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I googled "high yield mutual fund" for you. here it is Enjoy your "free" gas.

Evolution is a theory, of course, created to explain a great many observations. It does extremely well. The key word there is "macroevolution", which is a term I've never seen used by people who have any understanding of the science.

what's all this I hear about "mackerel evolution"? https://books.google.com/books...

"Here thou haveth two tokens .. Enjoy thine stay!" source

"Aye, I knowst 'bout the History .. I wast intrested to know .. Thank thou, Madam Camorea." source

Like nails on a frickin' chalkboard. And sadly not at all hard to find.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, it can be mildly addictive. Their claims are modest, and credible.

        http://www.drugabuse.gov/publi...

It's difficult to estimate the frequency of contamination of marijuana with other substances. But fairly frequent contamination is documented in "Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutic Potential", By Ethan B Russo

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

Ethan cites Johnson's old study of 8000 samples, with a wide array of contaminants, including tobacco and PCP. Johnson's study was from 30 years ago: an article in the Smithsonian magazine from March, 2015 cites the increasing levels of heavy metals and mold in modern marijuana:

          http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

So I'm afraid that the idea that pot is automatically uncontaminated and therefore safer than tobacco is ill-founded. It may be _less_ harmful, and have a _lower_ level of contamination. But it's apparently quite frequent to find things in actual testing that should not be in pot for human use.

1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.

2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.

None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.

I'm sure that ALL of these benchmarks are done by Apple shills.

Right.

Oh, and whiner, I found this and this about the memory subsystem in the iPhone 6s. Glad you asked!

That's not particularly interesting by itself; although it does hint at valid question -- is fewer faster cores better or worse than more slower cores a better strategy in a smart phone? Real world use will answer that... benchmarks not really.

My first question was, is the phone software rigged to identify benchmark code and execute it faster? (E.g., lower precision math, pre-configured answers, etc.) Like the VWs ...? Will the iPhone 6s emit scads of nitrogen oxides in your face while you use it, unless you're running a benchmark on it?

Many years ago, I recall hearing about the GNU C compiler, I think it was, that recognized when it was compiling one of the standard benchmark packages and highly optimized the output because it knew what it was supposed to be.

http://techrights.org/2013/08/...

https://groups.google.com/foru...

If you look at this nice little map of supercharger locations https://www.google.com/maps/d/... you will see that where I live in Morgantown, Wv it is farther than 400 miles to the closest existing charger, so while I would love to have a viable electric car, especially a tesla, it is not a possibility here.
Even their projected future rollout would be useless to me. http://www.plugincars.com/site...
While I would technically be within 400 miles we are talking about WV roads. Our average road grade is higher than the worst in almost all other states, which will kill a battery quickly.

Here is Google's official description of the feature: "If you don't want Google Chrome to save a record of what you visit and download, you can browse the web in incognito mode."

What if I don't want Google to save a record of what I visit and download?

Opt out. Google provides tools to enable it. https://support.google.com/ads.... Note that you can find that page by clicking "Privacy" at the bottom of http://www.google.com/ and then following the links embedded in the explanation of the issues.

And, yes, Google takes opt outs very seriously. A Google service found to be ignoring the opt outs would be considered to have a critical, don't-go-home-until-it's-fixed bug.

(I'm a Google engineer. I'm in no way an official spokesman, and speaking only for myself. But the comment on the priority of respecting opt outs reflects my personal experience of how such issues are handled.)

Here is Google's official description of the feature: "If you don't want Google Chrome to save a record of what you visit and download, you can browse the web in incognito mode."

What if I don't want Google to save a record of what I visit and download?

Opt out. Google provides tools to enable it. https://support.google.com/ads.... Note that you can find that page by clicking "Privacy" at the bottom of http://www.google.com/ and then following the links embedded in the explanation of the issues.

And, yes, Google takes opt outs very seriously. A Google service found to be ignoring the opt outs would be considered to have a critical, don't-go-home-until-it's-fixed bug.

(I'm a Google engineer. I'm in no way an official spokesman, and speaking only for myself. But the comment on the priority of respecting opt outs reflects my personal experience of how such issues are handled.)

First let me say that this change is urgently needed.

