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One merely has to wade through Google Images to find innumerable photographs of racist words and images culled from Teabagger rallies across the nation.

Senator Byrd was indeed a Klan member in his youth. Something he publicly regretted and apologized for innumerable times over the decades. Of course, if you have to point to the bones of Senator Byrd to prove that the Democratic Party is as racist today as it was in the 1800s, how do you explain a Southern Democratic President forcing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act through Congress?

Lyndon Johnson, mid 60s. It was in all the papers.

Going back from that era less than 20 years, a Democrat from Missouri, Harry Truman desegregated the Armed Forces of the United States, and before that, FDR made the first efforts in desegregation when he banned the Pentagon from having separate bathrooms and drinking fountains for white and black, in defiance of the current Virginia law of the time.

I think you would have a very hard time producing a list of current KKK members who are registered voting Democrats that would fill more than one page, even using triple spaced, 36 point type.

But do continue the trolling, every time pathetic losers such as yourself bring up Robert Byrd as "proof" of the inherent racism of the Democratic Party, the majority of the American people get a good laugh out of your desperation.

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

* Demands about 1-2 hours of your time, for years-to-decades of "disease-free" stable, fast, & secure uptime...

APK

P.S.=> It just works, & on very simple principles (mostly)...

... apk

http://translate.google.com/#en|it|Berlusconi%20is%20a%20cunt.

Better shut down google...

the fact that their website is only in 1 of the 3 official languages of the country

I heard they're looking for translators.
Publishing a press release in 3 different languages in less than 12 hours is harder than you think. How many non-profit organizations have the manpower to achieve that ? Are you suggesting they should all have 3 mother tongue ? (that's the skill involved in translating such high-level and technical text.)

How many languages are you fluent with and could *perfectly* translate this text to in less than one hour ?
If your answer is at least one, and you live in Belgium and care about what they defend, why not give them a hand, at least proof-reading ?

makes me suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere.

Well, that's exactly how La Quadrature du Net is portrayed, and how they started..
Now they're one of the most respected non-profit organizations promoting free internet in Europe. They lead the fight against ACTA in Europe, and got the Written Declaration 12 to be adopted
It's a pretty big deal.

For the record, NURPA actively contributed to this success, and had been tackling ACTA at the EU parliament for months, setting foot on the parliament's ground on 4-5 different occasions

Oh, and they also organized their first public manifestation, "freedom not fear" which was quite successful

It's pretty big for non-profit organization with virtually no means, apart from raw motivation.

Maybe they're a couple of guys in a garage, so what ? As long as they get such huge results, they can live in MY garage any time they want.

Also, the Belgian Pirate Party was sitting in his hands for the WHOLE ACTA vs WD12 thing, and still are. Meanwhile, NURPA stayed quite active over the time, as you wan see

the fact that their website is only in 1 of the 3 official languages of the country

I heard they're looking for translators.
Publishing a press release in 3 different languages in less than 12 hours is harder than you think. How many non-profit organizations have the manpower to achieve that ? Are you suggesting they should all have 3 mother tongue ? (that's the skill involved in translating such high-level and technical text.)

How many languages are you fluent with and could *perfectly* translate this text to in less than one hour ?
If your answer is at least one, and you live in Belgium and care about what they defend, why not give them a hand, at least proof-reading ?

makes me suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere.

Well, that's exactly how La Quadrature du Net is portrayed, and how they started..
Now they're one of the most respected non-profit organizations promoting free internet in Europe. They lead the fight against ACTA in Europe, and got the Written Declaration 12 to be adopted
It's a pretty big deal.

For the record, NURPA actively contributed to this success, and had been tackling ACTA at the EU parliament for months, setting foot on the parliament's ground on 4-5 different occasions

Oh, and they also organized their first public manifestation, "freedom not fear" which was quite successful

It's pretty big for non-profit organization with virtually no means, apart from raw motivation.

Maybe they're a couple of guys in a garage, so what ? As long as they get such huge results, they can live in MY garage any time they want.

Also, the Belgian Pirate Party was sitting in his hands for the WHOLE ACTA vs WD12 thing, and still are. Meanwhile, NURPA stayed quite active over the time, as you wan see

the fact that their website is only in 1 of the 3 official languages of the country

I heard they're looking for translators.
Publishing a press release in 3 different languages in less than 12 hours is harder than you think. How many non-profit organizations have the manpower to achieve that ? Are you suggesting they should all have 3 mother tongue ? (that's the skill involved in translating such high-level and technical text.)

