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We had some networking issues that were causing packet loss over the past couple days that (we think) have been resolved. If you noticed the site being a bit sluggish, it should be improved now.
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See http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Bret Taylor
ddos?
- Hüseyin Mert
Not DDOS; bug on our side. http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
oh, thanks God :)
- Hüseyin Mert
با عضویت در اتاق " در ارتباط با توییتر... " از جدید ترین متعلقات این سرویس با خبر شوید... اسمایلی : (تبلیغات).http://friendfeed.com/twitte-r
- سینه سرخ
bret neler oluyor? hani ben yaşadığım sürece ff kapanmayacaktı..hani ff'yi benim üzerime yapmıştın..nedir bu dedikodular???
- aynebilim
Bret yavşaksın olum sen. 2009'dan beri hiç mi siteye girmez lan adam. Olum ne Fb merklısı bir adammışsın lan sen. İnsan merak eder ne var ne yok diye girer de bir selam yazar. Senin amk lan ben. Siktin gül gibi siteyi şimdi de kapanacak diyorlar. Kapatacağına biz Türk kardeşlerine devret kardeşim. Biz domain falan alırız, sokayım boktan domainine. Yönlendireceksin sadece panelden. Ne dersin Bret? Hadi kardeşim bir düşün. gerçi girmiyorsun di mi sen buraya. Hay mk ya.
- EG
Hi Bret, we recently heard that you're shutting down Friendfeed - is this true? Please clarify this for the sake of FF Turkish Community :)
- DenizTuran
cool
- solncee
cool
- arieana
http://swc.bc.ca for shoring in the Turkish Community.
- Anthony Berkut
nice to see you againe .
- meseret mihreteab
"Xbox One won’t be backwards compatible with Xbox 360 discs or support transfers of XBLA titles" http://feedly.com/k/166aXGe
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That's going to be an unpopular decision.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Yeah, it takes away another incentive to migrate. I don't want to ditch my old games or re-buy them, and I've got most things I need right now.
- Jennifer Dittrich
The PS3 is doing just fine even though it's not compatible with PS2.
- Tudor Bosman
That's cause we're already like a decade removed from the PS2's heyday. When the original PS3 launched it did have PS2 game support. It wasn't until later that they removed it. I still have that original model. Actually now that I think about it I'm kinda surprised it hadn't died yet.
- ronin
But theoretically later adopters would also have adopted the PS2 later, so they would have had a similar time gap between buying the two. I think the PS3 dropping backwards compatibility showed how little consumers care about that these days.
- Andrew C (✓)
I guess I'm more irritated about the XBLA stuff, since it feels like 99% of the reasoning there is a plain old money grab. There'll be blah-blah about supporting old schema, but really? They just want you to relicense those games for your new machine.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Another part of the PS2 thing, is that support was dropped along with price drops of both systems, and Sony still produces PS2's. PS2 sales were still leading "this" generation for a year or two.
- Gimminy
Earlier versions of PS3 were compatible. I have the last of the 60GB PS3s that had hardware compatibility, the only thing it can't do is play games with specialized PS2 hardware. I had little interest in a box that mothballed my software investment. It's a mistake for $MS to drop compatibility right out of the box.
- Tinfoil 2.0
The 360 was quasi backwards compatible with the original Xbox (some kind of custom per-game translation layer) for what ended up being a few hundred games. I suspect part of the difference in expectations is that you can still use your 360; it's not like phones where you really only expect to have one at a time.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
I'd like to see backwards compatibility purely because I've bought more games on the current gen consoles that I ever did on any previous ones.
- Kol Tregaskes
Police Break Up Fight Between 'Star Wars' and 'Doctor Who' Fans, No Force Was Used - Mashable http://mashable.com/2013...
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I think it would be pretty hard to win a fight against a guy with a time machine, let alone a guy with a time machine *and* a sonic screwdriver. How are you going to threaten a guy with a Death Star when he can just go back in time and make sure your Death Star isn't even built?
- Victor Ganata
And now I just realized why R2D2 can open *any* door and hack into *any* computer. Some mad scientist has apparently fused together a Dalek with a Time Lord.
- Victor Ganata
The original title of the article (at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news..., since changed) was "The Force called to Star Wars clash".
- Tudor Bosman
Cats can be furry, little assholes.
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Yes, cats are furry, but why are you calling us all little assholes? :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Cats have furry, little assholes.
- Tudor Bosman
Heh, no matter how many times I read the rules of using commas with coordinated vs non-coordinated adjectives, the comma in the sentence above just screams at me to be messed with as I did.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013...& - an exercise in the grotesque misuse of data
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The Oregon Medicaid study was not *designed* to determine if current treatments of hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes are effective. We know from vast countless other studies that, yes, keeping blood pressure, LDL, and glucose levels/HbA1c in control decreases your mortality risk. The n of this study is insufficient to either prove or disprove this.
- Victor Ganata
single payer universal health care is cheaper than the current private for profit american health care system, for the nation as a whole. That it also eliminates the possibility of medical bankruptcies is almost an unintended consequence. And people with reliable, inexpensive, health care can manage their diabetes. So, few diabetics going blind or having amputations. The machine is really moving into high gear trying to kill the damned thing.
- DJF
Power calculations for the Oregon Medicaid study - Incidental Economist http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpre...
- Victor Ganata
That is actually one of the definitive findings of the study: Medicaid in fact protects Americans from the crushing financial hardships of requiring catastrophic medical care.
- Victor Ganata
A1C is the worst example to use ever. There's 0 incentive physically to lower your A1C because the effects are so long term and there's every incentive in the environment to eat carbs. It would be a shocking surprise of epic proportions if they had succeeded in lowering A1C. It's like studying drug addicts and wondering why they don't quit with a trivial little intervention.
