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bringing up the 4,000 mentioned in the IAEA report, which is like asking Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld of writing up about the effects of the Iraq mess

I wouldn't liken IAEA to Dick and Bush... It is the only credible international organisation assessing effects of nuclear energy and proliferation.

I think IAEA does superb job, unfortunately Japan haven't been very cooperative with them thus far.
I've heard of that happening, and a quick Google search pulls up many reports of it.
While I believe your implication is correct, the public is not going to believe it.

When it comes to nuclear energy, perception is more important than reality.
I think TeX notation for maths is still very good, sometimes you just need that bulk to properly handle equations, though finding symbol keywords can be a pain.

I recently released a web editor for Markdown/LaTeX mix (http://notepag.es/introduction) using Showdown/Mathjax. Have found it very useful for quick technical docs (assignments at university primarily). Though it still needs some smoothing between markdown and tex.
I think it is not a coincidence. I have experienced this a few times with other providers.
Wow! How did you figure out all the letter arrangements?
LuaTeX has the same macro language as the other TeX engines (pdftex and it's ilk). The true power of LuaTeX comes into play when you use Lua scripting. I am not sure if ConTeXt has more advanced figure placement algorithms due to LuaTeX. LaTeX for sure has the same algorithms as before.
There exists a particular Japanese megacorp in Nagoya. Like many megacorps, it has a long list of acceptance tests for any systems it ships internally or externally. Two tests on that list:

1) If it would normally exchange money-for-X, we have to be able to tell it to disburse X-for-nothing.

2) If it would normally exchange money-for-X, failure modes of our ability to tell it to disburse X-for-nothing must cause the system to fail into X-for-nothing.

e.g. If it were hypothetically a vending machine, a network connection that let you send it a message to turn off needing money would meet #1, and a heartbeat hourly where failure to receive the heartbeat would turn off needing money would meet #2.

Anyhow, those two rules are in the strictest category in the SOP: if you fudge one in an acceptance test, the system does not ship. If a system which has somehow made it into production is discovered to not be in compliance, several somebodies will not be going home until it is either in compliance or removed for service.

I agree, Suntory's machines are an excellently engineered. I want to emphasize that this level of commitment to engineering excellence is not anomalous here.

Japanese megacorps: woe unto thee who has to use our web applications, but for this sort of consideration, we seriously know our stuff.
This is great. Can anyone recommend a "DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)" for Windows? Preferably with at least a free trial version. Thanks.
This seems poorly thought out on the plaintiffs' part in terms of strategy. It's actually one of the standard arguments against the absurd way piracy damages are calculated: opponents point out that if we extrapolate to the amount of total piracy that takes place, the amount of damages being supposedly caused are in excess of the world's total GDP, which clearly can't be right. This case is a bit different, because it's statutory damages, so the plaintiffs aren't claiming they actually suffered $75 trillion in lost sales, which would be even sillier. But it still treads a bit closer to the kind of reductio ad absurdum that their opponents use than I would think the plaintiffs would want.
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India has ruled the software and web development world for more than two decades. Indian software industry took the advantage of the dot-com boom in USA in mid Nineties to become the leader in this field. Since then it has not looked back. However changing times have brought in new competitors like China, Philippines, etc.
"To write a simple melody in ‘C’" has to be the singe most important sentence in the whole text.
That could be what they had in mind. Our PCI guy tends to frown on that, though, because the purpose of restricting outbound access is so that if the machine does get compromised the bad guy can't ship off credit card information. If the outbound restriction is implemented on the machine, the bad guy might simply be able to turn them off.

It's possible that we've got an overly strict PCI guy.

Anyway, this particular issue appears dead now, as these new EC2 features add outbound filtering.
My guess is that it would lose and scare all of the many people for whom mathematics aren't a native language. Do it for mathematically minded people, I'd say with at least a A level in sciences, but avoid it for "normal" people.

There might be a non-mathy way to show that something fishy happens with Pythagorean scales, similar to the post, with well chosen computer-generated sounds; but this would mainly interest people with a couple years of musical practice.
In that case, it's outrageous! What provider should one use to securely search for available domain names?
Their status page contradicts itself... the notice at the top of the most recent post says the network is down...

We apologize for the downtime as our core network is offline at the moment.

...but the latest timestamped update says it's not:

Update: 7:28pm (Pacific):The network is confirmedly looking much better, but we continue keeping an eye on it. If you’re still having any issues, please submit a ticket with as much details as you can provide, so we can use that to evaluate if your case is unrelated or if there is still something else lurking around waiting to be fixed. We’ll update again as the evening progresses, but so far so good. We very much appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this outage.
Why not put a few tens or hundreds of billions (a tiny fraction compared to TARP or how much the US spends on the military) in to research in to these technologies to make them less dependent on rare earths?

