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except GoPro claims their DMCA notice listed several other sites as well that were scrubbed by DigitalRev's posting of the letter... https://twitter.com/GoPro/status/314467226898006016

Oh, and follow me at @ddombrowsky :)

This summer a team of 2 greeks, 1 swiss and 1 spanish (all devs) was having an afternoon swim in the sea after a long day hacking some code in a close mountain.

http://pic.twitter.com/I7mLKZXf

We thought that if we could bring more people, that would be a nice income for the country: sell Greece's weather not for tourism but for remote workers.

Renting a 2 floors flat is 500-600 euro. Internet around 20-30 euro for ADSL or 25 euro for a 30GB 4G contract. Today's lunch in a restaurant for 4, 35 euro. Of course there are some things a bit expensive: coffee in a trendy cafeteria 4 euro, or 1,5L of fresh milk 2,1 euro.

Still a nice place to stay.

> To prove the point, here are before-and-after photos from one San Francisco household (mine) where the herd of digital devices has been thinned from about three dozen, eight years ago, to just 15 today.

Awesome. Once burglary was a real hit and miss. Now your victims case their places for you. Even lists his dog. Google tells me his dog it is an Australian Sheppard. Sound docile enough. I can always get it drunk lol.
http://www.wikifido.com/page/Rhody
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Shepherd#Temperament

Now when will Wade be out of town?
Xconomy robotics event 4/11 https://twitter.com/wroush
"Far too many people have too much information online as to their schedules and what they will be attending and where." http://protectitnow.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/your-home-security-never-before.html

I'll just have to arrive early to beat the crowd. I have dibs on the Canon Powershot S5 IS and the iPhone5.

From Samuel Clay's twitter posts today - https://twitter.com/NewsBlur. Remember, NewsBlur is 100% open-source (web, iOS apps, Android). Follow @samuelclay on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay. Today's not such a hot day in terms of speed, but the next three months will be full throttle. I was preparing to launch the re-design in TWO weeks, not today. I'm spinning up more servers to handle the onslaught.

The hearing scheduled for today to decide the fate of Copyright Troll Brett Gibbs has concluded, and it was apparently very bad for Prenda et al.

Adam Steinbaugh was in attendance and has a quick run through on his twitter account. Wen White was also there and is currently writing a detailed recap to be posted on popehat.com later tonight.

While I am amazed and pleased at the attention this saga has been getting, I think it's important to remember that while the wide audience is merely entertained or amused by these proceedings, for the innocents like me who have had their lives turned upside down by Prenda this is more than simple entertainment-- it's justice.

Human eggs are precious. They cost $157,000,000,000,000 (that's Trillion, with a Tee) an ounce!

I decided to pre-order SimCity and I have definitely been annoyed by their server issues, but I decided to track down for myself as much info as I could about what's going on.

1) All of the servers seem to be running on Amazon EC2 (or other AWS type services). This is what gives them their different zones. Fun enough, most of the communication seems to just be a HTTP API, and they aren't doing any type of UDP streaming of data. Sadly I haven't been able to MITM the encrypted stuff yet to see what's going on with transferring of game state data.

2) While EA/Maxis's official PR lines have been pretty quiet, a few of the Maxis dev staff have been posting what they can. Here are a few links around information they have been sharing:
One of their server guys: https://twitter.com/derricks
Maxis Employees on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/user/ryani and http://www.reddit.com/user/MaxisMC (they have been posting at least a little).

3) They are trying to gather as much feedback as possible to find out where people are having the most problems to get those issues fixed.

With this game being so reliant on their servers, they should have done a few stress test weekends, but sadly, they decided not to do that and EA's customers are now stress testing on a live setup. I'm sure engineering didn't want to do it this way, but that's how it ended up happening.

Damn right Florida is unstable. Check out these headlines. A sample:

Florida Man Slapped With Warning After Riding Dying Sperm Whale
Florida Man Traps Ex-Girlfriend's Mother Into A Fold-Out Couch
Police Find Cocaine In Florida Man's Prosthetic Leg

Of course we've known about the state's emotional and mental instability forever. Still the only state with its own Fark tag!

