On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote:
Let me ask you the following question: Do you think that the student who
chooses digipen will get a better CS education that if she went to the
University of Washington which has one of the top CS programs? How does the
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Edward Angel an...@cs.unm.edu wrote:
Of course that's all true but I think you're wiggling out of the essence
of the question. Is the student who is honest and sincere about becoming a
computer scientist (but perhaps not focussed yet on some of the specific
When it looked like a 47 inch cell phone, because I was reading the
included URL rather than the Subject line, it seemed very unlikely to me.
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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
I know its 4/1 but I wonder if this is true?
Dang, I missed the thermodynamic reference.
I think there's a parallel between Sam Harris being outraged that people
think he's a racist islamophobe (
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/dear-fellow-liberal2/ ) and the woo
peddlers being outraged that TED doesn't think their ideas are worth
meant them to mean, and it is very hurtful to me that you heard them mean
something else.
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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/03/2013 11:04 AM:
I think it's a form of rhetorical dyslexia -- what one thinks one is
arguing
I've restricted my participation in this discussion because I started a new
schedule of medications yesterday and I wasn't sure whence my enthusiasm
came. That's sort of a transcebo effect, everything I take appears to have
subtle side effects, but appearances can be deceiving, and you often see
And given exponential growth in science, who knows first hand what the
variance in accepted scientific evidence actually is?
Any claims to know what science is and what scientists do, for the
purposes of distinguishing between science and non-science, are claims to a
revealed truth, not something
Lying with statistics, I don't think that firearm homicide or firearm
suicide (the categories in the second table) count as firearm accidental
deaths (the category in the first graph).
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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:45 PM, cody dooderson d00d3r...@gmail.com wrote:
That looked cool. I was
Lather, apply Occam's razor, repeat.
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On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Amazingly, Snopes doesn’t have anything about chemtrails. In fact, there
is a whole forum controversy about what it MEANS that Snopes doesn’t have
anything
Apropos of nothing, I was looking at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups the other day and
discovered that the Rastafari outnumber the Unitarians by about 70,000
adherents. They are locked in battle for the last place on that particular
list, though they both outnumber the
There's an intriguing book review in Science this week:
*Studying Human Behavior* How Scientists Investigate Aggression and
Sexuality *by Helen E. Longino* University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013.
261 pp. S75. ISBN 9780226492872. Paper, $25, £16. ISBN 9780226492889.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
So not only do phenomena worth studying emerge at different levels of
organization,
but the emerging phenomena at a level of organization are amenable to
different disciplines of study
which may all be judged
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:20 AM, glen e. p. ropella
g...@tempusdictum.comwrote:
Roger Critchlow wrote at 04/11/2013 03:42 PM:
One philosopher of science (Kuhn) says the study of human behavior is
immature, when it's really good science it will settle on the correct
method.
Another
I don't know if retrodicting an exponential growth curve back to it's
origin is technically an extrapolation, but aside from that quibble this is
very cute.
Plot Moore's Law, it hits the origin in the 1960's when there were zero
transistors on chips.
A similar process works with scientific
This is probably a dupe, too, but http://www.thegovlab.org/ has a new
website and Steven B Johnson recommends watching the #govlab hashtag for
the next few days.
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It's okay Glen, those results are high in the search because they're useful
to people who search. The publisher is using the police powers of our
government to enforce its monopoly on the book, but has chosen to limit its
marketing efforts to the richest people in the world and told the rest to
Ah, the local bookstore. I was in KMart yesterday to pick up a
prescription, so I wandered the book/magazine aisle for a few minutes. A
pretty humbling few minutes it was.
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Ah... the Commons!
The Little Red Hen
Steve --
I think we do it not because every patented invention is an exemplar of the
system, but because some patents are so brilliant that they make up for all
the grief that the rest of them put us through. Sort of like public
education?
It's funny that you bring up patents, because I've been
I dunno, Owen, sounds like a business that may be in bankruptcy in a few
weeks.
