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January 25, 2010
Mildly overwhelmed. I recommend Saturday's View if you didn't see it. I'll have more this evening. Thanks to all those who have recently subscribed and renewed.
We are winding down in Iraq We will leave the place a lot better off than it was under Saddam; how long it will remain that way is another story. The tendency of the Shiites is to take their revenge not only on the secular Baathists whom they want to outlaw like Nazis in Germany (and who can often be prosecuted in a sort of slow motion edition of the Terror in the French Revolution), but also on the Sunni minority. But of course the majority of all Muslims is Sunni. The Kurds are probably organized well enough to take care of themselves; they will become increasingly a thorn in the sides of Turkey and Iran as they push for a new Kurdistan. Given Turkey's continuing Islamization, we may see a Kurdish-Israeli alliance (a low probability event but you never know -- it's the Middle East).
Whether Iraq will break into an uneasy Shiite-Sunni confederation and a pretty well autonomous Kurdistan or into the three historic provinces it was in the Ottoman Empire is an open question; given the political skills and performance of this administration, it's hard to see what the future will be. Meanwhile the war has cost more than a trillion and has done little to nothing for US energy independence -- indeed exacerbated it. We now have the Nuts vs. the Creeps again when it comes to Middle East policy. No one over there knows what the US will do because we don't know either. And the lobbyists continue their efforts.
Wild card: those who study history will recall that when the Muslim movement was coming apart and the Christian Crusaders were battling over the spoils in a contest between Nuts and Creeps, a Kurd named Saladin united the Moslems and drove the Christians out of Jerusalem, sparking the Third Crusade (Richard of England, Philip of France, and Frederic Barbarossa of Germany).
It's the Middle East.
We have a lot of good mail over in mail, and the January Mailbag is up over in Chaos Manor Reviews.
Bill Gates has begun a web site. It's bound to be interesting; it may also show the direction of his thinking. I found the "Infrequently asked questions" and particularly why the Gates Foundation isn't involved with global warming -- since he claims to want to help mankind -- of interest. He also has a very large Twitter following.
For a chart that probably predicts global temperatures for the next century, see
http://m-francis.livejournal.com/47705.html . Mike Flynn understands predictive models better than the average bear -- he'd better, being a quality control engineer -- and like me long ago read Dewey on Cycles. I'm abashed that I didn't put this chart together myself. I'd bet it's a lot better predictor than most the IPCC models.
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|This week:
January 26, 2010
The fallout from the Massachusetts election continues. Suddenly everything is made new, and the Republican possibilities are endless. Some GOP political leaders are frantically trying to moderate this wave of expectation. Others cheer it on. And everyone is trying to spin events.
There's a movement to add a national litmus test: a list of ten supposedly conservative items, of which candidates would have to accept at least eight in order to get any Republican National Committee support or funds. The motivation is clear, and given my disdain for some of the goofy leftists posing as Republicans some might think I'd support the notion; but this is a particularly poor idea, for a number of reasons.
First, it makes all ten of those "conservative" principles equal. I had this discussion with a Member of Congress friend some years ago: I warned him against the "big government conservatives" and crazy spending sprees. "That's not conservative at all."
"But," he asked me, "what about social conservatism." This was a very good question, particularly so coming from a Member of Congress known for conservatism. (Smart Congresscritters actually listen to people and are interested in what they hear. That's one of the big contrasts between real conservatives and the country club Republicans who already know what they need to know, and mostly pretend to listen if they even bother to do that.)
The answer to that question is long and complex, but it boils down to this: There are proper Federal Values, and proper State Values, and they are different, and the one does not balance off the other. Opposition to Big Government and the notion of Big Government Conservatism is a national value, and those who do not hold to it are not conservatives at all, and I for one don't want them in any party I am going to support. Moreover, I don't think opposition to abortion (to choose a "social conservative value") in any way "balances" or excuses or justifies an affinity for big government.
This has nothing to do with my views on state abortion laws: the point is that in my judgment the proper conservative value on the subject is the same as it should be on many other "social" issues: Leave It To The States. Indeed, Congress has not the authority to legislate on such issues (save in the District of Columbia). It isn't the business of Congress to tell Maryland that the state cannot outlaw abortion, or to tell California that the state cannot make it simple and easy. It's not a Federal matter. Neither are many other "social conservative" issues. They are not the proper business of Congress, nor should they be.
That, by the way, includes religions. The Constitution could not be more clear on that subject: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion has that peculiar wording for the simple reason that at the time we adopted the Constitution seven of the states had churches by law established and would not have joined the Union if doing so meant disestablishing those churches. If the Framers had known that eventually the Supreme Court would use the establishment clause to forbid mangers and menorahs in the public squares, they would have written in "nor shall the Federal Courts have jurisdiction in any matter concerning the establishment of religion." I wish they had been wise enough to do that. It would save the Republic a lot of strife. If Utah wants to establish a church with tax supported clergy, that's Utah's business, not mine; and if a local city wants to hold a Christmas ceremony in the public squares, that's the local city's business, although I concede that the state has the right to interfere if it so chooses; but it's never a matter for Federal action.
Parties have platforms. They used to be important, and candidates that wanted support from the State party organization had to adhere (mostly) to the platform and support the ticket; candidates who wanted support from the National party organization had somewhat the same obligations to the national platform; but trying to make candidates in Massachusetts adhere to eight of ten principles drafted in a national party meeting in Memphis, Tennessee (or in a resort hotel in Hawaii) is not smart party politics.
Were it left to me I'd make it clear that the Republican Principle is Limited Government and This Time We Really Mean It. (Just as if I could dictate a single civil rights amendment I'd make it read "nor to deny to any citizen the equal protection of the laws, and this time we really mean it, including the words citizen, protection, and laws." But that's another story.
Subsidiarity and transparency. Those are the principles we ought to endorse, and we can hope that the Republican Party will endorse them; but the notion that those principles can be traded for pieties that ought not be the concern of the Federal Government is abhorrent.
So long as winning an election means triumph and losing it means ruin, politics will be far too important in the United States. The recent Supreme Court decision that allows corporations and unions to pay for political advertisements merely balances something that has been happening for years, in which public employee unions agitate for the election of those who would raise taxes rather than cut spending, and the businesses and corporations about to be taxed to make up dire deficits are not supposed to reply -- and thus have to resort to all kinds of trickery and legal manipulations to try to defend themselves in an election. The remedy here is not to suppress the arguments: it's to make their outcome less important. But that's for another column.
I'm all for the Republicans retreating from the "Big Government Conservative" madness. I'm all for finding stalwart candidates who will endorse principles we can live with. I'm pretty sure that publishing a list of ten principles, choose eight, is not a step in the right direction.
If I seem a bit hurried, I am: the new Lenovo laptop arrived a few minutes ago. The story has a happy ending, or I think so: I'm anxious to get it installed. It has Windows 7 Professional on it. I own a license to upgrade it to Ultimate, and I am hoping that will be easy and won't give me any conflicts with the Lenovo/IBM software already installed. I'm anxious to get at that, too. Anyone have experience with this?
Note the correction above. I managed to say that the ten principles was a step in the right direction when of course I meant that I do not think that it is. I think it is plain wrong. Apologies. The installation of Office on my new system continues.
Preliminary Report: Happy Ending. Rolando, the new Lenovo W500, has Office 2007 installed and the network aut0matically sees all the shares in the house. I am happily transferring files. Full story in the upcoming column; the ordering and delivery problems were unpleasant, but I got a great discount in ordering it, and I will have to say that although Lenovo PR in Georgia called, they didn't do anything to expedite the system: the system was shipped on January 20 (after the order acknowledgment had predicted Jan 19). The problem came when someone updated that to show it would ship 2-20, i.e. February 20, on the 19th. I was already upset by the 19 Jan date since the point of ordering this was to delay having to get Office running on the Mac Book Pro, and this was the last straw. They fixed that but by then I had somewhat exploded here. I probably should not have. Lenovo became aware and called me but by then the shipping date typo had been fixed and the machine shipped. It came this morning. Anyway to the best I can tell it's a happen ending. Story in the column.
