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Wow. Gawker has a disparaging article about someone who helped bankrupt them? I am shocked.

"Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand."

Made me think of this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Secretary Clinton said she never sent anything marked classified, is that true?
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Secretary Clinton said no classified email was sent to or from her, is that true?
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Secretary Clinton said she used just one device, is that true?
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Secretary Clinton said all work-related emails were handed over, is that true?
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I'm not sure where you get Fox News from. All this is from CSPAN without commentary over it. It isn't even debatable. This is the smoking gun of her lying under oath to Congress about an ongoing scandal. Nixon didn't even have evidence against him other than 18 minutes of audio missing, Clinton has 30,000 emails missing and a slew of lies under oath.

I don't think you realize how absolutely stupid you sound making your arguments.

I'm just waiting for medicine to make sitting on your rear end a healthy activity. The day they find out yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life. https://www.youtube.com/result...

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Perhaps the Weird Al Yankovic "Mission Statement" video is needed here...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You are saying that Clinton doesn't flip-flop? Try to figure out if she favors or opposes TPP. Try to figure out how she feels about invading Iraq. I like Clinton (here is an example why), but lets not pretend that she's not a politician. Also, Trump put his own platform down fairly clearly during his RNC speech (did you watch it?)

But anyway, what thy actually think and do is a little irrelevant here where we're talking about how their fans perceive them.

Or appointing governments to run countries that are not elected by the people.

Can you give an actual, real-world example for the EU appointing some country's government?

Well to be fair he may be referring to the disgraceful way Greek democracy was subverted.

The fact that most pro-EU remain voters after the referendum reacted with predictable "well that vote didn't count" or "let's have a do over!" should have come as no surprise to anyone.

Yeah... except that the petition for a do-over was opened by a pro-Leave voter and opened BEFORE the referendum. But why should facts matter, right?

That whole petition thing was frankly daft. One thing a democratic country can't start doing is catering for those who can't be bothered to get their finger out and make their opinion count. Personally I'm all for compulsory voting- of course if in any voting situation nothing that was on offer worked for you then spoiling your ballot paper is to be encouraged.

If everyone wanted that a majority of the population would not have voted to leave.

Um... you're assuming that everyone was fully informed and aware of all the consequences while voting. But we heard enough voices of people who voted leave and then started to realize what benefits they're getting from the EU that they might lose. People change their mind all the time.

Yes indeed. Rather annoyingly the remain campaign missed the mark by miles, frankly because they didn't want to make the Houses of Parliament to look bad. This was a case of What has brussels ever done for us;

Fuck them all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeah, those fucking racists. I wonder why.

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Or Wearing Blu Blockers.

Developer previously stated numerous times that it would take "hundreds of hours" to reach the "center of the galaxy (he misspoke and said Universe earlier...)".

Murray said that for typical players. This guy is by definition not the typical player and quite likely rushed towards the centre to reach the bragging rights of that particular goal, after all finding a planet isn't exactly a unique feat. Thereby skipping most of the discoveries, lore or sheer "it's just an interactive screensaver but damn it's pretty so I don't care" moments.

Mind you, people watch train footage. I've built the same repetitive, mundane, boring mob farms and whatnots as everyone else in Minecraft and I enjoyed every single block of it. So I'm pretty sure I will love No Man's Sky.

Sheesh. Apparently you omitted the part where you hire an armed security force and an assistant who carries your cash in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist.

And here is the briefcase to use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Star Trek's budget really wasn't that much higher, but the space scenes, ships and effects looked far more realistic than anything in B5.

Whether Star Trek's budget was 2.5 times higher ($2 M) or only 1.6 times ($1.3 M), the fact remains that it had far fewer (and generally much less complex) space scenes than B5.

As I said, you couldn't do scenes of B5-level complexity using models on a Star Trek TV budget, let alone a B5 one.

And you keep going on about video game FMV being supposedly better than B5; I saw the pre-rendered intro sequence for (the CD versions of) the infamous Rise of the Robots on YouTube a couple of months back (see here) and noting that while it was probably impressive at the time, it looked a bit synthetic now. It certainly isn't any better than B5.

(#) FWIW, I understand that DS9 latterly used CGI to augment the model shots; that doesn't count as we were discussing whether B5 would have been better off using models.

the UK is America's 51st state

The The - Heartland

This is a follow up video correcting a misunderstanding.

