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Is this real? (Metallurgia International's web site appears to be gone, so there's no direct proof).

It used to exist, yes... as for being real or surreal, I can't say.

"Remove the tag before you go do something naughty but keep it in your car other times."

Pointless--they're already tracking your vehicle, and have been for years. I've discussed this in the past--The T.R.E.A.D. Act allowed the US government to force RFID tracking devices on the entire nation. The Firestone/Ford Explorer-rollover issue was used as reason to pass this legislation. Removing those tags is not only a federal offense, driving over a sensor (they're everywhere there is a stop-light sensor, utilizing the same antenna) without tags is sure to get you noticed eventually...and singled out. You'd end up drawing more attention then leaving them alone. Repealing the T.R.E.A.D. Act is the only way your getting rid of this problem.

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

Specifically,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_pressure_monitoring_system#Legislation

From linked article:
"Embedded in a tire or affixed to the sidewall, an RFID tag the size of a grain of rice is a powerful
tire-tracking tool. Some tiremakers have already recognized its potential. Some commercial truck
and aircraft fleets use RFID to identify tires and to ensure regular service. Tires used in
NASCAR racing are embedded with RFID to keep tabs on these high performance tires. Many in
the auto industry have identified recalls as one of its possible uses. With a chip embedded in the
sidewall and inexpensive readers installed in service shops (or an interface with the vehicle
computer), motorists could have the status of their tires checked every time they take their
vehicle to be serviced, or through their instrument panel."
( https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZrXHlyRR8y4J:http://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/Recalls_RFID.pdf%2BFirestone+tire+RFID&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&hl=en&ct=clnk )

Here are some specifics regarding one manufacturer of the technology:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_cXTVCFeXZIJ:http://www.lawfuel.com/860-to-950mhz-rfid-tire-tag/%2Btire+RFID+federal+law&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&ct=clnk

Interestingly, I found the following article--front-page, main headline--in a nearby news-outlet this morning. By the time I started writing this post, it had been yanked from the outward-facing website:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/09/12/3200503/study-proposes-tolling-interstate.html

"Remove the tag before you go do something naughty but keep it in your car other times."

Pointless--they're already tracking your vehicle, and have been for years. I've discussed this in the past--The T.R.E.A.D. Act allowed the US government to force RFID tracking devices on the entire nation. The Firestone/Ford Explorer-rollover issue was used as reason to pass this legislation. Removing those tags is not only a federal offense, driving over a sensor (they're everywhere there is a stop-light sensor, utilizing the same antenna) without tags is sure to get you noticed eventually...and singled out. You'd end up drawing more attention then leaving them alone. Repealing the T.R.E.A.D. Act is the only way your getting rid of this problem.

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

Specifically,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_pressure_monitoring_system#Legislation

From linked article:
"Embedded in a tire or affixed to the sidewall, an RFID tag the size of a grain of rice is a powerful
tire-tracking tool. Some tiremakers have already recognized its potential. Some commercial truck
and aircraft fleets use RFID to identify tires and to ensure regular service. Tires used in
NASCAR racing are embedded with RFID to keep tabs on these high performance tires. Many in
the auto industry have identified recalls as one of its possible uses. With a chip embedded in the
sidewall and inexpensive readers installed in service shops (or an interface with the vehicle
computer), motorists could have the status of their tires checked every time they take their
vehicle to be serviced, or through their instrument panel."
( https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZrXHlyRR8y4J:http://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/Recalls_RFID.pdf%2BFirestone+tire+RFID&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&hl=en&ct=clnk )

Here are some specifics regarding one manufacturer of the technology:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_cXTVCFeXZIJ:http://www.lawfuel.com/860-to-950mhz-rfid-tire-tag/%2Btire+RFID+federal+law&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&ct=clnk

Interestingly, I found the following article--front-page, main headline--in a nearby news-outlet this morning. By the time I started writing this post, it had been yanked from the outward-facing website:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/09/12/3200503/study-proposes-tolling-interstate.html

Google Cache Version

IANAL, but I believe this is the Supreme Court decision that later case law was established upon that basically permits any LEO to lie (not in court though). So basically case law carves out an exemption specifically for law enforcement.

