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Did you happen to checkout the main product that Google has allowed to target advertisements to individuals?
https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

It's basically opt-in. The marketing mumbo translation is: "Hey, you! What if I told you you could run your own ads for yourself? Yeah, you can, and it only costs a cent or two an ad."

I mean... okay so that nets the company running the website on which you've run your own ads a share (80, 60, 40%?) of that, so also: "Hey, you! have you ever wanted to pay an internet publisher per article read?! Well now you can!"

MOOC is not a commonly used term. The ones you mentioned are. Do you understand the difference?

Do you understand the difference between publishing a summary on CNN and publishing on a site where MOOC should be as commonly known as a term like SSD? If you are even remotely part of the IT industry, it is very unlikely that MOOC is a term you are unfamiliar with.

In terms of common usage, I would put MOOC in the same category as a term like UAT. Unfortunately google disagrees with me, since it appears MOOC is twice as commonly used as UAT (another term no one here should be hearing for the first time).

http://www.acronymfinder.com/M...
http://www.acronymfinder.com/U...

Fuck off with your prescriptions as to what acronyms every person "even remotely part of the IT industry" should know.
I only know MOOC because it's a shitty buzzword. I didn't know what UAT was because there are dozens of possible meanings, and the likely meaning you're referring to is related to "UX" bullshit where you talk about the user's feelings as they use a program blind.

In terms of common usage, I would put MOOC in the same category as a term like UAT. Unfortunately google disagrees with me, since it appears MOOC is twice as commonly used as UAT (another term no one here should be hearing for the first time).

From that link, MOOC has only been around for about 3 years. It isn't unreasonable for people in a great many technical fields to have absolutely no exposure to the term in such a short time. Also, I wouldn't expect most people here to be familiar with UAT. ADS-B maybe, but UAT is less common in usage than 1090 extended squitter and so even those familiar with ADS-B might not have encountered UAT.

MOOC is not a commonly used term. The ones you mentioned are. Do you understand the difference?

Do you understand the difference between publishing a summary on CNN and publishing on a site where MOOC should be as commonly known as a term like SSD? If you are even remotely part of the IT industry, it is very unlikely that MOOC is a term you are unfamiliar with.

In terms of common usage, I would put MOOC in the same category as a term like UAT. Unfortunately google disagrees with me, since it appears MOOC is twice as commonly used as UAT (another term no one here should be hearing for the first time).

Technically LDA or STA produces 1-bit sound. Interestingly enough 22 years later Sony copied the same idea with their Super Audio CD -- 1 bit @ 2.8224 MHz

And while 1-bit audio was all the Apple had one _could_ playback digitized speech as Castle Wolfenstien and Sea Dragon proved.

i.e.

• ACHTUNG
• HALT
• EEYAGH
• YIEEE
• CHWEINHUND
• SS
• PHOLGE
• KAMERAD
• WASISTLOS
• FEUER
• DAPUT
• UFWIEDERSEN

Along with the famous "You're caught"

See this CW disassembly thread for more details.

However, for a machine I'm giving to a friend or family member, what I wind up doing is just a format command, then a pass with cipher /w (assuming Windows.) Since all my volumes are BitLocker protected, a format command overwrites the areas on the hard drive with the volume master key multiple times. Even with the right BitLocker password or recovery key protector, the data is gone, since the master key cannot be retrieved. The cipher /w just does a simple three pass (zeroes, ones, random numbers), which is good enough for almost anything.

Why? What's the point? Self-entitled "nerds" here keep perpetuating the same old myths that you need to wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe a billion times for the data to be completely inaccessible and are just making themselves look just as ignorant as the people they berate themselves.There is plenty of research on this topic and I wish people would just finally learn something and stop spreading some god damn myths.

