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Cost hasn't been dropping for a long time
What we realized is that genome sequencing technology is plummeting in cost and increasing in speed independent of our competition. Today, companies can do this for less than $5,000 per genome, in a few days or less - and are moving quickly towards the goals we set for the prize.
If you look at the graphs at https://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/ what it actually shows is that after plummeting faster than Moore's Law for 3 years between 2008 and 2011, the cost has been basically flat for the past year and a half, probably due to lack of competition.
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Re:What's good for others apparently is no good fo
And Apple buys a chip company, Google buys map capability, Red hat buys its core business mind that nearly every opensource project, including the Linux kernel is innovating by integrating someone else's code.
Innovation is the end result, not the "how".
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Re:One thing is for certain...
"Where the fuck is my flying car?"
It's here. We have just gone way beyond flying cars and you missed it.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qCA_om_CTY/UYgoajU-iAI/AAAAAAAAHtE/lTI2XEPveQw/s1600/coolcar.jpgI will say, however, that Asimov pretty much described the Google car.
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Re:Pocket Computers
I recently wrote a series of blogs analyzing Asimov's use of technology (esp. hyperspace and calculating jumps) in the original Foundation trilogy. The best it gets in the 3rd book is to have a room-sized computer that can project a picture of the galaxy and locate your position in space in only a half-hour ("the Lens"). Probably the two most jarring elements when re-reading these books is how all communication is still done on paper (stacks of paperwork, paper capsules for secure messaging, paper star charts for navigation), and that most everyone is smoking everywhere all the time. Follow-up would be the absence of women in any leadership or technical roles. This being set 50,000 years in the future.
http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2013/07/scifi-saturday-asimov-on-hyperspace-pt-4.html
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Re:cell service.
When you're in the middle of nowhere, you aren't covered by anyone's 911 service. If the dispatcher didn't know about Burning Man, they might call out search & rescue I guess.
First of all, I don't know anywhere in North America where you aren't covered by some sort of government agency that provides emergency services. The Burning Man festival in particular has the attention of the local sheriff's office as well as area medical clinics and even hospitals that are... well at least "nearby" so far as any real emergency services are concerned. Some parts of North America might require a couple hour response and the dispatcher might just say "live with it" in some cases, but if a real life threatening emergency happened even in the remote Yellowstone wilderness or northern Alaska, you had better believe that somebody can get to you sooner or later.
Furthermore, the festival itself has its own security and medical corps (mostly volunteer) who are there to help out and can resolve most emergencies. It is utter bullshit to say that those who would receive such a call (and it is covered by the OpenBTS guys who do respond to 911 calls made on the system... they have made provisions just for that situation) would have no clue where to send those emergency services. I also promise that the local dispatchers who are there for the other 51 weeks of the year know exactly where the Burning Man festival is located at, and even know the major areas of the festival.
911 made on the OpenBTS systems goes to volunteers who dispatch the appropriate response, usually with the festival security guys. 911 made on the commercial services goes to the sheriff's office, who then usually contacts the festival security as well to coordinate a response. When you get 30,000 people together anywhere, the local law enforcement damn well knows what is going on and how to get there, especially for an annual event like this, even if it is what you might call "in the middle of nowhere". "That is not in my area" would not be said at all, ever.
The OpenBTS blog goes into some details about their system, although it will take some reading.
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Re:If you have to have cell service
The Open BTS guys are really giving back to the world in an amazing fashion, and using the environment of the Burning Man festival to test equipment that is used elsewhere. Their experience in Niue shows the practical benefit for this kind of project and how it could be used for other purposes as well.
I'm interested in perhaps using this project for emergency communications, as you can usually get cell phones (either stuff they own or piles of spares they can dig up) for volunteers to perform humanitarian services. A major earthquake or tornado might take out the local cell towers and certainly will take out power for most of the area, but cell phones can be recharged with portable generators and even solar battery packs. They also get some pretty decent communications range, and the protocol permits point to point communications.... something that is much more difficult with general radios like FRS or Citizen's Band equipment.
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Re:This is not...
