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Smart people live in China, parts of Europe and New Zealand.
Canada = Below average.
USA = Below average.

Doesn't exactly have to be Old-skool... the best games (or franchises, even) will change the way you look at the world. Some of the essentials:

Simcity (4 is probably the "best" one, if you were to play no others)
Civilization (II is the classic version, though it seems like they got a lot right with V)
Ultima VII (runs well under the modern exult engine)
Sims (III, no expansions necessary. You can pretend it's an architecture program instead of a dollhouse, that was originally how it was intended)
EVE Online (do the free month, that's enough to get your fill of pretty graphics, frustrating controls, and spreadsheet/economy engineering)
Any top-rated FPS (if you've played one FPS, you've played them all, though some have better single-player stories, and others have better team play)
Portal (I, and then II)
Grand Theft Auto (III:SA is the best, though I've heard good things about V. All of them are nice little satirical time capsules, though)
Starcraft (II BW , and maybe III, just so you know what a nice RTS is like)

Here's my running list of games I want to introduce my kids to:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...

Right now the ocean is (on average) warming by quite a bit. Here is the latest data: http://davidappell.blogspot.co... . This may be due to natural cycles (which it is!), but if the ocean is warming, and the atmosphere is warming, then there is a radiative energy imbalance causing that warming. That's physics.

What we are seeing in atmospheric temperatures is a steady increase in temperatures due to GHG. Transposed on top of this is the natural ebb and flow of energy from the atmosphere to the ocean and back. This is called ENSO and PDO. When we are in a negative phase of the PDO and ENSO we see more energy moving from the atmosphere to the ocean. When we are in a positive phase we see a spike in atmospheric temperatures (See the super-ElNino of 1998 for example).

So what we are measuring makes perfect sense to a scientist. When you look at the evidence (if you are willing to look at the data at all) you see "desperate" people "trying to pretend" something or other. What nonsense!

LOL. There are some local climate contrarians (to put it nicely) here in Oregon who are convinced I'm a sock puppet for David Appell. I find it amusing and an indication of how easily they latch on to erroneous ideas.

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Sure feels like one to me and my family when they terminated our internet in 2007. And yes we used it for all sorts of services including Hulu and other streaming services. Not a data cap? Yeah right. Tell that to the other 6 people in my neighborhood who were ALSO disconnected within a couple months of us!

7 years Concast free. And loving it!

(Currently using CenturyLink with 40 Meg + package which includes 20 meg up)

This is very interesting, and maybe that's good enough. But isn't there some evidence of what method they might have used?

Yes.

eg. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oaq...

Why use rods?

If you're going to strap something to the stones why not use something a bit more rounded that turns them into actual circles?

PS: We know how they did it from paintings on the walls:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oaq...

Infant mortality had more to do with low average lifespans in the past - you can have a vast majority of people who make it to adulthood live into their 80s, and still have an average lifespan of 30 years, if 10 children die before they make a year old for every 1 that makes it past.

We tend to make the assumption that an average lifespan of 30 means that nobody lives past 35 years old - but that's simply not the case.

http://unlocked-wordhoard.blog...

"Consider this: If we accept as a given that the average life expectancy of the Middle Ages was 25, then life expectancy has tripled, right? Since we know from both historical and archaeological records that some people lived to 80+ years in the Middle Ages, wouldn't that mean that people are living three times as long? Shouldn't there be some 240 year olds running around, grousing that things just aren't the same since Thomas Jefferson died?

And therein lies the problem. Even if the statistic is accurate, people hear something very different than the statistic is saying. A stat talking about life expectance tripling is about the average tripling, but the way it is popularly perceived is that the length of time people live has tripled. And, of course, it isn't. If you're old enough to read this, a century from now you'll be dead, no matter how much life expectancy rises."

OK, the AC OP was an obvious troll, but...

They used the universal escape character for the path separator.

Windows of today remains largely compatible with conventions of MS-DOS, including the backslash as a path separator. However, the API has been able to handle the use of forward-slash as a path separator for a long time now. So, your problem is either mostly with outdated third-party applications, or continued impotent whining about something that has been around since MS-DOS 1.0. Get over it already.

