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Granted, I was talking about DMCA takedown notices, but it is the same concept: relevant blog post

The problem is that Earthrise is going to be kinda lame.

At least you get an 'Earthrise' on Mars, you can't do that s*** on the Moon.

The problem is that Earthrise is going to be kinda lame.

Considering the cheesy shit publishers have done to increase profits from sales with on-disc DLC, preorder bonuses, multiplayer passes and the like, none of which EA has any qualms about implementing into their games, I find it odd that it took this long for EA to come to this decision. Brings me back to when Activision's CEO Bobby Kotick openly fantasized about making every game subscription based.

Honestly though, I don't mind that EA is trying this. Publishers don't exist to bring us quality games, that's what developers try to do (some, anyway.) Publishers exist to squeeze every last penny out of IP laws that they can, and tack whatever contrived bullshit onto their games that they think they can get away with. Remember these? Publishers are more often than not just like loan sharks, only where the mafia tries to hide from the scrutiny of the DoJ, corporations can just pay them for even more invasive copyright laws. And if you dare oppose it, you're an un-American anti-capitalist who hates successful people and heartlessly steals from the efforts of hardworking programmers who pour their hearts into their work. They've practically got a free ride at this point.

No, what bothers me are the people who buy into this abusive relationship with people who sell intellectual property. Or lease, I should say, since apparently you don't even own software that you purchase. As long as there's a market that will kowtow to this sort of behavior, IP owners will keep pulling goofy shit like this. And they'll come out winning.

You are playing around with the right concepts.

What exactly would you be taking a hash of, however, and how would you verify the vote totals? Are you hashing the ballot serial number + the vote? Just because the election authority has published a hash that matches your, doesn't mean they used your vote in the announced total.

David Chaum developed the punchscan voting system as an end-to-end verifiable election protocol for paper ballots that allows anonymity and verifiability. Scantegrity is a successor system to that: http://scantegrity.org/.

I wrote up my explanation for how this works here: http://seedsofgenerality.blogspot.com/2010/09/secure-voting-protocols.html

The key concept is that of a cryptographic commitment.

None of the ideas on your blogs address how to "end the Turing madness" in a way that will still allow you to post on Slashdot.

I disagree but, just in case you missed it, read How to Solve the Parallel Programming Crisis.

The use of encryption is only intended to provide a way for legitimate remote users to gain supervised access to the system without having to hack into it. The real culprit behind bad security is software reliability. Attackers look for and try to exploit the defects in the software. Why is software defective? Because (it's the bugs, stupid!) the Turing/Von Neumann model of computing is inherently insecure and unreliable. Why? Because timing is not an essential part of the model. I predict that this decade will see the end of the Turing madness and that the future of computing is non-algorithmic. There is no alternative and the sooner, the better.

The use of encryption is only intended to provide a way for legitimate remote users to gain supervised access to the system without having to hack into it. The real culprit behind bad security is software reliability. Attackers look for and try to exploit the defects in the software. Why is software defective? Because (it's the bugs, stupid!) the Turing/Von Neumann model of computing is inherently insecure and unreliable. Why? Because timing is not an essential part of the model. I predict that this decade will see the end of the Turing madness and that the future of computing is non-algorithmic. There is no alternative and the sooner, the better.

you're thinking of some other service

gmail launched in april 04.

Here's a post from the same month:
http://www.errorik.com/archive/2004-04.htm

Here's July 04:
http://itsmygmail.blogspot.com/2004/07/gmail-address-variations.html

and Jan 06:
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/01/6022-2/

Every time I watch one of those travel shows on TV where someone goes to Iran, I have to laugh a little.

I think if people saw that they would be completely uncomfortable with the idea of bombing the place. Their leadership are obviously a bunch of nutters and scumbags, but those are normal, modern people living in what looks like a reasonably modern city.

I know it's all superficial stuff, but people identify with what they know, and we don't usually hear about Iran portrayed as a place of regular people walking down the street in jeans, carrying Gucci purses and sporting fancy sunglasses.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tehran+women&hl=en&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a3CLgAuAq8k/R0yKggh5G1I/AAAAAAAADGU/vsS1fxuVXOc/s400/women_london_tehran.jpg

So you're this guy

Open an Administrative Command Prompt (click Start, type "cmd" then Ctrl+Shift+Enter) and paste in this command.

REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\10.0" /v "DoNotAllow IE10" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

From my blog: http://tidbitsfortechs.blogspot.com/2013/02/blocking-ie10-on-windows-7-heres-how-to.html

Install ejection seats on the remote pilots' chairs would certainly serve as a strong deterrent to unsafe manoeuvres as well as providing a means for a broad range of disciplinary actions.

except it would kill the pilot. Is it time to stop spending billions on obsolete aircraft.your staf is good.i was search news magzine nad intaer you websites.

You blame the voters, but the information presented to them is pure deception. I don't give a fuck if they were a school teacher or volunteered for 37 years scraping tarter off retarded children's teeth. I only care if they are a member of PNAC, AIPAC, CFR, the UN (subs - UNEP/IPCC/Agenda 21), ICG. I only care if they are doing revolving doors with monsanto, HFCS, banking, etc. I only care if they won't break their sworn oaths. The ballot doesn't tell you they've broken the logan act, or been convicted of felonies, the ballot won't tell you if their ID is real. Neither will the corporate owned media. In essence you don't know shit about who your voting for, you can't validate an electronic vote, and you can't do JACK SHIT about the two party electoral college system. Go read land destroyer, who connects these dots: http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/03/naming-names-your-real-government.html
Go read about the disaster that is the "electoral college" GO look at the ron paul people that got fucked.

The problem is these officials have broken their OATHS, and I believe this is because they aren't natural citizens anymore, which explains why they don't give a shit about the Constitution they have European ideals, not American, Constitutional ideals.

There's ISRAEL (land of the ritual to un-bind all your sworn oath, no wonder they don't obey pesky GOY oaths, nice word huh? Goy?)
http://maplight.org/us-congress/interest/J5100/view/all

They have completely infiltrated DHS, NSA, CIA, Senate, House--everything. There's a difference between being Jewish, and being a zionist psychopath, so don't lob shells at me sayin I am anti-semetic, and for the record my fucking grandmother is Jewish! My point here is that people refuse to even address this issue because of the fucking mind games.

Technically you don't need to vote, the electoral college does it FOR you. Don't like it? FIX it.

You know I thought ol Debra Bowen (D, CA secretary of state) was going to rid those electronic boxen. Nope. And even recently found a lawsuit vs Debra Bowen about motherfucking Barack's Birth Certificate ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ARGUMENT.

How the fuck is it we are all to get national ID's and be spied and monitored by NSA and databases and all this fucking SHIT and the mother fucking president can't prove he's a fucking natural born citizen.

This shit is just too un-real, the turning is coming soon. That's why they want your guns, that's why their fucking judges don't prosecute the Jon Corzine's. Just wait until the banksters fuck it up again, it will be Jubilee time this time

http://mamajiwatulip.blogspot.com/2010/10/tulip-bling-bling-stickers.html

Put a couple of those on and you'll be "Pimp"(tm) in no time.

Exactly this. I'm a fan of Doctor Grumpy, who's made his opinions pretty clear. There's always some doctor willing to testify that some test was obviously needed to find some rare condition with no visible symptoms. Those "unnecessary" tests are indeed necessary - not for the patient's safety, but for the doctor's.

While we're at it, can you get the state off my back and make them stop telling me I need to by car insurance? The overwhelming majority of car trips never involve an accident but the American public is made to spend trillions of dollars each and every year for something that is so patently "unnecessary"!

Exactly this. I'm a fan of Doctor Grumpy, who's made his opinions pretty clear. There's always some doctor willing to testify that some test was obviously needed to find some rare condition with no visible symptoms. Those "unnecessary" tests are indeed necessary - not for the patient's safety, but for the doctor's.

Big Grats on this Ray! I know you've been preaching this for a long time. Good to see it finally getting some traction with the Courts. Am I also to believe that progress is being made with the improper joinder issue as well?

Absolutely, just today I posted another of many decisions granting severance and dismissal as to all John Does other than Doe 1:

Bit of clarification on the linux instructions.
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/

Has the typing commands portion of the instructions simplified down to:
wget http://goo.gl/34v87; sudo bash 34v87

run at least twice.

