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It's a little known fact that 4 out of 5 people killed with nail scissors in the U.S. are killed not by someone else's nail scissors, but by their own.

The problem is, of course, that people are not properly trained in nail scissor use. People think that carrying nail scissors is a way to protect their nails, but they don't understand that those same nail scissors can be turned against them, if they are not prepared to use them when a dreaded hang-nail rears its ugly head.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=26747917993 39834706 :)

As an advocate of cranial faraday protection (three independent studies find that cellular telephones cause brain cancer), I can assure you that people did in fact walk on the moon.

The actual purpose of the destruction of the principal historical record of mankind's greatest achievment was not to cover up a falsification, but to conceal an inconvenient truth, as Buzz Aldrin and Gordon Cooper have reported.

I'm not really one for conspiracy theories, but could these tapes turning up missing have anything to do with Buzz Aldrin saying that he saw a UFO while they were on Apollo 11? Quoting the article:

Aldrin also revealed that he and other astronauts had reported seeing a UFO during the flight, but Nasa had covered it up. He said, "There was something out there, close enough to be observed, and what could it be?

Obviously, we weren't going to blurt out, 'Hey Houston, we've got something moving alongside of us and we don't know what it is,' you know?"

Huh...I found a copy of the program. Available here!

By the pixel at the 100yr mark, the less original content they maintain the less they get paid ^_^

I once read about a wireless mouse that came with a mousepad that charged it while you used it. I don't know if it ever came to pass, but that addresses my biggest concern about wireless devices - I hate changing batteries on a device that isn't portable.

Integration like the iMac isn't the best route to take either because when one thing breaks you're SOL. Plus you get no choice in components.

Stability and modularity is the way to go. I especially love products that understand the benefits and pitfalls of this, such as the Ultra X-Connect PSU which lets you unplug the cables you don't need.

There will always be a market for both kinds of devices. People who want style, ease, or no clutter will go for integrated and wireless technologies. People with specific needs will get individual wired solutions. Both are good choices depending on the needs of the user, and choice is good!

If you do a search these days you'll end up with these bogus sites that only contain keywords. Some of them even look like mini, useless search sites.

Here's an example.
The other day I was trying to do a search on a Dimplex DS5804 electric fireplace stoves.
So I did a search using: Dimplex DS5804

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=dimplex+ds5804 &btnG=Search&meta=
(today) I get 105 hits but only the top 4-5 are real site (YMMV)
The rest are these bogus sites, IF they come up at all.

Since Google doesn't pay bogus site owners for this inconvenience, I don't see any advantage for setting up these bogus sites. Do any of you?

Meanwhile, Google looks more and more like a pile of useless info.

Apparently you haven't heard of the Personalized Homepage...I don't know why anyone would do that (on myspace either for that matter), but theoretically, one can.

1) make it your homepage.
http://www.google.ca/ig?hl=en
2) add an RSS feed to your gmail.
3) add RSS/Atom feeds from whatever sites you check often. put them at the top.
4) add a classic game. anything.
5) add a "sticky notes" applet
6) add RSS/Atom feeds from sites that do not get updated often. put them at the bottom.

Voila. Simple welcome page with stuff YOU want to see. Nothing force fed to you. No ads.
Privacy? sure. Google now knows what sites I check out each day.

>> in my jurisdiction (Canada), the typical payout is around $1000 for every day you are unjustly incarcerated

> So in the US, we should get $666?

How hard is it to ask Google to do the conversion?
(not to mention that the cost of living is usually conveniently ignored).

Perhaps try the following site for suggestions:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=suse+help&btnG =Google+Search&meta=

Best synopsys of this entire issue.

Great....

So I have the choice of one DRM infested video, or another DRM infested video wrapped in a Flash Movie. Thank you. :-P

I was forced to see it in a slightly different version of the DRM infested video wrapped in a Flash Movie. ;-)

don't give up if wikipedia doesn't work.. GIYF

One of the reasons Will Wright released the first gameplay video of Spore at the Game Developer Conference 2006, instead of E3, was because he felt E3 was more like a commercial used by game producers to hype the games before it comes out, not a place for developers to exchange ideas and make better games.

Just fucking google it.
Or wiki it.
Or whatever...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E3
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=e3

And on an article posted by Zonk, too.
Please mod this guy to -(infinity). thank you.

German kids are especially susceptible to crying from video games!

The metric system is the tool of the devil! (Slash the members of the Commonwealth.)