You cannot assess [sic] an open file, even to read it, so you have to shut things down to do ANYTHING.

That's completely false. Your problem is with applications that either fail to open the file with a minimum of read/write restrictions, or fail to close a Windows Explorer object when they should. Even classic VB6 (and VB5, too) allowed one to write applications that could open a file with shared read access - no special finagling or libraries needed, it was built right in to the language.

If the problems are happening with Windows Explorer itself (usually for folders rather than files), you should configure the option to have each Explorer instance run as a separate process. IMHO, that should be the default setting, but MS doesn't listen to my gripes. That way you can close the offending Explorer process without having to go to more extensive measures. There are free tools to find out what process is locking a file, some with source code provided, so finding the specific Explorer process is also easy.

The logs can only be accessed using an API...

While I agree this is less convenient than simple text files, there are trade-offs such as easy filtering and monitoring of events due to having a standardized format. Further, the API is trivially easy to use if all you want to do is dump the the events as text for some reason; IMHO, the built-in viewer is sufficient for most needs. If you can't be bothered to write a trivial log dumper in C (or PowerShell, or VBScript, or C#, or $LANGUAGE), examples are all over the internet. Even if Java is your preferred kink, I'm willing to bet (without searching) that several FLOSS libraries good enough for that task have already been written and published.

...and unless you register all kinds of crazy garbage, the EventLog has a bunch of empty columns.

At a minimum, to use either the default application event log or (for a service or similar OS-bound application) system event log, you have to configure two fairly straightforward registry keys having simple value entries (actually, you can get by with just one if the MC file is simple; you can skip the key for categories). IMHO, "two" does not equate to "all kinds". The entries tell the OS where to find the binary (EXE or DLL) containing the (optionally localized) event strings. It's only "crazy" if you're a confirmed registry-hater. You can still do it that simply on current OS versions. However, there is now support for application-specific event logs and other enhancements. Of course, those features come with added complexity, but they're not mandatory.

Creating a Service is the most complicated process imaginable three layers deep.

You have to follow some clearly documented rules, and some recommendations on older OS versions (e.g. no IPC with desktop processes via shell message passing) are now enforced on current OS versions. Other than that, there's nothing complicated about it, though debugging a service is initially counter-intuitive. With a quick search, I found a minimal C example, but if you want to see a full example, the MSDN has something only a little more complex, but it illustrates everything needed in a producti

There was no rape apology there.

Bull fucking shit.

It's far more likely that you know someone who claims that happened to her. She may even believe it. It's far more likely though, that she drank more than she wants to admit.

Which is why people are not allowing you to conflate the two. Some times alcohol hits you harder than you expect. A lot of women think this means they were roofied (because people like you tell them there's roofies around every corner).

Have I said roofies are around every corner? No.

Nice straw man.

If you get hit with a date rape drug, you will not feel like you got overly drunk in the morning.

Here's a great post talking about this particular issue. in short, the notion of "you drank too much" vs "You got date rape drugged." is so fucking stupid it's comical. Well, it'd be comical if it wasn't so fucking tragic.

stop fucking raping people and covering up rape.

Researchers are force-feeding the internet into a system called Robo Brain.[...] Robo Brain looks at a chair or a stool, and knows that these are things that people sit on.

Good luck with that.

Dick Feynman (1918-1988) says w00t.

Sorry to reply to myself, but here's a great example radio. In particular note it's submersible, and with some programmer work (or solder bridging if you want permanence) will let you transmit outside of band (just be super careful with that - you can get yourself into big trouble by accidentally transmitting that way without cause)

Dealing with humans is harder than dealing with the kernel.

And yet, cars and airplanes and bicycles and a lot of other tools (some more complicated, some less) are still being engineered by engineers.

I don't see a link here, sorry.

Dealing how they interact with a computer is quite a bit different. It is an entire research subject.

Dealing with (some) corporate egg headed's wishes on how people should use a computer is that it's quite different.

Common People are using computers since the 80's. Some metaphors sucked a lot, some others was successful (and some, besides sucking). The break even point was simple: I work/play/whatever better now that did yesterday?

