cough... Nitric Acid

IRFNA will form Nitric Acid, rather than Hydrofloric acid, on contact with moisture in the air.

other distributions

I bought a new Samsung 305 laptop to replace a 2003 Dell with a lowgrade Nvidia graphics controller that can run neither recent Ubuntu nor Fedora desktops (except for XFCE).

I installed Fedora 18, after pushing the Win7 installed on it out of the way. No problems so far (2 days), but UEFI is not turned on or needed. I even found good artwork for the desktop, a spherical cow at the origin, from Berkley.

Anybody want a old Dell, runs XP real well ?

Rand Paul

Kentucky's junior Senator, Rand Paul is not only opposed to more efficient light bulbs, he does not like low flow toilets. Being from KY, he thinks we need to burn more coal, and pollute more water.

He is busy this month with his newest stooge, Rep. Massie, legalizing "Industrial" Hemp.

Yeah, we need some of that Industrial Strength Hemp, if we smoke enough of it, we will become wacky enough to agree with him.

you don't have to be demented to use a computer if you are over 65...

But it helps, especially if you are using Windows 8.

tools of the Antichrist

If Morgan Stanley is handling their IPO, they are certainly in league with Satan.

Middle class to Mars ?

Their days on Earth are certainly numbered.

a quotation

"The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ." - John Milton

4 years my *, how about 60 years

The difference in volume has been obvious since the beginnings of TV broadcasting. I could find old cartoons from Mad and the New Yorker and other US mags, dated from the 50's, observing the phenomena.

Thats too easy

They are all LYING ! Every word is a lie, evasion, or misdirection.

Thank you, I feel much better now. Time for my medication, NURSE ! NURSE !

Fermi's joke

Neutrinos are an explanation of the violation of conservation of energy in Beta Decay, made up by Fermi, in the 1930's as a joke. Their existence was not demonstrated until the 1950's, in observations at Nuclear Reactors. Almost every experiment involving neutrinos, like the Solar Neutrino observations, has produced puzzling results.This joke has gone on long enough, we do not understand neutrinos.

citing Heinlein, Asimov already cited.

Heinlein thought low orbit was the best place for fission power plants. But then "Blowups Happen".

for foot injuries

I have XFCE installed for the inFrequent occasions when I shoot off my foot, trying to "Improve" the gnome or unity desktop. Until recently, wifi required a graphical desktop to start, so I would have to find the ethernet cable to run a command line when I had improved the system too much.

WTF

Having driven through the array, on US60 west from Socorro, NM, the best name is "WTF is That ?" No, we knew it was there, but were unprepared for the scale of the thing. Then we got directed off the road by a NM State trooper, to make way for a portable building being moved.

The thing is between a long stretch of NOTHING, the array, then MORE NOTHING. You should drive it someday. It is just west of the Trinity site. After visiting, you understand why they blew it off out there, it is nowhere.

cynicism

Fusion power has been 10-15 years away for almost 60 years now.

you forgot Amiga

Maybe there will be a Commodore phone someday.

I actually have an Intel classmate netbook, and I hunted down a MeeGo image for it, copied it to a USB drive, booted it, and then said "Why ? I already have Ubuntu on this thing, I need another linux like I need a spare..."

Ruins of Halo

The previous ruin left behind by this looter was Halo, head quartered in Niles,Illinois. From some very non-descript industrial park buildings, they custom-built a 14 story building on Toughy Ave. The building was completed just before the collapse, and included a tubular sculpture that sang in the wind, annoying the neighbours no end. The building is now ? was ? occupied by Shure corporation, an audio manufacturer. It is down the street from another legacy from a corporate looter named Ilg, a 1/2 scale copy of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

an app

Since Apple users are sheep, they would be happier when they are surrounded by other sheep. So my app idea is a Location Coolness score, by the local density of Sheep (other Apple users). This data makes the job pretty easy.

So a Lady GaGa concert would be a really Cool place, and shopping for tires at WalMart Not Cool at all.

second system effect

Confounding any performance comparisons is the "second system effect" - recoding ANYTHING, even in the same implementation, will boost performance. Compare the C++ implementation with a second PHP done on the other side of a "Chinese Wall" ? After dropping the "rarely used features" ?

DIY

Do It Yerself: Get a new disk and an OEM retail copy of Win7, back up your data (if you can figure out where it lives). New disks are cheap, OEM Win7 cost about $110.

This option comes without useless MS tech support. You already know more than they do, guaranteed.

Hammer and Pliers

I read something last week about some hedge fund crooks erasing flash drives with hammers and pliers. Perhaps I can find my old UV eprom eraser, once I get the opaque cases off. Moving up the spectrum, an unhealthy dose of X or Gamma will work without removing the cases.

the difference is...

Between Jobs and Shuttleworth, the difference is, if I don't like Steve Jobs handiwork, I cannot walk further in the Mall, and get one at the other Apple store. If I don't like Mark Shuttleworth, I just walk a bit farther, to the Fedora store, or back up to the Debian workshop, or whatever.

Right now, Mark's problem is that Unity and Wayland don't quite work yet. I am running Narwhal on a touchscreen netbook, and I am using the xfce desktop most of the time.

err...

Can I enter "file:///" in the browser's locator line ? Does it have a locator line ? Perhaps even "smb://" ?

I know, technical solution to a political problem.

Personally, I have an Apache in the basement at home. Use it as a media server and remote disk.

privacy by design ?

privacy by design == security by design ?

security by design => privacy by design ?

privacy by design => security by design ?

Are these the same ? Or one implies the other ? They are clearly related. Security will be required to prevent "unscrupulous" webSlime from circumventing any regulatory or technical mechanisms.

And since security by design has not been, or ever will be, achieved, privacy is unlikely.

And how long has it been since anything on the web was scrupulous ?

what have they done so far ?

There is a lot more to how this gadget functions than the communications protocol between small box and big box.

SOMETHING rather high level in the big box is tracking motion of the image, and turning it into commands.

That will take a while to RE.

Perhaps we should read some of MS' tech pubs for clues ?

maybe he was watching the road...

Perhaps he had the nose camera piped to the laptop screen. Probably not, though.

Anybody else see the irony that the cop who pulled him also has a laptop mounted on his dash, to check plate numbers and driver warrants (at least they do in the states).

who deserves the credit ?

For hyperbolic geometry ? Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky ! and a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHaGhC7C2E

nice picture

A link to a higher res version ?

more powerful than ,,,

And uses a damn sight less power. Seymour's patents were for the heat pipes on the circuit boards to prevent the beast from melting. And perhaps the robot that did the 60 miles of wirewrap on the backplane.

Now, can we argue about the quality of the Fortran compilers available for modern PC ? Never mind the old beast's pipelined vector architecture, what the new guys do not have, Just superscalar multiple execution.

does it have a 400 Hz motor-generator as well as water cooling ?

Then it would be like an old 370. If the front panel has the dial-in knobs to set IPL unit address, it is the old 370. Not a faster computer, they just re-defined the flop.