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I have one more thought on this: think of how much low level distortion is masked by how crappy speakers are in general. I think many blind tests will have to be revisited when we have truly low distortion speakers. Even electrostatic headphones are not that great. Then there's the French ionic headphones http://membres.multimania.fr/plasmapropulsion/Industrial_issues/Plasmasonic.htm but the bastards didn't measure distortion so one can only guess.
The best performing I've seen is glow discharge plasma. On Google patents you can check US 4,219,705. He used helium to create stable glow discharge (in air, glow discharge is very unstable and inevitably transitions to an arc) and then shaped it in such a way as to get a flat frequency response. Photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tb6Dp4NFH5w/SxWU_QWONKI/AAAAAAAAAnk/IgXp5VMkZlk/s1600/Plasmacell1.jpg Unfortunately, around 330 Watts in the discharge alone and only above 500 Hz (regular cone speaker for below 500) and you have to refill helium tank at welding shop periodically... But look at waterfall and impulse response: http://tinyurl.com/7d6pdnv and http://tinyurl.com/7xfppsz and THD
I decided to build this without helium. I realized I could do it once I came across microhollow cathode discharges: sandwitch a CRCLC->regulator). 135 uF total at around 3000 V is about 600 Joules or about twice a defibrillator.
One of the huge film-in-oil caps leaked (so much for "designed for pulse discharge") and the oil caught on fire and I was so startled by the mini-explosion that I broke the complex electrode structure. Haven't returned to this project yet, but I think there's something to this approach. There was also virtually no ozone (unlike the usual corona discharge speakers people drive with RF), but UV is definitely an issue to overcome.

Google's market is affectively malware-free, although the occasional software may pop up again in the future there because they don't have an extremely intrusive evaluation process. Maybe they, or someone else should create one.

Something like "Google Bouncer" ?

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2012/02/android-and-security.html

Its been around since early 2011.

Of course, it only scans Google's own store. I'm still surprised at the number of people who aren't aware of it. I can understand why Google may not want to advertise it too much (such a system can never be perfect), but at the same time it is hurting them not to.

There are three major problems:

1) Google+ was just not designed for real people with messy social relationships that can't be easily categorized.

2) Like most of Google products, Google+ has an odd clinical feel about it. Things like using a math equation (+1) instead of an ordinary word like "Like" or "Thumbs Up:. There are dozens of similar problems. It doesn't matter for search, which can be utilitarian, but it doesn't go well with social stuff.

3) People actually subconsciously prefer a company that is dedicated that social networking, like FaceBook or MySpace, than a company that is doing it on the side, like Microsoft or Google.

Here is a recent blog post discussing 1 & 2:

http://dvronay.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-google-is-still-not-working-for.html

My personal experience bears this out. Graduated from college, bought a car, started driving everywhere instead of walking everywhere: Gained 20 pounds.

My husband: Took a job working for the USPS as a mail carrier, spends every day walking around: Lost 20 pounds. (And he wasn't overweight to start with; this took him from the top of "normal" BMI to closer to the middle.)

We have increasingly sedentary lifestyles and an overwhelming abundance of insanely cheap food. Even the expensive food is cheaper than it used to be. Check out this graph of food expenditures as a percentage of personal income over the last 90 years.

Anything interesting written yet on this?

I did find:

http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/15/an-introduction-to-the-diablo-3-economy-for-wow-players/

and was surprised to see the 1 week lockout from launch for the sales.

I'm still surprised that they haven't run afoul of anti-gambling legislation and am curious as to what is in place to prevent money-laundering, &c.

That said, I'd still love to see an instance like to that of the short story ``Catacomb'' from _Dragon Magazine_ May 1985. For those who haven't read the story it begins here:

http://henrysstories.blogspot.com/2011/03/catacomb-part-1-of-5.html

William

Just feeling a bit nostalgic here. Blogger and Linux user Nicu recently posted a small history of mozilla browsers design. Enjoy :D

SHUT DOWN THE NET! FOR NATIONAL SECURITY!