Cars use steering wheels and pedals since Ford's era, besides a lot of research on new ways to drive a car. Did you ever considered why?

GNOME 3's deployment could have gone better. It would have been better to allow people to parallel install both and let them move when they were comfortable

That would had helped a lot, indeed.

The design itself continues to be a successful work in progress. Next iteration, I will likely make sure that we don't do it this way.

Successful to whom? You see, people are not all alike.

Let me a bit more succinct. I'm saying that the people who were building Linux based desktops took a lot of their design from windows 95, amigaos, and various other desktops that were there before. All the examples you've stated doesn't invalidate what I said. We took our designs from someone else. The most popular ones are based on windows 95, GNOME and KDE.

Now I see.

Perhaps this happens because is considered BAD ENGINEERING creating something out of the blue just for the sake of it.

There's a good reason cars are still using steering wheels and pedals nowadays - people don't have to be trained and reissued a new driver's license when they sold the old model and buy a new one.

Any nowadays stereo are still using the same metaphors from decades ago (Play, Stop, Next, Previous, Volume Up and Down - even the Eject are still used), and the remote control from my new shining OLED TV has the same buttons my old, ultrasonic, mechanical remote control had (but granted, it has that buttons and a lot more).

Of course modern remote control are a lot more sophisticated and useful that hat old craps, but the basic metaphors are still there - the enhancements were introduced rationally, without breaking current usability.

Why? Because this is considered *GOOD ENGINEERING*.

Nopes. I just asking Linus to step up and LEAD a Desktop project.

The result will probably be not shiny and new and full of [insert your favorite insult here], but it will be usable, and it will works, and more importantly, it will get the job done without hassle - that what matters when the month ends and I have to pay my bills.

Why? What gives him the expertise to run a desktop project, exactly?

Because it's already proven that he is capable of handling successfully huge and complex open source projects.

Just because they are both software projects doesn't mean that he has the ability to lead a group of people working on UI and middleware projects.

Just because he never did it, doesn't mean that he doesn't have the skills neither. However, he's a proven open source leader that delivers solid artifacts, with a nice (but granted, far from perfect) historic of consistency between releases. I prefer to do not make comparisons with some other Open Source projects - there's no need for a jihad here.

I'm not hiring the guy to write code or specify usability requirements. But you can bet your arse I would hir

I think it might have something to do with calling things Ariane, as it sounds too much like Aryan, and that strikes a sensitive chord in the souls of many people. If you called it Uber-Aryan and painted it white, except near the tip where it would look like a KKK hood with black eyeballs painted on it, its chances of success would be lowered even further. Hey, talk is cheap, what's in a name, change the friggin name to something better, like the Soviets had Mir for Peace, or names like that. That's my 2 cents. In fact I think the Boston Marathon bombing was over it being a marathon, a symbol or anti-Hannukah Hellenism, and there was a need to rekindle this anti-terrorist oppression of people, which was getting weak, so what better spot to pick for that, than a marathon, simply for being a marathon. You can't really tell people to accept inspection cameras being stuck up their anus to inspect and verify they are not hiding anything criminal in there, if there haven't been any recent terrorist events, so every time this attitude of it's been so long since terrorist was really relevant so let's stop this 1984 of big brother is snooping on everyone and raiding and inspecting everyone's anus, you can expect a new terrorist event to hit very close to home, just to maintain status quo, by people not really fundamentalist in views or really polarized internally, just willing to stick up for the cause. But when George Carlin made that speech about the Bigger Dick foreign policy, how we only bomb brown people - semites - because they are brown and have bigger dicks, the US showed that we can brown Aryan Serbs too(almost Macedonians or Greeks, all of who have small dicks, just look at ancient statues), who have little dicks, all we have to do is yank their chain with some ex-Ottoman-oppression muslims coming back and taking over their villages one at a time. So maybe the next terrorist event will be on the big dick side theme of the spectrum, just to show we don't only bomb little dick celebration events, marathons being such an event. If you think such racism things are a thing of the past, look at this image, http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4n3S... What happened to her? It's a sad situation.

I worked on NIF for 7 years. I hold a doctorate in engineering, with extensive fusion experience. For 5 years, I have been running a fusion blog: http://thepolywellblog.blogspo.... Got some traffic from here, thought I would say hello!

