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Furthermore, this completely explains why yhe behavior of poor whites is usually indistinguishable from that of [poor] blacks.

Uhm, what? It most certainly does not. Not in any important way.

According to FBI crime stats over 50% of all solved murder cases have a black male perpetrator. Blacks are about 13% of the US population. Black males are about 6.5%. That is just staggering. There is no shortage of poor whites.

Furthermore, this completely explains why yhe behavior of poor whites is usually indistinguishable from that of [poor] blacks.

Uhm, what? It most certainly does not. Not in any important way.

According to FBI crime stats over 50% of all solved murder cases have a black male perpetrator. Blacks are about 13% of the US population. Black males are about 6.5%. That is just staggering. There is no shortage of poor whites.

Furthermore, this completely explains why yhe behavior of poor whites is usually indistinguishable from that of [poor] blacks.

Uhm, what? It most certainly does not. Not in any important way.

According to FBI crime stats over 50% of all solved murder cases have a black male perpetrator. Blacks are about 13% of the US population. Black males are about 6.5%. That is just staggering. There is no shortage of poor whites.

I am a gnome 3 user since 2013. I have installed it on the computer of my (old) mother who lives far away. For remote administration, I use wakeonlan and x11vnc through a ssh tunnel. I often also connect remotely to my personal computer. This is already more complicated since 16.04 LTS. I wonder how gnome will again make my life more complicated with 18.04. Remote connection is a family of basic scenarios that should be clearly explained.
If I want to add support to a new file extension (like http://torvalds-family.blogspo...), where shall I start? Again a very weak documentation (or I have not found it).
The file indexer is a nightmare (I have a big disk with many small files (like git repositories). Nothing about how to mitigate this issue in the documentation.
I want to share the Document (and Image) directory of the main computer or the house with the 2 other ubuntu computers. What are the best solutions (I have setup nfs but everything is not smooth).
For basic usages (usages that were common and easier 20 years ago) of an advanced user, gnome introduces a level of abstraction that needs to be documented, otherwise, we have to find half working workarounds.

The problem is he's conflating the two facts of who commits more crime and why.

Black people commit more crimes in western nations because of a variety of reasons, the primary being socioeconomic status. Control for that factor across black populations and all of a sudden blackness isn't the thing to look for when predicting criminal behavior.

The problem with your "paint" theory or "blank slate" theory is that there are no successful prosperous black-run areas that are safe pleasant places to live. Including when blacks control all of the political and economic activity. Haiti is a good case in point. It was a productive agrarian economy with things like public sanitation and law enforcement while the French ran it. When the blacks intercepted a shipment of muskets, ammo and powder they overthrew the French and had their own version of the American Revolution (except they slaughtered every last French man, woman and child indiscriminately, not confining themselves to military targets like the Founding Fathers did against the Redcoats). Not long after it became a wasteland where people literally shit in the streets and contaminate their own drinking water.

If you want to understand why racial profiling happens then have a look at the facts for yourself. This includes nations that never oppressed black people.

What you call "racism", I call pattern recognition. Isn't it interesting that the black violent crime rate has gone UP ever since the Civil Rights Movement, affirmative action, and equal opportunity? One would think that if white oppression was the problem, reducing that would have a positive impact. It's as though Jim Crow served to protect whites from an inherent trait that our ancestors recognized. Tell me, did you really believe that white flight is caused by an aversion to melanin? No. It's caused by black violence. Black males are about 6-7% of the US population yet account for 51% of all solved murders. They are 12 times more likely to murder a white person than vice-versa. Still, mostly they murder other black males, but tell me, would you like to live in such a place? See the FBI crime stats for yourself.

Isn't it odd how South Africa has seen a serious economic decline and a simultaneous increase in crime ever since apartheid ended? Left to their own devices, this is what blacks create. The examples are numerous. These are facts. I actually would prefer it not be true, that it's just skin color, but it isn't and I refuse to lie to myself when it comes to choosing a safe prosperous place for my family. The person who does otherwise is either stupid or insane.

> I was trying to burn the PoC

We're gonna have to work on phrasing before this site gets mistaken for one of those ultra right wing racist havens or something

Violence is most definitely not the answer. Awareness is. This is a well researched presentation on what actually causes the phenomenon known as racism. It focuses on profiling and why it happens. It's interesting because it includes data from multiple countries, some of which had no history of slavery, colonialism, or anything like Jim Crow. It's refreshing to see this kind of topic discussed in a dispassionate, factual manner.

