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5 Scientific Ways the Internet is Dividing Us
The good news is that the Internet has given us greater access to extended family, news from remote parts of the globe and pictures of exotic genitals we would have never been able to see in the real world. The bad news is that the Internet is also pitting neighbor against neighbor in new and innovative ways that only technology could have made possible.
The worse news? It's not getting better any time soon, thanks to ...
#5. New Algorithms That Make Sure You Only Talk to People You Agree With
The only reason you know anything about how to be a good human being is because other people told you when you screwed up. It's not pleasant being told you smell or that your jokes aren't funny or that your scrotum has fallen out of your pants, but it's also the only way you know to start showering or learn funnier jokes or move to a more open-minded neighborhood. You already knew this -- we all can think of rich people and celebrities who are surrounded by "yes men" who never give them honest feedback and who get so disconnected that they basically go crazy (see: Michael Jackson, George Lucas).
Yet the Internet is building that bubble of "yes men" around you, right now, and you don't even notice. For instance, everyone's favorite social networking site, Facebook, is filtering your friends according to how much you agree with them. It's not some crazy conspiracy theory, it's a computer algorithm. Here:
There's a downside to kids paying too much attention in math class.
What, did you think that Facebook just gave you all of your friends' updates in order? Nope -- not unless you tell it to. By default, it filters them according to your preferences, and it knows your preferences because it keeps track of all of the links you click on. If you click on a lot of left-wing news stories, it will start filtering out your right-wing friends.
Tech expert Eli Pariser calls these algorithms the "filter bubble," and its implications are pretty sinister. You've already seen this if you are a younger person continually embarrassed/frustrated by the idiotic Facebook hoaxes your older family members fall for. No, Uncle Frank, Obama did not ban the use of the phrase "Christmas tree" and didn't paint over an American flag with his own logo. How can he not recognize these as silly urban legends? Because everyone who would tell him so has been filtered out. Bad information can circulate forever in a bubble where everybody agrees with it.
"Standing in this room right now, I can just feel that 2012 is the mullet's year!"
After all, the same kid annoyed with Uncle Frank might in the next moment give a knee-jerk "Like" to a fake quote from Rick Santorum or Sarah Palin. And Facebook remembers, so the next link to come along that's popular with your political faction will get promoted right to the top. Your life becomes an endless stream of links telling you that everything you already believe is right, and there is no reason to ever question it. Your computer might as well have a mechanical arm that comes out and continually pats you on the back for being so awesome.
But you can still comment on other people's links, right, and set them straight? Not so fast -- users have reported seeing this after trying to comment on a friend's status:
ZD Net
"I really don't see how my balls aren't relevant to this!"
The comment in question wasn't inviting anyone to an underground Nazi get-together. But it did set off a spam filter, apparently because it was long and included three links. In other words, if you find yourself in a Facebook debate, the one thing that can get you filtered as spam is daring to give too much explanation or sources to back up what you're saying. It's probably best to just call everyone Nazis/communists and go on about your day.
#4. New Methods to Make Misinformation Spread Faster
"Well, sure," you might say, "That's why I don't get my freaking news from Facebook, dumbass!" Good for you! And you don't want to depend on just one source, because every site has a bias of some kind. No, the savvy consumer of news and opinion will let Internet democracy tell them what to read -- you go to a site where the users submit the links, like MetaFilter or Digg or Reddit. So, just a month ago, the front page of Digg had this amazing story about a crazy female dentist who got angry at her boyfriend and pulled all of his teeth:
Hell hath no fury like a woman with access to pliers and laughing gas scorned.
This is what the Internet is good for, right here -- a great, weird story to tell around the water cooler tomorrow, especially if your co-workers are male ("Women sure are CRAZY, right, boys?"). Too bad it's a hoax; the source for that submission is listed as HuffingtonPost.com, but they were simply sharing a link they themselves found. Where? Why, the Daily Mail -- a bullshit U.K. tabloid that is prone to making amusing stories up out of thin air to get clicks. As usual, the story turned out to be complete fiction. But not before it was shared on every news portal (and tens of thousands of times on Facebook).
Here's an even scarier story from the front page of Reddit: Russia is massing troops on Iran's northern border, ready to start World War III if the U.S. attacks Iran:
If they take over Iran, they get seven bonus troops next turn.
And the source is BusinessInsider.com. Well, that sounds respectable as shit, that's like the Wall Street Journal or something, isn't it? Actually, that site pulled the article from crazy conspiracy site World Net Daily (if you go there at any given moment, you'll likely see a front page headline about how Obama's birth certificate has definitely been proven fake this time).
Come on, "Honolulu" doesn't even sound real.
The story cites unnamed sources. So if you follow the path, it goes:
Front Page of Huge News Portal -> Popular Website -> Crazy Conspiracy Site -> Imagination of Random Unnamed Guy Who Didn't Get Enough Attention as a Child. Did we mention that Russia doesn't border Iran?
But very few people followed that path, because the Internet is physically changing the way we read.
Instead of reclining on the front porch to leisurely peruse the 11,282-word sentence at the end of Ulysses (you know ... like we used to), we're browsing headlines, or skimming through our RSS feed or Tumblr. The brain is like a muscle -- it gets good at whatever you spend the most time doing, and what we spend all of our time doing is skimming. Whether we mean to or not, we're training our brain to have a shitty attention span -- and we mean it's actually changing the shape of our brain, building up our ability to skim an ocean of facts and decreasing our ability to actually stop and dig into the details.
"It's about a lobotomized boy who gets hit by a train."
And that means we are getting really, really bad at sniffing out bad or false information.
It's awesome that anybody with a keyboard can get published online -- that's what the Internet is all about, after all. But it's not so great when we lose the ability to figure out whether the story about Kim Jong-un being assassinated came from a BBC reporter at the scene or a 14-year-old 4chan poster reporting from his bedroom. The legit news sites, the tabloid news sites, the great blogs, the shitty blogs ... all of it gets swirled together in the pot, and what floats to the top isn't the stuff that's true, but the stuff that is first with the story (even if it's wrong) or the most inflammatory (and not surprisingly, user-generated content tends to be more biased than professional content).
"This just in from our news affiliate dongtacular.org ..."
And that leads to another problem ...
#3. User-Submitted News Sites That Create Thought Bubbles
Let's say you've been wronged in some small way. A co-worker makes a snide remark, or takes credit for something that was your idea. Not a big deal, but you talk to a group of your friends about it, and they respond with "Oh, that's bullshit! I can't believe she said/did that! Are you gonna sit back and take that?!? Man, if it were me ..."
And, in their valiant attempts to offer you sympathy, they rile you up to the point where you're now ready to burn the office to the ground out of spite.
There's a scientific name for that, and we've mentioned it before -- the law of group polarization. Research shows that people become more extreme in their beliefs the more time they spend thinking or talking about them -- even if no new information is introduced. Just the act of repeating it makes you angrier.