We all wait with abated breath (not baited)** breath the Steve Jobs announcement of Apple's newest creation tomorrow. I was offered an invitation but decided not to go up: I don't travel a lot lately, and I am still hard at work on Mamelukes. The rumors persist that it's an iSlate Apple Tablet, and that Apple is working hard to set up book distributions through iStore. I expect I'll have to get one when it comes out.
There is a good essay by Michael Flynn on the nature of science over in mail.
Query: I have several DOS programs that run nicely in a 32-bit Command Prompt box in Windows 7. The new Lenovo has, apparently, 64-bit Windows 7, and attempts to run the program in a command prompt box gets me the information that it's a 32-bit program and won't run. It suggests I get a new program. I am unlikely to get a new version of THIS program, which generates alien names, or of the old Baen iChing, both of which work well in 32 bit Windows including Window 7. They are very simple programs with no actual graphics, and they are useful to me. There's no real requirement that they run on Orlando, so long as I keep one 32-bit machine around, but surely there's a simple way to run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit OS?
Thanks to all who responded to this one. I'll get this done shortly.
Next Query: Does anyone recall a simple way to transfer a FIREFOX setup complete with open tabs and favorites and bookmarks from one machine to another? I have a setup on Orlando that I would like to move unchanged to Rolando. I'd hate to have to do it one tab at a time but I suppose I could do that. I suppose I could also bookmark all open tabs and look for ways to export the bookmarks. That's probably what I'll end up doing.
THANKS TO ALL who have sent suggestions and methods on this. I'll get this done this afternoon. Thanks again, and no more needed...
The good news is that I have Office and FrontPage running nicely on the new system, so it will do all that it was intended to do. I do need to get Firefox running with extensions and the 50 or so tabs I have open to places of interest for Mamelukes. But the networking works fine.
**Mehitabel eats Limburger cheese, and wafts her baited breath down mouseholes, luring nice mice to an untimely death. I've told you this before of course. This caused me finally to look for the original, which it turns out I misremembered. It's
In fact there's a web page devoted to the "bated breath" phrase, from Shakespeare to Taylor. I found it interesting. However, I'm pretty sure that Taylor poem is an expansion on something else, because I remember the odd punctuation that puts 'nice mice' on a single line. Of course my memory isn't what it once was, and perhaps never was what I thought it to be but that's another story.
This week:
January 27, 2010
Editorial from today's Wall Street Journal
Obama may or may not have learned something from the recent elections. The Ravening Wolves of the Democratic Congress have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Tax and spend, elect and elect; using the public purse to buy votes.
In the same issue of the Journal we have the op ed article:
I suspect that most readers know about and have some worries about the Supreme Court decision, and few had known or cared much about the new earmarks for Fannie and Freddie. Americans are concerned about big corporations, and with good reason; yet perhaps there's more to be scared of with the increasing scope of government which grows by the inexorable work of the Iron Law -- only the Iron Law action is accelerated by the self interest of the Ravening Wolves, who use your money to buy votes for themselves, and build community action organizations to turn out the vote and raise money -- in other words to substitute for political parties. It's not likely that middle class citizens can organize the welfare recipients and those who benefit from other public spending including rent subsidies.
Most middle class citizens don't even think about such things. Perhaps the corporations, which are the victims of much of this tax and spend activity, will make us all more aware of them.
Actually the Supreme Court decision probably doesn't do what you think it does. Most corporations already intervene in politics, but they do it through lobby activities, not through taking out political advertisements. As was noted by political thinkers for a long time but perhaps most notably by Harold Lasswell (Politics: Who Gets What, When, and How) it's pretty hard to keep people with money from spending some of it to promote their own interests, and laws that suppress political spending generally just make these operations less transparent. In my judgment it's more important to have transparency: I'd rather the unions and the corporations be more visible in what they do.
More on this another time, but it did seem to me the two events are better connected than is generally realized.
The Apple iPad Tablet is now real. About ten inch screen. No stylus, which in my judgment is a mistake: it's a giant iPhone in some ways. Ten hour battery life, on-screen keyboard. About $500 but I suspect you'll end up paying $800 by the time you are finished with it and accessories. AT&T G3 connection.
From what I have seen it's less useful than I had hoped: I really wanted something that would do what a TabletPC with OneNote can do for research, in addition to what the iPad does. I do presume that the iPad will be able to function as a telephone, as well as a book and magazine reader.
There's considerably more from CNN.
Apparently it is not going to be a telephone. It won't run OS X. It does run iPhone apps. It does not have a camera. If you carry this you will also have to carry a telephone.
It may changed publishing and it may not. It's not going to change communications. Not yet, anyway. I guess you can't Tweet with it...
Thanks to all who responded to my queries about transferring Firefox settings and running 16-bit programs in Windows 7.
Apparently I am ruined and the new system is useless. (READ TO END before replying, it's weird but the problems are solved. Or look here.)
I have installed Outlook; but I cannot access the application data file under my user name although I am supposed to be the administrator for the system. Windows 7 does things a great deal differently from XP, and I can't do it.
My usual practice in installing outlook is to let it set itself up and save an outlook.pst file. Then I go nuke that and when I open outlook again it complains that it can't find a pst file. I tell it to go to C:\outlook and look there, and lo, it does that, and all is well. I did that in Vista even. Now, though, I go to my user files, application data, and I am told that I cannot access that file. HELP tells me to go to properties for that folder and set permissions. I did that. Nothing helps. Maybe I have to reset the machine after I do this?
Microsoft, I am beginning to hate you. You built a buggy system. You panicked and rewrote everything. You also brought in a series of nice people to make everything more friendly by hiding everything and removing control from the user. Thanks a bunch, Microsoft. You have cost me a day. Eventually we'll figure this nonsense out I suppose, but for the moment I am stuck. I can't get Outlook on the new machine to look in Outlook.pst for its files so I cannot set it up. Damn all. If anyone out there knows someone in Microsoft who can help with this, I'd appreciate it. I suppose the story will eventually have a happy ending, but at the moment I am pretty upset.
I have gone to the file properties for the application data folder. It says that I am supposed to have full access to that folder. I still can't open it. In desperation I tried to give EVERYONE access to that folder. It won't let me do that, as I have insufficient permission.
In setting this up I was never asked to set up an Administrator account, so I never did. The properties seems to believe there is one, but it has no more privileges than I do -- and it doesn't seem to exist anyway. This is serious. Is there something broken here or is this just Windows 7 being stupid? Whatever it is, it is making this machine useless.
I have restarted the machine. That doesn't help either. Nothing seems to be able to give me access to that file folder.
Well, I got to it. I opened a command line, and used that to get to the folder, and deleted the folder. Outlook then asked for a place to find outlook.pst and I told it C:\outlook and now I can configure Outlook. So I was able to work around the problem, but no thanks to Microsoft. This is ridiculous.
No wonder people try to turn off all security. Better my machine is a zombie? Why not, since Microsoft seems to want to lobotomize it.
But I still cannot access the application data file from Explorer.
Something about the latest Windows 7 is fouled up. Perhaps in the latest corrections, But to have folders on your machine that you can only open with a command line is very silly.
{Read all of this before send me email about it; this is a DAY BOOK and most of the problems have been resolved. It goes in the column eventually.}
Windows 7 is goofy enough, but Firefox is weird too. On the t42 I bookmarked all open tabs, and managed to export that to a file. I put the file in a Work directory. I had no problem importing that to a work directory on the new machine. And there I stand. I find no mechanism for importing those bookmarks.
Does anyone actually USE these programs they design? It's like things have gone back to what they were in the early days of computing when computer people did things their way without regard for users, and were really surprised that no one knew how to use all the wonderful stuff they had invented.
Since the t42 is in another room, I need to network to it; but all the folders with firefox data are forbidden. There seems to be no way to turn off this madness. I can go up there and export stuff to a work file which I can then access by network. Maybe then I could experiment with settings and profiles and what not. But probably not. The security system is set up to make sure I don't actually get any work done.
