In other news, there's a new librarian at the National Library of Buenos Aires. When asked about his perspective of the future of the library, the new librarian commented: "Ook!".

Ook indeed, Sir, and congratulations on your new position.

All this is utterly insane. It makes me think about those posts in 9gag against feminism which seem to be made by 10-year-olds who have no clue what feminism means, but react violently to anything "girly". I can't believe these things still happen in 2014.

Don't panic pigiron, Pebble's got you covered.

Wellllll, for sidereal time anyway.

Here's a few watchfaces I found after googling "pebble sidereal time"

There's a fair bit of 'easy' customisability in a Pebble.

And the battery life of 'aroundabouta week' is great compared to the 'charge overnight' crowd. I like to have a watch on at night, and I can silence my phone and have calls vibrate the pebble to wake me up if needed, but I sleep pretty lightly.

Notifications are good (with an add-on app), Phone control is easy (with an add-on app), there's a bunch of little apps for just about anything. Download the Pebble app for your phone (no need to get the hardware to install the app) and have a poke about in the app store section to see what's about.

There are programs that allow you to make your own faces with a builder app on your phone. You can get apps for it that can pull any JSON data you want from a server, and the actual dev environment used to make 'real' apps isn't too bad to work with.

And the original plastic pebble is pretty cheap and waterproof to 5 atm. (um, swimming and showering and stuff), so I rarely take it off.

I can deal with my Pebble watch and it's 7-8 day time between recharges. When it gets down to 20% (day 7) I think, "Hmmm, better charge that up". When it gets down to 10% (day 8) I think, "OK, charge that up tonight".

Then I wake up in the morning with a dead watch and charge it fully in the time that I have a shower and breakfast. Or I plug it's USB cable in at work for 45 minutes when I'm at my desk.

Point is , I can deal with weekly charges.

This is exactly the kind of MD convinces people not to immunize their children. Claiming that anything that is labeled as a "vaccine" is inherently good is dogma beyond sanity. He then claims that most people who died from chickenpox had no known conditions that put them at a higher risk. This is gross incompetence. It has been well known for hundreds of years that being an adult is a health condition know to put you at higher risk. That is why while only 5% of the infections are in adults, 50% of the deaths are in adults. (Yes, it was 50-50, not 10-90, point still stands)

Sure, the the rate of infection has gone down, but the vaccine has already shown to only give temporary protection. That is why they now recommend a booster. We don't know how long that booster will last. This leaves many people sitting as time bombs to catch it as adults with a medical condition that dramatically increases.

You then try to claim that the chicken pox vaccine, or the flu vaccines are "comparable" to the polio vaccine? Again, this is why people lose trust in you. They know that they are not comparable, and you lose credibility, and your response is to start name calling. You are personally responsible for convincing people not to vaccinate their children. When kids die of Measles, it is on your hands.

As for doctors doing things that would harm their children, your kitchen is all that needs to be shown to know that you will happily put your child at far more risk for your personal convenience than anyone who would skip the chicken pox vaccine.

Again, you are the one who is convincing people to skip the Measles, Polio, Mumps, and Rubella vaccines. You tell bad lies, and then when it is pointed out, you start calling people names. Do you really find that people take your medical advice when they hear you calling people "moron"? Not likely. The death of children from MMR vaccine preventable diseases is on your hands.

The fact that this is not already done should throw a red flag up for any sane person. If making sure that as many people as possible are getting the three vaccines for the benefit of society as a whole, there is no ethical excuse for leaving people vaccinated because you don't want to give them the vaccines separately.

As a pediatrician, how do you rationalize recommending the chicken pox vaccine? As an MD and a "scientist", you surely know that vaccines are a class of medicine, not a single medicine. So, saying anything positive of negative about the outcome of vaccines can only be used to discuss whether the basic concept is sound. It cannot dictate whether all vaccines are good or bad.

You have surely seen the statistics on chicken pox. It has a mortality rate of ~100-120 people a year. 10-12 of those are children for the entire US. So, from your list of dangerous things, chicken pox shouldn't even show up on the radar. As a pediatrician, you surely have also seen that the chicken pox vaccine has failed to give permanent immunity, and you are surely aware that the risk to adults from chicken pox is 10x that of children.

So, as a medical doctor, how do you rationalize increasing a person's risk of mortality by 10x? How do you continue to push the agenda that all vaccines are created equal? How do you rationalize having a kitchen in your home and cooking home cooked meals for your children when you are surely aware that that 3x as many people burn to death in their kitchen every year than died of chicken pox pre-vaccine? And home cooked meal deaths are 100% preventable.

Which is why the philosophical exemption should not be removed. We have moved away from science based decisions concerning vaccines and moved into indoctrination. The chicken pox vaccine is a perfect example. The data shows that it is likely to increase the long term threat to the population, yet it is on the list of 'required' vaccines. If parents couldn't bail out of vaccines, you can bet that the business of vaccination would go to a whole new level, and we will have some truly dangerous drugs being injected into our children.

That's kind of what I was implying. A 'local utility' owns all the hardware. ISP's become virtual providers.

At least, that's how it is with the NBN here in Australia. I live in one of the first towns that had the full rollout - they disconnected my copper line in May and internet / phone now comes via my Network Termination Device. Currently it's 100Mbps, but the NTD has 1Gbps capabilities. There are about a dozen major ISPs in Australia who can supply internet via the NTD, and now it's not about who has the most ADSL ports in the local exchange, it's genuine competition about the services they provide and their value for money.

Likewise, there should be a single, publicly owned cable conduit. A six inch conduit can hold hundreds of cables. Then let any bonded company pull cable through the public conduit.

There should be a single, publicly owned fiber cable. A single fiber cable can carry the traffic of hundreds of different providers. Then let any bonded company connect to the exchange. Saves a lot of time laying cables.....

I bought a 2007 Peugeot with a 2 litre turbo diesel when they first came out. For the first month I often stalled it when pulling away from a standstill because I couldn't hear the engine inside the car.

It got 4.4L / 100km on the highway and I could drive 1100 km on a tank of fuel.

Three months and about 8000km after I bought it I stuck my finger in the exhaust pipe and wiped the inside. It was clean. You could still see the streaks from the forming process inside the pipe.

Modern diesels are NOTHING like the old mechanically injected rattlers.

This recreates the correct 800x600 experience for optimum viewing. We've had 800x600 for years and years and it's well-proven and stable. There's certainly no need for all these extra resolutions to complicate things!

Exactly. I used to work at Morpho's base company (ex Sagem, french co.), and they had some good products. The fingerprint recogniton solutions were top notch too.

Disclaimer: yes, I worked for them, but I don't now, not even working in biometrics now, and I couldn't care less how the company is doing, I'm not trying to advertise for them, I just think the tech they had when I was there was pretty good :)

I don't know what kind of biometric auth systems you used, but I used to work for a company that did professional AFIS systems and on the side some fingerprint auth solutions including usb readers, and they were damn fast and convenient.
I imagine it must depend on what you use. There's consumer grade shit like apple's or MS's fingerprint scanners and software, and then there's pro stuff.

Plus, to the guy that said ADN was secure. It's not. Fingerprints are far more secure (the gummy bear trick and others have been taken care of quite some time ago), since they're actually unike, unlike adn (twin brothers come up as matches, for example).

Another option would be Iris scanners. Retinal scan is more invasive and you have to put your eye up to a reader.. Iris scan can be done with a simple camera while you look normally at your terminal screen, and it's pretty fast.