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The US horse population has varied somewhat over the years, but there are currently 6.9m. That is far from a dwindling to nothing. To give a sense of proportion, in 1867 there were 8m equines, looks like a peak of 21m in 1915. There was never any widespread killing of horses, and most horses are not allowed to breed anyway, whether populations are rising or falling. You can find some excellent references here There is a thriving wild horse population, and the domesticated ones are split between work, show, and leisure animals. The vast majority of them have happy lives. There are still literally millions of horses doing farm work, a hundred years after tractors became common.

I'm pretty sure your dystopian view of the future is also wrong. I think humanity will always need to guard against abuse of power, but the trend over our history is towards more freedom and a better life.

People forget how much things have changed. A hundred years ago nearly everyone worked on a farm. Now all those people lost their jobs but somehow found something else to do.

so when I need to use large files on multiple computers it's faster to carry an external hard drive arround than to try and use the network.

And that external hard drive can be formatted UDF, as long as you don't need to write to the drive from a Windows XP machine.

I guess I could carry a laptop arround and setup a network connection directly with the machine I wanted to use the file on but that is a lot bulikier and more hassle than just plugging in an external hard drive.

That or an external hard drive in a NAS enclosure, so that any computer that speaks FTP or SMB can read and write its files. Or an external hard drive in a USB enclosure that speaks MTP, so that any computer that speaks MTP (such as any Windows PC or any Mac with the MTP class driver) can read and write its files. The difference is that both NAS and MTP work on the level of files, unlike Mass Storage that works on the level of disk blocks, and the host OS need not be aware that the enclosure is using Ext behind the scenes.

I filed a patent along similar lines back in 2006, IIRC. Although long since lapsed, it did include more sophisticated error correction and compression. The text of the patent can be found here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwCRbg2GjBaddHU5UnRYTWJUS3c/edit

Hardly extinct:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=144565

And they average horse probably has a nicer life today.

Offline Wikivoyage app now available on Google Play Store.

Am I allowed to use this implementation?

Depends on what you want to use for: as a form of expression, you should be able to. Use the binary form to read/write, all depends on the MS patents and whether or not MS grants you a license.

Will Microsoft litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion?

Regarding developers: the software is posted as source code with instructions on how to install them from source. Being source code, is a form of expression, protected by copyright. As such, can a commercial entity try to block the dissemination of the "speech" that the source code constitutes?
Mind you, any existing patents should not play any role into it: after all a patent is a public disclosure of methods/constructs that constitute the invention (the text of the patent is not copyrighted), so the source code should not be anything but an alternative form of expression of the same.

Regarding users: yes, using the compiled binaries would violate the temporary monopoly granted by any existing patents. However, I can't imagine any corporations starting to track which hobbyist home users:
1. downloaded the source code - should not be, per se, illegal - the copyleft license allows you to do it and the patent should not trump the copyright.
2. for each of them, ask for a discovery to see if that source code has been compiled - again, compilation should not be illegal, I'm obtaining a derivative form of expression and the GPL copyright license allows me to do it
3. use the binary - this is the only step that would violate the patent

Am I allowed to use this implementation?

Depends on what you want to use for: as a form of expression, you should be able to. Use the binary form to read/write, all depends on the MS patents and whether or not MS grants you a license.

Will Microsoft litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion?

Regarding developers: the software is posted as source code with instructions on how to install them from source. Being source code, is a form of expression, protected by copyright. As such, can a commercial entity try to block the dissemination of the "speech" that the source code constitutes?
Mind you, any existing patents should not play any role into it: after all a patent is a public disclosure of methods/constructs that constitute the invention (the text of the patent is not copyrighted), so the source code should not be anything but an alternative form of expression of the same.

Regarding users: yes, using the compiled binaries would violate the temporary monopoly granted by any existing patents. However, I can't imagine any corporations starting to track which hobbyist home users:
1. downloaded the source code - should not be, per se, illegal - the copyleft license allows you to do it and the patent should not trump the copyright.
2. for each of them, ask for a discovery to see if that source code has been compiled - again, compilation should not be illegal, I'm obtaining a derivative form of expression and the GPL copyright license allows me to do it
3. use the binary - this is the only step that would violate the patent

Google uses actual people? I thought they used pigeons....