Also, this article demonstrates how easy it is to get ensnared by the feds on a lying charge. Scary stuff.

the fact that Syria received much of their chemical weapons from Egypt, who in turn received various levels of support, in the form of both materials and technical knowledge, from US AND British Interests, including the US military. By no means does this limit involvement to the US and Britain--many other players are involved.

First off, let me thank you for posting that link. I may find it quite useful in the future since so many people get things wrong that it addresses. You, for example. You think the US is responsible for the Arab nations getting chemical weapons? Let's see what your link says.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M2BQfifHFuwJ:http://www.acpr.org.il/pp/pp046-shohame.pdf%2BThe+Evolution+of+Chemical+and+Biological+Weapons+in+Egypt&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&gbv=1&filter=0&hl=en&ct=clnk

The Soviet Union gave chemical weapons to Egypt:

Egypt was the first Arab state to acquire an offensive chemical capability, and at a rather early stage. According to Cordesman, by the late 1950s Egypt already possessed CW, whereas Schumayer noted unequivocally that the Soviets supplied Egypt with defensive equipment as well as with CW, in the early 1960s.1 ... In 1963, the Egyptian Air Force first used chemical warfare agents in Yemen

Egypt helped Syria get chemical weapons.

Considering the nature of the data gathered by Egypt, it can be assumed that the nerve agent first developed was sarin (which Egypt indeed supplied to the Syrians in 1972 – see below). ... Prior to the Yom Kippur War, the strategic cooperation between Egypt and Syria expanded into the chemical arena. Syria did not, at that point in time, have a CW capability, and at first Egypt passed on to its ally its technical knowhow, supplying Syria with small quantities of CW for research purposes.18 At a later stage, it was agreed that CW would be supplied by Egypt to Syria for a sum of 6 million dollars.19 This was to provide the Syrians with a strategic offensive weapon of the first order, should they require it. Such an agreement between two Arab states was unprecedented. The inventory with which Egypt supplied Syria in 1972 most probably came as an essential part of the two countries’ joint reorganization plan that was carried out by both prior to mounting the surprise attack on Israel. The CW that Egypt shipped to Syria included a lethal non-persistent agent (sarin)20 and a persistent blistering agent (mustard)21, installed in tactical (artillery)22 and strategic (aerial)23 ammunition. It is therefore clear that by that period (1972) Egypt had already accumulated an operational arsenal of these types of chemical agents and munitions.

Egypt helped Iraq get chemical weapons:

Apparently, during 1976, the Egyptian army deployed some of its nerve gas arsenal, believing that the most appropriate use of nerve gas would be against Israeli towns.29 In any event, following the Yom Kippur War, Egypt persistently continued to develop chemical warfare agents and to manufacture launching systems for them.30 The signing of the 1978 peace agreement between Egypt and Israel left Syria, Egypt’s ally and partner in the 1967 defeat and the Yom Kippur War, feeling abandoned and bitter. However, gradually, from the late 1970s onwards, Egypt began to cooperate with Iraq. Iraq offered Egypt considerable financial support for increasing Egypt’s output of chemical warfare agents and for the production of chemical munitions. Iraq hoped to reap some of the rewards.31 Thu

Always has been "All f*&ked up..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/history-lesson-when-the-united-states-looked-the-other-way-on-chemical-weapons/2013/09/04/0ec828d6-1549-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_blog.html

I know...The Washington Post. Take it with a grain of salt if you must.

For more information on who we really have to blame for all of this shit, read on. While long, the article I link below describes--by name--some of the US companies involved in supplying the Middle-East with chemical and biological weapons. While the article focuses on Egypt, it also clearly illustrates the fact that Syria received much of their chemical weapons from Egypt, who in turn received various levels of support, in the form of both materials and technical knowledge, from US AND British Interests, including the US military. By no means does this limit involvement to the US and Britain--many other players are involved.

Highly informative history of Chemical and Biological use/capabilities in the Middle-East. Google cached version linked (I love using Google to help inform people about the abuses they help perpetrate).

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M2BQfifHFuwJ:http://www.acpr.org.il/pp/pp046-shohame.pdf%2BThe+Evolution+of+Chemical+and+Biological+Weapons+in+Egypt&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&gbv=1&filter=0&hl=en&ct=clnk

Short form?