- Todd Hoff
Be that as it may, other studies demonstrate that medications can keep HbA1c under control, and patients with controlled HbA1c have a lower mortality risk. But regardless of all that, the number of people with elevated A1c at the onset of the Oregon Medicaid Study is insufficient to determine if Medicaid coverage has a statistically significant effect.
- Victor Ganata
Be that as it may, most diabetics have poor control, it takes immense dedication to keep your A1C normalish. Not something that most people have. It's bogus for that reason. Nobody would think a simple intervention would be sufficient to cure drug addiction, it's not sufficient to control your A1C either.
- Todd Hoff
Agreed, blood sugar control in DM2 can be extremely difficult. I think it is possible, however, to design a study that can determine if some intervention can make an impact. But my only point in the context of the Oregon Medicaid study is that, no, this study didn't have an adequate sample to determine one way or another if being on Medicaid helps someone with DM2.
- Victor Ganata
It's possible, but so unlikely that designing a study around it is setting up the test for failure, regardless of power.
- Todd Hoff
Well, that's a different thread entirely.
- Victor Ganata
Which is why I brought it up. Any conclusions are invalid because the study was doomed to failure, which makes me wonder why it was used as an example.
- Todd Hoff
Studies frequently analyze secondary end-points, even when they're not adequately powered to do so. Subgroup analysis can be helpful to direct further research, but they can definitely lead to untoward conclusions.
- Victor Ganata
I mean, it's one thing to argue that DM2 is difficult to treat, an entirely different thing to argue that since this study cannot demonstrate any benefit to treatment, we should stop covering medications for the purpose of treating DM2, stop covering glucometers, test strips, and lancets, stop covering DM retinopathy screening, and stop covering foot care and foot wear.
- Victor Ganata
This post further dissects the findings of the study: Oregon and Medicaid and Evidence and CHILL, PEOPLE! - Incidental Economist http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpre...
- Victor Ganata
"Non-statistical significance does not mean failure. It means that either (a) there is no treatment effect or (b) the study is underpowered."
- Victor Ganata
"The percent of people with diabetes with a high A1C went from 5.1% off Medicaid to 4.2% (p=0.61)" "No statistically significant effect" is not necessarily synonymous with "no effect whatsoever". All this really means is that we need a more focused study.
- Victor Ganata
"Most of these measures are still process measures. A1C is a marker. So is cholesterol. Did real outcomes change? Patient centered ones, like health related quality of life, did. Did mortality? Did morbidity? We still don’t know. That would take more time to see."
- Victor Ganata
I think this is the key here, though: "Financial hardship matters. Here Medicaid shined. It hugely reduced out of pocket spending, catastrophic expenditures, medical debt, and the need to borrow money or skip payments."
- Victor Ganata
Forget the medical issues, the article misses a fundamental point. The Oregon study specifically indicates that outcomes of "common medical conditions" is unaffected by Medicaid, but doesn't say (or at least the article doesn't mention it) whether people who were *not* on Medicaid sought and received treatment for these conditions. Perhaps everyone got treated for heart disease, but only some could pay for it, the others went bankrupt.
- Tudor Bosman
From the study itself: "Medicaid coverage… nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditures."
- Victor Ganata
That's another important caveat, actually. The study certainly doesn't look at outcomes. Two years is grossly inadequate to measure morbidity and mortality risk reduction for hypertension, dyslipidemia, or DM2.
- Victor Ganata
Perhaps people aren't as stupid as we sometimes think, and they don't forgo routine medical care even if they can't afford it. In that case, a system of tax credits to help pay for routine care + insurance to pay for catastrophic events would work.
- Tudor Bosman
Does the study mention expensive, chronic diseases, such as treatable forms of cancer? I'd imagine insurance to help a lot in that case.
- Tudor Bosman
No, we do know from other studies that people *do* forego preventive and routine care if they can't afford it. What most people don't do is forego catastrophic care. (Which is why the idea of shopping around for a surgeon to take care of your ruptured appendicitis or a cardiologist to keep you from dying from your anterior wall MI is absurd.)
- Victor Ganata
I mean, is the NRA going to start agitating to prevent government regulation of 3D printers? To stop government regulation of plastics? The idea that it will be somehow easier and/or cheaper to Torrent plans for a gun and hit print instead of going to Walmart and just buying a gun is preposterous.
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For one thing, there isn't a constitutionally guaranteed right to print arbitrary 3D objects or to purchase and store arbitrary chemicals.
- Victor Ganata
Since it is about the money this seems like the natural direction. When guns are free I suspect tactics will have to change.
- Todd Hoff
The plans for guns are free. I seriously doubt anyone is going to be giving away 3D printers or pounds of ABS any time soon. Gun manufacturers can still probably make guns from metal way cheaper than anyone could print a gun out of plastic, so they might not worry until prices start coming down drastically. But if the government decides to take a direct interest in ABS or any other durable plastic, prices may never come down.
- Victor Ganata
And, sure, people can probably synthesize their own ABS in their basements, but I still don't see how this will be cost-effective.
- Victor Ganata
I don't know that cost is the main point for many of the 'print your own gun' enthusiasts, really. I think it is more that they can do so, on demand, as long as they have plans and materials. They don't even have to be connected to the grid if they're setup beforehand.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Of course, cheaper might be relative, if you've got something like this in your setup: http://reviews.cnet.com/3d-prin...
- Jennifer Dittrich
Printers and materials are a trivial cost Victor. The effect won't be immediate but there will be one relatively quickly. It will be fun to see the twisting and flipflopping necessary to now say guns that don't deliver profit into our sponsors are actually a bad idea, we didn't really mean what we said before.
- Todd Hoff
I suppose you could grind up whatever ABS you can find, but that is still probably not going to be cheaper than just buying ready-to-print ABS.
- Victor Ganata
The goal of gun control is not to get rid of all guns (despite what the NRA is saying as a scare tactic) but to reduce the amount of guns out there, especially in the hands of dangerous folks. 3D printing is still a pretty high barrier to entry and will likely be for a few years. The Diamond Age this is not.
