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Caught it on BBC's iPlayer (UK-only suckers) a couple of weeks ago, still amazing after all these years... http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2010/11/films-for-free-just-found-blade-runner.html

Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release. We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu.This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.

They have gone as far as to place Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin on the DHS-TSA joint Terror Watch List. Apparently these individuals had radical ideas about what freedom should be...which flies in the face of what the DemoRepubLiberTea party members truely want. power and money.

They are both utterly incompitent and have no place in American society.

I am truely ashamed.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
- Thomas Jefferson (paraphrasing Franklin)

I can Ctrl+Click [to open link in a background tab] in any other browser BUT Opera.
There is no easy way to make this handy feature work without a hack because you cannot re-map ctrl left_click.

So you never ctrl+clicking or none of you ever actually use Opera at all?

Should we also cut their hands because they can hurt with them? http://myhappywindow.blogspot.com/

It may reduce gun crime, but it has virtually no effect on crime as a whole. This is pretty easy to see if you correlate the Brady per state rating with various per capita crime stats. I did this and the correlation between states with more lax gun laws and the overall murder rate is 0.029. As in 3%, which is statistically insignificant. Conversely, the correlation between more strict gun laws and overall violent crime is 0.020. Again, insignificant. Feel free to do the numbers for yourself. I wrote a bit more about it all here if you want more details:
http://daleswanson.blogspot.com/2010/03/correlation-between-gun-laws-and-deaths.html

• MS internal CA management tool howo (not tried)
• Similar for Linux (UNIX) (used often)

I was confused as to what versions of ZFS were available on which distros so I made a chart that lists the different distros and which version of ZFS they support:

http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/2010/11/101-zfs-capable-operating-systems.html

Hope it's helpful...

The wikipedia page talks about the "well dressed man" and congressional testimony revealed that various TLAs knew about him and intentionally chose not to revoke his passport or put him on the no-fly list.

The State Department didn't revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.

Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab's visa wasn't taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would've foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.

"Revocation action would've disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."

how about starting by moving the manufacturing sector back to the USA, it will definitely create millions of more jobs

US manufacturing output reached an all-time high in 2008, despite having a very small number of employees. US manufacturing is highly automated and productive, it will never employ very many people any more.

This happened to agriculture in the early 1900's as well when it became mechanized - US agricultural employment went from 80% of all workers to 3% of all workers in around 75 years, despite increasing total amount of food grown.

(Unless you lower the US minimum wage to the point where you can afford to have people and not robots doing the work, but it would have to be extremely low pay).

It is correct that the first link goes to Google health.

What would be wrong to say is that the first result goes to Google Health.

The format of the main column of a Google web search results page is as follows:

1. Google search box
2. Google OneBox, or an advertisement (with a colored background), or nothing
3. Results

The only problem is that Google does not mark the OneBox ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html ) with a shaded background or something.

It is rather interesting to look at how Google's results are structured. For example, the list of results is actually an HTML ordered list. Each search result is a list item. Prior to the ordered list, there is a hidden level 2 heading of "search results".

The only thing I would object to is the fact that additional OneBox-style items may appear at the bottom of the page, inside the ordered list that contains search results. That should be fixed, as those are not actually results. Fortunately the ones down there are usually suggesting different types of searches, like video or news searches, so most people will not mistake them for results.

I worked through this policy myself as an intellectual exercise (A protocol for China. Or Defcon. Take your pick).

Basically, take a laptop with an easy to swap hard drive. Swap in a new drive, with a clean image, and no access credentials except to a temporary dropbox account for emergency mail and/or working set.

Now if you are intercepted, there is no data TO capture, and you can remove all but hardware/bios trojans by a wipe and reinstall.

As a bonus, you can just take out the drive, hand it to customs, and let them have fun with it.

It seems that most of the "bias" detected by this user can be explained by this: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html

And it's been around since 2006.

