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for being women ... for being men.

Who are you who have insight into the ultimate motivations of harassers?

I have as a basic assumption that men are no better than women, and vice versa. If there's some way of being evil that's dominated by one sex, then you can assume that is not for lack of evil in the other sex, but rather that they have some other way of living out their malice.

It's a doctrine of faith in some circles, that you should not only believe the victim, but not question the victim's interpretation of events. If she says the motive of her harassers is that she's a woman, then you're a monster for questioning that (even if the "harassers" deny that it was harassment, and assert other motivations for it.) This is obviously and blatantly abused in "social justice" circles on the internet.

Let's NOT take gamergate as an example. Let's take the Requires Hate drama instead - there you have identity feminists on both sides, both sides claiming to represent the true, unsubjugated, authentic feminism, defender of all minorities. There's this hate blogger, Requires Only that you Hate, who has a long history of "criticizing" fantasy authors, stalking them for years, saying they deserve to be raped by dogs and have acid thrown in their faces etc. She used to get away with it for a long time. Why? Because she always claimed to "kick upwards". If you're a man, you're obviously fair game. If you're a white lesbian feminist, you're fair game too. If you're an asian, you're still fair game if you are "diaspora". You're mixed race? well fuck you, appropriating scum! Don't you dare write about your minority parent's culture!

Now, she was "doxxed". Her identity (or rather, her literary pseudonym, as opposed to the blogging one) was exposed by a friend of hers - she is a well-known Thai writer - and people started assembling the pieces. It looks like she has systematically targeted competitors. Especially competitors in the niche of "writing for the oppressed". More and more people come forward with stories of whisper campaigns she's waged, open hostility, stalking for years, online community after online community that has went down in flames from her warfare. And she has been at this for almost 15 years.

How? By saying the right things, with unshakeable conviction. By using the social justice people's own rule about "tone policing" - that you're not allowed to protest against the ways an "oppressed person" lashes out at her "oppressors". For over a decade she's played them like a fiddle, for personal gain and personal satisfaction. The social justice people's beliefs have a hole in them wide enough that a psychopath can drive right through it with a truck and set up shop. The "cheap moral glow" of siding with someone righteously proclaiming their oppression, was a tool she used to build an army that could make a talk radio host green with envy, to sic on people who fell afoul of her or competed with her.

I've said "her" throughout. But technically, we don't even know that. So even for the purpose of protecting/advancing minority women, the SJ crowd's own principles fail disastrously. There's no reason to think Requires Hate even believed in the rhetoric she was spouting.

Now, I said let's not use Gamergate as an example. But let's, now. Most of anti-gamergate missed one rather important thing: the initial post was a callout of a similar nature.

The ex-boyfriend of Zoe Quinn had story to tell about infidelity, emotional abuse and cynical career promotion - he told it because he had come to the same conclusion that the social justice folks in SF/Fantasy now believe about Requires Hate - she may not even believe those things, she certainly uses them with extreme cynicism for selfish ends.

And is he right about that? Judge for yourself

The temperatures are significantly below model predictions, even after the predictions were downgraded to a warming trend of +1.67K/century, http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

You do realize that there is 1.6 billion of people that are muslims in the world, spread out over the most of the globe? Your comment is like saying that we should ban all Christians from having human rights, because they are Bible thumping bigots opposing gays and abortions.

You realize that on the most conservative estimates, that roughly 25% of muslims support extremism(that's via western countries). You jump out a bit to the non-westernized countries and it jumps as high as 70% supporting extremism, that means either the acts themselves or the belief that the acts themselves are justified. So, here's something for you to think about. After the first terrorist attack here in Canada by a muslim, in Quebec a muslim group came out saying that all mosques need to be investigated and shut down for three months, all funding must be investigated. All speech must be investigated, and all immigration from muslim countries needs to be stopped for a protracted period.

