Here is another shot with the sign.
Again, please respect that this is a personal picture and is only being posted here for the viewing pleasure of the forum members. Don't 'reshare'.

One of my Nine Objects of Desire:
[url]http://www.trafficmanagement.com/store/list/7/132/[/url]

In an earlier life ...
 

[URL]http://www.digibarn.com/collections/games/maze-war/hardware-maze-mit/index.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=aketilander;315379][URL]http://www.digibarn.com/collections/games/maze-war/hardware-maze-mit/index.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

I had it on my Commodore 64...

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20033940[/url]

[QUOTE=ET_;315772][URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20033940[/URL][/QUOTE]

That is a fascinating account! Let's hear it for grad students and interns!

[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-beautiful-blackboards-at-quantum-physics-labs/264166/[/url]

[URL="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/148212"]7 untranslated ancient languages[/URL]

[SIZE=2][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/oak-ridge-ORNL-nvidia-titan,18798.html"]Titan Supercomputer Packs 46,645,248 Nvidia CUDA Cores[/URL]

[SIZE=2]EDIT[SIZE=2]: I don't think I can afford it...:no:[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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[QUOTE=kracker;316438][SIZE=2][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/oak-ridge-ORNL-nvidia-titan,18798.html"]Titan Supercomputer Packs 46,645,248 Nvidia CUDA Cores[/URL]

[SIZE=2]EDIT[SIZE=2]: I don't think I can afford it...:no:[/SIZE][/SIZE]
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Ya Reckon? :razz:

[QUOTE=kladner;316442]Ya Reckon? :razz:[/QUOTE]

You do have to wonder what it's modeling though. Don't you?

The DOE tend not to do much medical research.

On the other hand, I suspect many Iranians have purchased many Nvidia cards retail around the world "to play games"....

[QUOTE=chalsall;316444]You do have to wonder what it's modeling though. Don't you?

The DOE tend not to do much medical research.
[/QUOTE]

Now [U]that[/U] is an uncomfortable question. I believe DOE is involved in nuclear ordinance, among other things.

[QUOTE=kladner;316445]I believe DOE is involved in nuclear ordinance, among other things.[/QUOTE]

You are not wrong. The US DOE is [B][I][U]very[/U][/I][/B] involved with nuclear ordinance.

Thankfully, they are now constrained from exploding nuclear devices in the atmosphere or even underground. Or even in orbit.

They now have to simulate them.

This is why there's now an "arms race" for GPU cycles....

Oh, you guys. There aren't any nuclear ordinance ANYTHING being done at the relatively low security Oak Ridge facility. They haven't been involved with weapons development since WW2.

And even if they were, what do you think they would do with such information. This computer, while awesome, is merely a faster way to get to information that could have been done at Los Alamos, in secret.

[QUOTE=chappy;316447]Oh, you guys. There aren't any nuclear ordinance ANYTHING being done at the relatively low security Oak Ridge facility. They haven't been involved with weapons development since WW2.

And even if they were, what do you think they would do with such information. This computer, while awesome, is merely a faster way to get to information that could have been done at Los Alamos, in secret.[/QUOTE]

OK, Chappy, Let's play this game.

If there wasn't anything important going on, why was so much money spent?

I'm unsure as to where you are getting this supposed argument.

But since you bring it up.

#1 Pride. the Chinese beat us, for a bit of money we beat them.

#2 look up the INCITE program and you'll see that the DOE has a competition every year for projects to use their various computing resources. This is part of that program.

#3. your crazy conspiracy theory doesn't meet any acceptable standard of discourse. it's worded so vaguely as to be meaningless.

#3a. what do you think they are doing?
#3b. since when is $107 million a great deal of money for the DOE.
#3c. what nefarious use can possibly make more sense than #1 and #2

IF you had couched your non-sense in terms of "if they are spending this much money on civilian projects, just think how much they are spending on top secret black-ops, blah blah blah. " then at least you would have followed the normal path of "can't be proven false because there is no evidence either way" conspiracy theory. But, instead you attacked an awesome and fairly open, as things go, research arm, and your only "evidence" for anything bad is based on a silly notion that since the government is doing it, it must be bad.

