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WH visitor records indicate MassCAN Executive Director Jim Stanton was at the White House on the day Code.org 'taught President Obama to code' last December, and that he joined Google, Microsoft, and Code.org execs in a sit-down immediately afterwards with the head of the National Science Foundation. Stanton is also a Sr. Project Manager at Education Development Center (EDC leads MassCAN), which announced in March it had received a $6.5 million NSF grant to bring Berkeley’s Snap!-based The Beauty and Joy of Computing course to New York City high schools.

or these..

warning : nightmare fuel.
oh wait, I should have put the warning first.

Strelkov's VK and Twitter accounts had long been the official social media mouthpieces of the DNR and had never been questioned. Strelkov can be heard making the same boast in a video. Russian media embedded with the rebels also echoed their shootdown claim, adding “Ukrainian military claim that the losses were caused by actions by Russia. The militia refuted this information, correcting that they had shot down the plane from a ZRK ’9K37M1 (better known as a Buk).” Numerous Russian news sources, even ITAR-TASS, carried the story.

After the fact that it was a civilian plane came to light, Strelkov switched to conspiracy theory mode - still not changing from "we shot down the plane", but rather to the plane wasn't actually full of civilians but rather a bunch of already-dead bodies.

Strelkov's VK and Twitter accounts had long been the official social media mouthpieces of the DNR and had never been questioned. Strelkov can be heard making the same boast in a video. Russian media embedded with the rebels also echoed their shootdown claim, adding “Ukrainian military claim that the losses were caused by actions by Russia. The militia refuted this information, correcting that they had shot down the plane from a ZRK ’9K37M1 (better known as a Buk).” Numerous Russian news sources, even ITAR-TASS, carried the story.

After the fact that it was a civilian plane came to light, Strelkov switched to conspiracy theory mode - still not changing from "we shot down the plane", but rather to the plane wasn't actually full of civilians but rather a bunch of already-dead bodies.

True, but building reputation would be good, also. For an example of the need: Google search: Cisco problems.

People keep saying "273 feet in altitude," but that's not accurate. It's 273 feet in elevation above the point of takeoff, not altitude.

For posterity, I located what appears to be the street, Earlywood Way in Hillview, KY, and compared the point of takeoff in the video to the point of the shooting.

This link shows the view from the point of takeoff, in the foreground, to the point of the shooting, in the neighborhood in the background, and while it's difficult to estimate the elevation, he is clearly flying uphill. It's hard to say how much the terrain slopes without a topo map, but we can definitely say that he was *not* a full 273 feet above the house where the shooting occurred.

There have multiple cases of warrantless domestic spying by both the NSA and the FBI:

FBI:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articl...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01...

NSA:
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Apple, Google and other tech/communications companies also believe that the USA Federal Government is abusing the FISA warrants for both domestic and international cases:
https://www.google.com/search?...

The USA Government has long used evidence that is gathered without a warrant to direct their case so that they know where to look with a warrant. If they get caught they have to prove that they could have obtained the information a different way. After you know what you are looking for that is a pretty low barrier to overcome.

Not saying this is write or wrong, but it is definitely documented.

So, can you really expect to compile that and end up with something that you can load into your phone (and have it work?). No.

Yes, actually. The AOSP builds should work out of the box in the sense that you can load them onto an Android-compatible phone (with an unlocked bootloader) and run normal Android applications with the stock Android user interface. Some additional functionality may require the installation of closed-source drivers, most notably accelerated graphics and Wi-Fi. The closed-source drivers needed to run AOSP with full functionality on various Nexus devices are distributed for free by Google.

By contrast, while there are some open-source components in iOS, they only extend up to the UNIX core (Darwin) and do not include any of the user interface components. If you tried to build the open-source parts of iOS the result would not only be lacking support for various standard hardware (with no drivers available, open source or otherwise), it wouldn't even be an image you could load on your iPhone, and even if you manage to get a loadable image it wouldn't have a user interface. AOSP may lack the proprietary Google applications and open-source versions of some device drivers, but it otherwise comprises a complete operating system.