Thanks for reading my stuff. Especially the blog, please do visit that one often. (I use AdSense, if you visit my blog about a million times I'll make a dollar or so.) ;) But do please note: I review tech books from other publishers, too. A few examples: http://www.javalobby.org/articles/jboss-seam-rick/ (Apress) http://www.javalobby.org/articles/beautiful-code/ (O Reilly) http://rickwagner.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-spring-dynamic-modules-in.html (Manning) Full disclosure: I always sign my real name to my reviews, I have never received payment of any kind from anyone, except for sometimes a copy of the book to be reviewed. My reviews tend to be honest but maybe a little on the kind side, as sometimes books appeal to some people but not all. I try to be as technically accurate as possible. Watch for future reviews: Erlang and OTP in Action (Manning) JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning (Packt) Please do keep reading my reviews! Thanks, Rick

Even if it is just a bunch of android phones hooked together. Actually that would be even sweeter. Please someone do it.

Will an Arduino cluster do?

The problem of drivers being distracted by cell phone use can be resolved by adding autonomous vehicle capabilities to existing cars and trucks.

At present, different car makers sell premium models each with small chunks of the autonomous vehicle control solution. Mercedes has a safe following distance speed control, Toyota advertises a self-parallel parking device.

What we need is a design with a software interface to the vehicle mechanicals (something like an Arduino with a usb port), a plug in sensor with a software interface, a software interface to a vehicle map device, two data radios and a general purpose computer like a Linux netbook running autonomous vehicle control programs.

You glue the whole thing together by making the sensor devices present a software self describing interface. A defined software interface makes it possible to develop and test vehicle control software with simulated inputs.

The control computer is a general purpose device that runs programs for the specific control jobs needed. One program might be "learn my commute to work", Another program might be "Steer and brake while the driver uses the cell phone".

The problem as I see it is to get an open source data and control definition out there before some monopolist locks up the scheme like Microsoft locked up their document export definition.

I can hear the hum of the patent attorneys in the distance... All of this is really obvious right?

http://lessco2essay.blogspot.com/2010/11/proposal-for-autonomous-vehicle.html

Tesla is doing the battery pack (Li metal-oxide, 30KWh or so), power electronics, and motor. Range will be about 100 "real world" miles, maybe more if they can squeeze in more batteries.

The RAV4 is much bigger than it used to be. Compare the original RAV4 and today's oversized version.

Fifteen years of battery progress later, electrics are almost good enough.

Forget the advertisers, with enough of these things deployed the feds won't need those vans parked outside your house, they'll grab the data in real-time from either the ISP or Mircrosoft.

Allow me to present my solution to your 1984-esque dystopia.

1. Aquire
2. Invert.
3. Place over Kinect.

Simple solutions to simple problems.

http://yudhieagung.blogspot.com/

GP is talking about a rather well known story about verizon's billing math. There is an entire blogspot about it. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/

whoosh...

Oh, wait, you're metatrolling. My bad.

Parent's comment is a joke about Verizon's apparent inability to do math.

Parent's comment is a joke about Verizon's apparent inability to do math.

Whoosh.

actually that guy got his non-refundable ticket, refunded. see: http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

There does seem to be some sort of a relationship between Rick Wagner and Packt, as he's reviewed, blogged and commented on reviews of several of their products. There ought to be some sort of a disclaimer on this posting.

Won't somebody think of the children?...

The TSA is always thinking of the children. What a dream job for a defrocked Catholic priest... he spends the morning shift looking at fuzzy low-resolution monochrome pictures of naked kids, and the evening shift getting his hands on the real thing.

TSA GOONS: You really think this guy is the only one? As civilians, we can't stop predators from getting jobs at TSA where they'll be free to assault kids all day long, but you - as a TSA worker - can. We're not worried about the 99% of you who hate the freedom-fondling part of the job as much as we do. We just want you to ask yourselves this: how well do you know your co-workers?

For those who forgot the story: "... I observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of some sort. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. ----- "Mr. Starks of Helios, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom.... I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows." continued: http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html

Later when Karen received a lot of internet attention, she tried to blame others. She should have been blaming herself (stole students' property, threatened a lawsuit against Helios), but instead filed a defamation suit against Helios.

Same applies to this woman behind Cooks. She has no one to blame but herself.
She says the author of the stolen recipe was wrong, but it was "Miss Cooks" who was wrong,
because of her poor attitude. She's like a thief caught at 7/11 - blaming everyone else except herself.

