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Conceptually plausible: the cyclic motion of articulated wings (flapping) seems understood in models e.g. http://www.ornithopter.de/english/clips.htm Jarno's idea of a powered exoskeleton wing to provide x20 power is right in principle, but needs light batteries: Prof Otten http://www.humanbirdwings.net/about/interview-with-bert-otte...

As comparison, a human-powered articulated wing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E77j1imdhQ A non-articulated wing http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1638710914506519616 (18km) And the famous Gossamer Albatross flew from England to France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter#Manned_flight

To the downvoters: haters gonna hate, hackers gonna hack
The only Australian links with any affordable capacity go through to the US, which is how UK traffic is routed :/
According to the Prometheus spokesperson “Without the availability of patent protection, future health care will suffer as companies may opt out of new research and development.”

This assumption is based on the demonstrably wrong assumption that the ONLY motivating factor driving medical development is predatory rent-seeking of the most odious kind. Were it not for this, the thinking goes, people would all just suffer and die in silence.

People whose lives are seriously impacted by any condition have a serious motivation to pool resources in an effort to find a cure. To date, the transaction costs have been prohibitive, giving the predatory motivation more power. But there's no reason why the Kickstarter model can't be adapted to this problem - especially when researchers are bolstered by fundamental research done at the NIH. An additional source of funding could come from health insurance companies, who back promising projects because it lowers their costs.

We need to demolish the idea that patents are the one and only pathway to medical advance. In some ways, this is more important that going after software patents, since any time patent reform comes up, drug patents get wheeled out as the prime example of "good" patents. They're deployed like a rhetorical third rail, and a useful way to shut down any conversation about patent reform in general.
It is so easy to shut these down without making the perpetrator easily known that the idea is ridiculous. If Iran can commandeer a US military drone, I think that this system is a waste of money.

- An EMP would wipe-out unprotected electronics easily

- Targeted energy weapons could fry sensors or the whole ship
- The frequencies it uses can be jammed

- A Barrett .50, on the ground or out of a helicopter, could vaporize one of these

- A seemingly normal airplane could "accidentally" ram it

- A similar airplane could use a net and capture it, leaving no evidence

- Hell, if it flies high enough, its onboard GPS device might self-deactivate due to US law.
- How about broadcasting this image to the entire world?

- There is not point in that, images don't have value as evidence anymore, it'd just end up as an entertaining image that came from an unknown source at an opportune time.

(from "Ghost in the Shell")
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Laws and treaties are just words on paper. They can be changed. They can be ignored. They have in the past and it's reasonable to assume they will continue to be in the future. So, I wouldn't rule out having some existing nation declare sovereignty over some part of Mars or an asteroid. They will give whatever excuse they need to justify it. Businesses would have powerful private profit incentive to be able to claim rights to things, and to have the protection of a patron national government's military to back it up, like the US, China, etc. We can also expect silly unnecessary wars to be ginned up by propagandists working for those same private profit interests. History is littered with examples, and no reason to expect it won't happen again in the future.
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> Indeed, let them eat cake. A time-tested strategy.

"Let them eat cake" was a response to folks who didn't have bread. That's not the case here.

> The article pretty clearly contradicts your own argument.

Actually, it doesn't. Try reading what you quoted again.

The author is claiming that tax policy can do certain things. However, the "no tax policy" state contradicts what you've insisted is true.

> Both articles cite the 47% figure, as I stated above. Your source uses a figure of 33%, which is why it (and you) conclude that the US tax system is more progressive.

Your arithmetic is failing too.

And, you still haven't explained why their numbers are more accurate.
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Interesting feature. So far I've only see torrents have this. Would love if my downloads online had working pause and resume functionality.
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If it's free (and it's planning to stay free), how is the company planning to stay in business?
Do you have any other experience (jobs from when you were in college) to be sure this is a problem unique to the job?

If you're in the Bay Area (or maybe NYC):
Once you decide to quit, you should feel a lot better -- then take a couple days off to rest, find some worthwhile companies to talk to, etc. You should have interviews and a job within a week, which could be explained as "the flu".

If you're not in a hot startup job market, you either want to relocate before looking, or find a new job first. I do not think I'd quit my job in Indiana before having a new job in Indiana assuming I wouldn't leave Indiana. Sorry :(
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Some would argue it's a natural cycle and not especially caused by humans. Other comments in this thread allude to something similar happening in medieval times
If it were that easy, we'd all be affiliate marketing to each other and hanging out at the beach...
I love the productivity boost of sitting with my PM:

"hey, feature x.y.z is actually a pain, now that I look at it closely. Can I email scrap it?"