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Now here's a deal! SitePoint, a well respected tech publisher, will sell
you ALL their ebooks/videos for $97. Wow! This is
http://moocthulhu.com/
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Russ Abbott reposted this on g+, but it's too meritorious not to be
archived here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=onlineaid=6577844
Take published articles by highly respected authors, replace the authors
and institutions with fakes, resubmit to the same journals
Interesting, the article was published in 1982.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Russ Abbott reposted this on g+, but it's too meritorious not to be
archived here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=onlineaid=6577844
Take
reviewing claques even now.
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:14:26PM -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Russ Abbott reposted this on g+, but it's too meritorious not to be
archived here:
http
I was highly amused to read the description of how a heat burst happens
here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/06/11/stunning-late-night-heat-burst-in-nebraska-99-degrees-at-5-am/
because it invokes the momentum of an atmospheric packet, something that I
don't
Here's a pyrocumulus over the Silver fire estimated at 6-7 miles (31-37
thousand feet), though I don't know how he worked out the angles from
Wisconsin.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=81402src=eorss-nh
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Hi, I'm working in Bhutan. Is there a big fire in New Mexico? Merle
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 15, 2013, at 12:19 AM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Here's a pyrocumulus over the Silver fire estimated at 6-7 miles (31-37
thousand feet), though I don't know how he worked
on the following day!
Here's a NOAA page on AVHRR:
http://www.class.ngdc.noaa.gov/data_available/avhrr/index.htm
I skimmed the page but don't completely grok how height is estimated from
the measurements.
-S
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Here's
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com
wrote:
On 6/17/13 1:48 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Seems like it should be a standard cell phone camera surveying application
to compute the angular altitude of an object above the horizon and the
range of possible
The next named Atlantic tropical storm of this season will be Barry.
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Maybe the problem is that the amount of pertinent technical knowledge is
growing, like the amount of scientific knowledge, and it exceeds any one
person's or any one organization's grasp. Not to mention all the
obsolescent knowledge. You talk as if there were someone, somewhere, who
has an
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
I get the impression that many people accept the story that the policies
and laws are what matter and not the deployed capabilities. It's a
remarkable mistake.
The code is the law, look at what the code does,
We just threw out the Santa Fe Gold mailing. It claimed to be the
sustainable gold mining company, 8 page full color brochure, most bizarre.
I'm surprised we opened it.
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote:
Someone called me on my land line
I've just been reviewing some stuff about selective colleges,
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/what-makes-a-college-selective-and-why-it-matters/,
it turns out that going to a selective college makes a world of difference.
Interestingly, there are 2 selective colleges in New Mexico, 4
I suspect he meant hot as in selling so fast that they need to be
restocked all day, since that's the only kind of hot a worker would send
you to ask for in the back, where they keep whatever stock hasn't been
placed on the shelves.
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:13 PM, cody dooderson
This article points out some of the real fun:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/double-secret-surveillance.html
So several months ago the DOJ got a suit by the usual anti-surveillance
do-gooders dismissed in the SCOTUS by arguing that the do-gooders had no
standing to sue, only someone
reported him as suspicious to the local cops.
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 8/1/13 4:09 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
My guess is that the how-to bomb instructions site was a honey pot. The
plan was to find feeble minded Tsarnaev
I am scratching my head that American officials have leaked the fact that
we overheard the world leader of al Qaeda instructing the head of al Quaeda
in Yemen to launch an attack.
Whose dog is this?
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http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/citizen-bezos-washington-post-amazon-founder-legacy/
Looking at Donald Graham, Bezos must have imagined by purchasing the
newspaper, that he could at least ameliorate that fate for the Grahams. He
must also have imagined that he could gather the best minds at his
Now I'm scratching my head even more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/world/caustic-light-on-response-to-a-threat-of-terrorism.html?hp
doesn't
even include the leaking of classified sources among the issues raised. I
suppose the leaks are supposed to justify the actions taken, given the
amount
I didn't know he had a doubly encrypted mail service. That's funny, that's
almost premeditated harassment of the NSA all by itself.
