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Mann is a top scientist, the only thing he would have gained with climate science that he couldn't get in other fields is the fame, but he may not consider that a positive, and he certainly doesn't consider the witch hunt a positive. (and I'm sure someone of his calibre would have got tenure in whatever research he pursued)

As for my concerns it's one facet of a larger pattern of political intimidation.

Your estimating ability is admirable; however, I wondered if you were cognizant of Google Calculator's prowess?

Cf. 2 petabytes/(20 Mbps) = 27.2204416 years

Just two seconds of effort, and it is incredibly versatile with unit manipulation & conversion. Try tacking on "in fortnights" to that query.

I have a Google+ post where I've posted my latest updates to this still-developing story:

https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/Wcc5tMiCgq7

Also, I will note that before I send any pull request to Linus, I have run a very extensive set of file system regression tests, using the standard xfstests suite of tests (originally developed by SGI to test xfs, and now used by all of the major file system authors). So for example, my development laptop, which I am currently using to post this note, is currently running v3.6.3 with the ext4 patches which I have pushed to Linus for the 3.7 kernel. Why am I willing to do this? Specifically because I've run a very large set of automated regression tests on a very regular basis, and certainly before pushing the latest set of patches to Linus. So while it is no guarantee of 100% perfection, I and many other kernel developers *are* willing to eat our own dogfood.

I'd put a tracker on my cats if they made them small enough and I still let them go outside. (I'd be heartbroken if anything happened to https://plus.google.com/photos/111202763901896476985/albums/5689079348811622369>either one). Now, if this is the right thing for a furry friend, why is it not for a kid?

Privacy? There are a lot of ways online services can screw up your privacy. The solution is not to never go online (fat chance of that!) but to make sure that the services you do use actually secure your data.

A favorite of mine

The "Writing In the Sciences" online course over at Coursera says to distinguish between "compare to" and "compare with".

"Compare to" is used to find similarities, as in "shall I compare thee to a summer's day?". "Compare with" is used to find differences, as in "His time was 2:11:10 compared with 2:14 for his closest competitor." (Many sources on the net.)

So I have to ask, was he being compared to Jerry Sandusky, or compared with Jerry Sandusky?

Inquiring [Scientific writing] minds want to know :-)

Ah, those crashes when running 5770 in Crossfire with BF:BC2 were just figments of my imagination. Oh wait, it was a real problem. https://www.google.com/search?q=5770+crossfire+bfbc2+crashes

No need

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/mobile/ios.html

http://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/downloads/list

SeaMonkey - 2.13.1 - Mac OS X 10.5.x - PPC

http://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/downloads/detail?name=seamonkey-ppc-2.13.1.app.zip&can=2&q=

http://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/downloads/list

SeaMonkey - 2.13.1 - Mac OS X 10.5.x - PPC

http://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/downloads/detail?name=seamonkey-ppc-2.13.1.app.zip&can=2&q=

But do you need C for the entire thing? I've had projects where a few things were in C (because they had to talk to the kernel etc) and the rest were in other languages.

We had a network protocol for one of the C modules, even humans could connect to it and do queries and commands. We did similar things for many of the other modules as well even if they weren't written in C.

If turns out a module would be better in X instead of Y, replace it and just make sure it uses the same protocols. You can also test stuff more easily via those interfaces. Create emulators etc.

Apparently Amazon expose _everything_ via service interfaces: https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX

If you use TCP connections, one thing that can bite you is Nagling. Turn it off. Set TCP_NODELAY on or equivalent. Otherwise comms latency can increase by 200+milliseconds. Nagling belongs in the 1980s, but for some reason some MMOs don't seem to turn off nagling on their clients and servers, maybe the only reason is the OSes have it on by default.

OTOH i love the fact that all I have to do is hit the power button on my terminal and it starts shutting itself down. Once it is down my remote computer is no longer wasting resources on the applications I had running remotely.

Back in the old days, we had a golden principle saying that one should always exit gracefully. You should close all applications one by one if you are concerned about not wasting resources on the remote machine. I have seen all kinds of behavior from applications when the X link goes down. In some cases, zombie processes taking 100% of CPU on the remote machine.

