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I think they started exploding a little later.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

They could just buy that that new one from Iran.

And what about the black people harassed by "the man" (whatever form that takes)? I'm thinking of something like http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... though I was personally involved with a person (of color) arrested for loitering at a bus stop. It's not one isolated case in FL. It's everywhere in the US, every day. Still. When that ends, then maybe some more people will take the hand offered to them. Until then, I don't blame them for the lack of trust in the help offered. Free treatment for syphilis? Sounds fun, why are my symptoms getting worse?

Ha! If 00000000 is good enough for Minuteman missiles then it is good enough for me!

Many kids now spend more time inside than previous generations ...

I saw this story a number of years ago and it stuck with me. For some reason the map originally with it doesn't show up any more, but you can see it in the second link.

How children lost the right to roam in four generations - Map

Ball lightning video

(Don't complain that it is the Daily Mail, it worked better than the Puffington Hosts.)

Oh, it's snowing out

Meanwhile in Australia...

Good for you. Although the hermit lifestyle can make a man go a bit loopy, I completely understand that you don't care about the taste of your food when you cook everything to death. What I don't understand is why you are so afraid of germs. A frequently challenged immune system is a healthy immune system.

Just ask this guy.

I drive about the same, but live in the UK where "gas" costs have always been high. Thing is though, it's still cheaper (and twice as fast) as taking the train.

Yeah, but that's not saying much- the UK's privatised train system is horrendously expensive compared to similar railways (*) elsewhere in Europe- it makes a mockery of the Conservatives' claimed motives for privatisation, that it supposedly increases competition and efficiency and drives down costs. (**) Years upon years of way above the rate of inflation increases on prices that weren't cheap to start off with. When even the Tory-friendly Daily F****** Mail is running a story on how shockingly expensive it is (***), you know it's bad.

(*) Run along OMG COMMUNIST!!!!111^w^w more socialist lines

(**) Then again, we all know that this is about Tory dogma and feathering their own nests, regardless of how they dress it up. Their recent privatisation of the Royal Mail, despite the fact that the majority of people in the UK- including many Conservative supporters!- were opposed to this, and the fact that it was blatantly sold off at far below its market value, makes obvious what most people had already figured out long ago. Expect the Royal Mail to go the way of the Dutch national mail service when *that* was privatised and is apparently very poor now.

(***) This story was the top of the search results last time I searched for a story to make this point, so go figure...

Like the original contract for this website which went to a college buddy of the POTUS' wife, without open bidding.

The executive whose company won the no-bid contract is Toni-Townes Whitley and the only association she and Michelle Obama have had is that they were classmates at Princeton.

The right-wing media attempted to twist this fact of attending the same school at the same time as proof of cronyism. Fortunately for those of us who would be informed rather than manipulated, the biggest evidence of this failed smear campaign is the blasted Google landscape around the search terms "michelle obama yale classmate".

The only people repeating this as proof of corruption are biased right-wing media organs and poorly informed /. readers.

• joemiller.us/.../michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-executive-company..
• foxnewsinsider.com/.../hannity-krauthammer-michelle-obamas-connecti..
• www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-b
• freedomoutpost.com/.../michelle-obamas-college-classmate-toni-townes-...
• dancingczars.wordpress.com/.../surprise-michelle-obamas-princeton-bud...
• www.thecollegefix.com/post/15151/
• www.rightwingnews.com/...obama/michelle-obamas-classmate-a-senior-...

"Yet the leaked report makes the extraordinary concession that over the past 15 years, recorded world temperatures have increased at only a quarter of the rate of IPCC claimed when it published its last assessment in 2007.
Back then, it said observed warming over the 15 years from 1990-2005 had taken place at a rate of 0.2C per decade, and it predicted this would continue for the following 20 years, on the basis of forecasts made by computer climate models.
But the new report says the observed warming over the more recent 15 years to 2012 was just 0.05C per decade - below almost all computer predictions."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Worlds-climate-scientists-confess-Global-warming-just-QUARTER-thought--computers-got-effects-greenhouse-gases-wrong.html

My thoughts exactly. 200m a day is peanuts. According to this story, 21 billion texts per year are sent in Britain alone - that's 57 million a day, or about one per head of population (way down from its peak a couple of years earlier). Extrapolating wildly, the global figure must be at least a couple of billion per day.