The US uses other nations to test biological and chemical weapons, and now goes about calling for war when someone uses them. We GAVE them these technologies, now use the very same weapons as an excuse to impose our will upon them, and the media is complicit.

Here you go!

Discussing why the 1994 act only prohibited the manufacture or import of assault weapons, instead of the possession and sale of them, Feinstein said on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, February 5, 1995, "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vzEw5kVPFEwJ:ibgwww.colorado.edu/~wilsonsm/feinstein.ps

Conventiently not mentioning his other, more fundamental, oath to protect the US constitution?

I don't believe that contractors swear an oath to protect the Constitution, and even if they did, who did Snowden vet his personal interpretation of the Constitution with? Nobody, I expect. Assuming his intentions were actually "good," he just decided he didn't like it and broke the law. As to the constitutionality of the programs, Professor Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago Law School has some views on that.

Also, "arguably affecting the privacy"... We can omit the "arguably" here, it seems to me; that has been Snowden's main point (which has not been creditably disputed, as far as I know).

That's something of a philosophical question. If they collect and large amounts of data, which the phone company already has, but only look when they have a warrant, is it an invasion of privacy? Is it collection and storage that is a violation, or is it where there is a person looking at the data? I would say the looking. I can certainly understand how the storing would be an uncomfortable point.

But as to Snowden, it is clear at this point that he went way beyond questions of privacy in what he grabbed. He disclosed information on anti-terrorism operations, such as against Bin Laden and others. That has nothing to do with the privacy of American citizens.

Cleverly mentioning "Snowden sympathizers" and "anti-American activists" in close conjunction. The implication being, without actually demonstrating, that they are one and the same. Echoes of Al-Qaeda and Iraq, a decade ago. Bolton's statement that these have "controlled the story line" is arguably true, but not for lack of trying.

No, it is pretty straight forward that Snowden sympathizers and anti-American activists are overlapping groups, but not the same despite your claim. I don't believe that the US government ever claimed that Iraq was involved in 9/11 as part of the plot. Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism, that is beyond dispute. There were contacts between the members of the Iraqi government and al Qaida members. Al Qaida members were present in Iraq.

Hm, that contradicts the point you were making about how thousands of operatives were already in grave danger. Although I suppose you will say that you were talking about UK operatives. Ok, I'll give you that, sort of.

Actually I'm completely correct. Bolton was referring to US agents, I referred to British agents. I don't believe the actual number of agents was revealed.

Do you really not see the hypocrisy here? For years the West has accused China and Russia of doing exactly what they were themselves doing all along. So the "damage" here is that the falsely claimed moral highground is now exposed as dishonest fiction.

Was the West, the US, doing it all along? I don't think that has been established. I think it is also highly doubtful that the US or any country in the West has strong human intelligence in either China or Russia, certainly not to the degree they have on the US or Europe. The history seems to indicate that Eastern Block nations and China were pursuing computer espionage much more seriously long before the US or Europe. If you haven't, you should read The Cuckoo's Egg about an early documented case in the 80s. The author had a difficult time getting the gov

Here we go. Google to the rescue.

... stop selling a product because it was dangerous

You say that as if he were selling fireworks, caustic cleaning supplies, or surplus hand grenades.

He complied, labeling the product as not for children, and not for ingestion. The same kind of warnings that show up on fireworks *and* caustic cleaning supplies. I don't believe hand grenades have the same warning on them.

Well it seems that there is a warning on smoke greandes"DANGER-DO NOT USE HC IN CONFINED OR ENCLOSED AREAS- PERSONNEL MUST WEAR THE PROTECTIVE MASK IN ANY CONCENTRATION OF HC SMOKE" It doesn't say you can't feed it to children though.

Next time you hear about a child getting hurt with a firework, household cleaning supplies, or falling off a bicycle, be sure to remind them to sue the CEO for selling dangerous items. Don't forget to sue the CEO of every company along the entire distribution chain too.

You can be wary all you like and speculate all you like, but we have real-world collisions to look at already including ones with fatalities (not the Model S' passengers - they're all fine).

