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From that webpage: "The culprit seems to be sudden drops in air pressure that create internal hemorrhaging, but the precise cause is still a mystery." And: "Collisions are evidently a problem as well, though to what extent is also still unclear."

Sudden drop in pressure? Well I can partially understand that, my own ears pop when pressure drops. So perhaps siting wind genies can take bats into account. Another possibility is having sound generators around genies that repels bats. Play the sounds at night. Of course treehuggers offers their own suggestion, to shut down genies on nights when the wind is low.

However apparently coal mining also harms bats. Here's a.pdf titled Salazar Announces Guidelines to Protect Endangered Indiana Bat from Surface Coal Mining Impacts. Of course those are in Indiana. Well also apparently there's an Indiana bat, that's in West Virginia: Coal Mining in West Virginia: Guidelines for Protecting the Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) [.pdf]. And what of bats' habitat, isn't mining destroying it?

So the question as regards bats are concerned then is, which is worse for bats, coal fired power plants or wind generators?

Falcon

From that webpage: "The culprit seems to be sudden drops in air pressure that create internal hemorrhaging, but the precise cause is still a mystery." And: "Collisions are evidently a problem as well, though to what extent is also still unclear."

Sudden drop in pressure? Well I can partially understand that, my own ears pop when pressure drops. So perhaps siting wind genies can take bats into account. Another possibility is having sound generators around genies that repels bats. Play the sounds at night. Of course treehuggers offers their own suggestion, to shut down genies on nights when the wind is low.

However apparently coal mining also harms bats. Here's a.pdf titled Salazar Announces Guidelines to Protect Endangered Indiana Bat from Surface Coal Mining Impacts. Of course those are in Indiana. Well also apparently there's an Indiana bat, that's in West Virginia: Coal Mining in West Virginia: Guidelines for Protecting the Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) [.pdf]. And what of bats' habitat, isn't mining destroying it?

So the question as regards bats are concerned then is, which is worse for bats, coal fired power plants or wind generators?

Falcon

It was the purple dinosaur man.

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=barney+is+evil&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&biw=1024&bih=567&tbm=isch&tbnid=TR-rUsCZUnp1rM:&imgrefurl=http://dailyjunkforyou.blogspot.com/2010/10/evil-barney.html&docid=3XWFoP8IFv-wIM&imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zQ7k_RIYYXY/TKdEQJNmhmI/AAAAAAAAAA8/VGBHNHqGWdE/s1600/Chaotic_Evil_Barney.jpg&w=600&h=750&ei=ds5DUb7FJ-fM2gWfsYCAAg&zoom=1&sa=X&ved=0CGQQrQMwBw&iact=hc&vpx=776&vpy=16&dur=4141&hovh=251&hovw=201&tx=157&ty=114&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=106&start=0&ndsp=23

He is ruining the minds of children everywhere.

Google.
IPoAC.

You should be able to look up everything in US Patent 7281842. (He's got several other patents, but all the ones with "cavitation" in them are in the same continuity chain as this one and should have the same disclosure.)

I use the pyrfeed Google Reader API to aggregate categories of other sites' RSS/Atom feeds to my personal website. Basically, Google Reader is a aggregator, feed subscriber, database, and single API/XML for my website.

https://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI

Do any of the web-based aggregators people are suggesting here offer a similar API?

I use the pyrfeed Google Reader API to aggregate categories of other sites' RSS/Atom feeds to my personal website. Basically, Google Reader is a aggregator, feed subscriber, database, and single API/XML for my website.

https://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI

Do any of the web-based aggregators people are suggesting here offer a similar API?

Which is considerable better than LCD in almost everything.

Including image retention?

note: I don't have an amoled, so I don't know how common this is.

What worked for me was this thing called a Sound Screen or Sound Conditioner. It's a little fan inside a toadstool enclosure that makes a tuneable whoosh sound. Totally blocks out voices and chills you out, and fills the room better than an electronic box with a speaker; therapists use these things to maintain privacy for their sessions. You can get it from Amazon or I've even seen it at Bed Bath and Beyond.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3006933/innovation-agents/companys-hourly-exercise-breaks-make-it-more-fit-sure-also-more-successful It really helps me keep the energy and enthusiasm. I have powerbands and use https://play.google.com/store/search?q=sworkit+pro on my phone.

hg clone https://code.google.com/p/google-reader/

MS Russia denies allegations

I've got a home office and it is never quite in the house. I just got some Bose AE2i headphones (not active noise cancelling but large over the ear style) and someone can stand in front of my speaking and I won't be able to hear them. I went through the standard websites like rainymood and simplynoise before starting on the Android apps for my phone, I found the best was the pro version of White Noise https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmsoft.whitenoise.full . Not only does it have tons of sounds (plus more to download) but you can make mashups - I like to combine all the rain sounds with brown noise for ignoring things and fire + ocean waves for going to sleep. There is a free lite version that is better than most of the other paid-for apps.

