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Watch this documentary by National Geographic called "9/11: Science and Conspiracy". In it, they address all of the doubts that you raised, including the steel, the collapse, and thermite. http://youtu.be/OrBNJJc-DIY

epilepsy-inducing

What? Did someone say Beat hazard ultra? http://store.steampowered.com/...
http://youtu.be/kd-61CRXd_w?t=...
http://youtu.be/teA1OfGdgPw?t=...

epilepsy-inducing

What? Did someone say Beat hazard ultra? http://store.steampowered.com/...
http://youtu.be/kd-61CRXd_w?t=...
http://youtu.be/teA1OfGdgPw?t=...

From an X11 developer: "Stop saying that because its rubbish"

In China, people do not start work at 8am in the US. They start work at the time they start work at.

You mean....just like in the United States? People go to work at 6 am, 8 am, 10 am, 2 pm, etc. Most, however, do not work the overnight shift, so you can be reasonably certain they will be sleeping or working at certain times of the day. So WYP, pedant?

Further west, in India, people start work at the time that suits their nation. In England, the same thing applies.

Let me guess...circadian rhythms was a banned subject at your alma mater, Arrogant Deushbag U?

This was the point being made by the GP

The point was that you have an idea what people are doing based on what time of the day it is, based on this little known concept called a generalization.

not that 3.2% of th US workers are night shift workers.

Are you ten pounds of dumbfuck stuffed into a five pound pretentious jackass, or fifteen pounds? The point of night shifts is those are the only people likely to be asleep when the rest of the population is awake or working. You call up Bob's Colon Blow at 10 am, and you can be reasonably sure that they'll be open for business and can thus try to help you with your FOS problem. If you feel like giving your old friend Joan Crawford a call, you probably wont do it at 2 am because she's likely to be asleep. Unless you know she has a night job and that's her most active time of the day.

http://youtu.be/VWuJHbVZBQg?t=...

http://youtu.be/QOgqUHk-zDY

The question you have to ask yourself is, are there reasons to dislike Obama other than the color of his skin?

You could write an entire encyclopedia about such reasons, but the legit ones all come from the left. There is some Venn overlapping with Libertarians, who are refreshingly not FOS when they object to Obama's drone wars, unconstitutional spying, or continuing the War on Poor Drug Users.

But then there's the rest of the time, where Libertarians want to bring back all the worst aspects of the 19th Century, save chattel slavery. But they'd be just fine with the next best things: indentured servitude, sharecropping, and workers living in Company Towns and being paid in Company Script.

But I'm not FOS like an Obamabot. I will happily work with Libertarians who want to see bankers prosecuted for fraud or ending the War on Poor Drug Users. It's just that will also happily tell them to pound sand when they want to turn the U.S. into another Libertarian Paradise.

Russell Peters on the subject

For example, one like this: http://youtu.be/xjO_FM3Gej0

If you didn't watch the entire thing you missed the best parts. The "end" is really trippy. I also forced myself to watch Adi's Why Bootleg The Power Rangers? where he compares the rangers to children recruited in S. Africa.

There's a new running craze for women but current trends in research point to running actually shortening lifespan if it is overdone.

If 6 was 9...

Now you're talking about good music: http://youtu.be/Ui4ckbUNe3k

http://youtu.be/aq4UGiVEF80 Just because a few scientists say something or vote on it doesn't mean it's that way for all time. I tell my kids there are 9 planets and Pluto is one. I wrong? It doesn't matter.

Just what we need. Another remake of the free software song .... please don't!

http://youtu.be/9sJUDx7iEJw?t=...

As it happens, about three years ago I started doing an irregular series of Let's Play/Drown Out videos on YouTube with my colleage, GammaDev. Both of us are former employees of 3DO, and we covered The Deal that Never Happened in a video about two years ago (seek to 25:12).

http://youtu.be/eWG-nHuuCRc

Its the other way round:
http://youtu.be/GWQh_DmDLKQ?t=...

