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But what good is a scanned book if it's available but you can't actually access it? Almost everything since 1930 is under copyright, and we're legally denied access to this wealth of information, including works under copyright but orphaned. Scanning books, digitizing them, making them searchable -- and then what? If you can't get the book, what good is it? Almost all books before digital typesetting are available online only in bad-photocopy scanned PDFs, not even full text.

A sane society would strip the copyright from any book that is not currently available digitally, if the copyright holder (supposing the copyright holder can even be found) has no plans to make it available digitally in the next year, and revert it to the public domain. Then Google - and anyone else - could do whatever they wanted with the text.

A sane society would have a 14 yr copyright, a president and congress who actually listen to the masses and only serve 4 or six yrs, a Bruce jenner who never married Kris Kardashian because told him it would be his worst mistake ever, a childless Pattie Mallette, a RIAA that served its artists giving them 80% of the money an album earned and didn't attack the people who shared it, muslims and jews who didn't hate each other, women, gays and want to explode themselves in crowded places, a US that didnt spill foreign blood someone in the world every decade for the last 120 yrs and a Microsoft who actually listens and didnt shove metro into 8 or kill xp because it wants too. But back to the topic. No, stripping the copyright from any book that is not currently available digitally, if the copyright holder (supposing the copyright holder can even be found) has no plans to make it available digitally in the next year, and revert it to the public domain would deprive certain authors (example Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. Le Guin ). You want an actual example of this? http://wellpreparedmind.wordpr... its happened in france. Damn those they couldn't find. Me, I am a writer. I want copyright fixed but I don't want my choice taken away either. However, I am in support of this scanning. As for the D&D, well they deserved to be screwed.

And they will be quick to point out that the mayor has merely taken his cue from America's leading criminal-satire case, celebrated almost in the manner of a witch-hunt in New York and on "bible" blogs around the country. See the documentation at: http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpr... Despite being widely reported on in the press, the case — including the dissenting opinion (on free speech grounds, figure that) of the chief judge of the New York's highest court — has been largely ignored by legal commentators, so it's not surprising that thugs with badges now feel free to go after the creators of Twitter accounts embarrassing to wealthy and powerful members of the community, whether they be politicians, university presidents, or anyone else ordinary people might choose to mimic and mock on the Internet.

And for those Londoners who had no idea that there used to be an air terminal in Kensington, here's a local history page with loads of great photos: http://rbkclocalstudies.wordpr...

Let's start by ending subsidies for corn syrup. Maybe use those funds to subsidize fruits and veggies? I would welcome the day when it is cheaper to eat a salad than make a box of Mac&Cheese, or to have an apple cost less than a hershey bar. OJ cheaper than Coke?

People keep parroting the idea that subsidies cause Skittles to be cheaper than grapes, but the reality does not match the hype. A 2009 study by Tufts University found that High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) "represents just 3.5% of the total cost of soft drink manufacturing as measured by the value of shipments. Meanwhile, the corn content of HFCS represents only 1.6% of this value. Thus, the impact of corn prices on the final retail price of a food product is not as high as one might think."

If the cost of the corn in your Coca Cola only makes up half a penny of the 30 cents you pay for it at the supermarket, then the subsidies are not making it less expensive than juice. And I assume the same goes for candy versus fruit and vegetables. The simple fact is that it is much cheaper to produce junk food than good food, and government subsidies have nothing to do with it. I would still love to see heavy subsidies for fruit and vegetables though.

The 97% claim has been refuted and it is not hard disprove either.

It is not 97% of scientists, it is 97% of PAPERS written on CLIMATE CHANGE. How many scientists that represents is unclear.

The paper looks at 12,000 papers written in the last 25 years (see here, the paper doesn’t actually specify the numbers, http://notalotofpeopleknowthat...). It ditches about 8,000 papers because they don’t take a position.

They put people who agree into three different bins — 1.6% that explicitly endorse global warming with numbers, 23% that explicitly endorse global warming without numbers and then 74% that “implicitly endorse” because they’re looking at other issues with global warming that must mean they agree with human-caused global warming.

