I thought "Lines are broken at preserved newline characters" is pretty clear and unambiguous. There is no hint in there that "multiple newlines" is a special case, thus "multiple newlines" must simply be seen as a sequence of "newline characters", each of which must be preserved. FF/Chrome/Opera understood it the same way I understand it, while IE tried to be too "smart" for our own good and decided that an empty line is nonsense.
What does that tell when every version is touted as having "great improvements in security" over the previous one? That there were "great improvements in security" opportunities to be tapped into in the first place. Not really that comforting.
There is a case I stumbled upon in which IE9 behaves differently than FF/Chrome/Opera, which forces me to warn users that IE doesn't display properly the page. It appears IE9 doesn't interpret properly 'white-space: pre-wrap' (while other browsers do), it unfortunately does collapse newline characters, while it should not, as per w3.org. (of course, prior versions of IE have even more problems.)
the system rolled out in Australia is an incredible economic reform and some say it will cost the nation over $1trillion in GDP over the next 38 years
I consider the "cost" argument a very poor argument: we have to realize that a huge part of the "costs" have never been factored on the balance sheets in the first place when it comes to environmental damages ("damages" as in decreased productivity in the long run). These costs were kept off balance sheets because of the view that all economic activities were taking place inside a huge, seemingly infinite sphere from which we could draw and in which could discard carelessly.
Unfortunately, we realize now more and more that what at first appeared as a seemingly infinite sphere is actually very finite, and even shrinking. A lot of the costs to move toward a sustainable global economy were just costs which existed in the first place, they were just left out of the accounting equations of the global economy.
It sure is not a joke. Unfortunately, it is a problem which is more serious, and potentially extremely more serious than we collectively realize.
New York Times, Dec. 16:
Edward A. G. Schuur, a University of Florida researcher who has done extensive field work in Alaska, is worried by the changes he already sees, including the discovery that carbon buried since before the dawn of civilization is now escaping. “To me, it’s a spine-tingling feeling, if it’s really old carbon that hasn’t been in the air for a long time, and now it’s entering the air,” Dr. Schuur said. “That’s the fingerprint of a major disruption, and we aren’t going to be able to turn it off someday.”
I suspect the "spine-tingling" part might have to do with the Permian-Triassic extinction (90%+ of all species wiped): A rise of a few degrees in temperature led to massive release of methane which brought a total 6-degree rise, which led to total mayhem for life on Earth, and which best current explanation is:
The cause of the burp was probably global warming triggered by huge releases of CO2 from the Siberian Traps. Methane is a greenhouse gas too, so a big burp raises global temperatures even further. Normally, long-term global processes act to bring greenhouse gas levels down. This kind of negative feedback keeps the Earth in equilibrium. But what happens if the release of methane is so huge and fast that normal feedback processes are overwhelmed? Then you have a "runaway greenhouse". This is a positive feedback system: excess carbon in the atmosphere causes warming, the warming triggers the release of more methane from gas hydrates, this in turn causes yet more warming, which leads to the release of more methane and so on. As temperatures rise, species start to go extinct. Plants and plankton die off and oxygen levels plummet. This is what seems to have happened 251 million years ago.
That sure seems an extreme scenario, easy to swipe aside because of its extreme nature. Problem is, we can't, in all intellectual honesty, really dispel it. Replacing the "Siberian Traps" with the "burning of fossil fuels" means we are currently on a path toward a future in which that scenario has a higher likelihood, whatever it is.
Unfortunately, the laws of nature don't care about the personal worldview and state of mind of each of us, and no amount of sarcasm has ever been able to counteract the natural laws, the (relatively short in geological time) human historical record is clear on that.
What the heck "culprit" as to do with this? It's just science: the more we research, investigate, and the better we measure, the better our understanding of how things work and the more accurate our predictions. "Earlier than thought" in the present case is important, it means that infrastructures to deal with reduced source of water during the dry season will have to be put in place sooner than later.
Look at the glaciers as a key reserve of water for the dry season. A glacier in equilibrium will replenish itself during wet season, and act as a source of water during dry season. A melting glacier means it doesn't replenish itself during wet season, and thus a diminishing source during dry season. At some point it means a lost source of water during dry season.
[Linux Ubuntu]'s great for us techies, but can you really get your parents to to use one every day?
Actually, yes, I replaced WinXP with Ubuntu 10.10 on my 70+ y/o uncle's computer (my uncle is 70+ y/o, not the computer). He uses it everyday. What a strange question you ask.
The whole thing seems ludicrous; the simpler explanation of "he is being brought to Sweden to stay in Sweden and face charges" seems a lot more plausible.
Sigh... What "charges"? People keep saying "charges". There are no "charges".
Except the swedish judicial system works differently from the UK.
Except that he is in the U.K. Except that when he was in Sweden, the then prosecutor didn't see ground for prosecution. Except that "If Sweden were to say sucking toes without washing them first is rape, then would that be an extradition offence?"
