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Oracle is trading at around $30 a share with a market cap of ~ $153 billion.
Google is trading at around $600 a share with a market cap of ~$194 billion.

That is to say, Oracle isn't small, and while Google's bigger, it would have to use nearly half its own net worth to gain a controlling share of Oracle.

I have a Nexus S with Android 2.3.4. Whenever I plug in a USB data cable, a pop-up asks me to "Turn on USB storage". This is only accessible after I enter my password. I realize he is bitching in general but with respect to this specific problem... it's a non-issue.

This first appeared in Android 2.2.1

http://books.google.ca/books?id=yTrYZ2t7oPQC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=android+%22turn+on+usb+storage%22+android+2.2&source=bl&ots=h4Z4ERUvtP&sig=REGSUTfY4y2VrnRHwUIsdsJh7ew&hl=en&ei=TeQxTpq9Gqnu0gHEn6XiCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

And technically, unauthorized people cannot remove the SD card from a Nexus S :)

Let's build him a statue. Say, a small wheeled elephant being stomped by a giant cockroach.

Zeus would just take it out at the knees like he did with that statue of the zombie Jesus.
(if you haven't seen it, google it: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=1000&q=zeus+statue+jesus&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=)

Are you doing an archive search from an overseas country? Are you actually in Poland?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=frogs&sa=N&tbs=nws:1,ar:1
This search logged out generates 279,000 hits
logged in the search generates 28 hits and only returns Korean newspapers that happen to contain the English word "frogs" and does not even index the English language papers in country, papers that show up in the logged out search.

If I change the time frame to the past 1 month instead of archives, I get 2100 results (where were those a moment ago?) including some english language results, but if I hit "sign-out" suddenly I get 17 million hits.

Google plus is definitely screwing with my news searches, and there is no setting anywhere that I can find that would control this or turn it off.

I came across 6 cops arresting a guy on my bike ride home

Routine enough. Having 6 officers there may be excessive or it may not. If anything, having more people available to take someone in reduces the risk of harm to that person, the police officers involved, and any bystanders.

I recorded it. I watched for a while from the bike path. Then I moved up and started recording.

No problem there. You should be able to film what you want & those in authority should be held accountable, so no problem.

...mostly in an effort to irritate them

...mkay...so...cops are busy busting somebody, which, sure, I guess I can give you that 0.5% chance their abusing their authority, but overwhelmingly they're likely busy, you know, keeping the peace and picking up somebody who has either committed a crime or is a suspect in a crime. So...you feel the need to irritate the people who put their ass on the line almost daily to try keep people safe?

...as I passed I said, "Remember the G8?" 1000 cops with no ID beating up civilians? It's us against you now."

Here's where we disconnect a bit. When you get into an intense situation like that, you need to identify and suppress the flash points in the crowd, otherwise things become really messy really fast. So, when someone strikes out at the police or throws a rock or whatever, you need to isolate that, remove it from the crowd, and deal with it. If you leave it alone, the energy starts to build up around the flash point until you eventually reach a tipping point where something snaps.

Just look at the recent Vancouver riot for examples of this. In '94 the cops got lambasted for being too harsh. So, there were reviews, changes in tactics, training, etc., contributing in a big way to the "Meet & greet" policy of showing police presence that has developed since. This year, the cops start with their meet & greet thing and try gentle crowd dispersal, see that it's simply not gonna cut it, switch into riot control mode, and you end up with a bunch of cars flipped & burned, looting, dozens of people in the hospital, thousands if not millions of dollars of damage, a PR black eye for the city, and they get hammered for not being tough enough. Damned if you & damned if you don't, but if the cops need to slap on some riot gear and take out the instigators to keep the situation from getting ugly, you bet your ass that gets my vote over being nice and cuddly and then having to deal with the consequences.

At the same time, I get it: It was an intense situation and there is a lot of controversy over how it went down. People in that level of authority and need to be held to the highest standard of integrity. While I don't know the state of mind of every single police officer who was there, I'm willing that bet that the vast majority and very likely almost every single one of them were there with an intention to keep people as safe as possible. Yes, I understand that there are exceptions and problems. Generalizing the actions of some people and simply labeling a huge group as your enemy as a result hardly fixes the problem, though.

