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>> For instance, if this film incites violence against adherents of Islam, then a ban (and prosecution of those responsible) is the right move.
And-

if a film incites violence against ex-adherents of Islam, (apostates) and people who publish evil Danish Cartoons then a ban (and prosecution of those responsible) is the right move. And hopefully, some head-lopping.

No doubt there will now be a fatwa against Google.

... incidentally, Pinoqachole IS forbidden in Islamic kultur. DO NOT let them fool you.

To get you started, here's a search for you. It looks like IBM is only promising a 100-fold performance increase, but Sun got the contract (despite the possibly inaccurate story, it doesn't sound like they actually figured out anything thus far, besides "how to get some government loot") by promising a 1000x increase.

Hey DARPA — I'll give you a 1,000,000x improvement! Email and I'll tell you where to send the cash.

Monopoly where?

Online advertising?

search?

Definitely not webmail.

Theres a difference between having a monopoly, and being the best at what you do in a market by a significant margin.

Monopoly where?

Online advertising?

search?

Definitely not webmail.

Theres a difference between having a monopoly, and being the best at what you do in a market by a significant margin.

Hydrogen is more of a battery than a fuel and it is ALWAYS by DEFINITION going to have negative ER/EI. Why? Because the energy required to pull hydrogen out of water or methane or petroleum is going to be greater than the energy you get from burning the hydrogen. What the "hydrogen economy" seeks to do is to protect the sunken cost of the suburbs, and the sunken costs of the automotive infrastructure, both of which are joined at the hip and are completely unsustainable. It's a fools errand and will fail. There is also the not inconsiderable energy that goes into making the bucky balls, etc.

Face it: gigs up. Game over. Prepare to slowly powerdown.

RS

And they are running the test in Windows? Who knows whether there's not an undocumented feature of IE which is telling it's O$ to swap *all* FF's RAM into disk? Or even freeing FF's memory? The predator always wins.

MS has done something like this in the past and got caught.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=drdos+windows+crash&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

There has been a lot of controversy over how much of her songs she actually writes, and how much of her writing is hers. For instance, check her blatant Peaches rip-off: http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP0d2z-dWZmE&ei=103UR6iMNKKYoQTH2PjuDA&usg=AFQjCNHfDayxA_xwi8G9PIRIK29u1jxpDQ&sig2=wgxC_7D2r1EuNHM1dlYFhw

On top of that, she got a music deal based on her country-music singing, and then suddenly gets turned into this faux-punk princess who "hates the mainstream". She is one of the most manufactured people in music today.

-FL

For that kind of money, why not get a Mac?

Because these people aren't looking for laptops, they are looking for image. Ferrari is a vehicle, not a computer. It is a kick-ass vehicle, but it still has everything to do with image and nothing to do with the car itself. A person driving a Ferrari is saying "I have so much money and power that I can drop an insane amount of cash into an amazingly impractical vehicle and not give a flying fuck." How many Ferrari owners actually use the capabilities of their crazy vehicles? The vast majority of Ferrari owners obey the speed limit, drive very safely and leave their vehicle in the garrage, under a tarp under all but the best driving conditions.

The Ferrari laptop is a different animal from the car. A Ferrari laptop sends a similar message as the H2 Hummer: I got a pile of money and I think that buying this chunk of trash will make my penis seem larger. That's it. That's all. It's the lizard part of the brain at work.

Very special indeed. I suppose this guy is right, it's hard to chose just one way to express yourself.

Yeah, and theres an even easier reversal issue for typists.

The idea of lifting weights to produce energy might be fine for a lamp but doing an hour or two of work a day to power your home would be wasteful. The energy cost to produce the extra food you would need to eat would be far greater than just taking it from the power company in the first place.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=cost+of+calories+fossil+fuel&num=100

That said, if you are going to work out anyway, why not store the spent energy somehow for later use. I think with companies like nanosolar(www.nanosolar.com) producing cheaper than coal solar panels right now we'll start to see power distribution models where selling back to the grid is supported.