Of course you also realize it is illegal for sweden to then extradite Assange to the USA
Also any guy in a high profile position(see Clinto, Cain,Spitzer) needs to be fully aware where he sticks his dick
Only if they live in places where a pitch-fork-yielding populace is unduly concerned in a creepy way about the sex life of other people (like U.S., Iran, etc.)
My 70+ uncle is running Linux (Ubuntu 10.10), and I'm not sure he has a clue he is actually using Linux:-) I installed it for him on a 8-year-old computer, after his Windows XP became horribly slow over the year (15+ minutes after power on to be able to operate it), and after he fell for a fraudulent web site pop-up offering him to fix his bloated computer with some magick software (which did nothing of course, except charge his credit card). I wiped out Windows, install Ubuntu 9.10 (at the time), and he is very pleased and impressed.
Senator Lieberman's wet dream is to be at the head of a state with the power to edict fatwas in order to protect and push his dogmas, just like those ruling Iran.
This is silly. There is more than just "number of immediate deaths": There are the long-term effects causing deaths or illnesses (not being ill also matters to a majority of people I dare to say).
Windows 7 64 to be an excellent desktop operating system
Maybe. But my problems with Windows are:
* It's expensive;
* Restrictive license;
* Most apps/add-ons/etc. out there want to sneak in and leave their genes in the OS, which inevitably over time leads to pain-in-the-ass bloat;
* Difficult to find simple apps that just does the job with no questions asked, and no strings attached (whatever I need I found it in Ubuntu Software Center, while I had to search for quite a while to simply find a clingy PDF shuffler once on Windows, for which I paid a $10 or something to get rid of the ads and get the extra features, and felt rather uneasy that it might have installed more than what I asked...
* Bloat, bloat bloat. After years of using my Ubuntu, it still starts in seconds, and doesn't spent the first 15 minutes IO'ing the main hard drive for whatever reason;
I still use Windows only on one computer, for games and nothing else.
Slashdot Mirror
A plain time-ordered job queue?
Ah ok I see what you mean.
I thought "Lines are broken at preserved newline characters" is pretty clear and unambiguous. There is no hint in there that "multiple newlines" is a special case, thus "multiple newlines" must simply be seen as a sequence of "newline characters", each of which must be preserved. FF/Chrome/Opera understood it the same way I understand it, while IE tried to be too "smart" for our own good and decided that an empty line is nonsense.
Need to correct myself: It collapses *empty* lines, non-empty lines are displayed fine. So "blah\n\n\nblah" will be displayed as "blah\nblah".
What does that tell when every version is touted as having "great improvements in security" over the previous one? That there were "great improvements in security" opportunities to be tapped into in the first place. Not really that comforting.
There is a case I stumbled upon in which IE9 behaves differently than FF/Chrome/Opera, which forces me to warn users that IE doesn't display properly the page. It appears IE9 doesn't interpret properly 'white-space: pre-wrap' (while other browsers do), it unfortunately does collapse newline characters, while it should not, as per w3.org. (of course, prior versions of IE have even more problems.)
An instance of someone able to write and post a message after his head exploded. This ... I don't ...
the system rolled out in Australia is an incredible economic reform and some say it will cost the nation over $1trillion in GDP over the next 38 years
I consider the "cost" argument a very poor argument: we have to realize that a huge part of the "costs" have never been factored on the balance sheets in the first place when it comes to environmental damages ("damages" as in decreased productivity in the long run). These costs were kept off balance sheets because of the view that all economic activities were taking place inside a huge, seemingly infinite sphere from which we could draw and in which could discard carelessly.
Unfortunately, we realize now more and more that what at first appeared as a seemingly infinite sphere is actually very finite, and even shrinking. A lot of the costs to move toward a sustainable global economy were just costs which existed in the first place, they were just left out of the accounting equations of the global economy.
Edward A. G. Schuur, a University of Florida researcher who has done extensive field work in Alaska, is worried by the changes he already sees, including the discovery that carbon buried since before the dawn of civilization is now escaping. “To me, it’s a spine-tingling feeling, if it’s really old carbon that hasn’t been in the air for a long time, and now it’s entering the air,” Dr. Schuur said. “That’s the fingerprint of a major disruption, and we aren’t going to be able to turn it off someday.”
I suspect the "spine-tingling" part might have to do with the Permian-Triassic extinction (90%+ of all species wiped): A rise of a few degrees in temperature led to massive release of methane which brought a total 6-degree rise, which led to total mayhem for life on Earth, and which best current explanation is:
The cause of the burp was probably global warming triggered by huge releases of CO2 from the Siberian Traps. Methane is a greenhouse gas too, so a big burp raises global temperatures even further. Normally, long-term global processes act to bring greenhouse gas levels down. This kind of negative feedback keeps the Earth in equilibrium. But what happens if the release of methane is so huge and fast that normal feedback processes are overwhelmed? Then you have a "runaway greenhouse". This is a positive feedback system: excess carbon in the atmosphere causes warming, the warming triggers the release of more methane from gas hydrates, this in turn causes yet more warming, which leads to the release of more methane and so on. As temperatures rise, species start to go extinct. Plants and plankton die off and oxygen levels plummet. This is what seems to have happened 251 million years ago.
