thing, since 1997 to present as well online, & it works (& is rated very, Very, VERY HIGHLY nearly everyplace online it is):

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

I wrote that, & it's bar-none, the best of its kind (regarding "modern operating systems").

It's used to "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

Bing shows the same as GOOGLE does, & I get the "top spots" in both search engines (without trying to "SEO" it either as many others do).

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online

"Brendan Eich .. reveals that Microsoft tried to buy Netscape at the end of 1994"

That's hardly news to those of us following the browser wars. After failing to get an exclusive deal on Netscape, Microsoft tried to negociate an exclusive license from NCSA. Failing that they licensed a browser from Spyglass promising to pay them for evey copy sold. Subsequently MS gave away the browser and ended up in court with Spyglass.

link
link

"yea, you guys are going to fuck us eventually", Thomas Reardon, Mosiac Communications Corp, September 26, 1994

If you actually read what I wrote and thought about it, you might see aspects of that answer there. I'll try to be clearer.

Our current economic system in the USA, including rampant consumerism, is a construction from a certain way of thinking. People buy a lot of junk because other people driven by greed or their own scarcity fears see profit in convincing them to buy it.

If people in general were wealthier, they might not want so much junk (see the short story "The Midas Plague" by Frederick Pohl for example, where it was a sign of wealth to not have clutter around).

See also this book by James P. Hogan on life in a world with abundant energy and a different form of society:
"Voyage From Yesteryear"
http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?titleID=29&cmd=summary

Also, with enough energy, one can deal with environmental pollution by recycling (like with plasma furnaces). Our technology can improve, too:
http://web.archive.org/web/20101221233228/http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/dpg/slim.cfm

So, that is not as big an issue as you make it out. Thermal pollution, maybe. Noise pollution possibly. But that is what "zoning laws" and such are for.

Also, there is room for quadrillions of humans in the solar system, so we can easily go a thousand years of exponential growth before having capacity problems (even if Earth itself may reach aesthetic limits sooner). Right now industrial countries in general are not producing enough kids to keep up their populations (they may grow, but it is from immigration). So I don't even thing population growth is a big worry -- really, the big problem like in Italy has been convincing people to still have kids with all the distractions and also wealth disparities.

Still, the book "Midas World" built around the previously mentioned story did have a main character make a similar point to what you said, so I'm sure you would enjoy reading it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World

I don't know any non-nerd who uses Vorbis or FLAC

I do.

Audiophiles pay hundreds for wooden knobs because they improve the sound (well, some must pay for there to be a market for this).

That isn't nerdish - that's just fucking gullible.

shredderchallenge seems to be Slashdotted, so apologies if this is a dup.

During the Iran Hostage Crisis teams of carpet weavers were recruited to piece together shredded documents. They were then published in 1982 in 54 volumes under the title "Documents From the U.S. Espionage Den".

http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheMayfairSet

part 3 have some interesting comments on that.

Exactly. I can totally see how the huge changes it's made since 10 years ago can be confusing.

NASA had a "Flight Telerobotic Servicer" project in the early 90's. Don't know where it went...

Not very far. After some study contracts, a $233 million dollar contract was awarded, but not much resulted. A prototype arm was built and is for sale for $42,000. Early planning proposed a test flight in 1991, with a rather easy set of tests. ("Peg in hole". With a human remote operator. Really. )

But over time more and more people used it who had an almost insane hatred of anything non-white.

Only on /new/, which was deleted. /b/ is just trolling (probably).

4chan is better known for endless lolcats then child porn which frankly in quite a few years of occasional use I have only seen in the form of deleted posts

It get's posted daily in every board that moves more than 5 post per minute. It is usually posted not to share CP, but out of anger that the mods deleted something that the poster liked.

BAI LING.

Born: October 10, 1966. Her Chinese nationality would have helped hide her true age. According to the article, "The unnamed actress says the website misused her legal date of birth after she signed up to the IMDbPro service in 2008." Her IMDB profile, created in 2003, had her DOB as 1970 until it was changed at the end of 2008, matching the timeline given in the lawsuit.

Here's a video link showing how she says she is "always 26", clearly not wanting to talk about her age.

