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It has not failed. It is succeeding in doing exactly what weapons and oil investors want.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

Actually, it is a LOT worse than you say.

Here is some information collected from numerous places:

There is evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. That's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

Cheney's company Halliburton is building prisons. There has never been an adequate explanation why. Do a Google search.

The U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security committee is not allowed to see the martial law plan.

According to the New Yorker Magazine, the Bush administration has already started another war in Iran. See President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran.

Bush and Cheney and their friends and families and associates are oil and weapons investors. Weapons investors want war all the time. Oil investors want to restrict the supply of oil, so that the price will rise.

The war with Iran has the same purpose as the war in Iraq. It will allow whoever controls the U.S. government to restrict the flow of oil even more, making the price go even higher.

The war with Iran is extremely unpopular with U.S. citizens. It is said that whoever is doing the planning will do terrorist acts in the U.S. and blame them on Iranians. That will allow the declaration of martial law. It is said that the planners have put a lot of time into passing laws that allow them to have more control and that they will not allow Barack Obama to become president because he would undo their work.

The U.S. government has manipulated the facts in other cases so that it will be allowed to start a war. One example is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. "In truth, Hanoi's navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on 2 August."

Personally, I'm waiting for DaveV2.0 to show up, but here is a relatively serious argument against a historical Jesus:

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/jesus_myth_history.htm

Blather about that article here:

http://www.reddit.com/info/1dnsg/comments

Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04 looks like ass. Apparently subpixel hinting for LCD monitors isn't compiled correctly in the Ubuntu package. Most of the posts online are over a month old and, as far as I know, this hasn't been patched yet. Apparently I'm not the only one with this problem:

Here

Here

"I have found the solution to this problem. The reason you have no subpixel hinting is that Fx3 uses the in-tree cairo library, which has no LCD-filtering patches applied. You, or your distro's package maintainer, will have to compile it with following option in .mozconfig: -enable-system-cairo. You'll also need to use this command: export LDFLAGS='-lX11 -lXrender' "

And here

The fonts are so blurry and unreadable that I get a headache just browsing Google News. Until this is resolved, Firefox 3 will remain unusable for me in Hardy Heron.

A lot of people are saying that those who control the U.S. government, obviously oil and weapons investors, are planning another terrorist attack on the U.S.*, which they will use to justify an attack on Iran so that there can be even greater control over oil supplies to make the price rise further.

*Buildings do not fall symmetrically into dust and small pieces, even if there is destruction at the top. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition.

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

reddit?

Perhaps those who control the U.S. government, obviously oil and weapons investors, are planning another terrorist attack on the U.S.*, which it will use to justify an attack on Iran so that there can be greater control over oil supplies to make the price rise.

*Buildings do not fall symmetrically into dust and small pieces, even if there is destruction at the top. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a controlled demolition.

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" on digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

There are other informative comments by that guy over there if you are interested.

It's official. After nearly 10 years, Slashdot is no longer my homepage. Goodbye Slashdot, hello reddit. The site hasn't been the same for me since the new comment system.

military-government-industrial complex

There is a lot of evidence that whoever controls the U.S. government is planning to have some new "terrorist" events and declare martial law. It's a top-rated story on Digg.com.

Search for "martial law" in digg.com or reddit.com. There are hundreds of links.

The parent may be funny to some (enough to get +5??) but I didn't find it funny at all and also believe it is wrong. so I think it is worth trying to refute it with some googled evidence at least.

The gist of what I found and what makes sense to me is this quote from the research paper summary that is linked later:
"Participants who were poor at recognizing black faces appear to code blackness as a visual feature while they may not code whiteness at all," says Dr. Levin. "The problem is not that we can't code the details of cross-race faces; it's that we don't. Instead, we substitute group information, or information about the race, for information about the features that help us tell individual people apart. ... (that's a Black man") rather than individual recognition ("that's a man with a mustache and a down-turned mouth")"

This old post on reddit says it pretty well. Mostly only the first part of the post is directly related to refuting the logic behind this kind of joke.

That post also links to this press release summary (same as first link of this comment) of an article on the topic in the Journal of Experimental Psychology that backs up that post.