I'm veering off course here now. What started me on that point was mostly the It's us again you now bit in your story. When you draw up battle lines like that, you only escalate the situation. What were these 6 cops doing wrong? The mandate of a police force is to enforce the laws of the jurisdiction and to protect the people within that jurisdiction. That includes protecting you. Would you rather spit in the face of someone who's charged with protecting you and make it harder for them to do their job, and find a way to keep them on task?

Most people have no idea of how much police work goes on every singl

Overwhelmingly it was:

"Heavenly Sword feels like a summer action flick. It's full of nonstop action, and it looks terrific. Unfortunately, it's over far too quickly." - Gamespot

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/815/815721p3.html

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=heavenly+sword+"too+short"

I'm sure there are some like yourself that didn't enjoy the game, that's a given for any game. Overall it got fairly high ratings (8.1 average review on gamespot, 79 metacritic) but that quality didn't translate into sales the way it typically does because everywhere you looked people were saying it was too short at 6-7 hours so not worth the $$$ to pick it up. It ended up with 1-1.5million units sold which is pathetic for the amount of money that was invested in it.

I'm not surprised that VLC player is repackaged/distributed with malware, but the complaint about Google seems invalid as of today at least. I go search VLC media player on Google, and on the first and second page only get the legit software, no keyword ads or anything.

You're right - I was remembering something else:

"But PADDs were much more powerful than electronic note pads. "We realized that with the networking capabilities we had postulated for the ship, and given the [hypothetical] flexibility of the software, you should be able to fly the ship from the PADD," Okuda said."

Also, the Star Trek TNG Technical manual talks about the same thing.

It isn't the TSA that makes the conditions different, it is the passengers reaction to the hijacking. The TSA does in fact allow all manner of items aboard planes, and planes have numerous items already on board that can be used as improvised weapons. The current security theatre will not stop a determined group from hijacking a plane. What is going to stop them is hundreds of angry passengers fearing for their lives rising up and stopping them, as has been demonstrated .

I think you can find them all over the place. You can build them too.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=How+to+build+a+vaporizer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

You mean, aside from the fact that the last forty or fifty years we were in a grand maximum of solar activity, the highest seen on earth since the very beginning of the Holocene? And that, given the unknowns and the egregious speculation that has occurred in lieu of actual research concerning the feedback, this is a confounding factor that has been more or less completely ignored by the AGW zealots?

Completely ignored? So responses like the three explanations listed here, as well as all of the discussion in the comment section, is "completely ignoring" the issue? Or how about this article, featuring Stanford University "completely ignoring" the impact of solar activity. New Scientist also "completely ignored" solar activity in this article as well.

For something that the "AGW zealots" have "completely ignored", Google seems to find a hell of a lot of sources discussing how solar activity has some effect on global warming, but is not the primary cause.

To read more on the subject, do an internet search for: html loop OR iterate "not a programming"
http://www.google.ca/search?q=html+loop+OR+iterate+%22not+a+programming%22

The freedom to be innocent before proven guilty. The freedom of illegal searches and seizures. The freedom to not be stopped for no reason and explain what you're doing.

None of these freedoms are hurt by any of this. You're still innocent (if you're not drunk). There's no illegal search or seizure and you're not asked to explain what you're doing, just show that your alcohol levels are acceptable for driving, because there's no license plate that does it for you.

The idea that you need to stop everyone and check everyone is absurd.

Only if you're a Natural Selection extremist*. To all others, the annoyance of this 5 minute stop is worth avoiding some nasty accidents.

* Natural Selection extremist: let life alone select who's fit to live.

When they came for the Firefox 3.5 users, I cared not, for I used Firefox 3.6. When they came for me ...

They're already there.

FF3.6.17: Failed some time last month.
1) maps.google.com, Javashit on, cookies off
2) Click "Get directions"
3) Nothing happens. Can't even zoom in or pan.

