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Check out this guys blog - he covers that and many others. Fascinating stuff.

http://www.kingstonlounge.blogspot.co.uk/

Because if you think they do you sir do not understand the basics here. They do not pay taxes, never have, never will. Any and all taxes assessed against them are and will be paid by their customers.

Fuck me. You don't really believe that do you? OK here's what happens a company earns money from doing business. That money does of course come from their customers. But once it's been earned it belongs to the company. And they pay (or at least should pay) tax out of that money that they own.

Now then, using your argument, one would also have to say that employees don't pay tax, their employers do. Yet employers are companies and employees are customers.

Here's a graphical representation of why your argument is stupid.
http://bumblr.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/snake-eating-its-tail-funny-pic.html

The solution is to reduce government spending, and thus the total tax burden.

My question, which you couldn't answer, included the proviso that the tax could be at whatever level. Unless you're advocating an anarchy there will always be tax, and the problem of multi-nationals cheating everybody by not paying their share.

We have lots of Muslims in the UK, a large number of whom say they would like to overthrow democracy and introduce Sharia law. Following them is a positively good idea.

No. You should never be monitoring people for believing something or subscribing to an ideology. All you should be worried about is whether or not the law is being broken or not. There is nothing wrong with saying "I want this country to be under Sharia Law and will work to make it happen" as long as the methods you use are Legal. The government should only care when the methods are illegal in nature, the goal itself (communism, democracy, islam, etc.) is irrelevant.

If there were a reasonable probability that they would act within the law then I would agree. The thing is they say that they do not recognize Western laws.

The Pixel has big resolution but little RAM and little local disc. I don't know if it can be upgraded, but if it doesn't it will be useful only as a chromebook. Not a machine one wants to buy to install a different OS. On the other side a MBP has an option for a 16:10 screen, which is great but one has to like OSX or take a little adventurous road to install Ubuntu 13.04 on it.

Most Anonymous Cowards are so inadequate they don't have any opinions of their own, they cut-n-paste other people's.

http://rawmaterialformisanthropes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/i-hate-nerds.html

And some twits actually modded it up!

Most slashdot readers that log on do so because their feelings of inadequacy drives them to seek rewards in the form of "mod points", and they are bothered when people who obviously don't care about things like being modded up are modded up. :)

Most Anonymous Cowards are so inadequate they don't have any opinions of their own, they cut-n-paste other people's.

http://rawmaterialformisanthropes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/i-hate-nerds.html

And some twits actually modded it up!

In reference to an earlier question about Google's data retention policies, one of the comments provided a great link to a 2007 Google blog post that describes why Google holds onto their data for 18 months before they anonymize it. One of the interesting things that was said was:

However, we must point out that future data retention laws may obligate us to raise the retention period to 24 months.

Given that the blog post was written back in 2007, isn't it now possible that 24 months is simply the earliest that a company like Apple is allowed to delete the query, given the various data retention regulations that are in place around the world? That they disassociate it after 6 months still puts them ahead of Google's 18 months, though voice data is significantly less anonymous than the text of a query, generally speaking, so that they keep it at all is not something I like the idea of.

...and have since 2007 These two great blog posts cover the details "Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices" http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/taking-steps-to-further-improve-our.html and "
How long should Google remember searches? " http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/how-long-should-google-remember.html an example from it "By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we’re striking the right balance between two goals: continuing to improve Google’s services for you, while providing more transparency and certainty about our retention practices." Google are suprisingly forthcoming about how and what they do with your data, which clashes sharply with Apple(pretend the don't) or Microsoft(who run hate campaigns)

...and have since 2007 These two great blog posts cover the details "Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices" http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/taking-steps-to-further-improve-our.html and "
How long should Google remember searches? " http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/how-long-should-google-remember.html an example from it "By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we’re striking the right balance between two goals: continuing to improve Google’s services for you, while providing more transparency and certainty about our retention practices." Google are suprisingly forthcoming about how and what they do with your data, which clashes sharply with Apple(pretend the don't) or Microsoft(who run hate campaigns)

Well, there's this

http://librariancentral.blogspot.co.uk/

The man has a Ph.D. in kinesiology. According to the Chart of Woo, that's at the corner of Quackery Bol. and Pseudoscientific Bol.

You are thinking of applied kinesiology. That is quite different from the legitimate field of kinesiology provided by numerous universities. Your high score gives me pause at /.'s mod's.

The man has a Ph.D. in kinesiology. According to the Chart of Woo, that's at the corner of Quackery Bol. and Pseudoscientific Bol.

