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Verizon never met a dollar they didn't like.

That may be true in dollars, but I'm sure they can't say the same for a certain 20 cents.

He's not distributing the truth, he's wholesale dumping as much onto the world as he can to cause as much anarchy as he can.

Regardless of his motives, distributing the truth is exactly what he's doing. I'm not arguing about his motives, just about his actions.

Was it really necessary that the world know Gadhaffi's security details or a thousand other similar things?

Was it necessary according to whom? Was it necessary that he released gun-camera footage showing an Apache mowing down several journalists and children? Sort of depends on your viewpoint, doesn't it? I would imagine the families of those people did think it necessary; the pilot pulling the trigger, probably not so much. I don't think he's sitting there thinking about what is and is not necessary to release. If he can verify the source and correctness of the information, that's enough.

I'm sure if informed your hypothetical mother-in-law about your hypothetical dislike of her cooking, it would somehow not be ok?

Would I be upset or embarrassed? Probably. Would I be more careful about who I confide in? Yeah. Would I launch a manhunt? No. It's pretty much my fault for that information having gotten out there. It's not fair to blame him for other people's faults. I would be irritated at whoever breached my confidence and told him, not him for releasing it. That's like blaming Watergate on Woodward and Bernstein.

So far the biggest alleged crime I have heard about is a request to gather some information on UN diplomats.

Right, that whole Apache thing was just a misunderstanding. Those UN "peacekeepers" sexually abusing girls in Congo, that's fine too (but that doesn't affect you anyway, because it happened to black people). Also, why would the US conceal 15,000 civilian deaths in Iraq? Likewise, using civilians as human bomb detectors is definitely allowed in the Geneva conventions, as far as I know anyway. And anyone who's been in the military knows that you're practically ordered to procure young boys for entertainment and sex. That's just a given. I also seriously doubt there's a single Spaniard alive who would care that his country's copyright laws are being written by the US.

http://nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-has-wikileaks-ever-done-for-us.html

Wholesale release of documents, just because they have them shows the claim of informing people of facts to be disingenuous.

Actually, that's exactly what dissemination of information is. The wholesale release of documents, just because you have them. I'm not trying to dispute the veracity of the claims in the documents, just the fact that the documents themselves are real.

Best. Batmobile. Evar. Higher-quality image here

Is there a particular reason this links to the bowels of the web instead of, oh I don't know, the official Google blog on the subject?

http://rant-farm.blogspot.com/2009/04/somali-pirates-fighting-against-nuclear.html

Who is this ingenious "Kung Fu Monkey" that I may subscribe to his newsletter?

Thanks for the cough-inducing guffaw..

Apparently you can subscribe (in a manner of speaking) to it here, and the others in this thread who attribute the Kung Fu Monkey quote to Paul Krugman are incorrect, as Krugman himself sources it to Kung Fu Monkey. And here I was about to correct the Atomic Rabbit's attribution. Thank goodness for Googling first.

From Paul Krugman:

When Krugman reproduced that quote in his blog he said it was a quote, marked it up as a quote and linked to the source. And someone already quoted the same thing a few comments above and said where it's from. It's by John Rogers, published on the Kung Fu Monkey blog.

Just give them the new Management User Interface. It's custom tailored to the needs of a typical middle manager.

... not Paul Krugman. As best I can tell, this classic quote came from a blogger identified as Kung Fu Monkey. You also see it all over the internet, usually unattributed, but all the attributions I've found have been to KFM. If anyone has attributed it to Krugzilla, I can't find it.

Read the comments in The Fine Article.

Yes. WinMTR does seem to contain mtr sources, or at least older mtr sources from before mtr supported IPV6. You can get the sources for WinMTR from http://winmtr.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/winmtr/.

example code omitted

Definitely looks like there is verbatim copying. If they clear out the CVS, I will mirror the code on my blog

Cows are very efficient at converting grass inputs into human-usable protein, in the form of milk.

Cattle eat grass and weeds (high-quality protein!), and can operate on rocky slopes where John Deere can't farm.

