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The military system is called Boomerang. It uses a cluster of microphones on a pole on a vehicle. The onboard systems can triangulate the shot directly, using the timing differences in the arrival of the gunshot.

http://mhkaufman.blogspot.ca/2009/11/home-made-electric-smoker-with-pid.html

> For centuries we have been paying for news by buying
> newspapers - paying for news sites is pretty much the same thing

Fact... your subscription comes *NOWHERE NEAR* the full cost of a newspaper (buying paper, paying reporters, editors, printers, delivery trucks, janitors, secretaries, etc, etc). The vast majority of newspaper revenue has been from advertising. Newspaper ad revenue in the USA has fallen from $49.4 billion in 2005 to $23.9 billion in 2011 http://newsosaur.blogspot.ca/2012/03/newspaper-sales-slid-to-1984-level-in.html The last time it was that low was in 1984. That's *WITHOUT ADJUSTING FOR INFLATION*.

Just like Facebook, subscribers were never the real customers. Advertisers were the real customers, and subscribers' eyeballs were the product that newspapers sold to advertisers. In "the good ole days" newspapers had a virtual monopoly on advertising. They were able to charge extortionate rates for advertising. This allowed them pay for correpondents in Baghdad, London, Moscow, Washington, and at state/provincial legislatures, and at city halls, and still turn a big fat profit. Department stores, auto dealers, and home sellers were effectively paying an "advertising tax" to sell their products.

Where there's a tax, someone will look for tax loopholes ("advertising tax avoidance").
* "Auto Trader Magazine" was established in 1977. See...
http://www.manta.com/c/mmj727f/auto-trader-magazine It had one major advantage over newspaper classifieds... it did not have the overhead of paying for the salaries/accomadations/airline-tickets of reporters all over the planet. It was an advertising "pure play", that had a lot less overhead than a newspaper, and could make a profit while charging much lower ad rates. It ate newspapers' breakfast, lunch, and supper as far as used-car ads were concerned.

* Right now, where I live, there are 2 or 3 free weekly employment "papers" (to use the term loosely) that can be picked up at newspaper boxes around the city. They're 1/2 tabloid size. One reason they can use the free model is that they don't have to pay for reporters, etc

* Back in the mid-1980's, "The Real Estate Weekly" came out in Toronto. It was a free 1/2 tabloid put out by the local MLS (Multiple Listing Service), a co-operative venture of local real estate firms. It had a lot more leeway that Auto Trader or the employment weeklies. Auto Trader and the employment weeklies are put out by for-profit corporations. "The Real Estate Weekly" could break even, or even lose a bit of money. But as long as it cost the the member real estate firms less than running ads in local papers, the real estate firms came out ahead.

* Major national chains began printing their own advertising flyers and having newspapers insert them ("advertising inserts"). This cost less than having the newspapers print them. Next step was, with falling newspaper circulation, it became obvious that the newspaper deliveries covered only part of the target market. The only way to cover all of a market was to either...
- have a private firm deliver the flyers door-to-door (suitable for single-dwelling units)
- or send the flyers as 3rd-class "junkmail" to all units in rental and condominium buildings

Notice something about the 4 examples above? There is no mention whatsoever of the internet or the World Wide Web. Even in a pre-web world, newspapers were losing classified ad revenues for used cars, employment, real estate, and retail advertising to non-newspaper competitors. The competitors have now expanded to websites, but the first losses were occuring before the web existed.

To summarize newspapers main problem... their business model requires selling advertising at rates way in excess of cost, and using that margin to pay journalists. That works only as long as you have a monopoly/cartel situation. Once newspapers lost

A very good summary.. however, the promotion that a label was able to accomplish, and their ability to cover expenses touring, until there was some net benefit in exposure, was priceless.. Doing it on one's own is damn near impossible. I have an album from an old band of mine, posted FREE at http://docrockstudio.blogspot.ca/2012/04/i-finally-caught-it.html , and I have had NO responses or even feedback , at all. Period. It's not a heavily trafficked blog , but even so, it goes to show the sheer impossibility of the situation. The other real problem , is the lack of venues. Now that so many clubs have gone "house", and no longer hire working bands, especially in Canada, it's near impossible to support a band unless everybody in it is independently wealthy

There's even more than that. This is a case where the "victim" acted like a sociopath for a good chunk of the trial.

It's one case where I have absolutely no sympathy for the man. For eight months of the trial, he lied under oath about whether he had done it. Then, when he was caught out, the reason he gave was that it seemed to be the best response to give.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/07/tenenbaum-takes-the-stand-i-used-p2p-and-lied-about-it/

Then, he tried to take up a collection to pay the damages, which only got retracted after an uproar in which Ray Beckerman himself took a stand against it.

Link: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.ca/2009/08/please-do-not-contribute-any-funds-to.html

So, you've got somebody who perjures himself for eight months, plays the entire court system for chumps, and tried to get the internet to pay his damages for him. I'm no fan of the RIAA - frankly, I'll be in line to dance on their graves when they die - but in this case, the punishment fits.

... to know who harper and co are and their neo-conservative heritage.

How american newconservatives stole canada

http://canadianmanifesto.blogspot.ca/2011/08/canadian-manifesto-introduction.html

Google introduced Google drive on April 24, 2012. And people have been illegitimately storing stuff on google servers for a long time

That's not really on-topic. Yes, WPF makes life difficult, but Mono for Android doesn't even support WPF. On Android, you'll be using the same widgets in C# as Java developers do.

Actually, such imagery should go to OpenAerialMap.org, not OpenStreetMap (which is for vector data).

Also, this story has not mentioned yet (afaict) the official announcement: http://google-latlong.blogspot.ca/2012/04/balloon-and-kite-imagery-in-google.html

You are 100% right about the Android Device ID but is less of a privacy concern than the ESN, IMEI, etc that is protected by READ_PHONE_STATE. It is randomly generated, and can change with factory reset or by means of root access. The use of the Android Device ID for the purpose of tracking app installations is clearly supported behavior with the caveats I mention outlined.

Worry #1 is probably not that devastating a concern. The Google platform distribution shows only 0.3% of users are running 1.5 or below at this point. It is my experience that few apps support Cupcake and below.

I think you're operating under a delusion here. Most of the country is quite religious, and thus the "religious nut" channels would do just fine under a "pick and pay" plan.

Assuming we're still talking about Canada here, that's a negative. It's somewhere around 35% that call themselves "religious", which isn't a majority. Not to say that everyone else is actually irrelegious, but you can bet people who don't "consider themselves religious" also don't watch religious TV. And having grown up in a religious household, I know most of the "religious" group also don't watch religious TV, save possibly for special occasions; no, they're usually turned to the same channels as everyone else. There's a reason all those religious programs look like they're perpetually stuck with ~ 30-year-old low budget equipment.

Anyone found out how to battle monsters? Is this just part of the joke or is there a way to actually do it? :-)

The official Google Lat Long blog: "Get detailed directions to avoid dangerous paths, and battle your way through a world of powerful monsters and mystic treasures."

As the link of TFA says; the congestion data is derived from the opt-in data they crowdsource from 'My Location'.
The only way your 'traffic data' could be shared 'unknowingly' is through ignorance.

"You'd think thousands of people being misdirected from polling stations across the Country might have been picked up by atleast one of the major news organizations"

At least one? Try these examples.

So, that invalidates your claim that it's made up recently. Any other questions you'd like me to demolish/answer for you?

1. Print out

2. Apply directly to the forehead

Also relevant.

And there's more! There is also the verbatim search option available. http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2011/11/google-verbatim.html