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-safe

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BoVsb74ZVTU/Ueo211zIQ0I/AAAAAAAAAHA/57Td1d4rr0I/w927-h522-no/TeslaHeadOnCollision-k-bigpic.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rlB359m59V8/Ueo2xioWUBI/AAAAAAAAAGw/ETAizn3DfnQ/w465-h586-no/TeslaHeadOnCollision-Front.png
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--CoWlEVV2ro/Ueo2FZEw-nI/AAAAAAAAAEo/hqraTBRsqog/w854-h475-no/HeadOnCollisionCabinIntact.jpg

Scroll down just a bit and you'll see a Honda and BMW that were obliterated and a couple Teslas looking a bit banged up. The drivers have posted on various forums about their experiences. Honda generally makes some pretty safe cars, but you won't be able to find out about the experience of the people in the accident with the Model S because the Honda failed to save their lives. The Model S driver walked away with minor injuries and that was a 1/4 head-on.

Got any other theories about how the Model S will perform?

You can be wary all you like and speculate all you like, but we have real-world collisions to look at already including ones with fatalities (not the Model S' passengers - they're all fine).

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-safe

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BoVsb74ZVTU/Ueo211zIQ0I/AAAAAAAAAHA/57Td1d4rr0I/w927-h522-no/TeslaHeadOnCollision-k-bigpic.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rlB359m59V8/Ueo2xioWUBI/AAAAAAAAAGw/ETAizn3DfnQ/w465-h586-no/TeslaHeadOnCollision-Front.png
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--CoWlEVV2ro/Ueo2FZEw-nI/AAAAAAAAAEo/hqraTBRsqog/w854-h475-no/HeadOnCollisionCabinIntact.jpg

Scroll down just a bit and you'll see a Honda and BMW that were obliterated and a couple Teslas looking a bit banged up. The drivers have posted on various forums about their experiences. Honda generally makes some pretty safe cars, but you won't be able to find out about the experience of the people in the accident with the Model S because the Honda failed to save their lives. The Model S driver walked away with minor injuries and that was a 1/4 head-on.

Got any other theories about how the Model S will perform?

You can be wary all you like and speculate all you like, but we have real-world collisions to look at already including ones with fatalities (not the Model S' passengers - they're all fine).

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/model-s-safe

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-BoVsb74ZVTU/Ueo211zIQ0I/AAAAAAAAAHA/57Td1d4rr0I/w927-h522-no/TeslaHeadOnCollision-k-bigpic.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rlB359m59V8/Ueo2xioWUBI/AAAAAAAAAGw/ETAizn3DfnQ/w465-h586-no/TeslaHeadOnCollision-Front.png
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--CoWlEVV2ro/Ueo2FZEw-nI/AAAAAAAAAEo/hqraTBRsqog/w854-h475-no/HeadOnCollisionCabinIntact.jpg

Scroll down just a bit and you'll see a Honda and BMW that were obliterated and a couple Teslas looking a bit banged up. The drivers have posted on various forums about their experiences. Honda generally makes some pretty safe cars, but you won't be able to find out about the experience of the people in the accident with the Model S because the Honda failed to save their lives. The Model S driver walked away with minor injuries and that was a 1/4 head-on.

Got any other theories about how the Model S will perform?

Given that the average HDD dies after only 4 years

I guess I must have had exceptionally good HDDs. I only had one HDD failure....

As grandparent said "that is a nice anecdote"... but were you "writing 10GB per day"?

I don't know where the 4 years number comes from... but it's not completely unlikely. Just take a look at the research:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/da//archive/disk_failures.pdf

Granted it's a few years old...

At least in Ubuntu, custom UI layout is kept between version. I've been using mine since 2010-2011

And a google cache copy which is not currently slashdotted/script-kiddied or whatever.

The page link -links to just the technical supplement
(very brief)
Here is the full link from one of the author pages.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/40814.pdf

Also kudos to google for publishing it to the public, aaron schwartz would be proud.

The original article in German: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-affaere-jimmy-carter-kritisiert-usa-a-911589.html

Google Translate: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?u=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-affaere-jimmy-carter-kritisiert-usa-a-911589.html

As with most globally significant events, there's been a lot of foreign language reporting (on the Snowden mess), but very little of it filters back into the USA media-sphere

Programmers intent on using all of the resources available, and performing intensive tasks, should think about means other than garbage collection.

This debate is as old as the hills. I'll just point out that it's not so much that GC is terrible, so much as it's indelibly associated with managed languages that either are Java or use very Java-inspired designs (like C#) in which objects and heap allocation is treated as being nearly free.