While all cows start their life in a pastures, agribusiness finishes cattle on feedlots because it's much quicker to fatten animals up on grain than grass. ConAgra doesn't care that grain-finished beef has 1/2 as much beta-carotene, 1/5 as much Vitamin A, and 1/5 as much Vitamin E as cows that have eaten grass from start to finish.

Relative to it's diameter, yes, it is flat. Though it's a bit rougher than earth's crust.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

GNAA Reveals Link Between Freenode and Arizona Gunman

Leon Kaiser - Tuscon, AZ

Tuscon, AZ - GNAA today revealed the man behind the shooting of
Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford, along with 19 others, six of whom died.
Among the dead were Federal Judge John Roll, and a 9-year-old girl, Christina
Taylor Green. The identity of the shooter was revealed to be none other than
David J. Moore, who often used the alias "Jared Lee Loughner", better known to
Freenode users as forever-alone, heavyhanded ##politics operator "kunwon1".

Moore, a channel operator of Jewish descent on irc.freenode.net's
##politics, was said to be an an avid follower of politics and gun enthusiast.
Further investigation found that he was also an unemployed former cashier, high
school dropout, and self-loathing Jew who has suffered from severe autism for
his entire adult life.

Not since the Zionist attempts at
murdering hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans has such an atrocity
been perpetrated.

Moore was quoted as shouting "Jews shouldn't use the same public bathrooms,
or same drinking fountains as human beings!" before opening fire on a crowd of
innocents in the Tuscon grocery store. Moore apparently waited until Mrs.
Gifford was not in the vicinity of any Kosher food before drawing his gun.

In his blog, which has
since been suspended by Blogspot, Moore said that he would kill "in order to
raise awareness about unclean races crossing the US-Mexico border," and that
"hopefully, this will ignite the race war." Moore's blog also stated that the
preponderance of politically-motivated shooting sprees over the past two years
motivated him to do the same.

Freenode has declined
to comment on the despicable actions of one of its most pathetic, constantly
white-knighting, forever begging for support, bleating for attention, yet
prominent, members.

About ##politics

"##politics is a family friendly channel. We are currently discussing the
Arizona shooter who the liberal media is saying was a tea partier. Everyone
knows liberals are degenerate losers who will take a moment of tragedy to twist
it to their own gains. Please join ##politics NOW and voice your support for the
NEW REPUBLICAN MAJORTY!"

(Doubling up here for the quoted part)
1 . For every person who swears they could make a lot more investing their money themselves there are 2 or 3 who try it and fail, and 2 or 3 more who keep meaning to get around to it but don't ever get their act together. Maybe the parent could really do it, maybe he's smarter and more self disciplined than a lot of other people who have made the same boast, but statistically, he's way wrong.

Most of us just get a 401K account, or a TSP if you're military / government. People can easily get 10% rate of return, and doing that over 30 years you can pile up a good amount of money, and if you shovel it into bonds towards the end you're not likely to lose it.

According to this calculator, which is based on historical data, the rates of return for SS are miserable. Even if you left your money in bonds the whole time you could beat SS.

Don't be upset that the violence incited by your party's leaders had led to assassination. Own it.

2010 will be primary season by Kos
Of course, this takes more than just bitching about your frustrations on a blog, damning a whole party for the actions of a minority more scared of Mr. 28% than of protecting the Constitution they swore to protect. This takes hard work. But now is the time to start.

And while people like me will focus on the task at hand this year, it won't be long after Election Day that we'll start looking at the 2010 map, looking for those great primary challengers.

Who to primary? Well, I'd argue that we can narrow the target list by looking at those Democrats who sold out the Constitution last week. I've bolded members of the Blue Dogs for added emphasis.

Giffords, Gabrielle (AZ-08)

Kos isn't the only one.

Kanjorski on Gov.-Elect Rick Scott: "Shoot Him"
Congressman Paul Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat who just lost his seat to Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, a Republican, had another target on his mind before he lost his election.