Fusion is changing and it is much closer than you think. Consider what has happened, just this year:

1. In April, Livermore has failed to get Ignition and cancelled LIFE. 13 BILLION Dollar program Ended.
2. In June, the Navy published new polywell research, showing evidence of cusp confinement.
3. In March, Jamie Edwards became the youngest person to fuse the atom, at 13! He was on The David Letterman Show,
4. In March, General Fusion presented a 55 million dollar device to the TED conference. Jeff Bezos funded them.
5. In May, LPPX raised tens of thousands in an online fund raising campaign for fusion.
6. Last May, High school students won 2nd at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for doing fusion in a garage.
7. This Year, Phenoix Nuclear Labs pushed out new fusion devices, which make 3E11 Nuetrons/Second with IEC fusion.

This is the new, 2014, reality of fusion. It is not BS - but, real and substantial developments. It's not cold fusion. It's not even lasers or tokamaks. Fusion is changing. We will see what happens next. It is very exciting.

I just had my one year anniversary as a full time Android developer, and it's insane how much I've learned after leaving school. Luckily there's two older guys (well, one now, the other moved on recently) on my team who are _awesome_ mentors.

1. Pay attention to everything you can in the work place. You may be a client side developer, backend, whatever, but pay attention in every meeting or conversation that you can eavesdrop on. You may not understand everything going on with the teams you don't work in, but just being exposed to their terminology and _looking up what they're talking about_ will get you far. This doesn't go for just development, either - listen to the business and sales guys talk and try to understand your clients and what they need so you can build a great product by anticipating what will work for them before they have to ask.

2. Write a blog. Seriously. I'm the first to admit that I don't really know anything when it comes to development, but I've been actively writing new posts to my blog and it forces me to grok whatever I'm writing about. Whatever you're doing, post the code on GitHub so others can read it (mine's here). Developers who read peoples code online tend to be awesome about making suggestions and asking questions that make you realize you screwed up without being jackasses about it.

3. If there are tech meetups in your area, go to them. If you're in a decent sized city (I'm in the Denver/Boulder area, which isn't huge, but it's a lot bigger than where I'm originally from) you can find multiple meetup groups related to tech that you're interested in. It's a great way to learn new things and meet a lot of awesome people in your area.

4. If there's hackathons in your area, no matter how small, go to them. You meet awesome people and learn how to work in teams that are different than the one you're in every other day. Plus there's usually free food and beer, so what's not to like about that?

5. Pick up skills that compliment your work area by doing projects that aren't work related. It helps you understand what other teams are doing and how it affects you, plus it just makes you more awesome while keeping down the monotony. As a client side developer, I've been taking a Udacity course on using AppEngine to make backend APIs, and it's been fun.

6. For the love of God, check for null pointers and other kinds of exceptions. You may not catch all of them due to inexperience in spotting them, but that's what senior devs doing code reviews are for. You don't want code going into the wild that crashes, even when data is bad. Getting a call on a Saturday saying something bad is happening is not what you want - the weekends are yours to do whatever you want, not put out fires that could have been avoided.

7. Open source third party libraries are your friend. People way smarter than me have put together some amazing things that we use every day, like Otto and Picasso from Square. Try libraries out in a sample project, and if they will work for what you're doing, give it a shot. If you can make them better in the process, submit a pull request. Like I mentioned earlier, the open source community is awesome and if your pull request isn't up to par, they'll let you know what you can do to fix it.

8. You're going to fail at some things, and it's alright. Fail early, learn what did and didn't work, and try again. Learning from mistakes is how you get better. Along this same line of thought, if you run into a roadblock that you can't figure out yourself via documentation/stepping back and evaluating the problem, StackOverflow is awesome.

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It also calls into question the goal of the speeding ticket program in general. If the goal is to genuinely limit the Kinetic Energy of the vehicle (= mass x sqr(velocity)/2), then lets forget about speeding, and instead record this computed kinetic energy quantity in a continuous manner, along with the GPS co-ordinates, and at the end of the month compare it with the local authority's database of kinetic energy limits.

...

