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Agreed, I also believe a professional bartender serving at a private party does not have these rules either.

Either way we are years away from a completely automated robot serving in a public location without human supervision.

Currently we are more likely to end up with this.

Like this bad mother fucker right here.

Weird. that didn't happen to me. https://imgur.com/7tWVgSU

It is just a bunch of whiny asshats who care about specs on paper rather than real world performance.

Really? Are you arguing that it's okay for products not to be up to spec?

Specs let you know what you are getting and if you look at the nvidia spec for 970: http://imgur.com/CFUOUzs
Where does it say that ONLY 3.5GB operates at the specified bandwidth?

The data is also extremely misleading as Reddit readers points out in this this graph

I will guarantee you that this particular 'update' will only take care of the core OS infection. If you have FF, Opera, or Thunderbird, do not expect this to work. You're stuck fixing those programs and their cert stores on your own.

I wouldn't trust Lenovo, anyways. They can't keep a story straight.

First they say 'Between October and December' and then just a few lines later contradict themselves by saying they stopped in January.

Then they further contradict their words by releasing a security advisory stating they stopped in February.

We know this software has been on Lenovo laptops since June, at the least. So the Oct-Dec statement is a lie. Three straight lies in a row.

Simply put, you cannot trust this company any longer. Their 'fix' is a lie, their statements are lies, and they're trying to save face to avoid the Federal hand of pain bearing down upon them.

I will guarantee you that this particular 'update' will only take care of the core OS infection. If you have FF, Opera, or Thunderbird, do not expect this to work. You're stuck fixing those programs and their cert stores on your own.

I wouldn't trust Lenovo, anyways. They can't keep a story straight.

First they say 'Between October and December' and then just a few lines later contradict themselves by saying they stopped in January.

Then they further contradict their words by releasing a security advisory stating they stopped in February.

We know this software has been on Lenovo laptops since June, at the least. So the Oct-Dec statement is a lie. Three straight lies in a row.

Simply put, you cannot trust this company any longer. Their 'fix' is a lie, their statements are lies, and they're trying to save face to avoid the Federal hand of pain bearing down upon them.

Great check! I found my error. My G calculation was pulled from a chart where the distance was measured in km (not meters). Here is the new code. This shows it takes about 19 minutes to reach the center and you miss by 310 km.

[t,y]=ode23(@orbit_ode,[0 90*60],[6500e3 0 0 2*pi/(24*3600)]);

polar(y(:,3),y(:,1))

min(y(:,1))

function dx=orbit_ode(t,x);
        dx=zeros(4,1);%This is a pre-initialization.

        %x(1) = r position
        %x(2) = r velocity
        %x(3) = theta position
        %x(4) = theta velocity

        dx(1)= x(2); %Velocity
        dx(2)= x(1)*x(4)^2-(.0037e-3*x(1)-3.35e-13*x(1)^2);
        dx(3)= x(4);
        dx(4)= (-2*x(2)*x(4))/x(1);

end

http://imgur.com/WHsoenC

This is relative to a fixed observer outside of earth.
If you subtract out the earth rotation you get this.

http://imgur.com/nMN2Hd7

Great check! I found my error. My G calculation was pulled from a chart where the distance was measured in km (not meters). Here is the new code. This shows it takes about 19 minutes to reach the center and you miss by 310 km.

[t,y]=ode23(@orbit_ode,[0 90*60],[6500e3 0 0 2*pi/(24*3600)]);

polar(y(:,3),y(:,1))

min(y(:,1))

function dx=orbit_ode(t,x);
        dx=zeros(4,1);%This is a pre-initialization.

        %x(1) = r position
        %x(2) = r velocity
        %x(3) = theta position
        %x(4) = theta velocity

        dx(1)= x(2); %Velocity
        dx(2)= x(1)*x(4)^2-(.0037e-3*x(1)-3.35e-13*x(1)^2);
        dx(3)= x(4);
        dx(4)= (-2*x(2)*x(4))/x(1);

end

http://imgur.com/WHsoenC

This is relative to a fixed observer outside of earth.
If you subtract out the earth rotation you get this.

http://imgur.com/nMN2Hd7

Yup, lying sacks of shit. I caught them in their lie, too.

