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Was I the only one here who actually tried googling "Cats In Space"?

Helmets aren't especially useful and at least some research say, they increase risk to the bicyclist's health.

Given how much more fun it is to ride without one, you may want to reconsider — unless you wear it all the time, even when walking. Just in case a car hits you...

Dunno about jetpacks, but bicycles just aren't fast enough for helmets to perceptibly increase one's chances in a rare accident to justify constantly incurring costs in comfort and situation-awareness during the rest of your riding. Yes, there are statistics showing correlation between fatalities and riding without helmet, but that does not prove causation.

Surely, everyone is entitled to making their own choices, and I'm not going to force anyone to ride without the protection they want. I just want the same freedom for myself.

Emoji is a Japanese-origin word (the E is pronounced like "A"). It literally means picture character. Here is the Kanji if you're interested - https://translate.google.com/?...

Emoticon is an English word (The E is pronounced like "E") combining Emotion and Icon. It describes how we use punctuation and other regular glyphs to make pictures such as :)

"John Trump really does seem to have been a brilliant scientist," noting that he performed both radar and short-wave research for the allies during World War II and helped design medical X-ray machines.

This is about as relevant today as the much publicized history of George W. Bush's grandfather "dealing with Nazis".

WTF, are we preparing for a round of "Jeopardy" or something? I'll be happy to see Trump on my ballot come November, but his uncle has nothing to do with it.

"Weather is not climate. For about the millionth time."

One of it's meanings is the weather conditions in a particular geographical area regardless of time (as opposed to the more modern meaning of weather measurements averaged over a period of time).

Why don't you check out how the popular meaning has changed in recent years:

https://books.google.com/ngram...

Outlook.com works from android phones.

Outlook.com has a $20/year paid tier that used to be called Hotmail Plus. And there are rumors of a forthcoming $48/year paid tier allowing a custom domain, comparable to Google's $60/year Google Apps for Work.

So yes, it is possible for a mail user to be Microsoft's or Google's customer.

Outlook.com has free accounts. The existence of a paid option that less than 1% use doesn't change the fact that your original comment:

I've been locked out of both Microsoft and Google accounts

Are you paying for the service?

Yes. Services that use a Microsoft account are included in the price of a Windows license.

Different AC here. Outlook.com works from android phones.

Go ahead and shift the goal post from "Windows license" to privacy now.

is debunked. So, yeah, I called it. You shifted the goal posts from "you paid for it with a Windows license" all the way down the field to "It is possible that you might have optionally subscribed to a free service to get extra features.".

No shit. You, Mr. tepples, are a nit picking, goal shifting, unable to admit when you are mistaken arse. Duly noted.

Go ahead and make an AC comment now. You'll get the last word which is what you seem to crave.

SRE, or Site Reliability Engineering, is the future of asking a team of engineers to handle a production environment. In fact, Google literally just released their book on the subject. https://landing.google.com/sre...

I'm talking about full external links. One/ is not enough. Example - use //Google.com/file instead of http://google.com/file or https://google.com/file

I'm talking about full external links. One/ is not enough. Example - use //Google.com/file instead of http://google.com/file or https://google.com/file

Outlook.com works from android phones.

Outlook.com has a $20/year paid tier that used to be called Hotmail Plus. And there are rumors of a forthcoming $48/year paid tier allowing a custom domain, comparable to Google's $60/year Google Apps for Work.

So yes, it is possible for a mail user to be Microsoft's or Google's customer.

The idea of these phone-based two factor schemes was that if a bad guy hacks your browser (ie you have Flash installed), they can't access your accounts without ALSO compromising your phone. They'd have to hack two devices, not just one.

The researchers point out that the browser can use http://play.google.com/ to remotely compromise your phone. Compromising the desktop browser automatically means they can get the phone too. Therefore hacking just the browser is sufficient. "Two factor auth" is actually single factor, due to the browser-based app store.

Just what does a "secure" human look like?

Kinda like this

Or drive like?

If you keep the whip in the middle of their backs, they generally drive pretty straight until they're just too tired. Then they fall over. Same as other forms of cattle. Just ask Fox News.

No, no need to thank me, delighted to enlighten you.

I kind of doubt you googled it: https://www.google.com/search?...

I know just being picky, but no one doubts that climate change is behind changes in climate. I don't think anyone doubts climate change. Now perhaps some doubt anthropogenic climate change, technically this summary doesn't mention that.

Well... As recently as Feb 2015, Senator Jim Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, with jurisdiction over climate issues, brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to offer persuasive evidence climate change was a hoax. This would just be funny, if he weren't (a) a US Senator, (b) chairman of an Environment committee.

