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For 7 years, we have had this:

https://www.google.com/search?...

How is that not being divisive?

positivism
päztivizm noun
PHILOSOPHY
1.
a philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.
2.
the theory that laws are to be understood as social rules, valid because they are enacted by authority or derive logically from existing decisions, and that ideal or moral considerations (e.g., that a rule is unjust) should not limit the scope or operation of the law.

So Sayeth Google.

This idea is older than dirt, about time somebody actually tried it.

Now just hook up your Rossi E-Cat to it for power any you can fly your woowoo-mobile to meet the space brothers, just like on the Kansas album cover.

Would you like to know more?

In all the conversation so far no one bothered to post anything about how to actually verify if the vulnerability exists on a system or whether anyone is offering a vulnerability scanner for this.

The best scanner I've seen so far for previous versions of Stagefright vulnerabilities is this one.

the unliked Dr. Pulaski.

You certainly made this up. Muldaur was a veteran trek babe

Your post gave me PTSD, you should be banned.

You laugh, but that crazy bitch Melody Hensley claims she got PTSD from twitter after she received some spirited criticism for some of her stupider comments.

She also tried to get some active duty military folks fired for daring to suggest that she might not actually have PTSD.

You must be talking really ancient, because all those principles were all part of the original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines

I'm hopeful that one day this trope will be as unfashionable as the ones about women.

I'm hopeful that one day people will go back to a pre-1980 usage (or lack thereof) of the word "trope". Here's a helpful graph.

Seriously. The 2010s will be remembered as the decade of the war on tropes. Trope.

Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure

The problem is you need to be able to say OK to multiple different certs per domain due to load/site balancers.

Actually, no you don't. In a situation like that, you should be using a SAN (Subject Alternative Name) certificate with all the names you intend to use, or just the single name (like https://www.google.com/ you want the load balancer to answer. You also could use self signed behind the balancer, or no ssl at all, depending on settings.

One important difference between stationary and in-motion inductive charging is that, well, the car is in motion. This means that every metal component in the vehicle will be passing through a magnetic field (unless they figure how to switch the field on and off only when the receiver is directly over the emitter, and doesn't have much flux leakage). A changing magnetic field in metal creates eddy currents that oppose the change in the field (Lenz's law), which is usually a repulsive effect. This is the basis of an AC induction motor (no permanent magnets involved - just induction). It can also be used as a non-contact braking mechanism (it is used to bleed speed from roller coasters, for instance). Should be great for vehicles!

Got a plan for this? You should.

As a matter of fact they do. Go 1.5 Vendoring experiment

Norway, for example, which has a lot of Marx-flavored "equality"

Norway's cost of groceries (have fun driving to Sweden to buy frozen pizza!), or its skyrocketing sexual assault rate.

Norway is indeed a failure

You're begging the question. What the hell does a country's sexual assault rate (for which you've provided no sources) have to do with Socialism?

Interestingly, Norway's GDP is quite high, even compared to the U.S.

The person with the wrong number may feel obligated to pay off the bill collector just to stop the phone calls. The debt collector keeps the money and sells the debt to another debt collector, while never marking the debt as paid. Otherwise known as legalized exhortation.

Um, no. Legalized exhortation would be the hour long info-mercials with a "Buy Now!! Limited Time Offer!!! Buy one, get ten FREE!!!!!! (pay separate S&H)" spiel.
They're just as scummy, really, but not actually costing you anything besides increased blood pressure and thumb blisters on the remote-holding hand.

tl;dr
I think you meant "extortion" ;-)

There's already a game called Go, which has about a gazillion articles on how to program it. Couldn't you come up with a name that would be less ambiguous? Now, when you see a user group for "Go programming", you have no clue which one it is.

In conversation, I refer to it as golang. You are right on your point about potential for confusion but I don't think your example is apt anymore. Googling for programming go appears to yield only results about golang. Also, it is not without tangential benefits like being able to call Go developers "gophers."

I think when I first started programming Groovy long ago I stumbled upon a website promising that software development was groovy ... that's no longer the case when I google for groovy programming resources.