Well, when you get your news from user-submitted news sites, you get that same effect. This is why a conservative one like FreeRepublic.com is still absolutely full of the aforementioned "Obama birth certificate is fake" links, and why the Ron Paul subreddit is full of stories that make it sound like the fringe candidate is on the verge of winning the nomination.
His StarCraft clan's ranking is going to be huge in the primaries.
Going from one to the other is like stepping into an alternate universe, and each one is a tempest in a teapot. Remember that Kony 2012 video that was spammed on every news portal (along with Twitter, Facebook and everywhere else)? That video would get 90 million views on YouTube, show up on the front page of Digg and get more than 7,000 votes on Reddit across many submissions, each submission on each site accompanied by hundreds of user comments. The Internet had never heard of this guy before, had no stakes in the situation at all and, to be frank, couldn't point to his country on a map. But the more we sat around talking about it, the more times we saw that video get linked, and the more we worked ourselves into a frenzy.
Then, the backlash started -- news emerged that the video was misleading, and outright false in places. The guy behind the video got arrested for going on a naked rampage in public, and then that story dominated news portals (and got more than 17,000 votes on Reddit across even more submissions). And thousands of angry or mocking comments.
You need at least two Academy Awards for public masturbation to be "eccentric" and not "dangerously insane."
Again, it was the creation of a zealous opinion on a subject via sheer repetition, with everybody voicing the same opinion over and over, louder and louder. It's yet another type of bubble. An anger bubble.
There are so many such sites on the Internet, representing such specific topics and points of view, that everyone can find their own little niche and dig themselves deeper and deeper into the trenches of whatever cause they latch onto. As one Harvard Law professor puts it, without "unanticipated encounters, involving unfamiliar and even irritating topics and points of view," democracy fails. Or at least it gets really annoying.
"Screw it, I say we go back to a feudalist plutocracy."
"But wait a minute," you might say. "Why do those echo chambers all have to be negative? Maybe a bunch of people are all sitting around somewhere continually reaffirming their belief in the inherent goodness of mankind." Well, the problem is that the Internet has ...

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16 Feb 2010 3:53 AM #1
[SOLVED]General question - SQLiteStore Loading + Combo
Hello All,
I've noticed a lot of threads circling around some of the same issues. I was wondering if it would not be a bad idea to put together a small thread like Makana did with the ext-air.js updated build.
From what I see, there are several threads and issues surrounding Comboboxes and SQLite stores. There are also some good threads on how to make this easier but thre are no definiteve guides. Grids are fantastic, but if you are using an editable grid, you will run into requiring comboboxes nevertheless.
Just was wondering if a how-to SQLite store+combo+filters+clauses would not be bad to have?
I myself have been beating my head at a wall week trying to understand how to filter/use clauses in the SQLite store . I'm sure I will not be the first and last to come across this.
Just a thought
16 Feb 2010 4:52 AM #2
Due to the posts here and some annoyance, espacially from Pranke (don't take it personally! I understand it, since I ran into the same problems), about working with the SQLiteStore, first of all about doing the insert/update/delete stuff via the store, not the database, I think, it's time to review this and do some improvements on it.
I like the idea to manage database recordsets via the store, so I think, this should be preserved.
I will take the time to think about it and do some coding and testing.
Please give your opinions, what should be included and what should not.Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better іdiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
Enhanced ExtJS adapter for Adobe AIR
16 Feb 2010 5:27 AM #3
Hello Makana,
Thanks for your input. I will be happy to help with testing and assist anyway I can.
I think, at least from my view point, in terms of the store and combobox (custom registered xtypes:
WORKING as they should (combo-grid)
conn: [no change requried]
start - limit : [no change required]
viewName: [no change required]
REVIEW and CONSIDERATION
sqlStr: query bound store [worth a investigation]
Listeners on combo bound stores:
beforeload: not sure if it works properly
beforeselect: not sure if it works properly
select: [when using start-limit params, it never select the proper record in the store, only the record at the top of the page(paging)
I did notice that there some issues when creating custom xtypes, certain parameters seem to ignored, such as 'autoLoad'.
Also, I think one of the things that I would emphasize on is how to limit the amount of data rerturned from the database:
ie. I cannot get soemthing liek this to work inside a store:
"SELECT * FROM ori_administrators WHERE administrator_type = 'COUNTRY'"
If you would like a simple case I can provide an example, where combobox 'select' doesn't work properly, and conditional store loads seem to be ignored, as well as the autoload.
17 Feb 2010 4:12 AM #4
I think there should be made a change with the connection. A synchronious connection is so damn slow. Every time I access the databse, my program does not react.
Another idea I had, was that there is right now no possibility to extend a table with new fields (or even to remove fields) and it is not possible to set default-values.
If anything of these three points are possible, please correct me
17 Feb 2010 4:46 AM #5
Hello Pranke,
Being a database administrator myself, I see no reason why to integrate a feature of creating columns with default values inside of Ext.
You should always create your tables as needed. What you are talking about is to turn Ext on Air into something like MySQL Admin, or Toad, or SQL Developer etc.
But I would agree that, an asyncronous aconnection would not be a bad idea. Air by default uses async, where as Ext uses sync. I leave this to some more experienced programmer.
17 Feb 2010 5:36 AM #6
@Pranke01:I don't know, if you really need the functionality of creating tables etc. or if you only need a sqlite database administrator like Firebug's SQLiteManager to manage your database structure.....
I agree with the async stuff and will look, what is possible when I review the sqlite stuff in my adapter.Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better іdiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
Enhanced ExtJS adapter for Adobe AIR
18 Feb 2010 2:06 AM #7
viewName parameter inclusion not working
Hello Makana,
I tested the viewName parameter in my combo store and I'm getting the following error:
Error #1056: Cannot create property stackTrace on flash.errors.SQLError.
This is how to implemented your extension code:
****around line 1653: getTable : function(name, keyName){ return new Ext.sql.Table(this, name, keyName); }, //SQLite Modification - Extention //Makana viewName parameter getView: function(name){ return new Ext.sql.View(this, name); }, //eo mod ****around line 2000 .......onRemove : function(ds, record, index){ var kn = this.table.keyName; this.table.removeBy(kn + ' = ?', [record.data[kn]]); } }); /SQLite Modification - Extention //Makana viewName parameter Ext.sql.View = Ext.extend(Ext.sql.Table, { constructor: function(conn, name) { this.conn = conn; this.name = name; }, update: Ext.emptyFn, updateBy: Ext.emptyFn, insert: Ext.emptyFn, lookup: Ext.emptyFn, exists: Ext.emptyFn, save: Ext.emptyFn, remove: Ext.emptyFn, removyBy: Ext.emptyFn }); //eo mod Ext.sql.AirConnection = Ext.extend(Ext.sql.Connection, { // abstract methods open : function(db){ this.conn = new air.SQLConnection(); var file = air.File.applicationDirectory.resolvePath(db); this.conn.open(file); this.openState = true; ...... ****Overwrite the store definition ****Around line 1700 Ext.sql.SQLiteStore = Ext.extend(Ext.data.Store, { constructor: function(config) { config = config || {}; config.reader = new Ext.data.JsonReader({ idProperty: config.key, totalProperty: config.totalProperty, root: config.root, fields: config.fields }); var conn; if (!config.conn || config.dbFile) { conn = Ext.sql.Connection.getInstance(); conn.open(config.dbFile); } else conn = config.conn; /* if (config.createTable === true) conn.createTable({ name: config.tableName, key: config.key, fields: config.reader.recordType.prototype.fields });*/ //Makana's extension for viewName if (!config.viewName) { conn.createTable({ name: config.tableName, key: config.key, fields: config.reader.recordType.prototype.fields }); var table = conn.getTable(config.tableName, config.key); } else var table = conn.getView(config.viewName); Ext.sql.SQLiteStore.superclass.constructor.call(this, config); this.proxy = new Ext.sql.Proxy (conn, table, this, config.api); } });
18 Feb 2010 2:53 AM #8
If you use the modified adapter, use "tableName" instead. I removed the viewName, because a view in ext-air is almost the same as a table.
