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I certainly hope that not many of the major vendors take three months to fix critical, remotely exploitable security issues. If they do, they deserve the same criticism that Oracle got.
re: Jesus and annointing himself with cannabis, I'll stand by the historically great mystics (Jesus,Buddha,...many others,Ramana Maharshi,Krishnamurti,etc.) not _needing_ anything to alter or enhance what is.

re: stages of meditation, sure, energetic experiences will come soon after starting a retreat, but in my experience, while interesting events will happen, there was a certain grind to a 5, 7, or 10 day retreat that left me feeling more bored out/raw than realized.

Don't do retreats anymore, drawn fully back into the world, for better or worse, not sure ;-)
I prefer the term "Freedom Fondle".
I wonder if much of it is not being corrected because it simply isn't important enough? Like the example of "think about a professor before an exam to get higher scores". I suspect that if for example some medication against HIV is found to not work, it will be thrown out again quickly.
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Thanks for your uselessly dramatic comment.
This seems like a perfect example of the intellectual dishonesty k2enemy was talking about. Those two examples are not comparable.

There is no demonstrable, rational connection in your example. It is entirely rational and possible that extra airport security is a deterrent to airbourne terrorism.
Right. Your example sounds ridiculous because there is no logical connection between not stepping on a crack and your mother's life. To most people, there is a connection between airport scanners and airline safety. My point is that we should be stressing the fact that the scanners do not actually increase safety.
If I were trying to champion a legitimate cause, I would steer way clear of acknowledging Infowars by name or calling them "journalists."

You could just say that a third party discovered it or something, but you definitely don't want to imply that they're fighting the good fight alongside you.
Who would want to advertise on TPB, though? I have to wonder how much those ads could possibly go for considering it's a website focused on giving you something for free which you would ordinarily have to pay for. I am aware that there are legitimate files on TPB, but most people visit for pirated content.
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well, whatever moves the science forward i'm all for it.
Does this support touch input well? What would the experience be like if you were to install it on a Windows 8 tablet, like Acer Iconia W3, Surface Pro or others?
I'm less certain than you are about that... The axiom that God doesn't exist is exactly on the same level as the one that he does. Both of them require the same type of assumption. As for being falsifiable, there still isn't any evidence for macro-evolution, so it isn't beyond the state of hypothesis (yet?). Evidence of that kind would certainly falsify the predictions of creationism. However, there is no evidence for the "natural" origin of new species at this point, only for adaptation.
Have you ever been in line in a long TSA queue at a major airport? See anybody get scanned before getting in that line? With a coordinated attack across multiple airports, you could kill far more people just while they're standing in line to get their TSA gaterape procedure performed than you could by attacking while onboard an aircraft.

The aircraft attack vector has already been played out. Lets keep sane regulations in place (metal detectors, armored/locked cockpit doors), and move on to better problems to solve.
I'm not a fan of Kuhn, largely because he can be read as saying that, indeed, scientific models that get "overthrown" in a paradigm shift are therefore "invalid". (In the extreme, this leads to complete relativism, the idea that there is no such thing as a "valid" model at all. Kuhn himself has waffled on this point: sometimes he says he didn't really mean to take that extreme view, but other times he says things that are really hard to make sense of in any other way.) That leads people to believe that, for example, Newtonian physics must be "invalid" because it was "overthrown" by relativity. But it's really hard to square that claim with the fact that Newtonian physics (along with many other supposedly "invalid" models) gets used every day to make accurate predictions.

I think the bad science described in the article is, at least in part, a reflection of our losing sight of that ultimate objective: we build scientific models of the world in order to make accurate predictions. It's not enough to say, well, I used all the right statistical techniques, I used all the right double-blind control procedures, my results have been replicated. Those things are all necessary, but they're not sufficient; they're not the goal, they're only the starting point. The goal is to make accurate predictions. I think we get a lot of bad science because we don't enforce that requirement enough.
std::string with UTF-8 is not a replacement for QString though. std::wstring is actually closer but then you're still going to have to do tons of conversions, and you still don't reach the feature scope of QString.
I don't see how you or the writer of the article can know anyone's intention here.
Mavericks has the same feature, curious they're both shipping at the same time
as plenty of research has shown that the scanners don't increase security

We can infer from this statement of yours that "the scanners" (such as they are) are not a component of security, so the analogy to Fort Knox security is inapt.
Most educated people take the veracity of published science as given

That's the root problem right there.
What is the argument for keeping it all in the same solution?
Yeah, if there is jQuery or some other library available. Otherwise just fetch jQuery from the console and append it to the page, and do so.
I think I have seen the same disclaimer in other games. Assassin's creed possibly?
And, Senator, if you don't support this program and, heaven forbid, another terror attack occurs that could have been prevented by the program, then your career will be over.
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Something can be both XHTML and HTML5. They're compatible. But, yes, all websites written today should be compatible with both. Writing to the quirks in the HTML format just make people look incompetent (particularly as no quotes means certain characters cannot be used in the value, which is a nice bug waiting to happen).

