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it's an usb ethernet dongle.

like, woah!

But its an OTG usb ethernet dongle!
Yes, people have been doing this for ages, with a Y-adapter and dongle.
You can get both parts for less than $5 delivered on ebay etc. The only trick is figuring out which ones have the ASIX chip (or, more likely, a clone).

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

This new option is certainly more elegant.

According to the suspect's father, the bomb scare started after his 18-year-old son was arrested for trespassing, entering an abandoned warehouse and salvaging mercury switches...

That fenced-off warehouse may look abandoned, but that doesn't make it your personal salvage yard.

It's been a long time since the home chemist has been encouraged to muck around with mercury; scavenging industrial sites for mercury in any quantity makes you a "person of interest" to the police, to say the least.

Fun with Quicksilver, Unusual stunts you can do from Freakish Quicksilver 1939 and 1934, respectively.

''He's not building bombs. He does do a lot of experiments. A lot of them I don't fully understand, but I'm certain he's not making bombs,'' said the suspect's father, Allen Mason.

This is a tad less reassuring than it might be.

A medical application: how about using this (or a similar) device to pull foreign objects stuck in people's vital organs?

This guy had a pitchfork 'tooth' stuck under his eye, 10 cm of it entered his brain. Doctors were able to remove the object successfully this time.

Who knows, another time it could be more difficult. Attach the object to this reduction gearing device and slooooowwlyy pull it out, letting the blood clot or even tissue scar in process maybe.

Some women thought it was a good idea to register with local retail (Sears, OfficeMax, Healthcare employment certification (nurse??) using the same gmail address as mine, but with a few periods in it. Thing is, it's *not* her address, but it still goes to me.

No lady, I don't care that you purchased a new Washer Dryer combo. No, I don't care that you signed up for job training. Being that you can't possibly check for e-mail using this address, WHY DO YOU GIVE IT OUT!! Really really dumb!

https://support.google.com/mai...

Microsoft has been dodging WA State taxes at least since 1997 by redirecting ALL of its profits to a shell company in Nevada.
This petition here has a good analysis here showing running totals between $2.1 BILLION to $8.4 BILLION in dodged taxes.

Microsoft has effectively corrupted and captured the WA State's government, which routinely passes legislation to forgive Microsoft's back taxes, some as large as $100M a year, at times where the state is running deep into deficits.

Offering to "voluntarily" "contribute" 28M annually is like robbing a bank and then "offering" to return a few cents on the dollar.

The Japanese figured out all the algorithm you need to drive in Boston way back in the 60's.

Nah. It doesn't say anything about pickup trucks, momma, dogs, or the rain.

David Allen Coe

Great example of our technology out-pacing our wisdom. What many people label "lying" is actually misremembering. Our biological memory-retrieval systems are extremely bad. Every time you remember something, your brain is rewriting the memory, meaning the more you remember an event the more your brain distorts it.

This happens over and over again in our courts, people honestly remember things completely wrong and we call them liars. The film "Rosemary's Baby" is based on a true story of ritualistic child abuse, except the "real" story was entirely implanted in the minds of everyone involved by psychologists. Even the accused were convinced they were guilty. It's absurdly easy for a psychologist to implant false memories of our childhoods in experiments.

The wording in this post unnerves me. The older I get and the more digital the world becomes, the more I learn that I misremember 60% of what has happened in my life. If technology is used to prosecute anyone who makes a statement that contradicts hard factual data, then many innocent people will be prosecuted. We need our scientific wisdom to catch up to our cognitive biases.

Women purchase the vast majority of consumer products, including half of "traditional male" products. So, it would make sense that the majority of ads would also be targeted at women. If the majority of ads are targeted at women, then the chance of any one woman seeing a particular ad is reduced compared to the chance that a man would see the same ad (assuming, of course, that the ad in question targets both men and women).

Also, I'm not sure what "LMOL" means, but your reply was one of the dumbest ever. If you don't have anything intelligent to add, just keep your mouth shut instead of letting everyone know that you have nothing intelligent to say.

The only thing dumber than Elop tanking Nokia was Microsoft purchasing Nokia

Nokia was tanking, hard, long before Elop came on board. It was why the former CEO was fired. This is Nokia's stock price since 2008, can you spot where Elop entered and "tanked Nokia"?

Tell that to:

Automattic
Mozilla
GitHub
Basecamp (formerly 37signals) (who even wrote a book about how great remote working can be)

along with a myriad of other companies who work either entirely remotely, or have very liberal policies around remote working.

Most, if not all of whom, can be considered to be quite successful within their field.

