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Men with no oversight are doing what they will in the name of national security because they've convinced themselves that they can't permit 9/11 to reoccur, and that it was their fault. They've driven themselves mad, falling into the mentality of "those who prefer security to freedom." It's not that they're innately cruel tyrants, or sadists, it's that they're paranoid and guilt-wracked—a horribly dangerous combination when you add on the "defend the collective" mentality that causes police officers to protect each other when corruption charges manifest.

you don't point out that there is a hell of a lot of money sloshing around in all this, I doubt that these peoples motives are as pure as you present them, they are not just worried about 'national security.' Fraud in defense contracting is extremely common. See Boeing tanker contract fraud, BAE systems Bribery and the primary contractor for trailblazer, SAIC, has had previous fraud prosecutions for the FBI information system they worked on and the New York citytime contract: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110527/FREE/110529884 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701485.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/16/business/16tanker.html?_r=2 http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0210/US_settles_with_BAE_in_Saudi_bribery_case.html This kind of activity is very common in the defense department and more generally in corporate america, see the massive amount of fraud that at least partially caused the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The U.S. needs to attack white collar crime much more vigorously. http://natsecurityeb.blogspot.com/2010/10/top-secret-america.html http://natsecurityeb.blogspot.com/2010/10/13-bankers-vrs-brooksley-born.html

Police Brutality at the Silent Flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial Watch entire video here http://spicenewz.blogspot.com/2011/06/police-brutality-at-silent-flashmob-at.html

That's bullshit. There are places where public spending is a low percentage of GDP that are very pleasant to live in. E.g. from here

http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2008/03/government-spending-as-percentage-of.html

Taiwan has 21%. The US has 19.9%. Both are a lot less than the UK (50%) and Sweden (58%). And I'd much rather live in Taiwan than the UK and the UK than Sweden.

In fact looking at the table a small state seems to work well if the majority of your citizens speak Chinese.

How low can you go? I can't help but rolling the phrase "pathetic" in my head over and over again. How about this: http://fbforandroid.blogspot.com/2011/06/facebook-arrives-to-android-os.html

You, sir, are a coward. Show me an example of someone winding up on a no-fly list as a result of peaceable assembly. Yeah, I didn't think you had anything.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/another-enemy-of-people.html

"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that." I explained that I had not so marched but had, in September, 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the Web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the Constitution. "That'll do it," the [American Airlines clerk] said. "

That's just the first result off of google.
If you don't think people aren't being put on the no-fly list for asserting their right to free speech and to publicly assemble, you haven't been paying attention.

"When fossil fuels are exhausted, there may be a mass die-off event within the human species, due to the massive reduction in possible food production and transportation. "

Baloney. Who is feeding this to you? Why? Who profits from your fear?

We have centuries of coal (but it is polluting). Thorium can power our civilization for thousands of years. We have an effectively infinite supply of solar energy. People are working on zero-emissions manufacturing. We can grind up rock to make fertilizer. And so on.

References off the top of my head:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/surface-area-required-to-power-the-whole-world-with-solar-power-wind.php
http://nanosolar.com/nanosolar-technology-overview
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/993314-thorium-reactor-talk-at-ted/
http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/dpg/slim.cfm
http://www.remineralize.org/

We may even have cold fusion thanks to one of the many people you perhaps wish was never born as he took up to many resources?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

Who has infested your mind to what end with so much negativism so that you are less likely to have kids? Who is making money off of that? Are there much uglier imperatives at work in the people who tell you this? Example:
"The Greening of Hate"
http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/2005/09/106-greening-of-hate.html

Did the world end when we went through "Peak Whale Oil" a century or so ago? You're still here, right?

Now, we may still blow ourselves up fighting over mis-perceived scarcity. But that is a different problem.

Resources do not exist before the human imagination looks at the universe and turns things into resources. Otherwise, say, we would not have aluminum, produced because some imaginative people figured out how. We would not have solar panels without people figuring out how to make them. And so on.

Here is a quick comparison of the beliefs of say, William R. Catton (who wrote "Overshoot") and Julian L. Simon (who wrote "The Ultimate Resource").