Just because two words sounds related, "kinesiology" and "applied kinesiology" for example, it doesn't mean they are the same thing. Applied kinesiology is bollocks, kinesiology is science.

IIRC mysql try to claim the GPL applies not just to their client libraries but to any reimpmentation of their protocol. So even if you didn't use their client libraries your software still had to be GPL.

http://mysqlha.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/can-protocol-be-gpl.html

Is that term enforcable? will oracle try to enforce it? I don't know but I do know that it's enough to make me wary of using mySQL or any fork thereof in anything I design in future.

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/importance-of-license-model-of-mysql-or.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/importance-of-license-model-of-mysql-or.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html

http://monty-says.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/importance-of-license-model-of-mysql-or.html

The man has a Ph.D. in kinesiology. According to the Chart of Woo, that's at the corner of Quackery Bol. and Pseudoscientific Bol.

I'm don't exactly disagree, Google is a corporation, and corporations will defend and support structures and principles like the Open Web as long as they percieve strategic benefit and fianacial gain, so clearly other organisations need to defend these structures and principles. But other for-profit companies like Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft? Seriously? Companies will defend and protect their interests only, our interests are users can only align with theirs, not be permenantly linked.

In fact, I still believe that Google 'gets' the web in ways that other companies, like some of those that are listed as alternatives, don't. This doesn't mean that they are 'good' but that they at least have a decent long-term interest in seeing some of the principles crucial to us as users be upheld. I've gone in deeper in this in an article on 'Our uneasy relationship with Google' (resolutely ad-free and non-commercial, please don't kill this comment as spam).

But long-term and from an ideological viewpoint, the only organisations that you should have faith in for the big issues that will affect us and shape the future of the web, it'd have to an entity with no financial stake and no legal obligation to shareholders. There is simply no way around the fact that any corporation will retain and protect principles only as long it percieves them to be benefical to itself as a business.

Try the MIDI-to-USB cable on your desktop.

It's possible whatever driver it needs exists in Linux, but hasn't been included in the kernel you're using. (I'm expecting this situation with a touchscreen I bought: http://engineering-diy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/adding-7inch-display-with-touchscreen.html -- so far it works fine on Ubuntu, but I haven't yet tried it on Raspbian, it's in use for something else.)

Okay, irony of it being in a patent encumbered format, and the movie itself being copyrighted, but it might be a damn good oppertunity to stop and realise that Linux still MATTERS after all these years, and not just to techical types. I get a little of slashdot backlashers coming up with the same tired old 'Linux is for neckbeards, Windows/Apple is for real people', Linux matters to a lot of non-technical people too, me among them as explained in the linked article.

Okay, irony of it being in a patent encumbered format, and the movie itself being copyrighted, but it might be a damn good oppertunity to stop and realise that Linux still MATTERS after all these years, and not just to techical types. I get a little of slashdot backlashers coming up with the same tired old 'Linux is for neckbeards, Windows/Apple is for real people', Linux matters to a lot of non-technical people too, me among them as explained in the linked article.

The The Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the EU parliament are voting on the General Data Protection Regulation on the 19th March 2013 (tomorrow).Right of Erasure/Right to be Forgotten is only part of the reforms.http://www.privacycampaign.eu/2013/02/faq//

Google don't think much of our quaint European privacy regulations however:
"American companies will come out big winners, compared to their European rivals. European companies face decades of innovation-paralysis under the new rules. American companies will just reorganize and relocate certain operations out of Europe to mitigate risk."
http://peterfleischer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/dox-quixote.html/

The Isolator by Hugo Gernsback

...by 'DNA 2.0', which seems to hold an absurdly broad patent on DNA editors:

http://holmansbiotechipblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/dna-20-sues-genome-compiler-corp-for.html

As we see it, this experiment confirms our suspicion that Bing is using some combination of:

* Internet Explorer 8, which can send data to Microsoft via its Suggested Sites feature
* the Bing Toolbar, which can send data via Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program link

UK Govt did this with Dr David Nutt.

Govt: Dr Nutt, go do research into how dangerous drugs are and report back. We need more strings to the War on Drugs bow.
Dr Nutt: Drugs aren't as bad as you people make out. These stats clearly show some interesting things, E.g. You are more likely to die riding a horse than from an E overdose, and there have been no deaths directly attributed to overdose on cannabis in the entire documented history of mankind.
Govt: Oh! Oh, wow... This is embarassing. You're fired.

