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Now my number is blocked. Now I am safe.

You are not safe. If you call certain businesses, they can unhide your number. I know a guy who uses a non-1-800 number that unblocks numbers as it's a business account, but you'd never know looking at the number (he never requested it, but he's not requested they turn it off either). There's tonnes of information on how to unblock this yourself using Asterisk.

Actually, I quite enjoy living in our giant commune, being deferential to the kommisars, working in my government-supplied job that makes me a cog in Canada's 5-year plan. I plan to make the pilgramage to Ottawa to see the perfectly preserved body of our great revolutionary leader, John A. MacDonald, as he lies in state in perpetuity reminding us how we shrugged off the totalitarian rule of a constitutional monachy that offered us independent government and self-determination. Most comforting of all is that by maintaining the facade of a pseudo-communist society, we have effectively kept reactionary, mythology-promoting/believing liberty-before-death(through non-affordable health-care) Americans out of the country... click for help

My full first and last name return about 31,100 hits in Google, with quotes. Using the colloquial version of my first name returns over 146,000 results. It helps that I share a name with an NHL coach, I'm sure.

When I first started using the web heavily in 1995, I couldn't use my first initial + last name, first name + last name or various versions of the above as sign-ins on major websites at the time as they were already taken.

I began signing my name on E-mails and the like with my middle initial included, to try and differentiate my identity. All of the top ten results on Google for that, in quotes, are currently me. Some of the 16,000 other results may not be.

My full first and last name return about 31,100 hits in Google, with quotes. Using the colloquial version of my first name returns over 146,000 results. It helps that I share a name with an NHL coach, I'm sure.

When I first started using the web heavily in 1995, I couldn't use my first initial + last name, first name + last name or various versions of the above as sign-ins on major websites at the time as they were already taken.

I began signing my name on E-mails and the like with my middle initial included, to try and differentiate my identity. All of the top ten results on Google for that, in quotes, are currently me. Some of the 16,000 other results may not be.

My full first and last name return about 31,100 hits in Google, with quotes. Using the colloquial version of my first name returns over 146,000 results. It helps that I share a name with an NHL coach, I'm sure.

When I first started using the web heavily in 1995, I couldn't use my first initial + last name, first name + last name or various versions of the above as sign-ins on major websites at the time as they were already taken.

I began signing my name on E-mails and the like with my middle initial included, to try and differentiate my identity. All of the top ten results on Google for that, in quotes, are currently me. Some of the 16,000 other results may not be.

Why not link directly to the torrent files that Google keeps lying around?

'I simply say if you have a habitable world. ... Sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, something is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss.

Water is definitely a necessary component to our form of life, however a stagnant pool of water won't produce even microbes in any prompt fashion on a cosmic scale. The moon is as big a contributor to life on Earth as its water, because of how the tide has stirred the water like no other planet we've discovered yet.

This video gives you an idea of how complex molecules like DNA could form over billions of years when such a large water mass is stirred so frequently and consistently. The principle is called cymatics. Google that term, and you'll find some really insightful information, as well as a lot of lofty hipster theories.

One thing's for certain, the ancient Egyptians were all over it. They surely pondered sand dune formations for eons.

You seem to have confused Cuba with Mexico. Try this.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that you are a product of the American educational system.

I guess blind people are S.O.L. as well. If synthesised reading aloud of a book is illegal, that alone takes away a powerful tool they use to interact with the world.

Shhhhh: nobody tell them about text-to-braille.

The REAL issue is that "default browser" setting is ignored:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22default+browser%22+setting+ignored&btnG=Search&meta=

Yes, that's so true. The changes that China has gone through in the last 100 years are staggering. Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China gives a fantastic account of what China was like during the Communist Revolution. It brought them forward a millennia in a few years, spreading education, and raising standards for 100 of millions of poor Chinese peasants. But that still left China far behind what we consider a well developed country. Of course, the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution didn't really help. Then again in the last ten or fifteen years, it's almost as if China has come forward another millennia, where cities like Shanghai are fairly easy to live in as Westerner. The people there are now beginning to resist change for this reason. Want to build a new Maglev line to Hangzhou or high speed rail link to Beijing? The people organised together and forced the government to re-route it via somebody else's neighbourhood. Out in the country though, people still put up with being relocated because their lives haven't changed as fast and are some way behind.