666. Apple I computer. Bankcard (only available in Australia, so go figure). Bar codes. New millennium. And on it goes.

FFS, I'm old enough to remember when Mikhail Gorbachev was the beast. Because, y'know, he has that port wine birthmark on his head which was just like it said in the bible (something about the beast being stabbed but still living, and the birthmark looks like blood), and because he was a godless Russkie. This shit got serious traction amongst the fundamentalists of the day.

Anything, any-fukken-thing, can be held out to be the beast of Revelations, from the Pope down to Justin Bieber.

Just let it go before your head explodes.

Do you have any other information than this? http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html 'Cause that story sounds pretty fishy, though the video would seem to help, if it actually showed the astounding part (it does not).

I'm putting together a chart of all the different distros and O.S.es that can run ZFS. I'll try to keep it updated with the build numbers and special features of each one:

http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/2010/11/101-zfs-capable-operating-systems.html

Bobcat might eventually; right now I think they're aiming at the ULV notebook and nettop segment with Ontario and Zacate, in the hope that the bump down to bulk 28 nm in the next year to year-and-a-half will make it suitable for netbooks and tablets.

Phones are probably not in the picture for AMD; as a late third competitor to ARM and Intel's Atom (which should be in phones by 2012-2013) the market just won't be there for them, unless AMD really pulls a miracle out of their hats and somehow makes Krishna on 28 nm bulk better than whatever Intel will be fabbing Atom on in 2012. But frankly that's just about impossible; Intel's strategy for Atom has been basically to outspend everyone on process tech, and they're doing quite well with it.

There's a really good blog post here about why Wolfram Alpha is really hard to use. Fundamentally, the Alpha control interface tries to be intelligent; when it works, it's nice, but when it doesn't its output is not consistent. Unfortunately, because of this, you can't form a mapping between input -> output - in your example, for instance, you thought that "tensile strength of [whatever]" would give consistent results, so you formed a mapping in your head ("tensile strength of [whatever] results in the tensile strength of a material"). Then it turns out that this control mapping doesn't actually exist, which is incredibly frustrating.

Google, on the other hand, doesn't do any of that shit. You just get something that's kinda sorta like what you wanted. You don't expect anything beyond a certain probabilistic accuracy, so you don't form any control mappings beyond a general "if I search for [whatever] I'll get results related to [whatever]". When they do provide a control, it's very well defined; for instance searching for "site:[some site] [whatever]", which always work the way you expect it to.

Fundamentally, Google lets you build a model in your head of how their tool works, even if there's a gray unknown area where the results are; as an example, when you throw a ball, you have a mental model of how Newtonian physics works, so you have a general idea of where the ball is going to end up.

Alpha makes you think you're building a model, and then the model breaks somehow - like if when you threw a ball, it occasionally turned into a dove and crapped on you.

People don't like it when you break their models or crap on them.

The fact is this - malware has always had the ability to be updated in the field, it has always been able to be remote controlled, and it has always had the ability to spawn a remote shell to a live attacker. And, it has always had the ability to scan the file-system for files like source-code and CAD drawings, and it has always had the ability to exfiltrate those files. At all times and without exception, these malware programs have been operated by real and persistent humans at the other end. The malware doesn't operate itself, it's not an automaton. For the last 365 days, I just called that malware.

http://fasthorizon.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-term-malware-eclipsed-by-apt.html

We live completely off the grid. Solar powered with diesel backup and gel battery storage. The system has been running for eight years and the generator has run a total of 900 hours over that time (mostly just monthly/weekly battery maintenance cycles). We have an array of 24 2V 600mah Sonnenschein batteries and not one of them has shown any measurable variation in performance over eight years. We are still some time from break even(BE) on initial investment but as I watch supplied energy costs rising BE gets closer daily. Although, if we take into account the initial government subsidy received on purchase BE on our personal outlay is only a few years away.
IMHO people holding off due to cost of initial investment, BE being a long wait, etcetera are doing themselves a disservice. Once BE becomes the major dot point of the sales pitch then the queues will be long, unobtainium rarer and more expensive, no more government subsidies, and increased sales taxes on alternate energy systems will be required to help bail out those poor bottom line affected and suffering power companies.