I have to admit to great concern about anything related to nukes, and to outrage about the huge waste of national resources on so-called "Defense." While we clearly need to be able to defend the country, outspending our next several potential competitors [I]combined[/I] is beyond unreasonable, it is eating us alive. It is a [U]very inefficient[/U] stimulus program. Military spending has a very low economic multiplier compared to civilian spending. Some of the highest multipliers results from things like Unemployment payments. Those recipients are most likely to spend the money immediately. While military spending does provide jobs, a lot of the money ends up in the accounts of the very wealthy, and the products either get destroyed, or end up mouldering in the desert somewhere when retired. Scrapping them only yields a small return on a huge investment. How much more could be done with the $2B each for the new amphibious assault ships to rebuild crumbling Interstates, bridges, schools, etc?

EDIT: @Chappy- Please note that I only saw your response above after I composed mine.

[QUOTE=kladner;316451] How much more could be done with the $2B each for the new amphibious assault ships to rebuild crumbling Interstates, bridges, schools, etc?[/QUOTE]

Amen! and the military should quit fighting the cold war by spending money and resources to beat Soviet Strategy from the 1980's

[QUOTE=kladner;316451]
EDIT: @Chappy- Please note that I only saw your response above after I composed mine.[/QUOTE]

Kladner, you know we are cool, except for that thing you said about my mom and her military issue combat boots---she needs the arch support dammit!

[QUOTE=chappy;316454].....Kladner, you know we are cool, except for that thing you said about my mom and her military issue combat boots---she needs the arch support dammit![/QUOTE]

:razz:

My high school's president is quoted in this article.

[url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-report-card-changes-1030-20121030,0,2144161,full.story[/url]

[URL="http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/subject-verb-object-order.aspx"]Yoda Grammar[/URL]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;316496][URL="http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/subject-verb-object-order.aspx"]Yoda Grammar[/URL][/QUOTE]

This is reminiscent of the Mayan languages. An example, which I believe I may remember correctly, goes something like this:[INDENT]English typically uses the Subject-Verb-Object order-
"The priest knows the scribe."

In Mayan this is likely to be Verb-Subject-Object-
"Knows the priest the scribe." (I think! This is an example given in Michael D. Coe's book on the language and the decipherment of Classic Period inscriptions. Coe, Michael D. (1992) Breaking the Maya Code.)
[/INDENT]This in turn brings to mind the "tale" of the German author whose magnum opus was to be in five volumes. Unfortunately, he died after completing the fourth volume. This rendered the entire work incomprehensible because all the verbs were to be in the fifth volume.

[QUOTE=kladner;316528]This in turn brings to mind the "tale" of the German author whose magnum opus was to be in five volumes. Unfortunately, he died after completing the fourth volume. This rendered the entire work incomprehensible because all the verbs were to be in the fifth volume.[/QUOTE]
That's awesome, lol.

Anybody know any jokes about Americans that could be understood by Americans, even if not agreed with? ;)

[QUOTE=kladner;316528]This in turn brings to mind the "tale" of the German author whose magnum opus was to be in five volumes. Unfortunately, he died after completing the fourth volume. This rendered the entire work incomprehensible because all the verbs were to be in the fifth volume.[/QUOTE]
:smile::smile::smile: Brilliant! didn't know that joke, I am dying to tell it to my german colleagues tomorrow! (working in a German-own company).

Relating to yoda-mayan, in fact yoda would say ""The scribe, the priest knows." which is a different story. Some languages in the world (i mean active languages, not extinct) are still like that. Some have other particularities. We romanians always put the attribute after the object, like in "an apple red", and not "a red apple", and that would be the same in Thai. The author of the article is extrapolating a bit too much when he says Yoda talk "normal" for really important things. I am sure the directors (Lucas? or Lehmer? :razz:) did not think to that at all, the phrase that it is mentioned in the article would be too ambiguous in "Yodish", that is why is said in plain English. But people can say whatever. We have a saying, "The thief has only a sin, but the loser (victim) has a thousand". This article remember me the people trying to solve Nik Kershaw 's "Riddle" (man! how I love that song! Gigi D'Agostino version), and Kershaw said he got thousands of mails, few solution actually made a lot of sense! But he also said he did not think to any of that sh!t when he composed the song. He just make the rhymes. Or the vatican priests who "deciphered" the "ketchup song", saying it is devilish (message from the devil, that is why so many people liked it), in fact their solution make a lot of sense, if you know the bible and a bit of symbolism, but I am sure the girls did not think a bit to that, they just wrote the music and lyrics to rhyme and be cute, and they switched to english and back, exactly for this reason. They in fact said they wanted to write it all in English, but they were not able to, and swithced to what they knew better.