I certainly understand why people just turn off the security systems. I'd rather have a machine turn into a zombie than be unable to use it at all. This is just goofy. There's an "import" menu item in Firefox. It won't import from anything except Internet Explorer or something else that's on the machine. It won't look in any other files, just looks for other browsers. Yowsa! That's real smart program design! And these are the people who back in earlier days were going to put Microsoft out of business with their network operating system. Yowsa! Brilliant program designs.
I have mail from readers recommending various programs, but my problem is I doubt they'd have much access either. Maybe I can go up to the room with the t42 (since its screen isn't working and it needs an external monitor, which is why I needed a replacement, it's not really very portable) and figure out ways to export whatever files I need to a work file, but really, I did export the bookmarks I want, and I see no way to get them into a new Firefox. I suppose what I will have to do is copy their addresses into a text file, copy that to a work file, copy the work file, and use cut and paste to open each one of those bookmarked windows by hand. There are about 50 of them. That's really great program design. Yowsa!
All this gets to the column eventually. You're seeing the log books. Maybe I should hide them. I don't come off looking very smart or very patient. Actually I'm mad as hell, but it looks like I have got to take whether I want to or not...
[Problem is solved. See tomorrow's view. One problem is that Firefox wants to export bookmark backup in json format, but it doesn't tell you that it will import that, or make it easy to see where it looks to find backup files. It explicitly offers to import html but offers no help in how to create an html bookmark backup. Anyway, I have all the files in a bookmark folder in the new machine, and I can open them to get to the specialized stuff I have found on Medieval Naval Logistics. And it's time to get to work.]
The Windows 7 problem is solved and worth writing up, but it's weird. In Windows 7 under users/jerryp there are two files. One is application data. That one is not accessible by any means known to me, and as far as I can see, to anyone else. In theory I own it, and in properties/security/advanced it shows I have full access, but in fact I don't. No one does. It just sits there. I am not sure it has any content. There is also users/jerry/appdata and lo! I do have access to control of that one, and it turns out, that is where outlook put the outlook.pst file. Once I deleted that I was able to get Outlook to look at the file I had copied over and all worked well. I suspect that my memory played tricks on me: that I used the command line to get into appdata because the command line doesn't seem to be able to find 'application data' even though Explorer does. In any event this is a major and irritating goof, and if anyone in Microsoft is reading this -- I know some subscribe -- please have a look at the 'user/name/application data/' file. It's weird. Weird.
I now have instructions for getting the bookmark files into Firefox, and I've printed them out, and we'll see. Anyway, that's enough on this story. It will look a lot smoother in the column.
This week:
January 28, 2010
Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas*
The State of the Union was -- strange. It was predictable only on the hypothesis that Obama is guided by very strongly held left wing principles and no longer listens to political advice. In 1994 President Clinton found himself in a similar situation and changed focus, pivoting toward triangulation and compromise. It wasn't enough to save his majorities in Congress, but it did save his presidency. (The Republicans helped by running the only man he could beat.)
Until last night many speculated that Obama would do more or less the same thing. Clinton recognized the unpopularity of his massive government expansion proposal (Hillarycare), understood that the Democratic win was the result of Bush I's repudiation of his "Read my lips, no new taxes!" promise, and moved to govern from the center. Obama didn't follow that path. Instead he has chosen to double down: you'll get health care reform, cap and trade, climate change regulations, immigration reform, and government expansion whether you like it or not. We know what's best for you.
The speech itself was far more partisan than the State of the Union speech traditionally is. It amounted to a declaration of intent.
He has made next Fall's election an ideological plebiscite pure and simple. If the Democrats hold on to real power after next November, the United States will experience a fundamental change, with trust in central planning and government control of most aspects of the economy and our lives. The people done Obama dirty; we have repudiated the Savior; and we will be made to pay. We will get the changes he wants to give us whether we like it or not. He ran center-left. He has governed hard left. He now promises to change: to go even further left.
Prepare for the fight of our lives. Obama and the ravening wolves have enormous public funds to spend, and will make deals and promises as needed. Those who live off tax and spend will be told to fall in line and support the new United States, and stop asking questions and getting in the way. The alliance between the tax eaters and the ravening wolves will be strengthened.
The nature of the United States and the American Experiment is pretty well being put to the test in next Fall's election. We are promised Change. You can believe in that.
I have already seen PhD level scientists saying that that AGW Deniers ought to be prosecuted as public enemies
The Firefox import bookmark problem has been solved. It turned out to be simple once I knew how to do it. That, of course, has been true of computers since s-100 days. (Well, all right, some BIOS stuff in CP/M wasn't simple even if you'd done it twenty times.) For reasons not clear to me Firefox uses json and html files for backups, and it's never clear as to where it puts things or hides them. Eventually I have managed to get the new system to import a backup file of type .json. It wasn't simple. It will all be in the column.
The transition is pretty complete now. I should go on the new system today. I will now need a way to get the t42 fixed: it displays only to an external screen, not to the internal. The last time it was shut down the internal worked, and I have no reason to think anything real happened to that screen; by guess is the problem is a cable or switch connection, possibly the switch that says the laptop lid is closed. I downloaded the pdf on t42 maintenance and it's very complete, but getting to that cable requires a pretty thorough disassembly of the machine and I don't think I am up to that. I'd rather pay to get it fixed at which point it becomes Roberta's travel laptop. Anyway, excuse my grousing. The problems are solved.
Justice Alito said it all (assuming you can read lips):
Is it impolite to say something silently when the President bashes you in a State of the Union speech?
There are reactions to iPad in mail. And I'll have more mail later.
These are decent public domain translations of the Greek and Roman classics, as for instance the Samuel Butler translations of Homer. The Fagles Iliad is much better, as is his Odyssey; and for that matter the T. E. Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia) translation of the Odyssey, which uses pure prose and makes no attempt to be poetry, is a bit more readable; but Butler does preserve many of the conventions and metaphors from the Greek original, and is in some ways more edifying.
Note that there are some classics available free for the Kindle. These translations are all html and I presume would be easy to transfer to the Kindle or any other eReader. For those who have never read Aeschylus or Sophocles, you might be surprised at how readable these ancient works are -- and how familiar you are with some of the concepts in them. They've been part of Western culture for two thousand years, although their influence is waning now.
Which reminds me that today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. Although he was mentioned often enough in my Christian Brothers high school, no one there suggested I actually read him, and I really didn't get much sense of his importance until a character in the Wilmar Shiras' Children of the Atom science fiction stories that were appearing in Astounding Science Fiction in the late 40's told his young prot�g� that the prot�g� needed a personal philosophy, and that his was Thomism. That got me curious enough to actually read some Aquinas and to learn much more about him. Aquinas insisted that reason prevailed in the universe, and that when Reason and Faith collided, there was something wrong with our understanding of the proposition. The universe is lawful, and when miracles take place -- or what seem to be miracles -- they are either new data about the universe, or actual miracles: exceptions to the laws of nature. The laws still apply.
Mike Flynn reminds me:
Thomas never ceases to remind us that the Universe is lawful, and that we are allowed to discover those laws; and what we now know as scientific method including the notion of falsification is pretty well inherent in Thomistic philosophy.
The sun also flares
This week:
January 29, 2010
The President paid what can best be described as an ill-will visit to the Republican retreat in Baltimore. It was of course a political visit, and probably a political mistake; he built no good will with the tea party voters, whom he wants to pre-empt by pretending to be a populist. If the President really wants to pivot from far left to left-center in his policies, he should not be insisting on full bore healthcare "reform", cap and trade, immigration "reform", and the other Daily Kos left wing fever swamp policies.
His State of the Union speech intentionally embarrassed the Supreme Court in a context where there was no possible self defense. To boot he was factually wrong: the recent decision did not allow foreign corporations any 'rights', although that was most of what he spoke about in the speech. There were other factual errors. As an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal points out, the Solicitor General would not have signed off on that speech with its factual errors. Indeed one wonders who did vet the speech. Obama has a law degree and once taught law, and made factual errors that anyone who had actually read the decision he criticized would not have made. Apparently the medium is the message?