So the real story here is "NSA ignores 90% of SMS traffic".

Or, they collect just about every text sent in the US daily. About 300m people, 200m texts/day, about one per head of population. Besides, how much easier is it for them to collect texts that are sent locally rather than those in, say, Rwanda or China?

My thoughts exactly. 200m a day is peanuts. According to this story, 21 billion texts per year are sent in Britain alone - that's 57 million a day, or about one per head of population (way down from its peak a couple of years earlier). Extrapolating wildly, the global figure must be at least a couple of billion per day.

So the real story here is "NSA ignores 90% of SMS traffic".

Companies need a system to decide who gets retrenched first due to automation improvements: Those who use self-scanners at supermarkets get laid off first. It's only fair! :-)

But how will these newly unemployed cope? :-(

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135284/How-cheating-checkouts-turning-nation-self-service-shoplifters.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/coles-to-combat-selfserve-thieves/story-fni0dcne-1226746394342

Problem solved! :-)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/big-y-self-checkout-machines_n_980886.html
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/are-self-service-checkouts-on-the-way-out/

Indeed, you don't get those craziness in any Muslim culture with well-educated populace.

And which culture is that?

In the UK, you have Muslims refusing to use alcohol-based hand sanitizer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1202192/Muslims-refuse-use-alcohol-based-hand-gels-religious-beliefs.html

The Muslim dietary laws ban the consumption of alcohol, not rubbing it on your hands.

Right, but it doesn't mean there aren't jobs.

Yes, actually, it does.

Unless you want to mount an argument that large numbers of people would prefer to live in abject poverty rather than work and live in relative comfort.

Further, even ignoring that, there are hundreds of thousands of available jobs, and millions of job seekers. More people than jobs. Lots more.

You can be a job seeker willingly - opting to hold out for the job you want, rather than any job you can get, this is a conscious choice to be unemployed and it's one I'd make if I were in that situation too because I have enough savings to get by so that if I did become unemployed I'd be able to do that, but it doesn't change the fact that many people are unrealistic about what they can hold out for or, how much they have in savings to be able to hold out for something they're never going to get and simply can't afford to be choosy. If my cash reserves ran out I'd stop being choosy and take one of the many other options available.

Yet apparently you think tens, hundreds of thousands of people would rather “hold out” and choose to be unemployed, living on the pittance offered by welfare ?

So yes there are people unemployed, some reasonably so just waiting a little longer to get what they both want and know they can get, others not so reasonably so holding out for something they couldn't get even if they were employed, or simply not wanting to work at all.

The former are accounted for in the “0%” I referred to. That’s why it was in inverted commas.

The proportion of people who choose to not work and live in abject poverty is vanishingly small. You’ve already stated you wouldn’t do it. I certainly wouldn’t, either. Nor would anyone I know. Yet you want to try and argue tens to hundreds of thousands do ?

Doesn’t even pass the laugh test.

That's an American thing. It doesn't apply globally. Here we have two figures, the claimant count which is those taking unemployment benefits and so excludes housewives and working age teens and early 20s still in education and the actual unemployment levels which you quoted. For what it's worth it has changed quite drastically, unemployment has been falling non-stop in the UK, far faster than estimates expected.

“A person is classed as unemployed if not only out of work, but also actively looking for work and available to start work within a fortnight.”

So unemployment stats don’t account for people who have given up looking for work, or who couldn’t start within two weeks.

Further people are considered “employed” if they work an hour a week. That means unemployment statistics don’t account for underemployment - people who want to work more but can’t because there aren’t enough jobs.

Real unemployment is _vastly_ higher than official figures. This is a worldwide problem. There is an under- and unemployment disaster that’s been building up in the advanced world for decades.

But we're talking about the UK, there is no 3 hour commute.

Anecdotally, I know many people living in London. None of them have less than a 45 minute commute door-to-door, each way.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325262/Rise-super-commuter-Number-Britons-travelling-hours-day-work-soars-50-cent-years.html

That’s actually 3 hours in total, rather than each way, and I have no problem saying I picked 3 hours out of the air, but the overall point remains. It’s quite reasonable for there to be quite legitimate reasons for someone to be unable to take a job, as opposed

This is just a scaled up version of what fish do to insects all the time and the likes of flies are very quick. It is a little unusual to see it, but it's not really that spectacular.

