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Right, this is the end result of hate speech laws. They become political tools, especially when "offending" a particular group may come into play.

I don't think Google Reader that that much notice though. 4 months notice: http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html

I wouldn't put too much on Taubes' analysis of the data, his main claim to fame that insulin responses cause obesity is BS. He might be right about excess salt not being a health issue (I honestly don't know what the long term issues are supposed to be) but be warned that Taubes is more interested in generating a novel result than a right one.

Personally my favorite topic is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, about why did it took *10 years* after Intel introduced the 386 before 32-bit programming became popular:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html

Yea, it is unfortunate that MS turned the OS/2 2.0 project into an entire fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html

On OS/2, I wrote a blog post on the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html

Personally, I think "HTML5" even as a buzzword is a misnomer: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html

Personally, I wouldn't mind living near a wind farm; however, I've seen all the feedback from people who actually live near them, and it tends to be negative.

They really aren't much like windmills; partly because there are so m any turbines.

Here's some actual reports though:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-dodge/living-near-a-wind-farm_b_1910707.html
http://mywinddiary.blogspot.ca/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbines-health.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/11/pol-cp-wind-turbines-health-canada-study.html

My favorite from the 1990s is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco.

No. Not the same at all... With a web proxy you are only "anonymous" to the end-point site you are communicating with. You are not necessarily anonymous to the proxy, since you are providing your real IP to them, and the proxy's IP address is not remotely anonymous to the site you are connecting to through it. Theoretically, any proxy server you connect to could very much be capable of providing the IP address that you connected to it from to a requesting party, and from there, you might get the ISP, which can then trace to your own personal connection. Multiple proxies in between merely add more layers of indirection, the actual level of anonymity is still roughly the same. In fact, with the only anonymity you get with a proxy is the minimum of either the amount of anonymity the hosts of the proxy network are actually willing to provide you with, and the amount of anonymity you might get by making it inconvenient enough to find out who you are that somebody who might otherwise be interested could not practically justify the effort or expense of finding you.

IP spoofing, on the other hand, is something that you administrate entirely yourself, and involves forging the sender's address that is embedded in any IP packets that originate on your computer. NAT is a well-known form of IP spoofing.

Technical terms have technical meanings. One would think people who've been reading slashdot for any period of time would know that.

In a democratic nation, the only tyranny to worry about is the tyranny of the majority. The US's constitutional framework has safeguards against such actions, however (see Constitution Framework Safeguards Against Tyranny).

I see how disarming a population has been a good sign in the past of the beginnings of a tyrannical rule. I should point out, however, that all of these times were in countries with a different constitution (even the Civil War, which could be considered caused by a tyranny of the majority, was not under the current constitution). And as I just mentioned, America now has safeguards against such a tyranny by the majority.

From the arguments I'm reading, you would think that guns in the hands of the public are the only way a populace can keep its government from automatically turning sour. Yet, there are numerous countries who aren't oppressing their populace but who also have stricter gun regulations. And, I might add, these countries also have fewer deaths involving firearms... which is the whole point.

I'm not sure about this third-party report, but Google actually reports separate numbers:

- People who have Google+ profiles
- People who use Google+ features every month (including via other Google products)
- People who use the Google+ stream every month

At the beginning of December, those numbers were 500 million, 235 million, and 135 million (source: http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/google-communities-and-photos.html). Given that we're now almost two months on from then, this new number (343 million) could be about right for those actually engaging with Google+, though not necessarily through plus.google.com.

Let's stick on topic here.

Uh huh. You should not say things like that in a discussion. Just because it's not going your way is no reason to denigrate the other side's position.

I have two options to get high-speed data access to your home: Lay new cable, or lease from the incumbent. (Okay, three - wireless. Hmm, wireless is already most places, and is more expensive than cable). How am I to overcome those barriers to entry using either method? Who would fund someone proposing to do either? This is the inherent issue with natural monopoly, which you seemed to ignore entirely.

Uh ... what?

You've got a way higher regard for this "natural monopoly" crap than I do. Perhaps you ought to start there? As in, "invalid concept"?

I suppose you also regret giving up alchemy.

We didn't "give it up"; alchemy continuously transitioned into modern chemistry.