I guess they're all racists right? Oh wait...muslim isn't a race now is it. Going on with that, what's the difference between Christianity and Islam? If you answered anything other than Christianity has had a reformation(several actually), then you need to dust off your history books and start reading some more. Let's not forget that in Islam, the Koran is considered the end-be-all-final work of god. As such, changing anything is heresy. Something is fundamentally broken in Islam, sticking your head in the sand is not the answer. So perhaps the person that should be educating themselves is you.

That is a great point !

Yes, they really need to look at the same programmer across procedural, functional, and OOP languages. In my experience programmers that don't understand how to use C well tend to be very poor Java, etc. programmers. :-( Understanding low levels such as memory usage and cache performance, the ability to read assembly, and knowing concepts such as register spell and branch prediction, while not "necessary" for the modern programmer all help you to be a much better programmer by understanding what the machine is doing. People who suggest "Just throw memory / cpu / hardware at a problem" are piss-poor programmers.

However consider the majority of programmers 0.5% can't even grok a simple 4* case if-then statement of FizzBuzz ....

* http://blog.codinghorror.com/w...
* http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuz...

... then I would say the bigger problem is teaching programmers to have critical thinking. Stop over-engineering everything. Here is an article on "Criminal Overengineering."

* http://coderoom.wordpress.com/...

This is the reason modern programs chew up megabytes of RAM and people _still_ are waiting on a GHz CPU.

Somewhere along the way we lost the importance of K.I.S.S. -- Keep it Simple Stupid.

--

* The 4 cases are:

  1. n mod 15 = 0, print fizzbuzz
  2. n mod 5 print buzz
  3. n mod 3 printf fizz
  4. default: print n

hmm... lets see

COBOL.. dead
BSD.. dead
TAPE .. dead

And yet there would be no LHC datacenter without tape.

The CERN Tier-0 in Meyrin currently provides around 45 PetaBytes of data storage on disk and 90 PetaBytes on tape for physics, and includes the majority of the 100,000 processing cores in the CERN Data Centre.

ref:

http://information-technology....
http://www.economist.com/blogs...
http://storageservers.wordpres...
http://scribol.com/science/hal...

A Fedora community member releases periodic respins of Fedora stable releases; they're not official releases and they don't go through QA but FWIW I'd trust the guy if I needed a respun image in a pinch. http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/ is his site, you can find the spins at https://alt.fedoraproject.org/... .

I'm glad to hear that Tommy is finally reunited with is 1965 AMC Ambassador, which Ray so cruelly sent to the crusher (just because it had fungus growing out of the seats and it hadn't moved for years).

If ever there were a time for Slashdot to allow image links, this would have been it. Meantime, this link is for you.

Considering that every time someone says something like wanting no religious accommodation in schools. Muslim groups start screaming "islamophobia or islamophobe" some other type of crap, it does seem to be particular to them.

But sure, there's fanatical people. What's the difference between Muslims and Christians? Two things, first Christians don't believe that all people are Christian or born as such. Islam dictates that all people are. Second, Christianity has had a reformation(several actually), Islam has had none. Also, your "dangerous holy crusades" were in response to Muslims. More so the out-right slaughter, rape, murder, and forced conversion of Christians in Spain...that had been on-going for nearly 100 years by that time.

An individual who's fanatical, most people would lump as an individualist. And sure, there's plenty of Muslims in Canada who aren't coming to try and force you to change, but there are plenty that are. There are also some that are being directly attacked by their own community when they came out after the Muslim drove over two soldiers in Quebec stating that all mosques need to be shut down immediately and investigated. It's nice and all, but there is something fundamentally broken in Islam. All Islamic organizations need to have a financial audit, and all immigration from Islamic countries stopped in the intern.

Burying your head in the sand over it, won't make it go away.

With my computer, a code editor, and the (easily accessible) documentation. It took about 10 minutes.

I meant: you probably have some code that looks like:
var geom = new THREE.TextGeometry(T, { size : S, height: H, curveSegments: CS, font: F });
I was interested in the parameters to that code.

That statement is either completely false or incoherent. Care to give it another go?

