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I can imagine lots of other burial places that would be less famous or reputable than a parking lot.

It's lucky the land is a car park (only a small one, for an office). It's surrounded on all sides by 19th century buildings in the centre of Leicester.

Just west of the three white vans

Searching for terms like mastercard now shows google's own mastercard comparison site at the start as a sponsored link.

I've seen this on several other search terms too, they're starting to become a content provider rather than a search engine

Searching for terms like mastercard now shows google's own mastercard comparison site at the start as a sponsored link.

I've seen this on several other search terms too, they're starting to become a content provider rather than a search engine

I just did a google image search for "xbox one". Only 1 (lol) image of the new xbox shows up, all the rest are 1st gen Xbox's.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=xbox+one&btnG=Search&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&tab=wi

I'm in the UK, is this the same case for elsewhere in the world?

No matter what the roads are like? It would be 3 seconds for both of these

Yep - 3 Amber seconds fixed. It is the LAW - go and measure it with a stop watch.

60mph (~100mph) road with 2 lanes (1 each direction of travel),

60mphs roads do not have traffic lights in the UK - max 50mph with traffic lights. (Yes I know people go over the speed limit). But actually a car going faster and going over the stop line at Amber or even red, will pass the collision point faster and before the opposing car has got to the collision point

It is the intergreen period that is key. [The time from the green of one phase ending to the start of a green on the conflicting phase starting. ]. The intergreen can be anything form 5 seconds to silly thing like 17 seconds. If it is 17 Seconds, then we have 3 Seconds leaving amber, 12 seconds both at red and 2 seconds red-amber.

(I really need a diagram at this point - Detailed infor for real geeks). Basically if you pass the stop line at the end of the green going at the normal speed*. Then after the intergreen period - another car leaves the conflicting stop line at the start of there green - the cars will not collide. See the DfT advisory note, but it is a rough summary.

* Normal speed is 85 percentile.

Posting as anonymous, so I do not have to pass this through the press office. Yes I am a Traffic Engineer.

As google says https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=if+it+is+free+then+hyou+are+the+product&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gl=uk&redir_esc=&ei=H7uPUdfbDsjAhAfMl4C4Aw

Now tell that to the people who want to register and restrict guns, and / or restrict ammo. Especially the latter.

I'm one of those...

They have said in so many words: you have the right to bear arms, but not to shoot them.

No, I've never said that, nor heard anyone else say it. Nor has Google.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22you+have+the+right+to+bear+arms,+but+not+to+shoot+them%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=YSqNUZ_vLNCJhQeKwoCAAg&safe=strict

Will you please stop making shit up.

check the comments under the OED blog - there's a link to a catalog on google books which lists it

Would that I could mod you up. Here's the catalog. It's entirely possible that it's also made up, but seems less likely.

David Hockey. Un-artistic. That's a new one.

I personally find his work fantastic. Perhaps you could share with the class what you do find artistic. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I doubt it.

Regarding a PC and a wacom. Not very portable. Not very sketchbook - like. I don't think he'd be all that keen.

A tablet is portable, cheap, boots more-or-less instantly, is hassle-free, and is great for many types of content creation. In fact, it's probably better for writing than a laptop, if you allow for a bluetooth keyboard, because it gets out of your way and lets you get on with it more than a laptop generally does.

Jesus, people are dumb.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hockney+ipad&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB504GB504&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_C6AUfCYNsil0QX-jICABw&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1267&bih=645

David Hockney:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hockney+ipad&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB504GB504&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_C6AUfCYNsil0QX-jICABw&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1267&bih=645

LOL. Spot the difference.

...but Meg Whitman isn't failing. She has a long way to go, but given where she had to start from things have improved,

Your Google skills are pretty shit. If you had just searched for what he actually wrote instead of a single word you would have been enlightened. Here is an example.

This is a discussion about the UK. If you don't know enough about it to engage then educate yourself, but don't expect everyone else to fill in what is otherwise common knowledge to the rest of us.

Third Site - JFK Library reported by BBC

It seems pretty strange that the Swedish Language Council wanted "ogooglebar" to mean "something that can't be found in *any* search engine"

As far as I'm concerned, if I say something is "un-google-able" then I mean "I can't find it in Google"

For example, the search term ||= is ungoogleable, but is it ogooglebar?

