Slashdot Mirror

did it need it?

yeah...it did..otherwise Soulskill looks like a shill or loses credibility...he looks like Tom Delay when he mistook a parody show for a real show

the little "from the X dept" area is completely neutral..."left my pants in SF" ???...that's where the /. editors *always* get cute...even if they just quote TFA for their summary

i'd have looked askew at this article as presented even ***if*** the "from X dept" was sarcastic...but we don't even have that

Thnx Anita Hunt.

Note that my explanation isnt quite commonly accepted but IMHO it is the loose consensus among scientists who I respect.

This guy, Lawrence M. Krauss would definitely disagree with my characterization of what happens at the Event Horizon.Here he is on the Colbert Report talking about his (bogus IMHO) theories. He's great but I just differ.

See, in the Quantum Foam, Heat Death universe that I propose & Hawking is against thermodynamics is maintained because the Event Horizon itself, the very edge, has angular momentum, etc and can emmit radiation

Here's the difference, at the Event Horizon the Holographic moment is when anything touches the actual Event Horizon it instantly becomes Quantum Entangled then **obliterated**

The black hole obliterates everything into pure nothingness/randomness, which preserves the Thermodynamics laws & works with QED via Quantum Foam theories.

All pigeons shit. A very very small fraction of blacks commit murder. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428008/july-23-2013/the-word---color-bind

Says one thing, does the opposite...

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/427790/july-16-2013/david-karp

"the muscle tissue was red" I can't wait for the photo op of Putin eating a mammoth steak, cooked rare. People could at least take that more seriously than his flight with the cranes.

Either that or as air defense around major buildings. Just like running lots of telephone wires to keep out helicopters out you could string these off buildings and keep the bad guys away. Might not work for NYC but Denver would probably be... oh wait the Denver airport is the Illuminati base ask Colbert.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/403623/december-05-2011/mysteries-of-the-ancient-unknown---2012-end-of-times

Dude, that's a joke at your expense. You keep trying to argue around the fact that your "statement of fact" is obviously wrong.

I've provided you a simple and effective demonstration that your belief is not coherent with reality. Even your counter proof says "Trend: 0.14". You do realise that a positive trend indicates warming, right?

Here's a quote from the Met Office:

The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Nino) to August 2012 (coming at the tail end of a double-dip La Nina) is about 0.03C/decade, amounting to a temperature increase of 0.05C over that period, but equally we could calculate the linear trend from 1999, during the subsequent La Nina, and show a more substantial warming.

As we’ve stressed before, choosing a starting or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading. Climate change can only be detected from multi-decadal timescales due to the inherent variability in the climate system. (emphasis added) If you use a longer period from HadCRUT4 the trend looks very different. For example, 1979 to 2011 shows 0.16C/decade (or 0.15C/decade in the NCDC dataset, 0.16C/decade in GISS). Looking at successive decades over this period, each decade was warmer than the previous – so the 1990s were warmer than the 1980s, and the 2000s were warmer than both. Eight of the top ten warmest years have occurred in the last decade.

Over the last 140 years global surface temperatures have risen by about 0.8C. However, within this record there have been several periods lasting a decade or more during which temperatures have risen very slowly or cooled. The current period of reduced warming is not unprecedented and 15 year long periods are not unusual.

The atmospheric warming trend has slowed a little, however, the ocean (which absorbs about 90% of the extra incoming heat from the green house effect) continues to warm, Decades of slower warming are expected. Especially, see Figure 2 in the last link. Natural variability laid on top of a trend can always lead to an endless series of plateaus, if you try hard enough.

He is not intellectually qualified to be making the decisions of the Google CEO. He's a dork. A geek minus the technical understanding.

He really showed his ass on Colbert last night: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425750/april-23-2013/eric-schmidt

His comments about privacy alone "...they shouldn't be doing bad things" show his ignorance.

On the Colbert Report interview, he claims, "no one knows what the internet is..." and that "humans will one day live forever" and that your "data cannot be deleted"

All of which are false. 1. The internet is a global computer network capable of running applications with continuous connections among users. 2. is not falsifiable so it's just used-car salesman bullshit and 3. if it is stored in memory, it by definition can be deleted. if it's not stored in memory, then it's not on the internet.

And from another discussion I've found that there be trolls on the topic of Schmidt...so, those who say 'He's a CEO not a technician!@!@11'...fsk off...every CEO needs a basic understanding of what they are doing. Schmidt is a fanboi of his own product and it's egregious.