I find it interesting that the request for Canadian data is so low (38 requests, vs. the US at 8,438 requests), and that even with this low request rate, the rate of compliance by Google for Canadian data requests is less than 25%...interesting indeed.

Maybe our government just hasn't heard of teh google yet? :)

" Random Hacks of Kindness, Code for America" (code for the world, & in "my latest/greatest"):

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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( Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below, next, as 'examples thereof'... )

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA (that did extremely well for myself and users of them) for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).

& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!

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Same with Ghostery:

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Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company.

They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious PR reasons.

Despite the name change, let's be clear on one thing: their goal still is building better advertising, not protecting consumer privacy.

Ev

Wait, what? Gmail has a setting to make it run over https: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=74765

No. But if companies include and locally declare the foreign profits/revenue as part of their profits or revenue (or as collateral when borrowing from banks etc) then they should be taxed on it, but minus whatever tax they have already paid in the foreign country on it. If they have already paid a lot then it's zero if they paid zero then it's the full amount.

If it isn't your profit and it isn't your money you shouldn't have to pay tax on it. But if you claim that it's your money, why shouldn't you be taxed on it?

Examples: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/10/25Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html
http://investor.google.com/earnings/2012/Q4_google_earnings.html

They both include international revenue as part of their financials.

So if you don't want your foreign money taxed, just leave it overseas, pay whatever tax due overseas (which could be 0%) BUT you shouldn't get to declare it in your financials locally nor use it locally. If you want to use it locally, you have to pay the tax (after subtracting whatever overseas tax you've already paid on it).

Llama DOES NOT have internet permission. Your data isn't going anywhere

Whether or not you believe them is a different issue, but that reassured me at least somewhat. I've been using Llama for a few months now, and really enjoy its functionality.

You should check European news some time. People are thrown in jail for breaking into computer systems and copyright violations all the time.

Under a new proposal, cyberattacks are supposed to get a minimum of 2 years in prison in the entire EU (Google Translate).

At least in the US people complain about it and it's news. Here in Germany, most people don't give a damn and the "public" media and media conglomerates don't even report it much.

If you think we're living because of monsanto crops, you're mistaken. sustainable solutions (and life as we know it) has existed for thousands and thousands of years without them.

We haven't had a global population of 6.7 billion for thousands of years. This isn't life as we have known it. The global population was a bare 3 billion in 1960. Global Population

There are less than one million full-time farmers in the US

Farmers represented over 50% of the US labor force as late as 1870. In the modern world it is hard to keep workers on the farm. It is a hard to protect agricultural land. It is hard to compete with first-world agricultural exports.

Climates change. Cultures change. Traditional solutions do not always work.

This is too funny. I decided to help out too.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Guy+Hingston+pumpkin+fucker

First result is now:

Alterslash, the unofficial Slashdot digest
alterslash.org/
12 hours ago - An anonymous reader writes "Australian surgeon Guy Hingston is suing ... Google for "Guy Hingston pumpkin fucker" until the association ...

Federal Prosecutor Oritz said Aaron's suicide won't change how she handles cases:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/ortiz_says_suicide_will_not_change_handling_cases

And Assistant United States Attorney Stephen Heymann 'drove another hacker Jonathan James to suicide in 2008 after he named him in a cyber crime case':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262831/Revealed-Aaron-Swartz-prosecutor-drove-hacker-suicide-2008-named-cyber-crime-case.html

Here are some other grubby cases Oritz has been involved in: http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/01/17/carmen-ortizs-sordid-rap-sheet/

Ortiz’s husband attacked the Swartz family on Twitter: "Truly incredible that in their own son's obit they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6-month offer ... 6 months is not 35 years or lifetime" What an asshole.
http://www.boston.com/business/innovation/blogs/inside-the-hive/2013/01/15/attorney-carmen-ortiz-husband-attacks-swartz-family-twitter/vzxbY5lrrG7BvGjQGnNDtJ/blog.html
http://twitchy.com/2013/01/15/husband-of-mass-attorney-general-deletes-twitter-account-after-defending-prosecution-of-aaron-swartz/