"That Scott down there that's running for governor of Florida," Mr. Kanjorski said. "Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him [sic] and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he's running for governor of Florida. He's a millionaire and a billionaire. He's no hero. He's a damn crook. It's just we don't prosecute big crooks."

Hate radio?

LIBTALKER: TIME TO DIE
MALLOY (36:25): Well, keep it up boys, just keep it up, um except for one thing: you rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah federal building explosion, you are. And then - what is Beck - maybe at that point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out.

Maybe at that point, Limbaugh will do the honorable thing and just gobble up enough - enough Viagra that he becomes absolutely rigid and keels over dead.

Maybe then O'Reilly will just drink a vat of the poison he spews out on America every night and choke to death! Because that's what's gonna to happen, that's what they are pushing these right-wing, nut case, fringe, militia jerk-wads to doing!

I know you know that isn't even scratching the surface, or digging for crazy.... well... maybe Malloy. But don't kid yourself there either... I've heard way worse from Malloy.

If you think that the hate is limited to the Right, you are sadly mistaken:

Arsonist Strikes on Cape Cod, Leaves Calling Card: ‘F–k the Rich’.
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsonist-strikes-on-cape-cod-leaves.html

Kanjorski on Gov.-Elect Rick Scott: “Shoot Him.”
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/11/09/kanjorski-on-gov-elect-rick-sc

“A Madison man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a bomb threat Sunday afternoon that disrupted a town Republican fundraiser featuring Senate candidate Linda McMahon.”
http://insidemadison.com/index.php/2010/09/15/ssuspect-arrested-in-madison-bomb-threat

Gunman who took hostages at Discovery Channel inspired by Al Gore.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38957020/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

James Cameron: Shoot Climate 'Deniers,' Glenn Beck a 'F------ A--hole'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/03/24/james-cameron-shoot-climate-deniers-glenn-beck-f-hole-0

I honestly could go on and on and on. Just do some basic Google searches.

Seriously, how must hate was spewed by the left against Bush during his entire administration? Why wasn't Al Gore blamed for the Discovery Channel hostage situation? Truth is, you just want to twist a mentally disturbed individual's actions in order to score political points. And that makes you part of the problem in this country.

it's coming from the Fox News right.

Yes, because we never heard this kind of rhetoric when a Republican was in power.

Thank goodness we have those paragons of honesty on MSNBC!

Yet USA has almost 6 times the murder rate (the same goes for all the scandinavian countries) Why?

Here is your reason, but you're not going to like it, and I'll probably be modded down, even though the following is 100% factual - anyone here can confirm it by just plugging the census data and crime statistics into Excel:

http://comfortabletruth.blogspot.com/2011/01/fun-chart-of-day.html

If you normalize for demographics, the USA is just as safe as Europe. It really is that straightforward. Don't hate me for pointing it out, I'm not biased, the facts are biased, I'm just the messenger. Like I said, anyone can confirm this with Excel and a few minutes of research. We can argue endlessly about the reasons for this incredibly strong correlation, sure, but we cannot deny the story the numbers tell us.

The one that I just got supports external HDD's, USB Cameras, wired, wireless, HTTP (via vieracast). Granted, the TV's OS is very limited, but it supports enough that it could be very damaging if compromised.

For instance, my TV currently has stored in it passwords for my Skype/Netflix/Pandora accounts as well as my WPA2 creds.

The very limited VieraCast interface simply uses HTTP to generate it's menus and people have already started to use squid/DNS redirecting to do things like stream from Myth etc etc.