To be fair, she was the Worst Girlfriend in the World...

http://youtu.be/-cHVfynwev4

What could be funnier that exploding babies?

We have that game already: http://youtu.be/RH1u2kzd0Zg

Someone upthread posted a presentation of evidence contra speculations about the problems with climate models such as Dyson's.

The consensus models for AGW are accurate. You and Dyson need speculate no more.

People Skills: http://youtu.be/mGS2tKQhdhY?t=52s

Yeah, where's the proactive removal of other sketchy software that their CPO's team found during the regular audit?

It's almost like they're only doing this 'cause they've been caught stealin' user data with SuperPhish.

Not to defend Lenovo in this, but yeah, that's not how it happened. Keep in mind they stopped installing this a month before they "got caught".

There's no reason to assume that Lenovo knew, or was told everything this software could do. Personally I would definitely attribute malicious intent to the developers of the software, not the company that agreed to install it.

Expecting Lenovo to manage to learn/know/discern every bug, flaw, or undesired side-effect of every software package they allow on the preload image isn't practical. I mean, if they preload Java, are they responsible when the computer gets hacked because it's buggy? Flash? Windows itself? A driver? What about CD-burning software that could potentially have a back-door or rootkit? Now, yeah, this was shit-ware to start with but it's hard to know exactly where to draw the responsibility line.

Regardless, this isn't a matter of stopping because they "got caught". They stopped before they got caught. They just didn't offer to fix things until after it was discovered just how bad it is.

Ok, Hawking is a brilliant physicist, I give him that! But... He has made numerous pronouncements on many topics he is not an expert in. Recently, the climbed onto the Kurzweil bandwagon of the Singularity, (Which I might add, I took as a macguffin in my novel 'Chromosome Quest' {please check youtube: http://youtu.be/IZlGvgKZh1s }) and now this. Perhaps he should spend his energy in his field of expertise, and leave other fields alone... I admire him greatly, and it pains me to see this sort of silliness.

Ok, Hawking is a brilliant physicist, I give him that! But... He had made numerous pronouncements on many topics he is not an expert in. Recently, the climbed onto the Kurzweil bandwagon of the Singularity, (Which I might add, I took as a macguffin in my novel 'Chromosome Quest' {please check youtube http://youtu.be/IZlGvgKZh1s }) and now this. Perhaps he should spend his energy in his field of expertise, and leave other fields alone... I admire him greatly, and it pains me to see this sort of silliness. Stony

Yeah, where's the proactive removal of other sketchy software that their CPO's team found during the regular audit?

It's almost like they're only doing this 'cause they've been caught stealin' user data with SuperPhish.

BTW, firearms are a bad example of "looks like magic" to somebody 500 years ago. Those automatic weapons haven't changed much in 100 years, and single-shot firearms very similar to what we have today have existed for over 400, with gunpowder-fired projectiles around 800 years old.

I never said that the firearms are "looks like magic", I said they would prevent the burning at the stake.

And frankly, while they had primitive guns back then, I quite imagine they would see a M134 Minigun firing as rather magical.

http://youtu.be/nG3Hi7K9MU4

http://youtu.be/768h3Tz4Qik

This video is pretty good, but his other video is rock solid:
http://youtu.be/SBioHq3aPsQ

I'm not sure how - note that Daniel Stone (the presenter) appears here http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfD... - so he's one of the current folks in charge of dealing with the current xorg code; who better to judge the current state of xorg than someone who works with it every day? Another good presentation on the current state of X and its problems: http://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw

You should watch this. The drivers behind this are not just gamers and idiot home users.

Replacing X11 is of little advantage to gamers, because game performance is almost entirely determined by OpenGL, and the drawing operations bypass any X protocols. (gl)X is only needed for purposes like creating a - usually fullscreen - window and GL context, swapping buffers at the end of each frame, and handling keyboard and mose input. Saving a few microseconds on those does not make a noteworthy difference. A decent window manager also automatically disables composition, which does have a negative impact on performance, when a fullscreen application like a game is running. In practice, with drivers of reasonable quality (currently available for Nvidia hardware), OpenGL games and demos run as fast or even slightly better than on Windows. Also, Phoronix benchmarks have shown that using Wayland can actually make the performance worse.

