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Apparently not, since there's an XKCD Sucks site. I often like it, though.

Apparently so - http://toddbot.blogspot.com/2010/05/wikireader-forth-and-hacking.html .. FORTH? Wow. Amusing. :)

Here is another source showing global warming slowing down and even reversing some cases!

I am a former Alaskan. Tell that to the Alaskans where May first 60 degree days hit and leaves start appearing on the trees when it just hit 4 a night or two ago and the snow hasn't even melted yet?

Before you say climate != weather, check this graph out? For 13 years straight it has persistently getting colder. The UK is getting colder every year as well. The climate of the world did get warmer starting in the 1970s but it is reversing now. It is not just Alaska or the UK.

I think our calculations on CO2 are way off.

Just curious - what happens if you're on the "no-fly" list and you're a licensed pilot who owns his own plane?

Taken to the extreme, Travolta owns his own 707.

...Emulators aren't very satisfying on my Nexus 7 because a flat sheet of glass lacks any tactile feedback as to where the thumbs are relative to the on-screen buttons....

Dude, it's a fucking phone, of course it's not good for emulators. My sink isn't good for taking a bath, but can get me clean if needed.

You want a device that is good for emulators? There a a ton of cheap android devices for that: http://dingoo-scene.blogspot.com/ You can find reviews of various ones there.

As much as you want to have 1 device to rule them all, it's not going to happen anytime soon.

On the guy's blog about the McDonalds incident, he says "The eyeglass is permanently attached and does not come off my skull without special tools.", but that's the closest thing I've been able to find. Somewhere, I read that it just has electrodes stuck to his head like an ECG. Hardly implants.
As for his "severe vision problem", he says in that same post that he carries around a letter from his doctor, but never mentions a vision disorder.

http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html

It's not because the style of the glasses themselves is bad; it's actually quite clean when viewed as a product of the same industrial designers that gain huge amounts of respect for such products as the iPad or the iMac. Even allowing for the fact that they were created by industrial designers rather than fashion designers, there are classic styles of glasses that would be perfect for this technology, such as the much-copied Prada sunglasses worn by Marcello Mastroianni in the film 8 1/2 in 1963, which are still stylish when worn by James Hetfield 50 years later.

But putting Google Glass technology into these frames and giving Hetfield a copy to wear onstage would not make them polite to wear on the street. They're a walking admission that whoever you're interfacing with in person is less important than some electronic stuff that you're too socially inept to share.

There is no way a bike could carry one week worth of groceries for a family

The Dutch have cargo bikes called bakfiets.

Sure, I'd be happy to help them but first they need to help themselves. Ask themselves where the MAJORITY of their money goes, take some action like SOME of the book authors have been doing. http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Instead of insisting on more and more and more they should perhaps look for where their inefficiencies are and fix those?

Maybe when they have done something to clean up their own damned mess they can stop calling their CUSTOMERS thieves I'll have some sympathy? I'm all for spending reasonable amounts of money for things I want. But $25++ for a movie? $20 for a CD? 99cents for a song I like is fine - without DRM - and I buy these fairly often (sorry not when they cost more). More money for an e-copy of a book than a paperback? F-that!

Who the fuck else would do biotech studies besides the biotech industry?

Please take your own advice about not spreading lies.

Thanks. Great quote. Explains people voting unsupportable ideology over rational self-interest.
Worse, rose-colored glasses plus self-designed and -welcomed blinders.

Ah, crap. Better to know, I have to suppose. Yet....

Doctor: "You have a terminal condition."
Patient: "How long have I got?"
Doctor: "Do you really want to know?"

Uf da.
( http://pillarenvironmental.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-speak-scansin.html )

There's a few missing, up by Sheboygan, hey.
If curious, lynchspammers over der by gmail once.

Not only did they sell it first time, but they sold it when it was version 5.0, widely regarded as a supremely bad version of MySQL (and one that, sadly, gave it a lot of its reputation to this day). Soon after Sun purchased MySQL AB, they released 5.1. Monty had this to say. A quote: "Don't expect that all critical bugs that you may have encountered in 5.0 to be fixed in 5.1. Even if we have fixed a big majority of the bugs from 5.0 some really critical ones still haven't been addressed."