Apparently version 3 of the API downloads the hashed list to the client side rather than sending URL's to mother Google: https://developers.google.com/... So I think I'm going to leave it enabled on my machines. This is reasonable and actually a fairly decent service if that's true.

Huh? WTF is a "ghost bike"?

I guess you also ask 'WTF is "Google"?' too.

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

It looks like there is plenty of space offshore where wind is best built. But yes, it is much more expensive, and sucks for actual useful power generation.

Hydro? Are you insane? In 1975, an 18GB hydro-electric dam system in China failed, killing at least 170,000 people. And 11 million made homeless.

There are no safe energy sources. It's not about where the energy comes from. Energy itself is dangerous.

Ever see a wind turbine failure?

You obviously haven't spent too much time in linux or do it with rose colored glasses. Someone below posted about Ubuntu...here's my favorite from opensuse:

https://www.google.com/#q=opensuse+black+screen+after+boot

and Debian is a joke between me and my friends because of this kind of thing:

https://www.google.com/#q=debian+broken+packages

You obviously haven't spent too much time in linux or do it with rose colored glasses. Someone below posted about Ubuntu...here's my favorite from opensuse:

https://www.google.com/#q=opensuse+black+screen+after+boot

and Debian is a joke between me and my friends because of this kind of thing:

https://www.google.com/#q=debian+broken+packages

it's just http://testmy.net/ was Google yet they hid the fact, vs Flurry.com, it took some digging and many links from original ToS but you would find a Google ToS. A post reply was by one of the admins of how much they enjoyed working for Google, and I questioned the ToS; It was changed to a Google ToS; Changed now to: no clue (not read yet)

Read, it takes a link from "Third Parties & Use of Cookies" in the Privacy Policy to show it is a Google site http://www.google.com/policies...

No, I am not. I am saying his drone was trespassing on the property.

Drones cannot commit criminal trespass. From Kentucky law:

511.070 Criminal trespass in the second degree. (1) A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the second degree when he knowingly enters ...

A quad-copter is not a person, and the person who flew it did not enter until after the quad was shot down.

That depends on where you are.

That's why I quoted Kentucky law.

Well, that is not actually correct -
"In that case the court held that a plane flying just 83 feet in the air—the commotion was literally scaring the plaintiff’s chickens to death—represented an invasion of property. The justices declined to precisely define the height at which ownership rights end. Today, the federal government considers the area above 500 feet to be navigable airspace in uncongested areas. While the Supreme Court hasn’t explicitly accepted that as the upper limit of property ownership, it’s a useful guideline in trespass cases. Therefore, unless you own some very tall buildings, your private airspace probably ends somewhere between 80 and 500 feet above the ground."

Source:
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Dummies Article on the Topic:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...

Google Search With Many Articles:
https://www.google.com/search?...

What does all of this say - the Supreme Court has ruled you own at least 83 feet above your property. So no, all airspace is definitely not public. Hopefully this will lead towards a new ruling which will legal define how much airspace you own; opposed to it being left in a legal grey area for heights between 83 feet and 500 feet.

I guess you've never heard of Google Reverse Image Search then? It searches based on the contents of the image, not a direct binary comparison. It is quite awesome, in fact.

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

Whenever I see the typo "loose weight" in this comment section, all I can think of is:

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

They are quite cute, but I would rather lose weight.

This was my standard shell/Unix tool environment. At least until I upgraded to L...

Maybe my 11 gallon gas tank just isn't big enough for significant savings,

Why such a huge petrol tank? The one in my car (well, the wife's car ; I try to avoid driving when at all possible, which is almost always) is about 5 gallons (a bit over 50 litres ; I'm not sure what the conversion factor is for our gallons and I know it's different for American gallons).

50 liters is 13.2 US Gallons.

So is your tank 5 gallons (19 liters) or 50 liters? In any case, it's pretty hard to find a common production car in the USA with a tank much smaller than 11 gallons, even the two passenger Smart FourTwo has an 8.7 gallon tank, though it's not exactly a gas miser since other 4 passenger subcompacts get similar milage.

