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What you say is true, however there is a Caveat

For example, Social Security and Medicare are 15.3% of your income (until you hit the cap for social security).

One such mechanism is that you can choose the researchers you fund. Then, results that jive with your purpose will be over-represented. I'm not saying that such a thing is happening here, because I don't think that there is enough funding to skew results in favor of AGW, but we should remember that cigarette companies planted uncertainty in the danger associated with smoking. Eventually the more correct result does reign I think, but there are advantages to lengthening the period of uncertainty.

Given that the sun radiates in all directions, and not all of its radiation is captured by earth...

Only 4.581 * 10^-10 of the Sun's radiation reaches Earth. Therefore, if each bit of radiation the sun emitted were captured by earth, there would be 0.406 m^2 of surface per person. That's still quite a bit of super-hot material, but not quite as outrageous as you claimed.

Even so, it doesn't matter how much of the sun is shining on each part of the earth, but rather the change in the radiation. Furthermore, humans affect how much of the radiation is retained; we do not heat the planet by leaving our space heaters on too long.

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The usual caveats apply, where this information is in aggregate. I don't know whether smartphones generally have a different dropped call rate because of usage patterns. I think that instead of measuring dropped calls they should measure dropped calls per hour of talk time, which would help normalize the data. For example, I only use my cell phone for calls that are under a minute or two.

Even so, this is far better than this old story where iPhones in NY had a 30% drop rate.

From Ars

Data they were trying to hide

Broken FoIA system

In my opinion, it seems like bureaucratic incompetence rather than malice or ideology.

clicktoflash has an equivalent for firefox and chrome called flashblock. However, the placeholder graphic for clicktoflash I find much better than the one for flashblock.

clicktoflash flashblock

Anyone else notice how the previous incident was a price cut, and the current one is a price increase? (for unlimited)

Funnily enough, the Mac version doesn't have the wrench or document icons, it has F/E/V, and more. Here's the full Menubar:

Chrome : File : Edit : View : History : Bookmarks : Window : Help

I know it feels like that, but 10.6 only came out 8 months ago. It hasn't been that long compared to the wait for 10.5 when they first released the iPhone. Their multitasking seems to have improved, though it could definitely still use some work.

He's saying that CPUs need to be massively parallel, like GPUs, to remain relevant.

He also contends that the current design of CPUs are too inefficient to compete with GPUs.

My question is: why? Programming for the GPU is tons harder than programming for multiple cores. The GPU is so efficient because it is so limited. If we were to migrate to GPUs, they would have to gain more general functionality, and lose some of their efficiency.

What's wrong with going the other way and start with a general purpose processor and make it more parallel, which surprise surprise we're already doing?

Dammit Dammit Dammit, I meant Theora.

I do much better with random strings of numbers and letters like H.264, AAC, and VP8 than I do with regular names, sorry.

Google is funding Vorbis playback in hardware,

why are they pushing two formats?