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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 02:18 AM EST |
When you decide not to prosecute bankers for billion-dollar crimes
connected to drug-dealing and terrorism (some of HSBC's Saudi and Bangladeshi
clients had terrorist ties, according to a Senate investigation), it doesn't
protect the banking system, it does exactly the opposite. It terrifies investors
and depositors everywhere, leaving them with the clear impression that even the
most "reputable" banks may in fact be captured institutions whose senior
executives are in the employ of (this can't be repeated often enough) murderers
and terrorists.
Even more shocking, the Justice Department's response to
learning about all of this was to do exactly the same thing that the HSBC
executives did in the first place to get themselves in trouble – they took money
to look the other way.
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 06:58 AM EST |
Link Well, the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and various other
recent things, seem to have triggered a flood of cheap programmable devices of
various types. I think that is great. This thing obviously can become a game
controller, so it will be a nice peripheral for the Pi, as well as any laptop or
desktop. I think that we are seeing the beginning of a new era where the
little guy, with very linited finances, can actually get to develop useful
things on cheap but decent hardware. This has never before been so in the field
of computing, as even the likes of a Sinclair Spectrum cost many times more than
any of these simple boards that are available, and when inflation is factored
in, the cost is not even in the same order of magnitude. Nor are the performance
capabilities, but in the opposite direction. As we now have a world where
anyone with some spare time can learn to program reasonably well (and most
people will succeed, if they have the interest and motivation and make the
effort to learn), there is all the more reason to get rid of software patents,
completely and utterly, otherwise they will always get in the way of what people
can do. Just imaging some kid who gets an Esplora and a Pi, and makes something
clever and useful. First thing he will do is share copies of the software with
his friends. Next, someone nasty like Apple, M$ or Oracle notices a patent
violation...... That must not be allowed to happen. Freedom to program
matters. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 07:19 AM EST |
I was looking at Linux databases trying to find a non client-server database a
bit "stronger" then sqlite ( comparing to Paradox on Windows ). One of
the DB's I came across is MaxDB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB.
In the article is says taht for a while MaxDB was GPLed but more recent versions
are closed source. So I'm confused. How can you close source a GPLed product?
Mouse The Lucky Dog[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 08:11 AM EST |
How Curiosity took a
self-portrait on Mars --- The following program contains immature
subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 08:12 AM EST |
I like trying to find the most off-topic stuff that I can, but which is
really
related. Here's a court case involving Reality TV Show Storage Wars. One
of the stars is suing the show, and claims it is faked.
TMZ has a
copy of the redacted complaint linked to from the story. Enjoy.
TMZ Online
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 08:21 AM EST |
Stephen Hawking and other
eminent scientists called Friday for the British government to pardon computer
pioneer Alan Turing, who helped win World War II but was later prosecuted for
homosexuality. --- The following program contains immature subject
matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 09:37 AM EST |
It would seem that the idea of penalties maxing at 10% of global turnover has
concentrated minds somewhat. See:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/97425
63/Amazon-wins-EU-e-book-pricing-war-with-Apple.html
Other outlets have the news too.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 09:38 AM EST |
Molecules can now be folded into shapes in minutes, not days.
The
technique involves using short DNA strands to hold a longer, folded strand in
place at certain points, like sticky tape. Until now, assembling the shape has
involved heating the DNA and allowing it to cool slowly for up to a
week.
But that time has now been slashed to
minutes. Hendrik Dietz, a biophysicist at the Technical University of Munich in
Germany, and his colleagues stained the DNA with fluorescent dye and watched
what happened as it cooled and folded. By stopping the reaction at different
stages, they could check how far the folding and sticking had
gone.
They discovered something striking: “It
turns out that almost for the entire temperature range, nothing happens," says
Dietz. But when a crucial temperature is reached, the whole structure forms
suddenly.
Katharine Sanderson
, Nature
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Does this
have any impact on Folding@Home ?
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 10:20 AM EST |
Hi all math-minds,
On a totally not related site I found a discussion about
1 == 0.99999999....
because there was nothing in between those numbers.
not even 0.(0)1 what is claimed to be nonexistent because
there is no end to all the intermediate 0's to attach the 1.
Isn't that the same as saying pi is non-existent because
it has no end to attach the (never ending) rest of it ?
(While clearly it exists exactly as TT.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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