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google glass is no longer being sold, so there is literally no competition between the two.

Dude, what are you talking about? This is what Greece currently owes. i.e. money they are paying to their creditors. There was a haircut on the debt (what you're referring to, I think), but they still owe lots of money and they're still paying it back. The whole point of this is that they're not allowed to default, because if they did that would likely mean a Euro exit, which nobody wants. So they're forced to take the loans the pay the loans.

You mean the organization that damaged Peruvian Nazca Lines just a few months ago?

Or the Greenpeace that defaced a power plant ?

You mean the organization that damaged Peruvian Nazca Lines just a few months ago?

Or the Greenpeace that defaced a power plant ?

This article talks about how diet effects the results: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-23970219

Unfortunately it doesn't mention anything about decreasing or increasing the amount of food. I'd guess the people getting fatter could eat less food and be fine, but that should be studied.

Russia does this, South Korea does this, and now China.

South Korea's policy was struck down years ago by the Constitutional Court, which ruled that it was unconstitutional and ineffective.

Or just switch back to Android after realizing that you fell for all the FUD about Play store malware

So this is FUD?
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

"Android users are being warned that several popular apps that were on the official Google Play store appear to have contained hidden code that made malicious ads pop up.

Security firm Avast said that one of the apps involved - a free version of the card game Durak - had been downloaded up to 10 million times, according to Google Play's own counter."

I'll just say that I would love to see a night sky featuring this ring system at, oh, say, Jupiter's distance from Earth. It would appear several times larger than the full Moon, and many, many times brighter. Anybody want to cook up a rendering?

The first reply to yours contains the BBC story with artists impression of this particular system:
http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

However there have been plenty of artist conceptions drawn and rendered of the exact scene you describe.
Here's an image search to one (very good) artist site with a ton of these:
https://www.google.com/search?...

I'm sure there's plenty more out there too.

Since so many people have already stepped up to shame the submitter and editor about botching the ONE statement not drawn directly from the article...

I'll just say that I would love to see a night sky featuring this ring system at, oh, say, Jupiter's distance from Earth. It would appear several times larger than the full Moon, and many, many times brighter. Anybody want to cook up a rendering?

This is stale news; the BBC covered it and included an artist's impression in this article more than a week ago.

Or get them some actual women, ...

The sad truth is that they actually have women ... enslaved.

Have we suddenly forgotten how totally crappy public transport in India is? Where 6 men can rape a woman to death with a steel pipe in a crowded pubic bus and nobody intervenes? Or the 6 guys who raped a Swiss tourist who was bicycling? Or this copycat rape where the bus driver and bus conductor refused to let the woman off the bus, drove to an isolated spot, raped her, and 5 others also joined in? Or the police refusing to listen, instead laughing when the family tried to report their two girls missing - they were later found raped and hanged?

Have we forgotten the Indian practice of bride burning if the wife doesn't bring what the groom and his family considers an adequate dowry with her?

On second thought, let me rephrase that. Have we suddenly forgotten how much of a sh*thole India is if you're a woman and you're not high-caste and moneyed? The problem isn't Uber, or this crass venue-shopping. The problem is India.

Have we suddenly forgotten how totally crappy public transport in India is? Where 6 men can rape a woman to death with a steel pipe in a crowded pubic bus and nobody intervenes? Or the 6 guys who raped a Swiss tourist who was bicycling? Or this copycat rape where the bus driver and bus conductor refused to let the woman off the bus, drove to an isolated spot, raped her, and 5 others also joined in? Or the police refusing to listen, instead laughing when the family tried to report their two girls missing - they were later found raped and hanged?

Have we forgotten the Indian practice of bride burning if the wife doesn't bring what the groom and his family considers an adequate dowry with her?

On second thought, let me rephrase that. Have we suddenly forgotten how much of a sh*thole India is if you're a woman and you're not high-caste and moneyed? The problem isn't Uber, or this crass venue-shopping. The problem is India.

Have we suddenly forgotten how totally crappy public transport in India is? Where 6 men can rape a woman to death with a steel pipe in a crowded pubic bus and nobody intervenes? Or the 6 guys who raped a Swiss tourist who was bicycling? Or this copycat rape where the bus driver and bus conductor refused to let the woman off the bus, drove to an isolated spot, raped her, and 5 others also joined in? Or the police refusing to listen, instead laughing when the family tried to report their two girls missing - they were later found raped and hanged?

Have we forgotten the Indian practice of bride burning if the wife doesn't bring what the groom and his family considers an adequate dowry with her?

