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Yeah, funny thing about change; change could be bad or it could be good. One thing is guaranteed, though. Change has always happened and is always going to happen. Get used to it.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/15/pirate-bay-revived-by-rival-piracy-site-torrent-isohunt

Those guys, always cloning around

NEW TOPIC required. Now regretting this offcoloured joke.

Speaking from experience with a friend, he bought some cheap Propecia on line. It was legit stuff he tells me. He has a recent PHD in biology, and has previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry, so it has some credibility that there might be some non sugar pills out there.

I really don't have any pressing needs for cheap meds, Maybe If I did I'd do my best to have him check on it before I ordered. But I'd have to be pretty desperate.

Not left/right, but rather walking between the lady and the buildings the chamber pots were being emptied out of. With the advent of indoorish plumbing, the decorum switched to walking on the outside, that the gentleman might shield the lady from gutter contents splashed up by passing carriages.

Lactose intolerance isn't a food allergy, it's the body not producing lactase

True, but in this context irrelevant.

The phrase "food allergy" has a specific meaning related to anaphylaxis,

Most likely wrong.
According to:
http://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies
Anaphylaxis is only the most severe allergic reaction. There are plenty of reactions, which are less severe. Some can almost be described as only annoying:

Delayed reactions are most typically seen in children who develop eczema as a symptom of food allergy

Nevertheless, you can find plenty of false information googling. I am not an expert, but for me the source looks plausible.

In the fermentation of milk into cheese, the lactose is consumed by the bacteria. Well, most of it, and presuming simple fermentation practices. So what developing lactose tolerance did was allow some of the milk to be consumed before turning it into cheese. And allow the development of cheeses where milk or cream was re-added at a late stage of the process.

Just a nit I have to pick: Lactose intolerance isn't a food allergy, it's the body not producing lactase. If you were allergic to lactose, eating would definitely kill you. The phrase "food allergy" has a specific meaning related to anaphylaxis, which is extremely dangerous; often deadly.

Just out of pure curiosity: Anyone thinking here that placing people, who really think of spamvertized 'goods' as 'useful cheap meds resource', under disability would be too harsh?

I think you over-interpret

starving people have no food allergies

Not every food allergy is deadly. Some, perhaps most, are only very inconvenient. Flatulence, bad rashes, whatever. While in normal times people rightfully stay away from perhaps embarrassing or even painful, but not immediately deadly side effects, starving people don't have this luxury. I think above proverb quite nicely summarizes this fact.

I've always been curious as to what happens when you do. How much do they want for the fake viagra? Do they just take the money and run, or send you a bottle of sugar pills? Do some people buy again?

I think what you said is kind of obvious. No one says "starving people have no food allergies" expecting that to mean that starvation magically cures allergies.

Either die from their food allergies or figure out how to survive them. It doesn't mean they don't have them.

There is a crazy part of our population that thinks that what ever we did before we had civilization was better. Like "modern medicine" is somehow worse than eating some crazy diet that people think (despite double blind tests to the contrary) solves the same problem. This "starving people have no food allergies" is of the same thinking. Its like people forget how high our mortality rate used to be, and how short our life expectancy was.

This reminds me of the work by Neal Stephenson which was also a good read about trans-oceanic cables.

Spam will persist as long as anyone chooses the last option; even if it's over a billion-to-one odds against it and the whole planet hates you.

Plus, alterations in the Atlantic currents could be disastrous for a good part of europe.

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, direct from the History Channel's Modern Marvels episode on toilets & sanitation:

You realize how bad the situation was if you look at the palace of Versailles. A fortune was spent in constructing it. It had these wonderful halls of mirrors, elaborate chandeliers, and you might have a thousand people being entertained. Eating and drinking copiously, but where did they go to the bathroom? There was not a single bathroom in the entire elaborate palace. And the answer is, they went in the stairwells. One of the reasons the French applied so much perfume during that period was to overcome all of the indoor odors from people relieving themselves.