Such a huge fuel tank suggests that you've not made any substantial attempts at fuel economy previously. (My tank will carry me around 400 miles depending on speed. By which point I'm LONG over due for a coffee and piss stop.)

Your car gets 80 miles per gallon (400 miles per 5 gallon)? Or 8 miles per liter (400 miles per 50 liter)?

Extremely good point. We need some way to compensate those who do the work.

All the companies associated with Android seem badly managed. They get themselves involved in conflicts of interest. They do things that are, basically, hostile to the customers.

Google developed Android. Good. Then Google began using Android for more and more control. Bad. In response, companies like Samsung are developing their own cell phone OS versions, and also trying to take too much control.

On this Slashdot page, Google is trying to track me 4 different ways:
Google Tag Services, http://www.googletagservices.c...
Google Analytics
Google AdWords
Google DoubleClick, http://www.google.com/doublecl...

People are beginning to speak very negatively about Google because of the over-reaching corporate tactics.

A Google manager told me that the company doesn't know what to do with all the money it makes from advertising on Google search. So, the problem is not Google being poor.

It sure is nice for you that you can make billions of dollars by exploiting a Linux kernel made for free by volunteers and rebrand it Android

Nothing wrong with making money from free software. And so long as the changes are contributed back Linus himself is in favor of Tivoization with respect to the Linux kernel.

but where's my Bash shell, Google?

Right here.

Why do you have to use Free Software to deny me my Freedom, Google? Hey!! FUCK YOU, Google.

Here is your freedom, go nuts.

Bash shell is not a tool for the masses. However, at least one app that lets you have your shell. In fact, there's more than one.

For me, Linux is the OS, and the "Android" part is somewhat analogous to X11 on "normal" Linux.

Bash shell is not a tool for the masses. However, at least one app that lets you have your shell. In fact, there's more than one.

For me, Linux is the OS, and the "Android" part is somewhat analogous to X11 on "normal" Linux.

but where's my Bash shell, Google?

There's one here. Don't see why you can't build bash and install it on your Google Nexus yourself if you wanted to either.

While I don't mean to come across as a lazy cretin, or anything of the sort, I do have a penchant to dream about software perfection.

It stopped whatever was developing at the time. I grew up with a kid that had deformed arms because of it. Some of them live on today. Some were born without limbs, sometimes heads and so on. Don't click on this unless you're willing to see some *disturbing* things - https://www.google.com/search?...

Several neutrino observatories were built in the 1980s to measure the solar neutrino flux as accurately as possible, including the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and Kamiokande. Results from these observatories eventually led to the discovery that neutrinos have a very small rest mass and do indeed oscillate [change type]. Moreover, in 2001 the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was able to detect all three types of neutrinos directly, and found that the Sun's total neutrino emission rate agreed with the Standard Solar Model, although depending on the neutrino energy as few as one-third of the neutrinos seen at Earth are of the electron type. This proportion agrees with that predicted by the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect (also known as the matter effect), which describes neutrino oscillation in matter, and it is now considered a solved problem.

Some theorists have been ridiculed for pointing out the over-confidence in this claim.

Either you're using a VPN, or your IP address was recently reassigned from a block previously used by an ISP in the UK. You can try reporting the problem here, but as with most Google contact forms, it's a black hole and nobody will ever look at the report. Your best bet is to wait it out.

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

Has your been stolen and posted to YouTube?
Fill out this nice form and they will take it down.
https://support.google.com/you...

Nothing to see here; move along.

Well shit, that weren't hard.

Nice job, Rob(ert) Joseph Hamelin.

Nope. New Zealand. https://plus.google.com/106104557432351161774

Donald Trump it is.