To prove my point, I cite Unreal Engine, a serious piece of code with very tight performance constraints. It's capable of hitting high, smooth frame rates, and it uses a garbage collected heap for the core game state (lots of objects with lots of pointers between them). (reference).

None of these things are free, exactly, but if you understand their costs you can still benefit. I think one of the reasons GC has a bad name is that so much code is written in languages like Java or JavaScript by people who, for instance, don't know the difference between a heap and a stack, or were simply never taught how GC works, so they tend to see allocations as free and use as many of them as they want. Older languages like C++ are used by older, more experienced developers who naturally consider the costs of things as they go, and have a bias towards more complex error-prone code that is tighter.

Google webcache has this

Wow, DNR regulates hunting of mosquittos & houseflies?!?

No, but mosquittos and houseflies are very small, and not particularly vulnerable to being irradiated with X-rays. Although it may be more effective against the pupae.

See this article on the eficacy of Gamma Radiation against the housefly.

The dose-mortality was found to be, essentially 10 Gy fatal to 50%, and 8 Gy to sterilize them.

This is an incredible amount of exposure, considering half that absorption kills a human, predictably, within 14 days.

You could infer... that the weapon is potentially more dangerous to the human, than to the fly.

If you look at the website of the World Food Prize org, you will find :-

The World Food Prize sincerely thanks the following sponsors for supporting its annual programs: ...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation DuPont Pioneer John Deere Foundation
The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition Monsanto DuPont Pioneer
Ruan Transportation Management Systems Claudia and Paul Schickler....

So, Monsanto is one of the sponsors of WFP. A pretty important one too, as shown by this link which used to exist on the Monsanto website.

The World Food Prize Foundation on Friday accepted a $5 million contribution from Monsanto Company to ensure the continuation of the annual World Food Prize International Symposium -- now known as the "Borlaug Dialogue." The funds support a renewed fundraising campaign to transform the historic Des Moines Public Library building into a public museum to honor Dr. Norman Borlaug and the work of the World Food Prize Laureates.

When you look up the WFP website , you will find that "The World Food Prize is sponsored by businessman and philanthropist John Ruan and is located in Des Moines, Iowa."

Not in itself damning, until you realise that :-

Monsanto has more facilities in Iowa than in any other state in the country

Monsanto has made substantial investments in Iowa

Monsanto actively lobbies to change laws in Iowa

I think its fair to say that Monsanto has a lot of influence in Iowa.

I question the integrity of this "prize".

article is down, so here is google's cached version

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.ibtimes.com/secret-court-document-finds-spy-techniques-unconstitutional-justice-department-fights-keep-it-hidden&strip=1

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ibtimes.com/secret-court-document-finds-spy-techniques-unconstitutional-justice-department-fights-keep-it-hidden

Google's Cache works 99% of the time:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323336104578501601108021968.html

Iran Hacks Energy Firms, U.S. Says
Oil-and-Gas, Power Companies' Control Systems Believed to Be Infiltrated; Fear of Sabotage Potential
By SIOBHAN GORMAN and DANNY YADRON

WASHINGTON--Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyberassaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions against the computer networks running energy companies, according to current and former U.S. officials.

In the latest operations, the Iranian hackers were able to gain access to control-system software that could allow them to manipulate oil or gas pipelines. They proceeded "far enough to worry people," one former official said.

The developments show that while Chinese hackers pose widespread intellectual-property-theft and espionage concerns, the Iranian assaults have emerged as far more worrisome because of their apparent hostile intent and potential for damage or sabotage.

U.S. officials consider this set of Iranian infiltrations to be more alarming than another continuing campaign, also believed to be backed by Tehran, that disrupts bank websites by "denial of service" strikes. Unlike those, the more recent campaigns actually have broken into computer systems to gain information on the controls running company operations and, through reconnaissance, acquired the means to disrupt or destroy them in the future, the U.S. officials said.

In response, U.S. officials warn that Iran is edging closer to provoking U.S. retaliation.

"This is representative of stepped-up cyber activity by the Iranian regime. The more they do this, the more our concerns grow," a U.S. official said. "What they have done so far has certainly been noticed, and they should be cautious."

