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I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.

To be fair, the marriage wasn't actually consummated until Aisha was nine.

I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.
    And a few Jesus & Moses gags inside for balance.

Thoughts on this by me from 2008: "Re: On Climate Change vs. the Singularity"
https://groups.google.com/foru...

The key point I make is that climate change, whatever the cause, is an issue about social equity and likely unaccounted for externalities. We have enough resources as a global society to make the planet work for everyone in a good way -- including those affected by rising sea levels or changes in weather patterns. Whether we choose to use those resources (or make more) to do so (including, say, via a global basic income) is a political choice. In other areas these political decisions are made all the time, like compensating people and communities dislocated when a highway or dam goes in. Personally, give the rise of solar power and also the likely rise of hot or cold fusion soon, the political and emotional capital being spent on arguing about cutting back carbon emissions seems a waste. While fossil fuels have all sorts of negatives including mercury pollution for coal, and for that reason it could make sense to tax them and redistribute the tax revenue to all as a basic income for all to discourage their use, I'd rather see this much emotion and political energy go into positives like solar research or fusion research or also energy efficiency. Indoor climate-controlled agriculture and related agricultural robotics is another big trend we could invest more in to ensure our food supply security regardless of the weather.

Or as Kurzweil said in 2011: "Futurist Ray Kurzweil isn't worried about climate change"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-t...
"Today, solar is still more expensive than fossil fuels, and in most situations it still needs subsidies or special circumstances, but the costs are coming down rapidly -- we are only a few years away from parity. And then it's going to keep coming down, and people will be gravitating towards solar, even if they don't care at all about the environment, because of the economics.
    So right now it's at half a percent of the world's energy. People tend to dismiss technologies when they are half a percent of the solution. But doubling every two years means it's only eight more doublings before it meets a hundred percent of the world's energy needs. So that's 16 years. We will increase our use of electricity during that period, so add another couple of doublings: In 20 years we'll be meeting all of our energy needs with solar, based on this trend which has already been under way for 20 years.
    People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight."

Well, in this case the road was "clear" as the snow did melt immediately (road was till to warm) nevertheless the risk of "ice" here and there was given. Imagine snow melting and freezing a few yards further again.

I'm all too familiar with that, having grown up in snow. We called that slick ice that results from melting and refreezing "black ice." It was especially bad in areas with wind blowing snow over the road, as that snow would obscure the ice.

Lane detection on a highway is easy as you have a barrier on one side and poles on the other, actually you have poles on both sides.

Ah. Many of our highways here lack barriers and poles, instead just using large grassy areas to divide the highway from the surrounding environment, such as this. Those same highways can be up to 3 lanes wide. I've driven on I-94 (recently the site of a 90-car pileup) in conditions where drivers created 2 lanes out of the 3 that exist, because there wasn't any real reference to go by to find the lanes.

For me it was the adverts, I have 'do not track' and yet Google would present me with personalized advertising, and my wife with her personalized advertising. They are clearly profiling PCs behind the NAT even if you say do not track.

If you don't like personalized advertising (personally, if I have to see ads, I prefer that they're things I might actually care about, but YMMV), what you need to do is opt out of personalized advertising. Google provides a web control panel that allows you to opt out, but that sets an opt out cookie, which can get lost. So the easy and permanent way to opt out is to install the opt-out plugin Google provides: https://www.google.com/setting.... If you want to know exactly what that plugin does, it's open source: http://code.google.com/p/googl...

AFAIK, Google does not pay attention to the "Do Not Track" setting in browsers: https://support.google.com/chr...

For me it was the adverts, I have 'do not track' and yet Google would present me with personalized advertising, and my wife with her personalized advertising. They are clearly profiling PCs behind the NAT even if you say do not track.

If you don't like personalized advertising (personally, if I have to see ads, I prefer that they're things I might actually care about, but YMMV), what you need to do is opt out of personalized advertising. Google provides a web control panel that allows you to opt out, but that sets an opt out cookie, which can get lost. So the easy and permanent way to opt out is to install the opt-out plugin Google provides: https://www.google.com/setting.... If you want to know exactly what that plugin does, it's open source: http://code.google.com/p/googl...

