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Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I would rather tweak the search to narrow down crap results than try to outsmart the 'smartness' any day of the week. I understand that this isn't necessarily what John Q. Internetuser is looking for in search, but at least having the option there would be a big help.

There already is such an option, called "verbatim":
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1734130?hl=en

What do you mean by ITER having a good head start? ITER is still a giant construction site! Here's what ITER currently looks like. Yes, it's that hole in the ground.

I meant that ITER the project was initiated in 1988, thus giving them a good head start. I didn't say that they were still ahead.

What do you mean by ITER having a good head start? ITER is still a giant construction site! Here's what ITER currently looks like. Yes, it's that hole in the ground.

It would be interesting to read more details of NIL's achievement, though. For example whether this was breakeven using deuterium-tritium fuel, or whether they looked at their performance with less hazardous deuterium-deuterium fuel, and then extrapolated to performance with D-T. If the latter, then that has already been achieved by the japanese JT-60 tokamak in 1998. ITER is expected to reach 10 times breakeven with real D-T fuel, and be significantly net power positive.

The problem with inertial confinment using laser heating, as is used by NIL, is that not only is energy transfer from the lasers to the plasma inefficient, but much more importantly, generating the laser beams in the first place is extremely inefficient, resulting in a wikipedia article correctly. This makes inertial confinement fusion unlikely for energy production according to most people I've spoken to. It is useful for researching the behavior of high-energy plasmas though, which is useful for designing nuclear weapons.

Microsoft:
3 months ending 2013-06-30:
Revenue: 19.896 Billion USD
Cost of goods/revenue sold: 5.602 Billion USD
Gross Profit: 14.294 Billion USD
Source:
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT&fstype=ii&ei=wcBTUtihB8z2qQHI8AE

Out of their costs of goods sold, these researchers got 0.00049982%.
Me thinks their contribution to M$ is more than a few 10,000ths of 1%. They did what the 5.6 billion spent on internal people failed to do. And M$ doesn't have to pay their healthcare.

The cost of the meeting (hourly pay, room, overhead, etc.) for a bunch of execs at Microsoft to figure out how little to give these guys most likely cost more than 28,000 USD.

One can't help but to note that they gave the Google employees just enough to pay for dinner in downtown Palo Alto.

Google already answers questions. Try for yourself:

how tall is the eiffel tower
who is america's president
what date was terminator released
etc.

Google already answers questions. Try for yourself:

how tall is the eiffel tower
who is america's president
what date was terminator released
etc.

The most important book I read as a beginning software developer was Software Tools in Pascal. That book teaches a technique it calls "left-corner design". It's kind of a rule-of-thumb for how to do agile development informally.

The basic idea: pick some part of the task that is both basic and essential, and implement that. Get it working, and test it to make sure it works. Now, pick another part of the task, and implement as above; continue iterating until you either have met all the specs or are out of time.

If you meet all the specs, great! If you are out of time, you at least have something working. The book says something like "80% of the problem solved now is usually better than 100% of the problem solved later."

For example, if you are tasked with writing a sorting program, first make it sort using some sort of sane default (such as simply sorting by code points). Next add options (for example, being able to specify a locale sort order, case-insensitive sorting, removing duplicate lines, pulling from multiple input files, etc.). A really full-featured sorting program will have lots of options, but even a trivial one that just sorts a single way is better than nothing.

Also, the book recommends releasing early and often. If you have "customers" you let them look at it as early as possible; their feedback may warn you that your design has fatal flaws, or they may suggest features that nobody had thought of when imagining how the software should work. I have experienced this, and it's really cool when you get into a feedback loop with your customer(s), and the software just gets better and better.

Way back in high school, I tried to write a program to solve a physics problem. I hadn't heard of "left-corner design" and I didn't independently invent it. I spent a lot of time working on unessential features, and when I ran out of time I didn't have a program that did really anything useful.

This is the one thing I would most wish to tell a new software developer. Left-corner design.

P.S. Software Tools in Pascal is a rewrite of an older book, Software Tools, where the programs were written in a language called RATFOR. Later I found a copy of Software Tools and found it interesting what things were easier to write in Pascal vs. what things were easier in RATFOR... and when I thought about it I realized that everything was just easier in C. C really is the king of the "Third-Generation" languages.

The most important book I read as a beginning software developer was Software Tools in Pascal. That book teaches a technique it calls "left-corner design". It's kind of a rule-of-thumb for how to do agile development informally.

The basic idea: pick some part of the task that is both basic and essential, and implement that. Get it working, and test it to make sure it works. Now, pick another part of the task, and implement as above; continue iterating until you either have met all the specs or are out of time.

If you meet all the specs, great! If you are out of time, you at least have something working. The book says something like "80% of the problem solved now is usually better than 100% of the problem solved later."

