That, and often you'd need 100s of zygotes to create a few viable organisms that survive to adulthood.

Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

I think it's still worthwhile... not getting 'ethics' confused with 'morality'. But anyone who was bothered by Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion may have an issue with this.

So the Japanese government owns the car engines and the people just pay rent to possess them?

I have an EVGA GTX 560Ti . My wife finally made me replace my fans.

They used really cheap fan mounts that vibrate like heck whenever they spin up.

Just replaced the stock fans with this rig today: http://www.amazon.com/Titan-Ad...

Much quieter now.

Thanks for that... I'm surprised that people on slashdot are calling for political solutions to political "problems" instead of technological solutions that do more to guarantee security and privacy against surveillance, be it "legal" or illegal.

I'll reserve my outrage for when using strong encryption becomes regulated.

You know, the secret ones. They can't tell you what they are, though, that'll ruin the surprise. The essence of surprise is critical. CRITICAL!

Why not both? The database of cell phone towers that shows you which tower you're connected to already exists:
http://opensignal.com/android/

It's more useful for trying to figure out where to go to get the best signal in your environment, but if you can use it to figure out when you're being oppressed, then all the more power to you.

I used gmail as my smarthost when I had Verizon FiOS
Something like:
https://alimanfoo.wordpress.co...

(generate a dedicated gmail password for this instead of using your "main" one)

Ugh. Thanks for making me cry.

My kids have awful Dell netbooks running an absurdly locked-down Windows 7. It takes forever for them to do any of their work online, because they can only use the IE browser to run all these java and javascript -heavy sites (mostly because of the sidebar ads), like http://www.easybib.com/ . Editing their work in their haiku wiki is painful... particularly dealing with images which they're required to use 2-3 per assignment.

The worst part is that they've figured out that even though they can't launch cmd.exe or install real programming languages, they've found they can save and execute .bat files. So yes, they're learning to program .bat *cry*

... and I'll be looking forward to "Nanaimo" after that.

Hopefully they'll still be making bar phones at that time, and put off the transition to some wearable-in-your-face thing until "Pie"

If you're in a hurry to see the performance improvements over the UI improvements, you can go ahead and switch from the Dalvik JIT to the ART precompiled runtime now:
http://www.cultofandroid.com/5...

(you may want to have a charger nearby while recompiling all of your apps, though)

There's only one option where you can't readily find a human to do it for you cheaper/better/faster. The only place with no humans.

it's a false dichotomy anyway... there aren't substantial differences between the way either party runs things.

Our form of representative democracy is not about giving power to the people, and letting citizens run things and make the important decisions. You wouldn't want that anyway, the average citizen is a moron.

Democracy has one simple purpose, and that's to keep the government in charge by preventing a bloody revolution. That's it. A safety valve to appease the angry mob at just the right time interval with political theater. And we've achieved the perfect balance of two mobs, each 49% of the population, who blame the other half for every grievance real or perceived. The pendulum swings very slightly each election cycle. We are there. We have arrived. We are at the center of stability. Yin and Yang in equilibrium. You will never have a more perfect system.

Until the time it collapses from within.

John S. Hall (aka King Missile) It's Saturday:

I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like
I want to be just like all the different people
I have no further interest in being the same
Because I have seen difference all around
And now I know that that's what I want

I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable
I want to be a part of the different crowd
And assert my individuality along with the others
Who are different like me

I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything
I don't even want to be identical to myself
I want to look in the mirror and wonder
"Who is that person? I've never seen that person before
I've never seen anyone like that before"

I want to call into question the very idea
That identity can be attached
I want a floating, shifting, ever changing persona
Invisibility and obscurity

Detachment from the ego and all of it's pursuits
Unity is useless
Conformity is competitive and divisive and leads only to
Stagnation and death

Read more: King Missile - It's Saturday Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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First of all, what on Earth is a "climate denialist"? Are there people who deny that the Earth has a climate? Or is it a farcical misnomer purposely intended to ridicule anyone with the slightest bit of skepticism about something that even the experts aren't 100% certain about? (hint: 95% from IPCC != 100%)

As for your medical advice, the next time you notice your body temperature rise by 1/2 degree in an hour, best go ice bath yourself immediately or you'll soon be dead.