Never mind TRIZ, this is so obviously preceeded by superior prior art, ladies and gentlemen, I give you "The Last One" from 1981.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=75dRYTqixzYC&pg=PA133&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

perhaps it was a bad example to refer to "The Hubble Telescope" as it is indeed designed to look deep at a very small segment of the sky.

Actually, not particularly ; it's a deliberately middle-of-the-road telescope design, because of the changeable cameras. For PHA-hunting,the pixel size matters. If you've got a very faint object, and you focus it perfectly (well, Rayleigh criterion ; no, you "cannae change the Laws of Physics" in the real world, no matter how Canadian your Aberdonian accent is.) onto a sensor with large pixels (relatively low resolution), then your signal may be lost in the thermal and optical noise. Did I mention Zodiacal light and things like that? Since most of the "interesting" objects are going to be in (near) the plane of the ecliptic, you're in competition with this as well as "deep sky" background levels of light.

Hubble's different cameras are optimised for different tasks - some have been as light buckets, some for near IR, some for high resolution, some for spectroscopy. Horses for courses. But all are subject to nearly the same geometrical constraints of the prime mirror and optical front end (including the "Ooops!" package of corrective optics). You could maybe get a factor of ten by efficiency of telescope design. But the observing task is in the order of five orders of magnitude more than a Hubble-grade telescope could handle. There are probably useful things you could do with more Hubble-grade instruments - rapid follow up and detailed analysis of PHAs discovered by the survey system is already a task that it gets used for. But it's not a wide-field survey system. For that, you need a very different telescope design. Possibly a radically different design ... I'm thinking of perhaps a 1-d telescope (and internally I'm wincing at the memory of David Levy's "Fork Mounted Telescope" design, NOT pictured at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sEyCQEqLAnIC&lpg=PA208&ots=ytsNGPV1wa&dq=Levy%20fork%20mounted%20telescope&pg=PA208#v=onepage&q=Levy%20fork%20mounted%20telescope&f=false, ) in a Earth-Trojan orbit, and completing an ecliptic scan every couple of days in it's orbit. Hmmm, two ; one Greek, one Trojan ; a more conventional co-mounted imaging telescope to provide reference imagery to help the 1-d light bucket (light ribbon?) sensor be interpreted. That might work. For the ecliptic. Actually, if the idea of using 1-d sensors works, that could take several orders of magnitude out of the surveying task. That was a worthwhile bit of brain-sweat.

On the other hand, if we get hit by a "planet killer", I guess some cockroach will survive ;D

I rather suspect that the moon-forming Giant Impact wouldn't have left the cockroaches staggering around wondering what hit them ; equally, I suspect that the cockroaches didn't notice the "dinosaur killer" (didn't I see mention of a new paper by Gerta "Chixulub was Innocent!" Keller recently .... I'd better follow that up.). But I'm less bothered about the existence of cockroaches than I am about the existence of self-aware self-conscious organisms with imaginations. Life may not be so difficult to get started (though we're still working on a sample of 1 to determine exactly how that happened, if we ever can) ; but there have been lots of contingent events in the history of life where there's no obvious reason for history to have gone "our way" rather than "another way". Was there anything inevitable about the rise of grasses 20-odd million years ago which currently provide 70-80% of our calories?

The summary links to google.com, and there's no doodle - at least, not for me, even after a ctrl-F5. On google.co.uk, though, it's there in all its glory.

Just use Google with filetype:torrent as an extra parameter.
metallica black album filetype:torrent is just a random example.
the interesting part is not so much that it shows a lot of links. Interesting is also at the ende the part that talks about what is blocked:
One of them reads:In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
When you go to that site, you will see all the URLs neatly presented.

Just use Google with filetype:torrent as an extra parameter.
metallica black album filetype:torrent is just a random example.
the interesting part is not so much that it shows a lot of links. Interesting is also at the ende the part that talks about what is blocked:
One of them reads:In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
When you go to that site, you will see all the URLs neatly presented.

I see it all the time at Wal-Mart: A giant wall of HDMI-connected displays, many of which have the audio and video out-of-sync with one-another (but which presumably sync well with themselves, if somewhat latent from the original signal.).

It sounds (and looks) like an array of slightly different tape delays.