{Note that this is a daybook, and contains notes for upcoming work. THE PROBLEM DESCRIBED NEXT IS NOW FIXED. A story goes with that, see the upcoming column. Thanks to all the readers who sent suggestions.}
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Once again Microsoft is trying to drive me mad. I think I must have encountered this problem before, and forgot it.
I have Mamelukes in Word 2003, with its own dictionary, a .dic file. When I set up the new machine I installed Office 2007. When I try to enable Word to use the mameluke.dic, I am told that I have to convert that dictionary to a UNICODE format. I don't know what a UNICODE format is. Dictionary files in my experience are ASCII text files you can read with text file editors. Now, suddenly, they're something else.
When I try to open the mameluke.dic file in Word 2007, the program crashes. It won't open that file. [Later. That turns out to be an interesting story, too. Word 2007 has some residual feelings about .dic files and treats them differently from text files even when you are just trying to open them in Word 2007 as text files. Saving text files as dic files is also -- interesting. See upcoming column.]
Does this mean I have to uninstall Office 2007? Apparently if Niven and I work on the same program in Office 2003 format -- we've been doing that -- we have to have different dictionaries? This looks like real trouble. Do any readers have suggestions?
NOTE that this problem is solved, and thanks to all the readers who sent suggestions.
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I have visitors this afternoon for tea (low tea? the appointment is for 1400). Francis Hamit and Leigh Strother-Vein will be over, and I expect to learn some more about the future of publishing and copyright and such like. Francis has done a lot of work studying Print on Demand as well as self-publishing in both paper and e-Book formats.
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This is the day when all the real problems of getting the new W500 set to take over for the t42p have been overcome. I find I greatly preferred the text from the t42p on the 19" ViewSonic screen (1280 x 1024). I can now just get used to what this displays, or buy a larger wide screen monitor. What I have now isn't bad, just different, and of course this isn't a wide screen monitor. Since text looks just fine on the 24" monitor I use downstairs at 1920 x 1080 resolution, and the Acer 24" monitors are often for sale at under $200, that's another possibility. I can then use this 19" ViewSonic to replace one of the big bottle monitors that take up space and help heat the Great Hall.
Or more likely I can live with it.
One other minor irritation. The FUNCTION Keys don't seem to be working on the Microsoft Wireless Comfort Curve keyboard, which means I can't do control-F1 to toggle the Word 2007 ribbons. Aha. As I wrote this I was examining the keyboard, and lo! over to the far right on the row that contains the Function keys and such like, there is a key with a big black F labeled in smaller letters FLock. Punch that and lo! the Function keys work again, F1 gets HELP and control-F1 toggles the Word 2007 ribbon. I have no idea why there is a key that disables the Function keys; I have used this keyboard for at least four years, and I have never punched that button. I must done so when I was changing machines here, although I don't know how. Anyway, the big F Lock key toggles disabling the Function Key row, if I even need to do that, and gives me something to wonder about.
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HA. I find that Firefox sets the default web viewing font to Times New Roman, and my site doesn't look so good in that font. I have changed the default to Georgia, and it looks better on line now. And it's time to get back to real work.
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I took the weekend off, largely because there is a dangerous computer virus out there I don't understand, but it got one of my machines. I took the infected disk out of the machine and started over with a new disk; I then scanned the infected disk by putting it in a USB device. Neither Microsoft Security Essentials nor ESET online scan find a thing on the disk, but it's sure unusuable. I don't think any of the data files have been hit. If I knew how to warn you of this I'd do it, but the infection came from a web site I don't know how I got to, and without any cooperation on my part.
I can't be the only one bitten by this. More if I know more. It's similar to the one that got Roberta in that it offers to sell me its remedy. My remedy was to remove the disk. Once I am sure I have all the data from it, I'll reformat it.
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Our friend Joanie is Principal of a Catholic school in the north valley, and we visited out there today then had breakfast, returning to see the Lakers win a squeaker against the Celtics. Otherwise I took the day off and it's time for bed.
It looks as if the AGW hypothesis is crumbling for lack of evidence, but there's no sign that the President understands this. Some of the Congressional leaders in his party do. Others don't. It will be interesting to see if the President's pledge to double down and give us health care reform and a carbon tax whether the American people like it or not can be done before more realize that we just don't know what's happening in climate. I am now inclined to believe that there's constant one degree per century rise and overlaying that is a sine wave of less than plus and minus one degree with a period of about 30 years. If that's the case, we are due for a cooling period. You've seen the chart http://m-francis.livejournal.com/47705.html. I had something about it here last week.
Amazon declared war on Macmillan, then preemptively surrendered before the fighting started. Not sure what that was all about. Apparently someone in management blundered and upper management overruled, but perhaps there are deeper explanations. In any event the e-Book price war is real, and the timing suggests that Apple is stirring the soup. What this will do to author profits isn't clear. Eric Flint of Baen Books is certain that, at least for prolific authors, e-Books, even pirated, help sell paper books. Perhaps so; certainly his numbers indicate that to have been so. Whether this will continue when e-Books begin to cut deeply into mass paperback book sales is another matter. That won't happen until e-Book readers are ubiquitous, but this looks to be happening already. The trend is up -- 4% of publishing revenue was e-Books last year, and while that's only 4%, it's 4% up from essentially zero a couple of years ago. The curve may be steep.
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This book introduces "Astrostatistics" as a subject in its own right with rewarding examples, including work by the authors with galaxy and Gamma Ray Burst data to engage the reader. This includes a comprehensive blending of Astrophysics and Statistics. The first chapter's coverage of preliminary concepts and terminologies for astronomical phenomenon will appeal to both Statistics and Astrophysics readers as helpful context. Statistics concepts covered in the book provide a methodological framework. A unique feature is the inclusion of different possible sources of astronomical data, as well as software packages for converting the raw data into appropriate forms for data analysis. Readers can then use the appropriate statistical packages for their particular data analysis needs. The ideas of statistical inference discussed in the book help readers determine how to apply statistical tests. The authors cover different applications of statistical techniques already developed or specifically introduced for astronomical problems, including regression techniques, along with their usefulness for data set problems related to size and dimension. Analysis of missing data is an important part of the book because of its significance for work with astronomical data. Both existing and new techniques related to dimension reduction and clustering are illustrated through examples. There is detailed coverage of applications useful for classification, discrimination, data mining and time series analysis. Later chapters explain simulation techniques useful for the development of physical models where it is difficult or impossible to collect data. Finally, coverage of the many R programs for techniques discussed makes this book a fantastic practical reference. Readers may apply what they learn directly to their data sets in addition to the data sets included by the authors.
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I am pretty sure that I burned a hole in my retinas by watching too much TV this weekend, but there was simply too much going on in the world of racing to avoid chilling out on the couch for a good portion of it.
Formula 1 in Belgium, MotoGP at Indy, American Le Mans Series at Mosport, and the Nationwide race in Montreal occupied a good portion of a Sunday. Before you think I am a massive gearhead I can assure you that my love of cars and engines is actually somewhat limited. However, when you toss a human being in a car and tell them to go faster than everyone else, that's when things get very interesting to me.
Formula 1 is the absolute pinnacle of motorsports. The cars brake, turn, and accelerate better than any other on the planet. To see them screaming through the hills in the Ardennes forest at Spa doing 300+ km/h is absolutely amazing, and the rain showers definitely added to the thrill of the race this last Sunday. Despite a late trip through the gravel, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was able to walk away with not only the victory but also the lead in the Formula 1 World Driver's Championship.
MotoGP is also incredibly popular around the world and has the best of the best in terms of motorcycle racing on the planet. These guys are absolutely insane. No joke! You must have to be totally bonkers to do the kind of things that these riders can do with a bike that could decide to chuck you into the stands at a moments notice. The thought of doing 300+ km/h while simply sitting on something makes me sweat just thinking about it. But who knows, perhaps someday someone will let me have a go on one and we can determine if it really is as nuts as it seems...i'm betting YES! Dani Pedrosa of Spain rode it home for the win.
