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Actually it contains the step "then a miracle occurs."

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In the olden days, science could easily be mistaken for a bloodless intellectual game

By precisely what mature person with any shred of insight into human nature? It's kind of silly how the Church of Holy Progress has tried to co-opt scientists as some sort of secular priesthood. Get over it. Scientists are people, too. I'd expect Richard Feynman would have been a right blast of a blogger, if he yet lived.

In the olden days, science could easily be mistaken for a bloodless intellectual game

By precisely what mature person with any shred of insight into human nature? It's kind of silly how the Church of Holy Progress has tried to co-opt scientists as some sort of secular priesthood. Get over it. Scientists are people, too. I'd expect Richard Feynman would have been a right blast of a blogger, if he yet lived.

I'm looking for help on an OS/2 Warp open source clone.

Comments, suggestions or hate mail is welcome. Even flaming is considered good feedback on the OS/2-eCS community :)

http://openwarp.blogspot.com/

Alas I never could get OS/2 to install, had to set up a video camera and record the monitor while it was loading; then sneak up on the error frame by frame - was my video driver.

Being before public Internet access I was stuck. Doom was telling me to play it just one more time; and I lost interest.

OS/2 would be a very nice os to keep running, while never running it myself all around me were and was coming across as a much nicer OS than Windows was pushing.

Oh ya; I'm make a great Admin, lots of server commands I'd like to try out :}

I Wish you luck.

I'm looking for help on an OS/2 Warp open source clone. Comments, suggestions or hate mail is welcome. Even flaming is considered good feedback on the OS/2-eCS community :) http://openwarp.blogspot.com/

If dell's speakers are damaged by playing clipped audio, couldn't the same damage be caused by playing a poorly-mastered CD?

eg: http://mastering-media.blogspo...

He is a musician.

From 1940-1950 approximately 100% of programmers were women

You mean the time when "programming" meant "transcribing equations into wiring and/or short binary sequences", and was considered a menial task, its perceived importance and prestige paling in comparison with the "actually difficult job" of designing the computer hardware? That sort of reminded me of this. Also, Washington Post claims: "In 1967, when Cosmo’s “The Computer Girls” article ran, 11 percent of computer science majors were women. In the late 1970s, the percentage of women in the field approached and exceeded the same figure we are applauding today: 25 percent. The portion of women earning computer science degrees continued to rise steadily, reaching its peak — 37 percent — in 1984." So no, apparently, never a majority, but still reasonable figures unless you're a proponent of worker quota.

The FDA point is somewhat more important here then anything. I bet you have been conditioned from the no smoking laws and all the reports being threaded to the public that if you look at a cigarette you will get cancer and die a horrible death 3 days ago. And if you ever see someone smoking, your eyes will fall out, you will have a heart attach and die on the spot from cancer.

The fact of the matter is that less than 10 percent of life long smokers ever get cancer and only about 30 percent of all cancer deaths are attributed to smoking. Granted, your risk of cancer does increase and certain types of cancer do increase if you smoke, but it's not the death nail in the coffin it is made out to be.

As for second hand smoke, This is more to the point as the health effects have not been proven and by some accounts, scientific principle has been completely ignored in order to make the association to the dangers.

But by no means am I saying smoking is not bad for you or that you shouldn't avoid second hand smoke if you want to either. But the hype surrounding some of the issues is blown way out of proportion and often are exaggerated. Even the US EPA lost a lawsuit in 1993-1998 for a report it issued stating people were dieing from second hand smoke due to cherry picking data and construing science in order to reach a predrawn conclusion. I guess I should also add that in 2003, the EPA had the decision reversed on appeal, not because their study or release was good, valid, or anything, but because it didn't carry any regulatory weight so it wasn't regulated by The Radon Research Act passed in 1986 under Title IV of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA).

Again, I'm not saying second hand smoke is good for you but it does appear that the science behind it being bad was if not originally, a political motivation in the least with the goal of using junk science to fuel future scientific reference to it by corruption of reality and pollution of facts. The fact is the EPA conducted itself in the exact same ways as you remember the cigarette industry doing. With open access to all the information, both can be detected more readily and pointed out publicly.

I've studied the creationist perspective and their argument in great detail. GP is spot on. It's bullshit, and anyone who devotes any significant time to studying it will inevitably conclude such, unless he's willing to forgo reason.