AFAIK, Google does not pay attention to the "Do Not Track" setting in browsers: https://support.google.com/chr...

For me it was the adverts, I have 'do not track' and yet Google would present me with personalized advertising, and my wife with her personalized advertising. They are clearly profiling PCs behind the NAT even if you say do not track.

If you don't like personalized advertising (personally, if I have to see ads, I prefer that they're things I might actually care about, but YMMV), what you need to do is opt out of personalized advertising. Google provides a web control panel that allows you to opt out, but that sets an opt out cookie, which can get lost. So the easy and permanent way to opt out is to install the opt-out plugin Google provides: https://www.google.com/setting.... If you want to know exactly what that plugin does, it's open source: http://code.google.com/p/googl...

AFAIK, Google does not pay attention to the "Do Not Track" setting in browsers: https://support.google.com/chr...

When these crypto-currencies are added to the currency pool, doesn't it reduce the overall value of all currencies, at least a bit.

So if there are $100B paper dollars, and $10B worth bitcoins plus $100 million fubar crypto-currency is added to the circulation, does the USD fall in value or can we keep "printing" new crypto-currencies without affecting other currencies?

Check out this image.

That's for the US, but it echoes the situation in industrialized countries, which is that production of goods and services rises over time. The value of money is the amount in circulation divided by the amount of goods and services produced.

If the money pool were fixed (discounting replacements as bills wear out &c), fixed money supply divided by greater production would make your money more and more valuable over time - year over year the same amount of money is available to purchase ever-larger production.

Governments realize this and put more money into circulation by printing and then spending it. In fact, each year they put proportionally slightly more money into circulation to maintain a positive inflation rate - year over year the same amount of money will purchase slightly less of the same production goods.

Thus, governments have to tweak the amount they print in order to keep up with production and have a slightly positive inflation value. Letting things get too far out of hand would result in runaway [positive] inflation, or negative inflation [generally considered a bad thing].

If there's more money in the pool due to crypto-currency, government regulators would simply adjust their printing output to compensate.

Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.

I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.

        So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
    Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...

Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings.
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding :-)

Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.

I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.

        So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
    Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...

Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings.
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding :-)

Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.

I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.

        So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
    Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...

Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings.
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding :-)

Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.

I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.

        So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
    Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...

Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings.
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding :-)

Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.

I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.

        So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
    Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...

Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings.
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding :-)

Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.

I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.

        So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
    Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...

Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings.
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding :-)

I couldn't disagree more. I remember pre-Google search days quite well, and it was awful. You ended up wading through page after page after page of irrelevant crap because those search engines simply ranked pages based only on their content, and it was stupidly easy to game. Tag clouds were a direct result of this. Google entered the field and made every other search engine obsolete almost overnight, because the damn thing actually worked. In fact, it worked so well that you were even pretty likely to get the result you wanted in the very first slot - thus, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which in other engines might as well have been labeled "I Feel Like I Might Have Won the Lottery".

Even today, I use Google, because every time I experiment with another search engine, the results simply aren't as good. With Google search, I nearly always find what I'm looking for right at the top of my search. It's unbelievably rare that I have to traverse to a second page.

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, Google search actually does a lot more than simply search now. It's allows you to find out a lot of basic facts without even leaving the search page. For instance, try typing in calories in an apple or dollars to yen. They even present those results to me before I finish typing.

I'm sure that Google is working on new ways to improve search... after all, it's what drives eyeballs to their advertisements, so they have a huge incentive to make it work better, faster, and more intuitively than anyone else. My guess is that searches will continue to be able to answer more detailed and specific questions that people have rather than only point them to pages that have the answers. What other innovations, who can say? But I think we're past the big "disruptive" search breakthroughs - that happened once, and it was Google inventing search that actually worked.