OK, did some more googling. Actually I'm a bit surprised at the breakdown with cigarettes coming in at 1%.
There are pie charts like this from various states, and the highest percentage for cigarettes was 5%. Different regions have different characteristis. For example, it's much less likely for lightning to start a fire in Virginia because the vegetation is wetter.
I don't feel like googling the laws; but I bet you can get criminal penalties for a cigarette-caused fire in the US too. It seems like you could certainly get sued into oblivion if they can prove it's your fault.
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Re: Forget ratings, measure ROI.
It is caused by the general negative stigma of "living in mom's basement".
The thing is, there are PhDs who lives in mom's basement due to economic reasons. People now willing to live in mom's basement than carrying mortgage (and crapload of other) debt.
Cash is king. Debt is slavery.
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Re:Forget ratings, measure ROI.
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Re:No water processing plant
Well, what does this slide refer to? It's titled "Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Outline of water processing facilities" and dates from June 4, 2011.
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Re:Cue the XKCD cartoon apologists
Yes, the pacific Ocean is very large, but it also takes a very long time to to mix evenly.. "(hundreds or thousand+ years.)" Thus a large portion of the contamination will remain in the surface layer for generations to come. These relatively hot isotopes also tend to bio-concentrate/bio-accumulate up the food chain.
Recommendation.. "Eat low on the food chain" and avoid Meat products, especially those that were caught, or were fed fish meal products from the Pacific ocean.
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Re:And this is relevant how...?
If you defend the scientific method, particularly when it happens to act in favour of marginalised people, you're a self-righteous twat - gotcha.
If this were 40 years ago, I can imagine you as one of these upstanding citizens.
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Re: Uh huh
I am aware of that list. The operating system itself is not on that list, specifically the kernel as well. Consider that OpenDarwin shut down for the express reason that they couldn't get the code off Apple, I don't see what you are talking about.
The entire "operating system" isn't there, but the XNU kernel and UNIX user space are all there up to the latest MacOS X point release. Enough to get a bootable OS with shell and a full suite of UNIX utilities. Honest. Here's some instructions for building the kernel that you can then swap in. Then you can download all the userspace packages and build and swap them in as well. What isn't provided is a nice set of changelogs, package installers, open bug database, etc. But the code is available and BSD licensed.
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Re:Another "moderation" fraud
You'd also need to explain one of Taubes own favourite examples The Tokelau Island Migrant Study [blogspot.ca] who started getting fat in less then a generation.
What?
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/01/tokelau-island-migrant-study-background.html
"Tokelau's troubles began in 1765 with its 'discovery' by British commodore John Byron. "
Where's the evidence that they got fat in less than a generation? I see the graph starting from the 1960s...but where's the data on diet from 1765 - 1960?
Furthermore: "Between 1968 and 1982, Tokelauans in nearly all age groups gained weight, roughly 5 kilograms (11 pounds) on average."
11 pounds doesn't seem like rampant obesity...although I'd like to see the age breakdown (my suspicion is that younger cohorts increased more (say, someone pregnant in 1968, with a high blood sugar uterus, might produce a 4 year old child in 1972 that was significantly more obese than a 4 year old child in 1968).
Why could I listen to an hour long interview with him talking about the dangers of carbs, sugars particularly, but also starches, and I never heard him mention Japan or China?
A few excerpts from GCBC:
"By the mid-1990s, however, the Japanese contingent of the Seven Countries Study, led by Yoshinori Koga, reported that fat intake in Japan had increased from the 6 percent of calories they had measured in the farming village of Tanushimaru thirty-five years earlier, to 22 percent of calories. “There have been progressive increases in consumption of meats, fish and shellfish and milk,” they reported. Mean cholesterol levels rose in the community from 150 mg/dl to nearly 190 mg/dl, which is only 6 percent lower than the average American values (202 mg/dl as of 2004). Yet this change went along with a “remarkable reduction” in the incidence of strokes and no change in the incidence of heart disease. In fact, the chance that a Japanese man of any particular age would die of heart disease had steadily diminished since 1970. “It is suggested that dietary changes in Tanushimaru in the last thirty years have contributed to the prevention of cardiovascular disease,” Koga and his colleagues concluded."