So only 1.6% actually support AGW with actual numbers and not opinion.

No. It is generally a single-threaded program (the UI widgets probably have their own thread though). Bug #392073. Bill McCloskey has written about the plans to make Firefox multithreaded.

Check out this website. The author has made it a duty of his to record the ASTOUNDINGLY MANY injuries to responsible data that have been perpetrated by GISS.

He uses their own data to show how they manipulate the truth. At his own personal cost, on his own time.

In particular, the "adjustments" GISS makes to temperature data is under very serious question.

Back in the days when gas was 20 cents a gallon (and gas station attendent(s) pumped the gas for you plus check tire pressure, oil, and water levels), and also when Stan Lee created Spiderman, X-men, and The Avengers for the Marvel Comics group (yep, if they were real-life characters, they'd be old enough to collect social security).

Another character in Marvel "universe" was Patsy Walker. She didn't have superpowers but she had lots of beautiful dresses and unlimited budget to buy them all. Not created at Marvel but adopted from earlier comic publishers, Marvel series by artist Al Hartley, Al and Stan featured Patsy wearing various fashions submitted by readers. Probably real exciting because that was "internet forums" at the time. Examples here, http://marlendy.wordpress.com/...

Another cultural interest is this #106 April 1963 issue has lots of bouffant dress fashions popular at the time. Consider that shortly after in next year or two, this fashion was dead. http://static.comicvine.com/up...

While Stan Lee developed large male readership with Spiderman, X-men, etc. he also probably developed large female readership with Patsy Walker by engaging readers to submit fashion ideas. Though able to capitalize on movies nowadays using comic characters from more than 50 years ago, except for Patsy Walker, how many women dress up for occasions these days anyway?

Like many of early Marvel characters, Patsy Walker evolved into another form. No longer in the fancy gowns but out fighting bad guys with ferocity of a Navy SEAL as "Hellcat."

The fact that you weren't charged because she happened to be into it doesn't make it not rape, any more than it wouldn't be rape if you happened to jump out of the bushes with a knife and rape a girl who happened to have a rape fantasy.

And that's why I argue against this stupidity, because you seriously think violently raping someone with a deadly weapon falls into the same category as consentual fun between adults that all parties involved enjoy, it just falls outside the too-narrow scope of the law.

If one night your girlfriend had gone to bed angry with you

Your mind is made up and you are emotional. It is your mindset that is totally fucked up. You really think that there's no interaction and empathy in a loving relationship and that men are robots that don't understand that what's totally fine in situation A is not so in situation B. I hope the medium of text is to blame and you don't really live and feel that way because I'd be sorry for you if you do.

You want there to be blurry lines, holes carved out in the definition of rape so that you have the right to f*** girls without having to get their permission.

I don't know and frankly I don't care where your anger comes from, but again your argument is personal, emotional and completely besides the point. The only thing I don't want is tons of things that are not rape be thrown in with it, because rape is too serious a crime to be muddied up like that.

The rest of your drivel I won't even comment on. You are foaming at the mouth, not having an argument. Apparently I triggered something in you and you can't stand the thought that real life is more complicated than the textbooks say, especially in situations that become he-said-she-said when they go to trial.

Being opposed to jailing innocent people is not the same as being pro-criminal. On the contrary, the justice system has a duty not only to convict the criminals, but also to acquit the innocent. In crimes against humanity, this is often forgotten when people ask for stricter sentencing, stronger punishments, etc.

But especially in rape, the situation is more complex than you like. For example, a nine-year study of a small metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States found that 41% of rape accusations were false. (Archives of Sexual Behavior 23 (1)). Another report found that DNA evidence excluded the primary suspect in 26% of rape cases (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/dnaevid.pdf). Then you have the purely legal fictions. swedish law can be interpreted to make it a rape if a mans penis touches (without penetration) a womens vagina while both are sleeping - of course that never, ever, happens, right? Or it can be read as the act being rape if the women is physically restrained, even if she doesn't resist or object - which makes large sections of BDSM play legally rape.