The Toobin principle article was good, too, hearing these pundits led into
same trap so neatly one after the other.
Maybe we've come full circle:
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legal fund contribution link at lavabit.com
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Is there any other benefit?
The double encryption has to do with the treatment of passphrases and
private keys (see below). The text below is from the Google cache
I loved the defense offered in
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/us/nsa-calls-violations-of-privacy-minuscule.html,
that
2776 mistakes in a year were nothing to get excited over, they're making 20
million queries a month. I wonder when we were going to find out that
number in the normal course of
Ideally your VPN vendor would provide you the direct services that made
sense, allow you to ramp up the stream cipher to the level which suits your
paranoia, and the vendor's peering arrangements would allow your gateways
to pop onto the public internet at interconnects around the world. This
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
In the case of mobsters, they know that they are criminals and risk
punishment if they don't protect each other and their information.
In relevant situations, individuals in such groups can predict, in a
positive
UCSF is running an online game to explore possible avenues of development
for medical research, education, and practice, from 8AM Sep 11 to 8PM Sep
12 at http://www.ucsf2025.org/. There are some interesting ideas in the
promotional video already, such as open sourcing the biomedical research
that futurama into the promo video, but the
idea of using a game to sort things out sounds intriguing. I wonder if I
get to express my feelings about insurance companies ala GTA.
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
On 9/10/13 10:12 AM, Roger Critchlow
Meanwhile, in China, the iPhone fell to 5% market share in the 2nd quarter.
The 5C is priced at $733, the 5S at $864. Shares in Apple suppliers fell
today as analysts tried to understand why Apple's low end phone was
priced at more than 2x the competition in the world's largest market.
I received an email a few hours ago from Reed College announcing that
alumni will henceforth be able to access JSTOR over the internet through
the Reed library.
*This new benefit of alumni status is part of JSTOR's initiative to offer
alumni access for participating institutions, increasing its
That's tuition, room, and board in 2013 education dollars. Tuition was
much less 40 years ago, but still not cheap.
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 9/11/13 9:30 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
I received an email a few hours ago from
.
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Nick
** **
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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*From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Roger
Critchlow
*Sent:* Wednesday
Well, it wasn't just any normal employee audit. This was the
Superintendent of the school district and the school district Director of
Athletics and Activities trading racist text messages. Discussing how many
african-american teachers were getting fired due to budget constraints.
And the
a different straw man for your privacy arguments, these idiots aren't
in the game.
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:32 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
Roger Critchlow wrote at 09/23/2013 01:49 PM:
Well, it wasn't just any normal employee audit.
Yeah, but did the IT person [know
This was fun:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/09/meadows-boehner-defund-obamacare-suicide-caucus-geography.html
Where the suicide caucus lives, republican congressmen and mitt romney won
last fall with double digit margins, the population is 80% white, and
there's not a chance
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com
wrote:
So my question is: as such can Obama not replace the people that forced
the closure?
I believe they're immune to prosecution except by congress itself, most
especially on questions of being bad congress people.
There's an xkcd comic in this week's Science,
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full, titled the rise of open
access. I hope it's open access.
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On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 10/3/13 3:15 PM, glen wrote:
But when you
I would rework Steve's explanation. Just as infants babble to learn the
correct sounds for their native language by feedback, older children babble
explanations to see what works. Unfortunately, correctly formed
explanations can be uninformed opinions or fallacious reasonings or
imaginary
I think the article's plea to see the liberal arts and sciences as a united
front pursuing evidence and reason based explanations has something to do
with Lee's rant about semantic infelicities between disciplines. They're
all doing the same thing for a fuzzy enough definition of thing.
In
Nature publishes a letter:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/502303d.html
Communication:
Metaphors advance scientific research
which references a perspective:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/500523a.html
Communication:
Mind the metaphor
and another
(30-13.1) / 13.1 = 1.29 light-years / year.
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM, lrudo...@meganet.net wrote:
From the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24637890
(today)
/Because it takes light so long to travel from the outer edge of the
Universe to us, the
Where is the outer edge of the Universe and what sort of observation
would locate something there? All that the original report in Nature
established was redshift (7.51), age (700 Myr after the Big Bang), and a
surprising rate of star formation (330 solar masses / year).