If you want to make it readonly, configure your store with
see: http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthrea...006#post437006Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better іdiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
Enhanced ExtJS adapter for Adobe AIR
18 Feb 2010 7:22 AM #9
Combo store issue - using Views
Hello Makana,
So I've undone all the changes I made and have reverted back to the original modified ext-air-debug.
But I can seem to get away from this error:
Error #1056: Cannot create property stackTrace on flash.errors.SQLError.
CREATE VIEW "VW_COUNTRY_ADMINS" AS SELECT ADMINISTRATOR_ID as id, ADMINISTRATOR_NAME as text FROM ORI_ADMINISTRATORS WHERE ADMINISTRATOR_TYPE = 'COUNTRY' ORDER BY 2
iApplication.module.comboCountryAdmins = Ext.extend(Ext.form.ComboBox, { initComponent: function() { Ext.apply(this, { store: new Ext.sql.SQLiteStore({ conn: iApplication.module.DB ,api:{create:false,update:false,destroy:false} ,tableName: 'VW_COUNTRY_ADMINS' //,key: 'ADMINSTRATOR_ID' ,key: 'id' ,fields: [ {name: 'id', type: 'int'} ,{name: 'text', type: 'string'} ] }), valueField: 'id' ,displayField: 'text' ,triggerAction: 'all' //,typeAhead: false ,emptyText:'Select Employee...' ,width: 160 ,fieldLabel: 'Employee' ,lazyRender: true ,tpl: Templates.comboTpl }) iApplication.module.comboCountryAdmins.superclass.initComponent.apply(this, arguments); } }); Ext.reg('combo-country-admins', iApplication.module.comboCountryAdmins);
Templates = { comboTpl: new Ext.XTemplate( '<tpl for=".">
{text}
</tpl>' )};
I've tried many combinations, but I'm not sure if the problem is with the store, or the template?
Any thoughts
Thanks Jack
18 Feb 2010 8:11 AM #10
Hmm, seems like a sql error... I cannot order by 2! do you have such a named column? I've testet and the query works if it is quoted....
btw, you don't need to define such a template which does nothing, except of showing the displayField. It's implemented in the adapter to use the default template...Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better іdiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
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spoiler:Seriously, the endings were really amazing beyond what I'd expected from ME or BioWare.
spoiler:Blue ending cuts off shortly as the Mass Relays are being damaged. Unlike the other endings, you don't see bits of it flying far away, implying that it may just be badly damaged and not entire destroyed.


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I managed to uninstall xserver-xorg completely, and now all I see when booting Ubuntu is a blank screen. I've tried reinstalling it through shell prompt (recovery mode) but every time I get errors similar to
Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-input-all_7.6+7ubuntu7_amd64.deb Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
I get similar (not exactly the same though) errors when running apt-get update or try to repair broken packages in recovery mode. It's not just acrhive.ubuntu.com which can't be resolved, it's also se.archive.ubuntu.com, repository.spotify.com, archive.canonical.com among others.
The Ubuntu desktop is not accessible, I can only make changes through the terminal in recovery mode, or through a bootable USB.
I'm running 64bit Ubuntu 11.10 with hybrid graphics (Intel HD and AMD).
I tried adding
nameserver 184.108.40.206
to my /etc/resolv.conf file but it made no difference. Updating the hosts file like this didn't help either.
ping google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
It seems I'm not even connected to any network, I will start investigating this right now.
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What nutrition is given to infants who are lactose intolerant? I understand, in today's day and that age we have non-lactose formula milk, but what happened, before lactose-free milk was created, to those who suffered from lactose intolerance (Native Americans, Asians, etc.)?
The lactose intolerance Wikipedia page explains the problem fairly well, so I'll refer you to that for a more detailed explanation.
Briefly, the most common cause of lactose intolerance is primary lactase deficiency, which affects the majority of the world's population. This only affects adults: the majority of people do not produce lactase as adults.
A couple of good references:
Lactose intolerance in infants, children, and adolescents. - Heyman, Pediatrics 2006
Genetics of lactase persistence and lactose intolerance. - Swallow, Annu Rev Genet. 2003
In fact, being lactose tolerant is the mutation. Adult mammals are normally not lactose tolerant, only the still milk drinking babies have the lactose gene activated. Humans developed this mutation earliest in the Neolithic.
(citation from Burger et al., PNAS, 2006)
So in fact, people who are lactose intolerant are just plain normal. There is normally no reason to feed babies lactose-free milk. The rare cases where you need to do this are very well described in the post of nico.


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6 Iconic Movie Leaders (Who Aren't Fit To Lead A Parade)
#3. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek Movies)
We're not disputing that the Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation was anything but an accomplished diplomat who made intelligent decisions. But as others have pointed out, the bald-headed dude from the movies was a big dumb action hero who liked shouting lines and shooting things.
"Knock, knock!"
The problem is, of course, he winds up as an old guy whose greatest talents are drinking tea and giving scathing rebukes who insists on fighting the bad guys by himself anyway. This results in Picard getting his ass handed to him by an even older scientist in Generations, surrendering to the Borg at the end of First Contact and completely failing to stop the superweapon in Nemesis. The strategy of, "I'll just teleport over there myself and punch the bad guy!" should not be the go-to strategy for the captain of a large military vessel.
"I've got a plan!"
The only time Piccard gets the upper hand is at the finale of Insurrection, where he straight-up murders the defenseless villain who didn't kill him when he had the chance. Look, when you've got a gigantic muscular guy like Worf aboard who's already said that he would prefer to die in battle, there's really no excuse for risking your life, your ship and the entire goddamn universe because you want to be the hero.
The movie Picard also has a habit of criminally underthinking situations. The plot of Insurrection is that they discover a planet where there is this radiation that can cure blindness and let people live forever. Picard refuses to share this with the rest of the universe, because it would disrupt the lives of a few natives, completely ignoring that whole "needs of the many" thing Spock kept blabbering about.