The American Le Mans Series features cars of all types. From wicked fast prototypes to sleek GT cars, there is something for everyone...and if that's not fun enough, they throw them all on track at the same time and tell them to race for hours. The ALMS was at Mosport this weekend, which is located just east of Toronto, and having raced there before I can honestly say it is a monster of a track. When racing at Mosport it's best to swallow a pillow so that your heart has a comfy place to hang out while it's in your throat. Dumas/Graf took the Prototype class, Jeannette/Julian grabbed the Prototype Challenge, Bergmeister/Long won the GT class and Lewis/Aschenbach rounded out the field with a GTChallenge victory.
Finally it was the always entertaining Nationwide race in Montreal. I'm not the biggest fan of NASCAR related events but I always appreciate the spectacle of watching them fight it out on a road course. It's an entirely different world of racing than I am used to, so after the race i'm usually left scratching my head as to how a demolition derby broke out. But to be fair, yesterday's race was much better than some of the previous NASCAR events held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. In the end, Boris Said aka "The crazy awesome guy with the hair" was able to survive the drama and take the win from Max Papis and Jacques Villeneuve.
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Since 2003, our top secret Top Gear test track (based just off the A281 in Surrey) has played host to all manner of glamorous metal in the hands of The Stig, celebrities in an array of afforable hatchbacks, the odd barbeque or two, and John Prescott. Here's everything you need to know from 13 years of smoke and power - with links to all the behind the scenes footage.
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Series 222015
Clarkson, Hammond and May visit all four corners of the globe, as the trio herd cows in the far reaches of Australia and conduct a half-hearted search and rescue operation in the wilderness of British Columbia. Richard – without needing to be asked twice – takes the opportunity to make a tribute to the Land Rover Defender by driving one up an extremely steep incline, and James and Jeremy pay similar homage to the history of French manufacturer Peugeot, albeit with fewer compliments. The presenters are also tasked with building their own ambulances, while Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Olly Murs feature in the Reasonably Priced Astra.
Series 212014
Inadvisable amounts of radiation await James, Jeremy and Richard as the trio embark on a road trip to Ukraine's deserted nuclear power station, Chernobyl. Escaping without the inconvenience of additional limbs and mutated facial features, the presenters give road tests to the jaw dropping McLaren P1, the astonishing Porsche 918, and the less-scary-but-still-pretty-good Caterham Seven 620R. And before heading out for another classic Top Gear adventure in Burma, there's just time to cram Hugh Bonneville, Tom Hiddlestone and Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul into the Reasonably Priced Car.
Series 202013
The presenters provide some essential consumer advice as Jeremy and James use a hire car and a boat to find the quickest way to get around in New Zealand, while Richard gathers a selection of cabs together to determine which is the fastest taxi… in the world. Elsewhere, the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta gets the chance to show what it can do on the roads of Scotland, and TG tackles water-based motoring once again with the creation of the fabled Hovervan. Ron Howard, Rachel Riley and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the celebs let loose in the brand new Reasonably Priced Car: a red Vauxhall Astra Techline.
Series 192013
The Top Gear Technology Centre swings into action again as Jeremy aims to build a car even smaller than the Peel P50, while the subject of OAP transport is addressed as well with the creation of the 'Rover James'. After proving itself with a host of celebrity names on our track, a batch of Kia Cee'ds are sent to Twickenham for what is assumed to be the first ever game of car rugby, and the presenters conduct a race from London to Milan with a Shelby Mustang GT500 up against public transport. Special guests include Mick Fleetwood, Amy Macdonald and James McAvoy.
Series 182012
James, Richard and Jeremy get back to business by taking a Lamborghini Aventador, a McLaren MP4-12C and a Noble M600 to Italy, and there's also a trip to Beijing to meet the Stig's surprisingly violent Chinese cousin. Top Gear is then invited to film a car chase for the upcoming remake of The Sweeney starring Ray Winstone and Plan B, before taking on a trio of disabled war veterans on some DIY mobility scooters. On the track, the dust is blown off the Suzuki Liana as Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen sets a lap time, while ordinary stars Matt LeBlanc and Slash compete in the Reasonably Priced Cee'd.
Series 172011
It's the 50th birthday of the Jaguar E-Type, which means a celebration involving a marching band, some Spitfires and the white cliffs of Dover is in order. Less bombastically, three hot hatches are driven around the circuit of the Monaco Grand Prix, the McLaren MP4-12C lines up against the Ferrari 458 on our track, and the presenters decide to have a go at improving the railways… with cars and caravans. Northern comedians Ross Noble and Rowan Atkinson get strapped in to the Reasonably Priced Kia Cee'd, as do music legends Alice Cooper and Bob Geldof.
Series 162011
Richard, Jeremy and James attempt to prove that they are wise men by driving three convertibles across the Middle East, before undermining themselves somewhat by landing a helicopter on top of a Skoda Yeti, robbing a bank in Albania and converting a combine harvester into a snow plough suitable for the roads of Britain. There's plenty of action on the track as well as Hammond finally gets the chance to drive some of his supercar heroes from the 80s, and Top Gear Australia are in town to compete for a motoring version of the Ashes. John Bishop, Simon Pegg and Amber Heard are among the stars in the Reasonably Priced Car.
Series 152010
Top Gear dabbles with danger as James drives up to the edge of an active volcano, Richard holds an explosive funeral for our old Chevrolet Lacetti, and Jeremy drives the widow maker that is the Reliant Robin. The trio recover by embarking on a relaxing holiday in Cornwall – which turns out to be anything but in their home-made motorhomes – while Captain Slow goes very, very fast in the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Stars in the new Reasonably Priced Kia Cee-apostrophe-d include Rupert Grint, Peta 23 from Essex and F1 veteran Rubens Barrichello. Oh, and two little-known Americanists called Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise.
Series 142009
The three presenters push the boundaries of modern engineering as they build their own homemade electric car, and James takes holidaymakers into the realms of the unknown by inventing a caravan that can fly. There's also another 'sensible' road test, with Jeremy taking the Renault Twingo to its limits in Belfast, and the superb Lexus LFA takes to our track to demonstrate why it's one of the best cars in the world today. And that's according to the Stig. Guests include Eric Bana, Michael Sheen and the revelation that is Seasick Steve.
Series 132009
After weeks of speculation about the identity of our tame racing driver, the Stig finally summons the courage to remove his helmet in front of a studio audience. James and Richard find themselves racing Royal Mail as they attempt to drive from Penzance to the Orkneys faster than a letter, while Jeremy puts the new Lotus Evora to the test out on the track. Sprinting superstar Usain Bolt finally sets a time that matters in the Reasonably Priced Car, as do Michael McIntyre, Sienna Miller and US TV legend Jay Leno.
Series 122008
Top Gear gets eco-friendly with an economy race which sees Richard, James and Jeremy attempt to make it from Switzerland to Blackpool on a single tank of petrol, while the electric Tesla and Honda's hydrogen-powered Clarity also get reviewed. For balance, the presenters set a lorry on fire, race a powerboat against a Ferrari, and attempt to travel the length of Vietnam in just eight days. Meanwhile, Michael Parkinson and Sir Tom Jones join a plethora of guests lining up to have a go in the Reasonably Priced Chevrolet Lacetti.
Series 112008
After coming to the conclusion that the police force is too focussed on paperwork, Jeremy, Richard and James decide to build three alternative cars to replace the standard Vauxhall Astra. Needless to say things don't go that smoothly as TG's rozzers attempt to apprehend the Stig… Elsewhere, there's a big race across Japan as the infamous bullet train takes on the Nissan GT-R, and the three presenters also head to Belgium to face down a challenge from the Germans. The Ferrari 430 Scuderia and the Bentley Brooklands star out on the test track, as do the likes of James Corden, Fiona Bruce and Jay Kay in the Reasonably Priced Car.
Clips from the show
All the latest outtakes, behind the scenes clips and celebrity laps…
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F12 replacement is a rear-drive car with nearly 800bhp. Ferrari's best GT yet?...
Chris Harris Drives: LaFerrari FXX K
Harris tackles the wildest V12 Ferrari ever made, the berserk FXX K track special
Chris Harris Drives: Ferrari F12tdf
The 812 Superfast uses tech first seen on this, the feral F12tdf. Harris drives it
Chris Harris Drives: Ferrari GTC4Lusso
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Video: Porsche 911 R vs 911 GT3 manual
The GT3 has gone manual again. Does that make it better than the 911 R? We find out
Chris Harris Drives: Porsche 911R vs Peugeot 205 Rallye
Can a small French hatch from 1991 really compete against the greatest 911 ever made?
