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It's really easy to eat cheaper than Mc.Donald's. It might not be cheaper in *time* but it certainly is in money. For example, I made this ( http://misrecetasdecomer.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/sopa-de-papa-con-chorizo-espaol.html , use google translate if necessary) to bring in to work for lunch. That provided 4 days of lunches which are as filling as a standard size Big Mac meal but at half the cost, and while not exactly health freak food, I guarantee it contains less salt than a Big Mac meal, and almost certainly less fat (and IMHO much more tasty)

Not when it's a single person. It's DEFINITELY cheaper then...

This article has a picture of the perp: "Uniloc founder hits back after Minecraft fans vent fury in "disgusting" emails ".

From the caption: Ric Richardson, who sued Microsoft in 2003 for violating his patent relating to technology designed to deter software piracy. The parties settled out of court. Guess he's going to be busy with more e-mails and other stuff (pizzas, subscriptions, "police woman" strippers, etc.)

unless their presence allows someone to save energy in some other way.

if the map in your glasses mean you don't take a wrong turn and end up having to drive 15 minutes back then they've just saved lots of energy.

if the cell phone you carry allows you to call the delivery guy and let him know the order has been cancelled before he gets somewhere with a landline then you've just saved the energy cost of moving a truck miles.

if that computer system in the warehouse tracks items better than a human operator then you've just saved the energy that would have been wasted when the paperwork for a pallet full of stock is lost and it goes bad before anyone notices.

that video link and high bandwidth connection may take a bit of energy but if it means one engineer doesn't need to catch a plane out to fix a problem in a factory somewhere then it's energy cost gets paid back a hundred times over.

a Google search uses just about the same amount of energy that your body burns in ten seconds but if you save a trip to the library or avoid a pitfall in some project as a result it can save a massive amount of energy overall.
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/powering-google-search.html#!/2009/01/powering-google-search.html

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Not quite OT, but Jeremy Hunt also believes in dismantling and privatising the NHS. He co-authored a book called "Direct Democracy", details of which can be found below:

http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/jeremy-hunt-co-authored-book-calling.html

So now, to add to our welfare and disabilty minister who despises the disabled and needy, an environment minister who doesn't give a toss about the environment and a justice minister who wants to abolish the human rights act, we now have a health minister who wants to dismantle the health service.

Sigh, fucking politicians.

Are you an Islamophobe?

Do you favor equal rights and treatment of women and men?
Do you oppose stoning of women accused of adultery?
Do you favor mandatory education of girls everywhere?
Do you oppose slavery and child prostitution?
Do you support complete freedom of expression and the press?
Do you support the right of an individual to worship in her chosen religion?
Do you oppose government- and mosque-supported anti-Semitic publications, radio, TV and textbooks?
Do you oppose the wearing of burqas in public places, schools and courts?
Do you oppose segregation of the sexes in public places and houses of worship?
Do you oppose the death penalty for nonMuslims and Muslims who convert to another religion?
Do you oppose "honor" killings?
Do you oppose female genital mutilation?
Do you oppose forced sexual relations?
Do you oppose discrimination against homosexuals?
Do you support the right to criticize religion?
Do you oppose polygamy?
Do you oppose child marriage, forced or otherwise?
Do you oppose the qu-ranic mandate to kill nonMuslims and apostates?
Do you oppose the addition of sharia courts to your country's legal system?
Do you disagree with the qu-ran which asserts the superiority of Islam to all other religions?

If you answered most or all of these affirmatively, you are a vile Islamophobe and deserve to be beheaded as the qu-ran instructs.

If you answered one third or more of them affirmatively, you are a borderline Islamophobe and need to receive brainwashing to become a full-fledged dhimmi.

If you answered a quarter or fewer affirmatively, you need a few private lessons in dhimmitude to scrub yourself clean of those remnants of Islamophobia.

If you answered affirmatively to NONE of these, Congratulations! you are a worthy observant Muslim and have a bright future vilifying Jews, torturing women or inshallah, becoming a suicide bomber.

I was out marshalling a local fell race in the wind and rain earlier today with my 80 year old friend. Read his blog and be inspired.

http://arijitvsdelta.blogspot.co.uk/

He mentions on there that the shirt was designed by Cory Doctrow, and can be acquired here:
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/threat-level-doctorow (it's currently sold out, though).