The purpose of this paper was a categorical settlement to the controversy surrounding the misconceptions involving the belief that data can be recovered following a wipe procedure. This study has demonstrated that correctly wiped data cannot reasonably retrieved even if it of a small size or found only over small parts of the hard drive. Not even with the use of a MFM or other known methods. The belief that a tool can be developed to retrieve gigabytes or terabytes of data of information from a wiped drive is in error.

        Although there is a good chance of recovery for any individual bit from a drive, the chance of recovery of any amount of data from a drive using an electron microscope are negligible. Even speculating on the possible recovery of an old drive, there is no likelihood that any data would be recoverable from the drive. The forensic recovery of data using electron microscopy is infeasible. This was true both on old drives and has become more difficult over tine. Further, there is a need for the data to have been written and then wiped on a raw unused drive for there to be any hopy of any level of recovery even at the bit level, which does not reflect real situations. It is unlikely that a recovered drive will have not been used for a period of time and the interaction of defragmentation, file copies and general use that overwrites data areas negates any chance of data recovery. The fallacy that data can be forensically recovered using an electron microscope or related means needs to be put to rest. -- https://www.google.com/search?...

Studies have shown that most of today’s media can be effectively cleared by one overwrite.

        Purging information is a media sanitization process that protects the confidentiality of information against a laboratory attack. For some media, clearing media would not suffice for purging. However, for ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001 (over 15 GB) the terms clearing and purging have converged. -- http://csrc.nist.gov/publicati...

For the purposes of clarity, this will be repeated: If every single sector of a modern hard drive is overwritten, then NO DATA can be recovered, and especially not by the police. In fact companies such as Ontrack, who spend millions of dollars on research into data recovery are not able to do this. This wiping does not need to be done 33, 12, or even 3 times. Just once. -- https://whereismydata.wordpres...

These things go on forever if one just bothers to Google a bit, I could keep linking and quoting stuff for several books' worth.

Fifteen years ago! The Autowatch a.k.a. "Narc on Lisa"

https://news.google.com/newspa...

No, and that's not how it would work, either. At worst, they'd have a couple sponsored results, which would be labeled as such, jus like current Google Maps searches. More to the point, though, nowhere was it ever said that this data would be streamed back to Google on a continuous basis; Google only need know my locatuon and that I need a mechanic and they're pretty good about letting you limit what they collect (have you ever actually looked at Google account settings in-depth?) so I'd be surprised if the data did get shared with Google on a continual basis without an obvious option to turn that sharing off.

Besides, if you don't like it, don't use it; personally, as stated in my previous post, I would like my infotainment system to have access to as much data as possible about the state of my vehicle, provided it allows me access to that data as well. An android-based solution would be ideal, in my eyes, as I already use Torque for that.

I know it might surprise you, but most people are fine with sharing a bit of data if they get something useful in exchange. Even moreso when the data being shared is relevant to the product or service being received.

Somehow I don't think the working fluid in a liquid cooling setup will be kept at quite the temperatures in a refrigerator. Rather, the temperature of the working fluid will be in the biological "danger zone"

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

which encourages the growth of microorganisms which can clog a liquid cooling setup. I believe this is why many use antifreeze or special fluids designed for the purpose, but I could be wrong about that.

Google is your friend: big bang theory studio audience image search

Chromecast I believe is pretty much open to everyone?

The Chromecast SDK is completely open: https://developers.google.com/...

Literally the only reason why Amazon is doing this is because they don't like competition for their own devices and services. It's the same reason why Apple Music does not support Chromecast, because Apple want people to use Airplay and Apple TV.

Just because -you- can't remember more then 7 tabs doesn't meant the rest of us that have 60-80 tabs open are not functional.

One of the best Chrome plugins is the vertical tab management window Tabs Outliner

Wow, and not a single reference to support any of your hyperbolic claims.

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

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

Look at the last entry on the first page (might change, so recorded for posterity)

Matthew Garrett - Geek Feminism Wiki
geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Matthew_Garrett
Matthew Garrett (also known as mjg59) is a Linux kernel developer and is well-known in the Linux...