Video: TG's Lamborghini Huracán Performante review
The hardcore Huracán is here and, thankfully, excellent
Chris Harris Drives: McLaren 650S GT3 at Silverstone
A warm-up for the Spa 24hrs, Chris races in the Blancpain at Silverstone. Here's what happened...
Chris Harris Drives: the Porsche 911 GT3
"They've made one of the best cars on sale..." Harris tackles the mighty 493bhp GT3. Contains skids...
Video: on track in the new Ford GT supercar
We test Ford's astonishing new 647bhp supercar in California. Cue the sideways...
Chris Harris Drives: Merc-AMG GT R vs 911 GT3 RS vs BMW M4 GTS
New hardcore AMG goes up against rivals from Porsche and BMW. The stage is set...
Chris Harris Drives: the Pur Sang Bugatti Type 35
After hooning the Chiron, Harris samples Pur Sang's 1920s replica racer...
Behind the scenes: Ross Noble on the GT86 and his Defender
Ross Noble on his Kahn Defender and how lapping on four wheels compares to two
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It's quite possible that just the extra dust in the air is what's causing your discomfort. If the job is permitted then I doubt there is any long term health hazard like lead or asbestos. But just a lot of dust in the air can cause respiratory problems
Since the contractor is EPA certified it's not at all likely that he is disturbing lead paint or asbestos.
If there is dust covering the hallways then you can be reasonably certain that there is significantly more dust in the air than normal. This can lead to short term problems like you describe. You can call your local board of health and ask for their input.
In general with house-bolting are there generally abatement or containment procedures that are implemented? Or is it work that does not require such steps? I don't really understand what it is they're doing, so it's hard for me to wrap my head around.
They could be drilling into the foundation concrete/stone or even minor demolition in a house of this age will put a lot of dust into the air. So will cutting wood. Most remodeling project stir up a lot of dust which is usually not harmful on a long term basis but can be irritating and cause respiratory problems on a short term basis. I can't give you medical advice as to how long you would have to be exposed to nuisance dust for longer term respiratory problems to occur.
Okay. Yeah, I know you can't give medical advice, but I figured home improvement experts would have a better idea than I about what they're actually doing and how likely it is to involve disturbing lead/asbestos. Which is all I'm really worried about. Thank you!
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Leah's red carpet Mobos report
For the first time in its history the Music of Black Origin (Mobo) awards were held in Glasgow in Scotland.
Big British stars from N-Dubz to JLS were hoping to win big - beating out top American artists like Beyonce and Kayne West.
Leah went along to catch up with the stars and get all the back stage gossip.
"I was really excited when I found out that I was covering the Mobos! I listen to acts like JLS and Tinchy Stryder on my MP3 player all the time and was looking forward to catching up with them on the red carpet.
I also had to glam up for the event, you'll usually see me on Newsround wearing jeans and trainers.
But last night I picked out a pink and black dress to fit in on the super glamorous red carpet.
When the celebrities started to arrive the fans went wild, screaming, taking photos and generally having a good time.
MORE celeb interviews from the Mobos
Newsround got me full access to the stars and first up were N-Dubz who won two awards last night. They are loads of fun to hang out with, they told me how they've been working with Take That!
Next up, just as the night got a bit chilly JLS turned up in style in flashy, red, yellow, blue and purple cars!
This time last year they were auditioning for the X Factor so it was a big deal for them to go on and win the best newcomers award and best song for Beat Again.
They're also big Newsround fans too, which I thought was pretty cool!
Then just as we were about to pack up for the night we heard whispers that Jermaine and La Toya Jackson were about to arrive then all of a sudden two huge blacked out cars pulled up and there was a mad rush to get an interview with them.
Being the shortest person on the red carpet I shouted at the top of my voice "Jermaine, Jermaine it's Newsround from the BBC." After he took photos, signed autographs for fans he came over.
I've interviewed a few celebrities in my time but this was the first time I was ever star-struck. He told me it was a special night for him and important for his family that they get to pay tribute to their brother Michael.
I also asked him how Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket were doing and he said they were fine. Then he was whisked off by his bodyguards.
What an amazing night. I interviewed loads of celebrities - next year I reckon Mobo bosses will be looking to take the awards to another big city outside of London."


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Although the testicles of these guys are present in the scrotum at birth, castration is not recommended until they are at least 2 weeks old, by which time the elastic banding method is not appropriate.
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Boyfriend brought me to eat at MoRoCo Chocolat.
I ordered a vegetable pie, they serve it without the crust and it was this fabulous creamy mash potato with every vegetable i could think of tucked carefully underneath. Also tried some mushroom puree soup, trout and fries but the most exciting part was the dessert!
Lo and behold, the Malteaser! a HUGE ball of chocolate that when you pour the hot chocolate sauce over, melts to reveal three frozen ice cream! Very cool but not quite worth $20 something. But still, you gotta try it once.
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Beast is definitely a place for the meat eater. Have you ever heard of french toast with duck?
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From a young age, my parents began teaching me about pride. "Take pride in everything you do" they would tell me. As a young child, this meant almost nothing to me. It was just something that I would hear before school or before practice.
Now, however, they word "pride" has new meaning to me. To me, taking pride in something means taking it personally. I take pride in my academics. When I do poorly on an exam, it hurts me personally and motivates me to do better next time. I take pride in athletics; if I miss a workout or practice, it tears me apart inside.
I urge the workers of commons to also take pride in what they do. If there are no bowls and it was my job to clean/bring the bowls out, I would be personally hurt. An empty orange juice fountain or ice cream machine would simply be unacceptable to me if it were my job to assure that they are full.
If commons workers simply take the same pride that I have described in their tasks, not only would their marginal utility increase, but so would the marginal utilities of every commons customer. Not only does doing your job well make you feel better about yourself, it would also limit angry comments like these. Not to mention, students do actually appreciate when someone is doing an outstanding job (unfortunately these actions seem to be few and far between nowadays). Take Brad for example: a master on the grill, a familiar face in the morning, and the best mass omelette maker the world has ever seen. His work has earned him the utmost respect of both myself and much of the student body, even to the point of nominating him as a graduation speaker!
So please, workers of commons, put forth a bit more effort, it would make yourselves and the students here happier.
Pride is indeed important and an integral part of the work we do every day. The fact that an orange juice dispenser might be empty or there not be a bowl available is not acceptable, but given the almost 5,000 meals we serve a day, not matter how hard the staff work, unavoidable from time to time to time.
It we had unlimited staff, and unlimited resources there would never be a delay, but that is not reality. Add to this, that fact that our resources are further stretched when individuals take service wear out of the operations, when clearly they are not suppose to , results in diminished supply. It is unfair and inappropriate to say that there is a lack of pride, a lack of resources yes, but not pride
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This seems to be a common dhcpd problem:
When I do a "ls -al /dev/bpf*" on exec.php there are only 16 bpf devices!
Can I create more devices at every mono boot with the following command?
# Create a Berkeley Packet Filter
mkdev bpf 0
mknod /dev/bpf0 c 20 0
(I can't seem to find these commands in the filesystem)
I'd be really glad if a bsd/linux specialist could help us out here.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tenchi" <tenchi at intergga dot ch>
>> server I get the following log entry: "dhcpd: Can't find free bpf: No
>> such file or directory". The ugly thing is that when this happens none
> Curiously, in my case it seems that if I enable dhcp on an interface
> that is
> just numbered beyond the fifteenth, nothing works


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NSW's longest-serving fraud investigator, Detective Superintendent Col Dyson, is retiring with a chilling warning.
''I don't think it's too much of a stretch to think that the homicide squad, at some stage, will be investigating a murder where someone has hacked into a pacemaker and turned it off,'' he said.
''Or someone has decided to interfere with the workings of a motor vehicle by hacking into a car while it's going down the M5 at 120km per hour.''
