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Some interesting stuff going down at the moment. Australian government forced to offer some degree of support to Julian Assange because of amount of public support for him in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/08/3088461.htm Hackers have brought down mastercard.com...

Ridiculous. It only takes a handful of aircraft or missiles and a simple order to deliver a devastating nuclear strike. There is virtually no chance that there would not be a retaliatory strike. To not retaliate would be to utterly undermine the whole basis of MAD. It would have catastrophic...

Why would North Korea want to land 4 or 5 nukes in Tokyo? It would be suicidal. Just because Nth Korea may not be the nicest place on the planet, that doesn't make them insane. The only plausible scenario for the north to use nukes would be if there was total war on the Korean peninsula AND...

What a lot of crap. The world would be improved if more people cast a critical eye over their own nation and engaged less in school yard exchanges of "my country is better than your country".

The Australian attorney general is "looking into it", though they would have to have him extradited from wherever he is at the moment if they want to charge him with something. I doubt that much is going to come of it. He should be more worried about some extra legal event.

Just a thought - if you wanted to get some sort of handle one the cost of a wholly new OS, it would be interesting to find the number of person years spent on something like Symbian and then recognize that it is bound to be a lot smaller than Linux or Windows.

Wouldn't disagree with that as a general principle at all. Modern operating systems have simply become huge. Just the Linux device drivers would be an immense job to replicate. Then there are how many different file systems? Filesystems are not easy to develop. Then there's all the GNU user...

They are not creating an operating system, they are making another Linux distribution which will contain much the same kernel and user space as all other Linux distributions. No doubt it will have some sort or modifications/additions/localization to meet whatever their requirements are. You...

You are joking aren't you? There's always plenty of armchair generals when it comes to these sort of things, but it's plainly obvious that any war with Nth Korea would be a bloodbath compared to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just for a start, the north has a huge amount of heavy artillery in...

Phoronix has a review of some inexpensive stands: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=tyke_dual_monitor&num=1

IQFeed works perfectly under Wine - I've never had a problem. NXCore also reportedly also works perfectly.

Here's the last word on the matter - from no less an authority than a "home health administrator turned physicist specializing in the science of creationism". It's an absolute cracker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UAeSsvHhTg&feature=player_embedded

Indeed. I recall reading recently that China will have more miles of high speed rail than all other nations combined by 2012. Far from being poor at very large scale engineering projects, the Chinese appear to be good at them and getting better all the time. It seems that China has just...

Recently installed a second (HP) printer on my Linux home network. No driver installation, auto configured, a few seconds to make it accessible to all users and machines on the net. All done.

Has Lewis published any climate related research in those 20 years? ANS: NO.

Here's a stumper for the AGW deniers here: Is this a quote from an APS statement or from somebody else? "The GCMs (Global Climate Models) in use nowadays do a pretty good job of calculating the effect of a potential doubling of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, but more...

Ya. Vikana's comment above is very much on the money. You can almost think of an ATS as a finite state machine that processes events coming from the broker/exchange on one side and events coming from trading logic on the other side plus possibly timer events. Synchronous doesn't make any...

What the APS said: APS Comments on Harold Lewis’ Resignation of his Society Membership WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a recent letter to the American Physical Society (APS) President Curtis A. Callan, chair of the Princeton University Physics Department, Harold Lewis, emeritus physics professor...

Any scientist in any field 'benefits' from receiving a salary as does anybody else who is getting paid for any other job. No surprises here. It may come as a surprise to you but for most people scientists applying for research grants in their field of expertise would seem both normal and...

Sad to see that such an eminent scientist with a distinguished career writing such nonsense. But that's what happens when people (even distinguished scientists) cling to ideological nonsense and become incapable of assessing the evidence. And as for the gravy train drivel, climate scientists...