OK, my visual cortex is officially due for repair. I read the headline as "New Technique Promises Much Faster Hot Damn Write Speeds"

Good article, BTW.

The fallacy could be a faulty generalization fallacy, specifically a hasty generalization. That is, given:

If A then Z.
If B then Z.
If C then Z.

A = X and (other things).
B = X and (other things).
C = X and (other things).

We faultily conclude, therefore, that for all D = X and (other things), the statement "D then Z" is true.

For want of a rad-hard chip, the board died.

For want of a board, the software couldn't cope.

For want of good software, the engine start failed.

For want of engine start, the probe died.

For want of a probe, the human race didn't detect the slimy aliens from Phobos and all perished in a hot and somewhat greasy fireball.

Libera te tutemet ex inferis!

The Library of Congress does serve Congress. First. Then it serves the broader US Government. Then it serves the public.

Three closely related questions about the rare books collections at the Library of Congress:

1. I know there is some kind of effort going on to digitize the rare books collections, but can it be sped up? There are many high-quality low-cost archival book scanners out there (such as the ones developed at diybookscanner.org).

2. It gets really annoying to have to receive paper copies of books when copies are requested. Why not DVDs of high-quality images?

3. Why is there no outreach by the LoC to smaller, cheaper book scanning efforts? The Internet Archive, DIYBookscanner.org, and Decapod all come to mind.

If I die before 2045, then the important data (financial, insurance, and so on) will be available to my next of kin by virtue of their being my legal next of kin. The ultimately unimportant data (slashdot, sourceforge, boingboing) will just float around, accumulating bit rot.

If I reach 2045, then most likely I will not die, and my data and my self will be one and the same :)

Correction, I think: T cells focus on protein markers. This is why one of the patients died: the protein marker associated with the cancerous cells also turned out to be present on healthy lung tissue.

The Victorians.

The introns have also been deciphered:

AGTTACCATGGGA /* Support new standard RFC -3374, Oxygen as Fuel */ GGCTTCAAA....

Weekends I go to the NextFab makerspace in Philadelphia (US) to work on my project. That's when I feel the most productive, because I'm producing for myself.

Sunday I get to refine all the stuff I did Saturday, so that's why I chose Sunday.

Now, Monday -- Monday is my grumpiest day.

Fascinating. My screenplay is released under a Creative Commons license. There's no reason why a movie studio couldn't release a movie based on the screenplay (with my permission)... except that they want exclusive rights? That makes no sense.

OMG, that's insane! It's like that Real Genius scene came to life, where the prof teaches the students, then the students get replaced by tape recorders, then the prof gets replaced by a reel-to-reel!

Maybe they got rid of "Who, What, Where, When, How (and in investigative journalism, Why)" since the time I was in school.

So something like Zork or any interactive fiction that uses Z-Code would be banned?