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

http://www.fark.com/topic/florida/

Elon Musk has reported that thrusters 1 and 4 are now online. https://twitter.com/elonmusk Good news for SpaceX. I hope they make this a success.

Last I heard, Kim Jong Un turned off the internet for the entire country. How can this be?

I'd like to point out that there is another Pobox out there, which is a US company (pobox.com), that is apparently not affiliated with this British "Pobox" company.

From their blog:

=snip=

We support @ThePSF in their fight for Python trademarks in the EU. @pobox is *not* http://pobox.co.uk. Learn more: http://pyfound.blogspot.nl/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.htmlâ¦

=end snip=

I'm not affiliated with either company. I've used pobox.com for email forwarding for about 17 years though, which is one thing that made me investigate this, as the UK company's claim of having used 'python' for 17 years seemed to me like about how long the US company had been around.

I'd like to point out that there is another Pobox out there, which is a US company (pobox.com), that is apparently not affiliated with this British "Pobox" company.

From their blog:

=snip=

We support @ThePSF in their fight for Python trademarks in the EU. @pobox is *not* http://pobox.co.uk. Learn more: http://pyfound.blogspot.nl/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.htmlâ¦

=end snip=

I'm not affiliated with either company. I've used pobox.com for email forwarding for about 17 years though, which is one thing that made me investigate this, as the UK company's claim of having used 'python' for 17 years seemed to me like about how long the US company had been around.

And his next Tweet: https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/303807080433860608

Scary!

Web browsers are already very difficult to secure, and adding a hugely complex 3D composting engine is not going to help things. John Carmack even tweeted about this: I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of security.

No he's just got the loudest mouth. We have CIPPIC, Openmedia and there's also JF Mezei

Anyone seen pictures of pieces on the ground ? (The hole in Lake Chebarkul doesn't count.) There should be a nice strewn field from this event, and it shouldn't be hard to find pieces, which would tell us what it was made of.

I'm sure there are quite a few other "experts" out there who will take a counter position. Or two.

I see what you did there ...

And you're right. Stoya, in particular, has nothing nice to say about Dines.

So does Justin! https://twitter.com/jtimberlake ;)

The Pope recently twatted from the twooter his twits: https://twitter.com/Pontifex

TFA author is an iPhone user, according to his twit feed https://twitter.com/craigtimberg

So the only genuine insecurity to be found in the article, is that of the authors.

TFA author is an iPhone user, according to his twit feed https://twitter.com/craigtimberg

"I know you are out there, gamers and science fiction readers. Even if you're not an attorney, you can help. You can help by sending an email (edit: in the comments, Patrick offers the email to use) to Games Workshop telling them you won't buy their products while they engage in meritless trademark bullying. (Edit: or communicate with them by their Twitter account, https://twitter.com/VoxCaster.) You can help by spreading this story — and getting others involved — on every gaming and science fiction blog and board and forum out there. Inflict upon Games Workshop the consequences of their actions."

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

Who are you, and why are you arguing with me? [Lonny Eachus]

Are you cruising the web hunting around for someone to argue with over trivialities, or what? Not very friendly. [Lonny Eachus]

I'm the Dumb Scientist, and I'm pointing out that you're spreading misinformation. Again.

I didn't claim, I said "looks like", and was referring to the popular sense. This is Twitter, not some science journal. [Lonny Eachus]

No, it doesn't even "look like" dark energy's dead, in any sense. You were just wrong. Again. Spreading misinformation on Twitter is still spreading misinformation. Please stop.

@jimmygle Interesting article. The other day it was announced that there is almost certainly no "dark energy" making the Universe expand. [Lonny Eachus]

Again with this nonsense? Physicists have never claimed that dark energy makes the Universe expand. Dark energy makes the expansion of the Universe accelerate.

@jimmygle "Almost certainly" to like 5 nines +. That is... apparently it is expanding. But not due to invisible "dark energy". [Lonny Eachus]

Lonny's confusion between expansion and acceleration reminds me of Jane Q. Public's similar confusion.

