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As far as identifying and responding to intrusions, it seems everything is already there, just needs to be implemented with agents that can monitor controllers, which I'm sure has already been coded anyway. Mashups of current security tools like SecurityOnion http://securityonion.blogspot.com/ would be a good starting point methinks.

Hell, this is as good a summary as any of what you should expect to have learned in college:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html

As a resident of Maryland, I think I'd prefer noodz of Pelosi to noodz of our senior senator.

You want the truth about Swartz? See http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/01/noam-chomsky-killed-aaron-swartz.html

Not only are they expensive, they are also not sold. They are licensed. This removes the ability to use the provisions of the first sale doctrine. So you can buy a license to a book - but you can't transfer it. With a physical book I can sell it to a used book store, hand it to my wife or kids and let them read it, send it off to a friend in another state, donate it, etc. With an e-book I can't (legally) do any of that. I can't even let my wife read it on her e-reader (separate account). Since we are very limited in what we can do (again legally) with them, they don't have the same value to me as a consumer. Yet they charge the same (or higher) price. I had put my thoughts on this into a blog entry some months back. They still pertain now. http://gildude.blogspot.com/2012/03/have-you-bought-into-e-book-model.html

One of the things I'd like to see if the ability to transfer from one cloud service to another. Amazon has theirs, Google has theirs, other folks likewise have theirs. But I have no (legal) way to transfer an e-book out of say Amazon's service and into say Google's service if, for instance, I decide I want to use a different e-reader and move "my" licensed content. Can't do it. The only value I get out of e-books that is missing from physical books is the amount of books that can be stored on a small device and the ability to add more to that device from say a hotel room on a trip. However e-books have all the previously mentioned downsides - many of which people are very slowly becoming aware of.

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Google does scan your emails for keywords. That information may be stored or revealed in any number of ways.

What I'd like from MSFT: a guarantee (legal contract) that MSFT will not do the same on the new Outlook.com.

The funny thing is, MSFT seems to be guilty of the same. Check out: http://investigativerep.blogspot.com/2013/02/microsoft-bing-botched-runs-google.html

TFA is crap, but links to a post with more details.

the applicants were Robert Ashby Donald, Marcio Madeira Moraes and Olivier Claisse, respectively an American, a Brazilian and a French national living in New-York, Paris and Le Perreux-sur-Marne. All three are fashion photographers. The case concerned their conviction in France for copyright infringement following the publication of pictures on the Internet site Viewfinder of a fashion company run by Mr. Donald and Mr. Moraes. The photos were taken by Mr. Claisse at fashion shows in Paris in 2003 and published without the permission of the fashion houses. The three fashion photographers were ordered by the Court of Appeal of Paris to pay fines between 3.000 and 8.000 euro and an award of damages to the French design clothing Federation and five fashion houses, all together amounting to 255.000 euro

Notably,

In the case of Ashby Donald and others v. France the European Court of Human Rights did not need to undertake itself such a balancing exercise, as it found that the French judicial authorities have done this exercise in a proper way. As the Court stated, it saw no reason to disagree with the findings by the French courts

I.e., the ruling didn't do squat to help the defendants in this case.

Anybody who thinks we are going to colonize the solar system, let alone the star systems beyond, with a bunch of cockamamie rockets is out to lunch. The idea that space propulsion is best done in a vehicle that moves forward by throwing things out the back is primitive to the extreme. Reactive propulsion precedes Newton and even Ptolemy. It's pathetic, really.

But do not let the preceding get you down because a new and fabulous era of space travel is about to be born. Soon, physicists will wake up from their stupor and realize that their understanding of motion is fundamentally flawed. We are on the verge of a breakthrough in physics that will make almost every current approach to energy production and transportation obsolete. It is based on a new analysis of the causality of motion. Essentially, Aristotle was right to insist that motion is caused. As a result, we are swimming in an immense lattice of energetic particles, an ocean of clean energy, lots and lots of free energy. Soon, we will understand enough about the lattice to exploit it for energy production and propulsion. Our future vehicles will move at tremendous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring damages due to inertial effects. Floating sky cities impervious to earthquakes, tsunamis and bad weather, unlimited clean energy, earth to Mars in hours, New York to Beijing in minutes... That's the future of energy and travel. It will happen in your lifetime.