(Obviously satirical, but cite and cite. Not original sources, but I'm sure you educated types can follow the paper trail.)

there are no 3d acceleration on the pi at all..

if you're going to troll, at least pick something that's not trivial to refute with a simple google search for your statement above which handily returns a small roundup of graphics as the first result.

here's some more (just to illustrate how poor your trolling attempt was):

http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Architecture-and-Source.png
http://jonmacey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/getting-started-with-egl-on-raspberry.html
http://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/GraphicsLib/piNGL/index.html

Actually yes, it is. There's a small but brazen minority of researchers who quite literally knock off other people's papers, often including some trivial modifications. You only hear of a few cases, of course, and I don't think that an open access licence is going to really make it any more or less of an issue.

http://chemjobber.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/my-contribution-to-pierre-yan-debacle.html

Interestingly, this was done for Bubble Bobble to ensure that the emulation was perfect:

http://mamelife.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/completed-at-last.html

Dear sir /madam

I refer you to the reply given in Arkell and Pressdram

sincerely
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Here's the history about the reply:
http://jackofkent.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/reply-given-in-arkell-v-pressdram.html

Then refer them to Arkell v. Pressdram.

The software is not being sold. It is being licensed. The doctrine of first sale only applies when something is sold.

[citation needed]

A license is a piece of virtual property that may be bought and sold. Why would doctrine of first sale (or, rather, the principle of exhaustion, which is the name used for the equivalent concept in european law) not apply to them?

See, specifically, the analysis here.

Sometimes, when you publish the code you used to develop new Biochemistry or Genetics solutions, you find that other scientists in other countries use your code to reverse engineer what you are working on - your results, if you will - to eliminate dead ends and publish a paper on what you invested years finding a solution for, but before you submit your paper that they "effectively" stole.

Fair enough, though sometimes getting out of the habit of 'releasing early, releasing often' can put academic developers on a slippery slope that ends with them closing the source. We use a well known (and excellent) suite of genomics software called GATK, originally MIT-licensed. Last year, the developers announced they were switching to a hybrid license, where the latest (unpublished) tools would only be available under closed source terms. The core (now 'lite') package would remain Open Source, and supposedly the new stuff would migrate to it over time as papers were published, etc. Now this has been retconned as a 'interim solution', and in all future versions the Open license will only apply to a basic framework with most of the useful stuff stripped out. Quite a few members of the genomics community are rather upset about the license changes, especially as there's a strong Open Source tradition in this field (a typical GATK data processing pipeline will depend on major components written by other developers that remain Open Source):

http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/gatk-why-it-matters/

http://blastedbio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/free-for-non-commercial-academic-use.html

They killed Youtube. No amount of PR campaigns will win me back after killing the last free voice people like us had.

Their is still a website where you can look up all the gems of yesteryear :) http://stupid-youtube-comments.blogspot.co.uk/

I leave this quote from the The Guardian in 2009 described users' comments on YouTube as:

"Juvenile, aggressive, misspelled, sexist, homophobic, swinging from raging at the contents of a video to providing a pointlessly detailed description followed by a LOL, YouTube comments are a hotbed of infantile debate and unashamed ignorance – with the occasional burst of wit shining through" ...ironically though your posting this AC :)

At least for US citizens should be the fact that the US government has increased their requests by astronomical amounts, and is the majority of the requests. 21,389 requests for private data of 33,634 This makes it obvious that these requests are not all "give me info on John Doe", but rather "Give me info on Jane and John. Now to the point I start with: According to this, the US owns at least a third of all of the requests. You _should_ be asking why and not just shrugging off this information.

No, we are not suffering from a rash of terrorism in the US (unless we go and rightfully call what the self proclaimed elites are doing terrorism). The Government is systematically shutting up anyone that observes their first amendment rights, especially those that begin to make headway with the sheople. OWS and the admitted collusion between DHS, FBI, TSA, Local Police departments, and Banks should be more than an obvious glimpse at how big the problem is. Better get to waking up the neighbors, this won't get better on it's own.

You might want to see the last chart on this page -

http://streetlightblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/national-income-comparisons-between.html

After deducting the education and healthcare component, Americans actually have less disposable income compared to Europeans.

skype-open-source

I wouldn't be surprised if that's true.

Especially when this bug existed: http://chingshiong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/facebook-bug-4-password-reset.html
Which I think is more notable than a bug in Accellion (which I have never heard of, nor from what I've seen will ever want to use).

