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I spent 10 minutes trying to log in using Chromium. It half-way showed that I was logged in, but I couldn't actually sign a petition. Logging in with Iceweasel (Firefox), it worked immediately.

Strangely, the vi(1) linked from that page is not for the editor, but for a MIPS emulator http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/vi

Also note that sorting by price doesn't actually sort correctly. In this search, a $6.99 card comes before a $5.99 card (both with free super-saver shipping). This is so broken (and has been for so long) that I almost think it must be intentional somehow.

I think this list is greatly erring on the side of caution. Some of the descriptions are incorrect, for example:

Aspirin (Bayers) is trademarked in several countries around the world, including Canada and the United States. The word Aspirin cannot appear on any imagery submitted to the RF collection.

Bayer famously lost its trademark for Aspirin in the United States after WWI as part of war reparations. It is still trademarked in Canada and many other countries, so possibly should be avoided in photos that are being used globally.

The article confuses "exponentially" and "quadratically":

scales roughly quadratically with the issue-width. That is, the dispatch logic of a 5-issue processor is twice as big as a 4-issue design, with 6-issue being 4 times as big, 7-issue 8 times and so on

Searching online, it seems that quadratically is correct; the explanation of "quadratically" is the mistake.

Pretty cool, but it assumes that many options are independent when they may not be...

If I "reduce military to pre-Iraq war size" and "reduce the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30,000," can I really save the sum of $49 billion and $169 billion, or am I counting some reductions twice?

If I increase the medicare age to 70 and cap medicare growth, can I really save the sum of $104 billion and $562 billion?

Even assuming the revenues from taxes takes into account reduced economic activity / moving investments outside of the USA, etc., are there effects from combining them that would further reduce revenue?

_Godel, Escher, Bach_ describes similar phenomena with camera feedback loops. When I read GEB, I wondered if it would be possible to create a Sierpinski triangle using four specially shaped/curved mirrors. I briefly played with povray, but didn't figure it out.

I was excited to try this service out after reading the article. I called them up, and after a couple minutes on hold, was connected to Michael. I didn't need to enter my account number, but it's possible they used my phone number to know that I have a credit card.

I asked him if there were any local stores that sold caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew. He put me on hold for a couple minutes and came back, asking if I had tried Wal-Mart or grocery stores. I told him I hadn't seen it there. He said that he found some Facebook page talking about caffeine-free Mountain Dew, but he was unable to access it because Facebook was blocked from his location. He suggested I search on google for it myself. He apologized for being unable to help me.

So I searched and the second hit pointed me to http://www.pepsiproductfacts.com/storelocator/index600.html and there is a store 19 miles from me that sells the "extremely limited" caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew.

I'm not impressed.

How do they determine the "best layout" at the top? I pasted in a couple hundred lines of code and it claims that Colemak is the best, but Arensito (hadn't heard of it before) has fewer meters traveled and more home row usage (where Colemak is beat by everything except QWERTY).

At any rate, all the layouts other than QWERTY and Personalized were within 10 percent of each other for meters traveled.

http://perldoc.perl.org/pstruct.html takes this a bit further (but less portably), and compiles the code to assembly and parses out the debug records to find the information about the structures.

More information about the errors in the (fixed point) math on the patriot: http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html

In the real world, taking exponential space implies taking exponential time. The fastest you can transmit information is the speed of light, so it will take exponential time to communicate with the furthest pieces of your exponentially large system.

Factoring is not known to be in P. You're thinking of primality testing, specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test

Compare this article to the recent Groklaw article. While my view is closer to Groklaw, both articles seem to offend me. They both worship a leader (Jobs or RMS) and seem to call for hate of their enemies (Google, Microsoft, Mono). But if you snip the objectionable parts from each essay, I think each brings something to the discussion. And I really wasn't expecting an Apple fan to share Groklaw's fantasy of an end to patents.

As the Cosmic AC was not in space, but "in hyperspace and made of something that was neither matter nor energy", there should have been no objections to it taking the role of Maxwell's demon and reversing entropy, powering the universe through its hyperspace computational powers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

Right, this experiment measures the wavelength of the microwaves. Apparently it is possible to independently calculate the frequency of microwaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#Cavity_resonance

Much better than their Flash interface. But completely broken in Firefox 3.0.x (under Red Hat; can't advance past the first page and there are no pictures) and the fonts are too big under Iceweasel 3.5.9 (under Debian). Until they stop requiring a log-in to download the original PDF so I can view the content in a decent viewer, I'm going to continue cursing every time I accidentally follow a link to scribd.