That's the analysis I came up with as well. Thanks for posting this; it's good to confirm that I wasn't crazy.

No, I don't think you're quite correct. The original patch in that thread is not what actually was applied. There are two functions, one for seeding the pseudo-random number generator, and one for getting random data out of it. The one for getting random data out was actually mixing in some uninitialized data into the entropy pool. This is not particularly harmful, but not particularly helpful either, and it caused Valgrind to complain. So, the maintainer removed that line, but also removed the line that mixes in the value provided to seed the random number in the first place (maybe it was being called with unitialized data at some point, too).

See my comment here for more details: http://reddit.com/info/6j7a9/comments/c03zxko

The last thing they want is people going "wtf, microsofts site is broken!"

And that school of thought is fundamentally unsound, because it relies on the automated unit tests to find any change in behaviour, but you'll never get near 100% coverage for most practical projects. There was some good discussion of unit testing and TDD over on the programming reddit recently, where the brave author of a somewhat inflammatory blog post then tried to defend it against several critics.

So can we make a +10: Insightful score just for this one case?

I mean, since this comment is the top story on Reddit right now?

http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6dkxn/comments/

You know, I needn't have gone to the bother of checking the dates. Here it is, straight from Ian Hickson's weblog:

The behaviour expected by the test must be justifiable using only standards that were in the Candidate Recommendation stage or better in 2004.

Here's another quote to confirm it after the Acid3 test was finished:

the Acid3 test only tests stuff that was in finished specs in 2004 or earlier.

Acid3 was designed to only test behaviour that browser vendors have had at least three years to implement, straight from the horse's mouth. It's not new stuff.

Apple got this same fake story to the front page of reddit and digg also. Steve Jobs should rejoice at his marketing teams success. I wonder if they used companies like Subvert and Profit to get this promoted to front page news?

Actually, I believe Firefox 1 was used, albeit with hacks in order to work around the known CSS bugs. Sorry I can't find any corroborating source; I don't remember where I read this (if I did at all), and Googling only turns up a recent post on Reddit that goes undisputed by "Hixie", who seems to be Ian Hickson.

For the case of Acid3, calculations were probably easier this time around, since Javascript is simpler to compute separately. I'm not intimately familiar with the tests, but it seems like their calculation would require far less coordination with a corrected rendering engine.

As a sister comment hinted, they don't know there are no bugs in the test. Development of Safari yielded a bug in Acid2 that was subsequently submitted and corrected (scroll to the bottom).

http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/69op5/comments/

T,FTFY. HAND.

"So why again does Bush and Cheney want the price of oil to rise?"

See these stories, for example:

Cheney's Halliburton Options Up 3,281% Last Year

Cheney: "I cut all ties to Halliburton years ago." Congressional Research Service: "Cheney made $8,000,000 from Haliburton while in office."

Quote from one of the comments in that story: "The Congressional Research Service has concluded that holding stock options while in elective office DOES constitute a "financial interest" whether or not the holder of the options donates the proceeds to charities, and deferred compensation is also a financial interest." [My emphasis]

Also, in general Cheney and Bush have shown that they don't believe any rules apply to them. So, there may be hidden bank accounts in Dubai, for example, which is where the head office of Halliburton is located now.

Origin of Hindus http://reddit.com/info/65ahw/comments/

I found this quite interesting:

pi is close to sqrt(g), where g = gravitational acceleration on the surface of Earth in m/(s^2).

Apparently, this is not a coincidence.

..before it begins
http://reddit.com/info/66cj2/comments/

If that's not a strongly typed language then I don't know what is.

That's manifest typing.

My favorite definition of "strong typing" comes from Shriram Krishnamurthi's Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (p. 205):

So what is "strong typing"? As best as we can tell, this is a meaningless phrase, and people often use it in a nonsensical fashion.

Benjamin Pierce (author of Types and Programming Languages) wrote something similar (see Mark Jason Dominus quoting Pierce on "____ typing"):

... the usage of these terms is so various as to render them almost useless.

But the community joined in on the hack with gusto. The comments are worth a read too.

But the community joined in on the hack with gusto. The comments are worth a read too.