FF3.6.17: Failed some time a couple of weeks ago.
1) www.google.com, Javashit off
2) Type "foo" (or just skip step 1 and search from search bar)
3) Click "Images" tab. 4) What used to take you to a GIS for "foo" now takes you to failure. It looks like it wants to be a GIS for "foo", but it's not.
5) Clicking on "images" tab a second time takes you to GIS, with a blank bar, and you get the privilege of retyping "foo".

Absolutely no reason for the former behavior change than a way to aggregate more data about you, and no reason for the latter save for incompetence.

And I'm sure you can do some research and find cases where some such power-editors had strange reasons to veto some articles/changes/people.

If that is true then you must ask yourself why those who criticize wikipedia and make wild claims regarding prepotent administrators never manage to point out a single case where that took place.(...)

Sigh. I've already checked, you could have done it too. That's what I meant with my original statement. Here. One interesting example.

The most important thing to retain is that this kind of problem should not be a surprise. As I said before, nothing is perfect. Abuse of power exists wherever there is power. But if this kind of problem only affects a fairly small percentage of articles/people, it's far from being a reason to discredit the whole system.

Here are some more interesting reading.

Looks like you're wrong: cervical adjustments in chiropractic

This isn't the only time its happened in Mission http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/mission-resident-sues-over-safety-inspections/article2010579/ There are plenty more stories http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=557&q=mission+bc+hydro+inspections&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=7a3bfecf6f580253

This week at work someone had put their Android device on our network via Wifi. It was harvestingWindows logins and trying to login with them. Such things don't happen with a policed application store.

Great story there... you do know there are packet sniffers and other such programs for the iPhone? They are just a jailbreak away...

I absolutely am stubborn and until we have 2 or more generations of data on the effects of cell phone radiation on individuals, this matter won't be resolved. Had Bohr or Dirac caved to the scientific consensus at the time, we wouldn't have QM as we know it today. I'm not afraid to buck the status quo or go against the dogmatic views of those in the "know", nor do I cave to the political lobbying.

No I'm not stubborn without reasons. The point of this article - and what the board claims - is that we don't know. So we should not be taking chances with our childrens lives in anyway shape or form. Just because it appears innocuous obviously doesn't mean that it is. If later years proves that cell phone radiation isn't insidious and hazardous then so be it. Until such time, treat it like it is. This is not even touching on the fact that kids don't even need cellphones in any case.

Try to remember people, our understanding of electromagnetism is still relatively new. Even Maxwell made mistakes in his assumptions of its energy levels until Planck came along. Science is not truth...it is best guess. we are only seeing a part of the story and if you're paying attention the next day you realize you knew a little more than the day before.

The problem with science and people who deem themselves scientific is they use it too much like a religion. Each generation thinking they know more than the previous and eating up dogmatic beliefs in already "proven" research. These beliefs are never changed until those scientist die out or some abrupt paradigm shift occurs. What I'm encouraging here is for the individuals on the board to not only employ critical thinking but to do their own research, failing that, play it safe. However I digress, this is a technology forum. My stance here is analogous to me arguing to PETA why its okay to slap your bitch dog around once in awhile. It falls on deaf ears.

Might this help? Add some scripting on top of that and you can automate yourself out of the job, get more responsibilities, a pay increase and feel good about not being a waste of taxpayer money caused by that other agency. :)

So let's be clear: It's unsatisfactory for the head of the Department of Health to personally vouch for the validity of the Certificate of Live Birth and the underlying records because the serial number was blacked out,

Do you mean it's not unsatisfactory evidence for Dick Cheney to say Iraq had WMDs to support Bush's claim we need to go to war with them? I mean after all, we are talking about a political appointment/entity making a statement of validity about the claims of another political entity. But hey, if you think we should believe everything the government or people in the government says at face value and never question it, I guess you got a point.

but on the long form the un-blacked out serial number is sufficient even though it's not directly verifiable, only inferentially valid because it seems to fall somewhere in the correct sequence?