I'm more concerned about how many hogsheads to the bushel. Now that I know I can get 6.77 hogshead to the bushel, I understand.

Yeah, but you do realize that you don't knit an afgan, you crochet it. You think that these guys know their technology, but they on't even know their point needles from their hooked ones.

You might want to re-check your facts. To quote, "An Afghan is a blanket, wrap, or shawl of colored wool, knitted or crocheted in geometric shapes.". Look here for just one example of a knitted afghan. Many more can be found with an appropriate Google search.

Toronto to Winnipeg which oddly enough goes through the states [stupid lakes].

According to google that is 2,200Km (1367 miles). That's just the next province. Try this out

Toronto to Vancouver. A mere 4,379km (2720 miles).

Tom

Toronto to Winnipeg which oddly enough goes through the states [stupid lakes].

According to google that is 2,200Km (1367 miles). That's just the next province. Try this out

Toronto to Vancouver. A mere 4,379km (2720 miles).

Tom

As much as I love to use Google [the search engine mostly] I am sick of this 'Beta' thing.

Everything that comes out of any company is now branded as 'Beta' Software / websites. The new Microsoft Live crap, Yahoo is branding their crap as Beta... I'm sick of it.

Now, perhaps they could hire Tom Cruise to utilize his witchcraft to somehow get Beta as a trademark -- then they could lay on the royalty fee's on any company using it for commerical use -- I'm sure that would quadruple their profits! :-)

By the way -- did I mention how much I hate the word 'Beta'?

I bet to differ... When was the last time you used a zipper? How about any form of wireless device? watched TV lately?
... and many, many more.
I feel you are just trying to be an asshole... trying to make it appear that we Canadians are worthless to the planet.
Go back to school for fuck sakes.

Oh, I know I will get flamed for this... but I don't care. I am Canadian, so fuck off.

If you want to play a 5 year old playstation game, you can drop it into your machine tonight and start playing.

Well, actually....

Nobody in the history of mankind has ever said, "hey, I've got an idea. Let's go out and watch people play computer games. That would be the perfect way to spend an evening!"

Depends on what you mean by "Shock and Awe".

Isn't the Boeing 767 the same type of plane that was flown into the WTC buildings?

They never assumed you would have to fit your whole framebuffer in EDRAM at once, that's why they have predicated tiling. I'm not going to go beyond what info is publicly available, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

Predicated Tiling

I'll give 1000 to 1 odds that the "extremists" are Arab and/or Muslim. Any takers?

Incidentally, in Soviet Canuckistan, the Globe and Mail newspaper published internet postings by some of the wives of the 17 arrested on terrorism charges. Fascinating stuff.

The most effective spam fighting effort is totally anonymous; they have to be, because that's the only way they can avoid being sued into oblivion by deep-pocketed croporations (it's outright ironic that in order to protect their freedom of speech - saying that so-and-so is a spammer, they have to register their domain in Siberia, of all places!!!)

Spammers are outright criminals and will stop at nothing to damage antispammers.

Plenty of people had a load of trouble from a spectacularly inept spammer.

For example, the author of this page (a page denouncing the spammer) had the spammer complain to the police which launched a criminal investigation that found nothing. After this failed, he barrages everyone who mirrors the page with complaints to their ISPs (this page get 5 DMCA takedown notices PER DAY).

When the police complaints did lead nowhere, he simply harassed various police departments.

Finally, seeing that the takedown notice make the mirrorers rotating the hosting of the relevant parts complained about, thus rendering it totally ineffective, he started to try to DDOs the sites hosting the pages.

Many of the mirrorers would never had been able to denounce that particular spammer if they had been doing so under their real identities; anonymity is particularly vital when dealing with criminals, or lawsuit-happy individuals.

Another example is this well-known spammer, threatening legal action against antispam fighters. If you follow the thread, you will find a frothing lunatic that demands the identity of several spamfighters who have to work anonymously in order to avoid the hassle of lawsuits from spammers.

In 2003, the same antispam outfit was sued by spammers. Even though the lawsuit was thrown out of court, it was not without considerable annoyance and expense to the antispammers involved.

Only absolutely positive anonymity can help protect antispammers against the spammers.

The most effective spam fighting effort is totally anonymous; they have to be, because that's the only way they can avoid being sued into oblivion by deep-pocketed croporations (it's outright ironic that in order to protect their freedom of speech - saying that so-and-so is a spammer, they have to register their domain in Siberia, of all places!!!)

Spammers are outright criminals and will stop at nothing to damage antispammers.