And:
sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 5 -S 1 /dev/mmcblk0

To set ubuntu as the default boot.

So. No need to type in anything too complex w/ dd

That is an insult to dd. I have used dd for EBCDIC conversion, and it was simpler than that crap.

Bit of clarification on the linux instructions.
http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com/

Has the typing commands portion of the instructions simplified down to:
wget http://goo.gl/34v87; sudo bash 34v87

run at least twice.

And:
sudo cgpt add -i 6 -P 5 -S 1 /dev/mmcblk0

To set ubuntu as the default boot.

So. No need to type in anything too complex w/ dd

In the UK, handguns are banned for civilians. And most police don't carry firearms either. So in your mind, everyone is helpless. Result? A homicide rate a quarter of the USA.

The UK's overall violent crime rate is almost twice that of the U.S.

The U.S.'s homicide rate has fallen by 50% since the early 90s, while the number of guns in private hands has risen and many states have liberalized CCW laws.

On the other hand, the U.K.'s gun ban had no impact on the murder rate -- in fact the homicide and gun crime rates went up the first few years after it was instituted. Gun crime in the U.K. roughly doubled between 1999 and 2009.

There are also serious problems with crime being under-reported in the U.K.. And some allege (I'm less certain about this claim) that even murder is undercounted in the U.K. versus the U.S., because U.K. rates are based on final disposition of cases (i.e., someone was convicted) while U.S. rates are based on reports (i.e., there's a dead body).

I suspect that even with that taken into account,though, the U.K.'s homicide rate may be lower -- not for any reason involving firearms, but because the U.S. has more of a problem with economic stratification, and a greater lead pollution problem thanks to our car culture.

You can do some neat stuff with hot glue. ABS, being a bit stronger of course, would support some unique work of its own.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s_xK_MMwLjM/S1lrwFb9hmI/AAAAAAAAAQM/WcaUe8l7dGM/s400/googoo.jpg

The citation I'd recommend using is Arkell vs Pressdram. Now granted, that was a UK case, not a Swedish case, but I'm guessing that The Rights Alliance will get the message.

The same elite "Cyber" group in the PLA is also selling fake Rolexes. If you believe Mandiant, feel free to contact me about shares in the Brooklyn Bridge http://cybernonsense.blogspot.com/2013/02/chinese-hackers-and-security-malware_4130.html

Google is not the internet, no matter how hard they try, and yet a large population thinks that if you can't reach google, the internet is down...

There are probably thousands of scripts around the world that ping 8.8.8.8 or some other well known Google IP address on a regular basis to test their Internet connectivity. For example, this script

GPU resets:

"Other ideas for troubleshooting:"

{list not quoted}

"I wouldn't pin this problem on Microsoft. Ultimately, this crash is due to game/software developers
and graphics card manufacturers (such as ATI/AMD and NVidia) developing buggy devices and software
and not playing by the rules and standards dictated for a specific platform like Windows. There are
many cases of similar events happening on UNIX/Linux systems, so this problem is not specifically isolated to Windows."

The above is a quote from http://mikemstech.blogspot.com/2011/12/troubleshooting-0x116-videotdrerror.html
a site I have nothing to do with; just a google result that helped me out one time.

Since Vista, the Windows OS deals with this by chatting with the graphics,
if the graphics doesn't reply in a reasonable amount of time the OS will reset the program.

Playing an intensive game like Battle Field 3 this tends to happen a lot. The video
card is too busy and doesn't have the time to chat; so the game just goes away.
Your either at your desktop like nothing is wrong other than not playing a game anymore,
or staring at the last graphics frame shown with a hard reset in your future.

VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE is what one error calls itself and fixed by disabling the "Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR)."
Key added here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers then disabled.

I have a write up about this in my journal but it's not worth reading, it's wordy and doesn't flow a bit.
A better write up is here http://mikemstech.blogspot.com/2011/12/troubleshooting-0x116-videotdrerror.html
a site I found after running a debug on the one (single) .DMP file that managed to be written before the OS
became unresponsive.

Taxing the net liquid value of assets at modern portfolio theory's risk free interest rate, rather than taxing economic activity, is the way out of this abominable situation in which independent inventors are put through the meat-grinder.

Of course, the wealthy will oppose this in every way since they currently benefit from the protection of their property rights without having to pay for that protection, while those producing wealth pay the taxes.