Then on the other hand we still have laws that make forced sex not rape if you are married, or where consent can not be legally withdrawn after penetration has occurred, which are just as crazy. But of course, you will completely ignore this and continue accusing me of total nonsense, because for all I can tell, you don't want to have justice and fair laws, you want to shoot every accused rapist without trial, because the crime is so horrible it shouldn't need such things as balance and proof.

You're right.

Global Warming / Climate Change / Whatever-you-want-to-call-it is a load of BS. Fortunately more and more people are waking up to the fact!

Biggest science fraud ever?. The "evidence" is all made up. Almost entirely.

Pollution, on the other hand, is a real problem that needs to be addresses and in China (and London) and what I do agree with is that creating incentives to reduce that is not a bad thing. However, basing that on a massive fraud like "Climate Change", is indefensible.

So where does 85-90% of the pollution come from?

I'm assuming the impurities in the snow, except for the odd volcanic eruption, are black carbon emissions. This chart suggests Europe, China and the US are equally responsible. China and the US emit the most carbon dioxide which, since it is also emitted when burning fossil fuel, is a good second indicator of where the black carbon is coming from. The second graph seems to blame the US and China more then any individual European country but the EU still has their part to play.

China is burning more coal than the US, CN 65% - US 37%. However, they are also using more renewable energy sources then the US, ~28% vs 12% (US). Both China and the US are expanding their nuclear sectors to double capacity, currently China has 1% vs the US 19%. Worth to note is that the US uses a lot more natural gas then China does (%-wise) which adds to their CO2 emissions but not black carbon. Values for China and for the US.

Point is: everyone's to blame. Besides, Europe and the US have had 100 years to develop their industries so they should already have gotten past the 40 year old upstarts problems, right?

But, please, give us a more coherent answer on the details he did mention above. I would love to hear it.

I posted a small response below. For a more complete answer, I recommend the following books:

"Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne. His blog has info.

"The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins.

Enjoy, and please do report back.

Pardon me. NOAAs figures are that ocean rise has been about 0.9mm per year since 2010. Projecting backward (which I am not sure is a valid technique, Mann nothwithstanding) would give a rise of about 3". So by projection only, without researching actual historical data this Sunday evening, I concede that 3" may be a reasonable figure.

So instead of researching actual historical data by simply clicking on the link I provided, you ignored the uncertainties on 4 years of data and project a highly uncertain short term "trend" backwards over 100 years? Wow.

Pardon me. NOAAs figures are that ocean rise has been about 0.9mm per year since 2010. Projecting backward (which I am not sure is a valid technique, Mann nothwithstanding) would give a rise of about 3".

So by projection only, without researching actual historical data this Sunday evening, I concede that 3" may be a reasonable figure.

I cast some pretty serious doubt onto the legitimacy of the claim that this machine passes a Turing Test, so much as the Turing Testers fail to be convincingly human.

Also, the robot went down much earlier than the appearance of this slashdot article, so for everybody saying the site got "slashdotted", hate to break your bubble but the world doesn't revolve around /.

http://gabrielapetrie.wordpres...

Thanks for the comments. I hope I can clarify some of the things people said here.

Re popularity of OTA vs. cable: Cable is more popular in the US, but that's just the US. Digital Terrestrial is much more common in other places - for example it's the most popular delivery method in Europe by far (page 39) . In the US immigrants use it a lot more than US-born.

To whomever suggested attacks via the remote control's IR port: that sounds a lot of fun to try, but the IR receiver's much less sensitive than the RF jack, it has a much lower data rate, and it needs line of sight.

About the power calculations: 1 Watt (0 dBm) can cover an area of 1.4 square Kilometers, under reasonable assumptions. The math is in the paper.

One last thing: A big shout-out to Martin Herfurt, whose work on HbbTV security was our starting point.

