Microsoft sells Linux computers
 

This really made me think: WTF? :shock:
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27992439[/url]

[spoiler]Android is Linux and phones are computers these dayus[/spoiler]

[url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/us-student-rescued-giant-vagina-sculpture-germany]US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany[/url]

What a weenie...

A snarkster at the site where I first saw this posted adds [i]"In defense of the student, he looks like the type who has not been anywhere near a vagina before, neither real nor a sculptured one."[/i]

[Brilliant-idea-note-to-self: Get some gullible art-loving government to pay through the, um, nose, for [i]'Gina-henge[/i] (or perhaps [i]Vag-henge[/i], where the g is pronounced like the dg in 'edge'), a large sculpture garden in form of an open circle of vagina sculptures aligned in strategic ways with sunrise and -set at various key points of the astronomical calendar.]

[url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/27/az-residents-at-chemtrail-hearing-were-being-sprayed-like-were-bugs-and-its-really-not-okay/[/url]


I once spent an over-night shift working with a guy who had the most brilliant interweaving of basically every major conspiracy theory and as many minor ones has could be talked about in an 8 hour shift, even to the point of totally opposite world views being expressed right after each other as completely true. He should have been on TV.

[URL="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality"]Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?[/URL]

[QUOTE]The experiments involve an oil droplet that bounces along the surface of a liquid. The droplet gently sloshes the liquid with every bounce. At the same time, ripples from past bounces affect its course. The droplet’s interaction with its own ripples, which form what’s known as a pilot wave, causes it to exhibit behaviors previously thought to be peculiar to elementary particles — including behaviors seen as evidence that these particles are spread through space like waves, without any specific location, until they are measured.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.empr.com/smallpox-discovery-leads-to-government-investigation/article/360009/[/url]

PA draft board sends notices to 1800s men
 

[url]http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/72041-millennium-bug-returns-us-draft-notices-sent-men-born-1800s/[/url]

The problem arises from using two digit year numbers. :gah:

[QUOTE=kladner;378287][url]http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/72041-millennium-bug-returns-us-draft-notices-sent-men-born-1800s/[/url]

The problem arises from using two digit year numbers. :gah:[/QUOTE]

We might laugh about this now, but at the time every bit mattered. Two extra bytes would have been very expensive, and no one imagined software written and data captured "back then" would still be in use.

Although, admittedly, one might have thought that in this modern age of effectively unlimited memory and storage the datasets might have been transformed.

Stupid Programmer Error (SPE). They happen.

(As an aside, I find it interesting that the Y2K bug was often referred to as a scam by the general media after 2000.01.01 because of how many billions of dollars were spent hiring COBAL and Fortran programmers to review and fix still running code. Do a job well, and no-one notices. Do a job badly, and everyone notices.)

[url]http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm[/url]

Even 25 years ago 4 MB of RAM cost $750, or $1438 in today's USD.

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/300-vials-labeled-influenza-dengue-found-lab-203823561.html"]300 vials labeled influenza, dengue found at lab[/URL]

[QUOTE]The same federal scientist who recently found forgotten samples of smallpox at a federal lab also uncovered over 300 additional vials, many bearing the names of highly contagious viruses and bacteria.[/QUOTE]

That is very interesting. Thanks. Any observation of nature that frees the
 

[QUOTE=science_man_88;377091][URL="http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality"]Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?[/URL][/QUOTE] Any observation of nature that frees the mind to consider alternative approachs from indoctrination may result in advances towards more complete and correct understanding and theory. Did you know all medical students had to prove Galen by demonstrating before a panel of doctors that they had correctly located, touched, and individually identified the trees of Artemis and Venus in a cadaver?

[QUOTE=chalsall;378342]... Two extra bytes...[/QUOTE]
Actually only one, at the time they used packed-BCD or packed-EBCDIC codes, and not ASCII. :razz:
(gotcha :P)