His wife? Google tells me she may still be alive... although strangely nothing dated since he confessed and lead the authorities to where he buried her and the body was positively identified as Nina... I've never known facts to stop the conspiracy nuts so abruptly.
Current hybrid cars have scared me half to death on my daily cycle to work - imagine a freaking sex oozing cigarette car passing by going CHOOOCHOOOOO.
Worse, imagine arriving at work covered in cigarette car sex ooze!
No, thats what I thought but watch the video, they do something much simpler (i.e. have the user directly input where they are going on a map, while taking magnetic measurements on the phone).
Move smartphones have an accelerometer, so it should be possible to build this map by dead reckoning, especially if you can accumulate the data from enough different devices and/or different journeys...
Windows 8 will be a trainwreck. Too many changes for most users. The issue is windows 9 (whatever that will look like).
Windows 9 will be called "Windows Classic" after the outcry that people don't like the taste of the New Windows. It will mostly be the same as Windows 8 except it will have a Start menu and people will love it, because they really aren't that smart.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (and potty mouth retorts don't count as evidence, no matter how many expletives you might use).
I agree with him, "citation needed" is overused. One of the wikipedia guidelines i read said it means "I don't believe you, please privise a source" but my experience shows that often it really does means more like "I don't believe you but because I'm a lazy fucktard who can't be bothered to do a simple web search somebody else should fix this". The vast majority of "citation needed" taggings that I have fixed on wikipedia (and I have fixed a bunch of them) were doable in less than five minutes, usually way less. Nobody is asking you to refute every crackpot conspiracy theory out there but surely you can sacrifice a few minutes of your time once in a while to do a simple web search and see if you can easily provide a fix before dropping yet another "citation needed" tag in a wikipedia entry.
IMHO it's underused, especially on wikipedia. Making statements without providing sources is pure laziness. Anyone can write crap on wikipedia (evidence: wikipedia;), it's the research that is where the actual effort is, and the research should be done by the submitter not the reader. I also find the attitude of "i'll just say whatever the hell I want and if anyone asks for proof i'll just scream profanity at them and claim that they are lazy, and maybe throw in a bit of 'suck it up princess' in there too" kind of dumb. If it was once in a while it would be fine but it's not.
That was my first thought too, but in a lot of cases (in Australia at least) reception on those back roads is pretty ordinary at best, and would likely drop to nothing when upside-down in a ditch, so i'm wondering about the usefulness of this idea... it would certainly have it's uses but if the primary use-case is the "upside down in a ditch on a back road" then i'm not so sure.
I know 100 people who need to spend some time in a ditch *smacks fist into hand*.
You know this is just an excuse to install a GPS in every car. Then once they've done that, automatic speed enforcement! Bam!
Yeah that would be pretty cool - having the traffic flowing smoothly at the same speed instead of some people doing 20 under in the fast lane and "important people" weaving in and out of traffic at 20 over the limit.
I don't know why but driving seems to stress me out more and more as I get older.
I'm sick of you lazy fucktards who cannot be bothered to spend 10 seconds on Google.
Hell no. If I had to go and google every crackpot theory every retard on the internet cites as fact I'd never get anything done. Why don't you spend 10 seconds pasting a link and save everyone else the time. This has the added bonus that when we see that your citation is theonion.com we can laugh at you instead of wasting time reading it.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (and potty mouth retorts don't count as evidence, no matter how many expletives you might use).
I should add that I am fully prepared to believe that your claims might be true, they certainly sound plausible, but i'm not going to waste time listening to the ramblings of some AC that was too lazy to provide evidence and too gutless to put their name to them.
That problem of course is, does it stop the body from attacking the pancreas again? That's really the big problem, same reason why islet transplants while successful have a 70% failure rate after 10 years. The body continues to attack, and in rare cases will destroy implanted islets within a year.
which is great for the medical professionals... "all done. just pay the $100000 on your way out and we'll see you again in 12 months".
Seriously though, even a 70% failure rate after 10 years is pretty good unless the treatment is not repeatable. Managing diabetes isn't cheap.
Wake me up when they have mouse cells that work on humans. And don't cost the two arms and a leg the human would be losing to diabetus.
as soon as it becomes cheaper than the insurance costs of managing a lifetime of diabetes and its associated problems, you can be sure that the insurance companies will take care of it.
