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I have seen also this counterfeit Web Page. Be sure that these emails on this web page are falsified. This colleague makes unacceptable jokes with prestigious conferences using some strange fraudulent and misleading web pages. Finally, I dare everybody to test these conferences with any kind of paper to see how reliable and secure is the review system of them. Here it is.... Dr. Jo Jo Kaite (Lecturer) http://jojokaite.blogspot.com/

Buncha hypocrites. The whole dispute over online gaming is similar to the war on some drugs. Legal online gambling

Some people make money, others lose a lot. Some can get quite addicted to it and go really bust, and suffer all the social ills they worry about with online poker or whatever other game.

    And we have never had any big economic meltdown from online poker or blackjack, but we sure as heck had a major problem with credit default swaps and so on "gaming", including the use of bots for gambling with massive bets that are large enough to move the markets themselves, plus crony gambling insiders being shuffled into and out of the official currency creation/interest setting and so called "regulation" part of that scene.

However, Java has had generics for awhile since Java( circa 2006).

I wasn't talking about generics in general. I was talking specifically about reified generics. For plain generics, Java actually had them 1 year earlier than C#, mainly because of differences in release cycles - Java 5 got released in 2004, .NET 2.0 in 2005. Actual work was mostly parallel, however.

.NET is not portable and an example is the Mono project.

How is Mono an example that .NET is not portable?

I don't think it's meaningful to talk about portability of .NET as a whole, though. File formats and compiler output are obviously portable. As for libraries - it's not one huge library so much so as a set of them, each for a different task. Some are easy to port, some are not. Mono does ASP.NET very well, for example, and all the base class library is there, but its WinForms implementation is still glitchy, and it doesn't have WPF/WCF/WWF at all.

At the same time, you can write portable (Win32/Unix+X) applications in Gtk# - yes, it does run on Windows, even with native .NET.

MS even admited to crippling DOS to screw Lotus customers over with "DOS aint done until Lotus wont run"

I don't know much on your other statements, but this one was thoroughly debunked as a myth - so much so that Slashdot run it as a story.

This notice has been a part of the WH photostream since at least November; Techdirt wrote about it, and I wrote about it.

I'm looking at you Scribd. Why Google can't figure out how to push your spam results off the front result page puzzles me since they have a method to keep the Wikipedia clones off the front page. I can't wait for you to experience the same fate.

The only sense in which it's scribd's problem, is that scribd's chosen to use Flash/PDF as a DRM mechanism. (So yeah, it's 100% scribd's problem, but sometimes scribd's the only place on which certain content can be found.)

All Scribd (and docstoc, for that matter) does is take someone else's PDF, wrap it in a bucket of Flash DRM shit, and publish it.

(Proof that it's DRM? I tried to print an 80-page manual out of it -- turns out that if it takes more than 60 seconds for scribd to print it out, the scribd Flash fucklet autokills the print job, just in case you had the audacity to do something like "print to PDF". 20-25 pages off a slow PC. 60-70 pages off a fast PC. I killed half a deciduous forest before I figured out WTF was going on.

All so that scrid could prevent you from doing a "SaveAs". Scribd, and all services that merely wrap Flash around otherwise-downloadable content formats, and I'm looking at You,Tube, are teh suck, even when they're the only means by which the content can be found.)

For those who don't have a clue but still have urge to comment, here is "hello world" in F#:

[start snipp]

#light

open System

printfn "Hello world\n"

Console.ReadKey(true)

[end snipp]

And another example illustrating what would would take a highschool kid to modify physics simulation:

[start snipp]

#light

open System

let gravity = -9.81

let euler_explicit accel pos speed delta =
pos + delta * speed, speed + delta * accel

let euler_implicit accel pos speed delta =
let speed2 = speed + delta * accel in
pos + delta * speed2, speed2

let pos, speed = euler_explicit gravity 0.0 0.0 1.0 in
printfn "pos = %f speed = %f\n" pos speed

let pos, speed = euler_implicit gravity 0.0 0.0 1.0 in
printfn "pos = %f speed = %f\n" pos speed

Console.ReadKey(true)

[end snipp]

(taken from http://sharp-gamedev.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html)

Cheers

This writer seems to disagree with you http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/kindle-numbers-traditional-publishing.html

Kindle Numbers: Traditional Publishing Vs. Self Publishing

However, when you have a unusual condition, as I apparently do, and which standard testing doesn't reveal any insight into, then you can be basically ignored by the NHS until your condition becomes debilitating. Unfortunately, by that time, it's generally too late to do something about it.