See also: Shark eats gull.
    Leaping shark catches seal.

I will concede that Spain's problems are vastly different than Greece's. But you can hardly call it a good role model of economic growth. Look at all the empthy new houses, apartments and deserted airports. They failed at reining in the bank sector from committing greed driven harakiri. Along with many other countries.

I will concede that Spain's problems are vastly different than Greece's. But you can hardly call it a good role model of economic growth. Look at all the empthy new houses, apartments and deserted airports. They failed at reining in the bank sector from committing greed driven harakiri. Along with many other countries.

You can read more via the pdf at http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121392 or a mirror at http://publicintelligence.net/dod-unmanned-systems-2013/
The US gov wants to try pre-programmed tasks, new algorithms, more sensors, and complex machine learning to remove the need for constant expensive, skilled teams to be working with the 'drone' 24/7.
Expect to see a drone swarm been released or more than 1 drone converging on a target area with less human guidance.
The other aspect is need to shape "cultural hurdles" after double tap drown strikes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html
Facial recognition is still http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/drones-never-forget-a-face/ been worked on at great distances.
What is left is a 'group' or 'person' in the wrong place at the wrong time doing wrong things or a 'helpful' local has placed a tracking chip on a person to be removed.

re All of those things have always been a part of war, except the social media thing, but that is just an instance of propaganda.
Yes think back to the black sites, double tap drone strikes, the surge..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html
Really its just back to the old colonial wars under a new brand and better spin via happy 24/7 media sock puppets.

The U.S. had EVERYTHING to do with Al Qaeda! In fact the CIA were the ones who started the whole thing back in the 80'a. Back in the 80's when Russia was at war with Afganistan it was the CIA who was funding, training and arming the Mujahideen - and guess who was the leader of the Mujahideen? Yup Osama Bin Laden! The part of the Mujahideen lead by Osama Bin Laden eventually became Al Qaeda. The U.S. CREATED and for the most part has some control of Al Qaeda. Heck even Anwar Al-Awlaki (the Al Qaeda leader DINED at the Pentagon months AFTER 9/11!

References:

Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11
http://www.infowars.com/al-qaeda-leader-dined-at-the-pentagon-just-months-after-911/

Dining with the enemy: Al Qaeda leader linked to 9/11 hijackers 'was invited to the Pentagon for lunch after attacks'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322397/Al-Qaedas-Anwar-Al-Awlaki-invited-Pentagon-lunch-9-11-attacks.html

Mujahideen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen

Sec. State Clinton Admits U.S. Created Mujahideen that Became al-Qaeda
http://www.infowars.com/sec-state-clinton-admits-u-s-created-mujahideen-that-became-al-qaeda/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Cc3LfhQ-o&feature=player_embedded

Mujahideen
Al-Qaeda
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=mujahideen+al+qaeda&aq=0&aqi=g1g-m1&aql=&oq=mujahideen+al&gs_rfai=C07tUp9QoTOWrHYuugATN08X2CgAAAKoEBU_Qpa0Q&fp=e0fa4b5da4f245a4

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html

"The Mujahideen

Al-Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. In the mid-1980s, Osama bin Laden became the prime financier for an organization that recruited Muslims from mosques around the world. These "Afghan Arab" mujahideen, which numbered in the thousands, were crucial in defeating Soviet forces"

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

US, Pakistani and other financing and support
See also: Operation Cyclone

The mujahideen were significantly financed and armed (and are alleged to have been trained) by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the administrations of Carter[5] and Reagan, and also by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan under Zia-ul-Haq, Iran, the People's Republic of China and several Western European countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden
Claims have been made that the American government, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), are responsible for enabling "Afghan Arabs," and in particular Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
In mid-1979, about the same time as the Soviet Union deployed troops into Afghanistan, the United States began giving several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the Afghan Marxist government and the Soviet Army in Operation Cyclone. Along with native Afghan mujahideen were Muslim volunteers from other countries, popularly known

bulk submits Daily Mail pages

I'd start with http://dailymail.co.uk/ and get the whole site blocked.

Move on to the Guardian (Extremist), the Telegraph (Extremist), the Sun (Pornographic) and the Mirror (not suitable for children).

I'd add in websites attached to any religions (all guilty of child abuse) and obviously all political parties (as they're extremist, and trying to subvert the democractic process).

