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But not as bad as the HTC 911 issues

Sending messages to the right contact and making sure 911 calls work are things OS makers should go out of their way to ensure work correctly

Do mobile vendors QA their products anymore?

I think you mean QC, and the answer is that QC has been significantly downgraded as a priority and a practice in many companies, not just mobile vendors. Your mistake alone highlights the fact that people just don't understand QC and QA, nor the value they bring....

From http://skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com/ An editorial in the this week’s New England Journal of Medicine proposes that sleep-deprived surgeons should tell patients that information and obtain written consent from patients acknowledging that they have been so informed. This article garnered a “hat trick” of coverage as it was featured by Science Daily, Medpage Today and Eurekalert. First, let’s look at the coverage. Understanding that these three sites simply rehash press releases, they do tend to resemble news reports. Only Medpage Today, while publishing a photo [at right] of a seemingly fatigued surgeon, chose to mention a rebuttal to the editorial by the American College of Surgeons [ACS]. One the other hand, CNN Health published a somewhat balanced report that included excerpts from the ACS response but follow-up answers were forthcoming only from one of the editorial’s co-authors and not the ACS spokespersons. I would point out that this sentence from the proposal, “In surgery, there is an 83% increase in the risk of complications (e.g., massive hemorrhage, organ injury, or wound failure) in patients who undergo elective daytime surgical procedures performed by attending surgeons who had less than a 6-hour opportunity for sleep between procedures during a previous on-call night” is grossly misleading. The JAMA paper cited says no such thing. Yes, there is an increased risk of complications but the paper does not specify exactly which complications occurred. They may in fact have been minor complications. Of course, “massive hemorrhage, organ injury, or wound failure” sounds much more dramatic. Although the rebutting ACS leaders made a decent point that issues such as marital problems, a sick child or financial difficulties might also degrade performance and are not subject to disclosure, the argument that surgeons should be trained to recognize fatigue was extremely weak and was deftly parried by one of the co-authors of the proposal. You can read those comments in the CNN Health article. Now, what do I think of the proposal? In a perfect world, the idea of a surgeon telling patients that he is sleep-deprived would be wonderful. Alas, we don’t live in a perfect world. The reality is the proposal is highly impractical. The example cited in the proposal was that a surgeon who was up all night had an elective colostomy scheduled for 9 a.m. The proposal’s authors would mandate that he inform the colostomy patient that he is sleep-deprived and offer the patient the option to postpone the procedure or have another surgeon perform it. What is involved in postponing the case? The patient may have taken laxatives to prepare the bowel for surgery. She may have had lab work done, taken time off from work, arranged for child care, have important business three weeks later etc. The hospital’s operating room likely would go unused for the two hours originally booked for the colostomy. Having another surgeon operate on the patient would mean loss of a fee for the tired surgeon. [I know that shouldn't matter but it's not a perfect world.] And just which surgeon is going to be sitting around doing nothing that morning and hoping a colleague was sleep-deprived? Assuming another surgeon was readily available, how does the conversation between the patient and the new surgeon go? “Hi, I’m your new surgeon. I’m not sleep deprived. By the way, what’s wrong with you? Oh, you need a colostomy.” Does the patient have a chance to Google the new surgeon? Is the new surgeon on the patient’s insurance panel? What if the patient doesn’t bond with the new surgeon in the 10 minutes she has had to get to know him? Can she ask for a third surgeon to be introduced? Will all of this take so long that the original surgeon might have had a chance to take a nap and now be refreshed? How long of a nap is long enough? Maybe the solution is for every hospital to establish a surgical hosp

Back in November, a blogger named Rod Adams, who runs the Atomic Insights blog, ran a story about how the Chinese acquired Nuclear Reactor technology which U.S. taxpayers had pay Billions of dollars on R&D to create, for the Westinghouse AP1000 series of nuclear reactors. China convinced Westinghouse to sell them the design info by promising the purchase of a small number of reactors, and after that, the Chinese will make their own. Even export it to other countries and compete with Westinghouse over the design.

If a company decides to make such a bargain, in the *general* case, I figure that's their business. But, when they take tech that U.S. taxpayers subsidized the R&D, I think that's crossing a line. Basically, we pay the bills, and China gets the profits. That's insane. Of course, a big driver of that dynamic is how screwed up U.S. policy and private investment regarding nuclear technology has become - basically, it's become about impossible to get nuclear plants built in the U.S., the industry died here, so our nuclear engineering and manufacturing companies have struck whatever bargains they have to with places like China which *will* build reactors.

