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How soon they forget. Actually, it's Johnny Carson and Jack Webb.

Oh, and don't be anywhere near the flat tops when there's volcanic activity going on, because they often overlay volcanoes. And when there's even a small "burp" of heat, you get what's called a sigketill forming, and that would be very bad news for you ;) And in case those little "ripples" on the edge of the bowl-shaped ones (as opposed to the "sheer drop" ones and the "boiling lake" ones) don't look so bad, here's what they look like close up. Think video game-style bottomless pits. Into a volcano. ;)

Know where your calderas are and what they're doing! ;)

Note that "midoceanic ridges" doesn't entirely mean "underwater ridges". I happen to live in a place where the ridge breaks the surface - by several kilometers in places. You can investigate the mid-Atlantic ridge (at least a small part of it) right here on the surface, no subs needed. You can also check out part of the ridge in freshwater.

One of the common misconceptions is that there's a single fissure that makes up the "ridge". The reality is that there's a whole chain of meandering but largely parallel grabens (sharp-sided tectonic valleys), fissure-volcanic ridges, and individual volcanoes. It doesn't always break at the same place, it breaks over dozens to hundreds of kilometers on either side of the "average" centerline of the ridge. Also, the volcanism can be quite diverse. Here we have everything from basalt to rhyolite, deep-sourced and shallow-sourced magma, gas-rich and gas-poor magmas, widely varying levels of sulfur and fluorine emissions, etc.

My guess is that the grease is just a cover story, and the real purpose of the cameras is something else entirely.

That's my guess also.

The emails and things have a discussion about a camera near 23rd ave and Jackson, and one of the people in the emails guesses that it might have been placed on the pole by Walgreen's, to monitor their parking lot. Here is a link to Google Maps, centered right about the power pole in question. Here is a direct link to street view looking right at the camera mounted on the pole. If you look around, you'll notice that there are no drains on the street in that area where someone would pour grease. The closest drains are at the intersection of Jackson and 23rd, and there are poles that would have a much better view of those drains than the pole with the camera (and it's a little conspicuous to pour grease down the drain at an intersection with lights). The Google car drove around that parking lot, and if you wander around there you'll notice that the camera isn't on the pole in those shots. Directly in front of the Magic Dragon Chinese restaurant (next to Papa Murphy's pizza), there's a drain cover that does actually look a little bit stained (weird, I know). But there is a pole that is closer to that drain and restaurant, and still, why the hell would the ATF care about people dumping grease down a street drain?

If you go back to where the pole with the camera is in street view and look at the parking lot across Jackson, there are a couple women walking through the parking lot wearing hijabs. There's a store/restaurant back there called East African Imports, next to the Navy recruiting office, and it looks like there's also a marker for the Islamic Presentation and Invitation Center, which lists an address at 2301 S Jackson, which is that corner.

I bet the ATF/FBI is watching the Muslims instead of grease dumpers, but I should probably just get back to work.

My guess is that the grease is just a cover story, and the real purpose of the cameras is something else entirely.

That's my guess also.

The emails and things have a discussion about a camera near 23rd ave and Jackson, and one of the people in the emails guesses that it might have been placed on the pole by Walgreen's, to monitor their parking lot. Here is a link to Google Maps, centered right about the power pole in question. Here is a direct link to street view looking right at the camera mounted on the pole. If you look around, you'll notice that there are no drains on the street in that area where someone would pour grease. The closest drains are at the intersection of Jackson and 23rd, and there are poles that would have a much better view of those drains than the pole with the camera (and it's a little conspicuous to pour grease down the drain at an intersection with lights). The Google car drove around that parking lot, and if you wander around there you'll notice that the camera isn't on the pole in those shots. Directly in front of the Magic Dragon Chinese restaurant (next to Papa Murphy's pizza), there's a drain cover that does actually look a little bit stained (weird, I know). But there is a pole that is closer to that drain and restaurant, and still, why the hell would the ATF care about people dumping grease down a street drain?

If you go back to where the pole with the camera is in street view and look at the parking lot across Jackson, there are a couple women walking through the parking lot wearing hijabs. There's a store/restaurant back there called East African Imports, next to the Navy recruiting office, and it looks like there's also a marker for the Islamic Presentation and Invitation Center, which lists an address at 2301 S Jackson, which is that corner.