I couldn't disagree more. I remember pre-Google search days quite well, and it was awful. You ended up wading through page after page after page of irrelevant crap because those search engines simply ranked pages based only on their content, and it was stupidly easy to game. Tag clouds were a direct result of this. Google entered the field and made every other search engine obsolete almost overnight, because the damn thing actually worked. In fact, it worked so well that you were even pretty likely to get the result you wanted in the very first slot - thus, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which in other engines might as well have been labeled "I Feel Like I Might Have Won the Lottery".

Even today, I use Google, because every time I experiment with another search engine, the results simply aren't as good. With Google search, I nearly always find what I'm looking for right at the top of my search. It's unbelievably rare that I have to traverse to a second page.

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, Google search actually does a lot more than simply search now. It's allows you to find out a lot of basic facts without even leaving the search page. For instance, try typing in calories in an apple or dollars to yen. They even present those results to me before I finish typing.

I'm sure that Google is working on new ways to improve search... after all, it's what drives eyeballs to their advertisements, so they have a huge incentive to make it work better, faster, and more intuitively than anyone else. My guess is that searches will continue to be able to answer more detailed and specific questions that people have rather than only point them to pages that have the answers. What other innovations, who can say? But I think we're past the big "disruptive" search breakthroughs - that happened once, and it was Google inventing search that actually worked.

As for welfare, just let me quote him: "It is a duty certainly to give our sparings to those who want [...]

Whose duty? Your quote does not say — and for a good reason. Because in that letter, which you trumpet here with such spectacular aplomb, Jefferson talks not about government, but about charities: missionary and Bible societies.

So fuck off and learn your history.

Yeah, somebody here really does need to learn history. And manners...

spoiled brat libertardians

Please, don't hate.

WakaWaka ... could easily avoid ADDING problems:

1) ought to -- and doesn't -- provide a yellow filter or a night-time amber LED, to avoid the known health concerns about using white light at night.
These are meant to be the first white lights in areas not already lit up all night.
There's no reason to import the known problems along with them.

You can look this problem up: https://www.google.com/search?...
Good summary at: http://physics.fau.edu/observa...

2) Battery safety:

The original WakaWaka (discontinued) light used a NiMH battery, which is safe to dispose of.
The current version uses a lithium-polymer battery.
The WakaWaka page includes instructions: "How do I change the batteries" -- scrape the old battery out.

It doesn't caution that poking underneath a lithium-polymer battery -- which is a soft pouch of aluminum and plastic -- is at risk of poking a hole in the pouch and having a fire and explosion.

They should include information about how to safely discharge and dispose of these batteries along with the light.

Here for a good example: http://www.tjinguytech.com/cha...

IPv6 will never take off.

According to Google, it is. Slowly, admittedly, but about 5% of Google users now have IPv6.

It's usually half-assed. Like here's our local muslim leader

The chairman of the Muslim community in Trondheim deplore terrorism in Paris, but calls while stricter rules for what the media can publish.
(...)
Chilwan believes it is asking for trouble when the media continues to publish images that Charlie Hebdo does.
- This has happened before in Denmark. We know that the consequences are dramatic. Why you should always pour fuel on the fire, ask Chilwan.
Chilwan calls therefore stricter rules in the media for what can be published.
- To adopt a law for this is too strong. But I think the ethical rules of the press must be defined in a better manner, where one agrees some ethical and moral values so that no one feels offended. It would be better for society, says Chilwan.

Lots of victim-blaming for provoking muslims, clear references that terror should be expected, calls for self-censorship and so on. Fuck him. Fuck all muslims that think like him. And they're not extremists and outcasts in the muslim comunity, they're leaders of mainstream organizations. Journalists and most of society just refuses to acknowledge that the "moderate" muslims are actually fringe radicals that don't have much popular support.

I've already received a notice and my ISP did exactly that. Here's the full text of the message I received:

Hello,

TekSavvy has received what the Copyright Act calls a "notice of claimed infringement". It listed an IP address and time. Our systems indicate that the IP address listed in the notice was likely assigned to your account at the specified time. We are therefore legally required to forward the notice to you. The notice is reproduced, unaltered, below.