[QUOTE=LaurV;316540]Relating to yoda-mayan, in fact yoda would say ""The scribe, the priest knows." [/QUOTE]

It should be "Know the scribe, the priest does"

[QUOTE=chappy;316450]IF you had couched your non-sense in terms of "if they are spending this much money on civilian projects, just think how much they are spending on top secret black-ops, blah blah blah. " then at least you would have followed the normal path of "can't be proven false because there is no evidence either way" conspiracy theory. But, instead you attacked an awesome and fairly open, as things go, research arm, and your only "evidence" for anything bad is based on a silly notion that since the government is doing it, it must be bad.[/QUOTE]

Oh come on chappy. Give me a break. This kind of money isn't spent by the DOE [U]only[/U] for civilian purposes.

And the fundamental point I was [I]trying[/I] to make is anyone can now buy retail a gaming card which has more computing power than what used to be restricted from export.

Please see [url]http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL31175.pdf[/url] for background.

[QUOTE]Some languages in the world (i mean active languages, not extinct)[/QUOTE]

In fact, Mayan is very much alive on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, in Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras.

[QUOTE]The [B]Mayan languages[/B] (alternatively: [B]the languages of the Mayas[/B])[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages#cite_note-0"][1][/URL] form a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family"]language family[/URL] spoken in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica"]Mesoamerica[/URL] and northern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America"]Central America[/URL]. Mayan languages are spoken by at least 6 million [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples"]indigenous Maya[/URL], primarily in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala"]Guatemala[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico"]Mexico[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize"]Belize[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras"]Honduras[/URL]. In 1996, Guatemala formally recognized 21 Mayan languages by name,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages#cite_note-1"][2][/URL] and Mexico [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Mexico"]recognizes[/URL] eight more.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages#cite_note-2"][3][/URL][/QUOTE]

Note that "Mayan" refers to the languages of the "Maya" people.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayan_languages[/url]

One of the big breakthroughs in deciphering the Classic Period inscriptions was proving the connection between them and the languages still spoken, especially Yucatec Mayan. It has been shown (see Coe and others) that the written language of the ancients is in fact syllabic and phonetic in large part, rather than pictographic or hieroglyphic as was long supposed.

Intel's 48-core chip targeting smartphones and tablets
 

[url]http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/30/intel-48-core-chip-smartphones-tablets/[/url]

[QUOTE=jasong;316538]That's awesome, lol.

Anybody know any jokes about Americans that could be understood by Americans, even if not agreed with? ;)[/QUOTE]There are many such. You probably wouldn't like most of them.

A fun after-dinner game in an international gathering, such as generally occurs at conferences, is for each of the diners to tell a joke or ask a riddle in which his or her own nationality is the butt of the joke. I generally start with the riddle: "How do you tell if a plane is full of English tourists? The whining continues after the engines are switched off".

Through this game I've learned, in translation in some cases, anti-French jokes, anti-Dutch jokes, anti-Australian jokes and anti-American jokes. Those are just the ones I can remember right now but I've undoubtedly heard many others.


Added in edit: just remembered an anti-Jewish joke and an anti-Russian joke learned in the same circumstances.

I have been wondering about this.....
 

[url]http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/14275-focus-hurricane-sandy-problems-at-five-nuke-plants[/url]

[QUOTE]The nation's oldest nuclear plant declared an alert and a second plant just 40 miles from New York City was forced to shut down power as five different nuke plants in Hurricane Sandy's path experienced problems during the storm.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=jasong;316538]Anybody know any jokes about Americans that could be understood by Americans, even if not agreed with? ;)[/QUOTE]

Why did the Canadian cross the road?

To get to the middle.

Why did the American cross the road?

They didn't. They sent the Canadians.

Not quite nationality-related, but still about "The Other".

Why did the shorthair cross the road?
Because someone told him to.