How many languages are you fluent with and could *perfectly* translate this text to in less than one hour ?
If your answer is at least one, and you live in Belgium and care about what they defend, why not give them a hand, at least proof-reading ?

makes me suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere.

Well, that's exactly how La Quadrature du Net is portrayed, and how they started..
Now they're one of the most respected non-profit organizations promoting free internet in Europe. They lead the fight against ACTA in Europe, and got the Written Declaration 12 to be adopted
It's a pretty big deal.

For the record, NURPA actively contributed to this success, and had been tackling ACTA at the EU parliament for months, setting foot on the parliament's ground on 4-5 different occasions

Oh, and they also organized their first public manifestation, "freedom not fear" which was quite successful

It's pretty big for non-profit organization with virtually no means, apart from raw motivation.

Maybe they're a couple of guys in a garage, so what ? As long as they get such huge results, they can live in MY garage any time they want.

Also, the Belgian Pirate Party was sitting in his hands for the WHOLE ACTA vs WD12 thing, and still are. Meanwhile, NURPA stayed quite active over the time, as you wan see

the fact that their website is only in 1 of the 3 official languages of the country

I heard they're looking for translators.
Publishing a press release in 3 different languages in less than 12 hours is harder than you think. How many non-profit organizations have the manpower to achieve that ? Are you suggesting they should all have 3 mother tongue ? (that's the skill involved in translating such high-level and technical text.)

How many languages are you fluent with and could *perfectly* translate this text to in less than one hour ?
If your answer is at least one, and you live in Belgium and care about what they defend, why not give them a hand, at least proof-reading ?

makes me suspect these are just a couple of guys in a garage somewhere.

Well, that's exactly how La Quadrature du Net is portrayed, and how they started..
Now they're one of the most respected non-profit organizations promoting free internet in Europe. They lead the fight against ACTA in Europe, and got the Written Declaration 12 to be adopted
It's a pretty big deal.

For the record, NURPA actively contributed to this success, and had been tackling ACTA at the EU parliament for months, setting foot on the parliament's ground on 4-5 different occasions

Oh, and they also organized their first public manifestation, "freedom not fear" which was quite successful

It's pretty big for non-profit organization with virtually no means, apart from raw motivation.

Maybe they're a couple of guys in a garage, so what ? As long as they get such huge results, they can live in MY garage any time they want.

Also, the Belgian Pirate Party was sitting in his hands for the WHOLE ACTA vs WD12 thing, and still are. Meanwhile, NURPA stayed quite active over the time, as you wan see

Well you can presumably google the same as I do, I was as my choice of language indicates discussing something I dont have much specific knowledge of. But I will throw a few links out.

Here for example is a bug report related to the issue, opened January 2009, marked 'fixed' Feb 2010, but it was 'fixed' only in after being interpreted extremely narrowly and there are plenty of comments left after that pointing out that it was not fixed at all.

Another link that's a bit dated, this was one of the ones I remember reading during the brief period of time I was trying to use Chrome, before I said screw this pos and went back to firefox. (A POS in it's own right in other ways, granted, but it works.)

And here is another interesting bit of question and answer. I particularly love the answer by Eice: "The reason you don't feel safe without NoScript is because you're used to an insecure browser. Chrome features a multi-process architecture and a strong policy sandbox that resists malware beautifully without needing the user to whitelist all the sites they visit. " - Um no. Not even in the ballpark with that. I am not 'afraid' of what is generally acknowledged as malware, it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with moronic webpages trying to take over my computer in what another idiot commenter called 'a normal browsing experience.' If a 'normal browsing experience' means letting the remote computer take control of my machine and hijacking my pipe to bombard me with sounds and flashing lights and videos and all this other garbage some idiot 'web designer' thinks is attractive, opening popups or worse yet redirecting me away from the page I am trying to read and insistently loading up one I dont want to see instead, and all the other typical ways of wasting my pipe, my processor, my memory, and most importantly my time and focus instead of just settling down and letting me see the content I came to their site to see, then I dont want it. Ever.

