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Peace would be much more efficient.

I agree. How do you suggest we create peace with ISIL/ISIS?

Perhaps we should not have created ISIS in the first place. Blame Obama.

Or perhaps since the local area had already mostly found an equilibrium, we should not have toppled that evil-bastard Saddam Hussein. Yes, he was evil. Yes, I would not want him for my president. But he was reasonably well contained and provided a counter balance to the other powers in the region. Blame Bush II.

We can walk our way back in time and blame [nearly?] every U.S. president regardless of party back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire. We can then start blaming the Europeans for carving up the Mid-East in such a way that it was a breeding ground for future wars.

But peace? Do you have any concrete mechanisms that would actually improve the situation?

For a games-theory argument, consider that the regulatory agencies are free to require any safety requirements at no cost to themselves, but if something goes wrong they are held responsible. As a result we have a system where it costs 2.5 billion dollars to bring a drug to market, so that it's economically infeasable to implement existing cures for rare diseases. It's also impossible for individuals to manage their own risk with informed consent.

(1) If you read a little further down that Google search, you find out that maybe it doesn't cost $2.5 billion after all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11...
$2.6 Billion to Develop a Drug? New Estimate Makes Questionable Assumptions
Aaron E. Carroll
NOV. 18, 2014
The bottom line is that the report contains a lot of assumptions that tend to favor the pharmaceutical industry. While the Tufts Center reports that $2.6 billion is the cost to develop “a new prescription medicine that gains marketing approval,” it might be more accurate to say that it’s the cost to develop certain new molecular entities for which pharmaceutical companies did all of the research. That’s very few drugs, in the scheme of things.

(2) Another game theory argument is that drug companies and doctors will sell drugs to make as much money as they can, even if they give people drugs that they don't need and it harms them. The Nobel-prize winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote that a free market in health care is impossible, because the consumers (patients) don't have enough information to evaluate what the doctor is telling them.

(3) Most scientists agree that theory should be confirmed with empirical fact. In fact, there are countries that until recently had almost no government regulation, and they bring new drugs to market all the time. Unfortunately, most of those new don't live up to their claims when western doctors try to use them. So their drugs aren't any good. Those facts disconfirm your theory.

(4) In fact, without regulation, drug companies and doctors sell drugs with unfounded claims, and give patients drugs that are inappropriate and harmful, following their financial motivation rather than the interests of their patients. This confirms Arrow's theory.

For example, China has relatively few government regulations.

JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Dec;174(12):1914-20. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.5214.
Use and prescription of antibiotics in primary health care settings in China.
Wang J, Wang P, Wang X, Zheng Y, Xiao Y.

RESULTS: Most staff in the primary health care facilities had less than a college degree, and the medical staff consisted primarily of physician assistants, assistant pharmacists, nurses, and nursing assistants. The median (range) governmental contribution to each facility was 34.0% (3.6%-92.5%) of total revenue. The facilities prescribed a median (range) of 28 (8-111) types of antibiotics, including 34 (10-115) individual agents. Antibiotics were included in 52.9% of the outpatient visit prescription records: of these, only 39.4% were prescribed properly. Of the inpatients, 77.5% received antibiotic therapy: of these, only 24.6% were prescribed properly. Antibiotics were prescribed for 78.0% of colds and 93.5% of cases of acute bronchitis. Of the antibiotic prescriptions, 28.0% contained cephalosporins and 15.7% fluoroquinolones. A total of 55.0% of the antibiotic prescriptions were for antibiotic combination therapy with 2 or more agents. In nonsurgical inpatients in cities, the mean (SD) duration of antibiotic therapy was 10.1 (7.8) days. Of the surgical patients, 98.0% received antibiotics, with 63.8% of these prescriptions for prophylaxis.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Antibiotics are frequently prescribed in Chinese primary health care facil

Some nutter uses a syringe (!) to inject your eyeballs with fish guts in his garage.

Firstly, it's a glorified eye-dropper not a syringe.

Secondly, it's an important biomedical advancement made by citizen scientists. (The important part of that sentence is "by citizen scientists".)

Thirdly, there's an organization which is a nexus for citizen science.

The important bit of this announcement, and the one that makes it interesting to me, is that people are making biomedical experiments on their own, bypassing regulatory agencies and big industry alike.