Catton:
* People are the problem
* People consume resources
* People take up space leading to overcrowding
* There is a fixed amount of material resources on the Earth

Thus he predicts (with some glee?) a big die-off.

Simon:
* People are the solution
* People produce resources
* People create spaces worth being in
* The human imagination creates new resources

Now, there is truth to what both of these authors say. But ultimately, you can decide for yourself which path leaning more to one or the other is more likely to produce a future more worth living in, given the truth about solar power, thorium power, grinding up rock, and so on.

Our electricity and natural gas consumption might even go down if we switched to electric cars, by the way:
http://www.evnut.com/gasoline_oil.htm
"To extract one gallon of gasoline (or equivalent distillate): 9.66 kWh (maybe not all in the form of electricity*)
To refine that gallon: 2.73 kWh additional energy (maybe not all in the form of electricity*)
Total: 12.39 kWh per gallon.
*Roughly one-third of the energy content of a gallon of gasoline produced from California wells is input from natural gas. Less than 2/3's is net energy (probably a lot less!).
So I can get 24 miles in my ICE on a gallon of gasoline, or I can get 41 miles (at 30

The recipes are nowhere to be found on the Ellen site, but here's what I could find that seems to fit the bill:

Mojito cupcakes
Rocky Road cupcakes

Sigh...something bugged out. "My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review"

I've been running UNR on a 1001p for a year and a bit now and it's fairly flawless. Respectably quick for a wee machine like that, odd-but-nice navigation, and stable with one exception: if it's running under the effects-laden UNR interface then X will sometimes fall over. It's happened maybe 20 times since I've had it - unsure as to the source, but my first total guess would be something between the nVidia driver and Ubuntu. The wireless took a bit of fiddling to get working too, but no huge hassle, just a couple of installations. I'm hoping that the combination of a newer OS than I'm running plus an in-house build will sort both issues out.

If you're not a fan of the Unity interface (and I get the impression I'm in the minority by liking it) you can easily just boot into good-old-gnome, but given the screen size I never bother. Battery life is a solid 6 hours without being particularly careful (wireless on, screen bright, playing videos with the sound on), dropping to about 4 hours after a year and three months of daily use.

Cracking machine for the money, and Ubuntu sits very nicely on top. My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review

And in addition the yFrog CEO has come out to say publicly that there is no evidence that their password system was compromised.
http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2011/06/yfrog-ceo-no-reason-to-believe-weiners-security-was-violated/

Now, who's filtering facts again?

And now here's the UPDATE: Reader "milowent" took up the challenge. Without knowing my password -- without hacking into my account -- he got a third image into my Yfrog account, using the simple technique explained above. Here's the image he sent me:

Source

Cannonfire says essentially 'they were able to post a picture to my YFrog account without my password'
YFrog CEO says 'There is no evidence our password system was compromised'

Can you see that the two are not mutually exclusive?

Police say: "The front door of the house was not tampered with"
Reporter says: "The burglar entered the house without opening the front door. He went in through the unlocked back door."

These two statements are not mutually exclusive either.

YFrog disabled its post-by-email feature after this incident.

From the link:
Reader "milowent" took up the challenge. Without knowing my password -- without hacking into my account -- he got a third image into my Yfrog account, using the simple technique explained above. Here's the image he sent me:

YFrog apparently had a security hole that got plugged after this incident.

If you want to prove me wrong, show me that none of those phones shipped them. In my original post on the Oracle/Google copyright issue I didn't even say that it was shipped on any particular phone. That was just a strawman set up by Ed Burnette, a ZDNet blogger. Re-read my original January 21, 2011 post on this topic: everything I said in there was correct. You might also want to read this blog post, which quotes from an official court document that shows Oracle did present those decompiled Java files to the court.

If you want to prove me wrong, show me that none of those phones shipped them. In my original post on the Oracle/Google copyright issue I didn't even say that it was shipped on any particular phone. That was just a strawman set up by Ed Burnette, a ZDNet blogger. Re-read my original January 21, 2011 post on this topic: everything I said in there was correct. You might also want to read this blog post, which quotes from an official court document that shows Oracle did present those decompiled Java files to the court.