OK then, I'll give you a fair shake.

What majority-black area is a pleasant, low-crime place to live? Can you name just one?

Did you know, blacks top the crime charts (especially violent crime) even in nations that never had a history of slavery or institutional racism. This has been well studied (of particular note: Section 2 details black crime in France, Switzerland [did not have slaves], Australia [same], London, and Canada). The results are the same everywhere.

Do you have facts to dispute this? The thing you're not appreciating is that I don't *want* to feel this way about blacks. I want them to be productive nonviolent members of society, the same thing I want for whites and Asians. Reality doesn't care about what I want thing to be. The bottom line is, the safety of me and my family is more important than political correctness.

"it's just an observation of supply and demand in price-based market economies"

Just a tangential comment: Supply and demand does not set price. Most prices are 'mark up' prices and set by static tranches cost of the manufacturing process plus the markup amount and hence actually inflexible to change in demand.

[link to all the data] http://socialdemocracy21stcent...

So how many Republicans in power actually said he wasn't a legitimate president?

Let's see, Try here. That's a lot of gabbling, isn't it? At best, you have them pandering to the Birthers, which is shameful on its own, perhaps more so.

That's just in Congress, doesn't count Sheriff Arpaio or Donald Trump.

You kinda lose on the Birther High Ground with Donald Trump there.

How many made it a point to boycott his inauguration?

I dunno, but at least one was asinine at a State of the Union. Plenty of incivility from the GOP at that.

And face it, Scalia had been running his mouth off for a while too. And Alito got so hysterical he totally had a bitchfest over a majority opinion that he joined a dissent just to whine.

From the Jolla forums, and also the discussions on the Fairphone forums (as the Fairphone 2 does support Jolla Sailfish OS as an alternative to Android), I understand that the machine that allowed android apks to run inside Jolla in their earlier phone hardware is not any more present in the current v2 of the OS.
Now, maybe they managed to convince the former (independent) developers of the said machine to join again, or maybe this happened very recently.
Or this announcement will motivate them :-)
An entrypoit for checking : http://reviewjolla.blogspot.fr...

Even a passing interest in genealogy will teach any European how massively deadly malaria and influenza have been for their grandparents and great-grandparents. Malaria has killed half of every human being ever, it used to kill millions out of every generation in Europe even in the XXth century, until large-scale efforts at drying out swamps and massive DDT campaigns successfully curbed mosquito breeding to a point where the parasite couldn't spread and renew its carrier pool anymore.

Is the French government a known climate denier?

Not the current one. In France, the only climate change denier with any standing I can think of is a former Education minister (1997-2000), now completely marginalized.

I think the "dissent" aspect is actually some denier activists, and especially people proposing alternate solutions to whatever will come out of the governments' negociations. And perhaps, piggybacking on that, protests against nuclear energy, anti-capitalist activism, the usual. In fact, looking at a list of events (in French), I see that the canceled "protests" are in fact the Global Climate March events before and after the conference, and maybe a big free concert that was planned at the Arc de Triomphe. In other words, large crowds. The debates and other "alternative" events are still on.

I'm concerned about the government abusing the state of emergency, but this doesn't seem to be so much about suppressing dissent as suppressing any possible violence or civil disobedience. A better gripe would be the fact that they're blocking major roads and telling people to stay home on Nov.29-30, even not go to work if possible on the 30. Why on Earth are they not letting officials land in Le Bourget airport next to the conference center, and stay there and not bother anyone else?

ARM processors from now on. All this stuff is broke.

ARM processors are just as broke as everything else. There's just fewer people looking to uncover the holes.

Fewer yes, but some are looking.
The bug in SnapDragon TrustZone implementation described in the previous link has been fixed BTW. Now what percentage of SnapDragon based smartphones in the field include the fix is anyone guess.

The important thing is not the cost of propellant, nor the absolute mass of the launcher, but rather how reusable we can make the launcher parts. Reentering the atmosphere at orbital velocities means that a very lightweight, fragile launch stage will NOT survive to be reused. But if we can afford making that stage bulkier and sturdier, by sarificing part of a much higher fraction payload, it may.

Establishing a lunar ice mining operation is actually the first, necessary step into building the much needed Cislunar Infrastructure that will power our future forays to Mars, Venus and the Asteroid Belt ; as well as sustain our existing LEO and GEO infrastructure in a more efficient way.