To compare with what happened in later years, have a look at Wikipedia's list of milestones and look for patterns. Look, for example, at the mentions of bad or broken features, and see where they are. They congregate around the time MySQL was purchased by Sun. Then they peter out, and in the last few years there is no mention of bad quality and lots of additions of new features

So, I think it's pretty clear that MySQL has only improved since Monty gave up control, despite the unfortunately entrenched (and somewhat deserved) bad reputation MySQL had at that time and was inherited by Sun. Time will tell if his inverse midas touch continues to destroy his current project.

How about you guys actually think about it for more than five minutes?

If making sure the video stream was encrypted was the big deal, it can just as easily be down with javascript. AES is not some mystical impossible to implement technology. The purpose of DRM in HTML5 serves only one purpose, to add a "black box" to websites. So how is this DRM actually implemented by the browsers? Who the hell knows. If it relies on software, then it will simply be cracked instantaneously. There will be no point to it. Firefox is open source, you can just recompile it to direct DRM streams into a file or something. If it instead redirects the DRM stream to hardware, well, then you are basically fucked. It will only work with certain computers/devices. You end up in a situation similar to websites requiring flash currently, where some sites simply don't work with your tablet or such.

I don't think you know about proper implementation of cryptography. Programming this in JS is entirely non-trivial, because the language doesn't provide the necessary features to prevent side-channel and time attacks. See also this (from the stick-figure guide to AES). The entire idea is to plug it to a proper crypto implementation. If Firefox provides the proper API, then all you need to do is connect it to the right software (or hardware) and it will play your video. Or, you know, you don't play evil DRM-ed videos and streams.

The implementation they seem to want is to have the browser redirect the DRM stream to a software blob that will decrypt it and do "something". God knows what. But it will work on most devices, provided they cross compile plugins. This is the same crappy situation as activeX, where you will are forced to install plugins where you have no idea or control over what they do. If you don't install them, entire pieces of websites will not work. And they will pop up EVERYWHERE.

Again, you don't have to use it. It is proper software engineering to separate these things, and although things could be done wrong, that is no reason to not write a standard for it.

This is the worst possible outcome, there is a good reason people are fighting this.

Exactly. A tin-foil hat discussion.

The RTEMS Project (http://www.rtems.org) is very proud to be part of this successful mission. For details see http://rtemsramblings.blogspot.com/2010/02/nasa-solar-dynamic-observatory-launched.html

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Oh -- we're at war with Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, etc. etc.? I guess I didn't get the memo. Or do you mean "the whole world is a battlefield"? In that case, there is no logical reason to exclude drone strikes in Iowa -- it is after all, part of the battlefield. Expect it. Not this year or the next, but a decade or so from now. And then blame yourself.

And yes, it is so terrible that Obama does the same and worse than GWB. It's the pattern:

Considered historically, it will become clear that the job of Republican governments is to invent novel, ad hoc expansions of state power, while the job of Democratic governments is to consolidate and systematize them. Far from repudiating supposed Bush-era "excesses," the Obama regime has sought--usually successfully--to entrench and to codify them. This is just the latest example.

http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2010/05/ratchet-effect-part-infinity.html

They should include an eDisplayPort interface so you could drive a $60 9.7" 2048x1536 panel (think "ipad 3") pretty much directly.

If one woman can have a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can have a baby in one month, right?

No.

Not every task can be run in parallel.

Now however if your data is _independent_ then you can distribute the work out to each core. Let's say you want to search 2000 objects for some matching value. On a 8-core CPU you would need 2000/8 = 250 searches. On the Titan each core could process 1 object.

There are also latency vs bandwidth issues, meaning it takes time to transfer the data from RAM to the GPU, process, and transfer the results back, but if the GPU's processing time is vastly less then the CPU, you can still have HUGE wins.

There are also SIMD / MIMD paradigms which I won't get into, but basically in layman's terms means the SIMD is able to process more data in the same amount of time.