As usual, Stephen Colbert gets to the truthiness of the rush to be first.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/416046/june-28-2012/cable-news-gaffe-on-obamacare-supreme-court-ruling

This was interesting to me regarding $.23/hour labor from prisons in US

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419674/october-01-2012/the-word---supply-chained

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/182555/january-15-2007/bears---balls---gas

Stephen Colberts explains it here. Description of the video: Scientists from Canada and New Zealand research a little world-changing concept Stephen tossed off on his first show in 2005.

Even better, you can watch the official sport of the summer, dressage!

Efforts to de-emphasize curricula that help develop a capacity for critical reasoning in the subject population is to be expected. Rulers want compliant subjects, not critical ones.

The attack on critical reasoning skills has a long, well-documented history. For a milenia, the Roman Catholic church made sure that relatively few people learned to read, and exerted serious effort to make sure that those who did learn to read were either in the Church already, or were members of the elite with a track record for supporting the Church. When technology (the printing press) bypassed the Church's chokehold on knowledge, the Church ruthlessly suppressed knowledge that was deemed inimical to the Church's interests. The modern neo-Conservative movement in the US adopted pretty much the same strategy, but shifted targets slightly. Instead of targeting reading, they went after something a bit deeper -- critical reasoning skills. The neoCon strategy ultimately resulted in the passage of NCLB in 2001, virtually guaranteeing that the vast majority of the next generation of US voters would be denied access to an education that included training in critical reasoning skills.

The first rule of power is "hold on to it." In a democracy, the corollary would be "get re-elected." For the neoCons, dumbing down the next generation of voters was a good strategy for a political movement with an agenda that anyone with even minimal critical reasoning skills would reject out of hand. Now we have a political scientist whose politics were relentlessly skewered in Allison Lurie's culture war classic "The War Between the Tates" and whose long time domestic partner flunked basic geometry four times advocating a position that lines up with the current NeoCon strategy to dumb American voters down. And if you need further evidence of Hacker's agenda, his appearance on the Colbert Report should be all you need.

A Modest Porpoisal

Kidding aside.

She and her husband continue to show the best side of capitalism. For those that assume that wealth necessarily leads to avarice, it's delightful to me to see the Gates Foundation making that case more difficult to prove.

To hear her explain the contraception issue:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415947/june-27-2012/melinda-gates

It was reported elsewhere (flame me, because I cannot substantiate it) that the Gates Foundation makes more money from dividends from pharmaceutical companies than what the foundation spendsw on being charitable.

Kidding aside.

She and her husband continue to show the best side of capitalism. For those that assume that wealth necessarily leads to avarice, it's delightful to me to see the Gates Foundation making that case more difficult to prove.

To hear her explain the contraception issue:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/415947/june-27-2012/melinda-gates

> Yes, you mentioned the ER. The fix to that isn't to impose insurance, it's to remove the requirement that the ER treat those who won't pay their bills.

Now you've crossed from naive to stupid. I would bet every dollar I have that your opinion on this changes as soon as you or a loved one is in the position of needing emergency health care.

Actually s/he is just repeating Ron Paul's healthcare plan. And therein lies the fallacy of all the libertarian "broccoli" nonsense. There are two choices; don't treat people without insurance or force everyone to share in the risk pool (i.e., buy insurance or pay a tax penalty.)

The dangers of this technology is apparent but I think the intention was a good one. See, the Japanese just wanted to silence famous loudmouth Rush Limbaugh from speaking Japanese. They don't put it past Rush to confuse Japan with China.

or this one?
4:40 in: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/401902/november-09-2011/americone-dream-of-the-future

There was quantum levitation showed at the Colbert report once. Jump to the 4:38 mark

Wow. Mod troll. Looks like I hit a sore spot : )

Parry with an A Gate is a reference to Stephen Colbert poking fun at the fact that Republican straw polls (like the primaries) are not official events and therefore not subject to the same oversight rules.

In 2000 the US Supreme Court ordered Florida to stop counting votes and the results never were properly tallied (Even George W Bush signed legislation as Governor of Texas declaring hand recounts to be the preferred method to resolve discrepancies. Why his campaign went to the US Supreme court to interfere with Florida's decision to do the same is beyond me. So much for States' rights). I assumed this is what OP was referring to.

I'm sorry you find these facts to be so disturbing. Mod away.

It's probably because instead of adding anything of value top the discussion you decided to go go on a Bush stole the election rant.

Wow. Mod troll. Looks like I hit a sore spot : )

Parry with an A Gate is a reference to Stephen Colbert poking fun at the fact that Republican straw polls (like the primaries) are not official events and therefore not subject to the same oversight rules.

