So it might be money, as others have said.

But I have some other questions.

1) Why hasn't this fairly simple experiment been done before?

2) Why do three types of corn with fairly different modifications have very similar toxicities?

Screwing makes me happy, I can do that myself.

FTFY. Also, TMI.

As the GP says, what D-Wave is claiming is pretty much not physically possible. And what they've demonstrated is possible to emulate with classical computers.

That Google is working with them is interesting. But D-Wave still looks exactly like an investment scam.

I agree that it's annoying, though in my experience people never refer to SPICE without prefacing it with "Berkeley". SPICE all by itself is used as a generic term.

TFA could also use some more references. It sounds intriguing, but I've been around long enough to be distrustful of what's in press releases.

> aluminum hydroxide which, apart from helping us with our stomach ulcers, may be linked to brain disease

Are you talking the Alzheimer's link? I thought that that was found to be a non causal link quite some time ago.

Here's a link that pretty much flat out says it's not an issue:
  http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_myths_about_alzheimers.asp

There are a lot of websites that talk about it as being a problem, but they all seem a little woo woo.

The meaning of the phrase has changed.

The phrase used to refer to "a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise."[1]

Now it means, "I'm trying to sound like I'm well educated, but I'm not."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

I'm a troll because I think flu vaccines are bullshit? Wow.

No. You're a troll because you used the word fuckall in way that was at best gratuitous.

It's just not that hard to avoid. Good hygienic habits, good nutrition, and a good night's sleep are far more effective than any flu vaccine and those habits don't have mercury.

Got any studies to back those measures up?

Here's the short answer:

Guy buys a laptop which has been designed and optimized to run under windows, which has been pre-installed. Any necessary configuration to optimize battery life was done when the laptop was imaged.

Now someone takes said laptop and installs Linux on it. That particular hardware combo may never have been tested before and no optimizations have been done on it.

It would be unsurprising to me if the latter situation didn't work very well.

I run Linux on my laptop exclusively, but getting the pm stuff optimized is a big pain. The amount of fighting to get broken drivers and BIOSes working is not for the faint of heart.

Your best bet for a Linux laptop would be a pre-installed version that's more than a windows laptop with Ubuntu slapped on it.

Otherwise you'll be in for a a lot of fiddling.

<em> This will cause the kernel to try to read/write data from 0x00000000, which the attacker can map to userland </em>

This was somewhat surprising to me. Digging around a bit, it looks like it has something to do with an seLinux handler.

Can anyone elaborate on this?

<em> TFA didn't mention lifetime, and I figure that it's not a huge issue anymore for OLEDs. </em>

My cynical self takes the opposite view. If they don't mention lifetime, it's probably awful.

> Pilots regularly use standard radio stations in place of VOR transmitters

I don't think so.

FM stations won't substitute for a VOR, the implementation is totally different.

AM stations can be used as an NDB for ADF, but my understanding is that this isn't used very much anymore. From what I've seen and read, most ADF equipment won't detect VHF frequencies.

By my count, the bank is only the fifth stupidest here.
Let's count it down:

5) Wells Fargo

For getting itself in the position of having to sue itself

4) Florida State government

For writing a law that requires a bank to sue itself.

3) Al Lewis/Fox News

For writing/publishing this worthless article.

2) samzenpus

For posting this on slashdot.

1) Me

For commenting on this crap.

But if it makes you feel better, go ahead and pile scorn on the banks.

It'll take your mind off the fact that you're the real sucker.

but in this case it's a good thing.

Just a wild guess; they may saved some hardware cost by using CPU to do some of the signal processing instead of using a ASIC for it.
That might end up burning quite a bit of power.

I don't think that would explain the iPhone overheating, but it might explain the GP's experience