Basically the more of the internet to which the blocks prevent access, the more likely they are to be turned off.

The NSA admit they were wrong? Hell, when has anyone in government admitted they were wrong?

Just off the top of my head:

• In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert Strange McNamara.
• Bill Clinton Admits "I Was Wrong"
• Rumsfeld confesses he was wrong about WMDs in Iraq
• Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation
• .

What McNamara doesn't do is out himself as a sadistic tyrant bent on personal glory, so his book wasn't warmly received.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Do I need to attribute that?

When is the last time you admitted you never let the facts interfere with a cherished aspersion?

Oh, but wait ... these admissions don't count. Please, please, tell me why.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/30/article-0-0CCCC80600000578-59_634x534.jpg

Sure, as the moon does exactly what to warm or cool the earth?

Let me introduce you to the concept of tidal forces and their effect causing significant heat as as the mass of a planetary body, especially the crust, flexes in response.

Check out Europa and the Jovian tidal forces that generate enough heat energy to keep water liquid that far from the sun, and even cause huge geysers, for an example.

Hm, strange as a matter of coincident I had checked that yesterday. Nearly burned my fingers, damn hot down there. Now as you mention it, I checked the rotation of the core again. I see no difference.

We are actually becoming quite good at being able to analyze and gather data from the passage of shock waves through materials, thanks in large part to military-driven research.

We are just beginning to understand what lies far beneath our feet. In fact, they've relatively recently come up with an almost entirely new structural opposing-spins model for the inner and outer cores.

Here are a couple of articles briefly describing it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110220142817.htm

This part I found interesting:

In particular, as the inner core grows, the heat released during solidification drives convection in the fluid in the outer core.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2423629/Earths-inner-core-spins-eastward-direction-faster-rate-planets-surface.html

Now, where do you suppose all that convection is eventually transferring all that heat energy to? Heck, that's almost an entirely separate climate system in itself which we have extremely little understanding of.

Are you saying that we know and understand enough about this to safely rule it out of climate models?

Look, we simply have not been around to collect enough data or advance our understanding enough about the myriads of systems and even basic structure of the planet to make reliable predictions. The only prediction we can make with certainty is that climate will change on the planet. Anything more is an educated guess, at best.

Humans should be concentrating on becoming a space-faring species that can concentrate most of it's energy collection/generation and resource collection and processing off-planet, along with self-sustaining colonies, possibly either space habitats at Earth/moon La Grange points or on Mars or elsewhere.

The hoarding mentality that would have humans increasingly restricted in their energy and resource consumption is based on assuming that we must continue to only exploit the resources here on Earth and that humans will never live independently off of Earth, nor provide energy or resources to humans on Earth from off-planet.

If you truly want to be "green", push for full-on private and commercial exploitation of space and the establishment of colonies with the goal of eventual self-sufficiency. This will do more to eliminate the negative effects of humans on the Earth in a permanent way than anything else (short of killing ourselves and/or returning to hunter-gatherer level) we could possibly do.

Now, *that's* what I call "forward"!

Strat

Perhaps I should cherry pick my examples in the same way you have, so I can show that Catholics (in the form of the IRA) kill many people every year?

It was the GP that cherry-picked (by having a cut-off date that excluded 2001) - I used National statistics. I think that if you wanted to show that Catholics killed a lot of people you would have to cherry-pick a few decades ago. We used to be evacuated from shopping centres and things fairly frequently with bomb scares, but haven't been for years

Or would it be unfair, because many/most of those Catholics are white, which would show that religious extremism isn't limited to those evil Muslims?

You seem to have a hang-up on race here. It may surprise you to know that not all Catholics are white, and not all Muslim terrorists are brown. people like Richard Dart, Samantha Lewthwaite, Colleen Renee LaRose, to name only a few are just as much murdering muzzy scum as any other muzzy.

I used the 2nd table which provides a straight histogram of the number of individuals in a particular income range. Per capita doesn't come into it at all.

The household income table is much more difficult to interpret in this context.

Getting straight facts often takes a little effort. If you are not using per-capita income, you are throwing around numbers with no cited baseline. What is the top 1% for the numbers that you are using (with references)?

You have provided no credible sources for those figures at a global level. You started off with some random $50,000/yr figure and are comparing that to a completely different population group (wage earners). Apples::Oranges.

