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CRU version of Clippy.

Interestingly, ESR has gotten in on the discussion and is a little more damning in his condemnation of the entire Climategate ordeal

http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2009/11/eric-s-raymond-on-east-anglia-crus.html

There is only one way to cut through all of the conflicting claims and agendas about the CRU's research: open-source it all. Publish the primary data sets, publish the programs used to interpret them and create graphs like the well-known global-temperature "hockey stick", publish everything. Let the code and the data speak for itself; let the facts trump speculation and interpretation.

We know, from experience with software, that secrecy is the enemy of quality -- that software bugs, like cockroaches, shun light and flourish in darkness. So, too. with mistakes in the interpretation of scientific data; neither deliberate fraud nor inadvertent error can long survive the skeptical scrutiny of millions. The same remedy we have found in the open-source community applies - unsurprisingly, since we learned it from science in the first place. Abolish the secrecy, let in the sunlight.

They need to get out of the news print business. I was JUST playing pundit about this the other day:

http://lusislog.blogspot.com/2009/11/saving-newspaper-industry.html

You are NOT going to be able to compete with instant information via print that I can see.

Now is Apple actually supporting BSD with serious funding

Absolutely: http://maryniuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/asiabsdcon-2008.html

Losers believe that having Asperger's Syndrome excuses all forms of social retardation, attention whoring and shitty self-absorbed bullshit, while also allowing them to lay claim to its supposed symptom of "higher than average levels of intelligence".

For these reasons, Aspers has greatly outstripped ADHD as the chic diagnosis of choice for pretty much every group of fucktards on the internet. It is no wonder then that all people with Assburgers are fugly.

Posting Dramatica articles is usually lame, but they're spot-on with that. Here's another famous Assperger's fuckup.

I'm just saying there is a difference between comparing a white public figure to a monkey, and comparing a black public figure to a monkey.

So, what would be an appropriate way to portray a black politician as a buffoon? (Other than the obvious fact that you called them a politician?)

Well, if the press is in love with her, there are few options. Wait a couple of years, and with luck they'll have gotten over it. The strategies used to parody Condoleezza Rice would probably be attacked by today's media as being unfair on "sexist" grounds, if used on Michelle Obama. For example:
http://www.mygtv.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/condoleezza_rice_bikini_show.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/8/5/condi_secret.jpg

And no doubt, with our ludicrous newly-found "sensitivity" on religious grounds[*], the one showing Rice with little horns while deploying her tongue on her boss might be judged unacceptable if it featured the Obamas instead:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2k22z8vH128/SDoVJbCMmOI/AAAAAAAACxM/ysfuq40YhEg/s320/Condoleezza-Rice-George-W-Bush--23188.jpg

[*] If ever there was a characteristic crying out to be parodied, this is it.

He's been commenting on the case itself a little bit here:
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/ciao-italia.html
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/today-in-milan.html
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/european-law-on-hosting-platforms.html
This last one actually has law information in it.

He's been commenting on the case itself a little bit here:
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/ciao-italia.html
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/today-in-milan.html
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/european-law-on-hosting-platforms.html
This last one actually has law information in it.

He's been commenting on the case itself a little bit here:
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/ciao-italia.html
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/today-in-milan.html
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/european-law-on-hosting-platforms.html
This last one actually has law information in it.

In fact, I'd say that time is just a matter of perspective - or "direction" if you will. Rather than elaborate here, I wrote this a week ago...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/135709/benefits_of_boogereating.html?cat=51
http://straightuptruth.blogspot.com/2006/09/eating-boogers-is-like-really-grody.html
http://www.blogster.com/anaibendai/eating-your-boogers-healthy

ok, I was originally going to respond about I thought I remembered a "GDrive" being speculated. And then I googled it and found this, where someone caught Google mentioning efforts towards GDrive in a presentation. So, say they make the GDrive (there's more to the blog [read it], but let's say it's just rented out space on the cloud) and charge for it.

And Chrome OS I heard some speculation about before it came up as real.

What's to stop them from charging for the GDrives monthly, putting Chrome OS on cheap enough hardware, and just giving out those cheap computers for free, charging for GDrives to make up for it?

