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and cover for each other. According to a local Atlanta radio host he watched as one of the officers took an iPod and other items then left the area. When he tried to confront them they said he had gone home or such. In other words, if they want stuff they know to cover each other and intimidate the flying public with arrest.

http://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2011/06/tsa-stealing-from-passengers.html
http://www.examiner.com/headlines-in-new-york/former-tsa-supervisor-at-newark-jailed-for-stealing-from-passengers

HOSTS files, combined with firewalls rules tables (for IP address based ones).

It's easy enough to do, the data's out there by the TRUCKLOAD on Conficker and many other known botnets, sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malware-in-general (virus/spyware etc./et al).

Here are 15 or so that I use for anyone that's interested in protecting themselves in this manner:

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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

http://www.malwareurl.com/

https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php

http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt

http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml

http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

http://www.malwaredomains.com/

http://securehomenetwork.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=12

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html (Spybot Search & Destroy has an IMMUNIZE feature that works on HOSTS files here)

http://safeweb.norton.com/buzz

http://blocklistpro.com/download-center/view-details/blocklist-pro-blocklists-mirror/1632-hosts.zip.html

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HOSTS files are the main route I took because they offer not just security benefits, but also speed benefits (very noticeable ones), & even anonymity ones to an extent (vs DNSBL)

HOSTS files, imo @ least, are even easier to deal with than a firewall (software OR router based) rules table if you ask me!

I did so again - Because of layered security they offer (combinations of Norton DNS (dnsbl filtering DNS vs. malware online threats & botnets), & firewall rules tables)) AND SPEED GAINS POSSIBLE TOO, via an easily edited route in a text file (which is all HOSTS are, a filter that works at the fastest & most efficient level there is, the IP subsystem).

I.E -> HOSTS are EASY to edit as well with any text editor also (which, face it, anyone can handle using) to add or even remove (or # symbol comment off temporarily even) data from its internal records list.

It works & on the SIMPLEST PRINCIPLE THERE IS for security: You can't get burnt if you don't go into the malware/botnet kitchen!

(I do so based on the principle of "layered security", especially vs. online threats...)

E.G.-> So, if one protective scheme fails, the others is there to kick in to protect you!

(They all work in combination w/ one another seamlessly-transparently... so, it's basically the same idea I suppose, as folks putting deadbolts, door handle knob locks, & chain locks on a door for 'triple layer security' really!)

It works & on the SIMPLEST PRINCIPLE THERE IS for extra speed, & bandwidth YOU PAY FOR OUT OF POCKET also:

See, nicest part about HOSTS files though, is that it's easy to insert other things (say for blocking adbanners) that speed you up online (via hardcoding your fav. sites into it, host-domain name to IP Address resolved, ea

she had been using an Asian-style vegetable peeler to try to pry open the door, when the aforesaid burlies saw the peeler they "thought it was a cleaver" and as we know two large men are no match for a distraught 89 pound woman! The officers, "fearing for their lives" opened fire and shot the lady many, many times (cops NEVER shoot to wound or disable) at point blank range!

I don't really like defending the police. There are many cases of abuse. But this is a bad example. The Asian-style vegetable peeler in this case was in the shape of a cleaver with a 6" blade (10" overall) at the bottom and a second peeling blade in the middle. A picture I found of it was here:

http://protectsanjose.blogspot.com/2009/09/rose-by-any-other-name.html

An 88 pound woman could severely injure and/or kill two grown men with that. IIRC, she was coming at them with it held over her head. If someone was coming at me like that, I'd consider my life at risk. Now, I don't know what happened before that. I.e., police seem to have a need to 'dominate' any situation and I could imagine that behavior making an agitated person more agitated. There may have been a way to handle the situation leading up to the shooting better (I just don't know). But once she was coming at them with that thing, I can easily understand them thinking their life was in danger.

There is a reason that the police ARE policed. My local Sheriff recently went to the graybar hotel for corruption. Blame the stress (rural area, he was King Shit) for that one.

http://natives-of-lee-county-south-carolina.blogspot.com/2011/02/big-dog-moved-out-of-state-for-security.html

Check THIS out. Some cops AGREE with you, strongly and at risk to their careers:

http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/

Two weeks ago people on the Internets here (in other forums) were talking about how the plant had basically already melted down and that Obama had ordered a news blackout of the plant to conceal mass evacuations that apparently had already begun! All of this to protect his "green jobs" initiative.

Well, guess what? I live in Omaha. There's no meltdown. No evacuation. No flooding at the site.