TLS 1.1 support is enabled by default in Chrome. Read about that here.

If you want TLS 1.2 in chrome, please star this bug.

As for Firefox, TLS 1.1 and 1.2 support are still not ready. If you want to help, vote for this bug, this bug, this bug, and this bug.

The bugs to get TLS 1.2 support into Firefox are this one and this one.

Both Opera and IE support TLS 1.1 and 1.2. If you want to see this in Firefox and Chrome, vote for the bugs above. But, please don't comment on the bugs. That won't help.

Not exactly what that means

How will I spend Pi Day? Probably by reading the same story from previous years.

Doing DirectX in JavaScript must be fun.

ANGLE exposes DirectX to JavaScript over an interface similar to OpenGL. Have fun.

Thats a little unfair. In my experience this question and discussion comes up with in increased frequency at many of the tek meetups and forums I participate in. There was a massive shift to OSX in the time scales discussed, to the point where almost all the developers and designers I personally know where using OSX. It even became common for the occasional non apple hardware laptop to be singled out and form a basis for discussion itself!! Recently the tide does indeed seem to be shifting once more, and many who tried linux desktop before are tempted into trying once more. The recent high profile disparing positions by people such as Linus https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/UkoAaLDpF4i and (lesser) Miguel de Icaza http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html make this a valid subject for discussion I believe.

Just looked at them and can't see any qualitative difference.

And what's your gripe about launcher pro? Yes, it's a class of applications that is absent on AppStore - you must use the Holy Home Screen as Jobs intended and like it, together with the Holy Mobile Safari and other unreplaceable Apple provided built-ins (unless you're a pagan jailbreaker, then you can have pretty nice alternatives on your iPhone, if you want to)

Why pay $120 for Kinect when you can pay $1800 on Kickstarter!

Because you are paying for a platform not a Kinect camera. It's software and hardware that are guaranteed to work together (which is a lot easier to support than software alone).

Sure they could sell the software alone, but I'm assuming that's the majority of the cost anyhow. I'd expect to pay over a grand for that software (and it would pay for itself quickly). With the amount of kickstarter backers it's obvious there are more than a few people that think they can get value out of it for the price.

You want to pay over grand for FREE software?
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/research/vision/data/rgbd2012/
http://reconstructme.net/
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=kinect+motion+capture

https://www.google.com/search?q=enabling%20editing%20command%20prompt

I've been using TT-RSS for several months now, and I can definitely second the recommendation. Never had any problems with it at all.
It's all open source PHP so easy enough to modify yourself: the only modification I've made to it is have the "Starred" articles (articles I flag for later reading) show up in the Starred Articles count whether or not they've been read (by default it only counts up starred unread articles).

The official (GPL'd) Android client for it is definitely worth the couple of bucks too.
The server also has an API if you want to develop your own client interface, but between the stock web interface it comes with and the cheap Android client I've never needed anything more.

For Chrome I use News Factory. Clicking on the bookmark bar icon gives you a headline and snippet of TFS, and a bigger snippet of TFS on mouseover. Works, I haven't visited the /. front page in months. Those new articles will pile up fast, though, so it's best for choice sites you're keeping tabs on.

Oh, calm down. All this means is that you have to export your stuff, and import into a different, nearly identical service.

What do you want them to do, anyway? Swear a blood-oath that once they start up a service, they will continue with it forever?

If they don't think it makes sense to commit the resources to maintain it, then it's certainly not going to make sense to maintain a paid version - not everything is about revenue.

You act like this is some kind of galling defect in Google's collective moral fibre - some things don't stick, it happens.

I'll sign it. But if it is not for every person on Earth, Google won't care about it.
See find as you type in Chrome.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150

Not only that, but trying to avoid using the financial system by keeping your wealth in cash is enough to draw suspicion, and according to some, "possession of a large sum of cash is 'strong evidence' of a connection to drug activity".