Physics: The Problem With Motion. You don't understand motion even if you think you do.

Placentals are so mainstream when there exist monotremes.

Everything in Windows 8 looks like they are just single-color HTML <div>'s with some margins splattered around.

Compare also the boot logo of Win7 to the amateurish logo of Win8.

The problem is you can't really replace a pickup and a Schwinn with a single vehicle. The Surface Pro ends up being something like an El Camino and the Surface RT is one of these.

So what, pray tell, is Lispy about JavaScript? You talk about anonymous functions and lambdas again, but, as I have already noted, almost all other mainstream languages have both, as well - most certainly both Python and Ruby do.

Other then the fact that lambdas and closures (I'm sure that's what you meant) exist, here are a few:

- It is object oriented at a fundamental level, but not in a specialized sense, so nested functions are the basis of functionality, and not object methods and/or functions with data around it. So functions are logic that can carry data, and not the other way around. (You can do it, but it's unsafe because everything is mutable.)
- And for closures, it's not the fact that they exist, but rather, how they are used. Closures (Or any function for that matter) are how you create private scope in the language and how you implement secure logic, further illustrating the paradigm of behaviors with storage, rather than storage with behaviors, which is a Lispy concept.
- Prototypes reverse the lookup between code and data again, very similar to how generic functions do it in LISP.
- Code and data can both be used interchangeably; code can be data, and data can be code.
- Any data (Whether functions, objects, or information) can be created via anonymous means and put anywhere.

And "key-based data" is just laughable - any language with an associative dictionary can do the same, even Java - even if the latter doesn't have syntax quite as nice. But e.g. in Python it's literally the same syntax:

Yes other languages have the above concepts. I wasn't saying they didn't. I was just hoping to draw attention to how similar the two languages were. (Which is why I called it key-based, because that's what it is in Scheme.)

Brendan Eich wanted to make a dialect of Scheme (A LISP), or at least a language as similar as he could when he first make JavaScript. Apparently the people at Netscape wanted the language to at least vaguely appear similar to Java. (Just silly marketing)

The entire creation process is actually really interesting actually...
http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2009/11/coders-at-work-brendan-eich.html

With Scheme being the inspiration behind the language, I wanted to draw a few lines between the two to show that there are indeed a lot of similarities, and that if you treat JavaScript like Scheme, you'll have a much easier time with it.

At this point, I have to ask: are you actually familiar with other languages beyond JS and Lisp? In particular, are you familiar with Python, and especially Ruby? The latter in particular is much closer to Lisp than JS ever was.

I'm not gonna lie. I am unfamiliar with both Python and Ruby. Though my repertoire of languages extends beyond just JavaScript and LISP.
Either way, I only focused on those two languages because they were the two I wished to draw similarities between.

You know the AC plagarized that whole post, right?

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html

and as for how she wound up a single parent

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war-on-women-front.html

You know the AC plagarized that whole post, right?

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/12/thinking-unthinkable.html

and as for how she wound up a single parent

http://anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com/2012/07/news-from-war-on-women-front.html

Youre ignoring the whole "the controls werent equal, and the researchers didnt bother to control for experimental bias" thing. Thats not exactly minor, and criticism (even from "neutral" observers) for the princeton study isnt exactly rare.

If I read the criticisms correctly they also didnt bother measuring how much chow was eaten, which makes it pretty hard to link the weight gain to HFCS.

Criticisms of the princeton study

The claim that the metabolic consequences of HFCS and sucrose differ radically should raise eyebrows among physiologists. While I’d be skeptical of any results that find a difference, I would find good evidence for differences fascinating...... So if I were a metabolic physiologist, I might be tempted to look into how HFCS makes rats less active.

Except that I wouldn’t because after reading the paper, I would note that the experimental design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of the results in Bocarsly et al 2010 are deeply flawed. ......
[Issues]

• Experimental Design. The experiment lacks a 24-h Sucrose treatment and thus any interpretation of the 24-h HFCS treatment confounds two potential factors, time (12-h v. 24-h) and sugar (HFCS v. sucrose).
• Second, and most importantly, because this is relevant to all of their results, the authors either fail or make no mention of controlling for type I error using something like a Tukey-HSD test

And so on, if you wish to read.