This creates a market for insurance policies. You can purchase cheaper insurance by buying more conservative software, or pay more in insurance but arrive at your destination sooner with more aggressive software.

From http://missingbytes.blogspot.com/2012/12/self-drive-engage.html

That sound about right. Here is where I did a calculation about seven years ago. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/20...

There is an interesting form of storage called electrically synthesized methane that was included in this recent report: http://arstechnica.com/science... I suspect that the wind resource south of Iceland may end up being used for that.

I'm not claiming that you're wrong about diagnosis rates, but would you care to explain why graphs like this imply that parenting or the heath care system of some localities is in some way tied to the diagnosis rate?

Until very recently, major advertising networks were available only through HTTP, not HTTPS. Only in September of last year did AdSense announce HTTPS support.

Never mind that, will they stock Eats, Shoots & Leaves and other guides to avoiding the use of the Grocer's Apostrophe?

Retard.

It's also paywalled, making rendering all but a bare assertion invisible to me.

AGW deniers point out undisclosed and missing climate data used in the most widely cited works as a reason to doubt the science. Good to see you understand their frustration.

Did somebody say android helmet?

JS is used by EVERY WEBSITE IN EXISTENCE because it runs on EVERY BROWSER IN EXISTENCE except lynx. I use it for my websites because it's the only choice, and hate it with a passion. See the entry for 1995.

By the way, people here ought to do themselves a favor and invest ten minutes googling primary sources before they start whining about the unfairness of solar-tech subsidies. If you do, you'll find that, worldwide, government subsidies of fossil-fuel industries run 20 - 25 times the amount of all subsidies worldwide of solar and wind technologies combined. And this includes the Washington Post's much-ballyhooed Chinese subsidy of panel manufacturers.

Such as:

Renewable energy sources received 25 times more in taxpayer subsidies per energy unit produced than fossil fuels in 2010 | AEIdeas:

Everyone is happy to include irrelevant OPEC subsidies (which are by definition outside of the US) or imaginary environmental damage in US energy market comparisons. When you actually compare the subsidy per unit of energy consumed by each approach in the US, then renewable energy is greatly more subsidized per unit of energy produced.

Actually, the Federal government has _always_ subsidized new technologies that it perceives could provide significant benefit to the public

Or which have sufficiently politically connected cronies.

Railroads, the telegraph, the telephone, broadcast television, the automobile (yay, Eisenhower!), even the Internet (how often do you pay sales tax, again?)

Note the presence of politically connected cronies, particularly, the infamous railroads and automobiles. As to internet sales tax, that's not a federal level subsidy.

The idea of subsidizing solar technology is not only good for the country -- what possible downside could there be, except to entrenched industries? -- but it conforms to a policy that conforms to traditional American ideals.

Well, yes, asserting things without proof is a traditional American activity, but not one that conforms to traditional American ideals. The obvious possible downside here is the opportunity cost of paying people to mess around with solar panels when they could just not do that and either use the public funds for something else more useful, or just not tax it at all in the first place.

"(See 'Fireball in 10x10 room')"

Edition dependent: Yes in 1-2E. No in 0E, BX, 3-4-5E.

http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2011/07/spells-through-ages-fireball.html

More and more I'm getting a feeling that science has been down this road before. That our understanding of subatomic particles and the distant edges of the Universe is similar to the pre-Copernican use of epicycles to understand astronomy.

It's certainly possible that we're merely stumbling about to find a better theory, but I think the epicycles analogy is generally a bad one -- it was good science back in the day, based on what was "known" about the universe at the time. Now we know better, because we've figured out that some of the fundamental assumptions of the old model were wrong, but good scientists of the day had no way of knowing some of those things were wrong (and in fact had some good evidence that those things were right -- like a bunch of very logical arguments why the earth is not in motion and how various effects that should happen if it were in motion were not observed... most of those problems were only explained in the 1800s, centuries after Copernicus). (For detailed background on myths about epicycles, see here for example.)

Also, please note that Copernicus and Galileo both still required epicycles, since they presumed circular orbits. (Galileo rejected Kepler's correct empirical observations of elliptical orbits, since they weren't as "perfect" as the circle... which shows how far even great "scientists" of the day were invested in the old ideas.)