They say they stopped this in December?

Why does this say it stopped in January here in the official topic?

Why does this updated "security advisory" state February as the actual stopping month?

Lenovo is a lying sack of shit. We should start a change.org petition and tell the Gov't to bar Lenovo from all future USGov't contracts.

Yup, lying sacks of shit. I caught them in their lie, too.

They say they stopped this in December?

Why does this say it stopped in January here in the official topic?

Why does this updated "security advisory" state February as the actual stopping month?

Lenovo is a lying sack of shit. We should start a change.org petition and tell the Gov't to bar Lenovo from all future USGov't contracts.

http://imgur.com/H8459Z3,87zOr...

Oh how quickly you changed your original statement from January to February.

Good thing we can screencap and HTML-rip your entire site for the proof, Lenovo.

http://i.imgur.com/kRO8OW5.png

A nice cached screencap of their (conveniently) down website.

See all these people, here? These are the people that need to be dragged into court.

bankofamerica.com courtesy of Superfish:

https://i.imgur.com/Ky0Bwih.jpg

Not sure about the source of the screenshot, independent confirmation would be good.

https://imgur.com/t/star_trek/...

That alone is going drive users away from Chrome to Firefox+NoScript.

FYI, this is a good thing...

you are severely overestimating the ability of an educational system

Negative. I your are underestimating the desire for the common person to be stupid. For a long time modern education has been designed to neuter the brightest minds and indoctrinate the rest. It's just more apparent now. Ever wondered why it's so common for "bright kids" to flunk out? No one's trying to fix that, it's how "normalizing" education is supposed to work; Bring everyone down to a common denominator so they can be "equal", interchangeably so. Check your "intelligence privilege" -- ugh -- "Everyone's a winner", because competition is an evil "masculine" trait, thus no one should be exceptional (or male, for that matter; Men being the only threat to any ideology, must be sufficiently cowed and shamed). That's what your education system is teaching kids of all ages today. It's literally retardation by design.

About those vaccinations... That's mostly just a money grab, mandating them is primarily just government pork. Remember the outbreak of measles? Did you know it was vaccinated people getting sick too? So, how important are vaccinations that don't even work? Oh, the virus "drifted", eh? Yeah, they all do, every last one. Not saying that no vaccination is worthwhile, just that if you look at the facts, they're far less effective than morons like you (that don't do any research) have been led to believe. Sadly, you're the very same sort that can't be educated because you're so easily indoctrinated by "science" reported in the news which is naught but propaganda. Hint: Scientists are skeptics. I guess you'll be calling me a "denier" if I question the "science" of man made global warming? Even though I believe it's happening, I don't think it's causing the effects claimed, and it certainly isn't a serious enough problem to engage a heinous eugenic program for systematic population reduction (oh, sorry, that part of the "climate change" propaganda plan hasn't been revealed in the public media just yet).

You don't do fact checking and dismiss folks who do check facts, that's not very smart, eh? Case in point: 9/11 was an inside job, those buildings were obviously demolished; It was so obvious that structural engineers petitioned NY to reinspect every building because no building should come down on itself like that due to a mere plane crashing into it -- They're designed to burn out to a husk and still stand, even in the face of hurricane winds. What were the armed guards doing protecting a 9 month long "elevator modernization" project just prior to the demolition of the towers? Perhaps they were making sure no one saw people weakening the structures and installing micro-aluminum thermite charges for quiet (but expensive) demolition (patented in 1984)? You can see molten steel pouring from the buildings. Jet fuel and building material doesn't burn hot enough to do that, and that's why nearby vehicles had melted bumpers and the wreckage contained melted steel; That's why folks near the buildings said they heard a second detonation; Ever wonder why the wrong type of plane engine was "found" at the scene? Have you even watched any of the videos of the towers falling straight down into themselves -- not falling over the least bit... not once but twice? Terrorists just beat lottery level odds, twice? Nope, but you aren't supposed to think for yourself, you aren't supposed to go verify any claims yourself, you're supposed to be a good little shitizen and believe the lies media tells you. The average slashdaughter couldn't be fucked to do any fact checking. You're all conditioned to dismiss what doesn't fit the propaganda's narrative, yes, even you, and that conditioning starts in school.