This guy so far seems to have made the most progress.

http://customvieracast.blogspot.com/

"technical explanation of what happened" is they fixed all their fleet with sensitive wifi collection systems, rolled them out and sucked up all the data they could.
"geolocation purposes" was a nice motive, yes they may have been 'simply sloppy", but they did know it was "a privacy issue".
Google just hoped laws would bend in some digital wifi gold rush and google would have a full set of early, ad/wealth maps of wifi geolocation in one early easy, pass.
A "half-assed job" would be a few cars/vans in some cities, this was much more global and the "project leaders" well above their "programmers" signed off on it.
The rest was early PR spin to stop the story, then more PR to make it pass.
Recall http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2010/04/data-collected-by-google-cars.html
"Is it, as the German DPA states, illegal to collect WiFi network information?
We do not believe it is illegal--this is all publicly broadcast information which is accessible to anyone with a WiFi-enabled device."
"Genuinely an accident" would be a van, a city, a country... and code review/legal would have picked it up.
It was then "mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected)"..

It's not particularly hard to work out. They were interested in a couple of pieces of information from Wifi (basically SSID and MAC information) but it's not as if they can sniff for only those bits of info. Rather they are going to receive whole packets of information. Their mistake was in not immediately filtering out the parts they weren't interested in prior to writing it to disk. Google have provided fuller explanations of what happened.

who cares about the line, erase the line.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html

Google has been quietly testing self-driving cars on real California roads in real California traffic, from Mountain View to Santa Monica, down the PCH, and through San Francisco. They've had seven instances where test cars logged over 1,000 real world miles with no human intervention. They've logged 140,000 total miles. That's more than a "carefully selected course." They did, however, send a driver in advance to drive the road with a video and data capturing vehicle in order to fully map the road prior to the autonomous tests. I understand they used a lot of CPU to pre-process data like identifying road signs, shoulders, curbs, trees, potholes, etc. Let's call it a "carefully mapped course".

There is no mention in the article if they specifically trusted the cars to autonomously handle emergency vehicles, children, or the turbulence of a semi, but I assume those are the scenarios where the trained test drivers assumed manual control before the car had the chance to get in trouble. Since safety is their primary goal, I don't think they are willing to risk placing an autonomous car in a real-world emergency situation that endangers non-consenting participants. In that respect I believe you are correct, and we can say the cars still are driving in primarily uneventful conditions.

Sorry, the historic graph link failed. I probably typo'd the end

Inequality helped cause depression

I hear something close to pork rather than chicken. Check into it at The Hump in Santa Monica and see if they have any. Guessin' they are out of whale now.

You can find the answers to the above test in his blog article.

students who score 58% (or really anything less than 80) on that test really need to relearn math. there's nothing there that you shouldn't have down in grade 11.

Science illiteracy is strongly rooted in math illiteracy. Cliff Mass, a Seattle area Professor of Meteorology, gives his incoming freshman students a math test. This is a test of basic math skills that should be mastered before high school. Yet the average score for college freshman science students is only 58%.

You can find the answers to the above test in his blog article.

> You can see a pair of rectangular voids left of the center, near the edge, the lower of which seems to have the right dimensional ratio to have been a space for a wall socket.

I can't see it here http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ltj3p6TIy1Q/TJAYg7AutHI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8cFyDQU2yuA/s1600/6502_pad_annot_07.png or here http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ltj3p6TIy1Q/TJAZcx-UMSI/AAAAAAAAAAg/X9m4EnXyaSs/s1600/aligned_top_900h.png

> You can see a pair of rectangular voids left of the center, near the edge, the lower of which seems to have the right dimensional ratio to have been a space for a wall socket.

I can't see it here http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ltj3p6TIy1Q/TJAYg7AutHI/AAAAAAAAAAY/8cFyDQU2yuA/s1600/6502_pad_annot_07.png or here http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ltj3p6TIy1Q/TJAZcx-UMSI/AAAAAAAAAAg/X9m4EnXyaSs/s1600/aligned_top_900h.png

...if they resisted enough it would eventually be the US Army knocking down their doors.

but they would do it very courteously

Parent++.

I don't see how playing into your families delusions helps them or you? Why not hunt for the Easter Bunny with them, or Santa... or setup a trap for the tooth fairy.