Another article which brings up a different issue...
Complicating things further, the researchers cite a related study of female rats that found no difference in weight gain between animals that consumed HFCS or sugar over an eight-week period.

And at the end of the day, the real issue is that one study does not prove a point, particularly when it doesnt even begin to offer a mechanism whereby 5% more fructose would cause a significant difference in weight. Studies showing negative effects from EM radiation come to mind.

What a classy comment.

All the equipments belong to real planes, not military though.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2gmNiznAYPk/UQ_kVG4GxUI/AAAAAAAABQY/UIRwfGrF0cY/s1600/Kahir313_Kokpit.png

The equipment used on that panel are listed in this image:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2gmNiznAYPk/UQ_kVG4GxUI/AAAAAAAABQY/UIRwfGrF0cY/s1600/Kahir313_Kokpit.png

Oh, here's you're problem, you're using the solar constant (1360 W/m^2) to calculate the solar forcing on the surface, in the arctic. The arctic never gets anywhere near the full 1360 W/m^2. Consider the difference between the sun at noon, and the sun at 5:00PM. In addition sea ice doesn't reflect the full spectrum of light. You are also ignoring clouds, which (obviously) have a huge impact on temperatures in the arctic. Your calculation is so wrong I'm not even sure whether you were purposely being deceptive. The glaciologist towards the bottom of this page predicts that the loss of the entire ice cap would be equivalent to 1.3 W/m^2 globally (he also predicts that will happen within 3 years, so we'll see on that one).

You do bring up a good point though, that arctic ice albedo does seem like it would have an important effect. It seems like something you might want to put on this chart from the IPCC report (chapter 2) Why didn't they? In fact I can't find where they address the topic at all; chapter 2 seems like the reasonable place to put it. That seems like an important thing to miss.

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They're not really the only player in this space-

LinX Imaging [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/07/linx-imagings-multi-aperture-camera.html ]
Pelican [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/11/pelican-imaging-capabilities-presented.html ]

Is starting to be applied to high-precision 3D measurement:
Raytrix [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/12/raytrix-presentation-from-vision-2012.html ]
Ascentia Imaging [ http://www.ascentiaimaging.com/ai_web_2812_003.htm ]

They're not really the only player in this space-

LinX Imaging [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/07/linx-imagings-multi-aperture-camera.html ]
Pelican [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/11/pelican-imaging-capabilities-presented.html ]

Is starting to be applied to high-precision 3D measurement:
Raytrix [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/12/raytrix-presentation-from-vision-2012.html ]
Ascentia Imaging [ http://www.ascentiaimaging.com/ai_web_2812_003.htm ]

They're not really the only player in this space-

LinX Imaging [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/07/linx-imagings-multi-aperture-camera.html ]
Pelican [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/11/pelican-imaging-capabilities-presented.html ]

Is starting to be applied to high-precision 3D measurement:
Raytrix [ http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/12/raytrix-presentation-from-vision-2012.html ]
Ascentia Imaging [ http://www.ascentiaimaging.com/ai_web_2812_003.htm ]

A Katyusha type rocket is about as cheap a rocket powered "ballistic missile" as it gets. These are the type of which Hezbollah forces fired 3970-4228 in the 2006 Lebanon War. They are reported to cost $3-5000 each to produce. As the parent to your post alludes, you can buy a GPS, an ARM board, and some batteries and servos off the shelf for no more than $300. Use your own imagination how much it would cost an RC modeler to modify the fins to steer. Burn up a few Katyushas and some volunteer hours in the development effort and you've got a cheap guided weapon.

You want something a lot cheaper still? Buy or build thousands of RC model airplanes and put a grenade on each one.

Asymmetrical warfare.

I do not believe the rest of us are quite as clueless as you arrogantly suppose.

Depends on your definitions, but a ballistic missile can be cheap. Actually, a 5.56x45 round for an M-16 or a 7.62x39 round for an AK-47 is a "ballistic missile".
ballistic: relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving without guidance or control only under their own momentum and the force of gravity
missile: an object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target; a projectile

A Katyusha type rocket propelled projectile is a ballistic missile. The term is used popularly to describe just about any smallish unguided, ground rocket propelled projectile with an arcing flight path (non point-blank), and a warhead under 30 kg or so. During the 2006 Lebanon War, Hezbollah forces fired between 3970 and 4228 of them. They have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan by irregular forces, and by both sides in the recent Libyan civil war.