So, now, if 9/11 were a ploy to start a war, wouldn't it make more sen

you are severely overestimating the ability of an educational system

Negative. I your are underestimating the desire for the common person to be stupid. For a long time modern education has been designed to neuter the brightest minds and indoctrinate the rest. It's just more apparent now. Ever wondered why it's so common for "bright kids" to flunk out? No one's trying to fix that, it's how "normalizing" education is supposed to work; Bring everyone down to a common denominator so they can be "equal", interchangeably so. Check your "intelligence privilege" -- ugh -- "Everyone's a winner", because competition is an evil "masculine" trait, thus no one should be exceptional (or male, for that matter; Men being the only threat to any ideology, must be sufficiently cowed and shamed). That's what your education system is teaching kids of all ages today. It's literally retardation by design.

About those vaccinations... That's mostly just a money grab, mandating them is primarily just government pork. Remember the outbreak of measles? Did you know it was vaccinated people getting sick too? So, how important are vaccinations that don't even work? Oh, the virus "drifted", eh? Yeah, they all do, every last one. Not saying that no vaccination is worthwhile, just that if you look at the facts, they're far less effective than morons like you (that don't do any research) have been led to believe. Sadly, you're the very same sort that can't be educated because you're so easily indoctrinated by "science" reported in the news which is naught but propaganda. Hint: Scientists are skeptics. I guess you'll be calling me a "denier" if I question the "science" of man made global warming? Even though I believe it's happening, I don't think it's causing the effects claimed, and it certainly isn't a serious enough problem to engage a heinous eugenic program for systematic population reduction (oh, sorry, that part of the "climate change" propaganda plan hasn't been revealed in the public media just yet).

You don't do fact checking and dismiss folks who do check facts, that's not very smart, eh? Case in point: 9/11 was an inside job, those buildings were obviously demolished; It was so obvious that structural engineers petitioned NY to reinspect every building because no building should come down on itself like that due to a mere plane crashing into it -- They're designed to burn out to a husk and still stand, even in the face of hurricane winds. What were the armed guards doing protecting a 9 month long "elevator modernization" project just prior to the demolition of the towers? Perhaps they were making sure no one saw people weakening the structures and installing micro-aluminum thermite charges for quiet (but expensive) demolition (patented in 1984)? You can see molten steel pouring from the buildings. Jet fuel and building material doesn't burn hot enough to do that, and that's why nearby vehicles had melted bumpers and the wreckage contained melted steel; That's why folks near the buildings said they heard a second detonation; Ever wonder why the wrong type of plane engine was "found" at the scene? Have you even watched any of the videos of the towers falling straight down into themselves -- not falling over the least bit... not once but twice? Terrorists just beat lottery level odds, twice? Nope, but you aren't supposed to think for yourself, you aren't supposed to go verify any claims yourself, you're supposed to be a good little shitizen and believe the lies media tells you. The average slashdaughter couldn't be fucked to do any fact checking. You're all conditioned to dismiss what doesn't fit the propaganda's narrative, yes, even you, and that conditioning starts in school.

So, now, if 9/11 were a ploy to start a war, wouldn't it make more sen

The US needs real consumer protection and data privacy laws, and enforcement actions to back them up. It's been left up to the free market to sort out, and the situation has gotten entirely out of fucking control.

Check out all these slimeballs scrambling to profit every time you click on a web page. Gathering your data, selling it amongst themselves and to the highest bidders, handing it to the NSA under the table. Your insurance company knows you visited marlboro.com to request a free deck of cards even though you've never smoked in your life. Target knows your daughter is pregnant before she tells anyone. Companies like ChoicePoint and Axciom, who you've never even done any business with, have enormous amounts of data about you, it's the only reason those companies exist. It goes on.

We've left this situation unregulated for long enough, we need real consumer protection legislation with teeth.

IT'S TIME FOR REAL PRIVACY LAWS IN AMERICA.

On Slashdot, no one hears your memes.

basically its just "OMG DRONESSSS"

That should be "OMG DRONIES!!!!" and it should be in giant pink letters with animated sparkles like this.

http://imgur.com/gallery/VWUgs...