I think you will find a satisfactory solutution by clicking this link

I'd read Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From? on Reddit yesterday, saw this headline and counted on more witless conspiracy theories about M$ here. Instead, it's a reasonably useful topic for discussion! I'd think my DNS was screwed up and I'd come to the wrong site if Timothy hadn't oddly followed it up with a semi-dupe on the smae subject.

Yes, this was discussed in an earlier Slashdot story, " RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized", and in a bunch of other places:

* Boing Boing p2pnet reddit Heise Online (German) Truemors BlogRunner/Digital Rights Hugh Casey IDG (Polish) Geek News Central CE Pro Gizmodo TechDirt Read/Write Web Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection TDPRI WhatReallyHappened.com Slyck Root.cz (Czech) Craigslist Forums Hard OCP Wired.com Uneasy Silence Overclock.net Wake World SpaceBattles.com Hydrogen Audio BrickFilms.com Hockey Zombie iLounge Zune Scene AllmanBrothersBand.com Golem (German) PC Magazin (German) Tweakers (Dutch) Mackauf (German) Wake Space Kino-eye.com Digital Copyright Canada Northwest Progressive Institute Louisville Music News Frant

I have questions regarding the theoretical possibility of AI. I've asked at proggit, but haven't received good answers yet (see here for my discussion, search for yters), so I figured I'd try here.

1. Given that the CS consensus seems to be strong AI can't be algorithmic, how does modeling brain functions get around this? Plus, what is a non algorithmic method of automation? Isn't automation by definition algorithmic?

2. Strong AI seems to result in cognitive dissonance. Say consciousness is a necessity for intelligence. Say strong AI implies certain information is identical to a specific consciousness. This means the same consciousness can have multiple, discontinuous, temporally synonymous instantiations. This is a logical contradiction per the nature of consciousness (I'll elaborate once someone bites).

Sure, some may say: A) The mind comes from matter. B) Material behavior is necessarily algorithmic, whether deterministic or non deterministic. Therefore, C) intelligence, and consequently strong AI, is necessarily algorithmic. But, that line of argumentation just begs the question. There are no logically necessary grounds that the current scientific materialistic presuppositions are true, so they can't be appealed to in this case. In fact, if my above arguments hold, then the current notion of scientific materialism is false.

And please, if you feel the need to quibble over semantics, don't bother. I'll only reply to people who take my points at face value, or actually need clarification.

Agreed.

Any business that is not interested in free-marketing is not going to be in business very long.

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Reddit is the kiddie version of /.

I won't comment on your other points, but as far as cost/page, lasers are pretty much on par with inkjets (and much worse for color).

I did a tiny bit of analysis when this story was posted to Reddit:
http://reddit.com/info/63c11/comments/c02p9mc

In what way are you similar to the 10th comment?

Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio, 2004 : A Partial List

Bush Abolishes the US Constitution

But let's talk about Russia.

Well what did you expect?

Evidence of Fraud and Disenfranchisement in Ohio, 2004 : A Partial List

Bush Abolishes the US Constitution

But let's talk about Russia.

CANADA denies US DUI's entry!

Not the other way around, which is what you'd be concerned about.

So if YOU get denied, it is likely due to us deciding to do to Canada what they do to us. I hope that doesn't happen, but if you want it to not happen, try to get Canada's policy changed. It is so infamous, it is on the travel.state.gov website advisories page. That whole "if it could be an indictable offense in Canada, we'll treat it like it was, i.e. like a felony would be in the US, and deny entry unless you get a waiver from the Prime Minister or something".

Not to say our rules aren't ridiculous sometimes, but when it comes to DUI and excluding entry, Canada's policy is strict and infamous. They exclude for all sorts of old arrests.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DUI+%22denied+entry%22&btnG=Search see all the hits referring to Canada.
http://reddit.com/info/1698c/comments
http://www.mich-lawyer.com/canada-entry.html

Also, you shouldn't have had a lawyer, since if your license was suspended for 15 months on a single DUI (I'm assuming) you wasted your money on legal fees because you didn't get jack for your money. You could've gotten the same "deal" on your own.

FYI. If you want to uninstall it using a silent script, then this might be for you.