For example, if you are tasked with writing a sorting program, first make it sort using some sort of sane default (such as simply sorting by code points). Next add options (for example, being able to specify a locale sort order, case-insensitive sorting, removing duplicate lines, pulling from multiple input files, etc.). A really full-featured sorting program will have lots of options, but even a trivial one that just sorts a single way is better than nothing.

Also, the book recommends releasing early and often. If you have "customers" you let them look at it as early as possible; their feedback may warn you that your design has fatal flaws, or they may suggest features that nobody had thought of when imagining how the software should work. I have experienced this, and it's really cool when you get into a feedback loop with your customer(s), and the software just gets better and better.

Way back in high school, I tried to write a program to solve a physics problem. I hadn't heard of "left-corner design" and I didn't independently invent it. I spent a lot of time working on unessential features, and when I ran out of time I didn't have a program that did really anything useful.

This is the one thing I would most wish to tell a new software developer. Left-corner design.

P.S. Software Tools in Pascal is a rewrite of an older book, Software Tools, where the programs were written in a language called RATFOR. Later I found a copy of Software Tools and found it interesting what things were easier to write in Pascal vs. what things were easier in RATFOR... and when I thought about it I realized that everything was just easier in C. C really is the king of the "Third-Generation" languages.

Who knows why the US press did not get it out first?

Three words: "Miley Cyrus twerked."

Google Trends search term popularity.

Achieving fusion break-even just when a skinny white girl learns to twerk is just wrong place, wrong time, baby.

It's not enough to log out, you have to wipe the cookies, too. Google sets a lot of them and then there are Google-related sites like Youtube which also set Cookies. I'm not sure how much these other sites share Cookies with Google, but I wouldn't trust them on it.

It's much more than not logging in to block tracking, just one step. Web Beacons are the concern logging in or reading html email.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacons running a huge a$$ HOSTS file is also very important.

Ever hear of flurry http://flurry.com/ https://top.robtex.com/flurry.com.html#records
that's a biggie to block. It's Google analytics, for a price they provide advertisers
user demographics and what ads to send to you.

Mostly used for mobile devices Flurry.com will let you opt-out if you give them your device ID.
http://www.flurry.com/user-opt-out.html every time I change the OS on my rooted Xoom tablet the ID changes
so I block it at the router level (just got a new router with firewall). Also your device ID isn't all that easy to find.
- for Android > play.store look for: Device ID

Read the ToS, Privacy Policy at http://rovio.com/ it explains in detail what angry birds does with your collected data.
One is they send your info to Flurry.com who in return sends them prospective clients.

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Here's a good one... Read the ToS at http://flurry.com/ you'd never know it was Google.
I registered at http://testmy.net/ to keeps a data base of my connection rates; of course I read their terms of service,
it led you to https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/?fg=1

There was a thread about tracking I happened on after my registration, the operator of that site
replied to the thread mentioning he was very happy to be working for Google, it was a good company.
I replied that it's odd your so up front about being part of Google yet one would never know through the ToS
http://flurry.com/ was Google as well. Now reading the ToS you'd never know http://testmy.net/ is part of Google. :}
unless you went to Robtex.com https://top.robtex.com/testmy.net.html#records

Yes Google provides a service and expects something in return, they can have my searches and the links
I visit, as I find them through Google. But I don't need Google+ shoved not only in my face, but into my lifel
Google+ isn't a service it's totally different.

They would never lie to us.

Let me back you up with three (3) citations;

1) Kinect: You Are the Controlled (June 10, 2012 @03:14PM)
    Discusses patent #20120143693

1. A computer-implemented method to determine emotional states of users that receive advertisements on client devices, the method comprising:
monitoring a user's online activity during a time period; processing the online activity to identify a tone associated with content that the user interacted with during the time period; receiving an indication of the user's reaction to the content; and assigning an emotional state to the user based on the tone of the content and the indication of the user's reaction to the content.

...

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from facial expressions of the user captured by an image capture device during the time period.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from user speech patterns captured by an audio capture device during the time period.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the user's reaction is identified from gestures and body movements of the user captured by an image capture device during the time period.

2) Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World (November 18, 2010 @02:59AM)
Discusses Dennis Durkin

Dennis Durkin, who is both COO and CFO for Microsoft's Xbox group, told investors this week that Kinect can also be used by advertisers to see how many people are in a room when an ad is on screen, and to custom-tailor content based on the people it recognizes.

3) Microsoft Integrating Xbox One Advertising With Kinect To Profile Users For Ads (July 05, 2013 @10:01PM )
Discusses the next generation of the Xbox

According to Xbox staff, the new console is exciting because "the 360 console wasn't built with advertising in mind, it was more of an afterthought... whereas this new one is going to have advertising in mind."