This is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to see in a stagnant market dominated by large monolithic entities. It's usually a small upstart company that's more agile than the big conglomerate, but it works the same in research as it does everywhere else.

For a games-theory argument, consider that the regulatory agencies are free to require any safety requirements at no cost to themselves, but if something goes wrong they are held responsible. As a result we have a system where it costs 2.5 billion dollars to bring a drug to market, so that it's economically infeasable to implement existing cures for rare diseases. It's also impossible for individuals to manage their own risk with informed consent.

For a games-theory argument, consider that health insurance companies see care and maintenance as a cost to be minimized and rates as profit to be maximized. As a result, insurance companies are unwilling to pay for newly minted procedures and therapies because "it's experimental".

(As a concrete example, it tool a loooong time for the insurance companies to consider MRI scans non-experimental.)

So it's not really *surprising* that people are taking things into their own hands and doing their own research, but it's an important development.

Oh, and cue up the kneejerk response from established players about risk, gold-standard regulatory bureaucratic fandom, and how no one without a PhD can possibly do real research.

We don't really need to get into genders to illustrate the problem. If the pilot is a less capable fighter than the crew member that's sitting in, an insane crew member can take down the plane. If the pilot is the better fighter, they can overpower the flight crew member. There's no way to make this perfectly safe, but the current door system is pretty good.

There doesn't appear to be space for a 3rd person in many cockpits.
https://www.google.com/search?...

Even if we had software fly our planes, a hacker could bring them down. Total safety from crazy people isn't possible.

You mean ordinance?
https://www.google.com/search?...
https://www.google.com/search?...

You mean ordinance?
https://www.google.com/search?...
https://www.google.com/search?...

Based on their API reference 3rd-party apps that do whatever you want on the client side certainly look doable enough.

Obviously, the various stuff about "Access your files on all your devices!" and "Build into all your Amazon devices!" and whatnot is going to be less useful, so they are clearly expecting most customers to not do that(and implicitly encouraging them not to); but the service itself doesn't appear to have any objections to you dropping encrypted blobs into it.

(Now, what Amazon would do if you were to use something like PNGdrive, to get the advantages of the rather more expensive 'unlimited files' tier using only the 'unlimited photos' tier, I don't know; but I suspect that they would be less happy...)

That's a deep answer. This is the funniest article of the day for me as a flying robot/drone developer.

While the germans are flying drones all over the place, selling them and have a regulatory framework, they are complaining they cannot build/sell autonomous cars... and calling out other countries, mainly the US as beating them in that game.

But in the US, it's the completely reverse... or bizarro situation. While Google and Uber are building autonomous cars, and getting them approved for use, drones on the other hand are DOA with no framework insight... and drone companies are complaining countries like Germany and France (and Australia) are beating them in that game.

Oh, "the irony of the rant".

Yeah, I remember it. It's an accelerating web proxy. Opera offers one, too.

And one can even set a compressing proxy at home. What's the difference between "Data saver" and such proxies?

Google's closely follows a lot of stuff that their PageSpeed Module does. On-the-fly HTML/JS/CSS optimization, image conversion to WebP, etc. I don't know if they've extended it beyond that to other areas like recompressing videos (which I believe Opera's service does).

Worth noting that a variant of it has been available in Chrome's mobile browser for awhile now, and there was an unofficial version for the desktop called Data Compression Proxy which was essentially a little hack to run the desktop browser through the mobile service.

As for benefits: If under a pretty strict data cap where you're often touching the limit, it gives a lot of extra breathing room (easily comparable to the savings from an ad blocker). You wouldn't believe how unoptimized a lot of sites are. As a side benefit, if you're on dial-up, connecting through slow fixed wireless in a rural area, are using a poor cell data connection, etc (basically any time you're in a situation where pages are taking 5-10 seconds to load), it actually speeds things up quite a bit. Of course, if you're on true high speed, it'll probably slow things down more often than not since their proxy's going to add at least *some* latency, plus the additional hops if you're not lucky enough to get a nearby cached copy.

In regards to the suggestion of "setting a compressing proxy at home", assuming for the moment that the home isn't where you're having problems with a data cap, sure. But it's going to take a lot of code to match the depth of stuff that either Google's or Opera's services do. Then again, you'd retain a little more privacy. And with your own root certs you could MITM yourself on SSL sites and get the bandwidth savings there too. I suppose it just depends on how much time you have and how badly you want/need it.