Interesting. Exactly how does a "mice human stem cell" work?
It's a typo, obviously. It should be "mousehuman" which is the half human / half mouse hybrid they do these experiments on. After the outcry over animal testing it became simpler to create a creature that nobody believes exists and experiment on that.
The screwup with the warrant was not really surprising. I've heard from many sources that they still pass around Microsoft word documents amongs each other.
"Here's the warrant you requested. I uploaded the word document to megaupload.com..." -Judge Irony
Judge Irony sounds like he/she should get their own tv show. Sounds much more entertaining than Judge Judy!
It's no surprise that this happened the way it did, and that the rest of the world really despises us because of the way our government throws it's weight around.
I was once proud to be an american. Perhaps I still am, but my pride is severely diminished as of late.
I'm also both amused and terrified at how stupid the American government can be sometimes. That investigation and raid must have cost a lot of money to put together... why not do it properly? (eg no obvious cock-ups that get the whole thing thrown out of court).
I wouldn't feel too ashamed though... my government can be just as stupid... it's just they don't have as much weight to throw around and so their stupidity tends to to be more localised and so less newsworthy.
Our websites were rated at C/D, and our intranet was susceptible to BEAST*. It's also quite handy for advising you on what ciphers to disable. All at A now - it's given me a nice warm feeling inside.
* Yes, I know, BEAST was published in September - I know I'm not worth my salt.
OTOH, you took your medicine and fixed things rather than try and bury the report... you get to keep your geek card for now but we will require you to return your management card.
I can't stand either company, for different reasons, and have absolutely no interest in Itanium. I have a hard time picking someone to root for in this... I guess I'll have to go with HP. Go, HP! Only because (a) it's entertaining, and (b) it causes problems for Oracle.
If Oracle counter-sues, I can always root for Oracle.
Hopefully the shareholders realise that every dollar that goes to the various law firms is a dollar that won't be part of the profit pool they get dividends from. Sure, $4 billion is a huge loss or gain for the parties in question but i don't think anyone believes that $4bn is ever actually going to change hands.
If I was placing a bet on anyone, i'd be putting my money on the lawyers. That would be a sure bet.
That was my first thought too. I assume it relies on the fact that a human hand making the shape of rock, paper, or scissors is predictable well before the shape is completely formed. If the robotic hand could form the shape much faster (which it would have to do to make it appear that it had started at the same time as the human hand) then it might be harder for the robotic opponent to appear to be forming the shape at the same time, and an obvious delay (even if you needed a high speed camera to see it) would be evidence that it was cheating.
Of course if sentient robots ever chose to duel, I suspect rock paper scissors wouldn't be their choice of contest.
The best possible outcome of all this would be an event to REALLY fuck up EVERYBODY. Specifically, it turns out God IS real, and, out of sheer frustration, comes down to Louisiana, and explains: "No, you stupid, stupid dipshits! What part of that makes ANY sense? I swear, I thought I made you morons with some amount of intelligence, but THAT?!? Look, it's evolution! The answer is evolution! Seriously, it is! I know you idiots can't see it from your perspective, but from where I am, it's really, really fuckin' awesome. I mean, I pick a planet from the random number generator, toss in a bit of genetic material, and in billions of years, civilization happens without me having to hand-hold you little dingbats every step of the way! Seriously, how can you tell me THAT isn't awesome?"
That would be pretty cool, but if a bunch of idiots trying to pretend that evolution didn't happen shows up on God's radar then my understanding of what's good in the world is completely upside down. From what I understand of the bible, any attempt to deny the true nature of God's universe must be blasphemous, but it's not the worst thing going in in the world at the moment.
I don't believe in God though, so him showing up at all would kind of screw up my understanding of the universe anyway:)
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I wonder who really initiated the suit.
His wife? Google tells me she may still be alive... although strangely nothing dated since he confessed and lead the authorities to where he buried her and the body was positively identified as Nina... I've never known facts to stop the conspiracy nuts so abruptly.
Current hybrid cars have scared me half to death on my daily cycle to work - imagine a freaking sex oozing cigarette car passing by going CHOOOCHOOOOO.
Worse, imagine arriving at work covered in cigarette car sex ooze!
No, thats what I thought but watch the video, they do something much simpler (i.e. have the user directly input where they are going on a map, while taking magnetic measurements on the phone).