On second thought, let me rephrase that. Have we suddenly forgotten how much of a sh*thole India is if you're a woman and you're not high-caste and moneyed? The problem isn't Uber, or this crass venue-shopping. The problem is India.

He is making the assumption that IBM is concerned with a sales drop. For the last decade and a half the only thing their awful management has cared about is executive compensation. Even after this year's awful earnings the genius Ginni said 'the results prove our strategy is working', and lo and behold they voted themselves bonuses today.

Actually last year bonuses were forgone amid lower profits: BBC.

Fast forward a few years, now China plans to unveil its own operating system: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
I think the same fate will befall the Banking Software and everything else too. Thank you NSA!

You're not reading the news, are you? On this planet, the central bank loans money to the government and commercial and commercial banks at well below the inflation rate. The europeans are actually paying the Swiss to borrow their currency now! http://www.bbc.com/news/busine... http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

We are way ahead of you: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

tablets and phones will not be replacing corporate desktops. Thin clients and laptops maybe, but laptops are much more expensive and easier to steal, and thin clients either need an OS running on a server, or are just web browsers, which are useless when the internet gets clogged.

you need to move past 2013. Desktops will never go away, because typing on a tablet without a keyboard sucks, and MS has also made their desktop OS the same as the tablet one, again keeping it relevant.

and if doom is the standard, printers are in.
BBC News - Canon printer hacked to run Doom video game
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

if it can play doom, i'm sure it can do other things like a browser as well.

BBC had an interesting factoid on where "the 1%" live [bbc.com] and what it takes to be in the 1%. It seems it takes a net worth of around $800K to be in the richest 1% of the world's population and a net worth of only $77K to be in the top 10%. The research was done by Credit Suisse and interpreted and reported by Oxfam with the Beeb boiling it down to the linked factoid.

Put your pitchforks and torches away mates unless you want to stab yourself with your own pitchfork and then burn down your own castle. "They" is us. Yep, there are a few people with more but a whole lot more people with a whole lot less. And I bet you didn't even know you were "rich."

Cheers,
Dave

Hahahaha, Net worth of "only" 77k. Most people I know are lucky if they're out of debt, let alone have a net worth at all. I say this as a fully employed, college educated, guy living in a major metropolis. If you think that 77k-800k is meager then, yes, I will happily break out the pitchfork for you... Dave.

BBC had an interesting factoid on where "the 1%" live and what it takes to be in the 1%. It seems it takes a net worth of around $800K to be in the richest 1% of the world's population and a net worth of only $77K to be in the top 10%. The research was done by Credit Suisse and interpreted and reported by Oxfam with the Beeb boiling it down to the linked factoid.

Put your pitchforks and torches away mates unless you want to stab yourself with your own pitchfork and then burn down your own castle. "They" is us. Yep, there are a few people with more but a whole lot more people with a whole lot less. And I bet you didn't even know you were "rich."

Cheers,
Dave

Which is a form of democracy...

In theory? Sure. In practice? Not so much. Oligarchy link is already provided on a comment very near to this one, but here 'tis again. Direct democracy or GTFO. For anyone who wants to cry "mob rule", quick quiz before anyone should give a shit what you think: 1) how many times in history has the electoral college disagreed with the popular vote? 2) what were the last two times that happened? The results should shut you the hell up, if you find the correct answers.

In countries where the people get to vote on bills, there may be democracy. I don't know, I don't live in one of those. In countries where more than two choices working for one master are presented, there may be democracy. I don't know, I don't live in one of those either. Here in the USA, we have two different colors of wolf arguing over one sheep.

US is already an oligarchy, not democracy.

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Until recently they didn't. EE launched a service a few months ago, and Vodafone is launching one this quarter.

From http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

"Saudi Arabia can cope with low oil prices for "at least eight years", Saudi Arabia's minister of petroleum's former senior adviser has told the BBC. Mohammed al-Sabban said the country's policy was to defend its current market share by enduring low prices. "You need to allow prices to go as low as possible in order to see those marginal producers move out of the market," he said."

Eight happy years!

http://www.theweek.co.uk/busin...

"The dramatic fall in the oil price will spur the UK economy to grow faster than had been predicted this year, according to influential forecaster the EY ITEM Club."

