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First, mining is dominated by a small group of individuals/organizations with expensive specialized hardware (ASICs). This makes a 51% attack plausible should a cartel form, note that a mining pool reached 50% a few years ago. Secondly, 70% of miners are located in a single country and dependent upon government supplied inexpensive electricity.

And that government has recently announced it's going to shut them all down.

Time for a power-grab... one person with enough resources could literally steal all the Bitcoins ever.

(although they wouldn't grab 100% because they'd be worthless if they did, they have to strike the right balance to take away everybody's life savings)

https://www.google.es/search?q...

It can look like it, if you ignore that Catalans have been demanding independence for decades. Just look at the pictures. Notice the similarities? Those were during the 70's, when Franco was just dead. We don't need Assange or the Russians for this, thank you very much.

Oh, but we do need help, like we once did during the Spanish Civil War that lead to WWII. Back then, the World decided that economic stability was far more important than justice. The consequence was Hitler's rising and millions dead. Have we learnt something since?

no

They're already past the "make things worse" stage. That's what austerity brought.

No, austerity didn't bring it.

Well, saving the banks did initiate it, but austerity made it only worse (2011 is the year of the haircut).

Hindering attacks from predators trying to pick out a single quarry in a sea of seizure-inducing undulating stripes should not be considered mutually exclusive from hindering insect bites.

Predator logic...
A few stripes: bite like hell until my mouth has food in it
A shit-ton of stripes: bite like hell until my mouth has food in it

Yep. If that's their strategy, it doesn't seem to be working: https://www.google.es/search?q...

The 'camouflage' explanation doesn't hold up under scrutiny. eg. I don't recall seeing human soldiers wearing black/white stripy uniforms in Africa...

Me? I think other zebras just find stripes irresistible, ie. Zebra eyes have evolved to enjoy being surrounded by other zebras

The problem a lot of people have understanding AGW is separating the science that is settled from the unsettled predictions.

Nope.

The main problem is seeing through the fog created by the anti-AGW lobby.

https://www.google.es/search?q...

They think they're being free thinkers, that the AGW people are the ones drinking the establishment cool-aid. In reality it's the other way around.

Does anybody know why multimeter fuses are so well hidden and so damn difficult to replace? Normally you have to take the whole thing apart, with screws hidden under rubber feet, etc..

Over time I have changed many more batteries than fuses so if anything, I would hope that the battery is easier to replace. As a practical matter, replacing the battery or fuse happens so rarely that having to remove the entire back of the meter is not an imposition.

Besides any cost savings, this may also be a case where the manufacturer *wants* someone to see replacing the fuse as a significant repair because safety rated fuses are not the same thing as the general purpose ones most people are familiar with.

Why aren't they under a simple flap or in the battery compartment?

Some multimeters do place the fuse under the battery compartment lid. I expect multimeters built like this gather a whole new set of complaints about how easy it is to lose the lid.

It's not like fuse holders haven't been invented or anything. https://www.google.es/search?q... [google.es]

Bench meters may have an externally accessible fuse holder but again, having to change the fuse is a pretty rare event.

"Why doesn't my meter read Amps anymore? What do you mean there's a fuse? Where is the fuse? How do I replace it?"

I've had so many cheap crap multimeters die that I've lost count. I've also bought used meters by the box because they were all "failed", and some of them were really just a blown fuse

Does anybody know why multimeter fuses are so well hidden and so damn difficult to replace? Normally you have to take the whole thing apart, with screws hidden under rubber feet, etc..

Why aren't they under a simple flap or in the battery compartment?

It's not like fuse holders haven't been invented or anything. https://www.google.es/search?q...

It was necessary evil to be able to publish new video driver model architecture with neat features, get over it.

LOL!

People managed to make DX10 run on XP without official support from MS/NVIDIA/AMD: https://www.google.es/search?q...

Later on...guess what? Microsoft decided to allow DX11 to run as well: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...

There's no relation between an operating system and the feature set exposed by the video driver. It's just another API.

