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No, as it still doesn't solve the issue of the lack of any API for signalling over already obtained network information (such as IP), when you could use direct communications immediately after NAT has been traversed.

Still, props to the guy for creating the article. I didn't know that you could serialise/manipulate the SDP session descriptions before I read it.
Exactly, there is a tendency among dynamic language proponents to think that programming in a statically type checking language is masochistic.
It might be even easier to understand without mentioning parallelepipeds. If you apply the matrix to each point of an arbitrarily shaped object, the resulting object's volume will be multiplied by the determinant of the matrix, possibly with a minus sign if orientation is reversed.
commafeed.com. Seamless import from Google reader, and the interface works about the same, no surprises.

I just wish they'd charge $19/year or something so I can be sure they'll stick around.
That clock means a lot to those of us in the UK of a certain age - it does create an emotional link to the website by being there.
You are 100% correct. My comment did focus on the financial cost, but your "cost" implying a change in the generation mix towards CO2 emitting technologies is probably a far bigger one. Thanks for bringing this up.
Ignoring the issue whether a clock on a website is even remotely useful, this:

> The corporation also added that it would take around '100 staffing days to make the changes involved in switching to an independent clock'.

strikes me as at least slightly odd. Shouldn’t such a change be implementable by sending a ‘starting time’ with the initial request and then count using JS?

I’m one of these why-does-your-field-even-have-its-own-journal-guys, but this doesn’t look particularly difficult to me.
Wait... 100 staffing days? How is that even remotely possible?
Yes there are no common factors between mining a product and an industrial accident occurring when using a product.

Agreed, they are all part of the mix when comparing the overall life-cycle dangers of different fuels, but the Author of the article is not comparing like-with-like. If you're comparing Coal vs Nuclear, you can only compare the death toll of mining coal with the death toll of mining uranium. Or the health effects from coal burning vs uranium fission.

An article claiming BMW's are safer than Volvos because nobody ever dies during their manufacture whereas Volvo's are dangerous because 1000 people crash and die in them per year would hold no wieght.
100 days to display a server generated clock rather than a client side one.
'100 staffing days' to make the change? That erodes more trust than the 'factual accuracy' of a decorative clock.
It's already been done:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133936-using-wifi-to-see-...
at least after a few hundred comments and stars someone closed it with WrongForum: "We are not able to provide support for Google products in this issue tracker. Please report this issue in the appropriate Google Product Forum at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/en/

I experienced the same bug, but I will be surprised if that ever gets fixed. This is Google we're talking about here ;)
I like the old Reader - http://theoldreader.com. It's just like Google reader.

I compiled a list of other alternatives, a lot of which are even open source. Check it out - http://getgini.com/google-reader-alternatives
This is an interesting notion. Does this mean that wealthy people are allowed to put everyone including themselves and their families in danger because they can afford to laugh about the fines? I know from personal experience that while I'm shrugging off speeding tickets when I get them, they really cut deep into the budget of some people I know. Do you think that's right?
They can prove it sufficiently to force you to hand over your password. File systems have a particular behaviour, they allocate blocks in certain ways. Most notably, they use all of the space available to them equally (or, pseudorandomly anyway). If a file system never allocates any data in the last N bytes, where N is a very large number, that is indication that the file system is treating the volume as Size-N. Since this behaviour is the signature of a hidden volume in a TrueCrypt container, that is "proof". It will be sufficient proof for a court of law.

Essentially you are arguing that the file system implementation exhibited implausible behavior (it allocated only from the first N% of bytes), and that TrueCrypt exhibited implausible behavior ("ok, normally that would mean a hidden volume, but not in this case!").

All of which is to say, that TrueCrypt's implementation of Hidden volumes (as typically used by end users) is not actually plausibly deniable.
Actually all they need do is add a disclaimer...
Is this perhaps a suggestion that something you don't want to personally contribute to shouldn't be criticised?
"The corporation also added that it would take around '100 staffing days to make the changes involved in switching to an independent clock'."

I'd like to see how they're going to implement that without relying on the user's time settings in some way.

Sure, they could get the system timezone offset, but that's not really any more safe than using the system clock.

GeoIP lookup? Surely location services won't fly because of the scary browser message.

Any other ideas?
commafeed is open source. so if it does disappear, you could run it on your own server - https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
That is not what we were talking about. We talked about the CO2-output of nuclear energy, and I added small remarks to costs. Power capacity wasn't mentioned at all. I don't see your point?

edit: The parent edited his comment
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This is very similar to the way the old JCPenney catalog worked in the U.S..