First, though, there are some things you should know:

(a) We haven't told the sender who you are. Your privacy is paramount to us. We don't track, or know, what you do. We do know what IP address we assigned to you within the last 30 days. But we don't provide personal information like that to anyone unless a court orders us to -- and we have not done so here. The notice was simply received by us, and we have forwarded it electronically on to you.

(b) We are an intermediary that is required to forward this notice to you. We do not, and cannot, verify its contents or its sender. However, a private party's notice does not mean there has been any legal ruling. Only a court can do that.

(c) It is good practice to make sure you secure your account. Your wireless router should be password-protected; the password should be changed regularly; and those who have the password should maintain good virus protection. Your MyAccount allows you to check your bandwidth usage: do so regularly, and make sure what is happening and what you think is happening line up.

(d) We retain IP address information for 30 days. If your modem has not been powered off during that period, then we may have IP address information going back to the last time you did. In addition to requiring us to forward this notice, the Copyright Act also requires us to retain the records matching the IP address and time to your account for six months. If the people who sent the notice apply to a court, they can require us to hold it for longer.

We have provided some links below. The notice, which we are required to forward unaltered, follows.

Copyright Act (see, especially, sections 41.25-26):
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca...

TekSavvy:
http://teksavvy.com/en/why-tek...
https://myaccount.teksavvy.com...

Automated translation (you may need to copy and paste):
https://translate.google.com/?...
http://www.bing.com/translator...

--- Forwarded Notice of Infringement follows:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Notice ID: XX-XXXXXXXXX
Notice Date: 04 Jan 2015 03:52:22 GMT

TekSavvy Solutions, Inc.

Dear Sir or Madam:

Irdeto USA, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Irdeto") swears under penalty of perjury that Paramount Pictures Corporation ("Paramount") has authorized Irdeto to act as its non-exclusive agent for copyright infringement notification. Irdeto's search of the protocol listed below has detected infringements of Paramount's copyright interests on your IP addresses as detailed in the below report.

Irdeto has reasonable good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of in the below report is not authorized by Paramount, its agents, or the law. The information provided herein is accurate to the best of our knowledge. Therefore, this letter is an official notification to effect removal of the detected infringement listed in the below report. The below documentation specifies the exact location of the infringement.

We hereby request that you immediately remove or block access to the infringing material, as specified in the copyright laws, and insure the user refrains from using or sharing with others unauthorized Paramount's materials in the future (see, 17 U.

And it's only 3.6GHz!

I LOLed.

It would helped if you have specified the workloads you are after.

Otherwise, laptops with best termal control I have seen were HP and Apple. But those, again, are laptops, not a slim portable servers. Laptops will always suck at this, because they are, duh, laptops: they are designed to be portable, not being capable of dissipating >300W of waste heat. They are also designed not to burn wholes in your pants, if you per chance would decide to put the laptop on your, well, lap.

I have personally in the past used a plain PC tower as a compile farm for software development. The laptop was old (very old) and compiling anything large-ish on it was a huge chore (and waste of time). I have configured the distcc to simply run all compilation of the PC instead. Work and compile in the quiet of the bedroom, while noisy and hot PC, compiling stuff full time on its four cores, stays in the guest room.

You do realize you can download an image and upgrade now rather than waiting right? The first time you ever do it, you will need to backup and restore a device, but pretty simple otherwise.

Having merged the notification and settings pulldowns, it now takes an extra drag to access the frequently used settings like rotation/brightness/wifi. (I would include logout as well, but that functionality has been inexplicably removed--now it is only possible to switch users.) The new 3d task switcher is also annoying, and makes very poor use of space in landscape mode. The new black/white soft keyboard is awful. There may be worthwhile improvements, but the UI is a step backwards, or at least needlessly different in many ways. (like arbitrarily changing the soft button icons; not a big deal, but this sort of thing does confuse people.)