"scrapped. "

Way better than spending a couple of days working on it before a weekly checkup meeting.
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I'm curious; what data structure and algorithm are you using to achieve O(log n) routing?
I wonder if this uses P2P at all or whether everything is routed through their servers? The former would be far more sustainable (although NAT problems ahoy if that's the only channel).

It does look like they're planning on offering a paid version:

"Upgrade to Pro with end-to-end encryption to make your transfers completely confidential. We can't even access your files."
Why an app instead of a web service? Couldn't you accomplish this seamlessly with HTML5? Just curious. I'd be far more prone to use this if it worked across all platforms.
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The medieval warming period was mild compared to the warming we're having now and the warming we're going to have over the next century.
Different techniques, same effect and goal... it's not the opposite of this at all.
In the part 14 video, at 0:34 it cuts to another camera on the right much closer to the point of liftoff. It's not a long range shot because the angle seems to sweep up to 45 degrees quickly. A camera at this position should be visible in the shot before, but there's not one.

Edit: OK at 0:23 you catch a glimpse of someone by the lake that might be in position for that shot.
Some would be making stuff up and ignoring what scientists have been telling us.
Rounded corners, drop shadows, subtle palettes with contrasting call to action buttons, several dozen social network sharing icons... Did I miss anything?
This may sound a bit too obvious but I'll say it anyway.

Don't quit your job without finding another one. Finding another job is tough as it is - and your bargaining position, perceived 'employability' etc are greatly diminished when you're applying without a current job.

You have an idea of what makes a great job. Go look for it. Believe that it exists - and when you really believe it exists, you will feel energized about the prospect of landing the job.

So start looking for a job right now - and whenever a prospective opening comes along, dive into it.

A lot of job seekers don't ask enough questions before taking up the job. The interviewee asking many questions is always a good sign for any sane interviewer. Make sure you know and like what you get into next.

After you've put your resume out there, sent emails to companies and are waiting to hear back, do two other things to make the immediate future better.

1 - Do what you can to make life at your job more interesting. Seek out changes and improvements to your job and for your company even if it takes convincing someone else to 'allow' you to do it.

2 - Find habits or interests outside of work. This could be activities can be added directly your resume (for example if your company works on Java, you could learn to work on node.js), or even something unrelated to your career like sky diving or visiting landmarks over the weekend (I am a programmer, and I read up on finance to take a break)

Good luck.
Sounds like your Macbook Pro has shoddy thermal paste. If it's under AppleCare still perhaps you should bring that to their attention? If not and they want you to pay, it's fairly easy to fix, ifixit should have a guide.
Exactly. The artificial scarcity imposed by patents is a hack to avoid the tragedy of the commons, but we should be able to do better. I donate to SENS for both altruistic and selfish reasons: if left unchecked aging will severely impact everyone's quality of life, and in particular mine.
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I did an internship company and that was an incredible experience. I didn't get asked to come back for a full time position. It could be that that job was just awesome and this is how normal jobs are. However, coming from a person who has made up for not being smart by working at problems a lot, it is kind of concerning for me to see myself getting bored and ready to leave work as soon as possible.

Yes, I am in a hot startup job market enough to get a couple of linkedin recruiter cold calls every 3 days. Having said that, I am smart enough to know that a non-tech recruiter identifying keywords in your resume don't necessarily make one in high demand.
It's well worth reading patent courtesan Gene Quinn as his head explodes:

How long will it take the Federal Circuit to overrule this inexplicable nonsense? The novice reader may find that question to be ignorant, since the Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States. Those well acquainted with the industry know that the Supreme Court is not the final word on patentability, and while the claims at issue in this particular case are unfortunately lost, the Federal Circuit will work to moderate (and eventually overturn) this embarrassing display by the Supreme Court. This will eventually be accomplished the same as it was after the Supreme Court definitively ruled software is not patentable in Gottschalk v. Benson, and the same as the ruling in KSR v. Teleflex will be overruled. I have taken issue with Chief Judge Rader’s statements that nothing has changed in Federal Circuit jurisprudence as a result of KSR, which is not technically true. What is true, however, is that the Federal Circuit continues to refine the KSR “common sense test,” narrowing the applicability in case after case and tightening the ability for “common sense” to be used against an application. We are almost 5 years post KSR and there is still a lot of work left to be done by the Federal Circuit to finally overrule the Supreme Court’s KSR decision. It took almost 10 years to overrule Gottschalk v. Benson, so we are likely in for a decade of work to moderate the nonsense thrust upon the industry this morning.