Linux ports of games run worse than Windows/Direct3D not because of the alleged "overhead" of X11, but as a result of poor driver and port quality. OpenGL and Linux have very small market share in gaming, so hardware vendors and game developers cannot justify spending much resources on optimizing drivers/software for those.

Some of the other improvements over X11, such as allowing for displays larger than 32768x32768 pixels, are also of limited practical relevance for the forseeable future, other than for some specialized niche applications. Not to mention the limitation could be removed by updating X11. In any case, it took more than a decade for the standard desktop resolution to increase from 640x480 to 1920x1080, and above 10000 pixels the human eye starts to become a limiting factor at a sensible vieving distance/FOV.

You should watch this. The drivers behind this are not just gamers and idiot home users.

So a friend of mine has Aspergers, he had a shitty time in education. Didn't come from a well off family and was lumped in with a special needs group at school and (like ALOT of kids at school) didn't get his needs met.

Any way post school he got deep into social sciences, which took him down his current career path and helped him make sense of the world. He spent time learning social situations like someone might learn a second landguage and did a pretty good job. I think thats a good metaphor for interacting with someone with autism, you expect that both party will have some miscomunication but those things are pretty easy to work through for anyone who's willing and who doesn't make it into a big deal or a taboo.

Anyway I'm big into the social model of disibilty, and I think it's shitty that the responsibility for fixing issues is placed on those most challenged by them rather than those who benifit from the current state of affairs.

this video is pretty enlightening also.
http://youtu.be/JnylM1hI2jc

I think the knee-jerk response is to say that the problem exists between the chair and keyboard. Just reading the article makes it impossible to draw another conclusion. He was nabbed in a public library before he had a chance to turn his laptop off so nothing was encrypted. Similarly, ARE YOU TAKING NOTES ON A CRIMINAL FUCKING CONSPIRACY? Why would you ever keep data in plain text even if the hard drive is encrypted? I am not expecting the FBI to raid me at any time, but just out of caution, I have my computer encrypted using Bitlocker (yeah, I know) and all data at rest is stuck in a hidden TrueCrypt partition. If I want to access it, I have to sign in separately. But most hilariously, he had a stupid freaking Facebook page that linked him directly to his true identity and Silk Road.

However, this only underscores how difficult it is to have operational security for any complex business. At some point, he needs to keep track of all transactions, with reasonably easy access. It's a pain in the ass for me to repeatedly log in and access data. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to conduct business. I guess the bottom line is that physical security is crucial.

Watch his keynote address at the AltCars Expo and Conference recorded in Sept 19, 2014 for more information. http://youtu.be/RBkND76J91k

This entire discussion is just like every other on any "tech" forum whenever the discussion of Apple's success comes up. It is filled with complete and total ignorance of the entire field of product management.

You are fixated on the people behind one of the parts of an iPhone. Not all of them, just one of them. That part is important, but by itself it does not make an iPhone. Those engineers in Taiwan were compensated for those parts, and that's all they provided ... parts. And even if they had somehow been responsible for all of the parts of an iPhone, that still would not mean they deserve the overall credit for the iPhone's success.

Why? Because the iPhone is a product, not a bunch of parts. A product is much more than the sum of its parts. It's about how they fit and perform together. It's about the total experience they form. Where those parts go, how they interact, what's included and what isn't, how it's packaged together, etc. are all integral to any product's experience. Have a look the intro video -- Steve Jobs talks for a long time before he even shows the phone, and then even longer before he actually starts using it. He spends a lot of time showing what's included and what's not included, particularly vs. other devices. But most importantly, he walks the audience through multiple use cases and shows the audience how great the overall experience and flow are compared to what they are used to. And it is important here to note the distinction between features and use cases. He doesn't just show off this or that individual part, he actually takes the time to talk about common tasks like checking email or browsing the web and explain how the iPhone's overall experience is meant to make these easier and more pleasant. The experience is an emergent property of the device that doesn't come from any one individual part, but from how they all work together in concert.