    %systemroot%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /passive
    net stop wuauserv
    cd %systemroot%
    del /s /q SoftwareDistribution
    net start wuauserv

Copied from http://reddit.com/info/5z0yp/comments/

Too late.

The essence of understanding math is being able to use it to solve problems. Math problems are like chess problems: they both have a start state and an end state and a solution consists of a sequence of legal moves. Routine problems are easy, like mate-in-1 or a simple application of a single mathematical rule. Non-routine problems require you to think a few moves ahead, but if you can't do that, you don't really understand the moves/material.

It's important to become proficient at non-routine applications of basic material before moving on to more advanced material like calculus. As the author of The Calculus Trap writes: Rather than learning more and more tools, students are better off learning how to take tools they have and apply them to complex problems.

To this end, I recommend The Art of Problem Solving Volume 1: the basics & The Art of Problem Solving Volume 2: and beyond. They are the best math textbooks I have ever seen. The intuitive explanations really sink in, so no memorization is required. But the key is that each section is followed by a bunch of non-routine problems from middle-school and high-school math contests like MATHCOUNTS and AMC. These are a fun way to make the material second nature, and besides, it's pretty motivating to know that a bunch of middle- or high-school kids solved the problem you're struggling with. (I want a shirt that says I'm as good as a middle schooler on the front, and on the back says MATHCOUNTS.)

After studying the first few chapters of Volume 1, you will be able to solve problems such as these:

• The formula N = 8 * 10^8 * x-3/2 gives, for a certain group, the number of individuals whose income exceeds x dollars. What is the smallest possible value of the lowest income of the wealthiest 800 individuals? (AHSME 1960)
• Find Sqrt[53 - 8 Sqrt[15]]. (MATHCOUNTS 1990)
• If for three distinct positive numbers x, y, and z: y/(x-z) = (x+y)/z = x/y, then find the numerical value of x/y. (AHSME 1992)
• For each of n = 84 and n = 88, find the smallest integer multiple of n whose base 10 representation consists entirely of 6's and 7's. (USAMTS 1)

This post is based in part upon similar posts of mine at Reddit and MathNotations.

The Bush all evil all the time site is this way ----> http://reddit.com/

You're in reddit front page, if you're interested in that - http://reddit.com/goto?id=2shgu :)

1. If they're filing false take-down notices, then CSEministry committed perjury, which means they can be fined and/or imprisoned for up to five years.
2. Begging YouTube to put the videos up won't do much, because it does nothing to change their liability under the law. Filing a counter-notification will get YouTube to put the videos back up, since that gets YouTube off the hook, and you don't have to go to court to do that.
3. It's not YouTube's job to decide whether a video is covered by fair use or not. It's 1) the uploader's job to figure out whether they want to assert under the penalty of perjury that it falls under fair use, (eg. they should consult a lawyer first) and 2) if CSEministry continues to assert that it's not fair use, then CSEministry will need to take the uploader to court, and then a judge will decide if it's fair use or not

Check out reddit. The flood of digg users jumping ship and ruining reddit is a common theme over there.

Your comment has been submitted to Reddit, and is currently at the top of its home page :

http://programming.reddit.com/info/2d2e0/comments

Canonical has used both SQLAlchemy and SQLObject on large projects. Storm was written because neither of those did what we needed. There's a little bit of discussion here: http://programming.reddit.com/info/24oo3/comments.

Did no one notice that they tried this for three months at "about a dozen" Best Buys and only one agent took the bait? I'm sorry, but this is very far from evidence of systemic problem.

As one reddit user put it: "we stuck a computer loaded with temping pics in front of a dozen minimum wage employees and only one of them copied it."

I fail to see how reddit is "stupider" than Digg. Perhaps that's because I generally stick to the programming, science and infosec subreddits, but I find it hard to believe that any site has Digg beat when it comes to blatant stupidity. Even when you stay strictly in the programming section, the comments are atrocious and the stories are on the same level I'd expect from someone who just started learning to program earlier in the day.

programming.reddit.com is definitely one of the sites I've been visiting most lately. Sure, it's not perfect, but I still find a lot of very interesting articles there.

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