The psyop seems to be working - but tell that to MLB. They post their WEP passphrase on national TV!

just wallpaper the room in oled screens. then grandpa can dress up as a scary clown and come out of the walls at night.

http://e-gadgetsinfo.blogspot.com/2012/04/future-is-almost-here-oled-wallpaper.html

http://ospreyflyer.blogspot.com/p/microsoft-financial-performance.html

Microsoft still prints money at an insane rate. They are one of the most profitable public companies in the world year after year and Balmer gets no respect as if he is just coasting on what was there before. It doesn't work that way in tech. You can't coast. Vista was a problem but Windows 7 is a massive success. Windows phone struggles but XBox does well. Windows Server and Office are still cash cows. They are moving up in the virtualization market. People want growth levels out of MS that are just not possible given their size and dominance.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/performers/companies/profits/
#4 just below Apple and they did it with much less revenue.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/full_list/

It used to be that being massive profitiable and having better margins meant something.

What happens if you're on the gold standard and someone brings down 100 years worth of production all of a sudden?

I'm sure we'll see you again next Presidential cycle Ron or perhaps you can do what your sleazy scumbag son did regarding his physician's license-

http://allbleedingstops.blogspot.com/2010/06/rand-paul-self-certified-physician.html

and self-certify yourself as President:

You know he would if he could .

Over AdBlock & DNS Servers ALONE 4 Security, Speed, Reliability, and even Anonymity to an extent:

1.) HOSTS files are useable for all these purposes because they are present on all Operating Systems that have a BSD based IP stack (even ANDROID) and do adblocking for ANY webbrowser, email program, etc. (any webbound program).

2.) Adblock blocks ads (not anymore apparently, lol:

Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option )

in only browsers & their subprogram families (ala email), but not all, or, all independent email clients, like Outlook!)

Disclaimer: Opera now has an AdBlock addon (now that Opera has addons above widgets), but I am not certain the same people make it as they do for FF or Chrome etc..

3.) Adblock doesn't protect email programs external to FF, Hosts files do. THIS IS GOOD VS. SPAM MAIL or MAILS THAT BEAR MALICIOUS SCRIPT, or, THAT POINT TO MALICIOUS SCRIPT VIA URLS etc.

4.) Adblock won't get you to your favorite sites if a DNS server goes down or is DNS-poisoned, hosts will (this leads to points 5-7 next below).

5.) Adblock doesn't allow you to hardcode in your favorite websites into it so you don't make DNS server calls and so you can avoid tracking by DNS request logs, hosts do (DNS servers are also being abused by the Chinese lately and by the Kaminsky flaw -> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082908-kaminsky-flaw-prompts-dns-server.html for years now). Hosts protect against those problems via hardcodes of your fav sites (you should verify against the TLD that does nothing but cache IPAddress-to-domainname/hostname resolutions (in-addr.arpa) via NSLOOKUP, PINGS, &/or WHOIS though, regularly, so you have the correct IP & it's current)).

* NOW - Some folks MAY think that putting an IP address alone into your browser's address bar will be enough, so why bother with HOSTS, right? WRONG - Putting IP address in your browser won't always work IS WHY. Some IP adresses host several domains & need the site name to give you the right page you're after is why. So for some sites only the HOSTS file option will work!

6.) Hosts files don't eat up CPU cycles like AdBlock does while it parses a webpages' content, nor as much as a DNS server does while it runs. HOSTS file are merely a FILTER for the kernel mode/PnP TCP/IP subsystem, which runs FAR FASTER & MORE EFFICIENTLY than any ring 3/rpl3/usermode app can.