I bet the ATF/FBI is watching the Muslims instead of grease dumpers, but I should probably just get back to work.

Say you record a cop shooting a pedestrian. Straight up, cold blood, didn't like them, went postal, flipped their lid and shot a jaywalker.

If you post the video of the murder right away, you can be arrested and charged.

But if you wait an hour, that gives the murderers time to come up with ways to protect themselves.

"What "the buck stops here" means is that once the person knows about an issue they are responsible to deal with that issue in that they can not pass it on to someone else."

No. I'm pretty sure it means If you are a lazy ass hunter who doesn't want even a semblance of fairness then set up you tree stand over there ---> O and then point the barrel right here --> X

As far as I know, bucks aren't issues, nor can they deal with issues very well (they are in fact, quite surprisingly perhaps, highly disorganized and have a propensity for anarchy.)

One (of many) problems with your thesis: the diseases we vaccinate against are not 100% fatal, or even more than 50%, so there isn't that much 'culling'. It's why these diseases are still around.

But there are plenty of other effects. Here's one search that help you find out how vaccinations are better for humanity: "childhood diseases and cognitive disorders"

If wind and solar are so cheap, why do you have to bribe people to build them?

You don't. Stop lying.

I understand that nuclear fanatics have their own separate reality where war never happens so having the ultimate Achilles heel that nuclear plants represent, militarily, doesn't matter. OK, fine, wax rhapsodic about the wonders of fission, we'll listen. It's not like you don't have some good points!

But come on. You have to be able to see that thousands of us have installed solar and wind with no subsidies whatsoever, sometimes in contravention of law. Yeah, we did that. Since the 1970s, in fact, when used Arco panels cost almost $7 a watt. Shill for nuclear all you want but stop lying. People want solar and wind, with or without subsidies (and the majority of us want our taxes to subsidize solar if any energy technology will be subsidized).

Meanwhile, there's never been an unsubsidized nuclear plant. Ever. And less than 5% of the human race supports those subsidies. Fundamentally, nuclear is the choice for communist regimes and dictatorships that don't care what the constituency wants. Because regular people don't want it; we can see that it's too centralized and militarily weak to ever be part of a free and fair marketplace.

Stop lying.

Gosh. On /. I would have figured that some people would have chimed in that he played Nikola Tesla in the film "The Prestige." Bonus: his lab assistant was played by Andy Serkis, in one of his few live-action roles.

Then just start using something like Personal blocklist

So be reasonable, cut Google some slack. Internet is huge and it will take time for certain things to be found.

What happened? fit.google.com.

When you build on somebody's platform, it's more or less expected that this sort of thing can happen. So long as you fill a niche that they cannot or don't wish to, you are an asset, you make their platform better vs. the competition, as long as you don't do anything blatantly abusive or system-breaking, any little TOS details clearly don't forbid whatever you are doing. You might even get called onstage during some CES demo or given favorable marketing placement.

If your thing is either deemed a threat to the platform(as with Netscape's 'reduce windows to a set of poorly debugged device drivers' trash talking) or now overlaps with a feature that the platform owner wishes to add to their offerings; well, maybe you get acquired(as SoundJam MP became iTunes), maybe you'll just get squished. Happens every time.

" Anyway, since when has it been left wing propaganda to be against alcohol or any other drugs?"

Pretty much since the beginning of the left wing workers' movement, at least in some european countries.

Here's (hopefully) a link to a Google translated web page about the Norwegian workers' movement's view on alcohol way back when.
https://translate.google.com/t...

The requirement for client credentials in implementations of OAuth produces a couple practical problems.

OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 are unrelated protocols with similar names. The spec for each discourages servers from requiring client credentials (a client ID and client secret) in an API intended for use in an app that runs on the user's computer, such as a desktop or mobile app. As stated in section 4.6 of the OAuth 1 RFC:

In many cases, the client application will be under the control of
potentially untrusted parties. For example, if the client is a
desktop application with freely available source code or an
executable binary, an attacker may be able to download a copy for
analysis. In such cases, attackers will be able to recover the
client credentials.

Likewise section 9 of the OAuth 2 RFC:

Native applications that use the authorization code grant type
SHOULD do so without using client credentials, due to the native
application's inability to keep client credentials confidential.

