richardwigley

>> Warners was expecting to have "Happy Birthday" under copyright until 2030.

At which time Disney would have extended copyright another 30 years.

The Microcorruption folks are in beta for 'Jailbreak' along the security angle again. They are also doing Stockfigher a trading simulator. https://www.stockfighter.io

Odd and interesting to read. I would have guessed a larger percentage of Russians got their views online.

I would also think that most online news written in Russian would be under control of state media. In which case, if they did start to use the Internet to find news then nothing would change.

Maybe a Russian nytimes.com?

It's real and in 'development' http://www.imdb.com/news/ni56219676/

14 year old boy is going to meet POTUS and he can bring his cool clock. https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

>> Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.

Meh.

Agreed, it would make more sense to use the EU apparatus. The change org was promoted through German pirate party (according to link I followed from here https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/who-is-behind-the-attack-on-fre... )

There is a petition against it on Change.org .. currently 192,000 signatures.... Now 193.... https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-save-the-freedo...

>> This thoughtless behaviour reminds me of the thousands of websites which include a "(c) YYYY" copyright notice in their footers, despite this being completely irrelevant in modern copyright law.

I'll bite :-) Are you automatically covered then? - companies like Apple still do it .... 'Copyright © 2015 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.'

Your value to a company is not only what you can do now, but what you can do in the future - If you get acute back ache, burn out and RSI in both paws - you'll be taken out back, like old yeller, and shot.

You and your company, need you in the long term.

>> "When the data speeds in both directions — downloading and uploading — were the same, there was a lot of electrical interference that slowed data traffic to a crawl.

>> ... such meddlesome interference — known as electrical crosstalk — could be drastically reduced if the download speeds were far faster than the upload speeds."

Cool, so DSL is prevented from increasing the upstream traffic by the physics - not a matter of upgrading the 'boxes' at each end of the wire.

So the op has stopped drinking coffee and was clear of headaches which he thinks is due to Dandy Blend.

However, he is still getting a considerable fraction of the caffeine he got previously, but now from tea. If he is still taking the active drug, Caffeine, why would he expect any withdrawal?

Avoiding processed food should be what Cartman would call 'hippy nonsense'. Unfortunately, many food processors are interested in removing, expensive, nutritious food and replacing them with things that make us 'enjoy food', sugar, salt, and fats.

Unless processors can see the point in changing formula, for whatever reason, it's good, and simple, advice for those wanting to live healthily.

Authoritative source of information, thanks ;-) I will evaluate it on my next project.

Is Rethink going to stay in the community? Or is there a chance that it could be bought out? I don't want to spend time learning something and have it go private like FoundationDB. I'm assuming GNU and Apache is a good thing?

How is RethinkDB licensed?

The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0. http://rethinkdb.com/faq/

As of last year about 12,000 mines - they are trying to close smaller mines which are often illegal and have high death rates. However, they are still expanding capacity [2] - so the closure of mines isn't a good proxy to production of coal.

Putting the 13 million metric tons cut into context - China produced 3 billion and change from 2010-2014 [2]. So, while it might be important for Beijing and may signal a change of stance (?), from a China usage perspective it isn't a big difference, by itself.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023046263045795090...

[2] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/669c44d2-a780-11e4-8e78-00144feab7...

So, taking the office of national (UK) statistics - in 2013 the growth rate of the population is 0.6%, on 64 million. Giving you 384,000 extra per year - about half of the growth is (births - deaths) and the other half is net migration [1].

Meanwhile from 1990 onwards we're seeing an average of less than 200,000 [2] - In the last few years the rates are the lowest for the time period on the graph (back to the 1970s).

[1] http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/population-estima...

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30776306

The article summaries as 'we eat too much sugar', 'here's some science that suggests it can be bad in rodents', and finally 'maybe you should swear off sugar'.

I agree, we eat too much sugar. However, it is a step to go from rodents to humans and they have not addressed it.

We're apes that lived in Africa. We spent a lot of time in trees eating fruit all year around.

We have eyes that are adapted to find fruit - so much so that while most of our furry mammal relatives, like rodents tested in the article, are red-green color blind (dichromats) [1] we are mainly trichromatic, color vision. Trichromatic helps you to pick out a red fruit from a green background [2]. So, for some reason, our ancestors that could see fruit, did better than those that didn't, which was not the case with rodents.

I suggest we evolved on different diet than what rodents evolved on. Before comparing sugar to an addiction you should reproduce the results on primates - I'd be happy to be in the control group and snack on a Snickers bar ;-)

[1] http://www.ratbehavior.org/RatVision.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_color_vision

I saw Mail Chimp at $200 a month for 10,000 and thought.. really? However, when I look at Mail Chimp it seems to be $75.

So: 10K subscribers, Monthly charge, Unlimited sendlimit

Mail Chimp - $75 - http://mailchimp.com/pricing/all/

SendGlide - $29 - http://www.sendglide.com/

Still favourable for you but significantly different. I appreciate that pricing is always complicated. Am I missing something?

It's a move that makes sense - his business of allowing you to share and download files puts him at odds with authorities. Given this nature of this business his clients would motivated to use secure communications. He will be able to market to the sort of people who need privacy and have used his services before.

If you should trust him [1], and if you like him are another matter - but clearly there's a business opportunity for someone who can market to the megaupload crowd.

