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Remember when KDE4 was released?

The developers opened it up to any and all suggestions and because of the power and rapid ease of development using the Qt API they went through a whole series of experiments interfaces and appliations. One volunteer, who was in grad school at the time, offered a web page to explain the new apps and features. He was crucified by those who abhorred change. Their attacks got personal. Some of the attacks were drive-by shootings by people masquerading as KDE users. He quit in disgust and devoted that time he used to his wife and graduate studies.

I suspect that the same thing will happen with this venture. My recommendation is to continue to polish the KDE UI and remove conflicting dialogs, fix the things that don't work properly, or don't work. Like this problems mentioned in this YouTube video: http://youtu.be/N7-fZJaJUv8

Above all DO NOT hide the current power and flexibility of KDE, i.e., "dumb it down", under a plethora of "useful" or "helpful" buttons, menus or dialogs. Windows does that. So does Unity. If I wanted that kind of interface I can use one of them. We saw what happened to GNOME2 when it was dumbed down to make it "easier to use". Is it possible to make a GUI "idiot proof"? Idiots are extremely ingenious, but simple interfaces are, well, simple. As in not powerful.

KDE dev team: IF you insist on shooting yourself in the foot with this scheme would you make it so that the user, during the installation process, could select the type of interface the users wants, say a mutually exclusive check box offering either the "Experienced User GUI" or "Novice Use Interfacer"? Either that, or make it easy for distro developers to select the kind of user GUI that want to default to and make the alternate option a Muon choice.

Here is basically how science works, you make a "guess" or write mathematical "equation(s)" or develop a "theory" or you build a "model" to explain some part of the real universe we live in.

You then compare your guess against real world observations. If your guess fails to predict or describe reality, it's WRONG.

Every global warming model has failed in this regard. Now, You should be presenting to skeptics how your model correct fits. Not demanding they disprove your guess.

However, I'm game. So just a warning, this is going to sting really bad, but here is proof the global warming models are SHIT, I mean really WRONG. I.e. they suck at describing the real world, fall flat on explaining the last 13+ years of no warming, etc., while the skeptic models, where CO2 is not given an invalid force multiplier do work and match reality.

Climate Scientist Murry Salby Demolishes the Globâ¦: http://youtu.be/HeCqcKYj9Oc

http://youtu.be/Sme4BaANIxg

Yeah, "3D-Printed Car Takes It Is First Test Drive."

See also:
http://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?t=...

"If 'thousands' of USPTO employees were not doing their work, it would be impossible for this agency to be producing the best performance in recent memory and, perhaps, in its entire 224 year history."

No. No it wouldn't. Because you get behavior like this. Where they aren't actually looking at what they're SUPPOSED to be researching. They're, at best, skimming and passing it along, which takes minimal to no effort.

That's nothing new. It was already old when Paula Deen shared one with some half-Alien lady on her TV show.

http://youtu.be/MMRHGW_K-M8?t=...

Here's a more relevant test: http://youtu.be/vZjurCN521U

It's the 5s but still interesting. Real world tests with real apps. The iPhone 5S is about as fast as a Nexus 5, a fraction slower in many tests and a fraction faster in others.

The classic fanboy response to features he doesn't have: "yeah, but I don't want it!"

You should be thanking Google. The only reason you can make payments now is that they pushed it out years ago and built up the infrastructure. The battery on the Nexus 4 is fine, and easy to replace. The 64 bit CPU in the iPhone doesn't seem to have made it any faster than a Nexus 5 anyway: http://youtu.be/vZjurCN521U

Explain why it's often slower than a phone costing half as much and with so many more features. While technically interesting in most cases 64 bit is just a gimmick, and even in games the main reason for better performance is the low resolution retina screen.

http://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8

One of us! One of us! Gooble Gobble!!!!

http://youtu.be/bBXyB7niEc0

We're sorry but Cuban political prisoners were not available for comment. Electrical engineers had attempted to increase internet access in Cuba but fled to the freedom of the United States when they were told censorship doesn't allow true internet with scary freedom of speech. http://youtu.be/v5zmNRGAUQY

A stab wound on the other hand, especially a deep one, is very severe once the blade has been pulled out and can be deadly even if pressure is being continually applied.