The Shackleton Crater is the perfect place to have permanent solar power as well as solid ice. From there the water and ice can be turned into bipropellant and brought to the Moon's L2 point, and from there you can pretty much reach anywhere around Earth cheaply.

I rather suspect it's the Vineans using magma to create artificial land for themselves.

The onboard sound card has ZERO effect on the quality of the audio. The bits are traveling directly, unmolested from the application generating them to the amplifiers in the speakers.

That's what I thought for a long time and then I discovered that I was wrong (so you are - no offence).

Digital sound can be altered on the way between application and the DAC interpretation, even with TosLink (optical).

Have a look about the clock jitter problem, or phase noise :

Some refs here (with more links inside), here, and here.

Fair enough

2007 : http://archive09.linux.com/feature/119109
2013 : http://davelargo.blogspot.fr/

Good points.

I was using this graph : http://earlywarn.blogspot.fr/2011/09/peak-oil-per-capita.html , but it's only oil (and you see a stagnation rather than a decline, but since the EROEI goes down, the available energy for society from oil also goes down).

Increased efficiency plays a role, but if I'm not mistaken it's about 0.5% per year. I'm not sure if a better metric than energy per capita exists : you would need to somehow sum up the transformations that this use of energy allowed. Maybe computing exergy would be better?

Then, I guess my hypothesis comes more from the feeling that we're "scraping the bottom of the barrel" with the hydraulic fracturing and tar sands, while many of western countries show signs of political rot.

In those "best linux distros" I just discovered Qubes OS which achieves security (and privacy) through strong isolation.

See what kind of activities can be isolated, in a picture.

I think they got it right.

Not very portable: one need to run it on bare metal (along with 4GB minimum), nomads will bring along their laptop, at least (also: secure boot optional).

This is interesting and particularly relevant because it is the exact opposite to Ubuntu's theos. In ubuntu things you do on your local machine get propagated to the web. In Qubes OS, if I understand it correctly, things you do on your machine in one area, sites you visit in another (e.g. porn), and sites in a third (e.g. banking) will all be completely isolated from each other.

In those "best linux distros" I just discovered Qubes OS which achieves security (and privacy) through strong isolation.

See what kind of activities can be isolated, in a picture.

I think they got it right.

Not very portable: one need to run it on bare metal (along with 4GB minimum), nomads will bring along their laptop, at least (also: secure boot optional).

After the Indian Ocean tsunami one of the primary donors of medical supplies was Pfizer, who used the opportunity to dump massive quantities of expired Viagra for a tax write-off.

Source?

I see people claiming that they donated their own products rather than cash: http://canadiancynic.blogspot.fr/2005/01/mythical-35-million-pfizer-tsunami.html

But where is "expired viagra" mentioned?

You can buy a Nook and put arch on it.

or perhaps Debian on a kindle fire HD.

I guess I would settle for Bodhi on the Nexus 7

But I have little to no interest in Android (rooted or not) on any of my devices.

I don't quite understand your idealism...Amazon and B&N aren't going to open up their systems because their bottom line depends on DRM content. Samsung can afford to be open with their bootloader because they sell hardware, not content. Amazon doesn't even make any money from kindle sales.

The headline is based on the latest IEA (International Energy Agency) forecast called the "2012 World Energy Outlook"

Follow the link to a graph of what is being forecast and to the report in question:

http://earlywarn.blogspot.fr/2012/11/iea-us-to-be-worlds-largest-oil-producer.html

Look at the graph: conventional oil and natgas are in decline.
Note the super optimistic growth assumptions for unconventional gas and oil.
What is the methodology behind this extrapolation? That's the question people should be asking themselves.

Natgas price is at historic lows. Low prices mean small profits mean decreasing investment.
These days the unconventional gas industry is facing something of a bust:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/business/energy-environment/in-a-natural-gas-glut-big-winners-and-losers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

How well does that fit with the optimistic growth scenario?

Also, the IEA does not exactly have a sterling reputation for balanced impartial forecasts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency

Just because something is a headline, doesn't mean it's true. Time will tell, of course.

I understand your position. To be honest, we didn't really expect to hit the Slashdot front page (not that I will complain). We were content with people who look at the Firehose.