I would go for it.
It's making us less smart.

I have a theory that intelligence is not so much about the knowledge of facts but about the relations between those facts (more about the edges than the nodes). Making distinctions and the opposite, creating abstractions, are where intelligence arises, and that happens when you're unplugged. It's an unconscious process, so it happens when you sleep, when you shower, when you stare out into space.

Where are the great novelists and great artists of today? I think we're not smart enough, not insightful enough, to write like that anymore. Tolstoy died a hundred years ago. Where is his replacement, when we have so many more people and the percentage with access to writing tools and publishing means is unprecedented in history?

I think they're out there; I think they're watching TV.
Hm, down voted? For having a strong opinion about people who think they are above other people?
A very detailed summary of the radiation effects also states that there is no direct proof of people being sick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_Fukushim...
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I read things beginning with gl are correlated with light effects e.g. glisten, glimmer, glitter, gloss, glow.

So I suppose that's why a "glorious day" evokes beaming sun.
I agree with you on that. The primary usage mode for these buttons are probably AJAX forms, and those can be very frustrating for lots of reasons. I think it's great to have some kind of visual feedback that you're action is being performed, but at the same time transmissions errors should not result in a stuck app. That's why I think the UI practice suggested by these buttons is likely to result in user frustration, but still there is no additional usability loss when removing the focus from an already disabled button.
The article explicitly states that people expect this clock to show the correct time in the UK, which I find a somewhat reasonable assumption for the BBC.
Just set it up to the on-load time in UTC. It's the BBC after all, put it in London time and say so somewhere in the footer.
I would think one would be better off learning how to use one of the Spaced Repetition applications like Anki, Supermemo, etc. Then you could learn editor shortcuts, programming language syntax and semantics, tool and application commands, and anything else you want to that fits into the flashcard model of instruction.
> they use all of the space available to them equally (or, pseudorandomly anyway)

This is simply false for many (if not most) filesystems, which preferentially write to blocks near the beginning of the disk. For spinning disks, random distribution of blocks would kill performance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/3509191.stm
It is now on Techmeme, too: http://www.techmeme.com/130605/p19#a130605p19
It still wouldn't work if the users clock, say, ticked at double speed or not at all.
Is there a requirement to use time in the user's location? I assumed they just have to show UK time.
But London time isn't UTC! We're BST at the moment, and GMT in the Winter.
If you put 100 people into a small room, it will take them 24 hours to solve this problem. With less people, or a bigger room, it can be done faster, simply because having more than enough oxygen and space for your limbs helps a great deal with the process.

At least I think that's what it means...
It doesn't strike me as a good road to go down to require judges to guess as to whether or not a defendant is being honest about whether or not he or she can remember a password on an encrypted volume.

Especially considering that it's possible to be wrong about a volume being encrypted.
Firstly, quantifying actual damage to the environment is actually really hard. All the money in the world can't revive an extinct specie for instance.

Secondly, I don't like the stance you defend : fines aren't a price to pay to do whatever we want, there are to dissuade people to act in a way society don't want you to act. People are fined when they violently rob or physically attack others, this doesn't mean money buys you the right to randomly punch people in the teeth.

(and to follow through: that's why I believe fines should be proportional, which could be the case here)

edit: I just looked at your profile and saw you certainly must know a thing or two about laws and justice so I am pretty sure you have a more subtle point of view than what is reflected in your post and my counter-argument in my second point. Looking forward to it.
So it does.

Well, in that case it's a piece of piss to implement as claudius says below.
> That's not how the books say to do it, and you're right, given who created Go you'd think they'd know this stuff. :-)

Given that compiler design was one of my three main focus on my CS degree, I read a few books along the way. :)

> Many generations of the compiler are created. Let's say the compiler-in-C is worked on until it compiles subset Gosub1 which is just enough to write compiler-in-Gosub1 that duplicates compiler-in-C's behaviour. From now, compiler-in-C atrophies. G-2 features are implemented in G-1's compiler, though nothing uses them yet. The compiler's source then uses these, making it G-2 source, only compilable by a G-2-grokking compiler.

It is not required to do this so fine grained.

The first version of the primitive language can already be good enough to offer the minimal set of features to compile itself.

Afterwards the full language compiler gets implemented in this minimal version and used for everything else.

There aren't thousand versions of the compiler, you just need to be restrictive of what is used in the base compiler.