Yup, your heard me, Global IP Solutions that was aquired last year by google was maker of the Engine that Skype was using.

Looks like they parted ways back in 2007 with Skype 3.2.

Looks like Skype really shot them selves in the foot on this one, Google just opensourced it with a BSD style license and soon Skype will be history.
Which may explain why they sold off to Microsoft reciently.

You can read more on my blog post.
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/2011/06/webrtc-bringing-real-time.html

Please take into consideration that several major Android device makers included those files in their official source code distributions (source availability packs).

Lodsys Sues 7 iPhone Devs and 1 Andriod Dev Over Patent Infringement Claims..

Lodsys sues 7 app developers in East Texas, disagrees with Apple; Android also targeted

Actually, I was not wrong on the Oracle/Google patents issue but the first one to point out that Oracle would realistically not be forced to narrow its asserted patent claims down to only 3. By now it's clear that Oracle has made headway on that issue, and Oracle's most recent bargaining position was still 21 claims. Apart from that, your comment was off-topic. We're talking about Lodsys here, and if you ask iOS app developers about my blog, I'm sure many of them will tell you that they found the information my blog (such as my detailed Lodsys FAQ) useful.

Actually, I was not wrong on the Oracle/Google patents issue but the first one to point out that Oracle would realistically not be forced to narrow its asserted patent claims down to only 3. By now it's clear that Oracle has made headway on that issue, and Oracle's most recent bargaining position was still 21 claims. Apart from that, your comment was off-topic. We're talking about Lodsys here, and if you ask iOS app developers about my blog, I'm sure many of them will tell you that they found the information my blog (such as my detailed Lodsys FAQ) useful.

Actually, I was not wrong on the Oracle/Google patents issue but the first one to point out that Oracle would realistically not be forced to narrow its asserted patent claims down to only 3. By now it's clear that Oracle has made headway on that issue, and Oracle's most recent bargaining position was still 21 claims. Apart from that, your comment was off-topic. We're talking about Lodsys here, and if you ask iOS app developers about my blog, I'm sure many of them will tell you that they found the information my blog (such as my detailed Lodsys FAQ) useful.

Most of the infringement accusations relate to iOS apps, but they also include one Mac app (Twitterriffic for Mac) and one Android app (Labyrinth for Android).

Unfortunately, the defense theory communicated by Apple in its letter to Lodsys -- and another theory discussed on the Internet in recent weeks (divided infringement) -- could be wrong.

Most of the infringement accusations relate to iOS apps, but they also include one Mac app (Twitterriffic for Mac) and one Android app (Labyrinth for Android).

Unfortunately, the defense theory communicated by Apple in its letter to Lodsys -- and another theory discussed on the Internet in recent weeks (divided infringement) -- could be wrong.

Well...that is the Congressman's current explanation.

It's not the Congressman's explanation, it's the evidence found by two bloggers. Read the post here.

Looking at all the facts...

I've twice linked to a page that provides necessary and sufficient proof to exonerate the Congressman for anyone not filtering facts that don't support their favored conclusions.

It wasn't him. He was set up using a "feature" of Yfrog that leaves a gaping security hole.

I submitted the story from CannonFire yesterday, but it's still pending.

Even Apple must abide by the law of pick two out of three In this case, it's secure, easy, and cheap. The Apple Mac and mobile app stores must abide by this as well.

It doesn't "just works" if its circumvented so soon. To be exact, "it just works... like any other anti-virus." And until Apple charges for it, it must fund the effort completely on its own. The same goes for it's walled garden. That comes at an expense to them. It lowers their offerings, and costs them to monitor everything.

It is also a case of secure, easy, and private. If it is invisible, automatic, and self-updating, the user loses privacy so long as Apple can reach out and destroy any piece of software on your Mac that it deems bad. After all, if there is no user interaction, it is not asking your permission to do whatever it wants.