The last hope I have with regards to U.S. nuclear innovation is with fast-breeder reactor technology (such as the GE-Hitachi PRISM). I *really* hope we can keep that for a little while and make some money off *that* U.S. taxpayer expenditure (the PRISM is the result of a U.S. DOE project called the Integral Fast Reactor), in the coming decades.

I wouldn't expect it to be reasonable for a country to hold on to 'exclusive' rights to any technology forever, but it would be nice to at least realize a reasonable level of benefit/profit from our taxpayer expenditures on technology before it becomes "public domain".

I think you are right, but this is also mentioned in the discussion of the graph -- there's a two-mile unpopulated donut around the town, it looks like to me. Note, also, that the town noted on the graph with most similar density -- Lexington -- includes two family farms, some serious highway right-of-way, and several office parks. We play that trick, too.

And that density pattern cuts both ways -- if your destination is not in town, then the minimum distance is 2 miles, because you've got to cross the donut. My understanding is that kids (11 and older) from surrounding villages ride in to school in Assen, and it's 5 miles.

For me, the more telling comparison, that I discovered after writing that post, is Groningen, versus Cambridge-Somerville-neighboring. Similar weather, similar student populations, relatively flat, greater density here, yet they have the 57% ride share.

I recently moved from up around Lamar and Rundberg (still own a house there -- renting it out until the market gets better).

Hopefully your time horizon on the market getting better is greater than a decade.

For the economy to get better banks have to accept their losses but if they do that perhaps 70% will be instantly insolvent (don't believe me? see calculated risk's problem bank list ) so in order to keep their jobs, they kick the can down the road. Japan did it for over a decade before they finally killed their zombies. The US could hang on even longer.

But not as bad as the HTC 911 issues

Sending messages to the right contact and making sure 911 calls work are things OS makers should go out of their way to ensure work correctly

Do mobile vendors QA their products anymore?

Wow... can I visit the fantasy land where you live? It sounds just like a classic sci-fi novel! Do you have flying cars too?

Lets break this down:

The real estate to spread a colony upon

We have plenty of real estate here. Lots of it, and it's cheap. There's the frozen tundra of Canada, or the arid interior of Australia. All of Canada is warmer than Mars, and all of Australia is wetter than Mars. So... why isn't there a big "land rush" to move out to those places? Hmm?

1/3 gravity would be healthier

There's absolutely no data for this, so you're just making shit up. If anything, an educated guess would be that it would be less healthy. Look at the long term zero-g space missions, where astronauts returned back barely able to walk.

Local water is pretty damn nice too

There's water here, in enormous quantities, and in a conveniently liquid form. Mars has some icy rocks, in some places. Most of the planet makes the Sahara look moist.

Easier construction environment

A near vacuum and lethal sub-zero temperatures are "easier"? Where did you build your last house, the core of the Earth?

simpler building designs

You mean, much more complex building designs that would have more in common with a space station, right? There's no air! Right off that bat that means every building must have a complex series of airlocks, safety systems, self-healing walls, air pumps, pressure sensors, filtration systems, humidifiers, water collection, CO2-scrubbers, air quality monitors, etc... At least the first few hundred colonists would have to take their buildings with them, so then you're looking at all of that, but with incredibly tight weight budgets. You'd have to build a robust air-tight building out of what amounts to foam and thin plastic sheeting.

The closest you could come to living on Mars on Earth is to live in the Death Zone of a tall mountain for a year. It actually has way more air, but you'll have roughly the same amount of resources available to you: cold rocks. Now live there for a year, and pay a charity $10K for every pound of material you take up there with you.

Call me when you get back!

The situation is more complicated then you think. A "fair" system will, on average, give Republicans 58% of the seats with 50% of the votes due to the presence of lopsided Democratic urban districts and a lack of correspondingly lopsided Republican ones. You need weird looking districts that start in the city and tendril out to the suburbs if you want a representative legislature.

Maybe getting in touch with our fellow slashdotter NewYorkCountryLawyer (Ray Beckerman) could be a good idea?