And I think most would agree they are cheap. They are reported to cost $3-5000 each,

So yeah, I think events of the last decade in the middle east have amply demonstrated that forces on the unsophisticated end of asymmetrical warfare can "barrage you with cheap munitions".

Oh, you were thinking of something like ICBMs or IRBMs? I don't believe that is what your parent was talking about.

Actually, just about all ICBMs of major powers that are of less than ancient vintage are not fully ballistic even after the main boost burns out, for what it's worth. They employ guidance and bursts of maneuvering rocket power to launch their warhead(s) (MIRV = multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles).

That reminds me of this story: http://sarcasticsarcasms.blogspot.com/2013/01/sowas-it-murder.html?spref=fb The story is not true, but is an interesting hypothetical.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oteFRZe9p28/TrHWjvsVaoI/AAAAAAAAAEo/HISvQnEFnf4/s1600/pedobear.PNG

I've seen this one in real life. Complete with pedobear peaking out from behind the plate. Seriously.

After WWII ended, German POWs in the gulags of the Soviet Union adopted a particular method of movement known as the "plenny-step". This was designed by the prisoners to conserve energy when the Communists provided a starvation diet. Not much is known of the exact method used, other than it "turned the camp inhabitants into a mass of bent, crawling figures". You have to realize that the human body (and all animals) do a really good job with optimizing energy output for work achieved.

Enery from fossil isn't renewable. Someday It will not remain. so renewable energy is very urgent now... Around IndonesiaM

Wifi and bluetooth has been broken on the Nexus 4 ever since Android 4.2.1 was pushed out mid-November.

See http://things-linux.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com] for all the gory details.

Actually sorta thinking about maybe possibly becoming open to the potential concept of perhaps thinking about considering a Blackberry.

Wifi and bluetooth, anyhow. Ever since Android 4.2.1 was pushed out mid-November.

See http://things-linux.blogspot.com/ for all the gory details.

Actually sorta thinking about maybe possibly becoming open to the potential concept of perhaps thinking about considering a Blackberry.

The Google Nexus 4 phone has had broken wifi and bluetooth since Android 4.2.1 was pushed out mid-November last year.

See this Google code forum bug report: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40065

and these blog posts http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/has-google-become-institution-bound.html and this

http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/time-frame-of-nexus-4-wifi-bug-issues.html

for more info. It's enough to me make me reconsider a BlackBerry.

The Google Nexus 4 phone has had broken wifi and bluetooth since Android 4.2.1 was pushed out mid-November last year.

See this Google code forum bug report: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40065

and these blog posts http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/has-google-become-institution-bound.html and this

http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/time-frame-of-nexus-4-wifi-bug-issues.html

for more info. It's enough to me make me reconsider a BlackBerry.

There is a substantial risk of a bioterrorist attack on the US from the Hezbollah operations in Mexico. Whether you believe John McAfee's revelations or not:
http://www.whoismcafee.com/a-clear-and-present-danger/
The truth is the scenario he presents is possible entirely plausible.

The solution is to enforce the Federal border control laws. The Feds won't do it. So the Arizona State government took matters into their own hands and created a state law that was similar to the Federal law, but Arizona would be able to enforce it. The Obama Administration took Arizona to court and the state border law cannot be enforced (not that the Obama Administration also took states to court to stop them defending Constitutional rights by enacting anti-Sharia legislation; since Sharia is opposed to all other Constitutional right). The Obama Administration's solution was instead to put up signs warning US citizens to stay away from areas where the narcos and people smugglers operate:
http://thecitysquare.blogspot.com/2010/09/feds-cede-border-to-smugglers-warn.html http://thecitysquare.blogspot.com/2010/07/arizona-law-is-working-already.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._United_States

Enforcing *existing laws* would do more for border security that some gadgets. Just as drugs come in that border it is easy for ricin or other bioagents to come in. Hezbollah and their Iran backers would just love to have the option to sow terror in the US with a bioattack: in addition to the option they have of two dozen Shahab 3 IRBM missiles they have installed in Venezuela; and will probably upgrade to Shahab 5 missiles with nuclear warheads soon. Don't worry, your President has just appointed Hagel who thinks that talking with the Iranians is best. Yes, they Iranians have already had a decade of talks and more talks will just give them more time to finish their nukes (which they are close to having the capability of making, if they haven't made one already; US intelligence is not sure it can tell the difference).