"Let's go kill these assholes for fucking with this planet's shit."
Then there's the way in First Contact he brings down his entire crew to mid-21st century Earth and tells everyone who they are and what the future will hold, ruining everything Kirk tried to do in Star Trek IV. You have to like how the response to this was to reboot the franchise with a Captain Kirk whose entire personality revolves around poor decisions. That's right, just establish it right out of the box, guys.
#2. Professor X (X-Men Series)
Patrick Stewart shows up again, this time with the exact opposite problem: He doesn't actually do anything.
This is about as active as he gets.
Here it's an issue of comparing the abilities the film insists he has (that is, that he's a powerful telepath who can read pretty much anyone's mind) with what he actually does. For instance, how the hell does Mystique keep infiltrating his school? For that matter, he's also captured in the middle of X2, which means he didn't bother reading the minds of anyone at the complex at all because otherwise they wouldn't have been able to catch him by surprise.
Look, rummaging around in people's brains may be an invasion of privacy and all and we're sure he gets tired of finding out that half the school wants to bone Halle Berry, but it's a necessary evil when you're trying to protect the very existence of your people (reading minds, that is--Halle is strictly extra credit.)
The Professor is also way too trusting: In X2 again, he tells us he can't read Wolverine's mind because of some bullshit about amnesia. So basically, in the first movie he let an indestructible cold-blooded killer wander around his students without having any idea who the guy was. Worse, in the third movie he finds Jean Grey miraculously alive and Cyclops missing; instead of reading her mind while unconscious and finding out that A) she killed Cyclops and B) the mental blocks that held Phoenix in check are now gone, he does absolutely nothing and gets shredded to pieces.
As an extra kicker, in the post-credits scene we see that he transferred his mind into a comatose guy's body proving that he only compromises his ethics when doing so is completely useless for everyone else.
Finally, the Prof never uses the Cerebro machine for anything useful. It can pinpoint the location of any mutant in the world with the crucial exception of Magneto because of his helmet. But all Xavier had to do was find out where, say, Sabretooth or Toad were hanging out and he would know where Magneto was.
"Right now he's thinking of Alpo, and- Wait, they're in the Statue of Liberty!"
Not to mention that (in X2 once again) it's revealed that he can incapacitate and/or kill people anywhere on the planet using Cerebro; if he bothered doing this at any point, he could have resolved the plots of all the movies in five seconds, tops. Juggernaut's being rowdy again? Just send an aneurysm his way. Mystique's sexing it up too much? Give her a quick three-week nap. Will Stryker's hatching evil schemes? Headsplosion. You get the drill.
X-Men 4: Xavier's Revenge.
#1. John Connor (Terminator 2)
Just to clarify, we're talking about the adult John Connor here, not the kid.
Now, you can justify the plot of the first Terminator film by saying that Connor had to send his dad back in time to impregnate his mom to conceive himself; while that's undeniably weird and gross, it was probably necessary to avoid a whole bunch of ugly time paradoxes that would have made the robot uprising look like a walk in the park.
The point is, Connor had to send the guy at the exact right time, under the exact right conditions so the space-time continuum didn't flip its shit. So why in the holy hell did he not take advantage of the whole time travel thing the second time around?
Wait, what now?
Look, this is simple enough.
In T2, all John would have had to do was send Ahnold back about five years before the events of the movie, to a time when Sarah Connor was still a free woman (rather than being locked up in a mental institution, as she was when the film began). After gaining her trust, he could mention that in a few years there's going to be another less-friendly Terminator coming her way and get her and the kid out of the country, or at least get them plastic surgery.
"Make me look like the gay kid from Heroes."
Then all he would have to do would be get his hands on a nice military-grade flamethrower and melt the T-1000 as soon as it unfurled itself from its crotch-hiding crouch. Alternatively, Connor could have just sent the Terminator to take down Cyberdyne itself; killing Miles Dyson would be easy for a muscular murderbot, and it basically blew up the HQ and lab all by itself in the movie anyway.
Getting shit done.
Or, even better, he could have made it appear in the factory just after the events of the first movie and destroy the remains of the old Terminator, preventing the rise of Skynet and Cyberdyne altogether. Or if you're in the mood for a more nonviolent solution, Connor could have just had the Terminator reveal himself as a robot on national television and then tell everyone the truth about Skynet. The ensuing public outrage would make sure that the government pulled the plug on the program.
What we're saying is that there were literally endless possibilities here, and John Connor chose the one that put himself, his mother and the fate of the entire goddamn human race in the most danger.
Wanting to see a Terminator in sunglasses is not a valid excuse.
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The Studies in Sustainability series serves as a forum for discussion of the challenges and opportunities that exist in transforming chemistry into a tool for sustainability. White papers in this series highlight the intersecting roles played by emerging science, innovation, regulation, and civil action.
by Christian Beaudrie
This paper investigates the US federal regulations that apply to a nanomaterial along its life cycle, from initial creation to end-of-life. Drawing upon the growing literature that explores the regulatory challenges posed by nanomaterials, this analysis investigates which regulations are expected to apply at each life-cycle stage, and the ways that nanomaterials challenge the applicability or enforcement of these regulations..
by Anna Lamprou
This paper discusses the current primary law governing nanotechnology in the United States and addresses its limitations as identified by three interest organizations. Also discussed are different policy recommendations that these organizations have suggested in regard to nanotechnology regulation.
by Gwen Ottinger
This paper investigates the performance of community advisory panels (CAPs) and highlights potential sources of public discontent with the dialogues, drawing on observations of CAP meetings in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, in the heart of the state's Mississippi River Industrial Corridor.
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- South Jersey Gas -- an investor-owned natural gas utility with approximately 700 employees and over 354,000 customers within the seven counties in Southern New Jersey -- selected Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Customer Self-Service and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing Business Intelligence to support its enterprise-wide customer service transformation initiative.
- South Jersey Gas is replacing a legacy customer information system (CIS) with Oracle's integrated utility platform -- which supports complete customer care, billing, credit and collections and payment processing -- as a business imperative to continue providing its customers with the level of service they expect and deserve.
- Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing and Oracle Utilities Customer Self-Service will give South Jersey Gas customer service representatives a 360-degree view of customer and premise data, helping streamline billing processes and enabling more responsive customer service. The utility expects that the solutions will help reduce abandoned calls, wait time, average handle time and training time for customer service representatives, as well as increase first call resolutions.
- With the Oracle applications in place, the utility will work to manage all aspects of the utility customer lifecycle including service connection, meter read management, complex billing, payment processing and debt collection. South Jersey Gas also plans to use the Oracle solutions to more easily implement rate changes through flexible rate and billing structures as well as to ensure all customers receive a correct bill.
- Additionally, with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing Business Intelligence, South Jersey Gas hopes to easily organize consistent, relevant and timely customer data from across the enterprise to improve reporting processes. These reports will provide South Jersey Gas management with a holistic view of customer-related information to improve decision making and ensure regulatory compliance in a deregulated market.