Damn, I must be blind! ;)

In the last 2 weeks they updated the imagery of the sea floor already. It looks like they based it on the ETOPO1 dataset that was released last summer, and it is a BIG improvement. They also have some more detailed swath bathymetry from parts of the US coast and a few other locations. For example, along the Gulf Coast, outboard of the Mississippi Delta, you can see this knobbly seafloor terrain related to salt domes, and along the California coast are these submarine canyons near Monterey. It's pretty impressive compared to the crude seafloor terrain they had before.

In the last 2 weeks they updated the imagery of the sea floor already. It looks like they based it on the ETOPO1 dataset that was released last summer, and it is a BIG improvement. They also have some more detailed swath bathymetry from parts of the US coast and a few other locations. For example, along the Gulf Coast, outboard of the Mississippi Delta, you can see this knobbly seafloor terrain related to salt domes, and along the California coast are these submarine canyons near Monterey. It's pretty impressive compared to the crude seafloor terrain they had before.

Some stone tools were naturally formed and used "as is" by ancient peoples. A trained archeologist can tell the difference due to a number of distinguishing marks that tools purposely made will have.

These methods are pretty standard things to learn:
Archaeological Laboratory Methods By Mark Q. Sutton, Brooke S. Arkush

Pretty standard stuff, and a question that was asked and answered a long time ago.

There are a variety of examples but I'll quote only a couple and leave others to the reader.

The northern redbelly dace, Phoxinus eos (Cope 1861), and the finescale dace, Phoxinus neogaeus Cope 1867, are two cyprinid fishes native to North America that are known to exist in stable assemblages with their hybrids. Such assemblages are composed frequently of both diploid and polyploid members and may be supported at least partly by gynogenesis. A number of genetic and other studies exist, some of which can be found through a Google search. This is a particularly fascinating example since it points out how narrow our focus is if we fail to account for asexual reproductive possibilities.

A second simple example is what some researchers have begun to call the Canis (wolf) complex, all the members of which appear to be able to interbreed and to produce fertile offspring. Nowak (1992), among others, has suggested that the red wolf, Canis lupus rufus appears to be on the verge of being subsumed into the coyote Canis latrans genome but he feels that this interbreeding has largely occured over the last century or so and that, prior, they were entirely distinct genotypes separated geographically by differing habitat dependencies.

Finally, I'd raise the example of the lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush (Walbaum in Artedi 1792) and the brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill 1814), two species of salmonid fishes which are known to produce fertile hybrid offspring through artificial propagation but appear to be largely prevented from hybridising more than very infrequently by behavioural separation, even where the species exist sympatrically.

Now, it's true that these sorts of closely-related species can cause us to examine how it is we define species. Who knows, perhaps one day we'll arrive at the point where we classify all of the canids as a single species, for example. We're certainly not at that point right now, though, and most wolf researchers would suggest that it's unlikely that that will be the outcome.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.org+whoosh

For all intents and purposes however, the difference between the two terms is antiquated.

This is slashdot. Don't you mean, "for our intensive purposes"? :o)

(Google "Internet Explorer vulnerability" and restrict to last year)

It's so that girls can change the color of their fingernails just by touching them, just like in Total Recall.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Fingernail+color+%22Total+Recall%22&btnG=Search&meta=

I went out to look for them. I am a 27 year old IT guy, mind you, and I had trouble finding anything BUT yet more references to how sick they were.

Hate to break this to you, but you suck at searching.

1. Go to http://images.google.ca/
2. Type in "tubgirl" and click the "Search Images" button.

You'll get a 7x3 grid of images. On the first page, bottom row, second from the left, is an image of tubgirl (http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:OaMvNa_Q2NhgnM:http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1743/tubskit5ev.jpg).

And this is with Google Moderate SafeSearch enabled.

Repeat similar steps for any of the other images you are curious about.

Agreed. This is a fairly reasonable compromise on Apple's part.

It is neither compromise nor reasonable.

1) Apple's DRM policy is entirely mandated by the RIAA, who do not know the meaning of the word 'compromise'. No RIAA OK, no iTunes licensing.

2) Consider how many iPods get lost or stolen. Is it reasonable to bury personal info into music files unbeknownst to the user when those files are *known* to end up in the wrong hands? According to Dell, over 12,000 laptops are lost in US airports every week. At least there is the opportunity to secure the information on a laptop. I'm guessing there isn't a single utility to encrypt music files on iPods, much less the personal information embedded within.