All this means the US was wrong to oppose Arizona in making a State law that enforced Federal laws that weren't being enforced. It also means that US citizens are in a greater danger than they have ever been before - but their mainstream media is not reporting on this stuff, so the majority of people are still asleep to the threats that are arising.

Before you mod me down or counter-post, please collect your citations that refuse the existence of the signs that warn US citizens because the border has effectively been ceded to narcos; or evidence against the Iranian IRBMs in Venezuela; or evidence against Hezbollah wanting to conduct bio-attacks on US soil. I doubt you'll find objective links. These threats are real - and fortunately the US agencies have been more competent than the jihadis and narcos, so far. Although the ATF "Fast and Furious" scandal does make one wonder - what the hell was the Obama Administration thinking?

There is a substantial risk of a bioterrorist attack on the US from the Hezbollah operations in Mexico. Whether you believe John McAfee's revelations or not:
http://www.whoismcafee.com/a-clear-and-present-danger/
The truth is the scenario he presents is possible entirely plausible.

The solution is to enforce the Federal border control laws. The Feds won't do it. So the Arizona State government took matters into their own hands and created a state law that was similar to the Federal law, but Arizona would be able to enforce it. The Obama Administration took Arizona to court and the state border law cannot be enforced (not that the Obama Administration also took states to court to stop them defending Constitutional rights by enacting anti-Sharia legislation; since Sharia is opposed to all other Constitutional right). The Obama Administration's solution was instead to put up signs warning US citizens to stay away from areas where the narcos and people smugglers operate:
http://thecitysquare.blogspot.com/2010/09/feds-cede-border-to-smugglers-warn.html http://thecitysquare.blogspot.com/2010/07/arizona-law-is-working-already.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_v._United_States

Enforcing *existing laws* would do more for border security that some gadgets. Just as drugs come in that border it is easy for ricin or other bioagents to come in. Hezbollah and their Iran backers would just love to have the option to sow terror in the US with a bioattack: in addition to the option they have of two dozen Shahab 3 IRBM missiles they have installed in Venezuela; and will probably upgrade to Shahab 5 missiles with nuclear warheads soon. Don't worry, your President has just appointed Hagel who thinks that talking with the Iranians is best. Yes, they Iranians have already had a decade of talks and more talks will just give them more time to finish their nukes (which they are close to having the capability of making, if they haven't made one already; US intelligence is not sure it can tell the difference).

All this means the US was wrong to oppose Arizona in making a State law that enforced Federal laws that weren't being enforced. It also means that US citizens are in a greater danger than they have ever been before - but their mainstream media is not reporting on this stuff, so the majority of people are still asleep to the threats that are arising.

Before you mod me down or counter-post, please collect your citations that refuse the existence of the signs that warn US citizens because the border has effectively been ceded to narcos; or evidence against the Iranian IRBMs in Venezuela; or evidence against Hezbollah wanting to conduct bio-attacks on US soil. I doubt you'll find objective links. These threats are real - and fortunately the US agencies have been more competent than the jihadis and narcos, so far. Although the ATF "Fast and Furious" scandal does make one wonder - what the hell was the Obama Administration thinking?

Recommended reading: Copyfree is not quite the Public Domain .

In the ideal world there would be no problems with releasing software without any legal notice, or explicitly as "public domain". The present-day legal systems, however, are very far from ideal. Some governments don't recognize the concept of "public domain", and the developers / users of such software can run into all sorts of difficulties with the way their businesses are regulated. Some governments also have certain silly "implicit warranty" laws: if you give away software and that software eats someone's data (or has security holes, or any other issue), they may be able to sue you!

Many businesses (especially small businesses / independent developers) cannot understand all the details of how this would affect them without paying for a legal consultation ahead of time, which results in a significant "chilling effect". People avoid software that presents legal ambiguities, which applies not just to "public domain" software but to GPL and other long-winded restrictive licenses.