We live completely off the grid. Solar powered with diesel backup and gel battery storage. The system has been running for eight years and the generator has run a total of 900 hours over that time (mostly just monthly/weekly battery maintenance cycles). We have an array of 24 2V 600mah Sonnenschein batteries and not one of them has shown any measurable variation in performance over eight years. We are still some time from break even(BE) on initial investment but as I watch supplied energy costs rising BE gets closer daily. Although, if we take into account the initial government subsidy received on purchase BE on our personal outlay is only a few years away.
IMHO people holding off due to cost of initial investment, BE being a long wait, etcetera are doing themselves a disservice. Once BE becomes the major dot point of the sales pitch then the queues will be long, unobtainium rarer and more expensive, no more government subsidies, and increased sales taxes on alternate energy systems will be required to help bail out those poor bottom line affected and suffering power companies.

To a custom hosts file: That tell you anything? It used to only be that many a month years ago prior to I'd say, 2004 or thereabouts...

Additionally, to so do, I'm still using the same decent sources as well as my own I built up from the same sources since 1997:

Spybot Search & Destroy's "IMMUNIZE" feature
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.malwareurl.com/listing-urls.php?page=1&urls=off&rp=
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alerts.aspx
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://www.scansafe.com/threat_center/threat_alerts
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

Today/Nowadays? It's worse than it was as far as PC's being @ risk online just on sheer numbers of bogus sites or even banner ads that are maliciously scripted in intent. Just on sheer numbers alone.

APK

P.S.=> In summation, all I can tell you, from my "POV" of making a hosts file full of known malware or maliciously scripted sites for a LONG time now is, it's gotten worse, & is happening FAR faster than it used to be (more folks understand coding now is why most likely & the tools are simpler/better too), & I've been building up a closing in on 1 million bogus sites based HOSTS file for over 14 or so years now as my basis in fact here is all...

There's been some talk about the possibility of sending an airplane to Titan, the Saturn's biggest moon and I it sounds a lot more interesting and practical than a plane on mars.

For one, Mars's atmosphere is very thin, making flying in there very hard. You're going to need big wings to stay in the air and controlling it is going to be delicate. Titan, on the other hand, has a very thick and dense atmosphere, allowing for a lot smaller craft and easier manouverability. That also lowers the power requirements for the propulsion, so it could be quite feasibly be powered by a ASRG giving it a flight time of years.

There are a lot of other very good points, too, but instead of writing about them myself, I'll just post a link to a cool blog that explains most of it quite well: http://futureplanets.blogspot.com/2010/06/aviatr-titan-plane-details.html

Here's a very informative presentation about it, too http://vimeo.com/11432536

So we lost manufacturing and technology. All we have remaining is "intellectual property" which is really a thing that is not universally agreed upon. The things that made the US great aren't here any longer and while many of us were complaining about it leaving, government paid off by big business persisted in letting it happen.

US manufacturing output has become more efficient. Our manufacturing output is still greater than China's (can't find 2009 data). Of course we can't really expect that to last since China and India actually have more people.

"It doesn't contradict the observation that Iraq and Afghanistan are better off now than before."

I'm not so sure of that.

"The degree to which the American people are deceived by the cozy relationship between the press and government in the United States was clearly evidenced in my interview with with Mohammad Nizami, formerly the head of the Taliban's radio and TV network and now a member of the Karzai regime. He expressed his support for an Islamic government of Afghanistan ruled by strict Sharia law. He opposed equal rights for women and wanted to see foreign troops withdrawn. Only his timetable had changed. As a Taliban leader he had called for an immediate withdrawal. As a Karzai supporter he thought they should wait until the Afghan Army could stand on its own.

That tolerance for the continued presence of U.S. Troops was sufficient to make him an ally in the view of the United States and Karzai. The dirty secret you will never see exposed in the mainline media is that the Taliban's ideology and political views on the future of Afghanistan are quite similar to many of Karzai's top supporters, including members of his cabinet. They, too, want a fundamentalist-ruled Afghanistan and have nothing but contempt for democratic elections. The war pits two sets of fundamentalists against one another, the difference being one side has U.S. support and the other doesn't. "

http://johnshaplin.blogspot.com/2010/10/american-media-by-reese-erlich.html

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/top-british-gen-sir-david-richards-says-west-cant-defeat-al-qaida-militarily/19715982

An excerpt: 'I looked him straight in the eye and said, "if you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested."'