The U.S. has previously launched its own cyberattacks against Iran. The Stuxnet worm, developed and launched by the U.S. and Israel, sabotaged an Iranian nuclear facility.

The latest campaign, which the U.S. believes has direct backing from the Iranian government, has focused on the control systems that run oil and gas companies and, more recently, power companies, current and former officials said. Control systems run the operations of critical infrastructure, regulating the flow of oil and gas or electricity, turning systems on and off, and controlling key functions.

In theory, manipulating the software could be used to delete important data or turn off key safety features such as the automatic lubrication of a generator, experts said.

Current and former U.S. officials wouldn't name the energy companies involved in the attacks. or say how many there were. But among the targets were oil and gas companies along the Canadian border, where many firms have operations, two former officials said.

The officials also wouldn't detail the precise nature of the evidence of Iranian involvement. But the U.S. has "technical evidence" directly linking the hacking of energy companies to Iran, one former U.S. official said.

Iranian officials deny any involvement in hacking. "Although Iran has been repeatedly the target of state-sponsored cyberattacks, attempting to target Iran's civilian nuclear facilities, power grids, oil terminals and other industrial sectors, Iran has not ever retaliated against those illegal cyberattacks," said Iran's spokesman at the United Nations, Alireza Miryousefi. "In the lack of international legal instruments to address cyberwarfare, Iran has been at the forefront of calling for creating such instruments. We categorically reject these baseless allegations used only to divert attentions."

So far, the infiltrations don't appear to have involved theft of data or disruption of operations. But officials worry the reconn

I don't trust those figures at all; First of all I can also pull a result of 86.0 and 62.3 for the RPi (which is it?). Secondly in the same source as the Celeron result there is also a 3 ghz Xeon that only gets a score of 160.8. I can find an 866mhz PIII that scores 198, which given that's almost 4x faster than your quoted result for an 800mhz Celeron (and faster even than a 3ghz Xeon) makes the figures you're using seem suspect.

Creative Suite 6 comes in all sorts of different versions. Based on the comparison chart (which Adobe replaced with a link forwarder to Creative Cloud), it looks like the equivalent CS6 version is Master Collection, which is $2100 on Amazon retail, $900 upgrade. So at $50/mo that'd be equivalent to 3.5 years for the initial purchase, and 1.5 years between upgrades (granted $50/mo is their introductory pricing).

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a terrible idea, and am thanking my lucky stars the only Adobe software I use extensively anymore is Lightroom, which for the time being can still be purchased as a standalone version. But for people/companies who actively use the different CS products and upgrade them with each release, it doesn't sound like that bad a deal. It will suck for casual users though. I keep an old copy of Photoshop CS2 around for the stuff I can't do in Lightroom. I feel sorry for the kids graduating now - if they need to touch up one photo in PS, they'll have to pay $20/mo for a year = $240 for that casual use.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/

Like you said, all the images still work
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/image.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/downloadingcrackedv.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/priate-message.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/steam.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/itruinsme.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/appeal.png
http://www.greenheartgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1day.png

Here is the "official" Mars One answer to bone issues (site seems to be down now so copy and paste from Google Cache):
Prolonged weightlessness causes osteoporosis, which can be reduced by exercise and medicine. Research onboard the International Space Station has led to even better and more effective training programs being drawn up, and new machines being made specifically for astronauts. Conjointly, there have been major leaps forward in medications capable of partially preventing declining calcium levels.

Recent study about 14 ISS astronauts, who were 4-6 month in space, showed a maximum bone loss of 1.5% / month in the most vulnerable (from bone loss point of view) region - the hip. Therefore the bone loss after arriving on Mars, after a 7 month flight, would be in the worst case scenario 10.5%.

When they arrive on a planet with 62% less gravity, they would have 100% more bone density compared to humans under earth gravity.

Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YS4BxMBdYy4J:mars-one.com/en/faq-en/19-faq-health/193-will-the-astronauts-develop-osteoporosis+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

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What is the purpose of owning them? Why are you shooting them? It's not because you really love to put holes in pieces of paper from 50 feet away.

You'd be surprised how addicting putting holes in paper is (well, often I use steel targets too which just fall over or you get an audible ring on a hit).