If anything, I think a better analogy for the kind of situation you're assuming in modern science would be with Galileo's theory of the tides, which he created even though it didn't make much sense (and didn't accord with empirical evidence -- it required only one tide per day at noon), but it allowed him to justify his heliocentric hypothesis. In effect, it was a whole new idea tacked onto the old models without empirical support and only needed to fill in the gap to "prove" that the earth was in motion (since other things needed the prove that hadn't yet been observed, and most wouldn't be until centuries afterward). In a similar way, trying to "prove" our newer Big Bang models and particle physics models has led to the introduction of dark energy, strings, etc.

Thus, dark matter/energy and string theory are similar new ideas built up out of the old ones to "fill in the gaps" as it were, and we don't yet know whether they will pan out. Epicycles, on the other hand, were a very old and extremely well-accepted idea (which both Galileo and Copernicus used in their theories).

Finally, I would also note that gravity too was a sort of "fudge factor" introduced by Newton without evidence: where does this "unseen force" come from? how is it transmitted? We still don't thoroughly agree on those answers, centuries later. But it made the math work out for Newton's idea of universal gravitation, just as some of our modern theories do today.

So the question is -- are these new ideas more like Newton's spooky occult theory of an unseen force acting at a distance, or more like Galileo's attempt to make up a theory of the tides to hold his model of the universe together? Only time will tell.

I agree 100%. Using LFTR's you could direclty synthesize fertilizer from air. Solar power will always be too expensive and unreliable. Especially compared to a LFTR.

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Like this one? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b7lK... One thing my old priest said is beware of sex with animals. People get down and dirty and do all kinds of nasty shit to each other, but when it comes to animals, it's impossible to get consent, for things like torture and sado-masochism that things can degrade into, unlike with participating and willing humans. Even though an animal would probably much prefer being fucked then sent on its way and stay alive, than butchered for meat, we should heed his advice. There is a long tradition of eating meat for economy reasons, as when life is hard, and there is no truly edible food around, but grass and trees, you can have cows and chickens eat the grass and the worms and seeds, and you can eat the cows and chickens. It depends on how good life is whether you have to eat the whole cow, or just the milk, or the whole chicken, or just the eggs, but economics dictate not to waste meat, as long as it's killed kosher, without much suffering. Don't ever get off on skinning cows alive and kicking them around a butcher shop cement floor, as some news come out from some butcheries, for entertainment reasons, where the workers get so desensitized from having to do daily butchering and killing, that that's how they find entertainment. Or even some country farmers cutting a chickens head off and setting the chicken free to run without the head, for the entertainment of the children. That's wrong. Also the things they do to cattle that happen to be born male, and sell them as tasty tender veal, the way they keep them isolated and laying on the floor in tents so their muscles don't harden up from standing on their feet, is probably worse than fucking them. Also putting worms on fishing hooks, that happens everywhere, the worms really hate being impaled alive on a metal hook, and they'd probably much rather just be fucked then be sent on their way, even if there is a chance of getting stuck, than be killed alive like that. At the very least someone should invent a worm anesthetizer, like getting sprayed with ethyl chloride that dentist do to gums before pulling teeth, that would quickly put them out of their misery and make them feel insensitive, before they are put on the hook. That could be part of every human fisherman's tackle box, sold at the tackle shop, same exact thing that dentists use. So it's up in the air, but it's a good principle to draw the line at not fucking with animals, because of lack of consent, and just plain animal dignity. They say a measure of the wealth of a society is often best mirrored not by how much money and gold they can amass, but how well they can afford to treat their prisoners and animals, those most exposed at the lowest classes of society. For one, I love petting cats and making them purr, or playing with dogs, but I never in my life touched an animal the wrong way,(except some grasshoppers and even some worms when fishing, but the grasshoppers were easier imagining they were robots, machines without feelings, which is of course not the case, and whenever I fished with worms I tried to mug the other person I was fishing with to put it on my hook, I was so disgusted, and if they were not willing to do it I just fished without a worm, but other bait, and I never fished with worms when fishing alone.) I would be very reluctant to get involved in having an animal orgasm, even if they really enjoyed it, that's well over the line, even if somebody paid me a whole lot of money, but I'd probably do it for a billion dollars, because that's a lot of money, and you can build a hospital from that and help other people, and making an animal orgasm is nowhere near as bad as some of the animal experiments going down in biotech research labs, where the inner guts of the animals are exposed, and the animals kept alive like that, in pain, tied up, and cancer induced to study anticancer treatments and such. In vitro, that's way over the line, and I would not do it for even

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I always found it amusing that the Author's Guild always seems to enthusiastically back whatever it is the publishers want to happen, even to the detriment of their supposed constituency...