Actually sea salt IS filtered and refined.

Filtered, yes, to remove sand. Refined? Not so much. Some plants have UV light treatments to kill microorganisms but no chemical separation is done. What's dissolved in the water is what you get.

And in many places they just fish it out of the sea and sell it. How do you know what you're getting when your manufacturer puts "sea salt" on the packet?

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/22/3099141/climate-denying-groups-funding/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-money-funds-climate-change-denial-effort/

http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/climate-change-denial-a-billion-dollar-industry-of-fabrication-says-study/

(sampled from the first few hits for: https://www.google.es/search?q=climate+change+denial+lobby+billions }

The republicans are more of a driving force behind the climate change denial movement than the Democrats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial#Public_sector

In fact if you type "democrat climate change denial" into google you get articles about Republican climate change denial.

So...hardly "training" or "hatred". Just simple research.

The first one wasn't very good. It's in pieces at the moment because I'm rebuilding it inside one of these: https://www.google.es/search?q=invadercade&tbm=isch (I got one dirt cheap)

I also recently discovered this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/697708033/hdmipi-affordable-9-high-def-screen-for-the-raspbe so it might be on hold until February. That screen is just perfect for it :-(

I coded the game myself (originally on Arduino believe it or not). I used the Space Invaders ROM disassembly as a base so the gameplay is 100% true to the original. You can play it if you've got a gameduino...

The curve will be around the horizontal axis, just like the other curved phones that already exist.

The Pesky Facts are against you I'm afraid.

Plus: Is it worth it to gain 1mm...?

Myth: Busted!

Huh?

Dear Google search engine, please locate PS3 encryption keys.

...and why are they sending hot chicks through multiple times? Sometimes calling their buddies over to make sure the scan is 'thorough'?

"Prior experience"?

Last time I checked the TSA were putting adverts on pizza boxes.

You got raped, my condolences, but what you endured or how you felt is completeley irrelevant to the Assange case.

It was funny how Assange became a "rapist" and a "violent sex offender" only AFTER the two ladies learnt Assange had sex with both.

When they went to the police they were worried about catching AIDS, not about having been 'raped'. They wanted to know if there was any way they could force Julian Assange to take an AIDS test.

The first prosecutor let Julian Assange go and he left the country. That's when somebody high up had an "Aha!" monent and figured out they could use this as a way to get Julian Assange in to Sweden and ship him to the USA from there using the "temporary surrender" law. A new prosecutor was appointed and the rest is history.

According to Upgrading and Repairing PCs it would currently be like having 4 Sears Towers floating on their sides, side by side, 5mm over the ground moving at almos 7800 kilometres per second while reading 2 centimetres long bits on tracks 30 centimetres away from each other.

>>>>>Christianity is one of the reasons credited to the enormous advancement of science in Europe as opposed to other parts of the world in the same time period.
>>During what time period?

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the only sources of literacy and learning in Europe were from the church, and people educated within the church. There was actually quite a bit of innovation during what Renaissance propagandists called the Dark Ages, though people like to pretend otherwise. (For example - http://books.google.es/books?id=bQlJP9O9hKkC&lpg=PA82&ots=Rifr5KZcY5&dq=crop%20rotation%20and%20Charlemagne&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q=crop%20&f=false)

And in more modern times, too.

Why would an Oracle DB make you feel safer? MySQL belongs to Oracle.

The problem is that these people grow up to be politicians and policy makers. They wreck the economy and go to war based on their beliefs then expect the people who learned enough in school to get a proper job to pay the bills for the cleanup.

So... yes. It matters. Religion is NOT a harmless hobby like collecting stamps or arguing Ford vs. Chevy over a beer. Atheists do need to be active/militant against it.

Redact. Note in particular the definitions from Wordnet.

"the smart move is to buy while...."

Experiments have shown that chimpanzees can do as well as the "smartest" humans in the stock market. Throwing darts at a copy of the Wall St Journal works just as well, or even a chimp throwing darts

The only winners in the stock market are people with inside information and the stockbrokers who take a percentage of every trade (and they're the ones who are advertising stocks as a good way to make money).