"When Keys linked the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet of the Japanese in the late 1950s to the extremely low incidence of heart disease, he paid no attention to sugar consumption. Fat consumption in Japan was extremely low, as were heart-disease rates, and so he concluded that the lower the fat the better. But the consumption of sugars in Japan was very low, too—less than forty pounds per person per year in 1963, and still under fifty pounds in 1980—equivalent to the yearly per-capita consumption recorded in the United States or in the United Kingdom a century earlier."
"And these investigators, too, concluded that differences in cancer rates could be explained by differences in fat consumption and animal-fat consumption, particularly between Japan and the United States. They did not serve science well by ignoring sugar consumption and the difference between refined and unrefined carbohydrates."
"This model also explains, as Pete Ahrens suggested in 1961, why high-carbohydrate diets appear innocuous in populations that are chronically undernourished. This was inevitably the case with those Southeast Asian populations extolled by Keys and others for their low total-cholesterol levels and apparent absence of heart disease. Such populations lived on carbohydrate-rich diets out of economic necessity rather than choice. Their diets were predominantly unrefined carbohydrates because that’s what they cultivated and it was all they could afford. As Ahrens had noted, the great proportion of individuals in such populations barely eked out enough calories to survive. This was true not only of Japan in the year
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For a little tast of HuffPo hatefest
All of which by the way is MODERATED, take a look at this
http://hpmonitor.blogspot.com/
HP regularly reprints and links to neo nazi sites as long as it refers to Jews. HP is pretty well know to one of the most openly antisemitic major news websites out there right now.
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Re:sex pills
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
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Re:How did they calculate near certainty?
They took a survey of the membership of the IPCC.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/08/95-percent-confidence-in-hep-vs-ipcc.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/16/the-ipccs-new-certainty-is-95-what-not-97/
"Your article asks “Were those numbers calculated, or just pulled out of some orifice?” They were not calculated, at least if the same procedure from the fourth assessment report was used. In that prior climate assessment, buried in a footnote in the Summary for Policymakers, the IPCC admitted that the reported 90% confidence interval was simply based on “expert judgment” i.e. conjecture. This, of course begs the question as to how any human being can have “expertise” in attributing temperature trends to human causes when there is no scientific instrument or procedure capable of verifying the expert attributions." -
Evidence seems compelling
You can find a copy of the actual Comcast letter here.
For background
:-In June, Prenda and its boss John Steele were accused of running a “honeypot” based on an expert report authored by Delvan Neville, whose company specializes in monitoring BitTorrent users.
The report hinted that the law firm was seeding the very files they claimed to protect, and found that many of the torrents detailed in Prenda lawsuits originate from a user on The Pirate Bay called ‘Sharkmp4.
In an effort to expose the alleged honeypot, The Pirate Bay then jumped in and revealed the IP-addresses that ‘Sharkmp4used to upload the torrent files.
One of the subpoenas covered the Comcast IP-address 75.72.88.156 used by “Sharkmp4,” as can be seen at the bottom of the list of Pirate Bay IPs shown above.
After a few weeks Comcast returned the subscriber details that matched the IP-address at the time the files were uploaded. As can be seen from their response detailed below, this IP is indeed the Comcast account of Steele Hansmeier PLLC, which is directly connected to Prenda Law.
It's ironic that the method copyright trolls like to abuse, namely linking IP addresses to alleged infringers is now being used against them in this case.
As for your "good luck" comment, the same point was raised in the Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. lawsuit. Specifically, Google claimed that:-
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.
Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
Given Viacom’s own actions, there is no way YouTube could ever have known which Viacom content was and was not authorized to be on the site.
Although summary judgment was granted to Google on other grounds, I'd say this argument has at least a fair chance of success.
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Re:Have you done more or better?
IMHO Minecraft, in it's current state, isn't worth $27. I also believe Mojang shouldn't be charging for what is essentially a Beta.