It is very likely that he actually did this because of Sarah quitting yesterday.

Rather than "heavy" hydrogen, (one neutron) you'd do better with two of them (heavy, heavy...)
Less velocity (lower temperature) is required to overcome the EM force and get close enough for the strong force to take over.
Of course, acquiring it is more problematic than the regular "heavy" stuff. But once you're producing a good flux of neutrons you could shield with water then refine and extract the fuel.

Ref the 1991 publication by Knopfler et. al., wherein the hypothesis is presented.

We've already got e-cats!

This is the reason poettering was mentioned.
https://plus.google.com/+Lenna...

It's amazing how if you look at things through a narrow window they look like one thing

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

When you take a look at the broader view things look a little different.

any western government (not the US) who is trying to 'shake down' google or FB gets my 100% blessing in anything they do to reduce the force, power and evilness of both of those companies.

anything that causes either of those companies PAIN is a good thing in my, uhm, 'book'.

corporations are evil and the biggest ones have the most evilness to them. anything that knocks down the evil corps even a little is a Good Thing(tm).

Your anger is nothing short of madness. Sure hate Google, I mean those bastards giving away search and indexing services that used to cost hundreds of dollars/hour to use.

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

Ooh there is a reason to hate them. They made it trivially easy for me to destroy your position.

Umn... You are aware that the Fukushima earthquake was well off shore aren't you? That was why it was followed by the large tsunami. And there isn't a place on earth that isn't subject to earthquakes. Some place are more likely to experience damage from them, but no place is safe. One of the largest quakes in US history happened in Missouri, but quakes can happen even in the middle of plates. And some of those are worse than most that happen along the edges.

As for not near an ocean:
https://www.google.com/search?...
it's further from the ocean than Fukushima was, but not far enough that tsunamis are irrelevant. It's right on a river. Most nuclear plants are, because they need the water for cooling. And tsunamis roll right up rivers.

All that said, I'll agree that TMI is less likely to experience that particular external insult. But the world is full of unlikely accidents. It's good to avoid the ones you recognize, but that doesn't make them the one you needed to have defended against. Where to TMI style plants store their spent fuel rods? What do they do if the power supplies are interrupted? (Be aware that Fukushima thought they had that covered before the accident happened.)

Many nuclear plants in the US are being run at longer than their rated lifetime and for more than their rated power output. Yes, the original ratings were conservative, but there are good reasons those ratings were conservative. And many of the plants have repeatedly failed safety inspections. That nothing bad has happened so far is as much due to luck as to proper care...because proper care has often be sacrificed to corporate agendas. (Much like Fukushima and other plants run by Tokyo Electric [TepCo] in that respect.)

I once used a roach clip to hold an irregularly-shaped specimen onto the stage of a scanning electron microscope.

This was at the University of Washington back in the mid 1980's, and the hack was prompted by the professor (who shall remain nameless) saying, "What we need is something like, you know, a roach clip."

I ran down to one of the many head stores on the Ave, bought a $3 roach clip, came back and affixed it to the specimen stage. It worked perfectly, and for all I know may still be in use today.

The SEM was a JEOL JSM-35C and department was involved in studying moon dust and dust borne in the high, high upper atmosphere (stratosphere?). It was colloquially called the "Department Of Interplanetary Moondust".

If you look at the images found in the google link, I actually installed at least two of those found on the first page of results. :)

Samples were collected by a U2 airplane with silicone oil-covered panels that swung down from the wings upon command. They also used thin slabs of aerogel to collect the samples on the panels, but that was much later.

And no, I'm not making this up.

I once used a roach clip to hold an irregularly-shaped specimen onto the stage of a scanning electron microscope.

This was at the University of Washington back in the mid 1980's, and the hack was prompted by the professor (who shall remain nameless) saying, "What we need is something like, you know, a roach clip."

I ran down to one of the many head stores on the Ave, bought a $3 roach clip, came back and affixed it to the specimen stage. It worked perfectly, and for all I know may still be in use today.

