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AM2R is NOT a port -- it is a fan remake, aka an indy.

Milton "DoctorM64" Guasti is a sound technician who used Game Maker to create AM2R without Nintendo's permission.

AM2R is NOT a port -- it is a fan remake, aka an indy.

Milton "DoctorM64" Guasti is a sound technician who used Game Maker to create AM2R without Nintendo's permission.

Who could have seen this coming, besides anyone who gave it a moment’s thought?

The new federal legislation that closed down Backpage.com "is creating an actual market for pimps."
WaPo reports on the unintended consequences of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act.
According to The Guardian, the site allowed sex workers to screen potential online clients before meeting them in person. It was a simple layer of safety without resorting to pimps for protection. These deals, that were once handled online, will now be pushed back into the open streets, leaving women on their own to protect.

The Internet disintermediates. Take away the Internet, and you get re-intermediation.

Pics and analysis of second stage fuel dump over Khartoum here

"Our secret satellite? It burned up. There is no secret satellite."
Yeah, right. Gentlemen, don your tinfoil hats.

Every device in the Surface line has scored a 1 or below on iFixit.

Then there's the guy who upgraded the SSD in his Surface Pro 3 by cutting the side of the case out.
http://surfacepro3ssdupgrade.b...

In the UK such infringement is a civil matter, not a crime. The slander angle probably wouldn't work as you could not show any material loss from the email, unless maybe somehow your partner saw it and left you or something equally improbable.

The best option would seem to be to send them a letter saying that you did not pirate the film, and that any further accusations which require you to send them corrections will be billed at your standard hourly rate. I charge £120/hour, minimum 1 hour, for that sort of letter. Works great with other pests like TV Licencing too.

Some info here: http://tv-licensing.blogspot.n...

It's Econ Nobel season, and so someone needs to do the job of standing up and repeating all the old disses. This year, it's Joris Luyendijk in The Guardian. [...] Anyway, this litany of critiques, repeated ad infinitum since the crisis, strikes me as mostly pretty lazy. There are good critiques out there. These are not they.
That said, I like Luyendijk's idea of adding a general social science prize to the Nobel roster. Nobels are silly anyway, so why not have one for every field? While we're at it, how about one in math and computer science, and one in psych/neuro/cognitive science? And one in visual arts? And one in writing snarky point-by-point rebuttals in blog posts?

You might want to read up on some 19th century technology where the problem was figured out. Replace horses with driverless trucks, and realize that it's the cargo that matters, not the horse.

But granted, I shifted goalposts from changing batteries to changing whole trucks. Same principle though. Issues around aging and quality are the same for horses as for trucks/batteries though.

Allow me to state for one last time the obvious.

Ethernet is a digital protocol. In other words, what's being transmitted is a stream of 0s and 1. Discreet. There's no such thing as a lot of 0 that's almost a little bit of 1. Such a stream has one quite beneficial property: It's trivially easy to check whether it was transmitted correctly. Ethernet does that. Yes, that means that if you have a (really, REALLY) crappy cable that you'll get retransmissions. Which matters little considering the amount of data required to keep an audio stream steady and the speed of Ethernet retransmissions. What does matter, of course, is that the receiving end has a big enough buffer to cover for the retransmissions. But if that buffer wasn't big enough, it would not take an audiophile to notice the difference because, well, the audio would pretty much stop.

As for how USB cable quality matters, I did take a look around. But I doubt those were the results you got, so you might want to point us to some research that actually DOES find a difference in the sound quality properties of USB cables.

As a matter of fact there is an alleged photo of Buk missile contrail. And here is some geolocation with the findings pretty close to those declared by U.S. Department of State.

The ELK Stack might be an option. In my field, (many) web servers can stream all their logs off-site in Real-Time using Logstash Forwarder (or instead they might use rysnc, or rsyslog, or...). A central server, in the secure private intranet perhaps reads and indexes this log data, (that's ElasticSearch, which is sort of like a personal Google for your logs, any logs of any kind, or other Big Data). Kibana is a user-friendly Angular.js application and presentation layer. If you're familiar with NewRelic for server monitoring, you can save views just like when using that tool.

http://jakege.blogspot.nl/2014...

Okay, maybe this is sort of like 'when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail', but this suggestion is the extent of my background in this area. Although I have had an itch to scratch, and so far, this is my best open-source result.

There's a ton of citations you should search for yourself, but I'll provide one I found that might start to help. Using this tool, it is fairly easy to parse out the myriad of hacker efforts at attacking the servers for example; even when you're the NY Times.

Here's your 'strawman'.

