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I was suggesting that instead of Google deciding what is 'safe' and what isn't, that should be my responsibility -- e.g. by installing appropriate software. Then I can untick "scat porn" and tick "guns" if I want to.

Google isn't perfect anyway. It works reasonably well for porn, but there's some pretty gruesome stuff that isn't filtered that I wouldn't really want a young child to see. Other people might/might not care -- I give these as examples, not things I (necessarily) find bad:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=violence
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=injury
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=broken
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=disease
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=mohammed
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=abortion
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=vagina
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=breasts
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=fetish

I was suggesting that instead of Google deciding what is 'safe' and what isn't, that should be my responsibility -- e.g. by installing appropriate software. Then I can untick "scat porn" and tick "guns" if I want to.

Google isn't perfect anyway. It works reasonably well for porn, but there's some pretty gruesome stuff that isn't filtered that I wouldn't really want a young child to see. Other people might/might not care -- I give these as examples, not things I (necessarily) find bad:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=violence
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=injury
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=broken
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=disease
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=mohammed
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=abortion
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=vagina
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=breasts
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=fetish

I was suggesting that instead of Google deciding what is 'safe' and what isn't, that should be my responsibility -- e.g. by installing appropriate software. Then I can untick "scat porn" and tick "guns" if I want to.

Google isn't perfect anyway. It works reasonably well for porn, but there's some pretty gruesome stuff that isn't filtered that I wouldn't really want a young child to see. Other people might/might not care -- I give these as examples, not things I (necessarily) find bad:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=violence
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=injury
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=broken
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=disease
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=mohammed
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=abortion
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=vagina
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=breasts
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=fetish

Apparently it's not cut & dried but it doesn't seem like anyone has pushed them on it.

hot

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6061780300600340066

The problem is that the US government would have you believe they brought democracy to Afghanistan, but in reality what they really introduced was chaos.

Its a very informative and quite funny talk actually. Google Video host another GIT video here.

You might want to sit back and have a look at this

Yup, Dell hardware powers Google's search appliances (a PowerEdge 2950 to be exact wit ha funky yellow bezel), Google software comes on all Dells. While that's not big deal, there's even a Dell/Google Portal. Basically, they already have a partnership.

Given that the last sentence of the linked story is incorrect - Dell currently does not manufacture its own range of handhelds - there's a good chance that there may be some flames accompanying this smoke, for the simple reason that Google aren't a hardware company. They play the tech market more like MS in that they supply software and services, but partner to build devices.

Red

Wiki says, "The London Bus is one of London's principal icons, the archetypal red rear-entrance double-deck Routemaster being recognised world-wide."

It would be very difficult to get a question that's really world-wide general knowledge, that was the best I could think of at 01:20 this morning.

Holy crap he's right!

Haha, it is sad that I thought the same after looking at it. The enclosing pictures are placeholders for images that are to be loaded, The "broken" image have the same icon but with a scratch or an X like these.

Gravity waves travel at C (±20%) http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=speed+of+propagation+of+gravity+waves/

Well at the time of writing the AP story is dated at 10 hours old by Google, and there are 113 reprints of it according to Google News Sorted by date with duplicates included (seem to be a couple of non-duplicates on the same topic as well, Ars Technica for example, and this Slashdot story will probably show up at some point).

I'd expect this number to increase but not spectacularly, so I'd say it's getting reasonable coverage but no, it's not set the world on fire or anything.

Airbus Industrie on the 320 used two different processor architectures and three separate teams working on flight software to ensure that the same problem would not occur on two out of three computers. Does anyone know if Boeing used the same practice for their flight systems?