The SEM was a JEOL JSM-35C and department was involved in studying moon dust and dust borne in the high, high upper atmosphere (stratosphere?). It was colloquially called the "Department Of Interplanetary Moondust".

If you look at the images found in the google link, I actually installed at least two of those found on the first page of results. :)

Samples were collected by a U2 airplane with silicone oil-covered panels that swung down from the wings upon command. They also used thin slabs of aerogel to collect the samples on the panels, but that was much later.

And no, I'm not making this up.

Not really. I'm working on it.

Wealth, in the sense of the wealth of nations or the wealth of whatever unit of economic activity
you choose to define as an economy, indicates the Total Buying Power divided by the total
population: Wealth is the per capita Buying Power. The Wealth of nations has a strong impact on
their ability to provide welfare services, as well as on the standard of living in each Income class..

Wealth comes solely and entirely from the reduction of labor required to produce a product—a good or service.

I read that thing, and I don't get how Lady Gaga increased wealth "solely and entirely from the reduction of labor required to produce a product"

Not really. I'm working on it.

Global Poverty Rate Likely to Fall Below 10 Percent For the First Time

NASA's Office of the Inspector General is fairly disappointed with NASA's progress in NEO detection (much less amelioration) https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/re...

Rusty Schweickart tells me there are an estimated one-million asteroids of 45-ish meters which is Tunguska size http://www.asteroidday.org/ast...

The B612 group has done a poor job of keeping the community (and apparently NASA) informed of their progress and challenges. Perhaps a more transparent effort would work - even showing lack of progress would be progress here. They have indeed struggled with engagement - they only have 600 followers on G+ for example https://plus.google.com/+B612f...

I used to see one all the time in the not-to-distant past.

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

According to the external dimensions of the package is the same in both products. And air rudders have both.

3) Official respond (predictable, they claim the rumor is wrong):
http://www.ampravda.ru/2015/10...

Carrier rocket "Soyuz-2", which is to start from the cosmodrome Vostochny, fully meets the technical requirements and the size of the object space of the harbor. Special train with the spacecraft for a few days is at the railway station waiting for the spaceport and transport nodes "Soyuz" in the assembly and test complex (MIC). It will build and launch preparations for the launch.
.......
According to the press service of the Center of Operation of Land Space Infrastructure (COLSI), the only obstacle preventing to get to work — not full readiness of MIKa

In the forum posts above, they post image of "special train" mentioned in the article:
http://oborona.gov.ru/common/m...

Adblock and Adblock Plus will now both ultimately take money in exchange for allowing ads. You can tell the agenda from the "default on" position.

So, can we get a list of stuff that DOESN'T do this? Maybe with links to the developers saying why not?

We can't edit posts on slashdot, normally for better, but this means I can't add to this list with responses. Still, respond please if you got'em!

The ONLY ones I know for sure are:

** uBlock Origin **- For Firefox and Chrome, this blocks a lot of privacy related things. This one seems like you can customize it, and the addon page tells you about other ad lists you can also apply. Importantly, the developer (gorhill on github) has had to deal with "acceptable ad" beggars, and shuts them down. The odds of this addon staying clean seem very high based on this.

Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

I don't know if this works with popular privacy or usability forks of Firefox and Chrome, and maybe some Palemoons and Comodos and Waterfoxes and whatevers can chime in with details.

The old Adblock Edge was a solid Firefox addon, but discontinued with a message to use uBlock Origin. The somewhat similar dramafilled uBlock (without the "origin") I think has no acceptable ads either, but I have a hard time googling that stuff.

** uBlock ** - This and uBlock Origin share a relatively recent codebase, but there are some developer disagreements. I couldn't find any evidence that uBlock uses acceptable ads, however, so definitely listing it:

Chrome Store: https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

*What else has no acceptable ad option*???

I'd even be ok counting ones that have one that is disabled by default, something that uBlock Origin has fought off successfully.