This means political solutions are out of the question.

So, rather than having the corrupt, evil, stupid and/or ignorant drag down the rest of us into political economic Hell, all inventors should demand sortoracy: Sorting proponents of political theories into governments that test them.

http://salsabileparadise.blogspot.com/2013/02/blog-post_9457.html

http://salsabileparadise.blogspot.com/2013/02/blog-post_9457.html

http://salsabileparadise.blogspot.com/2013/02/blog-post_9457.html

http://salsabileparadise.blogspot.com/2013/02/blog-post_9457.html

Dehydration is definitely a major contributor to hangover. However, it isn't the entire picture. The next two major contributing factors to hangover (or other deleterious effects) are:

1) Hyponatremia (which can lead to potomania, whether you are drinking beer or liquor), and
2) Vitamin B deficiency, particularly B1 and B12 (I personally use this, because high doses of water-soluble vitamins doesn't cause any issue). Note Wernicke's encephalopathy.

...so, ensure your drinks have a positive sodium balance for what you're losing, and backstop your vitamin B's.

Applying these two approaches have effectively eliminated any hangover I would have expected to experience (aside from being tired, but that may be attributed to staying up until 3 AM—drinking or not). It has worked well for me for almost two years now.

Also, ensuring you consume adequate protein may help to forestall liver damage; I prefer to err on the side of high-protein intake.

if the loose gravitational agglomeration is large enough, it's possible for the smaller rock to pass by on the other side of the earth, swinging around and appearing to come from another direction

This isn't an issue of two objects "appearing to come from another direction." The problem is that the direction of travel of the two objects was tremendously different. In other words, they don't share the same orbit around the Sun. Notice that the Russian meteor isn't following a path anything like DA14's south to north path: http://attivissimo.blogspot.com/2013/02/russian-meteor-path-plotted-in-google.html.

It starts, with a killer asteroid hurling towards the earth.

Our hero is summoned, and immediately springs into action.

He sets out with his trusty weapon to save the world from the danger of the week.

After a long and awesome journey, he finally reach his destination.

Finally there, he slowly takes aim, breathes, and fire at The Killer Meteor. The meteor, alerted to his presence, fights back. What follows is a long action sequence only slowing down now and then so our hero can do manly poses.

After a long battle, and lots of shooting and fishing was done, there was only a small fragment left, just enough to spend the CGI budget, and show everyone how dangerous The Killer Meteor could have been.

No one was killed, and the world was again saved thanks to our hero.

The End.

Honestly, I feel like a sucker.
If you believed the math on his tax plan worked, you damn well should feel like a sucker.

Do you think that Obama's tax plan (whatever that is) is working? Trillion dollar deficits have become the normal under Obama even though he promised to cut our annual deficits in half. He even said that if he didn't get this accomplished that he should only be a one term President. I guess that makes two promises broken in this example.

You mean the deficit which was maximum during Obama's first year, the budget for which was written under the Bush administration, and which has been going down every year since? http://images.scribblelive.com/2011/7/26/60302364-7d87-4258-916b-64dbf67d7fcb.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-asCDUk24jRE/TmFuQXObXyI/AAAAAAAAAlA/3bN1fjT3dXE/s1600/deficit%2Bbush%2Bvs%2Bobama.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QlTEkX7iyFY/TMcZsPI1RaI/AAAAAAAAA0c/KMgwo7QM1gU/s1600/Bush-Obama-Deficits.jpg

Yeah. those dang tax and spend Democrats, we were doing so well under Reagan then the next morning, there's a Kenyan socialist in office who took the Reagan Surplus and gave it away to his army of black drug addicts and illegal Hispanic gangsters, then had to raise taxes sky high to finance some stupid war in Iraq he started over the strenuous objections of the Republican party, only because he confiscated their firearms to prevent their armed rebellion against said madness.
That about it?

Honestly, I feel like a sucker.
If you believed the math on his tax plan worked, you damn well should feel like a sucker.

Do you think that Obama's tax plan (whatever that is) is working? Trillion dollar deficits have become the normal under Obama even though he promised to cut our annual deficits in half. He even said that if he didn't get this accomplished that he should only be a one term President. I guess that makes two promises broken in this example.