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GREEN BAY -- The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has opened an investigation of men's basketball coach Brian Wardle after the school received a complaint from the parents of a former player, alleging mistreatment.
University chancellor Thomas Harden told Press-Gazette Media on Thursday that an outside agency will look into the accusations made by the parents of freshman center Ryan Bross.
"We're acting quickly," Harden said. "We're going to move assertively and bring this to a conclusion as fast as we can."
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Bross, a 7-foot-1 walk-on from Menomonee Falls who redshirted this past season, decided to leave the program after the season and plans to transfer to Concordia University next season. The university did not immediately respond to an open records request asking for a copy of the letter sent by Bross' parents. Harden did not discuss the specifics of the letter but said it was the genesis for investigating a claim of mistreatment of a player.
"I think that would categorize the complaint," Harden said.
Sources familiar with the complaint said the accusation alleged verbal and emotional mistreatment by Wardle but not physical abuse.
Wardle, who will be allowed to work during the investigation, issued the following statement: "I will be supportive of this process and I'm confident in the findings. I will have no further comment until it is concluded."
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UWGB athletics director Ken Bothof was out of town and did not respond to a voice message or an e-mail.
Bross' mother, Brooke, would not reveal the specifics of the letter.
"We don't want this to be tried in the media," she said. "We want the investigation to run its course."
Harden said he received the letter Tuesday evening.
"Wednesday morning, I responded to them with an e-mail saying that I consider their allegations serious, and that we would start an investigation," Harden said. "How long will it take? We don't really know. We intend to start it right away, but we don't know just how long it will take. We'll move as quickly as we can, but we'll be thorough, too."
The athletic department held a team meeting Thursday afternoon to inform the players of the investigation, according to sources. Athletic department staff conducted the meeting, but none of the men's basketball coaches were present.
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"I've directed (Wardle) not to discuss it with his coaches and to do nothing that would be viewed as either impeding the investigation, which I don't think he would do anyway," Harden said. "But I did direct him not to do something or certainly not to do anything that would be punitive. He knew all of that, and he didn't really need to be told that, but I certainly did tell him."
Since mid-February, four players have left the UWGB program. Guard Kam Cerroni left Feb. 14, citing differences with Wardle. Shortly after the season, Bross and fellow freshman Nick Arenz, who played little last season, announced their decisions to leave. Monday, junior guard Sultan Muhammad was granted his release. Muhammad, who started all but 10 games last season, said he wanted to transfer closer to his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., because of a family matter, although he declined to discuss the matter.
When asked whether the letter he received was an isolated incident or a sign of a larger problem, Harden said: "I think that's what we're going to determine with the investigation. I don't want to make an assumption one way or the other. We don't have widespread complaints or allegations. We have this allegation, the complaint that I got Tuesday night, which we do think we need to check out, and we're going to do it really well."
Harden said the letter from the Bross' was the only correspondence he received.
Shortly before Cerroni left the team, he and his parents had a meeting with Wardle and Bothof in which Cerroni's differences were discussed.
"I'm familiar with Kam Cerroni's circumstances," Harden said.
Neither Cerroni nor his father, Andy, who was his high school coach at Sussex Hamilton, would comment any further about his departure when reached Thursday. Cerroni, who led the Horizon League in three-point shooting as a sophomore, will transfer to St. Norbert College.
This comes one week after Rutgers University fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice after video surfaced of him verbally and physically abusing players. Rice was fired April 4 and the school's athletic director Tim Pernetti, who initially suspended Rice for the offenses last season, was forced out several days later.
Harden said the Rutgers incident had no bearing on his decision to investigate the men's basketball program.
"That's a great question, but we would take this seriously despite what's happened someplace else," Harden said. "We're acting quickly. We're going to move assertively and bring this to a conclusion as fast as we can."
Harden said Thursday the school had not yet completed the process of obtaining an independent investigator.
"It will be an outside professional that we will bring in," Harden said. "We don't have that hiring done. It takes paperwork and a little bit of time to do that with an outside person not associated with the university."
Wardle, 33, has a 47-49 record in three seasons. He is coming off his best season, going 18-16 and finishing tied for third in the Horizon League. He has four more years remaining on his contract, which pays him a base salary of $133,132 plus another $70,000 in extra income. Wardle, who was the youngest coach in Division I at age 30 when he was hired in 2010, originally signed a five-year contract. He was given one-year extensions before each of the previous two seasons.
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(AP) BERLIN - Some 800,000 employees of Germany's state governments have won a pay increase totaling 5.6 percent over two years.
The pay deal for employees including police officers, firefighters and workers at ministries in all but one of Germany's 16 states was concluded Saturday.
It features a 2.65 percent pay rise backdated to Jan. 1, to be followed next January by a further 2.95 percent increase. That's above Germany's 1.5 percent annual inflation rate but well short of unions' initial demand for a 6.5 percent raise over one year.
Germany's economy has grown in recent years while many other European countries have struggled. The growth has fueled calls for big pay rises after years of relative restraint; last March, federal and municipal employees won a 6.3 percent raise staggered over two years.
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Iran Set to Double Nuclear Fuel Capability
Report from U.N. Watchdog Agency Puts Tehran Closer to Producing Enough Enriched Fuel for a Weapon; Worries Over Qom
Iran has finished installing nearly 3,000 nuclear-fuel production machines at its underground military facility near the holy city of Qom, providing Tehran the capability to double its production of medium-enriched uranium in the coming months, a new report said.
These advances, outlined in a report on Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, could allow Tehran's Islamist leaders to accumulate in as little as three to four months enough uranium enriched to 20% purity for one atomic weapon, according to nuclear experts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cited this level of nuclear-fuel production by Tehran as the "red line" for when the Jewish state might launch military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran was likely to amass this stockpile of fissile material by next summer, Mr. Netanyahu estimated in a September speech at the U.N.
The installation of the nearly 3,000 centrifuge machines at Qom could allow it to reach this point much quicker, experts say, if the machines there and at a second nuclear-fuel site at the city of Natanz are utilized.
"The number of centrifuges are steadily increasing, which diminishes the time for a breakout for a nuclear weapon in two ways," said Olli Heinonen, a former chief weapons inspector at the IAEA. "Iran's inventories will increase as well as its pace of production." Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and denies it is pursuing bomb production.
Iran currently has a stockpile of 232 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium, or about 510 pounds, of which 96 kilograms has been detected for the production of fuel plates, according to the IAEA. Nuclear experts estimate that Iran would need 220 to 250 kilograms to produce one nuclear weapon.
They said Iran's rate of quarterly production could grow to around 25 kilograms per month with the Qom facility fully operational.
To make a bomb, Iran would then need to convert this stockpile to weapons-grade levels, which is around 90% purity. It has the technology to do so, by reconfiguring centrifuges, in an additional few months, say experts.