@jimmygle I read about it on Ars Technica the other day. Or maybe it was... wait. Here it is. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle Haha. Well, the basic idea was that there must be SOMETHING forcing everything apart. So some bigwig physicists came up with the [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle ... idea that there must be some kind of invisible energy doing it. Great on paper but I don't think there was ever good evidence. [Lonny Eachus]

@jimmygle bit.ly/V3qJHe [Lonny Eachus]

Posting that link must be your way of retracting your claim. In it, Dr. Perlmutter explains how the accelerating expansion of the universe reveals the existence of dark energy.

Your other responses were even more disappointing...

This guy calling himself @dumb_scientist jumped into my twitterstream to argue about an article I linked to from Ars Technica. [Lonny Eachus]

Holy crap. Seems this @dumb_scientist guy has been stalking me online. His blog links to here bit.ly/13IPIVO .. [Lonny Eachus]

.. a comment to a friend, @ChiefUnlearner, mo

if i came through as resorting to personal attacks, i'm sorry, that was honestly not my intention. sure, there's some sarcasm in there, i'll gladly admit that, but it's just my way of expressing myself. i'm used to conversing in this manner (and sometimes i forget that not all are used to this tone..)

And I apologize for my tendency to speak in generalities and lump people together - no particular "personal attacks" came from you.

No one should be blamed for "not giving a rat's ass about my opinion" - I just write the things that I think deserve to be written.

(The "go back to writing html css javascript..." comment struck a bit of a nerve, but only due to my own insecurities... I haven't done much but scripting since the 90s, while I'd rather be writing more serious software in C, or at least Go/Rust/Nimrod... But the in-browser software stack is a universal standard that I am forced to accept.)

I do appreciate criticism, sarcasm, and passionate self-expression - it's the "shut up, troll" stuff (from other people) that should be avoided.

if it was the incoherency comment, it was a bit hard to follow your line of thought hopping from pointing out the (faultily) large dependency list...

My first post, while not wrong, was poorly researched. It was based on a single piece of anecdotal evidence that atypically turned out not to be representative of how XBMC is packaged on other OS'es. The purpose of that post was not to present a well-rounded review of XBMC, and it was clear that I was talking about that specific observation on FreeBSD. I don't comment on every piece of software that I don't use, but I thought that particular observation was interesting enough to give voice to. From the purist point of view, the criticism of "software bloat" still applies to XBMC as it's packaged for other OS'es, but that is far less noteworthy.

I'm obviously presenting a specific point of view, and one that is admittedly not very popular. I am trying to practice and evolve a software philosophy that values simplicity, modularity, and reuse of common components. I am also biased against software that is not permissively licensed, and am trying to make things work while using as few of those components as possible. Some copyleft components, like mplayer/ffmpeg and Web browser dependencies, cannot yet be avoided, but the amount of unavoidable copyleft code needed for a functional UNIX desktop / workstation is gradually shrinking.

...to spawning mplayer through a web browser (which has much more deps - we have resorted from pulling in webkit for that very reason), which surely embeds more scripting languages and has an even higher complexity than xbmc.

I didn't want to simply badmouth XBMC for being 100MB of "GUItard GNUshit" (parody quotes); I also wanted to presented my alternative vision for how a Media Center app ought to be designed. Or, rather, it was two perspectives that sort of melted together. The first one is that "you don't need it" - one can use decentralized media tools and script them together for any desired effect. The second perspective was access to all your media via Web-based app / apps (which of course can run locally).

That first perspective comes from the minimalist unixbeard perspective, which is a minority, even on Slashdot. I just can't imagine having a keyboard very far away from me at any time. Even when relaxing on the couch and watching video on the big screen, reaching for a laptop on the tray table right in front of me (which I occasionally do anyway if I'm on IRC, etc) takes less time than reaching for a dumbremo

At least one did exactly that. It didn't stop them from pursuing the approach they did.

Sadly, I don't think it looks that way. See here and here.