Applications running in a XVNC server and even the VNC server itself are mostly swapped out and/or using shared memory with very little resident dedicated memory when idle causing negligible load on the remote machines when nobody is connected. You can run without performance impacts many VNC servers on a remote machine as long as all of them are not used by connected users at the same time.

By the way I also use remote X on LANs:
  http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3202975&cid=41738623

For rootless persistent applications, as another poster has mentioned, you may want to look at the X version of screen:
http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra

You may look at:

http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra

Yeah, it's been working pretty well for me since then:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1351007843954&chddm=353574&q=MUTF:GASFX&&ei=T76GUIjwO4eLqgGZjgE

Maybe if Wayland takes off, Enlightenment can be ported to run there instead of X11

E17 has already been ported to Wayland

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxNjg

Back in 2011 Evas already runs on Wayland

https://plus.google.com/118426816251488376359/posts/AmCFdvRDj9F

I've used it a while ago, and my phone seems ok, not sure if it's thanks to Comodo or to myself rejecting to go into unknown sites. How about the rest of the community? How has Comodo worked for you?

Check: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodo.pimsecure&hl=es

Haven't tried that, yet. Thanks. Done a few others, they basically scan the installed apps on the device. This hack seems to go deeper. A scan app called X-Ray (I highly recommend getting it free from the Android PlayStore) has been the only one that picked up on actual problems, there's programs that I can't get off without rooting the device. Can't root the device after it's been properly hard-hacked via a usb cable connected to a computer device of some sort. Soft-hacks via over the air can be erased by doing a factory reset on android, I've learned.

One merely needs to look at actual definitions of to steal:

to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice

I gather the intent here is that copyright is not property, even though it is legally treated as property.

to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully

This definition doesn't even require that something be considered property.

Firstly, either use legal definitions throughout, or don't use them at all. Otherwise you end up (as you have), selecting whether to use legal or vernacular terms to support your case ("it's taking property" - vernacular definition, "copyright is property" - legal definition). If we're going with legal definitions, though, we then have to talk jurisdiction.

With your first point - yes, copyright is often regarded at law as being property. Except that's not what is being taken. The copyright is simply being ignored. If I ignore your car, I'm not stealing it. Stealing copyright is, in theory, possible - copyfraud (dishonestly pretending to own the copyright in something and enforcing it, including against the real copyright owner) could be an example, but you really have to be a big record label or Hollywood studio to pull that off (and they do).

The second definition is a much more non-legal definition. So we can respond to that in the same terms. Copyright infringement isn't stealing (under that definition) because nothing is being "taken" or "appropriated"; it is merely being copied (although then we can get into the semantics of "take" and "appropriate"; your same dictionary gives "to take exclusive possession of " or "to take or make use of without authority or right" for appropriate, both of which bring us back to "take"; "to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control", or perhaps "to transfer into one's own keeping" - I am obviously biased, but both of those seem to imply something more than copying).

It's also worth noting that the term "intellectual property" has been used to describe things like copyright and such for a century and a half. Under that model/viewpoint, unlawful copying is indeed theft.

The term has been around for a while, but it only really took off in the 70s, after a pretty intensive lobbying effort by the film, TV and music industries. It was their way of conflating copyright with "industrial property", pretty much in order to get the "it's stealing" comparison. That's also about the time the "Home Taping is killing music" and "Piracy is theft!" campaigns kicked off.

But still, no. Copying in breach of copyright still isn't theft, because the "property" part refers to the "copyright", not the information.

Does anyone else think that the game of baseball survived the 50's and 60's simply because math and science could utilize it to teach their subjects? I don't see baseball as a game, but of a boatload of data and statistics.

No. The reason that Baseball thrived in the 50's and 60's was because the expansion teams in the west coast, the breaking of the black barrier and televised games and the press surrounding the "home-run" battles.

I doubt in the 50's and early 60's, many math and science teachers used baseball to teach their subjects . For math at that era, all the rage was "new-math" which emphasized stuff like set-theory and alternate number bases (not statistics). The physics in baseball is more about complex "pitching" and ball transport physics which is above what most people studied. Applying occam's razor, the simpler explanation that baseball's success was more likely due to tv and news-cycles (and a lesser extent local west-coast teams to cheer for).