OPPD's official rumor control page:

http://www.oppd.com/AboutUs/22_007105

OPPD flood blog:

http://www.oppdstorminfo.blogspot.com/

OPPD's Twitter page:

http://twitter.com/#!/oppdcares

By "viral" mean that the product unexpectedly becomes popular, usually for a reason differing from its intrinsic quality. Remember the pet rock? How many times was Harry Pooter rejected before it made Rowling $1,000,000,000? 12? http://harrypotterrejected.blogspot.com/2010/01/harry-potter-rejected.html

Pretty sure it'll be sooner than 10 years.

http://write2publish.blogspot.com/2011/05/ebook-vs-print-book-sales.html

First, Apple would have to start "making" Iphones, Ipads, and Macs. All of Apple's units are produced by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., aka "Foxconn", which also manufactures TVs for Sony. Best Buy is now a "manufacturer". "Polaroid" is a TV manufacturer. Heck, I could start "Manufacturing" TVs. The western press appears to be utterly oblivious to what "manufacturers" are. We have a Tin-Tin image of China (see 60 Minutes coverage of e-waste - the product they filmed was actually delivered to a factory refurbishing program). http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/07/60-minutes-wastelands-missing-minutes_17.html Lenovo bought out IBM almost a decade ago, the "logo" on our devices is going to seem quaint in its importance a decade from now.

History is littered with the detritus of "inevitable ideas whose time has come" that weren't inevitable, and whose time hadn't come.

Yes but this time it's different. What you are missing is that bitcoin is the economic singularity!

I mean just listen to this sage investment advice:

Since bitcoin appreciates in value very rapidly during the singularity phase, you should convert all of your liquid assets to bitcoin as quickly as possible. Do not keep any cash, savings, or checking beyond what you need to pay for goods and services that cannot yet be paid for with bitcoin. The more things you can buy with bitcoin, the more bitcoin you should keep.

Stop wasting money on excessively expensive meals, televisions, cars, and anything else that loses value quickly or instantly. Instead, put your money into bitcoin. You will be much richer that way. You may think having less stuff is less fun, but actually the pleasure of financial freedom far, far outweighs any losses.

During the singularity phase, you should also take out loans to buy bitcoin, since bitcoin appreciates far more rapidly than interest on any fiat currency loan. When bitcoin gets near saturation, which is the end of the singularity, you should pay off the loans, because at that point the rate of appreciation will probably be a lot closer to the interest on the loans, and you may not be able to reliably earn money that way anymore.

I'm always reassured when I read such a balanced consideration of the pros and cons of any situation, aren't you? Clearly the people who really understand the all the nuances of finance and have thought this through deeply are on board with Bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe at some point she had her nose broken, since that's where the compass is for humans..

The book The Compass In Your Nose: And Other Astonishing Facts About Humans is a fun read for all.

Cut out the romance- I'm not anti-romance, but I get that in every other film. This is superhero fiction. Give me more god-like beings punching one another. It's not like Superman/Lois Lane where it's pretty ingrained into the mythos.

When you have a movie that costs as much as Green Lantern does (any movie in that cost class), the filmmakers are under immense pressure to put as many people in the seats as possible. What are the "most (financially) successful" movies? Ones that hit multiple sections of The Four Quadrants. The link goes into a nice amount of detail, but the idea is that the movie-going audience is split into four demographic groups, young and old, male and female. If your movie has great appeal to young men and older women (think Titanic) then you have box-office gold.

So don't expect to see the "romance" angles disappear from action movies. They're just clumsy attempts to appeal to a larger demographic and rake in more money.

funny - and it wasn't a copy&paste error of TFS but is a direct quote from the developer's blog.

and to blame the coder more: it seems he believe what he wrote; at the moment his game is rated in the Android market 1400 times...

What libertarian would want to live in Somalia with no rule of law? There are problems with too much government and there are problems with too little government. See this graph. I haven't run into many libertarians that were in favor of Sharia or opposed to the establishment of the rule of law.

What evidence do you have that young libertarians are more likely to break there arms, or less likely to be able to avoid treatment? I always thought that the smear of libertarians was that they were rich and out of touch with the poor, not that they were poor...

Basically, what actual relationship does your hysterical list of generalizations about libertarians have with, you know, ACTUAL libertarians?

If you search around you will find a number of groups working to oust LulzSec.

http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/ for one.. they have some "d0x" and a number of chat logs. Having read through the logs myself, there are a couple of people that "speak" for the LulzSec. Though they all seem to have access to the twitter, there are a couple of "main" guys.. and there is definitely 1 or 2 leader figures.