In 2000 the US Supreme Court ordered Florida to stop counting votes and the results never were properly tallied (Even George W Bush signed legislation as Governor of Texas declaring hand recounts to be the preferred method to resolve discrepancies. Why his campaign went to the US Supreme court to interfere with Florida's decision to do the same is beyond me. So much for States' rights). I assumed this is what OP was referring to.

I'm sorry you find these facts to be so disturbing. Mod away.

I'm curious, how do they get this shit done? I mean, obviously Hollywood/IP industries have a lot of money, but we do actually have very transparent means of seeing who gets campaign contributions from where. How are they pulling the strings or giving the money?

Kinda like this.

Steven Colbert had a pretty good bit on this when Cingular and AT&T merged a few years ago. (Fast forward to 2:21 in the clip)

Seems to work fine in Italy.

Allow anyone to veto any motion. That is how the world's oldest Direct Democracy Colbert explained how it works.

. Do you really believe executives at Columbia and 20th Century-Fox are being caught "flat-footed" by Lolcats, 40 minute reviews of Star Wars movies and time-lapse photography of flowers blooming on Vimeo?

No, they were caught "flat-footed" by a distribution medium which has obsoleted the television medium. The only thing that nowadays TV still has that the internet doesn't is the industrialized content, but with the advent of sites such as http://www.southparkstudios.com/, http://www.thedailyshow.com/ and http://www.colbertnation.com/, not to mention the unauthorized distribution of tv series, it's quite obvious that TV is destined to go the way of the dodo.

You're right, I have submitted it to the Colbert Nation show suggestions forum. Hopefully someone from the show will see it and pick up the campaign!

http://forums.colbertnation.com/?page=ThreadView&thread_id=29223

Kevin Mitnick was recently on Colbert Report to promote his book. Here is the link if anyone's interested.

Yeah, thats the "7 digit UID new school /."

The old school 5 digit UID and below /. crowd would have reported that Kevin was on 2600 / off the hook "recently" to promote the book. Which show was it? I donno, probably one of these:

http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2011/0811.html

I listened; it was a fairly interesting interview.

Somewhere in between old school and new school, he was on some TWIT network show recently too, apparently this one:

http://www.twit.tv/show/triangulation/21

The twit network is generally a little too non-technical / mass market for me, although they certainly easily are more interesting than TV. I think it would be hilarious if Leo purchased the "tech tv" trademark from whoever owns it using his apparently voluminous petty cash fund (if you've seen his new studio, you'd know what I mean)

Now someone else chime in with his Dr. Phil episode for that / newbie tone. thats what the 8 digit UIDs watch, or so I hear.

Kevin Mitnick was recently on Colbert Report to promote his book. Here is the link if anyone's interested.

Also relevant:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/375428/february-24-2011/corporate-hacker-tries-to-take-down-wikileaks

Dennis Kuchinich? He carries a pocket-sized constitution in his pocket at all times (which he pulled out at the debate to show everyone). 2007 video

Trade secrets like the socke-puppet armies? Or perhaps targeting Americans for the banks and CIA? Or perhaps false flag operations, government sanctioned hacking for the alphabet soup agencies, etc. Blackmailing journalist not touting the party line.

Trade Secrets. Right. If the trade is protecting the good 'ole boy network. What the hell are security trade-secrets? Security through obscurity? I doubt this guy was about to provide a list of documents with the nuclear codes. This is about how the tools are being wrongfully used.

No, since they are not believing in it. I bet they rather hate Apple.
Foxconn employees would be more like "heretics" forced to do slave labor by inquisitors for their "sins".

Now contrast this story to this: Colbert and his iPad...
...and you can see how fucked-up things are.

Cheap crap we don't need, with money we don't have... indeed.

Yea, but he was on the Colbert Report. So that makes him like 1000x more authoritative on any topic than an expert in the field, and at least an order of magnitude greater than someone who slept in a Motel 6.

Would this telescope find pieces of apollo on the moon? Jamie and Adam's interview on Colbert Report claims that modern telescopes arent capable of seeing the debris on the moon. I know they're taking a jab at the US faking a moon landing, but im still curious

"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."

Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists" Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?

Yea, that bit in the TFS come across to me as it's written by a chill to manipulate the public opinion... You know, like out of HBGary's proposals?

"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."

Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists"
Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?

It's simple really. This is mainstream (i.e. lowest common denominator, bottom of the barrel, that which is easiest to sell, what has style but no substance, etc.) thought on the matter: if you are concerned about the government or members of the government acting completely outside of the law, with impunity, well then you're just another paranoid tin-foil hat-wearing insane nutter conspiracy type. You will be dismissed and ridiculed without ever testing the veracity of your claims. That's because we just don't like the way you sound, and that tie you're wearing pisses us off too.