Unless you are rendering bitmap fonts, at some points, your glyph outlines are first rendered to the texture. It may be 2D, chances are it's still done by the graphic card on modern systems.

Sure. What I'm saying is that, from the numbers you've provided, your product clearly lots of room for improvement. Even with basic Latin, you're averaging 128 triangles/character for flat text!

Actually, you are right, the code I quickly implemented was counting the array elements, not the polygons. So, roughly, the number of edges, but counting terminating edges in triangle strips multiple times. My bad. I guess I'm getting tired. The point I was trying to make remains valid: some real fonts (as opposed to the toy fonts in Three.js) quickly generate huge amounts of polygons.
As another illustration of my point about WebGL, I can see the Three.js geometry / text example on my iPad, but not on my iPhone 4 or my Android tablet. Maybe you are more lucky with your BlackBerry...

I'm still not convinced the project offers anything over existing solutions.

I'm sorry I did not convince you. But Tao3D does offer a lot over existing solutions.

First, Tao3D is the only practical solution I know for delivering interactive 3D animations, simulations or presentations quickly. What you can do with Tao3D in 25 lines of code is nearly impossible today with Three.js: no support for real TruType fonts, no text layout for 3D meshes, no RTL text support, etc. And I'm just talking about text here. We can do full slides in 3D with 25 lines of code when Three.js is barely capable of doing one line of text in 600+ lines of code at the moment, and then only with relatively serious 3D programming. Tao3D requires 24 times less lines of code. And you say we bring nothing new?

That brings me to the second big contribution. Even if you add text layout features to Three.js, you will still be working at the wrong semantic level, talking about meshes and renderers and such. Again, someone might work this out the way Reveal.js attempted to do for slides. But Tao3D does this today. Today, with Tao3D, you talk about "slides" and "paragraphs" and "color", because that's what you care about.

Finally, a third innovation in Tao3D (though not in the libre edition) is transparent support for practically every stereoscopic or auto-stereoscopic screen under the sun. So you can playback 3D movies without glasses, superimpose 3D text and logos, etc. In the digital signage space, Tao3D brings glasses-free 3D screens at feature parity with 2D screens. And that's also a pretty significant contribution.

I can understand your need to defend it against any and all criticism, real and perceived

Not any criticism. Against uninformed criticism, of which there is a lot on Slashdot, unfortunately.

How is your startup going? What markets have you found the most success? Where do you see the product in the future?

I noticed your "failing" startup comment earlier, don't worry. Like any startup, not enough cash, too many ideas, not enough people, too many things to do, not enough time.

Our current markets include exhibitions, e.g. tr

Absolutely! This is why I hired extra security for my bat mitzvah.

Be careful what you wish for. I for one certainly don't want Melbourne to copy Athens just because the current government are a pack of "one term" cunts. Besides there are plenty of large political protests in Melbourne on all sorts of issues. Those people just don't attach the same priority to this issue as you do. If you want to know what gets Melbourne "out on the streets" then have a look at the tag cloud in thislist of Melbourne protests covering several recent years, privacy, the internet, and ASIO don't even rate a tag.

By world standards Aussies have an active and peaceful protest culture and I would like it to stay that way. Just because masses of people are not smashing shop windows and burning cars while protesting about what personally upsets you today doesn't mean everyone is complacent about politics in general. The fact you can't perceive that makes me think that you're the one who isn't paying attention to the local political climate. If you are really serious then get out on the street yourself and tell others why you are there, with social media and the like it's never been easier and cheaper to organise a protest about your pet issue.

Go to a mosque and talk to a muslim. You might learn something.

I rather wouldn't. It might be disturbing.

I'm sorry, but the more we learn, the more we have to accept that being religious in most forms is simply being delusional in the truest sense of the word.

Your post is long, so I'll only address a few snippets by lack of time.

Also, why do people keep making new languages with new syntax (generally with poor to missing error messages, debuggers, IDEs, documentation, and libraries) when we would so much more benefit from improved FOSS libraries for existing ones? I'd be a lot more excited about Tao if it was a JavaScript library that just supported some special format INI files.