7.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

8.) AdBlock doesn't let you block out known bad sites or servers that are known to be maliciously scripted, hosts can and many reputable lists for this exist:

GOOD INFORMATION ON MALWARE BEHAVIOR LISTING BOTNET C&C SERVERS + MORE (AS WELL AS REMOVAL LISTS FOR HOSTS):

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php
http://ddanchev.blogspot

Los Angeles used to have a little experimental reactor in UCLA. It was quite controversial once residents found out about it.

http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/04/ucla-history-nuclear-reactor.html

Weird UCI still has one... Wonder why they shut down UCLA's but not UCI
http://www.chem.uci.edu/~gemiller/reactor.html

Los Angeles used to have a little experimental reactor in UCLA. It was quite controversial once residents found out about it. http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2011/04/ucla-history-nuclear-reactor.html

The point is that it is not a built-in feature.

It took me less than 10 seconds to find the link to the software to fix this. It took me the same amount of time to find the instructions to do the equivalent fix for ubuntu - replace Unity. Not much difference there.

It would, however, take a lot less time to install one program than to do all of those steps in the second link. People who claim that using a third party application is too hard remind me of the people on infomercials that overact to show that they can't operate an old fashioned mop. If it is so hard to download one program (or put one mop in a bucket of water) then I think that you would have much bigger problems in life.

that is the equivalent of upgrading from windows 95 to windows 7 /8 and having a stable system (hint: ain't going to happen).

I dunno about stable, but you can upgrade it all the way starting from DOS 6.22 and Windows 1.0, and finishing at Win7.

http://facebookemoticoncode.blogspot.com/ http://facebookemoticoncode.blogspot.in/2012/03/facebook-emotion-code.html http://facebookemoticoncode.blogspot.in/p/facebook-chat-setting-method.html http://facebookemoticoncode.blogspot.in/p/latest-facemoods-emoticon-code-for.html http://facebookemoticoncode.blogspot.in/p/facebook-special-symbols-and-emoticons.html

Conservatives are evil. Don't be one.

http://hardincountyconservatives.blogspot.com/2012/05/greg-abbott-wins-appeal-tx-ban-on.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110614035520AApWGtA

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-13/news/31054067_1_professors-obscenity-first-bill

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/43388331#43388331

http://www.mediaite.com/online/michelle-bachmann-signs-social-conservative-pro-marriage-pledge-that-also-bans-porn/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-wants-ban-hardcore-pornography-222833811.html

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/05/07/conservatives-back-ban-on-begging/

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/11/wyomings_self-described_conser.html

http://stfuconservatives.net/post/19427221927

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

I've got a vision for something similar for motorcycling. Lots of people travel to my home state to ride. Since it's about 2000 miles through Canada to get to Alaska from pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., and since many of the roads in NW Canada or Alaska are kind of tough on tires, many of those people who arrive here need new tires when they arrive, and/or need to replace tires before they leave. Additionally, lots of people like to add gadgets and accessories to their bikes (known as "farkling" though I quite honestly hate that word for some reason). None of that stuff is difficult to do; I've changed my own tires, added additional storage, installed crashbars and a skidplate, upgraded the lighting and other electrical gadgets, for example (warning -- those are all shameless plugs to my blog ;)

However, a lot of people are nervous about hacking on their bikes, especially at first. I wasn't too thrilled the first time I had to make a non-reversible mod to my bike (cutting turn signal wires and drilling holes to route the wires somewhere else so I could install the side carrier racks), nor when I had to cut off the grips to install the heated grips (I found out later that I could have used compressed air to remove them without cutting, sigh). A little hand-holding and wisdom from those who have "already been there and done that" can go a long way in such cases, as well as to provide advice on better ways of doing things (why do I need to remove the brake calipers to pull my front wheel?!?! Oh...the rim is too wide to fit between the calipers while they are still installed...)

If that isn't a compelling enough reason, there are a lot of tools that are too expensive for a single user -- for example, tire balancing equipment, tire stands, engine cranes, etc. Having a collective that splits the cost of $$$ equipment and a garage or warehouse for people to share can make these tools available to the average home mechanic.

>Except that you can't run Android apps on your desktop out-of-the-box, so many people will prefer Window RT for that reason

Are you sure?