Unfortunately, most Google punctuation is ignored.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

No cites? Of course not, you're wrong. and since I saw your comment metamoderating, guess what?

Check any of those links and you'll see that 2/3 of the world's population is Christian, Islam, Hindu, or Bhuddist.

As I'm a Christian I'll consider that you're simply ignorant rather than lying. Judge not... but you're WAY overrated.

As far as I am aware current VLSI technology can be used to model on the order of 10 billion synapses. The human brain has on the order of 100 trillion synapses. Unless Henry Markham has also invented a radically new kind of supercomputer, we are still somewhat behind.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=fahrenheit+451+hound

Ask and you shall receive:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=htc_one

I would presume her name is Mrs. Ann Coward.

Time to get ticked off by Mike Royko
Rolex wearer vs. Mike Royko's Casio Databank.

Monitoring is not the same thing as analyzing.. but I am quite certain I know where my packets are headed - at least when they're sent from my gateway. That's how the internet works.

But are you sure you know everything that is in those packets? Nothing extra in those DNS requests leaving your network?

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130125161

A "reward system" which makes use of "all linear video content viewing behaviors of the user." Sure gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling inside, especially with Microsoft PR goons coming out with press releases like this.

"We're totally not doing that. Even if we were doing that, and we're totally not, the user (because we don't think of you as people any more) will have control. They can either play their XBone or they can turn it off and avoid being an eyepiece for a fascist government, now that's privacy control!"

On planet normal it's considered retarded to use an existing phrase to mean something else.

Good thing we live on a planetary body named planet Earth, and not planet normal. This "planet normal" place sounds very strange indeed.

So if you do move to planet normal, you have to stop using the phrase -- "Video Card" to refer to a piece of electronics; In planet normal, a card looks like this

On planet Earth, it's pretty common to use words to refer to what they literally mean; even if there might be a conflicting slang phrase such as 'video card'

The US spends more on education per pupil then just about any other country in the world and we have shit results from it. Until the educational/unionization/bureaucratic complex is dealt with, more money wont make any difference in our schools.

*Citation required*

I would argue the reverse. The US spends vastly different amounts of money per pupil depending on the community that they live in. Where I grew up, the property values were prohibitively high as well as the taxes. As a result, I was privileged to attend great public schools. http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/easton/ 15 miles away in the Bridgeport, CT are some of the worst schools. http://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/bridgeport/

You appear to hate unions, but not lack of funding. The greatest programmer alive grew up in the "educational socialism" that is europe and seems to agree that educational quality in the US is a regional thing instead of a national thing https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/J1NCgKQi55X

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22linus+torvalds%22+fuck+site:lkml.org

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chase.sig.android&hl=en

The Chase app has a lot of reviews (by phone users) complaining that the check feature doesn't work.

I think you are blaming the wrong thing for the app failing. And Bing won't install on my no-name chinese import phone. Apparently the publisher (Microsoft), refuses to allow installation on untested devices. Though I could download the APK for an approved device and manually install on another, but it's not worth my time. I've done it before with others.

You don't need a smartphone plan to have Wi-Fi on your phone.

But I'd still have to buy a $200 phone to be used only for scanning checks while I have a perfectly working HP scanner at home. I wouldn't even be able to use it as my regular cell phone because the CDMA2000 carriers won't activate a voice-only plan on a smartphone, and AT&T is notorious for cramming a data plan onto a voice-only SIM inserted into a smartphone.

I have an android phone and an android tablet. I've not seen anything that worked on only one.

I'm on Comcast at home, and the Google Play Store page for the Bing app says the following:

Asus Nexus 7
This item is not available on your carrier.

Bing shows as unavailable on the Amazon Appstore page as well.

don't worry. it's benign.

this one is more on point though: https://www.google.com/search?q=linus+torvalds+fuck+-nvidia+-sex+-meme+lkml

seems to work in general. https://www.google.com/search?q=linus+torvalds+fuck

Heroin was sold in drugstores too. It was good for what ails you. It also came in very pretty bottles.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.browser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.proxybrowser

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aed.droidvpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoneapps99.aabiproxy

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bivpn.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hotspotshield.android.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpnoneclick.android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hideman

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cryptninja.vpn

Take your pick or go find another one on Google Play. There are probably another hundred+ that I didn't list.

WARNING : you really DON'T want to look at that GIS link below. you have been warned.

yeah, apparently Russians are more like drug-addled zombies.


just say "HELL NOPE" to krokodil. really.

It's looking more and more like all the shots fired were by the Police...