Some highlights:

Just For Fun (John K Addis)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/just-for-fun-john-k-addis-dollar-redeign

Moving Forward, Looking Back (Sean Flanagan)
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/moving-forward-looking-back-sean-flanagan-dol

Michael Tyznik
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik

Michelle Haft
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michelle-haft

Richard Smith
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/?tag=banknoteredesign

James Harless
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/james-harless-dollar-redeign

Sometimes You Can't See the Spots for the Trees (Patrick Timmes)
http://thinkcreatebelieve.blogspot.com/2009/06/patrick-timmes-dollar-redeign-sometimes.html

Turns out there isn't any single "correct" form for letters. To think Palmer or D'Nealian Script is "Cursive" with a capital c or to think it is "The Script" for cursive writing is to have a limited perspective. Even within the Palmer method you had variation on letters.

Find a nice script you like or make your own. Use it carefully when you write. Do it enough with intention and it'll become easy to write and read.

I think ease or difficulty of reading is what you're referring to when you say "it has always sucked"?

Firefox 4 hasn't been out long and if Google keeps with the browser support schedule. Starting August 1st they won't support Firefox 3.6 anymore. I am all for getting people to upgrade but it seems like they'll be dropping support for Firefox versions pretty fast if Mozilla can keep up with their rapid release schedule.

According to the BBC story,

A man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him.

The site AnonOps Communications published his name, date of birth, and address on May 12. They match the details of the BBC article.

According to a metro.co.uk article, Ryan Cleary was a former member of Anonymous, who broke off and formed his own group, after hacking and publishing information from one of Anonoymous's servers in May. From an interview with Cleary,

Hacking into the Anonymous system was ‘regrettable but necessary’, he told website Thinq.

‘The only way to make things safe is to make users aware how insecure it is,’ he added.

None of this is definite, but it fits together.

Yeah, talk about coincidences. They both died within a week of each other. Someone selected nice pictures of both of them.

Gmail also flagged suspicious failed login attempts on my e-mail account, so I had to go through a password reset process on it. Although I used a unique password at Mt.Gox, the attacker apparently is running automated login attempts using the stolen e-mail addresses and Mt.Gox passwords, so anyone using non-unique passwords is likely in trouble.

Yep. Same story for me too. Glad I enabled two-factor authentication on my Google account (and SSH to my home server while I was at it).

A HD movie from netflix is on average 1.7GB/hour (3800kbps). At 5 hours a night, that would be 8.5GB/night, and a 250GB cap would last you 29.4 days.

Reference here: http://www.dslreports.com/speak/slideshow/22179750?c=1415814&ret=L2ZvcnVtL3IyMjE2NDQ4MS1OZXRmbGl4LWJhbmR3aWR0aC1Jcy0xR0Joci1hdC1IRC1hY2N1cmF0ZQ%3D%3D

Netflix on the other hand currently says that they are averaging about 2200kbps for HD movies. Reference here: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gC6nMAI6mu8/TUHG6jsQq-I/AAAAAAAAADE/Bwe1fkAUxzA/s1600/isp_usa.png

Dont they have a kinda bigger problem right now? http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/

Except the US and NATO don't "indiscriminately" kill as they please, they put a ton of planning into every strike and try to conduct operations is with a minimal amount of civilian death and injuries.

After all, the US and UK have been using inert bombs on radar and light structures for over 12 years, because an explosive would do too much civilian damage.

Those ignorant of military history think all modern bombing and air strikes look like Sir Harris planned them and that because a B-52 can carry 35 tons of bombs, every time a B-52 is mentioned it must have dropped 35 tons of bombs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing

But the vast majority of airstrikes and bombings by the US and NATO since 1992 have been with smart weapons, guided missiles or single small (500 pound or 1000 pound) bombs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_guided_munition

In Iraq/Kuwait in 1991 8.8% of air strikes were with PGMs, in the Kosovo War the number is up to 90%, in 2001 Afghanistan it drops back to 55%

In Libya it looks like about 75-80% PGM, and of course anything from a Predator or Reaper drone is going to be a PGM, either a Hellfire (Laser or Millimeter wave radar) or a small JDAM (GPS and/or laser)

http://theamericanaudacity.blogspot.com/2011/03/canadas-six-cf-18-hornets-deployed-to.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some-munitions-in-libya/2011/04/15/AF3O7ElD_story.html?hpid=z1
http://jha.ac/articles/a110.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_guided_munition

Allow me to be the first to say, WHAT THE YELLOW RUBBERY ...

Go right ahead. In fact, you may very well be the first person to say that in the entire history of the world. If I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will correct me.

Yup, we will.