Plenty of people had a load of trouble from a spectacularly inept spammer.

For example, the author of this page (a page denouncing the spammer) had the spammer complain to the police which launched a criminal investigation that found nothing. After this failed, he barrages everyone who mirrors the page with complaints to their ISPs (this page get 5 DMCA takedown notices PER DAY).

When the police complaints did lead nowhere, he simply harassed various police departments.

Finally, seeing that the takedown notice make the mirrorers rotating the hosting of the relevant parts complained about, thus rendering it totally ineffective, he started to try to DDOs the sites hosting the pages.

Many of the mirrorers would never had been able to denounce that particular spammer if they had been doing so under their real identities; anonymity is particularly vital when dealing with criminals, or lawsuit-happy individuals.

Another example is this well-known spammer, threatening legal action against antispam fighters. If you follow the thread, you will find a frothing lunatic that demands the identity of several spamfighters who have to work anonymously in order to avoid the hassle of lawsuits from spammers.

In 2003, the same antispam outfit was sued by spammers. Even though the lawsuit was thrown out of court, it was not without considerable annoyance and expense to the antispammers involved.

Only absolutely positive anonymity can help protect antispammers against the spammers.

The most effective spam fighting effort is totally anonymous; they have to be, because that's the only way they can avoid being sued into oblivion by deep-pocketed croporations (it's outright ironic that in order to protect their freedom of speech - saying that so-and-so is a spammer, they have to register their domain in Siberia, of all places!!!)

Spammers are outright criminals and will stop at nothing to damage antispammers.

Plenty of people had a load of trouble from a spectacularly inept spammer.

For example, the author of this page (a page denouncing the spammer) had the spammer complain to the police which launched a criminal investigation that found nothing. After this failed, he barrages everyone who mirrors the page with complaints to their ISPs (this page get 5 DMCA takedown notices PER DAY).

When the police complaints did lead nowhere, he simply harassed various police departments.

Finally, seeing that the takedown notice make the mirrorers rotating the hosting of the relevant parts complained about, thus rendering it totally ineffective, he started to try to DDOs the sites hosting the pages.

Many of the mirrorers would never had been able to denounce that particular spammer if they had been doing so under their real identities; anonymity is particularly vital when dealing with criminals, or lawsuit-happy individuals.

Another example is this well-known spammer, threatening legal action against antispam fighters. If you follow the thread, you will find a frothing lunatic that demands the identity of several spamfighters who have to work anonymously in order to avoid the hassle of lawsuits from spammers.

In 2003, the same antispam outfit was sued by spammers. Even though the lawsuit was thrown out of court, it was not without considerable annoyance and expense to the antispammers involved.

Only absolutely positive anonymity can help protect antispammers against the spammers.

The term "beta" means the product is not yet in release mode -- or not yet complete. So it's not even a point worth complaining about ... yet ;)
If the product goes into release mode, and the problem still exists, then your point would be valid.
To see what beta means, see Google definitions of beta at Google that relate to software development.
Once you understand beta, you will understand why your post is jumping the gun.

The Spanish Elite/Rich/White Collar Crooks make their P2P laws laughable. Let me explain. I was holidaying in Spain a couple of years. I was staying in a tiny town of Torremolenos in the South of Spain. Permanent population is about 30,000 people. When I arrived at the hotel that my idiot travel agents had packaged for "me" - I found that the this hotel had 2 other hotels being built beside it - both within 20 ft. - complete with jack hammers, constant concrete trucks, bulldozers etc.

But as I walked around this tiny town I began to notice the gigantic construction cranes. At first I noticed them because unlike Canada - the operators stay on the ground and operate the crane with a remote control (in Canada the operator sits several hundred feet above ground at the top of the crane. Yes ever now and then - the crane collpaes and kills the operator.)

Then I started to notice the number of cranes. After a couple of days there - I roughly figured out that there were at least 300 cranes (coming from a construction family I notice things like this :) - for building 300 condo complexes. Some of these condos were/are humungus. In one case - it was three times the length of a football field and about two football fields wide by 20 stories high - big - very big! NAturally all this construction had to run into a couple of hundred billion. The amount of construction in Torremolenos had to be five to six times the amount of Big Box construction compared to Toronto.

