[..] even something not dangerous like coal [..]

Coal, not dangerous? From acid rain to fine dust particles causing many thousands of deaths among the US population alone each year, fly ash pools spilling into nearby rivers and rendering nearby areas unusable for generations, not to mention the other pollutants and their effect on people and the environment.

Oh sure, not dangerous at all...

Been waiting for this release for a while now. Only the 5.0 release is going to be more significant. I hope that with 4.8 out we'll soon see it running on Android devices too.

I'm left clueless, then. What is the keyboard supposed to do anyway? I press the character I am reading, but nothing happens, and I can't see another way one'd transcribe it... I'd RTFM, but there isn't one :(

Just registered and tried to transcribe some fragments, but either the interface is completely non-intuitive (and any help missing), or the app doesn't work in Firefox.

Quite a shame, finally found a fragment I could transcribe too :(

Nearly two months ago I was subject to a similar abuse of power, by Dutch police: http://mayaposch.blogspot.com/2011/05/taking-nightmare-notch-further.html

Basically I had done nothing but suffer a dissociative episode at my family doctor's office, for which I had warned them, but which they had dutifully ignored. I knocked over some glass items, they called the cops, and despite not resisting I was forced against the ground, the cuffs forced on so tight that they had trouble removing them, and I will suffer from nerve damage in my wrists for a long time.

I was locked in a jail cell for nearly 24 hours, only allowed to leave it to visit the hospital for some glass cuts I had suffered. I was crying and screaming and basically breaking down the whole time while I was in the cell. The feeling of powerlessness was just beyond any words. I have been persecuted for my IS and denied medical help for years already, but at least then I still had the choice to walk away. When I begged some cops to let me out, they just laughed at me and threw me against the nearest wall.

Abuse of power is very real. And it's everywhere.

Even if it isn't entirely new, it's been used very effectively here, with the uncovering of so much archaeological material to study it'll keep archaeologists occupied for decades. And this was just the first run. I'm very excited about what else will be uncovered, now that someone finally bothered to use this methode, be it old or new.

Maybe QML really is easier... I have been doing some Android development lately, and defining the UI in a separate XML file definitely has its advantages.

As pointed out and as I have discovered during my own research into QML its feature set in 4.7 is pretty aenemic. If they can make it a carbon copy of the feature set of the Qt widgets, then it might be worth looking into :)

I agree. I have looked at QML (I'm a part-time C++/Qt developer), and it looks to me like JS and CSS had a very unsightly baby. QML is also not nearly as efficient or compact as the C++-based widgets. The latter could use a bit of an overhaul to remove some redundancy, but that's another matter again.

Seems like Qt5 will be more buzzword-compliant, though :(

Anyone up for developing a Qt competitor? :D

And how about intersexual people who are physically neither gender? I had a friend before who was IS and it just was really hard to tell from the looks what gender one should assume. Mentally she identified as female, but that can't obviously be told from a picture.

It really differs among IS people. I am a hermaphrodite yet there is no way to tell this while I'm still wearing clothes. Everyone identifies me as being a regular female, even at the swimming pool. There are heaps of 'regular' women who would get IDed by this system as being men, making it inaccurate for regular men and women, and a huge mess for IS people. As for TS people, most MtF TSs I have seen would be identified as being male, and most FtM TSs as being female. As said, unless you are going to modify the skeletal structure of the face etc. taking hormones doesn't magically transform you into the other gender/sex.

That's not correct. The 6 and 8-pin PCIe connectors are identical. They have the same number of ground and 12V wires between the GPU and the PSU, the same wire gauge and can carry the same amount of power. The 8-pin connector exists because in the PCIe spec they had a sense wire for the 12V line specified on this connector, which would then allow the connector to carry more current as the PSU would be able to better regulate the voltage. In practice this is much more easily done at the PSU side, making the 8-pin connector useless and allows the 6-pin connector to carry the same 150 Watt as the 8-pin one.

Want to check this? Just use a 6-pin connector and short the remaining two pins on the GPU to ground to satisfy the GPU if it checks for a connection there and everything will work just peachy fine. If you check 8-pin PCIe connectors you'll see that this is all they do: short the two extra pins to ground.

Yes, because it threatens their business model of threatening to sue people even if they have no intention to ever do so. All the USCG wants is for the people it sends a threatening letter to pay up $2,500. Negotiating a settlement or heavens forbid an actual court case would drive up their lawyer costs and make their business model unprofitable. Hence them trying to take out this 'threat'. Of course, they're trying to take on a real attorney, not some Joe Shmuck without a clue about legal proceedings.

*settles back with some popcorn*

I like them a LOT more than flat screens. I think they are easier to read and more vibrant.

'Vibrant', yes, but they also mess with one's perception of contrast. Try editing a photograph on a glossy screen and then printing it. Even on glossy paper the colours will look dull and everything but vibrant. That's because the glossy screen is basically lying to your eyes.

Just to add to this, there's no way you will be able to find a professional LCD anywhere which even has a glossy option. This is because of the above reason. It would make any kind of accuracy in Photoshop, 3D modelling apps and anything else which requires colour accuracy impossible. I know this for a fact because it's what I do for a living.

The real reason why glossy screens are so popular is because most people are dim-witted sheep who go for that which is the most shiny. They also tolerate crappy TN LCDs, backlight leaking and heavens know what other defects and keep asking for more by buying the cheapest and shiniest junk they can find.

I blogged about something similar a while ago: 'What's yours probably isn't on the internet'. In my case it was about me losing the password to my Flickr account (or someone else 'reset' it for me), and me trying to convince the Yahoo helpdesk that it really was my Flickr account. In the end it failed because I couldn't remember the security answer, even though the emails from the account kept getting sent to my email account and I know every other piece of information associated with that account. What can I do about it? Absolutely nothing apparently.

Fortunately I don't need the Flickr account as I have my personal site with a gallery I control, but it's still annoying that there's a zombie account on Flickr which will keep sending email to me for now and probably eternity (or until Flickr gets shut down).