It is worth noting that once TSA was involved and had to question me about the meaning of my shirt, they did treat me with the utmost respect and without any malice. Indeed, the lead TSA agent recognized the absurdity of the situation and even apologized I had to go through all this, saying that he found the entire situation to be ridiculous and that he’d let me fly. The same cannot be same about Delta or NFTA transit police. Shortly afterwards, I labeled the transit police as being “thuggish brutes” and I stand by that characterization. As for Delta, their actions could be at best described as cowardly and racist. (There’s much wrong with the TSA and the entire airport security operation — to wit — but in this case, the TSA agents I personally interacted with were courteous and professional.)

It is worth noting that once TSA was involved and had to question me about the meaning of my shirt, they did treat me with the utmost respect and without any malice. Indeed, the lead TSA agent recognized the absurdity of the situation and even apologized I had to go through all this, saying that he found the entire situation to be ridiculous and that he’d let me fly. The same cannot be same about Delta or NFTA transit police.

so what? Well; again from Arijit; at the end of his blog entry.

Write to Delta, their CEO, to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Transit Police, and to the feds who are in charge of ensuring that passengers do not have their civil rights violated.

You have a six figure id and you still haven't realised that the summaries here are often misleading or even downright wrong.

From the victim's own blog:

It is worth noting that once TSA was involved and had to question me about the meaning of my shirt, they did treat me with the utmost respect and without any malice. Indeed, the lead TSA agent recognized the absurdity of the situation and even apologized I had to go through all this, saying that he found the entire situation to be ridiculous and that he’d let me fly.

OK, it's one thing to only go off what was said in the summary, but it's another thing to just make stuff up out of thin air and then be offended about it. If you read his blog post, which is linked to from TFA, you'll find that Delta gave he and his wife another flight the next day.

Arijit's actual blog Arijit Vs. Delta

I set up two high spec PCs to record the entire Olympics from 24 HD satellite channels (and some terrestrial SD/HD channels too). No need for a Net connection and I have 15TB of recordings to sift through (edits, deletes etc) at my leisure. It should be noted that the HD TV broadcasts were around 10-11 Mbits/sec, which is approximately twice the rate of the HD Net streams the BBC have up on their site.

The 24 satellite/cable HD channels (free apart from the TV licence fee of course - and no ads!) were by far the best thing w.r.t. the BBC broadcasts, IMHO. I could list quite a few annoyances with the terrestrial coverage ranging from ludicrous studio yabbering whilst actual live sports were visibly/audibly going on behind the presenters (cycling, swimming and athletics were the worst offenders), failure to air Jason Kenny's cycling gold medal win and medal ceremony on terrestrial HD and a surprisingly weak Olympics Tonight highlights show that often failed to air sub-5-minute events in full (colorised, edited out, blaring background music and hardly any of the original comms).

I think what worries me about Rio 2016 is that the UK won't see the equivalent of the 24 HD channels from the BBC again (hopefully via both satellite and cable like London 2012). It might mean that London 2012 will remain the largest TV event in the UK for quite some time to come.

Are you... serious?

No. See here. http://thesocialmuser.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/olympics-started-3000-years-ago-twitter_14.html

What do you even mean there? You aren't going to be able to pull off a man in the middle attack.

Oh but you can, and it's increasingly being done and the people being intercepted are probably completely unaware of it. All of the big providers of content filtering hardware offer SSL interception now (actually that article was written in 2006, so it's been going on for a while now). The sysadmin just has to deploy a trusted CA key to each desktop. I still think it is probably a violation of various wiretap laws because, regardless of what the local user has agreed to, the remote side (Google, your bank etc.) have not agreed to your interception of their encrypted communications. But, afaik, surprisingly nobody has yet sued over this issue.

I'm worried about the muscle control thing. You can hardly have a 'ring if confidence' if your muscles are all slack :(

http://classicindianads.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/colgate-dental-cream-classic-ad.html

It depends on what you're trying to do. Not knowing what you're doing can be hurtful, for example, not knowing very basic algebra means you can't do simple things. Recently I noticed my colleague couldn't determine the row and column for given an index. Quite trivial stuff.

Fairly recently I've implemented a 3d cone curl for iBooks style page flipping and countless interpolation functions where an API doesn't give enough control. Being able to work with a continuous principle and derive a discrete function is very important in animation.

I guess it comes down to 3 things: how well you understand the subject, how well you can program and whether you can apply relevant maths in a way that won't obscure your code or make it more difficult to maintain. I don't want to tweak random values, and if you don't understand these random values and start exposing them, you're going to make spaggetti code.