So grandparent is right. Windows has built in malware protection and third party virus and malware protection. And just like windows, it will continually be broken. From my perspective as a Network Administrator, this is exactly like corporate windows. In this case, the sysadmin is Steve Jobs, and he decides what is malware and what is not. Simply by running a Mac, you are under his control, as though Apple were simply leasing the machine to you. In a corporation, it is the company's machine, and they retain total control, even to spy on all activities there. So a move by Apple to make unilateral decisions on equipment you own really means you no longer own it in the traditional sense.

And while Windows licensing says that MS has many options, how many people remember the uproar about MS shutting down what it deemed were pirated copies of Windows? MS backed away from that very quickly, and changed it's methods (though not its goal). But, that was MS and that was their Windows license. This is Apple, and the application is on software that it DOESN'T legally own. This idea that companies perpetually own devices you "buy" is troubling to me. They have enforced it on iPhone/Pad/Pod. This looks like they are creeping this control to the Mac. No, they let you run outside of any Mac walled garden... so far. But this level of automatic/invisible control can be just as affective in limiting what they think you should or should not be running.

Have you guys not tried the 2 factor authentication yet?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html

I was afraid that my girl might find it difficult to use or overly technical, but once I explained how it worked and supported her through the setup of it, it's been working brilliantly.

Basically any new machine that you connect to Gmail from requires not just your password (something you know) but also the code generated from the supplied app (on our Android phones - something you have).

The key to internet security is to always have 2 out of the 3 following things:
1) something you know (passwords, answers to secret questions, etc)
2) something you have (physical keys, dongles, RSA SecurID)
3) something you are (biometrics, fingerprints, etc)

Google as yet, are the only major provider of email offering security that can use 2 factor auth by the something you know and something you have.

It's really worth turning it on, just for peace of mind.

I guess this is a sign for me to start updating the old blog again.

Favorite posts (not that there were a lot):

It's Not Just Bad For the Children - It's Bad for Mother Earth Too!
Breaking News! Fat People Eat Bad Food!
Breaking News! Fat People Use More Gas!

I'm sensing a pattern here..

This decision was done without consideration for OOo community:

http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2011/06/statements-on-openofficeorg.html

Seems to be pushed more by IBM than Oracle:

http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-06-01.html

All reasonable people do. The vast majority of scientists and scientific organizations support the theory that humans are doing irreversible damage to the climate through the uncontrolled release of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

Well that's a considerable broader position that I can completely agree with, but it's not excessively off the mark, and not really anything I was disputing.

You seem to think there is some grand global conspiracy between unrelated groups of scientists world-wide.

Oh here's your straw man again. This whole fucking "groups of scientists" bullshit over again. There's no "scientists" (unless your definition is WAY off from any accepted definition) claiming to have all the answers to the warming and increasing CO2. Why would I even respond to this kind of crap. These guys aren't scientists, they are politicians and looters posing as diplomats. They are the elite monied interests disseminating the perils scientists warn about, and using it to promote their own controlling agenda as the only solution, with the actual benefits to the environment (and the vast majority of mankind) only used as rhetoric to support their ideas.

Don't try and weasel out it. Please explain how these "experts" get the entire scientific community to go along with this nefarious plan for world domination?

Oh like your own ideologies don't have any impact on the institutional directions you will support... right. And nobody is focused on some significantly important specialization of research without having total understading of how the authorities many layers up might eventually (mis)use their work? Huh? Is that your contention? That everybody has the big picture of everything and nobody's work can could be used for nefarious purposes without full disclosure? Do you understand how large and insidious the plans and processes are laid out and how the debate over science is just scratching the surface (as well as a useful distraction)?

I suggest you do a little research. You are obviously grossly uninformed. Here's a short primer:

Donna Holt, Virginia

ICLEI

What ICLEI does

I wished legal Kaillera would update again so I can game online with these old 1980/80s arcade games. There is a new one, but very new and has support to multiple platforms (Linux too!).

Here is some good info. Plenty of information from just about every government and university in the world. Just need to look.

Actually, the original proposer makes the statement that they are not like Kamikaze because they are coming back. They are not going there to die. http://yosukeyanase.blogspot.com/2011/05/veteran-engineers-call-for-volunteers.html

So it's quite possible that all the talk of kamikaze in response to this is directly from his words... Or that he was responding to that talk already.