You are right about that. I did a google search and found that exact posting repeated, mostly here but also on other sites. His keeping and reposting that without editing it to fix the errors and answer questions that people ask show that he is a troll.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Gnu+Protective+License%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=/

It's a bit of a different issue though. Try this experiment instead: type http://www.google.ca/ig. Now type http://search.yahoo.com./ Sure, each site has picked a different one to be their default, but that's just a matter of taste.

This is B.S. on many levels. To begin with, in many respects Canadian copyright law is stronger than that of the U.S. In any case, Canada has no obligation to conform to the WIPO treaty. Canada has signed the WIPO treaty but has not ratified it. Signing a treaty merely indicates the intention of the then current government. As the Hon. Jim Prentice, the Minister responsible for this file, commented, the relationship between signing a treaty and ratifying it is like that between dating and marriage. Nothing is binding until the treaty is ratified, and Canada has never ratified the WIPO treaty.

As to fulfilling treaty obligations, for the US to complain about Canada is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Take the softwood lumber dispute, for example. The US illegally imposed billions of dollars in tariffs and planned, illegally, to give them to US lumber companies. The US consistently lost at the NAFTA dispute panel, even though three of the five panel members were Americans. The dispute was temporarily resolved when the new Conservative minority government gave in to the US in spite of being in the right legally, but the US is making trouble again and there is a good chance that the agreement will not last.

Somebody can't count.

MS was a customer hostile enterprise (eventually proved criminal, time and time again) from the day Gates crawled out of bed and set it up in 1975, with mission: Enrich ME, fuck everyone else. (Remember the anti-hobbyist memo (first of many famous incriminating memos)? The leopard doesn't change its spots.)

I make that 32 years. The cost to civilisation is incalculable, and we'll be paying for decades to come. Millions of lives are made worse by Windows and every other worthless MS product, every day.

Ballmer was hired and retained to continue the disgusting legacy.

Whoever said that "beauty and intuition" were incompatible with "functionality"?

It is better to have functionality and intuitive beauty as well. Viz: Apple.

The important thing is to climb out of the Microsoft swamp of mediocrity. Every time someone goes the extra mile, cares about quality*, we get closer to returning to a civilised state. Personally I'm glad Linus is willing to spare his brains and intuition to improve things for everyone.

* - Also see Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Barack Obama appeared at Google back in November and actually gave some pretty concrete answers and plans for what he wants to do when he's actually in power. Just FYI.

Here's a heretical thought: Maybe AIDS isn't contagious in these patients because HIV doesn't cause AIDS and never has been the cause of it. If that sounds crazy, maybe you've never explored the literature that points out the puzzling inconsistencies in the theory underlying the multi-billion dollar HIV research and pharma industries.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6830231400057553023
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3983706668483511310
http://books.google.ca/books?id=pRWVZJKO0NsC&dq=Peter+H+Duesberg&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=peter+duesberg&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=author-navigational

I was an idiot 15 years ago:
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.protocols.nfs/browse_thread/thread/76662c9239a05257
Who can I talk to in order to erase the fact that I wanted to connect MSDOS and UNIX somehow.
Imagine! Wanting to connect two different operating systems together over Ethernet... how silly.

Oh?

http://news.google.ca/news?q=amazon+international+rollout+music&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

Who say's you can't build a Penrose triangle?

Basically it comes from a live voice recognition demo from Microsoft for their feature in Vista. Yes, I had to look this up myself.

And only a window or two was ripped lose. Who knew those hax0r avian carrier waves could be so effective.

Thanks, I was hoping someone would post this typical elitist BS.

You're welcome. I don't mind being an elitist bastard at all - especially one with with a viable solution to an onerous problem.

Your attitude is that users who aren't tech-savvy enough to prevent things like this from happening deserve to suffer

Not really. I'm saying that until the average computer user experiences real pain, not just inconvenience from leaving themselves open to nefarious programs running on their machine the situation will not improve. Did Joe User cause Microsoft to make security a priority? No, it was businesses who had to pay a lot of dough to get things fixed that forced Bill and Co. to do the right thing. A bill from TW they didn't expect will give the home user the same type of wakeup call, and something will get done for a change.