Move smartphones have an accelerometer, so it should be possible to build this map by dead reckoning, especially if you can accumulate the data from enough different devices and/or different journeys...
If that's what people actually want what's wrong with that?
Nothing really... but it kind of reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChahP31qh9k
and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
Windows 8 will be a trainwreck. Too many changes for most users. The issue is windows 9 (whatever that will look like).
Windows 9 will be called "Windows Classic" after the outcry that people don't like the taste of the New Windows. It will mostly be the same as Windows 8 except it will have a Start menu and people will love it, because they really aren't that smart.
Once the cats perfect this virus it's all over...
If you are in Israel with a physical (but virtual) presence device in France, do you need a passport?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (and potty mouth retorts don't count as evidence, no matter how many expletives you might use).
I agree with him, "citation needed" is overused. One of the wikipedia guidelines i read said it means "I don't believe you, please privise a source" but my experience shows that often it really does means more like "I don't believe you but because I'm a lazy fucktard who can't be bothered to do a simple web search somebody else should fix this". The vast majority of "citation needed" taggings that I have fixed on wikipedia (and I have fixed a bunch of them) were doable in less than five minutes, usually way less. Nobody is asking you to refute every crackpot conspiracy theory out there but surely you can sacrifice a few minutes of your time once in a while to do a simple web search and see if you can easily provide a fix before dropping yet another "citation needed" tag in a wikipedia entry.
IMHO it's underused, especially on wikipedia. Making statements without providing sources is pure laziness. Anyone can write crap on wikipedia (evidence: wikipedia ;), it's the research that is where the actual effort is, and the research should be done by the submitter not the reader. I also find the attitude of "i'll just say whatever the hell I want and if anyone asks for proof i'll just scream profanity at them and claim that they are lazy, and maybe throw in a bit of 'suck it up princess' in there too" kind of dumb. If it was once in a while it would be fine but it's not.
That was my first thought too, but in a lot of cases (in Australia at least) reception on those back roads is pretty ordinary at best, and would likely drop to nothing when upside-down in a ditch, so i'm wondering about the usefulness of this idea... it would certainly have it's uses but if the primary use-case is the "upside down in a ditch on a back road" then i'm not so sure.
I know 100 people who need to spend some time in a ditch *smacks fist into hand*.
You know this is just an excuse to install a GPS in every car. Then once they've done that, automatic speed enforcement! Bam!
Yeah that would be pretty cool - having the traffic flowing smoothly at the same speed instead of some people doing 20 under in the fast lane and "important people" weaving in and out of traffic at 20 over the limit.
I don't know why but driving seems to stress me out more and more as I get older.
"citation needed."
Look it up yourself you lazy cunt.
I'm sick of you lazy fucktards who cannot be bothered to spend 10 seconds on Google.
Hell no. If I had to go and google every crackpot theory every retard on the internet cites as fact I'd never get anything done. Why don't you spend 10 seconds pasting a link and save everyone else the time. This has the added bonus that when we see that your citation is theonion.com we can laugh at you instead of wasting time reading it.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (and potty mouth retorts don't count as evidence, no matter how many expletives you might use).
I should add that I am fully prepared to believe that your claims might be true, they certainly sound plausible, but i'm not going to waste time listening to the ramblings of some AC that was too lazy to provide evidence and too gutless to put their name to them.
I think the point is that because the manufacturer ships dd-wrt, you can probably run your own dd-wrt/openwrt/tomato without too much fuss.
That problem of course is, does it stop the body from attacking the pancreas again? That's really the big problem, same reason why islet transplants while successful have a 70% failure rate after 10 years. The body continues to attack, and in rare cases will destroy implanted islets within a year.
which is great for the medical professionals... "all done. just pay the $100000 on your way out and we'll see you again in 12 months".
Seriously though, even a 70% failure rate after 10 years is pretty good unless the treatment is not repeatable. Managing diabetes isn't cheap.
Wake me up when they have mouse cells that work on humans. And don't cost the two arms and a leg the human would be losing to diabetus.
as soon as it becomes cheaper than the insurance costs of managing a lifetime of diabetes and its associated problems, you can be sure that the insurance companies will take care of it.
It works, bitches.
Interesting. Exactly how does a "mice human stem cell" work?