Why did the longhair cross the road?
(wait for it!)
Because someone told him not to. <badump!> :jokedrum:

I guess this really belongs in the terrible jokes thread, but what the hey!

[QUOTE=kladner;316528]This in turn brings to mind the "tale" of the German author whose magnum opus was to be in five volumes. Unfortunately, he died after completing the fourth volume. This rendered the entire work incomprehensible because all the verbs were to be in the fifth volume.[/QUOTE]
Similarly: Unfortunately, Karl Marx died before completing his follow-up work which was to be called [I]Der Kleinbuchstabe[/I].

[QUOTE=kladner;316567]I guess this really belongs in the terrible jokes thread, but what the hey![/QUOTE]

Actually, sadly, this is not a joke.

The US of A refused to enter the second world war, but they were happy to provision (with costs).

This changed with the attack on Perl Harbor, after the war was already effectively over. But hey, let's drop a couple of nuclear bombs just to see what they can do, shall we? Little Boy and Fat Man anyone?

[QUOTE=Batalov;316570]Similarly: Unfortunately, Karl Marx died before completing his follow-up work which was to be called [I]Der Kleinbuchstabe[/I].[/QUOTE]

ARGH! :razz:

[url]http://news.discovery.com/tech/mit-gamifies-relativity-121101.html[/url]

Grammar gloss of expressive American Sign Language used for NYC storm info
 

[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/why-great-sign-language-interpreters-are-so-animated/264459/[/url]

Inside the Titan Supercomputer: 299K AMD x86 Cores and 18.6K NVIDIA GPUs
 

[QUOTE][SIZE=2][URL="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/oak-ridge-ORNL-nvidia-titan,18798.html"]Titan Supercomputer Packs 46,645,248 Nvidia CUDA Cores[/URL]

[SIZE=2]EDIT[SIZE=2]: I don't think I can afford it..[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=2][SIZE=2][SIZE=2].[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[/SIZE]
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=kladner;316442]Ya Reckon? :razz:[/QUOTE]

Anand himself sees the monster up close.

[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6421/inside-the-titan-supercomputer-299k-amd-x86-cores-and-186k-nvidia-gpu-cores[/url]

Regardless of what it might be used for (and it is for rent!), I cannot help being awed by the technology.

I dread the annual air show here in Chicago. It brings about stunt flying over densely populated areas, and insidious messages about power. Still, I can only marvel at the machines.

[URL="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/where-are-all-space-shuttles-now"]Space Shuttles: Where are They Now?[/URL]

[QUOTE=rogue;317255][URL="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/where-are-all-space-shuttles-now"]Space Shuttles: Where are They Now?[/URL][/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_Vehicle_Designation"]That misses Explorer, Pathfinder, and SAIL.[/URL]

'Innocence of Muslims' filmmaker gets a year in prison
 

[url]http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/innocence-muslims-filmmaker-sentenced.html[/url]

a comic about election
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/nov/06/america-elect-graphic-novel?fb=native[/url]

[youtube]nXhKCWhBeKQ[/youtube]

[QUOTE=firejuggler;317537]a comic about election
[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/nov/06/america-elect-graphic-novel?fb=native[/URL][/QUOTE]

That's pretty slick!

[URL="http://www.anandtech.com/show/6446/nvidia-launches-tesla-k20-k20x-gk110-arrives-at-last"]NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 & K20X: GK110 Arrives At Last[/URL]

Nice DP speed. Might be a nice tools for our early adopter.

edit : didn't see the price tag. Ouch.

[QUOTE=firejuggler;318056]Nice DP speed. Might be a nice tools for our early adopter.

edit : didn't see the price tag. Ouch.[/QUOTE]
:raman:

Goddamnit. I was hoping to get a few dozen.

You still can. not the same price, that 's all

I love it when I see a vehicle with the bumper sticker, "My <dog breed> is smarter than your honor student". Don't these people realize that they are stating that they are dumber than their own dog?