I can give you an example. Here is a smart guy with a degree in the field who happens to be a creationist. His position is that, purely from a rational scientific perspective, he'd have to prefer evolution - and the only reason why he's a creationist is because he has faith in the Bible as the infallible word of God, and cannot reconcile its message with anything but Young Earth creationism.

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If you actually believe that, you do not understand people, much less women.

Because, of course, women are not people?

FYI, the statistical psychological differences between men and women are generally quite small. Blaming your lack of understanding of someone on their gender is not almost certainly wrong, but it's a defeatest attitude - it's blaming your failure on something you cannot change so why even bother, "They" are just un-understandable!

The nightsoilmen (toshers) processes, while imperfect, were much less toxic than what they were replaced by - Whitehead's flush toilet (which drove them out of business). The outflow from flush toilets in London were directed into the same dry pits as the toshers worked from, making the pits impossible to manage. With no downstream plan for the new flush toilet technology, "The Great Stink of London" came from the stormwater runoff into the Thames, which caused thousands of death in cholera epidemics.

You are right, the work should not perhaps be romanticized, but was not given any incentive to improve... it was flushed away by the new million dollar flushable toilet technology industry. The fact is that the toshers/nightsoil industry created better than average pay in London, certainly much better than blackleg coal mining. But the marketers of "flush toilet technology" stigmatized them, and the sewage treatment plants of today are seen by many in the environmental community as a "correction" to a technological advance. http://retroworks.blogspot.com...

During the mid 1800s another "technological advance" was the sale of mercury as a laxative. I guess it gives great bowel movements (Lewis and Clark's expedition can be tracked today by the mercury laxative residue - they ate a lot of elk and not much fiber). What I find fascinating are the parallels between the toshers and the past decade of private sector electronic waste management. Most of the "export market" buyers of used CRTs turned out to be not primitive wire burners but factories formerly licensed by Proview, BenQ, Wistron, Foxconn etc., which were purchasing very specific models of CRT for refurbishment and sale to markets like Cairo, Lagos, Jakarta and New Dehli. Like the nightsoil workers, they were flooded with product and then denigrated as "primitive recycling". The CRTs were diverted to a shredding industry designed for scrap metal. Leaded glass cullet doesn't shred well, and the glass diverted from reuse private markets still lies around. At one of the largest sites, in Hallstead PA, floodwaters engulfed the CRT cullet piles twice in the past decade, leading to the closure of the recycling facility last summer. http://resource-recycling.com/...

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There are faster languages for server side

Such as what? Well sure, you can write your web apps in C using G-WAN if sheer performance is your primary concern, as opposed to PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, etc. But there's a reason people moved from C to other languages: quite simply, developer time is waaaaay more expensive than server time for all but the heaviest uses. (On the other hand, Node.js is very fast for high concurrency transactions and can cut server costs as a result, so you can have both.)

NodeJS is an attempt to get cheaper backend programmers because everyone has extra front end developers lying around for projects.

From this statement it seems you don't know much about NodeJS or why it exists. One thing that's different is that Node.js IS the server, and its pervasively asynchronous, non-blocking, event-driven IO is not something other web servers or language ecosystems offer. JavaScript is a good match for that kind of programming, there are many developers with experience in asynchronous JavaScript programming from the web front end (not all of whom are completely stupid), and Google's V8 engine (which compiles to machine code) is not exactly slow. People are using Node because it is faster than other web backends for transactional responses with high concurrency - AND it happens to be easy to develop for too, compared to, say, Java (at least according to PayPal and others working with it).

It is certainly not anything like ASP.

Why would you buy 500 snowplows and salt trucks and have them sit around for 1,000 days, waiting for the next event?""

That's why you repurpose existing equipment. Snowplows themselves aren't a huge investment, and they last basically forever with little maintenance. Put a clause in your purchasing specs that all newly purchased garbage trucks and DOT dump trucks must have hookups for a plow. Retrofitting is expensive but if you're buying a truck anyway, the additional cost isn't much. Even dump trucks without special spreading equipment can be used; some dump trucks have small sliding gates on the main gate like this one. This is normally used for shoveling out small quantities of asphalt when patching roads, but in a pinch you could open them up and spread salt/sand on the road. Get creative! Making plans is cheap.

Ooopsies, look... Google leaving manufacturing....

http://googleblog.blogspot.com...

*smirk* Look what news just popped up today...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com...