For an example of this, try visiting the Chemistry department at the U of T some time.

http://sandwalk.blogspot.ca/2012/01/plant-micrornas-in-your-blood.html?showComment=1325884165958#c8757155746212485557

From the link : "Granted, RNA may be less stable, but I'm not at all surprised we find it in the blood after a meal."

"But it's as safe as any other food."

Old ones [food stuff involving DNA recombinations] and each new one need to be tested with more stringent standards, for longer terms, and by more independent researchers in more independent labs.

http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-html5-buzzword-is-misnomer.html

On other news sites, I read that Google today announces 18 new features. http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/google-communities-and-photos.html etc.
And here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/14/google-gives-google-end-of-year-update-adds-low-bandwidth-hangouts-full-size-mobile-photo-backups-better-event-planning-animated-gifs-and-more/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&source=email_rt_mc_body&ifp=0

Just Google it...

But on Slashdot, I read that drivel coming right out of Burston-Marsteller, or some other PR drone.

This is supposed to be a technology forum but somehow, some Slashdot editors perhaps seem to think that this is 'provoking' material, in the good sense of being humorous and driving up the number of comments?

But at what price? At what price, just in terms of credibility, for a beginning?

Could someone answer that?

For accidental deaths of children?

Looks like the U.S. is down to 62

http://johnrlott.blogspot.ca/2012/09/accidental-firearm-deaths-for-those.html

My point was that more children die accidentally from mishandling of firearms than could have been saved by the unlikely event of a Rambo being a teacher in this school. Serial killer stories and mass shootings are one hell of a lot more common than action heros.

Why accidental deaths dropped, anyone can speculate. Gun control? better education and awareness? Who knows.

One particularly enduring routine cast Elliott as an expert on the Komodo dragon, and Goulding as the dense reporter whose questions trailed behind the information given.

Here's an example:

KOMODO DRAGON EXPERT: We have two in this country, two Komodo dragons, which were given to us some years ago by the late former premier of Indonesia, Sukarno.

INTERVIEWER: I believe I read somewhere where a foreign potentate gave America some Komodo dragons. Is that true?

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.ca/2010/04/bob-and-ray-tonight-worlds-largest.html

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.

Yeah, writing five exception handlers, each just throwing the exception again is so much better than handling it once.

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.

Yeah, writing five exception handlers, each just throwing the exception again is so much better than handling it once.

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.

The biggest problem with exceptions is that they get thrown too far, changing them into comefroms (the opposite of a goto). And like gotos, they encourage spaghetti code. The best way to deal with them is to limit them to thrown exceptions only to their callers. That way, all exceptions become part of the subroutine's interface. Remember, for a programmer, out of sight is out of mind. If it's not part of the interface, it will be forgotten. For those who are interested, you can read my blog for details and an example.

What do you mean "used to be"? It's not like creatures stop being what their ancestors were. You can't eliminate their history. Whales don't stop being mammals just because they took to the sea and abandoned the land. Bats don't stop being mammals because they took flight. Thus, all birds are STILL dinosaurs. The fact some of them took flight and persisted to today doesn't change that.

Of course, that same logic means that all tetrapods are strange types of fish, so I can see why people might be confused by it. Ray Troll's Venn diagram (half way down the page) is probably the clearest way to visualize it, but it's still weird to think about things that way.

Why this really pisses me off: just bought a new Sony Blu-Ray player, and especially chose one with WIFI and NetFlix built in.

I now discover that because I'm in Canada I can only choose from one quarter of the movies and shows available in the US.

The total number of entries for Canada is currently 2687 movies/shows . The total number of entries for USA is currently 10407 movies/shows. Same price, one quarter the movies.

When I can get the same choice, at the same price, I'll be more than happy to pay my $8 a month. Until then the media corps can suck eggs.

Here's a visualization of energy flows (including coal) for the World, USA, UK and China for 2007

Cost is minimal (internet connect + free time + free easily available proxies)! Also, Co.cc was closed down by their registrar, likely for a user spamming / or a highly illegal act like child porn or a terrorist site - http://diggreponsitory.blogspot.ca/2012/11/cocc-shuts-down-with-millions-of-users.html Either way, they're not coming back!