Links: Google (About 198,000 results)

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/02/26/jim-inhofes-snowball-has-disproven-climate-change-once-and-for-all/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/jim-inhofe-genesis_n_6815270.html
• yada, yada, yada

Sometimes, a urinal is a trough. Urinals are also single person things hung on the wall.

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

Google image search agrees with me, as there were only two trough styles there that I saw.

Phah. I've been hearing that since "The Last One" was going to put programmers out of work in 1981.

Phah. I've been hearing that since "The Last One" was going to put programmers out of work in 1981.

It's called prosecutorial discretion.
And yes it does apply to all laws.
And no, that isn't a danger, your absurd fallacy not withstanding.

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

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

It should be pretty easy to prove.

On most carriers, theres a tool on google play that reloads the correct radio/modem that readds LTE.. My Nexus 4 is on Ting/tmobile, and it works peachy here...
https://play.google.com/store/...

HEY! Keep it on topic here.

We're talking butts, not bollocks. Specifically robot.

Maybe #51851741 can help /.'ers overcome their unhealthy obsession with the work of Hajime Sorayama. (NSFW if your work has a problem with half-naked robot ladies...)

Also HUMINT, which is marked TOP SECRET//HCS

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

You know, the kind of stuff that leads to people dying in many countries?

Not at all, but then I'm not sure that fun or enjoy are the defining definitions of a toy either.

Excerpted from a Google search for define toy:

1. an object for a child to play with, typically a model or miniature replica of something.
* an object, especially a gadget or machine, regarded as providing amusement for an adult

(emphasis mine)

Show me in the law where there is discriminating. Not someone telling you that it is discriminating, but the actual portion of the law which is discriminating. The majority of the bill is defining what exceptions exist for the use of the bathroom by someone of the "other" gender. The only complaint I can find (not the hysterics and ranting) is that people are legally restricted to the restroom matching their biological gender, and that local ordinances can not nullify or supersede the law. That last part being painted as nefarious and unconstitutional ignores the fact that nearly every State Law does this same thing. Your city can not pass a law reducing the drinking age to 12, or make it's local speed limits 200MPh, or allow 9 year old kids to get married, legalize heroin injection, etc.. etc... because the State Law is written to prevent usurpation by lower levels of Government. Federal laws prohibit States from usurping their power too. In other words, it is not only Constitutional for the State to claim exclusive powers but nearly boilerplate in the bill writing process at the State and Federal level.

If you are going to point to Section III, and the use of the term "biological sex" I have to ask WTF? If a transgender woman wanted to teach physical education to boys they can not be discriminated against due to being a biological woman. That wording is not discriminating, it's inclusive. If your complaint is that they didn't also call out every possible politically correct term we can find for gender then you are extremely short sighted. That level of detail would be discriminatory if they did not also call out every possible religion, ethnicity, handicap, etc..

The people complaining about a transgender person using the rest room are not men. As I said below in a different comment I can not find a single case of a woman being criminally charged for using the men's room without additional circumstances and charges (drunk, narcotics, violence, criminal trespassing/vandalism, etc..). Transgender does not make a difference, there are simply no charges I can find being filed, and no law suits to stop a person that I can find either. You may be able to find the 7-leaf clover, but that is not indicative of a systemic problem requiring legal protection.

I can find plenty of cases where men are arrested for being in the woman's bathroom. There is a pretty even split between transgender men and perverts in a brief search. So who are you trying to protect exactly? The men who are the subject of the overwhelming majority of the complaints benefit, not the women attempt to portray as needing the protection.

Have you ever seen a trans-man? Here are some pictures:

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

Since these men were born girls, I take it you'd rather they share the women's room with your wife and daughter? Or should they also be shot? "Man entering restroom" and all that. Please advise...you apparently know everything.

And Brenda...congratulations on your transition.

Fram: Forward ("frahm")
Sókn: Attack ("soak")
Framsókn: Progress ("FRAHM-soak")
Framsóknar: Of progress ("FRAHM-soak-nar")
Flokkur: Political party (also group, class, category, etc) ("FLOCK-er")
Flokkurinn: The political party ("FLOCK-er-in")
Framsóknarflokkurinn: The political party of progress, AKA the Progress Party ("FRAHM-soak-nar-Flock-er-in") :)

which just the word looks like a band of vikings sharing a flagon of mead and a haunch of smoked meat.

Maybe a bottle of brennivín and some hangikjöt being consumed by HafTHór Júlíus? ;)

Oh, if you don't believe me on that last part:

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

Google has every right to decide what applications it will and won't accept in its app store; and what developers it will and won't accept. In so doing, however, they create a walled garden -- some are allowed in, and some are not.

Android in general, on the other hand, can be more open, and that is something to be grateful for, in my view, inasmuch as Google's app store content policies impose limits I can do without.

You're letting order of operations hide the net effect from you. You can read this for the official policies.