Yeah, I remember it. It's an accelerating web proxy. Opera offers one, too.

And one can even set a compressing proxy at home. What's the difference between "Data saver" and such proxies?

Google's closely follows a lot of stuff that their PageSpeed Module does. On-the-fly HTML/JS/CSS optimization, image conversion to WebP, etc. I don't know if they've extended it beyond that to other areas like recompressing videos (which I believe Opera's service does).

Worth noting that a variant of it has been available in Chrome's mobile browser for awhile now, and there was an unofficial version for the desktop called Data Compression Proxy which was essentially a little hack to run the desktop browser through the mobile service.

As for benefits: If under a pretty strict data cap where you're often touching the limit, it gives a lot of extra breathing room (easily comparable to the savings from an ad blocker). You wouldn't believe how unoptimized a lot of sites are. As a side benefit, if you're on dial-up, connecting through slow fixed wireless in a rural area, are using a poor cell data connection, etc (basically any time you're in a situation where pages are taking 5-10 seconds to load), it actually speeds things up quite a bit. Of course, if you're on true high speed, it'll probably slow things down more often than not since their proxy's going to add at least *some* latency, plus the additional hops if you're not lucky enough to get a nearby cached copy.

In regards to the suggestion of "setting a compressing proxy at home", assuming for the moment that the home isn't where you're having problems with a data cap, sure. But it's going to take a lot of code to match the depth of stuff that either Google's or Opera's services do. Then again, you'd retain a little more privacy. And with your own root certs you could MITM yourself on SSL sites and get the bandwidth savings there too. I suppose it just depends on how much time you have and how badly you want/need it.

When I first saw this story it reminded me of an old magazine cover, so I went digging.

http://books.google.com/books?...

But not a new idea.

http://books.google.com/books?...

> Optimizing memory is a dying skill,

It is now called Data Orientated Design.

Google+ Group
* https://plus.google.com/+Datao...

Data-Oriented Design and C++
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Typical C++ Bullshit
  * http://macton.smugmug.com/gall...

Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming
* http://research.scee.net/files...
* http://www.slideshare.net/royc...

That's all definitely interesting speculation, but the point remains: As far as quantum effects go, it is all speculation. Nothing like what you suggest has been discovered; further, no effect has been detected that cannot be attributed to one or more of the chemical, electrical or topological mechanisms we're already aware of.

I will kindly refer you to this type of phenomena:

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

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

These are alterations of the magnetic fields from sources outside the cranium and outside the myelin sheath which impact the neural processing. Would this not be indicative of quantum influences in neural processing?

Given that these effects are sourced outside the cranium, it would seem plausible then that the current generated as a signal propegates down the axon of neuron A would have an impact on parallel neuron B firing due to the magnetic field generated from A's firing. These generated magnetic fields are strong enough to be detected outside the cranium and are the basis of some FMRI techniques.

http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/meg/pdfs/Xiong%20et%20al%202003.pdf

Taking into account the inverse square law, the noise coming off a neuron firing is MUCH LOUDER one parallel neuron over than for a sensor located outside the cranium.

There are actual articles on inter-neuronal communication via electromagnetic waves: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202132617.htm and Neural and Brain Modeling by Rondald MacGregor

Ultimately what this points to is that our mathematical models of neural networks and dynamic bayesian networds are not exactly what is happening inside the brain. At best its a discrete approximation to a continuous space which exists in a feedback loop with itself. Kinda like a Summation approximation for the Integral of a function.

The topological graph structure of the nueron connections through dendrite and axons is dominant, but it is not dominant enough to eliminate the influence of the fluctuations in the ambient electromagnetic fields. The above articles provide evidence of this. It's not just speculation.

why did it fizzle out?

I think it's too early to say that it did. Scholar has 10.5k hits for articles from this year alone...

The irony here is that Google wants https with chain-of-trust certificates, and advocate https, and without self-signed certs harder than anyone. Now it comes back to bite Google's own derriere.

The reason they want https (or SPDY or HTTP/2.0) everywhere isn't our best interest, but because you can't easily hide behind caching proxy servers, giving them better fingerprinting as well as a higher hit count on ads.

When I have to go to Google, I go to the non-redirecting http page they have hidden.
My personal privacy is worth more to me than the risk of a 3rd party listening in on my searches (other than the three letter agencies who already listen in).