Slightly funny anecdote, but childrens' belief in Santa and the Tooth Fairy is entirely scientific. Every time, they conduct a falsifiable experiment (put out a cookie / tooth that might not be consumed / taken) and every time they come back with a positive result. They even do peer review, asking their fellow peers (children) what their results were (what they got from Santa), and even validate the experiment with respected and more experienced experimenters of the past (their parents, who swear blind that the results are genuine). They are only thwarted because there really is a grand world-wide ongoing conspiracy to interfere with their experiments and falsify their results.

Shameless self-promotion: I covered this in my blog when Hackaday did an article on a study about this.

The real threat isn't just someone stealing your car, imagine parking a car on the overpass above a busy highway, with a high-power transmitter, and beaming a bit of code at cars that disables the brakes. Or how easy untraceable assassinations will become: since the code can be made to erase itself after execution, nobody can prove it wasn't a technical error but sabotage.

... should not be developing games, period. Most game developers _suck_ at making games and can't take criticism. To have forums means you need thick skin. Bioware has publically stated they used public feedback from websites and forums to help design mass effect 2, and Mass effect 2 ended up being better for it. They know that developing a game is a process of feedback and discourse.

Supreme commander 1 was released unfinished state and the AI was horribly broken, without the support and MOD forums AI developers from the community would have never fixed the horribly broken and unfinished AI into a fun state, in fact Sorian was hired by Gas powered games to do AI in supreme commander 2 since his AI for Supcom 1 was so darn good.

http://soriandev.blogspot.com/

Anyone knocking forums is clearly an idiot, sure you get a lot of waste but you also get real gems. That is just the nature of the internet itself.

I'm fairly happy with my cheap-ass HTC Slide running CyanogenMOD . You can get them for about half the price of the big expensive Android phones.
http://trumblings.blogspot.com/2010/11/migrating-to-android-for-palm-linux.html

Keyboard pic

The ConnectBot SSH client can do port forwarding, so you can set up a secure tunnel for androidVNC (which is probably better than X forwarding as far as maintaining persistent sessions across mobile networks go). The phone supports T-mobile HSDPA network, which can give you noticeably lower latency than EDGE / GPRS, and near-DSL speeds. Your ssh sessions stay connected in the background until you tell them to disconnect, and the keyboard is pretty comfortable to use.

Some random notes:

• + Terminal with default font is 80x25!
• + the trackpad button is the Ctrl key, hitting it twice sends the Esc key. Works great with screen.
• - no cursor buttons, and the trackpad can be quite finicky when trying to send several l/r u/d
• - the HTC Slide uses the older ARMv6 cpu, so no 3D-intensive apps like Google Earth Mobile or high-end games. Other than that, it runs everything fine
• - sending some special characters in ConnectBot can be a chore, such as pipes and < > ... need to call up the softkeyboard for those, by first closing the physical keyboard, tapping on the softkeyboard icon, then calling up the "num" then "alt" keyboard :-/ . Probably better to make aliases for your often-used command strings. But that's something that could be remedied in software, hopefully... ConnectBot doesn't appear to use the physical Symbol key well.

http://stuffbin.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-choose-bathroom-suite.html

For those wondering what this means: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6q4T7Nlcr9M/SuDkRybbE3I/AAAAAAAAAYk/NHxVEUULLW0/s1600-h/NFC_Innography.png

The Berkut is still the most beautiful plane ever built :(

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/05/500x_sukhoi-su-47-berkut-aguila-dorada-vista-desde-la-panza.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kdcsVoFMTKM/Sszf-QPpncI/AAAAAAAAWwE/MCGQIFuILj0/s400/sukhoi-su-47-berkut-aguila-dorada-con-2-cazas.jpg

I'd hit it!

Christmas was less than two weeks ago. I prefer to assume good faith: not having checked on a long-standing situation in the past two weeks is lag, not FUD.

The GNOME theme work was over Christmas. GNUstep has had in-window menus for about five years and generic themes for several years (previously they required the Camaelon bundle, now they are part of the core. The Windows-specific theme is almost a year old.