- Tudor Bosman
I could be naive and say this development could sap some of the profit motive out of war, but that would be silly.
- Todd Hoff
True $50/kilogram for materials is cheap, but I just have a hard time of thinking that a one-time cost of $1,299 is equivalent to "free." I am not convinced we're going to be living in a world where everyone will have a 3D printer even if that price drops down considerably.
- Victor Ganata
Their friend will have a printer or kinkos or the local shop. Or you just tell someone in india to print it and send it to you next day mail. This is an exponential curve effect so the changes will be surprising.
- Todd Hoff
Oh, I'm not saying no one is going to do it, or that it's going to be impossible. I just don't see how printing out homemade plastic guns will ever realistically compete with gun manufacturers who can churn out far higher quality products for way cheaper. I still think that, say, an ex-con, for example, would still rather get a real gun somehow than to try and print a gun. It just seems like more of a novelty than something actually practical.
- Victor Ganata
I don't think that it is meant to compete, more provide a wholly different avenue. I don't see someone who wants to buy a gun doing this any time soon in the future, but I do see militia and preppers stocking away plans and supplies for this alongside their current arsenal in case more are needed when they can't be had. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OUR GUNS, or somesuch thing.
- Jennifer Dittrich
We see the cheeper and crappier then domination lifecycle all the time. The market is entered with a far inferior product yet it's much cheaper or convenient or X and it quickly iterates, improves, and then ends up winning the battle. We are very early in the cycle, but it's following the same pattern.
- Todd Hoff
Sure, it's possible. But I don't think it's inevitable. This seems more akin to arguing that open source OSes will someday inevitably power 95% of desktop and notebook computers, completely displacing every proprietary OS. But sometimes crappy and impractical simply evolves to robust but still impractical for the majority of people.
- Victor Ganata
Be that as it may, it's not inevitable that open source or open source printable gun plans will take over the world for a variety of reasons, not least of all because of the vested interests of existing OS and gun manufacturers.
- Victor Ganata
Correlation does not imply causation, but surely lack of correlation implies lack of causation?
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Specific, but not sensitive.
- Victor Ganata
Yes, it's the contrapositive of "causation implies correlation", which is obvious.
- Tudor Bosman
A lack of correlation could be do to problems with sampling techniques, hidden variables, or your statistics. So a lack of correlation doesn't imply a lack of causation. And since must use correlation to determine causation, the world is much murkier than it would appear.
- Todd Hoff
How to switch off Facebook's notification sounds
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1. Log in to your Facebook account. Click the gear icon in the upper right.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
2. Choose Account Settings from the pulldown menu.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
3. Select the "Notifications" link on the list on the left (sixth item down)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
4. At the top, next to where it says "How You Get Notifications," click the "On Facebook" section.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
5. Deselect the "Play a sound when each notification is received" option. Click Save Changes.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
They added this back in January, apparently? I didn't notice prior to today, because I don't often have sounds on on my laptop and don't use Facebook on my desktop much, but it was driving me crazy today.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Oh thank goodness. This makes me nuts.
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
Oh my god. Thank you.
- Monique the crochet freak
Glad to help. The Picard image I added above is for the two of you.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Lololol
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
There's another way. In the settings in the account, simply select "close account".
- Die Leberwurst
Uli is wise.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Riii-iiight. And tomorrow is Christmas.
- Die Leberwurst
It is? Merry Xmas Eve, Uli.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I think that notification sound is on the wrong website. Would serve people better if it were on GMail, notifying us of new incoming mail.
- April Russo
Stephen, I followed the instructions, and it doesn't seem to work for the chat/messenger messages. Any idea how to stop those?
- Monique the crochet freak
Momo, in the lower right, with the side bar, there's a grey gear. Click that, then uncheck Chat Sounds. (Took me a while to find it.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I will say that the notifications launched to employees one day before the checkbox to turn the notifications off. That was not a good day.
- Tudor Bosman
Thank you for posting this! I finally did it. EDIT: not that I even have a lot of fb notification pings but it only takes one time to drive me insane.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
The Science of High Frame Rates, Or: Why ‘The Hobbit’ Looks Bad At 48 FPS (Movieline) - http://movieline.com/2012...
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From the article: "Movieline spoke with filmmaker James Kerwin, who lectured on the subject of the science of film perception and consciousness at the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Studies. (His presentation included an analysis of the work of Dr. Stuart Hameroff and British cosmologist/philosopher Roger Penrose, and their quantum theory of consciousness.) According to Kerwin, there really is a simple scientific answer for why The Hobbit’s 48 fps presentation plays so poorly with some viewers — and it's not something we'll get used to over time."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from Bookmarklet
James Kerwin: “Studies seem to show that most humans see about 66 frames per second — that’s how we see reality through our eyes, and our brains. So you would think that 48 frames per second is sufficiently below that — that it would look very different from reality. But what people aren’t taking into account is the fact that although we see 66 frames per second, neuroscientists and consciousness researchers are starting to realize that we’re only consciously aware of 40 moments per second.”