I'd rather hear from authors, personally, than a group that fought against libraries/universities making electronic archives of books for research...

Look, if authors/publishers aren't happy with Amazon, they don't have to do business with them. They can sell their books direct to the customer, even in a format the user can load right onto their Kindle, nothing's stopping them. Saying Amazon is the "only buyer" is B.S. The term 'buyer' doesn't mean anything (in the way you're using it) when you're dealing with purely electronic goods. Amazon doesn't "buy" an inventory of ebooks to sell, there's no supply to monopolize.

That's not to say there aren't good people at MS. I've met some. But almost without fail they're individual contributors. And the review system almost always fails to identify them as valuable employees. Actually some of the best people I've ever worked with I hired during the early 2009 MS layoffs. Somehow that round of cost-cutting seemed to target individual contributors with 10+ years of experience. Those guys were great. Much higher caliber than our typical MS interviewees. That alone tells me that Redmond HR doesn't do a good job.

The people you're seeing are what Mini-Microsoft refers to as "Kims". The people who do good work and stay away from the politics get the boot and the soup left behind on the mothership just keeps getting more concentrated.

Nadella's attempting to stir up the mud but with the way things are going, no good will come of it.

Here's an example:

if something like that is anywhere near me I get myself and family the f**k away from it as fast as I can.

That thing looks pretty covert and easily hidable (it looks like that cover folds down to be flush with the ground). Brush some dust over it and you couldn't even see it, especially if it was in someone's yard behind a cinderblock wall, as it appears to be. You probably wouldn't know it was anywhere near you until it started firing rockets, and by then it's too late; return fire is on it's way.

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From the point of view of academics, the response of Suresh Venkatasubramanian to Cerf's letter has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention, and is worth a read.

Or the government if they fail to keep their databases up to date, as outlined here.

We need an insurance based autonomous vehicle licensing scheme.

I predict it will be DNA and/or RNA similar to that on Earth. And I'm a Jesus freaky Christian, so I'm asserting God put it there and Jesus is Lord.

Of course, if nothing's found there, ignore me. Otherwise, if it's truly alien DNA, I will be very shocked. Alien DNA would definitely screw with my Christian belief system. Especially if we didn't even have the same nutrients in common.

Why? It didn't bother C. S. Lewis.

Nobody's claiming that it's more efficient. Insurance carries overhead.

However, your alternative options are missing a far more common situation: Unexpectedly requiring extensive services that cost more than one can pay off "on time".

I've worked in the medical industry. It's hard for an outsider to understand just how expensive modern health care is. The days of a lone doctor with his trusty medical bag are long gone, replaced by million-dollar machines and wholly-disposable sterile tools. Of course, we can't forget the army of nurses, assistants, and aides all helping the doctors, and those doctors all have malpractice insurance to cover the inevitable lawsuits. Every patient visit costs the hospital hundreds of dollars, even if they're in perfect health. If the doctors actually have to do anything, the costs climb into the thousands. For a complicated case, a cost in the millions is not unheard of.

I'm not talking about fraud, or unnecessary tests. This is just the cost of doing business.

For a middle-class American, keeping a few hundred dollars around for emergencies isn't unreasonable. A few thousand dollars in a safety fund is acceptable for many who've had decent fortune, but is it reasonable to demand that people pay off a million-dollar medical bill "on time"? Is it reasonable to demand that the medical staff work for free to make sure they're not putting someone in debt?