I have no real idea why the consultants will not spend any extra time trying to track down the problem, but I suspect it has to do with the NHS been very target driven and getting people through the door as quickly as possible. To any NHS workers here, I am sorry if that seems harsh, but it's how I currently feel.

The opinion of this patient is that the NHS needs to develop procedures for been able to spend time diagnosing patients with unusual conditions and not leaving it until it's too late to do any good about it, because right now, my only real hope is that this condition (whatever it is) stabilises before my vision gets too dim to be of use.

(BTW Slashdot, if anyone here has any ideas about why a person's perceived brightness level would dim without any MRI or VEP tests been positive, I would be very interested in any suggestions you may have.)

Hey AC, you know that Google Docs added offline access, right, about two years ago?

Or, more accurately: what do I do if I DON'T have internet access?

That's what Gears and HTML5 offline support are for. And it's supposed to be seamless.

Read the big red book "Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C". http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algorithms-Source/dp/0471117099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265363727&sr=8-1 Highly recommended to anyone who uses public key encryption or needs to implement VPN's, mail encryption or tunnels.

In essence, no it doesn't make any difference. However, if for example you application would communicate short commands often through public key encryption it would be more economical to use persistent connections instead of making new connections all the time. Key generation is Expensive.

Also, in you situation, just use screen.

How in the hell does retarded 'ask slashdots' make the front page, but not my submission of http://itpomminpurkaja.blogspot.com/2010/02/css-anchor-pseudo-class-concerns.html and http://www.fizzl.net/ for which I actually expended some effort to create.

Finally a politician who acts like they have a pair, working in government to actually bring the issues faced by the Great British public to light.

Lord Lucas is a Conservative hereditary peer, and a "backbencher" at that - so he is not working in government at all at present and neither is he likely to be even after the election. In many respects this is a shame, because he's one of the few people who have been pointing out some of the other heinous flaws in the Digital Economy Bill (i.e. the parts apart from the copyright regime - the powers it gives the government to take over the UK Domain Name Registry for one).

Actually on the whole the politicians who act most independently tend to be the remaining hereditary peers because they owe their position and therefore "allegiance" to rather fewer people than almost anyone else in government (they are technically elected to sit in the house from amongst all hereditary peers by the existing members of the House of Lords but the pool of candidates is small and once elected they are there until death or, more likely, further reform of the House of Lords occurs).

The Fox News claim is commonly repeated and is misleading in a broader context. The same study showed that by its measure people who get their news from blogs are statistically indistinguishable from Fox News viewers at how informed they are. Indeed, both Fox viewers and blog readers are very close to the average level for people in the US. If you look at the data what is actually really bringing the average down seems to be the people who either have no regular news source or who are getting their news primarily from local TV news. There are other details about that study that make the claim about Fox News not nearly as bad when you look at in context. And now the plug:For a more detailed analysis see my blog entry on this subject: http://religionsetspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/06/bloggers-fox-news-and-informed-audience.html. Fox News is wretched and is damaging America in many ways. But it is very hard to see this study as evidence for that fact.

don't forget "gopher"

I see you have decided to eschew apostrophes. Beware: this is a slippery slope.

We've had no improvements in real productivity on the desktop in 15 years. It's long past time it was replaced with something else. Since we've tried WinTel, and that gave no progress, it's time we tried another path.

If it turns out that these new platforms deliver the same productivity or better on 1% of the watts and 10% of the capital cost, they'll drive a revolution in IT that shifts influence from the people who have unlimited watts (the US) to more fairly share influence with people who are Watt and capital challenged (India, Pakistan and others). That's an advantage to the new markets actually, since they leverage the volume production of innovations they haven't paid for. And then there's the side-effect that power efficient computing reduces the need for hydrocarbon fuels and carbon emissions, which is a good thing even if you don't believe in AGW because if you use it up, then it's gone.