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
He continues: "'Dr. Hameroff’s theory has to do with the synchrony of the gamma waves in the brain — it’s called gamma synchrony — the brain wave cycle of 40 hertz. There’s a very strong theory that that is why we perceive 40 moments per second, but regardless of the reason, most researchers agree we perceive 40 conscious moments per second. In other words: our eyes see more than that...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
And he concludes: "Those high frame rates are great for reality television, and we accept them because we know these things are real. We’re always going to associate high frame rates with something that’s not acted, and our brains are always going to associate low frame rates with something that is not. It’s not a learned behavior; [Some say] you watch it long enough and you won’t...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I find his argument utterly absurd. When I watch a play, I know that I'm watching something that isn't real. Depending on my seat, I can see the actors spit, I can sometimes see their makeup, or their street clothes under their costumes. But if the play is good and the acting is good, none of that matters, I quickly get absorbed into the reality the play conjures.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I think the same applies to The Hobbit in 48fps. It took some time for me to get used to it, but the quality of the acting and the sets and the drama quickly drew me in. None of what Kerwin asserts above in his conclusion was true for me.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Yeah, I don't agree - at least partially because I've seen some higher frame-rate stuff, and after a bit, you just get used to it. (I skipped it for my first watch through of the Hobbit, at least partially so my reaction to the frame rate wouldn't color how I felt about the film)
- Jennifer Dittrich
In 10 or 20 years, we'll look at 24 fps in much the same way we look at black & white -- an interesting stylistic choice from a bygone era, but not the way movies are made anymore.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I heard that The Hobbit was being offered in 6 different combinations of 24/48, IMAX, and 3D options. Clearly you need to go see it in a few different presentations and report your findings.
- Brian Johns
If they want to keep the high frame rate while bringing back the suspension of disbelief, they can just play it back to us at a slightly higher rate than it was captured like in the old days :D #peopleusedtowalkreallyfastbeforecolor
- Eivind
The 66 fps figure is based simply on the temporal resolution capabilities of cones. If you went with the temporal resolution of rods, it would be 10 fps. The other thing to keep in mind is that you only have high resolution vision in a very small fraction of your retina. The only reason why things don't look blurry on the periphery is because we have automatic saccades, allowing us to...
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- Victor Ganata
Interestingly, that 40 Hz figure also coincides with the dominant electrical rhythm in your brain while you're dreaming. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc...
- Victor Ganata
I think gamers will not mind 48fps, as we're already used to suspension of disbelief at high frame rates.
- Tudor Bosman
from Android
I'm not convinced it's not learned behavior. I do think that higher frame rates require more effort to maintain suspension of disbelief, but if you're a kid who has never seen anything with low frame rates, I imagine 48 fps would detract a lot less from your experience.
- Victor Ganata
I'm a gamer and I strongly dislike high frame rates for scripted entertainment. HFR is great for sports, and more importantly for games, it's critical to reducing lag, which is key for twitch games. But I don't think it looks /good/ in scripted entertainment shown on a screen. (Live theater is an absolutely different thing from HFR video.)
- Andrew C (✓)
But that has been the selling point of HFR: that it looks more real. I'm just saying, not so. HFR absolutely does not look more like real life. (It might avoid things like judder that 24 fps suffers from, but it's still not convincingly real.)
- Andrew C (✓)
So which is it? Is 48 fps "too real" as the critics and this article try to argue, or not real enough? This article tries to have it both ways. It's clear to me that 48 fps is objectively a better image (more free from blur and judder). We're just not used to it for movies. Yet.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Is HFR more like talkies (which pushed silent cinema into oblivion) and color film (did the same to b&W) or 3D, which has continually been promising to dethrone 2D since the 1950s and still hasn't? That is, I disagree that it's objectively better. (I also disagree with HFR defenders who try to dismiss modern HDTV's motion-smoothing interpolation modes as not indicative of real HFR. IMO...
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- Andrew C (✓)
I think a lot of people find high frame rates uncanny, and I do think it's rooted in physiology, but not necessarily for the reasons people state.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
The thing with games is that, even the best graphics cannot be confused for real-life, so I don't think you can compare to live action movies.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I had no problems with the hobbit's images, I'm not sure there's any science to it except people - especially in the US - are used to weird refesh systems on their TVs and this is different... I found the 3D totally unhelpful though, most of the time it gets in the way
- Iphigenie
There have been studies about frame rates (mainly about degradation of video streams over low bandwidth connections) and most people just don't need that many frames per second to perceive something as smooth motion, although the necessary fps is highly context dependent. The other side is that most people find excessive sensory stimulus annoying, and the difference between watching a movie and real-life (which you would expect to be more excessive in terms of stimulus) are our automatic saccades.
- Victor Ganata
Tangent, but what is it about how commercials are shot in/for Europe that seem instantly recognizable as not North American productions?
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Having watched movies for most of my life, they all have in common a certain texture or character that when you change that feel, it just seems odd or somehow wrong, at least to me. Call me a purist, but I'll stick to 24 fps for movies, thanks.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Tangent to Micah's tangent: Does YouTube/Netflix/Amazon/iTunes support 48fps? If I wanted to watch some scenes in comparison in both 24 fps and 48fps side-by-side online, is there a way to do that?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
As far as I know, Youtube allows up to a maximum of 30 FPS...not sure about Netflix, Amazon, or itunes.
- Chris Topher
It's also likely Jackson used a higher shutter speed. That would reduce the motion blur and make it look more 'videoy'. For those using a DLSR wanting to gain that film look, they would use 1/50sec shutter speed for 24fps. Example of the difference: https://vimeo.com/11340117.
- Rodfather
We're used to much higher fps in real life...
- Iphigenie
Not really, because of automatic saccades.
- Victor Ganata
It's just like the motion smoothing that newer TVs do. It looks horrible, in my opinion, because it invariably injects motion artifacts that detract from the overall image. Once seen they cannot be unseen. It's just amazing to me anyhow, that we spend so much time on the visuals when studies have repeatedly shown that the audio part of film/tv entertainment play a much larger role in the overall experience.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Well now, actually filming in high frame rates wouldn't introduce artifacts.
- Andrew C (✓)
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Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/article...
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"SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world. Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion. "I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?""
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities." Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective."
- Paul Buchheit
Novelist Iain Banks announces he has terminal cancer - News - Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
"Acclaimed novelist Iain Banks has left the literary world and legions of fans in shock after revealing he has terminal cancer and may just have months to live."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
This is sad; I was looking forward to reading more Culture books.
