http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory is an alternate model of particle physics that does a pretty good job of predicting the mass of fundamental particles mathematically.

The theory also allows for particle states that don't exist in the Standard Model, including a neutral electron and two extra light neutrinos, and many other extra states.

What's the predicted mass of the neutral electron particle? It's 0.51617049 MeV/c.

If Microsoft would ever fix this bug more sites would use SSL.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html

Why do I get I/O errors when connecting via HTTPS to an Apache+mod_ssl server with Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE)?

The first reason is that the SSL implementation in some MSIE versions has some subtle bugs related to the HTTP keep-alive facility and the SSL close notify alerts on socket connection close. Additionally the interaction between SSL and HTTP/1.1 features are problematic in some MSIE versions. You can work around these problems by forcing Apache not to use HTTP/1.1, keep-alive connections or send the SSL close notify messages to MSIE clients. This can be done by using the following directive in your SSL-aware virtual host section:

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

Ever notice how a politician will hardly ever take a specific stand on any issue and if they do they'll never follow through (e.g Obama)? It's like politicians don't want to lead anymore and they just let their handlers and lobbyists put laws in front of them to sign and they do it because they don't really give a crap and they've completely run out of ideas. If you get a guy like Ron Paul who actually has ideas and doesn't just talk in meaningless genralities, all you see is non-stop ridicule.

The last time Russia was fighting for its territorial integrity 24 million Russians died. The terrorists have severely underestimated what it takes to frighten the Russian leadership into making concessions. You see, as long as all the terrorists die, the Russians don't really care. If you look at the Beslan massacre or the Moscow Theatre Seige, there was very little concern for the hostages, many of whom died during the raids by the security forces. It seems the main thing the government accomplished in both of the raids was killing all the terrorists and minimal casualties to security forces. It's probably modeled after things like Stalin's decision to not evacuate Stalingrad when the Nazis invaded.

No, the worst problem is researching the causes of autism is now a stigmatized field. It would be good to figure out what causes it, whether it's genetic, a brain damaging pathogen, or some sort of new environmental toxin like BPA or even an old one like Dioxin. Now every time someone comes out with a study that probes the causes of autism, a huge avalanche of skeptics will come out comparing it to the earlier fraudulent vaccine finding and dismiss it before giving it a through review.

x86 is such a funny architecture. If you've ever done operating system development in x86 it's crazy to see how much old crap there is in there from the 80s. Real Mode! Hello? Not to mention such inglorious hacks as getting the keyboard controller to reset the CPU!

Windows also has the disadvantage of not being invented in a country like Finland that won a war against the Soviet Union!

What about the LLVM Java JIT? It apparently runs Eclipse and Tomcat.

I wonder if most Java development will stay on JDK1.6 and not move anywhere. That's sort of the problem Microsoft has with Windows XP.

This sounds like some sort of Harry Potter Cargo Cult.

This whole patent war reminds me of the famous computer science analogy: the dining philosophers.

If each fork represents a patent, all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.

They could always move to The Go Programming Language. It's Google's homegrown attempt to get something in between Python and C++. It's got a lot of neat concepts in it and could eventually be a real competitor to JAVA IMHO. The standard libraries still need a lot of work, but in a few years, especially if Oracle screws up Java, it could enter the mainstream.

The Sierra club had a huge internal struggle between people who wanted to limit immigration for environmental reasons and those who thought it was outside the scope of the organization:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club#Population_control_and_immigration

Yeah sure! This is patent World War I, in which patent France won and demanded patent Germany pay patent reparations. These patent reparations ultimately caused patent Hyperinflation in patent Germany and led to patent World War II. In patent WWII patent Stalin signed a patent non-aggression pact with patent Hitler and was completely taken by surprise when patent Russia was invaded by patent Germany. Patent Stalin allied with Patent USA eventually won and signed a patent peace where they divided up patent Europe in a patent cold war that lasted almost 50 years.

This almost sounds like a plausible analogy!

One good thing about using technology that old is there's no chance you could be violating any patents. It certainly makes sense as a symbolic gesture at least.