Indeed, Breyer’s decision is the most intellectually dishonest decision I have ever read, which is saying a lot given the utter contemptuous understanding of patent law displayed by the Supreme Court over the years. It is truly troubling that all 9 of the Justices concurred in what history will regard as one of the worst decisions in the patent space EVER!

Yes, Congress will be asked to step in and rectify this absurd ruling, and they should. Knowing how the legislative branch operates I cringe at the thought of Congress coming to the rescue. The only thing that gives me solace is that the industries summarily executed this morning have an A+ lobbying game, which in Washington, DC means everything.

(http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/03/20/supreme-court-mayo-v-pr...)

The worst of it is: Quinn is exactly right (about the Federal Circuit, in every way an organ of the patent lobby). The Supreme Court is simply not in control of our foul, meretricious patent bar. (Of course, if they wanted to start getting in control of it, they're doing it right.)
Not quite. Check this out

http://ark.intel.com/compare/47920,37147

The Softlayer server is a Xeon, the Hetzner is a desktop grade processor.

Key differences for me

* Cache

* QPI (especially in a 2P config that makes a difference)

* Max TDP ... that's a HUGE one.

* ECC memory. See http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnEr... for why this is important

So, you're not comparing apples to apples
Assuming these suggestions would be possible, who will condone wasting a lot of military resources on this?

I think though the big picture is that if these are so ubiquitous and easily deployable, then using one of these tactics to take one down is a waste of time and resources. Imagine detonating an EMP bomb 5 miles into the air to kill the surrounding drones (ignoring the possible backlash if an airplane or something else gets caught in the blast and causes an accident), only to have 10 more drones pop back up.

This is all assuming of course that this idea can work.
Hang on, wasn't this mythed Google Cloud supposed to be Dropbox competition? This looks like a clone of Amazon S3.
Big iron? That server couldn't cost more than $5,000.
Have you voiced your concerns at work, would they be perceptive to increasing your tasks that you enjoy or not? if not, then I agree with the other commenter in that you should line up another opportunity first, unless you have enough resources to float around for a bit.
Incredible! They should try another flight to address people's doubts.
With four or five ideas, Madhouse said hmm.

Come on Wired, you can't use "hmm" as a noun - it at least needs quotes!!

Twenty-five were immediate noes.

I think that's also highly questionable. But I'm not certain.

Of course, like any site that thrives on pseudonymity, Reddit attracts its share of the sick and the deluded. There’s a subreddit, MensRights, “for people who believe that men are currently being disadvantaged by society,” and for years the site admins tolerated subreddits devoted to pictures of underage girls.

What? How is MensRights "sick and deluded"? There really are laws (e.g. child custody law in certain US states) that are highly skewed against men.
Unfortunately they crash land in the uncanny valley at 1:56
Not really the first. Shipping might improve a whole lot if the Northwest Passage opens up more. First commercial ship went through in '08: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2008/11/28/nwest-v...
This reminds me of the Michael Criton book "Timeline" which was also made into a movie in 2003.
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OK but where are the batteries that Jamie mentions? I didn't see any in the video or the videos that came before it in the series about how they made it.
This may sound a bit too obvious but I'll say it anyway.

Don't quit your job without finding another one. Finding another job is tough as it is - and your bargaining position, perceived 'employability' etc are greatly diminished when you're applying without a current job.

This is what everyone keeps telling me :)

You have an idea of what makes a great job. Go look for it. Believe that it exists - and when you really believe it exists, you will feel energized about the prospect of landing the job.

So the sad thing is that every day I spend at this job, I get the overwhelming feeling that this is essentially how stuff works everywhere.

A lot of job seekers don't ask enough questions before taking up the job. The interviewee asking many questions is always a good sign for any sane interviewer. Make sure you know and like what you get into next.

Hah. I wish I had done more of this. Interviews especially at startups take an approach of dazzling young sheep with pretty bells (beer, $$$ etc) and I fell for it.

After you've put your resume out there, sent emails to companies and are waiting to hear back, do two other things to make the immediate future better.

1 - Do what you can to make life at your job more interesting. Seek out changes and improvements to your job and for your company even if it takes convincing someone else to 'allow' you to do it.