Which is why I have QuikClot in my glove compartment. There are accounts of it saving people's lives after they sever their femoral artery.

If you can stomach it, here's a video of a pig getting its femoral artery/vein transected and quikclot stopping the bleed. There are many such demonstrations on YouTube.

Where do you buy it? On Amazon, like everything else.

Relevant video: http://youtu.be/iMIDquNSXmA?t=7m28s The rest of it's pretty fun if you like the off-hand style Craig Ferguson uses.

Superfly's Jonhson.

I was just watching a tornado video on youtube and noticed one of the computer screens in the communication centre had a BSOD: http://youtu.be/sl_CM6wlry0?t=...

Holy shit, we're about to get vaporized!

Belongs on the list of shit veterans don't say.

You are so cute. You really believe the shit you spew, don't you? Anita Sarkeezian is a scumbag and a class A liar and manipulator. "Wahh you're a bad person." If holding people accountable for the shit they say and do is bad, then yes I'm as bad as they come. I'm not hurt by her videos, but I choose to call her out when she's being a cunt, and we know that she is a liar because she's not even a good liar. She deserves all the hate she gets. http://youtu.be/57tXyqPCOCM

I'm not a fan of video games.

B-but she never said that! She did. She doesn't like games, and she isn't a gamer. It must be nice to be such a deluded idiot.

Automata.

Watch this guy's talk. It was a real eye opener for me. We've been taught since the 80's that fat and cholesterol is bad. But the overwhelming failure of this idea has done more harm over the last 30 years and instead of blaming the failure of the theory, we've been blaming ourselves. He brings up CDC charts on how obesity as grown in the US over the last 30 years after the fat=bad theory was accepted as fact, and its just damning.

I saw a link to this from a slashdotter on another story and after I watched it, I was sold. I got up off my butt, threw away all the cereals and breads in the house and went full bore. I started at 6'-0" 220lbs and lost the extra 20 the first month. I've plateaued since then, but despite my weight staying the same, I am still getting noticeably leaner in my legs, arms, and face. I believe this coincides with this study where participants on the LCHF diet gained more lean muscle mass despite no increase in exercise.

My wife hasn't been so lucky. She couldn't last a day being carb restricted. She is definitely addicted to carbs. She has to have pop/soda. Low carb dishes that I make that I find tasty and flavorful (after all they are full of fat) she doesn't eat much of because she says they lack flavor. She always has to supplement her lack of eating the meal proper with a sugary treat. Its very sad for me to watch because she was able to stop smoking cold turkey.

[crunches pickle]This is wild. This is really wild!

The government knows all about this, man! Maybe you should read up about it on my blog.

[crunches pickle]This is wild. This is really wild!

The government knows all about this, man! Maybe you should read up about it on my blog.

That's true. You can only have each translator write one word. Otherwise, you risk killing them all.

http://youtu.be/8gpjk_MaCGM

I never understood those head trackers. I mean, if I have a screen in front of me and turn my head to the right, then the display may very well change but I'm now looking to the right so won't see it (or need to look out of the corner of my eye). If instead I have a bank of monitors, so that I could see any adapted view - it wouldn't need to change the display!

http://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw

A3D v2.0 demo on Youtube. I find it much more impressive than RAYA, possibly due to the HRTF in addition to the wavetracing. I had such Aureal Vortex2 card in the day. It was amazing how good the 3D positioning was, even with two pc speakers next to the monitor. Creative ruined it. For me, that alone is more than enough reason to boycott Creative to this day, and beyond.