Now, usually I don't judge people quickly, especially by their online presence. Taylor Winkelmeyer may be an exception to this rule.

Mikko Hypponen recently posted an example of such a search query:

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/287615660115243009

(Don't worry; the "instaban" only affects that query; subsequent searches will still work.)

Naturally.

FWIW: These guys seem to be doing it right over at AmericanGreetings: http://hack.ag.com/ (their local event actually going on now) https://twitter.com/AGHackday

Looks like the concept of "Dark Energy" that many physicists have been so fond of, is dead. bit.ly/S7dwQv [Lonny Eachus]

No, Lonny. The gizmag article you linked just shows that one type of dark energy (the cosmological constant) is more consistent with long-term observations showing that the proton to electron mass ratio (PEMR) has remained roughly constant over billions of years. Even wikipedia makes it clear that the cosmological constant is a type of dark energy:

In the standard model of cosmology, dark energy currently accounts for 73% of the total mass–energy of the universe.[2] Two proposed forms for dark energy are the cosmological constant, a constant energy density filling space homogeneously,[3] and scalar fields such as quintessence or moduli, dynamic quantities whose energy density can vary in time and space.

Because dynamic types of dark energy like quintessence tend to imply changes in the PEMR over billions of years, these observations suggest that physicists now have enough evidence to prefer a static type of dark energy- the cosmological constant. So why is Lonny once again wrongly claiming that dark energy is dead?

One reason might be these curious sentences in that gizmag article:

The concept of "dark energy" with a negative pressure was introduced to describe this acceleration. ... Dark energy must have a negative pressure to produce the observed acceleration in the standard cosmological model, a rather bizarre notion meaning that space repels itself.

A casual reader might conclude that dark energy's negative pressure distinguishes it from a cosmological constant, but both types of dark energy have negative pressure. In fact, I've explained to Jane Q. Public that "vacuum energy has pressure equal and opposite to its energy density" which is why its equation of state is w = -1. I continued, explaining why the universe's expansion accelerates for any w < -1/3.

Because -1 < -1/3, the cosmological constant's negative pressure accelerates the expansion of the universe. It is a type of dark energy, which accounts for roughly 3/4 of all the mass-energy in the universe.

Only the ignorant think that gun controls don't reduce the possiblity of a sick minded disturbed person from killing.

The Australian example:

1996, introduction of strict gun controls: 0.57 per 100,000

2012, current gun homicide rate: 0.17 per 100,000

Amazingly, Australia's strict gun control also dramatically reduced gun violence in the United States:

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/280055933038628864

Or perhaps correlation is not causation.

The summary somehow leaves out anything related to the headline - the view of the fires from space. Didn't even bother linking to the relevant NY Times article. Okay then.

For the real good stuff, though, check out the high res images in the Universe Today coverage, which showcases several of the images directly from Cmdr Hadfield's twitter feed.

They use UTF-8 - assuming only ASCII characters are used, it would take 140 bytes, but UTF also has characters that are more than 1 byte. So the size could 3 times larger depending on whats typed

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters

To follow-up, the kid in that video is apparently no longer a student at Ohio State University, although it is unclear whether or not it was voluntary or... encouraged.

https://twitter.com/OhioState/status/288327446175027202

Here's the paper published in the TAPR DCC conference proceedings: http://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2012-Handheld-Software-Radio_KD2BMH.pdf

Also, follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/testa or my blog http://blog.testa.co/

Congratulations on getting a +5 informative moderation on your post for referring to UK tabloid bullshit that was debunked the very same day by Willis' wife on Twitter.

Steven Fry agrees:

With due respect to Stephen Hawking, let's not pardon Alan Turing. He did nothing wrong. Let's have him on a banknote. And Ada Lovelace too.

Actually, no. Twitter has protected tweets which are viewable only by approved followers, as well as direct messages viewable only by sender and recipient. There are, in fact, people who use Twitter without posting any public messages at all.

I don't really understand what point you were trying to make with this public/private distinction, but I thought I'd correct the factual error.