That sure seems an extreme scenario, easy to swipe aside because of its extreme nature. Problem is, we can't, in all intellectual honesty, really dispel it. Replacing the "Siberian Traps" with the "burning of fossil fuels" means we are currently on a path toward a future in which that scenario has a higher likelihood, whatever it is. Unfortunately, the laws of nature don't care about the personal worldview and state of mind of each of us, and no amount of sarcasm has ever been able to counteract the natural laws, the (relatively short in geological time) human historical record is clear on that.
What the heck "culprit" as to do with this? It's just science: the more we research, investigate, and the better we measure, the better our understanding of how things work and the more accurate our predictions. "Earlier than thought" in the present case is important, it means that infrastructures to deal with reduced source of water during the dry season will have to be put in place sooner than later.
Look at the glaciers as a key reserve of water for the dry season. A glacier in equilibrium will replenish itself during wet season, and act as a source of water during dry season. A melting glacier means it doesn't replenish itself during wet season, and thus a diminishing source during dry season. At some point it means a lost source of water during dry season.
[Linux Ubuntu]'s great for us techies, but can you really get your parents to to use one every day?
Actually, yes, I replaced WinXP with Ubuntu 10.10 on my 70+ y/o uncle's computer (my uncle is 70+ y/o, not the computer). He uses it everyday. What a strange question you ask.
The way Kim Jong-Il is holding the mouse in the accompanying picture, there is no denying of his internet expertise.
"It has become clear that if a person agrees with the idea that all tweets be archived in the Library of Congress then they are a stupid sheep getting f****d in the mouth :)"
Where is the leak?
Please point out where these are presented as "leaks". My point is that this counters that Wikileaks is "effectively dead".
The whole thing seems ludicrous; the simpler explanation of "he is being brought to Sweden to stay in Sweden and face charges" seems a lot more plausible.
Sigh... What "charges"? People keep saying "charges". There are no "charges".
Except the swedish judicial system works differently from the UK.
Except that he is in the U.K. Except that when he was in Sweden, the then prosecutor didn't see ground for prosecution. Except that "If Sweden were to say sucking toes without washing them first is rape, then would that be an extradition offence?"
Of course you also realize it is illegal for sweden to then extradite Assange to the USA
Oh ok, if it is "illegal" then no worry.
Also any guy in a high profile position(see Clinto, Cain,Spitzer) needs to be fully aware where he sticks his dick
Only if they live in places where a pitch-fork-yielding populace is unduly concerned in a creepy way about the sex life of other people (like U.S., Iran, etc.)
That's the whole point: It's nonsense to request extradition without formal charges. This is what makes the whole thing highly dubious.
You are obviously not up to date. Try http://watch.spyfiles.org/#.
What has to be dealt with? There are no accusations nor charges you silly. He is just wanted for "questioning."
My 70+ uncle is running Linux (Ubuntu 10.10), and I'm not sure he has a clue he is actually using Linux :-) I installed it for him on a 8-year-old computer, after his Windows XP became horribly slow over the year (15+ minutes after power on to be able to operate it), and after he fell for a fraudulent web site pop-up offering him to fix his bloated computer with some magick software (which did nothing of course, except charge his credit card). I wiped out Windows, install Ubuntu 9.10 (at the time), and he is very pleased and impressed.
Senator Lieberman's wet dream is to be at the head of a state with the power to edict fatwas in order to protect and push his dogmas, just like those ruling Iran.
This is silly. There is more than just "number of immediate deaths": There are the long-term effects causing deaths or illnesses (not being ill also matters to a majority of people I dare to say).
It can not terraform? Bah.
Windows 7 64 to be an excellent desktop operating system
Maybe. But my problems with Windows are: * It's expensive; * Restrictive license; * Most apps/add-ons/etc. out there want to sneak in and leave their genes in the OS, which inevitably over time leads to pain-in-the-ass bloat; * Difficult to find simple apps that just does the job with no questions asked, and no strings attached (whatever I need I found it in Ubuntu Software Center, while I had to search for quite a while to simply find a clingy PDF shuffler once on Windows, for which I paid a $10 or something to get rid of the ads and get the extra features, and felt rather uneasy that it might have installed more than what I asked... * Bloat, bloat bloat. After years of using my Ubuntu, it still starts in seconds, and doesn't spent the first 15 minutes IO'ing the main hard drive for whatever reason; I still use Windows only on one computer, for games and nothing else.