The US can win this one by innovating, rather than milking the market they inherited. It's not that hard, and we have the experience advantage until we forfeit it.

A Java ME interpreter/compiler/whatever-you-want-to-call-it is being created for Android. Take your pick. Or write your own -- nobody's stopping you. Apple faggotry prevents this from being done for the iFail, thus none exists.

The article mentions hexagonal diamond (lonsdaleite) as an artificial form of diamond, which it is with a very interesting low energy formation method, but it was first found in nature in the Canyon Diablo Meteorite in 1967. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite Pure lonsdaleite should be harder than regular diamond. I wish the article has said a little more about the crystal structure the researchers had found. That the energy required to make lonsdalite is low has interesting implications since the quantity needed to replace structural steel needs only about 1/280 of the energy needed to make the steel. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2008/01/anaximenes-way.html

Regardless of all the money they have supposedly wasted, NASA has enriched our lives in more ways than its critics can imagine. The moon and Mars missions were priceless. Those Hubble images alone are worth every penny. And they did it all with one of the most primitive, dangerous and expensive transportation technologies known to mankind, rocket propulsion. And that there is NASA's biggest problem. No other country is going to surpass the US in space exploration because they are all struggling against the same brick wall.

Rest assured that we are not going to colonize the Moon, let alone the solar system and the star systems beyond with a bunch of clunky rockets. Rocket science may look cool but it’s way overrated. Fortunately for space fans, a breakthrough in our understanding of motion is about to change all that.

A new analysis of the causality of motion leads to the conclusion that we are immersed in energy, lots and lots of it. Normal matter moves in an immense, crystal-like lattice of energetic particles without which neither gravity, nor electromagnetism, nor even motion would be possible. Soon we’ll use this knowledge to build vehicles that can move at enormous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring damage due to inertial effects. Floating sky cities impervious to earthquakes, tsunamis and bad weather, New York to Beijing in minutes, Earth to Mars in hours; that’s the future of energy and travel.

Physics: The Problem With Motion

We all love Asimov’s dream of a galactic empire. We want to colonize the entire solar system and many other star systems beyond. Going back to the Moon using our current rocket propulsion technology is not the way to do it. What would be the point of that? Is the moon made of unobtainium? No it's not. What NASA should be doing is spending a boatload of money on developing new and revolutionary space propulsion technologies. Even the space station is a complete waste of time and money from humanity’s point of view, the few who are benefiting from it notwithstanding.

We need a new foundational science of motion and propulsion. The current Newtonian paradigm is just not cutting it. It’s time for you rocket scientists to retire and give new brains with revolutionary ideas a turn at the wheel.

PS. Don't say nobody told you because I just did. :-)

http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-video-of-challenger-explosion.html

They apply the formula. You know the one they openly mocked in Fight Club?

http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/12/applying-formula.html

It really comes down to what do they think you dieing will cost them. Their moral compass is off if they apply this formula.

"Last time I called Dell about a laptop that was completely dead, no power lights, no fans, they asked me what the error message on screen was and it took a few minutes to explain to them something as simple as the fact that I couldn't get an error message on screen because the laptop was dead."

Next time you call support take a video, it might be the next "verizon math fail" with 30,000+ hits. All that bad press over $71.

I had a problem with a Whirlpool wash machine. It was a few years old and the warranty expired, but I took a video of the problem and posted it on Youtube. Within a week and less than 50 views I had an email from someone claiming to be whirlpool offering to help resolve the situation with a 800 number and extension attached.

I use to work tech support for a huge hosting provider (they're in the top 5). We'd get threats of lawsuits every day, but one time someone blogged about us and management had an all hands meeting, telling us to ignore lawsuits because those are easy to fight but if a customer threatens to blog about us to escalate to a manager immediately (usually we could only offer manager call backs... yes i know stupid).

People forget how powerful the internet is yet we see the effects of millions of /. readers every day.

