Things that make you go "Hmmmm…"

[jasong]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Please cite some sources for your claims.

From Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=carb...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Shall I change your diaper as well? ;) :)

[jasong]

Originally Posted by retina

It is a scary new thing not mentioned in the bible so it must be evil. Bring back the horse and cart I say. All these new-fangled auto-mobiles and smarty-pants-phones should be banned also, those carbon monoxide and EM emissions ain't no good for ya all. Ya hear!

Your insults are getting kind of old. Can we just stick to what's stated?

[ewmayer]

Aspirational parents condemn their children to a desperate, joyless life | George Monbiot, The Guardian

I'm sure this is not just rampant in the UK -- we see such "loving parents" in Silicon Valley quite a lot, parents whose idea of "summer fun for the young 'uns" means sending their kids to "code camp" so they can learn from an early age how to be dutiful little cubicle rats in service of the "disruptive digital economy".

And a much-needed - if after reading the Monbiot piece you are disgusted as I was - lighter take on the same subject from "America's Finest News Source":

More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder | The Onion

[Xyzzy]

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/...pace-shuttles/

[only_human]

Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk

This spring, an 80-year-old Japanese chalk company went out of business. Nobody, perhaps, was as sad to see the company go as mathematicians who had become obsessed with Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk, the so-called “Rolls Royce of chalk.”

With whiteboards and now computers taking over classrooms, the company’s demise seemed to mark the end of an era.

Being neither a mathematician or a chalk artist, I heard about Hagoromo through my friend Dan, a mathematician finishing up his Ph.D. at Stanford. He recently appeared on Japanese TV special about the demise of Hagoromo Bungu Co., and a TV crew came out to Stanford to interview mathematicians about the legendary chalk. One professor described hoarding enough of the stuff to keep him in chalk for the next 15 years. Dan is in the special too, calling the end of Hagoromo “a tragedy for mathematics.”

Okay, he was obviously joking. But it is true that mathematicians are fanatics for this obscure Japanese chalk. Here you can see a long discussion online where mathematicians are hunting for Hagoromo chalk suppliers in the U.S. Satyan Devadoss, a Williams College math professor, even wrote a blog post calling it “dream chalk.” He explained:

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by only_human

Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk

And here we thought the Cretaceous era ended 65 million years ago.

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Behind the greatest Wikipedia hoax ever pulled | The Kernel

[only_human]

Boy leaves stuffed tiger at TPA (Tampa Airport), returns to a tale of tiger's big adventure

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by only_human

Boy leaves stuffed tiger at TPA (Tampa Airport), returns to a tale of tiger's big adventure

Hmmmm. Abandoned item at an international airport being treated with care, warmth and humour? I would have assumed that the tiger's "adventure" was a euphemism for the arrival of the bomb squad and the toy's rather explosive demise. Well, the airport staff certainly showed that they are human when the family returned, and I hope the six-year-old can't tell the difference between the tiger he left behind and the one he was presented with on his return.

[xilman]

Xyzzy has been misbehaving again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-33185178

[retina]

http://bsodanalysis.blogspot.com/201...g-windows.html

Rep: When you enable Windows updates, it will install the Default Drivers for all the hardware [on] laptop which may or may not work. For example if there is USB 3.0 on laptop, the ports may not work with the installation of updates. So to prevent this, SW Update tool will prevent the Windows updates.

Good on you Samsung. That is definitely the right thing to do here. Don't let the users have any updates because Windows is already perfect, as we all already know.

[retina]

http://www.reddit.com/comments/dlu96...it_one_hitler/