-- and like it's going to help TW's bottom line if they lose a customer permanently because he's outraged that they charged him $300 without (from his perspective) warning, and possibly lose some other customers because this one guy convinces them TW sucks, and engender loads of ill will.

Not if they're smart about it. OK, TW gives them the bill, but with a 1-800-HOLY-FCK help line at the bottom. When the customer calls, TW explains the bill, why they were sent the bill and helps the user fix the problem. When the problem is fixed, TW says "We'll give you this one for FREE, and have a jim-dandy kinda day." The user is helped (likely loving TW at this point), TW gets their 'bandwidth' back and a spammer is pissed - all is right with the world.

The fact is there are a lot of people who are intelligent and not tech-savvy, either because they grew up too late and are stuck in a pre-Internet mindset, or just don't have the aptitude for tech; but these people still have plenty to contribute online, and cutting them off just because you think they're "lusers" is foolish and short-sighted.

Did I say "lusers" out loud? Sorry - my bastard was showing.

Anyway, anyone should be savvy enough with their kit that they don't ruin things for others - the Internet is a commons (at present, anyway) after all. If they aren't savvy enough, they should get help. If not - out of the memory pool, you're hurting the Internet. And how tech-savvy do you have to be to install AVG anyhow?

HTH, HAND.

Soko

"FWIW, I was most interested in the "gardening accident". I didn't do the research yet, but I wondered how many of those references related to Spiñal Tap drummer John "Stumpy" Pepys."

Well, it's a subtle thing, because according to Spinal Tap it was a (quoting) "bizarre gardening accident", which yields 1220 results, whereas the more generic "died in a gardening accident" yields 124 results (I tried to preserve the pre-xkcd numbers by adding -xkcd to the search, but it's weird -- I get 124 if I do that, the 160 reported by xkcd if I don't). If you look at the results there is some slop (e.g., some results include xkcd references even though I tried to exclude them, some Spinal Tap references are also in the non-"bizarre" results, etc.). Even so, the order of magnitude difference is a little surprising given that the correct Spinal Tap quote is a more specific search and adding more terms usually decreases the search results. The implication is that generic "gardening accident" deaths are less commonly reported by Google than the fictional Spinal Tap drummer tragedy by about 10x. Also, if you look carefully at the non-Spinal Tap results there are some real gardening deaths in there (e.g., the drummer from the band 'Toto' did die of a gardening accident because of an alergic reaction to pesticides he was using).

Unfortunately the other obvious Spinal Tap test case here ("choked on vomit") isn't easy to research in the same way because it can't be easily fitted into an xkcd "Died in a _____ accident" format, but there were 2480 results for "choked on vomit", and excluding "Spinal Tap" from those results still left 1500.

Incidentally, "Died in a googling accident" yields 7 results, 2 if you exclude xkcd.

"FWIW, I was most interested in the "gardening accident". I didn't do the research yet, but I wondered how many of those references related to Spiñal Tap drummer John "Stumpy" Pepys."

Well, it's a subtle thing, because according to Spinal Tap it was a (quoting) "bizarre gardening accident", which yields 1220 results, whereas the more generic "died in a gardening accident" yields 124 results (I tried to preserve the pre-xkcd numbers by adding -xkcd to the search, but it's weird -- I get 124 if I do that, the 160 reported by xkcd if I don't). If you look at the results there is some slop (e.g., some results include xkcd references even though I tried to exclude them, some Spinal Tap references are also in the non-"bizarre" results, etc.). Even so, the order of magnitude difference is a little surprising given that the correct Spinal Tap quote is a more specific search and adding more terms usually decreases the search results. The implication is that generic "gardening accident" deaths are less commonly reported by Google than the fictional Spinal Tap drummer tragedy by about 10x. Also, if you look carefully at the non-Spinal Tap results there are some real gardening deaths in there (e.g., the drummer from the band 'Toto' did die of a gardening accident because of an alergic reaction to pesticides he was using).