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Government always wants theirs, whether it's in money or flesh.

http://www.basicincome.org/bien/aboutbasicincome.html

From what I wrote in 2008 before I'd heard about "basic income", with a a typo and a rotted link fixed: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/openmanufacturing/a4Fw5A15GUE/wQbnjYso09sJ
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Something I wrote in another list, but I am posting a variant here in public in part as a contribution towards [Nathan Craven's] work on an open enterprise, moving towards an open society. This is to support a transition to a post-scarcity future.

It seems that, sadly, we can expect zero privacy in our personal affairs in the USA between warrantless wiretapping and banks and ISPs rolling over for any governmental request for any reason. The US government is now underwriting all the major banks and the three major US car companies to the sum of approaching about a year's GDP. And the Fed is now doing "quantitative easing" which is Fed speak for printing money. This is all very *radical* (and hypocritical) compared to the ideology espoused by most political and economic leaders in the USA historically. We are now in uncharted territory.

So, since privacy is history, and banks are now socialized enterprises, and the main engines of US manufacturing (the car companies) are now run as welfare organizations for all those US Americans who otherwise would lose their jobs, and I could say more on what's going wrong but won't here, how can we get something good out of this spirit of radical innovation by our leadership by looking on the bright side? :-)

My suggestion:

* Close all the banks and have the US Social Security administration run a single debit checking account with a card based on the person's SSN (plus an additional PIN or other security measure like a physical token or biometric or some combination of all three the user might choose). We have no financial privacy anyway anymore, sadly, so the cost savings would outweigh making it easy for the government to spy on anyone. Maybe make all transfers part of the public record (especially that of public officials), or maybe not. Make part of the public record who has looked at whose account information. Maybe involve the US post office for PIN number resets where ID is presented in person. The transparency of funds transfers may deter some fraud and identity theft.

* All account holders have US$1500 a month deposited in that account. This replaces all forms of government welfare. There is no needs test, so everyone gets it, and this reduces overhead. This also replaces all forms of public education (since a kid's money can be used for schooling if the parents want it to). This also replaces social security for the elderly. If people need more than this, tough -- charity can handle that. :-) It would be illegal to borrow against future earnings there or to enforce any such deal. This monthly amount would vary depending on Congress and price fluctuations. Services might spring up to supply a good life on just the basic stipend for intellectual types. Industrial productivity would go up as no one who did not want to work would apply for a job. It is possible one could phase in the amount in this account over a few years to give the economy time to adjust. But maybe it would be best to just do it all at once.

* Medicare/Medicaid for all. Congress sets the limits similar to other countries health care systems. People want more, they buy private supplementary insurance. Nursing homes are available for all, but they require handing over most of the monthly stipend. There might be government plans for in home round the clock nursing care too (again, costing about a monthly stipend); if you want something better, you buy private long-term care insurance.

* Either one or both of a flat transaction tax (3%?) or a wealth tax (0.25% monthly on balances and real property of any US account holder) to pay for

The dark side of the new pope (Google translation of Google cache, original 2006 italian report is being DOSed).

The mass populace doesn't consider a corporation to be capable of hacking. This is what the populace thinks of when they hear the word "hacker".

As you can see, it's all individuals. No corporations.

The apostrophe in "McDonald's" is part of the name itself. There actually is a rule of punctuation, which is a plural or a word that ends in S the apostrophe is after the S with no more Ses. If the name of the company was McDonalds rather than McDonald's, then it would be "McDonalds' board of directors." But you are right about the "McDonaldziz".

And the OP is right that there is way too much aliteracy at slashdot. I blame the US public school system... and maybe British and Australian and Canadian as well.

https://www.google.com/search?q=are+men+more+competitive+than+women

The question is do women earn less then men because they are women, or do women earn less then men because in general society teaches them to be meek?

Those giant eyes are going to be her downfall during the next ice age.

The coal we are using today is literally shearing off mountain tops and and killing carbon traps e.g. Trees. Sourcing from ocean methane could help in limiting this effect. http://images.google.com/search?q=alberta+sands

Wait, Yelp, useful? The site that extorts business owners via reviews? Read all about it.

Every 6 months we get a story about how the value of BTC has dropped 25% again and theres been a hacking incident at some exchange or something, but its OK because its mathematically proveable and thus a viable currency.

True, but I think a better argument for you is the fact that despite these periodic "corrections" the price is still continuing to rise precipitously. The volatility is insane, but how viable is it that the price on 1 Jan 2013 was 1 BTC/~$15, and right before this latest glitch, it was pushing ~$50 per BTC?