I did a blog post about Minecraft recently, on my Second Life centric blog, I only started playing it last year:
http://ccslfashionista.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-critical-review-of-minecraft.html
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Re:The Same Way They Know About Your Paper Money
Or, if 10 kg is too much (and your currency isn't an issue) you could convert to 500 Euro notes for a total of 1.65 kilograms or 3.63 pounds (500 euro notes weight 1.1 and there are 1.34 dollars to the euro, meaning 1 million USD equals 749,288 Euro).
And if you are feeling really lazy, you could convert to Singapore $100.000 notes (the worlds most highest value banknote). 1 million US equals 1,275,300 Singapore dollars, which means you'll only need 13 banknotes to carry one million USD (plus change). That'll fit in you wallet!
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Re:Did you take a cranial impact?
Now you cannot possibly be so stupid as to not have picked this up so what is you motivation in writing such bullshit to trick the gullible?
Nah, this is the product of school systems such as California and others where they teach all technology is evil, we have to abandon all technology we ever made (through skits such as "Queen Carbon"), and get back to the land and fend for ourselves. Of course these school systems do not outline what will happen during that transition period of hundreds of million of people do not have the technological infrastructure to support said population.
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The meaning of open
It's curious to see Google pull this.
From http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html"At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. It is a Rashomon-like term: highly subjective and vitally important."
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"To understand our position in more detail, it helps to start with the assertion that open systems win. This is counter-intuitive to the traditionally trained MBA who is taught to generate a sustainable competitive advantage by creating a closed system, making it popular, then milking it through the product life cycle. The conventional wisdom goes that companies should lock in customers to lock out competitors." ...
"To understand our position in more detail, it helps to start with the assertion that open systems win. This is counter-intuitive to the traditionally trained MBA who is taught to generate a sustainable competitive advantage by creating a closed system, making it popular, then milking it through the product life cycle. The conventional wisdom goes that companies should lock in customers to lock out competitors. There are different tactical approaches — razor companies make the razor cheap and the blades expensive, while the old IBM made the mainframes expensive and the software ... expensive too. Either way, a well-managed closed system can deliver plenty of profits. They can also deliver well-designed products in the short run — the iPod and iPhone being the obvious examples — but eventually innovation in a closed system tends towards being incremental at best (is a four blade razor really that much better than a three blade one?) because the whole point is to preserve the status quo. Complacency is the hallmark of any closed system. If you don't have to work that hard to keep your customers, you won't." ...
"In other words, Google's future depends on the Internet staying an open system, and our advocacy of open will grow the web for everyone - including Google."The entire thing is a good read.
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Re:Only relevant line
Google are the new Doubleclick, and claiming they do no evil is ridiculous, but so is your post.
Why we're buying DoubleClick
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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Re:Yet another anti-Obama article
Yeah.
Well that seems to be because Obama keeps arguing crazy shit:
http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2013/07/obama-overreach-slapped-down-by-9-0.html
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Re:Competition, not regulation
I am just saying that the insurance companies have made everything worse, pushed prices outrageously
You can be angry at them, but the anger is (largely) misplaced. For example, auto-insurance has not pushed the prices of auto-repairs through the roof — because plenty of people still pay for repairs out of pocket.
The problem with the health-insurance situation was created — and is maintained — by the government's tax-incentives given to employers to buy insurance for the employees. This eliminates (or severely impedes) the consumer's choice of health plans — or to whether even carry a health insurance vs. just paying the doctors as most Americans used to until only a few decades ago.
Very few health-plans today are created for an marketed directly to consumers — the actual users of them. This distorts the competition as the people demand "the best" while being insulated from the costs of it. And the competition is further compounded, by the government's efforts to prohibit sales of insurance plans across state-lines...
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Re:Competition, not regulation
As long as the payers for service and consumers of it are different entities, this sort of nonsense will keep happening.
Does your scheme include room for the risk-pooling functions
Yes, of course. If the users of the health-insurance were the same entities, that pay for it, one of the layer between the consumers of health-care and payers for it would've been eliminated... It is a peculiarly US phenomenon, that our health insurance is tied to our employers — because the government gives them tax-breaks for buying the plans for us. McCain proposed abolishing these tax-breaks, which would've made insurance companies create and market plans to individuals and families, but he was mocked by the "Change" crowd, which continues to stall any attempts to introduce competition into the health-insurance market.