Yeah. This is the part that worries me. When I interned at my previous company, I used to be so engrossed with my work that I used to spend weekends hacking away at stuff. Now, I can't wait to get to my hobby projects (sadly frozen right now so that I can brush up on graphs, trees and other fun stuff)
Don't forget, there's an element of focus in meditation, though. Just doing a hobby, while beneficial and relaxing, isn't really meditation... unless your focused on what's happening in the moment while you're doing it.

The everyday experience closest to meditation is probably when you're in the zone while doing something athletic.
What a joke. These drones would still have to connect to the internet somehow...you would need radio transmitters on the ground, which would totally defeat the purpose of the drones.
Why was the federal government/Holder even involved in this in the first place? Is it his job to promote patent and copyright policies?
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I bought this book and will happily buy the next one if you'll cover the process of slicing that PSD and converting it to HTML. I'm capable, but I always feeling like I'm working too hard when I do it. I'd just like to see how a professional does it, I guess.

Or if you know of a resource that details this process, I'd read that, too.
Let us just say that the turn over rate is high enough that I am perfectly clear I would be taken outside the barn and be shot the moment there is a perception that I am not the perfect little employee.
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Why don't you read his dev blog?

http://www.humanbirdwings.net/project-timeline/

It would seem that arguments about the system instead of the filming might, you know, be more productive.
Where does it "insinuate this is human powered flight"? The article is quite up-front about the fact that human power would fall 95% short and that in reality the arms were only being used as controls, not for power.
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Strictly speaking I believe these prices are state-subsidized just like other ways of moving humans around.
You are missing a Linux version. Yes, Linux has small market share yada yada yada, but you will find that a much larger percentage of new adapters and tech influencers are Linux users.
It's fairly difficult to produce significant quantities of methanol from the likely mixtures most people would be fermenting to make their own vodka/whisky/etc. Typically it's found (at all) if you're fermenting fruit juices, not grains or sucrose.

I can't find any good references right now, but it seems that a lot of the widespread idea that it's easy to screw up amateur alcohol fermentation is probably a lie that was spread in support of strict regulation on such activities.
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This is absolutely true in America and in almost no way is it necessarily tied to being a Christian, even those who are non-religious will often espouse the fact that alcohol "isn't like other drugs". Obviously this is just anecdotal evidence but a number of people I know will insist, for example, that alcohol is far less harmful and "not a drug" when compared to marijuana. They usually use an example of someone they know who they know uses / has used marijuana, who clearly has issues / problems in their life and say, "see what it can do to you", while completely ignoring X number of alcoholics all around them that have completely fucked up lives and the fact that the person they are talking about often also abuses alcohol so there is really no way to separate his / her alcohol use from their marijuana use to pinpoint which has a more negative affect.

The scary thing here is that basically no one in the U.S., who isn't a teenager / in college, will openly come out and say to most people, "I smoke marijuana", so anyone who is remotely normal / has a job, etc will only tell other people whom they know also smoke marijuana (even if just occasionally), because otherwise they are ostracized. Therefore, we have this skewed perception where only people who are either too close to someone to hide it (such as a son / daughter) or there life is messed up in such a way that its obvious / they don't care about hiding it are the ones that these people can point to and say "they use marijuana" as any "normal" person who uses it will never admit to it around someone who they know is against it or even neutral / not in favor and may actually go to great lengths to hide it as the repercussions can be extremely severe. If you live in the wrong state, you can quickly lose your job, etc very fast if word gets out.
It's an entirely different mechanism, hence the difference in movement. Note also that the wings are powered by peddling, whereas the birdman has accelerometer-controlled wings (individually controlled, rather).
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I read that in the article as well, but it didn't make a lot of sense. High Frequency Trading (HFT) typically works in the sub 5 millisecond latency space - and it's not unusual to hear about network engineers who work for financial organizations doing HFT trying to shave off 100 microseconds here or there.
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I hope this is legit!
Such things exist and are horrible to work in.

I worked in a very large dev office that was essentially a gigantic low-height cube farm and sound carried for-frigging-EVER - conversations 20m away may as well have been in your lap. Plus, if you happen to be taller sitting down than the wall height (as I was), then you also get the nice distraction of seeing developers and other worker bees shuffling around the place.

If you are in such a space, then yes, snagging a desk that does not expose your back to the entrance is key to maintaining some level of sanity. A better solution long-term is to find a less brain-damaged environment to work in.