[QUOTE=rogue;318215]I love it when I see a vehicle with the bumper sticker, "My <dog breed> is smarter than your honor student". Don't these people realize that they are stating that they are dumber than their own dog?[/QUOTE]

While in college I had a bumper sticker that read "My kid beat up your honor student." The small town paper had one of those 'people call in and leave a message and the paper would just print whatever they said' columns (which were always good for a laugh!) so you can imagine my delight when someone named Darlene called in to say (something like--I no longer have the clip) "To the person driving around town whose kid beats up honors students, you should be ashamed of how you raised your kid."

duly shamed I replaced it with a bumper sticker that read, "Militant Agnostic: I don't know and you don't either."

So, I've been a member of LinkedIn for years.

Suddenly I find many emails in my "In box" telling me that many of my friends have "endorsed" me.

Logging into LinkedIn, I'm presented with the (default) option of endorsing many of my friends.

LinkedIn is now a publicly traded company. Playing in the same space as FaceBook and Google.

Hmmmm....

That and that their password hashes were hacked compels me to leave.

Those endorsements are quite lame - I've received endorsements from people who didn't work with me, so how would they know? Just because I am such a nice guy I obviously know e.g. computational biology? This devalues the whole idea.

[QUOTE=chalsall;318465]So, I've been a member of LinkedIn for years.

Suddenly I find many emails in my "In box" telling me that many of my friends have "endorsed" me.

Logging into LinkedIn, I'm presented with the (default) option of endorsing many of my friends.

LinkedIn is now a publicly traded company. Playing in the same space as FaceBook and Google.

Hmmmm....[/QUOTE]LinkedIn used to be FaceBook for grown-ups. The phrase "dumbing down" comes to mind.

I've recently been active on [URL="https://www.researchgate.net"]ResearchGate[/URL] which is (apparently) still moderately professional.

relaxing
[url]http://new.livestream.com/accounts/398160/events/1594566/player_pop_up[/url]

Wow!! For only $50k I can get a software package for my free Ubuntu system. I guess HD stands for High Dollar??

[QUOTE=EdH;318672]Wow!! For only $50k I can get a software package for my free Ubuntu system. I guess HD stands for High Dollar??[/QUOTE]

WTF?!!?? Even if it was cents, not dollars.....

$4.99 on iPhings...

[QUOTE=EdH;318672]Wow!! For only $50k I can get a software package for my free Ubuntu system. I guess HD stands for High Dollar??[/QUOTE]I'm surprised that particular package is so expensive.

OTOH, I would not be in the least bit surprised at $50k being the true market price for rather more specialized and economically productive packages which can be run under Ubuntu. A commercial site license for Gaussian, for example, would cost me $40,250.

I'm looking for something rather closer to my budget ...

Paul

My kids enjoy playing Minecraft, which I'm certain a few of you are familiar with. They have been wanting me to install some mods and skins for the game, but almost every link I go to for installing the mods they desire requires me to either submit personal information, buy something, install third party software, deal with annoying ads, etc. My kids are upset with me for not installing any of these mods, but I just don't trust any of this other software. For example, I thought that maybe I could d/l iLivid in order to get to one of the mods they wanted, but when I d/l'ed and installed it, it installed another piece of software called Torch. Even then I could get iLivid to d/l the software from the provided link. I immediately uninstalled Torch and iLivid. I made it clear to them that in order to d/l the mods that I will inherently make their computer unsafe and unstable. I have NetNanny installed on it and I ran into enough sites getting blocked just trying to navigate to the pages that have the mods. I have never run into anything before like this with d/l'd games. Very annoying.

It IS like that. Annoying and unsafe. Those pieces of code are done by different guys around the 'net, not all of them quite professional or honest. The only thing I like about Minecraft is the "Dynamite" song parody, I wrote about it already on this forum. "I come to dig, dig, dig, dig... Just wait a minute I kill this pig, pig, pig, pig..." hehe, I like it more then the original song (very rare in my case, I usually don't like remixes and parodies of good songs, they are all crap, like you can't do something good and try make fun of good things other people do).

Your solution should be VirtualBox, give a 10GB virtual HDD to it, one gig of RAM, drop a copy of WinXP32 into it (or whatever else) do a clone of it and install everything you want there. When it starts making problems, re-clone the initial image, it takes few minutes (much faster then a XP installation). The virtual machine (guest system) is like a separate computer, make users for your kids, they (or the software installed there) can't access or damage the host system. I do this usually every time when I access strange internet sites, spawn a new WinXP computer in few minutes, access everything from it, save the things I need (say, pdf, ebooks, torrent thingies, no exe files) then kill it.