What waste, you mean nuclear waste ?
Nuclear remediation procedures have been shown to be 90% of what is really necessary.
If we take current nuclear regulations seriously, we must stop living in Denver-CO, Salt Lake City-UT, or any sky resort above 2000 meters.
Nuclear regulations have been designed without comprehensive data points, using just the nuke detonations in Japan as sole data points.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima have actually proven those nuclear regulations are overblown.
If those regulations were at a necessary level, Chernobyl would have killed a million people. Instead less than 200 people died.
TMI and Fukushima killed zero people, caused zero cancers.
If Linear No Threshold model were right, both TMI and Fukushima would have caused enough cancer cases to be statistically easy to find.
The reality is the problem is only on people's mind.
Please read this:
    http://nuclearradiophobia.blog...

People properly educated about nuclear safety are actually pro nuclear. Nuclear IS safe.
If we approached airline safety like nuclear, there would be no airlines, they would all be grounded forever.
Like nuclear, flying with the airlines is the safest form of transportation.
Nuclear is similar, the safest energy source.
I'm a private pilot combined with my in depth computer and physics/engineering general skills allows me to understand how a modern airliner works to a deep level.
I have also dedicated a few hundred hours studying light water / boilling water reactors recently, the types of safety systems (complexity, failure modes) is extremely similar in both cases.
The big difference is its easy to create a nuclear bogeyman, since radiation is invisible, while airline accidents are well publicised.
  This site sums the thought extremely well:
      http://nuclearradiophobia.blog...

http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.n...

A BUK-M1 system CAN NOT be operated by local volunteers who want to fight imaginary Ukrainian Nazis. It was the regular Russian army doing this, even if those are send in as 'volunteers', 'seperatists', you name it.

It's not enough, true, but we need to get Americans trained in the practice of being more politically active and to seriously consider the consequences of their consumerism. Today, encouraging people to think of encryption as required for increased secure communications is good. We can't fix anything "once and for all" because any change to anything can be reverted (hence Andrew Jackson's warning "...eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing" applies here too). Software proprietors and others who want to rob computer users of their freedom spend billions training people to think ephemerally (in fact, /.'s chosen "firehose" structure of fast and frequent updates usually from corporate repeaters exists to further that end). We need ordinary people to become more aware of the consequences of ignorance, make better choices, and train future generations that the acceptable social norm is lifelong political involvement. I think failing to meet this need is one of Snowden's fears ("The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change..."), and why Stallman says things like "I don't want any fans I want Freedom Fighters, who could actually help in his revolution". I have no doubt that whomever follows that murderous war criminal Obama in the US White House will follow the same behavior he both chose to follow from George W. Bush and ramp up. I'm not certain what will stop the horrors of "Terror Tuesday" killings, indiscriminate NSA spying, and more, but I won't object when groups want to raise awareness and help normalize objecting to the loss of our civil liberties.

Simplistic boycots, and especially the sensationalist news stories which give rise to them, are just not doing any good. Mozilla's mission is incredibly important, and Firefox is the single best tool we have to further that mission. No matter how important the position of CEO, it's completely overwhelmed by the position of everyone else.

I recommend reading some opinions of people who actually work together with Brendan Eich, or who make up the wider Mozilla community. Though Mozilla always fumbles publicity, the open debate which invariably follows is equally always heartening for the understanding and passion which pours out of the words.

The following list should get you started:

• On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla - Christie Koehler
• On Including the Uninclusive - Matthew Riley MacPherson
• Building a Global, Diverse, Inclusive Mozilla Project: Addressing Controversy - Mitchell Baker
• qualifications for leadership - Myk Melez
• Open when it matters: please help Mozilla - Matt Thompson
• Whatâ(TM)s Happening Inside Mozilla - Geoffrey MacDougall
• On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla - Eric Shepherd
• Mozilla, an inclusive space - Nate Otto
• Mozilla is messy - Mark Surman
• Caught Between Two Movements - Andrea Wood
• More Context on Brendan Eichâ(TM)s Appointment as CEO - Chris McAvoy
• The most important decisions we make - Patrick Finch
• On Brendan Eich and the Thought Police - Bobby Holley
• Thinking About Mozilla - Erin Kissane

I do follow the development of postgresql and never heard patents mentioned as a reason for not supporting more parallelism. What I always gathered from it was that a) there were a few technical obstacles and b) there where always more pressing matters. But Robert Haas is working on it.

For those armchair economists here who haven't read anything about Bitcoin, but know what it's all about because they're, like, economists, I present this link:

Bitcoin - The Libertarian Introduction.

Reading this might prevent your post from getting a response that makes you seem ignorant, if you care about that sort of thing.

(Such posts as: "it's a Ponzi scheme", "it can't work because it's not based on anything", "it's only for illegal commerce", "it's got some sort of technical flaw", or "the authorities will try to stop it, and that's important".)

Instead they relied on a product called CityEngine, which is more typically associated with local government bodies' urban planning and urban design.