So by all means keep writing your low quality quirky HTML and when it breaks in the future don't come crying to me. I prefer keeping my HTML both well formed and XML valid. The fact that writing strict HTMLs makes it much easier to automatically detect errors and typographic issues is just a huge bonus.
The issue (beyond the fact that the scanners don't work, which you've addressed and I publicly schooled back in March 2012) is that in public (especially on the floor of Congress) the TSA talks up all of these threats against us in order to garner support. Essentially, we've been lied to, which, at this point, is not a surprise coming from any federal agency.
> By that logic, we should remove security at Fort Knox because it never gets robbed.

Airports should have security. Every country has security in their airports. Where it crosses the line are when you have the security preemptively treat you like a criminal, and violate your personhood without justification other than a blanket statement of "terrorists".

Security ! always have to = Neo-Fascism. But many people feel it does in American airports.
that is very interesting. were the people scanning the luggage and such beforehand just hired by individual airports?

I've no issue with restructuring TSA or whatnot, I just think that if people could get on airplanes the way they do buses, there'd be events. Not so much 9/11 style hijackings, more like the occasional pipe bomb or shooting.
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>There is a libertarian solution to everything

Oh my..

I must have missed the part of your argument where you conclusively prove that the "libertarian solution" is the best option in this instance.
Then again, take a look at the rest of the world: are they using body scanners? We're not the only country where terrorists have attacked.
I didn't get that at all. I think you're bringing some bias to it - I can't wrap my head around how else you would have come away with that sentiment. Either that or you didn't really read it. Let me do the whole paragraph:

In the past, you could sometimes defer some of your healthcare costs by offering only high-deductible plans. You could offer policy choices with higher copays. You could even incentivize employees to drop coverage altogether.

Is any of that untrue, or bad for a company to do? Absolutely not. If I say to an employee, "Which would you rather have - a $70,000 salary with a $5,000 deductible health plan, or a $60,000 salary with a no deductible plan?", which one will they choose? Hell if I know in advance - that's up to each employee. I've offered them the same basic thing and let them choose what fits them the best. I fail to see how that's "bad".

Get off your high horse.
That seems more like luck of the draw than an adaptation. They're not domesticated (like livestock or cats/dogs) and probably have not been relying on humans for very long.

Furthermore, IIRC they are more reluctant to breed in captivity than in the wild, so being cute isn't exactly helping their population numbers like it would other animals.
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True. In the 1970's back when boarding a plane was as casual as boarding a metro bus, commercial flights were routinely hijacked by amateurs so often it became a joke. Passenger screening was started in response to that, and it was real. Whether every screening practice today is effective is debatable but no screening at all would be open mike night for any crank with a grievance.
Sorry if this came out wrong. I never mentioned that Sheryl does not deserve it. Nor did I say that she did not work hard. Folks who discredit Sheryl's success are dumbasses. She worked hard for it and completely deserves her success. I love the fact that women like you are working in the ruthless tech industry.

What I simply implied was that having institutional advantages makes the whole effort much easier, as compared to another woman who did not grow up with such support.

This is not very hard to see. For every woman like Sheryl Sandberg, there are tons of other women who worked as hard as her. There are tons of women who are as smart as her. But they could not make it as big as Sheryl, simply because of institutional disadvantages.

I could give the example of my mom. Her dad was a railway repairman. The family was not well-educated/privileged as a whole. So, she received little/no guidance on her future. But she studied her socks off when she was a kid. As a result, she started her career as a receptionist in a bank. Steadily, she grew on to become a Foreign Exchange manager.

If she would've had some advantage, say ability to afford Harvard instead of no-name-state-school, she could've started at a higher position rather than a receptionist.

In addition, she also took amazing care of my little brother and me. She couldn't afford to hire a personal babysitter, so she sacrificed her career to raise us. I would argue that my birth was the single biggest reason she couldn't achieve more.

Her work ethic was tremendous. Her ability to pick up concepts beyond her expertise was excellent. But institutional disadvantages ensured that she couldn't start well.