Sums up how I feel about yet another systemd flame war.

This is what you call level? Because if you passed fifth grade math, you'd be able to recognize that as a downward slope.

Sure, the slope in the Reagan years is better than it is the Ford and Carter years, but you can clearly see that in the Ford/Carter years, the only drops in real wages were during the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 oil crisis. I'm not saying that Ford and Carter aren't to blame for the oil shocks (they are to a large extent), but this is a failure of their foreign policies, not their economic policies.

Now look at the Reagan years. What oil crisis did he have to cause a drop in real wages? None? So what does that say about Reaganomics?

And even if you do think Reagan did better than Ford and Carter. So what? The economy under Carter might have been better than Zimbabwe's economy is right now, but that doesn't mean Carter did a good job. A good job on Reagan's part would have been reversing the drop in real wages (like what happened in 74 - 78, according to the graph), not prolonging it for another eight years.

If you guys decide to go with the date, please go with ISO dates. There's nothing more confusing than stupid American dates.

You better run, Egg!

http://i.imgur.com/Bm2njAA.jpg

Facebook already had ass recognition up and running. Whenever I try to post this picture, http://i.imgur.com/4FcyrcO.jpg , Facebook will remove it automatically and instantly.

Your comment is a superb example of everything that's wrong with the attitude of the Mozilla community these days, and I say this as a Firefox user myself. When faced with more than 8000 valid complaints from Firefox users within just the past 7 days, all you can do is deny that these very real problems exist! Those 8000 users must be wrong, according to you. Obviously they aren't wrong at all. They're absolutely right.

I saw this screenshot linked to during some other Firefox discussion around here a few weeks ago. Although that user was apparently using OS X, I've experienced something similar when using recent versions of Firefox on my Linux and Windows systems. When people like you incorrectly claim that Firefox doesn't suffer from awful performance or excessive memory usage, the rest of us who have experienced these problems know you're wrong.

Yes, lots of people do dislike the Australis interface. And it is driving Firefox users to Chrome, paradoxically. I'll explain why this is to you, though. These users often used Firefox because they didn't like the UI of Chrome, even if it meant putting up with Firefox's performance issues and memory leaks. But with Firefox's UI now almost identical to Chrome's, that advantage of Firefox is long gone. These Firefox users do the only sane thing they can do: move to the browser that's faster and doesn't leak memory like there's no tomorrow, even if it has the UI that they hate. That browser is Chrome.

It doesn't matter if 5% of people complained, or 20% of people were complaining, or if 95% of people were complaining. It doesn't matter if it was 8000 people complaining, or even just 1 person. If anybody is unhappy with Firefox, then Mozilla has a problem, and Mozilla should do everything in its power to fix that problem.

Your ignorant attitude is hurting the Mozilla community. It's helping to drive away the few remaining Firefox users. Instead of trying to help these Firefox users improve their experience, you and so many others in the Mozilla community just insult them, treat them like garbage, deny their very real problems exist, ridicule them, and otherwise defecate upon them.

I don't know how long I'll be able to last, to be honest with you. I'm getting closer and closer to moving to Chrome with each release of Firefox. It isn't even so much about the software at this point. I just don't want to associate with such a rotten community, like we find the Mozilla one to be these days.

- Jeremiah

Thanks. I don't think he understands how people work. Must be lonely to be him, living as if it's the 20th century, with only his imaginary Anonymous Coward "supporters" to keep him company.

But things could be worse :-)

Dolt.

First up, your book promo selfie is very impressive! I hope I look as good as you do at your age! I'm not as ripped as you are (proof, since you asked) but I'm fairly happy with myself currently. I eat and drink whatever I want on weekends (last weekend I had rather a lot of red wine on Friday night, an entire pizza to myself on Saturday night, and then another pizza on Monday night, so I'm not exactly some masochistic food nazi), and weekdays I eat whatever I want to, but stay under my energy cap (~6500kj or so). I've just started working out again (20 minutes, 3-4 times a week) after 4 month break thanks to the arrival of our daughter. I think it's fair to say that my approach doesn't take a lot of willpower to maintain a steady weight, and I've maintained this weight for more than three years now so I think it's safe to say it's not temporary.