There are "We the people" petitions to remove both Orirz and Heryman, but don't hold your breath. She is an Obama appointee and Heymann's father is a Clinton staffer. How about Someone in the press corps ask Obama what he thinks of his appointees killing off bright young kids?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate said of Aaron: "He was being made into a highly visible lesson, He was enhancing the careers of a group of career prosecutors and a very ambitious — politically-ambitious — U.S. attorney who loves to have her name in lights.” http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57564212-38/prosecutor-in-aaron-swartz-hacking-case-comes-under-fire/

The problem is Federal Prosecutors pick a career-building target and then shop for a crime. Big Criminals are too much work, but small fry like Aaron don't have the resources to fight back so all they have to do is bully them into taking a plea bargain and then bask in the glory. It's been going on for a long time and many people have been swallowed up, but the media usually never reports it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Tu5RB6YHf10C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=51Ya4U8XFt&dq=lynch+in+the+name+of+justice (Go to page 43 of this Google Books preview).

All they need is median analaysis to clean outliers from their datasets. See john tukey median. This solves problems your DOS will cause to their data collecting effort.

With root (pretty much the only way to use Android as a power user) you can selectively revoke permissions from an app:

http://www.howtogeek.com/115888/how-to-restrict-android-app-permissions/

Also, DroidWall blocks internet access, which is an easy way to let apps read your contacts or calendar or whatever, but then not do shit with it.

Facial recognition? Bah. Nothing so fancy.

Of course marketing guys are going to be more creative in tracking you. I automatically turn off my WiFi when I hit the road. I use a car dock with my Droid, and I use a simple app that detects when I put it in the car dock. It will turn off WiFi, and turn on Bluetooth. When I remove it from the car dock, I could either restore the previous WiFi setting, or leave it off. I generally leave it off unless I'm going somewhere I trust the WiFi, like home or the office.

Android has a nifty little program called Llama that I use for pretty much the same thing. Get home, WiFi on, leave the house, WiFi off. The tool has other benefits too, like going into silent mode when home at night so random emails don't wake me. But thanks to Llama, I usually don't have to mess with my WiFi settings unless I'm in a strange place that I know has free WiFi and I want to leech off of it instead of my data connection.

It shouldn't run out until 2106

The parent poster is basing his ideas in his locality to compare X World country conditions, yet he seems to live in Argentina... Argentina is NOT a Third World country! Latin Americans generally consider it First World Countrydue to the definition, or Second depending on who you ask. The Caribbean is a different story. Even its most advanced country in terms of Telephony, the Dominican Republic, things are shamefully backward.
I had a conversation with someone non-technical (early 2010) still being asked to pay extra to attach more than one device (using my suggestion of getting a router) to his cable modem.

People from there also think they're advanced, but from my US armchair, it sounds like iPhones and Androids are invisible. I recall hearing of Macs over there only in this Paul Harvey-like weekly program via verbal ad (expensive pre-iMac era back in 1995 when even normal PCs would set a US family back a full USD$1000) . Internet access was a thing only rich people had (at work, mind you). This is the kind of country where at present, people with a Facebook account over 50 normally don't control their account --their PC-literate middle-aged children manage their posts.

But I digress, my points:
1) home connection speeds that my friend from 2010 cited were 200Kbps (over CABLE, mind you... you were hard pressed to find cable under 3MBps in New York then).
2) I've looked at newspapers a frequent traveler friend brings from Dominican Republic. Between 2011 and spring 2012, Blackberries were the highest form of "smartphone" sold, with dumbphones still about half of the offers. No Android sales at all, which is Bizarre. That friend and his mother didn't know about Android just last year, so TV ads aren't trying to get their eyeballs yet. I also suspect that other than youtube they don't want people sucking up bandwidth from handheld devices, like the original iPhone issues with AT&T. They confirmed that touchscreen phones are not seen over there.

