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Google's lock in system bases not on the google-owned apps (they are just a few, and yes they are very much used by users, but I guess people can come up with an alternative). The main reason to be locked in to Google is their proprietary APIs they offer to app developers. You can't simply take an apk and publish it on an alternative market, if there are no gapps installed on the device, most of the apps won't work.

I don't see that.

Looking at the APIs in question, I see a pretty extensive list, but it's pretty much all just stuff to interact with Google services. There are APIs for:

Google ads
Google analytics
Google search integration (AppIndexing)
Google account authentication
Google cast devices
Google drive integration
Google fit integration
Google games integration
Google cloud messaging integration
Google location services
Google maps integration
Google street view integration
Google+ integration
Google vision integration (server-based service for doing object recognition)
Google wallet integration
Wear integration

Only the last item (Wear integration) isn't obviously tied to some Google server-side systems. And while the above list is a pretty useful set of services for apps that want to use them, there are lots and lots of apps that have absolutely no need for any of the above... with one exception. I suspect what breaks most apps that don't work on non-GMS devices is the lack of the ads API. But there are third-party ads libraries which wrap the GMS ads API as well as other ads APIs so that app developers who don't want to be tied to Google only (and many do like to use other ad networks, so there's a reason for this other than independence of GMS APIs) can use those. Thanks to the run-time class loading and introspection features of Java, it's fairly easy to write code that checks whether a particular class (e.g. com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAds) is present, and to then do something more useful than crashing if it's not and AFAIK all of the ads aggregation APIs do that.

My perception is that Google tries hard to ensure that as much as possible goes into the core system, and as little as possible goes into the GMS APIs. The exceptions are (a) things that are inherently tied to Google services and (b) things that Google wants to be able to update on its own (e.g. WebView). That second category is stuff that Google will move back to the core system if and when OEMs fix their update process problems, I expect.

(Disclosure: I'm a Google Android engineer. Note that I'm carefully *not* addressing the topic of the EU anti-trust investigation, and I will not, for obvious reasons.)

It'll also linked with autism. Coincidence? I think not.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sonic+hedgehog+autism

Seems to me this is done for women, because they don't want their husbands to spend money on porn.
This is my attempt to understand religion:
https://docs.google.com/docume...

APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use + complexity vs. local DNS servers, routers & antivirus w/ less security issues. Compliments firewalls (no layered filtering drivers firewalls use blocking less used IP addys, hosts block more used hostnames) & DNS (lightens server load too). Antivirus = reactive. Hosts = proactive, blocking infection BEFORE it hits you. Gets data via 10 security sites.

(Works vs. HTTP PUSH servers in Chrome w/ firewalls)

* Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/...

(Verified by Mr. S. Burn of Malwarebytes: "I've seen the code, and yes, it is safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )

APK

P.S. - Hosts gain speed (hardcodes + adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/dns security issues), reliability (vs. downed/poisoned dns), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) vs. other solutions w/ what you natively have. Hosts != blockable by ClarityRay/BlockIQ like Adblock/UBlock/Ghostery

If there were thought reading devices (and I'm sure there will be one day), they'd want them to be used as well.

Oh, ye of little awareness. They've such devices since the 70's, and can even make you hear sounds or voices or feel fear, anxiety, aggression, arousal, etc. baser emotions. Once used for only COINTELPRO, now it's not uncommon to find directed energy beam systems in Jails and prisons. Even the academic community is getting in on the tech. You poor soul, have you been living under a rock for 50 years?

/me dons his tinfoil hat.
I guess you thought the "tinfoil hat" meme was completely baseless? Typical meatpuppet, doesn't question anything.
Would you like to know more?

As to various governents not on the same side all not talking, that could easily be explained by: a) only being known at the highest levels and/or in some deep state black ops agency in each country b) the alien equivalent to trinkets the european explorers gave to the less advanced cultures they encountered that they don't want to share because it gives them an advantage

It could also be that when a government does speak up, nobody listens anymore since it is just assumed to be a story told by whack-jobs. The Canadian Minister of Defense has come out and told everyone that governments are covering it up. There are plenty of high up US military personnel that have come out with stories also. But they end up on the alien conspiracy shows so everyone believes it must be fake.

https://fi.google.com/

Since they have their own cell provider, which currently runs on T-Mobile, Sprint and Wifi, maybe this is a way to cut out the T-Mobile and Sprint parts of that and provide their own system.