I was able to download the mod on my Mac and will copy the files over to their PC. Apparently the website detected that I couldn't d/l iLivid and gave me a proper link to d/l the mod.

It is definitely a mess with Minecraft mods, but with enough experience it's pretty easy to tell them apart. If it has a thread on [URL="http://www.minecraftforum.net/index.php"]minecraftforum.net[/URL], it's probably safe.

I've never needed a download manager. The links on e.g. the forum above are typically adf.ly links, but there's a button in the top right that says "skip ads", which should begin the download. The mods I know of typically come as zip archives that contain java .class files to be added to minecraft.jar. Other mods may work differently of course. (Some mods do have a direct download link.) The mods of the sort I'm talking about typically require [URL="http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/75440-v144-risugamis-mods-updated/"]ModLoader[/URL] (the link is a common example of a mod thread), which is a base mod of sorts designed to iron out conflicts between different mods. It, and the Xray mod, are the two that I've installed.

"The Juice Train" timelapse: Florida to NJ in 3 minutes.

[url]http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ge-juice-train-time-lapse/20sybd2h[/url]

Huh! he only cleaned the camera (well, the glass in front of it) once, in 48 hours! THAT is what really makes you say "wow!"... hehe (I do this "recording" activity with my car sometimes, like going the 1500km from ChiangMai to Phuket/Krabi, etc). I guess this tell a lot about air pollution, weather, etc. across USA (or along, in this case?).

correllation, causation,cocoa
 

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20356613[/url]

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/17/albert-einstein-brain-study-genius_n_2144865.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk1&pLid=236205&utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false[/url]

[url]http://www.scribd.com/doc/113633834/Republican-Study-Committee-Intellectual-Property-Brief[/url]

[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fire-kills-112-workers-making-clothes-us-brands/story?id=17807229[/url]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire[/url]
:no:

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;319617][URL]http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fire-kills-112-workers-making-clothes-us-brands/story?id=17807229[/URL]

[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire[/URL]
:no:[/QUOTE]

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. :down:

[YOUTUBE]lkzll37266Y[/YOUTUBE]
(the Utube person knew the connection, but I never knew what gave the initial idea for the lyrics)

[URL="http://patriarchysurvivor.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/the-systematic-raping-of-women-in-the-u-s-military/"]"The Systematic Raping of Women in the U.S. Military"[/URL]
(Link hidden as warning)


May as well reuse the post. The second link is much lighter (you might even call it good news).
[url]http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/21/german-govt-comes-out-against-trusted-computing-and-secure-boot/[/url]

[url]http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-one-liners-explained-part-one/[/url]

Part 2 has this gem:
[code]$ echo {w,t,}h{e{n{,ce{,forth}},re{,in,fore,with{,al}}},ither,at}
when whence whenceforth where wherein wherefore wherewith wherewithal whither what then thence thenceforth there therein therefore therewith therewithal thither that hen hence henceforth here herein herefore herewith herewithal hither hat[/code]

This output sounds remarkably like someone we know...

[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/23/travel/scientists-undiscover-south-pacific-island/index.html"]Scientists 'undiscover' South Pacific island[/URL][QUOTE]The island, identified as Sandy Island by Google Maps and Sable Island on others, was supposed to be quite large in size -- 156 square kilometers (60 square miles) -- but the ship sailed right through the area where the island was supposed to be.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/far-from-the-tree-by-andrew-solomon.html?pagewanted=all[/url]

[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/syria-drops-internet-1C7319908[/url]

Syria's collectively offline.


US/Clinton release plan to go for the AIDS tipping point (more treated than infected)
[url]http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15544096-clinton-us-to-go-for-aids-treatment-tipping-point?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=6[/url]


UN implicitly recognizes Palestine as a state
[url]http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15546351-un-upgrades-palestinian-status-in-body-bolsters-statehood-claim?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=4[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;319960][url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/far-from-the-tree-by-andrew-solomon.html?pagewanted=all[/url][/QUOTE]
The article loads, then suddenly disappears. Not sure why that is, but Flash is broken for me because I want it that way, if that has anything to do with it.