What the yellow rubbery fuck? The phrase has 1300 hits on google dating back to at least 2004 that cites Stephen Fry's 1991 novel The Liar as the source. Happy 20th Birthday, you awesome little phrase, and now there are 1303.

At first I thought the article was about this guy, another teenager building a fusion reactor.

So we don't know what effect sunspots have

Here's some data.

If you have a correction, please leave it in the comments.

Yes, patents are often written to be overly broad. Sometimes that's a hedge against a later change in technology, so the patent still is applicable in some way. Other times, it's just to get the patent accepted - if it sounds hard, it must be "new", right?

Richard Stallman wrote a great article about that once, about how they intentionally write these software patent applications to be obscure. I don't see it on my blog, so it must be queued for next week (I post one item a day.) Check back next week.

But on the flight planning patent - RunwayFinder was a free web site run by a guy out of his home. But FlightPrep sued, claiming infringement on their patent. A big company against one guy ... not surprised he shut down, rather than lose his home in an expensive lawsuit.

As a RIM employee, you need to read this guy's thoughts on your company and its future. ("What's wrong with Blackberry...").

Now. No -- now as in right now.

Because right now, you're in a world of shit, regardless of what those balance statements are telling you.

I don't believe this is really the case.

It's true that politicians don't understand technology very well. They come from varied backgrounds, but rarely does that include IT. So they need people to explain technology topics in terms they can quickly understand. Otherwise, they'll listen to the people who are in their face most often - and that's usually the big lobbyists.

Do some research on software patents before you talk to your Senator or Representative. I often bring up the progress bar patent (which expired just a few months ago.) Start with "You know when your computer boots up, or you're loading a web page on your browser? Notice that progress bar at the bottom of the screen? That's patented, and technically someone would have had to pay a license for that."

Never fails to stun them into realizing that's stupid.

I honestly believe that if enough people go to their Representatives RIGHT NOW and talk to them about software patent reform, they'll listen.

I'm not saying software patents are good, I'm strictly saying that the 'put computer at the end of it' rationale actually has some basis in reason.

Okay, that's fair. But look at the examples I give, and tell me that doesn't seem like an abuse of the system. Honestly, assembling a flight plan on a computer is an example of going too far.

Yes. As cheesy as it sounds, your voice does matter.

Seriously, call their office, write them a letter (handwritten carries the most impact, but typed will do), or visit them in their office. Ask your Representative and/or Senator to push for "software" patent reform. Have some examples of "software" patents handy, and feel free to make a suggestion for how to fix the system. I think the citizen review method is a workable option. I've been discussing this topic with Sen. Franken's office for a while now, so if you don't have a particular suggestion to offer, ask your Senator to see what Sen. Franken is up to. I'm not kidding, they do listen to comments like that.

Yes, because that will make the region even more stable.

Take Saudi Arabia, very religious, monarchy and they've invested a lot of money into cutting edge weapons, AWACS, F-15s, Eurofighters, oh and medium range ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. Now we don't know if they bought the warheads, but it's safe to assume they did, as protectors of Mecca and Medina and all that.

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2009/02/saudi-arabias-ballistic-missile-force.html

Now take that nation which which is very reliant on oil, the petroleum sector accounts for roughly 45% of budget revenues, 55% of GDP, and 90% of export earnings, and has a rapidly expanding youth population who have been used to expanding GDP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia#Economic_overview
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=age+pyramid+saudi+arabia
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=gdp+saudi+arabia

And take away a big chunk of the GDP, how do you think that is going to play out in Saudi Arabia, Iran, or the Russian Federation? All oil exporters who have or may have atomic weapons and technologically advanced conventional militaries?

Reposting the excellent blog entry posted by an AC far below claiming to be the author of said blog (and no reason not to believe 'em):

http://neutrinoscience.blogspot.com/2011/06/hello-there-electron-neutrino.html

And yeah, it says there's a set of detectors 280m away, and the final set 295km.

Of course this still means that they aren't measuring "the same" neutrinos like in the original question, but that's just not feasible.

ZFS has very good per-block checksumming and many other features, and now has encryption support, which should be in OpenIndiana (the non-Oracle fork of OpenSolaris): http://milek.blogspot.com/2010/10/zfs-encryption.html. ZFS is a combination of volume manager (like LVM), software RAID and filesystem. Here's a useful HOWTO on setup: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1573272

Unfortunately ZFS support in Linux is userland only due to licensing issues. It may not have encryption yet either - however you could run TrueCrypt on top of a ZFS volume (like an LVM logical volume), bypassing the ZFS filesystem part.