Ultimately what is the goal of these lawsuits? Even if they get to a point at which it is discovered and comprehensively proven that the Saudi government did have some involvement in it what happens then? Is the US going to mount an incursion into a sovereign nation to arrest Saudi nationals on the basis of a US court ruling? Are the families just wanting an admission of guilt from somebody? Or are they chasing a financial payout?

I would just be happy if the outrage among the population gained enough momentum that the USA was forced to stop selling weapons to the Saudis. Saudi Arabia is not our buddy. We really need to stop treating them like one.

After living outside the US for about four years, the worst part was coming back and seeing the mass of delusion. I'd say a good 1/3 of this planet believes the US blew up their own buildings and blamed it on terrorists. If you objectively look at the evidence, it makes a lot more sense than the official story. Americans don't want to believe it because it acknowledges the fact that we are living in a propaganda age and our media is not really free at all. We have always been lied to.

Have fun, you fucking MORON:

https://www.google.com/search?q=9%2F11+conspiracy+debunked

"Fire can't melt steel" Uhhh, yeah. So what about this profession I've heard that's been around a few thousand years? You know, BLACKSMITH!?!?! Guys who soften steel with - get this - FIRE?!?!!

Go get naked with Rosie O'Donnell. You two deserve each other.

The fail is strong in you.

I have a photograph of myself standing next to the first President Bush. I am not a Republican

Is there a picture of yourself giving a speech at a podium, while President Bush looks at you (admiringly)? Probably, not...

Ok, to rehash. You agree that Communism is evil, that's a relief. You seem to agree, that DSA are Communist enough to taint any member — if he is a member.

But you insist that:

• Sanders is a Democrat.
• Sanders is not a member of Democratic Socialists of America

The first point is not entirely relevant, so I'll just point out, that Sanders is constantly identified as "an Independent" — he is caucusing with Democrats in Senate, but he is not one of them. The usual state/party designation next to his name is (VT, I.).

He is running for a Democratic Party nomination this year, but that's neither here nor there. Ron Paul ran for Republican nomination several times, but he is a Libertarian...

Now, is he a member of DSA? Here is my evidence:

• He gave speeches at their events — more than once. (1991, 1994, 2006.)
• He is referred to as a member by the party's own materials: Bernie Sanders — the independent Maine [sic] Senator and DSA member.
• He thanked them for their helping him in his 2006 Senate race.
• The party's current strategy lists "grassroots work for Bernie Sanders" as its number one priority. And it is not mere words.
• He refers to himself in conversations as a "democratic socialist" (carefully leaving ambiguous, whether that means a political philosophy or a particular party).
• His own site promotes "talks" about both DSA and "democratic socialism".
• He is viewed rather admiringly by the DSA.

With so much evidence, it is way past time he repudiated their support, don't you think? Unless he welcomes it, of course. Far less evidence was ever presented, that Donald Trump was a KKK-member, for example, before angry voices and sneaky interviewers demanded, he "repudiates" that organization. Talk about "intellectual honesty"...

Even if a stubborn juror may insist, the above evidence does not convict Bernie Sanders of being a Communist beyond reasonable doubt, there is certainly enough to rule against him on the slightly lower preponderance of evidence standard. He is a Communist alright...

Lastly, about your (and others') attempts to distinguish between Communism and Socialism... The distinction is without difference — Socialism is merely Communism-lite.

But even if you disagree, who would want a Hugo Chavez — another "Socialist not a Communist" — to become President of their country? Because, other than the late Presidente's anti-Semitism, the Senator's ideas are indistinguishable from his...

Perhaps you should avoid saying things like 'Nobody has called Trump "literally Hitler"' until you actually Google it

But, the question is, would you rather live on medicare/medicaid/tricare (military medical)/VA than the current commercial system?

It isn't if your government can do it better than commercial, it is if our government can. The government run medical care programs in the US have been terrible, just look at all the scandals the VA has gone through recently:

https://www.google.com/search?...

They had people dying waiting to come in for care, while having an enormous surplus of funds for care. This is what a US healthcare system will be like.

Sure do. Here, have a look here:
https://www.google.com/search?...

Pick a link, any link. You do not need a guide in Cuba and I know of nothing other than military areas and government buildings/property that is restricted access. My first trip to Cuba was with a tour group. My second was on my own and I meandered about at will and never encountered anywhere that they didn't let me in - and that included a few government buildings.

