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Not to mention it's completely ripped off from a reddit post here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/mat1s/there_appears_to_be_a_monumental_militaryscience/

Wait, reddit has text???

..The Gobi area is rife with military activity. The Chinese frequently use it as a military training area. They use it to test new Radars/Weapons Systems/Aircraft etc... Sometimes it's nothing more than just lame artillery training and other times we've been able to catch them testing some pretty advanced weapons systems they've developed to counter our systems. This was the case when I was able to watch them over the course of a few days testing out their "Dragon Eye" system before they placed it on their Luyang II DDG's. Which is their equivalent of our "Aegis or Spy I" system on our DDG's..

(At least one commenter has quoted this thread without proper attribution.)

See http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/ which is also interesting. :)

another one of these to look forward to

Yeah, so far Valve's credit card database has been stolen, but EA customers are the ones getting money stolen from their bank accounts.

dude, what make you think he didn't give her that car as a form of control to begin with? how is using that to force her choices even when she's an adult, not blackmail? ... and when you blackmail someone, because YOU THINK THEY HAVE NO EVIDENCE AGAINST YOU, you deserve this and more.

"You guys are amazing. I'm so glad someone believes me, after all these years... I've been crying ever since the video gained ground. -Hillary"

right after the video was taken, youtube didn't even exist! so what would you have her do, and how would you have her avoid the savage punishment once her father finds out? living at home at all? and *you* complain that people aren't thinking?

and yes, later on, when she had her own place, I guess there was no beating anymore -- but money and the car, and stipulations on how she's supposed to live coming with them. then, I guess she finally had it, and said fuck you dad, I'm gonna do what *I* want. so he punished her by taking the car etc.

then she posted the video. how does this constitute blackmail? how can she hope to get the money and the car back? to me that rather sounds like burning bridges. of realizing, that sick psycho fuck will never change, and that he deserves to be exposed. I BET you this guy acts like he's totally not a piece of scumbag trash around society. that's what sociopaths do. he's a judge, he likes to think he's respected.

of course she is no saint -- who is?! who is saying she is? unless that is supposed to somehow explain his behaviour, that is simply not relevant at all. he's a devil, that's kinda the part we're focusing on right now. and even that is just because he's not even sorry - until he realizes what a sack of shit he has been for most of his life, the world ought to tell him.

if by his logic downloading music calls for THAT, what does what he did call for? nuke his house from orbit?

http://www.reddit.com/r/questions/

Judge Adams issued a statement asserting that his daughter released the tape to retaliate against him for withdrawing his financial support.

Oh, so he abuses his children and then also doesn't support them financially, sounds like a real winner!

As opposed to Android, which doesn't charge $99 per year and allows distribution of APKs outside Android Market.

But there you get shit like this story of some guy who got his game ripped off :

"they removed the Credits section of the app and inserted a lot of malware that launches with the apps, spamming you with ads and installing shit on your phone (shortcuts to other software)."

It all sounds pretty Wild West.

Yeah and that other browser might turn out to be a scammer, spammer or fraud who took someone else's work and loaded it with spyware too. Who knew that when Android users said that Android is going to be the "Windows" of smartphones that's what they meant: shitty interfaces, spyware and crap software.

But they have the same shape. If you've been paying attention to lawsuits, you'd know that shape is pretty much the only real factor in phones.

If you're talking about the Apple vs Samsung spat then it's more than just about shape. It's about hardware design, interface icons and package design.

Plenty of other manufacturers manage to not slavishly copy Apple. Hell, Samsung even managed to use an iPhone screenshot on their own website.

Microsoft doesn't make Secure Boot hardware, and Win8 requirements do not include "cannot be disabled by any means".

There was a very good post over in Reddit on this:

UEFI specifications do not mandate that OEMs provide options in their configuration screens to disable secure boot. Nor do the Windows 8 Logo requirements. This means that there can be hardware that will arbitrarily lock users out of alternative operating systems. We really can't tell when this will happen, or if it will happen, until some short-sighted OEM decides to do this. I can tell you why they will do this though:

Microsoft's logo requirements only require UEFI secure boot, they do not specify how the signing happens. Yes, Microsoft will provide signed kernels and keys that OEMs can use. But they aren't required to use those keys. OEMs are perfectly allowed to take the Windows kernel, resign it with their own key, and ship the machine such that it only installs the OEM's Windows. So the OEMs will not be trying to lock us out of Linux, they will be trying to lock us out of Windows 9 so that they can make us buy new computers to upgrade.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kmyt4/windows_8_certified_computers_may_not_be_able_to/c2lmpb7

Mobile devices are not a problem. Looked how locked down the iPad and iPhone are. That fits right in with the spirit of trusted computing.