"Plaintiff has experience rejection in the industry for each “40-year-old” role for which she has interviewed because she does not and cannot physically portray the role of a 40-year-old woman,” the lawsuit says. It sounds like the litigant is complaining that she can't get 40 year old roles because she looks too young, and can't get younger roles because she is over 40. Bai Ling is 45.

bai-ling.org is hosted in Texas. She filmed two movies in Texas. About the only thing that doesn't match up is the "anglicized name", although her name could be a simplified stage name.

The Internet Archive has a variety of snapshots of her profile page... and sometime between 22 Oct 2007 and 08 Jan 2009, her date of birth changed from 16 Jul 1978 to 16 Jul 1971.

Her Facebook profile and website's contact page list her permanent residence in LA... but the voicemail number on her contact page has a Houston area code, 713.

The Internet Archive has a variety of snapshots of her profile page... and sometime between 22 Oct 2007 and 08 Jan 2009, her date of birth changed from 16 Jul 1978 to 16 Jul 1971.

Her Facebook profile and website's contact page list her permanent residence in LA... but the voicemail number on her contact page has a Houston area code, 713.

the lawsuit says IMDB changed her DoB in 2008.
Comparing Bai Ling's bio in Oct 2007 with Dec 2008, you can see that all that changes is her DoB suddenly goes back four years.
Gotta love the archive :)

the lawsuit says IMDB changed her DoB in 2008.
Comparing Bai Ling's bio in Oct 2007 with Dec 2008, you can see that all that changes is her DoB suddenly goes back four years.
Gotta love the archive :)

I know, also IMDb had this date displayed since at least 2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031002200936/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082169/

So maybe it's not her, I don't know.

http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles would have it. Go dig it up for us. [grin]

http://www.archive.org/

Can I just point out that Vlingo has a website from 2006 so this stuff has existed for a fair time and hasn't been particularly revolutionary. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011102531/http://vlingo.com/ "Tell your phone what to do! The Vlingo Virtual Assistant turn your words into action. Vlingo combines voice to text technology with its "intent engine" to help you quickly complete your desired action. "

I guess Vlingo for android is not as integrated but even the google search bar has a voice search option.

I have used the google voice search once and it was very good but I don't think in that way. For example I am typing this and not using Dragon Naturally. (I have tried it)

I tried Vlingo and its quite good but I am bored already.

I remember windows introducing voice recog and the volume down problem when the software can't hear you.

What I predict is pretentious apple - lets just say people - walking around saying "Iphone text Mum is dinner ready"

What I have been 4 decades (working on service cutoff (no run if no NEED)).

Proof? Ok, & from as FAR BACK AS 1997, to present:

1997: http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

2001: http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

PRESENT: http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

* "Read 'em, & weep", along with my other reply to you here (showing how your "expert", good as he is, is subject to correction, & yes, imperfection...)

The amazing part, is this though (from my perspective): IF you think you can even BEGIN to attempt to "downtalk me"? You had better show me you have done more in the art & science of computing than I have over time... & I truly do NOT think you can!

APK

P.S.=> Lastly/in closing-summation/bottom-line: You've got to remember 1 thing - Like all men, none of us is a "God" - we make mistakes, overlook things, & certainly do NOT "know it all" (& neither does your expert you cited, whom I have had run-ins with a couple times over the years, & with whom I have done work for the same companies with over time, as a peer AND THAT I HAVE CORRECTED and GOTTEN THE "BEST OF" IN DEBATE ON TECHNICAL ISSUES (specifically memmgt, because in the end? The ideas he espoused & that were put into VISTA HAD TO BE CHANGED (cache aggression/memuse for caching))...

... apk

Funny thing is, Adam Curtis makes the claim that it was in part one of The Trap.

http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheTrap

Which is the MAIN "WHY" of why "tuning guides" like I've been doing since 1997 online for users of NT-based OS (& far before that on Win9x/DOS before it), worked for so many others over time. To wit:

"Reducing memory usage in Windows 8 is more about reducing the churn of pages through the various kernel data structures in the memory manager. " -by tgd (2822) on Saturday October 08, @10:19AM (#37647620)

Per the above, in fact, as I told another user here in another thread in this article here?

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2466512&cid=37649154

I have literal, actual, concrete & verifiable data from a benchmark test that shows cutting services you DO NOT NEED actually boosted benchmarks bigtime!

(Simply because services are programs, & they consume MORE THAN RAM, they also consume hWnds, many forms of I/O to disk/memory etc.-et al, & CPU cycles (boosting work for the kernel mode memmgt subsystem's one YOU "hit on" in fact)).