I don't know what you want me to do to prove it to you. I'm more than happy to cooperate in any test you'd like me to perform.

Here is a quick and dirty video I recorded of me doing the speed test.

Feel free to suggest another way for me to prove it if that's insufficient.

MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.

But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.

The strong-arm bully tactics strongly suggest that it's not good, otherwise it would be allowed to stand on its own merits and no publicity would be bad publicity, you dolt.

MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.

But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.

Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This?

I'm very pleased for my friends and relatives that the continual harassment from Microsoft to do "something that sounds scary and sinister" will now end.

As for me, I couldn't care less .... I use only Linux for my day-to-day needs (the only gaming I do these days is Tetris and Mahjongg), though I keep a copy of XP in a VM for those rare occasions I need to run a Win32 app. I have Doom 3 installed on a real metal WinXP somewhere here .... never finished it ..... got bored by all the dim lighting ..... maybe I'll finish that one day. At least it didn't "require a Steam connection", and therefore Internet connectivity.

I thought about buying a copy of Win7 Pro while you still could (well it is quite a nice product if you can get it at a reasonable price), but in the end just couldn't face the continual struggle with Microsoft's dirty tricks department over whose PC it is. They made it perfectly clear they would bolt on telemetry to Win7 & 8.x, and would try ever tricksier ways to force download the Win10 files over my link onto my hard drive, and fool me into starting the upgrade, which were only circumventable by switching off all security updates and maintaining constant hyper-vigilence. I have enough stress in my life, without that nonsense. F*ck that. Out here, we are free, and the air smells good.

So I say hooray for the end of free Win10 upgrades :)
"And tap into America !" .... (sorry - wrong link, I know, but it'll do)

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The problem is that (by modern standards) it's physically huge

Any smaller and it would not hold a DVD drive, an LTO drive and a DAT drive, and still have somewhere to put USB sticks and SD cards, not to mention the place required for SCSI cards.

yeahhh i had to make a decision whether to make the first EOMA standard for mass-volume clients or for mass-volume servers. i figured that with facebook, google and hp and others having the data centre market pretty much sewn up, and them trying to convince everyone that "cloud is good", and having poisoned the word "open" in that area with their "open compute" standard, the chances would be much better if i focussed on "the little guy"... ... that meant using hardware that was simple enough for someone like me to learn, and with a persistent and bloody-minded attitude actually gain access to Reference Designs and so on, and that in turn meant SoCs around the $2 to $8 mark that are designed for "tablets" and "smartphones", not "intel-style PCs", and _that_ in turn meant "SATA and GbE and PCIe are off the interface set". you can't get a QFP-176 SoC at $2.50 that has PCIe or SATA, basically, but you *can* get one that has HDMI, 3x SD/MMCs, 2x USB2 and several other really good interfaces that you can make a fully-functioning low-cost computer from (look up the Allwinner R8 - it's QFP176 and $2.50. absolutely amazing).

As someone who actually saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4Juzn10gM EDSAC working, I think the standard tower PC case is about right, and I KNOW that tape will keep my data for 30 years (I have read my own backups 30 years later),

toootally cooool! ahh... don't read them too often, the heads are abrasively-worn by the read/write cycle...

and I know DVDs won't keep my data for even six years.

*sigh* that oxygenation of the metallic compound through the edges of the disc when they thinned down the amount of varnish to save money, it's a bitch, huh? did you happen to mark the DVD with a permanent marker then close it up inside a plastic case? i know of someone who learned the hard way that the fumes from those pens migrate *into* the discs and oxidise the metal.... whoops... ... you can't use HDDs because after 5 years there's a 25% chance that just *powering them up* will cause a head-crash: thermal warping (cool-down) of the HDD when it was last shut down, combined with the bearings seizing as the oil/grease isn't being cycled round during storage.... yyyeah.

you can't use SSDs because the geometries are too small now, you get data loss over time due to quantum effects and radiation... what are we down to now... 20 atoms to store one bit of data??

we're screwed basically :)

I certainly don't want MY data in the cloud.

cloud... that's where you store your data on other people's computers, right? :)

Any smaller and it would not hold a DVD drive, an LTO drive and a DAT drive, and still have somewhere to put USB sticks and SD cards, not to mention the place required for SCSI cards.

