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Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?

Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?

Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?

Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?

Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?

Ah this canard. It is true that we have slightly lengthier waiting lists for elective surgeries, however this does not result in hordes of Canadians traveling to the US for medical procedures. Nor does it indicate that the majority of Canadians are unhappy with medical services.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:roy0ew8NlLoJ:www.amsa.org/AMSA/Libraries/Committee_Docs/WaitingTimes_primer.sflb.ashx+canada+wait+times+surgery+vs+US&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh3hRB_jZERWlxlUy6HXPhxfYOhhHZxiu1XLAizzVUQXsBVW-s1rLWx-vlsn7HoeHZi5H48PJNQYSyqNb7v3w-HJ9KPtsFP4eHRwA4VFx281LqqLr1pBujIp0mujkJ7j4U9yzNi&sig=AHIEtbRjy36S9t0DAq2GseOev5bs5uznSw

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ReaderAdvantage Program: As a 2010 April Fools' Day joke, Google announced a reward program for Google Reader known as ReaderAdvantage, in which points accumulated by users for reading items could earn them Novice, Gold, Platinum, or Totally Sweet Badges, which Google revealed was a goof.

Driving across the country takes 26 hours assuming no stopping. Source

I think you meant 50 hours.

I love the dumptruck analogy, but I'm not convinced of the math. Let's see if we can work it out:

A dumptruck has a volume of approximately 722 cubic feet (17 x 8.5 x 5) source. Converting that gets us 1,247,616 cubic inches.

A harddrive is 3.5" x 102 mm x 25.4 mm source. Or about 14 cubic inches.

This means that roughly, we can fit about 89,115 hard drives into a dumptruck, assuming everything fits perfectly.

The largest commercially available 3.5" harddrive is 3 TB. This means that we're going to have 267,343 TB on our truck.

Driving across the country takes 26 hours assuming no stopping. Source

This yields 267,343 TB / 26 hours = 2,138,744 Tb / 26 hours = 2,138,744 Tb / 93,600 seconds = 22.849 Tbps = 22,849 Gbps.

Compare that to a commercially available 10Gbps link available from any business class provider, and you're going to trounce them. The latest stuff is 100Gbps, which you should be able to get a hold of if you're willing to shell out right now, but it's still a blow out. You are indeed correct.

A couple of other items to note:
1. You can add a day at the front and a day at the back to load and unload the truck and you're still around 10 Tbps.
2. If you add another 2 days to collect all the data, write it to harddrives and then do the same 2 day process at the back end, you're still around 5 Tbps.
3. A more fair comparison is probably not using such a slow mechanism like a dump truck (I understand it's there to prove a point in your analogy). But instead use a cargo plan. You'll get 23,200 cubic feet of storage out of a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy cargo plane which is about 32 dumptrucks. Also, you can get across the country in 6 hours, even assuming some landing and takeoff. If you still assume it takes several days to load and unload the plane, you'd probably be up in the 1 Pbps range.
4. I was trying to think what would be the fastest way to load and unload the truck, and then I realized I was insane for trying to calculate such a dumb thing. The real answer here is to build storage arrays on the truck and have it roll back and forth. Essentially, it's a mobile data center. You have a few hundred 10 Gbps ports on the rear of the truck to plug in, and you can download all of your data on and off of it pretty quickly, without manual labor beyond plugging in a port. Further, this would be a very fun way for the Pirate Bay, or someone similar to distribute data if they ever wanted to go physical (and thus blatantly break the law). Once a week, the Pirate Bay truck would roll into town and all the kids could plug in the back to download petabytes of information before it leaves for the week. A fun concept, if nothing else.

No. Speed of light is only about 300 million metres per second ( 299 792 458) or 300000km/sec.

http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light

So round trip time is 44.6 minutes
http://www.google.com/search?&q=401+million+km++*+2+%2F+speed+of+light

In comparison the Sun is about 8 light minutes away.