You realize that according to figures that you can on the web jailbroken iPhones constitute from 10 to 30% of the market? And those are certainly "conservative" estimates, because judging from iOS piracy rate ([1] [2]) percentage of jailbroken iDevices should be much larger!

I believe you want to visit reddit.

If Galaxy Tabs were so good, Samsung wouldn't feel compelled to copy the icons, the power adapters, the box, the case, the dock connector...

I'd feel a little better if it wasn't so obvious, but they're plainly just trying to confuse people, to the extent that the Galaxy Tab probably would pass as some sort of grad student experiment in culture jamming.

Is there any validity JR Digs' claim that your ripped him off of $28K CDN? http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eh8wq/iam_the_telemarketer_troll_jrdigs_ama/

http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a

No, of course they aren't copying Apple!

A better link to the original reddit post itself.

Stolen from the thread on this on reddit:

That's actually exactly how it's supposed to work. See Appendix E of the TLS 1.2 RFC. The client sends its highest-supported version in its first message, and the server replies with the highest-supported version that is less than or equal to the version the client sent.

Unfortunately, some older (mostly third-party) servers break entirely if they receive something that they don't recognize. As such, TLS 1.1/1.2 is often disabled by default for compatibility reasons, even if it is supported.

NSS (Mozilla/Firefox) and OpenSSL (used in Apache's mod_ssl) also only support up to TLS 1.0 in their stable versions, as there hasn't really been a compelling reason for them to add TLS 1.1/1.2 support until now.

While funny, SMS is being send over GSM, in the same package that is being exchanged with cell towers to maintain GSM (/2G) connectivity, irregardless. That package has empty space, so SMS (that's why it's limited by an amount of characters; so it can fit in that package) can be send without extra load on the cell tower buffer.

No.

Allow me to quote a relevant passage from a similar discussion elsewhere:

THIS IS WRONG. THIS IS WRONG. A HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE SAY THIS AND THEY'RE ALL WRONG BECAUSE THEY DO NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND ANYTHING ABOUT GSM.

Yes, it goes on the control channel (the same one used for handset registration and call setup), because that's the channel you can use without requesting that another channel be set up. No, it is not "free". No, it doesn't go in the "slack space" of another message that would be sent anyway. It sends a completely new packet on that channel (plus a reply that the message was accepted, plus more if it's a multisegment message or if there are any problems with delivery). And again, this is the channel which there is only one of, which carries the messages that allow handsets to join and leave the cell, allow calls to be made and answered, and allow all other data connections to be made. It's a finite resource, and if it runs out, the whole system stops working in that location.

I expected something similar to this AMA but about hacking: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aca82/i_am_a_former_reverse_engineervirus_writer_amaa/. Waste of time this story.

During that day, I just woke up (IIRC, 8/9 AM PDT since I was unemployed from the dotcom bust) and came to my Windows computer with Internet. I saw my friends chatting in an IRC room something about a plane crash. I thought it was an accident, then I noticed terrorism, WTC, etc. Then, my "queen ant" told me about it briefly in person. I decided to turn on my 20" CRT TV (still have it today and it was from 1996!) and saw all the local news stations (rabbit ears) on this. I saw the replays of an airplane crashing to a tower. :( Such a bad day for everyone.

Xsleepingxgiantx's Reddit comment mentioned a dark/heavy documentary titled "102 Minutes That Changed America". Top Documentary Films have the almost two hours YouTube video. It has pure raw footages from various people. It is very difficult to watch (couldn't watch the whole thing and your overlord couldn't sleep well after watching most of the first half). :~(

On a bright side, there was one survivor from Ground Zero but it was an office plant: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/10/new.york.911.plant/index.html ...

There was some discussion of this on Reddit a while back.

I second Mike Pall's comments. The Lua codebase is relatively small, and your puny brain can probably understand all of it from top to bottom. Other systems, like GCC and GHC, would be much more challenging to understand completely.

Done 3 weeks ago!
http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/jej4o/im_officially_downloading_copyrighted_material_on/

They have a kernel. If you're referring to GNU HURD, that's been deprioritized because as Mr. Stallman wrote in a Reddit interview, "Linux works ok as a kernel." Linux is one of many third-party components of a GNU system.

If by "third-party components" you mean "stuff not from the GNU project", what constitutes "a GNU system", if "a GNU system" includes critical non-GNU projects? The GNU project as a producer of an all-GNU operating system may never succeed, but the GNU project as a producer of:

1. a large number of very useful free software projects;
2. at least some widely-adopted extensions of the UN*X API and user interface (e.g., getopt_long(), implemented independently in at least some *BSDs and Mac OS X as well as Solaris and possibly some other commercial UNIXes);

and as a promoter of the notion of free software is definitely a success.