I figured that post would fly like a brick around here.

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I'll admit Hollywood and artists have given us some wonderfully scary imagery of the killer robots of the future:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...
http://ockhamsbeard.files.word...

But I suspect the real future will be more like:

http://www.wired.com/images_bl...

Or the much less vulnerable and maintainable:

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2...

Coupled with thermal imagery, a simple AI to identify sneaking human patrols, and (at least at first) a go/no go command from some Private Tentpeg hunkered down in a bunker or OP somewhere. Trust me on this: I've BEEN that Private Tentpeg .. and later, his supervisor. It isn't far, in the front lines, from a tripwire connected to a hand grenade" to a much more complicated (and even more lethal) machine. How much "intelligence" will be vested in that machine is just a quibble. Trip wires aren't smart at all, yet we've never hesitated to use them.

I'm not so sure it's even that stealthy.

The biggest DUH ever.

http://stapledthedesignlife.fi...

sadly lots of good games (yeah Valkyria Chronicles 3) never left Japan.

VC2 and VC3 were the reasons I wanted a PSP. I never ended up getting one because VC3 was never localized.
I couldn't be assed to deal with the fan translation at http://vc3translationproject.w... .

Are you arguing extraordinary rendition is not like kidnapping because kidnapping involves showing probable cause to a judge, grand jury hearings, etc.?

Pete, is that you?

Because if it's not one of the two, you have quite clearly misunderstood everything I said in that post.

Your comparisons are insane? No, I got that just fine.

"Stuck inside working from home today.
Now I know how Anne Frank felt."

"Someone stole a bag of potting soil from my carport today.
This must be how the Native Americans felt when they lost their lands."

Or you could, you know, just download the whole thing and run it yourself. It will display on screen, just like in the linked video, with no head-slab required.

I don't have a OR, I don't think he's put the files out for you to play it on your OR.

Do this:

(1) Get a box, a can of black spray paint, and some elastic straps. Maybe dust off a GameCube controller too.
(2) Print this and stick it on a DVD case.
(3) Sign up for a WordPress account.

Now you too are part of the VR revolution.

When you start comparing crime rates, violent crime rates, gun deaths, or any other socially important data, you really need to pay careful attention to terminology. It matters little that the UK may experience only 1% of our gun deaths, if they also experience 800% of our violent crime rate. After you are mutilated or dead, is it really going to matter to you that you were killed with a gun, or a knife, or a stone, or you were choked to death? Violent crime is violent crime.

You're half right. You are right in that you really need to pay attention to terminology. You are wrong when you say "violent crime is violent crime". Why? Terminology.

"Violent crime" in UK stats is a very wide term that covers a lot of things. "Violent crime" in USA stats is a very narrow term that doesn't cover a lot of things. The terminology means different things in the two countries, so what is being measured is different.

Read this for more details, including links to the definitions being used. The fact is that the UK is less violent than the USA once you look at what's being measured instead of assuming "violent crime" means the same thing in both cases.

You can use luks with loopback files (e.g. http://paolobertasi.wordpress....) (1). FreeOTFE on Windows can open LUKS volumes (2). So only (5) is missing.

Absolutely. I was a big proponent of a new name (and a better logo http://wirespeed.wordpress.com...), but I don't see that changing. Which is sad, because the lack of solid branding has always been one of its biggest problems. :(

Shari on her blog has a cached image

This satellite does not even have a computer; it is all 'hard-wired.'"

A lot of early computer systems were hard-wired in terms of instructions and logic paths. It didn't make them unusable, just arcane considering newer technologies like SoCs. We have come a long way.

Right. It has no integrated circuits. There's no way it doesn't have a computer. It couldn't receive signals and fire its thrusters otherwise. If there are no IC's out there that do what you need (which I assume is often the case with space craft) there's not much need for them. A lot of electronics I've built in the past has been simple enough that I did what we always called "Point to Point" meaning you have a board (like real wood!) with holes drilled into it, or metal posts... and you solder your components "point to point" with each other. There aren't even wires.