Well, lets look at this scientifically. If the number is completely out of whack, we know right off the bat that it's fake. If it's inline, then we can look at the serial numbers before and after or even wait for someone to say hey, that's the same number I got. But there is a code with the serial numbers that breaks down the year it was created so a mathematical formula could be applied to test the validity of the time and date in the least..

Since we have no actual access to the bank of long form certificates, how do you know that the serial number doesn't belong to someone else?

But we do have access to it. Birth records are publicly available in all states. It's one of the longest standing functions of government. Unfortunately in this case, the governor of Hawaii blocked inquiries to Obama's birth records to avoid a flood of requests that would have overwhelmed their services.

Here's the google results for "long form birth certificate forgery": http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=long+form+birth+certificate+forgery (967,000 results). Your google finger sucks.

Could be that it does suck. Anyways, I looked at a few pages and they all seem to link to a video that shows some interesting claims. are you saying those claims are wrong? And if so, what makes them wrong?

And they all seems to be pointing to one person saying it's a forgery. I don't think that's much more then repeating a story just like it wasn't a mass media conspiracy when they repeated Bush's claims that Iraq had WMDs. Most of the pages I browsed through didn't have any comments and others seemed to have the same comments in different order as if it's a set up of some sort.

So let's be clear: It's unsatisfactory for the head of the Department of Health to personally vouch for the validity of the Certificate of Live Birth and the underlying records because the serial number was blacked out, but on the long form the un-blacked out serial number is sufficient even though it's not directly verifiable, only inferentially valid because it seems to fall somewhere in the correct sequence? Since we have no actual access to the bank of long form certificates, how do you know that the serial number doesn't belong to someone else?

Why don't you post a couple links to those spun conspiracies you are talking about.

Here's the google results for "long form birth certificate forgery": http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=long+form+birth+certificate+forgery (967,000 results). Your google finger sucks.

My understanding was that it is not true that any of these places are "cheap" for anyone - they just strive to make their take as much as the student can be bled for. If they charge only what the applicant can "afford to pay", and the students or families are left with significant loans needing repayment after the fact than that hardly seems "cheap". OK, I guess for someone like Bill Gates, their sliding price scale doesn't reach up high enough to really make it painful, but if you cannot afford "full price" they are willing to drop the price just enough that you can pay it, but no lower.

I suppose there is nothing really unethical about setting their tuition price at whatever level they want. The 1991 "price fixing" lawsuit did not make them out to be completely above board though.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=ivy+league+price+fixing

One of the interesting things is a study a decade or so ago (find it yourself) that showed that people accepted to one of the "top tier" schools who instead when to pretty much any place else, were as "successful" as those who went to the top tier school. The conclusion was that the top tier graduates were better not because of the school, but rather the school was selecting exceptional people, who on average, would have exceptional outcomes if they went somewhere cheaper too. There are some amazing people and amazing opportunities at "Top Tier U", no doubt. There are also amazing people and opportunities at "Springfield State School" as well - and graduates of good ole SSS spend considerably less money in meeting them. The rational economic argument probably precludes attending TTU over SSS.

If you look at the various endowments per student level, it does seem a bit strange that a place like Princeton which has almost $2 million dollars for EACH STUDENT in the bank, finds that it needs to charge more than state schools which seem to get only as much as $15k per student support from the state. Surely Princeton is managing to get better than $15k from that $2million? Heck a 1% return is $20k!

http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?measure=36#

SUNY Cortland wants something like $5k in tuition, and only expects someone to spend $22k for tuition, fees, room, board, books, etc. Princeton wants $37k for just tuition, and estimates that it will be over $52k for room, board, fees, etc.

http://www2.cortland.edu/cost-aid/student-accounts-office/tuition-and-costs/
http://www.princeton.edu/admission/financialaid/cost/

People can spend a lot of time discussing the question of whether or not the extra $30,000 PER YEAR for Princeton is "worth it", but the question in my mind is why does Princeton charge the premium at all? I can see why they can charge it (people think it is worth that much) but what is their reasoning behind setting the particular price that they do? Isn't their non-profit mandate something like "making the world better by educating lots of people real good"? Are they spending that extra 30k (plus whatever their $2million investments are bringing in) on things that they think do that? Are they wasting money on things that don't really help that goal much? Too many middle managers? Too many janitors? Does SUNY just spend its money way more efficiently? Regardless of whether or not Princeton students are getting $30k more value than SUNY students, does Princeton actually spend $30k (plus endowment monies) more on each student when providing them with services?