All in all, LatAm is not as advanced as the parent poster shows. Most university pages I've seen are built in notepad or something, most stores with a website DO NOT have shopping cart systems or even product lists. Most newspapers do not have forum systems, and are showered by ads, compared to well-known American companies. Some TV channels have programming listings, but almost none stream TV. Radio sounds like a more accessible option, yet it also doesn't do streams (can't fault them because TV and radio programs in the US rarely stream, but that's more because of a complex legal system and royalties.) Music shopping, Online Auctions and resume sites aren't big either. Most information I have been finding in Spanish since 1995 comes from Spain, Chile, Argentina and maybe Mexico, in that order. For non-English speakers lacking google skills and a geek edge, that means that having local information is big problem.

Maybe making things accessible won't be necessary until those infrastructure issues^W standards are improved to create a need for internet access. That probably means that Facebook, email and other low-bandwidth systems are all they can hope for.

Posting AC because I like keeping my private life separate from any accounts.

I got a virgin mobile 3g/4g hotspot. I got the 2GB for $35/mo, which comes with unlimited wimax. Now, after 10GB/mo they will throttle you to 2mb/s, so it won't compare to Google Fiber, FIOS, or anything of that nature. In my experience it's more reliable and better speeds than Clear. So what I did was take my service-less Android, set up Google Voice, and downloaded Groove IP for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en . So now I can make outbound and take inbound calls using Google Voice, carry the wireless hotspot in my pocket, disable 4g mode, and basically have phone and internet for $35/mo. As a single guy, this is pretty sweet. The virgin mobile is a little hard to activate, but the investment in terms of effort is worth it.

I'm 'grandfathered' in to VM's $25 plan, but there is a "hack" for you to get the same plan you have for $25.

After you've been a VM customer for a month or two, call them and tell them you would like to cancel your service with them because you found the same plan somewhere else for cheaper. VM will offer you the same plan for $25, because they want to keep you as a customer. It's worth a try, worst that can happen is they don't make the offer and you stay at $35.

I still don't think its accurate to say planes with age greater than 10 years undergo "many many many major overhauls, to include electronics"

United's 777's were mostly delivered between 1995-2000 and I bet the only major electronics upgrades were to the passenger entertainment systems.

https://sites.google.com/site/unitedfleetsite/mainline-fleet-tracking

I got a virgin mobile 3g/4g hotspot. I got the 2GB for $35/mo, which comes with unlimited wimax. Now, after 10GB/mo they will throttle you to 2mb/s, so it won't compare to Google Fiber, FIOS, or anything of that nature. In my experience it's more reliable and better speeds than Clear. So what I did was take my service-less Android, set up Google Voice, and downloaded Groove IP for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gvoip&hl=en . So now I can make outbound and take inbound calls using Google Voice, carry the wireless hotspot in my pocket, disable 4g mode, and basically have phone and internet for $35/mo. As a single guy, this is pretty sweet. The virgin mobile is a little hard to activate, but the investment in terms of effort is worth it.

When Windows was a dominant platform? You're joking, right? You aren't actually trying to suggest that mobile exclusives are a problem for Windows?

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/angry-birds-space/8ece2571-91e0-4f2f-b7e5-b0b7944ced2d is that Angry Birds space for Windows 8...oh I can get it for free on Android :)

That wouldn't be a mobile exclusive then, would it? Which means it would be covered by the very next paragraph:

To be frank, not many PC users appreciate mobile ports when they happen anyway, given that they generally cost $1 on the mobile device, and $6-15 on PC as a straight port. Most people just don't see the value, and for good reason... Save for very few games, very few successfully make the transition to PC and do well.

What he didn't say is those "$1 on the mobile device" games sometimes have a free version burdened with obtrusive ads, which is the free version you're referring to.

When Windows was a dominant platform? You're joking, right? You aren't actually trying to suggest that mobile exclusives are a problem for Windows?

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/angry-birds-space/8ece2571-91e0-4f2f-b7e5-b0b7944ced2d is that Angry Birds space for Windows 8...oh I can get it for free on Android :)

That wouldn't be a mobile exclusive then, would it? Which means it would be covered by the very next paragraph:

To be frank, not many PC users appreciate mobile ports when they happen anyway, given that they generally cost $1 on the mobile device, and $6-15 on PC as a straight port. Most people just don't see the value, and for good reason... Save for very few games, very few successfully make the transition to PC and do well.