The answer is complex. I try to address it in this article. It's not just for the sake of inventing a new language, it's because what I wanted to do I could not do with JavaScript.

Looking at a bit of the Tao overview video on SourceForge, it looks like variables don't need to be declared (ick!).

Variables need to be declared, but an assignment does declare a variable in that scope.

Also, requiring "locally" seems to imply that it has one of the worst "features/bugs" of JavaScript design for default globals? Or maybe I did not understand "locally".

The 'locally' function does not concern variables, but graphic state. It's a way to say "I don't want this rotation to escape this block". In OpenGL terminology, you can think of it as a PushMatrix/PopMatrix pair (and same for other attributes).

The main aspects of the language (like what is a code block, what is an argument) don't seem clear at first glance to me, perhaps because of various keywords being defined or seeing commas some places and not others?

I find the use of a comma without inner parentheses interesting for functions and arguments, where the comma in a sense is doing what Smalltalk keyword colons are doing. Still, it misses labelling arguments like Smalltalk, and why not drop the commas and just have all arguments separated by spaces and instead require nested expressions to be surrounded by parentheses if you are going in that direction? For example: "translate -500 100 (10 + x)"

If you define something like:

        translate X Y Z -> translate X, Y, Z

then you probably are close to what you want. In practice, this forced me to add many parentheses (as you just did), and I found using a low-priority comma to separate arguments was much more practical.

I like the clean looking syntax without semicolons at the end of lines. I'm assuming it uses indentation after a comma to define code blocks?

Yes.

It it ran on JavaScript, maybe I'd try it today...

If someone wants to give Emscripten a try ;-)

If you're the author, despite any criticism above (just half-baked opinions from watching the video for a few minutes on-and-off while writing this), I'd still encourage you to keep moving forwards with it. Looks like a lot of fun! And it is exploring some new ideas and the library looks amazing. There is no question popular computer languages (Java, JavaScript, C++) have many warts and someday it would be great to have better languages (again though, Smalltalk and message passing is my favorite, even as I move to JavaScript now for various reasons).

Thanks for the encouragements.

Still, if you haven't already, you might want to make an ANTLR ( http://www.antlr.org/ ) grammar for Tao3D and generate JavaScript for a backend to the animations which uses asm.js for speed and so it can run easily in a web browser. Then people with a compatible recent browser could just click on a link and be up and running with Tao.

I have other plans to achieve that same effect. What out for Buddda ;-)

Here is that tells you more what this is about.

I blame Outbreak. http://nypdecider.files.wordpr...

One thing I don't get though... http://ebolatracking.org/ - I get there's a lot of stupid people in New York, California, Texas... but Maine? Why the hell is Maine over 10000 tweets... it's mother effing Maine.

Probably because that's where that Healthcare Worker who has been making such a stink about being voluntarily Quarantined for a whole 21 days in her own house (a Quarantine she decided on her own to break today), lives.

I blame Outbreak. http://nypdecider.files.wordpr...

One thing I don't get though... http://ebolatracking.org/ - I get there's a lot of stupid people in New York, California, Texas... but Maine? Why the hell is Maine over 10000 tweets... it's mother effing Maine.

leads scientists to be far too cautious, far too easily disrupted by the doubt-mongering of denialists

Can't we just shoot these doubt-mongering denialists and move on to the great new world of next Tuesday? What is it, that keeps the rest of us so cautious in dealing with these contemptible human beings? They are traitors to humanity and should be executed — instead of being allowed to affect the good scientists' work, while secretly scheming to escape to a private Elysium of their own, when the Earth is no longer habitable.

We — historians of science, politicians, music professors, and actors alike — know better!

I have nothing against people smoking pot. I'm sick of people claiming to be "hungry" and "looking for work" ;) ;) filling our Downtown Park with Pot smoke. Or do you think they should get a pass because they are "homeless"?