But, it's unlikely that automakers who build gasoline cars are cheating like VW did. It's especially difficult to clean NOx from diesel engine exhaust because unlike gasoline engines, the exhaust contains lots of extra oxygen. Diesels need special NOx-cleaning devices which add cost and weight, and can seriously limit performance in some situations. Gasoline engines just need minor modifications to the engine computer software and the catalytic converter to clean NOx, so there's very little need to cheat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.google.com/patents/...

i'm glad you brought this up because I was wondering just today...
is it therefore impossible to use catalytic converters on diesels for the NOx like we do on gasoline cars? Is it because there is more to clean up? Or is it because they don't want to clog up the exhaust?

First let me say that this change is urgently needed.

But, it's unlikely that automakers who build gasoline cars are cheating like VW did. It's especially difficult to clean NOx from diesel engine exhaust because unlike gasoline engines, the exhaust contains lots of extra oxygen. Diesels need special NOx-cleaning devices which add cost and weight, and can seriously limit performance in some situations. Gasoline engines just need minor modifications to the engine computer software and the catalytic converter to clean NOx, so there's very little need to cheat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.google.com/patents/...

Many Diseasels have a NOx cleaning device, it's called Urea Injection. Its a system that adds a Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) to the Catalytic Converter that reduces pollutants, more specifically it converts NOx into water (H2O) and Nitrogen (N2).

DEF is more commonly know by it's commercial name, AdBlue.

VW is pretty much the only manufacturer not to use urea injection (as it adds cost, complexity and maintenance costs which are considered poison to people tight fisted enough to buy diesel passenger cars). VW used to maintain that their engines were magically cleaner and didn't need to use urea injection, I guess we know where the magic came from.

Teachering is a brilliant word and is used more commonly than you would seem to realize. Or did you not realize languages evolve.

I know - I was engagerating in a lot of chuklefication when he wroteified that.

what kind of idiot can't figure out how fuel injection works? Besides spider mani mean.

Never blame the human for mangling that autocorrect hath most probably wrought.

On a side note, you are just the kind of pretentious stuck-up grammar nazi that we would all expect to back the slow moving train wreck that is modern public school.

On a further side note, Teachering is a brilliant word and is used more commonly than you would seem to realize. Or did you not realize languages evolve.

nothing mysterious about this.
Obama's budgets have ALWAYS given loads of money to Commercial space to try and build out multiple launchers. However, the GOP has gutted it over and over.
You can google for NASA budget on parabolic arc
And what is the repercussion of the GOP's cuts to the commercial space? Well, it means that a LOT more money has to flow to Putin to fly astronauts to the ISS. Most importantly, America cut a deal whereby we pay for all non-russians that fly there. So, at this time, the GOP is forcing us to pay 70-80 million / seat that goes to the ISS. And what does Russia pay? Nothing. WHy? Because 2 of the seats are occupied by westerners while the 3rd is a Russian, and it costs 140 M to launch. IOW, We are paying for EVERYBODY to go to the ISS.

So, rather than us paying for Russian flights to the ISS, it would actually be CHEAPER for us to pay commercial space to finish this development, then it is for us to spend this money on the Russians. The GOP KNOWS this (as does mark), but they do not care. Instead, they want desperately to kill off SpaceX.

Imagine that Electricity is Slashdot and Light is Google. You can pose your question using Light, or you can pose your question using Electricity, but you will get your answer much faster if you pose it using Light!

I just did a Google image search of IPCC vs observed. You can find tons of examples and articles about it. I didn't want to link to an article because as soon as you do here suddenly the "You linked to a site I don't like and can't be trusted." even if the graph in the article is completely accurate.

Goolgle search for that other guy with made up JS issues.

See, they are so bad they have to try and scare you into not even looking at a link to an image they don't want to be seen. Inconvenient truth indeed.

By the way... I don't care if the public knows what I think about you. But you removed the contexts. Yet again. It's very telling that you didn't include any of the things that prompted those opinions from me. No context. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-09-25]

The context is that you were cussing at me because I refuted Latour's Sky Dragon Slayer nonsense. From the same conversation:

... if you can actually, successfully complete a refutation of Latour, and show us, and it checks out, I will be happy to declare to everyone that I was wrong and you were right about that issue. You have my word. I will shout it out loud. I'll admit it here on Slashdot and even open a Twitter account and post it there. ... [Jane Q. Public, 2014-09-09]

Jane/Lonny, you gave your word that you would declare to everyone that you were wrong about Latour's Sky Dragon Slayer claims. But over a year later you still haven't, even after seeming to realize your Slayer claims violate "kindergarten-level physics". That's how much Lonny's "word" is worth.