The speed of light is so slow that even latency is an issue for intercontinental undersea links, and worse for the satellite links (which can have latency in the order of seconds).

No. Speed of light is only about 300 million metres per second ( 299 792 458) or 300000km/sec.

http://www.google.com/search?q=speed+of+light

So round trip time is 44.6 minutes
http://www.google.com/search?&q=401+million+km++*+2+%2F+speed+of+light

In comparison the Sun is about 8 light minutes away.

The speed of light is so slow that even latency is an issue for intercontinental undersea links, and worse for the satellite links (which can have latency in the order of seconds).

1) "After being ordered by the Belgian courts to 'remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers,'

2) Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services.

#2 is the exact thing the court ordered in #1, right?

The newspapers are still listed in Google. So they didn't remove all traces. Probably they just listed the homepage and some general pages like a contactpage or something, but they didn't remove them entirely. For instance Copiepresse. And except for those general pages, what else is there but news articles? So Google did what they requested, and now the newspapers realise that they are the losers to this case.

Any papers could exclude exactly the content they want excluded from exactly the google sites they want it excluded because Google's news indexer has a separate user agent.

If they get an injunction however, then Google must obviously read the injunction as broadly as possible to avoid fines.

More: the Google News bot has a different User-Agent, so you can block it without blocking the search engine crawler.

http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=93977

So? Everyone is infringing everyone's patents, I bet all technology companies which create software for non-embedded tech is infringing on at least one patent.

those two patent are some old shit that should never had been granted.....
read this : http://www.google.com/patents?id=aFEWAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false
please tell me what is so novel about that. Things like this were common a the xerox lab. Go read a publication from Alan Kay.

530 kilometers = 329.326732 miles

I'm guessing the only reason they don't is....there aren't any terrorists.

....really? You don't see any other possible problems that might crop up for a terrorist organization looking to purchase a 737 outright? No problems with moving that amount of money or the Government/intelligence agencies taking any sort of look into who are buying large aircraft?

Also the reason they aren't blowing up ...

1. airport scanner queues - Environment with heightened security with smaller casualties then attacking a more densely crowded and enclosed area. People have an innate fear of flying, not a fear of standing in lines, so wont do as much psychological damage. If your not going to hit an airplane might as well go someplace outside of the airport with less security and less risk. Not a particularly appealing target.
2. shopping malls - They've been there, done that. Casualties aren't that spectacular so it doesn't get much press which is why I could excuse you for being ignorant even when you can do this: http://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+bomber+shopping+mall
3. trains - you really haven't heard of the train bombings in Spain or the underground bombings in London?? That's rather unbelievable.
4. buses - Well now we're in the realm of closing our eyes, holding our hands over our ears and screaming, because buses get blown up here and there every month.
5. sports stadiums, museums, Hooters bars, etc., etc., etc) Yea, if they aren't attacking 1276 mystreet Lane then clearly they don't exist in the slightest!

Speed is cool, but improved stability would be even better. Right now the large amount of crashes have lead the chromium team the to disable webgl on all linux machines with ATI cards. Here is their bug report

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=73910

Now this really dates me. But in 1975, I got a tour of Xerox PARC when I was taking a summer course in computer architecture at UC Santa Cruz. Alan Kay showed us some of the early Alto machines. They were still having trouble getting a smooth phosphor coating on the custom-made page-sized CRTs. We saw the PARC 3mb/s Ethernet, which Kay described as "an Alohanet with a captive ether," the first networked file server, and the first networked laser printer. It was clear this was the future, if the price could come down by about a factor of 10. Kay was hoping that some day a workstation might cost as little as a grand piano.