Oh, most of the "homeless" are that way because of poor life choices...

http://verkoren.files.wordpres...

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I don't know why CVS or Rite Aid would be so bent out of shape about this.

Mostly because they still have to pay a credit-card processing fee. They would far rather you pay for things with a debit card or cash, which is cheaper for them. If you note the companies involved with CurrentC, many of them compete on price so paying the credit card companies 2% or so on the transaction can be their whole margin right there.

US Having Its Coolest Year On Record

The percentage of US HCN stations to reach 90 degrees was the smallest on record this year, with four of the five coolest years occurring above 350 PPM CO2. The most widespread heat occurred in 1931, when more than 98% of stations were over 90 degrees.

I am from a country where the majority of the people are Muslims. I know what Islam is

On the other hand, you guys in Europe, in Canada, in America, in Japan, Korea, or the Argentine, the knowledge you guys have on Islam is what they are telling you - and when I say THEY, I mean the authority, the power that be

No matter if it is the government of the United States of America, or the British government, or that of France, Germany, Italy, will insist that Islam is a "Religion of Peace"

Day in, and day out, you are being indoctrinated with the notion that "Islam = Peace" by your own government, and that is not enough

Even those Muslims will tell you that their religion, Islam, is the Religion of Peace

That is why I can fault you for thinking that "Islam = Peace", because that is what you have been told

But for us, we know better

We have been living under the Islamic cruelty all the time. We have witnessed how cruel Islam is, to what extend those Muslims will go to further their conquest (their ultimate aim is to take over the entier world) and they will kill whoever dare to oppose them

I have thousands and thousands of examples to show you, but to make this message short, I will show you one - Warning: Please refrain from clicking the link if you can't stand the gory

In Thailand, they killed children ---

https://shariaunveiled.files.w...

As I said, there are thousands and thousands of proofs of the cruelty of Islam. All you need to do is to google for it

If you don't believe, try looking HERE, and HERE.

I have quite a collection of official government raw data that show a very different truth than what NOAA claims.

Hell, even the majority of climate scientists admit that it hasn't really warmed for 16 years or more now. Their last best hope for explaining why their CO2-warming climate models didn't correspond with reality was that the "missing heat" was hiding in the deep ocean.

Alas, THIS PAIR OF PAPERS shows rather solidly that there isn't any "missing heat" being stored in the deep oceans.

Too bad, so sad. Which is sarcasm, of course. People should be celebrating (and some are). But too many are so caught up in their ties to research grants or their "CO2 religion" to admit they're looking more foolish by the day.

If you don't believe, try looking HERE, and HERE.

I have quite a collection of official government raw data that show a very different truth than what NOAA claims.

Hell, even the majority of climate scientists admit that it hasn't really warmed for 16 years or more now. Their last best hope for explaining why their CO2-warming climate models didn't correspond with reality was that the "missing heat" was hiding in the deep ocean.

Alas, THIS PAIR OF PAPERS shows rather solidly that there isn't any "missing heat" being stored in the deep oceans.

Too bad, so sad. Which is sarcasm, of course. People should be celebrating (and some are). But too many are so caught up in their ties to research grants or their "CO2 religion" to admit they're looking more foolish by the day.

We already have 18 years of no warming

The last 6 months were the warmest on record for the NOAA and the GISTEMP data sets, so I think that the hiatus may have finished.

Throughout that time there was warming, it's just that the oceans and cryosphere have seen more warming than the global mean surface temperature.

along with every other of their claims being wrong.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas?

Sea level is rising?

BTW, the grandparent post was written in a "trollish" wording on purpose - but I seriously consider the electric comet theory - and would advise anyone not tending to hold "the most accepted current theory" in science as if it were a religious fact. If anyone one is curious about it, give it a read.

Now - I just got to this article and video depicting an explosion in Mars that fits quite well with the electric comet model - but which would get a hard time being explained by ice blocks: https://missiongalacticfreedom...