Look at the chart. See the exponential growth? The value has more than tripled in the 71 days so far in 2013. If the present bubble is extrapolated that represents roughly a 49,000% APY; clearly, that growth is unsustainable even in the face of "pigheaded wishful thinking".

Want to buy some tulip bulbs? I hear they are a "can't lose" investment!

I could bring a few, mainly specific governments. I will list a few you can look up the details on wikipedia.
Socialist systems that didn't work (not always due to their socialist policies but nevertheless): USSR, North VIetnam, DDR, Greece
Governments with many socialist policies that seem to work well for them: Switzerland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, China.
Bear in mind this is a complex issue, the difference between the way things are done in these different countries is massive. It is not possible to compare for example the policies of China and Finland in any meaningful way as their situations are too different. The countries that have had failures with socialist systems usually had their problems as a result of things that had nothing to do with socialism, also the countries that had success with socialist policies often had other advantages from the start and can't point purely at socialism for their success. Cuba is a nice example of both. Socialism has given them a fairly good national system in terms of wealth equality, education, medicine. On the other hand they are still a very poor country, they have a lot of enemies (well at least one major one). One nice way to compare different systems is through statistics.
A nice tool for this is google public data explorer. Things like literacy. life expectancy, child mortality, teachers per capita, doctors per capita, poverty etc. can be compared across different systems and the results can be surprising. On the other hand it is difficult to deduce causation from those statistics.
One of the strongest arguments in favour of socialist policies I have ever heard was from a TED video which showed that statistically economic inequality (unfair distribution of wealth) is a very strong indicator for almost every form of social of social problem, to such a degree that if all the rich people in an inequal country were to give 90% of their wealth to a trust to support the poorest in society, even those rich people would be better off.

Hopefully this link will work: http://www.google.com/doodles/douglas-adams-61st-birthday

Are you certain you didn't lose track of the units?

I calculate five IPs per person, even if we force all the poor 1.5E14 kg chunks of mass of the earth behind NAT so we can steal their routable addresses for human use.

...and what of the poor nanobot swarm?

It wasn't just "cool and hip" to use Palm's new writing style - it was also fast and more reliable - e.g., when writing A just write an upside-down V and don't write the middle line.

I remember a conference I attended in 1999, where for 3 days I sat and wrote notes on my Palm V. Palm's writing technique was very fast, very convenient (the device was very small, and I could write without looking at the screen all the time - which you can't do on today's smartphones) and also - after 3 days of writing, I still had half my battery left!

You can still get it on Android. Access (which purchased PalmOS) has put Graffiti (1, not the horrendous abomination that was 2) as an input method.

The only downside is the input box is a bit small on the Gnex - if they could make it larger, it would be much better.

voltaire.net did not actually write that article, it is just a high ranked google hit of many websites of varying credibility that carry the same article.

GP: Let's count up all the female player characters that exist in video games that aren't sex objects

You: Lara Croft (in 9 games)

You seriously think Lara Croft isn't a sex object? .

Within the game world, Lara Croft is not a sex object, she is an empowered woman. Outside of the game, there are enough weirdos out there that everyone/thing becomes a sex object. Have you not heard of Rule 34?

Explain all those commercials that say "Own It On Blu-Ray Today!". Heck, even the movie sites themselves say it.

Yes he is.

Yes he is.

GP: Let's count up all the female player characters that exist in video games that aren't sex objects

You: Lara Croft (in 9 games)

You seriously think Lara Croft isn't a sex object? .

Like this: http://inatux.com/snapshot8.png

And also this:

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/DbmEE8kXLDA

Yeah let's just FORGET ALL ABOUT OSX

Yeah let's just FORGET ALL ABOUT Android, it is UNIX and it has a graphical user interface!

Mozilla Firefox is on Android too!

Wait for it.... Waaaaait.....

YES, EMAC FOR ANDROID! Yay.

You neglected a bunch of stuff you stupids, pathetic and stupid, hrmph.

Remember; on sentence per line, just like they taught you.

Stupids.

I'm sure all your friends in Equestria agree with you.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of everypony who was part of the Manehattan Project, making the world 20% cooler one sonic rainnuke at a time.

Try this:

http://www.google.com/doodles/douglas-adams-61st-birthday

Netflix did use NaCl on the Intel Chromebooks, but are now using HTML5/EME on the ARM chromebooks. Here is the official Chrome Google+ feed announcement.