How do you know how much something like that would cost to develop?
Pretty jaw-dropping journalism, even by Register standards. Anyone trying to suggest that the situation at Fukushima is "under control" and is somehow a nuclear industry safety success story hasn't been paying close enough attention.
I am rooting for this legislation to get approved. It would be a very big boost to many would-be entrepreneurs
> I thought only the guitar had that "pick it up, learn a couple of chords and you're good to go..." attitude!

Ralph Towner calls the guitar a "portable piano".
WYSIWYG editors are not an example of intuitiveness either, most people don't get the concept of Style in MS Word like editors.

For that, I find the hierarchy macros of Latex much simpler to apprehend as well as lot of goodies: footnotes, references, hyperref, mathematic mode, bibliography management…

Also, and it's blocker for lot of my use cases, Latex is version control friendly. The WYSIWYG editors are not.

Changing fonts may become a PITA and I recommend to use the koma-script classes for that (btw, the whole system of packages and the build system are a mess), but at least people can't use Comic Sans.
There are still plenty of musicians out there who survive by a meal, a few pints, and a some cash from pub gigs - busking if needs be. The music for the nobility was paid for by the nobility, but all the other music was paid for by the corresponding audiences.
I have a 50GB cap on the ISP I am with, and I cannot fault them for it as it uses BT's network.

It's sort of fortunate that my phone line is 40 years old because if it wasn't, I would download a lot more than 50GB/month
I've recently taken to MultiMarkdown + HTML5 + CSS3 + MathJAX.

As CSS3 support gets better and libraries like MathJAX brings beautiful math to HTML, I see less and less reason to stick with TeX.

One of the remaining issues I'm struggling with is margins which browsers unfortunately seem to have real problems with.
However, if you can do with just default margins, MultiMarkdown -> HTML in your browser -> PDF works perfectly.
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Is their much money there to get their hands on? Seems like the kind of thing that will probably cost more for lawyers than they will ever recover seeing that limewire has disappeared into obscurity.
> Anyone here from MS care to explain why they continue to hold back the web

I am not from MS, but I can explain.

Most of their money comes, directly and indirectly, from selling Windows and Office licenses. Making the web functional enough that it would compete with desktop apps would lessen their lock-in and reduce their future revenue. IE has been, since its very first release, designed to fragment the web and to prevent it from becoming a viable applications platform. It and its matching development tools are designed to lure companies into writing IE-specific code, locking themselves into Microsoft ecosystem. That's why they are having difficulties getting rid of IE 6 and XP - it worked too well.

I am sure you were expecting their PR spin on this ;-) I am curious about what would it be.
I've used PHP for Comet a couple of times and I've never had a massive problem with it.

The only thing I found was that the PHP sessions tended to lock the connection, so if you tried to change page it would never load. session_close() seemed to fix this pretty well.

Also, It's worth setting a time out because scripts often keep running in the background if the connection isn't closed properly.
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...a bicron?
As a used to be huge Bon Jovi fan in my teenage years, I am amazed they are still around and can fill concert halls at prices like that. I know they used to be popular but let's face it, they are not AC/DC or U2 who can get away with tickets starting at $110+. Especially considering that as far as I am concerned the last real Bon Jovi albums were Crossroad and These Days in 1994/96 and I don't remember hearing or seeing but 2 new songs in the last 15 years.
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Reaper: http://reaper.fm/ is excellent, very cheap ($40) and has an unlimited trial. Unlimited both in time and scope, you get the full software. I use it, works great.
Good answer. I actually don't know the figures, but I know what sort of argument it would take to convince me: some numbers showing that nuclear power production takes a substantially higher toll on life and health than other forms of energy production, measured by kWh. This number determines whether producing the same amount of power by other means is going to save people, or kill people. (Yes, it's not out of the question that environmentalist activism kills people. Good intentions don't protect from bad consequences.) Maybe the people who advocate stopping nuclear power should cite their acceptable figures of death toll per kWh produced, and then we can compare with oil and coal. Emotional arguments only get us so far.

As regarding sustainable energy, here's my favorite book on the subject: http://withouthotair.com . It takes the approach I like: "let's just sit down and calculate".
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> What are the plans for IE10, when will it be released?