In my case, based on hdparm -t on xubuntu and centos, the difference between a properly aligned Samsung EVO and an improperly aligned Samsung EVO is 510 MB/sec and 182 MB/sec respectively

http://cillian.wordpress.com/2... has some good info on setting up Samsung EVO properly on linux

I can't tell from your message tone if you think fewer women in CS is a problem that should be solved or if you think it is ingrained in human nature for men to be to majority of CS workers. I feel like it is on the human nature side of things, but mainly I just wanted to post this link which illustrates Female/Male occupation splits by percentage and shows CS somewhere in the middle of occupations that are male dominated.

These ships don't work like that. If anything, it will usually carry less than the max. The rating is based off of a arbitrary weight for each container which is about half the max weight per container. If overloaded or loaded incorrectly, they can list or even split. Here's two pictures of things that can happen:

http://www.railroad-line.com/f...
http://shariaunveiled.files.wo...
http://www.marineinsight.com/w...

http://politicalsciencereplica...
http://www.nature.com/news/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...

See: http://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/

well, don't configure it for binary logging then https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordp...

here's how to do it https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordp...

why is it an issue, its just another tool to use. Do you complain about just how many editors are there? is more than one editor needed? you can create yourself a little alias or script (bash, bourne, zsh, etc etc) that extracts the text files and continue as normal or you can just configure it to suit your needs. heres a link on how to set up systemd to log as text https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordp...

You're absolutely right! The best known Tesla I'm aware of died at age 78:
http://earthenergyreader.files...
I'm not sure if there are any that made to be 100.

I don't trust Poettering & Co's track record, nor competence, nor intentions (e.g. seeing him use sleazy manipulative rhetoric in a conference video where he accused a systemd opponent of not caring about handicapped people), and I sure don't want their unnecessary huge mass of dubious code on my machine. (Though I'm sure the NSA will be happy for the increased opportunities of exploits in such a huge messy mass of code.) And even if this "init system" were somehow really necessary for Gnome, I don't use Gnome.

They have lied, e.g. claiming that systemd is just an init system, or that it is not a big monolithic chunk of code, yet it becomes more and more monolithic. E.g. I just watched a week or two ago as several libsystemd packages in debian became merged into a single package while one user was trying to create a stub for one of them to satisfy some needless systemd dependencies by some applications.

I am becoming increasingly convinced that Ignorant Guru is right, and Linux is being manipulated for corporate interests, not users' interests. http://igurublog.wordpress.com...

Taylor Hebert is going to go out of business (warning: almost two million words of free awesome ahead).

>So it would seem that the original rules may not, in fact, have had such sexless classes.

Seems to match reality. When it comes to be killed or to fight men always fall first.

During the titanic disaster, the survival rate for women was far higher than for men.

During war, palestine and Irak 11% of victims across all weapons types were Iraqi females and ww II soviet union report of 8.7 million military dead, however according to the(ADK) study total war deaths were 20.1 million males and 6.6 million females, a difference of 13.5 million more males

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You just described how many of us feel about iTunes today.

Otherwise known as Hatebois, since comparing RealPlayer to iTunes requires Hoekestranian levels of contortion.

one could argue that the United States is hobbled by an outdated constitution in responding to epidemics

The USA has handled many epidemics in the past. The experience of Western Samoa vs. American Samoa during the Spanish Flu epidemic is an interesting example. The TL;DR: version: Western Samoa decided they couldn't stopping the importation of plantation laborers, and as a result 20-25% of the population died. American Samoa self-quarantined, and nobody died.

One of the core problems today is that the CDC has lost focus, and instead of controlling infectious disease, they spend money things like playground safety, workplace accidents, guns, and birth defects. And then there was the NIH grant to study why gay men are often thin and lesbians are often obese.

We don't need to change the Constitution, just the spending and research priorities of a bunch of bureaucracies.

You are right, CO2 is not the only factor, a difference in CO2 alone can make a difference.

http://wattsupwiththat.files.w...