The headline isn't the raw number, it's the improvement in detection rate, which is a substantial step forward.

I suspect that any machine learning algorithm is susceptible to being trained by attackers though, much the way 'Tay' turned into a Hitler-Loving Sex Bot. Unsupervised learning can be effective, but it's very easy to intentionally (and unintentionally) sabotage that success.

A link to prove it https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.nespresso.com/ecolaboration/se/se/recycling.html&prev=search

At least a nazi hates You and then ignores You.

Nope. A "nazi" (derisive slang) is a National Socialist. National Socialists believe that everyone should have a homeland, each with their own unique and rich culture. Hitler wanted everyone to have a nation to call their own. The problem was that Germany was unified from smaller regions too late. It was becoming a super power to rival the English, and it had opted out of the banking cartel's usury, thus becoming an "economic miracle". The "German Miracle" got Hitler on the cover of Time magazine twice, both singing his praises before the propaganda campaign was started to shame National Socialists as "ebil racist nazis who eat babies and wear Jews as clothes."

Hitler fought against the corrupt elite Jewish bankers, against the corrupt Jew owned media, and tried to deport Jews who kept causing riots and perpetrating terrorist acts in Germany -- No one would take the bloody Jews! You see, Spain, France, England, and a list of over 20 other countries had kicked these subversive assholes out of the country (those not directly being corrupt were helping the others, as their strong racial ties and heritage still promote doing today [read the Talmud and you'll find out why: A single Jew fingernail is worth more than the life of a gentile {non Jew} according to them]). But when Germany kicked out the Jews it was suddenly a travesty. Lacking a homeland, many Jews had congregated in Poland at the time. Hitler was planning to Madagascar as the destination for the deportees because no sane country would take them. Part of Germany had been given to Poland after WWI, and was full of Germans. These Germans were being harassed, attacked, and murdered at the instigation of the Jews in Poland. So, Hitler decided to go in, and save his German people from further assault. That was the moment the English declared world war 2 on Germany. Note that the Jews had declared war on Germany years beforehand and began illegal boycotting of German goods, trying to starve Germany for having the audacity to not let bankers ruin their country and media lie to the public.

Germany offered many times to have a cease fire and end the war, but England wasn't having it. They knew they could get the USA into the war, and then win. Hence the anti-German "nazi" propaganda, which you still regurgitate to this day.

Hitler loved everyone. There were Jews, Blacks and Arabs fighting for the 3rd Reich, thanks to Hitler's view of Nationalism: Everyone having a strong and prosperous homeland and healthy competition. If he was a racist then he wouldn't have fought along side Arabs. The Bolshevik (communist) revolution was primarily led by Jews (over 80%), and they killed between 12 and 20 million Christians alone. Hitler realized that he had to fight the communists or they would take over all of Europe. Even General Patton eventually admitted, "We fought the wrong enemy", as the Cold War loomed on the horizon.

Today: You fight against the corrupt media (guess who owns Hollywood and the news networks?), You fight against the corrupt Rothschild banking cartels who own the Fed and Bank of England (these are not owned by the respective countries who's currencies they print and manipulate). You fight against the Today: Hitler's war is your war. National Socialists want your country to remain soverign, not be destroyed by globalists who don't give a fuck about you. They don't hate any people. There are controlled opposition fronts that sport "Nazi" imagery and spew hate, but Hitler would have shot those "neo-nazi" skinhead fucks for being subversive and hateful degenerates.

Don't confuse the propaganda with reality. The truth is that Microsoft must censor "Nazis" and "Hilter" because you might actually get exposed to the truth, or, heaven forbit, read Mein Kampf. "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." --

Experimental program not instantly profitable? Say it isn't so!

So, is the experiment a success in your opinion? They've extracted a total of about $52 million dollars worth of material for the cost of $100 million...

Do you expect it to become profitable some time in the future?

I'm sure they can improve the efficiency of the extraction process.

They'll need to not just improve, but double it just to break even. That recycling is a fraud is increasingly obvious — even its cheerleaders have to cite consumers' liking products made from recycled materials to support claims, that it is profitable. Those with a totalitarian streak acknowledge, that without increasing government oppression (such as banning plastic bags in supermarkets) the recycling is too difficult and expensive.

Apple is not doing it for (direct) profit. They expect clueless customers to feel better — and buy more — thus helping the profit indirectly.