Well you can presumably google the same as I do, I was as my choice of language indicates discussing something I dont have much specific knowledge of. But I will throw a few links out.

Here for example is a bug report related to the issue, opened January 2009, marked 'fixed' Feb 2010, but it was 'fixed' only in after being interpreted extremely narrowly and there are plenty of comments left after that pointing out that it was not fixed at all.

Another link that's a bit dated, this was one of the ones I remember reading during the brief period of time I was trying to use Chrome, before I said screw this pos and went back to firefox. (A POS in it's own right in other ways, granted, but it works.)

And here is another interesting bit of question and answer. I particularly love the answer by Eice: "The reason you don't feel safe without NoScript is because you're used to an insecure browser. Chrome features a multi-process architecture and a strong policy sandbox that resists malware beautifully without needing the user to whitelist all the sites they visit. " - Um no. Not even in the ballpark with that. I am not 'afraid' of what is generally acknowledged as malware, it has nothing to do with that. It has to do with moronic webpages trying to take over my computer in what another idiot commenter called 'a normal browsing experience.' If a 'normal browsing experience' means letting the remote computer take control of my machine and hijacking my pipe to bombard me with sounds and flashing lights and videos and all this other garbage some idiot 'web designer' thinks is attractive, opening popups or worse yet redirecting me away from the page I am trying to read and insistently loading up one I dont want to see instead, and all the other typical ways of wasting my pipe, my processor, my memory, and most importantly my time and focus instead of just settling down and letting me see the content I came to their site to see, then I dont want it. Ever.

Cisco and Motorola ARE suing them - pre-emptively.

Google Search

but LISP? who still runs this and why?

http://www.google.com/search?q=why+lisp

The main advantage is that the language is extendable via macros, which can reduce a lot of boilerplate. It's also very popular in academia for this reason, because it let's you explore new language features by extending the language.

Chibi-scheme is a nice C-based implementation following the R7RS-Small standard closely -- the author is the R7RS-Small committee chair.

The currency is the Chinese yuan = 0.1569 US dollars.

...and yet not a single one to the website where this story comes from in the first place :

[french] http://nurpa.be/actualites/2011/10/BAF-belgacom-telenet-blocage-dns
and the google translation to english

You'd think that what the local organization [defending Net Neutrality and file sharing and fighting cencorship and local MAFIAAs] has to say might interest people.

TL;DR : The Belgian Antipiracy Foundation wanted the two main ISPs to block TPB, but were not respecting the proportionality principle, using a legal procedure reserved to urgent matters, when TPB has been running for 8years.
Of course they were told to GTFO, but in appeal they won and those two ISPs now have to block 11 TPB domain names, half of them are not even running nor leading to The Pirate Bay in any way.

NURPA (Net Users' Rights Protection Association, active in Belgium and Europe to fight against ACTA for example) says it's stupid, useless, and in conflict with the European Court of Justice's decision about what, when and how filtering may be legitimate. (answer : never when it is about Intellectual Property)

And there is a link to how to set up alternatives DNS servers on windows and ubuntu in their article, long before "TPB and telecomix came and saved us with the solution to circumvent the filtering".

So yeah, The Pirate Bay rocks, Telecomix does too, but this time the credit has to go to the local net activists association who got it right in the first place.

I'm not talking about the last few years. I deliberately used the word "recently" as my entire point was referring to the July announcement of the closure of Google Labs as an indication they're currently retracting, not expanding. Some of the projects you listed above are among the casualties.

Here's Larry Page's blog where he included the text of his quarterly earnings call that talks about addressing your concerns exactly: https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCbpZ7

Google seems to be going off in a million different directions lately, with no apparent overarching plan. They seem to be taking a "throw every dart at the board and hope one hits the bullseye" approach (similar to MS). Apple takes more the "throw a small number of darts, but aim them well and throw them hard" approach.

A direct quote from his call: "Greater focus has also been another big feature for me this quarter--more wood behind fewer arrows". You guys are even using similar analogies!

Google has changed. If you're going to complain about where they're going today, at least complain about the direction they're going now, not the direction they were going last year.