Canada was bought and sold along time ago.

Mel hurtig - the truth about canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8D67YiLcOM

Oh canada our bought and sold out land (download torrent)
http://www.ohcanadamovie.com/

The unmaking of Canada (Book)
http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=740&bih=520&q=the+unmaking+of+canada&aq=f&aqi=g-v1&aql=&oq=&fp=23bbcb7fee7f599c

Mel hurtigs blog
http://melhurtig.ca/

You have to understand all this is happening because canada is the last nation on earth with a huge amount of resources and there is no way Washington wants us to survive. Canada is being assaulted covertly and not so covertly by interests both domestic (US) and foreign.

As a visitor you do not have as many rights as a US citizen.
And, if you are within 100 miles of the border you are in the constitution-free zone where you have no rights, citizen or not.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=constitution-free+zone
http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone

When Huge Robots fight Mutated Squid...

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CFIQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjetamuz.com%2Fvideo%2F4992%2Fbeastie-boys-intergalactic-official-music-video-hq&rct=j&q=beastie%20boys%20intergalactic%20video&ei=Q3msTczjGMLJ0QHbyoT6CA&usg=AFQjCNGmHYibUBswJYjWWmKj1xh5p9Ckxw&cad=rja

The hypocrisy here is thick enough to cut with a knife. Every minute of every day US corporations (from Microsoft to Monsanto to Chevron and thousands of others) and the US military break the law in over 100 countries, heedlessly and without accountability or redress. Yet the FBI has the astonishing chutzpah to make a statement like, "Foreign firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted from their profits".

The iconic example of US corporate intransigence might be Union Carbide/Dow's all-but-deliberate poisoning of Bhopal, India, where tons of toxic, unstable nerve poison, improperly and carelessly stored in an American pesticide plant, killed 8,500 horribly in one night, and permanently injured 100,000s. No proper reparations have been made and nobody has been held to account.

In the Amazon, Chevron has committed one of the largest environmental crimes in US history - and thousands of US companies are doing the same every day.

More recently, the behaviour of Blackwater has illustrated that indiscriminate murder of foreign citizens is now just an accepted part of American corporate practice. Countless Iraqi citizens killed and injured by Blackwater (and other mercenary firm) employees have not seen justice.

Another example from this morning's timeline.

Here's another: Indonesia is just one of many countries now being flooded by a tsunami of toxic electronic waste from the United States.

Funny thing about karma...

democrats offering up cuts.

Which media have you been watching?

Say the company cut the sq ft per employee in half by going to non-dedicated workspace for when employees are in the office, and say we are talking about IT workers in central office tower space that is Class A or B. I used the following reference:

http://books.google.ca/books?id=lJmBYCED_nMC&pg=PA92&dq=office+space+cost+per+employee&hl=en&ei=LY6bTZrONcnPgAeAuZCdBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=office%20space%20cost%20per%20employee&f=false

On page 92, for the city of Ottawa and an urban location, the savings per employee are significant. They give a figure of about 18,000 per employee but I would think that figure is high (the calculation includes costs of setting up space as well as operational costs, and also estimates zero on-site time for the telecommuter).

Still, using much more conservative numbers, a business with an existing employee base and location could easily look to save 5,000 per employee per year in space rental costs, hvac savings, and reduced power/lighting costs. Insurance rates could be affected as well.

I don't see why the employee would opt for a pay cut to save the employer money.

I live in Japan and I can tell you that China did not immediately send support; they sent a handful of people after several days, and finally ramped things up when it ...

After the quake, a 15 men rescue team was sent along with tons of supplies and money donation

The version I've heard from Chinese media was Chinese government organized a much larger rescue team within 24 hours of earthquake. But Japanese government held up the offer, gave priority to it's western allies first, before finally accepting a much smaller sized 15-men rescue team from China.