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57404865-12/latest-bluestacks-arms-your-pc/
http://youwave.com/
http://keyable.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-adb-to-install-apps-on-android.html

>Car analogy: So, if want to buy one of three cars, and the sales person walks up and keys the side of one of the cars, that's okay because I still have two other cars to chose from, right? That's what you're suggesting, that a diminished-but-not-nonexistent choice excuses a critical defect in one of the choices.

If the salesperson believes that keying the side of the cars is going to attract numerous other potential buyers or give him some other advantage, he should be free to do so.

>There is no level playing field to be had, even if you limit the field to the Metro UI.

Contrast that with Boot2Gecko by Mozilla, you can't even run any native apps, forget browsers.

I most deliberately did not.

There is, however, something to be said for maintaining a strong middle class of economically independent yeoman as that does appear to be the source of scientific revolutions as well as technical revolutions.

Ask google. They've blogged about it.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html

Considering the kid made the typical anti-google statements, I would tend to agree.

"Fread has filed a complaint with the federal Department of Education, saying, “They’re [UH] absolutely ignoring Google’s abysmal record with privacy.”

That's word for word, isn't it. quoted from fox news: Yep "Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research, wrote on FoxNews.com that "[Google's] abysmal track record on privacy "
Or here's one for facebook: http://rsjrealestate.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-facebook-privacy-and-digital.html "Facebook, with its abysmal track record on privacy"
How often do people trot out this line as if it's facts?

This monster came and gave his hate-fest speech to a happy audience.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126914/Sheikh-Raed-Salah-wins-appeal-UK-Governments-attempts-deport-him.html
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/04/party-in-london-to-celebrate-anti.html

The UK is going to hell.

But But But, BMI never claims to be a measure of heart health, just a general metric about if a person is heavy or not.

If you're a 5'11" girl and weigh more than a 6'5" powerlifter, yeah you're a heavy girl. Your friends aren't going to tell you, your doctor just cares that you aren't one extreme or the other, and you ignore asshole meatheads on Slashdot who tell you that, so it's good to have some kind of metric.

Also, running 10Ks is cardio but doesn't develop muscle.

But they perform best at only low power, enough for a flashlight or the screen of your cellphone. If you increase the current enough for them to light a room like an old-fashioned incandescent bulb, their vaunted efficiency nosedives.

For a second there, I had images of LEDs hanging droopily over the edges of tables and tree branches.

I'll take the $250 billion deficit and continue working within the party to reduce that number over the $1500 billion with no chance of having any effect whatsoever. So tell me, who is the fool?

Ummm, the deficit is largely the result of an economic collapse preceded by said control of legislature and executive branch.

That's like blaming the firefighters for all of your property destruction when the arson is the one who lit the fire. "Water damage in my house has increased 500% since the firefighters showed up!"

You can attempt to solve a deep recession through stimulus and tax cuts. BOTH cause deficits and BOTH cost money.

The GOP lit the deficit fire and now they're blaming the people who are saddled with fixing it.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DTVAKoOCx_A/TmeDk3PCsqI/AAAAAAAAEI8/Jn-l5tyOcI0/s1600/Fiscal%2BMess%2Bwith%2BBush%2BTax%2BCuts.JPG

Updates do not solve the zero-day exploit problem. Zero-day exploits are always threatening to happen because there is no way to guarantee 100% bug-free software. At least not within the current paradigm. Maybe there is a need for a shift. Maybe the Turing Computing Model (TCM) is reaching the end of its usefulness. Maybe the security problem and the parallel programming crisis are signs of its imminent and unstoppable demise. Maybe this marks the end of the Turing Madness.

The problem with the TCM is that it is inherently sequential and timing, the most important thing in computing, is not an inherent part of the model. That is to say, the TCM is not as universal as most believe. A truly universal computing model, one that is inherently parallel, reactive and temporally deterministic can conceivably permit 100% bug-free software.

Updates do not solve the zero-day exploit problem. Zero-day exploits are always threatening to happen because there is no way to guarantee 100% bug-free software. At least not within the current paradigm. Maybe there is a need for a shift. Maybe the Turing Computing Model (TCM) is reaching the end of its usefulness. Maybe the security problem and the parallel programming crisis are signs of its imminent and unstoppable demise. Maybe this marks the end of the Turing Madness.