What he didn't say is those "$1 on the mobile device" games sometimes have a free version burdened with obtrusive ads, which is the free version you're referring to.

Update : Regarding the random source, this is the code they use, and it's from this project. It use mouse and keyboard events (not all, math.random is used to decide which ones), with rc4 as mixing function.

And it seems to be running since page load (started in crypto0001,js) - AES function is from Stanford Javascript Crypto Library btw, and RSA code is from this project.

Hosts = a valid work-around per the source article, & I posted this -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 which is ALL ABOUT custom hosts files, & what they can do for you as the end user of them to your benefit on a myriad of levels...

* It's like getting a turbo-charger for speed, quadruple your websurfing mileage/bandwidth back, a suit of armor vs. online threats, better reliability vs. DNS outages + redirect poisonings, & even better anonymity to an extent vs. DNSBL's & DNS request logs (lessening loads on those though, so "bonus" server-side to them on that account - less usage).

It works... & yes, IS on topic, because it provides the cure:

"Did a traceroute and this reveals an expected result. It is really the DNS which returns a wrong value Ã(TM)59.24.3.173Ã instead of the expected Ã(TM)207.97.227.239Ã, so it looks like a dns poisoning attempt or some other dns issue. Editing your /etc/hosts file or using opendns can help in this case." - FROM -> http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/01/21/the-chinese-government-appears-to-have-completely-blocked-github-via-dns/

1 that's EASILY end-iser "manual-shift" controlled & made easier so for end users in a multithreaded self-contained single 'stand-alone' executable (pretty sure it could be considered portable too)!

I do both of the above (& tons more, for the concept of "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=u5X-ULHKPJOg8QSr2YC4BA )

APK

P.S.=> Anyhow/anyways - see my subject above! apk

Too late.

Larry Page's advisor at Stanford, Terry Winograd, wrote a book with Fernando Flores in 1984 titled Understanding Computers and Cognition.

It is a profound critique of the mental representation approach, based on biological and philosophical considerations. A must read for anybody interested in the AI field.

Who or what the fuck is a JSTOR? Would it kill the summary writer to explain the acronym?

Most people know what it is, because of the Swartz-case. So you missed it - fine - but rambling about it on a geek-site like /. is hardly the way to go.

Have you tried Googling it?
https://www.google.com/search?q=JSTOR

have you tried looking it up on Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR

Have you tried simply visiting their homepage - perhaps even their "about" page?
http://about.jstor.org/

Was that so hard? Really?

Seriously ... as a reader and poster here ... you have failed! :-)

- Jesper

It is honestly probably better that it is written in Java if Notch is a bad programmer because at least you have a managed language so that the game doesn't constantly crash from some memory issue.

It's more likely than you think.

Seriously, I don't give a shit about this imbecile. He was a heavy coke user and mentally unstable. I don't care.

--

Marcan, professional asshole

"Lemme guess, you're a HS dropout and you're bitter because nobody will buy your homemade shit, right?"

Ah, if only I had been smarter and more courageous in High School and indeed completely dropped out and focused on making "homemade" stuff. Probably I might indeed have been more successful and happier? But no, instead I left high school early for college and then blew all the money I earned from writing "homemade" computer software on Princeton, graduating the same year as Michelle Obama. And that was even after having read this awesome essay saying why spending money on Princeton was stupid:
"College is a Waste of Time and Money"
http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/anewsome/Bird%20Article.pdf

So, just an example of how I was deeply in a bubble back then (and probably still am now in various ways).

But, turning the points around to focus on the presenter generally shows you don't have much to say about the points presented? What is your point? That I am "bitter"? See also:
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
"This is how things are likely to go for the smartest kid you sat next to in college. He got into Stanford for graduate school. He got a postdoc at MIT. His experiment worked out and he was therefore fortunate to land a job at University of California, Irvine. But at the end of the day, his research wasn't quite interesting or topical enough that the university wanted to commit to paying him a salary for the rest of his life. He is now 44 years old, with a family to feed, and looking for job with a "second rate has-been" label on his forehead. Why then, does anyone think that science is a sufficiently good career that people should debate who is privileged enough to work at it? Sample bias."