You may be interested in reading:
http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2008/09/larrabee-vs-nvidia-mimd-vs-simd.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7091958/cpu-vs-gpu-when-cpu-is-better

When your problem domain & data are able to be run in parallel then GPU's totally kick a CPU's in terms of processing power AND in price. i.e.
An i7 3770K costs around $330. Price/Core is $330/8 = $41.25/core
A GTX Titan costs around $1000. Price/Core is $1000/2688 = $0.37/core

Remember computing is about 2 extremes:

Slow & Flexible < - - - > Fast & Rigid
CPU (flexible) vs GPU (rigid)

* http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501
* http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130897

The idea that, one day, our cities will be filled with flying vehicles that push stuff downward to stay afloat, vehicles that lack the maneuverability and stopping power of wheeled vehicles, is absurd on the face of it. In other words, forget propellers, rockets, wings and all that other silly nonsense. Physicists will have to seriously retrace their steps to figure out where they went wrong because they will need to fully grok the nature of motion to solve this problem. Only a full understanding of motion can reveal that we are moving in a vast ocean of motive power, an immense lattice of energetic particles. No lattice -> no motion. Bountiful energy free for the taking, if only we knew how. Floating sky cities impervious to earthquakes, tsunamis and bad weather; New York to Beijing in minutes; Earth to Mars in hours. That's the glorious future of energy and travel. Read Physics: The Problem with Motion if you're interested. You don't understand motion even if you think you do.

Just time for fact checking...

>Do closed source people share code with BSD people? Nope.

Hmm. Strange, I'm guessing that means Apple doesn't release any source from what they do with BSD source, and BSDI never contributed SMP or anything like that to FreeBSD, and Juniper never contributed anything back.

Read the links, especially the last one.

> Do GPL people? Nope.

For the most part, correct...although there are a few who insist on not converting permissive source code (Luis Rodriguez is the main one .

>Are BSD users against closed code? Obviously not...

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43

Start with bad data, you'll get bad results.

It's a $30 activation fee for those already on iProvo. My bet is that new customers pay a $300 install fee for the free service, just like elsewhere, but no news on that yet.

Dude, some ISPs are already injecting ads into web content that you access through them. If it's a choice between that and Google knowing that I look at Slashdot ten times a day, I'm pretty okay with the loss of privacy.

Agreed, and also the fact its a gigabit download speed...

The spiral pattern that catches the eye...

Unretouched pictures, from Florida

A hawk? I'm not impressed. A 35-foot pterodon, now we're talking! Plus one that big could carry missiles, huah!

http://rocketdungeon.blogspot.com/2012/02/remember-smithsonians-flying.html
http://www.edgeascension.com/index_files/Page2570.htm

http://www.edgeascension.com/index_files/image2497.jpg

One approach looks only at ice volume measurements, and explicitly ignores theory because the existing theoretical models failed to predict anything like the ice loss that we observed. Using the simplest accelerating-curve-fit, we get first ice free in September 2017, and six months per year ice free by 2025.

http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2012/08/more-on-arctic-sea-ice-volume.html

Dude, some ISPs are already injecting ads into web content that you access through them. If it's a choice between that and Google knowing that I look at Slashdot ten times a day, I'm pretty okay with the loss of privacy.

What's amazing about this statement is that the word Justice as handed down to us from Latin meant nothing more than accurate application of the law.

"Jus" is Latin for "law".

Only recently has "justice" been taken to mean "social justice", or simply "righteousness".

See also What if there's no such thing as Chaotic Good

or http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/06/rawlsian-god-cryptocalvinism-in-action.html

On the one hand, I'm not a big fan of functionality being removed from a device, but given it's dependent on a server farm somewhere to run, it stands to reason they'd sunset it eventually. That said, nobody (myself included) used these services. The Wii takes forever to boot up (even from sleep), and I have to figure out where the kids hid the remote to drive it. Then the weather app is only updated every 8 hours, and is telling me the weather of the town two towns away because that's the closest one in their system. It was vaguely neat in 2008 when I got my Wii, but now my wife and I have iPhones and an iPad, which we've found to be slowly replacing all functionality formerly done by our Wii... Main thing we do with it these days is stream Netflix. On the other hand, a lot of people are using their Wii's to stream Netflix... http://techmedianow.blogspot.com/2011/07/25-of-us-netflix-users-using-wii-to.html

He liked Chinese,
He liked their tiny little trees,
Their yen, their ping-pong, their yin and yangese ....

(I'll shut up now but for what I recall having met him at a single, wine fueled dinner, he liked Oriental cultures and people. He sided with Shockley / Jensen about the genetic nature of intelligence but wasn't seemingly all that wound up about it. You may be confusing Crick with James Watson who was openly and shockingly racist and got tossed off the lecture circuit and out of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.)