Let's do some research to develop an resistent strain of . It will be a boon for food crop. .....20 years later farmers are getting sued* by Monsanto because the bees decided to pollenate non-Monsanto crops with Monsanto pollen.

Maybe the people trashing the field were protecting their future food supply from a corrupt legal system.

[*] - http://foodchronicles.blogspot.com/2007/01/monsanto-problem.html

Coincidental for sure but Python made the same jump from 2.6 to 3.0

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html

(yes there is/was python 2.7 but it was released after 3.0)

I feel like it does need mentioning, though: hydro can be pretty nasty when it goes wrong, too. Nuclear meltdowns may not be a barrel of laughs, but a burst damn would ruin your day too.

http://disasterhistorian.blogspot.com/2010/03/bursting-dams.html

I know you didn't actually argue on that point, but I though it needed mentioning all the same.

And when i see Arab president in Israel, then i will start to get the facts right, maybe.

I'm glad we at least agree your facts are not right.

So you have one commissioned report, one claimed law which does not sit well with the fact that the only party ever to be disqualified from running for parliament was an extreme right wing party that advocated expelling Arabs (disqualified for promoting racism), another law about army service that the reason you cannot find in Google is because you also cannot find it in the Israeli law book.

Oh, and the Arab Israeli President's name was Majallie Whbee. He was not directly elected. He was a second replacement (merely a minister), but the actual president (Kazav) had to take a coerced voluntary leave pending decision whether to charge him with rape (he was, since then, charged and convicted, now waiting his appeal that, if rejected, will mean service a sentence of 5 years in prison), and the first replacement, head of parliament, was off abroad or similarly unavailable.

Of course, I can understand your confidence in this criteria not being met. After all, minority religion head of states are so common all over the world, that obviously this should be the criteria for non-discriminating state.

Shachar

What, exactly, does this have to with the article? AMD/ATI also provides drivers for the open source community.

The thing is, of the three big graphics vendors, only NVIDIA supports reasonably complete OpenGL support, which makes their cards non-starters for us CAD users. I run SketchUp on Wine

The other (greedy) Middle Eastern countries are bullies to Israel. Its about size.
Saudi Arabia is 103.75x bigger than Israel.
Syria is 8.9x bigger than Israel.
Jordan (a Palestinian state) is 4.3x bigger than Israel.

No, they should not be carving up any of the little land they have for the Palestinians or anyone else.
You can save your sympathies. Rachel Corrie knew what she was doing when she put herself in harm's way and made herself a martyr. She deserved to die.
Nobody (Muslim Arabs) wants the Palestinians in their countries so they picked the smallest target. http://gentwarrior.blogspot.com/2009/07/nobody-wants-them.html [blogspot.com]

I've got no problem with that. I'm in academics. I'm actually just a lowly student at a land grant university, no one important, although I have discussed this topic at length with people who are, predominantly someone who once made the front page of the most prestigious biology journal (which is to say, someone very important and very knowledgeable), so while I consider myself an far from an expert, I base my points on what I have learned from people who are experts in plant biology/molecular biology/genetics/agriculture/ect., and I do have experience, and a lot more knowledge & understanding of the science and related issues of genetically modified crops than most people.

Why was the person you were talking to concerned? I don't know. Most people that I've talked to aren't worried at all about that particular trait. It just seems really strange to me that the person you talked to would say something like that about both Bt and the regulatory process. Regulation is very strict (at least here in the US it is, and I'd assume the same is true of Australia, if not more so), and I really haven't seen any convincing evidence that the Bt protein is concerning. With cross pollination, well, that happens, however, with a bit of foresight I really don't think it's that big of a problem in light of all the outcrossing varieties of crops that are really easily cross pollinated that have managed to stay pure lines (as in not crossing with other lines, for example, there are hundreds of varieties of squash, like Red Kuri, Jarrahdale, and Galeux d'Eysines that have existed and been preserved as pure lines for hundreds of years). Seedsavers have been doing it for ages (and heirloom enthusiasts like myself continue to do it today), and just because there are now transgenes out there I don't see how that changes things much. Perhaps they were taking more of an issue with the fact that genes and plants can be patented. I, personally, don't have much of a problem with that, but I can respect the opinions of people who do, and I can understand good arguments against it, and I can see cutting back on the power those patents can grant a bit. I'm sure that as someone working in computers you've gone through enough third person troubleshooting to appreciate the difficulty of understanding something technical via someone who isn't quite as experienced in that area, but the legal/patent thing would be my guess anyway, and if that's the case they are far from alone even among experts in that concern, and although I do disagree, I would not call such a position loony at all. Australia you say? I wonder if they know Dr. Tribe at the University of Melboure.