You don't wanna beat up your own people.

Sorry, but those "anarchists and professional criminals" aren't who you think they are.

Those weren't hooligans or anarchists, those were the police.

Gentoo recently postponed using GNOME3 because it seemed like a "work in progress". Meanwhile, Fedora has shipped it, Ubuntu is now on the even less mature Ubiquity, and CentOS can't even get a modern release shipped out the door at all. Gentoo is looking like a stable Linux aimed at old geezers nowadays.

Sounds like you're looking for ownCloud. It's still under heavy development but the file storage functions work very well and it's accessible on Mac, Windows & Linux via webdav and from everywhere else via a web interface. There are also a couple of mobile apps in the works and it runs on a standard LAMP stack. http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page And a blog post about the current status: http://owncloudtest.blogspot.com/2011/06/owncloud-20-just-merged-with.html

The government and police fear they are losing the battle to prevent crime syndicates from winning lucrative contracts to remove millions of tonnes of debris left in the tsunami's wake, including contaminated rubble near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that many firms are reluctant to handle.

RTFA

THINK about it before knee-jerking.

Deflation hits the hard-working people first and foremost. Chances are, you wouldn't have you your saving if you were in a deflating economy. Here's a nice graph for you: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vhPkPUN2aT8/S1dxroArbYI/AAAAAAAABZk/EkSyucPxnQk/s1600-h/savings+rate+households.JPG - in the deflating economy savings tend to dissipate, not grow.

Only people benefiting from deflation are rich leeches.

I like how this post appears to have been generated from this blog: http://holyfuckingshit40000.blogspot.com/2010/09/final-final-verdict-on-flac-vs-mp3.html

Talk to Java heads they'll tell you Java is already faster than C++. They can show you some contrived tests to demonstrate this too!

Take a look at the comments on http://jeremymanson.blogspot.com/2011/06/scala-java-shootout.html about the paper:

Here's one from the top:

The benchmark did not use Java collections effectively. It was generating millions of unnecessary objects per second, and the runtime was swamped by GC overhead. In addition to the collections-related fixes I made (as described in the paper), the benchmark also used a HashMap when it should have just stored a primitive int in Type; it also used a LinkedList where it should have used an ArrayDeque. In fact, after being pressed on the matter by other Googlers (and seeing the response the C++ version got), I did make these changes to the benchmark, which brought the numbers down by another factor of 2-3x. The mail I sent Robert about it got lost in the shuffle (he's a busy guy), but he later said he would update the web site.

Changes which, I might add, are still far easier for the average Java peon-on-the-street to understand than the C++ equivalents. The fact that the paper was comparing one program in C++ that had been optimized to within an inch of its life with another program, in Java, that had had someone spend about an hour "cleaning it up a little," makes for a grossly unfair comparison.

The fact that the "naive" (far more common) programs were all relatively the same speed was insightful.

Great!! wat a news! http://the-linux-tablet.blogspot.com/

Vox Day is something of a libertarian heretic in noting that the fundamental case for "free trade" is based on a very bad economic model. In fact, when Ricardo made his case for free trade he had to exclude a whole large swath of possible outcomes to make the case positively. Some of those have come true. For example, Ricardo glossed over the issue that if capital were to become mobile between countries, comparative advantage would cease. That is precisely what is happening with NAFTA and our relationship with China; American capital has moved overseas so that "American production" is actually done overseas, giving at least a partial "comparative advantage" to China and Mexico in products that we used to have over them.

The simple solution is to repeal NAFTA and restore our tariffs. "Protectionism" is only an ugly word until you realize that protectionism was actually one of the two pillars of the US economy in the 19th century (the gold standard being the other) and the growth we saw in the 19th century was substantially higher than what we saw in the 20th century. Even the value of the dollar itself went up 50% between 1800 and 1900.

Until we take away the ability of American companies to do production for our domestic markets overseas, none of this will change. Libertarians may find that "immoral," but then there a whole lot of things about doctrinaire libertarianism such as the radical individualism that eschews innate responsibilities that plenty of others (left and right alike) find immoral.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it's reasonable to assume that C#'s performance results would be about the same as Java's.

Here's some strong evidence to the contrary:

http://reverseblade.blogspot.com/2009/02/c-versus-c-versus-java-performance.html

Didn't PETA sue Nintendo in the 90's for promoting violence toward [defenseless] turtles and the capture of animals with the intent to make them fight to the death? I think they also tried boycotting and getting Pokemon banned as well.

I don't specifically remember that, but it wouldn't surprise me. That said, after a cursory search, the only thing I could find was this April Fool's joke.