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It's going to be a behind-the-scenes change and it's not as big a deal as the kde3kde4 change. Reference: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2011/05/relax.html

I agree with your point "the value of information is not [necessarily] the same as the cost of copying it."

But I do not accept that pictures by Van Gogh are a good example of this. A van Gogh original might be worth 50M. A copy that can only be recognised as a copy by experts might be worth as much as 1% of that.

There are pictures where the original painter isn't known but there's a chance it is one of the "greats". Painted by the great master it's worth millions. Painted by one of his students it's hundreds of thousands at most. The same picture.

http://tom-flynn.blogspot.com/2010/05/christies-face-lawsuit-over.html

And photographic forgery is even more bizarre. An "original" can be worth a small fortune. A "copy" - same negative, same photographic paper, same developing process, just done by someone else can be worthless.

Tim.

Just a small correction: we don't really know how many victims Chernobyl made. The '50 fatalities' figure was at some point an official Soviet figure, which included only about 47 workers who died of acute radiation poisoning, and is hopelessly optimistic.

The WHO and the AEIA estimates the number of direct victims of Chernobyl to 4,000, but this figure is suspected to be low, as the AEIA has vested interests in the nuclear industry.

The TORCH report (The Other Report of CHernobyl), commissioned by the European Green Party, estimate about 60,000 extra cancers deaths due to Chernobyl. This figure does not include non-fatal cancers, which still have notable effect on victims.

A recent book, written by reputed scientists and based over 5,000 survey, puts the number of victims at about one million. Of course, some people disagree with this figure, however, there is no doubt that the scope of the accident was massive, and continues to make victims today.

The Ukrainian government has claimed in 2006 that more than 2.4 million people, including 500,000 children, have suffered adverse health effects from the Chernobyl disaster. This does not include the effect on people displaced due to the disaster. Of course the Ukrainian people are the ones left with the very hot potato and they would dearly like some help.

Also you may want to take a look a this photo essay and reflect on your "50 victims" figure. The bottom line is that there were definitely way more victims than the 50 you claim, and quite possibly way way more.

I'm right now totally in favor of nuclear energy, but we need to all understand the very significant risks, and try to mitigate them as much as possible.

This is what I was getting at. Is the Agency Model a Clear Case of Price-Fixing Collusion? A Closer Look at the Possibility of Antitrust Action in the Courts

I can't find a copy of the publisher/iBookstore agreement, but this and many other pages seem to indicate that the agreement sets prices at 70% across the board and it wasn't some uncorrelated decision by the top publishers.

If it's so stupid to take 50% instead of 70%, why did they agree to it in the first place? Also having it fixed at 70% means their possibly losing money based on the 75%, 80%, etc. deals they had previously to the agency model.

Moonlight on Android preview.

Also... ExEn

Does anybody know why Google decided to make all their Android web pages, like the link above, not able to be scrolled unless you're using Javascript?

There are plenty of websites that require Javascript to function properly, but none (other than Android's) that require it just to scroll.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html

By the way, I now own a wifi-only Xoom. It is a fine device, with a few really idiotic warts like no USB on the media dock. And no way to connect a mouse to it. This is really frustrating, because all it needs is a mouse and it is a full blown computer.

On the other hand, the sound that comes out of the media dock speakers is amazing, it has to be heard. The screen out of the box is not the brightest but can be adjusted up to be above reproach. The screen resolution is stunning. The user interface only gets a c+, it gets the job done. It was easy enough for my 7 year old to figure out pretty much instantly. I had to pry the thing away once flash was up and she got onto her favorite game sites.

At $600 I do not consider this device overpriced. Build quality is far beyond a netbook, say, as is the shiny factor. Color me a fanboy. Makes it all the more irritating when Google does stupid things like restricting the source or being slow to update with USB host support.

I absolutely hate the design decision that says the user should not be allowed to shut down an application. I understand Rubin's argument, but it is only an argument. Real users like to tidy things up. Having no way to make an application disappear from the active applications list is just very irritating.