> Weeks later we have a G-40 where a bug is discovered, introduced in G-20. It wasn't in the compiler-in-C so that's not useful. Choices include fixing it at `head', which can sometimes be awkward as described earlier, or fixing the initial G-20 implementation and then rolling forward all changes from there assuming the fix doesn't break code that was depending on the errant behaviour.

As I explained this is not required because you only have G-2 as starting point, which is able to compile whatever is the current version of the language.

Additionally you get the benefit to eat your own dog food and as compiler designer check if you are doing the right design decisions on how the language works.
Interesting read, I wonder why Marianne Schweitzer extracted what interested her in Melita Maschmann's letters then destroyed them.
Can you, or anyone else for that matter, prove that installing a few temporary platforms and fake ruins WILL NOT cause actual damage to a waterway?

Someone qualified to do so probably could, yes. Asking preposterous questions like this isn't lending your side of the argument any credibility.
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feedly - the best one :-)
Isn't it interesting that you are commenting on a comment __with__ sources, while providing none yourself.

After I make a tongue in cheek comment to your comment. You flail more rethoric at me, demanding sources from me (?).

You also accuse me of trying to invert the burden of proof, while like I said you haven't really offered a source.

Here is a source for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
People surprised by the 100 days requirement have presumably never seen the type of infrastructure required by a top-100 website or had to deal with user-time issues.

Having an independent clock means turning off caching, which is a big deal when you're serving millions of page requests.

Not to mention having to deal with timezone issues, daylight saving, latency, etc. This stuff is hard.
Did this years ago by grabbing the local time on the user's system clock (as many don't set their TZ correctly), rounding to the nearest 15 mins, and then guessing their TZ from this. 15 mins because Nepal and a few others of that ilk.
That depends on the accuracy required.

1) How much drift is ok? Do you need to keep sending updates?

2) These pages should be heavily cached, which means the time you get will be out by potentially several minutes (or you've got to have a very short term cache for just the clock).

3) Load time. If the request takes 1s but you need to be accurate to the second then do you need to try and measure the initial request time and determine the likely delays?

4) Managing all the timezones. If the clock must show the local time then you can't just send server time back, we've got to send different things for different regions. How accurate does that have to be? Will Geo-IP be enough?

Changes of the size 2-4 will require new code, load testing, QA, code reviews. Plus you've got to take people from projects / push back timescales, which need to be weighed and approved (what deadlines are coming up? What change freezes?).
But we could stay on UTC all year. Why force everyone to get up one hour earlier in summer? If people want to get up, they can do it themselves. Leave the rest of us in peace.
Still wouldn't work if their monitor was off. Is such a thing a real concern?
Well, if "authoritative reports" say so, it must be true !

Wait, "if author says so", since he doesn't provide any source other than "aristoteles dixit".

It reminds me tchernobyl fallout, here in France, when government said there were no impact on our territory, before being proven wrong (and lying) almost 20 years later : http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/local_news/france-hid-info-o...
Sadly, UK time is not UTC because of daylight savings. For example, right now UK time is one our ahead of UTC time.
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But they don't really have to display a server generated clock, just pre-seed the client clock with the current server time in order to account for the offset. If they want to be really sure, they can re-set the offset regularly using AJAX. There's no need to reimplement the whole clock.
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Sure.

99.5 days of management busy-work, and 4 hours coding, testing and deploying.
WAIT

I didn't get a loan to build an electric car, and I might have tried if someone gave me $500 million. HOW IS THAT FAIR?!?!?!?!?
Yeah, that clock is more than just an inaccurate way of telling the time, it's an iconic image from the BBC's history.
That's how it does hidden volumes huh? I always thought it was something sneakier, like flag a handful of files that exist in the regular volume for it to build its hidden volume out of.
Fukushima happened a mere 2 years ago, isn't it a bit soon to draw conclusions when you know that nuclear-induced cancers and illnesses can sometimes be triggered dozens of years later? I am not an expert about that particular subject by any means, but it does seem a bit premature at this point.
Python has Sphinx, used by almost every big package.
Becuase you need to look at the CO2/MW not the CO2/Plant, If a given plant type produces half the CO2 and half the MW of another plant type you will need two of the former to replace one of the latter, therefore the CO2 output remains them same.
Nobody should speed. That's why the fines exist.
No, it is not false. The important thing with a spinning disk is locality of reference. You want the blocks which store the file content to be as close together as possible, to minimize the head seek times. This means you want as long a chain of contiguous blocks as possible. This does not mean that you want all those blocks to be at the beginning of the disk. In fact, the exact opposite. You want to start that chain at a random location so you are more likely to have a large number of contiguous unallocated blocks. See the implementation of HFS+ Extents, or Ext4, or UFS for examples of how this works.
Glum and gloomy rain fell on Gloucester like globs of runny goo in the gloaming. :-)
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feedly is pretty neat
I am using Firebase for RT editing on http://codebunk.com.
How does this 'undermine trust'? If you're basing your scheduling based exactly on that clock expecting the exact time in London, then you are doing something wrong.
The argument that nuclear reactors are safer than coal is correct ... there is a middle ground supported by facts and scientific judgement