I had a hell of a bug about 8 years ago. Clearly it was a use after free in kernel process running in VxWorks that zero'ed out memory it no longer owned. The way it was observed was when a memory 'free size node' pointer was set to 0, corrupting the memory AVL tree. We couldn't reliably hit it; it had to happen only if the corrupted memory happened to be appended to the free size nodes, which meant it was a discontiguous free'd memory region, and then you wouldn't see the problem until someone allocated memory that had the matching requested size of the corrupted node, which meant we never got the same stack trace twice. To test, we ran a simulation of the environment constantly destroying and re-instantiating the object structure, and would get about 1 hit every 12 hours. This program instantiated tens of thousands of objects from ~250 different classes. The bug was a misunderstood order in a class hierarchy destructor: one class's destructor cleared memory an inheriting class had already freed. Not a big deal to fix, but incredibly difficult to find. We invented this to find it: http://www.google.com/patents/... While I worked on this problem longer than anyone else, I sadly was not included on the patent. :(

The simple solution to that is this.

I ran it too and what the app told me wasn't immediately useful. When I checked on Google Play, others had said the same. So I installed Lookout Security's Stagefright detector and it not only told me my devices were vulnerable, it also linked to helpful instructions to change my settings and avoid the problem.

You can install it from here: https://play.google.com/store/...

Lookout's blog page has details about the app and how to make sure your messaging apps are safe from the exploit: https://blog.lookout.com/blog/...

If you use a third-party messaging app you will have to follow the general instructions given on the blog page to find the settings specific to your particular app. I should point out that Textra has already fixed the problem from their end. Here's what the app showed me: http://i.imgur.com/36G7o0t.png

I don't know if it's possible for someone to remotely install the Stagelight vulnerability on your device and then use the device to send exploited messages to everyone on your Contacts list, but if I thought of that then you can bet someone else will.

• Power density
• Charge time

It seems evident that nano technology would be able to make major inroads in the power density area, and quite possibly the charge time as well. I'm still waiting for someone to figure out an economical batacitor (Philip Jose Farmer) which appears to still be in the research phase.

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

Here ya go champ!

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I wonder if anyone bothered to check at Skybox Packaging, right next door to the prison.

Google's translation of the Chinese government press release:

https://translate.google.com/t...

Essential Characteristic pointed out that as China entered the Internet era, network security has become a matter of national security and social stability, the major issues related to economic development and people's working life. Strengthen their network of social management, maintaining network security is an important responsibility shouldered by the public security organs. In recent years, public security organs and net letter, the letter closely with other departments, in the community, especially the domestic focus of the website and Internet companies to actively participate in and support, continue to strengthen Internet security management, to crack down on illegal and criminal activities network, effectively protecting the Internet healthy and orderly development. Currently, with the rapid development of new Internet services for new applications, network and social reality highly integrated, maintaining network security task is still arduous. Network attacks, the spread of violent terrorist network information, network fraud, theft of personal information of Internet users, Internet pornography, gambling and other criminal activities and more hair, has become a prominent issue affecting national security and social stability.

Pretty run of the mill stuff for China. Not a lot different from the steps that Britain or Australia government are taking except for the obvious monitoring of political speech, which is nothing new
for China.

I regret to inform there was only 1 issue ... the readers kept applying the advice (*shock*) and thus was no demand for future issues.

How to live a meaningful life

Vol. 1, Issue 1.

Far too many people waste away their life complaining about X. They are unaware there are only 2 types of people:

1. Achievers: The ones making an effort to live their dreams one step at a time , and
2. Dreams: Everyone else, who complains that they never have enough time, money, or excuse ___ of the month. They spend the majority of the time wasting away their life watching other famous people.

The secret to living a meaningful life starts with a Healthy Body and Healthy Mind.

1. Quit filling your mind up with junk
Limit mindless entertainment to a few hours a week. Be it TV, movies, games, News, etc. Seriously, knowing which Hollywood actor divorced who, or who slept with who, does fuck all for your life.

2. Watching documentaries or TED is a great way to keep the mind up-to-date with meaningful content.

3. With all the free extra time you because you cut out all the crap in your life
- pursue hobbies
- spend more time outside
- spend more actual face time with loved ones, family, parents, friends
- read more
- exercise more
- bicycle more
- walk more

4. Holy Trinity of Exercise
The 3 disciplines of: Yoga, Martial Arts, Weight Lifting complement each other very well. If you can't do all 3, pick one.