Diamond Geezer is a blogger who is a London enthusiast and he has covered lots of the smaller museums and other off-the-beaten track attractions of London. He also has plenty of geeky London Transport facts.

tfl (Transport for London) is the website for travel information for London, and Traveline will give you public transport routes from anywhere to anywhere outside London. You certainly don't need to hire a car in London -- as well as the famous Tube, buses are widely used by everybody and have great coverage. You don't really need one out London either unless you want to visit really remote rural sites such as lonely beaches.

yeah no shit. You think he'd at least offer us Counterfeit CPUs or dodgy RAM or something. If you are gonna spam then spam correctly. It is as bad as showing nerds a bunch of ads for jock products and tampons. Total waste of spam if you ask me.

After using it for 2 minutes (the most it would give me before dumping to the login) I wanted to punch someone.

Modern operating systems (or what pass for them) annoy me as well. I made a blog post of where we should be instead. ZosX, what is your take on my assessment?

Seriously, I think that companies and organizations who purport to deliver operating systems today have fallen far outside the scope of the needs of end users or the capability of hardware and networks to maintain an ancient status quo and tow their own singular interests instead. Yes, my disappointment in this matter extends equally to Windows, MacOS, ChromeWhatever, and Linux/BSD. Those who are interested in where I feel we should be instead, honestly, check my article. I'm not selling anything. :P

Thank you for your time.

After using it for 2 minutes (the most it would give me before dumping to the login) I wanted to punch someone.

Modern operating systems (or what pass for them) annoy me as well. I made a blog post of where we should be instead. ZosX, what is your take on my assessment?

Seriously, I think that companies and organizations who purport to deliver operating systems today have fallen far outside the scope of the needs of end users or the capability of hardware and networks to maintain an ancient status quo and tow their own singular interests instead. Yes, my disappointment in this matter extends equally to Windows, MacOS, ChromeWhatever, and Linux/BSD. Those who are interested in where I feel we should be instead, honestly, check my article. I'm not selling anything. :P

Thank you for your time.

i think ibm have some catching up to do! ;) - google translate does a lot more languages than that (51 in total) - in fact i'm kinda surprised google have not built it into their chromium-os or the android platform (erm, i dunno - maybe they have - it's difficult to keep up with it all)

and, to top it all, google recently added the ability to view romanisations of characters such as chinese han, and input transliteration of phonetics for hindi, arabic and persian.

to my technical yet non-linguistically educated mind (i'm english by birth, so - thanks mostly to our poor education system, at least when it comes to languages - i only read, write and speak one language, and to be honest it's somewhat debatable how well us english folk are at our own language, although at least we don't speak americanese [/me ducks and runs] - although it's creeping into the common vernacular more and more thanks to the telly - 'though i digress somewhat), it'd be interesting to see how the technology that powers google's translate differs from that which powers ibm's n.fluent - to my mind the end result looks similar, so i wonder how much these kinds of technologies differ and/or how much they have in common?

These graphics totally remind me of the Little Prince.

Ooops. I insulted the paradise that is the European Socialist Union, and now all the socialists are up in arms. Well first off, Sweden and Noray are RICH countries which is why, like Saudi Arabia, they can easily afford to spend tons on welfare programs. We in the United States don't have oil wealth. We can't afford it.

As for the other countries, here are the uncomfortable facts:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8rpY5fQK-UQ/Sa4HLlt1VDI/AAAAAAAAGEE/agwEIiIOxEg/s400/debt.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union#Economies_of_member_states

Am I the only one who is reminded of the Little Prince by the graphics of this game?

What a total ripoff!

Jk. But really, I am very pleased by the aesthetics of this game.

Here's is news from today that would not get accepted to Slashdot front page:

Hackers Prove Global Warming Is A Scam
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/hackers-prove-global-warming-is-scam.html ... Thanks to hackers (or an insider) who broke into The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and downloaded 156 megaybytes of data including extremely damaging emails, we now know that data supporting the global warming thesis was completely fabricated. ...

any connection to this

Reforming patents, promoting innovation: "Google and other technology companies increasingly face mounting legal costs to defend against frivolous patent claims from parties gaming the system...Low-quality patents and escalating legal costs are currently hurting the ability of U.S. companies to compete globally, and that in turn hurts U.S. workers and consumers."

Did you ever know of legislation that wasn't eventually built on?