There are multiple agencies with easement rights and rights of way, and access to homes, offices and factories. Google designed a self driving car. It could design a semi-autonomous robot that trails fiber behind it and swim up the sewer lines and connect homes. Wondering why Google did not think about that.

Sorry but no. I picked a random app in Google Play store. You might say that there's nothing wrong with these developer comments. But they are changing the tone of the reviews section. Thanking for the feedback and giving the support email address over and over again is not adding to the experience of reviews for people reading the reviews.

It's a reviews section, it's not customer support, and it's not chat.

https://play.google.com/store/...

A more accurate statement: 1. Over 90% of scientists think the Earth is more likely to be warming up than cooling down. Even skeptics usually agree with this. 2. Most of these scientists said humans had some sort of impact on the climate, but exactly how much was under debate. In fact, the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated. Sources: IPCC using too many weasel words https://www.google.com/url?sa=... https://www.google.com/url?sa=... Sorry for the messy links.

Agreed, up to the "the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated" part.
That doesn't seem to match what I'm reading and it's not evident from the two links you provide:
a single paper from "Science" in 2011 which cites a 66% probability of the ECS being between 1.7 and 2.6 degrees K, which seems offhand considerably lower than the consensus, and which is countered right in the same issue by a comment regarding the excessive sensitivity of their methods to boundary conditions http://science.sciencemag.org/...;
and a paper which suggests that the now well known recent overestimation of global average temp could include unpredicted external forcers such as ENSO, AMO, atmospheric effects, volcanic effects, etc.; increased stratospheric aerosol concentrations; or "a missing decrease in stratospheric water vapour (whose processes are not well represented in current climate models), errors in aerosol forcing in the CMIP5 models, a bias in the prescribed solar irradiance trend, the possibility that the transient climate sensitivity of the CMIP5 models could be on average too high or a possible unusual episode of internal climate variability not considered above". That's just mentioning the possibility that if the sensitivity were overestimated it would explain at least part of the prediction error, hardly a consensus view that it is overestimated.
Neither of these papers demonstrates that "the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated".
In contrast, a quick google search provides, for instance, a paper from 2013, authored by a dozen luminaries, identifying the usual "estimates of the climate sensitivity for doubled CO2 concentrations of about 3C", and suggesting that taking into account long term effects like the change in albedo would put the sensitivity between 4–6C. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
I'm not arguing that the estimate of the latter paper is correct, just that your suggestion that "the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated" isn't supported either by the links you provide, or what I see being talked about.

A more accurate statement: 1. Over 90% of scientists think the Earth is more likely to be warming up than cooling down. Even skeptics usually agree with this. 2. Most of these scientists said humans had some sort of impact on the climate, but exactly how much was under debate. In fact, the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated. Sources: IPCC using too many weasel words https://www.google.com/url?sa=... https://www.google.com/url?sa=... Sorry for the messy links.

Agreed, up to the "the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated" part.
That doesn't seem to match what I'm reading and it's not evident from the two links you provide:
a single paper from "Science" in 2011 which cites a 66% probability of the ECS being between 1.7 and 2.6 degrees K, which seems offhand considerably lower than the consensus, and which is countered right in the same issue by a comment regarding the excessive sensitivity of their methods to boundary conditions http://science.sciencemag.org/...;
and a paper which suggests that the now well known recent overestimation of global average temp could include unpredicted external forcers such as ENSO, AMO, atmospheric effects, volcanic effects, etc.; increased stratospheric aerosol concentrations; or "a missing decrease in stratospheric water vapour (whose processes are not well represented in current climate models), errors in aerosol forcing in the CMIP5 models, a bias in the prescribed solar irradiance trend, the possibility that the transient climate sensitivity of the CMIP5 models could be on average too high or a possible unusual episode of internal climate variability not considered above". That's just mentioning the possibility that if the sensitivity were overestimated it would explain at least part of the prediction error, hardly a consensus view that it is overestimated.
Neither of these papers demonstrates that "the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated".
In contrast, a quick google search provides, for instance, a paper from 2013, authored by a dozen luminaries, identifying the usual "estimates of the climate sensitivity for doubled CO2 concentrations of about 3C", and suggesting that taking into account long term effects like the change in albedo would put the sensitivity between 4–6C. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
I'm not arguing that the estimate of the latter paper is correct, just that your suggestion that "the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated" isn't supported either by the links you provide, or what I see being talked about.