Yo-hoo

the Reykjavik Confessions

It's not just a matter of people being idiots or people talking to police without a lawyer. There's a much deeper psychological thing going on here, and that's I think the point of the article. A famous case years ago in Iceland really illustrated this phenomenon. Six people admitted to their role in a murder in Iceland and this was thought to be an open and shut case. Several of the accused even showed police where they disposed of the body, and provided details on how they committed the murder. The problem was, none of them actually had anything to do with the murder, or any murder at all, and all the details they were remembering were not real at all. It's a very long but fascinating read. Yes they were manipulated and badgered (by well-meaning prosecutors who didn't see themselves as manipulative), but the crazy thing is that as a result they convinced themselves that they really did participate in this murder. Was this just a case of over-zealous police and prosecutors? Or was there something more to it?

http://www.bbc.com/news/specia...

Colin Pillinger dies after brain haemorrhage http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

So Elon Musk and worldwide-famous physicist Stephen Hawking spread FUD in your opinion?
http://www.theguardian.com/tec... [theguardian.com]

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno... [bbc.com]

I didn't know Elon Musk was a journalist:
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Let alone worldwide-famous physicist Stephen Hawking:
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

The more pertinent question is actually why this crappy "story" was even published on /.

I do tend to give him some credence

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

Well there has been a recent spat in India over some forced conversions so they aren't mellow as you believe.

Actually, that is not Islam. Sunni Islam allows no "Idols". Shiite Islam happily allows pictures of M. and Allah, and whoever they please.

The problem goes back to the very roots of Islam. When M. died, the Shiites followed his son-in-law (who M. had designated as his replacement) , the Sunnis follow a leader elected by the followers of M.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://islam.about.com/cs/divi...

BTW, I use M. because there are numerous spellings of his name, and I wouldn't want to put the wrong one and offend anyone.

Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
If you're really bad at something, what you provide has negative value. Even if OpenSSL never formed, something else would have.

Followup-> nothing says "we are free, and demand our freedom" than having thousands extra of police and military wandering around your city.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30760563

Well stoning adulterers is part of Mosaic Law and Sharia law but is not part of Christianity. In fact there was a very specific prohibition against this as one of the most famous words of Christ: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." So anyone who would do something like that could not claim this as a Christian mandate since Jesus specifically prohibited it. I can't say this was not done at one time, but it was certainly not Christian. In fact if you've read the "Scarlet Letter", adulterers were certainly not approved of but they were not executed. This is largely conflating Muslim Sharia law and Christian beliefs.

Jesus Christ brought a new Covenant which wiped away the old Mosaic Law. So there was never a need to "Edit" Christianity since things like stoning adulterers, burning witches, killing homosexuals were never allowed for Christian's in the first place if they follow what Christ and the Apostles taught. The Catholic Church added many things to the practice of Christianity that weren't in the Bible, but I don't think the three items you mentioned were ever part of official church or even Catholic Canon law. That was why things like the burning of witches in Salem was a short lived anomaly. Although there were many abuses and extra-Biblical practices of the Church such as the Inquisition which was implemented by churches in some countries in the 12th to 18th centuries.

Interestingly enough, since you mention burning witches, the Saudi's are still performing executions for witchcraft as late as 2012 (even though the result is the same, at least beheading is a quicker death than burning): Saudi man executed for 'witchcraft and sorcery'

But I do agree with your post though. The only way that there will be true compatibility with Western values is the elimination of Sharia Law and political Islam everywhere.

>> identified online harassment as a major challenge facing free speech

There's a bigger challenge in France right now: http://www.bbc.com/news/live/w...

I get the feeling you weren't alive at the time. I remember just how big a loss everyone thought the Russians took and it turns out the "Secret Parts" just make it larger and larger.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

BTW the missile gap myth wasn't promulgated to win an election but to increase defense funding all three of the services which were fighting each other for funding, against Eisenhower and a Republican congress that were looking to keep the budget surplus.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/da...

http://eisenhowersleadership.c...

See: http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

This method is great because ships are already making bubbles in their wake. We just make it whiter with smaller bubbles. Basically raising the ocean albedo.

In the "What can possibly go wrong?" department, this method is far better than any of the other geoengineering proposals. And it's cheap.

Simply retrofitting existing large ships to produce smaller bubbles could reduce global temperature by 0.5C. If we want more cooling, we could float dedicated solar-powered bot ships that do nothing but cruise the equitorial seas making wake.

Spot on. We're seeing this in Sweden as well. It's too bad that only Sveriges Demokraterna (the Sweden Democrats, right-wingers) seem willing to talk about it. Most of the other parties are in complete denial about the time bomb they've got ticking away here, which is why the SD scored well enough in the last elections to turn things upside down in the Riksdag.