Lessen the workload on the OS? All else has a MORE than "potential gain"...

See, I've been into & "tuning" NT-based OS since they came out, around 1992... & I can say just 1 thing "IT WORKS"... for better performance, & yes, even security!

* It ALL "boils/distills down" to 1 concept, a solid one -> "DOING MORE WITH LESS" = Good Engineering!

Period...

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"As the article says, that involves things like optimizing old code to not trigger page faults all the time, or to suspend threads or otherwise idle background services that aren't being used. (A thread waking up, and going immediately back to sleep because it has nothing to do will still ptentially cause a page to be re-loaded from disk.)" -by tgd (2822) on Saturday October 08, @10:19AM (#37647620)

I totally agree here, & have been aware of it forever, per the above... heck, on these Windows NT-based OS since nearly "day #1" of them releasing. E.G.:

To "immunize" a Windows system vs. attack (and yes, to save memory/cpu time/other forms of I-O etc. also for speed/performance/efficiency, et al), I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.p

Ah. The Power of Nightmares. Another excellent BBC documentary.

Loads of crap stories make it to the front page, lots of blogspam and very few "news for nerds stuff that matters". Also the front page design sucks. Please bring back this one

Dive into HTML5 has this at the beginning: "The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License." Anyone know a way to get complete archives of his books that's easier/better than scraping http://web.archive.org/web/20110726000452/http://www.diveintohtml5.org/ ?

He was a fun guy. I'll miss his writings. I've been reading his stuff for about six years, starting with http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/ , which got me into using Handbrake shortly after I got a video iPod. No more google cache, but at least he couldn't/didn't remove himself from archive.org

Dive into HTML5 has this at the beginning: "The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License." Anyone know a way to get complete archives of his books that's easier/better than scraping http://web.archive.org/web/20110726000452/http://www.diveintohtml5.org/ ?

He was a fun guy. I'll miss his writings. I've been reading his stuff for about six years, starting with http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/ , which got me into using Handbrake shortly after I got a video iPod. No more google cache, but at least he couldn't/didn't remove himself from archive.org

Should you be mod +1 funny. or -1 romanticizing the past?

Seriously, its ALWAYS been like this. Except it was Star Wars Rage 12 years ago instead of Apple Rage..cause, really Apple was almost out of business then.

Take a look:
http://web.archive.org/web/200012171146/http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/11/1050224.shtml

TFA gives a URL for the lawsuit, and the lawsuit lists the patents (they're supposedly attached, but you have to play games to make that work - easier to get them from Google.) I converted them to text - here's the list. It's interesting to look at the dates - most of them were issued in the late 2000s, though of course you'd have to read the actual patents to find out when they were filed, but coffeeshops offering Wifi had become routine long before that.

• # On March 30, 2004, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 6,714,559 (“the ‘559 Patent”) titled “Redundant Radio Frequency Network Having A Roaming Terminal Communication Protocol.”
• #On June 10, 2008, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 7,386,002 (“the ‘002 Patent”) titled “Redundant Radio Frequency Network Having A Roaming Terminal Communication Protocol.”
• # On May 19, 2009, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 7,535,921 (“the ‘921 Patent”) titled “Redundant Radio Frequency Network Having A Roaming Terminal Communication Protocol.”
• # On June 16, 2009, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 7,548,553 (“the ‘553 Patent”) titled “Redundant Radio Frequency Network Having A Roaming Terminal Communication Protocol.”
• # On April 14, 1998, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 5,740,366 (“the ‘366 Patent”) titled “Communication Network Having Plurality Of Bridging Nodes Which Transmit A Beacon To Terminal Nodes In Power Saving State That It Has Messages Awaiting Delivery.”
• # On August 17, 1999, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 5,940,771 (“the ‘771 Patent”) titled “Network Supporting Roaming, Sleeping Terminals.”
• #On April 16, 2002, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 6,374,311 (“the ‘311 Patent”) titled “Communication Network Having A Plurality Of Bridging Nodes Which Transmit A Beacon To Terminal Nodes In Power Saving State That It Has Messages Awaiting Delivery.”
• # On November 25, 2008, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 7,457,646 (“the ‘646 Patent”) titled “Radio Frequency Local Area Network.”
• # On August 13, 1996, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 5,546,397 (“the ‘397 Patent”) titled “High Reliability Access Point For Wireless Local Area Network.”
• # On December 1, 1998, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 5,844,893 (“the ‘893 Patent”) titled “System For Coupling Host Computer Means With Base Transceiver Units On A Local Area Network.”
• # On December 16, 2003, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 6,665,536 (“the ‘536 Patent”) titled “Local Area Network Having Multiple Channel Wireless Access.”
• #On February 24, 2004, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 6,697,415 (“the ‘415 Patent”) titled “Spread Spectrum Transceiver Module Utilizing Multiple Mode Transmission.”
• # On March 14, 2006, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 7,013,138 (“the ‘138 Patent”) titled “Local Area Network Having Multiple Channel Wireless Access.”
• # On May 4, 2010, the USPTO duly and legally issued U.S. Patent No. 7,710,907 (“the ‘907 Patent”) titled “Local Area Network Having Multiple Channel Wireless Access.”
• #The fourteen patents identified in paragraphs 15-28 are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “WLAN Patents.”
• # Innovatio owns all rights, title, and interest in and to, and has standing to sue for infringement of, the WLAN Patents, including the right to sue for and collect past damages.