[1] https://anoninsiders.net/mega-960/

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Edit: Changed 'like' to 'motivated' as it describes the situation better (see Zigurd's comment below)

Evergreen, now there's a euphemism. :-)

I appreciate, in the end you have to do what gets you the most views, however, from my perspective missing out the date means you prefer to waste my time as I have to scan the article until I get a feel for how old it is.

I would read anything written within 6 months and would consider up to 12 months if the information was high quality. It's not like we're overburdened with quality, independent, information.

If your going to be business minded, why not have the date on for the first few months and remove it when the first flush of green has gone. ;-)

His work was ignored, ironically, through a lack of scientific reasoning - by which the critics meant there was no theoretical basis for his evidence. It was taken seriously when Pasteur provided the theory, however, the failure to recognise the idea advanced evidence-based medicine - which is where we are today. So, ignoring him actually advanced science ;-)

Contemporary reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis

Semmelweis's critics claimed his findings lacked scientific reasoning. The failure of the nineteenth-century scientific community to recognize Semmelweis's findings, and the nature of the flawed critiques outlined below, helped advance a positivist epistemology, leading to the emergence of evidence-based medicine. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_reaction_to_Ignaz_...

From Doc linked from the page: "Dr. Czeisler received royalties from McGraw Hill, Penguin Press/Houghton" [1]

It's shaming of the BBC not to have dealt with the findings more critically, rather than regurgitation of the press release. The characterization of iPads as e-readers in the context of the royalties looks suspicious.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/18/1418490112

A major problem for the military is the availability of guns (and people who are effective at firing them). In the UK we used to kill ourselves with gas from the stove (it had carbon monoxide in it) - when gas stopped having carbon monoxide people thought - 'well people will find another way of killing themselves' but they didn't - availability of way of killing yourself was a factor in suicide. There's no obvious solution for the military, since they need guns. However, we can say that as a group they are more likely to kill themselves as they have an effective means to commit suicide when they are depressed. In the way an office worker does not.

Wikipedia article on this subject:

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Lethal means reduction [edit] Means reduction, reducing the odds that a suicide attempter will use highly lethal means, is an important component of suicide prevention.[17]

For years, researchers and health policy planners have theorized and demonstrated that restricting lethal means can help reduce suicide rates, as delaying action until depression passes.[18] There is strong evidence that restricted access at so-called suicide hotspots, such as bridges and cliffs, reduces suicides, whereas other interventions such as placing signs or increasing surveillance at these sites appears less effective.[19] One of the most famous historical examples, of means reduction, is that of coal gas in the United Kingdom. Until the 1950s, the most common means of suicide in the UK was poisoning by gas inhalation. In 1958, natural gas (virtually free of carbon monoxide) was introduced, and over the next decade, comprised over 50% of gas used. As carbon monoxide in gas decreased, suicides also decreased. The decrease was driven entirely by dramatic decreases in the number of suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning.[20][21]

A photo illustration produced by the Defense Media Agency on suicide prevention In the United States, numerous studies have concluded that firearm access is associated with increased suicide completion.[22] "About 85% of attempts with a firearm are fatal: that’s a much higher case fatality rate than for nearly every other method. Many of the most widely used suicide attempt methods have case fatality rates below 5%.".[23][24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_prevention

German military texts enciphered on the Enigma machine were first broken by the Polish Cipher Bureau, beginning in December 1932. This success was a result of efforts by three Polish cryptologists, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working for Polish military intelligence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

Mealy - I didn't know there was a word for that taste - http://www.thekitchn.com/food-science-what-makes-apples-9570...

"Right now, there are about 1,800 survivors of the current West African outbreak, all of whom are now immune, of course. But there may be many thousands more."

Well, that's conjecture, oddly enough, reinfecting people with a deadly disease has various ethical issues - so there aren't any experiments to look at.

When it was tested with primates [1] they all survived after a 10 week period but 2 out of 6 died after 13 week period. How this works for humans god knows but 'all of whom are now immune' I wouldn't be so confident.

[1] http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/131128/srep03365/full/srep03...

Interesting - in cricket there is a similar problem - the umpire has to judge if the ball was going to hit the wicket (similar problem to going 'over the plate'). They brought in a computer review system in and it also increased how often you were out LBW (similar to 'struck out').

"[ the review system ] has increased the bowler’s potential target area by a remarkable 70 per cent" [1]

However, it has improved things because it forced the player to do something rather than block the ball and hope they wouldn't be given out. So, technology helped in this case.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/engla...

Yeah, it is depressing in the UK - the usage of antibiotics on colds (i.e. of no value to most people with colds) has increased 40% this century even with a campaign to limit usage.

I've personally spoken to a couple of GPs/Docs and they said after a few hours of people coming in and asking they get tired and give in.

Between that and farms using them like M&Ms (smarties ;-) ) on the cattle it seems like people are taking a precious resource and throwing it on the floor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28648785

Mysterious lightning flashes that appear to precede earthquakes could be sparked by movements in the ground below, US scientists say.

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"Our first suspicion was this has got to be a mistake. There must be something stupid we are doing," said Professor Troy Shinbrot, of Rutgers University, New Jersey.

"We took a tupperware container filled with flour, tipped it back and forth until cracks appeared, and it produced 200 volts of charge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26462348