N-version programming has been proposed as a method of incorporating fault tolerance into software. Multiple versions of a program (i.e. ''N'') are prepared and executed in parallel. Their outputs are collected and examined by a voter, and, if theyare not identical, it is assumed that the majority is correct. This method depends for its reliability improvement on the assumption that programs that have been developed independently will fail independently. In this paper an experiment is described in which the fundamental axiom is tested. A total of twenty seven versions of a program were prepared independently from the same specification at two universities and then subjected to one million tests. The results of the tests revealed that the programs were individually extremely reliable but that the number of tests in which more than one program failed was substantially more than expected. The results of these tests are presented along with an analysis of some of the faults that were found in the programs. Background information on the programmers used is also summarized. The conclusion from this experiment is that N-version programming must be used with care and that analysis of its reliability must include the effect of dependent errors.

neutral formats like rtf

I don't follow XKDC, but it didn't take me long to find out this has happened before.

This comic spawned a whole different type of [art|softcore pornography]. If you accept the warning and scroll to the bottom you'll see proof of how wrong you are. If you're thinking that these events aren't the same because WetRiffs and XKCD are apparently operated by the same person, you should see that thousands did mention WetRiffs on their web log.

By the way, 33% of your post was misspelt.

McAfee already sell plenty of products that run on Linux.

I don't get this. They do use GPL'd code, and they do respect the license.

True, True.

Although I think that like formatting, logic should be stored separately from data too. I.e. I don't believe in, nor am I interested in spreadsheets in general, they are really inefficient tools from the 1980s that should die horribly as I have argued elsewhere.

You mean something like this?

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.richardwhitevintagecars.co.uk/IM000490.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.richardwhitevintagecars.co.uk/&start=27&h=375&w=500&sz=109&tbnid=e-IYGssr11B-gM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&hl=en&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmorgan%2B1930%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dnn1%26sa%3DN&um=1

(my father had a similar one, from 1926, about 50 years ago)

How odd. The google result for "overhand coil" lists your post at #2 mere hours after you posted it. The overhand coil must not be a popular method.

-Grey

The story is available on countless other sites who don't have javascript:goToPage(2); instead of a normal hyperlink.

riiiighhhhtt......

Yep, there's plenty of companies out there selling IM retention stuff.

I grep'd that from a script I found somewhere on the net that pulls the ram, starts mplayer to dump the stream as a wav, then uses oggenc to convert it to ogg. I get the .ram URL by reading the source of the "listen again" player. It ends up in ~/radio/, modify the file paths & params to taste (you may want to automate filenaming, for instance, to prevent it stomping over downloads of earlier editions of the same program.)

"Europe has had the hyper-patriotic societies that led the world to war."

Why do you think that looking at the US concerns us so?

"you don't even know what the words "hyper" and "patriotic" mean."

Hmmm, lets look at some definitions. "Hyper" - prefix meaning excessive, above, or beyond, eg, hyperactive.
"Patriotic" - Inspired by love for you country.

So, hyper-patriotic would be "excessively inspired by love for your country", which is exactly what I meant. The flag worship, the daily pledge recitations, the "GAWD BLESS AMERICA!", the reverence for the military. All very prominent parts of US culture.

"If a nation were hyper-patriotic, it would not tolerate dissent."

That would depend exactly _how_ excessive the patriotism was. As it is now there seems to be a large proportion of US society that refuses to question the government and a large portion that, as long as they're told there's a crisis on, will go along with any sort of behaviour (internment, torture) simply because it's the good ol' US of A doing it. And doing it to "bad" people who want to hurt america.

It's excessive enough that the phrase "anti-american" exists and is slung around. Maybe it just doesn't have the same asonance, but nobody says "anti-British" or "anti-French" as far as I know.

That is more than enough to qualify as excessively patriotic to many people.

"You are European and lump everyone in the U.S. together as one amorphous blob."

Nope, just looking at the overall impression of the society. Any society is made of individuals, yet countries can still have a character.

"You probably believe the U.S. is a police state that represses free speech or something."

No, but I think it has some weird soldier and flag worship issues.

"Europeans are so often tiresome. So many believe they are superior, but in trying to demonstrate it show how lacking they are."