Timely. I encountered exactly the same thought yesterday from the blowhard publicly rapping Vizio's knuckles for the grave sin of suggesting that the initial regulatory guidelines are livable. I'm on an economics binge lately. Already, the slippery slope has invaded my dreams. I'm about ready to grab a bag of pitons and head on down to the Cliffs of Insanity. Apparently, it's less hard on the nerves to take the vertical ascent than to never know when your foot might strike some gull quark and furrow six inches backwards.

The interesting thing is that I took a stroll down memory lane yesterday evening with this lecture by Kirk McKusick.

bsdtalk: bsdtalk170 - Marshall Kirk McKusick at DCBSDCon

He has some funny lines about Bill Joy, who could write unmaintainable code ten times as fast as any reasonable person. Krik keeps muttering about how, thirty years later, code they initially thought of as disposable hasn't much changed.

But I agree with your sentiment. The best way not to fall into the trap of maintaining software is never to release it in the first place.

About the Congo: there are four points you can find really fast on any Gapminder video: America, China, India, and The Congo. Good eye. Where all I could see was a human sinkhole stuck in the bottom left corner, you spotted an under-served market for self-help books written in Congolese.

It is a known fact that driving 1 mile in an automobile produces more toxins than a lifetime* worth of heavy smoking. Conclusion of the report is that; In order for cigarette smokes to match the same amount of air pollution in the stated cities, it will require; (from report) * 33 millions cigarettes per person each year * 91,300 cigarettes per person each day * 3,810 cigarettes per person each hour * 64 cigarettes per person each minute http://jarvisjerk.blogspot.com/2009/07/cigarette-smoke-vs-car-emission.html

So let's see if I understand: you want to take a simple, straightforward, easy-to-understand architecture with no single points of failure that would be very easy to recover in the event of a problem and extremely easy to recreate at a different site in a few hours in the event of a disaster, and replace it will a vastly more complex system that uses tons of shiny new buzzwords. All to serve 150 end users for whom you have quantified no complaints related to the architecture other than it might need to be sped up a bit (or perhaps find a GUI interface for the ftp server, etc).

This should turn out well.

sPh

As far as "distributed redundant system", strongly suggested you read Moans Nogood's essay "You Don't Need High Availability" and think very deeply about it before proceeding.

Get this .. I was prescribed an 'air cast'. I had to drive to an office, fill out forms, and then be 'fitted' for what was essentually two Dr. Scholls air pillows with some stiff plastic and velcro. Cost billed?? $120. If I had known ahead of time, I could have made due with a $3 ace bandage.

Yes .. our health care does need to be fixed. Maybe someday we could get a congress that recognizes that health care is so expensive because the damned doctors and hospitals charge too much instead of trying to fix my insurance that paid for all of the excessive charges at reduced rates.

The three day/two night 2 hour surgery bill was only $43K. The rest was surgeons, doctors, anesthesiologists, physical therapy, ambulance, etc. Visit Adventures in Healthcare Land for more details of what is screwed up with our health care system

Which is why the bullshit in the original AC's post is a troll. I'm refuting this point of view.
/a

The administration will also have to submit a 5-year plan. Ravenstahl says that document will also not include the tuition tax but it will have to include cuts to public safety, parks and public works.

The mayor and the 5 council members say they are willing to negotiate with the non profits in the city to find a way to add $16 million to the $1.6 million already expected in the form of payments in lieu of taxes. They say if that happens they will kill the tuition tax altogether. Ravenstahl says, “I hate the tax,” however he says he feels he has no other choice. To his critics, Ravenstahl says if they have a better plan he wants to hear it.

http://wduqnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/ravenstahl-well-pass-tax.html

January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.

On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.

As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.

Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.

Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.

Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.

Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.

The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.

Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.

Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee

January 31st, 2005, was the last day that Michael Sims, Nazi editor of Slashdot [blogspot.com], ever posted a story or indeed was ever heard from again. But what happened that day to Michael Sims? Did his embroilment in the Censorware.org conspiracy finally catch up with him? Or was he involved in a violent, and ultimately fatal, lovers' spat with his partner Jamie McCarthy? The truth, as we'll see, is much more perverse than fiction.