It does yes, there is a live CD running it in knoppix on an ethernet bridge: WANbridge.

Used it a few times, stick it on a dual-NIC PC in the middle of a link and it's great for simulating WAN links with minimal effort required.

The best way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. One problem is that it is really easy in our society to consume calories. You just ate a plate of whole wheat pasta with veggies. Healthy right? No, because you likely had about 3 servings of pasta.

I used MyFitnessPal to help me track my calorie intake. One helpful feature is the bar code scanner. You can scan almost any product and get the nutritional information right into your mobile device. I dropped about 20 pounds while using that.

Kinda like offsetting the wing from Airframe (Michael Crichton)

The double radar domes on top of the Star Destroyers are their shield generators.

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

Meanwhile, Russia flies its planes (and sails its ships) wherever it dang well pleases, even if that means cutting a few international airspace/waters corners into territorial airspace/waters, only getting a friendly scrambling+escort while they fly about responding to no hails (radio / visual signals)

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

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

I'm sure similar events take place the other way around, which makes this completely orchestrated and observed flight only worthy in mention because of how rarely those happen.

there's an app I saw on F-droid, that checks the device's accelerometer and locks it if it detects a sudden violent movement (snatched, falling ... etc) and locks it right away. It is availabale of course in google's play store. Pluck Lock (there are plenty others
with that said this smart lock thing is very very bad -IMHO which is why I deactivated it completely-, it makes locking the phone a joke.

There are more answers: https://github.com/M66B/XPriva...

I've also used PDroid and LBE Privacy Guard: https://play.google.com/store/...
The latter seems to have gone to shit, though. It always was ran at a layer too high to allow it to catch everything reliably anyway.

PDroid was great if your ROM supported it. The original version isn't maintained anymore, but replacements seem to have popped up:
https://play.google.com/store/...

In general though, using a CyanogenMod ROM with privacy features is definitely the easiest route. Which is what I do.

There are more answers: https://github.com/M66B/XPriva...

I've also used PDroid and LBE Privacy Guard: https://play.google.com/store/...
The latter seems to have gone to shit, though. It always was ran at a layer too high to allow it to catch everything reliably anyway.

PDroid was great if your ROM supported it. The original version isn't maintained anymore, but replacements seem to have popped up:
https://play.google.com/store/...

In general though, using a CyanogenMod ROM with privacy features is definitely the easiest route. Which is what I do.

Perhaps they mistook it for a train.

http://www.google.com/imgres?i...

In the absence of detailed information, one technique would be to use a "spike" or infinite-impulse Dirac function, which contains equal magnitude of all frequencies.

Thus I've not infrequently found that popping someone upside the head was all that was needed to restore them to clear thinking. This only proves my belief.

So maybe the cure for Alzheimer's is to let the oldies play tackle football.

this report is a dupe: https://code.google.com/p/chro...

Heh! We can always go and see: Google Search: site:slashdot.org activex

Here's an ActiveX discussion in Slashdot from 10 years ago: Brian Hook on the ActiveX Experience

because the corps won't allow it. It's bad for business, and the guys at the top are global anyway. They're all buddy buddy except for a few small fry too tiny to start anything real.

Francis Fukayama, is that you?

"What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."

That's from 1992.

"[U]niversalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."??!?!

BWAAA HAAA HAA HAAA

Think ISIS agrees?

How about North Korea? China?

When are India and Pakistan finally going to come to nuclear blows?

No more wars?

That must be why the putative leader of "Western liberal [democracies]" is trying so damn hard to appease a bunch of medieval theocrats bent on obtaining nuclear weapons so they can literally "wipe Israel off the map".

Nah, that can't lead to war.

Hell, the French - the same country that helped Chamberlain try to appease Hitler then 50+ years later sold its Security Council vote to Saddam Hussein - are strongly opposed to it.

France - full of cheese eating surrender monkeys - thinks Obama is weak. And that weakness is going to lead to war.

Ouch.

No more wars?

BWAAA HAAA HAA HAA

That must be why Obama sent US troops BACK to Iraq.

Oh, you missed that?

No more war?!?!

What color is the sky on your planet?

Entirely true. It would just make more sense if they developed technology that could be retrofitted in to any car instead of just their newest line.

There are a fucking million of them but, what good is a device that goes for around $100 when you can sell [announcer voice] aaaaaaaa new caaaaaaar! [/announcer voice].

