Actually, it pretty much is - not necessarily a government per se but a body of power at least, which could include social shapers such as religions. Genocide is more than just being racist and killing others, it's a co-ordinated mass attempt at extermination. It requires a lot of funding, logistics, and particularly an extensive build-up of dehumanization of the target group. Which means propagation of such a message by newspaper, radio, television, and/or internet.

A modern day replica will face a huge number of problems trying to achieve even superficial accuracy - all the nice wood paneling is a fire hazard, the glitzy 1st class accommodations were limited, lifeboats won't cut it obviously, can't dump sewage and good luck with practicalities of coal burning and the expectations of a modern passenger... etc. The differences from meeting all the required minimum international regulations would grossly exceed the variations between sister ships.

Mind you now, you're probably safer from sinking on an exact Titanic replica than most modern vessels. The coal bunkers and limits of materials/rivets of the time lent themselves to high levels of subdivision, and the WT bulkheads were carried quite high up - higher than many modern passenger vessels would have their watertight deck. They were well designed, if somewhat utilitarian, boats struck by circumstance rather than endemic flaw.

As an aside, there are a good number of incorrect posts below and a quick read shows some minor problems on the Wikipedia entry for this paper boat as well. I'm a Newfoundlander who enjoys history, a HAM, and a naval architect by trade - so the old Titanic is like a confluence of personal interests. If there are any late comers, I'd be happy to answer any particular questions on the boat - old or the theoretical new.

Ah, well, gross tons would usually refer to a volume measurement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnage

If I recall correctly, the guy on the Californian was told to shag off the wireless so the guy on Titanic could get his messages out earlier in the night. At the time, wireless was used as mobile telegram first, ship information system second - the operators belonged (in this case) to the Marconi company, not to the liner. Spark gaps don't really discriminate frequencies - they had a lot of power, and effectively one channel, so were particularly prone to interference if trying to work the same station.

There are two Matthew's. The one from Bristol had a diesel, and a GPS fitted to one of the masts. Assumedly, it had some level of proper accomodations - though when it arrived in 1997, the tour area was basically just the main deck. Also, being over a decade ago, memory is a little fuzzy. And I've been drinking. The one here in Newfoundland is locally designed and rather more or less accurate for the time, aside from the lumber (locally sourced, except the masts - they are Douglas fir from British Columbia). That boat has, to my knowledge, been to sea once - to film a documentary about the exploration of the Hudson River; a feat which in itself was difficult to arrange, due to insurance concerns. It is kept in Bonavista as a tourist attraction.

Ah, yea. First time seeing this animation, though I do somewhere have the book that goes with said song.

I consider ribbon's as a subset of tabbed toolbar interfaces, which generally follow the Microsoft ribbon guidelines (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc872782.aspx).

By CDC numbers, 96% of the US population has received the pertussis vaccine. The vaccine is '71-85% effective' according to a search engine summary of the pertussis Wikipedia page.

Let us imagine environmentally exposing 1,000 people to the disease: say the chance of acquiring this disease being 10%, 96% of the people are vaccinated, and the vaccine is completely effective 75% of the time (75% effective), completely useless otherwise.

Without the vaccine, a similar 1,000 exposed people would have 100 acquiring and suffering from the disease..

With a 96% vaccination rate, 960 of the 1,000 exposed would have had the vaccine (vs. 40 that have not). 10% acquiring the disease is again 100 people. Of those 100 infections, the breakdown would now be 96 vaccinated vs. 4 non-vaccinated people.
Of 96 vaccinated people, only 75% are effectively vaccinated -> 96 x 0.75 = 72, so the remaining 24 are no better off than not having been vaccinated at all.

This means there are 24 + 4 = 28 total infected and suffering people. 24 vaccinated folks amongst 28 means 85% of infected and suffering people were vaccinated. In comparison though, 72% of those suffering from infections in the 1,000 no-vaccine scenario are prevented in the 96% vaccination scenario (96% x 75%).

This, of course, is meant to be entirely illustrative, but the point should be evident: the expectation is that vaccinated people will be over-represented in samples where the population's vaccination levels are high and the vaccine is less than 100% effective.

How do they know it is rooted? That would be the bigger concern to me.

The iPad has a flush back surface, it slips in the palm... and though light, it is a bit heavy to hold by the edge for typing. Also, it is also slightly too wide for comfortable double-thumb typing when griped from both sides. These points were immediately apparent the first time I picked one up in a store. In general observation, I have yet to see someone one-hand these things "in the wild", it is always propped up on resting on something. At which point, it could be a laptop/netbook, really. I will certainly give you robust, it stands up to my toddler - but I suspect the size factor was driven by the size of readily available screens, it certainly was not ergonomics for the vast majority of the population.

Chromnium is available under one of the repositories (http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/googles-chromium-project-ported-to-n900/), works asides for some of the menu's running off screen. The Opera crowd does have Opera Mini available as well (see http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/05/11/). The default browser, MicroB, is based on Firefox. Of course, there is a terminal; vnc & ssh are both readily available in the Maemo.org repositories.

...however, take a peek at the N900. The screen is way better than a 3GS, Skype & IM integrate seamlessly, and there is no sleazy attempts to keep you from doing anything with your phone. Meamo 5 may be only, say, 75% done, but it's better than only being able to use 50% of the phone!

This is the typically ideal solution, when there's other hardware around to take advantage of. C-Kermit is also your able-bodied manservant for getting all the settings right for the client.

Unfortunately, some BIOS's have never worked well for setting the BIOS interface at anything other than 115.2 KBaud, at least without an undocumented BIOS update. And guess what you need to to the BIOS update? You guessed it: Windows and boot-time console access. I ran into this problem with some new Linux servers and a vendor who'd never bothered to test their serial-over-IP setup.

Also, simply saying "use a null-modem cable" isn't enough. Remember that many modern machines don't have a serial port, which the original poster mentioned. I've also seen low-end rack servers that didn't, and proving only USB has gotten more common. Setting up a USB-serial or USB->USB console access takes some time as well, and our poster didn't say he had the money for the more sophisticated modern KVM's that do KVM over IP reliably. I've searched before for a toolkit to do KVM over IP from an identically installed computer, but found nothing for handling the video. It's a shame, really, such a device could be very handy for remote operations staff rather than my having to walk them through grub or BIOS options over the phone.

If the lag-compensation in GH works the way I think it does, I'm not sure it would be very effective for FPS games.

There's no way for the game to properly remove the lag between the console and display device. Instead, to account for the fact that you're seeing things on screen a few tens of milliseconds after they actually happen, the game engine compensates by delaying the time window in which it expects to a response (controller input). You won't be too slow on your chords anymore, but the delay between button press and on-screen action is still there.

That sort of delay can really throw off your rythym in a FPS when you're expecting an immediate response to movement / throwing a grenade / firing your gun. In a fast-paced multiplayer scenario, a lot can change in the span of a few video frames (depending on the action and movement of your opponents), whereas gameplay in GH is fairly deterministic.

Modern FPS do use a few tricks to minimize the impact of internet lag - motion prediction, immediate client-side response to many actions (moving, shooting) with no host-side verification, etc - these help in making the game play feel more natural, but latency still has a big impact on gameplay quality.

I'm pretty sure you understand this, but just in case, to clarify, a lobotomy disconnects the frontal lobe, which has nothing to do with the interpretation of pain signals. If a lobotomy worked, it'd be very convenient because it's a comparatively simple procedure (at one point, some were doing it just by jamming an icepick up inside the eye). As far as a total coma-like vegetative state, personally, I'd rather my meat be conscious first. Vegetative food seems a great deal to "Matrixy" for my pallet.