Also, they have decided to close "Using Android devices as USB peripherals", without actually providing the functionality. I'm used to Apple waving away perfectly valid bugs and feature requests; sadly it seems this may be typical on Android as well. The things that matter continue to suck, while they both busy themselves with revising the UI in superficial ways, often introducing yet more obnoxious animations, which only serve to add delays into the UI.

You can root it and run this https://play.google.com/store/....

Here you go little child, because you can not seem to use Google on your own I have done this for you, let me know when your arse needs wiping I'll send your mum down to the basement. https://www.google.com/search?...

Note that one of those Google returned searches shows Apple now has "guidelines for returning bent phones".

The guidelines that were created more than two years before the iPhone 6 came out? Geesus, could you at least check your "evidence"? Are you one of the lawyers constantly blowing their suits against Apple because they screw up evidence like that?

Ever heard of SiGE and MPW/COT? Who needs FPGA when you can go open source ASIC and produce an initial production run for under $50k, possibly even $10k? There's been some interesting research from places like CalTech and Berkley in to fully designed MIMO's even with integrated antennas in an SOIC that are in many cases nearly a decade old now.

Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.

Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.

Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.

5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.

Beslan

9/11

Madrid

London

Mumbai.

Funny, you mention sociopaths and psychopaths.

And your one example is a lone killer.

Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?

Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.

Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.

Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.

5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.

Beslan

9/11

Madrid

London

Mumbai.

Funny, you mention sociopaths and psychopaths.

And your one example is a lone killer.

Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?

Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.

Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.

Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.

5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.

Beslan

9/11

Madrid

London

Mumbai.

Funny, you mention sociopaths and psychopaths.

And your one example is a lone killer.

Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?

Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.

Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.

Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.

5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.

Beslan

9/11

Madrid

London

Mumbai.

Funny, you mention sociopaths and psychopaths.

And your one example is a lone killer.

Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?

Pathetic loser attempts to use events of a thousand fucking years ago to justify and excuse Islam-inspired mass murder just a few hours ago.

Dude, you have a Thalidomide brain.

Well then, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks.

5% of the general population are sociopaths; 1% are psychopaths. So in any sufficiently large group you you will find plenty of individuals acting in deplorable ways -- even horrifically deplorable. Christians, Muslims, rural Southerners, lesbian golfers, people who like avocados -- any group is bound to have it's share of monsters.

Beslan

9/11

Madrid

London

Mumbai.

Funny, you mention sociopaths and psychopaths.

And your one example is a lone killer.

Got the stones to look at the images resulting from acts ORGANIZED and PLANNED by GROUPS in the name of ISLAM that I found in about 30 seconds?

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

like that?

From the article:
"Squirrels in Georgia like their fiber, there are always squirrels chewing on fiber lines somewhere, "

Thank you slashdot for continuing to warn society about the ever present squirrel menace: http://hardware.slashdot.org/s... http://beta.slashdot.org/submi... https://www.google.com/#q=slas...

There's a large body of evidence correlating economics & culture to educational outcomes.

Genetics correlate also, but this is mostly genetic differences between individual families, not "race".

Gender difference in mathematics is only apparent in individual countries and fairly nonexistent when looking at the world as a whole (implying that gender differences in mathematics is due to culture).

This evidence is a good place to start understanding the problem and search for improvements. Therefore scholarships may be helpful (deals with the economics side). But focusing on "race" is misguided, when focusing on the problem of culture can give tangible improvements (ex: community centers in rough inner city areas), regardless of "race".

Anyone can search Google Scholar to look into these in more detail.

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

Of course, even if conversations cannot be evesdropped, the metadata can be very useful.

https://play.google.com/store/... https://opensource.srlabs.de/p...

"But on the computers, the best thing about them is that they let children go much more self-paced. Except, I usually find they block the 3rd graders from doing 4th grade work, even if their ability and time allows. As someone who never fit in the school time schedule, I would have loved something that let me progress as fast or slow as I wanted."