You are correct. The whole idea of buying e-books is because they are easy to carry and store and is less expensive. So an increase in price is not going to help the publishing industry in the right way. Expensive books are also encouraging people to acquire books by piracy as common man is unable to pay the high cost of getting books. http://softwareengineerspeaking.blogspot.com/

With an oversized BUTT PLUG to ensure they aren't hiding anything there either.
http://buttpluglover.blogspot.com/

Are you serious? I still can't believe we're allowing **any** searches before we get on a plane. Life is dangerous to living. 45,000 people die on roads in the USA every year and ZERO people died last year in commercial airplanes in the USA.

Which is crazier? All the airport security or allowing us to drive?

Please take your nanny-state and shove your drivers license next to that big plug.

nVidia doesn't have DRI support. Why? Because DRI is totally broken and they were forced to come up with their own framework instead. Check http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html

"Calvin grows up" seems to be a whole genre of parody/fanart - see here for some examples.

But worse than that, the paper itself is horribly written, especially the abstract. The threat presented is not de-anonymization within the social network (since usually most profiles are real people anyway) but rather de-anonymization of visitors to arbitrary websites if those visitors also have social networking URLs in their browser history.

Now, the big privacy hole here is browser history stealing, which is four years old. All this paper does is refine this mountain of privacy-invading information using social networking URLs that might be found there.

My dad passed away during my infancy. Killed in a drug deal gone bad. I have no recollection of him, but my mother always called him a "loser" and she constantly told me that I would grow up to be a loser like he was.

My mother was very cold. She called me a "horndog" and ignored me for days everytime I asked for a hug. She always told me that I was too feminine to get the girls to dance with me and that I would eventually be paying dominatrices to step on my balls with their stiletto heels. She started telling me this when I was 8.

I still live with my mom, by the way, in her basement. She would have thrown me out long ago except that she needs somebody to abuse. Everytime she looks at me, she sees that loser of a man who was my father. Whenever I ask her a question, she mimics exactly what I say in a mousey, high-pitched voice and tells me, "Go fucking Google it, you idiot. Sheesh! Am I going to have to wipe your ass until I'm sixty?" Then she chops up her Xanax and Percocet into a fine powder and dissolves it in a pilsner glass full of Carlo Rossi sangria, chugs the whole thing, and passes out in front of Shawn Hannity. Every night. Sometimes a large black man comes over and they both go into her room. Man, it must be nice to be respected...to be manly like that black man is.

But it's okay, because I'm going to get a job and go to school when the economy picks up. And I'm gonna get me a girlfriend, too. I'm gonna be so manly that I will channel the energy of the world's most powerful negro, Lexington Steele. Fuck YEAH!

Google has just announced today they are phasing out support for IE6 in the Apps suite (Docs, Sites, etc) by March 1 2010.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html

I would like to see android as a downloadable set of *stuff* for generic linux, allowing you to run android apps alongside X apps. it looks like Michael Frey has been working on it, though with mixed results.

As for dual boot I saw this page here and it looked interesting. I very much doubt it's a polished or finished thing that can access all the hardware properly, but it is at least booting.

(remember, the average IQ of college students in Education-related degree programs is lower even than Communications or Physical Education programs).

Citation?

The only thing I could find on this was here, which estimates IQ based on SAT scores -- inherently bogus. And it puts education majors ahead of "Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness", into which Physical Education would fall. Education is behind "Communication and journalism" in this list -- but so are "Legal professions", Psychology, and Business.

This chart shows the median IQ of high school teachers to be comparable to that of other professions, and just a hair under that for engineers and computer-related occupations. Kindergarten and elementary school teachers show up a littler lower, but I'd say they have more need for "social intelligence" than for a high IQ.

Scouting has been under attack for decades, a true shame since it encourages young men and women to go out and be active in their community and grow into thoughtful citizens

Meh. The Boy Scouts is an organization designed to mold young men into soldiers and subjects. We can do without its nationalist, homophobic, anti-freethinking training. (The Girl Scouts, though, seem more open-minded.)

No more external fuel tanks are being manufactured, the rest of the parts chain is shutting down. When the shuttle is gone, America loses manned access to space

There are still enough residual ETs to do some interesting prototyping things, such as a shuttle derived heavy.