And the idea that a man walks on the left side of the female dates back to this time. It was polite for him to get hit by the contents of the chamber pot and spare the woman.

Side benifit being a better meat.industry

Viva ventilation!!!

The overarching thought for centuries was that the chimney was invented to flue smoke from an abode. Not so, it seems, given the coincidence of chimney technology against the upswing of cheese consumption by lactose intolerant people.

With flash you could have a call back at the end of the video to indicate that it was played all the way through. Of course if you know that it calls back at the end you could just simulate that call back...

The visibility of it is kind of impossible to enforce, as far as I know. At the end of the day you are sending software to run on a random, foreign environment, its not going to be easy to make sure it does what you want it to, especially in a sand-boxed environment.

I imagine its a back and forth cat and mouse between those trying to simulate views and those paying the advertising bills.

I guess if the question is if a human is present, you'd need a captcha. But Who the hell want's to fill out a captcha in order to view an advertisement?

So you have people you want to view your ad actively trying to avoid it, while those you don't want to see the ad ( robots ) want to see the ad. That's a tough nut to crack.

Your point is that he built his theory from the work of people before him? Like pretty much every scientist throughout history?

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -Newton

Run off back to stormfront..

Every element of E=m(c^2) can be found in the work of Einstein's predecessors.

Einstein gets credit for being the first to line up all the elements correctly but he wasn't the one who identified the mathematical elements - energy, mass, and the speed of light as a mathematical constant were introduced into the narrative by others whom do not receive anywhere near as much credit as they should.

1850: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizeau-Foucault_apparatus
1881: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment (Michaelson)
1887: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment (Michaelson-Morley)
1892: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_contraction (Lorentz)
1904: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_equations (Lorentz)
1904: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-4 (Poincare)
1904: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-5 (Larmor)
1905: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-6 (Poincare)
1905: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#cite_note-7 (Einstein)

Einstein was not a genius.

He wasn't no saint, either.

He has a great Jewish press corps, though, and they just won't fuckin' shut up ... 'cuz Einstein's tattered reputation helps prop up their fading ethnic propaganda about being God's Chosen, the best and the brightest the planet has to offer.

Note that none of the people listed in that chronology are Jewish - EXCEPT for Einstein - and some say his wife did all the heavy lifting in that relationship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Marić#Role_in_physics

But even if she DIDN'T do all the heavy lifting ... neither did Einstein ... most of the heavy lifting came from his predecessors.

Please quit beating that dead horse and let others share the limelight.

I can't say I care what one person who happened to work at TPB happens to think. His complaints are just a bunch of whiny nonsense, and since TPB hasn't become what HE would have liked, he'd rather see it destroyed entirely, like any child taking his ball and going home.

I'm more interested in the collateral damage. From Wikipedia:

On 9 December 2014, The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish Police, who seized servers, computers, and other equipment.[18][19][20][21][22][23] Several other torrent related sites including EZTV, Zoink, Torrage and the Istole tracker are also down in addition to The Pirate Bay's forum Suprbay.org, which is also offline.[19]

I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they can force window focus, and probably that it remains in focus for a certain percentage of the video running time, and the person|bot not skipping/closing/muting is enough to count

I think it's going to end up in the same situation, or verty similar situation, to firearms since they have the same combination of being extremely useful tools for some situations yet with a massive potential for abuse. Perhaps the pro-BitTorrent mantra could draw on that too: "BitTorrent doesn't infringe copyright, people do".

So what's a "view" in this story? That is, how would one determine that a video has been "viewed"? Does merely downloading it count? Do they have some way of determining that it has been shown in some window? And that the window is visible on the screen?

Just curious.

I have this playing in the background as I read this article: http://www.oneofflethal.com/

So it's something like the Open Invention Network but with much simpler "application". Awesome!
Not sure how this "public declaration" will interact with legal systems worldwide, but I hope they made their license compatible with the patent terms of the GPLv3 and Apache License 2.0.

Say I had to guess who is making the cash.. I think it's probably the site owner serving the ads that they hire botnets to view, more than enough money to go around.