We are constantly told that the U.S. border, unlike say the Finnish or Israeli border, is impossible to enforce. Yet 8 Mile Road, the northern municipal boundary of Detroit, is apparently seeded with landmines or something because nobody seems to wonder how the new visa-holders will somehow be corralled permanently in Detroit instead of quickly moving to Birmingham, MI or Ann Arbor or San Diego or some other place in the U.S. nicer than Detroit.

Hats off to you, sir, for holding out longer than I could with my Palm T|X.

Currently I'm rather happy with CyanogenMOD on my HTC myTouch Slide 4G (and the slide 3G before that). Too bad they haven't updated the myTouch Slide line for a while, since they'd carve out a nice little niche for themselves being one of the only major Android manufacturers that did physical keyboards.

I'm about to break down and just get a Nexus something, and pair it with an external portable keyboard (there are various cases that help make this more portable).

Also, I think you'd enjoy running full ARM linux on an Android device, but look at the forums for
https://play.google.com/store/...
and check which ROMs support the loopback module (or make sure you can build one for yourself). Not all of my third-party ROMs bothered to do this, so I only have a full chroot Debian distro behind one or two of my Android devices :/

But let us know how you turn out! My musings were plopped down here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
and maybe a few more relevant posts here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...

Hats off to you, sir, for holding out longer than I could with my Palm T|X.

Currently I'm rather happy with CyanogenMOD on my HTC myTouch Slide 4G (and the slide 3G before that). Too bad they haven't updated the myTouch Slide line for a while, since they'd carve out a nice little niche for themselves being one of the only major Android manufacturers that did physical keyboards.

I'm about to break down and just get a Nexus something, and pair it with an external portable keyboard (there are various cases that help make this more portable).

Also, I think you'd enjoy running full ARM linux on an Android device, but look at the forums for
https://play.google.com/store/...
and check which ROMs support the loopback module (or make sure you can build one for yourself). Not all of my third-party ROMs bothered to do this, so I only have a full chroot Debian distro behind one or two of my Android devices :/

But let us know how you turn out! My musings were plopped down here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...
and maybe a few more relevant posts here:
http://trumblings.blogspot.com...

Teaching ethics is like teaching a dog to whistle?

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Back in 2002 or so, when people were really starting to rally against the PATRIOT act, the usual faces were all over the media, calling detractors "terrorist sympathizers" and worse. More than a few openly called for such people to be labeled traitors.

Manifestly, there is no civil-liberties crisis in this country. Consequently, people who claim there is must have a different goal in mind. What else can you say of such people but that they are traitors? (source)

And here's Paul Krugman with regards to Rush Limbaugh back in 2002...

As far back as 2002, Rush Limbaugh, in words very close to those used by The Wall Street Journal last week, accused Tom Daschle, then the Senate majority leader, of a partisan "attempt to sabotage the war on terrorism." (source.)

I can't remember where it happened, or who exactly said it, but someone confronted Rush Limbaugh about his words and said, "Imagine if Hillary Clinton were to become president, and she has the power that you want to give President Bush."

Well.

It would appear that has a very good chance of happening. And what was laughed off back in 2002, is now staining underwear in 2014.

Only God could create this:RMS

Tell that to the linux developers who Microsoft has claimed ownership of their code and demanding licenses on code they did not write.

If its any consolation, there has been evidence suggesting that mud presently exists on Mars.

I've been living on a reddish-orange, macronutritious substance since 1994.

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It's interesting watching election votes come in. When they show maps of how counties are voting, it's generally Democrats in the urban areas and Republicans in the rural areas. So the maps are giant swathes of red (Republican) with small dots of blue (Democrats) tightly packed in large cities. Like in this map for example.

It was called Greenborder and it was in the early 2ks: http://googlesystem.blogspot.c...

Ceres letter to Pluto seems even more relevant with this new finding. ;-)

Just get a real bike.

I use a Happy Hacker at home. I use a QWERTY at work and also often need to use BE AZERTY as that is standard where I live. (This is different from e.g. FR AZERTY that I also have used)
The portable I use is again a little bit bit different. And obviously the phones are different as well in layout.
I also have a RT MKW01 that I use for watching movies.

To work, I hate keyboards from a portable and if I can help it, I will always connect a 'real' keyboard to it, no matter what the layout is.

From experience I know that people can adapt very easy as long as you are willing to learn.