And the article "OAuth 2 Simplified" by Aaron Parecki states:

If a deployed app cannot keep the secret confidential, such as Javascript or native apps, then the secret is not used.
[...]
mobile apps must also use an OAuth flow that does not require a client secret.

Yet several service providers offering APIs built on OAuth 1 or OAuth 2, notably Twitter, require them. Despite it being trivial to pull client credentials out of an executable with tools such as strings, Twitter has been known to disable any client credentials that leak to the public. There are two workarounds, both cumbersome:

• The first, recommended by OAuth 1 spec author Dick Hardt, is to proxy all API calls through a server that the app developer operates. The API keys then never leave this server. Yet the app developer needs to find some way to recover the cost of operating this proxy server.
• The other, as recommended by Raffi Krikorian and Chris Steipp, requires each user to register with the service provider as a developer, obtain API credentials through the developer console, and enter those into the user's own copy of the application. Because providers tend to refuse to offer a means of automating application registration, each application has to include a walkthrough for registering a copy of an application and update this walkthrough whenever the service provider changes the design of the developer console. In addition, developer consoles tend to require a minimum age of 18 to rather than 13.

OpenID 2.0, an authentication protocol, did not require relying parties to obtain client credentials. It was intended that a user would paste his identifier URI into a form on the relying party's web site (or use a browser extension to autofill it), and the user would be briefly redirected to the identity provider's web site for verification. Very few identity providers required relying parties to register; the only one I could think of was PayPal.

But unlike OpenID 2.0, which was open by default, the OAuth 2-based OpenID Connect is closed by default. It requires each relying party to obtain client credentials from each identity provider's developer console, which requires O(n^2) contract executions. There's theoretically a way for a relying party to obtain client credentials automatically, called Dynamic Client Registration (dyn-reg), but to my knowledge

Google gplv3 "user product" brought me the article "GPLv3, User Products Clause" by Allison Randal, which links to the GPLv3 rationale document (PDF). However, the explanation to which Randal's article refers is in rationale for draft 3 (PDF), not rationale for draft 4 (PDF), to which the link to the rationale currently redirects. For convenience, I quote the relevant excerpt from the rationale for draft 3 here:

In our discussions with companies and governments that use specialized
or enterprise-level computer facilities, we found that sometimes these or-
ganizations actually want their systems not to be under their own control.
Rather than agreeing to this as a concession, or bowing to pressure, they
ask for this as a preference. It is not clear that we need to interfere, and the
main problem lies elsewhere.

While imposing technical barriers to modification is wrong regardless of
circumstances, the areas where restricted devices are of the greatest practical
concern today fall within the User Product definition. Most, if not all,
technically-restricted devices running GPL-covered programs are consumer
electronics devices, and we expect that to remain true in the near future.
Moreover, the disparity in clout between the manufacturers and these users
makes it difficult for the users to reject technical restrictions through their
weak and unorganized market power. Even if limited to User Products, as
defined in Draft 3, the provision still does the job that needs to be done.
Therefore we have decided to limit the technical restrictions provisions to
User Products in this draft.

And it's not a restriction on a particular field of use; it's a requirement for distribution in a particular form, namely preinstallation in a device. It's not much different from the requirement in GPLv2 to provide "scripts used to control compilation and installation" (my emphasis).

Google gplv3 "user product" brought me the article "GPLv3, User Products Clause" by Allison Randal, which links to the GPLv3 rationale document (PDF). However, the explanation to which Randal's article refers is in rationale for draft 3 (PDF), not rationale for draft 4 (PDF), to which the link to the rationale currently redirects. For convenience, I quote the relevant excerpt from the rationale for draft 3 here:

In our discussions with companies and governments that use specialized
or enterprise-level computer facilities, we found that sometimes these or-
ganizations actually want their systems not to be under their own control.
Rather than agreeing to this as a concession, or bowing to pressure, they
ask for this as a preference. It is not clear that we need to interfere, and the
main problem lies elsewhere.