The problem with the TCM is that it is inherently sequential and timing, the most important thing in computing, is not an inherent part of the model. That is to say, the TCM is not as universal as most believe. A truly universal computing model, one that is inherently parallel, reactive and temporally deterministic can conceivably permit 100% bug-free software.

I see your link and raise you one of my own. No, really -- it's a link of my own; please forgive the shameless plug to my blog, but the full argument is a little too lengthy to repeat here. I will summarize it, however, by saying that the Yemeni bomb plot was not stopped by nudie-scoping or groping anyone -- it was foiled by good, old-fashioned police work. In fact, I rather suspect that in the unlikely event that a terrorist were somehow to be detected by TSA, the terrorist would not merely surrender his weapon(s) the way honest citizens who inadvertently left a prohibited item in their luggage do, but would instead attack the people milling around at the security checkpoint.

All TSA has accomplished is to move the danger point from the airliner to the airport. That, IMHO, is certainly not worth the...what? $2 billion?...that we've spent on airport (in)security.

The doctors get cut out of the loop and the patients (who might be unaware that statins don't work)

Thank you for bringing this up- I was preparing to jump in to say something similar. I was blown away after doing a lengthy graduate informatics project on this very subject. When you consider the 240 or so CV disease risk factors identified by Framingham, and how there exists roughly a 10% adverse event rate with statins vs a very low true CV efficacy, it's amazing how many people blindly take this crap. When I see a statin commercial playing games with absolute vs relative rates of benefit I want to strangle someone.

The doctors get cut out of the loop and the patients (who might be unaware that statins don't work)

Thank you for bringing this up- I was preparing to jump in to say something similar. I was blown away after doing a lengthy graduate informatics project on this very subject. When you consider the 240 or so CV disease risk factors identified by Framingham, and how there exists roughly a 10% adverse event rate with statins vs a very low true CV efficacy, it's amazing how many people blindly take this crap. When I see a statin commercial playing games with absolute vs relative rates of benefit I want to strangle someone.

>insurance companies stop covering the cost of such drugs

He speaks the truth. This is a very smelly change. It benefits only the drug companies and the insurance companies. The doctors get cut out of the loop and the patients (who might be unaware that statins don't work) will carry on buying them because they don't have to visit one of the few enlightened doctors that understands this.

>insurance companies stop covering the cost of such drugs

He speaks the truth. This is a very smelly change. It benefits only the drug companies and the insurance companies. The doctors get cut out of the loop and the patients (who might be unaware that statins don't work) will carry on buying them because they don't have to visit one of the few enlightened doctors that understands this.

7. If yes, do the risks of not reversing it outweigh: - crippling the world economy

If you believed in negative externalities, you would know that they are what cripple the world economy, and that correcting them, like correcting any other market failure, would be beneficial to the world economy.

So tell us, why don't you believe in them? Perhaps you think you live in a Coasian fantasy world where people bargain without transaction costs to reach efficient allocations. Or you are such a believer in small government that you are willing to live with inferior economic outcomes, such as pollution and congestion. Or maybe you have another reason?

Whether it's on a billboard or a scientific conference.

That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.

So what? He took his orders from Ahern, and Ahern set things in motion in such a way that a crash was inevitable. Lenihan then authorised the disastrous blanket banking guarantee after a tense and secret midnight meeting with the top bankers.

Context is everything. The comments were made in the middle of a debate about

....women who were forced to travel abroad for medical terminations when they found the babies they were carrying were missing vital organs, like brains, and were completely unviable outside the womb

...what does that have to do with what I said? You're painting visions of politicians tearing their hair out over "fornication" when it was just one nutty backwoods TD, who has since been kept firmly muzzled by the party.

I'll just refer you and all your friends who have run off to London and transferred assets to their wives and children to this article on the grand delusions of property "victims".