You mean the deficit which was maximum during Obama's first year, the budget for which was written under the Bush administration, and which has been going down every year since? http://images.scribblelive.com/2011/7/26/60302364-7d87-4258-916b-64dbf67d7fcb.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-asCDUk24jRE/TmFuQXObXyI/AAAAAAAAAlA/3bN1fjT3dXE/s1600/deficit%2Bbush%2Bvs%2Bobama.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QlTEkX7iyFY/TMcZsPI1RaI/AAAAAAAAA0c/KMgwo7QM1gU/s1600/Bush-Obama-Deficits.jpg

Yeah. those dang tax and spend Democrats, we were doing so well under Reagan then the next morning, there's a Kenyan socialist in office who took the Reagan Surplus and gave it away to his army of black drug addicts and illegal Hispanic gangsters, then had to raise taxes sky high to finance some stupid war in Iraq he started over the strenuous objections of the Republican party, only because he confiscated their firearms to prevent their armed rebellion against said madness.
That about it?

nah, they are probably playing the "Razor Scam". Sell you the main product for cheap, break-even, or even at-a-loss, then gouge you with the consumables it uses all the time, at a great markup. See also "printer ink cartridge scam".

So I'd expect the gadget itself to sell reasonable, but then these "pods" will go for $10 ea, and contain about a nickel's worth of hydrogen. And maybe a DRM chip to prevent you from refilling it.

A "solution good for the consumer" would be rechargeable pods, that you can simply fill to the line with water and then plug into the wall, where they split some water and generate some hydrogen to recharge themselves. (and either store the oxygen in the cell too, or maybe vent it outside, or pressurize some O2 cylinders you can sell back to your local airgas co?) Though they'd take awhile to recharge. I suppose it may generate O2 slowly enough to not be a hazard.

The only non-cheap part of the system is the membrane for the cell or the catalyst for the recharger.

Maybe I'm just being pessimistic about it. But I think the biggest challenge in fuel-cell technology right now is the big players in the market that will find serious new competition in fuel cells. Look at the rechargeable battery industry. When you threaten to dump a new product on the market with a much higher energy density and lower cost than the alternative they're offering, they tend to freak out. I haven't seen any public account of pressure and sabotage from those groups on fuel cell tech, but I'd expect it's happening, on a significant scale, even if out of the current public eye.

That reminds me, I recall reading a year or so ago that someone came up with a way to convert natural gas to H and 2O in the cell, and that made it powerable directly from natural gas. Imagine that, a computer that runs on a little cylinder like a 20gram CO2 from your pellet gun, full of natural gas. Fuel cells are cool. Wish we used them more.

In this week's 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama announced his energy policy initiatives for 2013. He signaled new directions on issues ranging from transportation fuel economy to promoting low-cost natural gas to investing in energy efficiency, clean energy and infrastructure. These policies could have significant impacts on those in the energy sector as well as any others who consume electricity, oil, or natural gas in their operations. I wrote a brief summary of President Obama’s remarks on energy issues: http://energypolicyupdate.blogspot.com/2013/02/2013-state-of-the-union-on-energy.html

To answer my own question, my assertion was correct. With physical access to the device, brute forcing the PIN protecting the disk encryption is trivial. The million dollar question is: how to sufficiently protect a key in a manner that can be quickly and conveniently unlocked by an average user?

So virtually unrepairable would mean it's not really unrepairable, right?

http://cutewriting.blogspot.com/2009/04/literally-practically-and-virtually.html

Their choice is to become Muslims (join the evil crew; which is evil), submit as dhimmis ...

If they don't do these things then they are liable to be killed. How is that not evil?

First verse 9:5 is specific to one group of treaty breakers, not everyone as specified in 9:4 "Excepting those of the idolaters with whom ye (Muslims) have a treaty, and who have since abated nothing of your right nor have supported anyone against you. ..."

The following verse 9:6 says "If one amongst the Pagans ask thee for asylum, grant it to him, so that he may hear the word of Allah; and then escort him to where he can be secure. ..." In other words, don't hurt the guy, preach to him and then let him go.

I expect you've got your twisted reasons for saying the verses before and after 9:5 don't count. So I've got more:

--That's pretty straight-forward.

-- Looks like even atheists are welcome.