Here is another reference: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-need-34k-income-global-elite--half-worlds-richest-live-U-S.html. Note that they are using "after tax" income ($34,000), which throws even more confusion into the mix. They claim that 48% of the global 1% live in the U.S.

If 48% of the richest 1% live in the US, we can see that 1% of 7B (global population) is 70M. 70M * 48% = 33.6M. Of the 300M US population, 33.6M are in the global 1%. That matches pretty closely (11.2%) with my earlier figures. And rather far off from 25%.

You build some pretty good cars with that (video from a couple of years ago):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJeMnZuOOJU

Looks to me like Peugeot might bring a hybrid in production:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266632/Car-runs-air-coming-soon-Peugeot-Citroen-unveil-new-117mpg-hybrid.html

(this also makes fun of hydrogen powered cars because with hydrogen powered cars 'fuel' also needs to be compressed very much, so a lot of energy is lost to transfer hydrogen into a car. So why not use that energy directly ?)

So I'm on BT, and like most people I've replaced the terrible "home hub" with a simple 4 router solution, 5G backbone to distribute wired around the house, single 2.4G AP for non-wired devices, OSPF to manage it all.

It's connected upstream to the VDSL via a pppoe (username bthomehub@btbroadband.com, no password), and the central DNS proxy uses either 4.2.2.2 or 8.8.8.8 upstream.

I've spent the morning scientifically browsing lots of porn sites, and haven't found a single one blocked. A google search for "porn" reveals the following sites on the first attempt, all work just fine.

http://www.pornhub.com/
http://www.youporn.com/
http://www.redtube.com/
http://www.porn.com/
http://www.xnxx.com/
http://www.perfectgirls.net/

The search also brings up the following site
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Which is blocked as being morally unwelcome in my house.

What am I doing wrong?

It could go down either for porn or "hate speech", which Cameron is wasting no time adding to the filters. The lulz will be heavy then.

Or did you miss the story about the NHS killing off 130,000 elderly patients a year

Its a Daily Mail article, so it can be dismissed as grossly inaccurate (at best). I'm sure they blamed immigrant doctors, too.

Or did you miss the story about the NHS killing off 130,000 elderly patients a year?

In fact, UK doctors get a £50 bonus for putting patients on the "Liverpool care Pathway," i.e. pain medication, but no attempt to prolong the patient's life.

The same is true in many other EU countries,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273694/Workshop-manager-stabbed-family-outside-KFC-telling-swearing-yobs-respect-staff.html

The only skinhead stabbing I could find in the UK. And they stabbed a white person.

Or were you thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence which is a 20+ year old murder, that was "suspected racial motivations" and no skinheads involved?

Both received great attention due to the unusual nature of them. One incident in 20+ years shows a level of systemic racism?

Preferred colour temperature varies by region and culture.

I think Subway (the sandwich place) looks strangely yellow, compared to most other shops and restaurants. I think Americans would consider the whiter lights here "clinical", but I just think "clean". The yellower light is more typical of a rustic restaurant or a pub.

(example)

Three more Swiss banks join US tax deal - Reuters - 12 hours ago.

Swiss banks are supposedly the safest place to store money, If the Swiss are willing to share customer data with the US, what else can't they share?

Just another tentacle of the Nothing is beyond our reach motto.

I think you are confusing "the safest place to store money" with "the safest place for a US Citizen to hide taxable income from the IRS" and you might be interested to know that the two are very very different. If you don't like the income tax laws or the IRS, there is no law against renouncing your citizenship and taking up residence in a nation with a more lenient tax system. The choice is pretty simple. If you aren't trying to hide money that is legally obligated to someone else, then the Swiss banks are a great, stable place to keep it.

Three more Swiss banks join US tax deal - Reuters - 12 hours ago.

Swiss banks are supposedly the safest place to store money, If the Swiss are willing to share customer data with the US, what else can't they share?

Just another tentacle of the Nothing is beyond our reach motto.

There might be a difference in that the banks that are rolling over have a presence in the US that can be leaned on.

On top of that I'm not sure how the US thinks it has the ability to levy and collect penalties against Swiss banks located in Switzerland that don't have a presence in the US to start with.

If the databanks have no business in the US that can be leaned on, perhaps they will be outside the US' legal pressure. Of course they will remain high profile targets for the NSA and any other criminal organization.