If your goal is to slowly trim 12kg over the course of several years (if I'm rightly interpreting your blog post), then eating a healthy diet and exercising six hours a week will obviously do the trick. However, my post was in the context of people who need to "lose a lot of weight". To do that you need to run a significant energy deficit - ~2500kJ a day seems to be a good target. I challenge you to suggest a diet that will allow you to run that kind of deficit without feeling hungry (and thus, requiring willpower). And not just a diet where you don't want to eat more broccoli, but one where you won't be tempted by the chips at the lunch bar. I can have those chips if I want 'em, as long as I don't go over my cap.

Obesity rates in many first-world countries are due, I believe, to poor health and nutritional education (just witness the flood of replies I've had in this thread saying either "energy balance doesn't affect weight gain/loss" or "energy balance is out of my control") compounded by food that is super tasty but very energy dense and very nutritionally poor, and by food manufacturers pushing ever-bigger portions in a runaway arms race against each other.

I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. As per your completed request form "Stroke, Period, Question (2015-F)", I will provide a link to a sample of material from the new Common Core curriculum.
For your own good, it is also suggested you learn our "new and improved" arithmetic.

If you manage to help your offspring escape the public (re)education camp then please ensure they are similarly confused and indoctrinated, Citizen.

Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying we should collectively be remotely worried about random IEDs, or even about terrorism in general, since it's so incredibly rare. Our airport security theater is especially lame. I'm just saying that I think the police were justified in treating this device with suspicion, especially with the way it looked. Take a look at that link and tell me that doesn't look suspicious to you. Honestly, I would never have guessed it was a camera.

Detonating a suspicious device in-place is how any potential explosive threat is done in almost all cases. It's not like the movies where specialists are choosing red or blue wires to snip, with an LED visibly showing a countdown timer. It's easy to mock the police for overreaction in hindsight now that we know there was no threat, but I just think that's a bit disingenuous.

BTW, here's where I'd disagree with the police:

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Atlanta police said the student responsible for taping the project to the bridge could be charged with reckless conduct once the investigation is complete.

I'm hoping the student gets off with a stern warning, because it seems pretty likely there was no ill intent here, just some questionable judgment about placing something like that on a freeway overpass.

Tell me if you can determine for sure that this isn't a bomb. Because that sure doesn't look like a camera to me. That looks more like an IED than a camera.

Also, I'm glad to hear you're volunteering to go up to suspected bombs, peel them open, and rattle them around a bit to see if they're dangerous or not. No? It's pretty easy to say that you're 100% sure it's not a bomb when it's not your life on the line.

IED ATTACKS IN THE U.S.
OCT 2012 – 38.
NOV 2012 – 21.
DEC 2012 – 28.
JAN 2013 – 31.
FEB 2013 – 23.
MAR 2013 – 31.

Sometimes they do actually explode - seems about one a day, in fact. Why risk a life when it's simpler just to detonate something that looks so suspicious? Get off your fucking high horse.

I wouldn't blame the University. Sometimes, students are just stupid.

In this particular case, the student was not only stupid, but also super lazy. And this false positive will in no way affect the reputation of the police or the bomb squad. In this case, they reacted the exact right amount (given the suspicious nature of the attachment).

But the government can't force you to have medical procedures against your will. If the government can force you to take injections you don't want to, in order to potentially save your life or someone else's, why can't they force you to bear a child against your will to save its life, outlawing abortion? You own your meat. If you don't get to decide what medical procedures you undergo, you don't own it. And if you don't own your body, what exactly do you own?

But, without a certificate (state issued so you can't pay Dr. Spaceman to write you a note pretending you have a condition) that says you are unvaccinated for medical reasons (surgery, allergies), you should be barred from public schools, and private businesses should be able to bar your entry as well for the safety of their customers and staff. Plague-bearers not welcome. If you don't want to support herd immunity, you may not be part of my herd.

