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There are real benefits to being away from the GPL that cannot be done otherwise.

Also, other non-mobile libc replacements like musl exist.

You sir are assuming a kenjutsu or medieval simulation, where the opponent is armored and the swords are wooden or at least purposefully dull. Had you read Snow Crash you'd know we're talking katana here.

A sharp sword doesn't have too much trouble cutting into or through your average meat sack. Slicing off a limb certainly doesn't slow down a blow a lot as you can gather from video footage showing bamboo "practice limbs" getting sliced: http://youtu.be/fxYvwEnKRjA#t=32
A good bit of "rumble" style force feedback should feel accurate enough for a game.

If we're talking special sword game controller, you could probably add a motorized counter weight at the tip to provide a more realistic kinetic response to hitting the bone.

I think you give Obama too much credit. He saw how to exploit this just like he saw how to exploit the IRS and use it against his political enemies. Obama railed against raising the debt limit when he was senator calling it unpatriotic and now he insists on no negotiations to lower the deficit as a condition to raising the debt limit. (yes, I know that is a political add, but it has Obama's own voice in it).

Despite amending or doing away with it, Obama could also through legitimate power as the head of the executive, ensure that US agencies used the power the Patriot Act gave the government in ways that we would not be concerned with today. Instead, he used that same power to expand the surveillance and even justify that expansion through the Patriot act.

He and the democrats did nothing because they saw it as a way to increase their power and objectives. They took the ball and ran because they wanted to. If you look at how Obama was elected to senator, you would see that It has nothing to do with being beholden to anything other then their ideology. The entire Obamacare debacle proves this. Harry Reid himself called the medical device tax a stupid tax yet he refuses to consider anything to repeal it or any changes to the Affordable Care Act out of ideological persistence.

Yet, I have no problems with believing either side will attempt to be against the other side when they are in power. It's all ideology if you ask me.

Have you already forgotten how the "affordable" healthcare act got voted into law?

Nope. I'm Just a Bill - School House Rock. If you don't have three minutes to learn how laws are made I'll give you a quick summary: The House passed it, the Senate passed it, the President signed it, and the Supreme Court upheld it. Questions?

Also explains the government shut down. So why do you have a problem with one and not the other? No budget signed, nothing for the President to sign and nothing the Supreme Court can do.. but still perfectly legal. We should be rejoicing, right?

Have you already forgotten how the "affordable" healthcare act got voted into law?

Nope. I'm Just a Bill - School House Rock. If you don't have three minutes to learn how laws are made I'll give you a quick summary: The House passed it, the Senate passed it, the President signed it, and the Supreme Court upheld it. Questions?

While what you are saying is true the trick with fingerprint back before the mid 90's was processing power. If you wanted to compare prints you had to pay one or more people to sit there and compare each print to a suspected print.

now you can compare hundreds of prints per second. and only have to use people to verify the half a dozen potential matches. The problem with completely automated systems is that they only compare a dozen points of interest. to be truely useful you would need to vector map the entire print.

In the 1930s, the FBI was claiming that their classification and search system took 3 minutes or less to match an unknown print with a known print: http://youtu.be/6xgPqc5ROHI?t=20s (skipped to 20 sec. in for the relevant content and skip the related promo. Contains video from the FBI on their fingerprint analysis system from the 1930s and after it became "digitized.") My primary objection is with how fingerprint analysis has been mis-characterized for over a century.

http://youtu.be/2zfqw8nhUwA

Caught some of it on my phone: http://youtu.be/h4UfgMkBB40.

Regardless, the jump from "you're not doing what we ask" to "we get to install a black box on your network and spoof as you, trust us not to abuse this" seems excessive if not absurd as lavabit's core business is centered around privacy.

Considering the likely demographics of their clientele, if word leaks out that Lavabit's entire service is wearing an FBI wire, the Lavabit proprietors are about as long for the good life as Adriana La Cerva during her Pepto-Bismol phase.

Adriana La Cerva cooperates with the FBI

I see all this interest for this product and I think my next Idea will blow this one out of the water
5 seconds toothbrush !!!

Last week, Caspar Bowden testified at a hearing in the European Parliament, and presented a report on the NSA surveillance to the European Parliament's Committee for Fundamental Rights LIBE.

Link to the report: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/libe/dv/briefingnote_/briefingnote_en.pdf

Link to the Youtube-video with Bowden's statement and the following Q&A (63 min): http://youtu.be/qa83l2_ZzEo

'The problem wasn't that we stopped listening to customers," said one former RIM insider. "We believed we knew better what customers needed long term than they did."