I think I already might have all the diseases that ever been invented, including syphilis, aids, ebola, bubonic plague, anthrax, etc., in me, without me being at fault at acquiring them such as promiscuousness, because I'm not promiscuous at all. As far as I'm concerned I feel better than a whole lot of drug addicts who have lost all their teeth at a young age, for instance. As that's a first line punishment of idiots like that, you can almost always recognize a drug addict by bad teeth, by bad flora in their mouth, which is the most genetically varied region in the entire human body, there are more species of life in your mouth than anywhere else, including your skin or deep inside your anus.
People sometimes look at me and drop me clues like people have been living with AIDS for centuries and did fine, as in, if they were implying that I'm supposed to have AIDS, because they willfully and knowingly infected me, and look I act just fine and I'm not sick. So they give me a job where I get x-rayed standing right next to a thin walled aluminum garage door, get carbon monoxide gassed from a propane direct flame heater, the whole building is extremely cold in the winter because it's a small business, and there is no money, and of course I get slack on attendance from a place that constantly gets me sick. Might have something to do with Chinese investors into the US tulip-mania-pyramid-scheme housing market. Hey, I'm not angry or bitter about it, I just know how people are. But still, what the fuck do realtors contribute to the economy, in a creative way, other than bloodsucking a massive cut out of it, because the transactions they handle are so massive? Life on Earth should not revolve around housing issues. As in this youtube video, we gonna pay rent today! : http://youtu.be/Ol2DedEhOGI
People have been living with AIDS for centuries and did fine. If the parasites living in them decided to try to maintain them alive anyway, then yes. Same with things like bubonic plague, as even that had survivors that were fully infected. But even they can only do so much in sustaining somebody under total assault from every direction, and sometimes, sadly, it's just not worth the effort. For instance, they can manage health symptoms of infection, but they cannot keep alive somebody who's head just been chopped by a guillotine, or heart shot through with a bullet. They know bio tech, but they are not omnipotent when it comes to mechanical damage. Though they manifest themselves in mechanical damage too when they mind control and send someone on a shooting spree, unexpected out of nowhere, to selectively pick off certain people. For every shooting rampage of randomly shot people, you should look deep into why those specific people were shot, and if they were not so, what kind of consequences or bad things the future would have held. Every time I see news of another act of terror or shooting rampage, I take a close looks at who the victims were, and sometimes it's nice to see facial appearances, as a lot of people have stereo types based on face, like you know someone looking a certain way extremely well how they'd behave, then another one that's a lookalike, that behaves completely differently due to life experience circumstances, but there is a common set of traits that's common in all of them, and you can assume that the next person that looked just like that will differ on behavior on what they differed from each other, but be the same on behavior that was common in all of them. This way you can kind of know and understand people around you, which helps you coexist with them better, or know how to make them happy better.

Reminded me of the dude in the LG Strong vid. He was a cross between this guy's metal suit and a life sized pyro kachina doll. http://youtu.be/6drfp_3823I

but that's not a particularly great one - have a look at the rest of the stuff on his channel.

Oh, and for the people pointing out a conductive suit might not be the best type of protection - it's entirely likely you're right. He's not really into 'safety' - http://youtu.be/6FYZFAuhFV4?li...

No Alpha Centauri? The quotes alone by the major characters change your world outlook!

If there's one lesson I learned from Star Trek it's that you always, ALWAYS, include a manual override.

But change the console prefix, so operators in another ship can't use their console to take control of yours without permission.

Relevent

I highly recommend the Penn & Teller "Bullshit" episode "Holier Than Thou", which was partly about Mother Teresa.

I'm not sure if it's the whole episode but here's a link.

It's not just people who have serious mental defects, it's people who might otherwise be normal human beings. It's what some people call "rape culture", the fact that a lot of guys don't really see anything particularly wrong with pressuring girls for sex or treating them as disposable sex objects so it isn't that much of a leap to go as far as drugging them. I mean, if plying them with alcohol so they are less inhibited is okay...