-- Basically the golden rule for religion - treat others religions as you would your own religion. Hardly a recipe for religious subjugation.

-- Also pretty straight-forward. If people aren't attacking you, you should not attack them.

An non-abrograted commandment to kill all Muslims even if they are not a threat to believers. This is evil.

Abrogation - that's a new one since I last ran into your brethren. If you can't dispute the text, pretend it doesn't count. Looks like that AC had you pegged on that one. But, unsurprisingly even that newest form of delusion doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

My understanding of Sura 9 is the same as Osama bin Laden's and Quradhawi's and Qtub's and Al Azhar's. We agree it all means the same thing and abrogates the other verses.

You've listed Yusuf Al-Quradhawi and the al-Azhar University as sources of proof that verse 9:5 is the real deal that over-rides everything else, that all of the other verses about freedom of religion don't count. Al-Qaradawi is a pretty popular islamic theologian, he even has a show on al jazeera, kinda like glenn beck had a show on fox. While al-Azhar University in Egypt is arguably the "chief centre of Arabic literature and Islamic learning in the world." So when those two say something it must be true, right? They are your go to guys in this argument.

So, here's what al-Qaradawi actually has to say about 9:5:

• "...aggression on Muslims and not disbelief is the basis for Muslim warfare... There is disagreement on the so-called Sayf aya (the verse of the sword). Some claimed that it abrogated 200 verses of the Quran among which are the forgiveness and tolerance. But there are those who say that the Sword verse itself is abrogated."
  Who is an authority on Islam Robert Spencer or Al Qaradawi?

And here is the official position of al-Azhar University on the freedom of religion. Not just one or two professors who might be cranks, this statement has the full force and standing of the authority of al-Azhar itself.

1. Freedom of belief and the right connected to it of full citizenship (muwatana) for everyone, based [in turn] on absolute equality in rights and duties, is considered the cornerstone of the modern social order. This freedom is guaranteed by dirime

If you're looking for a way to improve your skills, a couple of quick rounds of Robocode and changing a couple of lines of code will give you a quick distraction along with a small increase (or creation) of your Java skills. More about it here: http://robo-code.blogspot.com/

Did cavemen use western or English Saddles when they rode dinosaurs?

Neither, duh, they used a howdah.

I would have stopped at "yes" without the optimism, and it's not even a platform/processor issue. This is a fundamentally unsolvable thing, since in some cases it reduces to the halting problem. That best you can do is come up with an approximation.

But the approximations will be wrong too. Simple example: write speed. If you write a block to disk, and it fits into the operating system cache, a write happens almost instantly. If the cache is full, you might have to spend tens of seconds waiting before that write occurs. Here's what happens with installers, copy programs, and a large chunk of other things. You write until the cache fills, and those happen at memory speeds. Then, all of the sudden, you grind to a halt when the cache fills. You won't see any progress, sometimes for minutes--it can take a while to chug through gigabytes of random writes. I show an example of this on my blog on Linux, and this problem gets worse as memory increases, not better.

What does that look like to the user? They get a progress bar, it zooms along for a while, and then it cranks to a halt. Then it hangs for a bit, starts moving, and the whole thing completely changes scale. Does this sound familiar? That's what people complain about, right? You can't make that go away without building a model of the caching mechanism that's more accurate than the cache itself. After all, if you could predict this was coming, the OS could have done a better job scheduling I/O with that information, too. Think about that for a minute: to write a really good progress bar for write operations, you have to do a better job on I/O scheduling than Linux does.

If you step back and say "well let's approximate how long disk I/O takes then and base the bar on that", you'll discover that doesn't work either. There's over a 100:1 difference between the fastest and slowest storage on the market. Good luck modeling that accurately enough to predict the future, too.

Others make it so well.
http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/

Do the testing on little monkeys.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nw4xUBJp5as/T_X7saOqmDI/AAAAAAAAKnA/Ev-PfLmgEm0/s1600/chimplips.jpeg

this may help as well ... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_08-SEvm16XA/TJ-WcoY5_AI/AAAAAAAAAM8/riku7rYP76c/s1600/Texas-Europe.JPG

I call it Socialocracy http://jimijon.blogspot.com/2011/03/origins-of-socialocracy.html cheers