Car: 2000kg, four tyres, contact patch 86,000mm^2, 2000kg*g/86,000mm^2 ~= 250kPa.

Racing bike with rider: 100kg, two wheels, contact patch 500mm^2, 100kg*g/1000mm^2 ~= 1000kPa.

Woman in high heels: ~2000 to >10,000kPa!

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question506.htm
http://flocycling.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/flo-cyling-contact-patch-why-wider-is.html
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/JackGreen.shtml

How ludicrous - have you been to South Africa? Or even the UK?

You may be thinking of this source, which is totally bogus - read the comments for the differences in definition...

http://johnrlott.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/uk-has-highest-violent-crime-rate-in-eu.html

So if that provider is Verizon, and they save the .01 cents say, 100,000,000 times, that means they're saving about $1,000,000.00. Right?

RTFA. The provider is not Verizon.

Whoosh

Somebody's porting Qt to it - looks like it's just the non-gui parts for now, though:

http://ssj-gz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/quickie-qtcorejs-proof-of-concept.html

Would be cool to be able to get Qt apps running in browsers without using the architecture-specific nacl.

Looks to me like Apple is complying and the Court of Appeal isn't too fussed in general.

Ha ha, you Apple apologists really break me up. Here's what really happened.

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/nexus-best-of-google-now-in-three-sizes.html

"I very much doubt you are a UK citizen."

Doubt away all you like pal. Not everyone in the UK is a bed wetting lefty sobbing over a Guardian editorial about criminals human rights.

Yes, the well known left wing media like the Daily Mail were all for his extradition, and the BNP are known to be quite cuddly too.
</sarcasm>

They already do that. Bouncer scans all apps in the Google Play store for malicious software for known malware, spyware and trojans and also for behavior that may indicate an application is up to no good. It supposedly led to a 40% decrease in malware within the first few months of them running it.

I presume the scanner they are integrating within the Play store client app is aimed at doing the same but with the benefit of also checking apps downloaded from other markets and sources.

Exactly. It's been shown that the majority of malicious apps are loaded from outside of the Google store, so this is an attempt to protect users who are using other sources. Google is taking a reputation hit, even though they aren't serving up the malicious apps.

Bouncer is more like traditional antivirus, looking for specific known signatures and looking harder at apps that are requesting unusually high privileges. Most windows antivirus software has the ability to monitor and report suspicious activity to the antivirus vendor (eg an app writing to the bootsector or altering specific files). Doing something similar with Android on the devices themselves would let Google watch the statistics to see which apps are doing things that look suspicious and investigate them further.

They already do that. Bouncer scans all apps in the Google Play store for malicious software for known malware, spyware and trojans and also for behavior that may indicate an application is up to no good. It supposedly led to a 40% decrease in malware within the first few months of them running it.

I presume the scanner they are integrating within the Play store client app is aimed at doing the same but with the benefit of also checking apps downloaded from other markets and sources.

Did others find the fact that the link to the "biggest ever update" was to slashgear reiterating this slashdot post, kind of annoying? http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/making-google-maps-more-comprehensive.html

The link that slashgear links to.

Someone looking to drive traffic?

Nope, submitter here. I have no affiliation with any website, I'm just a guy with an internet connection, saw this story via google news, and did a quick copy/paste, and that's the truth. No conspiracy here. Why? Does slashgear have a "history" on /. or something?

Did others find the fact that the link to the "biggest ever update" was to slashgear reiterating this slashdot post, kind of annoying?
http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/making-google-maps-more-comprehensive.html

The link that slashgear links to.

Someone looking to drive traffic?

Humans developed culture and dishes and the art of eating them is part of the culture.

It's the bullshit "culture" that is causing these problems, glorifying cakes and candy. Sugar is added in insane amounts to so many foods these days, and you're considered weird if we don't have a slice of birthday cake every single time it's someone's birthday, etc..

Diet drinks also cause metabolism problems, so people who actually try to go on a "diet" just make things worse.

I generally try to avoid foods with added sugars. I don't care much about fat content. Low fat stuff is just is a red herring because it usually has crazy amounts of sugar. I prefer just eating food that hasn't had the fat processed out etc.

Fast food places are actually okay if you skip the fizzy drinks and supersizing your fries. I just get a BIG burger and water when I go to Burger King.

Of course, getting a little exercise helps too.

And as someone else pointed out, our bodies have actually evolved to cope with times of scarcity combined with large feeds when hunters bring in food. I think more study needs to be done into the biological changes that occur when we fast, they may actually be beneficial.