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How did you arrive at 0.4 kWh of energy per 95 grams of CO2?

Back of the envelope calculations.
95 grams of CO2 is equal to 2 moles of CO2. Assuming complete combustion of Propane that is two moles of propane as well. Calorific value of propane is 2,200 kJ per mol. That turns out to be total energy output of 4,400 kJ per kilometer or 1.2 kWh.
Which continuing with your line of thinking is 144 kW of power at 120km/h. This places an upper theoretical limit exceeding 110kW. Not saying this says anything about the actual burning characteristics of gasoline, just that the theoretical limit is higher.
"With Javascript you can declare functions as variables, pass functions as arguments to other functions, return functions as the result of other functions, and use them as part of a data structure. "

Yup, in Perl as well..
and on linux:

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grave bugs of chromium (20.0.1132.41~r143299-1 ->
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#679827 - chromium always hangs on https://github.com

#679848 - chromium: everything related to chrome:// is broken

Summary:
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I've had Diablo 3 running with File Vault, until a couple of patches later when it just refused to install the newest patch. Now, I can't even install it anymore. I'm unsure if it is a connection problem or related to File Vault. (Trying to install it on an external unencrypted Firewire drive failed too.)
Would applying such a 'rollback' involve replacing facebook.com email addresses with the original external domain addresses in the contacts list on the devices affected by the write-over issue?

If so: Facebook have taken private data and placed it in a central location

If not: it isn't a rollback that I understand

Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer
Is it just me, or is this title missing a 'to'?

How to pitch a journalist - surely I can't be the only one thinking that this contains instructions on how best to throw a journalist 10 meters in any direction...

I've noticed this quite a bit in American posts - words clearly missing, but no one cares
Please refrain yourself from making comments that can be read as plain trolling. Feel free to ask questions or comment with arguments instead of these oneliners.
It is FIXED now. :)
Why do you guys insist on "trying bing"... I "try bing" for about 2 searches a month and consistently get worse results. This is a bug, big deal, get canary. You can also just go to google.com and search there.
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The English language is a flexible thing. Some think that "y'all" is not 'proper', but name another single word second person collective pronoun in English. Some English in America also has "write me" instead of "write to me".
Author forgets Skype, which in my circles is used as much as FB and more than GChat for private chats. Anectodally, Skype is also the most popular of three in professional use. Microsoft's Messenger is still very popular in certain demographics, so I wouldn't count out MS from this war.
this is why i have never sync'ed to fb or hotmail.
There's a video of a guy being permabanned for doing this within a few minutes of starting, but damned if I can find it right now (it featured a teleport/underground mining hack).
Not sure I buy this argument. "Clients have to be analyzed for modification" - why? PB works mainly on FPS-style games where you don't want people to run around with auto-aim bots. Does it still matter in Diablo?... maybe to a small extent, but I wouldn't care that much.

"Diablo games are notorious for being hacked" - do you mean server security? This has nothing to do with the client.

"I assure you that if you happen to lose valuable items or characters due to a hack, you will not be happy." - yes, I would not be happy, I would be furious if they allowed it, since it's the server that should control and verify those kinds of issues, not my client. If I don't explicitly allow a transfer, server should deny it. If someone tries to kill me in a way that game-physics disallow, server should deny it.

It's not like you need the official client anyway - the way to interface with the server is already known. There's an unofficial game server available and being developed since late 2011 (http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?813096-SPO...).

In short - I don't believe disabling the client on one specific platform will help anyone in any way. People can and will write bots that work around such protection. This is more like DRM.
The lines will blur anyway. A Microsoft Surface combined with a TypeCover (assuming it works well), could be used as both a tablet and a laptop at different times. Does it then contribute to PC sales or tablet sales?
No trial, even though the constitution says must have a trial within 60 days. He has been held for four months. There is no announcements or lawyers allowed access to him, so there is no information about why he is there whatsoever, and no journalists allowed in the country so there is very very little information about his state.
> Are these permanent bans and if so how do these affect other blizzard games that people might be using with the same account etc?