Here ya go, Prof Chomsky - here are some pictures of statues built in homage to Shivaji, India's own Robin Hood, who fought for the weak and the oppressed - a real actual person from history, and not a fictional multi-limbed mythological deity:

http://www.indialine.com/travel/maharashtra/shivajiheritage.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/subratomitra/6073279079/

http://500px.com/photo/5242560

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shivaji_Statue_Apollo_Bunder_Front_View.jpg

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27769369

Shivaji's dog:

http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/raigad-fort/picture-gallery/Statue-of-Shivaji-pet-dog-Waghya.php

Yes, he even made it to California:

http://ekmarathimanoos.blogspot.ca/2011/11/american-shivaji.html

Just please don't go around telling people that Jesus Montero was a central figure in the Bible, rather than a baseball player.

Sorry no, my comment isn't. Someone with an IQ under 60 doesn't make that choice. They have the choice forced on them. Usually because they're not worth keeping, or because the family has been paid for the glory of allah, or because they're so blindly indoctrinated that they wish to kill jews. That's the reality of it there. It doesn't help when the education system itself(paid and funded by the UN and inturn by taxpayers world wide), teaches the same thing. Or that kids get a daily dose of it too on their state run TV. And never forget that it's multigenerational.

Remember, that they've been given autonomy, they've been given elections. Both of which they chose to install a terrorist loving entity. Remember which side walked away, it wasn't Israel. Remember which side decided that martyrdom and death to the jews above all was the preferable goal. Again that wasn't Israel. And between the two, which one gives full rights to all citizens, including the right to vehemently disagree without being executed in the streets and dragged behind a motorcycle. I'll give you a hint, it's not Israel.

Peh. I trust the BBC about as much as I trust Pravda. They like to memory hole stories that don't fit their agenda after they've been published(Nov 9/12). You hear about the story about the luxury homes in the Palestinian territories that the Beeb did? Probably not. Because it was up for all of an hour before memory holed. It was a rather good bit of journalism they even included pictures of the overflowing markets and all the rest.

And when I say they scrubbed it, they scrubbed it. It was up and down so fast that not even google crawled it. But, some bloggers did catch it.

Except that it is still there on the BBC web site on November 11. Is this a new definition of "memory hole" where you put video up on your website for the entire world to view for several days? Also, two of your "bloggers" are actually the same blogger, one accessed via the Google Canadian URL and one via the Israeli one.

In fact, when I go to the main page Middle East news page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/middle_east/ it is still one of the top video news stories listed on the right hand side. What the fuck are you talking about?

Peh. I trust the BBC about as much as I trust Pravda. They like to memory hole stories that don't fit their agenda after they've been published(Nov 9/12). You hear about the story about the luxury homes in the Palestinian territories that the Beeb did? Probably not. Because it was up for all of an hour before memory holed. It was a rather good bit of journalism they even included pictures of the overflowing markets and all the rest.

And when I say they scrubbed it, they scrubbed it. It was up and down so fast that not even google crawled it. But,some bloggers did catch it.

Obviously it makes a difference in general who is president. The point being argued is that the particular two candidates we got aren't likely to be that much different.

Back in 2008 I certainly thought and hoped Obama would be a big change from Bush, but it seemed like nothing changed. He continued or expanded Bush's policies of warrantless wiretapping, the Bush tax cuts, increasing executive powers (in often-unconstitutional ways, such as the war in Libya remaining unauthorized by congress), continuing the war on drugs, etc. The Wall Street "reform" bill was the smallest imaginable response to the horrendous behavior of the financial firms. Troop deployments were not immediately decreased but merely shifted around. There was that new "insurance care" bill, but if Romney had won his presidential bid in 2008, isn't it possible, even likely, that we would have ended up with something similar from him?

You mention Iraq--we hope neither candidate would start another war the way Bush did, but do we really know they wouldn't? And Obama didn't really bring peace to Iraq, did he?

From Vulcanite Dentures

Most of the world forgot about Samuel Chalfant, but the late 19th century dental profession learned from their bitter experience in what they considered the Vulcanite rubber patent reign of terror. They collectively positioned themselves so they could no longer be milked by any profiteering patent holders.

I greatly enjoy 99% Invisible. Some people might have heard about through their recent (and highly successful) Kickstarter campaign. Worth checking out.

Another approach is to form a certification society. I know a person who was involved in the politics to set this up:

Get certified by the Editors' Association of Canada!

Next you have to convince business that anyone lacking your shiny credential is a contagious scab. Internally, you need to wield the threat against your membership to revoke certification if anyone appears to be setting too low a price on their labours.