It is looking even more like:

1) a distraced mother with a baby in the backseat took a wrong turn driving in DC
2) accidentally ran into some low-visibility short-height pole barriers
    (see this view on google streetview)
3) was confronted by plain-clothes police brandishing firearms
4) was scared shitless for herself and her baby and took off
5) was chased for a while until she got out of the car
6) was shot dead

To me, this looks like a case of cops who have been militarized to the point of neglecting training on de-escalation. Hyped to believe that terrorists are hiding under every rock, they over-reacted when they should have realized that it was just the far more likely scenario of a regular citizen finding herself in an unfamiliar and threatening situation.

I've been studying this (publishing) for some time, in the context of learning, verifying assumptions, and the scientific method.

It turns out that there is really no bar in scientific publishing. It doesn't have to be understandable, nor innovative, nor even correct. You only need to be ethical (ie - don't lie about the data), cite anything that you got from other sources, and show that there is less than a 1-in-20 chance that you are wrong (p > 0.5).

What exactly do we want in a published paper, anyway?

Many cancer studies can't be reproduced. Many studies are statistically significant but valueless (the IQ of people in NYC is higher than Chicago by 1 point: this can be statistically certain but have no practical significance). There are lots and lots of ways to frame the conclusion the wrong way such as confusing correlation with causation, reversed conditionals (if the defendant is innocent, there is a 1 in 1 billion chance that this evidence is wrong), and other logical errors.

Then there's the enormous economic incentive of needing to publish to keep your job, that reviewers will oppose maverick thought and agree with community beliefs, and that no one examines their assumptions.

Would you like to publish a paper? MathGen will write one for you. Pass it around and chances are it will be accepted.

So when I talk to people about my research, the inevitable comment is "you should publish". And my inevitable answer is: why?

What do we want in scientific papers? What are they even for?

This article is being widely panned as lacking controls, published without any critical review, and driven by self-interest from a traditional publisher with the most to lose from Open Access taking off (as it is). Some have gone so far to assert it's an over-reach for how badly it was done, and will make Science as a journal look partisan.

For example, quick scan brought up these three scathing responses:

Mike Eisen (HHMI Berkeley Professor)
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1439

Peter Suber (Author of the book "Open Access", Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/CRHeCAtQqGq

Mike Taylor (programmer with Index Data and a research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol)
http://svpow.com/2013/10/03/john-bohannons-peer-review-sting-against-science/

I'm sure this will heat up some much needed debate about poor quality journals and the failings of peer review, but with the lack of any controls at all, it says basically nothing about open access as a model for publishing.

On Android, I use WiFi Web Login

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.syslynx.wifiwebloginapp&hl=en

Teach it how to click "no thanks, just log me in" and off you go.

Man those things are bad!

If you read the article, they demanded the SSL key since Lavabit did not comply with the earlier order. All the Feds originally wanted was metadata for one user. Lavabit could have provided that, but refused. The prosecutors asked they be held in contempt of court, and then asked for the SSL keys. This is on Lavabit.

Yes, how dare the impudent bastards attempt to protect their customers from illegal surveillance!

Seriously, I think you just posited a digital variant of the 'skinny jeans defense' rapists use.

It seems "cotardation" isn't a word. A pity, because it would make a goshdigettydarn fine one.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stainlessgames.carmageddon&hl=en

Granted, it's a port of an older game, but graphically intensive nonetheless.

the company has developed a treatment that turns it into a sold form that's safe to handle but is still useful as a fuel

Details aren't mentioned in the article, but there have been a variety of groups demonstrating various powders and matrices that absorb the gaseous hydrogen and release it later (in response to gentle heating, a drop in vapor pressure, etc.), a so-called hydrogen sponge.

Mainly by hand though. Free book: http://www.workingwithstories.org/
Free software for communtieis: http://www.rakontu.org/
Related business process patent (sadly) when at IBM Research: http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT7136791
Past commercial software: http://www.sensemaker-suite.com/
National security (does have some automatic aspects): http://app.rahs.gov.sg/public/www/content.aspx?sid=2955

There is a lot you can do with stories once they are tagged for emotional intensity, whether automatically, by the teller, or by other people. Stories are all around us, as we try to make sense of our lives and events in our communities. So this sort of technology to tag emotions in stories is much more far reaching than just being about fiction. It can be used to design better products, to help communities figure out what to do about a pressing issue, to resolve conflicts, and to see emerging trends. That is one reason such work is funded by the intelligence sector (as well as businesses and some non-profits). She's been trying to make these ideas freely available to everyone, but it has been a slow going slog to follow the path of free and open source for all this.

By someone else on the relation between emotion and reason:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_Error

Here you go Now kindly follow that link, it's your going away present. Don't come here again, and please leave your geek card at the front desk. That's assuming you ever got one in the first place.