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Fanciful stuff. There's no evidence that any "terrorists" have a nuclear weapon. It is conceivable that somebody could blow up some radioactive material in some sort of dirty bomb and kill a few dozens of people. It may not be nice, but it's orders of magnitude less serious than a genuine...

Yeah, I've done it with Java (on Linux with Wine). You don't even need to bother with the connection malarky - you can just start the diagnostics.exe program and it connects and logs into the IQFeed servers and stays logged in "indefinitely". The Java "API" is just a TCP connection and some...

You could try the following option on the java command line: -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true Which relates to java 2d rendering (possible screen corruption). If "true" doesn't help try "false" also - I think the default has changed somewhere in jre releases. Are your graphics drivers up...

The SUN JVM is not going to get this wrong. If you use jconsole you can look at the garbage collection behavior and possibly reduce your max heap size which is a good thing if your hardware is memory challenged. It is quite easy to do.

top or ps is not going to give a reasonable estimate of the memory utilization of java apps. If you install the jdk, there is a application called jconsole that lets you look at heap size, heap utilization, garbage collection and lots of other interesting stuff for any java app. Very useful in...

The problem is that "free markets" do not price environmental damage properly (if at all). There is a huge economic cost to future generations of spewing enormous amounts of GHGs into the atmosphere, but that is not currently priced in by the market. The current situation is a complete market...

Indeed. Capitalism historically has depended on growing markets otherwise known as economic growth (through population growth, technological advances, globalisation, imperialism and other factors) . And economic growth has depended on increasing consumption of resources. Can economic growth be...

This argument is about as credible as the "magic scientific discovery will save our bacon" fantasy. While I agree that rising living standards do slow population growth, the proposition that the planet can support say 7 billion people with living standards similar to western countries in a...

Err .... so what? If the global temperature has been raised 6C, the coral reefs are dead and many of the ocean food webs have collapsed because of the ocean acidity, the Amazon rain forest is dead, there has been 20% - 30% species extinction, we've run out of phosphates, cannot desalinate enough...

You could buy one of these monsters: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/14/leaked-gigabyte-motherboard-has-seven-pci-e-x16-slots/ Seven PCI-E x16 slots! What do you cool it with? A wind tunnel?

I really don't know what you are on about. Your line speed (eg ADSL, cable, dialup whatever) is just the speed to your ISP. After that things depend on your ISP infrastructure, peering arrangements etc. If the pipes are too small and there is congestion etc, which may of course be the case...

If you want to really find out what's in the network traffic you think is being generated, then install wireshark. It is a sophisticated packet sniffer and it's free. But you will probably need to devote some time into learning how to interpret what you see. Good learning exercise...

I was reading a piece about this today. The current eruption is both smaller and in high latitude. Eruptions in the tropics apparently have a greater effect on climate because the emitted sulphur dioxide is more likely to be carried upwards into the stratosphere and dispersed around the globe...

And the number one freedom is always and without question the freedom to life. Which you would recklessly deny to those without any say in the matter. The ultimate enslavement. A war with Nth Korea would be a blood bath. The North has the capacity to turn Seoul into rubble and that wouldn't...

Try jumping off a tall building. Far from being "unknown" you will very rapidly come to be on intimate terms with gravity. Furthermore the duration of your small remaining period in this life can be calculated quite accurately. I would also remind you that an electron for example is not a...

That is a rather old interview. It would be a lot more interesting to see if he has changed any of his views today in markets that have a higher level of automated trading.

Bye-bye, Global Cooling Myth: Hottest march and hottest Jan-Feb-Mar on Record http://climateprogress.org/2010/04/1...atellite-data/ "It was the hottest March in both satellite records (UAH and RSS), and tied for the hottest March on record in the NASA dataset. It was the hottest (or tied...

Have you tried to run TS under wine?

Let me repeat this for your benefit. Whatever the problem is or was with whatever piece of software you are/were using it is NOT the Java programming language or the the Java virtual machine. Java is mature, robust and has good performance. It is in the top two or three (if not the top)...

Both. Wherever you live in whatever western country, there are restrictions on what you can do with your property imposed for purposes of town planning, hygiene etc etc etc. They are, for the most part not unreasonable - though of course one can always find instances of administrative silliness...