5. Diet
As we get older we get fatter and slower. Cut out all High Fructose Corn Syrup. Read all ingredients to see if it is the first one. If mouthwash has alcohol skip it. Favor natural and organic products to "plastic" food. Try Raw. Limit fatty foods.

6. Practice Spirituality
Whatever path you take, Theism, or Atheism, is largely irrelevant because they are both incomplete. All that matters is that you always keep seeking -- learning and applying your philosophy in all areas of your life.

7. Secret to Happiness
Remove False Expectations

8. Keep pondering the big stuff, and enjoy the little moments.

9. Smile, Laugh, and Love more. It is the world's best medicine and miracle.

10. Remove negative influences, and focus on the positive.
Replace your vocabulary of "problem" with "opportunity"

11. Enjoy *your* life, not other's fake life.

Try this:

Clinton warned Bush about Al-Qaeda

This announcement of 10Gbits to 100Gbits is not impressive .. that is a typical server connection these days.

Heck, in March the first residential 10G/10G Internet connection was delivered here in Norway from Bayonette, source via Google translate. They have a 24xGbit hub with 2x10G for expansion and instead give you a direct line. Note that it mistranslates the prices, it's 5999 NOK = $727/month for 10G, 3-400 NOK = $36-50 for 1G so I'd call it mostly a publicity stunt but for a dedicated research network it's peanuts.

Now 100 Gbit is a bit more exotic but I know "The Gathering", a 5000 people data party had a 100 Gbit Internet connection in 2011 (10x10G bonded) as a publicity stunt though they never peaked beyond 20 GBit/s actual usage. So yeah in 2015 I'd say this sounds mostly like off the shelf technology, of course getting it rolled out into actual production use is nice. But clearly this is about bandwidth to research other things, not state of the art in networking technology.

Turns out, high up in the stratosphere the winds are predictable and have just the patterns they need. They did simulations using real-world wind data and found it was quite feasible to navigate balloons effectively to maintain coverage using only prevailing winds.

Since 2012 they've been trialling in New Zealand, Brazil and other places, they've increased balloon flight times from 50 days to over 6 months (despite expert scepticism), and now they're close to ready to roll out a commercial service. Pretty sure they've done their research by now.

Turns out, high up in the stratosphere the winds are predictable and have just the patterns they need. They did simulations using real-world wind data and found it was quite feasible to navigate balloons effectively to maintain coverage using only prevailing winds.

Since 2012 they've been trialling in New Zealand, Brazil and other places, they've increased balloon flight times from 50 days to over 6 months (despite expert scepticism), and now they're close to ready to roll out a commercial service. Pretty sure they've done their research by now.

Recipe: https://docs.google.com/spread...

I realize after looking at it again (it's been awhile), that I was unintentionally a bit disingenuous about it being nutritionally complete. It's more so than most DIY...but not totally. I'm still trying to find a good source for Vitamin K and I'm a little short in iron, chloride, and carbs (I forgot about that). I do make that up those deficiencies by a sensible dinner, so please don't rely solely on my recipe for nutrition.

The bulk of the cost comes from the almond flour. I'm still trying to find a better source for that. The spreadsheet also contains links to information on how I calculated various aspects of the recipe.

Also, everybody's different so consult your doctor or have your blood work done before and after a trial run. This works well for me, but may not for you. That sounds like a legal disclaimer, but as a good netizen, I don't want anyone to get sick from something I posted on the web.

Well, the rise and fall of public interest in Google+ was all within 2 months of its launch. So yes, you're excused for missing it.

Poking about, the topo map that matches the area of Hillview KY (as shown in the video):
topo map
Google maps of the same area

The drone was launched from the structure SE of the square pond.

That area is rather flat. Unless one was standing on top of something, I'm not sure how to get a relative -50 feet.

Without the actual video, it is difficult to say if the telemetry was correct and accurate in the first place.