This appears to be the same list as from the Caribou Coffee case (brief). So far, I've read through three of them. I read the first one: '559, one which didn't fit the same pattern: '646, and the oldest: '397.

'559 is one of the patents which they are asserting that business are definitely violating because they're using WiFi. If you read the text of this patent, there are a large number of diagrams and descriptions of a very specific wireless sensor network system, which may, in fact, be novel. However, when you read the claims, they're sufficiently broadly written that they cover almost any wireless network. So on its face, it might look like they have a case. Except that this patent was filed in 2001. That was way, way after 802.11 was codified and consumer products using the patented techniques were already on the market. It's even written so broadly that it would cover AlohaNet, which went into operation in 1971. As such, prior art for this patent is obvious and it should be invalidated.

A large number of the patents in their suing portfolio would seem to match the same profile as '559 since in the lawsuits they're specifically claiming that they know for sure that the businesses are violating them despite not even knowing which particular type of access point those businesses are using. Many of the patents in the lawsuit are more recent than '559 and the plaintiffs are effectively claiming that they cover all WiFi devices. Any such patent should clearly be invalidated based on prior art.

There are also a few which they only claim that discovery will allow them find is being violated. I read one of the newer ones, '646, and the oldest one, '397.

By contrast to '559, the oldest patent: '397 is less clearly invalid. Filed in 1994, it's a patent for a wireless access point which uses two radios to ensure higher reliability. The claims leave out any specific requirement of the purpose of the second radio and so just cover any wireless access point with two radios. They're hoping that their discovery will show that some of the access points in use have two radios. Although it's quite possible that prior art exists (and likely, I would guess), it's not so easy and obvious that it shows up in a simple Google search. But someone more familiar with the history of WLAN devices may well be able to identify a dual-radio device from before 1994. Even if no such device exists, the novelty of the invention seems to be its primary weakness. Given that devices with one radio existed and that certain people were already using two radios for redundancy by using two different devices, is it really that novel to just include two radios in one device? If it were my choice, I would rule it obvious. But both courts and the patent office have been very reluctant to overturn patents based on lack of novelty. So I suspect that this one will hinge on whether or not they can find prior art.

The last patent I read, '646 is a newer patent that they also claim that discovery will show whether or not the defendants are violating it. It's a newer patent, but unlike the other one doesn't cover WiFi in general. It has a huge number of claims (270), but all of them are based on claims 1, 15, 87, 144, 145, 216, so reading those doesn't take too long. They all claim a system in which wireless node go into sleep mode and the periodically wake up to check to see if there are pending messages for them. This, very simply, is not how WiFi works. It clearly is not applicable to any existing WiFi devices. I haven't looked into the prior art situation because it's clear that the defendants aren't violating the patent.

So, from a survey of three of the claimed patents, my guess is that they're trying a "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks approach". The plaintiffs clearly don't understand all of their own patents or they would've left '559 and '646 out entirely because they have n

The Titan and Atlas flew, as civilian variants, long after the ICBMs were gone.

To get an idea of the complexity of converting an ICBM or IRBM into a booster safe enough for humans, go to http://www.archive.org/stream/thisnewoceanhist00swen/thisnewoceanhist00swen_djvu.txt and search for "MAN-RATING THE MACHINES."

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co