3) Imagine how many iPods are lost at schools. How many scams can you think of that take advantage of the owner's desire to get their iPod back. Worst of all, show me a pedophile that wouldn't love to pretend to be some kid's classmate wanting to return their beloved iPod in order to lure them somewhere private. Lost iPod + email address of owner = "Meet me by the white van with tinted windows"

I'm been writing avionic software for the military for over 15yrs, and I've never had to been with firewire. Ethernet, MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, RS-422, RS-232, Fibre Channel, PCI, VME, and, ...USB. Nope, no firewire.

So what you're saying is that either:

1. you haven't been given the opportunity to work on the latest and greatest
2. the software you write doesn't interface directly with the avionics hardware, so it doesn't need to know the specifics

The F-22, the F35, the A380, the 747-8 - they all use firewire. Even unmanned military aircraft now use it http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=mcT&q=related:www.moog.com/media/1/LOA_08_News.pdf

Let's celebrate the nine heroes who have actually given this feedback on eBay. :^D

Yes

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22LED+backlight%22+%22LCD+TV%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

My response to all this, and the snivelling about how their rights were being trampled upon was that I'm unsympathetic to their plight primarily because the Muslim community has brought this upon themselves. I stand by that statement. We never hear the Muslim community being up in arms about a Muslim suicide bomber smearing the good (?) name of Islam

Does the fact that you haven't heard about Muslims condemning suicide bombers mean it doesn't happen?

I think this is the crucial flaw in your position that the Muslim community has brought this on themselves. I've seen some condemnations, but I've also seen complaints that the media doesn't give the same coverage to moderate Muslim statements against radical Islamists as they do to the actions of terrorists. Think about the nature of media coverage, and I'm sure you'll see the bind that both reporters and moderate Muslims are in. "If it bleeds it leads" is the saying in the news business, and a moment's reflection tells you that fearmongering coverage will almost always trump reassuring statements about how not all Muslims are trying to blow you up.

Here's some of the results from a quick google search for "muslims condemn suicide bombings". The first link is a list of public condemnations by Muslim leaders and groups.

Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks
Landmark Islamic Ruling Unequivocally Condemns Suicide Bombings
Minister: Muslim decree to condemn suicide bombings
U.K. Sunnis condemn London suicide attacks
Grand Sheikh condemns suicide bombings
Suicide Bombing
INDONESIA: Muslim leaders condemn suicide bombing
A sampling of fatwas and other statements by Muslim individuals and groups condemning terrorist attacks
Muslim Scholars Condemn Terror U.S. Islamic Leaders Issue Edict Against Attacks On Civilians

They get some coverage, but no stories get multiple days/outlets to repeat the message the way an event like a bombing does. The problem isn't that Muslims don't condemn suicide attacks, it's that their condemnations don't get enough play, so people like you think that the Muslim community silently condones the actions of the extremists.

Does that mean that if I post a shirtless pic of myself (I don't, more to save my own modesty) on facebook that it should be considered nudity?

And BTW, I'm a guy...

How about if I'm a guy with gynecomastia?

At this point though, it seems more a case of law (many states/provinces legally permit breastfeeding in public, and in fact rules against such are illegal) than a case of my values or even yours.

I was just wondering who Kate McKinley really is. Most of all, I am skeptical as to whether she is even qualified to be called a "security researcher" at all.

Why? Because Wikipedia returns no hits for "Kate McKinley" and a Google search returns results that are sketchy or even anemic when it comes to browser security at best.

Maybe she's a privacy expert too.

I was just wondering who Kate McKinley really is. Most of all, I am skeptical as to whether she is even qualified to be called a "security researcher" at all.

Why? Because Wikipedia returns no hits for "Kate McKinley" and a Google search returns results that are sketchy or even anemic when it comes to browser security at best.

May be I should also put up my own research...may be, then call my self a "Security researcher."

Are you one of those gamers who wanted Fallout 3 to be turn based, isometric and 2D....in 2008?

No, I wanted it turn based, isometric, 2D and released in 1999. Why would I insist on a nine year delay?

it may not have been developed by Black Isle, but it's still a Fallout game and claiming otherwise is just being curmudgeonly.

Uh huh. And is it also just being curmudgeonly to make a distinction between the original Star Trek series and randomly chosen results from a Google search for Star Trek Slash? Or to carry on stubbornly believing that the Very Secret Diaries are not actually part of the Lord of the Rings? Or that the random scribblings that I did in crayon last weekend are not really Sherlock Holmes stories which can stand up with the best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work?

Fallout 3 may have been inspired by Fallout and Fallout 2, but with none of the original writers or developers involved its branding with the 'Fallout' name is nothing more than a marketing gimmick.