They only affect the Diablo 3 license on your battle.net account, and from what I have read the mail you get when you get banned states that you can buy another license to play again, though you will lose all your ingame progress.
I agree. I normally prefer long blog entries to generic press releases, but I work in a very technical environment and have the time to work on articles. That's why it is so important to know your journalists.
If they ask you: "Have you read some of my articles?" you better have an answer.
Impressive that the failure of grid power (frequent) and a SINGLE GENERATOR BANK causes this much chaos on the Internet.
There are many small and big projects providing approximations of a class system in JS. All of them use prototypal inheritance under the hood.

They work well because, for most of us, both systems are designed and used for the same thing: creating base objects, instanciating objects based on those base objects and creating other base objects based on previous base objects.

All of the pseudo-classical systems devised by library authors are used exactly the same way as we have used prototypal inheritance for years before JavaScript became fashionable again. Both systems do exactly the same thing and using one over the other is just a matter of taste or habit.

I see a lot of people claiming that the classical system is superior to the prototypal system and that JavaScript sucks because it is designed around the wrong system. AFAIK, nobody is claiming the opposite. Prototypal inheritance has been there since the beginning, some people learn it without complaining, some others write long rants because they don't want to adapt to another paradigm. Guess which ones are the most reasonable?

Prototypal inheritance doesn't add value over other inheritance systems. It's just the default system at the heart of JavaScript. Whether it's better or worse doesn't matter as there's no alternative. Comparing JavaScript's prototypal inheritance to Java/PHP/Ruby/Python/C++/C#'s own systems makes no sense because we are not in a position to choose. We can't use any of these languages to dynamize your HTML in a browser, do we?

The day a vendor decides to expose the DOM to Python || Ruby will be an interesting day, for sure. But for now…

… if you don't like prototypal inheritance use one of those classical libs if it makes you feel better because, in reality, it makes no difference: you'll still use prototypal inheritance anyway.

But, to answer your question, I like the fact that I can add Car.prototype.honk on the fly, anywhere in my script, and be certain that all of the objects inheriting from Car (SportsCar, DeliveryCar, CheapCar…) will be able to honk(). I know this is available in Ruby, I don't think it's doable in PHP and I don't know for the other languages.
if they stated as offical policy, you cannot use wine, or you will be banned, that would be fine. However, they are banning people for using wine with absolutely zero warning, and zero recourse, refund, or appeal. That's absolutely terrible customer service.
Mooege is out already. Not sure how good it is, but it seems to be out for over 6 months now (started before open beta).
It is. Everything else seemed to me to be whining about how someone who saw you on Facebook will maybe not be able to contact you because your default mail is a Facebook one (but why would anyone contact you by mail if Facebook messages are better? They both a) show notifications on FB and b) send notification e-mails to your real address).

But this, this is real, and worrisome, and it has done real damage, and it will be damn hard if not impossible to reverse.
How to pitch an idea
How to pitch a journalist

How to pitch to an idea
How to pitch to a journalist

... Flexible or not, that word fundamentally changes the meaning of the sentence
Wow, interesting, thanks for the research. I'm in Sydney too and I was surprised at how fast it was, but didn't think to look into it. Cool.
> The bigger news here for me is that Diablo 3 runs on WINE at all

Things changed a lot a few years ago and there have been massive improvements. I'm a CrossOver (Mac) customer (which is Wine packaged and with a front-end) and I'm impressed by the rate at which they announce support for new games.
This is how..

>>detained for nearly four months without trial or any legal charges being brought against him.

How can you hold somebody under detention without charges on him? This is like saying, he is innocent so far but yet needs to remain in Jail.

Picking up some one throwing them in Jail, without saying for what mistake of theirs. And hoping them to stay like that indefinitely is just pure oppression.
Very naive, but he is our best friend, so what would you do for your best friend?
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When you are sued and do not even bother to respond, generally you can expect to lose.
Apparently they have a note regarding Linux/AmigaDOS as not being supported in their legal section in their website. They warn that such usages are prohibited. This could have been updated recently, however.

It was rather surprising to see AmigaDOS even mentioned.
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Energy in gasoline: 36.6 kWh/US gallon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_content_.28high...

CO2 in gasoline: 19 lb, per gallon. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/co2.shtml

(36.6kWh/19 lb) * 95 grams = 0.4 kilowatt hours
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2836.6kWh%2F19+lb%29+*...