While I was having lunch at a neat restaurant on the ocean - with a view of both the town and the ocean (naturally owned by the mayor of the town - the only restaurant for a mile of beach). One could see a panorama of the entire town as it stretched up the moutain side - all 300 projects. I asked the waiter why 300 condos were being built in the middle of nowhere. He laughed and replied "Matress Money"! He went on to explain that with the Euro coming into force - all of the old Spanish currency (multi billions) that the rich Spanish elite had stashed away - being hid from the tax man - had to be converted to Euros. And one could not walk into a bank and deposit 2 or 3 million Spanish "dollars" - and escape being noticed. Generally a deposit of $10,000 or more in any bank in the world triggers an investigation by police.

Solution? - use a series of hundreds of construction companies and their thousands of subcontractors and suppliers to bank the "Matress Money" - to then build condos! The waiter told me to wait for the weekend - when all the Spanish Elite come to Torremolenos and Marabella come to see how their matress money is doing. Sure enough the following weekend the came by the thousands. In one club about 30 came in a once - I would guess that the average women had about 4 or 5 thousand dollars of clothing and jewellery on. The next town over Marbella (with another 300 condos going up)- had THE bar there for the rich of the rich elite - the drinks started a 30 dollars to keep the riff -raff out.

So much for "getting those nasty people" for using P2P - it's all smoke and mirrors to keep the masses focused on P2P - rather than on the real crooks! Good news though - recently the mayor and other puppets of the elite were charged for taking hundreds of millions in Matress Money Bribes - breaking laws. Will the Elite get charged?

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www .euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2006/03/mayor-arrested-i n-anti-corruption-raid.html&e=14905&ei=7NajRI34Fou cigGv-N2ACw

The Columbus' anecdote seems to be true but I'm sure somewhere in the dark, dusty toe-stubbing recesses of my memory there is another anecdote of the same content dating back to Roman times. Standing an egg on end was said to be possible only on "the vernal and autumnal equinox, when the sun crosses the equator, making night and day equal on all parts of the earth."

This means that in Europe, this guys would be really 1337 hax0rs :)

Or, maybe in, say Canada, where we use metric and where UBC happens to be.

63 403 200 rods per hogshead

Safety and practicallity: ...There actually has been an incident in the past where a student has been killed while testing on a highway. I believe it was in Ontario and maybe by U of T but I'm not certain....

I remembered hearing about that when it happened. Something about wind knocking the car across a divided highway. Here's a link to the CTV version of the story: Solar car goes out of control; driver killed. Also, Google search that actually returns some results.

Ian

It will in fact be right - study the google:

http://www.google.ca/search?hs=IDf&hl=en&safe=off& client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficia l&q=0.2+watts+*+365+days+in+kWh&btnG=Search&meta=

So if google's gdp guess is roughly accurate, they are claiming that they are 'losing' 2% of the GDP per year. I just can't believe someone could actually say that with a straight face. They have to know that they are being completely dishonest. I don't ask for much, really, just don't lie to me and don't treat me like I'm a moron, this probably has something to do with why I don't go to the movies very often anymore...

> How much did you make from your game subscription engine last year? How much did Valve? Why should we listen to you, exactly?

Right, because we all know money, determines quality

So in the final analysis, you're saying we invaded Iraq because of America's collective guilt trip over WW2? Pardon me but that is a ridiculous oversimplification which completely ignores the tactics used by the administration to sell the war.

Thanks for sharing your personal opinion that Bush is not a criminal. I hate to break this to you, but you're not a court. There are many who consider him a criminal, both in the States and abroad, including a number of groups attempting to prosecute him as a war criminal. Personally, I think he should be tried for treason and shot, as a warning to any who seek to piss on the Constitution... but that's just me.

"I've watched loose change, and read the various internet theories about how 9/11 was done by our government. None of them lead to logical conclusions."

Why didn't Secret Service pull Bush from that classroom the instant they knew the nation was under attack by people flying planes into buildings (ie, after the 2nd plane hit)? Their primary job function is to protect the President... they should've assumed the President was a target and a plane could hit the school any second.

The SIMPLEST AND MOST LOGICAL CONCLUSION is they knew he wasn't really in danger. To believe otherwise is to accept that the Secret Service is beyond incompetent at their primary job function (or that they knowingly left him in danger, which is even more unbelievable).

Attacking "Loose Change" is easy. Read "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" and tell me there's no coverup.

I'm not saying they flew holographic/remote-controlled/pod-equipped drones into the WTC (there are some pretty wild theories floating around), but there is plenty of evidence of foreknowledge, such as insider trading. (Oh wait I forgot, the 9/11 Comission report declares the insider trading was investigated and found to be innocent. Too bad they didn't provide a shred of actual information to support that.. but we completely trust their unfounded assertions right?)