Which means that if I tried to sell that $100 treasury on the bond market, I may only get $50 for it.

I know you're just using it as an example, but you're flat-out wrong. You might get $101 for that $100 t-bill.

There has been enormous demand for t-bills, because there are large pools of money that want low-risk investments. Having been burned by AAA-rated securities guaranteed by large insurance companies that turn out to be worthless, there is a flight to quality. Demand for US t-bills has been so high that the return has actually went negative.

In this market, people are willing to loose money so that they are guaranteed the return of almost all their capital.

So, according to mark-to-market accounting, my $100 treasury bought five years ago for $70, whose face value if I simply computed it's value by compound interest would be $85 is actually only worth $50.

How else can you determine the value of an asset? What you are proposing is making up the value just because you think it is worth that much. You could be right OR wrong.

You think the guarantee of the US government is good, but other people might not think so.

Or, you think the guarantee of the US government is good, but you might think the US dollar is going to rapidly decline against other currencies, so the value of a US t-bill would be less on the world market.

Or, if interest rates shot up to 11%, the value of your t-bill paying 4% would drop significantly.

How can you judge the relative default risk of US t-bills, German t-bills, Equador t-bills? The market is usually good at that.

And it means if I have the regulatory requirement to have a certain asset to liability ratio, my treasury bonds, which are completely and totally secure--the U.S. Government so far has not defaulted on a single treasury--is insufficiently "secure" for accounting purposes.

Because they aren't totally secure. They are probably the most secure thing you can buy, but there is still a chance that the t-bill MIGHT not be paid. It is possible for the US government NOT to pay. After all, a year ago, would you consider that the government of Iceland wouldn't make good on its promises? Today that is a real possibility.

The way the US government has been spending huge amounts on TARP funds and other bailouts, and further problems with the economy, the default risk on t-bills today is probably higher than it has been in 15 years. While I doubt they would default on t-bills, who knows what the new US administration & congress will do?

It's the primary reason why some people want to do away with mark-to-market rules: because many mortgage backed securities were trading at perhaps 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar, even when the most pessimistic default rates in the mortgage market would cause the underlying assets (the houses themselves) which comprise the mortgage backed security to be worth maybe 85 cents or 90 cents to the dollar.

Then I'm sure some bright person will swoop in, buy up the distressed debt, and make a killing when the markets return to sanity. Why don't you do that?

85 cents or 90 cents on the dollar? Ha! Real estate in many, many areas has declined by far, far more than that. In some areas real estate prices have fallen by 50% or more.

Add to that some of the ridiculous rules in some areas that make it difficult to foreclose on a house. In California, you can now live in your house for a year without making a single mortgage payment. That's nice for the homeowner, but lousy for whoever owns the mortgage.

It seems the only way to judge if a mortgage backed security is worth anything is to fully investigate the underlying assets, sinc

America hasn't been one for about 150 years

Of course America is free! The Republicans told me that's why the terr'ists hate us!

I suppose I can go googling

Yeah, I suppose you probably could do that. Since, ya know, you're using a web browser and all. You might even have a search box in the top right corner of the browser window. Typing riaa in to it would have been a lot less effort than posting a dumb question, then complaining about getting modded down, then complaining again that nobody was answering your question. But - hey - your first post is currently modded +3 Insightful, so I guess you showed them mods.

Oh, by the way, you want to click the first link in the results of that Google search above, just in case you are unfamiliar with the Google interface.

I don't want to suggest that the National Post is a particularly trust-worthy source of information but here is a timely National Post article about recent Canadian vaccination programs.

The war on drugs makes a lot of money for a lot people on both sides of the law.

As a taxpayer, I disagree.

Then you're woefully ignorant, and need to watch The Prison Industrial Complex (the first 50 seconds are in Dutch, but the rest is in english.)

This is old, old news... 3.5 years old, in fact.

You cannot hotsync a palm pilot with Vista. At All.

Not at all?

Sorry, but it's not "murder".

See Reckless Disregard.

...that Google hasn't implemented the Libraries of Congress metric into their auto-calculator.

C'mon Google, get on the ball(s)!

I can't get this to work because Firefox is forcing HTMLENTITIES on the location field so I'm getting:
http://www.google.ca/q=keywordgoeshere%20-site:experts-exchange.com

Can anyone help fix this because this could be seriously helpful.