Adblock and Adblock Plus will now both ultimately take money in exchange for allowing ads. You can tell the agenda from the "default on" position.

So, can we get a list of stuff that DOESN'T do this? Maybe with links to the developers saying why not?

We can't edit posts on slashdot, normally for better, but this means I can't add to this list with responses. Still, respond please if you got'em!

The ONLY ones I know for sure are:

** uBlock Origin **- For Firefox and Chrome, this blocks a lot of privacy related things. This one seems like you can customize it, and the addon page tells you about other ad lists you can also apply. Importantly, the developer (gorhill on github) has had to deal with "acceptable ad" beggars, and shuts them down. The odds of this addon staying clean seem very high based on this.

Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

I don't know if this works with popular privacy or usability forks of Firefox and Chrome, and maybe some Palemoons and Comodos and Waterfoxes and whatevers can chime in with details.

The old Adblock Edge was a solid Firefox addon, but discontinued with a message to use uBlock Origin. The somewhat similar dramafilled uBlock (without the "origin") I think has no acceptable ads either, but I have a hard time googling that stuff.

** uBlock ** - This and uBlock Origin share a relatively recent codebase, but there are some developer disagreements. I couldn't find any evidence that uBlock uses acceptable ads, however, so definitely listing it:

Chrome Store: https://chrome.google.com/webs...
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

*What else has no acceptable ad option*???

I'd even be ok counting ones that have one that is disabled by default, something that uBlock Origin has fought off successfully.

Plenty of alternates to be found.

Google's code is still 'Don't be evil.'

https://investor.google.com/co...

Alphabet, the new company that Google is a part of, has it's own code that is the 'Do the right thing'.

But that's a much less interesting headline.

Billable hours are a myth. Lawyers just pull a figure out of their ass and multiply it by $xxx = PROFIT. https://www.google.com/search?...

“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be evil” is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect ref.

TFA references a youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) which references "my 2002 Volkswagen Jetta TDI." the VW diesel "cheats" only started in 2008.

WIthout facts TFA is rubbish.

Well, my HP48G is sitting at home. On a daily basis I use a HP48G Android App. Same thing. HP Prime looks interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... But I guess I am fine with the HP48G Android App and Sage Math Client App: https://play.google.com/store/... Yes, it was a nice calculator. But in theses days I don't need a calculator anymore. Neither do I need a watch or a camera. All these things a sufficiently done based on my needs by my Android phone.

I'm raising a glass of Resin as I write this.

https://www.google.com/patents...
"Random access information retrieval utilizing user-defined labels"
with reference to tape cartridges and Faxes...
Seems to be another patent based on class notes and white board disclosure.
This seems less inventive than a multi sided needle card sort.

Calibre application for android:
https://play.google.com/store/...

Not in the politically correct portions of Northern Europe.

Which is ironic since the use of 'man' to mean 'person' in English comes from German where 'man' means 'one' and 'Mann' means man. So man-made actually means 'person-made' not made by a male. So instead of making the language clunky perhaps we should just educate people as to what it really means otherwise next we'll end up having to use 'huperson' instead of 'human'.

Yeah, but we all know those Dutch Delta Flume guys probably only had one or two chicks on the team (and they got hired 'cus they were cute).

It's impossible to "educate" away connotations of words by explaining esoteric etymologies. Modern English is stuck with man = male. AUE on the subject.

The linked-to article used "artificial." Submitter should have just followed.

You can't see a world where people just insert their hand into a machine and a gcode nail printer paints on designs?

They already have those, and this is a perfect example of you being in your own little silo- it shows you don't understand the nail business (just one example) and the underlying reason why you cannot imagine a world where everyone doesn't wake up in the morning and start coding. Let me explain....

Most women don't go to a nail salon to interact with a machine. There are already nifty little machines that print nail designs on fingernails, and you won't ever find them in nail salons, period. Not because they don't work or because they're too expensive, but because that's not why most women go to a nail salon.