After all, he said: ''Anything a person can log into, a hacker can log into.''
Superintendent Dyson will march off the Goulburn Police Academy grounds on Friday, in the same week he turns 60, leaving behind an extraordinary career with ''mixed feelings''.
He admits he has ''learnt a thing or two'' about how to keep safe from cunning con artists, having worked solely in the NSW police fraud squad for an unsurpassed 34 years.
''I have people here in my own squad that weren't born in 1979,'' he said wryly.
When asked what has kept him in this field for so long, he said he had ''no idea''.
''There were times when I thought I'd be rotated out, but for one reason or another I was always able to stay. It wasn't a place I wanted to leave … it was just serendipity, I suppose.''
Curiously, he had not planned to joined the force, intending instead to follow his father into carpentry when he left school after year 10.
But after following a friend to the force on a whim, he became a cadet on May 20, 1970 - and on his first day witnessed the head drill instructor ''absolutely ripping [into] one of the cadets for having dirty shoes''.
He is passionate about the investigations he has led, and overseen, for more than four decades, including the Marcus Einfeld case and the probe into the alleged frauds within the Health Services Union.
''Investigations really have to keep you awake at night. If you're laying in bed thinking about something until three o'clock in the morning and you can't sleep then you know you're in the right job.''
The future, he says, will be dominated by cybercrime, which is already beginning to transcend traditional areas such as organised crime, and the drug trade.
Even legitimate businesses which put their data into ''the cloud'' should take note, he said - because ''it's not just in the cloud, it's on the ground somewhere''.
''We're also seeing the dark markets and the criminal portals in the hidden spaces of the internet … firearms, drugs, there's even assassination sites,'' he said. ''That's mainly overseas but we're starting to see drugs being sold online here.''
In terms of the potential for hacking crimes, Superintendent Dyson said while much technology was still in its infancy, it was becoming widely known that many everyday functions ''can be adjusted through the internet, by just logging into an account that controls'' them.
''I don't think I'm stretching the imagination too far, I am looking over the horizon a little but I don't think the horizon is too far away.''


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Fast-growing online clothing retailer The Iconic has appointed
The move follows the departure in August of The Iconic's joint managing director, Finn Haensel, and the injection of another $28 million in capital by a group of investors in July.
Mr Schmidt's first task will be to stem losses in the company, which has been cutting costs and staff numbers to reduce overheads.
Launched in August 2011, the Iconic lost $44.7 million in the 16 months to December 2012 on sales of $30 million after outlaying $20 million in wages, $20 million in marketing costs and $9 million in production costs.
Company accounts lodged in May revealed it had a net assets deficiency of $4.6 million and was dependent on the support of its backers, which include Rocket Internet, a German online start-up incubator.
The Iconic subsequently raised another $28 million in new funding in July from investors in Belgium, Sweden and the United States to fund working capital, expand its range of local and international brands and invest in distribution and delivery.
Rocket's founders, the Samwer brothers, are intent on making The Iconic the market leader in online apparel so they can raise new capital and eventually sell their stake through a trade sale or initial public offer.
"Only number one can raise unbelievable money at unbelievable valuations," Rocket founder OIiver Samwer told staff in a confidential email earlier this year.
Boost for e-commerce expertise
Mr Schmidt's appointment suggests that The Iconic's shareholders, who also include JPMorgan and Summit Partners of the US, are keen to boost the company's e-commerce expertise.
The Iconic said Mr Schmidt had a track record of building market-leading e-commerce companies and had 12 years' experience in the online, retail and marketing sectors.
He co-founded and was chief executive of daily deals site Groupon Australia in 2010 and was most recently international vice-president of Groupon Latin America, where he headed nine countries and 2000 employees. Before joining Groupon, Patrick spent 10 years in advertising and consulting in Europe, Asia and the US with BCG.
"I'm thrilled to be joining the fastest-growing online fashion retailer in Australia," Mr Schmidt said.
"The Iconic has redefined shopping in Australia. This is a company with great people, a clear strategy to sustainable success, and a total commitment to delivering an unparalleled customer experience, supported by amazing products, great service and the latest technology."
Mr Schmidt said The Iconic's ongoing investment in brands and technology continued to pay off and the retailer had enjoyed its best-ever monthly sales in September.
"Our range now includes top global brands like Nike, Adidas and Gstar [and] consumers are embracing our new iOS application at record levels, with about 10,000 downloads per day since launch last week," he said.
"With the recent investment of an additional $28 million, we will continue to expand our market leadership and build the one-stop online shopping destination for fashion, footwear and beyond."
The Iconic's co-founder, Adam Jacobs, who is currently overseas, will continue as managing director.
Mr Jacobs said The Iconic was celebrating its second anniversary and was about to shop its one millionth order. The site stocks about 500 brands and more than 45,000 products.
"Bringing on a proven CEO like Patrick now is a real coup," Mr Jacobs said.
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The Catholic Church should clean up its act following multiple child abuse scandals by punishing abusers and compensating victims, an influential cardinal says.
"That's enough. We have to seriously clean up the church," Cardinal Walter Kasper, a top adviser to Pope Benedict XVI, told Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview published on Saturday.
"Sexual abuses of minors by representatives of the clergy are criminal, shameful acts, they are unacceptable mortal sins," he said.
"I think such a shocking problem... needs a wider analysis for maybe the whole church and not just one country," the cardinal said.
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London - Dec. 7, 2000
If you thought warp drive was weird, try jolt propulsion. A juddering magnet has inspired a scientist at the US Department of Energy to investigate a bizarre new way of propelling a spacecraft.
The idea for a "judder-drive" struck David Goodwin when he noticed that powerful cryogenically cooled superconducting magnets often jolt in one direction for a centimetre or two when you first turn them on.
"If you have something metal in the magnetic field as it is forming, you see the magnet physically shift," Goodwin, who works at the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics in Germantown, Maryland, told New Scientist.
Superconducting magnets are cooled to such a low temperature that they have no electrical resistance. Goodwin's magnets were made by taking superconducting wires of niobium-tin alloy and twisting the strands into a cable. The cables were then coated with an insulator and wound into a coil.
"The coil's then put into a cylindrical casing called a cryostat that's filled with liquid helium," says Goodwin. The liquid helium cools the wire coil to -269 C, when they become superconducting.
Goodwin says the metal objects create the judder effect by inducing a "brief asymmetry in the magnetic field" as it is set up when the magnet is turned on.
This initial disturbance of the magnetic field, he says, creates a repulsive force on the magnet and pushes it away. But the force produced in one jolt is very low, Goodwin says, so you would need to turn the magnet on and off with ultrafast switches, making a fast stream of jolts.
"We've got switches now that can work at high voltages at 400,000 times a second," he says. "If you could use one of these switches to rapidly switch the magnet on and off, you might get some propulsion out of it."
A colleague of Goodwin's at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York is now modelling the magnetic field of superconducting magnets to work out how best to arrange a metallic disc in the magnetic field to produce the biggest jolt.
But Goodwin admits the judder drive might be going nowhere fast. "It's very speculative. We don't know if it'll work," he says. Marc Millis, who heads NASA's breakthrough propulsion physics project at the NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio, has invited Goodwin to present his idea at a propulsion conference in July next year.
The crucial thing, says Millis, is whether Goodwin's magnet would produce any net motion at all -- it might just sit there and vibrate. "It's a definite possibility that any forces arising from Goodwin's concept will only act within the components of the device itself, resulting in no net force," he says. "There are a lot of unresolved physics issues to address."
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There's a new way to fire spacecraft into orbit -- a giant spurt of air and water. Amateur rocketeer Scott Taylor's Hydro Pneumatic Accelerator (Hypacc) should be capable of launching objects as big as the space shuttle into orbit without using huge amounts of rocket fuel. Hypacc will instead use the immense pressure of water at depth to provide the necessary initial lift, says Taylor.
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Fire crews at Camp Pendleton are scheduled to conduct a controlled burn in the northern area of the Marine Corps base this weekend.
Officials said the "seasonal hazard reduction burn" is taking place Saturday and Sunday between the San Onofre housing and Camp Horno area.