See also:
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/

Anyway, compared to what I was told about the USA in public school growing up, yes, I am disappointed with where this country has gone in the last thirty years. But there is not just one specific thing I could point to (although neoliberal economics is perhaps a big part of it, which just continues to get worse as we automate jobs away and wealth continues to concentrate).

And I'm not saying all the changes are for the worse though. There is less air pollution in NYC, for example (reflective of an emerging environmental ethic). There is easy access to a wealth of information via the internet. Example:
"The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization"
http://books.google.com/books?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC
We know a lot more about material science. We know a lot more about the science of nutrition and health. There sure are a lot of people trying to make a positive difference in the world. There is much goodness in the USA and abroad.

There remain reasons for optimism as historian Howard Zinn points out:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1108-21.htm
" Looking at this catalog of huge surprises, it's clear that the struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, patience-whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa, peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, or workers and intellectuals in Poland, Hungary, and the Soviet Union itself. No cold calculation of the balance of power need deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just. I have tried hard to match my friends in their pessimism about the world (is it just my friends?), bu

unlike the trigger happy commenters who would like to jump into conclusions about the backwardness of islam: tübitak explained that they stopped publishing of most of their adult popular science books. check out the bad google translation http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fkitap.radikal.com.tr%2FMakale%2Fmiadini-dolduran-darwin-mi-tubitak-mi-351069&act=url the decision is more in line with the current trend of supporting marketable science, which helps with the development of the country.

Please cite a source on this. I would love to see if this is truly fact. My own research into the matter suggests not, but I am willing to be wrong. Where are you getting the figure "100 times more"? It is quite interesting that your number works out so exactly to 100.

P.S. @Moderators - "Informative". Really?

If you were any more obtuse, I'd be able to use you as a decent approximation for pi.

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=human+production+co2+volcano&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

First 5 links all agree with a number on the order of 100 time greater, I stopped bothering to look after that.

I think it's still happening in places.

Definitely still happening.

Some really extreme stuff shows up at Burning Man.

Very interesting story. But there are ridiculously large numbers of horses in the US that never see a race track, and aren't used for anything more than the entertainment of spoiled teen age suburban girls, who seem to have an unnatural attraction to horses and ponies.

There are horse lovers everywhere, my local newspaper was recently full of letters to the editor deploring the selling of horses to slaughter, wanting to make it against the law, and metaphorically equating the horses with children. The letter writers were all female. Again, there is something vaguely creepy about that.

I've never understood why there are so many horses about. They aren't exactly cheap to keep, you get to ride them less than once a week on average and you end up having to truck them somewhere do to so. Yet I can walk a mile from my house a see a pasture with 5 horses which I've never seen being used for anything. Not eve by the occasional teen age girl. Trotted out for the forth of July parade where everyone dresses like cowboys (mostly cowgirls) in an area that has never had a cowboy tradition.

Still, on a recent trip I spotted one very large Horse feeding yard just east of Shelby Montana where horses were being gathered for shipment to a Canadian packing plant. Apparently not everyone has an aversion to horse meat.

Oblig SImpsons:

Lou: I went to the McDonald's over in Shelbyville the other day.
Chief Wiggum: The Mc-what?
Lou: Yeah, I never heard of it either but they say they have over 2,000 locations in this state alone.
Eddie: Hmm... Must've sprung up over night.
Lou: But you know, it's the little differences.
Chief Wiggum: Example.
Lou: Well, at a McDonald's you can get a Krusty Burger with cheese. But they don't call it a Krusty Burger with cheese.
Chief Wiggum: Get out. What do they call it?
Lou: A "Quarter Pounder" with cheese.
Chief Wiggum: "Quarter Pounder" with cheese? Well, I can see the cheese but? Do they have Krusty's "Partially Gelatinated, Non-Dairy, Gum-Based Beverages"?
Lou: Yeah, they call them "shakes."
Eddie: Huh. "Shakes." You don't know what you're gettin'.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=simpsons%20mcdonalds%20vs%20krusty%20burger&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDAQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiwuSGvfN0T4&ei=oqH8UP9N6u-YBZaugaAE&usg=AFQjCNHgU4AKzw3tDsXO7O4JCnRCt4SuRA&bvm=bv.41248874,d.dGY

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The best part of the article is this quote from [Guardian correspondent] Felicity Lawrence:

"You get what you pay for," wrote Felicity Lawrence in the Guardian.