Decades ago, in public school, probably in third grade or so, I had a substitute teacher literally snatch a Boxcar Children series book out of my hands (which I had picked up from a shelf in the class room) saying I might be assigned to read it in the next grade so he did not want me reading it then. It wasn't ever assigned, and I never did get to finish it -- something about being in a mysterious castle... I can wonder if this was the one -- but it can't be as it was published many years later:
http://books.google.com/books/...

To be fair though, my actual third grade teacher said it was OK for me to read ahead in the science text book, and I read most of it over a weekend or so. She then suggested to my parents they get some science-related booklets, which they did. So, I owe a lot of my early science education to Ms. Kivlen(sp?) as well as Lady Plowden and her collaborators:
http://www.abebooks.com/book-s...

Also, while most math classwork bored me in school with repetitive rote work, one year there was a "programmed instruction" box of math problems where you did a card of problems, and depending on how you did, you would either get a similar card or skip ahead. I rapidly skipped along through that entire box and it was fun and enjoyable. So, such things are also possible just with paper systems. Sadly, that experience with such "programmed instruction" for math was not repeated in other years in school. Still, there were other teachers who I can give credit for letting me have some freedom to learn on my own in various areas (especially computers).

In some ways, not much has changed in many schools as far as schools and their use of digital educational materials. Some teachers are very helpful (like my third grade teacher or John Taylor Gatto), but some are not, and, in any case, the overall compulsory school system works against most individualized instruction because it is designed to mostly turn out a standardized product like canned hams (or compliant worker drones in this case for most kids).

Yet computer technology offers the promise of more, even if it is a promise not yet realized for most kids. I wrote a related essay here:
http://patapata.sourceforge.ne...
"Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change. ...
So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process. ..."

That's one reason we homeschool/unschool to better support more learner-directed inquiry.
http://www.holtgws.com/wh

Here you go little child, because you can not seem to use Google on your own I have done this for you, let me know when your arse needs wiping I'll send your mum down to the basement.
https://www.google.com/search?...

Note that one of those Google returned searches shows Apple now has "guidelines for returning bent phones".

I do like how you pick one thing out of a list and go on a tirade about that though, as if you're refuting the premise of my post.
It's an amusing form of debate, here are a list of others you can enjoy "intellectually" masturbating with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

GMD is pretty cool, it comes with some stock gestures, such as one to shut off the screen but you can make your own and set them to do anything from launch an application, to starting a search, to applying a setting. For example, I made one where I use 5 fingertips and rotate them slightly clockwise, it toggles auto-rotation. Very handy. But, it does require root. It's worth buying the pro version too.
https://play.google.com/store/...

2) A keyboard that's the same as the default, just with a row of number keys on top.

I use Hacker's Keyboard on Android, not sure if there's an iPhone equivalent.

Fine, do you know how to churn your own butter or butcher your own chickens? My grandfather did all of these things, but my dad (who is still a farmer) has no idea how to do either. And even if you are one of the rare ones who knows how to do those things, I doubt almost all of your generation can.

What your generation forgot about growing your own food is in the same league as what our generation has forgot about how to fix our own appliances.

how to churn your own butter
how to butcher your own chicken
how to grow your own food

Do you think us younguns don't know how to do that stuff? It just isn't practical to do so, not worth the cost of labor. Same with repairing gadgets, especially when the problem is a burnt out/corroded circuit board or a broken not-sold-at-stores component. People haven't changed much, merely circumstances (mass production, disposable items, and we're no longer in the Great Depression).

As for not knowing how to do something, that is a problem that only old people who don't know how to use the internet have. Us young people have the problem of not thinking it worth learning how to do something (either due to economies of specialization, or laziness). Also occasionally thinking we know more than we do.

Fine, do you know how to churn your own butter or butcher your own chickens? My grandfather did all of these things, but my dad (who is still a farmer) has no idea how to do either. And even if you are one of the rare ones who knows how to do those things, I doubt almost all of your generation can.