As someone who actually saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4Juzn10gM EDSAC working, I think the standard tower PC case is about right, and I KNOW that tape will keep my data for 30 years (I have read my own backups 30 years later), and I know DVDs won't keep my data for even six years.

I certainly don't want MY data in the cloud.

And now for something completely different...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wow, Just a regular tech story and this nonsense gets modded up. Has /. gone over to the dark side.?

dunno about /. but EOMA68 definitely has... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"They envision a world where users upgrade their computers by simply popping in a new card "

Intel had the same idea... and it was a giant failure.

i'm not surprised. intel literally cannot make a low-enough processor without sacrificing their pride. they just had to abandon the entire smartphone and tablet market a few months ago because of their pride.

Unless the "card" is a whole new computer that slots into a thin plastic case, this is 100% impossible.

it's a whole new computer in credit-card-sized form-factor (5mm x 54mm x 86mm - it's PCMCIA casework after all). it's stainless steel thin casework (0.1mm thick). so... not impossible at all. in fact, so not impossible that i managed to do it on a budget of $20k (which i got down to $1800 by the 3rd revision, after teaching myself PCB CAD design).

pictures. here. http://s.4pda.to/9hDP9BsrgvB1a...
and here http://rhombus-tech.net/allwin...
and videos here https://www.youtube.com/result...

and... you get the idea. it *exists*. it's not even 100% impossible, it's actually 100% *possible* i.e. *done* already. ... which still doesn't explain why the hell no major manufacturer hasn't even tried this exact same approach.

I'm waiting for the day when President Trump jokes that he just launched a nuclear strike on Russia.

He'll probably then blame the Russian government for not realising it was a joke. Via the emergency broadcasting system, from his bunker underneath what remains of Washington.

Why wait? Reagan made that particular joke decades ago.

Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea

this will pick an entire field... certainly smaller options exist, but i doubt the ROI would be worth it - much like this gardening bot...

Farmbot is bang on the mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?... From Satellite to Soil - Professor Simon Blackmore The Royal Society
Admittedly the latest agricultural robots are on wheels but the research is being done on static beds - so why not develop and test a vision assisted laser weeding head on Farmbot? Come on Slashdot, this thing is the prototype 3d printer of the agricultural future. Some people will go on from this to start a billion dollar company that puts Monsanto out of business. 99% reduction by volume in herbicide use? Watch the video and you will see why Farmbot is oversubscribed. This is the first thing I have seen for years that looks like a massive business of the future.

That depends on where you live. In Europe, a "liberal" is a libertarian. In America, a "liberal" is a progressive, or what Europeans would call a social democrat. In Australia, a "liberal" is a conservative.

That's some nice pedantry, but it's a non-response to the cross-eyed Randianism being called out in your first post:

Liberals believe in the power of government to affect people's lives. They want you to have a "relationship with your government", like it's a girlfriend or something. They expand, expand, expand the power of government because they believe it to be positive and NOT subject to corruption or any of those yucky things.

Liberals in America are right-wing conservatives who spend a lot of time lying to themselves about the positions and politicians they support. Phil Ochs wrote a little ditty about them that still applies to this day.

Tours were given of the inside of the factory; and video was allowed. Not the most sensitive areas, though. Video link.

That's Ford Cortina and it wasn't the one with the exploding problem, that was the Pinto

Congratulations on getting the joke.

More here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ITC Luncheon April 14, 2016
Harvard ITC hosted this years Sackler conference and Nicola Amorisco (ITC) gives a presentation "Ultra-diffuse Galaxies: the Low Surface Brightness Tail of the Abundant Dwarf Galaxy Population" for the first 15 minutes of this video. The conclusion is that UDGs are ubiquitous and numerous in both clusters and the field, Their formation is independent from the cluster environment, They are dwarf galaxies and represent the tail into the low surface brightness regime, Abundances and size distribution is consistent with the same model as for bright galaxies.

I note however that there seems to be some disagreement about the mass of these galaxies.

Beasley (at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands) et al measured 8 +-4 x 10 * 10 solar masses for VCC 1287 in the Coma cluster using Keck Spectroscopy of 7 globular clusters. ~ 8% of the Milky Way mass.

Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University more recently reports Dragonfly 44 in the Coma cluster to be ~10^12 M_sun, similar to the mass of the Milky Way using spectral dispersion
from Keck measurements.

I wonder if anyone knows why the Beasley measurement has been depreciated in this announcement?

Watch and learn:

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"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let's see if that happens, that'll be next."

Pencil marks can be erased. I say black ink pens, no, black magic markers, they're not so sharp where people can hurt themselves or take hostages. I guess that means we need to invent paper with softer edges too. We don't want anybody making shivs.

But let's make one thing perfectly clear, there's an agenda behind the push for this electronic crap, and not just for faster count for the TV news. All the nasty conspiracies are right there at the forefront for all to see, and yet, we are letting it happen. It stinks. Demand paper now. Accept no imitations. Election fraud could hand Trump the presidency and there will be no way to prove it. That is a fact.

" U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia was behind the release of DNC emails "
actually "u.s. intelligence agencies" and nsa director have NOT said anything so positive on the subject, deliberately.

here is clapper himself on hyperventilating media on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

i would be skeptical of conclusions of people making false statements such as the one quoted,without the qualifications.

Seems to me there must be a sum of money upon which you could live comfortably for the rest of your life. Around 8 or 10 million, you could probably make more on interest and investment income than most Americans do, and why go for more after that? But I suppose that's why he's a billionaire and I'm not. I'm pretty happy just doing what I'm doing. I wonder if he is. As Sarah Silverman says, all the penises in the world won't fill the hole in your heart.

That's Ford Cortina and it wasn't the one with the exploding problem, that was the Pinto

... factory sits on 800,000 square feet.

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Can you give me the quote that asked that? I've been following the story pretty closely and never saw anything like that. I think you're just drawing conclusions from headlines, just like they want you to.

I assume you're playing cute with semantics, because he doesn't actually asked them to hack her emails, he asks them to "find" the emails. The implication being of course that they already hacked them.

It's not hugely better of course, rather than asking Russia to hack her server he's saying that it's great that Russia hacked her server, and Russia should use that intel to help his campaign.

And of course his backtrack that he was being "sarcastic" is stupid. But since it was obviously Trump talking he couldn't blame it on a young intern.

and The Angels:

No way, get fucked, fuck off.

Actually, it's the words of the audience
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Only in the short term. In the medium term most warehouse employees will be automated away. Amazon bought Kiva Systems for a reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This stuff from Amazon, and similar systems form competitors, is starting to get adopted on a massive scale. And not only at Amazon btw, although there business is specifically suited for systems like these.

And after that there will be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Only in the short term. In the medium term most warehouse employees will be automated away. Amazon bought Kiva Systems for a reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This stuff from Amazon, and similar systems form competitors, is starting to get adopted on a massive scale. And not only at Amazon btw, although there business is specifically suited for systems like these.

And after that there will be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Geopolitically speaking, this election isn't about Trump vs. Hillary. It's about whether you want US foreign policy to be directed by Americans (however crooked one of them might be) or by the Russians (however strong they might make their voters feel). Given that choice, I'd suggest voting for the crook: it's important.

You're exactly right. But, I'm frankly tired of the proxy wars and the droning of brown people in sand for the control of oil and gas and, of course, pipelines. Not to mention the regime-change agenda over there that started during the W. Bush administration.

So I don't want Hillary in charge to further that agenda and escalate things over there. The only good it does for anybody is to line the pockets of multinational corporations (and, of course, the politicians that help them gain access to resource they can exploit). And those guys don't give two figs about America or Americans. They don't even bother paying US taxes on all those gains - most of it they stick in some foreign tax haven somewhere so they can get to it when they're ready to retire to one of their tropical villas where all the local officials are already owned (by them).

So, yea, if you're all concerned about continuing to squeeze the middle class of their ever-dwindling wages so you can spend it fighting foreign wars to prop up the globalists and the bankers, by all means support Hillary as your candidate. For me, I'd rather leave them to their own devices. We'd be better off working in the weapons factories and selling bombs and ammo to the ones left there fighting over some desert. We've got enough of our own gas and oil to do just fine until they're done bombing each other to oblivion and have established the caliphate in the EU.

Except you're wrong - Here's the whole thing in context. Start at about 5:40

The Mojave Desert is the perfect place to test dangerous prototypes such as rocket cars.