Maybe it's the distribution system (likely), maybe it's the TV itself (I've at least seen this myself in isolation, if you read what I wrote), but:

I remain unconvinced that this is a problem related to the signalling format. I write this on a DVI monitor which, AFAICT, is presently doing HDCP and all of the other things that HDMI entails. All that differs is the connector. (I can even route audio to it if I want to.)

And when I've plugged in a DVI-HDMI cable instead of DVI-DVI, the monitor works just the same.

As to searching: I can use Google, too. If there is a latency problem with HDMI, then I should be able to Google it up as the same problem with DVI, since they're exactly the same damned thing in this regard. But I don't really find much results for DVI latency, because nobody seems to be talking about that.

So I, again, blame the display: If there really were issues with DVI latency then hordes of hardc0re-ish gamers, with thousands of dollars wrapped up in ridiculous video hardware alone, would be complaining about it. But they're not.

I have no particular love for Samsung (my 52" A550 was simply the best product available for me at the time), but if your more-recent 7 is showing latency issues then perhaps it is simply inherently broken in ways similar to the Sharp TVs that I've experienced recently.

(Just because it sucks, doesn't mean it's not reality.)

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
For those who do not know it And that is only part of it. The whole thing can be found here.

I hope they also block this torrent site They seem to be collecting a lot AND it is a UK site.

Wreaks Reeks. Although I'm sure both apply :p

Wreaks Reeks. Although I'm sure both apply :p

This is completely unremarkable. It is very likely that everyone alive today is descended from a single individual who lived as recently as 2,000 years ago. Here's some reading material.

I called them and asked what they could do with my Mcintosh and the Apple store said that they were and unsupported product.
Strange, because I thought it was great to make cider from.

As everyone's commenting how "retarded" this EU directive is without actually reading it I thought I'd find out exactly what it says, as it seemed strange that it would ban all unguarded internal fans.

I found this presentation on the EU directive, the part about fans starts at slide 32, or some direct links to the slides: 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.

Basically it appears fans are divided into 3 categories based on their diameter, fan blade speed and weight: a) Won't hurt if touched, b) Will hurt but won't injure if touched and c) Will injure if touched. Category a are fine anywhere, category b are ok in user serviceable areas as long as there's a warning sticker and category c fans can only be accessible to "service personnel". Seems pretty sensible for me.

Now I ran the numbers in the formula just to make sure they're not too strict and a fan with a 5cm blade radius and 100g weight going at 3000rpm (faster than the Mac Pro max rpm) is category a. Seriously a large case fan could be on the outside of the thing with no grill and still be legal.

Even if I've got the figures wrong for the Mac Pro's fans I can't imagine any of the fans being more than category b, which only requires a warning label. I can't help but think Apple are just using it as a PR excuse for failing the "electrical port protection" rules by trying to make the rules seem ridiculously strict.

I wish to ${deity} that routers had a "reverse https proxy" function that would accept inbound https connections, strip the ssl, and transparently forward the traffic to the same port of an internal IP address where there's a device that's too stupid to know how to do SSL.

Have you considered setting up a VPN? Routers with integrated VPN functions are affordable these days (e.g. http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=dsl+router+vpn&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D11&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=11302817784067722053&sa=X&ei=Z3UHUfSWJrGp0AWNzYCwAw&ved=0CGMQ8wIwAw ). Alternatively, it wouldn't be too hard to set up the system you describe on a server inside your network and just forward your ports on the router to that system.

College graduates tend to stay away from factories usually because they're afraid of becoming too comfortable.

Do they have the luxury of choice? I know a couple of graduates who I think are a bit comfortable doing menial office work, but that's at least better than being too comfortable living on benefits (which is not too difficult here).

I live in London, where there is relatively very little manufacturing (see category, the little there is is mostly food), I don't know anyone who works in a factory, skilled or not.

(I found the figures. In London in 2005, out of 4.5M working people, only 200k were employed in manufacturing, and 80k of those were in publishing: source. On that basis, I do know people who work in publishing.)

It is worth noting that there is one and a half page of them. No, really; go check.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pronunced

Fail

Soot can be filtered from the fumes of coal power plants.
There is a German wikipedia article about flue gas cleaning (Translation). I wonder why this is only in German and Swedish. These aren't the only countries doing this, are they?