But, if you're concerned about a group of online vandals who cause a lot of inconvenience to a few people, but nothing on the scale of abusive government with no effective checks and balances... well then, we approve of that. Those damned vigilantes. It's definitely okay to believe that a bunch of people with little no no association, organization, or preperation can conspire to bring down a Web site.

It's those insane morons who believe that a bunch of people who are from the same social class, who play golf with each other, who are in bed with the same special interests, who work similar jobs, who all benefit from a more powerful government, why it's madness to believe that they are anything other than saints who are acting in our interests. MADNESS I TELL YOU. What kind of idiot would believe a story like that? Clearly we must ridicule them immediately. We absolutely must, at all costs, ignore every historical precedent for such abuses of power, every self-interested motive of any authority figure involved, every precedent for past abuses of power our own government has perpetrated, and every lack of oversight and basic competency any public official has ever shown. After all, we have some nutters to ridicule.

"No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling..."

Troubling? That's an understatement... "The Obama Administration’s Justice Department advised the largest bank in America where to find a corporate hacker [Three military contracting 'cyber-security' companies] to fabricate information that could be used to blackmail American journalists" Corporate America, the Military Industrial Complex and the Government all in bed together to operate outside the law inside the US and without any checks, balances or semblance of respect for the law... and this Ted Samson character is more worried about the civil disobedience group Anonymous... Hellooo... threat assessment!?

A couple nights ago Colbert had a rather amusing segment summarizing the chain of events. I believe a phrase similar to "Hey, look at that hornet's nest; I'm gonna stick my dick in it!" was used. Look it up, you'll laugh. :)

I decided to look this up because I missed that episode. It is pretty hilarious. Here is the link.

I think the moral of the story was "Don't stick your penis into the hornet's nest."

I'm all for citing Colbert, but you should at least give him the credit for the quote and provide a link, especially when the segment is so hilarious.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/361307/october-06-2010/rawesome-foods-raid

No I can't. Neither can anyone else outside the United States.

The "full episode" is restricted, but various sections, including the Greene interview, seems to be available to a wider audience. I watched this from Norway.

Here you go, direct link to the interview.

You can check out a fairly entertaining interview of Brian Greene by Stephen Colbert from last Thursday on Colbert's web site [colbertnation.com].

No I can't. Neither can anyone else outside the United States.

I'm in France and can also watch it here (without a proxy). The trick with it and the Daily Show is to watch all the video clips and not the full episode in one go (i.e., that is, use this link and not this).

You can check out a fairly entertaining interview of Brian Greene by Stephen Colbert from last Thursday on Colbert's web site [colbertnation.com].

No I can't. Neither can anyone else outside the United States.

I'm in France and can also watch it here (without a proxy). The trick with it and the Daily Show is to watch all the video clips and not the full episode in one go (i.e., that is, use this link and not this).

You can check out a fairly entertaining interview of Brian Greene by Stephen Colbert from last Thursday on Colbert's web site.

I can't say this will educate you further one way or another and I am certainly not qulified to weigh in on either side of the debate but the guy was pretty candid with Stephen and, well, I found it entertaining...

You can fight for government accountability and transparency in a responsible fashion. Wikileaks doesn't seem interested in that.

You clearly have some evidence for this claim then? Because if you don't, then you're just making shit up to suit your prejudice.

And Wikileaks does in fact does have strict policies on causing harm, even going so far as to contact the civilians named in documents and asking their permission. So far, it seems that you've already made up your mind without learning much about the facts.

And some government secrecy is a necessity. Should the government publish the location of nuclear materials? What about launch codes? Or the location of witnesses in protection?

These aren't government secrets, these are military secrets. Conflating the military with elected government is a mistake of the highest order. The two are not comparable in any way.

It's entertainment not politics.

There's a difference?

Yeah. Entertainment is funny.

But so is politics...

"Shared insanity is an excellent term for the brief turn away from Conservatism (NOT Republicans) that the country underwent, and is now correcting."

Correcting indeed. With the Republicans now controlling the House, they get to appoint a new chair to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee. The front-runners for the position are:

Joe Barton - He's the guy who apologized to BP for their cruel treatment by the US Federal Government. He also received more campaign contributions from the oil industry than any other member of the House, which makes him an expert on energy policy.

John Shimkus - He quoted the book of Genesis in House testimony as evidence that God promised He would never let bad things happen to the Earth, and He should be entrusted to protect the environment.

Nope, no insanity there.

Here's details about it, from a respected news source:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/366030/november-17-2010/chair-apparent