Posts by RMS

Files aren’t property, says US government

What the bloody hell.

This makes no sense whatsoever.

Beer because maybe it will if I drink enough of it.

Judge cracks down on Bayesian stats dodginess in court

"and applied correctly it is atonishingly good at predicting likelihood"

I think the point the judge was making though is that it wasn't being applied correctly and thus erroneous conclusions were being drawn.

How Apple's Lion won't let you trash documents

Hmmm

I can't recreate this at all. Can anyone?

Praying for meltdown: The media and the nukes

AND YET...

... more people have died in Wind Turbine and Hydro Electric Power accidents in less time. These also require huge subsidies to be built and MADE economical, even though the former will never be able to provide base load power and is a total waste of time and money. And the later of which also renders huge areas uninhabitable and has displaced far far more people over the last 40 years than nuclear power has.

The thing is, there really is no debate about whether or not we need nuclear power. The debate is if we want to live in a world with increasing standards of living or not. If we do, then nuclear power is an absolute necessity.

Johnson: ID cards will pay for themselves

Paid for twice really!

Far from paying for itself we're really paying for it twice. Once through taxes and then again to purchase a card.