@DanaRohrabacher He has expressed the view that a scientist is only a worthy human being if he/she agrees with DumbSci. Else a criminal. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-09-25]

Unbelievable! Lonny baselessly whines about being "libeled" and maliciously lies about me to a member of Congress. Lonny can't link to me expressing that disgusting view, because I never did. Lonny Eachus is lying again. As usual, he's projecting his own hysterical claims:

YOU should be put in jail for the ethical equivalent of shouting "fire" in a crowded theater... when there wasn't a fire. THAT DOES HARM. Real cost, real damage. You're a criminal. And not in some hypothetical future, but right now. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-07-10]

In contrast, I've politely disagreed with scientists without once calling anyone a criminal or a "despicable human being" (presumably meaning "not worthy") like Jane/Lonny Eachus does.

@DanaRohrabacher You might ask him about his own comments re: scientists like Roy Spencer, Judith Curry, John Christy, Richard Lindzen, etc. [Lonny Eachus, 2015-09-25]

Why? I've said Dr. Spencer is wrong. Lonny also clai

First let me say that this change is urgently needed.

But, it's unlikely that automakers who build gasoline cars are cheating like VW did. It's especially difficult to clean NOx from diesel engine exhaust because unlike gasoline engines, the exhaust contains lots of extra oxygen. Diesels need special NOx-cleaning devices which add cost and weight, and can seriously limit performance in some situations. Gasoline engines just need minor modifications to the engine computer software and the catalytic converter to clean NOx, so there's very little need to cheat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.google.com/patents/...

The question I would ask in response is why is nuclear so expensive?

It costs a lot to build, but proved cost effective over time. Existing plants are very economical, we need to keep them going and not let market shifting policies force them out.

Cost of Exiting Generation - IEA REPORT – 2015

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

EXISTING NUCLEAR: $50/MWH
EXISTING WIND : VARIES BETWEEN 45 and 140 $/MWH
EXISTING SOLAR: VARIES BETWEEN 150 and 300 $MWH

Or just install Tinfoil for Facebook which is just a wrapper on the mobile site and fairly limited in terms of the permissions needed.

i'd say that's an adequate summation of my stance. you can already ask google to uncache i think.

https://support.google.com/web...

if it's personal of that nature, you know outside the bounds of journalistic integrity, i think they already had stuff in place to remove their listing of it. They still recommend you contact the actual webmaster for obvious reasons, but they would remove anything that a responsible journalist wouldn't report.

i'd say with the picture thing, if you've waived your rights to the picture, explicitly or implicitly, those rights are no longer your own. Part of that is expedience too, photos taken of a crowd at a public event for example. I think the courts in the US have ruled that
https://asmp.org/tutorials/fre...
photojournalism is too hard if you have to worry about everybody.

Also, in public places you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy... which is slightly sticky with upskirt photos, photos at swimming pools etc. still being grappled with by courts of various states.

who owns pictures has always been a sticky subject.

It's hard to see what someone could do to hack these devices.

It's only hard if you don't have access to google, which will give you pages and pages on hacks known to be possible on smart meters, hacks which are believed to be possible with these meters in particular, etc. When did you forget how to internet?

Trying to figure out the tech, reference was made to this

http://www.google.com/patents/...

whereby for this particular application they have put "probes" for specific sequences of all known viruses on "tiles" of a rectangular area. In general, the tech could be used for RNA, DNA, proteins, and more

Well let's hope the developers understood the requirements better than you did.

There are well distributed standards https://books.google.com/books?id=kSfYd2Pj9V4C&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=iafis+fingerprint+coding&source=bl&ots=Q1f4Nflk3-&sig=pfnpUmRgTKqKiBOpevgyQgunXrI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBmoVChMI3aT4_5mOyAIVijo-Ch1lqAD7#v=onepage&q=iafis%20fingerprint%20coding&f=false for AFIS and IAFIS encoding of prints. It's a good thing they aren't using some proprietary encoding or they'd have a lot more trouble testifying about it when they go to court.

https://www.google.com/maps/di...