There also tends to be a lot of pressure for members to confirm prior judgments and not embarrass each other.

I know of cases where Professional Agrologists (P.Ag.) are involved in the decision process of whether to take land out of a land reserve. One can imagine the moral hazard here. The politician hires his friend, the friend (P.Ag.) writes a favourable view, opponents object, a "neutral" agrologist is summoned whose heart is in the right place, but one who nevertheless won't remain a P.Ag. for long unless wording any difference with the politician's friend (P.Ag.) very carefully.

Gatekeeper organizations tend to acquire an ugly face as a corrupt private-sector nanny state. They might also be good for your profession, but it's no free lunch.

This is a long, but compelling read (for the most part).

Lance Armstrong Case: Dr. Michael Ashenden on EPO

And their response is still a guiding light to me. They said, "If you can come back to us with a test that captures everyone so that we can all stop, you can expect us to support it. But if you come back with a test that only captures a quarter of the people, and those quarter are punished but then they're replaced by another quarter and the problem keeps going, don't expect us to support it.

This is the problem with unions, professional associations, and certifications. There are always more people out there who aspire to take on power within these organizations with the purpose to abuse it. It might only be 25% of the people involved in responsible positions, but it changes the dynamics for everyone involved. And you can't simply bust them out, because they breed like flies.

If everyone paid out of pocket, I can assure you it would be way cheaper.

Like pet veterinary care.

There's a much simpler, basic reason: most people believe the $1000+ hearing aids are better. They aren't really, but that is the value seniors and other place on them, and no manufacturer wants to leave money on the table. Even seniors without insurance would want to pay that price because they believe quality has to cost that much. If they bought a $300 model, seniors would be lobbying their kids for the $2000 model.

So much of health care spending is 'irrational', and as long as our comfort and longevity are on the table, we'll spend what ever it takes even if it is out of our own pockets.

You sure are snarky for someone who is seemingly incapable of using a search engine.

Google: "site:techdirt.com apple arbitrary" They've done a fairly thorough job of documenting Apple's arbitrary policies. Of course, Apple is free to be as arbitrary as they wish, as are the fanboys free to defend them blindly (thanks for your shining example!). And the rest of us are free to criticize their silly approach and enjoy a superior product.

For the lazy ones:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/04/24/crudebox-becomes-prudebox-to-make-it-into-the-app-store/
http://almerica.blogspot.ca/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10042127-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,651569
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91508-Apple-Blocks-Obscene-Newsreader-App
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/21/apple-iphone
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/apple-imposes-n/
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36946/Interview_Molleindustria_On_Phone_Storys_Objectionable_Message.php

I await your apology with bated breath.

You can already get green-laser safety goggles for medial purposes which have a notch filter right around 532nm but a colour-balanced view outside that frequency. At http://brinellgreenlaser.blogspot.ca/ they specifically mention using them for pilot protection.

Seems to me the pilots could just wear these on takeoff/landing and they'd be fine.

You can look it up from many sources but for just one example here is the NYT.

Or if you accept blog analysis you can try The Audacious Epigone.

But of course that took 2 seconds of a google search to find so I understand that it was too much effort for some to do their own research.

The problem is not that they are dropping a feature.. that's fine. The problem is the time frame. Here's the announcement on 9/25 announcing the change:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.ca/2012/09/scheduled-release-track-features-update_26.html

They gave people 6 fucking days to fix any processes that rely on that functionality.

I don't care that they have dropped support for it. But 6 days?!

You really don't see a problem with that?

Google's numbers are especially tame. 300 million watts (total) is far below one watt per user (gmail alone has at least 350 million accounts). Certainly if you use Google services on your 30-watt laptop, you use more power than Google uses to serve you. According to Google, "in the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than Google uses to answer your query."

Since Google offers almost all services for free, it has a strong incentive to minimize resources per user. I expect the paid services are the ones that use the bulk of the energy, but all data centers together are still a tiny fraction of total worldwide power usage.

I did a recent blog post specifically on how the names of Microsoft OS releases were...lame...or odd...in one respect or another.

As many others have stated, use a tool that computes a hash of file contents. Coincidentally, I wrote one last week to do exactly this when I was organizing my music folder. It'll interactively prompt you for which file to keep among the duplicates once it's finished scanning. It churns through about 30 GB of data in roughly 5 minutes. Not sure if it will scale to 4.2 million files, but it's worth a try!