The overwhelming consensus SPI for flying cars is twenty years.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040825_4462_tc119.htm
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/why-flying-cars-are-a-long-way-off
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TuZyTN2xWuwJ:www.slideshare.net/RichStrong/magic-dragon-flying-car-project-presentation+flying+car+20+years+-%22your+flying+car+awaits%22&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/where-is-my-flying-car/
http://www.cobizmag.com/articles/flying-cars-just-give-it-20-years-or-so/page-2/
http://markctu.blogspot.com/2007/08/failed-prediction-flying-car.html

Disregard this, I spoke only reading that single article. From this:

http://utdocuments.blogspot.com/2010/06/email-exchange-with-wireds-kevin.html

It seems he's already passed on the whole of the logs to the Army and FBI, he's not protecting jack.

Yup I googled what you said to and came up with this:

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/07/response-to-right-wing-personal.html

Doesn't exactly confirm your accusations.

You might start by learning the difference between Kanji and Hanzi.

Lesson two is how not to be a stupid gwailo and tattoo yourself with it.

The phrase 'stupid gwailo' is a racial slur. Just FYI. In a post espousing cultural adaptation, calling us all 'chinks' isn't a great way to communicate.

You might start by learning the difference between Kanji and Hanzi.

Lesson two is how not to be a stupid gwailo and tattoo yourself with it.

Meeh, both where lame :(

The Dracula castle in Romania:
http://www.wayfaring.info/images/castel_bran_aka_dracula_castle.jpg

Malbork castle in Poland:
http://pictures.polandforall.com/images/malbork-castle-bridge-towers-dansker-high-castle.jpg

Bastille, France:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/images/pixs_bastille.jpg

Svartsjö slott here in Sweden, was wasted being used as a prison :(
http://www.ekero.se/imagemod/AvanEvents/16f73101-570f-4eb5-a4de-084ce249efa2/svartsjo_____resize_s_460_230.gif
http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/17_2.jpg

The castle here in my home town, Örebro:
http://www.paranormal.nu/orebro-01-high.jpg
http://www.lst.se/NR/rdonlyres/FDD91C98-E374-485B-BBBD-EB1100972407/0/slottet3RogerLundberg.jpg
http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1971731f-90fc-4780-aa67-8f13a6dc24e4.jpg
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1163049.jpg
http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/photos/d/415-4/IMG_2550.jpg
http://www.remains.se/gallery/photo458dba988b2e5.jpg

Kalmar slott, also Sweden:
http://www.svd.se/multimedia/dynamic/00280/kalmarslott_280791b.jpg
http://www.malinken.com/wedding/bilder/kalmarslott.jpg
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1563728-KALMAR_SLOTT_KALMAR-Kalmar.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Kalmar_slott.jpg

The city wall of Visby, also Sweden:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZARBRqLx-r4/SKmM6KTCgTI/AAAAAAAAC3g/gPpbJrmhVxs/s400/Stadsmuren+i+Visby+på+Gotland.jpg
http://www.hagen.web.surftown.se/Visby%20torn%20med%20fanan.jpg
http://www.topcastles.com/images/large/visby.jpg
All: http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/163_4.jpg
http://www.guteinfo.com/scripts/bilder/info/1248.jpg

Not that Scottish tribe shit ;)

Castles are cool :)

Helsingborg:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2110709-Travel_Picture-Helsingborg.jpg

Oh, of course. I mean, they would never actually create laws or public policies that would put restrictions on unhealthy food, and would certainly never try to restrict the consumer access to certain foods!!

People that think that must be morons.

This one's JUST FOR YOU, clone (disprove every single one of its points, as ,b>you failed badly here before on this very same note -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1755714&cid=33353946 AND, for your trolling me as AC here today http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1922942&cid=34687498 , and YOU FAILED LARGE on your end clone, with a bogus script that didn't work and I had to correct it for you here today after you worked DAYS on it no less, & I had to tell you how/where/when/why it failed, which you corrected for, lol, per MY suggestions no less), so here we go:

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20++ ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER DNS SERVERS &/or ADBLOCK ALONE for added layered security:

1.) Adblock blocks ads in only 1 browser family (Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc.).

2.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 4-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

6.) HOSTS files protect you vs. DNS-poisoning &/or the Kaminsky flaw in DNS servers, and allow you to get to sites reliably vs. things like the Chinese are doing to DNS -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1755230/Chinese-DNS-Tampering-a-Real-Threat-To-Outsiders

7.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/

REGULARLY UPDATED HOSTS FILES SITES (reputable/reliable sources):

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/

Read more about HFCS. All the rats become diabetic, get sick, and die. There have been othe studies to confirm this.