Understand your chosen coordinate system and swap when you need to! Take an arrow with a head - you can place a static arrow head at the end of a line or you can derive the arrow head's position and and shape as a function of the line - the latter looks really nice if you understand the coordinate system. If you don't, you'll end up making a horrible mess.

But alas, your mileage may vary - if someone hadn't done the hard work for me, I wouldn't be able to implement many of the things I'm asked to as I'm merely an engineer (and yes, I have a few of those mid-level textbooks with titles like 'Maths for Engineers' or 'Somethingtotallypointlessbutitsyourjob Theory For Engineers'). Once you've solved a couple of matrices most of what you'll do in Unity is state orientated, so with the help of a good model you don't need to think, ie: in some model context, model->modelToWorldMatrix will transform model coords into wordspace, use modelToWorldMatrix.

Hope this helps!

So two lovers having cybersex wouldn't be guilty since they aren't trying to annoy each other.

However, following a recent ruling, they could be guilty of obscene publication if their if their discussion involved anything sufficiently non-vanilla.

This supports more of your assertions, I believe: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/rileyy69-aka-reece-of-weymouth-and.html

And here's another one:

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/rileyy69-aka-reece-of-weymouth-and.html

Some pretty nasty alleged comments in there.

Taken in context, I'd say no.

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/rileyy69-aka-reece-of-weymouth-and.html

That kid has issues, sure, so what. Look at how the so called normal people treated him? Fucking despicable. Who's the bully here? Who is doing *actual* harm to whom? Compare the size of the audience, and how the athlete instantly called the guy an "idiot", while identifying himself as one.

Bah.

What? Yes, the initial tweet was bullshit. But you know what? An athlete earns money by people caring about them, positively or negatively. And then this clown, with a HUGE audience. calls the 17 year old jerk an "idiot"?

After giving it my all...you get idiot's sending me this...

Even after giving your all to a completely irrelevant bullshit activity like being a professional athlete, still not EVERYBODY loves you for it?

Also, it's "idiots", not "idiot's". How classy, to be dumb as bread.

http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/rileyy69-aka-reece-of-weymouth-and.html

Read through what actually went down.

Yes, the teenager was "classless", and the reaction of that athlete, his fans and twitter is EXTREMELY classless.

Because you noticed one, but not the other, I hope a bird poops on your head, hah! But not in the eye, and I hope your clothes don't get dirty etc. :P

Even the well-known and strongly libertarian political blogger Paul Staines/Guido Fawkes is being a bit cagey about this one. Making death threats via a written, public means of communication is about as far from smart as you can get.

Actually, just noticed that more details of the exchange, including screen-caps of the deleted posts, are available at this blog (along with a bit of commentary, so you can make your own mind up.

At the same time as the arrest in this case, there is a trial going on against a guy for receiving a photo of consentual fisting: http://obscenitylawyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/porn-trial-this-time-its-extreme.html And we also had the trial against Paul Chambers for tweeting a bomb joke (he was found not guilty thankfully). The crown prosecution service are a joke.

I guess blind people in France will have to remain blind if they don't want to run the risk of being beaten to death.

Somewhat hyperbolic, but a reasonable point.

My comment (emailed to this country's Mcdonalds) was :

I am highly concerned about the reports of McDonalds staff assaulting a person who uses vision assistance technology. Reports are at http://eyetap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html
I use a different sort of vision assistance technology.
Is it safe for me to visit a McDonalds?

Now, I don't mention that you'd need several strong men to hold me down to force me to eat a McSludge - no need for them to know that. But an implicit threat to their profitability and PR situation, for the actions of a different country's McDonalds organisation should get awkward questions being asked within the big happy family that is "McDonalds."

You're a wanker-ist.

Wankerologist, please

I help some friends out who run a website selling car parts in the UK - we definitely don't attract a "techie" crowd. IE 41.3% Chrome 35% Firefox 10.3% Safari 8.5% http://advancedradiators.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/browser-stats-for-adradcouk.html

There's a nice little article over at the 360 security blog about what you can do in practice to help prevent information leaks from your organisation. If the Feds were doing half of the stuff it suggests they might not have such a porous infrastructure in the 1st place...

AG

Gosh, next you'll be saying they have their own search engine, instead of just throwing a script kiddie wrapper around someone else's.

From TFM:

We currently do not support IPv6. However, Google is a big supporter of IPv6 and it is an important future direction.

So much for keeping the Internet growing, Google. Usual half-baked beta.

Try MySQL 5.6 when that's released: 90,000 read transactions per second... The preview from back in April was already faster than 80,000 per second and that's without the later performance improvements.

