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Zero length
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT
This may be or may not be off topic, it depends on your point of view.

I would agree on a point being a zero lenght line. In fact, the measure of a
point is zero. In the same sense, although the lenght of a line exists, nor its
area, and a surface has zero volume. Of course, if we measure a surface, we get
an area.

What? An object is divided by a point? Then that object has dimension one. Also,
if an object is divided by a line, then that object is a surface, since the line
has dimension one, then the surface has dimension two, even if you fold it.

Another idea: the function f(x)=(x^2-4)/(x-2) does not exists in x=2, therefore
is non-continuous. Of course the measure of the discontinuity is zero.

SALUDOS
ALVARO

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Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:46 PM EDT

Happy Fourth of July!!!!!

In order to celebrate properly, here is something to do to make sure that your freedoms are secured:

From Fox News on June 29th:

“We are now taught in an ‘Active Shooter’ course that if we encounter a shooter in a public place we are to ‘run away’ and ‘hide’" union leader Brandon Judd wrote on the website of 3,300-member union local. “If we are cornered by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become ‘aggressive’ and ‘throw things’ at him or her. We are then advised to ‘call law enforcement’ and wait for their arrival (presumably, while more innocent victims are slaughtered)."

Pardon my cynicism, or is it just acknowledgement of reality?

It makes me think that DHS is affirming their primary mission is to harass US citizens in airports, while ignoring any threat of any danger.

Do you want safe airports? Let citizens be armed, as the Constitution guarantees. That doesn't mean guns. Large caliber guns are not safe in airspace, but a 22 short can do a lot of damage. Hunting knives, clubs, even box-cutters can provide a much needed edge sometimes. I keep thinking of those brave men on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11. What might they have been able to do if they had been properly armed? Right now, we are disarming the very people who have the most stake in making the flight safe.

I visited the Iowa County Sheriff's Office today in Marengo, Iowa. There was a flyer on the wall that showed concealed weapon permits in Iowa from 1982 to present. There were just over 20,000 permits in 1982. Today there are over 100,000. Iowa is a very safe place to be. We are tied with Idaho for the third-lowest murder rate in the country. The murder rate has actually dropped in the last 30 years, although it doubled in 2008 only, the year almost the whole state flooded.

My neighborhood was a Neighborhood Watch Area decades before the term was coined. People watch out for each other. If you want security, know your neighbors, and be considerate of them.

When we rely on the government to do our job, we have no excuse when we lose rights, and the job doesn't get done.

Again, Happy Fourth of July!!!!

artp, who REALLY needs to find his password in order to be free of typing in inane .sigs.

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The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:41 PM EDT
Click a few keys, exchange a few numbers, and it’s done.

With just a mobile phone and a registration with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile service giant, you can pay for anything in seconds – no cash, no long journeys to towns to reach a bank, and no long lines when you get there. This is m-Pesa, the revolutionary approach to banking which is changing economies across Africa.

The service allows customers and businesses to pay for anything without needing cash, a bank account, or even a permanent address.

Ken Banks, National Geographic

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and then there's this http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/category/new-zealand

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Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture
Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 07:30 PM EDT
Here's an excerpt from interesting upcoming article in Vanity Fair. Some of the reader comments are fascinating.

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EU court OKs resale of software licenses
Authored by: greywolf on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 08:37 PM EDT
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7226070/EU-court-OKs-
resale-of-software-licenses

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I am glad I do not own a Cisco Router
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 10:03 PM EDT
Every once in a while, though, an update comes along that makes you scream in terror, like the one Cisco just rolled out across their router line, forcing users to register with Cisco's cloud service or end up with a bricked device. Big Brother Is Watching YOU

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Bittersweet: N9 gets PR 1.3, community says goodbye to Nokia’s finest
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:39 AM EDT
linky
I’m trapped in a bittersweet mood at the moment. I am thrilled that the N9 has gotten PR 1.3, but I am upset that the Maemo team is finally leaving. In particular, Sotiris Makyrgiannis, the head of MeeGo developement. He has been around to assist in, and bring to the public, devices like the N770, N800, N810, N900 and N9/N950.

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Finance Sector in Shock as Banker Takes Responsibility for Actions
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:46 AM EDT
Link.

; )

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Mysterious ‘dust disk’ in space suddenly disappears, puzzling scientists
Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 10:23 AM EDT
In a cosmic case of “now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t,” a brilliant disk of dust around a Sun-like star has suddenly vanished, and the scientists who observed the disappearance aren’t sure about what happened.

Perhaps someone used a vacuum cleaner. ;-)

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The following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Nokia: We're Not Saying Nexus 7 Infringes ... We're Just Sayin'
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:39 PM EDT
linky
"We've made no such allegations of infringement against the Nexus 7," Mark Durrant, communications personnel for Nokia, told the E-Commerce Times. "Nokia has more than 40 licenses, mainly for its standards-essential patent portfolio, including most of the mobile device manufacturers. Neither Google nor Asus is licensed under our patent portfolio. Companies who are not yet licensed under our standard essential patents should simply approach us and sign up for a license."
Isn't this just plain old smearing?

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How to Monetize Facebook Pages
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT
f-secure

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I think the Styx just froze over
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT
Matthew Yglesias, an economist with the attention span of a
gnat who usually posts two-paragraph bits of misinformed
drivel (sometimes several a day, so you know he's not
wasting his time doing anything resembling research),
actually wrote a sensible piece about what's wrong with the
US Patent system and why the America Invents Act is not a
solution to the fundamental problem, with particular
reference to software.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/0
7/patents_innovation_and_the_america_invents_act_how_a_new_l
aw_encouraging_more_efficient_patent_processing_could_stifle
_american_innovation_.html

Combine this with last week's Dilbert, and all the attention
from Posner's dismissal of the Apple case, and we have some
real progress in terms of consciousness-raising among the
American public.

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Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:38 PM EDT
Someone from CERN just posted on Re ddit that Linux had a role in discovery of Higgs boson.

I don't see any CERN related things here, so I want to mention how Linux (specifically, Scientific Linux and Ubuntu) had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson at CERN. We use it every day in our analyses, together with hosts of open software, such as ROOT, and it plays a major role in the running of our networks of computers (in the grid etc.) used for the intensive work in our calculations.

Yesterday's extremely important discovery has given us new information about how reality works at a very fundamental level and this is one physicist throwing Linux some love.

Ubuntu Vibes

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No Android BOT net. Dp not ever trust anything a Microsoft Employee ( shill) says.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 07:26 AM EDT
... the security researchers who initially outed the botnet are now admitting that they actually don't know for sure. Terry Zink, the Microsoft researcher who originally wrote the report, now says that he considered that the messages could have been spoofed, but decided that it simply made more sense for them to have come from Android. Lies and the fools that tell them

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