Here's a link that describes the solar system's roads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Here is your explanation, moron

This is a discussion about ethernet.
You gave a link about wireless networks.
On a switch with MAC address secured ethernet ports, you have to use the assigned MAC address on that port.
Spoofing a MAC and plugging into a different port does not work.
You would have to spoof the MAC and unplug the existing device and plug in your device into that same port.
MAC filtering is not useless on ethernet; it makes unauthorized access much more difficult.

Here is your explanation, moron

Bottom line is, there's little doubt that KO pumped Americans full of carcinogens for decades.

Yet somehow, life expectancy continues to rise...

> (1) They haven't judicially defined what constitutes public interest -- because they can't because it's subjective, and making such a decision would piss everyone off and demonstrate the absurdity of the law. So there's no legal test for yes/no.

It's decided by a court, so yes there is a legal test.

Since May 29 2014 there have been 318,560 requests covering 1,130,431 URLs.
41.6% - 470,259 - of those URLs have been delisted.
Are you honestly suggesting that a court reviewed all 318,560 requests?
Discounting weekends there have been 386 non weekend days since this started.
That's 185280 minutes assuming a full 8 hours day.
To process 318,560 cases a single court would have to do 1.71 cases/minutes every minute they've been open since this started.
If you factor in holidays etc this number likely going to go over 2 cases/minute.

This very clearly is NOT what's happening.

http://www.google.com/transpar...

Yesterday it was broken iPhone VPN, today it's hacked apps via xcode. Blah blah blah. Real techs use Android.

Ahem. As was pointed out yesterday on Slashdot to a Fandroid who made pretty much the same claim...

Volkswagen is not the first to write software that recognizes and adapts to the condition of being under test. Some 22 years ago my boss came downstairs and slapped an open copy of Infoworld on my desk. "How 'bout them apples?" He said. There was a gleam in his eye.

The article was the 8-Mar-1993 hardware column written by Steve Gibson (thanks Google!) and it created a novel scandal in the industry. Once again, a particular graphics card exhibited stellar -- even bizarre -- performance on the popular Winbench test.

Gibson and other had been tracking down and exposing a series of graphic benchmark cheats that turned out to be various tweaks in the software drivers that shipped with graphics cards, to exploit benchmark programs in various ways. He set his debugger on the driver but failed to find any point where the code branched during the test condition... and yet, his video hardware snoop clearly discerned that the card was deferring multiple writes of a certain text string "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back and sat on a tack." It turned out that this benchmark cheat had been written in as part of the microcode in the chip itself.

These days that might not seem so incredible, but remember. Flashable firmware is now the rule and chipsets are almost always designed with more than enough slack memory for field fixes and protocol upgrades, even (gasp!) malware. Many high level operations are pipelines to chip level directly. There's lots of elbow room, even double plus memory if you wish to keep the previous version in flash for a smooth rollback. But in the ROM days there was this unspoken assumption that such high-level antics as recognizing and adapting to test conditions at the chip level would be too difficult. This scandal swept that assumption under the rug. I especially like the manufacturer's sort-of confession, that those clever engineers of his were always coming up with new ways to get good WinBench scores. It was actually funny.

The next version of Winbench wrote random gobblegook to the screen instead.

Volkswagen shouldn't be laughing though about how easy it is to cheat, on the eve of self-driving cars. Neither should lab technicians testing for salmonella at peanut butter manufacturing plants.

. They are however allowed at schools

Not so much anymore. Many schools are starting "clear bags only" policies. Because of all the violence and drugs that they suffer from.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news...

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

Yes, please use Android.

Whoops: https://code.google.com/p/andr...

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!! That's GREAT!!!!

And as soon as one neuron fires, it is no longer in the same state.

No. If the net has learned nothing, it's behavior will remain indistinguishable from the default state. Random static electricity can cause a neon tube to fire as well, but that doesn't mean it's conscious, even if another tube fires due to the stimulus.

Certainly, no matter how many neurons randomly fire, it is not going to learn self vs. not-self. The concept won't be there because without external stimulus there is no information about not-self. No self, no sentience. Sentience is generally believed to be required for suffering to exist. Where there is no possibility of suffering, there is no ethical or moral duty to not cause that suffering.

If you prefer to argue for consciousness, please see this. I see no definition there that can be satisfied without at least a history of external stimulus of some sort.

Yes, please use Android.

Whoops: https://code.google.com/p/andr...