SphereXP http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=spherexp&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

We've probably all seen the video on youtube with the stoned spiders, and the kooky webs they make. I wonder what the effects of cosmic radiation will be on this spider who will be waiting a long time for a snack to buzz into his web. Unless, by space-surviving spider, they mean he can eat non-living things like dust? I think he likely drifted off like the $100000 tool belt that one space-walking astronaught lost yesterday. At least this loss wasn't as expensive. However it's possible this is a mutated spider that craves the media attention for the lulz, in which case it's possible that the spider unlatched the tool-belt in order to make a getaway, and build his own Evil Spider Space Station, with his newly acquired tool set, and other classified missing materials (that would not be reported)!

Although in another scenario, the tool belt will fall to earth with the spider riding it, Slim Pickens style, to crash land and obliterate some curious bystander, ala Dead Like Me. I still think it is more likely the spider will crash land somewhere and start another internet meme (link site contains articles that are 100% NSFW).

Yep, I shouldn't have extrapolated from a handful of stores that do have longer hours. Shortly after crossing the BC border, I came across one that was open near midnight, was a full liquor store, and I was surprised. This certainly isn't true everywhere. A friend explained to me how that works (there are special dispensations), but I'm afraid I don't recall.

However, according to a report I just found from the Fraser Institute (multiple versions here, prices in real dollars were (on average) 4% higher.

The paper is interesting, and by it's conclusions I'd say that whether privatization "worked" largely depends on what you prioritize - employment is up, selection and availability are up, wages are down, prices are up.

You can get good deals here (in Edmonton) as well, occasionally. Around holidays there are usually some loss leaders, and there are the big box liquor stores out in the 'burbs. The latter don't do me much good, though.

To be fair, it wasn't everywhere in BC that BCLB stores had night/weekend hours. A friend explained to me the regulations around that one, but I'm afraid I don't recall.

Interestingly, I just found a paper from the Fraser Institute (I usually like to find a second source to balance anything they put out, but lack the time today) after being prodded into it by another poster. It can be found here.

To summarize: there are more liquor stores, about twice the number of employees, larger selection of products, wages are about half what they were in real dollars and consumer prices are approximately 4% higher, on average.

To me that sounds like it either works or doesn't work, depending on what you prioritize. Figures ;)

I decided to see if I could check the same filtering mechanism with Canada and the US. The only obvious thing that struck me to search for is 'lolicon', since I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Canada but not the states.

The US results (1,350,000 results)
The Canadian results (1,230,000)

Or am I missing some incredibly obvious other reason that these results are different?

Fair Use does have limits.

Limitations:

Time:
        up to two years without permission
Portion:
        Motion Media: 10% or three minutes, whichever is less
        Text: 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less (except poems)
        Music: up to 10%, but no more than 30 seconds
        Illustrations and photographs: less than five images per artist
        Data Sets: 2500 fields or cells or 10%, whichever is less
Special cases:
        poems, email, online chats, LISTSERV discussions, Web cameras; see the guidelines for further information
Copies:
        no more than two copies, which may be placed on reserve

source: http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn20/copyright.html

You can find the same information at dozens of websites around the world, though most of the first hits are from universities, because the whole concept of Fair Use was introduced to help universities and provide protection for academic use of copyrighted materials. To save you the trouble:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=fair+use+time+limits&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

In 1966, a nuclear armed B52 crashed over Palomares Spain, scattering radioactive material from multiple bombs, each 100 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The most serious reported accident in the U.S. Military's nuclear history took place in Palomares, Spain on Jan. 17, 1966 when a B-52 loaded with four nuclear bombs suffered a mid-air collision with a KC-135 refueling plane. All four bombs were ejected from the B-52 in the crash. One was recovered on the ground and a second from the sea after a long and difficult search. However, the high explosive packages of the other two bombs detonated on impact with the ground. While the nuclear payloads of the bombs did not detonate, over 1,400 tons of surrounding soil and vegetation were contaminated with radioactive materials. The US conducted an extensive cleanup of the area under the scrutiny of the Spanish government.

MidpSSH

I have used this on both 8700's as well as 8310's. Once you get used to a couple of the quirks of the software interface, it works just fine.

lolwut?

Hey, check it out. I totally just linked to a dynamic page.

Google exists because the web does link together all of the information within it; without that linking, PageRank simply wouldn't work.

As if.

Because if you go to the same location in mapquest, and turn on aerial view you see the buildings in all their glory.

And if you go to the Google Maps version and turn on Street View, you can see the buildings in living colour. Ground Level.

So, basically, Google's being stupidly secretive, as you can use their own tools against them.

Dur.

RS