Then there's MySQL Cluster:

MySQL Cluster 7.2 achieves 4.3BN reads per minute, 72 million per second
MySQL Cluster 7.2.7 achieves 1BN update transactions per minute, 19.5 million per second

And that's not a toy or unproven database, it's what a lot of mobile phone systems use and has been around in the MySQL server form since 2004, with a long history before that.

Try MySQL 5.6 when that's released: 90,000 read transactions per second... The preview from back in April was already faster than 80,000 per second and that's without the later performance improvements.

Then there's MySQL Cluster:

MySQL Cluster 7.2 achieves 4.3BN reads per minute, 72 million per second
MySQL Cluster 7.2.7 achieves 1BN update transactions per minute, 19.5 million per second

And that's not a toy or unproven database, it's what a lot of mobile phone systems use and has been around in the MySQL server form since 2004, with a long history before that.

China is ALREADY full-blown klepto. They have a major deep-seated cultural problems where their only morality is getting rich, no matter how much damage they cause or how many people they hurt.

See a recent article on the Bronte Capital blog, "The Macroeconomics of Chinese Kleptocracy".

http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/macroeconomics-of-chinese-kleptocracy.html

To be fair, it's no worse than our own feral and out-of-control overclass here in the West.

So what about CMU's NELL, a system trying to learn English by reading the web? It regularly tweets "I think [X] is a [example of Y]", and once tweeted "I think Sarah-Marie Johnson is a criminal". Now, there is a Sarah-Marie Johnson who has been convicted of murder, but NELL does make mistakes, what if it calls somebody a criminal when they're not? Can they sue for libel, and if so who? The programmers didn't explicitly program NELL to say that, and making mistakes is an integral part of almost any experiment. Is the only winning move not to play? (More in an old blog post of mine here.

Here's the author looking back on Larklight and how it came about.

This image from Google's blog post shows that majority of the phishing sites are hosted in the US. Interestingly, most of Africa is relatively "clean", except for Algeria and South Africa.

This is an inaccurate depiction of events, as was established in the 2011 extradition hearing. Specifically, Assange's lawyer lied: The Swedes asked him for questioning. On hearing this news, Assange then refused to report in as he should have, but instead fled the country.

http://assangewatch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/bjorn-hurtig-has-some-explaining-to-do.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/08/julian-assange-extradition-hearing-texts

As for the charges being picked up again, there's any number of reasons why this might be so. Perhaps new witness testimony emerged. Perhaps the note that on the day the charges were initially dropped, the two women issued a complaint to the Swedish public prosecutions is significant. Perhaps it was the fact that the charges were initially dropped after 24 hours of examination by the city's chief prosecutor and then picked up again by a sex crimes specialist?

We don't know at this point. But it shouldn't really make sense for the timeline of events that actually took place to be consistent with the conspiracy theories. Why, we should ask, if this was all an American plot, was the charges dropped from Assange ahead of the cables leak (when everyone suspected he had the cables), and then only reinstated after the cables were already passed on and so capturing Assange pointless?

You haven't looked very hard have you? It's almost as if you don't want to see a refutation. Google, 5 minutes. You're welcome.

The important thing is that this is the DRAFT Communications Data Bill. It would have been a normal bill where amendments are possible but usually opposed by the Government (who have the majority). But Nick Clegg and other Lib Dems insisted it be published as a draft, so people can comment on it and so changes can be made. Julian Huppert MP is already working to change it, and has got himself on the committee of MPs who will be considering it - see http://www.libdemvoice.org/julian-huppert-mp-writes-communications-data-we-have-to-get-this-right-28964.html

We MUST have a new bill, if only to replace RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) passed by the previous Government, which introduced state snooping on a grand scale, (did you know that in the past year alone, there were 540,000 data requests under RIPA?). But the proposed bill has many flaws too; jsut to start with, Part 1 gives far too much arbitrary power to the Secretary of State.

So it is up to those who oppose the bill to make their views known and put reasoned arguments and views forward to the Committee considering it. This government has shown it /will/ change its mind if enough people object to things it is doing, and in this case it's easy for them to do so as it's a draft, with changes expected. See also http://carons-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/169-days-to-help-julian-huppert-protect.html

Unless you are personally qualified to review the paper, you can only go on the reputation of the reviewers.

Your claim isn't "i've reviewed this paper and here is why it's true", you claim is "this paper has been reviewed by trustworthy and reliable people, that's why it's true".