Very few people will ever have a million-dollar disease, and most will never come out ahead by buying insurance. That's not the point, though. For a small portion of our society, insurance is the only reason they aren't in (deeper) debt. It's a small and manageable expense spread out over time, but ensuring that a larger amount of money is available from the start of coverage, to pay for those rare-but-devastating disastrous cases. Having insurance means that expenses are more predictable, at the cost of the overhead. For most Americans, that's a trivial opportunity cost in the long run.

I have seen the same news reports, and a lack of the same news reports. Indeed, I have no proof that the tunnels on the Israeli side were used for smuggling. However, I do know that the blockade has created a huge demand for cross-border smuggling. I also know that the supply of cross-border tunnels has decreased significantly due to action taken on the Egyptian side. I also know that no significant changes have occurred within Gaza to decrease demand for cross-border smuggling. I'm postulating that the tunnels on the Israeli side are suitable for smuggling (albeit less so than the ones on the Egypt side were, since it's much easier to procure illegal arms in Egypt than in Israel), and therefore are most likely being used for such purposes as well. If you feel that the closure of the Egyptian side tunnels has eliminated the demand for smuggled goods in Gaza, or you feel that the Israeli side tunnels are unsuitable for any such purpose, I'm open to hearing your argument. Otherwise, even in the absence of any direct evidence, I will maintain that it is overwhelmingly likely that these tunnels are being used not only for attacks into Israel but also to facilitate cross-border smuggling. You're entitled to disagree, as this is merely conjecture, without providing any evidence. However, in the absence of evidence (and we do have an absence of unbiased evidence regarding these tunnels), I feel that the most reasonable position is the one that acknowledges the incompleteness of information and doesn't insist on absolutes (like the claims that these tunnels' sole purpose was to attack Israel and nothing else). Reality is very rarely so black-and-white, and large infrastructure projects are rarely single-use (even if they are initially intended as such).

And for those interested, here's an alternative take on the greenhouses.

I had been using an HTC myTouch Slide 4G (doubleshot) , and the MTS3G (espresso) before that.

It was great, I would always win at the little online "pictionary" games since I could type out the answer faster than practically anyone else. Also, it was good for reading in a supine or other odd positions, because I could set it to only switch to landscape mode if the keyboard was slid out... it's a constant annoyance to me when other phones switch orientations because the accelerometer is giving readings it doesn't cope with well.

The MTS4G was not supposed to run Android 4, but thanks to CyanogenMOD... http://trumblings.blogspot.com...

Gradually, all of the apps on it got slower and less responsive, and I would gradually get rid of widgets and apps that would run into the background until I just had the bare essentials... Chrome, Maps, and Hangouts. But what finally did it in was that the SD card would get corrupted every time I let the batteries run all the way down.

Finally broke down and picked up a Nexus 5. The screen is big enough, esp. in landscape mode, to hunt and peck out the keys with reasonable accuracy. Unfortunately, Google hasn't made every app work in landscape mode, and some critical things (like the launcher and the frickin' Google search widget) force you to enter stuff on the tiny portrait mode keyboard. I think CyanogenMOD's Trebuchet launcher app was better with this, and I'm eagerly awaiting it to go stable on the Nexus 5 so I can switch over.

I've also been looking for a good Bluetooth keyboard case, but haven't found one yet. There are several good-looking ones for the Nexus 7, though. That would certainly scratch the itch for me. Of course, not many Android apps have good keyboard support, but they're out there... Jota+ , VXConnectBot, etc.

As an aside, after the last update to 4.4.4, my wife's Nexus 4 started getting noticeably less responsive too. Hoping it's just a matter of going through and clearing some of the Dalvik cache, and not because Google is (intentionally?) making older devices obsolete faster by adding in too many bloated features in their core apps :P

..., and b) releasing said imagery would expose our capabilities.

Don't worry, the world knows your "capabilities".

Captcha: gaming.

What about the majority of people who live in dense cities in apartment buildings without private driveways and/or parking spaces that are simply not practical to electrify. You know, it's easy to solve the problem for relatively rich folks, but most people in the world live more like this or this (myself included). We park our cars out on the streets, drive around mostly in or near the city and fill up perhaps once a month. Are we supposed to go charge our cars once or twice a week for a few hours at some remote location?