The only new bit is that GNUstep will now try to mimic GNOME apps when running in a GNOME desktop. The original poster claimed:

Part of the problem is that they've gone out of their way to keep the UI totally unlike anything else used on Linux or Windows.

This is not true - GNUstep has worked hard to integrate with other environments and it is considered an important priority by the GNUstep developers. Claiming that GNUstep actively tries to avoid integration is FUD. A few of the GNUstep developers (not any of the project maintainers) prefer the OPENSTEP look, and it's still the default, but take a look at the default GTK look sometime and you'll see something similarly dated, which is why everyone uses a theme.

The GNUstep theme engine has improved a lot over the last year, and now provides hooks for things like common dialog boxes, so on Windows (and, eventually, on GNOME and other systems), GNUstep apps will show the native open / save / font / print panels instead of the GNUstep ones. Since I can paste URLs into this text field, here are some screenshots of Bean, a Cocoa word processor:

• Running on OS X, where it was originally written (requires OS X 10.4 or newer).
• Running on Windows, using GNUstep and the UXTheme engine. Note that the menus and open dialog are draw using the native Win32 APIs, not by GNUstep's internal drawing code.
• Running in GNOME, with the (work-in-progress) GNOME theme. The horizontal in-window menu is drawn by GNUstep this time, but the theme tries to mimic the GTK look (still some bugs).
• Running in a NeXT-style desktop using WindowMaker, with something that's not quite the default GNUstep theme, but almost.

By way of comparison, here are some screenshots of GTK on Mac and on Windows. The Windows port has improved a lot since I last used Windows and looks pretty close to native (although that screenshot doesn't show a file chooser - last time I ran GIMP on Windows it used the GTK NeXT-like file chooser instead of a Windows-like one), but the Mac port still has in-window menus and doesn't look even a bit like a native app.

Christmas was less than two weeks ago. I prefer to assume good faith: not having checked on a long-standing situation in the past two weeks is lag, not FUD.

The GNOME theme work was over Christmas. GNUstep has had in-window menus for about five years and generic themes for several years (previously they required the Camaelon bundle, now they are part of the core. The Windows-specific theme is almost a year old.

The only new bit is that GNUstep will now try to mimic GNOME apps when running in a GNOME desktop. The original poster claimed:

Part of the problem is that they've gone out of their way to keep the UI totally unlike anything else used on Linux or Windows.

This is not true - GNUstep has worked hard to integrate with other environments and it is considered an important priority by the GNUstep developers. Claiming that GNUstep actively tries to avoid integration is FUD. A few of the GNUstep developers (not any of the project maintainers) prefer the OPENSTEP look, and it's still the default, but take a look at the default GTK look sometime and you'll see something similarly dated, which is why everyone uses a theme.

The GNUstep theme engine has improved a lot over the last year, and now provides hooks for things like common dialog boxes, so on Windows (and, eventually, on GNOME and other systems), GNUstep apps will show the native open / save / font / print panels instead of the GNUstep ones. Since I can paste URLs into this text field, here are some screenshots of Bean, a Cocoa word processor:

• Running on OS X, where it was originally written (requires OS X 10.4 or newer).
• Running on Windows, using GNUstep and the UXTheme engine. Note that the menus and open dialog are draw using the native Win32 APIs, not by GNUstep's internal drawing code.
• Running in GNOME, with the (work-in-progress) GNOME theme. The horizontal in-window menu is drawn by GNUstep this time, but the theme tries to mimic the GTK look (still some bugs).
• Running in a NeXT-style desktop using WindowMaker, with something that's not quite the default GNUstep theme, but almost.

By way of comparison, here are some screenshots of GTK on Mac and on Windows. The Windows port has improved a lot since I last used Windows and looks pretty close to native (although that screenshot doesn't show a file chooser - last time I ran GIMP on Windows it used the GTK NeXT-like file chooser instead of a Windows-like one), but the Mac port still has in-window menus and doesn't look even a bit like a native app.

Christmas was less than two weeks ago. I prefer to assume good faith: not having checked on a long-standing situation in the past two weeks is lag, not FUD.