Your error is: "Assuming complete combustion of Propane that is two moles of propane as well"

Which is not correct. Propane has 3 carbon atoms, so it's actually 2/3 of a mole of propane. 1.2 kWh * 2/3 = .8 kWh. The difference is probably that gasoline has more carbon atoms, and fewer hydrogen ones. (C3H8 vs C8H18) Hydrogen is more energetic than carbon (about 4.3 times more according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_combustion ).

A back of the envelope comparison of propane and gasoline: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=h+%3D+c+*+4.3%2C+x%3D++... got a result of .70 (vs .8). Probably because gasoline is not all C8H18 (octane). C6H14 is .9, so if gasoline is a 50/50 mixture of those two then you get .8 which is exactly what your back of the envelope shows.
I agree with this.

The way we chose to do things in LedgerSMB (starting with the new code in 1.3) is to adopt a sort of untraditional MVC. The view has to represent the model and vice versa (information present in the model thats not in the view is never used, information present in the view but not in the model is always discarded).

However, the controller scripts are agnostic of this structure. They just glue these together and process operations. Therefore depending on the changes to the view, you may or may not have to change the model, but you should not have to change the controller unless you want to change what a button does. Similarly for reports, you can change these to your heart's content and no underlying changes are needed at all.

We've run into a lot of resistance from folks more used to traditional MVC stuff because the controller only needs to know what it minimally needs to know (and usually this is virtually nothing). Since everything is hash refs passed around....

But in the end the approach works, and specifically because we try hard to keep things fairly abstracted and loosely coupled within the application.
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If you use the FB app, it will associate your mobile phone number with your account (and make it publicly visible unless you change this default). Remove it, and then a few weeks/months later it'll magically appear.

Basically, just don't use the app.
Regular keyboards and mice are really bad ergonomically, but laptops are even worse in my mind. Just awful to work on.

At work I have a MacBook Pro, but I'm using it with an external keyboard (a Goldtouch split keyboard) and an external pen-like mouse called Ullman Penclic mouse. The keyboard is not a Mac keyboard, so I've remapped a lot of keys using Keymando (works great).

I had really bad RSI problems several years ago, but managed to get it under control, and now I can work without problems. The biggest reason I got better was that I started to use a break program (the keyboard and mouse also helped). On my MacBook I use RSI Guard.

I've written about how I beat RSI: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/ and about Mac OS X break programs: http://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/26/mac-os-x-break-programs-re...
"ps: Help get this on the frontpage of HackerNews"

Actually, I think you bear the burden of proof here by asking to get this to the front page. Asking for evidence and reasoning is hardly trolling.
This makes a great case for an anonymous, P2P-based clone of twitter.

Plus, having the intelligence in the client would allow a nice variety of client tailored to different people's needs.
> I don't think you're pumping 46.8KW continuously when driving at 120KM/h

Certainly. But then you are not really developing "110kW while emitting just 90-95 grams of CO2 per km" are you?

Unless that's some sort of PR speak for an engine with a maximum power of 110kW that emits 90-95 grams of CO2 per km during a normal drive (but that's not a function of the engine). But if so, that's a rather misleading way to say it, since that's the car not the engine.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimyst...

Interesting Story with weird personalities, but Google has nothing to do with it. They didn't even remotely work on something interesting for Google.

He Probably watched Antitrust too many times.
If blizzards confirmation isnt enough then who are you even going to believe? I can't think of anyone whos actually more reliable blizzard in this case. You prefer to believe random angry people on the internet who got banned for cheating?
There are a several videos on interwebs of police arresting people who were not blocking streets (other than the Brooklyn Bridge incident). Moreover, the court has ruled that the Brooklyn Bridge incident was police's fault and arrests were unreasonable.

As for the Wall Street bankers, who do you want to prosecute for what?

Executives of banks and mortgage companies engaged in fraudulent practices that led to the financial crisis. Instead of pressing criminal charges, they were rewarded by the Government.
As the stakes increase, a smart opponent should start mapping his tweets to how he subsequently played the hand. Maybe apply some Sentiment Analysis (or something) to figure out if there is a statistically significant "TELL" :-)

Then figure a out a passive way (three consecutive texts - Good; two texts - bad, etc) to get this info to one of the players at his table.
If judge says Twitter owns Tweets, is it liable for them too?
The basic problem is autopilot bots. If you don't have rigorous protection all the way down to the operating system, it's not particularly difficult to make a bot that will run Diablo 3 bosses for you. If Diablo 3 were merely a single-player game this wouldn't matter, but they have made the auction house and the game economy an integral part of progression in the later stages of the game.