- Tudor Bosman
:(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Harry Potter Star Jailed for Two Years | ItsyBitsyStepsItsyBitsySteps< - http://itsybitsysteps.com/harry-p...
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"Harry Potter actor Jamie Waylett has been sentenced to two years in jail for being part of the violent riots in London last summer. The actor was found guilty of violent and disorderly conduct when he was caught on camera during the third day of last summer’s riots in north London. Waylett has admittedly been in possession of stolen goods, as he grabbed a bottle of champagne from a looted Sainsbury store. He has been cleared of charges of destroying property with a petrol bomb. Waylett, who stars Vincent Crabbe in six Harry Potter movies admitted that he had been ‘caught up in the hype and euphoria of it all.’"
- SteVe C
from Bookmarklet
Slitherin!
- SteVe C
^Haha!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
To Azkaban, then?
- Jed Harris-Keith
from iPhone
Again? Wasn't he in jail for drugs charges before?
- Soup in a TARDIS
Giving my fellow Slytherins a bad name..
- Colette
Sounds like something Crabbe would do.
- Tudor Bosman
Girl, 8, shot with arrow in Berkeley - SFGate - http://www.sfgate.com/crime...
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"BERKELEY -- An 8-year-old girl visiting the Lawrence Hall of Science in the hills above UC Berkeley was hit in the leg by an arrow Tuesday, police said. The girl was sitting on a life-sized model of a fin whale on the plaza outside the public science center at 1 Centennial Drive when she was hit in her left thigh by an arrow about 10:45 a.m., said UC Berkeley police Capt. Steve Roderick. The girl suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital with the arrow still lodged in her leg, authorities said. The arrow did not appear to be a toy, and it wasn't immediately known whether the shooter hit the girl accidentally or on purpose, Roderick said. UC Berkeley police are checking nearby parking lots, homes and the hills around the science center for any signs of the shooter, Roderick said. "It doesn't appear to be associated with any experiments or demonstrations or anything associated with the Hall of Science," he said. Investigators will try to analyze the arrow's trajectory to determine where it came from."
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- Spidra Webster
"I used to be a little girl like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee..."
- Tudor Bosman
You wrong, Tudor.
- Andrew C (✓)
Andrew: You're right, I never used to be a little girl.
- Tudor Bosman
Note the change in the papal throne - TYWKIWDBI http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013... - the change in the vestments is also interesting, although that may be due to the liturgical calendar #lapsedCatholic
I don't think the liturgical season would make a difference in those vestments since those are the base vestments (cassock, etc.) and not the liturgical ones.
- John (bird whisperer)
Yeah, I'm not sure what the pope usually wears, but the more ornate red cope and stole look like what a celebrant would wear at Pentecost, while the white is what the celebrant would wear during Easter season.
- Victor Ganata
I read somewhere that Francis doesn't wear the red ermine robe Benedict wore. Same with the red slippers.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I remember JPII wearing mostly white as well. Benedict tried to bring back all the medieval trappings, I think.
- Victor Ganata
Am I too cynical for thinking that choosing a pope who took a vow of poverty and who's concerned with wealth inequality is just a ploy to distract from the actual major issues around the Catholic church right now? That is, look! he's concerned with wealth inequality! the church should help the poor! That's great, but how does the church feel about PRIESTS RAPING CHILDREN?
- Tudor Bosman
Not to be an apologist for child rapers, but I do think wealth inequality is a fairly significant issue in of itself. I don't think it's a zero sum game for attention, and I really don't think Bergoglio's focus absolves the Church of anything. People still want justice.
- Victor Ganata
My 18 year old cat, Wednesday, died last night. She was fine Saturday morning but then she just - failed. To make things worse, I am stuck at home because of the unexpected snow, can't get out to the vet just yet. Too miserable to cry.
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So sorry, m9m. :(
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
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Very sorry to hear this. :((
- Jim #TeamMonique
Sorry. :-(
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
:(
- Me
I had planned to take her to the vet today for the Last Visit. At least I don't have to fret that she's suffering and I have to get her there in the snow. She just didn't wake up today.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
*hugs* I'm so sorry.
- LB: #TeamMonique
I'm so sorry!
- Katy S
:(
- Kelli H.
I'm so sorry. :(
- Running Slow
I'm so sorry {hugs}
- Starmama
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I'm sorry
- Shevonne
I'm so sorry, m9m. :(
- Anne Bouey
Thanks for your sympathy. My son-in-law was on his way to class when he learned that the college was closing for snow. He offered to pick me up take me to the vet, so I didn't have to make the dreaded drive alone. That helped so much.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I'm so sorry, but glad your son could take you in today. *hugs*
- Jennifer Dittrich
How awful. So very sorry. Glad you didn't have to drive in alone with her. BTW - she was beautiful.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Sorry for your loss, m9m.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Sorry, m9m.
- John (bird whisperer)
oh, hon. So sorry.
- t-ra: not givin up
So sorry. :(
- Heather
:(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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Oh no! I am so, so sorry, m9m. What a beautiful girl. *massive hugs*
- Russian Space Lizard
I am so very sorry for your loss m9m. How lucky she was able to live a full life and leave on her terms.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I'm so sorry.
- Mary Carmen
I'm sorry
- Eric - seven eleven
so sorry be well
- WarLord
I'm sorry to hear that m9m :(
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I'm so sorry for your loss.
- joey
So sorry.
- Tudor Bosman
:( So sorry
- Tamara J.
I'm sorry for your loss of A beloved companion. She lived a long life in your care, and I'm sure it was a good one. Take some comfort in that.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
:-(
- Betsy #TeamMonique
:(
- Steven Perez
"Creating the first lab-made human heart" http://feedly.com/k/Zk6aqw
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Poom-poom! Poom-poom! Poom-poom! http://friendfeed.com/barrywy...
