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Nope, 2010. This was a sane resolution, authored by the Greens and other center-left parties, asking for more transparency and putting some limits and sanity checks on the contents of the treaty, and it didn't pass: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION...

I think the parliament did end up voting a similar resolution though.

Here's one earlier resolution that did pass, strictly about the lack of democracy and not the content of the treaty: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION...

There are a few more, but it's confusing because sometimes the votes are only on some paragraphs of the resolution. The paragraphs aren't easily cross-referenced, and I don't know if this kind of vote is final.

The report used 6.3 million USD for a US life (the EPA's VSL, value of a statistical life, p. 287). They want to learn more about the feedback between natural resources and health, so that they can price natural resources that economists are normally unable to value.

Here's the UN report: http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/file/download/9927.pdf (11MB, 370pp, low-res). Other versions are at http://www.ihdp.unu.edu/article/iwr/

Here is the CERN's “we found the Higgs, what comes next?” press release:

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/background/B11-Higgs_understa...

Most of this fruitless discussion seems to be between people who have just read the TPM article (or scanned to the pull-quote from the judge), and those who are more familiar with the case. Here's an ArsTechnica article that communicates the issues quite clearly: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/ny-judge-compels-...

The subpoena is for all public and private information Twitter has for a period of three months and a half. The charge is for disorderly conduct at one point during this period. The EFF and Twitter are pointing out that the prosecutor is going on a fishing expedition. The “shouting from a window” analogy the judge made is irrelevant.

This deals with the protocol and leaves the diff tool pluggable (RFC 3284's vcdiff is suggested), so it looks like something railgun could be using internally.

Google's SDCH (mentioned in CloudFlare's post) is an alternative that isn't tied to a single URL, but involves prefetching some data that may or may not be needed, so it's a bit hacky.

An interesting approach would be to hook into a template engine to generate a page skeleton with dictionary references. That would allow reordering the small, newly generated varying snippets before the large common ones; both could be preemptively pushed using SPDY to avoid round-trips.

PPAPI flash works in Chromium, scan this thread (unless that was your point). It's just that the fully open-source browsers aren't interested in setting up a distribution channel for it.

pg did make it transparent in this instance. I think “make a note when you edit” is a good guideline, I've seen it in other communities.

That seems designed to allow NATO enclaves.

The problem with that is that the language model's power is already used to fix things up locally (because this is transcribed from audio). As a result it can't be used again to decide if the transcription fits the model; it's the case by design. There must be some kind of confidence metric at the end of the process, but I don't think it's possible to tell how much of the ambiguity comes from inadequacies in the phoneme model, or the audio environment, or the language model. They'd have to throw out good transcriptions in noisy environments along with bad transcriptions, and probably wouldn't keep much at all. As it is it seems they prefer to publish crappy results and hopefully have some feedback channel involving the video uploader.

Their language models might perform acceptably with text, but speech is much looser with structure and grammar. They may apply a bit of local expectation-maximisation but anything more strict or long-range wouldn't work.

Sorry for Godwinning this thread, but “I didn't do it, I was acting in the name of an inanimate entity!” is up there with “I was just following orders!”

Non-monetary punishments would be warranted for abuses of police power, because they threaten the social contract, which brings them within the purview of criminal law (not to say there isn't a civil case as well).

The only option to get newer versions of the Adobe plugin. The 11.2 branch will get security updates into 2017 (2012-03-27 + 5 years): https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google...

JPEG is a good benchmark because it is a bottleneck, heavily optimised with SIMD, and still amenable to some parallelisation. That doesn't apply to text layout.

Rust is interesting to deal with some hard problems keeping a multicore program safe and efficient, but I'm sure sandboxing will provide a better tradeoff for a lot of things (and as sho_hn points out, Harfbuzz correctly embeds a lot of domain knowledge from multiple cultures). C can be locked down pretty tight, see for example ZeroVM which restricts it to pure functional code.

There are the improvements sho_hn mentions (string representation and shared dict keys to make objects more compact), but if you need more dramatic improvement, look to PyPy.

Encouraging its use “for the masses” has me worried.

Also, strictly for parallax, here is jQuery.parallax which has a much classier demo: http://stephband.info/jparallax/

UDP fills the same (overlarge) buffers before it can be sent over a link; it can be stalled by misbehaving TCP. Since TCP still dominates bandwidth usage, TCP bufferbloat needs to be fixed for UDP to have a chance at low latency.

Also, if a UDP application can possibly use a significant share of the bottleneck bandwidth, it will need its own latency feedback to avoid being another cause of bufferbloat. Whatever fills the buffer has no bearing on the outcome in most cases (most buffers are just for ethernet retransmission and routers don't manage them; the exceptions I know are with AQM and QoS).

My country, and I'm sure most of the EU, isn't sovereign anymore when it comes to transposing EU laws^W directives (assuming they regard a domain where the EU is allowed to legislate, I suppose). The constitutional amendment was done a little before the constitutional treaty tried for ratification.

In the announcement: s/in favor of/in place of/, otherwise one can't parse which array implementation will be picked.

That description at the start of the docs is unhelpful.

After scanning the rest of the docs I get the impression that domains are weak containers for resource cleanup (not just IO), paired with an error handling context.

Note the "up to". Also that they probably give you ATM throughput, which adds 20% overhead to IP throughput. But the most important factor you're missing is distance; see these graphs: http://www.pcinpact.com/news/71764-vdsl2-sfr-fibre-optique-f...

He said no to iOS. I think git-annex already exists for Mac OS X, and the new webapp, file watches, etc, probably will as well, though joeyh may rely on other people for the packaging.

Interesting, but I think this needs further analysis. That bypass mechanism must also comply with the “no additional restricions” aspect of the licence.

This alludes to it:

> The press are generally hyper-critical of the United States policies in the region and take the view that the India-US relationship is driving much of our countries behavior.

It's put in diplomatic terms, but anyone from a western country will recognise it as saying that the public discourse about India (and the US) is far from rational. Your other comments are a lot more precise, so thanks.

> Nowhere else in the world would a criminal become the president of a nation.

You're overstating it; Berlusconi is a counterexample.

> CCP is notoriously bad at understanding the impact of changes on the in-game economy

Letting these things slip in might be a deliberate choice that rewards out of the box gameplay and generates noteworthy PR. As I understand it, classifying one as an exploit can reverse the damage if it gets out of hand.

The connection they imply is doubtful. They give no date for the Nvidia negotiation, but (assuming it isn't misrepresented) it must have taken a lot of time (enough that the Chinese could pick something from AMD in the end). And I doubt Linus heard about it, either (the “behind the curtain reason for Linus' frustration” idea must have come from someone unfamiliar with him or the video of the event). The only commonality is that both find Nvidia hard to work with, in different contexts.

Some governments have access to that source code, but it gives them no guarantees that what they run is faithful to it, and it doesn't let them replace the usual products with something audited. Even if they can compile something out of that source, I suspect they can't boot or run the whole thing, and they certainly can't distribute it.