Oh right so all of the investment property owners in the country have run off to London have they? What nonsense. You're again trying to paint a picture of champagne-quaffing nascent upper classes, when the reality is that anyone unwise enough to have invested in property over the last twelve years here is in deeper trouble than anyone.

The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country.

And he finishes off by putting words in my mouth. I never said there was nothing wrong with the country. I said it was racist to stereotype Irish people as stupid, which it is. And if that's not patently obvious, there really is something wrong with you. Here try this experiment: replace the word "Irishman" in the op with "black man" and see how that goes down.

The country was bankrupted by a lying scumbag (Ahern) and an incompetent Finance Minister (Lenihan). Cowen was just a puppet.

That suggestion was quickly met with a fiery and typically bolshie response from Brian Cowen -- the man on whose watch as finance minister most of the worst crimes were committed. "We're not fucking nationalising Anglo," he shouted as he slammed the table.

I must have missed the great fornication debate that seems to be taking up 100% of the time of 100% of the politicians in the country. Oh wait, no I didn't, because it was one back country TD making one ridiculous comment.

Context is everything. The comments were made in the middle of a debate about

....women who were forced to travel abroad for medical terminations when they found the babies they were carrying were missing vital organs, like brains, and were completely unviable outside the womb.

More news you appear to have missed, the landlords of some twenty plus houses were forcibly evicted from their own palatial residence recently, there are plenty of unemployed solicitors, and even bankers have joined the dole queues. I know a few of them personally.

I'll just refer you and all your friends who have run off to London and transferred assets to their wives and children to this article on the grand delusions of property "victims".

Perhaps the time has come for you to take a good look in the mirror and ask yourself who is looking back, because its not someone with a firm grasp on reality.

The time has come for you to go back to reading the Irish Times and pretending that there's nothing wrong with the country. Why don't you spend today reading their latest barrage of pro Fiscal Treaty propaganda. And while you're at it, ask yourself where a newspaper in the middle of a recession got the money to pay for all those columnists and shiny new supplements.

That's even if you are in Ireland, because nobody here refers to solicitors as "lawyers".

It's a collective term for barristers, laywers, and crooks. I suspect you're friends with quite a few yourself.

It's called COSA and it's inherently parallel and reactive. Current processors would have to be redesigned to handle COSA at the instruction level.

Also, we're going to need to evolve much bigger hands to be able to do the kind of gigantic hand-waving you seem to do in such a carefree manner...

Still not the best comparison, as no group of marksmen would ever hold off a serious military assault from a modern military force.

No group of marksmen will even try to do that. It's not their job.

If the armor rolls into town the marksmen will keep low profile. However as opportunities arise, a marksman will be making a single shot from a large distance (half a mile) and disappearing before the enemy can direct forces to his location. In an urban environment the rifle goes into someone's grill or under porch or into the crawlspace, and the shooter walks away with no real chance of being associated with the shot. (Even residue tests will fail because gases don't leak from a rifle, unlike a revolver. But rubber gloves are cheap.) The rifle can be later retrieved by someone else on his way to another mission.

For a more detailed reading you can go here.

The essence of the piece is that to defeat an army you need to defeat its soldiers. But soldiers are humans, not robots. They cannot live only inside of their tanks. Not only this is not possible biologically, it is not practical tactically - the soldiers in tanks can't see much. So foot patrols and guards are a necessity. That's when they become vulnerable. It does not take much to change the morale of the army; just make it so each patrol that goes out will bring back one of their soldiers on his shield. An army may feel OK if it's all about burning and pillaging; but it is not a suicide club. If the army that you are fighting is composed of your own countrymen it will not take much to make soldiers thinking.

But that's all about fighting an army. If TSHTF you will not have to do that right away - or perhaps ever. The primary purpose of a weapon at that time is to keep you and your family alive. There will be plenty of people who are intent on "equalizing" your property and your valuables. The same people will be happy to kill you and to rape/torture your children, just for fun (and there are other reasons too; dead men tell no tales.) This is when you need the weapon most. The army pales in comparison to riots and pogroms; soldiers will not shoot you for no reason; their purpose is to control the territory, not to exterminate its population (do not confuse with Daleks.)