Welcome to teh intarWebz, UC Davis!

Your employee's casual callousness has earned you a permanent place in the memeverse firmaminment. Deal with it. Just lie back, relax and wait for the next funny cat video to take the internet by storm.

Sigh.
The fuckers that tried to cover up the facts should be fired.
The fuckers that don't understand th webs should be fired.
The fuckers that squandered taxpayer money covering their asses should be fired.
The fuckers that gave that scumbag John Pike (pepper spray cop) worker's comp should be fired.
That fucker John Pike should be fired. (he was)

Hey, at least they weren't using bullets this time, so we've made progress.

Money well spent. Bad news spreads faster than the good variety, and its lifespan is in direct proportion to its infamy.

TVA incompetence in nuclear safety has led to some lessons learned. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

Perhaps Google should focus on making phones that actually work without lag or locking up when you try to take pictures with the camera instead of fancy cases. That would be much more impressive. https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c...

Perhaps Google should focus on making phones that actually work without lag or locking up when you try to take pictures with the camera instead of fancy cases. That would be much more impressive. https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c...

Perhaps Google should focus on making phones that actually work without lag or locking up when you try to take pictures with the camera instead of fancy cases. That would be much more impressive. https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c...

Perhaps Google should focus on making phones that actually work without lag or locking up when you try to take pictures with the camera instead of fancy cases. That would be much more impressive. https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c...

https://www.google.com/search?...

Read up on it if you like. TOP SECRET//HCS is no joke, and could lead to people being killed.

https://www.google.com/search?... (pick your source)

Apparently, according to information being leaked about this, some of the emails were TOP SECRET//HCS which is a classification used for human gathered intelligence, from spies and the like. These things getting out would lead to serious problems, but Hillary and Obama apparently don't see it is a big deal.

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/08/...

She even had an email that was released where she was suggesting to an underling that they remove the classification headers and send something through unsecured methods. This is scarey stuff, even if it was only the talking points, she is still encouraging the underling to commit a felony offence to make things more convenient for her.

Thanks for mentioning the MSI version of Chrome. I didn't know it existed. Still no version number or 32-bit/64-bit indication in the file name.

The version number with the 3 system services is: Google Chrome Version 40.0.2214.91 m. The web site says Copyright 2016, but I think that is due to sloppiness we are now seeing everywhere with Google activities. That version is less than 2 years old, apparently.

You said, "Ok now you're just getting stupid. Sorry, I can't fix you." Maybe I can do something for you. No one knows everything about technology. Don't call someone stupid because you disagree. In fact, as I mentioned in my parent comment, Mozilla Foundation gets its money from Microsoft now, through Yahoo. That's what the news stories say.

Here and Here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=... https://www.google.com/url?sa=... Ironically these sites seem to have a larger grudge against opposing groups than actual opinions. Sitting in the neutral zone is very interesting.

Here and Here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=... https://www.google.com/url?sa=... Ironically these sites seem to have a larger grudge against opposing groups than actual opinions. Sitting in the neutral zone is very interesting.

This particular paper is an attempt to deceive. It gives the impression that there is broad agreement among scientists about the actions we should take, or that we should do anything, or that the human caused change is even measurable. Those are not true.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ipad+won%27t+go+home

Wow!

Boy, you had to dig DEEP for that one!

However, Hater, your attempt is still laughable, for the following reasons:

1. This is OBVIOUSLY a person with an intermittent Home Button in HARDWARE, as referenced by the fact that using the even MORE dependent on SOFTWARE five-finger-pinch GESTURE seemed to FIX their issue.

2. Even though this Apple forum post is from FIVE YEARS AGO, there are ABSOLUTELY ZERO "ME TOO" POSTS IN THE THREAD, further underscoring that this was an extremely rare HARDWARE issue with THIS PARTICULAR IPAD.

But Haters just GOTTA Hate, I guess...

By the way, the iPad 2 that I am typing this on sees about 6 to 10 hours of usage, including MANY ?Home Button-Presses, EVERY SINGLE DAY since I got it several years ago, and I have YET to have the Home Button to even give an INKLING of intermittent behavior. I keep worrying that that may happen someday; but so far, it hasn't.