Three more Swiss banks join US tax deal - Reuters - 12 hours ago.

Swiss banks are supposedly the safest place to store money, If the Swiss are willing to share customer data with the US, what else can't they share?

Just another tentacle of the Nothing is beyond our reach motto.

You would think but you would be wrong: man dies from rc helicopter

You are beating up a staw man. I never said there is no acceptable risk or even that low doses of radiation are not acceptable in some situations.

Truly sorry about that. I do skitter about and fly off with my agenda hanging out sometimes.

I do appreciate the quandary faced by diagnosticians and those trying to establish occupational exposure guidelines, these measurements do matter. There was a time when even shoe stores had fluoroscope X-ray machines children would play with after school, emitters were much stronger and few doctors used lead aprons. Some hypothesis -- preferably a provable one -- is necessary. The "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" is a good effective dose of common sense intended to become a policy and legal framework, but what numbers and equations will we plug into it?

It may be that for every hundred workers exposed to some small level of radiation -- aside from the horde that is happy with playing it really safe, there may be some dozen who are actively hoping that allowable 'safe' limits can be raised, with sound supporting reasons, so they do not have to live with the regulatory Sword of Damocles hanging so close above their heads. I would be one of those. Nuclear energy sounds a lot safer than some of the potentially lethal hazards I face daily.

You are right to pose there might be a non-linear risk curve hidden in the noise (of low dose risks). There are proposals to reconcile low-dose adjustments to LNT in such a way that it does not present such a hard 'barrier' when conflating dose with mortality, and (perhaps, me guessing) from a consensus that in a field of exponential or even quadratic relationships, drawing a straight line through anything more complicated than cow-counting is uncomfortable.

A Dose Rate Effectiveness Factor (DREF) attempts to half risk per unit dose at low doses or low dose rates (or both) from its point on the linear scale. Arbitrary but probably closer to reality. NASA takes it down to the organ level and calculates a career limit. Add to that cancers that may lie dormant, held in check by the body's own immune responses and you have a lot of 'noise' and extra screening to sift through.

Maurice Tubiana, MD has compiled an excellent 'fact check' on LNT The Linear No-Threshold Relationship Is Inconsistent with Radiation Biologic and Experimental Data which summarizes many sources (167 ref citations!) to conclude that there is no (small) elephant in the living room. He even covers nine studies that suggest that low does may exhibit Hormesis (a beneficial effect).

As you might guess, finding evidence of hormesis was astounding and is a hot research potato. But an ecological study done by an outspoken Bernard_Cohen is mentioned on the DREF page, emphasis mine:

"Efforts to confirm directly the effects of indoor radon have led to mixed and highly controversial conclusions. One class of studies, termed ecological studies, looks for correlations between the average radon level in a region and the lung cancer fatality rate. In the largest and best known of these studies, covering 1,729 counties in the United States, Bernard Cohen finds the county-by-county lung cancer rates to be inversely correlated with average radon levels. Although many readers have interpreted this study as suggesting hormesis, Cohen limits his conclusions to saying that the results refute the linearity hypothesis. This study covered most of the US population, and therefore the statistical uncertainties are small

that measles cases in the U.S. spiked this year, rising to three times their recent average rate. It's partly due to a greater number of people traveling to the U.S. when they're infectious...

I find it interesting that in times when there's been greater scrutiny of who comes to the US, and in some cases tourist dollars having significantly reduced because of the tougher US visa regime and other factors, there are articles like those quoted that "blame" the incidence of disease on outsiders. Incredible!!

The USA should man up and state categorically that some of its citizens are behaving like uneducated villagers by refusing to vaccinate. Do not blame those you call aliens because measles has been and still is on the decline everywhere else.

What will happen when polio strikes?

it is much easier to prevent the removal of a back door when the code base is owned by a private organization with identifiable representatives

Linux (and BSD) committers are just as identifiable. Although the codebase is open to all, very few people go through it. If it follows the documented coding style, compiles, and "works", there is simply no reason to keep reviewing it — for most people. The Debian hole I cited earlier remained open from 2006 to 2013 — more years, than Turing spent working on Enigma.

In the Linux community, being international, such pressure would be more difficult to apply.