What, like this? https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=area+51&hl=en&ll=37.233726,-115.804396&spn=0.001452,0.002926&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=9.031557,23.972168&t=h&hq=area+51&z=19

it was consumers getting burned by 2600 shovelware and rushed arcade ports

Let's analyze that, shall we? An InfoWorld article points out that in 1982, Atari 2600 game cartridges cost $4.50 to $6.00 to replicate and $1.00 to $2.00 to advertise and sold for $18.95 wholesale, or $43.47 in 2011 dollars according to this calculator. Assuming a 30 percent retailer margin, the same that Apple currently takes in its App Store, a game might have sold for $26.95, or $61.82 in 2011 dollars. That's release-day AAA pricing, and I can understand how people would react to having bought absolute crap for that much money.

Fast forward three decades to the present day. Release-day AAA disc games still cost $59.95, whether on PC or on console. But the rapid decline in replication costs allowed tiers of less ambitious software to take shape. In the 1990s, the shareware model of distributing a $0.00 trial version with only the first episode was common. I've seen casual PC disc games for $9.98 in retail stores. Downloadable games of a similarly limited scope can be $10 for a Steam game or a game in a console's store.

Now consider platforms that are not as open as the PC but not as closed as PlayStation or Nintendo consoles: iOS App Store and Xbox Live Indie Games. For about $1,000, anyone in a supported country can buy a computer, the device, and a certificate, and get started developing a game for these platforms. Prices for games on the App Store and XBLIG (in countries where available) tend to range from $1 to $5. Many iOS game publishers offer a pricing structure similar to shareware, with free trial versions that treat later levels as paid DLC. All XBLIG titles have an eight-minute free trial, and I've read that all games in the Ouya Store will have a free trial as well. I imagine that gamers feel far less burned by a free trial than by what Atari 2600 games cost. That's why I contend that the entry barrier familiar from PlayStation and Nintendo consoles is no longer necessary to avoid another 1984.

cheap true "home computers" like the C64, which itself was killed by the NES.

What exactly caused the NES to beat the C64? Was it the price of the 1541 floppy disk drive?

I used Google search in China, and found it very unreliable. .COM wouldn't work at all, and .com.hm was erratic, so I used .co.uk. Some pages would load fine, but others wouldn't -- the first network packet (mostly the HTML header, title, etc) would be received, then the TCP connection would be reset. I suspect Google had something in the page like "Due to the government ... some results have been removed", and the Great Firewall blocked these packets and shut the connection.

Google displays a notice when I search certain terms, almost always for copyright infringement. Example I came across yesterday: https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&q=knife+party+internet+friends

"In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org."

The link goes to http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=505954

If only we could use this against the Daily Mail website.
It's filled with things that could be deemed porn.

From when Google Maps launched? I don't care to look.

But the service wasn't instantly good worldwide, and even here in the UK I preferred to use Multimap.co.uk and Streetmap.co.uk for a while, as did many people.

The nearest case now is somewhere like Bosnia; as you can see they only have major roads. Five years ago the country was probably blank, like North Korea is now (although for lack of data, rather than politics).

(Although in the case of Bosnia, if there's a local mapping provider I can't find it with a cursory search.)

What's wrong with the Cenus anyway?

The Census question [warning - PDF] on religion is "What is your religion: None/Christian/Buddhist/Hindu/Jewish/Muslim/Sikh/Other (write in).

Some people feel that, despite the "None" option, this exaggerates the number of religious people by not distinguishing between those with a serious religious commitment and those who just tick the name of their preferred provider of wedding, funeral and baby-naming services (or feel obliged to tick 'Christian' because their parents had them baptised).

If the Jedi campaign had a point, it was to highlight this. I vaguely remember that one of the secularist organisations had a more serious campaign.

If being an atheist, Christian or Jedi ever becomes a matter that gets you brought to the attention of the Secret Service in the UK, we're beyond fucked already.

No but it might, for instance, influence such policies as support for faith-based schools or discussing whether public bodies represent the community.

So how should a startup company meet such a standard?

By starting somewhere else. Just as my company did.

Exactly. iOS is for people who want to be in jail. Stockholm syndrome anyone?

That's the amusing thing about you open-source types. You talk about freedom, but you actually want to restrict people's choices. It's not enough for you that Android is available and appears to fit your desires. You feel you have to destroy other people's choices. Thus reducing the field of choice.