FWIW, actual sabermetrics didn't really take off until after this book Percentage Baseball. Although it was published in 1964, it wasn't until early '70s and the use of computers that sabermetrics was really going enough to dribble down to the masses...

Does anyone else think that the game of baseball survived the 50's and 60's simply because math and science could utilize it to teach their subjects? I don't see baseball as a game, but of a boatload of data and statistics.

No. The reason that Baseball thrived in the 50's and 60's was because the expansion teams in the west coast, the breaking of the black barrier and televised games and the press surrounding the "home-run" battles.

I doubt in the 50's and early 60's, many math and science teachers used baseball to teach their subjects . For math at that era, all the rage was "new-math" which emphasized stuff like set-theory and alternate number bases (not statistics). The physics in baseball is more about complex "pitching" and ball transport physics which is above what most people studied. Applying occam's razor, the simpler explanation that baseball's success was more likely due to tv and news-cycles (and a lesser extent local west-coast teams to cheer for).

FWIW, actual sabermetrics didn't really take off until after this book Percentage Baseball. Although it was published in 1964, it wasn't until early '70s and the use of computers that sabermetrics was really going enough to dribble down to the masses...

https://plus.google.com/103125075016130428003/posts/j5yHU4U1ssA

5. Install Wifi Protector. It prevents the ARP cache poisoning techniques commonly used to packet sniff on open WiFi networks, as well as DoS attacks in the same vein.

Looks interesting, I hadn't found that one, lots of apps available on android. Thank you. :-)

What surprises me about this story is that the account termination results in wiping of her Kindle.

They did not wipe her Kindle. That was a misunderstanding in TFA.

https://twitter.com/webmink/statuses/260432600814981120
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digi.no%2F904658%2Fhun-ble-kastet-ut-av-amazon

The first google result says yes http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115083
The second google result says yes http://www.aitelephone.com/unlimited-toll-free-voice-mail-call-screening.html
In fact, pretty much the whole first page of "voicemail call screening" says yes.

Critics about why this got posted aside, I use NetworkLog (formerly IPTablesLog) to check what's the traffic generated by my installed applications from time to time (and send the one I don't trust to 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/hosts or block it via a firewall). There's also another application for network troubleshooting on SourceForge, but I haven't tested it.

5. Install Wifi Protector. It prevents the ARP cache poisoning techniques commonly used to packet sniff on open WiFi networks, as well as DoS attacks in the same vein.

I've used it a while ago, and my phone seems ok, not sure if it's thanks to Comodo or to myself rejecting to go into unknown sites. How about the rest of the community? How has Comodo worked for you?

Check: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodo.pimsecure&hl=es

What about one of the snap-around Bluetooth keyboards for the iPhone?

I have a brazilian blog about Netflix and I've got them some time ago doing the exact same thing: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.lancamentosnetflix.com.br%2F2012%2F09%2Fnetflix-baixando-legendas-da-internet.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/samsung-chromebook.html#specs

Er, so where /are/ the specs?

How much RAM does this have so I can compare it to other netbooks to toss Linux on?

Given that a Chromebook works best when on a network, at least it should get the network stuff right. Right?

VPN - does it support, say, Cisco AnyConnect? No.

Seems like there are instructions over here: http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1282338

Kerberos? Not that I can tell.

LDAP with Kerberos? I think the way to do it would involve setting up SSO for Google Apps for Business, then having the chromebook auth against that.

Printing? Sure, if my organization is willing to install "Google Cloud Print Connector".

This page seems to suggest otherwise: http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1069542

Baslcally, this thing might work fine if your entire business runs in the Google universe. Otherwise, get a netbook.

I don't disagree with your conclusion, just your support for it. :)

Given that a Chromebook works best when on a network, at least it should get the network stuff right. Right?

VPN - does it support, say, Cisco AnyConnect? No.

Seems like there are instructions over here: http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1282338

Kerberos? Not that I can tell.

LDAP with Kerberos? I think the way to do it would involve setting up SSO for Google Apps for Business, then having the chromebook auth against that.

Printing? Sure, if my organization is willing to install "Google Cloud Print Connector".

This page seems to suggest otherwise: http://support.google.com/chromeos/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1069542

Baslcally, this thing might work fine if your entire business runs in the Google universe. Otherwise, get a netbook.