- Betsy #TeamMonique
"Using image scans, a glass mold, and stem cells, Dr. Francisco Fernandez-Aviles has nearly created a transplant-ready human nose. [...] surgery could occur later this year, but first the nose must be removed from the patient's arm"
- Tudor Bosman
So Earth Hour is tomorrow. I don't like to complain about a non-profit, but WWF really should have sent out reminders a while ago. I had no idea and now I doubt I'm going to be able to participate.
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I hadn't heard much about it this year, either.
- John (bird whisperer)
all you have to do is go power-free, 8:30pm your time, 1hr
- chaz2b
Yeah but on short notice the default activity is a nap. Which isn't terrible, but also not ideal.
- Heather
i just sit and listen
- chaz2b
I usually take a walk during Earth Hour.
- John (bird whisperer)
I never knew it was WWF behind it.
- Spidra Webster
Have I ranted about Earth Hour this year? Well, the rant I read last year still applies, and it's better written than what I could come up with. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maggie-...
- Tudor Bosman
I think the argument that people can misinterpret Earth Hour and use that misinterpretation to belittle it, is really weak. People can misinterpret anything, that doesn't mean the thing being misinterpreted is the problem. And the fact that people get the point wrong isn't a problem with Earth Hour itself, it's a problem with communicating the goal. And I hate the argument that...
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- Heather
"And when people see how easy it is to change their day-to-day, they are more likely to look around and see where other changes could be made" -- this is the sentence that my cynical self doesn't agree with. People see how easy it is to turn off lights for one hour, feel satisfied, pat themselves on the back, believe they've done their part, and go back to driving their 15mpg SUV on their 80-mile daily commute.
- Tudor Bosman
There are those people, but there are others. And those others see that turning off the electronics for an hour isn't traumatic. They keep the lights off for 2 hours instead of 1, and or they decide a few days later to repeat it. There is often a smugness that "I've done my 1 good dead." when it's something piddly that's been done. But that's for some Prius drivers, church goers, Girl...
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- Heather
I'll participate, I think, but mostly because I am going on a 14 mile hike. :D
- Kelli H.
The Last Psychiatrist: Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful - http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013...
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"Sheryl Sandberg is the future ex-COO of Facebook, and while that sounds like enough of a resume to speak on women in the workplace, note that her advice on how to get ahead appears in Time Magazine. Oh, you thought that Sandberg's book is news worthy in itself, how could you not do a story on this magnificence? No, this is a setup, the Time Magazine demo is never going to be COO of anything, as evidenced by the fact that they read Time Magazine. Much more importantly, they are not raising daughters who are going to be COO of anything. So why is this here?"
- Morton Fox
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"But keep this in mind every time you hear how great it is Bill Gates is curing malaria after leaving us all with Windows."
- Victor Ganata
"It's so great that Americans will still vote for a white guy even if he's a little black."
- Victor Ganata
"…why the hell would a sales rep want to be a manager?… Is it a lot more money? 'Well, no, it's a little more money.' So you want me to work a lot more now for the possibility of eventually getting a job that pays only a little more money? 'Yes, stupid, it's called a promotion.' It sounds like a scam. 'No, it's a stepping stone to Nominal Vice President In Charge of Situations And...
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- Victor Ganata
"If you doubt this, observe that of all the advice Sandberg via Time gives to women, the single piece (in)conspicuously absent from the Time article is the most important: ask for more money."
- Victor Ganata
"…if you're going to sacrifice your whole life and lower back for the benefit of a faceless corporation then you've got to get paid."
- Victor Ganata
"You're going to try and counter that this is a staged publicity photo, but my rum makes me fearless against your rebuttals."
- Victor Ganata
"…this photo could only be made by actively denying a reality: among women, Asian women are proportionally overrepresented in successful positions, especially tech jobs, especially Silicon Valley, and yes, Apple Maps, India is in Asia."
- Victor Ganata
"Still not sold on the thesis that the system wants you to be a battery? Then you're going to have a lot of trouble with this next part… for the rest of your short life." How very Morpheus from "The Matrix".
- Victor Ganata
"The system has made it so that you can only choose one side, 'aspire to be a COO!' or 'don't be a COO--you should be home with your kids!' It is a classic double bind, and you can't ask: for the entirety of my life, these are the only two choices?"
- Victor Ganata
'Amazingly on purpose, in the cacophony of economic debates, it's no longer acceptable to talk money. You can talk about unemployment vs. employment, class, titles, debt, growth, seats at table-- but not money, unless they are actors or sports stars. If I told you Katniss was making $10M or $90M you wouldn't know the difference, but try to get $1/hr more from your manager and you find out what a dollar is worth.'
- Tinfoil 2.0
He doesn't pull any punches. He goes off the rails in section 4 as expected (you can see the man's BAC rising as he writes the article :) ). I love TLP.
- Tudor Bosman
Also, the money line: "This doesn't mean Asian women don't experience sexual discrimination, it means that when an Asian woman succeeds, the other women in the office don't get to experience sexual discrimination, so they're left only with sexual harassment. Read it a couple of times, it'll make sense and you won't like it. "
- Tudor Bosman
Sometimes I do find myself wondering if he might really in fact be a Communist, but then again, he plays the ultracynical role quite well and is probably always constantly screwing with our minds.
- Victor Ganata
Why Are There No Female Magicians? Maybe Because We BURNED THEM ALL TO DEATH - http://jezebel.com/5991362...
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"Now, even I'm not a goofy enough feminist stereotype to get all up-in-arms about 17th-century witch-burning as a tangible, pressing, current lady-problem. Buuuuuut...sometimes (all the times) we do feel the echoes of long-past injustices in our largely mundane modern lives. And aren't thought experiments fun? On the heels of the release of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, the Atlantic asks possibly my favorite question in recent memory: Why is this the first time I have ever seen a woman do a magic trick? And I just have to say, SERIOUSLY, Y'ALL. There was a pretty intense campaign in this country to train women to never, ever do magic in public. And now we're surprised that there aren't gallant lady-magicians traipsing around Vegas pulling pine martens in tiny bowler hats out of the underpants of visiting sultans? (That's the kind of outside-the-box flair that modern magic is missing by excluding women, bee-tee-dubs.) Is it so far-fetched to think that ladies might have some...