In short the success of your language is a big enough concern than the name of your language is negligible (with the exception of negative words). The search results will follow.

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

Yeah, because if everyone paid 70k minimum, that is 15k over the GDP/person, so we would have a massive economic crash.

Good on Gravity Payments that it worked for them, but it won't work in general because there isn't enough money generated by the economy for it.

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

The per capita GDP of the US is 53k, I don't think it would be possible to pay everyone 70k without some kind of massive debt.

Actually, a quick Google indicates it may have been using aero-acoustics to study fluid dynamics. You're free to poke around here:

https://www.google.com/search?...

Anything published would have been post 1992. And sober up? Why, I never!

You may be right. My thinking was this: The windspeeds may be high, but that doesn't preclude the probe's nuclear fuel from surviving relatively intact. First, the RTG is hardened against damage, including that of re-entry. Second, absolute windspeed isn't the issue, it's the windshear over the size of the RTG. I didn't take into account the creamy liquid center, so that's an issue. I assumed that the core was far enough down that the probe would 'float' in the dense gas.

but I'm on android 4.x and 4.x is marked 'wont fix' by google and their vpn (ipsec, I think; not sure which component is broken) just will not work.

https://code.google.com/p/andr...

hey google fans, care to try to defend google, here?

I'm not able to (easily) upgrade beyond 4.x on my phone and vpn is still broken. do you guys find this behavior (wontfix) acceptable?

I sure wish I could run my vpn again. funny that on my ancient nexus one (which is stuck on 2.2) runs the vpn software just fine. and I know that on a 5.x phone it also runs fine. why google ignores this show-stopper bug, I have no idea; but 'upgrade to a new phone' is never a good answer when its JUST a software fix that lazy-assed google refused to backport.

ID isn't a theory about design of any old thing. It's a theory (hell, not even that - it's a proposition) about the origin of life.

It's nothing but 'scientific' creationism with God references taken out. Google cdesign proponentsists if you don't believe it.

It's an old TV show. It was before my time and I'm reaching greybeard status.

Greybeard here....I watched it while still a wee lad. One the stars (and one of my first sort-of crushes) Melody Patterson died recently. She played the ever bodacious "Wrangler Jane", a feisty, no-nonsense gal who spawned a million teenage boy's fantasies.

The actual vote tally shows that both Democrats and Republicans voted for the bill (74 for, 21 against, 5 abstain).

If anyone believes that voting for R (or D) is worse than the other side, or how it's the "lessor of two evils", feel free to explain this.

There are a finite number of votes in any term. When our representatives vote against the interests of the people in all votes, there is no more damage that they can do. There can be no "lesser" evil - they're both at "maximum evil".

I took a look at the text of the recent Iowa poll, the one that puts Carson ahead of Trump that everyone is talking about. I couldn't see any obvious bias (a good thing), but this question stood out:

Which do you think is the bigger risk for the future of the country?

74 To elect a president who has not held office so does not know the processes and procedures of governing

101 To elect the same sort of person who has served as president for many decades who will likely continue to do things the way they have been done with the same effect

25 Not sure

The numbers are total Dem+Rep respondents in the poll.

This is interesting because it shows that Americans (in Iowa, at least) are waking up to the realization that electing career politicians is not in their best interests.

With respect to Democrat readers, your only viable candidate on that side (Hillary Clinton) is a weak contender, while the Republican side appears to have both Trump and Carson as strong candidates.

With respect to the Republican readers, neither of your strong candidates is a career politican. One doesn't need to sell his influence to moneyed interests.

This may be the beginning of the end for career politicians and national parties.

given that one nuclear reactor can substitute for hundreds of coal or solar power plants

No, that's not "given", you idiot. You can't just make shit up and then claim it's "given". Do even some basic research. The total output of this solar plant at completion is 580MW. The largest planned nuclear reactor will output around 1600MW. At Palo Verde here in Arizona, the largest energy generating station in the country, the 3 reactors each output about 1450MW. At 1600MW, the statement that "one nuclear reactor can substitute for hundreds of solar power plants" is only true if the solar power plant outputs 16MW, which is 2.7% of the capacity of the Moroccan project.