Neither do Android users. They can just search Google, which indexes even competitors' markets just like Progressive auto insurance gives you several competitors' prices.

You mean like this?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=android+fart+apps&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=QBfCUMarILP34QTNtoDwAQ&safe=strict

I hope not. I really hope you don't consider this a suitable substitute for a dedicated search for apps in a store.

I was joking originally but just Googled it, a lot of the used 4G frequency range is pretty close to the 2.4Ghz that has been used for wifi cantennas, looks like you can build something pretty easily.

The server is down at the moment, but here's a Google search for the document -- the UK's Open source software options / recommendations / something document.

MySQL and Postgresql are both listed, along with some big users.

Another example (not listed) is Ordnance Survey, the UK's National Mapping Agency (presentation).

I was replying to this post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3278431&cid=42114519), which has as much to do with your scenario as Kelsey Grammer's left sock. Instead, you decided to take mty post out of context in some vain attempt to make yourself all smug and superior.

Definition of context, sine you clearly don't know what it means.

If it's from hairspray, they can't be all *that* intelligent.

Judge for yourself- here are some pictures of aliens we've discovered using the hairspray detection technique.

Their communications technology is still remarkably primitive though.

Gender arguably is more relevant but seriously... there is no bias against women participating in free software projects. It's literally a sport open to anyone, with as few barriers as you can imagine. Age, gender, skin color, origin, perhaps the only filter that reduces diversity is the need for reasonably fluent English.

And still, the number of women in our communities is extremely low. That means the detailed technical world of software appeals to fewer women than it does to men.

Are you sure there are no barriers to participation by women? Have you, for example, asked any women who have tried to participate? A quick internet search suggests that those few women who have tried out participation in Open Source projects found that there was a significant element to the experience that wasn't pretty. That is plenty to discourage women from taking part.

abnormally high testosterone

Contrary to other mammals, the evidence that high test levels in human males causes aggression is weak with some studies finding the exact opposite result. At least until you get into steroids where levels many times that naturally possible are achieved - and even then it's debatable how strong the effect is, "roid rage" seems to be at least partly caused by associated benzodiazepine abuse.

Also pettiness and having a short fuse is associated with low testosterone in humans. Consider the outgoing, confident, sociable "alpha male" vs. a skinnyfat oestrogen-filled neckbeard with no life outside of his multiple WoW accounts, who is more likely to be a passive-aggressive jerk?

Really? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=intel+bangalore+cpu+design

That's 950mL of soda, so that's 103g of sugar. That's 22% of your RDA of energy, and 120% of the RDA of sugar (figures based on a UK Coke can, as I have that to hand). I don't know if drinking it all at once or throughout the day makes much difference (probably worse for your teeth, but I don't know about the rest).

However, banning it seems strange -- the government here has banned similar drinks from being sold by schools, but elsewhere the only government action is TV adverts encouraging a healthy lifestyle. The supermarkets label their own-brand drinks with a red high-sugar icon, but Coca Cola don't. (They label a 1L bottle as "contains four 250mL portions", and show that the 250mL portion has 30% RDA sugar). Extending the red-orange-green labelling to all drinks would seem a reasonable law -- that aids consumers to make their own decision, but doesn't prevent them from making the bad decision.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=traffic+light+labelling&tbm=isch

I wonder if Jesus ever saw one of these?

It's unlikely, as Jesus is of a species that only appeared in the late Cretaceous period, whereas Pegomastax (the "new" dinosaur) was found in rocks associated with the early Jurassic period.

I mean, they might have met, but the Pegomastax would have been really, really, *really* old by that time, and too set in his ways to accept this newfangled whippersnapper and his newfangled religion.

Unfortunately, his ideas degraded between the TV series and the book and software

There also seems to be a bunch of First Earth Battalion style prose in a recent edition of The Mind Map Book ("We dedicate this book to all those Warriors of the Mind fighting in the Century of the Brain and Millenium of the Mind for the expansion and freedom of Human Intelligence"). Apparently this stuff can pretty much turn you into a Jedi:

"The Mentally Literate Human is capable of turning on the radiant synergistic thinking engines, and creating conceptual frameworks and new paradigms of limitless possibility...the 'mental screen...'...of the Radiant Thinking Mind...continues to grow with an infinite possibility for size and dimension."

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HqEzXjVQjsYC&pg=PA244