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From the
by? The center being when the big bang occurred. Then the
furthest object would be diametrically opposite and hypercircumferentially
at 13.5*pi bly or 42.4 bly away? So in the 'now' being at 30bly away is
chicken feed.
Robert C.
On 10/24/13 9:20 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Where is the outer edge
I think they're saying that the dry biomass of terrestrial species is 30%
of the fresh biomass. Especially since the global dry biomass in million
tonnes / global wet (fresh) biomass in million tonnes = 0.3 for all
those rows in the table.
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No more Mister Nice Google, it's all going to be random noise from here on
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On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 11/6/13, 5:30 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
I think the inter-mail-server hops are encrypted, or I certainly hope
so! And
So take a tub full of microscopic colloidal blobs, make the blobs roll
around by applying an external electrical field, and you can get the whole
mess to swarm.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7474/full/nature12673.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7474/full/503043a.html
A golden oldie for you all. Just about this time in 2009 we discussed the
possibility that vertical axis wind turbines could be organised as schools
of fish to boost efficiency as a flock. Peter Lissaman was not amused.
It turns out that the physicist who proposed the idea won a MacArthur
The comments to the original Post article are entertaining, looks like
nearly everyone found something to bitch about.
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On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Stephen Thompson spth...@frontiernet.netwrote:
I agree all publications have cultural biases. However, if Mr. Woodard is
of
I'd forgotten, but
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/public-editor/sullivan-lessons-in-a-surveillance-drama-redux.html?src=recg
the
NYTimes had evidence of warrantless wiretapping by the first Dubya
administration and was persuaded to sit on the story until after Bush was
reelected. Which is why
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Moral of the story, don't be a low-hanging fruit! .
Easier said than done.
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how many of us have a reasonable idea of the number
of logins we have? At a guess, I'd say I have over 200 simply because over
the last year I have
I agree, I considered a subpoena for the browser password management page
to see how many accounts are being hidden by these scoundrels.
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Carl Tollander c...@plektyx.com wrote:
Charles Stross (twitter @cstross) trained up his own off the KJV and the
compete works of H P Lovecraft: the strangely open doorway with the
generation of poets is enormous.
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:15 PM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
Given our ongoing discussion of nonsense and
Here, he blogged the evenings work:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/lovebiblepl.html
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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM, glen g...@ropella.name wrote:
On 12/05/2013 05:15 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
Charles Stross (twitter @cstross) trained up his own off the KJV
Which reminds me of the research I posted about growing socially
intelligent agents by embedding them in an environment where they're forced
to play prisoners dilemma with each other over and over. I wondered how
they would feel about having been subjected to thousands of generations of
this
I think that you knew about it, Owen posted back at the beginning of 2012:
Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on
Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/
This includes not
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-194.94,91.32,295
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Now, that carries us to how/whether/why humans would use irrational
inference procedures. But I think we would _need_ some evidence that
people actually use irrational reasoning procedures. I think even
so-called
I'd try downloading the android emulator and testing them there, it's the
least insane way to test different releases of android and different sizes
of screens. And it's free for the time you spend figuring out how to make
it work. I believe the release packages will give you a browser and the
There are two things reading Altemeyer would clear up.
1) He calls them Right Wing Authoritarians not because they're necessarily
right wingers politically, but because they're invested in maintaining the
status quo in their world. He believes the rank and file Stalinists were
probably as
/reason, we might be able to say that those who think about what
they will do before they do it are more rational than those who do not.
If all thought is just a rationalization, then none of us _ever_ behave
rationally.
On 01/07/2014 11:06 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
There are two things
David Gelernter's attack on materialist chutzpah:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-closing-of-the-scientific-mind/
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Date:
In Nature today
http://www.nature.com/news/v-is-for-vortex-1.14507,
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7483/full/505295a.html, and
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7483/full/nature12939.html
describe instrumenting juvenile northern bald ibis raised in captivity to
measure their
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 1/22/14, 11:18 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
This is quite amusing, Tom. More than an argument for eliminating
barriers to internet access, it's a whole new way to evaluate the social
costs of privileges which
companies.