The GNOME theme work was over Christmas. GNUstep has had in-window menus for about five years and generic themes for several years (previously they required the Camaelon bundle, now they are part of the core. The Windows-specific theme is almost a year old.

The only new bit is that GNUstep will now try to mimic GNOME apps when running in a GNOME desktop. The original poster claimed:

Part of the problem is that they've gone out of their way to keep the UI totally unlike anything else used on Linux or Windows.

This is not true - GNUstep has worked hard to integrate with other environments and it is considered an important priority by the GNUstep developers. Claiming that GNUstep actively tries to avoid integration is FUD. A few of the GNUstep developers (not any of the project maintainers) prefer the OPENSTEP look, and it's still the default, but take a look at the default GTK look sometime and you'll see something similarly dated, which is why everyone uses a theme.

The GNUstep theme engine has improved a lot over the last year, and now provides hooks for things like common dialog boxes, so on Windows (and, eventually, on GNOME and other systems), GNUstep apps will show the native open / save / font / print panels instead of the GNUstep ones. Since I can paste URLs into this text field, here are some screenshots of Bean, a Cocoa word processor:

• Running on OS X, where it was originally written (requires OS X 10.4 or newer).
• Running on Windows, using GNUstep and the UXTheme engine. Note that the menus and open dialog are draw using the native Win32 APIs, not by GNUstep's internal drawing code.
• Running in GNOME, with the (work-in-progress) GNOME theme. The horizontal in-window menu is drawn by GNUstep this time, but the theme tries to mimic the GTK look (still some bugs).
• Running in a NeXT-style desktop using WindowMaker, with something that's not quite the default GNUstep theme, but almost.

By way of comparison, here are some screenshots of GTK on Mac and on Windows. The Windows port has improved a lot since I last used Windows and looks pretty close to native (although that screenshot doesn't show a file chooser - last time I ran GIMP on Windows it used the GTK NeXT-like file chooser instead of a Windows-like one), but the Mac port still has in-window menus and doesn't look even a bit like a native app.

Christmas was less than two weeks ago. I prefer to assume good faith: not having checked on a long-standing situation in the past two weeks is lag, not FUD.

The GNOME theme work was over Christmas. GNUstep has had in-window menus for about five years and generic themes for several years (previously they required the Camaelon bundle, now they are part of the core. The Windows-specific theme is almost a year old.

The only new bit is that GNUstep will now try to mimic GNOME apps when running in a GNOME desktop. The original poster claimed:

Part of the problem is that they've gone out of their way to keep the UI totally unlike anything else used on Linux or Windows.

This is not true - GNUstep has worked hard to integrate with other environments and it is considered an important priority by the GNUstep developers. Claiming that GNUstep actively tries to avoid integration is FUD. A few of the GNUstep developers (not any of the project maintainers) prefer the OPENSTEP look, and it's still the default, but take a look at the default GTK look sometime and you'll see something similarly dated, which is why everyone uses a theme.

The GNUstep theme engine has improved a lot over the last year, and now provides hooks for things like common dialog boxes, so on Windows (and, eventually, on GNOME and other systems), GNUstep apps will show the native open / save / font / print panels instead of the GNUstep ones. Since I can paste URLs into this text field, here are some screenshots of Bean, a Cocoa word processor:

• Running on OS X, where it was originally written (requires OS X 10.4 or newer).
• Running on Windows, using GNUstep and the UXTheme engine. Note that the menus and open dialog are draw using the native Win32 APIs, not by GNUstep's internal drawing code.
• Running in GNOME, with the (work-in-progress) GNOME theme. The horizontal in-window menu is drawn by GNUstep this time, but the theme tries to mimic the GTK look (still some bugs).
• Running in a NeXT-style desktop using WindowMaker, with something that's not quite the default GNUstep theme, but almost.