A clear solution to this is to only use copyfree licenses, like the new BSD license, MIT/X, ISC, CC0, OWL, etc. These licenses essentially say: "do what you want, just don't sue me, and don't pretend you wrote it". That's the very essence of free software! Attaching further restrictions, even when well-intentioned, always does more harm than good. The gradual success of copyfree software is powerful evidence that copyleft restrictions are not necessary, and there is much evidence of them causing a great deal of harm.

I highly recommend for everyone to listen to this interview with D Richard Hipp (bsd-talk podcast #194). He is the author of SQLite, which is one of the most widely-used pieces of software ever developed! In that interview he talks about why he chose to release his latest project under the BSD license. Hipp tells of his attempt to give away SQLite as "public domain", and how some governments make even that seemingly simple prospect very inconvenient. He also mentions how SQLite was originally forced into GPL for dependency issues, and how inconvenient that was - he had to rewrite those components from scratch in order to make his software useful...

--libman

Check out http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/01/has-google-become-institution-bound.html for the skinny on the N4.

It's not even a good example of bridge lighting as artwork.

South Korea did it already: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NaflaJsPzOU/TPkRV_Soq6I/AAAAAAAAADE/KdbUhEsBB2g/s1600/Banpo-Bridge-Fountain-Seoul-South-Korea.jpg

This guy, who wrote an extremely useful and powerful piece of OSS software that is widely used in the graphics community, said it very well in his blog:

http://meshlabstuff.blogspot.com/2010/03/assessing-open-source-software-as.html/

Basically, you are an idiot if you invest any time at all in such things. Papers are all that count. OSS software? You wrote something that hundreds of other researchers depend on for their daily work? Get lost, that professorship goes to someone else. Someone else who was a Real Man, and wrote Papers! Lots of them!

Lining pockets. That's funny.

If you like Java, I'd suggest the IOIO and an Android device. You inherit the device's guts (gps, cellular antenna, speakers, wifi, gyro, color display) and can go nuts. The biggest difficulty for me was getting the ADK up and running w/ Eclipse on my Debian laptop. They are cheap too...take a look at Sparkfun and Adafruit.

Easy Techs are high pressure salesman and if you are not selling rip off cables and other stuff you get your hours cut or you get fired.

http://iworkatpencils.blogspot.com/

APL - both as a precursor to things like Mathematica, Matlab, and R but also as _still_ embodying the clearest, most consistent and extensible idea of arrays.

It's depressing to look at a brand-new language and see the concept of arrays is still muddy and hackish - "let's ignore the relation of a scalar to a vector to a matrix to higher-dimensional arrays" & "let's implement a whole set of string functions that parallel - poorly and incompletely - the same sort of array operations we'd also like for vectors of numbers" - compared to what APL outlined 50 years ago. It's not very complex, either. I learned it in less than 15 minutes when I was 13.

If you're interested, I touch on this simple, elegant concept in some of my blog entries: http://thoughttools.blogspot.com/2012/05/shapely-conversation-i-went-to.html .

some recent observations (since 2010) of massive arctic methane releases are very worrysome.

These will necessarily have to be validated by satellite lidar measurements when a german mission with the proper instrumentation flies in 2014. Until then, we are basically blind and speculating on the matter. But it does not look good.

If there are, indeed, massive methane releases going on, there is a pie-in-the-sky shot at geoengineering using 13.56 MHz transmitters to try to break-up the methane molecules before they rise higher than 50km in the atmosphere;

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2012/10/radio-and-laser-frequency-and-harmonic-test-ranges-for-the-lucy-and-haarp-experiments-and-their-application-to-atmospheric-methane-destruction.html

But if that doesn't work, I would expect things to go downhill fairly rapidly in the next 20 years.