I have written a rather detailed article on next steps for anyone affected - which is just about anyone with a Wordpress site. Unfortunately at least 10% of accounts hit have been successfully compromised, and many are being used to send spam or attack other sites. The Global Wordpress Brute Force Attacks of 2013 - http://calladeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/04/global-wordpress-brute-force-attacks.html This includes the method to htaccess block direct automated requests for wp-login.php as well. The attackers have gotten around some fairly advanced countermeasures including mod_security rules so all Wordpress site owners should be following these steps.

I have seen these types of messages on both Fusion (Fedora based), Mint and plain old Ubuntu. All supposedly noob friendly distros
The main issue is when you upgrade to a completely new version (like Ubuntu 10.10 to 12) which rarely works flawlessly.

If you want more factual info just look at bug pages like:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager
And reports like: http://fusionlinux.org/2011/03/17/fusion-linux-update-breakage/
or http://geslinux.blogspot.com/2012/07/fedora-17-gpg-key-retrieval-failed.html

This: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Cn_jem4ZT0/UPwLzBVwkjI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Wvi9jkuhH8M/s1600/Windows-life-cycle.png

I updated my wife's laptop from Windows Vista to 8 a few months ago while they still had the $40 upgrade offer.

Also, I put it on an SSD.

So now every time she complains to me about the Metro interface, I simply threaten to put her old HDD with Vista back in, and she gets quiet again. If that doesn't work, I threaten to put in my other SSD with Linux Mint :-D

Over the last 20 years Knapp's State Theory of Money (also called the chartal theory of currency, well stated by you and still taught in Economics classes nearly everywhere) has been empirically disproven by the continued existence, acceptance and convertibility of the Somali shilling within recognizable free markets. See Luther & White (2011). Somalian currency is not permissible for tax payment anywhere in the world, but you can buy food with it so it is money and has value.

There's a lot to ponder in regards to the reasons chartalism turned out to be wrong - I don't think anybody's proven the why of it - but it's definitely been proven wrong. See here for a somewhat Austrian-slanted but interesting discussion of unbacked fiat currencies with a focus on Somalia.

In the hope? Well, some certainly there is well proven criminal secrets.

But who cares while you get your beer and pizza delivered and the football leage keep playing.

http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2009/04/piracy-as-copyright-infringement.html

There you go. Might have been handy had ScentCone provided it, but I found it easily with a Google search on "'piracy' first use copyright infringement". It's a goodly informative, interesting read and quite news to me.

Do you mean a "butt load?"

So they have to furlough to make up for the overall budget increase?

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/media-hype-over-sequester-cuts.html

Cite, please?

In this article, Con Kolivas says, "As you may have read on this blog last year, I got invited to interview with Google for a job as a software engineer and then in the end I got turned down due to lack of adequate breadth of knowledge."

It's because no one uses the Google+ sign-in yet. Google has barely started phasing out the normal Google sign-in in favor of their Google+ sign-in.

Two key innovations introduced by the new Google+ sign-in over its predecessor, the plain Google sign-in. It's no longer compatible with an open standard like OpenID, it now uses its own proprietary standard. Plus, it exports everything plus the kitchen sink when signing-in into a web site (assuming you give it the permission to).

Still, I prefer the Google+ sign-in because it actually gives me granular control over which circles can see what I'm sharing without having to spam the rest of my acquaintances with content they don't want to see. Criticize Google all you want, but even when they do evil, they seem to be doing it better than other companies.

kansas city gives it up for google...., provides the first, third, and last paragraph of six paragraphs on what Kansas City gave up to Google printed in a Harper's Magazine article of the same title. The online article is only available to magazine subscribers.

In the second paragraph there's this:
"According to its contract, Kansas City must give Google access to its underground conduits, fiber, poles, rack space, nodes, buildings, facilities, and available land. It cannot charge the company for 'access to, or use of any city facilities...nor will it impose any permit and inspection fees.' And what does the city get in return? It has no say in the pricing of Google's services, nor can it ensure that Google will deliver fiber-optic service to all of the city's residents. Google's offices, meeting spaces, and showrooms are provided free of charge, and the city pays the company's electric bill. The major, moreover, is barred from commenting on Google's activities without the express permission of Google."

The Harper's page linked to does have this correction, "The space the company maintains in city-owned buildings is indeed free; its other local facilities are privately rented." Otherwise it appears Google is getting more than Kansas City is getting in return. And that does not count all the marketing data Google gains with all the eyeballs of surfers.

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