While Japanese government's action is understandable from a political stand point, it none the less had hurt Chinese people's feeling. Now seeing troll like you claiming falsified information is like putting salt on the wound.

This is business as usual for relations between Japan and China. Google last year's scuffle when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coast guard ship and see what you get.

And the tension between China-Japan relationship is largely contributed by trolls like you on both side.

"By that reasoning, Tokai and Onagawa should not have been built either. "far lower than the historic tsunami wave-heights" where did you get this information? I can't find any data on historic wave heights of Fukushima."

There's no shortage [PDF]. The last link is a paper from 2001. Look for information on the "AD 869 Jogan tsunami", the best-known one, or any of the numerous other ones [PDF] that have occurred along the Sendai Plain. Past wave heights are estimated to have exceeded 8m along the Sendai Plain and extended 4km inland in some areas. The tsunami protection at the site was inadequate to deal with these historical, known tsunami events. Furthermore, the published literature has talked specifically about the risks of another event being high:

"The recurrence interval for a large scale tsunami is 800 to 1100 years. More than 1100 years have passed since the Jogan tsunami and, given the reoccurrence interval, the possibility of a large tsunami striking the Sendai plain is high. Our numerical findings indicate that a tsunami similar to the Jogan one would inundate the present coastal plain for about 2.5 to 3 km inland." (Minoura et al. 2001)

This has been known by tsunami researchers for years, and there have been reports in the press that some Japanese researchers specifically warned TEPCO about the risk from a bigger tsunami than they had planned for.

Bother!

Try http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=U94VEnENPgAC&oi=fnd&pg=PA220&ots=SRv0On1u8v&sig=mHnzZACgP8Cq8CJ5cZwKLvTHDQk#v=onepage&q&f=false

--dave

Not to mention the fact that EVERYONE drives in the lower mainland.. EVERYONE.. Taking the transit is simply not an option as its between 3.75 to 5.00 each way from any suburb. Which is MORE than it costs for gasoline on the same trip, even with gas being 1.31/L currently. Source [translink.ca]

The data disagrees with you.

So does logic: the cost of a car trip is not limited to the fuel use. You forgot the cost of car ownership, maintenance, insurance, and more. And those are only the direct costs.

I also live in Vancouver. I don't have children myself but I know plenty of people who are not rich, have children, and live in the city.

You need to get out of your bubble.

For regulatory documents, try a search on FCC regulations for radio-interference generating devices. For processors with an integrated baseband radio, you can't (normally) find documentation.

That is, not unless 1) you plan on manufacturing units in the 10s of thousands, 2) you sign an NDA and have some background checks done, or 3) happen to 'find' the docs on certain russian / chinese websites.

Come on, don't bring the seal hunt into this.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&tbs=nws:1&&sa=X&ei=QqBdTdy2L4-asAO00NnLCA&ved=0CCEQBSgA&q=Protests+in+Bahrain+killed+as+they+slept&spell=1

As a firebug teenager, I was considering finding a Fresnel lens and focusing the beam on to a biconcave

In theory the biconcave lens would straighten out the converged beam straight again but now concentrated!
Alas at the time these Fresnel lens were only found in Overhead projectors. I couldn't find them for cheap and then I grew up.

Today Fresnel lenses are found is unwanted Projection TVs and are MUCH bigger. And you can shop for good quality biconcave lens that wont melt easily on the internet. Today I have no time or room to build such a thing. My wife would kill me!

There is this fine thing I like to call road. Also, she could go to Paris by plane and then reach london by train.

If you google "sony geohot $1" http://www.google.ca/search?q=sony+geohot+%241 you will get some info along the lines that Sony tried to paypal George Hotz $1 dollar ("Attached hereto as Exhibit DD is true and correct copy of a redacted PayPal receipt from George Hotz, using an account registered to..." from http://psx-scene.com/forums/attachments/f6/23998d1294899764-scea-vs-geohot-day-2-more-files-day-3-now-over-more-files-added-04-pdf ). You can imagine why Sony did this ...