Here's the droid you're looking for:

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While what you say about fiat dollars is true as far as it goes, it ignores the bigger picture of "Credit as a Public Utility" as discussed by Richard C. Cook at two of the links.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/an-emergency-program-of-monetary-reform-for-the-united-states/5494
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3p48upXJaA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
"The author of this independent report worked for the Carter White House and NASA, then spent 21 years with the U.S. Treasury Department. In the report, he explains that the U.S. financial system headed by the Federal Reserve System has failed and that only an emergency program of monetary reform can address conditions which may be leading to a catastrophe like the Great Depression or worse. Such an assessment has become increasingly familiar as economic storm clouds continue to gather. But the analysis and recommendations contained in the report may be surprising, even to many progressives. "

Fiat currencies are more than just a "store of value" which is what you are focusing on. Fiat dollars are actually in many ways a very poor store of value (compared to real estate, gold, monopolies, skills, or whatever). Fiat dollars are also a medium of exchange, which transmits signals of "demand". That's why I sometimes call them "ration units". When a society with our sort of heavily-exchange--based economic system has too few such fiat tokens to signal demand, the system does not work well, just the same as if you had too few "Kanban tokens" in a factory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Both the USA and China have an inadequate money supply for the current needs of their societies. In the USA this is true for two reasons. One is because most digital currency in the USA has left the real economy most US citizens are engaged in, and those digital blips in banking computers have moved to the zero-sum casino economy of speculative investments in "FIRE" asset inflation. The other is that the Clinton Administration so well managed the US Federal Budget that it moved into surplus and stopped borrowing, which meant new currency was no longer being created and injected into a growing US economy. That helped cause the subsequent economic depression.

To understand this, imagine what would happen to the US economy if everyone stuffed all their US dollars (or digital banking equivalents) into their mattresses. Soon everyone in the USA would be out of work. Why is that? The demand is still there. The infrastructure is still there. The raw material is still there. The reason is that there is no way for "consumers" to send signals (via fiat dollars) to make the system work.

Granted in real life, people would begin to barter, would invent local currencies (search on LETS), or would start trading with foreign currencies. Or people might begin to somehow more formally communicate demand via twitters or emails, which could even get passed around as IOUs as another form of currency. So, there are limits to this thought experiment. But for the sake of the argument we could assume all these other means of exchange had been outlawed (as some countries have done, including to an extent Cuba or the old USSR).

As is suggested at the following link, the main reason for the American Revolution was mainly that got laws passed to prevent American colonists from printing their own money any longer, which led to a depression in the American colonies:
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/06/other-reason-for-american-revolution.html
"This, [Benjamin Franklin] said, was the real reason for the Revolution: "the colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that

Well, rather than a 'tiny phone thing with 4g', I'm more thinking you have a huge tablet thing with the 4g and a 'tiny phone thing' that hooks up to it via bluetooth.

Bigger antenna = more sensitivity and needing less power(on average) to connect to the cell network; plus the bigger battery gives you the life you want.

Then have the port so that you slot your tiny phone into it for charging and so you don't lose it.

Absolutely. And, for longer talk time, you could let the smaller handset be connected to big radio brick. Might look something like this...

No doubt it would be all the rage.

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I take it you've never lived through a currency devaluation or hyperinflation.

I do take it that you are aware that there are numerous economies that have suffered through such things and are still kicking? Yes, even hyperinflation doesn't do that much. Keep in mind all it is doing is zeroing out a particular currency. One can always trade in something else that still has value, such as that bag of rice or a currency that isn't experiencing hyperinflation.

For example, we can read about actual experiences with hyperinflation.

There are real reasons why the IMF plans for food riots in countries where they impose austerity measures (they even call them "IMF riots" in their internal documents), people's children are starving. They know it, and they don't care as long as their corporate partners get control of the country's assets.

Those real reasons include that a unsubsidized food market is generally healthier than a subsidized one.

How much testing will ever be enough?

The general consensus that I've gathered from talking with anti-GMO folks is there there will NEVER be enough testing that will convince them that GMO food is safe, and only any results that would ever show some kind of harm, even if only "maybe", "possible", "potential" would be considered definitive. You see this constantly on pretty much any anti-GMO site (naturalist sites, organic foods, etc). They hype up even the slightest possibility of not 100% safety, regardless of the actual science and papers not making this case or even despite showing that not only is this not the case, but not even possible (such as the BT corn. It isn't possible for the BT Cry proteins to have a toxic effect in a mammalian gut because it is easily broken down, whereas in specific insect guts it causes the stomach to rupture, eliminating the pest).