Its like any other sport. Throwing a ball through a hoop over and over serves no practical purpose but look how many people are tuning into March Madness.

I actually compete in three different shooting disciplines - USPSA, GSSF, and Steel Challenge. USPSA in particular is often mocked by shooting sports that DO practice "defensive" techniques specifically because many of the guns and strategies used in the sport are particularly unsuited to use in "real life" situations.

Do you honestly think this gun is optimal for any tactical, defense, or any other use against people?

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As an American, I'd have to say I agree with your assessment. This sums the situation up quite nicely.

As I said, if she was uncomfortable asking them to stop having a private conversation that didn't include her that she found offensive she was welcome to seek a supervisor of some sort. She didn't, she instead took PICTURES, tweeted them, and screamed to the world that these guys were "bad people think of the children". Have you not read the crap she wrote? A Google cache exists http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/

I'm sorry you have issues with confrontation. I find that if someone is annoying enough for me to shush them in a theater that any threats made by them are usually met by the growls of a dozen or more patrons around me. They also have these things called ushers, they can be asked to intercede on your behalf if you cannot stand up to others. I'm told they have these at conferences too, why they even have them at ballgames for when the dork in front of you gets too drunk and begins cursing the players in front of your child. These are the appropriate people to contact, not take pictures of the offending person and whine to the world about how they are just going to RUIN little Suzie's potential career. Spare me, she wanted attention, she got it, now she's discovered it cuts both ways - I hope she has a tough time finding another job as a result and gets to think deeply about her actions.

Yes, she was out of line. If I'm offended am I justified in throwing a tantrum? NO. Do I demand that no one ever offend me? Is it a requirement? NO IT IS NOT! Do you really want to live in a world where you're not allowed to say anything that might offend another? Even while speaking to someone else in a public setting? I don't, not ever. Offending others isn't the end of the world and neither is "being bothered" by something. Grow up and please do not pass this crap onto your children.

So NO, it should NOT have been a Federal case, It was a conversation that did NOT include her, that she actually misinterpreted, and that she had no reason to intercede in. She made a fool out of herself and out of her company for being a damned drama queen and I for one am quite happy to NOT work with people such as herself. The women I work with are reasonable and on the occasion that someone has offended them they have said something to the offender and the behavior has ceased without anyone having their paycheck dinged. If one of them say something I don't like I tell them too and it's not a problem. This is how adults handle themselves, this woman acted like a child.

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This warming https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7mjteSF7FW4/UQE4QTzUVtI/AAAAAAABMNQ/rBg-y7QjGv8/s821/climate_365_temperature_graph_final+(2).jpg

You know, the setting the top 9 global record temps in the past 10 years type stuff

No warming for the past 17 years? Every year has been warmer than the last for the past 30 years in a row. We really don't have enough long term data to tell if this is a normal cycle, but why chance it? There are small simple things that can be easily done to help reduce green house gas emission and general pollution.

Paraphrasing someone sarcastically talking about anti-global warming people: "We have strong evidence that what we're doing is killing the planet, but no absolute proof, so why stop?"

I did this landscape by a process called "procedural generation":

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Rather than place hills and grass individually, it uses fractal formulas to create the shapes and textures. The formulas and textures are height and slope aware, and it uses atmospheric haze to give a distance effect. The software is E-on Vue, which is used in professional movie making, but I just diddled around with it for fun.

It starts, with a killer asteroid hurling towards the earth.

Our hero is summoned, and immediately springs into action.

He sets out with his trusty weapon to save the world from the danger of the week.

After a long and awesome journey, he finally reach his destination.

Finally there, he slowly takes aim, breathes, and fire at The Killer Meteor. The meteor, alerted to his presence, fights back. What follows is a long action sequence only slowing down now and then so our hero can do manly poses.

After a long battle, and lots of shooting and fishing was done, there was only a small fragment left, just enough to spend the CGI budget, and show everyone how dangerous The Killer Meteor could have been.

No one was killed, and the world was again saved thanks to our hero.

The End.

First method: Try a Pirate Bay proxy: http://thepiratebay.se/, http://malaysiabay.org/, many more

Second method: Several ISPs use simple DNS blocking, so try Google Public DNS. (This doesn't apply to OP, but may help others.) On Windows, you can use the following command to see if it might work, without changing your DNS: nslookup thepiratebay.org 8.8.8.8 (the IP right now should be 194.71.107.50).