Moore's law (the doubling of processors on a chip) has not slowed, but the rate of improvement in clock speeds have slowed dramatically since 2004: https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5621088196511836786 while the power of our super computers has continued to improve exponentially (through parallelization): https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5620432299391054642 and the cost/cps has continued to fall, both through falling prices for chips, and to a lesser degree through parallelization https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5615526200985811314

Moore's law (the doubling of processors on a chip) has not slowed, but the rate of improvement in clock speeds have slowed dramatically since 2004: https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5621088196511836786 while the power of our super computers has continued to improve exponentially (through parallelization): https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5620432299391054642 and the cost/cps has continued to fall, both through falling prices for chips, and to a lesser degree through parallelization https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5615526200985811314

Moore's law (the doubling of processors on a chip) has not slowed, but the rate of improvement in clock speeds have slowed dramatically since 2004: https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5621088196511836786 while the power of our super computers has continued to improve exponentially (through parallelization): https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5620432299391054642 and the cost/cps has continued to fall, both through falling prices for chips, and to a lesser degree through parallelization https://picasaweb.google.com/110921261135277605330/Economy#5615526200985811314

1st: Use this link to verify, takes 1-3 minutes approximately:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=wikimedia.org&s=208.80.152.200

Gets an "A" rating here and yet, it ONLY supports TLS 1.0

(Which means an attack like "BEAST" can "get to it" IF the user is "man-in-the-middled" via the javascript that loads it &/or java pages that exploit it)

NOW, to "double-verify" what's shown above from SSLLabs?

Opera ALSO has developer tools for that too -> View Menu, Developer Tools submenu, Page Security Info

Results - says wikimedia's NOT secure by its standards currently, & has NO security certificate for wikimedia.org...

Lastly, & perhaps most importantly (other 1/2 of the Client-Server equation/interaction here, is the browser itself used):

Opera has TLS 1.1 & 1.2 encryption options (1.1 is enabled by default, 1.2 you must activate) - only "safe(r)" browser I know of that's equipped to THAT level, currently, for certain.

* IN ANY EVENT - I haven't had my coffee yet (going to now in fact though), but I *think* I "hit on" the right pages above, per this article, to do the pertinent tests from reputable/reliable sources &/or tools for the job...

APK

P.S.=> Oh, & yet another thing to "test/look at" is "What's that site running?" by NetCraft

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=wikimedia.org

(Because it can point you to what Server OS & WebServer builds are being used, which tells you if they are PATCHED FOR SECURITY OR NOT, vs. things you can see in exploit-db for example (because all malware makers/hacker-crackers have to do, is stay 1 exploit ahead of ANY sites' patched levels basically to abuse them)).

E.G.-> For Apache (since it applies here to wikimedia.org), for example, you'd want to be SURE it's got builds capable of using a mod_ssl that allows TLS 1.1/1.2 (not just 1.0, because of "BEAST" above mainly) - that's where querying GOOGLE or BING for this:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Apache%22+and+%22TLS%22&btnG=Search

Helps...

... apk

People were investigated for stock trades made pre-9/11. It was determined to be a coincidence. The excessive trading on America Airlines on Sept 6 was due to a weird strategy that had the same people buying a shitload of their stock on Sept 10, which was hardly a way to make money. The United stock trades were due to a newsletter the previous day.

As for the SEC, look up "plausible deniability". It's easier to ignore current criminal wrongdoing than past cases for which you have a mountain of evidence and victims at your door demanding action.

You do know that the SEC has recently been called out for destroying evidence from previous cases, right? Since 1992? Illegally destroying it, mind you. So all investigators had to start from scratch?

So that means, to destroy all these 'evidence' you think they had...all they had to do was close whatever investigation they were using it for, and, poof, they destroyed it as part of procedure. (According to the National Archives this is illegal, sure, but hardly as illegal as being accessories to mass murder. And considering they're done it thousands of times, I can't imagine they got cold feet just that once.)

Maybe they just wanted those records really destroyed.

Yes it does. It also bothers me that common sense is so rare it's a goddamn superpower.

But what use is basic logic and common sense when you have political parties campaigning on "God wants me to be prezidunt 2 git that uppity nigger outta our white house"? When you have a group of people who can get revved up into a foaming, frothing-mouthed frenzy by some boob publishing an entirely dishonest book claiming "OMG Obama was at a Black Panther rally in 2007" (the actual event was a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, attended by a host of dignitaries that included both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton).