I'd like to see some of those studies. The article you linked doesn't say anything about the rats getting diabetes or dying.

What's more, the study the article refers to does not necessarily say what you think it does:

http://where-is-the-beef.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-high-fructose-corn-syrup-hfcs-eviler_22.html

Oh, and did you hear about this guy?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

He ate almost nothing but sugar (most likely a lot of HFCS in there) for two months and lost weight.

I consider the HFCS myth busted. The reason people are obese is because they are flat-out not paying attention to how many calories they're stuffing in their faces.

Actually only just realised this incidentally, but push notifications to mobiles are fairly much an ideal example of why a permanent IP is needed. Essentially,these mean the device may at any point need to receive information, with no client-side intervention to tell it to register against the network.

It's implied that the Android version at least uses an outgoing connection from the device ("However, it’s also tricky to implement a good push solution, and it isn’t free as there is some overhead in maintaining the required connection." - http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-cloud-to-device-messaging.html ). Presumably that does mean they're expecting the device to be NAT'd (otherwise it would just keep a UDP port open and get packets that way).

With regards to statistics that could be either UHI or the fact that we've for the last 2-3 decades been in a warm oceanic cycle (or both, of course). http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/heat-island-sprawl.html

I actually tried to make a long bet with someone who, like you, believe CO2 controls our climate a week ago. I would be making it very public, and I would like "the other side" to be a publically recognizable entity, but my suggestion was for $1500.

Short version: We'd both select _one_ climate model, he one from the CO2-crowd (note - a single one) and I one based on the solar->magnetic->clouds->oceans->atmosphere hypothesis, and in ten years we would see which model had tracked the observations most closely.

(I'd use Bob Tisdale's excellent work on integrating ENSO effects for one part - see http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2010/11/multidecadal-changes-in-sea-surface_17.html )

Unfortunately it seems he wasn't willing. I'm assuming that's because he knows that, so far, no CO2-based climate model has been successful at predicting anything when verified against observations ;)

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a928051726&fulltext=713240928

(Yes, I'm of the Popperian school of science. Feel free to launch hypothesises but if they have no predictive powers they're falsified)

There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.

Correct you should be modded up!

There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.

Correct you should be modded up!

There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.

Correct you should be modded up!

There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.

There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.

There's a huge difference between a "crime solved" and a "crime detected", as Copperfield, Bloggs, and Bystander have so often explained.

I'm sorry, but brains do a _lot_ more than consciousness/self awareness.

Apropos of what? That's hardly news.

Because an ape's (chimp's) body is more similar to our own, it makes sense that their brains are more similar. You say that most of our brain is for language and hands. Dogs have no hands and a large portion of their brain is devoted to scent association.

?? WTF?. I don't dispute that I wrote that - but *what* is your point?

The dog most studied is Chaser - with a proven vocabulary greater than many people who drive trucks with gun racks.

Either you greatly underestimate the mental capacity of average humans, or Chaser would be more famous than Mr. Ed or Koko.

That doesn't translate - no one in this house knows who those people/things are. And using fame as a measure of relevance/importance is just as stupid as your assertions.

I bet you laughed at the Family Guy skit where Peter goes to the KFC asking for the Colonel, thinking to yourself "Oh my! What a delicious parody on the lack of vocabulary in the South!". What you missed is that the guy behind the counter was smarter than Peter, and was trying to impart his wisdom using the local dialect. "I say you he dead."

I'll take that bet. How much did you just lose? I had to Google to find out what the fuck you're talking about. It's a cartoon show. For children and immature adults. Which fits given your approach to taking in new information. I've never watched that show - and short some sort of catastrophic head injury, am never likely to want to.

Illuminating insight into your basement world though.

Most dogs (mine included) can do most everything an ape can do - and more.

I'm an ape. Get your dog to compile a custom kernel and I'll consider it. Have him complete Hurd and I'll believe you.

You seem to confuse the process of building a binary with running a race. But, please tell us more about *your* abilities - perhaps if we're sufficiently impresses with your claimed accomplishments your dogmatic opinions will gain some credibility. Do you have ninja skills too? Because dogs don't so therefore apes are more like humans (who, unlike you, are not apes but are the third chimpanzee).