High frequency trading is not beneficial when it shaves pennies and acts as an intermediary between a buy & a sell that would have executed anyways.

Not true: Before SEC allowed all electronic markets (and so HF trading), only the specialists/MMs ran the floor and were the intermediary. Your spread was significantly wider than today as research confirms. So are you arguing for increased spread's and inefficient markets, and we go back to the old system where a select few could "shave off" many pennies?

While you have valid points, in my mind the OP is for the most part correct. I tried visiting the following sites to get an impression of each:

http://news.google.com/
http://news.google.fr/
http://news.google.de/
http://news.google.es/
http://news.google.nl/
http://news.google.it/
http://news.google.es/

The biggest difference I see is that the German site has way more capitals. That aside, everything else looks on the surface (ie: when not actually trying to read anything) to follow the same general pattern. From a linguistics perspective, I don't doubt you're correct and many alterations have been introduced into each language as it diverged from a common root... but to an untrained eye scanning over the text of the sites above I'm not seeing a lot of variance.

While you have valid points, in my mind the OP is for the most part correct. I tried visiting the following sites to get an impression of each:

http://news.google.com/
http://news.google.fr/
http://news.google.de/
http://news.google.es/
http://news.google.nl/
http://news.google.it/
http://news.google.es/

The biggest difference I see is that the German site has way more capitals. That aside, everything else looks on the surface (ie: when not actually trying to read anything) to follow the same general pattern. From a linguistics perspective, I don't doubt you're correct and many alterations have been introduced into each language as it diverged from a common root... but to an untrained eye scanning over the text of the sites above I'm not seeing a lot of variance.

Ha-ha!

Been there, done that on March 2009:
 
  Spanish students beat Nasa with balloon and £56 camera
 
  Spanish students balloon

People making bombs are hardly going to talk about it on Faceshit or other worthless social sites

You'd be surprised.

Well, welcome to Spain. It is different, it truly is. Have you ever heard the term mileurismo?

Disclaimer: I'm spaniard.

Even they've parodied SGAE with another association called SOPPIE (Toilet-paper-makers association) claiming that newspapers, magazines, ... have to be taxed because they can also be used to wipe your ass.

I realized that Spanish goverment is using the same principle as Chewabacca defense on laws, we are having a lot of these Chewbacca laws in last years .
It's high risk political practice, even some electors dead by head implosion...

Fowler's Modern English Usage, p480. Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (see excerpt). FWIW the first is a British source and the second says that it's a British rule, so if they have Safeways somewhere else I may owe you an apology.

Why not just use the localized language pages?

English http://www.google.com/intl/en/
Japanese http://www.google.co.jp/
Chinese http://www.google.cn/
Spanish http://www.google.es/
German http://www.google.de/
Swedish http://www.google.se/
Bork http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

Note: If you happen to speak swedish, the the last one is a very perverted joke.

You can easily find any other language that google offers simply by typing "google in $X" into any google search page.

I've never been redirected to another page by these links, but YMMV.
However, the default searches build into the browsers tend to redirect constantly, no matter what you language is set to.

It was so bad I had to edit the search files on my system manually.

When I was at school plants needed Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium in their fertilizer ( http://www.google.es/search?q=npk+fertilizer ).

I'm guessing the bumper crop won't last very long...

ha-ha!

Yes, and they left it all on a laptop in the back of a Taxi not too long ago.

> before AMD or Intel do something similar

Um, Intel has already done something similar and the machines are available today.

http://www.google.es/search?q=N280

And the next generation will be available before Xmas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)#Future

A single-chip solution for netbooks, combined with Intel's fabrication processes, means NVIDIA won't be anywhere close in the foreseeable future.

XP also has a "starter edition":

http://www.google.es/search?q=xp+starter+edition

At Three Mile Island nobody was hurt, no radiation was leaked. All it cost was money.

Chernobyl was a very similar reactor to TMI but it had a tin roof instead of a bunker as containment.