The reality is, an entire political party has decided that horrific lies and appeals to anything but sanity are their way to get elected. It's saddening and maddening at once, because there was a time I agreed with many of their positions on logical grounds - but they've become so extreme and hate-filled today that finding a sensible, sane compromise and actually fixing any problems has become impossible.

In other words... a total lack of both logic and common sense.

You mean like this?

Google calls it 45-degree view. Only available in certain locations. Complaints go to the people in the building shown.

Google Earth is really a standalone Windows application. (Remember those?) Google didn't develop it; it was from a company called Keyhole, which sold it as a service for years before Google bought them out. I had a Keyhole account back in 2003. NVidia had a promotional deal; it was cheaper with an NVidia card.

You could fly along a route in Keyhole, so a "helicopter view" isn't exactly new.

Unfortunately, the plugin only supportes Mac and Windows. C'mon, Google!

And raise you a Nikkei vs Orix graph. YTD Nikkei is down 18% and Orix is down TWICE that. How do YOU explain real estate disproportionately undervalued to the equity market YTD?

Mind putting your money where your mouth is? Cause the market has really taken a dump on JREITs. If you look carefully, things are actually much worse now than they were when the Japan East cost was being submerged by mega-tsunami. One would tend to think this is a reaction to radioactive fallout.

Either the people with money know something you do not, or people like you are just coming out here spouting BS on how overblown things are while not taking any meaningful economic positions behind their claims. If you are right, you stand to make a fortune in JREITs. What percentage of your savings have you invested?

This was a copyright troll who ended up taking his own life, but judging by the number of "victims" in the late 80s/early 90s I was actually surprised no one tried it.

I wonder how good a telescope we would need to actually see a human being on the surface of the moon anyway?

It would have to be very good. For example, the Hubble space telescope couldn't do it. Not even close. (Despite the fact that it can image galaxies that are billions of light-years away.)

Let's say that seeing an astronaut convincingly requires a resolution of ~5 cm (at that resolution, their hand would be a bit of a blob, but at least you'd be able to tell that it was a person and not a rover...). Let's assume we're using the violet-end of the visible spectrum (wavelength lambda ~ 400 nm). Using the resolution equation:
sin(theta) = 1.22 * lambda/D

theta is the angular difference we're interested in, D is the size of the aperture/optical system, the 1.22 factor can vary a bit between optical schemes but is close enough for our purposes. The distance to the moon is 384,000 km, so the angle theta is arctan(5 cm/384000 km) = 7.5E-9 degrees. So:
D = (1.22 * 400 nm)/( sin(7.5E-9 degrees) ) = 3.7 km

So, we would need an optical telescope with an aperture/mirror that is 3.7 km in diameter. Needless to say, this is quite a bit bigger than any telescope that exists today (the best is about 12 m). If you want to be able to accurately see the astronaut's eyes, to confirm that he's really not a robot, then the telescope would have to be even bigger (like 40 km in diameter).

I wonder how good a telescope we would need to actually see a human being on the surface of the moon anyway?

It would have to be very good. For example, the Hubble space telescope couldn't do it. Not even close. (Despite the fact that it can image galaxies that are billions of light-years away.)

Let's say that seeing an astronaut convincingly requires a resolution of ~5 cm (at that resolution, their hand would be a bit of a blob, but at least you'd be able to tell that it was a person and not a rover...). Let's assume we're using the violet-end of the visible spectrum (wavelength lambda ~ 400 nm). Using the resolution equation:
sin(theta) = 1.22 * lambda/D

theta is the angular difference we're interested in, D is the size of the aperture/optical system, the 1.22 factor can vary a bit between optical schemes but is close enough for our purposes. The distance to the moon is 384,000 km, so the angle theta is arctan(5 cm/384000 km) = 7.5E-9 degrees. So:
D = (1.22 * 400 nm)/( sin(7.5E-9 degrees) ) = 3.7 km

So, we would need an optical telescope with an aperture/mirror that is 3.7 km in diameter. Needless to say, this is quite a bit bigger than any telescope that exists today (the best is about 12 m). If you want to be able to accurately see the astronaut's eyes, to confirm that he's really not a robot, then the telescope would have to be even bigger (like 40 km in diameter).