While imposing technical barriers to modification is wrong regardless of
circumstances, the areas where restricted devices are of the greatest practical
concern today fall within the User Product definition. Most, if not all,
technically-restricted devices running GPL-covered programs are consumer
electronics devices, and we expect that to remain true in the near future.
Moreover, the disparity in clout between the manufacturers and these users
makes it difficult for the users to reject technical restrictions through their
weak and unorganized market power. Even if limited to User Products, as
defined in Draft 3, the provision still does the job that needs to be done.
Therefore we have decided to limit the technical restrictions provisions to
User Products in this draft.

And it's not a restriction on a particular field of use; it's a requirement for distribution in a particular form, namely preinstallation in a device. It's not much different from the requirement in GPLv2 to provide "scripts used to control compilation and installation" (my emphasis).

Texas Instruments Silent 700

You experience a unique feeling of helplessness when you've run through your last roll of thermal paper. Soon into the game you realize that those people on TV who print a little then tear off the printout to show to others are frivolous and wasteful, consigning themselves to this sad fate. So you stop tearing it off, carefully rolling up the output so you can feed it back into the printer upside down and print on what was the (mostly blank) right margin, visually decoding the meshed characters at the center.

Which is why when I managed to turn my original model I TRS-80 with a direct connect Bell 103 Lynx modem into a dumb terminal by talking to the UART with custom written Z80 assembler code and watched those green characters crawl across the screen, it was a great day, like inheriting a warehouse full of thermal paper. The scrolling was so "blindingly fast" that I could even tell the time sharing service to turn off the 2-3 leading NUL characters at the beginning of each line!

Shape Memory Alloy are a Nickel Titainium alloy often called muscle wire because by changing its crystal structure it gets shorter when heated or an electric current runs through it. While very different in how it works from a polymer, Shape Memory Alloy has had similar uses including heart stints, explosive bolt replacements on spacecraft, toys and heating air vent controls. Biggest down side to it is it tends to be a bit slow so it is more sloth muscle than jackrabbit muscle.

Shape Memory Alloy are a Nickel Titainium alloy often called muscle wire because by changing its crystal structure it gets shorter when heated or an electric current runs through it. While very different in how it works from a polymer, Shape Memory Alloy has had similar uses including heart stints, explosive bolt replacements on spacecraft, toys and heating air vent controls. Biggest down side to it is it tends to be a bit slow so it is more sloth muscle than jackrabbit muscle.

There are 52,000 reported bugs open in Chromium. That doesn't even include the closed/wontfix ones.

Sorry, but performant isn't in the Webster online dictionary, and even Chrome thinks it's a misspelled word. Googles Ngram views also shows that up until the last few decades it's a rarely used word. However, in the books the Ngram viewer references it's not being used to indicate performance in at least one case in 1812. Heck even the usage in the 70's and 80's seems to be referencing it as an actor in something, and having nothing to do with performance or efficiency as this article want it to be.

Sorry, but performant isn't in the Webster online dictionary, and even Chrome thinks it's a misspelled word. Googles Ngram views also shows that up until the last few decades it's a rarely used word. However, in the books the Ngram viewer references it's not being used to indicate performance in at least one case in 1812. Heck even the usage in the 70's and 80's seems to be referencing it as an actor in something, and having nothing to do with performance or efficiency as this article want it to be.

Is that a statistical fact or a guess of some kind? I wanted to find some statistics about this but I'm not sure where to look.

https://www.google.com/search?q=police+report+lie+statistics

Australian GDP growth has remained steady over the last 40 years. What are you basing your assertions on?

GDP growth has been steady. While it may not be perfect it clearly doesn't result in what you're describing.

I don't know, his wife is ok looking, but not all that...

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

Her name is Ri (or Lee) Sol Ju.

Yeah, true, she's not all that, but his assertion still stands.

Shifting the numbers around to deceive parents into coughing up money for their teen's toys may work in the console world, but this isn't a console. This is a high-end PC gaming peripheral. PC gamers have money, or at least don't mind leveraging themselves into mountains of debt for their hardware. On the other side of it, they're accustomed to not spending much on games unless it's a AAA title and even then they're a fair bit cheaper than consoles.

As for VR devices in general, you've got a choice. You can go with dedicated, purpose built hardware like the Rift, or you can leverage your existing investment in a smart phone and get a Google Cardboard derivative like Gear VR--as a $99 add on.