Once you become away of it you start to notice how prevalent it is in western culture. A few years ago there was an advert for pain medication where a women told her husband she didn't want sex that night because she had a headache. The guy produces the pills, "problem" solved, and the woman looks... Well, in all honestly the actress looked like she was resigned to being raped that night, by the look on her face. Going back much further if you watch this scene from Goldfinger it's supposed to be... romantic? but Bond basically forces her to have sex with him.

Women are often portrayed as either wanting this behaviour or as deserving it. Female characters tend to be manipulative, using their looks and the promise of sex to get what they want. It gives guys the impression that if they meet a girl, she is attractive and dresses in anything lower cut that a turtleneck, she is trying to manipulate them. If they go along with it and maybe buy her a drink or two they have "paid" and expect something in return. Changing her mind or wanting to go slowly is just a rip-off.

It's really screwed up when you start to look at it.

this is NO different than Walmart coming into an area and pricing products below cost to wipe out competition and then fucking the consumer when they are the only game in town

Which is why the net is full of documented examples of that happening........Oh wait, you can't because that's not what happens. Sure businesses get driven out because a competitor has lower prices, but you can't find substantive examples of them then raising their prices again. Because other businesses will simply move in again to compete.

http://youtu.be/-q1fSNzYNhg?t=...

The only time you could in theory have such a situation is if there are government regulations that make it difficult or impossible for smaller firms to start up and compete, which is what we have today in the banking industry.

I respect your insight into the world of computers, but your knowledge of economics is stuck quite firmly in the 19th century.

http://youtu.be/ga3BQWoNPq0

You might want to watch the video for yourself.

I'm particularly fond of the way they fabricate a justification to kill complete strangers who at worst would be guilty of defending their country from an invading force.

I don't know if any of you are fans of the magnificent cartoon "Metalocalypse", but if you are, it occurs to me that an active volcano named, "Bardarbunga" on the Dyngjujokull glacier in Iceland is exactly the kind of place Dethklok would hold one of their massive concerts where everything goes wrong and there's a total catastrophe with thousands of casualities.

Seriously, the first thing I thought of when I read the summary was Dethklock being lowered onto the stage by four armor-laden quadracopters being flown by their henchment and one of William Murderface's bass notes triggering the volcano, causing lava to burst forth over the audience. That show is friggin' hilarious.

http://youtu.be/y9KsdNtj_58

I'm looking for a gift for my aunt

Yeah, in fact, Star Trek's technological optimism is something that always gives hope - that we as humans will overcome our fear of the dangerous "new fire" and learn to harness its power while controlling its risks. In fact, the warp core's theoretical power output should easily dwarf the most dense nuclear power plants we have on Earth, yet the characters in the story were calm living within spitting distance of it, despite us having seen on the show numerous times that it could all go horribly wrong (Computer, eject the warp core!). I really resent a future of energy poverty and lack of ambition.

No need to be hyper skeptic. She is real and she really said it.

No moms, please.

http://youtu.be/KzelrlH_pjQ

I am completely with you on the "every police department" question. I am solidly against police militarization in general (and in any sort of local setting), but I think that there occasional situations that require a regional team to have some kind of SWAT capability. (How large a region is up for debate.)

With respect to BitZ, I am not saying this is typical, but his/her hypothetical has happened with a tank.

First, let me start off with the Notion that All Antivirus sucks. Regardless of the brand, or the Reputation, If you gave me an hour or less and a windows PC with any Antivirus app on the market on it, pay or free, I will give you an infected box. So why does this happen?

1) Hot, Fresh, Just for you! This is not just a slogan you see on McDonalds made to order burgers anymore. Today's Virus Obfuscation techniques are so fast and random, that when you activate an payload dropper (whether it be a Flash, Java, Website, Browser exploit or even a Trojan installer) The Payload that you get will only be statistically seen only once. You and only you will get that version of the virus even though it's using a well known virus kit that would be detected if it was not obfuscated. This technique is the reason why no AV firms detect the Fake antivirus variants or FBI Warnings or cryptolockers of the past even though all of the major codebases were detected by most AV Firms.