Source: Susanne von Caemmerer, W. Paul Quick, and Robert T. Furbank (2012). The Development of C4 Rice: Current Progress and Future Challenges. Science 336 (6089): 1671-1672.

I would say that it is obstructionism, redistricting in ways that do nothing but try and ensure their own reelections, aka gerrymandering, and the such.

Both parties have that in their toolbox. Check this out: Bobby Scott's gerrymandered 3rd District.

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"Fusion energy almost sounds too good to be true"

No it doesn't.

http://matter2energy.wordpress...

"Perhaps the biggest roadblock to adopting fusion energy is that the economics haven't penciled out."

Haven't pencilled out? Sure they have, at about TEN TIMES the price of PV. Why would I want to build a reactor here when I can just download for 1/10th the cost. You know, napster.

"They have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant"

Like every other plant that said the same thing but then ran into intractable problems when scaled up?

And I do mean *every* one.

In fact, it’s so easy to classify new secrets that government classifiers joke that they can find the authority to classify a ham sandwich. These secrets tend to be permanent. Just last month, the Department of Defense blacked out a fact students learn in US History 101 – that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with a swap of Soviet nukes in Cuba for the US nukes in Turkey. There are so many new secrets created, and so few old secrets released, that the runaway US classification regime has become a menace to American democracy.

The most recent available data shows that in 2012 alone, there were more than 95 million decisions to classify US documents. The cost of storing these secrets for just one year well exceeds ten billion dollars. We can’t be certain of the exact figure, however, because the cost that intelligence agencies, including the CIA and NSA, pay to house their secrets is – surprise, surprise – classified.

The linked article has a great chart showing that the number of classification decisions quintipled starting around 2008, even though it was out of control years before that. DOD's classified data should be a small garden protected with a high wall.

Here's the project conference poster. "Total equipment cost for the development path is less than $1 billion". Nothing on the poster, though, indicates why this should work. It's yet another torus-based design, of which there have been many. The best performance to date is from the Joint European Torus: "In 1997, JET produced a peak of 16.1MW of fusion power (65% of input power), with fusion power of over 10MW sustained for over 0.5 sec."

All torus designs run into plasma instability problems. So far, nobody has a working solution. Nobody even has a good theoretical solution. No combination of fixed magnets has yet worked. There's some modest interest in active feedback for stabilization, and some modest success has been reported. The instabilities are on the order of milliseconds, so active feedback is quite feasible.

Even ITER probably won't work. The thinking behind ITER was originally "maybe it will become more stable if we make it bigger." Now, a little "maybe the feedback control people can make it work" has been added. It's not looking good, which is why there really isn't that much enthusiasm for ITER.

A new analysis and report on Andrea Rossi's E-Cat reactor suggests a new type of nuclear reaction may be real. http://matslew.wordpress.com/2... A new Hydrogen-Nickel-Lithium fuel source may be in our future...

It is pretty sad to see, that after so many comments nobody really has a clue about what the story is about, and what is happening in the Linux kernel.
The kernel VT system has been considered a monstrosity by kernel developers the last decade and everyone is of the opinion that it should be used to user space.

The finally a really smart guy actually attacks and solve the problem. His name is David Herrmann, and he has tirelessly worked on this for years. Systemd distros will get the full support of his research, simply because almost all Linux distros are using, or a going to use systemd. But don't worry, he has provided rich support user space VT's on non-systemd Linux distros, by eg. "ksmcon"
https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmsc...

Here is his fosdem talk:
https://archive.fosdem.org/201...

Here is his blog that will tell you more about VT's than you ever knew:
http://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/

Here is a wiki link about VT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Here is an old blog post about the problems with the old kernel VT:
http://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/20...

In short, no need for the systemd opponents to get their panties in a bunch; they can either use Hermanns user space tools, or pretend there isn't a problem and use the present kernel system.

For the rest of us who really likes systemd, this is great news. Thanks to Hermann's work, there will be much better console support for early boot debugging, better security, better keyboard and language handling etc.