It's a typo, obviously. It should be "mousehuman" which is the half human / half mouse hybrid they do these experiments on. After the outcry over animal testing it became simpler to create a creature that nobody believes exists and experiment on that.
I also read somewhere that 9 and 3 (or even lower) reduces injuries due to airbag inflation too.
Airbags were introduced in the 70's but not in widespread use until the 80's. If this van did have one it's now about 35 years old...
No I think a warcraft (or was it warcraft2) "Job Done" is just about perfect.
The screwup with the warrant was not really surprising. I've heard from many sources that they still pass around Microsoft word documents amongs each other.
"Here's the warrant you requested. I uploaded the word document to megaupload.com ..." -Judge Irony
Judge Irony sounds like he/she should get their own tv show. Sounds much more entertaining than Judge Judy!
It's no surprise that this happened the way it did, and that the rest of the world really despises us because of the way our government throws it's weight around.
I was once proud to be an american. Perhaps I still am, but my pride is severely diminished as of late.
I'm also both amused and terrified at how stupid the American government can be sometimes. That investigation and raid must have cost a lot of money to put together... why not do it properly? (eg no obvious cock-ups that get the whole thing thrown out of court).
I wouldn't feel too ashamed though... my government can be just as stupid... it's just they don't have as much weight to throw around and so their stupidity tends to to be more localised and so less newsworthy.
Our websites were rated at C/D, and our intranet was susceptible to BEAST*. It's also quite handy for advising you on what ciphers to disable. All at A now - it's given me a nice warm feeling inside.
* Yes, I know, BEAST was published in September - I know I'm not worth my salt.
OTOH, you took your medicine and fixed things rather than try and bury the report... you get to keep your geek card for now but we will require you to return your management card.
I can't stand either company, for different reasons, and have absolutely no interest in Itanium. I have a hard time picking someone to root for in this... I guess I'll have to go with HP. Go, HP! Only because (a) it's entertaining, and (b) it causes problems for Oracle.
If Oracle counter-sues, I can always root for Oracle.
Hopefully the shareholders realise that every dollar that goes to the various law firms is a dollar that won't be part of the profit pool they get dividends from. Sure, $4 billion is a huge loss or gain for the parties in question but i don't think anyone believes that $4bn is ever actually going to change hands.
If I was placing a bet on anyone, i'd be putting my money on the lawyers. That would be a sure bet.
That was my first thought too. I assume it relies on the fact that a human hand making the shape of rock, paper, or scissors is predictable well before the shape is completely formed. If the robotic hand could form the shape much faster (which it would have to do to make it appear that it had started at the same time as the human hand) then it might be harder for the robotic opponent to appear to be forming the shape at the same time, and an obvious delay (even if you needed a high speed camera to see it) would be evidence that it was cheating.
Of course if sentient robots ever chose to duel, I suspect rock paper scissors wouldn't be their choice of contest.
you only have to believe Jesus was the son of God to be a Christian
The Messianic Jews would have a problem with your labeling ;)
The best possible outcome of all this would be an event to REALLY fuck up EVERYBODY. Specifically, it turns out God IS real, and, out of sheer frustration, comes down to Louisiana, and explains: "No, you stupid, stupid dipshits! What part of that makes ANY sense? I swear, I thought I made you morons with some amount of intelligence, but THAT?!? Look, it's evolution! The answer is evolution! Seriously, it is! I know you idiots can't see it from your perspective, but from where I am, it's really, really fuckin' awesome. I mean, I pick a planet from the random number generator, toss in a bit of genetic material, and in billions of years, civilization happens without me having to hand-hold you little dingbats every step of the way! Seriously, how can you tell me THAT isn't awesome?"
That would be pretty cool, but if a bunch of idiots trying to pretend that evolution didn't happen shows up on God's radar then my understanding of what's good in the world is completely upside down. From what I understand of the bible, any attempt to deny the true nature of God's universe must be blasphemous, but it's not the worst thing going in in the world at the moment.
I don't believe in God though, so him showing up at all would kind of screw up my understanding of the universe anyway :)
So? That's really not all important at the time being.
No it's very important. A major piece of misinformation like that is enough to cast doubt on all aspects of the story.
Maybe I'm being alarmist, but to me, it's better safe than sorry - sorry being a desert planet. :(
The "think of the children" approach?