It's not so bad here in Stockholm, but many smaller cities have enclaves that are turning into ghettoes.

See the photo in this story? That's in Eskilstuna, a factory town about 100 km west of here. The mosque is on the ground floor of this building.

I spent a good part of October and November staying in a flat in this building, immediately above the mosque. Several big-city blocks of flats filled about 90% with East Asians and Pakistanis, out in the middle of Nordic small-town Nowhere. It's bizodd.

I doubt that anyone ever ran into battle shouting "For Shinto!" "For Atheism!"

I would have thought the same thing, but just today a Marxist group carried out a suicide bombing in Istanbul...

In the name of "Allah", who will be the next victim ?

Almost certainly a Muslim. Islamists kill more Muslims that all their other victims combined.

In fact... here's your answer: 38 poor saps killed today in Yemen who were minding their own business. All Muslims.

And don't think you (or at least I) are particularly better in this regard by virtue of being Christian. Christian extremists don't seem to have any more trouble with marching into Christian church services right here in the USA and murdering people they have religious disputes with.

After their offices were firebombed in 2011, cartoonist and editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier, who is rumored to be one of the causalities of today's attack, said he did not see the bombing as the work of French Muslims, but of what he called "idiot extremists." Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://news.yahoo.com/paris-sh...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

You can start with this, then google for "nazis in brazil" to find all sorts of interesting stuff.

Almost all of those statements are hyperbole.

For robotic cars to be successful they will have to be just as effective with one robotic car on the road as with a dozen or a million.

Total hyperbole. For robotic cars to be successful, they have to be effective enough with one robotic car on the road that somebody want to use that robotic car. If they get more effective with more cars, that is not a problem.

For robotic cars to be successful they will have to have navigational control local to the car following a simple set of driving rules with minimal or no reliance on outside systems.

This is just a reliability question. Relying on local navigational control is one way of dealing with reliability; it is the most likely way, but it isn't the only way.

For robotic cars to be successful they will have to work on dirt roads as well as they do on highways and city streets.

Absolutely not. There are a ton of drive scenarios that don't need the use of dirt roads, ever. If I am going from Anaheim to Santa Ana and back daily, I am not going to be driving on dirt roads. A bunch of people I know get electric vehicles to cover this or similar commutes, and either have a petrol car for backup when they're going elsewhere or rent one. If a person only need a non-self-driving car a couple of times a year, renting one makes perfect sense, just like I now rent a Jeep when I'm going to be driving in hard conditions, rather than having one all year round.

For robotic cars to be successful they will have to sometimes go above the speed limit in certain circumstances.

This is the one that is least hyperbole. Of course, self-driving cars already are designed to break the speed limit as it has been found to increase safety.

For robotic cars to be successful laws will have to recognize that the passenger is not in control of the vehicle and therefore is not legally responsible or liable for the operation or the results.

Maybe. Secondary indemnification may deal with this. (I also don't think this is much of a problem if the cars are handled as a taxi service.)

For robotic cars to be successful they will need to be allowed by government regulations and not enabled by them. We need government to treat robotic drivers like they do human drivers... if they can pass a driving test then they should be allowed on the road. So autonomous driving systems will need to be certified by government regulators, certainly, but they shouldn't face a slew of requirements that human drivers don't have.

This is completely off-the-wall. *Of course* self-driving cars are going to face requirements that human drivers don't have, because there are different failure modes for human drivers and self-driving cars. We also know less about those failure modes, so requiring more evidence makes sense.

Likewise, I despise warm climates. Give me the ice and cold and snow! Mind you I prefer to be warm in those climates, but having the option is important. In Nordic countries many parents leave their babies outside in sub zero temperatures.

This study suggests peat is much better at storing carbon than trees: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30448519

That is an argument for not allowing hotels to slap reviewers. It is a different issue.
BTW, the Blackpool issue has been resolved by the "fine" being reimbursed and the policy cancelled.

WTF is wrong with the UK?

Mario Balotelli, a black football player with a Jewish mother is suspended a game and fined 25k pounds for posting an anti-racist picture about a multicultural Super Mario.

Luis Suarez was essentially forced out of England for using the word negrito while speaking Spanish because it happened to sound like nigger. (While John Terry was given a sentence of half the time for using the word nigger in English.)

Crazy arse porn rules.

A man is threatened with life in jail for swearing too much.

And what the fuck is an Anti-Social Behavior Order?