As a matter of fact, I, too, am a boomer. I am just realistic enough to recognize that my generation shot computing in the foot, big time. Although this is becoming painfully apparent as we enter the age of massive parallelism, a particularly costly consequence of our Turing-worshiping madness has been around from the beginning. It's called the software reliability and productivity crisis.

No, my statements were a direct response to demonstrably false info.

Well then, I pose the questions to you.

Do you accept there is overwhelming evidence that the Nuclear Industry has problems and that the industry requires fundamental structural reforms?

As to the rest of your diatribe, you've assumed many facts about me and my intent, none of which are in evidence.

Yes I have. As to the evidence I haven't completed reviewing it. I am pleased that you offer far more reasoned discussion than a many of fanbois here, for that I complement you.

Nor do you have any idea where I stand on NP.

Then share it, what do you have to hide? I have made my position quite clear. If you have anything to evolve my reasoning than I will accept it, most of the time /. is full of fanbois full of hyperbole and ad hominem attacks. You had the opportunity to confront the NP with facts and evidence but you launched into such an attack. Under the circumstances it's quite a reasoned response to such an attack. I don't care about the NP, the same assessments of the nuclear lobby can be made as you make of the anti-nuclear lobby.

If you want to set an example of why you are different, then challenge the NP statements with facts so i can judge your post on that basis.

So, I won't bother to respond to it.

Why? Too hard, too close to the truth. Well I'll respond for you;

If the Nuclear Industry had adopted the same standards as the Aviation Industry then we would have a reactor design *radically* different from the AP-1000 that is a re-hash of SNUPPS and would include all of the NRC panel recommendations the industry made for itself.

If the Nuclear Industry was economically viable and could be operated safely without subsidies or the continued existence of the Price-Anderson act.

That if commercial Nuclear Industry operators could be trusted to run reactors at lower profit margins then events like TEPCO operating Fukushima outside the Basis Design for GEN 1 S class facilities then, maybe, we would see an example of a 'Safe' Nuclear industry.

But the fact is, we don't.

You can start from my blog. From there, I suggest a google search for my name and "nuclear".

Then, we might have something to discuss.

Well I did that. I searched on "geoff strickler nuclear" and I found your discussion of trying to assess the boil off rate of the SFP at Fukushima. I actually had that data then and I can tell you that your calculations did not take into account the *second* Basis Design issue of a GEN 1 GE reactor, that the refuelling gate pairs have to be powered, constantly. I posted that data to /. some 10 days after your discussion.

I also searched on "geoff strickler radionuclides", "geoff strickler radioisotope analogues", " geoff strickler radioisotope bio-accumulation" to gauge your understanding of the mutagenic properties of radioisotopes but found little results. I also checked out you discussion on Radiation Treatment interesting but largely useless unless you knew how or if you had ingested a radioisotope like pu-239, especially when a microgram is a fatal dose. I look forward to your follow-up article.

Additionally my analysis of you article found flaws in your reasoning surrounding plutonium ingestion. if you start with one of my posts it may give you a good start and how facts are largely ignored by /.

But before you attack me again, you might want to find out some info about who you're dealing with and where I stand on NP.

Gary, this is incredibly arrogant and does nothing to support your position. If you could you would respond with evi

Well, how about you make it constructive rather than just stating that you hate something along with cynicism towards the community your are trying to reach.

Been there, done that. It doesn't work. I get much better results by being antagonistic and irreverent.

What is your alternative to the Turing Machine that will work with existing Von Neuman architecture and bypasses the "Parallel Programming Crisis"?

It's called COSA and it's inherently parallel and reactive. Current processors would have to be redesigned to handle COSA at the instruction level. Sorry. The baby boomers got you into this mess in the second half of the last century. Problem is, they are still in charge. Maybe it's time for them to gracefully retire and let a new generation have a turn at the wheel.