There's really no such thing as a 'correct' argument on these issues.

Maybe coal has fewer expected deaths per MW generated on average, but a nuclear plant's worst-case scenario is clearly substantially worse. Facts and scientific judgment can't really tell us in that case which is better: that's really only something that informed democratic deliberation can do (informed by science, economics, ethics, etc.).
The problem with that in this context is that they expect it to work if the user's clock isn't set accurately.
Just because a filesystem isn't using all the space available in a partition does not mean that the rest of the space is being used by something else. Imagine I run `newfs -s 2097152 sd1p` where sd1p is actually 4194304 sectors. Now imagine sd1 is a softraid volume with a CRYPTO discipline. There's no way you can prove that the extra 2097152 sectors aren't being used, but there's also no way you can prove that they are.
I don't think they were trying to hide it.
I disagree with your line of thinking.

If poor people are deterred from speeding because of the cost of the fine, then why are we talking about poor people getting fined at all, after all they wouldn't be speeding.

Just because someone has money it does not mean they will flaunt the law because they can afford the fine.

In both cases correlation does not imply causation.

Where demerit point systems are in place both poor and rich lose their licenses after too many infringements.
This is also a nice solution

http://fgnass.github.io/spin.js/
is it a Governmet loan? I mean like Government taking money from the competent people who know what they are doing, and giving it to ucompetent, hey here you have money so you can compete with competent guys using their money!

I know that's the model in the US banking now. Didn't realize that it works for car manufacturers too.
The argument is wrong because coal is as bad as nuclear power. Both are limited, both are centralized systems and both have huge environmental impacts. Mining, transport, energy production, and also exhaust and waste.

It should also be noted that coal mining is done the worst conditions you can think of. I'm very glad that by 2018, Germany will stop its coal production completely and not only because it is very expensive to get the coal in Germany.

This is btw something you have with all fossil and nuclear sources. With time it will get more expensive to get to the fuel needed. And according to the German government, nuclear fuel comes only partially from mining. So mining is currently not delivering the fuel for all nuclear power plants running. The rest comes from old nuclear weapons and other sources, according to the German government.

Also it should be noted that nuclear power was never really profitable. It might be with old plants now but with newer plants I think it is unlikely to earn a dime with nuclear power unless you get some kind of subsidy. The new EPR currently being build in Finland already costs 100% more than expected. With that money you could have installed enough windmills to cover those 1600 MW the EPR might provide.

Nuclear power was used for about 50 years, it will leave us with waste for the next 100,000 to 1,000,000 years.
I would even say 4 hours is a bit too long.
Genuinely interested: how would it be more usable if the buttons remained clickable after they'd been clicked? If you lost your connection, wouldn't you expect some kind of error? In that case how would it be more usable to be able to click the button again?
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Even then, and with my pedant's hat on, GMT !== UTC - they can vary.
Power capacity matters because it means that the "CO₂ cost" of nuclear power is epsilon and if you are looking for CO₂ reduction your efforts would be better spent elsewhere, like finding ways to run cars on nuclear power (because cars have too small area to power themselves from the Sun).
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I want to add two more here.

1. India != Hindi. It's just that most people speak Hindi not that everybody knows Hindi and it's not a national language, as many people would think. According to Indian constitution there's no national language, but there are 22 scheduled languages including Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi etc.

2. India != Bollywood. There are other film industries in India besides Bollywood. Checkout this wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India
The nice thing about this place is that you don't have to be arguing to reply to a post. We sometimes have discussions where participants agree with one another, or even change their minds about things.

It's a unique feature, so don't feel bad if it takes a while to get used to.
probably not, home automation has been "right around the corner" for 60 years.
How does that work with timezones and summertime? They also then can't use caching - that's going to impact them a bit I think...