Here is a solar power plant capable of only 11.4MW (that was state of the art in 2006, the largest solar plant 9 years ago). There you go, you can replace hundreds of those with a single nuclear reactor. I'd love to find a picture of a solar power plant that outputs 16MW, but the Wikipedia list only goes as low as 50MW for solar, sorry. Here is the Topaz solar power plant, capable of 550MW, constructed 2011 to 2014. In order to replace 100 of those with nuclear, you'll need to build 35 1600MW reactors. Don't forget to account for all of the nuclear fuel you'll need to mine and refine or purchase, in addition to all of the waste you're going to generate.

By the way, if you want to talk construction costs, like I already said it took 3 years to build the Topaz solar farm and cost $2.4 billion. Construction at Palo Verde started in 1976, and the first 2 reactors came online in 1986, the third in 1988. Construction cost was $5.9 billion (in 1980s dollars, feel free to adjust for inflation). Those numbers are just to avoid any bullshit claims along the lines of solar power being hundreds of times more expensive than nuclear, in case you want to try and pull something else out of your ass.

and one unit of nuclear energy requires thousands of times less mining than one unit of fossil or solar (for the panels) energy.

Panels? What fucking panels? The Moroccan project uses mirrors, pipes, heat transfer oil, sand, and water. Where are the panels?

given that one nuclear reactor can substitute for hundreds of coal or solar power plants

No, that's not "given", you idiot. You can't just make shit up and then claim it's "given". Do even some basic research. The total output of this solar plant at completion is 580MW. The largest planned nuclear reactor will output around 1600MW. At Palo Verde here in Arizona, the largest energy generating station in the country, the 3 reactors each output about 1450MW. At 1600MW, the statement that "one nuclear reactor can substitute for hundreds of solar power plants" is only true if the solar power plant outputs 16MW, which is 2.7% of the capacity of the Moroccan project.

Here is a solar power plant capable of only 11.4MW (that was state of the art in 2006, the largest solar plant 9 years ago). There you go, you can replace hundreds of those with a single nuclear reactor. I'd love to find a picture of a solar power plant that outputs 16MW, but the Wikipedia list only goes as low as 50MW for solar, sorry. Here is the Topaz solar power plant, capable of 550MW, constructed 2011 to 2014. In order to replace 100 of those with nuclear, you'll need to build 35 1600MW reactors. Don't forget to account for all of the nuclear fuel you'll need to mine and refine or purchase, in addition to all of the waste you're going to generate.

By the way, if you want to talk construction costs, like I already said it took 3 years to build the Topaz solar farm and cost $2.4 billion. Construction at Palo Verde started in 1976, and the first 2 reactors came online in 1986, the third in 1988. Construction cost was $5.9 billion (in 1980s dollars, feel free to adjust for inflation). Those numbers are just to avoid any bullshit claims along the lines of solar power being hundreds of times more expensive than nuclear, in case you want to try and pull something else out of your ass.

and one unit of nuclear energy requires thousands of times less mining than one unit of fossil or solar (for the panels) energy.

Panels? What fucking panels? The Moroccan project uses mirrors, pipes, heat transfer oil, sand, and water. Where are the panels?

And who cares? /sarcasm Because no-one ever clones physical hardware

Whether a product is open or closed is irrelevant. It won't stop people from cloning it.

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Only an self-entitled idiot wants to rob Paul to pay Peter

Check the date on that article. A week before the Telegraph article I linked.

That Tab article is concealing the fact that the SU rejected his attempt to create a society. Of course FemSoc are happy to let him act within their rules - check their fucking rules out : https://drive.google.com/file/...

To join FemSoc he'd have to "accept you have privilege over women"

That's total bullshit anywhere, let alone in a Mens Society trying to help men and reduce suicide risks.

Just how much of a fucking bigot are you to even think this is acceptable or represents equality?

For Android users, I would strongly recommend My Data Manager. There have been times that it has picked up on system routines using data that the Android data manager didn't catch. MDM matched my provider's chart of my data usage spot-on. The Android manager was reporting 1 gig below where it should have been.