But to respond to you point, I think there is a lot of value in this new brand of journalism made of first person straight talk: blogs, video posts on YouTube, etc. You talk to me, I respond to you. Nobody in between. You know it's me, an individual, who loves his product and is clearly biased, and not some abstract and distant entity who doesn't care and just pushes "information" just because they're paid to pretend they are unbiased.

What I love first about Slashdot is that posts are from people who care about stuff, not about anonymous drones. When we get a story about Intel unveiling a new 10 watt chip (right below ours), isn't that also blatant advertising? But my hope is that this was actually submitted by some Intel guy who actually works on the chip.

The second thing I love about Slashdot is that the small guys (like us) have a fighting chance in telling their story. Hey, I'm right next to Intel, and we are a gazillion times smaller. Sure, it's free advertising too. But I've put a lot of my money in that stuff, it's paying relatively little at the moment, so do you really think that I can pass on this opportunity of reaching a wide audience on a level playing field?

The third thing about Slashdot are the comments. Granted, I would have loved to see just a little more positive feedback to what we have to offer. Still, the comments generally crack me up (this is an acquired taste, though, the rest of the team is just looking at them and just going "Huh?"). And more importantly, they are very valid data points.

If someone tells me that the language is hard to read, I need to dig further to see what we can do about it. If someone else tells me that you can do that in OpenGL in no time flat, I have to deduce that most readers, even on Slashdot, don't realize what it really took to make interactive 3D that simple. Yes, our app is written in OpenGL, and no it didn't take us "no time flat", and yes, we are good (I personally wrote the first 3D platform game, back in 1989, a year or so before Carmack's Hovertank 3D). So now, we need to explain better why this matters. Without Slashdot, I have no chance to get such live feedback.

So I understand your point, but believe me, the fact that articles about a noname startup from the south of France show up on Slashdot is a good sign. It demonstrates IMO that the Slashdot spirit is still alive and kicking. But hey, I'm biased ;-)

As a former Peace Corps volunteer and a business creator in USA, let me tell you and the other Anti-Globalists that you are completely and utterly wrong. About most things, yes, but about this particular thing, you aren't in the tiniest bit correct. The Algorithm outsources computing calculation time from a huge computer, e.g. giving IBM's Big Blue more "leisure time" (if you insist on Marxist/Utopian language). The $4 per hour job doesn't take a single thing away from the USA. It goes to a place with 50% unemployment (think Afghanistan or Cairo or Lagos). People earn double what they'd earn if they could find a job. They might become consumers of USA software or something, creating more employment.

I think this article is AWESOME and it's nearly perfect in that it costs no jobs and brings hope to people in developing world who have internet and education. http://retroworks.blogspot.fr/2012/08/awesome-trend-crowdsourcing-developing.html. I for one welcome the new Algorithm Outsource Overlords.

Anti-globalists make me want to cry when they confuse recoiling from images of poverty with compassion. The girl in Accra got a $2-4 job by freeing up some algorithm bandwidth in Silicon Valley. And you want to nuke her from orbit. And several other commenters share your "deny them" views, and don't understand that a $3/hr job actually forces sweatshop labor rates UP by creating alternatives for the unemployed. And someone with mod points actually modded you up. If you worked for me, and spoke this way about our overseas clients and contractors, I'd be thrilled to fire you and outsource your job to someone in Africa with a brain and a heart.

No....

There are Aluminum-skinned replacements, 'tho.

Goodbye, "Leather look"!

On the subject of social organisation I heard about a very interesting experiment by a biologist, Didier Desor, published in 1994 at the university of Nancy, France.

As I understand it, he began devising the following experiment while studying rats' ability to swim before the research took on a sociological dimension. Six rats learned where to pull food pellets out of a dispenser at the end of a passage. Once the rats were accustomed to finding their food in this location, the passage was filled with water such that the rats would be obliged to swim to get their food. The rats were anxious about going in the water at first but eventually some of them began to swim to the food.

The interesting part is what happened next. Different categories of rats emerge. The "swimmer", who fetches food from the dispenser and brings it back to the nest, and the "non-swimmer", who eats by taking pellets from a swimmer. The swimmers only eat once the non-swimmers have been fed, or in certain cases they become an "autonomous swimmer" who manages to keep his pellet from the other rats. The experiment was repeated many times with similar results : about half the rats become swimmers and the rest non-swimmers, and once established, the roles never changed.