It will be announced the moment they feel threatened again by web-based cross-platform applications and/or migrations to non-Microsoft browsers. It will be released in time to increase web standard fragmentation.
Unit tests: out of the ivory tower and into the trench
I use whois from a command prompt. Most of my registrations are done through enom. I avoid GoDaddy at all costs.
When my wife - a huge and long-time Bon Jovi fan

I can commiserate. My wife is a huge and life-long fan of all kinds of music that I can't stand - ranging from mediocre to wildly annoying. If I had to listen to her music all the time, it would generate a lot of friction. I've never been able to tune out music I don't like. Call it a personal failing. Having unwanted music invading my brain feels like having my ears raped.

The iPod saved me from this and helped us live in quiet bliss. If good fences make good neighbors than good iPods make good spouses. I'm happy to let the old industry model die.
Obviously, in Microsoft case, having real-time, unmoderated and public user feedback is a horrible idea. They can use a bayesian filter and only show favorable tweets.
TeX is great for typesetting but it does very little else. It's a nightmare to parse and analyse. The equation language doesn't convey any information about the equation other than it's appearance (eg syntactic scope, semantics). This makes it really hard to build things like search engines or screen readers (screen readers for LaTeX tend to end up saying things like 'sum-symbol subscript x equals zero superscript infinity x subscript one superscript two plus x subscript two superscript two' rather than 'the sum from x = 0 to infinity of x one squared plus x two squared).

I spent months building an equation search engine for Springer's math/science corpus so I've experienced the pain and horror of parsing LaTeX first hand. HTML + Semantic MathML is so much easier to work with. Its easy to parse, it allows the author to easily convey scope and semantic information and it can handle resizable displays. It just needs better tooling (eg a sane macro language which outputs MathML).
Enough articles "everything is fine" for my tastes circulating onto Hacker News, while instead the facts created more and more concerns. I think it's better to just wait, and hope, instead of blabling about things that even the top experts of the world are having an hard time to figure. There will be a time, in a few weeks, and hopefully after a disaster was avoided, to speculate about the real security of nuke power.
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I guess you are right, but it's just as dishonest to present the situation as completely out of control and use Fukushima as an excuse to paint nuclear power as completely unsafe and dangerous. Which is what mainstream media has been mostly doing.
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I don't think that's their strategy generally.

Their current development strategy for things like MVC and Silverlight is to pre-release new functionality as an unsupported project, full source and iterate fast. They're quite agile in areas.

WP7 feels like some one has suddenly put the breaks on it.
Skype on Linux is lagging behind on supported functionality and has a number of program-freezing audio subsystem bugs.
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You seem to imply that being an asshole is genetic. Surely it has a large social aspect (i.e. can't be "bread out")?
... I'm not one of the "OMFG LOOK AT THE NUCLEAR ANGEL OF DEATH" people, but can we wait for this crisis to reach some resolution before we make loud proclamations either way?

The main information that concerns me right now is that there appears to be a consistent radiation leak of 400 mSv/h at the plant. While not Chernobyl by any measure, this is quite a bit of radiation, considering one's yearly dose limit is 1 mSv total.

This seems to contradict the extremely optimisitc reports that all is well, under control, and that no significant radiation leak has occurred.

[edit] One thing that optimistic reports consistently fail to address is the situation with the spent fuel pools. While not capable of melting down, from what I've read the pools are rapidly boiling dry and plant workers are struggling to maintain cooling on them. Left to its own devices the fuel will boil out the pool, light on fire, and then you have burning nuclear waste drifting directly into the atmosphere (after all, the buildings no longer have roofs). There is some speculation that the current radiation spike at the plant is not from any reactor but rather its spent fuel containment.
No 64bit version last time I've checked.
The article dates back from yesterday, 1pm GMT. More evidence that there should be no conclusion drawn (one way or another for that matter) on nuclear energy safety or lack thereof before this whole catastrophe has fully unfolded.

Though the more recent developments would seem to point out that Quake + tsunami >> 1 minor radiation dose.
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skype sucks on linux.
> an excuse to paint nuclear power as completely unsafe and dangerous

50 people sacrificing their lives so that anything even shittier would not happen "is safe and not dangerous"? I fail to imagine what you really find "unsafe and dangerous".
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Seems like at some point you also have to factor opportunity cost into this as well--so the numbers probably become even more compelling. So if a form of energy is especially expensive, that's dollars you could have spent on say healthcare, food, etc.