The Obama administration and European governments said Friday that the advances at Qom intensified their desire to resume negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program. The Qom site is of particular concern to Israel because of worries it could be impervious to an air attack.
Three rounds of talks held so far this year between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, have achieved few results. But U.S. President Barack Obama said this week that he will use his Nov. 6 re-election to push for a fourth round of negotiations between these two sides by year-end.
A U.S. official who studied the IAEA's new report said Western countries are closely monitoring Qom to see when, and if, Iran will put on line all 3,000 centrifuges. "The fact that they're now capable of producing a lot more raises questions," said the official. "Why haven't they turned them all on yet? Is it a threat?"
The U.S. hopes that growing economic sanctions on Iran will force Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to make concessions at the negotiating table. Iran's currency, the rial, has dropped nearly 80% since last year, due, in part, to the West's financial war.
The IAEA's director general, Yukiya Amano, also pressed Iran in his report to cooperate with his agency in addressing evidence that Tehran has secretly been developing the technologies used for nuclear weapons. Mr. Amano has specifically been seeking to gain access for agency inspectors to a military site, south of Tehran, called Parchin. IAEA investigators believe Iranian scientists have used the site to conduct studies aimed at developing an implosion device for a nuclear warhead.
Mr. Amano has specifically been seeking to gain access for agency inspectors to a military site, south of Tehran, called Parchin. IAEA investigators believe Iranians scientist have used the site to conduct studies aimed at developing an implosion device for a nuclear warhead.
Tehran has repeatedly denied the IAEA access to the site. And Mr. Amano charged in his report that Iran has been attempting to cleanse the site of any past nuclear work by removing soil and cleaning up facilities.
"When the agency gains access to the location, it's ability to conduct effective verification will have been seriously undermined," Mr. Amano wrote.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – For the second straight year, sophomore Sean Kluttz has been named to the Atlantic 10 Indoor Track & Field Academic All-Conference team, announced by the league Tuesday afternoon. The teams were selected through voting conducted by the league's Sports Information Directors.
Kluttz, a computer science major from Albemarle, N.C. has a cumulative grade point average of 3.81. Along with his academic success, Kluttz was the runner-up at the 2013 A-10 Indoor Championships last month in the 800m with a time of 1:54.08. He was also a member of the 4x800m relay team that finished third (7:43.96) at the championships.
Joining Klutz on the 2013 Men's Academic All-Conference team are William Janes of Rhode Island, Sean Collins of Fordham, Alfredo Santana of La Salle, Stephen Bigelow of Massachusetts, Tyler Gallen of Saint Joseph's, Michael Scolarici and Tim Zellmer of Saint Louis, and Xavier's Craig Krcal and Spencer Liechty.
On the women's side Mara Olson of Butler, Duquesne's Shannon Abraham and Sherie Kay, Meghan McGlinchey and Wendy Hutchinson of La Salle, Kalyn Sheehan of Rhode Island, Jillian Prentice of Richmond, Jessica Hoefert and Allison Walter of Saint Louis, and Kiara Porter of VCU make up the 2013 Women's Academic All-Conference team.
Men's Academic All-Conference Team
Sean Klutz, Charlotte
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Tim Zellmer, Saint Louis
Craig Krcal, Xavier
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Mara Olson, Butler
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Sherie Kay, Duquesne
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Kalyn Sheehan, Rhode Island
Jillian Prentice, Richmond
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I really want to convince my friends and family that LaTeX is the choice for them when it comes to formatting and creating beautiful documents. I am aware of the major advantages that come with using LaTeX but some are not convinced. Can someone please provide a side by side comparison of a Word document (or something of the sort) and a LaTeX document that shows the obvious and subtle differences between the two? I want people to look at it and say "Ahhh, I see it, there's a major difference".
I find the comparison posted http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en to be very effective- here's a visual
If the visual isn't enough, check out the analysis!
Where IWS is the inter-word spacing and SD, stands for Standard Deviation, a measure of the variability of IWS (as computed by the square root of the average square deviation from the mean IWS). A lower value indicates less variability and therefore more regularity.
Any single-page text in LaTeX could look very similar to one obtained with a WYSIWYG word processors with the appropriate formatting.
What make a real difference often at the first glance is the lack of consistency on this format on a whole big document made with a word processors, even when the user is an expert using predefined styles, against the complete consistence of an structured LaTeX document, even when the user is a novice.
For example, how many unnecessary double paces or blank lines have any big Word document of an average user? This mistakes are hardly noticed and corrected and spoiled the format, but simply does not exist in LaTeX.
In this view also has a high weight the subtle changes of typography. As cmhughes pointed, there are some better hyphenation and spacing in LaTeX (that example probably could be improved with the
For example, compare this few words between LateX (above) and Abiword: (Sorry, I don't have Word)
At first glance, for most people there are no differences, but in the word processor there are not ligatures "ff" and "fi", there are a bad kerning in "Fe" and "Ta", but moreover, the kerning is just awful in "AVA". In a large text, hundreds of such details make a big difference that most people notice, although surely they do not know why.
Besides, there a lot of things that you cannot show with a visual comparison, as TikZ diagrams and plots with pgfplots, simply because a word processor is unable to do figures without a third program (that most likely include wrong font types or font sizes).
This should be pretty convincing.
I recently have to re-type an entire LaTeX document in Word because the conference organizer only accepts Word documents. The following picture contrasts the two outputs. (It should be pretty easy to tell which one is from LaTeX and which is from Word
Besides the lack of hyphenation in Word, which screws up the spacing between words (although I believe that with some effort one might be able to get Word to start hyphenating words), the biggest contrasts are in math fonts, and the spacing between math texts and regular ones. The equation editor in Word (2007 and above) only supports
The scientist appreciates the subtile beauty of LaTeX, as well as the possibility for version control, which is not possible with Word documents.
don't be religious! It's only typesetting. :)
People, which has not be programmed before, may be shocked if they see an emacs with auctex and at least a compile run. It's also with TeXShop the case!
However, the result can be impressive (but it is also possible to generate a poor quality with TeX).
If you have a lot of very different font types within a document (like this example: UTF8 for listings), it is definitly more easy to use OpenOffice or Word.
LaTeX has the main focus for structured documents (also letters). Well, I has used LaTeX for animations in presentation and also included videos in a PDF, but these are very advanced features, which are especially for friends with an average knowledge of programming totally out of scope.


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How many times have you watched an action movie and thought to yourself "Man, it must take years of training to be able to pull that off?" Real life police officers, soldiers, and spies have to undergo rigorous training before they get to pilot submarines and shoot people, right?
As it turns out, that's... entirely true. Being a real-life James Bond would take a lifetime of learning and practice. But as it also turns out, there are classes you could take this year that could get you half-way to James Bondhood, many of them taking a week or less of your precious, movie-watching time.