"Bin Laden was unhappy with our continued support of israel, our military bases in the middle east, our propping up of corrupt regimes, and with our 1991 war in Iraq. He's said so in his statements."

The famous Bin Laden confession video is a rather obvious fake. Aside from significant differences in facial features, he's wearing a gold ring (forbidden by Islam), and writing with his right hand (OBL is left handed). Google it and make up your own mind.

you people know this is a well known troll post right? just like bsd is dying.

Heres the google search of it.

I think the first time i saw it i naievely replyed to it as well.

Difference is the US doesn't deny this to its citizens. A chinese person doesn't know anything other than what the Chinese government tells them.

You guys even re-elected Dubya knowing full well all of the BS that he's pulled.

And in the US, articles this one are available for you to read and form your own opinion.

Chinese don't have that option. Take a look at what Google Images host from:
google.cn

vs:
google.ca

Xah Lee, is that you?

http://www.dmlaws.com

Phone numbers
866.827.6537 Toll Free
614.224.6000 Local
614.224.6066 Fax

Address
The Arena District
401 North Front Street
Suite 350
Columbus, Ohio 43215

If you wait outside their offices, you might even be able to say "Hi" to them and have a conversation about the case.
What's that? You don't know what they look like? Sure you do.
David P. Meyer, principal
Marnie C. Lambert, Associate Attorney Possible home address Possible home phone: (614) 469-1400
Patrick G. Warner, Associate Attorney
Shelly J. Coffman, consumer claims investigator

Turn in your geek card at the door AC.

Google can be used as a calculator, and even tells you thinkgs like:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=nanometer+in+meters

A nanometer is 1,000,000,000 times smaller than a meter.

10^-9 seconds would be a nanosecond.

There's studies being done using adaptive optics to enhance human vision to far beyond even 20/10 accuracy. Here's a google search to get people started.

Based on the photo provided by Fantastic Lad, the google map is: http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=the+pentago n&ll=38.86932,-77.063569&spn=0.001017,0.002682&t=k &om=1

I do not verify/deny that this is a gas station. But it lines up well based on the roads, tunnels, light posts, pentagon angle and road signs.

It is kind of "funny" that the gas station attendent didn't get to see his own tapes.

This database is being built using the MOMENTUM of terrorism, not FOR terrorism

Exactly. Any belief that these sorts of things are, or will be, limited to catching Osama and crew are terribly, terribly deluded. These systems have the potential of much more dangerous, more nefarious purposes. Terrorism, and the War on Terror, is the wonderful Freebie Card that all levels of government are using to get what they want.

Just this morning I heard a US Senator railing against Toronto garbage being shipped into Michigan -- the terrorists, he tells us, are going to use it to transport WMDs (nevermind silly incidentals, like the fact that shipped garbage gets checked to a far greater extent than most other methods of getting the same over the border). Failing to stop it on legal or trade grounds, the Freebie Terrorism card is being played.

Recently I caught a Dateline or 20/20 or CNN segment about a dangerous, unmonitored border crossing. It was the crossing over to

http://maps.google.ca/?ll=49.262876,-94.972687&spn =0.323527,0.726471&t=h&om=1

(It's a little geographical abberation, and is sort of a little piece of the US in Canada. The border crossing is to only go into this little piece -- you can't get anywhere else)

Local police, desperate for empire building funds, claim that they've heard that this is a big terrorism crossing. Yes, they said it with a straight face - terrorists are busy getting into the US by travelling to the middle of nowhere (where every person and car that's out of place gets close scrutiny), and then passing into a little jutty of land that isn't even a part of the continental US. It's so unbelievably ridiculous -- so mind bendingly illogical, and laughable given the endless options terrorists already have, including just immigrating to the US and buying an arsenal at one of the many gun shows -- yet it was presented as a completely logical argument. Once again the terrorism freebie was used.

And amazingly so many Americans buy it. Remarkably, the ones who buy it the most are the ones who are the least likely to fall victim to terrorism, which the ones living in the hubs of urbanity discount such vapid arguments.

I suspect these new processors will likely be as expensive as a PS3, JUST the processors. Who exactly is the group with too much money?

These processors will cost ALOT more than the PS3. The article says this new Intel Core 2 Extreme processor will be 40% faster than the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965. The 965 costs over $1000, this new chip will be 40% faster, so you can imagine just how expensive it will be.