The Constellation program sounded like a real soup sandwich. Cancelling it would be a good thing if it paved the way for something done right. But that's not happening

The shuttle was just farting around in LEO.

See SpaceX's first Falcon 9 in the hangar at the cape, at least it's got the possibility of farting around in LEO more cheaply. Diverting money from Constellation to COTS is paving the way.

Here's a round-up of the recent news with links describing that stuff.

Please stop trolling ignorance and FUD. Android proper has no such limit. The limit is set by the hardware manufacturer to prevent a single application from consuming the lion share of memory on a low end (relative to desktop), memory constrained device.

I did find this with a quick Google search:

http://tordtech.blogspot.com/2009/09/memory-limit-on-android.html

"It has come to my attention that Android applications have a heap limit of 16MB ... It is posible to increase this limit, but it seem to require direct intervension into the the Android source."

That doesn't sound like a Java or app limit to me, if you have to mess with the OS source to fix it. Maybe you can clarify if this is incorrect?

so... which other hackers are you suggesting would have (as their primary goal) to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists? Perhaps you should reread http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html if you are fortunate enough to have access to it.

The point is China's ongoing surveillance and censorship of its own citizens, which I hope nobody needs extra evidence to believe in.

Do you bitch about not being able to change the picture tube/lcd/plasma screen in your TV? Are you mad that you can't upgrade the firmware in your digital thermostat in your home or office?

Just because the manufacturer didn't intend for the unit to be serviced, doesn't mean it can't be serviced.

Here's a Picture tube swap.

And here's an LCD backlight swap.

And here's a plasma TV repair, with video.

And here's an Arduino-based beer keg thermostat, probably cheaper than a commercially-available digital thermostat.

The future belongs to those of us who are willing to get our hands nerdy.

Do you bitch about not being able to change the picture tube/lcd/plasma screen in your TV? Are you mad that you can't upgrade the firmware in your digital thermostat in your home or office?

Just because the manufacturer didn't intend for the unit to be serviced, doesn't mean it can't be serviced.

Here's a Picture tube swap.

And here's an LCD backlight swap.

And here's a plasma TV repair, with video.

And here's an Arduino-based beer keg thermostat, probably cheaper than a commercially-available digital thermostat.

The future belongs to those of us who are willing to get our hands nerdy.

This whole "Mac goood", "Linux baaad" idea when it comes to interfaces and usability is just mindless propaganda. Most people aren't in a position to check this for themselves because Apple is a closed off product that's not really well suited for casual exploration. You need special hardware just to run their stuff.

Well, anyone can go into an Apple Store, or ask to borrow someone's mac. Also there are plenty of hacks to get MacOSX to boot on non-Apple hardware. So that's really a canard. Anyone can check it out, you just have to want to.

So "Mac Usability" becomes a myth bolstered by fanboys that need to buy into the cult and then justify their choices.

Nice try. Just because someone doesn't bother to take the effort to find out for themselves, doesn't automatically make it a myth. I've never bothered to go to northern Canada and see if the Magnetic North Pole and Geographic North Pole are actually different, but that doesn't make it a myth.

Let me tell you my story. I ran Linux as my primary OS from 1994 to 2005. At no point during those 11 years did I ever have a system that supported all of my hardware. At no point. I used it because, I'm a unix guy. I like the shell. I like scripts. I like that everything is a file. Unix lets me do my work. That said, I am not a sysadmin. I do not like sysadmining. I do not like having to patch my kernel just let get my digital camera to work. (Incremented a hex value in a #define in unusual_devs.h so that my Sony DCF-707 would be mounted as a usb storage device.) I do not enjoy having to manually load a kernel module just to get my printer working, because it fails to be autoloaded. I do not like having a print driver that makes every photo come out pink, and then buy a print driver, only to have the photos still come out pink. (Canon i850. Printed perfectly under windows. The only think I ever used it for, well that and Warcraft III.) I do not like having two(!) different sound systems being installed, and my system still not always have sound. (I loved how I'd get "No ALSA devices found" during boot, but could only adjust my volume through alsamixer.)

Fuck. That. Shit.