On New Year's Eve of 2004, the entire Slashdot staff was throwing a party to celebrate another year of Linux propaganda, homosexual recruitment, and the profits that their Microsoft ad banners had raked in for them. Eric Raymond, Emad, Roblimo, Hemos, Taco, Jamie, and Alan Cox all planned to rape Richard Stallman later in the night. Michael had shown up late, however, and was let in on the plans after they were made.

As it turned out, Jamie was to be leading the charge against the Free Software Foundation's founder and would be the first to penetrate Stallman's hairy unwashed ass. Michael, however, was jealous of this and made secret plans to thwart their nefarious venture of homosexual rape. The event was planned for zero hours, right as the ball dropped. But Michael had other ideas.

Michael suggested they all toast their plan with JÃgermeister, Eric Raymond's drink of choice that was in heavy supply that night, and the rest of the partygoers followed. While everyone downed their first shot, Michael slipped into the VA Software office's break-room, grabbing the syringe Raymond used to inject Rob Malda's semen with on the way. Michael leered at the case of JÃgermeister, needle in hand.

Minutes later, Michael reappeared in the conference room with more JÃger, ready for more shots. Over the next couple of hours they indulged in several drinking and party games, spurred on by Michael, as they drank bottle after bottle of the dark brown herbal liquor. If one were to pay special attention to Michael, however, they would note that Michael drank much less than anyone else and only from his own bottle.

Emad and Roblimo were involved in a powerful sixty-nine cheered on by Hemos and Alan whose bent geek penises throbbed near Emad's head and Roblimo's bloated ass, waiting for an opportunity. Moaning, Emad diverted his wet mouth from Roblimo's butthole and took down Hemos and Alan's cocks in quick succession. Hearing the wet, sloppy commotion behind him, Roblimo lost control and glunked all over Emad's chest.

Across the room near the podium, Eric Raymond was man-handling Rob, jamming a handgun down the back of his pants and asking him if he remembered their special night in Holland [blogspot.com]. Rob was giggling like a school girl and squirmed with all his might against the cold steel. Eric rained a shower of JÃger over Rob's head which Rob greedily tongued up even as Eric's skinny red penis entered his ass cheeks, probing for the brown prize.

The conference room was awash in gay cum and chaos, Michael noted happily as he surveyed the carnage around him. Emad had now teamed up with Alan and Hemos to rape Roblimo's ass as Rob was being pistol-whipped to orgasm by Eric, all oblivious to the massive amounts of Rohypnol they were ingesting as they drank the JÃgermeister Michael had given them. It wouldn't be much longer before the drug took effect.

Another half-hour into the night, Eric paused from raping Taco's mouth and sodomizing his anus with his Glock, short of breath. His head swam and he looked at his bottle of JÃgermeister. I can usually down six of these babies, thought Eric, wondering why he was now farting uncontrollably. Rob's nose wrinkled as Eric's rectum expelled another gallon of aerosolized feces into the air. Stooping, Eric held on to the podium for support.

Across the way, Emad pulled his tiny Iranian dick out from betwee

Believe it or not, waterfall is not the only alternative to agile. In fact, your comment represents one of the biggest critisms of agile. It misrepresents the alternatives and in many ways seems more like a religion than a development methology.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html

Even Lindzen's fellow skeptic Roy Spencer thinks Lindzen and Choi is wrong; see here, and also here and here, and a summary here.

Is this the same CRU that when asked to release the original raw data used in its climate analysis claimed it had all been lost?

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-lost-original-data.html

Well, even sparklines in Excel is not Microsoft's innovation. They're implementing something that has already been implemented by an existing open-source add-in.

This is the equivalent of Microsoft hearing about "Emacs"

Developing their own text editor that is extensible using embedded lisp,

And 6 months later, patenting+claiming the concept of a text-editor extensible using embedded LISP.

Microsoft has done no invention here, only coding their own implementation of a function Excel users are already utilizing via 3rd-party enhancements.

This is embrace, extend, extinguish, all over again.

And not wait another week until it's patch-Tuesday.

How do you know exactly when the bug was first reported to Google? For all you know, they may have sat on the problem for a month.

It seems that they did batch the updates together, because this update to version 4.0.245.1 fixes 9 different issues.

How do we reconcile this with slamming Apple for trying to maintain 100% control over the OS/hardware combo?