Unfortunately the other obvious Spinal Tap test case here ("choked on vomit") isn't easy to research in the same way because it can't be easily fitted into an xkcd "Died in a _____ accident" format, but there were 2480 results for "choked on vomit", and excluding "Spinal Tap" from those results still left 1500.

Incidentally, "Died in a googling accident" yields 7 results, 2 if you exclude xkcd.

"FWIW, I was most interested in the "gardening accident". I didn't do the research yet, but I wondered how many of those references related to Spiñal Tap drummer John "Stumpy" Pepys."

Well, it's a subtle thing, because according to Spinal Tap it was a (quoting) "bizarre gardening accident", which yields 1220 results, whereas the more generic "died in a gardening accident" yields 124 results (I tried to preserve the pre-xkcd numbers by adding -xkcd to the search, but it's weird -- I get 124 if I do that, the 160 reported by xkcd if I don't). If you look at the results there is some slop (e.g., some results include xkcd references even though I tried to exclude them, some Spinal Tap references are also in the non-"bizarre" results, etc.). Even so, the order of magnitude difference is a little surprising given that the correct Spinal Tap quote is a more specific search and adding more terms usually decreases the search results. The implication is that generic "gardening accident" deaths are less commonly reported by Google than the fictional Spinal Tap drummer tragedy by about 10x. Also, if you look carefully at the non-Spinal Tap results there are some real gardening deaths in there (e.g., the drummer from the band 'Toto' did die of a gardening accident because of an alergic reaction to pesticides he was using).

Unfortunately the other obvious Spinal Tap test case here ("choked on vomit") isn't easy to research in the same way because it can't be easily fitted into an xkcd "Died in a _____ accident" format, but there were 2480 results for "choked on vomit", and excluding "Spinal Tap" from those results still left 1500.

Incidentally, "Died in a googling accident" yields 7 results, 2 if you exclude xkcd.

"FWIW, I was most interested in the "gardening accident". I didn't do the research yet, but I wondered how many of those references related to Spiñal Tap drummer John "Stumpy" Pepys."

Well, it's a subtle thing, because according to Spinal Tap it was a (quoting) "bizarre gardening accident", which yields 1220 results, whereas the more generic "died in a gardening accident" yields 124 results (I tried to preserve the pre-xkcd numbers by adding -xkcd to the search, but it's weird -- I get 124 if I do that, the 160 reported by xkcd if I don't). If you look at the results there is some slop (e.g., some results include xkcd references even though I tried to exclude them, some Spinal Tap references are also in the non-"bizarre" results, etc.). Even so, the order of magnitude difference is a little surprising given that the correct Spinal Tap quote is a more specific search and adding more terms usually decreases the search results. The implication is that generic "gardening accident" deaths are less commonly reported by Google than the fictional Spinal Tap drummer tragedy by about 10x. Also, if you look carefully at the non-Spinal Tap results there are some real gardening deaths in there (e.g., the drummer from the band 'Toto' did die of a gardening accident because of an alergic reaction to pesticides he was using).

Unfortunately the other obvious Spinal Tap test case here ("choked on vomit") isn't easy to research in the same way because it can't be easily fitted into an xkcd "Died in a _____ accident" format, but there were 2480 results for "choked on vomit", and excluding "Spinal Tap" from those results still left 1500.

Incidentally, "Died in a googling accident" yields 7 results, 2 if you exclude xkcd.

"FWIW, I was most interested in the "gardening accident". I didn't do the research yet, but I wondered how many of those references related to Spiñal Tap drummer John "Stumpy" Pepys."