Smoke from the burn will likely be visible to San Clemente area residents and motorists traveling on Interstate 5.
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A man believed to be from Truro, David Allan Maxwell, 51, has died in a car crash in eastern Ontario.
Media reports indicate police say Maxwell was driving on Highway 401 near Shannonville, Ont. earlier this week when his minivan ran into the back of an SUV.
CBC News is reporting the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene, is from Truro.
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|Reviews for Tainted Blood Revised
| Tori chapter 24 . 9/22/2012
I feel for Raven and all, but seriously, he just doesn't really seem main character material. Maybe you could save him and then give him a new life where he starts off and never see him again... Much. Or kill him off to give the story a darker mood. Whatever floats your boat, as Jayce once said, if I'm correct.
| Saria chapter 24 . 9/22/2012
You'd better get into Lillie's heritage... Or else...you'll get stabbed. JK. It took longer to review because I had to reread those other chaps. About Raven... I'm not all that fond of him. I think he'll just get in the way, so. Plus, we already have an assassin...
| booklover1698 chapter 23 . 9/20/2012
UNLESS WHAT?! Update soon! I must KNOOOOWW!
| Saria chapter 23 . 9/19/2012
Yes . . . Aiden is pretty loveable . . . even though he just showed up. Something about him just draws me closer. By hybrid, are you implying dhampir? If I'm sure, in the old version, you never did classify what else Caleb was besides a normal werewolf . . .
In this version, I hope that you get into more detail about Lillie's past, ESPECIALLY her MOM AND DAD. What kind of Goddess would fall for a dark, sinister Hellraine? I'm guessing her mom would have to be more kind . . . since Lillie obviously isn't bad like her father. Lillie's mom makes me think of an older version of her that has sex with a demon. It's pretty weird. How the hell would they fall in love? Or did the father rape her? Lol.
| Tori chapter 23 . 9/18/2012
Hybrid? Like a half human half vampire? Dhampir? Major vampire academy references coming to mind ... Aww, Aiden's so lovable! Don't worry, Stark was just being a meanie-head! No matter what ... You'll always have me as a snack... Kidding. I'd hate to... Become your dinner... Or whatever. Is Aiden the replacement for Alana or what? I kind of enjoyed having her act high and mighty... And I was quite fond of her weapon. I like scythes. They're so feminine yet deadly at the same time. And you get to look like a maniac when you twist it around here and there. I just love them...
Lillie should switch over from meteor hammer to scythe ... Or chain scythe which is like a meteor hammer except there are scythes instead of balls on the ends. I just love scythes.
| booklover1698 chapter 22 . 9/16/2012
ZERO'S AWAKE! AAAAAHHHH! Update soon! I loved it!
| Saria chapter 22 . 9/14/2012
I loved Riku and Kaden! Together, they were pretty hilarious! If you bring one of them back, you'd better bring back the other one!
I liked Riku's background as a servant, though Kaden's background still remained sort of a mystery. Maybe you could make Kaden one of the assassins that Valentia sends out to kill Loki, since, I'm pretty sure Kaden had mind powers similar to Loki...Illusions I think. HEY! I'm actually able to form an idea! My sickness is wearing off!
...I get the feeling my little sister wants to kill me for some reason. Why do I get that feeling? Must be my imagination . . .
| Tori chapter 22 . 9/12/2012
yeah . . . they are hilarious. Ugh. My oh so sweet older sister is sick with a cold. Which means I get to be her Guinea Pig. She's acting so-o drunk ... you wont even believe it. She's ... HIGH. In temperature and mental stability.
And she dressed me up in a Pink. Fluffy. Dress. With. Six. Inch. Fucking. Heels. And. Curly. Doll-like. Blonde. HAIR EXTENSIONS. I feel like a fake barbie doll . . . with frigging lipstick and makeup . . . and fake hair. My hair is ridiculously red like dark, crusted blood-red and SO curly . . . red as in 'OMG, did you fall into a wine bucket when you were young?' (courtesy of my brother) or WATCH OUT FOR THE TAMPON HEAD! (my friggin cousin). Good thing is, people don't criticize me at school, guess its only at home. I still can't believe I turned out to be a redhead while Saria's blonde . . . and blue-eyed . . . I guess the green eyes make up for it, lol. Sometimes I wonder if mammi adopted me. Yes, I call my Mammi Mammi.
Anyways, IS AIDEN A VAMPIRE? THAT WOULD BE LIKE SO AWESOME! DOES HE, LIKE, SPARKLE IN THE SUN?
| booklover1698 chapter 21 . 9/9/2012
ooooo! Can I borrow with out asking and never give back Aiden? Because I like him already! XD Update soon!
| Searchingformyheart chapter 2 . 9/8/2012
Haha your story's really interesting, and the storyline seems pretty intense. You can just tell that symbol means something...Koji does too. However, I'm really confused as to why there are no question marks...it seems like everytime a question is asked theres just a comma and thats it. Maybe its just me, but I dont see any question marks...
| Saria chapter 21 . 9/8/2012
Shit . . . you have a problem, Miyabi . . . why don'tcha get up on your lazy ass and do something useful . . . like start bitching to Koji's grandma about how she's a, like, total beyotch . . . hahaha . . . I guess having a high fever really is screwing with me.
Hahahaha . . . Ruby and Aiden are flirting! Hahahahaha! Funnyyyy!
So, what is Ruby . . . you said she's human but why is she in hell? And what kind of wacky fire power thingie does she possess to burn Stark like that? Hmm. WELL, Aiden and Ruby should like go out and then get drunk and start acting like idiots . . . that would be like so funny . . .
I don't have like a problem with Lillie cheating on multiple men . . . it'll be like so fuuunnn.
I blame the fever . . . Too many "likes" in my sentence . . . Sneeze. Right on the frickin computer screen.
| Tori chapter 21 . 9/8/2012
Well . . . I get the feeling Psycho Dude is a vampire with the way he talks about blood donors and shit . . . looks like there's a new couple in town . . .
Aiden X Ruby does have a sort of ring to it, haha. The Psycho Bloodthirsty freak with the unloyal biatch.
Lillie doesn't have to share if she doesn't want to . . . in fact I prefer that she doesn't share . . .
Yay, Valentia's going to pee her pants when she finds out Loki's coming for her!
| booklover1698 chapter 20 . 9/7/2012
I don't like koji's G-ma. she's weird and rude and mean! Kill her! XD Update soon! I loved it!
| Tori chapter 20 . 9/4/2012
Yeah Delena is amazing lol. Just imagined Caleb shirtless ...
You really love to torture me, don't you Miss Pink Mint? It makes me pissed when I get hot scenes of hot guys and then am forced back into the harsh reality where they don't exist. Dammit.
Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Caleb... You make me sweat with your hotness sometimes despite your rabid mutt tendencies to bite off peoples appendages... Great now I sound like Krystal. This is totally your fault, Author!
Anyways, I'm hating on Ruby just Luke Valentia. She sucks ass.
| Saria chapter 20 . 9/4/2012
Aww... Loki and Lillie getting mistaken for a couple in the hallway. Lillie should seriously slap those jealous biatches in their faces and tell them to back off of her man and get their own boyfriends... Amusing scene.
I don't think Lillie is the type to stand up for a guy she just met though... And you can just imagine Loki's smart ass remarks when the whole scene Is over. He'd get a good lmfao outta THAT.


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Rumor has it that iPhone OS 3.0, which should be released this summer, will allow for more "mature" apps. Apple has improved the parental controls, which in theory will let parents better control the apps their children are able to download and the content they have access to on the device. Although the responsibility of content filtering will be on the parents, Apple may have to work in a ratings system so parents can judge whether their kids should be allowed to have a particular app on their phone. But don't expect to be inundated with "adults-only"-themed apps. A ton of X-rated content wouldn't necessarily fit Apple's corporate image. [The Apple Blog]


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The designer that brought the 90s handbag revolution to New York now lends its unique styles to this kindle cover.
With a variety of eye-catching covers to choose from (each a re-imagined design of classic works), you can show off your literary passion in style.
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