What your generation forgot about growing your own food is in the same league as what our generation has forgot about how to fix our own appliances.

how to churn your own butter
how to butcher your own chicken
how to grow your own food

Do you think us younguns don't know how to do that stuff? It just isn't practical to do so, not worth the cost of labor. Same with repairing gadgets, especially when the problem is a burnt out/corroded circuit board or a broken not-sold-at-stores component. People haven't changed much, merely circumstances (mass production, disposable items, and we're no longer in the Great Depression).

As for not knowing how to do something, that is a problem that only old people who don't know how to use the internet have. Us young people have the problem of not thinking it worth learning how to do something (either due to economies of specialization, or laziness). Also occasionally thinking we know more than we do.

Fine, do you know how to churn your own butter or butcher your own chickens? My grandfather did all of these things, but my dad (who is still a farmer) has no idea how to do either. And even if you are one of the rare ones who knows how to do those things, I doubt almost all of your generation can.

What your generation forgot about growing your own food is in the same league as what our generation has forgot about how to fix our own appliances.

how to churn your own butter
how to butcher your own chicken
how to grow your own food

Do you think us younguns don't know how to do that stuff? It just isn't practical to do so, not worth the cost of labor. Same with repairing gadgets, especially when the problem is a burnt out/corroded circuit board or a broken not-sold-at-stores component. People haven't changed much, merely circumstances (mass production, disposable items, and we're no longer in the Great Depression).

As for not knowing how to do something, that is a problem that only old people who don't know how to use the internet have. Us young people have the problem of not thinking it worth learning how to do something (either due to economies of specialization, or laziness). Also occasionally thinking we know more than we do.

I try installing Linux From Scratch every now and then. Works best in a Linux host virtual machine. I was never successful using the live CD on bare metal hard drive. If you ever read "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody, this was how Linus Torvalds built the early Linux while using Minix as the host operating system.

I don't know about "usable", but there is actually a port of the GNU/Octave to Android. It is not some lousy mimic webapp (like Matlab crappy "cloud-run" app), but a full-blown port of the Octave to Android. The app itself is small, but to make it work you have to download Octave Main Package that is freaking HUGE (about 65Mb), but it works!
Well, it's not that you can do full-blown simulations on it, but you can install other toolboxes separately and run some calculations. You can work with matrices, trigonometry, random numbers - not very convenient on a smartphone (it uses a Terminal Emulator to run) and no sexy GUI (opensource - what do you want...), but still pretty awesome.
Other than this, I use Andie Graph emulator of famous TI-8x calculators. You need to get a ROM of a device (Google is your friend), but it can run TI-86 on your smartphone. Useful and free of charge.

I don't know about "usable", but there is actually a port of the GNU/Octave to Android. It is not some lousy mimic webapp (like Matlab crappy "cloud-run" app), but a full-blown port of the Octave to Android. The app itself is small, but to make it work you have to download Octave Main Package that is freaking HUGE (about 65Mb), but it works!
Well, it's not that you can do full-blown simulations on it, but you can install other toolboxes separately and run some calculations. You can work with matrices, trigonometry, random numbers - not very convenient on a smartphone (it uses a Terminal Emulator to run) and no sexy GUI (opensource - what do you want...), but still pretty awesome.
Other than this, I use Andie Graph emulator of famous TI-8x calculators. You need to get a ROM of a device (Google is your friend), but it can run TI-86 on your smartphone. Useful and free of charge.

I'd like an app that'd help me diagnose bad noises my car makes

There are many. Most make use of an obd2 -> bluetooth dongle.

Seriously, try to find this for an iPad/iPhone that doesn't require a separate computer.
They're expensive paperweights for me.

At least there's an IDE on Android that has a compiler.

I think there are probably a variety of good reasons for it, too. Here's one speculation: When we communicate with a human, we must use some language that will be more-or-less understood by the other human.

That is a good reason, but IMHO the reason for the origin of the "intentional stance" is that it's simply the most parsimonious way to approach survival in a dangerous environment.