Here's a random image I found as an example: http://bgmb55.files.wordpress....
You use the physical shape of the component to design your board. There are often components on both sides of the board.
This doesn't lend itself well to very complicated circuits however. If you get too many components going, you can easy create a short hazard for yourself. But it makes simple circuits a lot easier to build and maintain. It also makes each components function a lot easier to understand at a glance. This picture is clearly a Tube Amplifer for example. You can see that just by glancing at it (and the tube sockets help to)

Because "the huge deviations" do not actually exist?

Often the claims that the models don't match reality are based on incompetence or worse.

As a bonus here are some simpe trend comparison graphs.

Because "the huge deviations" do not actually exist?

Often the claims that the models don't match reality are based on incompetence or worse.

As a bonus here are some simpe trend comparison graphs.

Einstein was a (mono-cranium) Tasmanian, his theory of roll and rock has been well documented. The drummer in Genesis had been accused of robbing a train and fled the UK, he went to the most remote place on the planet he could think of (Oz) and witnessed Einstein giving a lecture about the theory of "roll and rock. You will notice 'Bert had, by this time, renamed his theory to the more familiar "rock and roll" which is what Ronald Biggs heard and took with him to Genesis - (BTW, that black haired beauty with big brown eyes in the lecture video is a young Marie Curie).

Really not trolling. I grew up with Reading Rainbow but I had no idea what it was until I figured out that Geordi LaForge was the Reading Rainbow guy. Like I said, not trying to be snobby or dickish about this but did you not watch Star Trek TNG? Before he was Geordi he was the Reading Rainbow Guy!

Oh, and he was in Roots too, which is probably a bigger cultural accomplishment for him than the rest, but again, Geordi LaForge!

You must prove your case, which has not happened.

Oh yes? Has it not?

AGW makes a handful of claims. First, that the earth is getting warmer.

Second, that the oceans are getting warmer.

Third, that sea levels will rise

Fourth, that arctic ice will retreat.

Fifth, that Greenland's ice will melt..

Sixth, that antarctic ice will melt.

I could go on, but let's make #7 that man is causing it.

So do tell what's missing here. Again, please use scientific evidence in the peer reviewed literature. Most of the links I've provided above refer you to their sources and extra reading and come from such things as IPCC reports. And again, I'll wait.

This. And the planet isn't even remotely as hot as it USED to be either. (not even talking the early days of lava pools and chaotic surface, I mean even only a good billion years back)

That doesn't help us toady. Nor any other species alive.

Are the scales going to break one day? Sure they will, but it ain't now.

This is wrong. The scales have broken. Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn.

But for now, Earth is pretty damn stable

This is also wrong. It is unstable.

We ain't becoming Mars just yet.

We are, however becoming an earth with continuous sea level rise for the foreseeable future, and acidifying oceans.

And just to throw this out here, humans actually HELPED make the climate MORE stable on average.

WTF? According to science the big greenhouse effect you see since the industrial revolution is caused by greenhouse emissions. Particularly CO2 emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels.

the stable controlled burning of forests to prevent total meltdown in hot times

Deforestation doesn't make it cooler if you burn the wood. It releases the greenhouse gas CO2.

Another ice age is coming sooner or later, we just don't know the exact time.

We were quite happily in an Ice Age, which means that there are significant ice sheets in both hemispheres. We may well be coming out of the ice age, and that means 15-80 metres of sea level rise over time. (Depending on whether the East Antarctic Ice sheet goes too or not.)

We know that ice ages come about when the weather gets out of control, but we still have some distance left before we hit the chaotic bouncing between hot and colds before the eventual collapse of ocean streams that carry most of the heat through convection to the north and south.

WTF?

Right now this is baby steps at best between summer and winters chaos. It is going to get MUCH more worse over the coming decades.

There are going to be more weather extremes. But the mean difference between summer and winter is reducing.

Coastal areas are going to get smashed so hard.