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote:
On 1/22/14, 12:59 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
But _they're_ not providing the jobs and the taxes, the location is
providing the jobs and the taxes, all _they're_ providing is their monopoly
There are, I believe, several larger messaging apps with strong followings
outside the American market. See this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/technology/chinese-messaging-app-gains-ground-elsewhere.htmlabout
WeChat from a year and a half ago.
Is it just me, or has the future lost
The IEEE noticed that peak copper is coming this century, too. 1 years
we've been mining all the copper we wanted, no trouble, but sometime before
2100 the tide turns. If you think there's been a lot of copper theft
lately, just wait till the prices double a few more times.
But the real
Heroes of the telegraph, by J Munro:
At a second interview, Mr. Cooke told Wheatstone of his intention to bring
out a working telegraph, and explained his method. Wheatstone, according to
his own statement, remarked to Cooke that the method would not act, and
produced his own experimental
That fits quite nicely (tongue-in-cheek) with this research,
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39450/title/Self-Citation-Gender-Gap/,
though it took Owen to come up with citing his own mailbox.
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net
So, what's the question here?
You think maybe that the predominance of straight white men in technology
is innately right? That other genders and races aren't capable of doing
the job, so all those white male losers and assholes that we have to deal
with are objectively the best people for the
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Glen -
Well intuited/analyzed/stated as always!
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 09:50 -0700, glen wrote:
The asymmetries being amplified by our new openness are simply
different from those that dominated before the openness.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Merle Lefkoff merlelefk...@gmail.comwrote:
Have you seen the latest research on how increasingly impossible it is to
move from one class to another in America? You were so right in your post
above. Born into working class, marry within working class, raise
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Roger -
Are our only options extremes such as all rushing headlong to become
the new robber barons ourselves, based on your (possible) ability/agility
to manipulate said new social manifold (great term by the way, unless
And some which do require Open Access have just recently started to crack
the whip,
http://www.nature.com/news/funders-punish-open-access-dodgers-1.15007
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Regarding OA mandates, which I assume stands for
Your ranter should be forced to breath nothing but car exhaust until he
changes his mind.
Google says the average cost of electricity to US customers is $0.12/kwh.
The most expensive state is Hawaii at $0.37/kwh. So it's $1.92 to charge
the battery and $0.0768/mile cost on electricity.
The
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6183/461.full
Male Scent May Compromise Biomedical Studies
1. David
Grimmhttp://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=David+Grimmsortspec=datesubmit=Submit
Jeffrey Mogil's students suspected there was something fishy going on with
their experiments. They
Clickbait, given the window dressing on the National Report website.
It's not being taken seriously except for its ability to drag eyes to the
page and feed them onto other pages designed to tax the credulous.
So, not much in the news because it's out south of Cabo and unlikely to
reach shore,
News (!?) may ultimately serve a valuable role in public education.
John Balwit
On May 26, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Roger Critchlow r...@elf.org wrote:
Clickbait, given the window dressing on the National Report website.
It's not being taken seriously except for its ability to drag eyes
Oh, that's why they've been pitching their awesome WiFi all these months,
because it has this trapdoor in it.
I wonder if this means they're going to start supporting
https://www.eff.org/wp/open-wi-fi-and-copyright-primer-network-operators,
wouldn't that be a kick in the pants?
More likely
The beginning of the obituary in Science:
Gerald M. Edelman, who was born in New York in 1929, died at his home in La
Jolla, California, on 17 May 2014. With him, biology has lost a great
scientist and something even rarer—a profound thinker. Edelman's work in
the 1960s revealed the chemical
Probably zero-zero island, 0 degrees longitude, 0 degrees latitude,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bleep.
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com
wrote:
Ah..
http://www.theweek.co.uk/technology/59191/live-map-shows-cyber-war-in-real-t
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