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- Spidra Webster
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The headline made me laugh.
- Spidra Webster
The best comment: "For the same reason you hardly ever see girls break out acoustic guitars at parties: they don't have to amaze boys into sleeping with them. It's really, really easy to get boys to sleep with you."
- Tudor Bosman
An open source php web app hasn't hit maturity until one of the language translations therein is Esperanto.
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This photo gallery /has arrived/.
- Micah
Pig Latin support too?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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The issue that then divides the community is which gets added first Pig Latin or Klingon?
- Micah
English (Pirate), clearly.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, that translation option is only auto-activated one day per year.
- Micah
So it looks like Google is just doing everything it can to slowly kill RSS.
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Twitter and FB are co-conspirators.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
This is the end of the Internet as we know it: the biggest players see it as a zero-sum game.
- Tudor Bosman
"We're big enough now that we can say screw you to interoperability."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
RSS is old. And passive. You can't even "like" things. Well, you couldn't, before Google made it new and interactive. Oh, wait. Er.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
Is it ridiculously expensive to go see volcanoes? I'm asking for my future self.
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Probably cheaper to see extinct or dormant volcanoes than active volcanoes, but that probably won't do much for you if you want to see lava.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Yeah, depends what you mean by volcano. If you want to see red-hot lava, your choices are limited and of course subject to the whims of where and when the lava is flowing. I've been to http://www.nps.gov/havo/ a couple of times... the viewing spots year to year change as the flows change. The flights are probably the worst part of the cost. But on the same trip, aside from any other...
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- Tinfoil 2.0
Yep, I want to see an active volcano. What's the point of seeing a dormant one? C'mon son!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Well, you could visit former ones for their historical significance, like see Mount Vesuvius and then tour the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum. And it might be interesting to hike through areas that had been lava flows.
- John (bird whisperer)
NO! I want to be in awe of lava and its destructive force as it's happening!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Hawaii is probably the most convenient right now. I still have to revisit one day since the time we were there for our honeymoon my wife came down with the mother of all ear infections and wasn't in any condition to make the 2 mile trek to the active flow area. Driving back up Chain of Craters road at dusk/evening through fog was one of the most surreal/creepy experiences ever. Highly recommended.
- ronin
That sucks! How did she get the ear infection? Was it due to something in Hawaii or elsewhere? I like creepy, that sounds awesome! Also, what's the bug population like in Hawaii? Cuz ya'll know I turn into a quivering screaming mess when I see one.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Hawaii is bug-free :) Well, probably not, but pesky flying insects are pretty hard to find. This: [http://voices.yahoo.com/hawaiia...] says centipedes are the most prevalent bugs. Also says mosquitos can be bad, but I don't recall ever seeing a mosquito there. And then of course there are little geckos, but they're cute ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
Bring your cockroach saddle!
- Spidra Webster
+1 for the Big Island of Hawaii (note that the lava access changes daily, as it's an active volcano, and there sometimes are extended periods of time when you can't walk on / near fresh lava. It was beautiful in 2005, though.)
- Tudor Bosman
There's one in Nicaragua where you walk right to the crater's edge and look inside the hole at the bottom and see the bubbling red lava. In colonial times, priests planted a large cross up there and took sinners to look into the mouth of hell. I went before it became a national park, so the school bus just drove us partway up and we hiked the rest of the way. Later, I went with my dad...
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- Betsy #TeamMonique
(The name might help, eh?) Volcan Masaya. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attract...
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Oops, sorry it was a severe case of strep throat that laid her low. Probably caught it on Oahu somewhere since we were there for about a week before we went to Hawaii.
- ronin
I saw them for cheap, on Discovery Channel! ;-)
- Amit Patel
The distance changes, but Ronin's in the ballpark re: getting as close as allowed to the active flow area at Hawaii Volcanoes. However, it'll take you twice as long as a typical 2 hour hike because of the uneven footing (and darkness if staying to watch the glowing lava after sunset). Note: There's a shortage of hotels in Hilo (at least when I was there a few years back), which compared to the drive to Kona is about 1/3 the distance even before factoring in Kona traffic.
- Leo
Go to Vanuatu! And whle you're in the neighbourhood, drop in for a coffee.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Mt. Vesuvius is gonna go again in an eye blink (of geologic time.) But I wouldn't want to be nearby when it happens. #PompeiRedux
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
The first Jesuit pope. This could be interesting.
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I forget my Catholic history, but weren't the Jesuits sort of insubordinate in their not too distant past?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
It's complicated. Early in its history, the order had a reputation for extreme loyalty to the papacy, but it developed an independent streak over time. As a result they've had conflicts with both the papacy and with Catholic monarchs. The order was suppressed for a while in the 18th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- John (bird whisperer)
If the Catholic church had a liberal side, the Society of Jesus would be it. Also, the Jesuit order has been at the center of so many New World Order conspiracies... *puts popcorn in microwave, watches the fireworks*
- Tudor Bosman
It's the trird btw
- CantorJF
It will be interesting he obviously checks all the usual conservative "anti" boxes on hot button issues but if he's in the "Liberation Theology" camp that Maybe (will) be a clear break with reflexive support of rightists ie American Republicans
- WarLord
He obviously won't support gay rights, but he might get the church to tone down the rhetoric against it. My prediction is that we might get a change of official policy on condom use, but that's about it.
- Tudor Bosman
Don't count on it, Tudor. He's been fairly outspoken on the subject and not in a good way. See: j.mp/15N0QCe and is.gd/sZ41ic
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Kevin: ugh.