The entire cell phone industry was turned on its head the day the iPhone was revealed to the world (yes, even the beloved Android had to drastically change in reaction, see here). Apple showed everyone the world what a modern smartphone experience could and should be.

To point out which parts weren't invented specifically for the iPhone is to miss the point. In fact, as some people have pointed out, no doubt in frustration over not understanding the value of the iPhone, every individual part and technology in the iPhone existed in some form prior to its unveiling. Many companies around the world could have built something just like the iPhone and beaten Apple to the punch. But they didn't.

Product management is elusive and intangible. You can't quantify what makes a great experience, you just know it when you see it. But that doesn't mean it isn't real. Even if a great experience can't directly be measured, the side effects can be, via sales, popularity, and customer satisfaction & loyalty. Clearly, this intangibility can be very frustrating for literal-minded engineers when they look at products side-by-side and can't understand why one is loved more than another. The checklists of features can often appear nigh-identical, and we all know that such checklists of features are all there is to it! Since the notions of product management are invisible to such people, they will, in their frustration of not understanding, spin all sorts of explanations as to why things like the iPhone are successful. It had better marketing. Better celebrity endorsement. Or the old standby: the people who buy those items and love them must be stupid! And now we have "control of the licensing fees ... largely a legal play". Why yes, the entirety of the work in putting the experience together deserves no credit! It doesn't even exist! Voila, we've solved it again!

Who was Steve

You mean this guy?

http://youtu.be/I25UeVXrEHQ?t=...

the 8th graders will be stoked if you can teach them how to make Beats. i suggest

.. the SID chip ..

http://youtu.be/UjCochw2P00?t=...

Seems Jamie and Adam got there way ahead of all of us (New myth to test):
http://youtu.be/dxgPX5-cmvc?t=...
If you allow for the fact that in their case the had to burn a small hole in the top which set fire to the contents first before filling the enclosure with water, which in the case of an ATM you don't have to, than its a reasonable idea.

I saw this australian video a few weeks ago and while it is pretty funny that the guy loses his shoes, I didn't understand how he came up with this scheme in the first place. Now it makes sense.

FYI, here's the news story with a photo of the damage.

I saw this australian video a few weeks ago and while it is pretty funny that the guy loses his shoes, I didn't understand how he came up with this scheme in the first place. Now it makes sense.

FYI, here's the news story with a photo of the damage.

http://youtu.be/O8KHOgyYyHQ

I would prefer the KITT scanner sound: http://youtu.be/VNtlGfHCrEs?t=...

It's a travesty what they did to him.

Is this the guy you're defending? So is he admitting to hiding laptops from a lawful investigation in that video?

You mean this one?

The noise it needs to make is "wooo wooo" http://youtu.be/zUXow3d3-b0

I'd stack a Tesla against ANY gas powered car you care to bring out...

http://youtu.be/BJJvhiFINsY (warning... some profane language)

Noisy cars are for noisy drivers... I've been arguing this point with my brother for years, every time he buys a louder muffler for his 5.9 Grand Cherokee... it never gets any faster, but it perpetually gets louder and worse gas mileage. I think car owners just need to cop to the fact that they want people to look at them, and what better way to do it than to put a loud ass fart pipe on a WRX?

If you look at this demo of the QNX Kia Soul at CES 2014 starting at about 1:20 they demonstrate the acoustic shaping properties of QNX Car 2.0. From dampening exterior noise to engine sound "enhancement". They demo the Soul revving but sounding like a Dodge Challenger.

http://youtu.be/Y6ljFaKRTrI

http://youtu.be/mKBNw4kfwNM?t=...

Who is right? You or WW2 vet that actually flew missions in a B17?

I'll go with the vet, thanks.