Unlocked... that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

When a door cannot be passed because it is prevented from opening, and those who manage the door refuse to open it... that door is not unlocked.

Google's app store definitely has walls, and the doors definitely have locks, and it definitely has rules about who, and what, Google will open those doors for.

You can peruse the Google App Store Developer Policy Center to learn about the walls and locks.

I'm not saying Apple's good. I'm just saying Google's not all that unlike Apple WRT the store itself.

Does this look a little sexist to you? No, you say. Pornographic? Hell yes, you say. https://www.google.com/search?...

Such search the Google Play Store to yield numerous hits of Apps that convey instructions like: "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates” (Koran 47:4).

AH! I think I finally understand why the internet runs on cats now!

Being considered a toy is a requirement for being a game changer. If a technology is taken seriously early on, it's inmediately locked down with patents and pricetags by big business. That's why toys always win in the long run.

iPhone? Toy. Who want's that?
PC? Toy. Here are the specs and the architecture, for free. Go play. We sell real computers. 20 years later x86 is all there is.
The Web? A toy. ... Whooops.
PHP? JavaScript? Toy languages, laughed out of the room, even still yet. While everybodys laughing, they're taking over the web. Well, PHP at least.
WordPress? Yet another shitty CMS/bloggin engine by someone who can't programm. Toy. Oh. 102 Million active installs. 25% of the web. Mmmh.

Toys win, because they initialy aren't taken seriously and thus have room to get adopted by those who want to build stuff without being at the mercy of some psychopath corporation. Once they've gained traction it's to late to box them in and everybody has to follow suit to stay in the game.

It's that simple.

There is an Extensions Update Notifier extension made by Googler FranÃois Beaufort that notifies you when extensions are updated, and optionally can disable any extension that has been auto-updated until you manually re-enable it.

God, it's sad how quickly Firefox has become such a joke. It wasn't all that long ago that it was the best browser around. Now it's so far back it will likely never catch up. And Servo? LOL! It makes Firefox look superb, Servo is so frigging awful!

Peak Firefox happened with Version 4.0. It was all downhill from there:
Firefox Popularity trend. Relative peak at March 2011
Firefox Release history

I remember huge excitement around Version 3.0 release (which corresponds with the absolute peak in the trend in 2008)

Then they started going on a 45 minute release cycle, moving menus around randomly, and adding Hello, Pocket, and other useless addons. Now I dread Firefox updates.

I deploy an image with Firefox (company standard), think I set all the required defaults: Clear history on exit, don't remember passwords, etc.

Restore the image and I get "You haven't used Firefox in a while, do you want to reset it and restore defaults? Do you want to use Reader view?" WTF? Get out of the way!

That said, if we do need an executioner, I think we've got the guy for the job...

Lol, you really think that this guy qualifies as a viking? A guy who once left in the middle of a parliamentary session while answering questions because he had a craving for chocolate cake?

Something like this on the home page would work:

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

I strongly disliked her earlier works but feel that she was just starting in the last ten years to mature as a designer so it is sad to see her die just as her vision was becoming more natural and sophisticated. see https://www.google.com/search?...

I've heard that when the Unix specification was designed, they had this evil allowable spec called Weirdnix that would still be able to claim POSIX compatibility. Microsoft just implemented the Weirdnix spec.

What is Xamarin? Why should I care about it?

Google search for "how to search for information on the Intertubes".

While this may not have required "reinforced doors", it nonetheless makes complete sense to fortify the means of exclusion to the cockpit as that is precisely what the terrorists want to get access to in order to maximize the "terror" part.

Google provides: https://www.google.com/webhp?q=11520+euros+in+USD

Here ya go.

Ok, here you go.

The IRS was hacked, multiple times.

But that's only one agency. I'm sure the rest of the Government agencies are secure, right?

Oh wait

It seems that anyone who filled out a background check, or was used as a reference, or who's name came up in the course of the investigation, had their information compromised.

You were asking for two cites. Just use google to search for slashdot references, and they spill out. You don't even need to search the wider web.

Ok, here you go.

The IRS was hacked, multiple times.

But that's only one agency. I'm sure the rest of the Government agencies are secure, right?

Oh wait

It seems that anyone who filled out a background check, or was used as a reference, or who's name came up in the course of the investigation, had their information compromised.

You were asking for two cites. Just use google to search for slashdot references, and they spill out. You don't even need to search the wider web.

Or go even further back: a submachine gun that folded up to look like a radio.

giving all those idiots who say 'I thought it was a gun' extra excuses.

If we're talking about the Polezei, a Ringding is more than enough to get you shot.

Realistically, is this a wonderful new product designed to improve outcomes? No, of course not.

Is it going to sell like hotcakes to a certain niche market? Absolutely.

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

Already ahead of you....