At Ford Aerospace, I was responsible for putting in the first Ethernet, around 1981. It was mostly "thick Ethernet" at 10mb/s. Ethernet cables weren't standard items, but Ford Aerospace routinely built cables for satellite ground stations, so we had the appropriate cables made up and pulled through the telephone ducts run through the building's concrete floors. I checked out a time-domain reflectometer from the measurement equipment pool and took a look at the cable. Cables ended in PL-239 coax connectors, and sections were joined with a barrel. The Ethernet tranceivers had SO-239 connectors on both ends, so the cable went through them. We used a vampire tap once or twice, but it didn't work out as well. The TDR showed a transceiver as generating almost no reflections. But bending the cable tighter than a 1' radius caused a noticeable impedance mismatch.

We were bothered that coax Ethernet wasn't a balanced system. There's a DC component to the signal, which means you can't use decoupling capacitors between sections to get rid of hum. We spent time on grounding issues and looked at the cable signal with scopes a lot. Repeaters were very expensive then, and we were trying to avoid them.

The network interfaces were mostly 3Com boards. Our original network consisted of a PDP 11/70, a PDP 11/45, a VAX 11/780, and a PDP 11/34 used as a gateway to a 9600 baud leased line "backbone link" to Ford HQ in Dearborn MI. We later added four Sun 2 workstations and a Sun server. Everything ran TCP/IP. Ford HQ had a similar link to Ford Aerospace in Colorado Springs,which had an ARPANET IMP. So we could get to the ARPANET over a 9600 baud shared backbone. We could FTP files instead of mailing tapes! I used to Telnet into Stanford's machines over that link.

I did a lot of work on 3COM's TCP/IP implementation, which originally was totally incapable of coping with a mix of speeds in the network. That's why I have those RFCs on network congestion with my name on them. This was before telephone de-regulation, and that 9600 baud leased line was expensive.

The article mentions that "There used to be a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding the performance impact of collisions." There was a period around 1984-1990 when coax Ethernet performance in practice was much worse than theory predicted. The problem was finally figured out by Wes Irish at Xerox PARC. It turns out that the defective design of a SEEQ Ethernet interface chip was causing the problem. As the state machine of the chip transitioned at the end of receiving a packet, there was a period of a few nanoseconds when the chip momentarily turned on the transmitter power, jamming the coax for a few nanoseconds. This reset the "quiet time" timer on all the other stations on the cable, causing them to ignore any following packet for several microseconds, after which they dropped back to the proper "look for sync" state. Back-to-back packets thus lost the second packet, which caused retransmissions and killed performance, but didn't show up as a "collision" to the controll

My browser will automatically provide my e-mail address? The very thing I do NOT want to provide when signing in with the majority of sites?

Also, as a web developer, I think it is a real bad design error to use an e-mail address as a login. What happens if you change your provider? Do you log in with your new (thus unknown) e-mail address? Or do you want to send the lost password to the no longer existing one?

As a user I think that not allowing use of my email address as a login name pisses me off to no end. Why should I have to remember a separate login name for each and every service? The service already has my email address because it is ALWAYS required so why not just use that. In addition, if you are still using an email address from your ISP then you already have some major issues. See http://mail.google.com/ for the correct alternative to ISP provided email.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fthreatlevel%2Ftag%2Fbradley-manning%2F&rct=j&q=bradley%20manning%20wired.com&ei=XhcgTr7gCpGYOo_dmLcD&usg=AFQjCNHLcHxDfaluJIFxYRvIEUruBqUTUQ&cad=rja

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Last time I used OSX, it wasn't like you could pick an arbitrary background color. You had to do what the article describes. Now, if that's changed, then I am misinformed.

1. Run Safari
2. Google Image solid color blue
3. Right-click on an image and choose "Use Image as Desktop Picture"

It's a little obscure but simple. I think most people will use images off the web for desktop backgrounds anyways so this might be more intuitive for the masses than for tech people.

Is this technology what you're referring to?

IBM did that already (patent pending).

Seriously? Not efficient? WTF? A flywheel runs in a vacuum, with minimal friction. A capacitor? http://www.google.com/search?q=capacitor+efficiency

You're an idiot.