But in fact, there actually IS a fairly-rare issue with certain iPad Home Buttons becoming intermittent, But again, it ALWAYS appears to be a HARDWARE failure restricted to a particular iPad (despite some voodoo "fixes" reported by a few posters), and NOT the "App won't Suspend" SOFTWARE problem that was originally complained of by the OP.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ipad+won%27t+go+home

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the historyWhen people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” – UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

"According to Google Scholar and Yokohama National University, Dr. Itoh has not published any work in the area of climate change in peer-reviewed science journals." (http://www.desmogblog.com/kiminori-itoh).

Also of interest is this which is the article which (for some reason) you seem to have copied verbatim. Not sure why, since the guy who was actually in the debate says:

I had a debate with a denier on Google+ the other day. He quoted 18 scientists to support his argument. But when I actually had a close look at them, they weren’t very persuasive. Of the 18, only 12 of the quotes were specifically denying man-made climate change. The rest were just peripheral. And of the 12 that specifically denied it, only 1 was from an actual climate scientist (Dr. Steven M. Japar).

Really, you shouldn't post things that can be so easily googled.

A more accurate statement: 1. Over 90% of scientists think the Earth is more likely to be warming up than cooling down. Even skeptics usually agree with this. 2. Most of these scientists said humans had some sort of impact on the climate, but exactly how much was under debate. In fact, the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated. Sources: IPCC using too many weasel words https://www.google.com/url?sa=... https://www.google.com/url?sa=... Sorry for the messy links.

A more accurate statement: 1. Over 90% of scientists think the Earth is more likely to be warming up than cooling down. Even skeptics usually agree with this. 2. Most of these scientists said humans had some sort of impact on the climate, but exactly how much was under debate. In fact, the consensus view at present is that the impact of CO2 is overestimated. Sources: IPCC using too many weasel words https://www.google.com/url?sa=... https://www.google.com/url?sa=... Sorry for the messy links.

So how do you explain the prominent cases (not at Facebook or Google, I know) of people training the H1-Bs that replaced them?

As for the no-poaching, sure, it's a zero sum game but if you might be able to win the game, why agree not to play? If there is a real shortage, pay should be going up. It's basic supply and demand.

On the age thing, you may not be seeing the norm there.

It's a combination of both factors. The traffic on Slashdot really has gone down, and at the same time web hosting sites are a lot more robust, and more popular news agregator sites won't drag down most linked sites.
Google Trends confirms it
Comparing Slashdot vs Gizmodo vs The Verge you can see Slashdot dropped from a powerhouse into irrelevance.

"outer planets" is also open to interpretation (for instance, there may be 8 outer planets with mercury being the only inner planet), yet you just criticized me for leaving stuff open to interpretation? Go fuck yourself.

Haha, great example. Even Google has a specific definition for outer planets:

a planet whose orbit lies outside the asteroid belt, i.e., Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune.

Here, there's an entire wikipedia article about them too. If you even go so far as to look at a scale diagram of the orbits of the planets in the solar system, you can probably even draw your very own conclusion about why we say we have 4 inner planets and 4 outer planets. You may even be able to find an actual astronomer talking about the distinction.

Now, find a list of spacecraft which have "mysteriously been lost" so that we can argue about how "mysterious" each one is.

By the way, right now it is accepted that there are 8 planets, not 9. Even if Pluto was considered a planet it wouldn't be the only one (Eris is larger and also has at least one moon), we would have more than 9.

What you dont seem to understand is that the faster you go, the worse all collisions are.

Oh, gee, is that what I don't understand? Thanks for the physics lesson, doctor. Here's a question: could any collision in space be considered non-damaging? Do collisions in space happen between objects which are perfectly elastic? We have had very low-speed collisions when trying to dock with a space station, for example, which have damaged either the station or the ship docking. ANY collision in space is potentially deadly. You're saying that a collision at 0.2c is going to be more damaging than one at 0.05c? Wow, that's amazing. Here's a thought: any collision of a spacecraft with any other object at any useful speed is going to result in the destruction of the ship. It doesn't matter if the difference in velocity is 1000 m/s or 0.2c, the ship is still fucked. My point is that we don't have a single record of a spacecraft being destroyed by a micro-meteoroid in space. More spacecraft have been destroyed by Chinese anti-satellite missiles than from natural space debris. This is further shown to be true by the success rate of the long-distance spacecraft. If space was so crowded then the success rate of a long-distance (outer planets or beyond) spacecraft would approach zero the farther it goes, but for some reason they're all still flying. And, no, Dr. Hawking, it's not because everything is orbiting in the same direction. That's just stupid.