- Tudor Bosman
None of the leading candidates would've gone that way, though. I just don't expect the Catholic Church to change their stance on homosexuality in my lifetime.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
But, yeah, he does talk about wealth inequality and social justice, which is probably not that unexpected from a Latin American cardinal.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Quote from Mom that old lady told her when she moved to farm: "anyone that serves rice or noodles is too lazy to peel potatoes."
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Heh, I don't think potatoes really grow that well in tropical countries.
- Victor Ganata
Victor: neither do noodles. :)
- Tudor Bosman
If I were an omnipotent deity who was responsible for creating humanity, reading YouTube comments would make me realize I'd made a grave mistake which I'd need to rectify with another very large meteor strike or perhaps with a Vogon Constructor Fleet.
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well good thing you're not an omnipotent deity then... *whew*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Ha ha, RECTify! </youtube comment>
- Tudor Bosman
"Rectum? I nearly killed 'em." Hmmm, that works better said than typed.
- c.a.j.
Social media needs a "smite" button. :)
- Victor Ganata
You know, maybe we're just the livestock?
- Arlan K.
You wouldn't just arrange for a Ship B solution?
- Andrew C (✓)
No, because we all know what happened to the rest of the inhabitants of Golgafrincham, and the B Ark population ended up infesting another planet.
- Victor Ganata
It buys some time, at least. Besides, we have cell phones now, so _pay phone_ sanitization is less important!
- Andrew C (✓)
Pay phone sanitation is _more_ important because in the future Keanu Reeves needs them in the course of saving humanity.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Those are virtual pay phones.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Hurr hurr, you sux0r n00b!
- Mo Kargas
This means we're all going to die from virulent malware instead, then.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Judging by the nearly constant reportings of "percentage of cellphones contaminated with fecal matter" that I keep hearing, I'd say that cellphone sanitization is also to be highly recommended. (Anyone wanna borrow my phone?)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Well, apparently, cell phone cellulitis is a thing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed...
- Victor Ganata
Gilberto Valle Is Found Guilty in Cannibal Case - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
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"A New York police officer was convicted on Tuesday in a bizarre plot to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women."
- Tudor Bosman
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Stay hungry.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I don't always eat women, but when I do…?
- Victor Ganata
Victor. O.o
- Tamara J.
I know with these are. I saw Charlotte's Web. I am not amused. http://instagr.am/p...
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Eek.
- Spidra Webster
Do they have little spikes - got a few of those around here lately = brown widows now common in so cal
- SteVe C
I hear they burn very well.
- Tudor Bosman
@praeburn I know this is rambling and 8 years old, but false balance between Left/Right antiscience is not new: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
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I disagree that "left pseudoscience" is harmless -- see: people who forgo cancer treatment in favor of "alternative medicine"; vaccine deniers.
- Tudor Bosman
Agreed, the anti-vaxxers and quacks and snake oil salesman definitely cause harm, but I think the main contrast the author makes is how one side has embraced anti-science as a political platform, and whatever support on the other side there is for non-science and pseudoscience, it's certainly not symmetrical.
- Victor Ganata
Denying global climate change, or at least human involvement is a stance of the right. Anti-vaccine is not a stance of the left. It's not equivalent.
- Heather
WOW, can't wait for tomorrow's shitstorm! RT @kfury Tesla backs up accusation of reporter's lying http://www.teslamotors.com/blog... Your move, @nytimes
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Wow, looks like he's got checkmate on Broder.
- Andrew C (✓)
Ouch.
- Brian Johns
Ha, my SIL just bought a Tesla yesterday.
- Laura Norvig
Oh snap.
- SteVe C
Not the smoking gun Tesla wants it to be. Looking at the graphs, Broder did turn down (and then off) the cabin heat, but 30-40 miles later than indicated; this could be an honest mistake. "Driving around in circles" near the supercharger could be explained by looking around for it -- and even if it was on purpose, what better place to test the actual range than next to a charging...
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- Tudor Bosman
I like the map of all the other changing stations he drove by.
- Brian Johns
Oh, I think the clear indications of unplugging from charging stations early are pretty smoky, along with the rest of that and the "reporter's" clear, stated bias against electric cars. But I'm sure the NYT will find a way to avoid blame.
- Walt Crawford
It's a fight all right: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technol...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Yeah, that was Broder's original rebuttal before the detailed blog post from Tesla. The NYT's public editor promised a new Wheels blog post today; still not published yet. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013...
- Andrew C (✓)
Meanwhile, CNN has sent their guy on the same DC - Boston trip. https://twitter.com/peterdr...
- Andrew C (✓)
Broder's new rebuttal: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013...
- Andrew C (✓)
This ain't over
- Eric - seven eleven
CNN's Peter Valdes made the same trip with range to spare between Supercharger stations. http://money.cnn.com/video...
- Andrew C (✓)
I love this story.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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Unfortunately, unless Tesla records all customer phone interactions and can retrieve them, this has devolved into a "Who do you trust?" situation. I'd *love* to know just what Broder actually asked the customer reps and what he was told in response...since I find the reported interactions just this side of unbelievable. (But, of course, no NYT reporter has ever, EVER fudged the facts...)
- Walt Crawford
["Just this side of unbelievable:" some of the advice he claims to have been given violates the laws of physics, as one instance. Hard to believe Tesla's people are quite that ignorant or insane. Unless they really, really hate their jobs and want to undermine the company.]
- Walt Crawford
Don't suppose Tesla outsourced their call center and had undertrained (untrained?) folks working the phones? That never happens, right?
- Ken Gidley
That's the most plausible explanation, although some of the advice he claims to have received is hard to explain by simple incompetence or lack of training.
- Walt Crawford
Manhattanhenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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"Manhattanhenge – sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice – is a circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The neologism is derived from Stonehenge, where the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices with a similarly dramatic effect."
- Tudor Bosman
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