#6. Rick Seaman Stunt Driving School
If there's one thing that has become synonymous with James Bond through the years, it's blatant misogyny. A close second, though, would have to be the tragic destruction of fantastically expensive automobiles. In just one afternoon of filming Casino Royale, three stunningly beautiful, brand new Aston Martin DBS's were wrecked, just to film one measly stunt sequence that lasted mere seconds on screen. To put this in perspective, a single Aston Martin costs, at minimum, around four-hundred grand, a figure colloquially known as "more money than you will ever have, ever."
Luckily for us common folk, you can perform crazy stunts in any car, not just laughably expensive luxury sedans. And, with the proper training, you don't even have to total them to do it! But really, if you're not keeping the car, why wouldn't you?
The Coursework:
That proper training is provided at the Rick Seaman Stunt Driving School. Over the three day course, you'll learn everything from Tokyo drifting to speeding backwards through an obstacle course, skills that will prove invaluable if you ever find yourself Tokyo drifting or speeding backwards through an obstacle course.
The class even advertises its ability to teach spinning and sliding either 90, 180, 270 or 360 degrees. Anyone wishing to swerve around in non-quarter-turn intervals is shit out of luck--but if that was your goal, you're probably just a show-off asshole anyway and we hope you never get to take this course.
In addition to the standard two-part stunt driving classes, there is also mention of a special course, called "Anti-Terrorist/VIP Protection," whose very existence is so top-secret that it had to be hidden by placing it slightly further down the page. The exact details in the curriculum are notably left out of the website, likely to keep these undoubtedly hardcore techniques from falling into the wrong hands. The wrong hands, in this case, being defined as "hands that do not contain the several thousand dollars that this course costs."
#5. Advanced Surveillance
Every once in a while, spies have to take some time off from murdering and/or sleeping with all kinds of exotic strange to, you know, get some actual spying done. But how do they learn how to use all of that complex spy gadgetry? And more importantly, how can YOU, the consumer, learn how to set up such equipment for purposes that are only tangentially related to watching your hot neighbor undress?
By taking the "Surveillance Advanced" course at Intelligent Training International Limited.
The Coursework:
The lectures are divided into seven days; one for introduction, one for a final exam, one for closing thoughts and the rest is to teach different ways for surreptitiously observing people who really don't want to be observed.
Interestingly enough, each day of borderline-stalker techniques is split up in to two topics: The first is an overview of the material (from your basic "Eavesdropping" through the more complicated "Covert Video Surveillance" to the downright-terrifying "Telephone Interception"), while the second is how each fits in to the local British legal system.
Now, we here at Cracked are far from experts in UK law (or any kind of law, really... or even basic civics), but unless 1984 was actually a documentary, laws regarding secretly spying on your unwilling countrymen couldn't possibly be that complicated. At the very least, the phrase "don't fucking spy on people, bloke" has to be in the law somewhere, right?
Oh, and they also offer a course called "Counter-Espionage", presumably aimed both at people who have found out that their friends and co-workers have taken "Advanced Surveillance" and former "Advanced Surveillance" students who have hidden their bugs so well that they can no longer find them.
#4. Lock picking School (In A Box!)
In The World Is Not Enough, Bond had a secret lock pick built in to a credit card. Despite this amounting to what would have to be the most unwieldy lock pick device in history, you can still find replicas of it on the Internet.
Of course, if you're in a career that involves picking locks, you probably don't want your identity getting out. Luckily, there is a course that lets you learn to pick a lock from the comfort of your own home dressed in the comfort of your own stained boxers, which is probably what you're going to be wearing when you try to drunkenly pick the lock at the Playboy Mansion anyway.
The Coursework:
The Lock Picking School (In A Box!) is more or less exactly what it sounds like: a series of locks, placed in to some kind of shipping container, then mailed to your door. You then use the included basic set of lock picks, or your own personal set, to whittle them open, starting with simple, one-pin locks all the way up to a standard five-pin lock. You know, the kind of lock on your front door. The one that you count on to keep you safe at night.
What's that you say? You don't have any lock picks?
That's cool, you can buy those, too! That's right, despite the fact that these picks are built with one and only one purpose (namely, to pick locks, although they would probably make decent shanks in a pinch also), the possession of picks and wrenches is legal in most places, especially if you can prove you're not planning on stealing anything with them. Go ahead, check that link if you don't believe us. Yeah, that's Wikipedia, homes. Wikipedia ain't never lied.


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I think a major reason is because Lie algebras don't have an identity, but I'm not really sure.
The reason is simple: There are many non-unital rings which appear quite naturally.
If $X$ is a locally compact space (in the following every space is assumed to be hausdorff), then $C_0(X)$, the ring of continous complex-valued functions on $X$ vanishing at infinity, is a $C^\ast$-algebra which is unital if and only if $X$ is compact. If $X = \mathbb{N}$, this is just the ring of sequences converging to $0$. Gelfand duality yields an anti-equivalence between unital commutative $C^\ast$-algebras and compact spaces, and also between (possibly non-unital) commutative $C^*$-algebras (with "proper" homomorphisms) and locally compact spaces (with proper maps). In a very similar spirit ($\mathbb{C}$ is replaced by $\mathbb{F}_2$), there is an anti-equivalence between unital boolean rings and compact totally disconnected spaces, and also between boolean rings and locally compact totally disconnected spaces. One-point-Compactification on the topological side corresponds here to the unitalization on the algebraic side. Perhaps we have the following conclusion: As locally compact spaces appear very naturally in mathematics (e.g. manifolds), the same is true for non-unital rings.
If $A$ is a ring (possibly non-unital), its unitalization is defined to be the universal arrow from $A$ to the forgetful functor from unital rings to rings. An explicit construction is given by $\tilde{A} = A \oplus \mathbb{Z}$ as abelian group with the obvious multiplication so that $A \subseteq \tilde{A}$ is an ideal and $1 \in \mathbb{Z}$ is the identity. Because of the universal property, the module categories of $A$ and $\tilde{A}$ are isomorphic. Thus many results for unital rings take over to non-unital rings.
Every ideal of a ring can be considered as a ring. Important examples also come from functional analysis, such as the ideal of compact operators on a Hilbert space.
What is the reason for considering any algebraic structure? Becuase it comes up naturally when trying to do other things!
Here's a concrete example. In the Langlands programme one of the main local conjectures is relating representations of a (connected reductive) $p$-adic group to representations of a (group related to a) Galois group. Now most of the interesting representations of the $p$-adic group are infinite-dimensional, so this precludes one of the most powerful things that a representation theorist has in his arsenal---namely the possibility of taking traces. But in fact this can be fixed up very nicely! There is an analogue of the "group ring" of our $p$-adic group, namely the space of locally-constant complex-valued functions on the group with compact support. This space interits an addition (obvious) and a multiplication (convolution: the group has a natural measure on it, namely the Haar measure). So it's an algebra. Furthermore it is easily checked to have no identity element (the "delta function" isn't a locally-constant function!). However it's also not hard to check that there's an equivalence of categories between (certain) representations of the $p$-adic group that one is interested in, and (certain) representations of this algebra---the so-called Hecke algebra. Furthermore elements of the Hecke algebra act via maps with finite image, and so have traces! This is a big win. One can prove linear independence of characters etc etc, and get the powerful techniques back. But no way can the identity map be in this Hecke algebra---it certainly doesn't have finite image in general, and hence no trace.