The culprit in this case was "Google Contact Sync" which somehow managed to use almost 400mb one day and almost 500mb the next.

Furthermore, the FBI's own stats show that the ban/restriction on pseudoephedrine has made the problem worse. Before the ban, meth was mostly a mom & pop business. For the next 2 or so years after the ban meth sales dropped, but then the mexican cartels more than filled the gap with wholesale production (like Breaking Bad style industrial manufacturing importing the raw ingredients from China) and now instead of little guys who are mostly dumbasses selling to their neighbors you've got organized crime networks all over the country.

Meanwhile I don't feel safe buying a sudofed and there are a bunch of stories of people being arrested for having bad allergies. I don't have the link handy, but the very first person arrested for buying too much was buying it for his kid.

It's called epigenetics.
https://www.google.com/search?...

I think this guy was talking through his hat. Average Martian soil is about 18% iron oxides which makes it lower in iron content than many Hawaiian volcanic soils, in fact the composition of Martian and minimally weathered Hawaiian soils are often compared. And we know what a barren wasteland devoid of life the Hawaiian islands are...

If it works for you, why change?

But if you must change, I recommend using Markdown. Tons of FOSS editors out there, and it's actually simpler than HTML. And also, in a pinch, readable and editable in simple text format.

Glad I could help.

The American Chemical Society better explains this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh, my god. Way too much vocal fry.

Here are full details, with appropriate references, about the idea ending the reliance on fossil fuels in the US requires nuclear to be a significant part of the energy mix:
https://docs.google.com/docume...

The summary is that solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal can make an important contribution, providing a significant portion of our energy needs. A very significant portion cannot be solved by those four choices - for reliable, steady power in huge amounts the choices are fossil fuels or nuclear.

Nope, Reykjavík.

Here's what it looks like. Or this or this. Roads like this.

Yup. There are quite a few.

For those interested:

https://www.google.com/search?...

I guess I'm a pedo - baiting kids, and all.

When looking for a reference, I had no idea it was patented:

http://www.google.com/patents/...

I'd done this since the 70's, and Gillette patented it in 1986

A Korea (I know it's the wrong Korea, but it's still a Korea) needs to build farms to increase their military. It's like a real life Warcraft game.

Probably right. let's hope KJU isn't planning a raiding party. Cause then it's The Mixed Metaphor Wars, with the US going all "Games of Drones" and Russia dragging out their copy of "Risk" (aka https://translate.google.com/#...).

This website may help you to understand:

http://www.google.com/

go there and type in "taking the piss".

https://play.google.com/store/...

I agree, it is nice to see it finally available on Google Play.

I saw this story, and logged into Google play. I was happy to see this:

https://play.google.com/store/...

and can't wait to see Xenogears show up on anything frankly.

But those might be the type you speak of.

https://play.google.com/store/...

It all depends on what you call full price. I will be buying that when I am not at work, and look forward to the rerelease of Xenogears.

Apparently, Square Enix has remade the Dragon Quest series for Android (possibly iOS too, but I didn't check). The first one is $2.99 but the price goes up for the sequels.

Now if only someone could remake Castle of the Winds for Android!

Apparently, Square Enix has remade the Dragon Quest series for Android (possibly iOS too, but I didn't check). The first one is $2.99 but the price goes up for the sequels.

Now if only someone could remake Castle of the Winds for Android!

Now you are denying that contamination can be monitored, and need me to provide proof? Please. I suppose you might deny the sun will rise tomorrow as well. Do I need to provide proof of that?

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://www.google.com/search?...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

Now you are denying that contamination can be monitored, and need me to provide proof? Please. I suppose you might deny the sun will rise tomorrow as well. Do I need to provide proof of that?

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://www.google.com/search?...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

My points are based on real world data, not just fear factor, accusations of cover ups, and scary words. Here are some real world results that you will find hard to digest, and back up my points about conservatism in the models.

Chernobyl Cancer Study Harvard 2005: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

Predicted number of Leukemia cases (above normal) up to 2005 = 940

From 2012 study: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/12049...