Sigh. One thing Google is not very good at is listening to users.

So is this the sign that Facebook is turning into Myspace - gazillion of apps, horrible UI, and becoming a SPAM platform. And just finished my blog about why I ditched facebook a few hours ago: http://eyesbeyond.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-viewed-your-profile-on-facebook-and.html

C'mon, be a man and say how me asking honest, sincere questions about where the chain of command gave the order to kill on sight can be a negative thing?

Sure. Because it doesn't sound sincere, it sounds like you are looking for negatives. Much like (though in an exaggerated form) the people who ask if Glenn Beck raped a girl in 1990 are not being sincere. Or more precisely perhaps, those people who ask for Obama's birth certificate. They didn't care whether he is a good president, their primary goal was to find something wrong with Obama. Or maybe a better example (since you aren't insane), are those people who criticized Bush for his pronunciation of nuclear. Focusing on the regional dialectical pronunciation variation was clearly not their main goal, despite the fact that they may not have liked his pronunciation.

I just want an ... HONEST explanation of how OSL was expected to be able to surrender as per the Rules of Engagement.

Saddam did it. Here's the thing, have you even looked up the rules of engagement? It seems like it would be a fairly simple thing to figure out. Instead, here you are, a day or two later, still asking the same question. That's why it looks like you are looking for negatives, much like the 'sincere' birthers who really didn't know if Obama was born in the US, but they were too lazy to actually look. Why haven't you investigated this? (ellipse added because I agree with your other point, I'd like an honest explanation of how it went down, too. We'll get it of course, but it might take a while).

No, "bad men" generally don't exist either.

This is important. We are good/bad according to our choices. It is like the famous indian story of two wolves. (I don't know if it is really an indian story, but that's how it is presented). People have turned out to be good, even in the worst of circumstances (ie, Nazi guards helping Jews escape). Circumstances happen to us but it is up to us how we respond to them.

But you're not dividing the pie, are you? You're way too scared of what that might mean.

Scared of what? Certainly not afraid of taking responsibility for my piece of taking out Osama. He was a bad man.

I'd also prefer him to stop negotiating with the mad hatters at the Tea Party. They don't want results, they want conflict.

They very much want results; unfortunately the results are quite different from the results you want. Remember, it takes two to have a conflict.

With the Microsoft/Ford collaboration, what if Microsoft built Skype into the next version of their car software?

It isn't a question of "If," it is only a question of "When?"

Internet Radio In Your Car

Congratulations. You are one of the lucky ones that didn't get lost.

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/evolution-of-ubuntu-user.html

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Try Debian, Mint Debian, or Mint Ubuntu.

http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-mint-over-ubuntu.html

It's the minimalist look that isn't KDE

Shut up, troll.

that abortion called Plasma

I don't even have a link, but you don't have an argument, so we're even. Shut up, troll.

all the resources used for Plasma.

My five year old Pentium D desktop and I say "citation needed." Also, "Shut up, troll."

It is possible to DIY (do it for yourself) when creating Live CDs or Live USBs. That way you can use whatever Linux distribution you prefer, or are most comfortable with. As you note, some skills are required, but the tricks are fairly well known. The fine points of Linux startup is somewhat distribution dependent. For my own purposes, I created a rescue environment based on Slackware Linux that boots on a wide variety of hardware "out of the box." I have written a couple of blog posts about it here and here.

One thing that helps a lot is that the Linux device stack is layered appropriately with logical devices before reaching the physical layer of devices. The logical device layers are provided by the device mapper facility. Device mapper provides the toolset that works with a myriad of possibilities (non-encrypted simple snapshots, encrypted snapshots, encrypted physical devices, etc.). These modes can be mixed and matched, and the possibility of using loopback devices further complicates possible designs. In fact, there are so many "correct solutions," that it can be tricky to select which solution most directly meets the users needs. The basic technique is described here.