And I hope I didn't come off as too snarky the first time. Many people are very ignorant on this subject, but very few will actually admit it; most just think farmers are stupid/evil and that seeing Jurassic Park or some silly documentary makes them as knowledgeable as all the agriculturalists, geneticists, ect who devote their lives to studying this stuff (Dunning-Kruger strikes again).

NASA OIG Special Agent badges have a striking appearance, for at the center of each badge is the blue NASA logo.

Huh? The rBGH related WTVT/Monsanto affair? With the stupefying end of it: FCC policy against falsification (of news) was not a "law, rule, or regulation"?

I confess, I'm in horticulture, not meat production, so that is a bit outside my area, but I don't see how that is any different than business as usual for companies. Which doesn't excuse it of course, but it isn't entirely unexpected, and it isn't grounds to ignore what people who study it say about it's safety, namely that it is.

More than half a world refuses to import beef/diary from US because of that, but that's simply crazy because "no danger are known", isn't it?

It isn't crazy at all actually. I don't know how if it works the same in hormone treated meat (again, I'm a plant person), but I know with genetically modified crops they are rejected by many countries for a very good (sorta) reason that really has nothing to do with safety: trade protectionism. A lot of countries, particularly in Europe, don't want to open their farms up to global market forces because they'd be out competed. Here in the US for instance we are really good at producing corn, and could totally kill Europe's native corn industry. Now, WTO laws forbid protectionism, but if you forbid import of something under the guise of regulatory issues, like say a ban on genetic engineering, they you're free to keep your market protected. I was unaware of US beef exports being banned as a result of rBGH (I thought if anything it was related to BSE), but if that is indeed the case I would not be surprised. Food gets pretty political.

I know the example is not in the GMO topic, but anyway..., can I really trust Monsanto when saying "no known danger"?

No. Don't trust Monsanto. Trust everyone else. Among plant biologists, the consensus on GMOs on pretty darned favorable. Not trusting companies is not only understandable, it's pretty smart I'd say. But doubting them so much that you reject mountains of independent science, well, not so much. And don't forget that Monsanto doesn't own genetic engineering. If you really dig into it, you'll find that pretty much every university in the world, from the US to Brazil to Italy to Iran to Nigeria to China to New Zealand is doing genetic engineering. Don't trust Monsanto, trust them.

Whoa, back up there. Inhumane conditions are bad, that much is clear, and I totally agree that antibiotics are often abused, but factory farm != inhumane conditions Factory farming typically refers to CAFOs, and that has nothing do do with how the animals are raised, but actually just the number. It gets a bad rap, but no small amount of them are just family farms (even some of the big ones) that do, indeed, treat their animals fairly well. It's like the spinach E. coli outbreak; one jackass lets his cattle get too close to the irrigation source and the entire spinach industry takes a hit over it. Yeah, there is animal cruelty, a lot of it, but I don't think it's the norm, so don't blame factory farms in general any more than you should attack free range farming because some organic idiots treat treat sick animals with homeopathy (no medicine could also be considered inhumane). Factory farms are mostly about efficiency, and that is no vice, nor in producing less output a virtue. Sorry, they're not. You want to pay more for something that uses more land, fine my me, but unless every so-called factory farm is abusing their animals (hint, they're not) I'll take efficient and cheap thank you. Before you paint everyone with that big brush, maybe you should learn something about agriculture beyond some bullshit movie with all the credibility of Loose Change. That you are concerned about hormones and GMOs indicates to me that such films are your primary source of information and you know very little about modern agriculture and agricultural technology.