Chronomancer (and Chronicle, which it uses) is a debugger that will let you step backwards through your code. Want to know why your app seg faulted? Step back and it'll show you where and what all the registers contained before they get overwritten. It'll let you undo memory corruption, find out what happened before you overwrote vital pieces of data, and it makes debugging problems that are insanely hard trivial.

How it works is that Chronicle is a specialised version of valgrind which writes the result of every instruction to a (highly, highly compressed) database. Once it's run, Chronomancer is an Eclipse-based query tool that lets you study the contents of this database. Apart from being able to step forwards and backwards it supports things like search queries so you can ask it 'when was the last write to location X before time T' and it'll tell you. It is very, very cool.

It's also almost completely unknown, and seems to have been abandoned for years, which is a huge shame as it's an utterly awesome tool. Even building it is hard; Chronicle exists as a patch to valgrind 3.3.1 which doesn't work on modern libcs (3.6 is current). This is a tool that's crying out for some love...

> Until you get into the kinds of shows that Netflix, Amazon, and PSN just can't provide, such as Monday Night Football or The Rachel Maddow Show. Or have they picked up news and sports lately?

I don't watch sports, neither does my wife, so I don't really know where to point you for sports. I think there's an option for that somewhere though, maybe even on PSN or Amazon. I just don't know.

As for news: why would you watch news on television? I stay current on news by reading news web sites. There are a few US sites I use regularly, plus Google News for "trending news", and BBC for a "foreign" perspective.

Here's a tip: those speakers suck. I just tossed a pair because the left speaker was about half as loud as the right speaker. Don't believe me? http://www.google.com/search?q=logitech+speaker+left+not+working

I only mention this because I would think with a scientific experiment like this, speaker volume consistency would be VERY important...

How do they lay out these cables? Are they on the bottom or floating & anchored? Are there repeaters? Anywone know where I can read about it?

Try the internet, I heard that there is a lot of information there:

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+undersea+cables+work

wtf. that link as posted does not behave as it did when i pasted it in my browser.

try this one:

http://www.google.com/search?q=router+dual+wan&tbm=shop

yeh. mosh bedda.

He's not going to find that on his typical home router, which comes with one upstream port and one downstream subnet.

Albeit some have hidden capabilities: mine has the hardwired downstream subnet, the hardwired upstream port, and one wireless subnet that can mimic two (the secure wireless and the guest wireless). This is probably pretty typical for wireless routers right now.

But still, the second WAN port is not going to be there unless you shop around. Ala kazam:

http://www.google.com/search?q=google+shopping&q=router+dual+wan

Solar has come a long way in the last couple of years and it looks like it may be about to out-compete most other energy forms, for instance - "The potential of solar power was noted in a recent report by consultants Ernst & Young, which concluded that falling prices could make solar power cost competitive in the UK without subsidy from 2017 onwards." Competitive in cloudy Britain!!!!! If it can be competitive this far north then it can be competitive in most of the world.

Sources:
http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/policy/i/4275/
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/07/anatomy-of-a-solar-pv-system-how-to-continue-ferocious-cost-reductions-for-solar-electricity
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=solar+power+competitive&btnmeta_news_search=Search+News

At current rates solar will be as cheap as coal power before 2020.

All that's needed is more investment in energy storage technologies and to ramp the scale of these up a bit. (some energy storage is already at over 90% efficiency)

I wish I could invest in Solar, the returns will be very good, as for nuclear investment, ha ha - wouldn't touch that expensive horror show with a barge pole.

The changes to the website are horrible. There is a Chrome extension that puts it back and allows sorting:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ngacmlmclfopgbnmefcffgbcjiafbfpo

There is something similar for Firefox but it requires an added plug-in to run.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%22It%20was%20then%20discovered%20that%20these%2011%20'Muslim%20preachers'%20were%20all%20Israeli%20nationals%20%22

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22%22It%20was%20then%20discovered%20that%20these%2011%20'Muslim%20preachers'%20were%20all%20Israeli%20nationals%20%22

@ the root - Disable BlueTooth oriented functionality, temporarily only if needed, until patch is issued

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Disable+bluetooth&btnG=Google+Search

Yes... really simple, & that's how good things are made/done imo (the "KISS" principle, doing more with less etc.)