Says the guy who clearly has no idea of the meaning of the words hyper and patriotic, which perfectly fit my original usage. By the way - nowhere did I claim that my society was superior (go on, show me where I did that, can't can you), just that yours isn't perfect and that the assumptions of the original poster (that people naturally choose military leadership) are not necessarily correct outside of the US.

"Europe has had the hyper-patriotic societies that led the world to war."

Why do you think that looking at the US concerns us so?

"you don't even know what the words "hyper" and "patriotic" mean."

Hmmm, lets look at some definitions. "Hyper" - prefix meaning excessive, above, or beyond, eg, hyperactive.
"Patriotic" - Inspired by love for you country.

So, hyper-patriotic would be "excessively inspired by love for your country", which is exactly what I meant. The flag worship, the daily pledge recitations, the "GAWD BLESS AMERICA!", the reverence for the military. All very prominent parts of US culture.

"If a nation were hyper-patriotic, it would not tolerate dissent."

That would depend exactly _how_ excessive the patriotism was. As it is now there seems to be a large proportion of US society that refuses to question the government and a large portion that, as long as they're told there's a crisis on, will go along with any sort of behaviour (internment, torture) simply because it's the good ol' US of A doing it. And doing it to "bad" people who want to hurt america.

It's excessive enough that the phrase "anti-american" exists and is slung around. Maybe it just doesn't have the same asonance, but nobody says "anti-British" or "anti-French" as far as I know.

That is more than enough to qualify as excessively patriotic to many people.

"You are European and lump everyone in the U.S. together as one amorphous blob."

Nope, just looking at the overall impression of the society. Any society is made of individuals, yet countries can still have a character.

"You probably believe the U.S. is a police state that represses free speech or something."

No, but I think it has some weird soldier and flag worship issues.

"Europeans are so often tiresome. So many believe they are superior, but in trying to demonstrate it show how lacking they are."

Says the guy who clearly has no idea of the meaning of the words hyper and patriotic, which perfectly fit my original usage. By the way - nowhere did I claim that my society was superior (go on, show me where I did that, can't can you), just that yours isn't perfect and that the assumptions of the original poster (that people naturally choose military leadership) are not necessarily correct outside of the US.

The London Stock Exchange switched to Windows (is it bigger or smaller, in terms of number of transactions, than New York? I don't know).

I expect there is third-party software for smartphones which will do that kind of thing. Just as an example, searching for series 60 timed profiles found Handy Profiles, which would seem to be a step in the right direction. That's the first valid hit on the first search I tried.

Maybe you saw it on TV about 5 months ago?

Here's a clip to refresh your memory.

Ok, I know you're trolling, but here goes anyway. I don't know of any OS projects that act that way about defects in their products. I'm sure you can site some obscure examples, but I guarantee you that any OS project that acts that way doesn't live very long. Competition exists in the OS world.

Yup, I am surely trolling, thats why I will cite this as you say, obscure example of web browser (after all, nobody uses that software anymore uh?). That specific software is known as IceWeasel or more commonly as FireFox. A simple search can enlighten you about such denial.

Ah! and although I do not have any link[could some fellow slashdotter help me?], just some days ago someone posted a link to a really funny discussion that emerged from a bug (yup another) in Firefox (which of course, developers didn't thought it was a bug at first) which prevents firefox form showing complete tooltips with new line characters. The comments section of the Bugzilla entry were a complete flame fest. At first the developers said it was not a bug but intended behaviour but then, after 6 years, yes you read well 6 YEARS AFTER THE BUG WAS SUBMITTED (and we are talking about one MAJOR usability bug which prevented information from be shown, very relevant to places like online comic strips as you can see from the comments section of the bugzilla entry) it was finally solved.

So, there you go. Of course, you could suffer from a double denyal sindrome in which you deny that you deny :) of course, I can't help you with that.

have a nice day!

there have been schemes to use flywheels to provide short term energy storage for vehicles: google for it.

for slow urban vehicles like buses I can see this would be OK, but I would hate to hate a high speed turn in my flywheel-storage sports car and have it start to flip over!