Yes. Sea level rise+warmer ocean surface, does smash coastal areas.

Even mines when it is relatively safe behind a huge chunk of land that mostly protects it from the Atlantic.

Huh?

First, and most importantly, you are attacking a straw man. That's not what "rape culture" means.

Second, look at any recent major media news coverage of a rape. You'll find plenty of worry about the careers of the rapists or how they were such nice people along with plenty of victim blaming.

Furthermore, when you call an act "rape", people will think it's horrible, but if you don't use the word, you'll get much weaker reactions. This study simply did a survey where they asked people if they had committed a rape without using the word "rape" and got plenty of yes answers.

I mean really -- you just said that because nobody admitted to a crime, none occurred.

No, actually, I didn't. I pointed out that if such a thing as "rape culture" existed the way the submitter presumes it does, then a rapist would have zero qualms about admitting to raping someone. You extrapolated that to mean what you wanted it to mean to serve your own agenda, either consciously or subconsciously.

They don't, actually. As long as you don't actually use the word 'rape' to describe the act. If it's coercive sex, or sex where the other person wasn't into it, or sex even after the other person said 'no,' then a fair number of men will admit to raping someone, or having tried to rape someone. About 6%, apparently. And, since a bunch of people - plenty of women and men both - will happily ask how much she'd been drinking, or what she was wearing, or why she was out so late in that area, they're able to get away with it. Because hardly anyone calls those things rape, and it was her fault anyway because she didn't do enough to make sure that asshole raped someone else and not her.

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the question on evolution, as the data shows, is the only question that reveals whether or not you are truly scientific, or simply ruled by cultural norms. that makes it the BEST question on the test. the data shows that if there is only one question on the test, it should be that one.

Also: http://whyevolutionistrue.word...

Interesting that you somehow want to penalise lawyers for doing a job that they are requested to do. Perhaps we should get rid of lawyers altogether? Take estate agents/realtors and door to door salesmen as well. And parking enforcement officers. And other people who are annoying despite having a function that could be beneficial to society...

Lawyers do not provide guarantees but they do frequently take on a case at a risk of not being paid which is the quid pro quo for the cases that are successful. There are also lawyers who assist with other matters too such as property transactions and assistance when a loved one dies. It's best not to tar everyone with the same brush you basement dwelling mummy's boy ;-)

In the UK there are some interesting developments with Qualified One-Way Shifting (synopsis) which allows someone to take on the mega-corp with little to no risk of being landed with an adverse costs order in the event that they lose their case. It is a relatively new concept which has not been rigourously tested and it has its pitfalls such as the drain on resources by fruitless claims but the drain is much smaller (technically) that the system which is being replaced where lawyer's fees, a percentage success fee (up to 100%) and a massive insurance premium could be claimed from the loser.

Spreadsheets tend to mess with strings that look somewhat like a date, it will automatically convert it to a date when it sees things like that. You need to be really careful about spreadsheets automatically reformatting your data, make sure you properly indicate whether a field is Text or not.

e.g. the infamous 'Excel genes', when a gene name like SEPT1 is silently converted to numerical date format:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1...

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Excel makes it far too easy for this to happen (just opening and saving a .csv file with Excel will silently corrupt it instead of invoking the data import wizard that would give you a chance to set data types per column - a great design decision!), and it's hard to spot corrupted cells if you have a list of hundreds or thousands of genes. Some of these have made their way into major online genetic databases:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1...

Excel in bioimformatics? - just say no, kids.

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Well, this one is not on a hill (AFAIK) but neither is in underground. It's still standing very nicely: Pantheon
I guess it was "Luigi's Pizza Emporium" :)

Would you settle for a really dirty picture instead?

Pygame can see all four axes of the analog sticks on the face of an Xbox 360 controller. I'll grant that Pygame games are 2D, and 2D games are less likely to use the right stick unless they're Robotron-style shooters. Should I download Dwn of Pwn to see how well it works? As for games that use both sticks in general, Pygame sees what SDL sees, and there are plenty of games that rely on SDL for input and audio and OpenGL for graphics.