I could give my own example. I am now doing stuff of an engineer's dreams. I had the advantage of great parents who gave me things like a computer at a very young age. This single event is the biggest leg up in my career. Now, I am a happy programmer making shit-load of money. But my friend whose parents bought him a computer 7 years after me, languishes behind.

Why should he be languishing behind when we went to the same school with same classes? We did our homework together too. He got the same grades as me in high school. We were equal by all measure.

All he couldn't decide was where to take his career, whereas, my computer advantage made sure I knew what I loved.

Sorry for the long post. All I want to say is that while I do not discredit Sheryl for her success, I have to say that institutional advantages gave her a leg up. And when she wrote this book, she wrote it without having experienced a big disadvantage.

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How's the saying go? Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. Except when it is.
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You're assuming a number of seemingly questionable propositions about "potential terrorists". Do they really care more about personal outcomes than mission outcomes? (I might not mind that I'm caught, if my colleagues succeed before they are caught.) Do they really care so much about "high stakes"? (If I'm comfortable with martyrdom I may be comfortable with a number of other outcomes.) Are they actually so willing to substitute "alternative forms of terrorism" for the sorts of acts that have been successful before? Do they care about returns on "investments"? (Those who fund operations may be civilians in some sense, and not the same people who take decisions regarding the use of those funds or of other resources.)

Besides, the point about alternatives is problematic in other ways. If vast public resources are expended moving problems from one location to another location, were those resources well spent?
I thought this was a great article until I got to the very bottom: CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Very little comes out of the AEI that I have any respect for. I am now paranoid that this article is a stalking horse for conservative "save the nukular family gays are destroying marriage drop bombs on brown people" values.
The comment I replied to wasn't any valid format at all. What makes you think my reply wasn't in jest? Because it obviously was. People just want to nitpick my obviously humorous reply (which is actually fine up to a point as my humour was nitpicking so getting nitpicky about the nitpicking is valid too).

You are taking this far far too seriously.
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I enjoy arts and crafts style furniture, I only consider true breadboard ends if they are mortise and tenon jointed on. When doing this you can design for the movement of the wood.

Also quartersawn white oak is most used, a wood that does not have as much expansion going on.

This is how I did it for my A&C style coffee table: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ejschmitt/9053576208/in/set-721...

Final shot of the coffee table: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ejschmitt/9115541399/in/set-721...
"...though somewhere between 30 and 45% of the contract cost will go to cover the administration and management of this contract, by employees in the greater Washington DC area..."
They have no shortage of scummy advertisements and lucrative affiliate shitware.

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He isn't saying it wasn't profitable.
An example of latency arbitrage is...

Arbitrage requires that you cross the trade. You've merely described a following Algorithm. One that leaves open long positions.
To further this point...we can either continue to incur the cost and overhead of reacting to every terrible event that happens and changing things to prevent that particular edge case, or we can accept that bad things sometimes happen to good people and simply keep calm and carry on.

I think we're ultimately better served by the latter approach.
But couldn't it be argued that the use of body-scanners functions as a form of strong deterrent for potential plots?

No, because there have been attempts that the scanners have not caught, and were thwarted not by the TSA, nor any government agency, but by other passengers. Know thy history, I'm not even accounting for the white-hat tests that the TSA has soundly failed.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/8/tsa-fails-und...

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/12/70-detection-failure-rate-being....

http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-scanners-repeatedly-fail-to-...
Ah you see, no terrorist plots actually means that our tiger^Wterrorist repellent rock is working!
Also there is one actually proven method to deterring terrorist events like 9/11.

Four planes were hi-jacked. Three of those did not know that the outcome was to crash the plane into a building. But one did, and (as far as we know) the people aboard prevented that.

If the American people would simply have been informed that terrorists didn't want to steal planes, but instead fly them into target then 9/11 would have turned out very differently. And we know this because we have proof.
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Exactly. Why can't we just pull their meta-data profiles from online, and just assess potential threat levels and weight it against the national threat level.

Threat level orange? Internet Anarchists and Armchair Libertarians don't fly.

Threat level blue? Just people who look like they have some desert heritage.

Threat level red? "I'm sorry sir. It says here you we're really, really mad at how a cop stopped you last weekend for going through a red light."
Terrorists have indeed already done this at Domodedevo airport in Moscow, Russia. By creating giant lines of people at security checkpoint (along with a scattering of federal employees), the TSA has created the perfect target.
"Unfortunately, even though Macs use a variant of EFI (an earlier version of what's now called UEFI), they apparently can't cope with multi-catalog CDs, and simply refuse to boot them. This left us in rather a quandary: we needed to support UEFI systems, but we didn't want to drop support for Macs either.