It is possible to DIY (do it for yourself) when creating Live CDs or Live USBs. That way you can use whatever Linux distribution you prefer, or are most comfortable with. As you note, some skills are required, but the tricks are fairly well known. The fine points of Linux startup is somewhat distribution dependent. For my own purposes, I created a rescue environment based on Slackware Linux that boots on a wide variety of hardware "out of the box." I have written a couple of blog posts about it here and here.

One thing that helps a lot is that the Linux device stack is layered appropriately with logical devices before reaching the physical layer of devices. The logical device layers are provided by the device mapper facility. Device mapper provides the toolset that works with a myriad of possibilities (non-encrypted simple snapshots, encrypted snapshots, encrypted physical devices, etc.). These modes can be mixed and matched, and the possibility of using loopback devices further complicates possible designs. In fact, there are so many "correct solutions," that it can be tricky to select which solution most directly meets the users needs. The basic technique is described here.

Point is, more anti-Obama crap, same as the anti-Bush crap but from another direction.

Originally from here - http://socyberty.com/issues/white-house-insider-obama-hesitated-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/4/

Then here - http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/05/skulking-towards-bin-laden-obama-overridden-by-military-and-intel-officials-in-takeout-of-obl.html

It's been bouncing around since at least the 4th of May - http://mediamatters.org/blog/201105040021 and the original author is known to make up stories for pageviews in the past.

http://ulster-man.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201105040021

I tried this myself. It downloads a zip which contains a .mpkg, which OS X automatically executes.

It's linked to from here if you want to try it yourself:

http://cobbaut.blogspot.com/

The installation process itself is not automated, you'd still need to click through and enter your admin password, but I didn't let it get that far.

No problem. Here's a clinical trial of the paleo diet for treating type II diabetes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17583796
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00435240
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19604407


Some practical advice (books/blogs) you can follow to get you started:
http://thehealthyskeptic.org/diabesity
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search/label/diabetes
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/
http://thepaleodiet.com/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/

I wish your wife luck. Definitely read as much as you can before trying this. The links above will just get you started.

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Two weeks ago I put some screenshots of what it looks like on my blog:
http://cobbaut.blogspot.com/

Cool, I was worried my OS was bought out by Microsoft and they gave me a C: drive

Two weeks ago I put some screenshots of what it looks like on my blog:
http://cobbaut.blogspot.com/

JavaScript is the language of artificial intelligence. The AiMind in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) flits across the 'Net and takes up residence in the Web browser of the websurfing human being. Programmers have the opportunity to write AI Apps in JavaScript for the iPhone, the iPad, the Android mobile devices and other platforms.

Well as a matter of fact...

'Anonymous' (at least in this article) refers to the group AnonOps Communications, who host the numerous IRC channels, have a loose leader base, publish various 'flyers' of propaganda, and are the people behind 'Operation: Payback'. There is a difference between the group itself and an anonymous hacker, even if the anonymous hacker was acting out in the 'name' of anonymous.
what this article is saying is that the 'AnonOps' group had no involvement in the stealing of sony data, even if an anonymous hacker did.

references:
http://anonops.blogspot.com/
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/we-didnt-do-it-sony-incompetent.html
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/anonymous-hacks-westboro-baptist-church.html
http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=anonops

'Anonymous' (at least in this article) refers to the group AnonOps Communications, who host the numerous IRC channels, have a loose leader base, publish various 'flyers' of propaganda, and are the people behind 'Operation: Payback'. There is a difference between the group itself and an anonymous hacker, even if the anonymous hacker was acting out in the 'name' of anonymous.
what this article is saying is that the 'AnonOps' group had no involvement in the stealing of sony data, even if an anonymous hacker did.

references:
http://anonops.blogspot.com/
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/we-didnt-do-it-sony-incompetent.html
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/anonymous-hacks-westboro-baptist-church.html
http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=anonops