Third method: Use Google Cache to find the magnet-link:

1. Do a site:thepiratebay.se Google search for the torrent.
2. Click the Preview (>>) arrow next to your result, and click the Cached link.
3. Click "Text Only" version if the page fails to load.
4. Finally, click the magnet link.

If the "Cached" link is missing from the Google search result, click on the search result, then copy the URL (the real URL, not the Google redirect URL), prepend "http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:" to the URL. (example)

So where's the link to the video in question?

here

well pictures atleast. I do not recommend you watch them.

And yet, you didn't link to any images which would support your contention. In fact, a quick Google images search for "coffee lounge in Soma" disproves it.

And yet, you didn't link to any images which would support your contention. In fact, a quick Google images search for "coffee lounge in Soma" disproves it.

Methinks this is more hoax than serious threat. I checked Google's cache of the vandalized USSC site and found the instruction to create the "Warhead" file near the bottom of the page:

$ cat Scalia* Kennedy* Thomas* Ginsburg* Breyer* Roberts* Alito* Sotomayor* Kagan* > Warhead-US-DOJ-LEA-2013.aes256 && rm -rf /

You can still find page 1 of the article in Google cache. Thanks to ~darkeye, who submitted that.

This is the same author who wrote "Sell Research in Motion. Now." That in April, 2011 as it began its precipitous dive from $53 to $6.50. His views are controversial, but he has a better track record than many official analysts.

Microsoft makes more than 75% of its profits from Windows and Office. Less than 25% comes from its vaunted servers and tools. And Microsoft makes nothing from its xBox/Kinect entertainment division, while losing vast sums in its on-line division (negative $350M-$750M/quarter). No matter how much anyone likes the non-Windows Microsoft products, without the historical Windows/Office sales and profits Microsoft is not sustainable.

To be quite honest he makes a good case.

The article has inexplicably vanished. Here's the text from the Google cache while it lasts:

Microsoft needed a great Christmas season. After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsoft’s future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to jump in heavily for Windows8 products – including the new Surface tablet.

But that did not happen.

With the data now coming it, it is clear the market movement away from Microsoft products, toward Apple and Android products, has not changed. On Christmas eve, as people turned on their new devices and launched their first tweet, Surface came in dead last – a mere 2% compared to the number of people tweeting from iPads (Kindle was second, Android third.) Looking at more traditional units shipped information, UBS analysts reported Surface sales were 5% of iPads shipped. And usability reviews continue to run highly negative for Surface and Win8.

PC sales declining

This inability to make a big splash, and mount a serious attack on Apple/Android domination, is horrific for Microsoft primarily because we now know that traditional PC sales are well into decline. Despite the big Win8 launch and promotion, holiday PC sales declined over 3% compared to 2011 as journalists reported customers found “no compelling reason to upgrade.” Ouch!

Looking deeper, for the 4th quarter PC sales declined by almost 5% according to Gartner research, and by almost 6.5% according to IDC. Both groups no longer expect a rebound in PC shipments, as they believe homes will no longer have more than 1 PC due to the mobile device penetration – the market where Surface and Win8 phones have failed to make any significant impact or move beyond a tiny market share. Users increasingly see the complexity of shifting to Win8 as not worth the effort; and if a switch is to be made consumer and businesses now favor iOS and Android.

Microsoft’s monopoly over personal computing has evaporated

From 95% market domination in 2005 share has fallen to just 20% in 2012 (IDC, Goldman Sachs.) Comparing devices, in 2005 there were 55 Windows de

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Any idiot that SENDS AN EMAIL from his corporate account discussing a fraud, using whatever phrases, deserves to get caught. What the fuck does "Off the books" mean if not "DON'T WRITE ANYTHING DOWN".

And, if you are going to send an email telling everyone to delete the incriminating emails, make sure you delete that email.

Furthermore, Mike Brighty, another Hasbro Sales Director, was clearly aware not only of the pricing initiative itself but also of its illegality when he suggested to Ian Thomson to ask Lesley Paisley of Littlewoods to delete an incriminating e-mail ('its highly illegal and it could bite you right in the arse!!!! suggest you phone Lesley and tell her to trash?')

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