Shifting the numbers around to deceive parents into coughing up money for their teen's toys may work in the console world, but this isn't a console. This is a high-end PC gaming peripheral. PC gamers have money, or at least don't mind leveraging themselves into mountains of debt for their hardware. On the other side of it, they're accustomed to not spending much on games unless it's a AAA title and even then they're a fair bit cheaper than consoles.

As for VR devices in general, you've got a choice. You can go with dedicated, purpose built hardware like the Rift, or you can leverage your existing investment in a smart phone and get a Google Cardboard derivative like Gear VR--as a $99 add on.

I don't know, his wife is ok looking, but not all that...

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

Her name is Ri (or Lee) Sol Ju.

In all honesty, I think that this technology has some promise when it comes to recreating penises that have been destroyed for one reason or another.

A cringe-inducing interview by cracked.com, with links to photos.

Shootings by bad guys tend to last until the first good guy (cop, or not) with a gun arrives.

More guns in responsible private hands in the U.S. results in fewer mass shootings with less victims.

The bad guys will get (or make) guns if they want to. Even in prison. The technology is well understood by anyone who wants to learn it.

So yeah, we'd like to limit mass (and other) shootings by increasing the number of people capable of stopping them. As it turns out, no increase in stricter gun laws is known to have resulted in a lower crime rate.

What's amazing is that even though the Democratic process by which laws are passed in the U.S. is clearly not in favor of stricter gun laws, somehow a supposedly Democratic President refuses the "will of the people" and wants to do anything he can to unilaterally and potentially unconstitutionally (with the mental health stuff) circumvent it.

If the issue is new laws need to be passed that clarify and fund enabling people who are an actual threat to others to have due process of law and have their rights taken away (including getting locked up in an institution, a process the folks with a D after their name destroyed about 30 years ago or so), then yeah, let's have that debate in Congress where it (and other new laws) are supposed to begin.

Huh... What more do you want? Once it's 2 years old it's well past obsolete, and at 3 years it's unlikely current versions of many popular apps (e.g. what you can get from the market) will run on it.

And, even before that announcement, Google's policy has been to provide updates for 3 years from date of first sale, or 18mo from date of last sale in the Google store, whichever is longer. That sure beats most of Apple's offerings (I think they had one model that had support for longer than 18mo from last sale in an Apple store), and all offerings of any other Android manufacturer.

Of course, the same people complaining that they can't get updates from Google after 3 years are the ones who loudly proclaim that they bought a Nexus device in the first place so they could run whatever ROM they want on it, making manufacturer updates irrelevant for those complaining in the first place.

Take a deep breath. This is only an application, not a patent. YOU still have an opportunity to participate in the process. A few hundred dollars and three little words, "I claim fire." get you a useless application for fire. Very broad claims in an initial application are not unusual and are often just the starting point for negotiating with the examiner. Hopefully the examiner will push back and get them to reality. The first claim is:
1. An electronic-device-implemented method, the method comprising: using the electronic device, generating a symmetric encryption key associated with a content item; encrypting the content item using the symmetric encryption key; encrypting the symmetric encryption key using a public encryption key for a recipient to generate an encrypted symmetric encryption key; providing the encrypted symmetric encryption keys and information specifying the recipient to a synchronization computer that communicates, via a shared network, with at least one electronic device associated with the recipient; and communicating the encrypted content item to instances of a client application executing on the at least one electronic device via secure peer-to-peer distributed sharing.

Note that every feature in a described claim must be present in your method before your method violates the patent. If you have specific prior art you should share that information by contacting the general counsel of DropBox at (415) 986-7057 and the USPTO Commissioner of Patents at 800-786-9199. Be sure to mention the application publication US20150358297 attached to applications 62008940 & 14/448972 and provide specific prior art citations (websites, brochures, publications, patents, industry standards, etc) that the patent examiner should consider. Be polite, get to the point and don't rant.

General Counsel
DropBox, Inc.
185 Berry St #400,
San Francisco, CA 94107

and

Commissioner for Patents
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.

Stop whining and write a letter. Seriously, if you don't participate, don't whine. Once a patent is issued it get much harder to make changes.

Yeah, otherwise known as a "software patent". It's worth clarifying what a software patent is not, the better to understand what it is and why it's so pernicious and why they're banned (yes, they are) in the EU and pretty much everywhere else in the world except AU. and JP.