'Anonymous' (at least in this article) refers to the group AnonOps Communications, who host the numerous IRC channels, have a loose leader base, publish various 'flyers' of propaganda, and are the people behind 'Operation: Payback'. There is a difference between the group itself and an anonymous hacker, even if the anonymous hacker was acting out in the 'name' of anonymous.
what this article is saying is that the 'AnonOps' group had no involvement in the stealing of sony data, even if an anonymous hacker did.

references:
http://anonops.blogspot.com/
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/we-didnt-do-it-sony-incompetent.html
http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/04/anonymous-hacks-westboro-baptist-church.html
http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=anonops

you're just mad since Anon are going up against your buddies in the Neo-Nazi arena.

http://anonops.blogspot.com/2011/05/anonymous-launches-operation-blitzkrieg.html

You're correct about the animals, though the reason for it is hygiene. How does Hong Kong manage to transport and 'store' live animals?

However, maybe the USA is different, but fresh fish in the UK is often displayed whole (and dead). (fish counter at Tesco) However, the fishmonger will be happy to cut off the head and tail and remove the bones. It's usually particular species of fish that are shown whole (e.g. salmon), while others are usually prepared (e.g. cod).

Top hit for "fish recipe" on Google UK

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

This pornographical user interface was well ahead its time (1971). But the double user interface model never become a success

Here are some other similar projects:

Touch-over-IP

Breath-over-IP

I must admit I did connect because it seemed a good idea to get latest bugfixes during installation. If the installer screen lied to me that this was optional, then this guy is wrong as well: http://ubuntu-install.blogspot.com/2011/05/ubuntu-114-installation-tips.html

You are installing a bare-bones server system with the live CD? Seriously? Oh I see, your "bare-bones server system" has a desktop. Oh well. What you seem to miss is that the network option (if true) is not required to get any additional packages, it just ensures that bugfixed packages are available if necessary.

As for multitouch I can't comment since it's new to me and I don't care for or know the convention. No interface to modify it is true, but then this is a first for multitouch to be available at all in a Linux distro, no? 2-finger scroll works for me and the option is right there in my mouse preferences, like it always was in recent releases.

I've been running Ubuntu/Gnome since 6.03 (now on 10.3) and the Netbook Remix (UNR - a Unity based version) for the last year and a bit. The Gnome version has always been on a desktop with a fairly bog standard monitor, and UNR has been unsurprisingly on a netbook with the wide-but-short screen that this entails. (My review of the Asus netbook I use includes a few comments on Unity: shameless-blog-link) Here's my thoughts, because I think they're relevant.

I like Gnome. I know a lot of people bitch about it, but personally I quite like it. The defaults are roughly what I set up anyway, and it's fairly intuitive for me. The only major change I make other than basic cosmetics is a menu bar on the left, auto-hiding, with big icons for Firefox, Gimp, a terminal, gphpedit and all the other programs that I use daily.

UNR took a little getting used to, but given the efficiency that it places on screenspace I've found it to be very worthwhile. You can easily drop out of UNR and re-login with Gnome, and the experience is identical to the desktop version, but Unity is genuinely a swisher, faster, easier system when you're limited on screen height and using a trackpad...the big shiny icons, much as I dislike them on a desktop, actually make things really quick and easy on a netbook.

The downside to UNR/Unity? It's clearly not hugely stable yet. This is quite possibly to do with closed source binaries from graphics card manufacturers, the only crash-worthy problem I've ever had with the netbook is UNR dropping out to a terminal after going into a bit of a panic finding the graphics card. There's nothing in particular that seems to spark it, it just seems to be a fundamental, occasional glitch very low down in the system somewhere. It's not related to processor or graphics card load, it just flips out sometimes.