I wonder if the guy was referring to his genitals or his Asus laptop.

"I am disappoint". Really, you don't need to be an expert to know about the aztecs' earings that made their lobes lonver over time. Just UFG, search images for "ear lobe" and you'll find many interesting things like this.

"I am disappoint". Really, you don't need to be an expert to know about the aztecs' earings that made their lobes lonver over time. Just UFG, search images for "ear lobe" and you'll find many interesting things like this.

Their counter resistance is a threat of a $10,000 civil suit after their own agents tell you to leave the airport: http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

Congratulations, America.

Osama Bin Laden has won.

Read the ridiculous treatment of this upstanding citizen who stood up to the TSA. He wrote a very interesting account of the abuse the TSA is doing.

An excerpt: 'I looked him straight in the eye and said, "if you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested."'

It's only a "gross violation" if you are forced to do it. There is an opt-out.

Yeah, and in some cases opting out means being ejected from the airport without being allowed to board your flight, and even threats of $10,000 civilian fines. Here are just a few recent reported incidents:

TSA encounter at SAN

Woman Says She Was Cuffed And Booted From Airport For Questioning Body Scanners

Pregnant Traveler: TSA Screeners Bullied Me Into Full-Body Scan

Even pilots are being ejected from airports for refusing to submit to the scanners:

Pilot who refused body scan at Memphis International blasts TSA security

Sorry, but if even a pilot can't opt out of going through the scanners then either something is severely broken in the system or the whole opt-out argument is complete bunk.

Sure a car can have computers, even my 93 Dodge has some kind of controller.

Hey we could have another TCP/IP type revolution here... add layers and gain functionality.

What is needed is to connect existing automobiles to an autonomous vehicle interface. The autonomous vehicle interface would provide a connection point for an autonomous vehicle computer to be attached.

The autonomous vehicle computer would query the interface device and get a description response of all the controls and sensors available. The interface would organize and scale the data available from the car. The interface would convert autonomous vehicle computer data into the signals expected by the devices attached to the automobile.

Think of the autonomous vehicle interface as an Arduino Mega that is wired into whatever the vehicle has available. The interface would be like interaction with a python interpreter.

Now the autonomous vehicle computer, think of that as a Linux netbook running a variety of programs for the car. There could be add on sensor devices attached to the autonomous vehicle computer. Like a GPS, a data cell phone and a 802.g wireless connection to nearby vehicles and 802.g radio equipped traffic devices.

http://lessco2essay.blogspot.com/2010/11/proposal-for-autonomous-vehicle.html

So what to do with such a modification: Completely end drunk driving accidents. Reduce the kWh per 100 passenger-kilometres. Do aggressive dynamic insured and paid ride sharing.
Dramatically reduce distracted driving damage. Reduce direct fuel use by coasting up to stoplights. All of this with existing vehicles.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c20/page_118.shtml

The exciting part of doing AVT autonomous vehicle technology like this is: It is not proprietary and locked up in islands of make and model specific functionality. Some aspects of AVT can be backported to most older cars and real energy and safety benefits accrued.

I guess you might intrested in this:

http://johnshaplin.blogspot.com/2010/10/ex-cia-perspective-on-global-war-on.html

...only societies that can cope with overproduction with more socially shared resources will be able to thrive.

That hasn't been true since the Industrial Age. Production capability has increased vastly since the 17th Century.

Take a look at this graph. Your assumptions are incorrect.

In other words, China and Europe will continue to eat our lunch.

Why? They don't appear to me to better "cope with overproduction with more socially shared resources". Instead, the US appears to be screwing the pooch with a rapidly growing economic parasitism.

Nationalized infrastructure, like health care, roads, rail, energy production, research and development, and education are the very definition of socially shared resources. It's accomplished in different ways -- heavy regulation or direct governmental control -- but the effect is similar.

Whereas Americans are for some reason allergic to throwing in with the rest of their citizens, the rest of industrialized society has accepted shared risk as a benefit instead of an assault on their greed, or as it's called now, "liberty."

And a robot will never be able to write a article like this one: http://bluesundaycolts.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-peyton-manning-is-doing-and-how-to.html