"The only surprise about the latest adulteration scandal, in which beefburgers at rock bottom prices turn out to contain horsemeat and traces of pig, is perhaps that they contain meat at all."

It's just so obvious! The low price should have been a clear tipoff to consumers that the beef advertized as beef wasn't what it seemed.

I can't wait to hear Felicity's special in-depth report on generic drugs.

Very well, but in the end, there is still the disadvantage of being a dirty source of energy. Better than fossil (CO2 isn't a joke), but worse than renewable.

In the ideal world, nuclear is a clean solution, but in reality, waste somehow ends up being dumped by the Italian mafia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste_dumping_by_the_'Ndrangheta
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/16/shipwreck-waste-mafia-italy

Now how can such a thing happen? Even though governments have very strict regulations, in the end, the safety inspector is easily bribed.

Nuclear power also originated from research done by the military because of its interest in making bombs. No nuclear power, no excuse for a country to buy uranium.

Even though there are strict inspection schemes, a Belgian company still managed to export uranium to Iran:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.standaard.be%2Fartikel%2Fdetail.aspx%3Fartikelid%3DUO321IS9&act=url

Also, there are Belgian companies which make equipment that can be used for making bombs. (uranium still needs to be purified) Iran, disguised as a German company, managed to get a Belgian company to export such equipment by boat to Italy (they said they wanted some pre-processing done there). then, when in the mediterrean sea, they managed to make the boat go to Turkey instead. In Turkey, a truck took the equipment to Iran. I saw this in a locally broadcasted documentary and I wish I could find a link but I can't.

I mean seriously, make them promise it will be open to all and if ever patented, an unrestricted license will be issued for commercial and private use including derivative uses (cams and other equipment) as long as it is a standard.

They can't.

At heart, the difference between Microsoft's "standard" and the real one is how to support video codecs. The World Wide Web Consortium and most other stakeholders want the specification to include an open, royalty free codec. Microsoft and Apple want to be able to use any codec, including patent-encumbered ones like H264. Any standard lacking an open codec would allow vendors to restrict interoperability (eg, with free implementations whose developers can't pay the licensing fees). There are other differences, but the codec issue is there the danger lies. https://plus.google.com/111991826926222544385/posts/MjQykqkJA4v

It's another attempt to Balkanise the browser market.

How do they do they encryption before upload? If the file goes to the unencrypted initially, then surely they'd have a record of it.

Well, there are AES implementations for JavaScript.... not if I know that's what they're using or what the performance is like, but it's certainly possible to do it client side...

The actual original article (Xinhua via Google translate)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.xinhuanet.com%2Ffortune%2F2013-01%2F11%2Fc_114339598.htm

The "Security researchers": Jinshan networks / Kingsoft (DuBa)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.ijinshan.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKingsoft%2B(DuBa)%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DtyH%26tbo%3Dd%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Drcs&sa=X&ei=xMn6UMCuGtCM0QGMyIDIDg&ved=0CEAQ7gEwAQ

The actual original article (Xinhua via Google translate)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.xinhuanet.com%2Ffortune%2F2013-01%2F11%2Fc_114339598.htm

The "Security researchers": Jinshan networks / Kingsoft (DuBa)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.ijinshan.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DKingsoft%2B(DuBa)%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DtyH%26tbo%3Dd%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Drcs&sa=X&ei=xMn6UMCuGtCM0QGMyIDIDg&ved=0CEAQ7gEwAQ

Vader did say that, however

Vader: No, Luke. I am your father.

Except that he didn't, we just remember it that way... He says "No, I am your father".

https://www.google.com/search?q=No+Luke+I+am+your+father

Rules are country related, besides taxes, UK makes sense for the Google-in-Europe strategists: English speaking, 3 hours from Paris, and as they say We’re one of Google’s largest engineering operations in Europe.

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