Meanwhile Microsoft uses and distributes a preview version of Windows Phone 10 for an Android device with an unlockable bootlader. Ironic, when an underdog Microsoft use all openness available, when not, squeeze any freedom so people get locked to them. The same Microsoft of all times.

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

I don't see any abuse. Where is Google+ ranked above Facebook?

How could someone miss that Google does this? It is patently obvious, and it is a feature, not a bug. I would be highly confused if I searched for something on Google, and they offered a Bing Maps link to the address and a Yahoo Images listing of images that match my search.

Google is so popular because they optimized search to give you waht you were looking for. Every one of their competitors when they started gave a list of results that matched your query, Google offered a ranked list of results to a query. From the beginning all they have ever done was make their results a better ranked listing to give you a better answer to what you are searching for.

If instead what Google did was rank Google+ higher than Facebook in a search for Facebook, that would be odd as it isn't giving you what you asked for.

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

Look at that, no Google+ on the whole first page (if at all). I don't know that the people writing these reports actually remember what the internet was like before Google, but they sure do act like they don't understand how Google's algorithms work and what made Google better than anyone else.

I assume you remember the days of Alta Vista as I get the impression you are around 40. If I am wrong, you should be glad to not have to remember having to go through pages of results before finding what you were searching for.

So the plan is to install enough batteries to power the world all night long, and then for a week or two when the weather is bad?

Or is it to put solar all over the Earth and have a massive world wide power grid to move power to where it is needed?

I suppose either is technically possible, I just don't think either is likely to happen.

How about we build nitrogen fixation factories near the baseload generation, keep the baseload on all the time, and make fertilizer during the times when the energy is otherwise not needed? Nitrogen fixation can be quickly started up and shut down without damage to the system, and requires an enormous amount of worldwide energy.

How about we build a smart grid, which incorporates electric vehicles on home charging systems? Charge the car during the day, then give back some of the stored energy at night when the car's in the garage.

How about we take recycled batteries from aging electric vehicles - batteries that can hold 80% of their original charge, but which are no longer good enough for electric vehicle operation - and stack them in warehouses to store and release energy as needed? Do batteries lose capacity at an exponential rate? If so, those 80% batteries should last a long time.

How about we mount the solar panels with a gap above the rooftops, so that the panels keep sunlight off of the roof, reducing [somewhat] the *need* for energy to be spent on air conditioning?

How about we look for solutions rather than assume that everything will be exactly like it is now, except with problems that cannot be solved?

If instead there was a website where you could put in issues you find important (checkboxes) and get a record of voting on these issues by people in office, you could see if your incumbent did what you find important.

It would tell you nothing about any opponents. It is typically a bad idea to vote based on "anyone but ..." considerations. You may find that the person you elected is even worse than the one you had, and all you'll have to evaluate him on is the sound bytes he's uttered in those scripted ads.

It is a major downside to the political process that people are quick to "vote against" instead of "vote for". It drives negative campaigning, since the entire purpose of negative campaigns is to get people to vote against the target. I would be perfectly happy with an amendment to the existing political speech laws that make it illegal for politicians to talk about anyone but themselves in their ads. Never again should we have to experience the kind of thing like the Wyden "Smith killed a kid" ads.

It'd require some hard workers to simplify complex obfuscated legislation into an easy to understand format,

And it would be rife with the same kind of biased evaluations that are rampant on the web already. Every issue-oriented site figures out ways to score down those politicians they don't like and score up those they do. One trivial way to do that is to rate a politician as "voting against issue X", when the vote was actually on an omnibus bill that contained something about "issue X" but also had a lot of other stuff that was the actual reason he voted against it. You've never heard of the problem of the party in control attaching riders about "kissing babies and feeding the homeless" to a bill authorizing something they know the opponents will not vote for, and then announcing that their opponents oppose kissing babies and feeding the homeless?

Who pays for the Google search web service?

I'll admit, this page is amusing in the context of this discussion: honestresults.html

I know plenty of people pay Google, some pay for hosting of their business services, some pay for advertising placement in search results, but does anyone pay Google for Web Search (as a consumer of web search results?)

In Europe, many taxi companies have mobile apps that allow customers to call a cab. The apps show available cabs and allow the user to select features (e.g. smoking/non-smoking), check the cost etc. Uber-taxi, I might say.