My reply to the comments:

A business has to bear its own cost of doing its own business, ie maintaining its cash reserves, by deposit envelope, or armoured car. That is the business' own problem, not society's.

That is different than a person who has a requirement in today's society to transact in cash to service their daily needs. It is the profiteering off these daily monetary transactions by these "meta businesses" that are vampiric and it then becomes political. The surcharges are essentially unavoidable.

There is very little cost to provide the "service", shown by the billions in annual profits by those e-cash corporations. They have inserted themselves between the issuer of the financial instrument (the government) and the end user of the instrument (the citizen) and impose a surcharge, which in effect is a "tax" on cash. (For the service. Not to be confused with interest, which is a whole other bookeeping scam, since as we all should know the money didn't exist in the first place: the initial balance is created from naught and then balanced by writing it off at the end of the loan.. )

The collectors of this "tax" have no obligations to those they are collecting from, and instead have shown themselves to be dictatorial. At the point an institution attempts to control society or limit access to government issued privaleges, it is no longer a "business", it is attempting to act with "governance".

If corporations can give to government, but people can't give to corporations, the issue of financial instruments has become fundamental to your democracy.

As far as old catchphrases go, how about "you suck", you ignorant hellbent moron.

Very few humans are capable of generating a kilowatt, and none of the ones that can do it are capable of doing it for 40 seconds (1km / 88km/h). Typically, people consume about 100 watts in food power. Generating ten times that power (mechanically) using just your legs is hard and unsustainable.

So, you're saying that an engine incapable of generating 1kw can't push the test car as fast as an engine that is capable of generating 1kw at the drive axle (FTFA: 1050w * 0.98). Yes, you are correct.

Would be nice if you could set something in http://www.google.ca/preferences?hl=en once, and then you would never see these sites though. If someone knows a setting that I'm missing that will let you do this, please let me know here.

Yeah, that's initially what I thought. But I read Nvidia's presentation on the Tegra 2 and they claim that there is power savings for various reasons. You can read it
here (PDF).

I know Slashdot likes pretending they know everything about law, but what you guys don't realize is that "hack" has a far more nuanced and complex definition than you think.

Here you go:

1) chop: cut with a hacking tool
2) one who works hard at boring tasks
3) be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
4) machine politician: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
5) cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest"
6) a mediocre and disdained writer
7) kick on the arms
8) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
9) cab: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
10) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
11) an old or over-worked horse
12) significantly cut up a manuscript
13) a horse kept for hire
14) cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
15) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

For all we know, this guy could be an expert at chopping up a manuscript with an axe while coughing.

>>Can you imagine I once had stock options at $100?

that comment made me curious enough to hit google finance. not pretty

As far as my own experience with large cities goes, I've only lived in Vancouver/Toronto. Toronto is definitely much worse than Vancouver, but crime also seems to be going up in Van.

The main issues hitting the headlines lately are shootings near clubs, and a more recent shoot-up at a restaurant (one gangbanger was having a birthday, others tried to take him out it seems).

Of course, the news loves to publish those stories, so perhaps it's not much better than other large cities. From what I hear of Phoenix you're still likely better off in Vancouver, so long as you're not in the bad areas or in Surrey (Greater Vancouver Area) etc.

Google has the bad news.

One good thing is that the police do seem to be really pushing back against the gang issues, but there's a lot of work to be done.

Because google is just so hard to use, isn't it...

police shoot Mayor's dogs

Police shoot teenager over stolen PS3

police no-knock shooting

Because google is just so hard to use, isn't it...

police shoot Mayor's dogs

Police shoot teenager over stolen PS3

police no-knock shooting

Because google is just so hard to use, isn't it...

police shoot Mayor's dogs

Police shoot teenager over stolen PS3

police no-knock shooting

Welcome to the age of google. Try not to hurt yourself.
http://www.google.ca/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=dropbox

No. Simply, no. At least I make the decision to find out more about it (with Google) or not based on what information the writer cares to give to me immediately. If he doesn't care enough about it to even try to get me interested by just telling what it is, I'm not going to waste my time on it either. It can't be anything very interesting.