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Re:This is TRAGIC but..
The reality is that the vast majority of American's
are uneducated. In history as well as third grade punctuation.
Name another President that started with a budget surplus and ended with the biggest deficit in history, started TWO wars at the same time, and went into office in a boom and ended in a terrible economy?
Yes, Hoover went in during a boom and ended in a depression, other Presidents have had similar failures, but if there were any but Bush that had such a bad run I must have missed class that day. Bush was certainly the worst President in my 61 year lifetime. I thought I'd never see worse than Carter but Bush beat him hands down in his terrible stewardship.
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Re:Some underlying science
Guyenet is wedded to a paradigm that keeps his funding flowing.
You sounds like a AGW denialist.
It matters to him that Taubes be wrong not for the health of people, but for his bank account.
Yes, clearly a journalist and author cares only about the truth and health of people, and not about having a best selling book, lucrative speaking career, or being worshipped as a genius who has solved the obesity epidemic.
Taubes isn't wrong. His logic is rigorous, as befits a physicist who casts his eyes over the wasteland that is nutrition research.
From his bio:
Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford (MS, 1978).A BSc (or even a MSc) in physics doesn't make you a physicist. And even if he was it's not hard to find physicists with crank ideas about physics, why is it so hard to think one could have crank ideas about nutrition?
Petro Dobromylskyj will set set your thinking straight. http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/
So nutritionists are incompetent to discuss nutrition, even those with a PhD in neurobiology, but a veterinarian is fine. Besides, all I see from Petro is him rambling about a specific physiological phenomena in an extremely obtuse manner, even if he's right diet is far more complicated than that.
If carbs are so bad explain why people going on a exclusive potato diet always loose loads of weight when potatoes have a higher GI than sugar?
Explain why Japan, which eats large amounts of white rice, is virtually the only developed nation to avoid the obesity epidemic?
The research all points to Taubes being wrong.
The diets of entire nations point to Taubes being wrong.
Yet Taubes writing a book that says everyone else is wrong is enough to convince you he's right?
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Re:Some underlying science
Guyenet is wedded to a paradigm that keeps his funding flowing. It matters to him that Taubes be wrong not for the health of people, but for his bank account.
Taubes isn't wrong. His logic is rigorous, as befits a physicist who casts his eyes over the wasteland that is nutrition research.
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Fatal Flaw: AA is worse than no treatment
Why does AA work? It's a dumb question, because AA actually doesn't work. The real data show that you're better off WITHOUT going to AA meetings. People have a better success rate kicking their addiction on their own. The fundamental problem is that AA works for a minority of people, but those who are in AA are those very people
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Re:Need to solve the biggest bottleneck first.
I agree and it's already being done:
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Re:Some details
The problem really is the implementation on Android, from a old buggy open source library. http://armoredbarista.blogspot.com/2013/03/randomly-failed-weaknesses-in-java.html
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OTOH, an example of FOSS that uses TPM
Anti Evil Maid is an implementation of a TPM-based static trusted boot with a primary goal to prevent Evil Maid attacks.
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Other than shared memory latency, pretty good.
This guy is a ray of light from the younger generation. He's avoided grappling with the hard problem of shared memory latency, but other than that, he's doing pretty good. You have to deal with shared memory latency to handle a wide range of modeling problems, not the least of which is real-time multicore ray tracing like this.
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Re:Alive
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Re:Really, Boylan?
Well if you're interested there are several websites you can check-out:
Owning Your Shit
A Voice for Menand they each have Twitter feeds worth following.
Of course there are many, many more such sites.
It's worth looking into the Men's Rights Movement (MRM).
A small number of MRA's (Men's Rights Activists) do spew hatred, but the vast majority are quite coherent individuals who back-up their grievances with solid facts / stats. -
Re:Really? Political correctness?
Well if you're interested there are several websites you can check-out:
Owning Your Shit
A Voice for Menand they each have Twitter feeds worth following.