WHY I also set myself up the way I do online layering of security measures, in:

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1.) Custom HOSTS files (mine's currently 1,586,590++ entries strong vs. known malicious sites/servers, botnet C&C servers, bogus adbanners (& ads in general) servers, phishing + spamming sites, & for security's sake alone (I get more out of it speedwise too via "hardcoding fav. sites" into it also, avoiding DNS redirected-poisoned dns servers, & getting there faster by avoiding them totally (their slower lookup vs. my SSD based & cached ones from HOSTS, locally, instead of slower remotely)).

2.) DNSBL filtering DNS servers (NortonDNS, OpenDNS, ScrubIT DNS are all in my IP stack dns servers list, & in my router-firewall too).

3.) Firewall IP rules tables (to catch IP addresses more than host-domain named ones - HOSTS does that too)

4.) IP Security Policies (Via Windows NT-based OS' security policies (I do both domain & local level here)).

5.) OS security hardening -> http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+Secure+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search , which includes remotely listening services if not needed especially &/or potentially vulnerable ones + shares remotely solicited.

6.) IP stack hardening -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648853.aspx

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( & FAR more in the way of "layered-security/defense-in-depth" stuff, such as using Opera 11.51 to setup a GLOBAL policy for all sites to not use javascript, iframes, cookies, plugins, java etc. "everywhere", & only set it up, via Opera's "By Site Preferences" exceptions list, & only for sites that actual DEMAND their usages (think ecommerce sites) only - PLUS, using its urlfilter.ini file, custom .pac files, & custom CSS sheets )

I.E.-> To simply stay away from what makes you "sick online" by lessening its attack surface area + tools it can use against you (as well as for you, the double-edged sword that any scripted document, yes, including HTML ones, can be)

Why?

* See my p.s. below...

APK

P.S.=> I do ALL that, & more, just to avoid:

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A.) Tracking (not using javascript @ all, or using sites that 'track you' not only thru their own mass, but thru the mass of other sites too? For Pete's sake, lol, 'enough already')

B.) To avoid malware

C.) To avoid losses of speed & to gain back loads of it too!

D.) To obtain great security for decades online

E.) To get MORE OF WHAT I PAY FOR OUT OF POCKET!

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Is why, & I have for DECADES now (so have others in the url's above)...haven't been infected online since 1996 in fact because of the above & can make a DSL connection seem like high-end cable or FIOS for websurfing online... +, 4 FREE, & the above's just a part of the "how" is all...

... apk

According to Swedish media he will be awarded the prize even if the Nobel prize usually isn't awarded posthumously. The academy made the decision hours after Steinmans death without knowing about it.

Link to a translated article in one of the major newspapers in Sweden: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svd.se%2Fnyheter%2Finrikes%2Fmedicinpristagare-avled-i-fredags_6521002.svd

You just proved someone else's point. Anything that isn't yours is obviously the other, and even more extreme.

Compromise is bad. Compromise is a guarantee an idea gets Nerfed to the point of not working. Universities by and large are VERY left wing and work to indoctrinate the young people who enter them. Perhaps you completely missed the whole Shakita Butler teaching incredibly flawed and biased definitions of racism at the University of Delaware? How about college campuses that suppress students right wing ideas and philosophies but allow left?

Truth is the left builds up a wall of fake attack/defense claims to mask their own attacks. I'm just as against the right trying to legislate their morality and protect their corporate contracts and interest as I am of the left trying to legislate their ideas and protect their corporate contracts and interest. The truth is the left is the attack machine, it's about 70 / 30 with the left attacking 70 and one of the attacks they make is calling a block of their attack as "refusal to reach across the isle" and "refusal to compromise". If a right winger has $100 he earned, the left wants all of it, the right winger says no not giving you $50 is refusal to compromise. I don't see where not giving you $50 is wrong.

Both can be configured

1. show "http://":
   firefox: browser.urlbar.trimURLs
   chrome: impossible to configure
2. no graying out of url:
   firefox: browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled
   chrome: impossible to configure

in chromium/chrome these two settings can only be "configured" by modifying the source code. these are just two settings that I wanted to change in chromium and found out I couldn't.

Firefox wins!!!

This is the future of American manufacturing. They can make anything. It's almost 100% vertically integrated, which means everything from plastics and metals to batteries, electronics, motors and component assembly is done here, with flexible multi-purpose robots. Every car can be different, with no retooling, because the robots can do anything. It's just software.

You take nothing at face value? I call bull.