As far as CPS goes, I don't think they should take unvaccinated children from parents, as that's basically the same as forcing them to have the vaccination. But there should be an education program. If there is evidence of child abuse, a pediatrician or teacher or other state agent is required by law to report it, and CPS will pay you a visit and perhaps take your child. If your child is unvaccinated, CPS will come by once a year and show you and your children educational programs about vaccination. Include pictures from the good old days before vaccines ruined our kids. And if the child, 3 years old, whatever, says "I want to be vaccinated," bam, done.

Right there with you. I cannot condone the government forcing someone to undergo a medical procedure, even something as obviously beneficial as a vaccine. You own your meat. If the government can force you to inject something into it you don't want, then you don't own it. If you don't own your body, what exactly the fuck do you own?

This is the same argument with abortion. "My body, my choice." I'm Catholic, believe life begins at conception, and abortion is little better than murder. But I don't believe the government should force you to undergo a medical procedure (a birth) if you don't want to. Even in life or death situations. If only my blood can cure your disease, I'll gladly you give you some. But if I say "no," for any reason, you may not take it from me, nor may the state do so on your behalf. So even though removing the fetus from the mother kills it, I cannot force her to save the life of the child using her meat against her will.

So no, I can't condone the government forcing you to vaccinate your child. But I can insist your plague-bearer stays the hell away from my kids. No vaccine without a valid medical reason, as assessed by a state board (to prevent gaming the system by having Dr. Spaceman write a note for cash)? No school. And Wal-Mart and Disneyland should be allowed to ban unvaccinated people from their properties. They ban guns. A plague-bearer is carrying a biological weapon.

I am still bothered by the fact that the parent can make this decision on behalf of the child without the child's consent. If a child wants to be vaccinated and their parent doesn't want them to, I think the kid's opinion should override the parents (but not the other way around). Perhaps there should be an education program for kids (and parents)? My wife and I had a baby last week (well, she had the baby, I stood by her head and tried to avoid fainting from the whole "sight of blood" thing) and there are a dozen education programs the hospital goes through about breastfeeding and infant care. We expressed no objection to vaccination, naturally, but I wonder if we had? Do they have a program in place to educate the parents? Show them pictures from the good old days before vaccines ruined our kids? And perhaps make this program available to children? Bring your kid to a pediatrician and he's required by law to show the program to your child? They're required by law to report child abuse, after all, which results in your child being taken from you. Having CPS come by and show your kid a 30 minute video about vaccines is certainly less invasive than that.

For one, he didn't choose countries randomly but instead selected only those likely to prove his beliefs, including Yugoslavia, Finland and Italy. Excluded were France, land of the famously healthy omelet eater, as well as other countries where people consumed a lot of fat yet didn't suffer from high rates of heart disease, such as Switzerland, Sweden and West Germany.

France as a country eating a lot fat! WTF?!!? Are you a fucking idiots? Do you also believe to no-go zones?

Age-standardized mortality from ischaemic heart disease in European regions (men; age group 45–74 years; year 2000).

No, but with the right technology (like greenhouses, solar power, air conditioners, and atmospheric moisture extractors) it could be turned into one. Unfortunately that, like the loss of snow caps on mountaintops like Kilimanjaro, would reduce solar reflectivity and increase global warming, because jungle green reflects less visible light penetrating the atmosphere into outer space and coverts it to infrared that bounces back to the planet from the atmosphere, compared to bright desert yellow sand. One must wait until there is tangible evidence of the mofos on top running the show putting up umbrella like solar panels (that beam the power via microwave down to Earth or maybe to the ISS or the Moon) at the Lagrange point in sufficient amount (say 1% of total Earth surface area) to compensate for loss of reflectivity and cool the planet the fuck back down until the snow on top of Kilimanjaro reappears in same quantity as it was in 1950. Until then areas like Death Valley or Death Saudi Arabia or Death Sahara Desert must wait. And we're talking a lot of real estate: http://whiteafrican.com/wp-con...
Then go look up the land area of the Sahara Desert to realize how much opportunity to expand jungles is wasted presently as wind blown desert sand dunes with death and nothing in them. From that picture it looks like the Sahara Desert is bigger than the entire continental US not including Alaska, and Alaska might be by far the biggest state by land area, but it's pretty empty from people (except shotgun wielding hot as fuck air heads like Sarah Palin that everyone, including all the women have a crush on and want to see naked) because it does not get enough sunlight, or enough temperate temperature days to allow for farming to proliferate, unlike the jungles of India, Congo, Brazil, or Vietnam that are bursting with life and genetic variability. Alaska does get forests and safe habitat for rare or near extinct animals like grizzlies, polar bears and wolves. For comparison in land areas, Russia tops the list, for instance look at this picture: http://alphadesigner.com/wp-co...