By way of comparison, here are some screenshots of GTK on Mac and on Windows. The Windows port has improved a lot since I last used Windows and looks pretty close to native (although that screenshot doesn't show a file chooser - last time I ran GIMP on Windows it used the GTK NeXT-like file chooser instead of a Windows-like one), but the Mac port still has in-window menus and doesn't look even a bit like a native app.

There is a problem with your reading materials being used in a criminal case against you as evidence you actually planned a crime. This kind of circumstantial evidence can be used to convict ANYONE. Check out this case (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Hettrick_murder_case) where there wasn't ANY direct evidence available that pointed to the suspect. Violent writings, drawings, some porn and a knife collection were used to convict a high school sophomore of the murder of a 37 year old woman, 11 years after the crime. DNA evidence and indications of unethical conduct by the police and prosecution were used to free the guy after 9 YEARS IN JAIL. If you think this is just an isolated incident, maybe you should look at this: http://wrongful-convictions.blogspot.com./

And check out dgatewood's post below as well.

The grandparent is spreading FUD. GNUstep has theme support and the project leader spent Christmas working on a GNOME theme that mimics the currently-selected GTK theme and puts the menu bar in the same place GNOME users expect. There is also a Windows theme that does something similar with the UXTheme API from XP and newer versions of Windows. See the screenshots on his blog.

Unrelated WTF: Why can I no longer paste into Slashdot text boxes? Is this some kind of anti-troll thing? It makes it a bitch to add links. I would have linked to the related posts directly, but I can't be bothered to type them in. The relevant dates are March 16, 2010 (Windows theme, showing native file panels) and December 29, 2010 (GNOME theme, showing GNOME-like menus, buttons, and so on).

In Étoilé we've had theme support for GNUstep for a while, and we're currently in the process of pushing all of that stuff upstream.

Android has a HAL for GPU integration (we call it gralloc), Gingerbread brings incremental and concurrent GC in Dalvik, and the Gingerbread NDK provides for all-native development options, among other improvements. You're welcome.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-23-platform-and-updated-sdk.html

Really? I thought maybe you wrote that too?

They were jealous of what the TSA was able to do...And for those who tell you to contact your representatives or vote differently: those are the exact same people who voted for this.

If you don't believe PP, take a look at what happened when I contacted my senators and representative: here and here (warning: shameless plugs to my personal blog).

They were jealous of what the TSA was able to do...And for those who tell you to contact your representatives or vote differently: those are the exact same people who voted for this.

If you don't believe PP, take a look at what happened when I contacted my senators and representative: here and here (warning: shameless plugs to my personal blog).

the cellphone companies better stand up and FIGHT THIS or they may see people STOP carrying/buying these.

You mean the way people boycotted the telcos when NSA wiretapped the telephone networks with neither warrant nor probable cause*? Or perhaps you mean the way the mass majority of the flying public stopped flying when TSA got a little too draconian with airport searches**?

Look, I agree with your sentiment -- I really do -- but I have become convinced that the erstwhile "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" has become the Land of Blindly Following Authority. The USA has become so complacent recently that we, as a nation, will do whatever we are told without question until it's too late. You and I may already be looking around wondering just exactly how we got here, but that question is not even on Joe and Jane Sixpack's radar yet.

* Yes, I boycotted AT&T in the wake of the NSA wiretapping. It's one reason I bought an Android (my local carriers, AFAIK, did not participate in the wiretapping) over an iPhone.

** Yes, I have boycotted flying as much as I possibly can -- I have elected not to take three personal trips this year, although there is one business flight that I will be taking (fortunately, neither the arrival nor departure airports have AIT scanners, or I would have told my boss he's going solo on this trip) -- and have encouraged my friends to do likewise. I have even got taken to task by one friend over my proselytizing (warning: shameless plug to my personal blog).

There is a special place in hell for P-value fishers and other scientific sinners:
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/11/9-circles-of-scientific-hell.html

I wonder if this tool will work on other browsers as well?

Had you read this link from the posting, you would have seen that it does. In fact, the last entry, for Opera, says the following:

Note that with Opera, the fuzzer needs to be restarted frequently.