I've already pointed out that dogs don't have our language or hands.

Do any of the apes (other than the third chimpanzees) compile code? How many humans can? How hard can make config, etc be?

To avoid public humiliation - *do not* post your education references, your teachers probably tried, but you failed.

Widening an already piss-weak argument hardly strengthens your argument. Now go chase down a rat, rabbit and fox. When and if you catch it, kill it with your teeth. A spurious comparison given that you've not just read my earlier comments about hands, but essentially agreed with it. I'm guessing the almond shaped bit of my dog's brain is some what larger than yours.

I'll give you $100 if you can teach an ape to find a three-dimensional object based on viewing a drawing - or point - or wait - or look where you're pointing. No ape has ever been taught to do any of those things.

Perhaps not, but they do really understand the meaning of color-words: http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-milestones-with-thinking-japanese.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Thinking-Like-a-Chimpanzee.html

Apropos of what? You have a better way of testing the ability of an animal to differentiate between colours without differentiating between colours.

Many dogs can.

And if you think that response is an argument to my post - you confuse an opinion with an argument.

You are correct. I confused your opinion with an argument. I'm sorry, but brains do a _lot_ more than consciousness/self awareness. Because an ape's (chimp's) body is more similar to our own, it makes sense that their brains are more similar. You say that most of our brain is for language and hands. Dogs have no hands and a large portion of their brain is devoted to scent association.

The dog most studied is Chaser - with a proven vocabulary greater than many people who drive trucks with gun racks.

Either you greatly underestimate the mental capacity of average humans, or Chaser would be more famous than Mr. Ed or Koko. I bet you laughed at the Family Guy skit where Peter goes to the KFC asking for the Colonel, thinking to yourself "Oh my! What a delicious parody on the lack of vocabulary in the South!". What you missed is that the guy behind the counter was smarter than Peter, and was trying to impart his wisdom using the local dialect. "I say you he dead."

Most dogs (mine included) can do most everything an ape can do - and more.

I'm an ape. Get your dog to compile a custom kernel and I'll consider it. Have him complete Hurd and I'll believe you.

I'll give you $100 if you can teach an ape to find a three-dimensional object based on viewing a drawing - or point - or wait - or look where you're pointing. No ape has ever been taught to do any of those things.

Perhaps not, but they do really understand the meaning of color-words:
http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-milestones-with-thinking-japanese.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Thinking-Like-a-Chimpanzee.html

Many dogs can. Most collies and Jack Russells (other breeds as well, those are the ones I've mostly trained) easily learn 400+ words and concepts (around, under, over)

http://www.koko.org/world/signlanguage.html

- and colour recognition (get in the red car).

Most likely "red car" means "car that smells like leather seats" and "red ball" means "ball that smells like $FOO"

you know that it was as such, when the perpetrators of the case first merrily publish blog posts titled 'how to take revenge on him through legal system', telling how disgruntled women should abuse the legal system to exact revenge on males, and then delete the post once the internet community becomes aware of it.

That is untrue, and the newspaper article you cited when asked for a source is incorrect. The woman did write a blog article that offered advice on how to get revenge, but the blog article did not suggest using (or abusing) the legal system to do so.

Read an English translation of the blog article if you want to check.

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/

False Rape Accusations are *incredibly* common, and becoming moreso every day.

'No, but he has been consistently portrayed as egoistic, self-aggrandizing asshole.'

I thought his portrayal in the movie was particularly unfair:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pS7sKjlzwFg/TPwPmfCfr4I/AAAAAAAAGb4/DBJefMu1DMA/s1600/477f056f3ada.jpg

I'm a biotech student who's very interested in this stuff. For anyone looking for an expanded explanation of the challenges facing cellulosic ethanol this blog post might be interesting. I've also written about the possible affects that large scale biofuel production may have on food security.

Cellulosic ethanol would be a big contribution to solving the impending energy crisis. Domestic waste and agricultural waste could be recylced into fuel to supplement demand to some extent, but in order to meet demand grain originally destined for food would have to be diverted. If not regulated properly this would likely cause an increase in global food prices. In a world with circa. 1 billion people starving, this is obviously less than ideal.

