I have no comment on your overall point (not a Fox News fan myself), but you're just wrong on the facts. The suit was between New World Communications, a subsidiary of Fox Broadcasting Corp., a sister company of Fox News Corp (both owned by News Corp.) They both share the same trademark, but they're distinct.

It's like fanning anti-Justice Dept. sentiment by saying "the Justice Department sued..." when it was actually the EPA that did. It's just factually incorrect.

If you're referring to the case I think you are, that wasn't Fox News. It was a local Fox affiliate's new show, which is completely different. Owned by a private company, affiliated with the Fox Network, which is a sister company to Fox News (but not the same).

A little bit ironic, in a post about facts and integrity.

The CM-7000? Out of curiosity, which other ones did you test?

Just tried it: it still has the Awesome Bar suggestions and all that personalization.

I'm talking about a temporary "clean mode" that gives you Firefox, minus your history and cookies and add-ons.

Is there a browser that offers a "presentation mode", that gives you a clean environment for demoing things to other people?

At the moment I just use a different browser, like Firefox for everyday browsing, and IE for demoing, but what if you need to run the same browser for both instances?

I'm not talking about porn here either, I just don't need people being distracted by my forum links and asinine web searches while I'm giving a presentation.

Really?

• "hide the [misleading] decline"
• "hide the [artifactual] decline"
• "hide the [erroneous] decline"
• "hide the decline [to increase comprehension]"

Do you want more?

Also, I should note that hiding a statistical artifact is not necessarily nefarious, e.g. if it's erroneous or if it's irrelevant, especially if the resulting chart is intended for other scientists who know full well that something is being removed or glossed over or excluded for whatever reason.

The conclusion over whether it's proper or not is to know the data and the "decline" that's being hidden: realclimate.org apparently does, and explained it.

I like F-Spot: the workflow is IMHO the best for casual photographers. It imports everything into its own folder and categorizes it by date based on EXIF data. Then you can use tags to organize them into logical sets (events, places, etc.).

I actually wish there was something equivalent on Windows. Picasa imports into dated folders based on the date you import them, not the date they were taken.

STATS.org has a nice, details, scientific-sounding article debunking a lot of anti-BPA reports out there, and appears to come from a legitimate source (George Mason Univ.).

I'm not a chemist/biologist/doctor, so I have a hard time judging whether the article is bunk or not.

Care to weigh in?

This might be true to a certain extent, but it's definitely not in my experience. I graduated from an engineering program in a large (US) state school, and as far as I know, a full 90ish percent of my professors were tenure-track faculty. I can think of two that weren't, in 8 years of school.

I've realized this before, and it's pretty striking: professors have degrees in what they teach, not in teaching itself.

Are there any professors out there (in something other than education) that specifically train in how to effectively teach students? That might actually have a certificate or a degree in education? Are there even programs that cater to college-level educators?

CCleaner will kill it with a single checkbox.

What paper? Our paper's forums seem to singularly attract the trolls (and only the trolls).

He represented them in a single lawsuit 14 years ago. That's not "employment".

The thing is, except for a few categories (disasters, crimes, etc.), slower news is better news. You'll usually get better, more accurate, more informed writing on a topic from a newsweekly than a newspaper, from a monthly over a newsweekly, and from a published book over a monthly.

This is fascinating. I've long wanted to set up something like this, but couldn't wrap my head around how to do it, or how it could be made sufficiently open or community-based (if that was even possible).

Do you make an attempt to tag changes with common names (Changeset 187591734 = "PATRIOT Act")? What about laws under consideration?

Here's what I envision:

* A master repository containing the base code (like you have).

* Browseable changesets (or branches, or tags) containing specific laws, bills, proposed changes, etc.

* Committed changesets == passed laws

* Automatic (or community-based if necessary) conversion from bill text to changet

* Fine-grained commentability (individual lines, phrases)