It's probably a pretty safe investment too.. yeah, you're hiring botnet dudes, but there's probably no paper trail between the two groups, and as they're not using the botnet to DDOS, or steal CC info, I'd imagine they're pretty low down on the LEO most wanted lists..

I found something recently on tpb that was nowhere else so it was still relevant. Guess people just moved on. In a world of millions of torrents few were on tpb. The ads were just porn in the end.

Wonder what the world and history will say about the bittorrent protocol someday though. What a wonderful thing, and yet it's so easy to vilify the protocol as a vehicle for piracy, which isn't exactly fair.

We'll put it up there next to Napster and Limewire, et al.

Testaments to the fact that just because tech can do something, and do it really well, that doesn't naturally translate into it being legal/just/unnecessary to evolve.

Oblig xkcd http://xkcd.com/1458/

I was just engaging in a spot of successful percussive maintenance today. I swear the damn thing knows when its my gf at the deck cause it just does not like me

Uhhhh...you DO know that the reason they are having to go slower than they like is because of INTEL, yes? That HDCP is Intel's property and if they release anything that could put Intel's DRM at risk they'll get sued, you DO know this right? Intel doesn't have the same restriction because they built their CPUs around HDCP DRM and thus have a section of the chip dedicated to HDCP, AMD doesn't waste space on DRM and instead uses the GP-GPU to handle HDCP which is why they have to tread lightly. if you don't like how fast they are doing things? Tell Intel to take the cuffs off with HDCP.

Nah just follow Johnny Carson's lead and make sure every girl you marry afterwards has the same first name...problem solved!

Try hitting a computer chip with a hammer. Then try the same thing with your car's engine. Still think solid-state is always superior?

I don't think hitting with a hammer is neither the normal mode of operation for computer chips, nor for car engines.

But nevertheless, it is interesting. I would never have expected that such a motor can run reliably over years. Not only because of the moving parts, but also because of the helium. Helium is not the easiest material to contain. Especially not heated helium.

I would think something without moving parts would be superior.

Try hitting a computer chip with a hammer. Then try the same thing with your car's engine. Still think solid-state is always superior?

Both SRGs and RTGs are designed (and tested) with the same lifetimes in-mind. The SRGs even lose less capacity over time (thermo-electric materials decay). And NASA has done the testing to prove that SRGs can operate continuously for the necessary lifetimes.

I am certainly not an expert, but from a gut feeling I would say RTGs are more robust than SRGs. A moving piston? Over years? Yes, maybe for manned missions, where repairs or exchanges are possible. But for something like New Horizons? I would think something without moving parts would be superior.

I am sure the uneducated mobocracy tried its best to throw a monkey wrench into the works.

The WP article says there were only about 30 protesters, far less than previous missions. The DoE just isn't churning out Pu-238 in mass quantities like it used-to, and it's much more expensive as a result, too.

My question is, why isn't NASA getting more efficient (so that it only needs a fraction as much Pu) since the "T" in RTG is only 5-8% efficient?

They've been extensively developing SRGs to replace RTGs for quite a few decades, requiring only 1/4 as much Pu for the power, yet haven't ever put a single one in space.

Or it could have been to the acute shortage of the fissionable material, don't assign to malice, etc etc.

Sadly, it may not have been a mobocracy intentionally trying to gum up the works. It may have simply been a run-of-the-mill bureaucracy incapable of producing any other result.

That's no moon!

Is our civilisation advanced and mature enough to offer psychological support to a planet, err moon ahh far orbiting large rock oh hell whateverwearerankingitastoday

Some geologists, non-geophysicists at that, know Maxwell, too

Women are garbage. The ancients knew this. That is why their brides were girl children, not women.

Hans Reiser had the correct solution to the problem you describe.

Hans Reiser did the right thing.

You seem to be uninformed if you think "who's only contribution to the free software community is a crappy casino game"
Very uninformed. But I guess that's good. You can't attack what you don't know about.

Men would be better off without feminists.
Feminists should be killed.