Australia has the highest per capita level of greenhouse gas emissions in the developed world.

http://takvera.blogspot.com/2011/11/record-increase-in-greenhouse-gas.html

In other words, more crony-capitalism where the rich are free to make backroom deals which benefit them, and which harm the rest of us, and the 'freedom' of the market mostly restricted to big players who paid off the politicians.

No conservative runs on, "I plan to screw everyone else for the benefit of corp x or corp y". Almost no conservative voter, wants this. Yes, some Republicans and some Democrats do screw everyone for the benefit of corp x or corp y. But no one runs on it.

What blows me away is when the Democrats basically say, we are going to raise the minimum wage (completely against any economics education). For the sole purpose of screwing all other consumers for the benefit of their voters/groups/unions (union contracts often have clauses that if minimum wage goes up, so does their pay).

Anyway, conservatives do not believe in crony capitalism. We are pissed off when our guy does it or if the Dems do it.

Do you have any evidence that Conservatives, as a group of voters, are for crony capitalism? Janet Rino suing banks to make them fund subprime loans is clearly not Conservative Crony Capitalism. Janet Rino Threating Banks

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Here's my report on the actual ruling which is being reviewed: 2nd Circuit affirms denial of plaintiffs' preliminary injunction motion in WNET v Aereo

No faith is required, here's a picture of it: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t8F7nCpS0CI/UZETbB0SToI/AAAAAAAAaC8/nEmfxaAc5Tg/s1600/aereo_antenna_farm.png There is also a separate tuner and separate disk space for each subscriber, although probably not as a separate physical DVR.

Yes, I'm sure we ALL know about open-source protocols.

I talk about this on my blog, we need an insurance based licensing scheme for autonomous vehicles :
Self-Drive Engage

You are still way off base. Changes made to a VM with a non-persistent disk are not written to the disk itself. They are written to a temp file and then discarded when the VM is powered off.

The ransomware that you describe cannot persist across reboots. It can encrypt the the hell out of the entire VM, and there will be a large encrypted temp file created, but that file will be dumped as soon as the VM reboots.

http://virtualization-tips.blogspot.com/2013/01/persistent-and-non-persistent.html

Is that worse than Zimmernado?

I would like to take this opportunity to note that my 2014 New Years resolution was completed successfully by deleting Facebook (after 10 years) in 2013.

And humbly submit this page reasons why many people do: http://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2013/12/ten-things-you-can-only-do-without.html

Real Geeks are buying Ubiquiti equipment. Very reasonably priced, easy to hack the firmware, and the radios are "Amateur Friendly", meaning you can operate the radio in the Ham bands and limit the channel usage or bandwidth to stay in the ham band.

Would be nice if Ubiquitit would give back a little more.. Especially consdiering their AirOS is an OpenWRT fork ( with extras ) and their EdgeMax routers are baed on a vYatta fork ( with extras GUI added back in etc )

Real Geeks are buying Ubiquiti equipment. Very reasonably priced, easy to hack the firmware, and the radios are "Amateur Friendly", meaning you can operate the radio in the Ham bands and limit the channel usage or bandwidth to stay in the ham band.

The rest of us can look at how far off IPCC predictions are here.

Umm, you just showed us a graph that shows the opposite of your claim. It shows that the IPCC predictions are sometimes less than the actual warming and sometimes more as you would expect when comparing a straight line to climate data, and that the newer IPCC model's upslope has gotten much better in matching the actual temperature upslope over time.
Considering the year-to-year variability in surface global temperature, the 2007 IPCC predictions are not bad at all.
Here's some surface temp graphs to compare: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/

They are making fun of people like you who every time a piece of ice falls off a glacier anywhere you point out that as proof of global warming. Go ahead and claim you don't, but every time I hear of a tornado in the US, the hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and on and on, each of those instances people are trotted out on the news as climate experts claiming that this shows AGW is real and we need to do something.

The person making the statement you replied to doesn't believe this single incident proves AGW is false. They are making fun off all the people on your side that use every single instance as proof. The rest of us can look at how far off IPCC predictions are here, or Al Gore's expert opinion about how the arctic would be ice free by 2013 here, or any other time a climate scientists made a prediction that could actually be tested.

They are making fun of you and you are so dumb you don't even realize it and think you can "debate" your way out of the actual truth. The frozen ice in the antarctic isn't listening to your debate no matter how much you try.