What I liked seeing while reading thru this, is it's good to see that others here are sensible enough to do that themselves now, without guidance too!

Personally, I've been doing things like that & from as far back as 1997 & putting them out "onto the wire' for "public consumption" too, ala my 1st speed & security guide for Windows -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml

Just as a "pay-it-forward" type of thing, & a "contribution back to society"...

Hey - It was done for myself by others in this art & science of computing before me, & they too, "stood on the shoulders of giants" before they also...

Yes - imo, it's just how it works (I once saw Madonna say how she "turned her life around", & she DID, by being of service to others... so, I took from her & others' example. Why not? It's the right thing to do, & there IS a "joy in giving" as well!)

That 1st guide of mine on security/speedup for Windows NT-based OS LATER evolved into this in 2008 "layered security" model (much better, & far, Far, FAR more comprehensive & adjusted for today's more modern Windows NT-based OS too):

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

Yes - @ first I did guides like that circa 1997-2000 so folks got the "most" out of their rigs as I was... & yes, initially @ least?

Just to save CPU cycles, RAM ops, & other forms of I/O wasted on services + features in Operating Systems that run by default, that I actually don't use...

(Dumb to do, like leaving your lights on in your home, during the daylight hours really!)

HOWEVER - Later, when I figured the "malware explosion" was about to "hit" (circa 2004 it really did, & my HOSTS file population programs can prove that much for me)?

I realized that there's security benefits (around 2000) to doing the same as well ("Double-Bonus", yea!, right?)

* In any event - ONE THING MICROSOFT'S BEEN really, Really, REALLY GOOD ABOUT, is when things like this occur? They issue an "emergency-out-of-band" fix...

(So - Expect it shortly is my guess here, IF it's really needed/necessary, that is...)

APK

P.S.=> Well - time to go fix my lawnmower & snowblower (yes, bit early, but a "stitch-in-time, saves 9" on the latter)

... apk

It would seem that some gap between the last dinosaur fossils and the iridium layer should be expected, but would this be only millimeters, or is 300 centimerters actually a reaonable expectation?

Given that the asteroid debris would only be a small fraction of the excavated impact crater, and it would not be evenly distributed, even so you can get some back-of-the-envelope estimates.

The crater is ~200km in diameter, and in the order of 10km deep. That's [calculates] around 300,000 km^3 of debris. Distribute it evenly across the surface of the Earth and that'd be 0.6m of deposit. However, there are real issues with that envelope's worth. The actual material ejected may be a lot less (I've assumed a simple cylinder of a crater ; build your own model). The distribution will be highly uneven - maybe kilometres thick near the crater but nearly zero on the other side of the globe. How the debris gets distributed into pre- and post- impact sediments (by bioturbation for example ; or in cold climates, frost heave) is a question.

The plain fact of the matter is that the event doesn't seem to have left much sedimentological record beyond the immediate neighbourhood - say a couple of thousand kilometres.

To put that into context - you know the Manicougain Lac astrobleme? One of my professors (Gordon Walkden) identified what he thinks may be an ejecta deposit from this event (strictly, the base-surge, plus some airfall material) near Bristol in England. That deposit is a few centimetres thick (and Gordon's interpretation has been challenged, partly because it's not seen elsewhere in Britain), and the site was only a couple of thousand kilometres away from Ground Zero at the time of the impact (before the Atlantic opened).

Centimetres may be reasonable to "expect", but with major caveats.

It would seem that some gap between the last dinosaur fossils and the iridium layer should be expected, but would this be only millimeters, or is 300 centimerters actually a reaonable expectation?