They have a kernel. If you're referring to GNU HURD, that's been deprioritized because as Mr. Stallman wrote in a Reddit interview, "Linux works ok as a kernel." Linux is one of many third-party components of a GNU system.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/jv809/underground_river_rio_hamza_discovered_4km/

We don't fuck around with things like ATMs where there isn't an employee standing in between a person and money.

Yeah. Sure you do, Sparky. That would explain why this can't happen: What ATM skimmers look like

Tell him to go to Reddit. He could start posting in http://www.reddit.com/r/chiropractic

In korea, Broodwar is huge, SC2 is growing. In the US and Euope, SC2 is all I really hear about. There are a number of big name tournaments: IPL NASL and MLG being the 3 most well known. With HD web streams and large prize pools, these events are what people go to a bar to see. The smaller more frequent tournaments (often 10+ a week) are promoted on team liquid and reddit

The only argument that was throughly refuted is that Jesus could have been talking about Noah as a fictional character, which you chose the third option: To ignore the fact that was your whole argument before and add new arguments. Was there a good argument that hasn't been well answered, besides a 64 page document I refute with another long document? I simply don't have time to cover every point here on issues that have been refuted a million times. Yes, I have some issues with Carrier and some of the other infidels writers, but they did a good job in refuting the arguments of McDowell et al. That road has been tread a thousands times, and I see little benefit over trying to explain it again.

Why does Bart Ehrman, probably the foremost new testament scholar, not believe? Why does Bishop Spong not believe? These are people who know much more about the early Christian writings than I, apparently the evidence is just not that strong. Spong definitely wants to keep Christian morality and practice alive, which leaves none of the excuses Christians usually give to explain away people who reject the resurrection.

I understand the Christian position. I was one for 25 years. I've been an atheist for about 1/2 a year, and it's a highly uncomfortable thing for me to be. My whole family is Christian, most of my neighbors and friends are, etc. If you or anyone else could convince me there was any good reason to believe, I would happily go back. The only evidence is evidence that is only convincing if you already believe. The only logical Christianity I've come across is Calvinism, in which it makes sense that nobody else accepts the poor evidence given for the deity and resurrection of Jesus, because god is a jerk who didn't choose them.

If you want "new" arguments, come to http://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion . I and others have preposed a number of new arguments there that are not covered by multiple people 20 or 200 years ago. That's the only reason I've linked to infidels.com, you linked to a book treatment of an argument they covered well 15 years ago. There's tons more stuff out there, it just hasn't come up in this discussion yet.

Well actually there apparently is a port already:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/jqyp3/one_of_the_guys_at_work_went_to_best_buy_saturday/

Notch just got married this weekend, and is officially away right now, for his honeymoon. This lawsuit came up at a terrible time, and this is the way that Notch handles such stuff.

Notch seems to read and reply most to comments on the minecraft channel at reddit. The thread there would probably be the place to post if you want to volunteer as one of the representatives :)

I didn't know this. Reddit's thread has a reply from some employees at that division. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/jj9s9/google_buys_motorola_mobility/c2ckym2

For people that following gaming regularly, many found out about this last night (some of the testers did a Reddit AMA). The 20 people that went there weren't under NDA and started talking about it last night. Valve confirmed this today and put out a press release too.

From what I've been reading, there are a few key points that worry me:

• * "CS: GO is being developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment." - Valve is not the primary developer for the game, so it may not be up to standard Valve quality.
• * Little seems to be changing, which could be good or bad. While they say its different, much is the exact same. Sounds like what Starcraft 2 did.

"Didn't grossly offend anyone" is code for "didn't change very much".

For people that following gaming regularly, many found out about this last night (some of the testers did a Reddit AMA). The 20 people that went there weren't under NDA and started talking about it last night. Valve confirmed this today and put out a press release too.

From what I've been reading, there are a few key points that worry me:

• * "CS: GO is being developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment." - Valve is not the primary developer for the game, so it may not be up to standard Valve quality.
• * Little seems to be changing, which could be good or bad. While they say its different, much is the exact same. Sounds like what Starcraft 2 did.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBoyGeniusReport

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DroidLife

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AndroidPolice

reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/android

facebook login malfunctioning

The fuckwi-- I mean Redditors over at www.reddit.com have made a MAJOR meme of "_____ -- Better drink my own piss". By analyzing the posts here carefully, one could divine quite precisely the amount of overlap between here and that God-forsaken place!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ja2au/now_you_can_use_ps3_controllers_on_your_phone/

Probably more useful on tablets anyways....