2) I'm an Necessary App! People need me to change their search engine, hijack their DNS, spy on them, and pop up ads randomly all over the screen and websites! Read the Slashdot Journal link for some insight on how adware gets on people's PC. Let me make something clear here. Adware is a Virus When a customer comes into my shop and has something like Conduit searchprotect, or Wajam on their machine, I tell them that's a virus because it is. They didn't want it, they got it and it's doing things they don't want. Sounds like a virus to me, yet just about every AV Firm ignores these and lets them gleefully install because they're afraid of getting sued by one of these companies so instead they make guidelines to let them slip through. The first AV I find that reliably removes all Adware as well as viruses without me having to manually remove them or fallback to a removal tool (like ADWCleaner, which is now starting to miss stuff as of late) I will sell in my store.

3) In Soviet Russia, Trojan Exploits You! This Journal link has been on my sig for years now, and is the primary reason why AV doesn't work anymore. This week alone I had no less then three of my customers Directly call Fake Support Scammers because their PC / Printer / Camera didn't work, and they called the phone number on the first link (The Ads) they saw when they searched for "(PC / Printer / Camera) Support" and if you're letting the bad guys in to physically touch your own box you're already screwed and no AV on earth is going to save you.

Right now, I'm telling people three things:

1) Install MSE All AV sucks, The only question is how much do you want to pay for something that sucks. MSE is free, at least blocks most of the ultra bad stuff and doesn't pop up ads of any kind so it's what I install.

2) Install Adblock on all browsers I install Adblock Plus on any machine that leaves the store. if you're going to infect yourself chances are an Ad is going to lead you there. Blocking the ads blocks most of the infection vectors off the bat.

3) Don't Download or Install anything. There is no safe place I can direct people to download files without getting some sort of Adware Virus. This is easier to tell users rather than pay attention to what you download. (See #3 to understand) If they protest, go to your PC, go to ask.com with your adware blocker turned off, type in any program you would think they would download (I use VLC Media player. It never fails to show me adware links) and have them pick the download link, when they get it wrong (chances are they will) download the file and send it to virustotal.com. chances are one of the scanners will detect the Adware dropper from the fake site, Then drill it home about not downloading anything.

4)

He has someone for that now.

There is only one true dichotomy

I thought the same thing after watching: http://youtu.be/urglg3WimHA

http://youtu.be/ayW4mC1o8CQ?t=...

You really need to watch the whole thing to fully understand what happened. A later documentary from NHK which doesn't seem to be online discovered that the valve in question was actually damaged by the earthquake, as was equipment supposed to monitor the flow and alert the operators to it being in the wrong position. That wasn't known at the time of this documentary due to the area being inaccessible.

Actually the Fukushima reactor DID survive the earthquake. Mainly because it wasn't under the epicenter.

You still haven't watched this, have you? http://youtu.be/vpA0TOgB9-o

or this: http://youtu.be/ayW4mC1o8CQ

The cooling system was damaged by the earthquake. Fire engines were available to pump water in to cool the reactors, but because of the earthquake damage most of the water never reached them. The full meltdowns and explosions could have been averted if not for the earthquake damage.

Actually the Fukushima reactor DID survive the earthquake. Mainly because it wasn't under the epicenter.

You still haven't watched this, have you? http://youtu.be/vpA0TOgB9-o

or this: http://youtu.be/ayW4mC1o8CQ

The cooling system was damaged by the earthquake. Fire engines were available to pump water in to cool the reactors, but because of the earthquake damage most of the water never reached them. The full meltdowns and explosions could have been averted if not for the earthquake damage.

This video is nothing more than an ad.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. It started and sounded like a rant until, sunddenly, this:

The car in question is a new Infiniti Q50 which has Active Lane Control and adaptive cruise control. Both of which essentially turn the Q50 into an autonomous vehicle while at highway speeds.

There was a thousand ways to sneak this information, but the phrasing sounds so close to marketing-speak that it triggered adblock ... Native Advertising at its finest.

Weird Al is your friend.