To me this is the real indictment against things like solar, not the risk of people falling off roofs.
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Okay, that's DIY rooftop installations and though I'm usually against atomic fear-mongering I have to say that it's difficult to accurately gauge the effects of the Chernobyl incident. And to be fair, we also need to count birth defects and other permanent injuries. So I don't know if this is a valid comparison. By the way, without having the facts to support it, I'd wager that fossil fuels cost the most lives of all energy sources, but again, that's also impossible to ever measure accurately and in islolation.
Something to note: whole and half steps are not the only available type of steps, you can also move quarter steps. It's not common in Western music (if present at all) but very common in Middle Eastern music. Maqam world (http://maqamworld.com) provides a decent index of many Middle Eastern scales, some of them utilizing quarter tones.

For instance:

http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat/rast.html

http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat/bayati.html

http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat/sikah.html

For those interested, each scale is accompanies by several audio samples to hear what it sounds like.
Without nuclear power IAEA's "raison d'être" vanishes. Without the Iraq war Cheney and Rumsfeld wouldn't have won the 2004 elections.
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Think the article is slightly old, with new events happening to the reactors every hour. I get my updates from here

http://mitnse.com/

Lets just hope it does not get any worse.
The former will need to deal with it if they want to work for you, and the latter probably won't get hired.

Yes, that's bad to say. Pretend it's the opposite of what'll happen, but that'd just be spreading false information. ;P
That's what happens when a communist country plays with stuff that it has no business playing with. They never cared about the security because they assumed they could tell their slaves (ie. the soviet population) what they wanted to and because they controlled tv and radio. They only cared about the prestige for communism.

What happen in Chernobyl, while bad, cannot happen at these plants because we build them with the security measures that the communists should have built but didn't.

As for the radiation, normal power plants produce more every year than was released here (at least until yesterday).

And the number of people who died as a result of the quake is houndred of times higher than those who may die as a result of the radiation.
I've setup a web based IDE. Using a browser based terminal emulator (shellinabox) and Vim, I can cut code from anywhere I have an internet connection.

http://blog.servermonitoringhq.com/posts/the_ultimate_web_ba...
safety isn't just about deaths. we're all gonna die eventually, independently of our power source.

what is the most important factor to me is the quality of life provided by different energy sources.

personally wind is the big winner there for me.

Full disclosure: I like sailing.
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That's good advice. Thanks very much!
I don't get the impression the article suggests things are under control, more that the risks have been greatly exaggerated. The main points seem to be these:

1. The engineers working at the plant have more options they can fall back on to prevent a major radiation leak and the chances of a major leak is pretty unlikely due to the inherit characteristics of the reactors.

2. The reactors were pushed 5x beyond spec in an extraordinary event and have performed well even though they were designed 40+ years ago. This is a testament to the safety system design and technology in the reactors.
They call it "acceleration." It's applicable as a "remedy" for certain acts the lender doesn't like. My latest was with GMAC, FWIW.

For example, his friend may not have, by law, owned the houses, but may have transfered rights to his business. If the lender somehow knew this and didn't like it (not a "natural person), it may have triggered an "acceleration."

Don't know his contract details, just a possible scenario.
Adobe caves in to Apple -- fewer blank spots on i-devices? 
Apple and Adobe Systems have had a deeply troubled relationship. The most recent phase of their ongoing struggle has been over whether Flash (Adobe's hugely popular proprietary format for adding animation, video, and interactivity to web pages) would run on Apple mobile devices.
When most blog articles are so short, it's difficult not so see this as a sign of our lamentably dwindling attention spans. Some of the best articles are five thousand words or more! Putting summaries below five hundred word articles encourages a world where long form articles are perceived as laborious.
Compare to Microsoft's plugins for Chrome[1] and Firefox[2], which have to actually override the <video> tags with WMP embeds because Google and Mozilla don't provide any mechanism for the user to extend codec support.

[1] http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/wmp-extension-for-chr...
[2] http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/html5-extension-for-w...
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You have a very valid point, however I'm not per se making the argument of a dichotomy between Windows NT and Windows 7. I am however saying that Microsoft CAN, when they narrow down build some great products. And it seems like every time, as soon as they do, they trip up on their own two feet and fall face first on the very next one.
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If we shouldn't argue from expertise, what should we argue from? Cast members of Jersey Shore? Berry diet fad producers? PR persons? Our personal feelings? A magic 8 ball?

Seriously if they won't listen to experts (assuming that we can agree on whom the experts are), that is perhaps the best argument against democracy that I have ever heard.
Pretty much every other energy source is more dangerous than nuclear.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...
It is entirely possible to install Firefox (which is the default browser anyway, Chrome, etc.) without touching a terminal using the Ubuntu Software Center.

Why would one want to configure Apache or MySQL using a GUI? This seems misguided to me.
Danger being, of course, that sin(1/4) != 1.

(sin(0.25) = 0.247403959)
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