I got a 17" Powerbook G4, and all my hardware worked. And you know what? I got a terminal, and X11, and XEmacs, and gcc, and everything else I wanted too. It's quite simply a better unix. (I've since upgraded to a 17" MacBook Pro.)

Linux usability? I'm sorry it sucks. It always sucked. I used GNOME during the 1x days, and it was full of incomprehensible and cutesy options. "Xyzzy Goodness = 0.42," and my personal favorite, "Clock," "Digital Clock," "Another Clock," "Clock with Mail Check." The GNOME folks couldn't say "no," and got a shit. Havoc Pennington and the rest of the GNOME "usability" team, took the message as "no options" instead of "too many options," and subsequently removed everything from the 2.x tree, in the quixotic quest to make it simple for people that have never used a computer before. (It's now 2010. It was 2001 when they started that quest. Even tribes deep in the Amazon and New Guinea had computers then. These folks simple no longer existed.) It still sucks, only now it sucks because you simply can't do the things you used to be able to. KDE? Well KDE4 is quite simply a clusterfuck

The reason why Linux usability sucks, is two fold.

1. It's hard. It's hard to do it right. It takes resources. It takes time. It takes expertise. Linux doesn't have the resources when it comes to interfaces, and everyday office software. It just doesn't. Sun is dead. Novel, never had much resources devoted to it. Usability isn't really something you can do right one weekend a m

Actually, there is very little evidence that Interorbital has produced any real hardware in the past few years. Plenty of models and drawings, but no actual hardware (let alone flight tests).

(Posted AC because I'm in the industry, and Interorbital has made themselves a pain in the past for people who say this sort of thing about them. But don't take my AC word for it: go try to find evidence they've built or flown something. If they have, there should be plenty of info, right?)

If you want real web sites, check out people like Armadillo, XCOR, Masten, or Unreasonable, for example.

Software is bad because, unlike hardware, deterministic timing is not an inherent part of it. Computer programs are based on the Turing Computing Model. The TCM has nothing to say about timing other than the inherent sequentiality of operations. Read Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix it and How to Solve the Parallel Programming Crisis if you're interested in solving this crisis once and for all.

Our basic algorithmic computing model has not changed since Charles Babbage. It's time for the industry and academia to wake up. What is needed is a non-algorithmic, synchronous and reactive model. I hope the auto industry (and everybody else who writes software and build computers) takes this to heart because these problems are going to happen again and again. And the cost is going to skyrocket.

at the end of the day, the odds that they will beat the performance of the CLR or JVM is super small

These VM's are primarily designed to execute bytecode generated from compiled languages with static type systems. PHP is a dynamic language and is badly in need of a runtime like the ones mentioned in this blog post.

If I was looking to port something I'd written in PHP to a static language, I'd be looking at Google's go or at Vala (via LibSoup). At the end of the day, the odds that the JVM or CLR ever beat optimized native code are super small ;)

Space exploration is really cool but there are good reasons to believe that spending money on more rocket propulsion systems will be money wasted. It’s not just because rockets are an extremely expensive, limited and dangerous form of space transportation but because almost every form of transportation and energy production on planet Earth will be obsolete in the not too distant future. Let's face it. We will not colonize the solar system let alone the star systems beyond with a bunch of primitive rockets.

We are on the verge of a revolution in physics. A new analysis of the causality of motion leads to the conclusion that we are immersed in energy, lots and lots of it. Normal matter moves in an immense lattice of energetic particles without which motion itself would be impossible. Soon we’ll have vehicles that can move at enormous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring damage due to inertial effects. Floating sky cities impervious to earthquakes, tsunamis and bad weather, New York to Beijing in minutes, Earth to Mars in hours; that’s the future of energy and travel. Read Physics: The Problem with Motion if you're interested in a novel and truly revolutionary understanding of motion.

