Too bad he didn't prove the null hypotheses. Then he'd be a hero. As it is it just seems to reenforce the common perception that engineers and scientists are clue-less in social situations.

Racism is wrong from the metaphysical level up. William Shockley was an idiot savant. William Shockley will be remembered for the transistor, of course. He also will be remembered for his authoritarian management style that induced his vice presidents to quit and form their own companies, thus, the "Fairchildren" created Silicon Valley.

Reminiscent of William Shockley who shared the 1956 Nobel prize for Physics for inventing the transistor and then unwittingly undermined his reputation in 1963 by posing a hypotheses that a genetic component of low IQ was based on racial heritage. He sure kicked a hornet's nest with that one. Guess what he is best remembered for.

Sometimes it seems like "Social Science" is an oxymoron and answers to social problems are crowd-sourced. It surely is a mine field for an Objectivist.

Feel safe as houses with Google? db has always had concerns as to how Google became the most prominent search engine in the first place. I think the ex CEO should sue the group who exposed the donor list. With all the rules we have regarding

employment one would think there'd be one saying you couldn't fire someone for their political beliefs

There's always Opera.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_%28web_...
After having played around with Epiphany for about 30 minutes, I like what I see.
A) It supports private browsing mode, where everything is kept cached in RAM and nothing is saved to disk.
B) Support for commonly fouled-up plugins like FlashPlayer looks good.
C) Built-in Ad blocker.
D) When web servers attempt browser identification, they get a response that the browser is simultaneously...
AppleWebKit/538.1, Safari/538.1, Mozilla/5.0, and Epiphany/3.10.3
So, compatibility ought to be good.
Now if I can just find a "per-website javascript enable/disable" plugin, I'll be all set :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_br...
After reading the Wiki page, a belief that Chromium is basically Google Chrome seems justified to me!

Other Open Source choices are Chromium (which some seem to have an issue with because they believe that it is Google Chrome) and Opera.

Which is why I don't use gmail and I do use pgp/gpg.

Evolution is available on both O/S I run, so Evolution it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror
Well, I checked out Konqueror and found it to be just awful. Wouldn't even render galtsgulchonline in a usable way. I was getting ads even when logged in, and I couldn't click articles and read anything and then when I tried to logout it just scrolled my page down.

exactly.

Right, but Chromium is not Google Chrome.

Yeah, but I'm still an old-school, command-line, *NIX hacker at heart.

So, mutt has nostalgia value.

Evolution is WAY superior to Mutt. It's more analogous to Microsoft Outlook. It supports calendars, tasks, memos, contacts database, etc. Pretty much a replacement for Outlook, not just a simple mail client.

Hi Eudaimonia,

I'm using Evolution and its integration with PGP/GPG (GNU Privacy Guard - amounts to the same thing) works fantastic for both automatic signing/encryption and sign verification/decryption. I'm using it to link up to a http://countermail.com mail account ($60/year). This company automatically takes in traditional clear text email and encrypts it with your public key, making sure that even if your POP/IMAP username and password are ever sniffed, or if the government puts out a court order to inspect your mail folder, all they will see is PGP armored ciphertext.

I'm looking to dump Firefox over this as well. I'm uncomfortable with Chromium as I view it as just another brand of evil. Still on the hunt. Looked at Opera, but looks like they're changing their rendering engine to the one Mozilla or Google invented (can't remember which at this point).

Thanks, I'll look into Evolution.

Although, if I have to, there's always Mutt.

K, if you are asking about my browser choice - no, I do not feel safe as houses with Google. Chromium is not Google Chrome, although Google Chrome is based on Chromium.

I think that he should sue as well, but sue to have Mozilla be consistent and remove all JavaScript capability from their browser.
If he won, it would *kill* Firefox dead.

Just tweeted this:

To distance itself further from the language's creator, #mozilla should rebrand JavaScript as MiracleScript. #firefoxboycott #AtlasShrugged