1) Dog runs from bushes and attacks drone, destroys it. Who pays?

2) Child runs to drone, is hurt. Whose fault?

3) Drone fails in flight, crashes, kills people, destroys property. Amazon pays more than all profits from drone delivery.

4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?

5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?

6) Drone is stolen.

I sell enough Microsoft products that I don't feel qualms about "pirating" it for my personal usage; I use a clean OEM ISO and download the Microsoft Toolkit (not made by Microsoft, obviously).

Currently at version 2.5.3, it has no problem whatsoever activating Windows or Office products from 7+.

Just look at Google: https://www.google.com/webhp?s... Uber comes up the search over and over and over again. And considering how many legit cab drivers there are vs how many Uber drivers there are -- it's pretty fucked up that a fledgeling service shows up so frequently in global results. Granted, some of those might be different links to the same incident, but the point remains the same. And that point is: NO -- rapes and beatings don't happen more frequently at the hands of legit cab drivers.

What about these people?

Common theme among many such stories: "police are searching for driver" because they (and the victims) often do not know which exact cab they used... with Uber there's a record of exactly which car and driver was used, and you had a picture of the driver to verify who it was before you got into the vehicle. In the last story the woman cannot even remember which cab company she used, and she paid with cash... neither aspects possible with Uber.

Why do you imagine you can make Uber seem scarier than cabs? The fundamental points I raised mean you simply cannot.

What about these people?

Common theme among many such stories: "police are searching for driver" because they (and the victims) often do not know which exact cab they used... with Uber there's a record of exactly which car and driver was used, and you had a picture of the driver to verify who it was before you got into the vehicle. In the last story the woman cannot even remember which cab company she used, and she paid with cash... neither aspects possible with Uber.

Why do you imagine you can make Uber seem scarier than cabs? The fundamental points I raised mean you simply cannot.

What about these people?

Common theme among many such stories: "police are searching for driver" because they (and the victims) often do not know which exact cab they used... with Uber there's a record of exactly which car and driver was used, and you had a picture of the driver to verify who it was before you got into the vehicle. In the last story the woman cannot even remember which cab company she used, and she paid with cash... neither aspects possible with Uber.

Why do you imagine you can make Uber seem scarier than cabs? The fundamental points I raised mean you simply cannot.

What about these people?

Common theme among many such stories: "police are searching for driver" because they (and the victims) often do not know which exact cab they used... with Uber there's a record of exactly which car and driver was used, and you had a picture of the driver to verify who it was before you got into the vehicle. In the last story the woman cannot even remember which cab company she used, and she paid with cash... neither aspects possible with Uber.

Why do you imagine you can make Uber seem scarier than cabs? The fundamental points I raised mean you simply cannot.

Unless you are trying to say he should use a non-standard usage for some reason, you just broke it for him.
http://grammarist.com/eggcorns...
https://www.google.com/webhp?q...

This should do

Fun and games aside I have dealt with some very security conscious entities and was unlucky enough to be onsite when a box that was delayed arrived and had been opened while in shipment. That went right in the trash and the next trip that someone made there they brought new hardware with them on the flight.

http://www.chromium.org/chromi...

https://docs.google.com/presen...

C710 has hardware write switch and SDCard reader. In theory, you could flash it with your own signed firmware to read your own signed kernel. Now, do you trust that the hardware has no backdoor?

What on earth is "an Uruguay syndrom", and why does google have no idea either.

An attempt to be cute with the concept of the "China syndrome," but since the reactor is in Japan you name somewhere in the Western Hemisphere. This is actually a marginally better form of cute since China and the US are both in the Northern Hemisphere, and Japan and Uruguay are actually separated by the equator as well. Your seemingly self-sustaining molten nuclear fuel melts its way through the earth - then up and out the other side (*eye twitch*).

The problem being it's utter bollocks. Anything that becomes molten will mix into the fuel and dilute it, lowering the reaction rate and moving you further and further away from a self-sustaining reaction.

The real concern is that you melt through the containment vessel (apparently not likely; but then explosions within the containment vessel and seismic activity aren't helping you any), through the earth, and down to the water table so that there is a steam explosion. That potentially scatters the nuclear fuel and fission products out the containment vessel.

-Wendy Whiner

The app developer can solve this problem by separating features that require additional permissions into add-ons. The automation app Automate use this approach.