1) Don't be so eager to downplay conservative social attitudes—after all, there are lots of countries where something is legal, but so shameful that no one would ever get caught doing it for fear of being disowned by their families. Unfortunately this even happens in the United States. A state-encouraged culture of conservatism constitutes a form of repression itself; the United States became much more conservative after World War II in part because the government wanted to show a strong face to Russia. And lo and behold: two women were executed for being 'tinged with capitalism' because they had sex with each other and had been to Japan.

2) The Carter comment comes from a BBC story. This Guardian article, also cited on the page, says that the World Food Programme estimates that six million (out of 23 million total) are short of food.

3) Here's a bit more on the educational situation. I do agree that university tuition is a scandal in a lot of Western countries, but (in Canada and the US, anyway) that tuition is just a matter of acquiring a loan, usually from the government, which you can reasonably expect to pay back, especially if you finish your degree. Regardless of how university is in North Korea, many never get through basic school, and much of the curriculum is political indoctrination.

3 again, let's call it 4) If you read the articles on each of the four parties' pages, it appears they exist now only to give the illusion of choice. While they had political agendas early on, all of them are allied with the ruling party, and none exist except as a formality. It's slightly more elaborate than the CPSU, but it does not appear to be any more free. In the United States the two parties aren't truly political causes, but really more sets of rich people, who at least actually oppose each other. There are many political movements (ranging from the Tea Party, to the Libertarians, to the Green Party, to the Neocons, to Occupy Wall Street) which are allowed to express their views publicly, and have influenced the policies of their corresponding political parties.

4, bumped to 5) Have you seen this? I think it might be useful. You are wrong to say North Koreans are free to be homosexual (which you called "totally ok"); the statement that women have suffrage is meaningless because no democratic elections occur; there are numerous sources stating that North Korea has a serious and continual food problem; and for many North Koreans, public school education is very different from the equivalent in other countries, consisting largely of indoctrination.

5, bumped to 6) Like it or not, the government of Taiwan still claims mainland China. The official 'Taiwan' got stuck to it largely because other countries wanted to open up dealings with the PRC, and not offend the PRC when they did so. The legislature is still the Republic of China's legislature all the way back—you might as well say that Constantine's empire wasn't the Roman Empire just because it didn't possess Rome.

6, bumped to 7) Colonialism in the past doesn't affect a country's participation in the free world in the present. The UK does have a lot of problems, but it is still essentially a free country.

As for Greeks: no, it's more about your English. :) The person I knew was actually very conservative and admired the social order and relative lack of corruption in the US.

150Mhz Pentium? From the horse's mouth,

It should run on most computers, ranging from 64MB old PII 266 systems with pre-configured 128MB swap to the latest powerful boxes. 128MB RAM is recommended minimum for antiX. The installer needs minimum 2.2GB hard disk size. antiX can also be used as a fast-booting rescue cd.

For the curious, here's a recent review. And the FAQ.

Disclaimer: I don't know /why/ you'd want to run Linux on a P1, but whatever turns your crank I guess. The misery of dropped BIOS & ethernet card support finally did me in. Plus none of it ever works slighly as well as W98SE.

Flame me to a crisp if you like, but on that hardware it's the kickass Desktop. I still use it for vintage gaming. (YMMV: you have to know how to make 98 work well. Most don't, and suffer proportionately.)

I tried for a while to find a way to have a CPU and Network monitor like you could have it docked on a panel in gnome 2 but finally gave up.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/

I also often use more than one terminal window, but when you click on the terminal icon in the apps list, it just takes you back to the terminal you already have open.

Ctrl-Shift-n from terminal opens a new window. Ctrl-Shift-t opens a new tab, which I prefer.

For vitual desktops, I personally prefer a fixed layout... email and web browser in upper left, work vitrual computer in lower left, etc. The ever-changing dynamic list doesn't work well for me.

There ought to be an extension for this... (One thing that bugs me about Gnome is there is so much potential in the extensions, but no one is writing them!)

The worst is that I can't get it to behave right with my laptop and external monitor. Laptops today come with shitty short screens, so when I work at home, I keep the lid closed and just use my external monitor. Gnome3 can't seem to grasp this and always assumes the laptop's monitor is the primary monitor, so I can't reach the widgets, menus, etc. Sure, I can muck with the display settings to fix it during a session, but I have to do it all over again if I reboot or need to open the lid for some reason.