I don't disagree with your conclusion, just your support for it. :)

Evidently, the new Chromebooks don't have a physical dev mode switch (the old ones used to break a lot), but can be put into dev mode via a firmware switch. The price and combination of expansion ports (USB 3.0, HDMI, etc.), make this a pretty appealing target for hacking, although the ARM architecture means that lots of software will have to be recompiled, as the original post mentions.

They took on that responsibility through regulation, they should OWN that responsibility

So Wisconsin should be responsible for those people that got shot today? After all, they "took on that responsibility" through regulating murder.

Google search results are all redirects.

Google or Slashdot? If you try to alter it I believe Google gives you a redirect warning. But as long as you can find your site through Google you can create a link that looks like it goes to Google but goes wherever you want.

His studies is much debated in Swedish popular and
  professional media.

I recommend trying to read the original Swedish language articles, because Google Translate sucks donkey balls when it translates from Swedish. The translated text usually looks correct, but is full of factual errors (missing negations, faulty prepositions et c.). Even if you don't know how to read Swedish, if you can read English, German/Dutch and French, you should get a better understanding of the content of the articles then the Google translation can give you. Swedish is just a mix of Old Norse, Old French, English, French, Latin, Low German, Romani, Turkish and some other languages to make it spicy, with a funny spelling (yes, it is even worse of a bastard language then English, but at least Swedish, unlike English, is a very expressive language).

His studies is much debated in Swedish popular and
  professional media.

I recommend trying to read the original Swedish language articles, because Google Translate sucks donkey balls when it translates from Swedish. The translated text usually looks correct, but is full of factual errors (missing negations, faulty prepositions et c.). Even if you don't know how to read Swedish, if you can read English, German/Dutch and French, you should get a better understanding of the content of the articles then the Google translation can give you. Swedish is just a mix of Old Norse, Old French, English, French, Latin, Low German, Romani, Turkish and some other languages to make it spicy, with a funny spelling (yes, it is even worse of a bastard language then English, but at least Swedish, unlike English, is a very expressive language).

these are the tubes.

Google faked at least one picture. Take a look at this picture.

The left-hand side is exact copy of the right-hand side. Take a look at the details: The halos from the lights and the texts in the white labels.

If you read the link with the interview with the photographer you'll find that she's into heavy post-production editing. Arguably, *all* of the images are "faked" to some extent. She takes many shots of each scene and layers them together selectively to get the effect she wants. She clones out stuff she doesn't want (e.g. she mentions removing an exit sign) and clones in stuff she feels is needed to make the image symmetric, and therefore more beautiful. She doesn't worry about barrel, pincushion and perspective distortion in the original shots and does heavy correction of the final images to straighten the lines and make the angles pleasing to the eye. She shot almost all of the images with long exposures in a darkened room, which makes the relatively small LEDs appear to glow intensely and makes their cast light powerful enough to be very visible when in reality it's not very visible at all.

In short, she's interested in beauty more than in fidelity, and does whatever it takes to achieve it. Personally, I think her results are fantastic.

How is this any different than an app like Trapster which just allows motorists to warn each other of speed traps?

Acrobat and Reader have a long history of security vulnerabilities, as well. You maybe just haven't noticed because Adobe often issues patches for both technologies at the same time. That leads to news headlines like, "Adobe patches 18 new Flash and Reader critical vulnerabilities," so the only product name you parse is Flash.

The servers and all that infrastructure looks very large and expensive, so of-course they have to figure out how to squeeze the most out of it in the most efficient manner. Google stock took a 13% dive over the last 2 days of the week, so it's a good time to come out with an article showing all that infrastructure.

Google faked at least one picture. Take a look at this picture.

The left-hand side is exact copy of the right-hand side. Take a look at the details: The halos from the lights and the texts in the white labels.

a good 'how to use ssl safely' tutorial? I guess that's the real question. It seems to me something as common as this should be well documented/implemented. I mean, google wrapped SQL for me. Heck, google's code let me get a rudimentary spend tracker written in under 6 hours and my silly little mirroring app in under 4. Their APIs are so simple and well organized that it brings computing back to the age when I write the apps I want, like coding Basic for my C64.

Probably the problem is google can't implement their own SSL w/o worrying about liability :(.