Btw I came across another good picture worth soaking up. We all know about China being the most populous, and people in Japan being perverts who fuck like rabbits, but besides them two check out India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, VietNam, Mexico and compare to US, Russia, Canada, Australia and Saudi Arabia, or even Yemen to Saudi Arabia, or even Ukraine to Russia, to find out where the most coitus is going down on the planet and where people are most strictly religious in the non-kama-sutra way and keep a leash on their dick. http://i.imgur.com/HhqlkMK.png
Based on this picture a Pearl Harbor attack by a tiny country like Japan on a humongous country like the US is not really that insane, and should a war happen between Japan and Australia alone, or even Vietnam and Australia, and it's obvious who the immediate winner would be, right? When you could human soldiers which are cheaper, more expandable and more robust than robots.

It would be nice to see a similar breakdown for the US along racial lines. For instance in the 1990's there were 17% African Americans in the US, supposedly, in the days of $25/hr union wages with a high school diploma. These days all I see is white women with black kids and everyone on welfare and white guys not having children over not having a job, or not having a job that pays well, and I'm starting to think that the racial makeup is more like 30% Black, 20%Hispanic and 10% Asian, and out of these Hispanics are the fastest breeding. As long as there is guaranteed welfare checks that leave no child left behind and starving, there is no reason not to pop as many as you possibly can, right? How you gonna tell somebody not to hit that booty, not to fuck, and not to have children,

Once in a low earth orbit, it doesn't take that much more to take it from there to a different orbit.

This isn't really true. Getting from Earth surface to low Earth orbit takes a delta-v of 9.4 km/s, and getting from there to geostationary orbit takes another 3.9 km/s (see this map). So, in terms of delta-v, you need to go another 3.9/9.4 ~ 40% as far as you already have.

Okay, that's not that much further. But that doesn't mean that the size of the rocket you need just goes up by 40%. The required rocket size is *exponential* as a function of delta-v. To launch 1 tonne into low Earth orbit, you need a rocket that weighs ~30 tonnes - so, to launch 1 tonne into geostationary orbit, you need a rocket that weighs 30^1.4 ~ 120 tonnes. That's four times as much rocket, just to go that little bit further from one Earth orbit to another.

Most of that rocket is still for putting that payload into orbit, as you said. But instead of a 30-tonne rocket putting a 1-tonne payload in orbit, it's a 120-tonne rocket putting a 4-tonne rocket in orbit, and that 4-tonne rocket putting a 1-tonne payload in a higher orbit.

This is why more fuel-efficient engines, like nuclear or ion rockets, would be a great help even if they didn't have enough thrust to launch directly from the ground. If you can get 1 tonne from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit with a 2-tonne nuclear rocket instead of a 4-tonne chemical rocket, the chemical rocket that launches you from the ground only needs to be 60 tonnes instead of 120 tonnes. That's a big advantage.

If you're just tooling about in low/medium Earth orbit, sure, chemical rockets are all you need. But if you want to go to geostationary orbit or the moon, nuclear/ion rockets can make it more efficient; and if you want to to Mars/Venus and back, they're almost essential.

Do you have any actual evidence that this mysterious "someone" who is engaging in this alleged "astroturfing" actually exists?

I don't think there are any conspiracies here. The problems at hand are quite obvious: Mozilla repeatedly makes idiotic decisions that Firefox users hate, Mozilla refuses to listen to the Firefox users when they object to these bad decisions, and then Mozilla goes on to make more dumb decisions that Firefox users don't like.