Especially GMOs, jeez, can we as a society get over that one? It's just a way of improving a plant, it isn't Frankenstein or Jurassic Park or Splice or whatever fairy tale people are believing over science today, and contrary to the perpetual moaning of unscientific denialists like Greenpeace, they are actually a gain for the environment (Bt GMOs reduce pesticide use and Ht GMOs prevent fertilizer runoff, reduces soil erosion and promotes carbon sequestering via no/low-till ag) and not dangerous to humans. And we can talk about the politics of Monsanto all day long, but that is not relevant to the benefits GMOs provide.or mean GMOs are dangerous any more than Merck or Pfizer's unethical decisions mean that vaccines cause autism.

And watching Food Inc. to get different perspectives on agriculture is like listening to Michael Behe to get different viewpoints on evolution. Different points of view are good, but sometimes they're just wrong. That movie made some good points, but was mostly foodie nonsense and bogus FUD. What's amazing is that all those foodie idiots lapped that up, but when a real agriculturalist talks about real farming then they just go into dismiss it. I truly love that society in developed nations runs so smoothly that we don't need to produce our own food, that labor is nicely divided that people like people can go on about something they've never done or been involved with, but people really should know a bit more about where their food comes from, how it's produced, and why farmers do it that way so that they won't go into panic mode every time some bored art history major throws together a few film clips.

You know, I.7.2 and 3 give the Pres. unlimited Veto Power. That is, even when some thing was re-passed by both Houses, he can still return-disapprove that Vote (because the re-passing implies a Vote which requires both Houses, as stated in: `But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses...') and, by doing so, delay its becoming a Law. This is also because of I.7.3. but see: http://kelakais.blogspot.com/ Note that the Pres. may very well never sign-`leave unreturned within ten Days etc.' but upon every re-passing, return what is presented him (and by `presented' I mean as little as `being aware of that re-passing').

These APIs are now deprecated but have no scheduled shutdown date:

• Wave API
• Code Search API
• Diacritize API
• Feedburner APIs
• Finance API
• Power Meter API
• Sidewiki API

These APIs will be shut down as per their deprecation policies:

• Blog Search API
• Books Data API and Books JavaScript API
• Image Search API
• News Search API
• Patent Search API
• Safe Browsing API (v1 only)
• Translate API
• Transliterate API
• Video Search API
• Virtual Keyboard API

(via http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html)

I appreciate it, honestly. To answer your question, I wrote my senators and representatives, who either told me to "run along; they know what's best for me" or crafted a masterpiece of taking no stand on the issue while trying to look deeply interested in what I was concerned about (warning: shameless plug to one of my blogs -- if you're offended by such things, don't click the links)...except for Representative Don Young, who didn't bother to reply at all. Next, I pissed off a couple of friends by using Facebook to get the word out about what was happening at the airports. <shrug> Unfortunately, not a lot of people in D.C. really give a rip what a network administrator in Alaska thinks about TSA.

I appreciate it, honestly. To answer your question, I wrote my senators and representatives, who either told me to "run along; they know what's best for me" or crafted a masterpiece of taking no stand on the issue while trying to look deeply interested in what I was concerned about (warning: shameless plug to one of my blogs -- if you're offended by such things, don't click the links)...except for Representative Don Young, who didn't bother to reply at all. Next, I pissed off a couple of friends by using Facebook to get the word out about what was happening at the airports. <shrug> Unfortunately, not a lot of people in D.C. really give a rip what a network administrator in Alaska thinks about TSA.

I appreciate it, honestly. To answer your question, I wrote my senators and representatives, who either told me to "run along; they know what's best for me" or crafted a masterpiece of taking no stand on the issue while trying to look deeply interested in what I was concerned about (warning: shameless plug to one of my blogs -- if you're offended by such things, don't click the links)...except for Representative Don Young, who didn't bother to reply at all. Next, I pissed off a couple of friends by using Facebook to get the word out about what was happening at the airports. <shrug> Unfortunately, not a lot of people in D.C. really give a rip what a network administrator in Alaska thinks about TSA.