It seems like the best scenario is for a company to actually know what customers need long-term better than they (the customers) do. Customers don't always know what they really want. They know they want some things, but those things may not actually be what would serve them best. You need to listen to your customers; you also need to ignore some of their suggestions / demands when they (the suggestions or demands) suck. I'm reminded of this:

http://youtu.be/Hvn9k8dnhjI

If you don't cut open the stomach
The corpse will rise and float

Cannibal Corpse - Disposal of the Body

"if they changed to a gay couple fencing with spaghettis.. it might be brilliant marketing."

Here you go... 2009 advertisement from their competitor Bertolli:

http://youtu.be/IOQYv66CptE

The only thing?

... doesn't mean you don't rebuild it!! http://youtu.be/g3YiPC91QUk?t=23s

Just to add one more detail to your argument. You write that killing Android on Nokia is what forced Microsoft to just out-right buy Nokia, and that's grounds for legal action. What about not selling the N950 ever, anywhere?

It was the N9/N950 running Meego which is what started the whole burning oil platform memo/argument from Elop. Elop did everything he could to bury that device and the entire team that developed it, because he wanted to sleep with Microsoft so bad, and do an exclusive. Yet the Meego team did deliver and despite Elop it did go on sale, not in the US or EU but only in a few places like Saudi Arabia and South Africa, thanks to Elop. The US and EU countries were only allowed to buy crippled Microsoft Windows Phone 7.8 OS phones; while Microsoft took more time to finish Windows Phone 8 at Nokia's timely expense.

When the N9 launched, very shortly thereafter Elop even publicly trivialized it by demo'ing a Windows Phone prototype, with his own hands at the Communasia Communications Symposium in Singapore, on June 22, 2011.
http://youtu.be/r1lsJOwdmfA
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/jun/23/nokia-n9-windows-phone-tease

That's a major Osborne directly attributable to Elop.

So yeah, minority partner Microsoft at the behest of former Microsoft manager S. Elop and Nokia CEO does seem to have driven OS choices on multiple occasions. But l forgot until now what a lovely piece of evidence the N950 is. The N950 which wasn't even allowed to be sold, yet was finished and made available for developers. How much money would a wider release of the N9 generated, and ignoring that for a moment, how much revenue would have been generated if the N950 would have gone on sale even if only in the limited markets the N9 was allowed to be sold in? Why wasn't the N950 ever allowed to be sold anywhere? Look for yourself at what a lovely device it is:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Nokia-N950-16GB-/171130186470?

How popular would this device have been, along with the N9 given sufficient resources & marketing love? We're talking iPhone and Android killers, because along with features like tethering 3g over low-power bluetooth, and low-power SIP support in the OS, Nokia was way ahead of their time. (disclaimer: I use 3g SIP over bluetooth w/ my N9 w/ Ubuntu 12.04 a lot, and battery life is great).

As long as Stephen Elop was Nokia CEO, Nokia handset division was going to be a 100% Microsoft shop. A real CEO should have remained focused to prior Meego efforts and strategy, and worked to fix problems along those lines.

I dream of Elop defending himself in court against the charges you have suggested, *while* he is active CEO of Microsoft, taking them down with him. (But no way will Bill let him be CEO of Microsoft, because aside from delivering Nokia to him, his actual performance was abysmal).

Relevant: http://youtu.be/TSwrJrGjJFA

You have no idea what you are talking about. QNX gave them instant OS reach into industrial, medical, and automotive realms. In fact Automotive is the next big battleground and BlackBerry is in a key position to capitalize since QNX is already installed in an impressive array of auto makers cars already. I'm not saying they WILL capitalize but until Apple launched the iPod every industry expert was singing their death knell.

I just saw the most horrifying video on youtube of a young, geeky guy targetting random people on the street with simulated massive head trauma.

"he premise for the witness is that there is no motivation for why they should remain silent. They've committed no crime, and presumably face no negative repercussions if they tell the truth in court. Therefore, they don't have a right to remain silent, and can be charged with contempt if they do."

This is false on its face. Innocent comments can lead to conviction. The whole idea of "if you're innocent you have nothing to fear" is a huge pile of bullshit. Innocent people have EVERYTHING to fear... the more so BECAUSE they're innocent.

Your "no 5th Amendment" idea is predicated on a wise, benevolent government that will never abuse its powers. But we know, from centuries of painful experience, that such does not exist, anywhere. It's a fantasy.

Watch that video and learn something.

All the information in this post was released 5 days ago in a YouTube video.

http://youtu.be/1sIWez9HAbA

Enjoy!

Uploaded the segment where he said it: http://youtu.be/jFDJbjxa1ZU

Nah, it's a "Big Bagel

What's a news item like this without video?