Maybe, but I would not count on it. Which country would you consider unlikely to cooperate with the US on such matter — without itself being an even greater threat to liberty (like China or Cuba)? The entire Western world's spooks cooperate with the US. As does Russia — to some extent, at least. Who would not help their American colleagues in exchange for Americans helping them — a little? Someone like Sweden? Well, they did hit Assange with rape charges, when he made himself an overly tiresome nuisance to the Americans...

Its interesting to note that Microsoft's anti trust settlement was negotiated and overseen by a member of the FISA court. The mandate to open APIs and source probably stopped short of revealing all the built-in back doors.

In other words, Microsoft, probably, was coerced into it. A similar coercion — or conviction, or fooling — can be applied to an open-source project's participant. Whether it is easier or harder to do, I would not know.

Newport teacher struck off for two years

She should be but she won't.

Lesbian teacher jailed for two years

Two years is less than the mandatory six.

Newport teacher struck off for two years

She should be but she won't.

Lesbian teacher jailed for two years

Two years is less than the mandatory six.

*For bob's sake, please look up the word before replying with the standard Slashdot anti-animal-sentience nerd rage.

Per Wikipedia:

Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or to experience subjectivity.

Studies have shown that even plants are capable of communication, and in some instances have been shown to cry out when cut, as if in pain.

So, by the Wikipedia definition, plants are sentient beings as well; do you have the same protective spirit over, say, your lawn, as you're showing for the more 'breathy, bleedy' forms of sentient life?

Personally, I don't care what other think; certain animals and plants are quite tasty, and I'm going to continue killing and devouring them to my heart's content. Don't like it? Then don't accept my invite to chow. Otherwise, mind your own fucking business, please and thanks.

Sure, DexterIsADog.

Some of these are security videos. Some are just videos people shot. They all involve civil cases.

Question answered by lawyers about release of security footage

Texting Woman Who Fell Into Fountain May Sue Mall . The video in the story has been removed, probably as part of a preemptive agreement.

Kanye West suing YouTube co-founder for uploading footage of his proposal

Peninsula card room sues over violent YouTube videos

Couple sues subway over YouTube post

NJTA sues YouTube over the posting of a video that had been shot with an NJTA camera.

And this link may provide you with lots and lots of articles to read on the subject.

I do not think that having mental problems in Great Britain is a good idea: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516270/Pregnant-woman-unborn-baby-girl-forcibly-removed-caesarean-social-workers-obtain-court-order-suffered-mental-breakdown.html

They've sent her to the hospital, drugged her, cut her baby out of her and gave away the baby of this italian mother for adoption in the UK because even though she is on medication and made a full recovery she might one day have mental problems again. The baby will not even grow up in italy.

Just wow.

Found it hard to believe. It's real, although the details are a little different. For example they said something like "I'm going to destroy America and dig up Marilyn Monroe". I guess the moral is, don't claim you're going to dig up the graves of dead celebrities ("terrorism!").

Pffft. It's so worth it for scaring Chilean students who think they're going for a job interview. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411950/Scariest-job-interview-LG-terrifies-applicants-Chile-faking-massive-meteor-crash-outside-office-window-thats-really-ultra-high-def-TV-screen.html

The Arctic (and icebergs) are melting

Yeah, if you believe United Nations' reports on the matter. I don't — because United Nations has a conflict of interest — as do many of the politicians and the scientists funded by them. Sure, if you try hard enough — measuring what supports your agenda, while ignoring, what does not, you can "prove" a lot of things. Heck, those very icebergs were reportedly melting dangerously in 1922!

sea levels rise

Yeah, right. Wake me up, when Al Gore sells his — recently purchased — ocean front villa and moves to the hills.

Truth is, even where predictions are, sort of, materializing, it mostly happens at drastically lower rates than predicted.

Things like corn ethanol aren't about helping global warming

Bzzz! Wrong... Revising history again.

When members of our society think that their savings on lightbulbs are worth destroying the world over

Oh, another wonderful quote... The world-destroying lightbulbs — Edison (and Tesla) laughing sadly.

sometimes we have to coerce them to do the right thing.

Thanks for confirming the maxim: "Scratch a Global Warming alarmist, and you'll find a Che Guevara T-shirt underneath."

It's obvious you would never do anything to prevent global warming.

This is not about me — you'd do better next time, if you refrain from outright ad-hominems...