Sweden's running out of trash

[url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/28/163823839/sweden-wants-your-trash[/url]

[QUOTE=jasong;319989]The article loads, then suddenly disappears. Not sure why that is, but Flash is broken for me because I want it that way, if that has anything to do with it.[/QUOTE]It may be the paywall. You're allowed free access to 10 articles a month (per PC). If you go over that, it will load the article, but then overlay a solicitation to buy a digital subscription.

[QUOTE=schickel;319997]It may be the paywall. You're allowed free access to 10 articles a month (per PC). If you go over that, it will load the article, but then overlay a solicitation to buy a digital subscription.[/QUOTE]
Well, it shows up for a split second, so I wonder what a well-timed screen capture could accomplish.

[QUOTE=jasong;320005]Well, it shows up for a split second, so I wonder what a well-timed screen capture could accomplish.[/QUOTE]

A well-timed ESC key will work just as well, I think.

[QUOTE=axn;320007]A well-timed ESC key will work just as well, I think.[/QUOTE]:davieddy:

Don't say it out loud....they might notice and fix the security hole in their paywal!

[QUOTE=schickel;320019]Don't say it out loud....they might notice and fix the security hole in their paywal![/QUOTE]

This is second hand info, but...

They already know about it, dude! Their IT people are not morons. The behavior is by design. It'd be too easy to build something that you can't bypass. But they'd rather have us cheapskates view the page (and the ads therein) rather than not view them at all. They just hope that those who're annoyed enough will subscribe.

just copy the link and open it with a different brand of browser. This is how I read all the Nate Silver stuff during the election.

an interesting bit
[url]http://bit.ly/t4pz3M[/url]
you play the judge, in an Uk court : hear the defendant, the police report, mitigating/aggravating facts, what the judge ask...
and the judge explain the sentance

[url]http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/waterbridge.asp[/url]

[url]https://www.facebook.com/snowart8848[/url]

[url]http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/12/how-nasa-uses-gpus-to-build-more-vivid-flight-simulators/[/url]
[quote]The visual system still needs to draw a new scene every 1/60th of a second. So, we use the largest frame buffer memory available from NVIDIA Quadro cards to store the entire visual database in use on the graphics card. With all the image data on the GPU, the IG doesn’t need to page them to and from system memory on the CPU, an operation that can cause the rendering to stutter.

The result: the image generator NASA developed for the USAF draws more pixels every two seconds than there are people on the planet.[/quote]
Wowzers.

Kristin Paget got a job helping Apple with it's OSes security. But it's the following that got my attention
[quote]Paget and company’s bug-hunt was so successful, in fact, that it forced Microsoft to push back Vista’s ship date. When the work was done, the hackers received special T-shirts, signed by Microsoft Vice President of Windows Development Brian Valentine. They read: “I delayed Windows Vista.”[/quote]
If I may paraphrase a common saying,"Assholes, assholes everywhere, and I only have two feet."

Canonical's pissed off RMS (and he has good reason to be).

[url]http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do[/url]

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20641465[/url]

Interesting, now they're on the same, or similar footing, as the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Edit: [I mean they're using the same scheme, although their scheme is technically more solid. With the Federal Reserve Bank, there's no real limit to the amount of money that can be made. But with bitcoins, I guess it's limited by the processing power available.

money=Federal Reserve Notes, which isn't money depending on how anal I'm feeling at the moment. :)]

[QUOTE=jasong;320932][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20641465[/url]But with bitcoins, I guess it's limited by the processing power available.[/QUOTE]Bitcoins are also limited to a quantity of 21 million by design.

[url]http://www.weather.com/news/apollo-seventeen-anniversary-20121207[/url]

all you naysayers better hope Obama keeps this promise. :)
 

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/government-promises-world-won-t-end-dec-21-192819519.html#more-id[/url]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/atheists-around-world-suffer-persecution-discrimination-report-000945958.html[/url]

[URL="http://www.universetoday.com/98861/golden-spike-to-offer-commercial-human-missions-to-the-moon/"]Go to the moon![/URL]

[URL="http://www.livescience.com/25190-genetic-roots-vertebrate-intelligence.html"]Cognitive "big bang"[/URL]

[URL="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508211/mars-rover-finds-puzzling-organic-traces-in-first-soil-sample/"]Organic molecules found on Mars[/URL]

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