The only lesson to learn from Chrnobyl is not to build shitty reactors.

The public fear of nuclear power is based on the reactors of the 1950s/1960s which were built in a rush as a way of making nuclear weapons. Reactors have advanced a LOT since then.

There really is nothing to fear from modern designs like "pebble bed" reactors. These designs ensure that the traditional "nuclear accident" is literally impossible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Safety_features

Quote: "A pebble-bed reactor thus can have all of its supporting machinery fail, and the reactor will not crack, melt, explode or spew hazardous wastes. It simply goes up to a designed "idle" temperature, and stays there."

(emphasis mine)

Coal is a lot more scary/risky. Do you know how many people die per year as a result of using coal reactors?

http://www.google.es/search?q=coal+reactor+deaths

The original was neatly packaged...as a quick google would have shown you:

http://images.google.es/images?q=Busicom+141-PF

Use http://www.google.es/ - that should produce results

...or just a well known speech made by somebody who was deliberately trying to cover up the truth? (aka: "Lying"). The guy responsible for that has a name, "Frank Luntz", and has since admitted he made it all up (under orders from Bush).

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/frank_luntz_acc.php

This sort of information (ie. concrete names, references, etc.) is what we call "pesky facts". Try it sometime.

> "Remember the global cooling scares in the 70's?"

Remember how accurate the weather forecasts were in the 1970s? They were a complete joke, right?

These days we have new toys like very accurate weather satellites which can measure *global* temperatures (the 70's scares were caused by lack of *global* temperature measurements and what's called the "island" effect). We also have big machines to process and visualize the data instead of slide rules.

IOW, the 1970's beliefs on climate are about as useful today as flared trousers and 8-track cartridges.

Again, google would have saved you from embarrassing yourself in public: http://www.google.es/search?q=1970s+climate+scare

"(American Geophysical Union) notes that human-made CO2 are dwarfed the estimated global release of CO2 from volcanoes by at least 150 times."

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html

This page has a good quote:

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/17/223957/72

"I have never heard a skeptic making that ridiculous claim. It seems you are putting up a straw man in order to be able to kick it. The skeptics are not that dumb."

I guess you just proved them wrong, eh?

Research isn't hard, it takes all of two seconds to type "CO2 volcanoes" into google: http://www.google.es/search?q=co2+volcanoes

Try it sometime.

Spanish RIAA-like associations (SGAE and subsidiaries like Promusicae, etc.), are being investigated right now because of lack of transparency, illegal politic finantiation, blackmail ("chantaje").

The prosecution is nonsense and will result in a null case, but their intention is to stop actions not by legal reason, but by legal intimidation (in Spain there is *fear* about speaking against the SGAE in public media, because of you can be sued easily). Many people do google bombing refering "http://www.sgae.es/?ladrones" as a measure to protest against these "kind and polite organizations", so when you look for "ladrones", they appear in the first place.

Spanish RIAA-like associations (SGAE and subsidiaries like Promusicae, etc.), are being investigated right now because of lack of transparency, illegal politic finantiation, blackmail ("chantaje").

The prosecution is nonsense and will result in a null case, but their intention is to stop actions not by legal reason, but by legal intimidation (in Spain there is *fear* about speaking against the SGAE in public media, because of you can be sued easily). Many people do google bombing refering "http://www.sgae.es/?ladrones" as a measure to protest against these "kind and polite organizations", so when you look for "ladrones", they appear in the first place.

Spanish RIAA-like associations (SGAE and subsidiaries like Promusicae, etc.), are being investigated right now because of lack of transparency, illegal politic finantiation, blackmail ("chantaje").

The prosecution is nonsense and will result in a null case, but their intention is to stop actions not by legal reason, but by legal intimidation (in Spain there is *fear* about speaking against the SGAE in public media, because of you can be sued easily). Many people do google bombing refering "http://www.sgae.es/?ladrones" as a measure to protest against these "kind and polite organizations", so when you look for "ladrones", they appear in the first place.