I therefore created the amd64+mac CD images, which are exactly the same as the amd64 images except that they only support BIOS booting. Macs are happy to boot these in their BIOS emulation mode." [1]

TL;DR There is no difference... Normal CDs just won't boot on Macs.

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"Pulled it out of my ass"? Harsh words for something that's common knowledge, especially as it's almost constantly mentioned (albeit often ignored) anytime anyone brings up prioritization of debt payments.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shutdown-treasury-debt...

If you're so out of the loop that you haven't already heard about this issue, you get dozens of resources with a simple google.
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We must have read from different sources, I saw both sides refusing to negotiate. I think there were even a few quotes along the lines of "I won't negotiate". It may be just me, but when someone says publicly that they do not wish to negotiate with the other side, I take that to mean they do not wish to negotiate regardless of what the proposals might be.

Funny that you said there were no negotiations or compromises to be had when in the end that what was done to get the thing passed. Everything in politics that requires voting by multiple parties involves negotiations. By your logic there was no reason to vote on the thing at all because there was nothing to discuss.

You don't have to wait until the next election cycle, all this did was kick the can down the road to early next year. We'll soon be back to the children in the playground playing "who blinks first".
I would think the acquisition of the land on which the road is built would be a larger problem for a privatized company than the actual construction and maintenance of the road.
that's right. Tesla is one of the only stocks I see that could break the trillion dollar market cap in real terms from here. They will benefit hugely from the massive economic change that is about to take off over the next 20 years.
Well, look at the ads and you'll know. They're mostly advertising stuff that's not downloadable - memberships to dating sites, for example.
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Why not say "Not a bear in sight. Bears must not exist."?
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Exactly! After "Communists!" went away in the early 90s, the US Government and the associated "defence contractors" found the money a lot tighter. Although I'm pretty sure they didn't create 9/11, or just let it happen, the US Government and the defence contractors have sure jumped on the "Terrorists!" wagon.

The War on Terror is just the boogie man that Containing Communism used to be.
That is an excellent point. You can still vote with your feet on the federal level, but unfortunately that involves leaving the country which in the end solves nothing.
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Yeah, really absence of evidence is evidence (though not proof) of absence, unless the absence of evidence can be explained as "well we haven't bothered trying to find evidence."

(In other words, if I don't look in a box, then I don't have evidence that anything is in the box, but that's not evidence that the box is empty. If however I do look in the box and fail to find evidence of anything in it, that is evidence that the box is in fact empty.)

They have presumably been looking for terrorists rather intensely.
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I don't see how this is "favoring one business rather than another". Isn't this just "A lot of people like and want X, therefore the law should allow X"?

I (as random citizen who neither uses airbnb nor owns a hotel) don't see this at all as favoring a business as you suggest, I see it as giving people the freedom to exchange goods and services as they want.
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This doesn't solve the problem in anyway. The issue is what if you have a different amount of buy to sell qty. Who gets their order filled? This is called matching and each market matches in different ways.

The typical way (and one of the leading drivers of latency races) is first in/first match. If you continue to FIFO match on your intervals there is still a tremendous advantage to being first into the interval.

If you aren't going to FIFO match that is fine, you just need to determine (and publish) your matching routine.
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A friend's children (aged 6 and 8) use my Surface occasionally, mainly for the Fresh Paint drawing application. They love it, and have very few problems using it -- sometimes they misjudge the swipe gestures but they have learned how to recover in most cases. (They also enjoy ArtRage on the iPad, so it's not that Surface is the only thing they know.)
sometimes trades do have semi-secret techniques evolved from dealing with the same damned issues over and over and over again.

This is the thing that keeps me from building my own tables, chairs, whatever. I know with many categories of things, even if building my own is 20% cheaper, I will still require 3 revisions to get it right.
Yes, prior to 9/11 airports would hire private companies to do their security checks. This was often why different airports would have different degrees of thoroughness; I recall a trip through Kansas City in the mid-90s where I was amazed (and annoyed) that I had to turn on my laptop, despite never having to do that for dozens of trips elsewhere.
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What about the lines? People don't get felt up or forced through machines to wait in the lines to get felt up or forced through machines.

I fail to see how someone couldn't just bomb the lines with the exact same effect you're describing above.

I'd much rather prefer volunteering to use a private company's services freely without force or coercion, and risk dying randomly, then be harassed and embarrassed and risk dying randomly.