The counter-argument that Bentham have a dubious reputation is perfectly valid in this case. Bentham have dropped the journal that paper was published in, and have a reputation for recruinting reviewers via the medium of indiscrimate spam emails.

This may be helpful:

The blog: http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/

BBC story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800

Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/school-dinner-blogger-martha-payne-photo-ban-overturned-7854487.html

Council rebuttal: http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/news/2012/jun/statement-school-meals-argyll-and-bute-council

That's good news. I wondered why they told this girl to stop in the first place because the food she photographed actually looks both healthy and tasty, so what was the problem?

It's variable. Scroll through the May page from the bottom: http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_01_archive.html -- some is fine, some is pretty bad.

The council's response in the BBC article claims that there are often better options available. However, that a child can choose an awful option suggests there is still a problem (at least, it is if you think the school should only provide healthy food).

Gosh. Next you'll be saying they have their own search engine, and not merely throwing up some script kiddie wrapper around Googles.

AC Wrote:

I actually consider the fact having just looked at your Facebook profile (http://www.facebook.com/theodore.seeber from your blog: http://outsidetheautisticasylum.blogspot.co.uk/ [blogspot.co.uk]) on your homepage link that you are morbidly obese a reason why you shouldn't breed and hopefully never will.

Well, that and the fact you're dumb enough to think god exists which is born of the same childlike logic that makes kids think Santa is real.

At least you'll die early with all that excess weight, that's something the world can be thankful of.

Might I also note that thankfully, it's also incredibly hard to breed when you're too fat to even find your own dick?

Holy shit! AC is right. You are one fat fuck. Not only are you a fat fuck, but you also also appear to believe in magic. Don't breed dude. Not only are you physically unhealthy, but your belief in magical forces and spirits pretty well disqualifies you as a person who should be breeding.

Fat fuck wrote:

It is incredibly hard to breed when you don't know the difference between a plug and a socket.

Again, you appear to be a fucking moron. It is pretty easy for a gay to breed. You just need a womb. There is no shortage. Granted, it costs a little more than when two hillbillies fuck in the woods. You also seem to be under the delusion that people who have gay sex are confused about what naughty bits they posses. They aren't. They fully recognize that the sex they are having isn't for the purpose of reproduction and purely for fun. Most sex humans have isn't for reproduction. Well, in your case it might be. If you sucker some woman into having a relationship with you, I imagine she would only be letting your lard ass roll onto her if she was looking for a baby. You don't look like you have it all going in the "sweet loving" category, if you catch my drift.

In fact, I think this explains a lot about your bitterness towards gays. It must gal you to realize that there are people out there having sex purely for recreation. You, yourself, unable to sucker a woman into letting you enjoy regular recreational sex, have turned your cognitive dissidents to 11 and rationalize that sex is evil unless it is for procreation. You also appear to have picked up a belief in a magical sky man who gives a shit about you.

Here is my advice. Drop the belief in the magic sky man and accept that the world is as it appears to be and that there is no magic, holy or otherwise in it. Go to the gym and eat better. Do this for a year or two. It will feel good after a time. I promise. Work on being a less bigoted and shitty human so that you can attract people who enjoy life. You see, you are such a miserable fuck to be around that only people who believe in a magical god can stand to be around you, and only then because of their shared delusional belief in magic. What you need to do is work on being a less miserable fuck so that you can be around other more fun and interesting people. If you work on improving the health of your body and being less of a shit head, you will be able to hang out with people who have fun and are merry. Through such friends you might be able to find a lady who is okay with your now improved body and personality. With said lady, you can do the rest of the world a favor and get laid... laid just for fun. Once laid, the last vestiges of your miserable fat fuck personality will vanish. People around you will be happier and you will be happier. Win win.

That, or you can cling to your belief in a magic sky man and run around foaming at the mouth about how the gays are going to eat your children. Honestly, it doesn't really matter to me because I am going to go enjoy some recreational sex.

I actually consider the fact having just looked at your Facebook profile (http://www.facebook.com/theodore.seeber from your blog: http://outsidetheautisticasylum.blogspot.co.uk/) on your homepage link that you are morbidly obese a reason why you shouldn't breed and hopefully never will.

Well, that and the fact you're dumb enough to think god exists which is born of the same childlike logic that makes kids think Santa is real.

At least you'll die early with all that excess weight, that's something the world can be thankful of.

Might I also note that thankfully, it's also incredibly hard to breed when you're too fat to even find your own dick?

Claiming the benefit will be "future potential" is doing this. The future is always tomorrow.

(image taken from here, which probably isn't original source)

But Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it.