Actual number of Leukemia cases as of 2012 = 136

Seriously, I am supposed to cite the thousands of studies performed over the last 75 years?

I'll help you get started, but the hell if I'll do your work for you.

https://www.google.com/search?...

First of all, I'll reiterate bloodhawk's point above, that coal has worse long-term impact than nuclear disasters too.

Well DU is analogous to coal ash, so is it worse than this? Which was also inflicted on American soldiers.

This is what happens when you start spreading DU around regardless of the source (in this case as munitions). Warning: those pictures are disturbing and illustrates the consequence of internal radiation exposure from one type of radionuclide.

So coal bad, nuclear worse.

Second, the main long-term impact of Chernobyl and Fukushima (beyond the lifetimes of the humans involved)

Unfortunately it is a contrived position that has been constructed by the political agreements in place to deceive us into thinking that something positive came out of Chernobyl, I doubt Ukrainians would agree. I will provide you with some context.

According to the IAEA's founding papers "The agency shall seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity through the world." I'll draw your attention to the interdiction clause (12.40) the IAEA has over the WHO drawn up on 28 May 1959, at the 12th World Health Assembly:

"Whenever either organisation [the WHO or the IAEA] proposes to initiate a programme or activity on a subject in which the other organisation has or may have a substantial interest, the first party shall consult the other with a view to adjusting the matter by mutual agreement"

In other words, the WHO grants the right of prior approval over any research it might undertake or report on to the IAEA , widely known in the scientific community as the instrument that gags their work. Unless of course you beleive the IAEA has an interest in malaria or Aids research it has effectively gagged the WHO from reporting on health matters Nuclear.

Ask yourself how likely it is for us to get reliable health science if the world's peak health organisation has it's science related to Nuclear matter vetted by the orgainsation responsible for promoting nuclear power.

Look, Chernobyl and Fukushima sucked for their victims.

Indeed it did. As opposed to WHO reports, reports in the Slavic languages from Ukrainian scientists on the ground performing research into the after effects of Chernobyl estimate deaths as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident to be around 980,000.

Why is their science less valid?

It's an emotional, irrational overreaction that just doesn't make any damn (statistical) sense.

No, it's a logical one based on a dispassionate examination of the evidence. Current governance of Nuclear reactor technology (especially in Japan) needs a complete overhaul as so far, it has produced accidents and is in no way comparable to the airline industry who has an embedded safety culture. You need look no further than the Japanese governments own inquiry for that opinion:

The TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and TEPCO, and the lack of governance by said parties. They effectively betrayed the nationâ(TM)s right to be safe from nuclear accidents. Therefore, we conclude that the accident was clearly manmade.

So far, we have no evidence that there is any improvement in the regulatory structures of NIAC or TEPCO and thus how can we expect anything different a restart of their nuclear industry. Not the technology, per se, but the flawed humans running it.

Yes I think the medical device market is retarded in their regulations ... but they were originally put there for a reason

The problem with this position is that it's not very efficient.

The regulations have grown to mean "safety at any cost", which means that in many cases effective care has become a lower priority than perfect safety.

Many examples abound. I chatted with a researcher at Berman Gund who said that he had a cure for a specific genetic disease that affects about 250 people in America (and proportionally the rest of the world). He said that many researchers have promising treatments for these less common ailments, but that it's impossible to navigate the FDA regulations due to cost.

It takes $2.5 billion to bring a drug to market, and no company would pay that expense to cure 250 people.

I remember reading an announcement for a migraine cure using magnetic fields (TMS). It was a sort of curved wand, like the end of a hockey stick. You place the bent end against the back of your head and press a button to give a burst of magnetic field and your migraine stops. The researchers stated that they were throwing the research to the public because they couldn't afford to bring the device to market due to FDA regulations.

I also remember during the height of the AIDS thing where people who had a demonstrably fatal disease couldn't choose alternative therapies which had yet to be deemed "safe".

You can't get out of the system, even with informed consent.

So the result is that very few people get harmed by medical devices (and procedures), but a very large proportion of sick people get harmed by not having access to slightly less safe devices.

We've missed having a balance, and as a result medical technology has pretty-much stagnated.