They're also banned in the US - there are no patents on pure software per se, which is the same rule used by the EU and everywhere else (including the AU and JP). Instead, this is a patent on a method of using an electronic device; a product that includes executable code; and a computer system including a processor, memory, and program module, and includes various additional limitations that apparently aren't taught or suggested by the prior art.

Alternately, look at this and then come tell us again how software patents are banned in the EU.

Software patents are not patents on specific ways for causing a machine to perform a useful function. That type of IP is the IP we call "copyright". Copyright does prevent your code, your (virtual) machine, from being ripped off.

Copyright protects only that specific code. Rewrite the code, and it's not copyright infringement. TinyTower doesn't infringe the copyright of DreamHeights. Farmville doesn't infringe the copyright of FarmTown. Open Office doesn't infringe the copyright of Microsoft Office.
Copyright is useful when someone wants that specific item: we want to see the latest Avengers movie, not some Bollywood "Revengers" knock-off (caveat: some of us want to see that). We want the latest Taylor Swift album, not Sailor Tift's album (caveat: some of us want neither). It's why movies and books and music are pirated - we want those exact items.
But that doesn't apply to most software. In fact, copyright is generally useless for software, and particularly for business software: your average office worker doesn't care if they're using Numbers or Excel or Google Sheets, as long as the functionality is there and they're interoperable... and that means that the only way to really protect your business software, other than patents, is to require proprietary formats that aren't interoperable. And that's bad for consumers.

You have to find a relatively original way to achieve the same effect, but the *idea* of what you're doing is not patentable. Copyright naturally delivers all that to computer IP.

As noted above, TinyTower/DreamHeights; Farmville/FarmTown; MS Word/Writer; Excel/Calc; etc., etc. Those all use the same exact ways to achieve the same effect, but because they don't actually involve copied code or graphics, they're not copyright infringements.

Software patents are patents on all ways to cause a machine to perform a generally describable function. It's not the specific implementation performing the useful function that is being protected- it's the ability to achieve the same ends in any way whatsoever.

Not at all - "software patents", like any patents, cover a specific implementation. In fact, claiming just the result - "the ends" - is unpatentable.

In this case, the "ends" are sharing files. You claim that the patent covers every way to share files, right? Like "copying a file to disk and giving it to a friend"? Well, let's see... Nope. The word "disk" only shows up once in the specification and nowhere in the claims. Nor do the claims bear any relation to copying a file to a disk and sharing it. You couldn't possibly infringe the patent by copying a file to a disk and giving it to a friend, and therefore, no, the patent doesn't cover that.

It seems like you don't actually understand what a patent is, or what parts of it are important. For example:

So like the RIM patent debacle, this patent covers things unbelievably

The Red Green Show proved it. He used duct tape to turn a van into a convertible, to turn a bus into a hovercraft (blimp), and all sorts of other things. Now if only there was a handy tape for duct work...

Wow the butthurt is strong in this one!

A few ranty blokes shitposting all over the comments is not the same as "the masses" no matter how much you want it to be. We saw that with the puppies who claimed to speak for the silent majority. When the actual votes came in, it turned out that they were actually a very noisy (and in the rabid case, particularly obnoxious) minority.

Volume and emotion are no the same as consensus.

If there's one thing leftists can't stand it's a conversation where other people get to talk.

Uh... I assume you think I'm a leftist, in which case your claim is trivially disproven. The fact I'm here engaging you proves I can stand it.

Nonetheless, I expect you to rationalize away your disproven claim since you seem angry and angry people tend to be illogical and impervious to evidence.

in this case "regressive" was chosen, whatever that means

Try going here: http://google.com/ and looking it up.

instant cause to do what you wanted to do all along

I always wanted to shut down a comments section on a website I almost never visit? News to me!

I'll leave this and this here for you.

Further reading if desired. (those are the first 4 links in my search [5th link] - I didn't know why it would hurt either, so I Google'd it.).

So how long until the periodic table app on my smartphone shows them?

The one I use already seems to have them listed https://play.google.com/store/...
but is there a nicer one around? I think I might try https://play.google.com/store/...

I'm still bitter that I only made it to Silicon in Atomas (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirnic.atomas&hl=en) ... I suppose it'll be a long time before these new entries make any impact there...