I just don't see how Google's plans work out long term unless they want to get into the ISP and carrier business

Maybe they plan to expand on the fibre to the home services they describe here.

When you combine their move into the last mile physical connection business, with their ties to US government intelligence agencies, I can't begin to understand how they are defining the term "evil" in item 6 on their philosophy page, "You can make money without doing evil." On that page, they seem to want to define evil as not correctly labeling advertising. I think most people have a different definition.

Some examples.

1. Collaboration with the NSA. EPIC attempted to find out more about this via FOIA requests, but was eventually rejected.
2. Ties to the CIA funded venture capital firm In-Q-Tel via their acquisition of Keyhole, which eventually became google earth. Around the same time, Rob Painter, Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel, took the position of Chief Technologist and a Senior Manager for Google Federal at google.
3. Investing, along with In-Q-Tel, in web predictive analysis firm Recorded Future.
4. Working with the DEA to surveil their users. Google and Yahoo are reported to be charging for it, while Microsoft does it for free. I'm not sure which way is more evil.
5. Developing software to eavesdrop on users.

I guess if they changed their name to Panopticon, it would be a little too obvious. And, they might have to fight facebook for it.

I just don't see how Google's plans work out long term unless they want to get into the ISP and carrier business

Maybe they plan to expand on the fibre to the home services they describe here.

When you combine their move into the last mile physical connection business, with their ties to US government intelligence agencies, I can't begin to understand how they are defining the term "evil" in item 6 on their philosophy page, "You can make money without doing evil." On that page, they seem to want to define evil as not correctly labeling advertising. I think most people have a different definition.

Some examples.

1. Collaboration with the NSA. EPIC attempted to find out more about this via FOIA requests, but was eventually rejected.
2. Ties to the CIA funded venture capital firm In-Q-Tel via their acquisition of Keyhole, which eventually became google earth. Around the same time, Rob Painter, Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel, took the position of Chief Technologist and a Senior Manager for Google Federal at google.
3. Investing, along with In-Q-Tel, in web predictive analysis firm Recorded Future.
4. Working with the DEA to surveil their users. Google and Yahoo are reported to be charging for it, while Microsoft does it for free. I'm not sure which way is more evil.
5. Developing software to eavesdrop on users.

I guess if they changed their name to Panopticon, it would be a little too obvious. And, they might have to fight facebook for it.

Rail can only take you to fixed destinations. It cannot match the convenience of cars for short-distance travel (including moving stuff and shopping), especially with the upcoming advent of safer-at-faster-speeds self-driving cars. Rail also cannot match the long-distance advantages of helicopter and airplane flight (especially if government security theater, regulations, and other barriers against new technologies are lifted). But rail does have one advantage: it can be a stop-gap solution for countries where too many people are too poor to afford cars or flights.

USA has abandoned trains a long time ago. It should be looking toward the future, not the past. Socialist planners would love rail for all the new powers it gives them over people's lives, coordinating them around centralized points, but that is not in anyone else's interest. We need private investment in new technologies that set people free to go where they want: cheap energy and flight.

--libman

This solution actually has scientific backing. Research has shown that third party punishment to reinforce social norms actually works. In fact, dishonesty invites costly third party punishment in the real world. The OP's solution will in fact put the onus on the telephone company to solve the problem -- at the source, where it *should* be solved -- as it will remove the incentive for *not* solving it. Hey AC, go ahead and submit this to the FCC -- it's ultimately the simplest and best solution!

Keep in mind that the 100Bil figure is 'all in'. Maintanance, salaries, upkeep, expansion, the whole enchilada. It's costing the Chinese about $66.67 per person (1.5 billion Chinese on the mainland last I heard, probably a lot more now. Still, that's not too bad. Comparable figures for the US at 66.67/person is about 20Bil, which kinda high. The whole Amtrak budget is here.

Google only has a near-monopoly on Search, not news aggregators.

You can remove your site from News and not Search if you want, because not only Google doesn't "leverage their monopoly" as they provide the tools for you to do jut that: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1061943

https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
Cross-platform. It's in the Debian repository, possibly others.

To "stream" (in mplayer, by default):
$ get_flash_videos --play "$slashdot_url"

Seriously, why isn't Slashdot using Flowplayer or another "HTML5-first" player? Even YouTube would do...