So I like Unity style stuff when it works, and on a netbook. I also adopt a few of the Unity style features on a standard Gnome desktop. It definitely has a few very nice usability features. I want the option not to use it though. My preferred solution would be a very bog standard Gnome interface as standard for desktops, plus "themes" you can apply to get OSX, Unity or Windows style layouts. Then (as exists for KDE, xfce etc) options at boot for the others. And keep Unity...it's great on a netbook but it needs work. Offer it as an option, not a default, at least not until it's stable and generally the preferred option.

That said, hell, I get the whole #! for free, so who am I to bitch about these things?

I posted this below and then saw your post. There is some evidence that the document might have been manipulated: http://selfevidenttruths-euripides.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-birth-certificate-released-fogery.html

At least one (conservative but not a "birther") writer (not me) has raised the possibility that the birth certificate was digitally manipulated: http://selfevidenttruths-euripides.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-birth-certificate-released-fogery.html

While I have always believe Obama was born in Hawaii just like he says, this post is a point at least considering. Note: "When I imported the original PDF document into Adobe Illustrator, I found ten different elements which makes up the image, including cut and pasted text and the well-known "Certificate of Live Birth" pasted on top of the green form."

Yup, here's a good example of what you're talking about:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/gmail-back-soon-for-everyone.html

So what caused this problem? We released a storage software update that introduced the unexpected bug, which caused 0.02% of Gmail users to temporarily lose access to their email. When we discovered the problem, we immediately stopped the deployment of the new software and reverted to the old version.

A tidbit: A couple months ago, I wrote some scripts to grab all my Facebook friends and their Facebook friends, and graph it. From my 256 Facebook friends and their Facebook friends, I get 76,538 different people. These degrees of separation explode quickly. And they make pretty graphs: Nifty Things: Facebook Friends Graph

Maybe. Maybe not. http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospective.html is also worth reading for context here. The "Lessons About LLVM" part.

http://nauticallog.blogspot.com/2011/04/ile-de-sein.html

He may be maxed out, you'd be surprised how many of those old Dell and Compaq boxes couldn't hold squat with regards to RAM.

As for TFQ try Kmeleon CCF ME looks like chrome, Gecko engine but lower RAM since it uses Windows native APIs.

...and it looks like this

What is a yet?
Why do the Sauds have one?
Why does the Saud's yet need to be told of this?

I think it's related to an alot.

Yes. The Man's greed knows no bounds.

http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2010/05/child-pornography-and-criminal.html

that van may need to change for that to work
Organ donations must be performed in hospitals and executions are held in prisons. The three-drug cocktail used in lethal injection may render organs unsuitable for transplant. And, with high rates of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C, jail and prison inmates are considered high-risk donors by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and subject to even stricter testing and lifestyle scrutiny than typical organ donors.

http://donatelife-organdonation.blogspot.com/2011/04/killers-quest-allow-organ-donation.html

The correct link for this story is geohot's blog: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/04/recent-news.html

not some wanker journalist's ad-laden failure to summarize said blog.

If you've ever turned on a GPS device that had been off for a long time and/or moved significantly it can take minutes (the key information for GPS is only broadcast every 30 seconds and the satellite data has expired) for it to get a lock on the satellites. http://jeepx.blogspot.com/2006/01/cold-start-and-aided-gps.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_first_fix are good reads about the issue. The short version of it is that in order to determine which satellites are there to listen to quickly, you need approximate information about the time and location of the receiver.

http://dailypoopblog.blogspot.com/

Expecting ethical behavior from a corporation is like a duck expecting a piggyback ride across a lake from an alligator.

Which is not to say that it will never happen it is just unlikely....?

This has cause a huge backlash from the public, for one the project was awarded to a company, Tricubes which is a GN3, meaning they have accounting issue with the Stock Exchange, without a tender and they we were already dying as their stock price was around 5cent before this announcement. They plan to charge the goverment 50 cents for every email to a citizen, imagine for 18m adults thats huge money, practically a gold mine. You guys can read more here: http://malaysiafinance.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-such-strong-reactions-to-email.html