Representations of the Hecke algebra are absolutely crucial in many works on this part of the Langlands correspondence, but they have no identity element. So there is one reason, in my area, at least.
Here is a favorite example. (See also Martin's answer.) Consider $C[0,\infty)$, the continuous complex-valued functions on $[0,\infty)$ with the "multiplication" operation of convolution... $$ f * g (x) = \int_0^x f(t) g(x-t)\,dt $$ It is a ring. Without unit. Even an integral domain. Mikusinski[*] said, take the field of fractions. Great. A simple introduction to generalized functions. Now if the student had studied algebra from some perverse textbook that constructed the field of fractions only in the unital case, what is the student to do? Go back to the textbook and check that it works without unit? A good exercise for that student, I guess.
[*] Jan Mikusinski, OPERATIONAL CALCULUS, 1959
Perhaps you will find the following remarks of interest, excerpted from the preface of Gardner and Wiegandt: Radical Theory of Rings, 2004.
A low-level answer, but I found it pretty surprising: Dimension shifting for Hochschild cohomology is easier to prove for non-unital rings than for unital rings. Let me explain these notions:
Let $A$ be a (not necessarily unital) $k$-algebra (with $k$ a commutative ring), and $P$ an $\left(A,A\right)$-bimodule. We denote by $C^n\left(A,P\right)$ the (additive) $k$-module of all $k$-linear homomorphisms $A^{\otimes n}\to P$. We define the differential $\delta:C^n\left(A,P\right)\to C^{n+1}\left(A,P\right)$ by
$\left(\delta f\right)\left(a_1\otimes a_2\otimes ...\otimes a_{n+1}\right)$
$= a_1 f\left(a_2\otimes a_3\otimes ...\otimes a_{n+1}\right) + \sum\limits_{i=1}^n \left(-1\right)^i f\left(a_1\otimes a_2\otimes ...\otimes a_{i-1} \otimes a_i a_{i+1} \otimes a_{i+2} \otimes a_{i+3} \otimes ... \otimes a_{n+1}\right)$
$ + \left(-1\right)^{n+1} f\left(a_1\otimes a_2\otimes ...\otimes a_n\right) a_{n+1}$.
This satisfies $\delta^2 =0$, so we get a cohomology $k$-module $H^n\left(A,P\right)$, which is called the $k$-th Hochschild cohomology of $A$ and $P$.
Dimension-shifting now states that $H^{m+1}\left(A,P\right) = H^m\left(A,Q\right)$ for any $m\geq 1$, where the $\left(A,A\right)$-bimodule $Q$ is the $k$-vector space $C^1\left(A,P\right)=\mathrm{Hom}_k\left(A,P\right)$ with $\left(A,A\right)$-bimodule structure defined by
$\left(a*f\right)\left(b\right)=a\cdot f\left(b\right)$ for any $a\in A$, $f\in Q$, $b\in A$;
$\left(f*a\right)\left(b\right)=f\left(ab\right)-f\left(a\right)b$ for any $a\in A$, $f\in Q$, $b\in A$.
Now, if you try to do this all for rings $A$ with unity and for unital $\left(A,A\right)$-bimodules $P$ (id est, the unity of $A$ acts as identity from both sides on $P$), you are in for a bad surprise: Even if $P$ is a unital $A$-module, $Q$ isn't necessarily. It's the right $A$-action which causes the troubles. What you can do instead is replacing $Q$ by the subset of $Q$ formed by all those $f\in Q$ which satisfy $f\left(1\right)=0$. But now proving $H^{m+1}\left(A,P\right) = H^m\left(A,Q\right)$ isn't as easy anymore, as we have to show that cohomology of normalized cochains is the same as cohomology of cochains (this amounts to finding a chain homotopy, something which is implicit in Hochschild's Annals 1946 paper).
To answer a slightly generalized question, there are nonunital ring maps between unital rings that come up naturally. If $e \in A$ is an idempotent, then the ring of elements of the form $eAe$ inherits its additive and multiplicative structure from $A$, but its identity element is $e$ and not $1_A$. For example, if $k$ is a commutative ring and $m < n$ then the map $M_m(k) \to M_n(k)$ given by "padding by 0's" is a natural nonunital map of unital algebras. Under certain circumstances the rings $A$ and $eAe$ are Morita equivalent, so this type of situation can be useful in representation theory.
For work related to radicals of rings, the Köthe Conjecture, etc., it's very useful to consider "rngs" (Louis Rowen's term for rings without identity).
A consequence of using non-unital rings is that you have to postulate that its additive structure is commutative, so that the group additive structure is abelian. This is not necessary for unital rings, since the commutativity of addition is a consequence of the associativity of addition, of the definition of the multiplicative neutral element and of the left and rigth distributivity of addition for multiplication. I do not know if this fact can be considered as a reason for considering rings without identity. Gérard Lang
One can imagine a point of view that rings without identity appeared at a certain stage of the development of mathematics as a result of the lack of convenient categories. And this concept will die in the future, when new convenient categories become popular enough (and mathematicians will accept the view that non-unital algebras are just ideals of "normal", unital algebras).
For example it's clear to me that the algebra $C_0(X)$, which Martin Brandenburg mentions, appear from the idea that algebras in functional analysis must be Banach algebras (a special case: $C^*$-algebras), otherwise they become "too complicated". This idea comes from the fact that until recently in functional analysis the only monoidal closed category of topological vector spaces was the category of Banach spaces.
That's why many functional algebras were constructed as Banach algebras. The same is true for the algebras playing the role of group algebras in functional analysis (Kevin Buzzard mentiones one of them, this is the diversity of convolution algebras like $L_1(G)$, or the Banach algebra of measures on $G$, etc.) -- they are mostly also Banach algebras and that is the reason why they often have no identity (the Hecke algebra however has no identity for another reason). And why they are not Hopf algebras (in contrast to the original models in pure algebra). They resemble Hopf algebras, and a mathematician with algebraic training will recognize them as strange substitutes for the usual Hopf algebra of functions on a finite (or algebraic) group. But they are not Hopf algebras. A cynical opinion would be that they are "too ugly for evolution".
As an alternative one can look at the picture from the point of view of another monoidal closed category in functional analysis, the category of stereotype spaces (I am sorry, this is my usual refrain), and everything becomes amazingly simple. The group algebras become "true Hopf algebras" (and "true group algebras"), the necessity to consider algebras without identity disappears, the properties of finiteness like the approximation property are inherited by tensor products, functional analysis becomes much closer to algebra and geometry, unexpected duality theories appear etc., etc., etc.
That would be a point of view of an outside observer.


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