Well, yes, but in this case the kiddie porn was mislabeled as what would have been legitimate porn. If that was truly FBI bait, then, IANAL, but it probably would be entrapment, since they tricked the guy into committing an illegal act he otherwise would not have committed. Though, that's assuming this was FBI bait, which I don't believe, and their bait is more likely appropriately titled so they can actually catch the guys they're looking for rather than any random passersby.

Which version was used to produce the plot that is in the Nature paper? It is easy enough to tell by looking at the Nature paper. Hint, the plot in the paper does not have this correction applied.

for Windows 8!

except that we are discussing scientists losing their jobs for manipulating data. The collectors of the data are appearing to be delivering data in ways that prove their personal beliefs, and in ways that dont allow anyone to contradict their personal beliefs. Now, not all of the scientists are manipulative and crooked, but they may have been basing their beliefs on scientific leaders, such as the ones that cooked the books. There is not much of a true source now, especially if the only data left is the "cleansed" data, not the original raw data.

The problem with that is this: I live in a small mid-Michigan town. My town of course does not have it's own CL site; but I live within an hour's drive of *3* towns that do have Craigslist sites. I'm willing to drive to any of those for a particular item I'm looking for. Conversely, if I'm selling something or wanting to post a "looking for" ad, I'd like to make it available to any one of those communities. Why should I have to make and manage three different searches instead of having a search of everything near me, or using RSS to aggregate all three of those site's content?

On the other hand, I personally know three people - all otherwise healthy men in their 30s and 40s - who've died from respiratory collapse due to H1N1.

I don't often say this about people claiming personal experiences, but I call BS on this.

In the US, 2184 people have died of swine flu - or roughly one in 137000 people.

Do you also know 53 people who died in car accidents, 36 who died of the regular flu, four people who won over a million dollars in the lottery last year, and one who died from a lightning strike, all in the last year alone?

I'm not so sure that'd be practical. How easy is it for "the free and open source community" to afford to advertise the availability of the free tutorial distributions on national television?

I hope you are joking about this being a "scam". This is a tactic used by many many legitimate companies that offer "free" trials. Even Blizzard does it with World of Warcraft free trials... you must cancel your subscription before the trial period ends or you get billed. Do you call Blizzard a scam company and want their CEO in jail? Just because you didn't cancel the subscription that you signed up for doesn't mean they scammed you, it means you were too ignorant or lazy to cancel it.

It is the rule not the exception that when you sign up for a "free trial" that you will be billed for the real product unless you opt out before the trial period ends. This is nothing new in any product trial situation. Maybe you should read the contracts and keep up with the norms of how the world works and you wouldn't get "scammed". Sure this may be ethically suspect but that doesn't move it to the realm of scams and definitely doesn't make it illegal. I don't even think it is ethically suspect because no one should honestly just expect free anything to come with no strings. Since one should be expecting and looking for strings in a free trial situation it doesn't really count as trickery when you ignore the terms of the trial you signed up for.

Every element of this "scam" is common among almost all free trial TV ads, past and present, get over it.

*awaits the flaming and troll mods for being right but not aligning with the communities(unwarranted) rage*

The point you are missing is that "bare-metal code" is assembler, regardless of how much effort is involved.

I again have to point you to Linux or *BSD, these OSes have real time drivers in C. I don't recall seeing *any* peripheral driver in Linux that is not C. Practically all assembly code is under arch/ which means bootstrap, memory initialization and main timers. The rest is C.

Go ahead and write a real time driver in C, let me know how it works for you.

I'm doing this right now, and it is a very usual thing for me to do because I work on firmware for slower microcontrollers that run at clock speeds from 1.8 to 16 MHz. I have tons of peripherals in the MCU, and they must be serviced on time. A typical MCU project is a real time design. Sometimes I profile the code by connecting an oscilloscope to some spare pins and check that I have enough time in critical parts of the code. And *all* the code is C, compiled by avr-gcc 4.3.2. I have maybe 0.1% of the code that is in assembler, and that is stock macros that come with avr-gcc.

To illustrate, here you can see the lowest level of avr32 support, and you can observe how many LOCs are in .S and how many are in .c files. If still not convinced, visit mm/ and see what language the do_page_fault() is implemented in; that is one of most performance-critical pieces of code. C today is the "bare-metal" language of choice, and it works well in that role.

Or note that antilock brakes can increase your stopping distance.

Managed code does (well, can) have one totally awesome feature: provable type safety. What makes this great, is that you can take the memory protection hardware out of your CPU (where AIUI it tends to be on the critical path), and replace it with some checks in your compiler and some bounds-checking on array accesses. So basically you're moving most of the (fairly significant) work of keeping programs separate out of the tightest loop possible and instead doing it once at startup time. Even running on standard x86 with some of the protection features disabled still gives a noticeable speedup (see section 4.2 at the link).

A relatively dumb device that only runs a web browser to use web apps (googles or anyone else's provided their signed by google) to do their work.

It sounds like a television, with more interactivity. Hook the appliance into a screen, connect to the broadband service and you'll have a functioning computer.

Hmmm, why does this make me think of the huge data center Apple is building in North Carolina?

If these are the same idiots who "authorized" that god-awful movie

It's not really their fault. Here's how Hollywood works: when the film rights to a story are bought, the filmmakers almost always have the right to do whatever they want with it. This means they can totally rewrite the story, or even slap the title alone on a different, barely-related story. This is why Graham Greene (IIRC) once said that the best deal authors could get from Hollywood was when the film rights were bought but no movie was ever made. (This frequently happens: the rights to Stranger in a Strange Land, the Foundation Trilogy, and many other works have been bouncing around in Hollywood for many years.)

The sorts of people who get excited about new filesystems are already Linux users, generally speaking. Therefore, using that to drive Linux adoption is an exercise in futility. :-)

Also, a filesystem that cannot be used on multiple platforms is vendor lock-in, and whether it comes from Linux or Microsoft, it is just as wrong.

I wasn't sure at first if they were setting the data by doping the material, but on closer reading
"The engineers manipulated the nanomaterial so the electrons' spin within the material could be controlled, ..."
makes it sound electrically re-writeable. Which is probably the only thing anyone's really interested in,
unless it was super-cheap. (i.e. cheap enough to replace pressed optical discs with ROM USB-storage.)

As bobjr94 hopes, it would be nice if it is that cheap, though, and optical discs are replaced by a standard flash storage standard.

I'm in complete agreement with you. I wrote my own little note on the subject a little further down on the thread. Sadly, you and I are in the minority here but I'd rather be in the minority and have free time than do the same thing 7 days a week. I code because I often enjoy the results of it and it makes me money, but I don't let coding rule my life. I must rule it and only five days a week. The other two days are my own time in which coding doesn't rule me.