You mean local governments don't actually think about their urban development, but just let it be generated by the computer? That would explain those impossible-to-navigate suburbs that make no sense at all

Symbolon http://defensieweblog.blogspot.nl/2013/04/aivdmivd-project-symbolon.html

Argo II http://webwereld.nl/beveiliging/78311-regering-bevestigt-tapprojecten-aivd-en-mivd

Upgrading the CPU. Replacing the battery. Adding more RAM. All these will be possible with the modular phone.

http://rhombus-tech.net/
http://aseigo.blogspot.nl/2013/04/the-luminosity-of-free-software-episode.html
http://www.golem.de/news/aaron-seigo-vivaldi-tablet-mit-austauschbarer-open-hardware-1304-98707.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq0Dx04PcHk

TLS 1.1 support is enabled by default in Chrome. Read about that here.

If you want TLS 1.2 in chrome, please star this bug.

As for Firefox, TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support are still not ready. If you want to help, vote for this bug, this bug, this bug, and this bug.

The bugs to get TLS 1.2 support into Firefox are this one and this one.

Both Opera and IE support TLS 1.1 and 1.2. If you want to see this in Firefox and Chrome, vote for the bugs above. But, please don't comment on the bugs. That won't help.

Apple has already somewhat innovated (or at least done something better) in their unpolished product. They're using vector based map images rather than the more images in Google maps. It allows you to see zoom in a more continuous fashion (as opposed to discreet zoom levels) and allows up to 300 miles of visibility rather than the 35 miles Google maps allows in the event that the phone goes off line.

Sigh. If you'd have bothered to read the comments at your link, you'd have been more informed:

gatorguy 2012/08/03 10:13am
Google's maps on Android are not bit-mapped (raster). The desktop maps version may still be, I'm not sure, but Google swapped over to vector-based maps for Android back in 2010.

Yes, 2010. http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2010/12/vector-based-google-maps-for-android.html

You have made my day with that info. Here's why: About a year ago I gave some consideration to how much time and effort (and cost) was involved keeping the floor clean in my house. The house gets very dusty quickly because of where I live. I opted against a Scooba back then primarily because the price was way out of my priorities and budget.

But I did buy an expensive mop and bucket from the local five and dime. I just stared at all the options long enough, so I wouldn't have to constantly get my hands wet wringing out the dirty wet mop. This centrifgual mop bucket is what I bought and I like it a lot. I bought several extra pads and I throw them in the washer (along with similar rags used for cleaning).

It works by pushing the mop down in the bucket, about three pumps is good. Doing so spins the mop head fast to rinse off excess water (after rinsing down in the bucket, of course).

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Leifheit+55341+Twist+Mop+System

I find simply sweeping the floor simple and effective enough for about 1 or 2 'cleanings' and the about the 3rd time I get serious with the mop and bucket.

Oh, I almost forgot *this* is most awesome! OMFG it is so awesome. Imagine sweeping up the dust off the floor using a little dustbroom and pan. Now stop doing that and use this little Dyson DC34 cordless vacuum cleaner (for Everything) like I do: http://www.amazon.com/Dyson-DC34-cordless-vacuum-cleaner/dp/B006WS39NE/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1347946341&sr=8-18&keywords=dyson Even this most-serious former Air Force I.T. security professional raves about his little Dyson: http://taosecurity.blogspot.nl/2007/12/make-cleaning-awesome.html

Just for cleaning the regular dust build-up behind the PCs alone, that extremely well-designed vacuum is seriously worth the money!

Since I have adopted those tips, life has improved greatly.

Meeting increasing challenges of hardware, web standards, etc. is necessary (maybe,) but the thing that XP-7-8 has taught me is that needless complications are needless. Maybe it's time the open source community starts asking *why* a particular change is desirable or necessary to the userbase.

What Peter Penz said in TFBP was

The user interfaces tend to become simpler and easier to the eye, while the functionality of the application itself has increased. Hiding a complex functionality behind an easy to use interface are not known strengths of "typical" developers ;-)

The complexity of the non-user-interface-parts of applications has increased a lot. Web-browsers are a good example: While the interface got simplified during the last years, the engines showing web-pages got really complex and are maintained mostly by fulltime-developers in the meantime. There seems to be a similar trend in PIM-applications ("cloud"), chat-clients (one simple user-interface, a various number of protocols) and for desktop-search-engines (simple user-interface, really complex stuff going on behind the scenes).

At least for the example in the second paragraph, it's necessary to those members of the user base who want to be able to see Web sites that use Shiny Modern Web Features. If you want to have the developers of the Web standards or technologies that include those features, or the Web developers who use those features on those sites, ask themselves why that stuff is desirable or necessary to the user base, that might be a good idea, but the developers of the free-software Web browsers are probably somewhat stuck here, unless they want to limit themselves to a user base that doesn't use any sites that require the Shiny New Features.

The oldest evidence of modern humans in Europe is over 43.000, not 36.000 years old. There is no evidence that the Neandertal was responsible for the Aurigniac, but a lot of evidence that connects the Aurigniac with modern humans.

http://dienekes.blogspot.nl/2012/05/43000-year-old-aurignacian-in-swabian.html