From http://rainhilltrials.blogspot.ca/2011/09/changing-primary-display-in-gnome-3.html:

You just have to edit the file: ~/.config/monitors.xml

(Notice that this it's a "personal" config, so you have to do this inside of every acount you like this behaviour... That's why the ~/ wich means "my personal home dir").

where you can see an XML text detailing all displays configurations. Each one have a "primary" config line like this:

yes

Just put "yes" wherever you like to be your primary display and "no" in the other one(s)...

Here we have a statement of "fact": the 13 warmest years for the entire planet have all occurred since 1998. This statement hides two very important things from you to make an impression that runs contrary to it's own narrative.

All of the years since 1998 have been less warm than 1998 itself. It's not been a warming trend since 1998 with temperatures soaring ever higher for the last 13 years. It was really warm in 1998, and has been cooling off somewhat since. So, keep that in mind - it does make the claim seem a bit less impressive.

According to historical records, 1934 was actually warmer than 1998, but it has been "adjusted downwards" in the GISS temperature record from what is suggested by the actual temperatures that were recorded at the time. Not really sure of the scientific reason why that adjustment was necessary.

Also, headline is a question, therefore the correct answer is "No".

...or else the customer could own the last mile.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/87311_customer_owned_fiber_in_ottawa/ http://arstechnica.com/features/2008/07/customer-owned-fiber/ http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.ca/2008/07/what-if-you-could-own-your-internet.html

I'm pretty sure it's the laws of physics and the periodic table of elements that's responsible for the paradox. It's not an "attitude" that propels you through space while obeying F=ma, it's materials and energy sources. So unless you can point me to a new periodic table with magical elements with sci-fi properties, and new kinds of Star Trek energy sources, what we have now is *it*. There won't be unreasonably strong materials, there are no fantasy Bob Lazar propulsion technologies.

The Fermi Paradox is dead simple. There is simply no way to realize any of the Space Age delusions. That's it, that's all.

Petroleum has already reached its global production peak as depletion rates shoot past the rate at which new fields can be found and brought on line; natural gas and coal are not far behind—the current bubble in shale gas will be over in five or, just possibly, ten years—and despite decades of animated handwaving, no other energy source has proven to yield anything close to the same abundance and concentration of energy at anything like the same cost. That means, as I’ve shown in detail in past posts here, that industrial civilization will be a short-lived and self-terminating phenomenon.

It's over, dude. So either grow up and face the challenges coming up, or curl into a ball and rock back and forth while crying about the dead delusions of the Space Age.

yes, this is probably fake, why didnt he went to the police and press charge? Why didnt he called the police and identified those persons? bullshit, this is

Did you even take a look at the pictures he took!!
http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html

And yes, he did contact the police, but to no avail.

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Okay, there's 10 citations for you. Begin your spin, denouncements, deflections, justifications, and outright lies.....

Some real facts would've been nice, rather than a baseless implication.

Google spent over $5 million in lobbying in Q1 2012 alone. Microsoft spent $1.72M, Facebook $0.65M.

Where is Apple? They spent a mere $0.5M, one-tenth what Google did. Dell, Intel, Amazon, Oracle, IBM, HP all outspent Apple. And unlike Facebook, Google and Microsoft, Apple has no political action committee.

It's true that Google lobbied for some worthwhile things like campaigning against SOPA, but if the amount of lobbying dollars are the measure by which you're predicting Apple wins in the court, you are way off base.

In fact it's exactly the opposite:

"I never once had a meeting with anybody representing Apple," said Jeff Miller, who served as a senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee for eight years. "There have been other tech companies who chose not to engage in Washington, and for the most part that strategy did not benefit them."

Then on page 2 of article:

“There’s a difference between being quiet and uncooperative,” said a congressional aide who has dealt with Apple. “Part of the problem being behind the scenes is they have no identity. They have no corporate identity in this town because nobody knows them.”
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And in the corridors of Congress, Apple has become a punching bag for lawmakers who understand the power of using a marquee name to reinforce their arguments about American companies dodging taxes, hiring overseas and mistreating foreign workers.

If lobbying dollars make the courts see things their way, as you imply, Apple should be losing every court case on home soil.