Yep. This is one of the first stories I remember reading on /. Here's the paper from 2002.

I'm guessing you're defining "never" to mean "not in my 20 year life time"

There's some truth to it, even a completely idle system seems to delay writing. Try it yourself: mount a USB stick, and copy some stuff to it. The LED on the flash stick often doesn't even start blinking until you issue the command to eject, when it finally starts writing.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/keypoints/ Here's a page for SIFT, and early image keypoint detector

Well, it still hasn't happened to Slashdot

My friend, I hope this has been a valuable lesson for you. It should have been obvious several posts ago with all the ducking and weaving around sales vs market share that you're talking with an unrelenting Apple fanboy, but we're all only human, and in the heat of the moment it's easy to miss the signs.

Next time, I trust you'll spot the warning signs earlier and bow out before it's too late.

Actually, if the difference between life and death is 30 seconds, then a paramedic getting to you 30 seconds sooner will make all the difference. Take it from a paramedic.

"they couldn't secure financing for manufacturing and shipping the first batch of units"

If only we had a way to provide funding for products? We could set up websites that enabled people to post commercially unviable ideas, collect sales in advance, and then bullshit for two years about why they haven't shipped, promised features have been removed, etc.

We'd have problems with fires - which would get massive - before we had problems with crops dying off due to lack of CO2. Also, the ocean's pH would change and that'd be quite bad news indeed.

My default gateway already is 127.0.0.1, you insensitive clod!

Marriage tip: Just be a good fella and sort the damn LEDs out, eh? She's probably not making it all up.

> As an example, you say that this study from a Canadian university is racist and has been debunked extensively, which is clearly total bullshit.

The study was published in "Intelligence", which is a journal for the "International Society for Intelligence Research."

A quick google for "International Society for Intelligence Research racist" shows that recipients of it's "lifetime achievement award" and board members are widely criticized as promoting junk science, white supremacy, and furthering nazi concepts on race.

Let's take a look at some examples.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

According to sociocultural anthropologist Francisco Gil-White, in publishing studies financed by the Pioneer Fund, Linda Gottfredson is part of a concerted effort to legitimize racist ideology through pseudo-science, together with an assortment of other people with inadequate or completely missing scientific qualifications for studying human intelligence"

Rushton has been discredited for over thirty years and he's viewed as nothing more than pseudo-science fuel for white supremacists like you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And his co-author on that paper? An idiot who thinks racists like him are "the next galileos." https://www.google.com/search?...

He's so desperate to spread his bullshit that he paid to have a booklet about his work mailed to professors around the country

Rushton is a racist - this is both well known and extensively documented by comments he's made publicly and white supremacy publications he's contributed to. His science is beyond junk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The man has been repeatedly and thoroughly discredited scientifically as ignoring evidence that doesn't fit his prejudices, his testing methods as biased against black people, and using non-equivalent groups.

He was president of an institute classified as a hate group. He speaks routinely at eugenics conferences and has published articles in white supremacy magazines and online websites.

You know, by encouraging off-topic discussion in the first post you're polluting your own discussion forum, forcing people to scroll through pages and pages of off-topic crap to get to the actual discussion.