Just to follow up on my other post, on example suggesting flu in the Tropics (and I can wonder about some other tropical diseases) is more common in the rainy season with high humidity:
"Do the tropics have a flu season?"
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2009/03/do_the_tropics_have_a_flu_seas.php
"The scientific literature is full of specialized papers that on their face would seem to be of little interest. Here's a title like that: "Prevalence and seasonality of influenza-like illness in children, Nicaragua, 2005-2007" (Gordon et al., Emerging Infectious Diseases 2009 Mar).
http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/15/3/pdfs/08-0238.pdf
Over 4000 Nicaraguan children, aged 2 to 11 years old and living in the capital of Managua were followed for 2 years, April 2005 to April 2007 and observed for development of ILI (influenza-like illness). We know a lot about influenza in major industrialized countries in the northern and southern temperate zones, but very little about the epidemiology of seasonal influenza in tropical regions. Is the pattern of the disease in these populations the same as in temperate climes? Is there a lot of flu or just a low level? Is it still seasonal influenza? The US and Europe have recently set up surveillance systems that help answer these questions but most countries don't have those resources."

So, understanding more about the effects of vitamin D deficiency may very well help a lot of people in the Tropics directly, much more than vaccinations, since adequate vitamin D is cheap to treat with, and that single thing might prevent a variety of illnesses, not just communicable ones, but also cancer, depression, heart disease, dementia, and so on.

Lots of sources here about vitamin D and influenza though:
http://www.google.com/custom?q=influenza&sitesearch=vitamindcouncil.org&sa=Search

Also, while it is often said people catch the cold and the flu because we are indoors more in the winter (or the rainy season), in the USA most people are indoors around others much of the time, between work, school, and malls. So, that explanation has limited value.

And vitamin D deficiency also impairs the bodies ability to deal with heavy metals, making vaccines harder to process that contain heavy metals (and causing seemingly random problems in those who are most vitamin D deficient and have an impaired ability to deal with heavy metals that don't show up in people getting enough sunshine?). Likewise, vitamin D deficiency impairs immune response (both potentially too little and too much), making vaccines less effective and more dangerous. So, there are lots of reasons to study this, even for those who still believe in the value of most vaccines.

Another comment on this:
"Flu is Vitamin D Deficiency Disease"
http://thehealthyhomeeconomist.blogspot.com/2010/01/flu-is-vitamin-d-deficiency-disease.html
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Why does the government push dangerous and untested vaccines on the public for the prevention of flu when it is so easy to prevent it with adequate blood levels of vitamin D? The answer is always the almighty dollar. Follow the green and you know why this simple flu prevention strategy is completely ignored. I personally haven't had the flu in over 8 years since I was informed of the critical role of vitamin D in preventing illness and have worked to keep my vitamin D blood levels adequate. In fact, I am so unafraid of the flu that I would be comfortable in a room full of swine flu patients with no mask! Fact is, you are not going to "catch" the flu if your vitamin D blood levels are normal any more than a sail

That's a good point. However, think about the consequences to materially poorer nations of industrialized nations armed with nuclear weapons controlled by people with widespread mental illness due to vitamin D deficiency. Or, what about depressed and unbalanced world bankers making crazy financial policies effecting poor countries?
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/mentalIllness.shtml
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/depression.shtml

And what of people from poor countries who go live abroad in the North to send back money, but then get vitamin D deficient?

And what of health care researchers who are less productive because they are vitamin D deficient?

Also, even in materially poorer nations at the equator, you can be vitamin D deficient if you need to work indoors all day at a low wage job, or even if you are a professional, like a doctor or bureaucraty, who works indoors all day. So, even poor countries may be facing this problem.

Also, even in poor countries near the equator, there is often a rainy season when people spend a lot of time indoors and may become vitamin D deficient (that is when flus and colds tend to strike in tropical areas, in the rainy season, which shows what bunk the common explanation for getting more colds and flus in the winter in the USA is, suggested due to "dry air" in the winter, but then why do people in the tropics get the flu when the air is 100% humidity endlessly).

It's true that a sedentary lifestyle plays a role, especially as people like most slashdotters like myself have made it ever more interesting to be inside with computer media. But, there is specific medical advice (well intended, but harmful) by dermatologists to avoid the sun. It might have not been bad if dermatologist had said, and also you need to take 5000 IU D3 daily and have your blood tested regularly to make up for not being in the sun. But they did not. So, are dematologists all liable for such advice?