Well, it's a subtle thing, because according to Spinal Tap it was a (quoting) "bizarre gardening accident", which yields 1220 results, whereas the more generic "died in a gardening accident" yields 124 results (I tried to preserve the pre-xkcd numbers by adding -xkcd to the search, but it's weird -- I get 124 if I do that, the 160 reported by xkcd if I don't). If you look at the results there is some slop (e.g., some results include xkcd references even though I tried to exclude them, some Spinal Tap references are also in the non-"bizarre" results, etc.). Even so, the order of magnitude difference is a little surprising given that the correct Spinal Tap quote is a more specific search and adding more terms usually decreases the search results. The implication is that generic "gardening accident" deaths are less commonly reported by Google than the fictional Spinal Tap drummer tragedy by about 10x. Also, if you look carefully at the non-Spinal Tap results there are some real gardening deaths in there (e.g., the drummer from the band 'Toto' did die of a gardening accident because of an alergic reaction to pesticides he was using).

Unfortunately the other obvious Spinal Tap test case here ("choked on vomit") isn't easy to research in the same way because it can't be easily fitted into an xkcd "Died in a _____ accident" format, but there were 2480 results for "choked on vomit", and excluding "Spinal Tap" from those results still left 1500.

Incidentally, "Died in a googling accident" yields 7 results, 2 if you exclude xkcd.

That's not the official story. The official story is that passengers hijacked the plane with box cutters(small razor blades). They were somewhat trained however not very good pilots. Just good enough to fly into a building. It's almost complete bullshit however because many of the supposed hijackers have been found alive in other countries. http://www.google.ca/search?q=911%20hijackers%20alive

Although the tabletop game (what I assume the review writer was referring to) is commonly spelled fusball.

Parent is a copypasta.

I tried it briefly and didn't like it at all. It's still light-years behind Google.

This morning, I was talking to a friend about engines, and he told me about the Wankel engine. I looked for "wenkel engine" (I couldn't spell it better than that) in Wikia and it gave me one result only, which wasn't related at all. I went to Google, and the first thing: "Did you mean wankel engine?". Google is always my friend whenever I want to know how to spell something.

Ok, then I searched for "wankel engine" in Wikia and Google. In Google, the first result was the Wikipedia article for the Wankel engine, which in at least 50% of what I search is what I want. The fifth result (still visible without scrolling) was a Wikipedia article about the Mazda Wankel engine, which is the main commercial implementation of this engine, it's "the engine that made Mazda famous" (according to Wikipedia page). Not to mention that Google showed me also two drawings and one picture of the engine before the URL results. Very useful.

Now, enter Wikia. I scroll through the first page of results with 10 URLs, and none of them is Wikipedia! And this considering that Wikia is from the creators of Wikipedia and it's advertised as such! If I wanted lots of irrelevant results I could just go back to Altavista...

And what the hell is "people matching wankel engine" with some pictures of some random people. Why would I want that if I'm not looking for people? At least show me a picture of Felix Wankel (thanks again Google for that).

Unless they improve it drastically, I don't think anyone will use it over Google.

I tried it briefly and didn't like it at all. It's still light-years behind Google.

This morning, I was talking to a friend about engines, and he told me about the Wankel engine. I looked for "wenkel engine" (I couldn't spell it better than that) in Wikia and it gave me one result only, which wasn't related at all. I went to Google, and the first thing: "Did you mean wankel engine?". Google is always my friend whenever I want to know how to spell something.

Ok, then I searched for "wankel engine" in Wikia and Google. In Google, the first result was the Wikipedia article for the Wankel engine, which in at least 50% of what I search is what I want. The fifth result (still visible without scrolling) was a Wikipedia article about the Mazda Wankel engine, which is the main commercial implementation of this engine, it's "the engine that made Mazda famous" (according to Wikipedia page). Not to mention that Google showed me also two drawings and one picture of the engine before the URL results. Very useful.

Now, enter Wikia. I scroll through the first page of results with 10 URLs, and none of them is Wikipedia! And this considering that Wikia is from the creators of Wikipedia and it's advertised as such! If I wanted lots of irrelevant results I could just go back to Altavista...

And what the hell is "people matching wankel engine" with some pictures of some random people. Why would I want that if I'm not looking for people? At least show me a picture of Felix Wankel (thanks again Google for that).