I'd like to see more about app permissions like the old Android Market listing

The permissions are still listed. Crossy Road , the endless Frogger-clone that's become popular on Google Play. Scroll down to "Permissions" and click "View details". Or are you asking for some sort of rich privacy policy where each permission is justified with an immediately adjacent rationale, such as "Uses camera to scan barcodes" or "Uses phone state to pause gracefully when a phone call is received"?

and only whitelisting certain sites for apps to connect to

I don't see how this can be effective, as the app may use one of those whitelisted "certain sites" as a proxy.

https://productforums.google.c...

"I am seeing "certified by Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd when I point cursor to googlemail. Is it normal or fishy?"

First off this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jackie+chan+wrong&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Next off for some actual support: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/09/california-governor-schools-gop-presidential-candidate-on-climate-change/

Drops mic. Leaves.

Just avoid the less reputable ones until you learn the basics of computer use, like not installing dodgy cracked apps

I agree: someone new to Android should stick to the reputable repositories, which are Google Play, Amazon, and F-Droid, and avoid any app that seeks administrative permissions unless required by an employer. But if there are two apps for reading Cracked on a reputable store, how do I know which are and aren't dodgy? There's the official app but also a third-party app.

Just avoid the less reputable ones until you learn the basics of computer use, like not installing dodgy cracked apps

I agree: someone new to Android should stick to the reputable repositories, which are Google Play, Amazon, and F-Droid, and avoid any app that seeks administrative permissions unless required by an employer. But if there are two apps for reading Cracked on a reputable store, how do I know which are and aren't dodgy? There's the official app but also a third-party app.

My understanding of x509 is that google is supposed to generate signing reqs

Anyone can generate a CSR+keypair for "*.google.com".
It's up to the CA to validate the request before signing it.

In this case, it was the CA itself that generated the bogus CSR, then signed it, then let the keypair leak into the wild.
Nice job Thawte!

https://play.google.com/store/... came with my phone. Seems to be fine, though it too chatty for my liking. I'm not sure if it's a speed app that talks about security, or a security app that talks about speed. It seems to mainly work by shutting down background processes. Though it's domination of the running apps to make sure nothing is running, so it extends battery life, takes more battery life than the background apps did. But I haven't really played around with it much, came with the last update, and didn't get in the way too much.

That's a sorely-neglected work in progress I need to get back to when I'm not trying to learn programming, more project management, whatever the hell's going on in the fantasy novels I'm reading, and playing with my bees.

So far I've only organized and written in the source of wealth through labor, with commentary on how close and how far Adam Smith came to the same conclusions. I haven't gotten into the formal declaration of how wealth is defined, how scarcity comes about, what inflation is, or how to describe these things in strict terms of cost, price, buying power, wealth, and the like without using nebulous and abstract terms such as value.

I also haven't written anything on the impacts of time--the movements of consumer markets and the displacement of employment, and how the amount of unemployment created in a short time impacts the time required to converge once more onto maximum sustainable employment--and the analysis between linear and superlinear production expansion that describes scarcity, in terms of the immediate effects on employment (i.e. Industrial Revolution destroying employment vs. Information Age creating employment).

Whenever somebody tells you they've got it all in their head, you should recognize immediately the simple problem of them not writing that shit down. If nothing else, I should have an outline and some rough notes by now.

here's what i got.

I'm pretty sure that most users will not get the patch for a very long time, if ever, due to carriers not caring one bit about updating in a timely manner.

This. It seems that the US carriers rarely send out OS updates for the many security updates. This needs to change.

That change can be had TODAY.

Fixed that link for you.

Really? Looks like a broken link to me. ;-)

They can. Visit this page from your iPhone, sign in with your Google account, click "Write a Review".

You know Switzerland has not done anything of the sort, right? All that happened is that about 125000 people signed a petition asking for a referendum on the matter... which is to be held in 2016. https://www.google.com/?#safe=off&q=switzerland+basic+income

Why would you lie on the internet, when anyone can prove you wrong after a 10 second search?

I'm pretty sure that most users will not get the patch for a very long time, if ever, due to carriers not caring one bit about updating in a timely manner.

This. It seems that the US carriers rarely send out OS updates for the many security updates. This needs to change.

That change can be had TODAY.

Fixed that link for you.

US population 318.9M:

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

Bill Gates $79.2 B:

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

= $248.35

Please, don't pull numbers out of your ass when they are so easily accessible.