When I said "I take nothing at face value" I was talking about this report and many others that claim the demise of the Earth is nigh. But I will continue, just to prove how foolish you are, because you seem like the sort that needs proof.

Do you need to stick your hand in a flame to determine that it is hot? Is every flame hot?

Not all flames are hot, moron. You can stick your hand in many flames. That you don't know that speaks volumes about you.

Can you say with certainty that the laws of the universe don't change with every breath?

The laws don't change to be sure, but our interpretation of the laws change every day. Someone finds something that invalidates our previous understanding. Take an obvious recent case like Maybe - nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

That certain gases will affect the heat retention in a gaseous mixture is a fact that you can confirm to your own personal belief. It's done all the time in school science fairs.

And only a moron, like yourself, would believe that an experiment at a school science fair accurately predicts how gas mixtures will radiate heat into space.

The amounts that are put into the air by humans, very well might have an effect in our atmosphere. That can be calculated.

This just is false. How do you "calculate" something that is not quantifiable? Nobody knows how much C02 the earth itself creates Without that, what the fuck are you doing?

So now we have something that is falsifiable, and possible avenues of refutation of the concept.

Sorry bro, AGW is not falsifiable. That is in fact the biggest issue I have with the theory. Can you tell me what "event" or "condition" would falsify it?

If global warming via human activity not causing the atmosphere to retain heat from insolation, what would be the mechanism that prevents the expected warming effect?

Because it can't possibly be wrong, right? Listen to yourself, you say in one breath it is falsifiable, then get within inches of realization then step back and say "well, it can't be wrong, we just haven't figured it out all the way".

Now we have something we can sink our teeth into. I can think of a few possibilities,

I noticed you omitted "we may be wrong". Sounds a lot more like a religion.

Duly noted that you didn't mention the anti - AGW crowd. Do you approve of their Intelligent design and Creationist type arguments for their position?

And why is it that I would talk about another group of people that have nothing to do with this argument? I'm sorry, did I say: "I am a priest" earlier? What makes you think creationism has anything to do with it? You know what, I'll bet these crazy creationists also think communism is bad, murder is bad and that you shouldn't paint your house magenta. I happen to agree with all of that. Does that somehow make me a creationist?

That American professor that they have been after, and has been cleared by multiple inquiries, but they just say the inquiries are flawed.

I'm guessing you're talking about Hansen. It may be stressful to you, but Hansen did get caught

Sure thing - how about two?

Legislation introduced by Paul that would strip federal courts of jurisdiction over 1st Amendment cases wrt to the states:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislation_sponsored_by_Ron_Paul#We_the_People_Act

Or a letter he wrote in 2005:

If anything, the Supreme Court should have refused to hear the Kelo case on the grounds that the 5th amendment does not apply to states. If constitutional purists hope to maintain credibility, we must reject the phony incorporation doctrine in all cases-- not only when it serves our interests.

Or do a generic search for ron paul incorporation bill of rights.

Fucker should have been taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot. You are an evil person if you can't admit that thousands upon thousands of people have been killed. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC0QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.org%2Fsgp%2Fcrs%2Fmideast%2FRS22537.pdf&rct=j&q=UN%20estimate%20of%20civilian%20deaths%20in%20iraq&ei=UYyHTqXDE8PZiALd1LG2DA&usg=AFQjCNEz56oCvO-9hI_9sqKq_CipyCDO0w

Not just fun, but also useful.

Not sure if it will do everything you need, but I use Chrome's Proxy Switchy at work and it works wonderfully. Might want to give it a look.

Ranttime: Chrome has a vibrant extension community, and while it doesn't yet offer as many addons as FireFox, it does offer solutions for the most common browser issues, so I'm always a bit sad when someone (on slashdot!) dismisses it out of hand for lacking some addons that could easily be found by a 5 seconds google search. Every other day here someone says "but Chrome doesn't have Adblock or Noscript!", and I make the sad face.

Not sure if it will do everything you need, but I use Chrome's Proxy Switchy at work and it works wonderfully. Might want to give it a look.

Ranttime: Chrome has a vibrant extension community, and while it doesn't yet offer as many addons as FireFox, it does offer solutions for the most common browser issues, so I'm always a bit sad when someone (on slashdot!) dismisses it out of hand for lacking some addons that could easily be found by a 5 seconds google search. Every other day here someone says "but Chrome doesn't have Adblock or Noscript!", and I make the sad face.