So how long until the periodic table app on my smartphone shows them?

The one I use already seems to have them listed https://play.google.com/store/...
but is there a nicer one around? I think I might try https://play.google.com/store/...

I'm still bitter that I only made it to Silicon in Atomas (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sirnic.atomas&hl=en) ... I suppose it'll be a long time before these new entries make any impact there...

I'm not sure what you are talking about. That page explains their measurement methodology and more info is here: http://research.google.com/pub... Did you not visit the link?

Some lazy opinion-fart blaming a disparate group of people for some perceived slight should be called out every single time

FYI, that often exactly describes the SJW viewpoint. They blame white males for every perceived problem minorities and women face.

I would not describe you as a SJW, SJWs are the types of people who would repeal the first amendment to stop people who don't agree with them from being able to speak.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...
(if you don't like Fox, there are pleanty of sources: https://www.google.com/search?... )

Just set your user agent to: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Then the Forbes site works, even with adblock enabled. Seems to need javascript, though, at least the way NoScript disables it doesn't work out well...

Yeah, sure. There's the Human Development Index, which is an attempt to quantify what "quality of life" means. Nothing like this can be without flaws, and of course individuals will have their own good and bad experiences in any country, but it gives an indication. . . anyway, on that list, USA comes in at number 8, and Cuba comes in at number 67, which is not too bad (though folks here would place high value with being on the technological forefront). Though it has some good parts, the country where I live comes in at 115, which is the lower middle quadrant.

10% of users accessed Google with IPv6 yesterday: http://www.google.com/intl/en/...

If you expand out the graph you can see that during the work week there are about 8% of users on IPv6, but at the weekends it increases. There is a two-speed internet, with residential and mobile leading the way, and corporate networks lagging behind.

Prediction: 14% at weekends next year.

Just a quick counter-point. If you're only looking at social media, you'll only see social media. But let's look at the current state of the web in another way. Love it or hate it, WordPress is fucking EVERYWHERE.

"74,652,825 sites out there are depending on good ol' WordPress."

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

No, no, no. We old fogies need that "default" keyword because it makes much more sense and easier to read than '-'.

If you really want to replace "default" with something that makes more sense for the modern age and is instantly understanding able, I have the correct solution:

case -\_(``/)_- -:

Apologies for the crude representation of this, Slashdot doesn't support Unicode well.

ummm.....she looks like...Bruce Jenner!

And thanks to those same companies lobbying efforts they're still able to enforce copyright on something, which by all rights, should have entered the Public Domain 21 years ago.

Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works were protected for 28 years, with the option to renew for 28 years. Duration of Copyright There is no way that Star Trek: TOS enters the public domain before 2027 even under the rules in force over 100 years ago.

This ignores, of course, all licensed and copyrighted derivatives based on the original series in all media.

Been wondering if we couldn't use corporate law against them in this case, by pushing for ever longer terms they're missing out on profits - corporations are mandated to maximize profits. Paramount, by lobbying to extend the term lengths, is missing out on that sweet sweet Star Wars money (which should also be in the public domain) and thereby depriving their shareholders of a potential revenue steam.

The key to reviving a long-dormant genre, character or series, is distance and a healthy disrespect for your sources.

the Registry is a database. This means it's more likely to be resilient to data entry errors.

...no it doesn't. ID10T errors are no different no matter where the keystrokes go. It also doesn't prevent the registry itself from corrupting, which Windows is rather legendary at doing.

With text files, a syntax error usually invalidates the entire file...

...assuming you mean 'a bad configuration entry breaks the application', yes. It means you only have the application/service that relies on it going south. Just like borking a registry entry will bork the application/service that relies on the now-broken registry entry. Not seeing much difference there, unless you're referring to the registry's backup copy (which amazingly enough, you yourself can do before you edit a config file in *nix.)

Now if you meant that the file is completely useless from that point onwards, then you'd be wrong; the typoed/mistyped portion of said file can be edited back to normal and everything is hunky-dory again. By comparison, sometimes you cannot do that with a broken registry (that is, if you broke it badly enough and was dumb enough to reboot in-between... a not too outlandish scenario).

Finally, a config file can do something that a registry entry cannot: properly carry its own documentation within the file itself.

I don't believe you.