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peroon FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

Asperger's precludes anyone from having the necessary toolbox to be even remotely considered 'streetsmart', as is mentioned in the article.

Interesting perspective however.

peroon Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox

Beta test in enterprise? I don't think that's how it works...

peroon Against School - John Taylor Gatto

His magnum opus: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/ (free read)

peroon Need your opinion on PadKite, the first multitouch mobile mouse...shoot

So I've got this installed and from the looks of it, it's a web browser with innovative interfacing--or am I missing something?

And like someone else already pointed out, one handed control is the holy grail here...

peroon Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas

Chrome; Win7 x64; 2.4ghz duo; 4gb ram

peroon Show HN: CaptainObvio.us - a place to share ideas

I found scrolling up and down the page to be very laggy--without much investigation, it appears to be caused by the background image.

peroon What is Bitcoin? (Video)

What's being solved are not just abstract mathematical problems, but equations that have implications on the whole system?

peroon What is Bitcoin? (Video)

And the ones who own the initial supply are the ones cranking out the solutions to the problems?

peroon What is Bitcoin? (Video)

While the video does look great, I'm afraid I still do not know how real-world value is attached to BTCs--it seems as if a 'step' is messing in the 'how it works' explanation.

I'm assuming that was the major desired end-result of this video; if it wasn't, it was the question I was hoping most to get answered.

peroon Firefox 4 is here

Do you maybe have a Flash blocker installed? Flash is responsible for 100% of my browser crashes.

peroon Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

No, I don't think so. Whatever sources I got that from had it as milli. I triple checked.

peroon Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

I'm willing to bet they will repeat that news conference on the hour (one minute) on NHK:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

EDIT: They indeed did so, but shortened and dumbed it down with only 2 figures being provided by 'WLJG'--2.3 and 6.4 mSv 'near the plant', with the latter being the peak at the time of 'leak.'

peroon Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

I think the figures that were thrown around in that press conference--either by Edano or 'white lab jacket guy'--varied by location however the translator had my head spinning and I couldn't deduce what's what.

I'm pretty certain that anytime "600 to 800" was mentioned, it was supposed to be in uSv, and that those measurements were taken at the plant's gates.

peroon Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

And then he was corrected by the dude in the white lab coat.

I however heard micro on my translation and was a little bit confused during the correcting.

peroon Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

That was 600-800 uSv.

peroon Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

They earlier raised the legal radiation limit that workers can be exposed to from 100mSv to 250mSv.

Readings at the gates were 800uSv 30 or so minutes ago when the suspension was announced.

peroon Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

Perhaps (definitely) I could have worded that better, but no one is considering it a good thing--just a method of 'accumulation'.

peroon Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

Do tell what caused it then.

peroon Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

Nah, neither, I was using raw GDP. Those countries don't have politico-economic systems which funnel large chunks of their populations into either incarceration or the military. Forbes list also seems appropriate for the discussion given the 'very rich' theme going on.

Care to dig up those rates/expenditures per capita?

peroon Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

Empiricism is not on your side. The richest country in the world spends more than its fair share on 'a huge armada of amazing battle ships', actually, as much as everyone else on the planet put together, and also actively seeks out remote spots of the planet to blow stuff up in.

Rinse, repeat, very rich.

peroon IE9 has been released

Last I checked (6 months ago), cufon was broken due to VML.

EDIT: Fixed cufon-side, probably the day after I last checked. Oops.

peroon Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

Or very poorly architected economies?

peroon Bottom just fell out of Nikkei

Disasters like this are, in theory, actually beneficial to economies--especially stagnant ones like Japan's. The capacity for immediate bonafide economic growth has been diminished but that doesn't mean that economic production will decline. There is now ample room to deploy all that surplus capital (humans, machinery, money) that was previously unproductive. The upper echelones of the financial sector will make a killing shorting and re-buying.

Advanced reading on a parallel concept: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/conferences/globgis/papers/Arrighi.... The quoted and cited David Harvey piece (2007, albeit the condensed article veresion and not the full-length book) would have been a better reference however is apparently no longer online. This, though, is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

I believe Naomi Klein made a good buck on dumbing down and re-orienting the above hypothesis.

peroon Dramatic escalation in Japan (Fukushima Nuke Plant)

The top graph is now nosediving. An hour ago the upward-trend doubled in a 10 minute span.

What is the bottom graph representing?

peroon Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya)

Simple googling would provide as much as I could and I'm not nearly expert enough to recommend one article over another. However, I believe it boils down to predicting oil reserves--something abiogenic has been unable to find.

I believe I initially gained this knowledge over on theoildrum.com, and those people know their oil.

peroon Another Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant

They actually have lots of--if not all--reactors along the coastline. It's about having access to water and Japan isn't exactly a land of rivers and lakes.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/13/article-1365569-0B...

peroon Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya)

The abiogenic theory has been discredited. A long time ago.

peroon Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya)

The current spike in gas prices is not primarily a result of anything to do with the freedom fighters in the Arab world...Nor is it a result of OPEC’s production levels...

Rather, the spikes are primarily a result of the speculative market on oil.

Well, uh, what are their speculations based on?

peroon BlackBerry Messenger will launch on Android and iOS

Not for BBM messages.

peroon BlackBerry Messenger will launch on Android and iOS

Data on a BB is routed through RIMs servers. BB users generally aren't charged data if the track is intra-RIM.

It's also compressed and encrypted.