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Journal Journal: So here's a good WI test for you 63

If pockets as deep as Rush Limbaugh are calling you out by name for your perfidy in the Wisconsin John Doe prosecutions, he's pretty confident that even the smartest shark in the tank isn't going to get Ol' Rush To Judgement convicted for libel, no?
A big fat whale like Rush would be sooooo tasty for the Left. They'd probably pour the kind of resources into taking Rush

Comment Re:A short, speculative cautionary tale... (Score 1) 407

Partners have always had the power in law firms -- but how long can they maintain power when their underlings are so much smarter and more ambitious?

They can't, which is why it won't happen. People at the top are there because they're very good at hamstringing competition. So the only legal performance enhancers will be those that are either inefficient, like coffee, or too expensive for you to afford.

Of course the situation will change once more efficient things like direct brain-computer hookups become available to top dogs; but until then, all the little muffs will be kept down.

Comment Re:Waiting for regular news to catch this one (Score 1) 18

Do you have the intellectual courage to juxtapose the two cases, and see which passes even a cursory review?
The RS drivel did not. Errors of fact were evident from the beginning.
If you've been paying attention to the better blogs (e.g. written by non-Progressive lawyers) the whole John Doe case has been building for quite a while.
It's some twisted, fascistic business, and well worthy of your time.

Comment Re:Not sure, you'd have to check tests (Score 1) 133

I meant to reply to this earlier - if I were to go this route, I'd hit a 12 or even 16 core Xeon. There's no reason if you can afford the 5960X that you can't pick up a much higher core Xeon. The 18 core one is just ridiculous in price (heck, all of them are a bit overpriced IMNSHO). Much better to just wait 6-9 months. Or, buy a dual CPU motherboard and drop 2 Xeon hexcores in it for $500 or so and get more than double my current performance. Not sure I want the extra 140+W of heat though.

Comment Re:SSDs (Score 1) 162

I've actually fully refreshed (ie, done a dd back to the disk after saving it off) twice. The disk is still slower than molasses compared to its initial 20% full speed. Now, that doesn't mean it's slow by any means, but far slower than the 400MB/s peaks. In fact, this is true across the entire spectrum of SSDs, from what I can tell from various tests, including long term tests.

Now I have not run anywhere near a PB through my drive, but I'm probably near a few tens of TB, which is why I'm replacing the single 840 with a pair of 850s (EVOs all) And yes, I was aware the "fix" wasn't a fix, just a means of resetting the drive cells, which is the same thing I accomplished by wiping and restoring my drive prior to that fix coming out.

Comment Re:Whatsisname is...mistaken (Score 1) 289

Only when the effectively extended family was ruled by "elders" was it egalitarian, and not always then. It's always been a "how do I get what I want, screw everyone else" at the end of the day. What we're talking about here is that everyone can pretty much have everything they want, materially, but not necessarily physically. Consider the cliffside home within a park, there's only 1. Only 1 person can own it. Who will it be? Property (land) is something that pretty much cannot be manufactured at this point. A facsimile may be created via virtual reality, but only 1 real one will exist. The facsimile will suit many, but not all. So it has been throughout the ages and has been the root cause of much of humanity's conflicts: I want this one (whatever).

Comment Meanwhile US fugitive bankers in Switzerland (Score 4, Insightful) 310

Easily tracked and easily identified US "fugitive" bankers who caused the crash and have Interpol warrants for their arrest are living high and mighty in Switzerland meanwhile.

(sources: Bloomberg, WSJ, and Marketwatch)

So can we actually believe this "person responsible" is not just a sacrificial lamb who will end up pardoned anyway, without doing any actual jail time?

Just saying.

Medicine

Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism 341

An anonymous reader sends word of a new study (abstract) into the relationship between the MMR vaccine and kids who develop autism. In short: there is no relationship, even for kids at high risk of developing autism. From the article: [Researchers] examined records from a large health insurer to search for such an association. They checked the status of children continuously enrolled in the health plan from birth to at least 5 years old during 2001 to 2012. The children also had an older brother or sister continuously enrolled for at least six months between 1997 and 2012. "Consistent with studies in other populations, we observed no association between MMR vaccination and increased ASD risk among privately insured children.We also found no evidence that receipt of either 1 or 2 doses of MMR vaccination was associated with an increased risk of ASD among children who had older siblings with ASD." ... [An accompanying editorial said,] "Taken together, some dozen studies have now shown that the age of onset of ASD does not differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated children, the severity or course of ASD does not differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated children, and now the risk of ASD recurrence in families does not differ between vaccinated and unvaccinated children."

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