More interesting still, reconstituted groups containing only former non-swimmers fought it out until some two or three became swimmers. In groups containing only former swimmers, certain members of the group became non-swimmers and began stealing food from swimmers. The only exceptions to this social hierarchy occured in a few groups were all members were swimmers.

Very complete video with shots of the rats in the experimental apparatus and explanations and discussions in French :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSExUj_D7mo

Here is a blog article in English that I managed to google up.
http://jeanmarcpierson.blogspot.fr/2011_12_01_archive.html

> What would possibly make me consider OSX? I assume I am well outside of their target market, but I am willing to consider your answer.

Loads and loads and loads of high quality, polished, high-level applications?

(taking from another post of mine in this thread http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2940345&cid=40457705)
Seriously, can you:
- edit PDFs in Linux without shelling US$300 for Acrobat? (no, Okular does not edit your PDFs http://armbrust.blogspot.fr/2010/02/do-not-use-okular-to-fill-out-pdf-forms.html)
- do basic video editing with a polished application?
- high quality photo manipulation (at the level of Adobe Lightroom)?
- simple/good program to create a good looking family photo album to send to print?
- I have a `nice` photo camera AND a `nice` video camera (bought both when I had a kid). Can the firmware of those be updated with Linux? No.
- have your computer actually turn off the fan when not under load? Or after 2 hours of not being under load? (I only have a Lenovo Thinkpad certified for RHEL (i.e. Red Hat Enterprise Linux) running RHEL, the fscking fan *never* turns off.
- heck, does *your* laptop suspends reliably? I have a Dell for personal use, and suspend seems to only work on every 3rd Ubuntu release, if you get what I mean (at least the Dell can turn off its fan ;-)).
- Oh, another one, I am going to buy that Retina MacbookPro that has an HDMI out. I do expect that Audio-out is going to work on HDMI. Never got that to work on Linux.

Notice that I really do not care for Gnome/KDE/etc. I just use Chrome/Firefox and a terminal (and loads of `software development` tools which would be the same on Linux/OSX/Windows). Breakage doesn't really affect me because I am smart enough not to upgrade too soon.

- Decent priced PDF editor for filling in PDF files? No. (sorry, I am not buying Acrobat for that).

If you're talking about filling in PDF forms, Okular (part of KDE) already does that, though it won't do the self-calculating forms (unless it's added that more recently).

Not quite. Okular is merely fooling you into thinking it can do that.

Okular will add some *Okular specific* metadata to PDFs, and will display that as annotations and text, but all of that will **not** be saved as a standard PDF info. So if you send said PDF to your lawyer per email and the lawyer opens it using, say, Adobe Acrobat they comments and filled information will NOT show up.

http://armbrust.blogspot.fr/2010/02/do-not-use-okular-to-fill-out-pdf-forms.html
http://okular.kde.org/faq.php#addedannotationsinpdf

MySQLs handlersocket (included since 5.5) does NoSQL-style read and write operations bypassing the SQL engine. While it has some limitations, it will do >200,000 queries/sec on a low-spec server and there are benchmarks of it doing >750,000 on a 8-core Nehalem (faster than Memcached!), and it's not restricted to in-memory operations. The nice thing is that you can use that for the simpler parts of your app, then use transactional SQL on the same database for more complex operations.

Another one to look at is TokuTek's TokuDB, another InnoDB drop-in replacement, which is particularly good for inserts, low disk use and low-latency replication. They ran a demo doing 1 billion indexed inserts in 7 hours when InnoDB took a week.

For distributed 'cloudy' apps, one of the better choices is Drizzle, which retains the nice bits of MySQL (and MySQL client compatibility) and rewrites all the rest.

I don't think I'll believe MemSQL until Percona have benchmarked it...

From the blog of the family:

http://niederfamily.blogspot.fr/p/our-communicationaac-journey.html

basically they tried.

The article is incorrect, the little girl has mental problems too.

This won't be an issue for long, because online classes (I have in mind Udacity and MITx) were not designed to have online exams in the first place. They said from the beginning that exams will be held in test centers under surveillance. It is not implemented yet, as MITx is currently a prototype, but we are getting there. Udacity just partnered with Pearson VUE to hold exams in their test centers. Pearson VUE has about 4000 test centers in 170 countries.
It will most likely still be possible to take online exams, but the certificate earned for completion will have much less weight than a certificate earned by taking exams in a test center.

At least one does: http://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2011/05/japan-prize-honors-googler-ken-thompson.html