By not falling into the fallacy that everyone on slashdot holds to group consensus? Not all of us are hypocritical fanboys (redundant, I know). Some of us even turn our noses up at Google's Android because it's not open enough (but the N900 might do). Heck, I still don't have a GMail account because I prefer to have as much control over my data as possible (to the point of running my own mail server).

Google does some cool things and they *were* pretty good at the whole "don't be evil" thing, but I think that time may have passed.

I saw it at http://chromebook.blogspot.com/2009/11/chrome-os-has-been-released-introducing.html

there is a torrent to a .vmdk file which should boot up in virtualbox or vmware,

have fun!

The Palm Pre philosophy is similar to ChromeOS. Google has stated that they love the Pre and no wonder: Palm Pre launching with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube

I wonder if Android's browser will start taking on some ChromeOS functions. The Pre and Android could become more and more similar over time.

Dude Kmeleon stock is only really for older machines that choke on newer browsers. hell if you look at their FAQ page they even tell you how to run it on Win95! If you are wanting the Kmeleon speed without the crashes I would look at Kmeleon CCF ME. It runs great, not nearly as buggy, also runs great on a flash stick (just unzip and go), has a nicer UI and built it ABP, and in my experience runs well even on a machine with only 256Mb of RAM.

You see to me this is one of the nice things about FOSS. We get so many choices instead of like the bad old days when it was Nutscrape VS Internet Exploiter. Today we have FF,Kmeleon stock/CCF ME, Flock, SeaMonkey, Safari, Chrome, hell there are a few more in there but I can't recall them off the top of my head. But Kmeleon stock IMHO is really more about giving a modern browser to those stuck with an old OS/hardware whereas Kmeleon CCF ME is more about having an uber fast modern browser. Personally I'm glad we have Kmeleon because I still have a few customers that are hanging onto old machines for one reason or another. I even have one on WinME (EEEK!) and Kmeleon makes a great choice for those folks.

It's a market that in a few years will be 5-10 times larger than the US market

China's GDP is 2-3 times smaller than the USA's (depending on how you count it). Though it is growing faster, some argue that China will never catch the USA.

Not even mentioning the widespread piracy. Not even mentioning the Chinese people's reluctance to pay money to foreign companies...

I believe you've missed out Winforms, Silverlight and WTL. I think there's more but just can't remember them. You're not the only one to have this issue, look at what MiniMicrosoft (who is a senior MS guy) says:

Dev Div: If I had to sit down tomorrow and write a casual application for the PC, my mind would fork itself in about five different directions. Native with ATL? WPF? Silverlight? An HTA? And what's up with XNA? If I want to write an app for the Zune (which Zune?) what do I do? And can it run on some future mobile device? And the PC? And Xbox?

And how do I share it? How do I sell it? And, ah, crap, you mean you just released a whole new version of C# / Silverlight / XNA that I have to go and relearn? Maybe those free Starbucks coffee dispensers wasn't a good idea...

If anything, I'd probably be pretty damn tempted to invest time learning Adobe AIR. And I'm thinking that while smack dab in the middle of the Microsoft bubble. There are a lot of Partners in Dev Div, and I'm not seeing any benefit from their concentration. The Windows client should be the premiere development platform. It's not. What am I missing?

Lets just be thankful you didn't want to talk about database access technologies!

There is a balance, moderation is good, but that guy should get an anonymous blog like I do:

my anonymous blog

Google already does that with Android

John Whitney only proposed using computers for that sequence. Douglas Trumbull was inspired by his work and used the (analog) slit-scan technique.

Too late.

Grado is the same company that built an headphone amp using one medium quality opamp chip that costs half a buck, a few other cheap components, a nice wood casing, put all this together with terrible wiring and sold it for $350.
I won't say Grado is a crappy company because they make really good audio stuff, but even good companies sometimes sell snake oil thanks to their name. When it comes to audio it's advisable to never cite any company who does "audiophile" stuff.

X is an over-engineered monstrous relic from the mid-80's, and the window-managers on top of it are lipstick-on-a-pig kludges. Hopefully Google will present something to potentially replace it with when they announce their Chrome OS tomorrow.

So is Jessi "My Powers are Awesome" Reid.

Oh, and since you want polls, here's more.