Google, Apple, Microsoft and even Opera don't have to do a damn thing for people to be angry with what Mozilla has done. They don't have to pay anyone to "bash" Firefox. The legitimate Firefox users who have been screwed over by Mozilla time and time and time and time and time and time and time again are the ones angry with what's happening and are speaking out against it!

For example, I recently saw this screen shot posted by somebody else in some other discussion here about Firefox a few weeks ago. I've seen something similar happen with recent versions of Firefox on my Linux system. So when I hear people from Mozilla saying how Firefox's memory leaks have been fixed, or how its performance is improved, I remain very skeptical. My experience shows the opposite of what Mozilla and its supporters claim.

Of course, I know I'm not alone. All we need to do is look at Mozilla's own Firefox feedback results. Right now, 87% of the reports are "sad", while only a mere 13% are "happy". While not all users will be happy, obviously, that's a massive discrepancy between the number of happy users and the number of sad users.

Face it, Firefox users aren't happy with what Mozilla has done to Firefox over the past few years. Mozilla is fucking over a lot of Firefox users, and these users are vocally expressing their displeasure with Mozilla's stupidity. These people aren't being paid to express their displeasure. They're just really damn unhappy with how Mozilla has crapped all over them!

Nip this problem in the bud. Nuke Mecca.

https://i.imgur.com/lWPdJ.png

http://imgur.com/gallery/ILX0g... That is boston.

I'm betting you're an idiot.

It's not much to look at, sadly, as the new build brings the start menu more in-lines with Windows 8. Also sadly, along with this change they require you to use Cortana in lieu of the normal start menu search. They replaced the regular WPF start menu with a XAML (metro app) start menu that depends on a bunch of metro stuff to work, and removing Cortana breaks it. There's a hidden registry setting to go back to the one found in previous builds, but I suspect Microsoft will remove it like they did the start menu from Windows 8.

Meanwhile I've found that you can presently "de-metro"ify this build with these three powershell commands:

Set-ItemProperty HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced -Name "EnableXamlStartMenu" -Value 0 -Type DWord
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online
Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
logoff # logs you off so you can log back in to see the effect

(The first two lines are actually one line; should be 4 lines total)

After you do that, it very much resembles the Windows 7 start menu. But again, I am doubtful that Microsoft will leave all of this intact for the final release, much as they did with Windows 8. One can only hope, or perhaps fill it in as a big petition in the feedback app (the code above removes that app, so keep that in mind.)

http://i.imgur.com/880f17Q.png

Are FF's performance problems and memory leaks really fixed? I saw this screenshot linked to here recently, during some earlier discussion of FF. I'm a FF user, and I generally like it, but I've seen stuff like that happen on my Linux system, even with recent versions of FF.

Mistake one - it only works on a single browser

...simply open https://web.whatsapp.com/ in your Google Chrome browser...

WTF!?!?!? There is Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer. All those with large user bases. I am not even counting the small browsers. And they chose to release only for Google Chrome? What year is this, 1995?

I opened it in Chromium on Xubuntu 14.04, and it still doesn't fucking work. I reserve my swearing for the most egregious cases of malice or incompetence, and this is one of them. I come in with a browser that's recompiled Chrome and they turn me away because I don't have Chrome.

Now as for your other points, some of them appear weak. I want to help make your argument against WhatsApp stronger and even more F-bomb worthy.

If you just have a dumb phone or another platform, you can't use the web client.

<sarcasm>
Of course you can. All you have to do is buy WhatsApp Enabler for $45.
</sarcasm>

Its even worse, imagine that office full of metal that behaves like a Faraday cage, or that office in a bad location sitting on the shadow of 3G coverage.

Then put your office's WPA key into your phone.

Have a dead phone and you're travelling on a train with WIFI and want to use the web client, you can't!

What device would you be carrying with which you expect to use a web application over Wi-Fi? Or do "normal" people still carry laptops?

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Do you think people aren't seeing that you are just cutting and pasting, without ever responding to anything I write?

Is the joke on me, are you only pretending to be retarded?

my problem is I can't keep up with all the BS. so many falsehoods and fallacies and anger and hurt flying around, it's like I'm swatting at a swarm of mosquitos.

Here we go, a nice pictorial list of some ethical issues the GG crowd have been investigating:

Games journalism fails