Unless they improve it drastically, I don't think anyone will use it over Google.

t is actually easy to find candidates, but how about travelling to mexixo? http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=20.558767,-88.630174&spn=0.003541,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1 This could be anything, but an ancient structure is one of the possiblilities. MB

t is actually easy to find candidates, but how about travelling to mexixo? http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=20.558767,-88.630174&spn=0.003541,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1 This could be anything, but an ancient structure is one of the possiblilities. MB

t is actually easy to find candidates, but how about travelling to mexixo? http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=20.558767,-88.630174&spn=0.003541,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1 This could be anything, but an ancient structure is one of the possiblilities. MB

t is actually easy to find candidates, but how about travelling to mexixo? http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=20.558767,-88.630174&spn=0.003541,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1 This could be anything, but an ancient structure is one of the possiblilities. MB

It is actually easy to find candidates, but how about travelling to mexixo? http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=20.558767,-88.630174&spn=0.003541,0.005021&t=h&z=18&om=1 This could be anything, but an ancient structure is one of the possiblilities. MB

Exactly. I have *always* used google to find wikipedia articles. You can't beat google with a 'site:' prefix. As a matter of fact, I have the following firefox bookmark stashed under the "wik" keyword:

http://www.google.ca/search?complete=1&q=site:en.wikipedia.org+%25s

Which means of course, that simply typing "wik integer" into my address bar provides me with a list of wikipedia articles relating to integers. No need (or desire) for wikipedia's own search.

That statement refers to Google. While I recognize Google's contribution to Open Source by the mentioned means, I would not give it that much credit.

Why is it that Picasa still does not run natively on Linux?

Why is it that one cannot specify ODF as among the file formats available for search, http://www.google.ca/advanced_search?hl=en despite the fact that ODF has been in existence for several years and some estimates put the number of ODF documents on the web in greater numbers as compared to Microsoft's OOXML?

Why is it that new products appear for the closed Windows platform before thet appear for the open Linux platform? They should appear simultaneously. [Emphasis mine].

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Mac OS and Mac apps also use double-click extensively?

http://www.google.ca/search?q=mac+double-click

http://www.google.ca/search?q=+%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%82%2C+%D0%B0+%D0%B2+%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%83+%D0%BD%D0%B5+%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%82%3F

I wonder what the profit margins for the fluorescents are? I bet they're higher. Congress rarely does anything unless money changed hands somewhere. Personally I've been buying the fluorescents becuase they are supposed to last a lot longer and I hate having bulbs burn out on me, and I've found them ok for the most part anyway. However I have not bought them to replace all of my light bulbs. There are a few places where the incandescents are better suited such as my dimmer lights and in the bathroom.

They are nice - no flicker anymore, you can put a 150W equivalent in a 60W socket and only be using 23W - makes the bathroom much brighter. As well, a quick search shows that there's lots of dimmers for the new bulbs. Profit margins? Who gives a fuck when we're talking about something that's less than $10 and you buy once every 3 years, instead of every 6 months.

The market would have sorted this all out eventually and we would have wound up with better bulbs of both types. Instead now the game has been called off and we'll wind up with more expensive crappier products. Eventually they'll ban all incandescents except for speciality applications and the pressure for the fluorescents to have to compete and improve and become cheaper to displace incandescents will be gone.

*Sigh* Once again it is shown that we (in America) are all now living under a regime of soft fascism.

The 'market' is getting a push in the right direction by having efficiency standards enforced on it. That says nothing about what the tech is, just that it has to be efficient or not be sold. Yes, you spend a few more dollars up-front to acquire the new technology, but then recoup that in energy savings and not replacing bulbs so often. Other than needing a better way of disposing of broken fluorescent bulbs (i.e. Hg), I see very little downside here.

How you go from something that's beneficial to everyone inside and outside of the US to "soft fascism" is beyond me - other than perhaps pandering to Slashthink and karma-whoring.

Merry Christmas.

Soko

When you really think about it, how stupid would it be if a large government agency even in the US sent out a "document meant for editing" in a microsoft office format.