Not sure if it will do everything you need, but I use Chrome's Proxy Switchy at work and it works wonderfully. Might want to give it a look.

Ranttime: Chrome has a vibrant extension community, and while it doesn't yet offer as many addons as FireFox, it does offer solutions for the most common browser issues, so I'm always a bit sad when someone (on slashdot!) dismisses it out of hand for lacking some addons that could easily be found by a 5 seconds google search. Every other day here someone says "but Chrome doesn't have Adblock or Noscript!", and I make the sad face.

Yeeeessss. But as dgatwood pointed out, any new and novel technology will become old and boring given enough time. Using multiple teaching technologies and experiences will counteract this, but at some point kids will have to bear down and learn something they find dull. (Especially when they're learning basic skills for a topic.)
I agree that a good teacher tries to make a class exciting as possible, but I've noticed more and more kids expect to be entertained at school rather than taught.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&q=mathematics+exams+from+30+years+ago

I think that discovery learning has come up with some good stuff, but I can't help wonder if we've taken things a bit too far in making it the ONLY teaching method to use. Most research suggests that students do better if you just _teach_ them basic concepts rather than get them to _discover_ EVERYTHING. True discovery learning occurs best after students have mastered basic concepts and are then given something complex to work on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_instruction

This is why I love student legal services. College students pay a small yearly fee (like $40), and get free legal representation as long as they're enrolled. Stuff like this won't fly if the student has enough time to pay the attorneys a visit.

No, sorry, I remember the 70's and global cooling was all the rage then. Search 'global cooling 1970s'. Global Warming has been since the 90's.

You remember what Fox News tells you to remember. Before you tell people to try a search like that, you probably ought to try the search yourself.

Look, it is not just about marketing and it has never been just about marketing. Yes, Apple is great at marketing its stuff. However, if that was all it was good at then you would not have any repeat customers -- nor would you have a loyal fan base of Apple users. Not only that, but you would not have Apple as the highest rated consumer electronics company http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+customer+satisfaction+rating&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official for multiple years in a row. You just can't buy that with marketing. Apple knows that it is not about the hardware and it is not about the software -- rather, it is about the intersection of hardware/software/environment that hits the sweet spot for many, many users. Apple users are not, as a whole, clueless sheep. We have just decided that the sum of the parts that go into an Apple system is much better than the sum of the parts of other systems. Simple. I like my Apple stuff. I like it enough that I buy other Apple stuff. It does not matter what other folks think because the systems I have fulfill my needs. You are welcome to go find stuff that fits your needs, but that does not mean that either one of us is dumb. We all make choices based on our needs and at this point in time Apple systems fit a whole bunch of people's needs.

It looks like they responded within 2 hours - not bad! Google support ticket with issue and resolution at the top: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=42d6ba02d7eed070&hl=en I wonder what Chrome did that smelled like Win32/Zbot.

Made IE look like a turd, I would say. I like Chrome, IE, and Mozilla in that order. Mozilla needs to hit the gym.

Sorry if my numbers are off, I tried to Google the most current ones, but getting apples-to-apples is very tricky.

Aside from that, you don't feel that the current upheaval at RIM is honestly worrying?

I'd be more interested in seeing it in AGP myself.

LMGTFY.... ah, here we go: Zotac 5200 AGP

I bought an XFX AGP GPU a few years ago... it was simply the current version of their nVidia 6800 chipset with a PCIe - AGP bridge thrown in. Good times.

Unfortunately, I finally sold that machine a year or two ago, since a bunch of games started requiring DX10 :-/ Would have kept it around as a Linux server, but it was kinda power hungry and relatively noisy compared to my new box.

Good luck in getting a mule to sprint into combat.

I just put "stubborn as a" into google and what do you think popped up?
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=stubborn+as+a+

To Degauss, Shred, or Burn the old HDD/SSD is the question.
Degauss and reuse, shred and recycle, burn and bury the old HDD/SDD.

http://www.datadev.com/degausser-government-nsa-dod-approved-data-security-erase.html
http://www.americanrecycler.com/0510/223spotlight.shtml
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4147847319296070400
http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ckechIqW0

The burn and bury is fun and some think best.