I'm a biotech student who's very interested in this stuff. For anyone looking for an expanded explanation of the challenges facing cellulosic ethanol this blog post might be interesting. I've also written about the possible affects that large scale biofuel production may have on food security.

Cellulosic ethanol would be a big contribution to solving the impending energy crisis. Domestic waste and agricultural waste could be recylced into fuel to supplement demand to some extent, but in order to meet demand grain originally destined for food would have to be diverted. If not regulated properly this would likely cause an increase in global food prices. In a world with circa. 1 billion people starving, this is obviously less than ideal.

Some of us were trying to get to work when the story came out.

"Goodies!

Goody goody, yum yum!"

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It's not a perfect solution, but Android Gingerbread did implement an option to log (or notify/crash/dialog/etc) particular actions (such as network access) within the StrictMode API. The best part is that you can enable this through reflection, even on older apps - in theory you could push this back to everything running on the phone if you so desired.

It's so obvious how to blow the doors off the competition in this race... if everything is all hitting the limits of the Von Neuman wall... go around it with something like a BitGrid, which is a reconfigurable systolic array granular down to the bit level. Using the latest memristors with this idea it should be quite feasible to build Exaflop computers for the desktop.

The Motorola Defy is virtually unique http://onlinemobiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/motorola-defy.html

The Motorola Defy is virtually unique http://onlinemobiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/motorola-defy.html

The Motorola Defy is virtually unique http://onlinemobiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/motorola-defy.html

The Motorola Defy is virtually unique http://onlinemobiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/motorola-defy.html

Proportions wise, it costs $23 mil to make a AAA title today and the average indie game costs lets say 120k to make (3 devs working for 6 months maybe) so its about what 1/200th of the cost? 1/200th of 60 is a lot less than $10 but that is because a lot of indie games simply sell a lot less.

If you calculate an average effective sales price of something like 4 dollars, that means you have to sell 30k units just to recoup the costs. I'd like to see some real sales numbers but not many will reach that.

For some real experiences, this is a nice read: http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2010/03/q-pc-indie-game-sales-numbers.html

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Just a gigolo
everywhere I go
people know the part
I'm playing

Paid for every dance
selling each romance
every night some heart
betraying

There will come a day
youth will pass away
then what will they say
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Green freedom uses nuclear to basically produce oil at ~$150/barrel, so oil will never get up to $500/barrel.

Try the Coral Cache http://connectify.blogspot.com.nyud.net/2010/12/why-leather-cover-crashes-kindle-3.html

And yeah, the picture shows him measuring his fingers at 2-megaohms. Those hooks still might be electrically connected, but this picture clearly shows him measuring incorrectly.

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As already mentioned above, the multimeter in the picture is reading 2.164 megaohms which is quite a high resistance and would make no difference at all to the operation of the Kindle.

It seems that the blog owner has realised their mistake and replaced their blog entry with the content of another, but not before it made it's way into Google Cache

For those interesting in seeing the high-resolution "Oopsie" image, it is here.

If anyone's interested in, you know, the science and all that, plus the extraordinary work they've done reverse-mining fragile and expensive glass spheres in extremely cold conditions, you could do worse than check out Anil Ananthaswamy's The Edge Of Physics. There's lots of other cool stuff too, my review here.

I agree with you to an extent, and I'm sure there are some people who's only hope is a calculator, but (as I mentioned above) I'd say that withholding them in lower level courses does force the development of at least a basic level of mathematical competence in the middle ability range. People might be bad at fast and accurate calculation, but in my experience we're pretty good at ballpark figures and sanity checking - if anything those skills are more important as we rely more on computers; when there's a 'black box' doing the work for you, it's all the more valuable to be able to spot errors. The alternative is, as we have seen, customer service reps insisting that 0.002cents = $0.002 simply because the computer says so.

I mean come on...someone would have noticed the drives filling up, wondered why, etc.

By the way, the accidentally collected data fit in only four hard drives (according to Ireland update here). Hardly anything, by Google's standards.

I checked in case this was a troll, but no, he's right. Look at Mr. Wagner's posts tagged 'Book Review': they're all reviews of Packt books.

Hey, here is some clarification on the browser tests from NSS Labs: http://nsslabs.blogspot.com/2010/12/stopping-malware-with-browser.html http://nsslabs.blogspot.com/2010/12/threat-types-and-terminology.html This should clear up some of the questions. And for full disclosure, yes, I do work there.