I've had the wiimote working with mine for a while. sixaxis may be even better...

People in England don't quite have the same obsession with male anal sex as Americans seem to. I doubt anybody would get ass-raped in an English prison, and pretty much zero chance for somebody in a low security prison. Interesting Reddit article on coping in prison here.

Phillip.

And r/askscience, which is a forum to ask scientists questions. Lots of fascinating stuff in there, not all news, but most of it new to me.

LOL. I am sure that works for you on the Glenn Beck forums.

There are several links to this on Reddit, along with the 2008 diagram showing the MITM SmarTech system. http://www.reddit.com/search?q=SmarTech

Actually, Stallman has nothing to do with pushing this project, he thinks it's a waste of time and effort (see Q13). I'm not sure who is fronting this thing, but I want some of their stash.

Not trying to troll here, but why would one use GNU Hurd? What does it offer over Linux? The only fundamental technical difference of note I see is that it's got a microkernel, and arguing about monolithic kernels vs. microkernels is like arguing about vi vs. Emacs: I haven't seen anyone do it seriously, instead of tongue-in-cheek, in years. I imagine there are "non-free" parts of Linux scattered about, and maybe that's a reason to use GNU Hurd, but pretty much all of those are due to device drivers, and making a new OS won't help with that. Even rms admits it's a waste of time. Does Debian really have nothing better to do?

Its because there are so many #firstworldproblems to deal with in todays first world society.

I mean, really just check out the shit that we have to deal with that those lucky bastards in africa and central asia don't need to worry about?

Now's the time to put your money where your mouth is Slashdotters. Time and again we bemoan on this site that our politicians (in the U.S.) piss our tax dollars away on pork-ridden bills and unnecessary defense spending at the expense of science. Now is the time to let Congress know just how important we nerds find science like the JWST to be. There are at least two open letters to Congress written by folks on the internet. They can be found here and here.

You can find your Congress-critter's mailing and contact information here and here.

It won't take you more than 10 minutes to print on of those letters, fold it up, stamp it, and mail it to your representative or senator. We 'dotters bring down entire websites when we care enough about an issue to RTFA. Now is the time to bring Congress's mailroom to a standstill by declaring, in one unified voice, "You won't ransack our science research anymore!"

If we can afford two wars in the Middle East, Medicaire, Medicaide, and tax cuts for the rich assholes who are driving this country into the ground, then we can afford to build this telescope, not just for America, but for the continued progress and exploration of humanity in general.

As a Traffic Engineer I work with this issue frequently. Their are numerous benefits of roundabouts that outweigh the risks, so much so that numerous states, including New York, require the analysis of a roundabout at any new intersection.

The first issue is safety, roundabouts reduce what we call, Conflict Points, between pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles. The middle island also provides pedestrian refuge for a two stage crossing. Roundabouts also force cars to slower speeds which improves safety and reduces the risk of an automobile collision.

As far as delay and driver in vehicle perception, roundabouts statistically have a lower average delay than all-way-stop-controlled (AWSC) intersections for streets that have a volume of less than 20,000 vehicles per day. The Level of Service (LOS), is a measure of driver perception of service at an intersection. The average LOS for an AWSC at peak hours is F (Delay of 172 s), while a roundabout provides LOS C (Delay of 21 s). Both LOS determinations are for the best approach. So as you can see, the benefits are clear.

The downside is that many people are unfamiliar with them, a learning curve and the unwillingness to try out something new, as the adage goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Here is an example, I met with a consulting firm that performed a study in Buffalo, NY to put in a roundabout. The measurements worked and LOS would have increased for the approaches. However after installation the city council decided to put stop-signs at the roundabout approaches, against the recomendation of the traffic engineers. This was a foolish move on the part of the City as a major benefit to roundabouts is the Yield approach. Their is still no change to date.

It is an uphill battle but once people become more familiar you will see them throughout the US.

If you would like more information on roundabouts their are two resources from the federal government:

1. Roundabouts: An Informational Guide

2. NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) Report572

International pizza delivery is fun http://www.reddit.com/r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza/comments/ib61w/offer_hello_internet_we_launched_a_new_opera/

I downloaded it shortly after the download count exceeded the crew of the Death Star. As of right now, they're well past Rebecca Black dislikes

... I'm sure everybody I know makes more money than most people in Afghanistan and not a single one of them could do this, so money makes people dumb as far as I can tell.

Don't be that so harsh on the First World people, they have their own share of problems.