I appreciate it, honestly. To answer your question, I wrote my senators and representatives, who either told me to "run along; they know what's best for me" or crafted a masterpiece of taking no stand on the issue while trying to look deeply interested in what I was concerned about (warning: shameless plug to one of my blogs -- if you're offended by such things, don't click the links)...except for Representative Don Young, who didn't bother to reply at all. Next, I pissed off a couple of friends by using Facebook to get the word out about what was happening at the airports. <shrug> Unfortunately, not a lot of people in D.C. really give a rip what a network administrator in Alaska thinks about TSA.

Yes, much more fun:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/235257/Upgrading-From-Windows-10-To-Windows-7

http://rasteri.blogspot.com/2011/03/chain-of-fools-upgrading-through-every.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

Of course it could be worse. It could be the Gnome 3 Shell or Unity...

Via a PyThon script, that does the following:

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1.) Removes duplicates/normalizing the HOSTS file

2.) Alphabetizes it

3.) Changes the larger & slower 127.0.0.1 loopback adapter std. address MOST hosts files use typically, opting for the smaller & FASTER read in (and with no loopback, pure "blackholing" only) 0.0.0.0 address!

4.) It also removes any # comments that bloat hosts, along with "trailing nulls or blanks" many have that additionally bloat the HOSTS file.

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Once she's read up into the DNS client cache (must turn this off for large ones like mine, currently @ 1,017,970++ entries strong), OR, into the local DISKCACHE (since it's just a filtering file for the IP Stack)?

She's fast as nobody's business!

APK

P.S.=> That's how I do it, & all that, & from these reputable & reliable sources for HOSTS file data vs. adbanners &/or KNOWN bad sites/servers/hosts-domain names:

http://www.malwaredomains.com/

https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php

http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml

http://www.malwareurl.com/

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html

http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/

http://www.stopbadware.org/

http://blocklistpro.com/download-center/view-details/blocklist-pro-blocklists-mirror/1632-hosts.zip.html

Spybot "Search & Destroy" IMMUNIZE feature (fortifies HOSTS files with KNOWN
bad servers blocked):

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

& it works... even many slashdotters use them, by the by, & my list of 20++ points in favor of HOSTS files quotes their results as well (for some "peer evidences" from the likes of your fellow posters on this website in fact, in addition to myself).

... apk

http://www.malwaredomains.com/

https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php

http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download

http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml

http://www.malwareurl.com/

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html

http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/

http://www.stopbadware.org/

http://blocklistpro.com/download-center/view-details/blocklist-pro-blocklists-mirror/1632-hosts.zip.html

Spybot "Search & Destroy" IMMUNIZE feature (fortifies HOSTS files with KNOWN
bad servers blocked)

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

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"You ARE a spamming nutbag" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, @01:21PM (#36252958) Homepage

Oh, really? Do you have your:

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1.) A PHD in Psychiatry to your name/credit?

2.) A license to practice it professionally??

3.) Years-to-Decades of professional experience in the field of psychiatry???

4.) A formal examination of myself in a professional environs to make your "instant snap prognosis" of my alleged mental state according to you, the "/. SiDeWaLk PsYcHo-AnALySt"????

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No to ALL/EACH of the above????? So much for THAT "ad hominem" effete attempt on your part directed MY way then, eh??????

I.E.-> You personally just don't have the credentials to make your assessments in calling me a nutbag, period. In fact, you're libelling me in doing so... don't you KNOW that?????? There's LAWS against it you fool!

Instead - Why don't you attempt to attack the 20 points in favor of HOSTS files I put out??????

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Oh, that's right - YOU ALSO SAID THIS:

"although you're right about hosts files" - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26, @01:21PM (#36252958) Homepage

That's right I am RIGHT... always am!

APK

P.S.=> Take your pick... I just happen to consolidate them ALL, into 1 file here (via a PyThon script engine that does so every 15 minutes, removing duplicates/normalizing it, and alphabetically sorting them also, & changing the larger + slower 127.0.0.1 loopback address (slower due to loopback ops) to the faster & smaller + most compatible 0.0.0.0 blackhole address instead)... apk