Here is one: L0 going 500 km/h
(views from inside the train earlier in the video)

They want to blame you

If you really want to lose fat, supposedly strength training at ~80% your single rep maximum is the way to go. There's been some research that shows it's the most effective workout for weight loss. Depending on your current body type, you might add more muscle mass than you lose from fat, though.

Also, cut out as much sugar (particularly fructose containing sugars) from your diet as possible.

And you're basing that on..... what? Maybe you're right, but I've never seen any evidence that suggests that this is true.

Sodas are bad for you because they contain ~32 grams of sugar per 12 oz can, AND people regularly drink several cans in one sitting. That much sugar is extremely bad for you. To learn why, watch this video.

So, one wouldn't find much of this

http://youtu.be/65_m3Eyga0o

happening in Finland, then?

I'm guessing the MS PR people have been doing this for since E3.

Oh the irony. If the US is behind this attack, shouldn't the rest of the world gather and attack them? Didn't Obama argue that international law must be enforced?

http://youtu.be/o2TmDtj9oPg?t=3m10s

No, this is what you can expect from the "The Telegraph" on the EU (and other British papers) . They sometimes just make shit up and print it as news.

More details here, http://youtu.be/4OpfgA8UJ4c

Yet another "top 10" list. Can I get a list of the top 10 top 10 lists? Seriously, I'm tired of articles that amount to "someone's list of top 10 X will shock you!"

Slashdot readers in Baltimore are shocked to learn this one weird trick that will get you to read top 10 lists!

I'm canadian and used to think that way, that if everyone would vote, it would make a difference. Well, let me tell you my fellow countryman, my views have changed dramatically over the years.

Talking about canadians, here's one that has a few things to say about voting.

http://youtu.be/igbBItLemsM?t=37s

http://youtu.be/JtVbHBIyFKw

They don't even bother to check the script they are given. It's not even as professional as books on tape or someone blindly reading the news.

They may be elected officials, but they certainly are not working for the public. To make it worse, you know that they sold themselves for next to nothing. A few hundreds of dollars of campaign contributions and an empty promise of fundraising is all it takes. They're not just whores, they're cheap whores.

Maybe it has something to do with Microsoft making fun of keyboard-less tablets these days...

While I was reading your comment, I was hearing Bill Hicks in the background.

Anyone remember this? http://youtu.be/U2AkkuIVV-I

First of all, awesome write up. Some odd syntactical-grammatical things in it, but wow. You missed the Knowledge Navigator concept from 1986. That is where the iDevice landscape--I believe--is heading. Now, some other things have happened along the way that will change the Big Picture of that concept (cloud computing being one of them), but I still see that as a driving force behind the iDevices and Siri.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/25/4365726/daniel-dennett-explains-how-to-reprogram-your-brain
http://youtu.be/4Q_mY54hjM0

Yeah, pretty much.

Of course I want it, I love sponge cake! It's like eating a delicious sponge!

Qnx floppy challenge

Social memory lasts at least five years in gorillas.

Damian Aspinall's reunion with wild gorilla, Kwibi

I was not going to answer, but I think you should watch this video that was published today: http://youtu.be/0iPCzxRgAVY

As I said before, those actions only create more terrorists.

"We've fucking time-travelled, yes?"

http://youtu.be/JjAyazqtQj8

"We are through the looking glass now, folks. Fuck me."

I might actually start watching Doctor Who if Peter Capaldi's going to be the new Doctor.

Does he even know what market forces are? Does he even grasp the concept of voting with your money?

Nah. His failure to research the product he'll spend his hard earned money on just proves his point that the market doesn't fix problems for you. You see, there's a little bug in human firmware I like to call, "Shut up and take my money!"

It should be this easy on ALL linux distros. Here's a screencap of me installing the latest NVidia drivers on Lubuntu the other day:
http://youtu.be/49iq5A8d0e4

Yeah. That was like super-easy and I'm sure many Windows or OS X users would be impressed..

Also what's up with the lack of usage of the tab key, the multiple clears and I guess it would had helped if you had made sure the commands actually gave the results you where after in the first place + the warning at the beginning about a distribution specific pre-installation script failing.

As for FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/compiz-fusion/nvidia-setup.html

Or openSUSE:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers#Easy_way_to_get_NVIDIA_drivers

Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

Fedora don't seem to be all that user friendly in this regard:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-18-nvidia-guide/
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#GeForce_8_and_newer

Archlinux guide is a little longer.. But also cover much more:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
Like I remember a recent thread on Slashdot where this likely would had been helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Base_mosaic

It should be this easy on ALL linux distros. Here's a screencap of me installing the latest NVidia drivers on Lubuntu the other day:
http://youtu.be/49iq5A8d0e4

http://youtu.be/gTS0Vv3yS6U