Of course there are many, many more such sites.
It's worth looking into the Men's Rights Movement (MRM).
A small number of MRA's (Men's Rights Activists) do spew hatred, but the vast majority are quite coherent individuals who back-up their grievances with solid facts / stats. -
Re:Not Impressed
The result does not impress me too.
You can do TRUE 3D through a lens because you can get depth from interferences of the input light field over the finite aperture (\approx lens) size. That requires only A SINGLE IMAGE.
One example of this method is the Double Helix Point Spread Function (DHPSF) developed at Univ of Colorado by Pr. Piestun from a specific phase-mask :
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oX6BL98Bi8Y/TvstLYSp5jI/AAAAAAAABLI/fDKeFKvKWs0/s400/MS+Double-Helix+PSF.JPG
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Re:Google can fix it with a hammer.
You sir, just FAILED the "Tom Joad Test".
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/08/plague-of-punitive-populism.html
Myself, I would say:
Ok, then all mobile phone software should be OPEN source to prevent people from messing with something that can potentially harm them. If I have the source, I can take responsibility for checking potentially harmful code as apposed to giving responsibility for my safety to somebody else.
Open Source == Accountability
Closed Source == Power
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
B-)
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Re:This is also the case on Firefox
Firefox have also the possibiity of a master password to be able to access those stored passwords. Chrome just didn't saw that as something that would essentially make a difference in the long term. Another different topic is how they are stored here is a comparison between Firefox, Chrome and IE, where Chome seem to not be very secure in that area, Firefox with master password is the safest, and IE dropped badly the security there in the latest versions.
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Re:This is also the case on Firefox
So set a Master Password: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-master-password-protect-stored-logins
More here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Master_passwordAlmost no users actually use this: http://monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com/2013/02/cant-live-with-them-cant-live-without.html
"....can be solved somewhat with master password, but only 1 out of 12K users had master password enabled" -
Google did this with NTP "leap smear"
Time, technology and leaping seconds
The solution we came up with came to be known as the "leap smear." We modified our internal NTP servers to gradually add a couple of milliseconds to every update, varying over a time window before the moment when the leap second actually happens. This meant that when it became time to add an extra second at midnight, our clocks had already taken this into account, by skewing the time over the course of the day. All of our servers were then able to continue as normal with the new year, blissfully unaware that a leap second had just occurred. We plan to use this âoeleap smearâ technique again in the future, when new leap seconds are announced by the IERS./blockquote
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Re:Japanese Military
In comparison the Chinese now have their Liaoning aircraft carrier which is 304.5 meters long. They bought the hulk from Ukraine and refitted it (engines, electronics, etc). It can launch J-15 twin-jet fighters which are derived from the Su-27.
They also seem to be in the process of building some smaller carriers. They already have their Type 071 amphibious warfare boats which are 210 m long. Plus they have been busy developing the J-31 stealth fighter which is small enough to fit in a carrier.
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Re:You would think. . .
Excuse me, Mr. Greengrocer, but I think you have a customer waiting. How do you people ever get through high school? Or did you simply drop out? Why in the hell did you put that apostrophe in "Americans"? We certainly have a shitty school system. And you know what? As a college graduate I can't take an uneducated person seriously.
Here's a hint, son: you're not a nerd. Nerds are literate and educated.
Don't feel bad, slashdot was overtaken by 4chanians redditers long ago. It's a damned shame, but there are few nerds left here.
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Re:xkcd is overrated
I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.
Hey, look at me! My opinion is valid because I found a website that says the same thing.
I'm making a sig out of that.
I want a t-shirt that says that.
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How do you get a baby to sleep
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Re:xkcd is overrated
I thought I was alone in this until a few weeks ago I found a site called xkcdsucks, and it appears I'm not alone in thinking this.
Hey, look at me! My opinion is valid because I found a website that says the same thing.
His opinion is as valid as yours.
Sheesh, xkcd is just a web comic. Some people like it, some don't, some (like me) find it hit or miss. But why can't people just disagree and leave it at that? It's a freaking comic.
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Re:Incompetence
The founding father's realized this