Bots may not be as directly harmful to other players' experiences as instagibbing anyone that pops up on the hacker's screen, but anyone who can successfully run an autopilot bot is devaluing the game for everyone. There's a real and measurable difference in the accomplishments of farming and selling a rare item for $50 on the auction house and selling the same item with the same time investment for $5. Because Blizzard wants the time people spend playing Diablo 3 to have more worth, they must aggressively police any automated bot activity, which might mean hitting some false positives here and there.
Isn't a FRAND agreement legally binding? Surely it's more than just a "gentleman's agreement"?
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Gawd, you were thinking a a higher level than me. I was remembering gluing a CPU fan to a 2 stroke scooter and being impressed how much better it made it (it went from extremely underpowered to very underpowered). I probably ruined the motor, but it sure was fun.
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One thing I have started to note is that MVC is a fractal pattern. For a non-trivial app, you can define almost every component as an MVC framework.

Not only is there an MVC on the web server and a MVC in the web browser, but there is an MVC in the db as well, if it is well designed and well encapsulated. For example a well normalized db may have a model (physical table structure), a view (logical table structure) and controller logic (which essentially maps these two together and may enforce other things like audit trails and app-level replication).
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"He was anticipating the argument that succinctness leads to unreadable code"

And it's a valid argument. There's sometimes a tradeoff between terseness and readability. Of course, readability suffers if the code gets too verbose as well.. go figure.

"Perl is a language where you can choose to be so terse as to be nearly unreadable"

You can actually choose a "level" of succinctness that fits the task at hand and your personal style. This is a very cool feature of Perl that it should be praised for. I agree with GP that the OP intentionally misrepresents it.
It's your constitutional right to assemble. If you get a million people, for example, assembling, you cannot keep the same rules of traffic as usual. (It would be impossible (and the attempt dangerous) to try to keep a million people on the sidewalk.) [Edit: In other words, your constitutional right to turn out and assemble is independent of whether there will be enough space for you on the sidewalk.]

As for the Wall Street bankers, who do you want to prosecute for what?

Those that committed it, for fraud. It's an open-and-shut case if the power existed to prosecute it.
Urgh. People like jumping to conclusions way too much. This is like the 3rd time for Diablo 3 there has been internet outrage for reasons that turned out to be completely wrong.

"We’ve extensively tested for false positive situations, including replicating system setups for those who have posted claiming they were banned unfairly. We’ve not found any situations that could produce a false positive, have found that the circumstances for which they were banned were clear and accurate, and we are extremely confident in our findings.

Playing the game on Linux, although not officially supported, will not get you banned – cheating will."

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022?page=21#40...
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ummm... one nitpick.....

Everyone repeats history. Some repeat the good parts. Others repeat the bad parts. Learning from history allows us to try to stop repeating the bad parts and do better with the good parts.
I have to admit I am honestly surprised that Microsoft actually listened to it's customers on this issue. However, the wording in the post makes it a bit vague on whether the compiler itself will simply also target XP, or if there will be some project flag to make it compatible with XP.
That's... absolutely not true. The bug tracker (not the ML) has a star that is meant specifically for that and is a publicly viewable counter.
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I was referring to yhud previous comment on being naive. Asking questions such as yours is indeed not trolling and apologize for the confusion.

As for your question there is as far as we know little news coming from Syria and rejon who is commenting here as well is on the case to get more info.
I agree. Facebook seems to have little concern about customer satisfaction. That is why I use Facebook minimally.
I would prefer not to be "protected by a GPL licensed bootloader" from having a machine actually boot successfully under default conditions.

But Fedora's solution achieves both, so there's no need to leave GRUB2 for UEFI.
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Weird, haven't had an issue on any of my three computers, all of which have been running Chrome all day and are up to date.

Of course, they're all on the dev channel. Ironic, this seems to indicate the dev channel is more stable than the stable channel as I've never had any problems like this before.
That is true indeed. But I think the article makes some points that give us a different picture on the profitability of the movie industry. I always thought why not many good movies are shot per year if they are so profitable, I think it's because the returns on a movie are not that great after all.