We have had 9 different spacecraft pass through the Jupiter system. Since this is obviously a beginning science lesson in this thread, I'll point out that Jupiter is the single largest gravity sink in the solar system other than the sun. All of those little pieces of dust and rock flying around the solar system do end up finding a permanent home, and for many of them that home is Jupiter. It is a relatively crowded system, complete with rings of dust and over 100 moons, not to mention the millions or billions of pieces of dust orbiting just waiting to fall in. We've had 9 spacecraft pass through that system, and none have been destroyed. Hell, 2 of those spacecraft even stuck around to orbit Jupiter. We've had 4 spacecraft visit Saturn, including an orbiter. Saturn is this bigass planet beyond Jupiter and it also has rings of dust, but they're a whole hell of a lot bigger than Jupiter's. Guess how many of those 4 spacecraft have been destroyed when passing through the Saturn system. Go ahead, guess. I'll leave that one as an exercise to the reader.

In case you're still not following, here's the point of replying to your original post: even the current speeds at which o

I would argue that reduction of discretion is precisely what is required, discretion to prosecute in the first place. Any crime which we are not prepared to attempt to detect, investigate, and prosecute vigorously should be no crime at all.

Without discretion, you get things like the Mike's Hard Lemonade case, people being branded as sex offenders just for peeing in the woods, numerous VERY YOUNG children punished for pointing their finger like a gun (or drawing a gun, or writing a story that involves murder, etc., etc.,), and numerous other forms of zero-tolerance bullshit.

I get that discretion is sometimes a band-aide fix for serious problems (such as vague laws and malicious prosecution), but there's no legislator who can write perfect, high-quality laws, even if that skill was valued by voters. The law is not a computer program; we are not gears in the machine.

In addition, it would be wise to consider the failure of centralized control across a number of human endeavors... see Communism and work-to-rule as examples.

Anyone who thinks that "classified" means something like super duper secret is either uninformed or an idiot.

Sure. We know very well, that "Classified" may mean any of the restriction levels, most of which are not "super duper".

But it was still illegal (felonious) for Hillary Clinton to mishandle such material — and she knew it. She needs to be charged with the crime and convicted of it. President Obama can then show leniency and pardon her, if he wishes.

And if that costs Democrats the election, so be it — their own fault for giving the nation a choice between a Russia-manipulated crypto-Communist and a this spy-magnet.

George W. Bush started following the law George H. W. Bush signed when he was president: PL101-611, the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990.

That act required NASA to procure commercial launch services.

I say "started" because shortly after my subsequent congressional testimony on the importance of commercial incentives, I was working at Cape Canaveral on commercializing the MX missile as a launch vehicle when everyone in our firm received "VIP" seats to watch NASA launch a satellite. NASA continued to all-but-ignore the law. When I contacted Senator Gore's chief of staff of the Senate Science Committee to request Congressional oversight of the law, he informed me that our grassroots coalition simply did not possess the "power" required to see the law enforced. That is quite seriously no exaggeration of what he said. Since I had been working at SAIC on technologies that, let's just say, had a good deal of "power" I decided to drop out of politics lest I start thinking about exactly how much "power" I had. Ron Paul's 2007 campaign was the next time participated in politics.

There is a good deal more to this history, but since Google has decided they can't be bothered to make their search engine work in the unique case of Usenet archives, it is going to take some doing for people to find it. For those who can figure out how to make it work I suggest looking at the sci.space and sci.space.policy archives starting around the time that the L5 Society merged with the National Space Society.

Just see this thread. People are asking for the font on Google Maps for Android to be scalable. That would go a long way to help people with poor vision to use one of Google's main Android apps.

AZ Screen Recorder ( https://play.google.com/store/... ) is able to record video of your screen without root access and without being in the foreground.

You think women can't rape?

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I used to live in Hiroshima and the only destruction I recall seeing was the a dome surrounded by a wrought iron fence. I visited the bomb museum many times. Have also been to Warsaw and St. Petersberg where I was shown trenches that people dug during the siege (by people who actually occupied them). This was almost thirty yeas ago

I tried feeding it the opening line of one of my patents. Sure enough, it found it verbatim, along with random lines from other patents. Maybe if they threw some "deep learning" at it, they'd get somewhere.