Luckily for you guys the technology's going to be much cheaper, more reliable and efficient by the time we're done filling the north sea with wind turbines.

Expresso = 1.95M hits, top hits for computer programs.

Please, try to remember. It won't kill you to not sound like a fool every time you say the word, will it?

Expresso = 1.95M hits, top hits for computer programs.

Please, try to remember. It won't kill you to not sound like a fool every time you say the word, will it?

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=60.398736,5.320148&spn=0.001165,0.003369&t=h&z=19&om=1

That red blob in the middle is a phone box. A bright red British phone box. In Norway.

I've driven through Barrow Gurney in a car and it's not a fun experience.

Here's the narrow bit:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=barrow+gurney&ie=UTF8&ll=51.408354,-2.676316&spn=0.00054,0.001255&t=h&z=20&om=1

Unfortunately there isn't a better road between the A370 and A38.

It's so much easier to post a snipurl into your html than a similar Google link. Plus, you know, they're trendier than the huge URLs you sometimes have to use.

Only trust links from domains you can trust.

Point proven, I think.

And you're an idiot for thinking everyone lives in the US.

A quick froogle search:
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=windows+vista+ultimate+-upgrade&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd

All around 350 pounds - which is $700

While you're buying that kid a beer maybe you could get him to explain search engines to you, if you genuinely believe that there are only 2 suitable products on the market... there are more but here are a few to start you off.

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=MX5000&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=DiNovo+bluetooth&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=apple+bluetooth+keyboard&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=microsoft+optical+elite&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd

See, someone will even post that god awful apple thing to you, should you so wish.

While you're buying that kid a beer maybe you could get him to explain search engines to you, if you genuinely believe that there are only 2 suitable products on the market... there are more but here are a few to start you off.

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=MX5000&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=DiNovo+bluetooth&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=apple+bluetooth+keyboard&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=microsoft+optical+elite&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd

See, someone will even post that god awful apple thing to you, should you so wish.

While you're buying that kid a beer maybe you could get him to explain search engines to you, if you genuinely believe that there are only 2 suitable products on the market... there are more but here are a few to start you off.

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=MX5000&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=DiNovo+bluetooth&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=apple+bluetooth+keyboard&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=microsoft+optical+elite&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd

See, someone will even post that god awful apple thing to you, should you so wish.

While you're buying that kid a beer maybe you could get him to explain search engines to you, if you genuinely believe that there are only 2 suitable products on the market... there are more but here are a few to start you off.

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=MX5000&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=DiNovo+bluetooth&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=apple+bluetooth+keyboard&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=microsoft+optical+elite&btnG=Search+Products&show=dd

See, someone will even post that god awful apple thing to you, should you so wish.

Something that windows has equivalent of in GUI and iptables functionality.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22general+public+license%22+-gnu

Yes, a lot of those are references to the GNU GPL without mentioning the word "GNU", and there are some mentions of the Affero licence too, but there are still quite a few "General Public Licenses" that have nothing to do with the FSF.

...Developed and tested today for their efficacy against Iraqis and Palestinians. All the technologies we are seeing crop up in the west now are being developed against.. let's say a "captive audience" overseas.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%2Binsitu+%2Biraq+%2Btesting&btnG=Search&meta=

Want to wall off a small city to test your biometric systems? Fallujah.
Want to wall off an entire (albeit small) country to test your UAVs? Gaza.

About one year ago i read an "underground news" story of some Americans in Iraq having some "secret weapon" used against them. Back then it was described as "a device that when deployed, made people run away in terror" Now, we all know what that is now don't we. We also know where it's going to be used next. as "crowd control" on U.S streets.

U.S. Tax Dollars at work. For the love of G_d people, do something about the nutcases running your country before its too late.