They go to be pampered and to chat and, dare I say it, gossip with their favorite nail gal. The whole "pampering" thing is the bread and butter of nail salons. Yes, they want the girl to do a good job but they really go there to be treated like a queen for an hour or so, to be attended and paid attention to, and listened to...etc etc.

They want a relaxing pedicure or manicure (something no machine can do yet) AND they want to be waited on hand and foot, literally hand and foot. They want to be pampered.

If they wanted to stick their hand in a box and have it do all the work, every nail salon would have these gadget. None of them do, because the women that go there want the personal touch, again, literally.

They don't want a box to print their nails, and that's the point you missed. I say all this because that whole concept applies to many industries, not just nail salons. Sure, some people would like a robot waiter but many want a real human being to interact with. The same goes for hair styling and a host of other service industries. Those people do not need to code and they do not want to learn to code.

I know it's difficult to imagine a world where not everyone uses a PC and needs to code stuff for it, but you're actually living in that world- you just can't see it.

Just like the doctors my wife works with were told when they were growing up. "You don't need to learn to type. You'll have someone do it for you".

You seem to conflate "typing" with the need and/or ability to "write code". That's just not the case.

Furthermore, I'd bet that damn few doctors actually do any coding or programming, ever. They'll hire someone to do it, because their job isn't to write code- their job is to work with patients. They don't want to fuck around with for-loops and function() calls, they want to treat patients.

If they need something coded they sure as shit aren't going to do it themselves- they'll hire someone. That's why you don't go to your mechanic for medical care. Sure, your mechanic could learn to do a physical exam and maybe diagnose your symptoms (maybe) but that's not what they do. They work on cars, and like doctors, if they need some code written 99.99999% of them will simply hire someone who will do it right, and in 1/100th the time it would take them.

That's why this "everybody needs to learn to code" crap is such utter nonsense. You work with computers, good for you, but not everyone does and of the people that do, most of them are not ever going to need or want to code anything, ever.

https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon FireTv app
https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon Music App

google does carry the Amazon apps.

https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon FireTv app
https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon Music App

google does carry the Amazon apps.

orking with a big MS Word document with a group of people using the "track changes" feature is a lot more painful than sharing a software project between a bunch of developers.

That's a format problem caused by a UI problem tied up with a training problem.

Use a format that is amicable to collected development and use. There are WYSIWYG TeX editors out there.

A lot of this is because we have a very particular definition of user friendly: can it be sold to someone with money but no skill.

Nope. The only monopolies the fashion industry has is their Trademark. This is why many brands include their trademark in the design. You can make an exact copy of a Nike sneaker with the exception of their Logo.

That's probably news to Nike.

First off, games that are optimized for pure eye candy strain current cards, yes. But you don't have to have teh bezt pozzible grafix for everything. Take Alien: Isolation - looked really good, but ran at excellent framerates even on older cards. And even has some vr support. Tradeoffs can be made to crank framerate, and not horrible tradeoffs. I can handle 2010 graphics on VR, it's not like those games looked bad.

And no, a $4000 PC isn't necessary. The official specs are more like $1K these days. In fact, definitely $1K.

And no, 120fps/eye isn't necessary. You need low latency, definitely, but not that low. The DK2 peaks at 76fps, and yet few people report sickness at that rate.

It looks like yes, maybe... I invite you to peruse a few links here:

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

Oddly, one appears to be by an Uber driver.

Not sure if serious or just trolling...

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

I hate companies that limit features to particular branded hardware for marketing rather than any actual technical reason.
This app allows you to use nvidia gamestream with other android devices:
https://play.google.com/store/...

As folks have tried to explain to you numerous times, AlecStaar, posting links to your own posts proves nothing except that you apparently know how to make links to your own posts.

You'd do well not to take infowars too seriously. Want a good laugh? Check out his y2k broadcast: https://www.google.com/?q=alex...