Anyway, this vitamin D issue is really a global one, with a much bigger impact than any vaccine, even a vaccine for malaria, as bad as that problem is. Of course, like all things, different people may get the immediate costs and benefits of different health approaches. And no doubt some few people will be harmed by too much vitamin D (even if it is much fewer than commonly thought, but that's why a blood test is a good idea if you supplement):
    "The Truth About Vitamin D Toxicity"
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/vitaminDToxicity.shtml

Luckily, there are some grassroots campaigns about these issues:
    http://www.grassrootshealth.net/

And many individual efforts:
    http://curtisduncan.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-michelle-obama-is-more-likely-to.html
    http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-rda-for-vitamin-d.html

But it is such a big issue, more should be done IMHO. Vitamin D deficiency is just a widespread epidemic that is a consequence of and indoors and sun-avoiding lifestyle centered around technology. It is the thing every slashdotter should be aware of at least for themselves and their family.

That's a good point. However, think about the consequences to materially poorer nations of industrialized nations armed with nuclear weapons controlled by people with widespread mental illness due to vitamin D deficiency. Or, what about depressed and unbalanced world bankers making crazy financial policies effecting poor countries?
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/mentalIllness.shtml
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/depression.shtml

And what of people from poor countries who go live abroad in the North to send back money, but then get vitamin D deficient?

And what of health care researchers who are less productive because they are vitamin D deficient?

Also, even in materially poorer nations at the equator, you can be vitamin D deficient if you need to work indoors all day at a low wage job, or even if you are a professional, like a doctor or bureaucraty, who works indoors all day. So, even poor countries may be facing this problem.

Also, even in poor countries near the equator, there is often a rainy season when people spend a lot of time indoors and may become vitamin D deficient (that is when flus and colds tend to strike in tropical areas, in the rainy season, which shows what bunk the common explanation for getting more colds and flus in the winter in the USA is, suggested due to "dry air" in the winter, but then why do people in the tropics get the flu when the air is 100% humidity endlessly).

It's true that a sedentary lifestyle plays a role, especially as people like most slashdotters like myself have made it ever more interesting to be inside with computer media. But, there is specific medical advice (well intended, but harmful) by dermatologists to avoid the sun. It might have not been bad if dermatologist had said, and also you need to take 5000 IU D3 daily and have your blood tested regularly to make up for not being in the sun. But they did not. So, are dematologists all liable for such advice?

Anyway, this vitamin D issue is really a global one, with a much bigger impact than any vaccine, even a vaccine for malaria, as bad as that problem is. Of course, like all things, different people may get the immediate costs and benefits of different health approaches. And no doubt some few people will be harmed by too much vitamin D (even if it is much fewer than commonly thought, but that's why a blood test is a good idea if you supplement):
    "The Truth About Vitamin D Toxicity"
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/vitaminDToxicity.shtml

Luckily, there are some grassroots campaigns about these issues:
    http://www.grassrootshealth.net/

And many individual efforts:
    http://curtisduncan.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-michelle-obama-is-more-likely-to.html
    http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-rda-for-vitamin-d.html

But it is such a big issue, more should be done IMHO. Vitamin D deficiency is just a widespread epidemic that is a consequence of and indoors and sun-avoiding lifestyle centered around technology. It is the thing every slashdotter should be aware of at least for themselves and their family.

Follow your favourite band's twitter RSS feed, or get Google Reader to scrape their sites for you. I'm just sayin', twitter ain't designed for aggregation.

Trust me, the problem will solve itself one way or the other.

Especially because I busted two nuts last night(in the orifices of a woman, mind you) after saving up for two days, all the while masturbating myself to the edge before abruptly stopping. It was necessary to channel the power of the world's most powerful Negro, Shaquille O' Neal.

Where does this so-called 'constituitionally recognized limit' come from (citation)?

You might want to read my brief on the subject or this article.

Where does this so-called 'constituitionally recognized limit' come from (citation)?

You might want to read my brief on the subject or this article.

People, this is not something you would use as your primary computer. I see the iPad as a recreational device, something to get information to me. I would never use this as a device to produce anything, let alone as my main computer. This blog takes a realistic perspective. Bill on IT