I wouldn't be surprised they don't want to share that information because, it would expose them for the trendy racist hypocrites that they really are. I know they are racists because, they are running a support page for the Boeremag terrorists, who were jailed 'cause they tried to bomb Nelson Mandela, start a race war, drive all "non-Whites" out of the country and then set up an all White state in South Africa. Hypocrites because they wouldn't host a support page for Al Qaeda who is fighting the West, yet they are still hosting one for these Boeremag terrors who are fighting Africans, because they don't want Black rule in a Black country. I am banned from Facebook for running this petition against their support of terrorism. http://www.thepetitionsite.com... In fact Twitter banned me too and continue to send rabid rightwing racists for me to "follow". Read more at the blog:- http://natturner1.wordpress.co...

Yes, good points about the importance of good nutrition for recovery (although now might not be the best time to focus on cleaning out sequestered toxins, although a good long-term goal). Most mainstream medicine pays at best lip service to nutrition. Omega 3 fatty acids might help rebuild the brain, given the brain is mostly fat. Eggs have some as you say, but there are probably better choices. This is worthy of lot of further research to learn all that is needed. Don't count on a typical MD including even a brain specialist to know much about this.

Bear in mind there are different kinds of strokes which might need somewhat different nutrition depending on the causes and other complications. Specifically, clogged arteries causing one kind of stroke probably need a somewhat different approach than rebuilding damaged arteries that caused a different kind of bleeding stroke, since there is a balance of processes going on to strengthen or tear down the walls of arteries. But in either case, the body can't do the right thing without the needed building blocks and the control of inflammation caused by poor nutrition.

Places to start from my searching just now, but do a lot of research yourself (a long path for most US Americans to learn about eating healthy despite all the misinformaiton out there...):
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/...
(Different stroke type, but maybe some overlap:) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://www.stroke.org/site/Doc...
http://www.strokeassociation.o...

Other things can help too to reduce inflammation and then physical therapy: http://healyourbrain.wordpress...

Check her vitamin D level regularly as that is involved with inflammation management. Here is a good standard to work towards:
http://www.grassrootshealth.ne...

I've posted lots of other general nutrition links in the past, especially by Dr. Fuhrman. But again do your own research on what is best since a lot of his general diet advice is more for people with clogged arteries and at risk of ischemic stroke than for those with weakened arteries as he focuses on salt-restriction instead to minimize the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. There are processes in the body that both tear down and build up arteries, and they probably must be kept in balance to avoid both kinds of strokes, even though most US Americans are far more at risk of strokes from clogged arteries of the building up process going too far (from both inflammation and bad fats). Links about stroke from him though:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/disea...
http://www.diseaseproof.com/ar...
http://www.diseaseproof.com/ar...

I see a whole bunch of books on Amazon on "Stroke Recovery". Probably all sorts of good stuff there.

I agree with Richo's comment here that it is too soon to focus on fancy communications gear and you need to focus on just the basics (like yes. no, pain, thirsty, etc.):
http://ask.slashdot.org/commen...

That said, here is what Hawking uses:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-...

Also other tools discussed previously on Slashdot may be helpful in the long term:

Tom? Is that you?

Wordnik's recent collection of commonly confused words reminded me that it's been a while since I wrote a post of this sort. Time for another.

Discreet and discrete are often mixed up. It's easily done: not only are they homophones with near-identical spelling, they're also doublets, meaning they diverged from the same original word. In modern English, their spellings and meanings are distinct.

Discreet is probably the more familiar word, and is usually used to refer to people, especially their speech, appearance, or behavior. It means unobtrusive, circumspect and prudent, careful not to attract attention or cause embarrassment, able to keep a secret. Discretion is the noun form.

Discrete generally means separate, non-continuous, individually distinct; it also has technical usages relating to possible parts or values. Discreteness is the related noun.

Keeping 'discreet' and 'discrete' discreetly discrete