Given that the asteroid debris would only be a small fraction of the excavated impact crater, and it would not be evenly distributed, even so you can get some back-of-the-envelope estimates.

The crater is ~200km in diameter, and in the order of 10km deep. That's [calculates] around 300,000 km^3 of debris. Distribute it evenly across the surface of the Earth and that'd be 0.6m of deposit. However, there are real issues with that envelope's worth. The actual material ejected may be a lot less (I've assumed a simple cylinder of a crater ; build your own model). The distribution will be highly uneven - maybe kilometres thick near the crater but nearly zero on the other side of the globe. How the debris gets distributed into pre- and post- impact sediments (by bioturbation for example ; or in cold climates, frost heave) is a question.

The plain fact of the matter is that the event doesn't seem to have left much sedimentological record beyond the immediate neighbourhood - say a couple of thousand kilometres.

To put that into context - you know the Manicougain Lac astrobleme? One of my professors (Gordon Walkden) identified what he thinks may be an ejecta deposit from this event (strictly, the base-surge, plus some airfall material) near Bristol in England. That deposit is a few centimetres thick (and Gordon's interpretation has been challenged, partly because it's not seen elsewhere in Britain), and the site was only a couple of thousand kilometres away from Ground Zero at the time of the impact (before the Atlantic opened).

Centimetres may be reasonable to "expect", but with major caveats.

Funny how every single time some dickhead says this, while ignoring the facts of all those retarded fucking asshole in bicycles who outright kill pedestrians by their dickhead cycling.

Fuck you shit for brains

There.. fixed that for ya.

Ok.... granted, the pedestrian struck will recover, but you cannot deny the same thing can happen between a cyclist and a pedestrian due to the anarchy that cyclists seem to operate under.

Actually, I think they probably would do a psychiatric evaluation on anyone who attempted to wear a mutilated penis on their head in an Australian driving licence photo.

An Austrian photo, on the other hand, may be more likely to show a cap with a reservoir tip if this article is any indication.

FWIW, users will have the option to hide gender later this week:
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While this isn't a feature that most folks would need, it is very important to some users. On my account at least, the setting is already available.

Really? How does Google not care? They contacted the developer back two days after he contacted them to see if they could sort out the issue, which doesn't seem like a long time to me, and their policy on trademark abuse seems quite clear.
All we're seeing is the same old re-framing of the old antitrust allegations against Google (which failed), only with a FLOSS twist to it. It would be interesting to follow the money behind the published article, and see where it leads.

I went to Vintage Computer Festival a few times, and when it stopped happening on the west coast, I started running my own, much smaller, very Atari-oriented Atari Party out near Sacramento.

Last weekend I took the train down to California Extreme to play some old video games (and my 4yo likes the older pinball games a lot). I wish Classic Gaming Expo weren't back in Las Vegas, or I'd go to it.

Plus, I still read comp.sys.atari.8bit on Usenet over an SSH connection to my ISP's shell server. :)

Start looking for info on this from sources past the main stream press, and you'll see that a lot of the stimulus went to foreign banks. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=stimulus+went+to+foreign+banks

It's AFAIK almost certainly a particular pesticide called [clothianidin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothianidin#Environmental_impact) \(and probably several other chemically similar [neonicotinoid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid) pesticides like [imidacloprid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidacloprid)\).

http://www.google.com/search?q=clothianidin+bee

In the USA with its even-more-than-usually-corporate-controlled news sources and government agencies, the especially bee-damaging effects of these pesticides is less well-known or discussed.

[obscure?]

Not to even a casual Simpsons fan...or at least it shouldn't be!

But they'll also need to create a breed of super dogs: the super dogs with super bees in their mouths, so that when they bark they shoot bees at you.

[obscure?]

You mean G+ listens to Randall Munroe.

You forgot:

the Military-Industrial-Agricultural-Pharmaceutical Applications.

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