Looks like some interesting stuff in there for Android, but none of it will now qualify for the Android Security Rewards Program: "Bugs initially disclosed publicly, or to a third-party for purposes other than fixing the bug, will typically not qualify for a reward." Source: http://www.google.com/about/ap...

i watched an interview with linus torvalds where he showed off his programming walking desk (treadmill/desk combo).

i think that is the best solution and i'm planning to do the same for my new study (current one doesn't have enough room). he reckons a "zombie shuffling mode" aka walking at 1 mph is the top speed at which he can comfortably read, type and use mouse on his computer.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...
https://plus.google.com/+Linus...

Will the journal file format be standardized? Where can I find an explanation of the on-disk data structures?

At this point we have no intention to standardize the format and we take the liberty to alter it as we see fit. We might document the on-disk format eventually, but at this point we don’t want any other software to read, write or manipulate our journal files directly. The access is granted by a shared library and a command line tool. (But then again, it’s Free Software, so you can always read the source code!)

Well, our president says it at least once a year and everyone is impressed by his accountability. Since this is what now counts as accountability, Pao has done a great job.

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

Because, if we talk about why a woman has three kids of unknown paternity at all, it reflects badly on her life choices and since that is her choice, we as a society must accept it. Anything else is "hate".

As in, this fictitious woman, I must hate her for even mentioning she might exist somewhere, as you have already implied in your post ... " my convenient self-serving narrative is not instantly and universally accepted as true and relevant"

The fact is, there is such a person, somewhere out there. The fact that you can't figure out hyperbole mixed in with my point, is proof that you are incapable of having a rational discussion. Your response is one of pure emotion. (I rest my case)

And there is probably more than one, since similar people are trotted out by the "Living Wage" proponents all the time. So, if it isn't true, then the "living wage" people are lying about it being "normal" and we don't need a "living wage" to help support this non-real person.

The lie is either we accept anecdotal evidence or we don't. Pick one. If it is acceptable for proponent of the cause you support ("living wage") then it is equally acceptable to use that as a case against it.

Please don't try to convince me that the proponents don't use such people in their propaganda.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes....

FYI, I realize that I violated my own rules on talking to supporters of "Living Wage" because they are simpletons. In simple terms, for my point to be valid, there must exist more than zero people that fit this description, and for your point to be valid there has to be none. Having watched any number of day time talk shows "Who's your baby's daddy?" I am confident that there exists at least one that resembles ...

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

Yes. That was 40 years before any talk of the Euro. So what's that got to do with "designing a currency"?

The EU disagrees with you

Winston Churchill calls for a "kind of United States of Europe" in a speech he gives at the University of Zurich.

Perhaps you would like to learn about it ?

http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

  Or are you going to say you can have a united states circa 1945 without a national currency ?

Did New York and Detroit benefit equally from the same national monetary and trade policies ?

Probably not, but what's that got to do with "designing" a currency, or Greece?

LOL I have to wonder if you are stupid or trolling ? If you are this dense

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

Go to town. If you're a troll well at this point I am done feeding you.

>> people can start translating the comments in the source code from Italian to English!

Really, you can't follow the code without English comments?

>> will this help bona fide security researchers with their work on fighting exploits on all platforms?

It gives us a couple more signatures to look for. I'm really getting sick of the "fake driver" vector though; it's 2015 and still trivial to get Windows platforms to cough up anything you'd want. As long as AV vendors ignore things like this (e.g., https://www.google.com/webhp?s...) it will continue to be easy for nearly anyone to write their own "advanced persistent threat."

Comments often contain all kinds of juicy info. Its not about following the code its about getting insights into all kinds of non-code related things.

... The desks are dropping in price, but I can still see myself dropping upward of $1k on this, easily.

Sure... or you can build your own standing desk, with a bit of lumber and/or various parts. My own standing desk is hand-made woodwork, and cost significantly less than any of those mass produced items you'll find at the stores or on Amazon -- but more importantly, it's custom built to my exact needs. If you're at all good with your hands, I recommend that you skip right past the furniture stores entirely, and head to your local lumber yard instead.

(Oh... and if you're not good with your hands, go ahead and follow that link anyway. There are several links in the search results with simple and cheap solutions which require just a bit of creativity, and little else.)

It would be simpler to just say HUEHUEHUE

>> people can start translating the comments in the source code from Italian to English!

Really, you can't follow the code without English comments?

>> will this help bona fide security researchers with their work on fighting exploits on all platforms?

It gives us a couple more signatures to look for. I'm really getting sick of the "fake driver" vector though; it's 2015 and still trivial to get Windows platforms to cough up anything you'd want. As long as AV vendors ignore things like this (e.g., https://www.google.com/webhp?s...) it will continue to be easy for nearly anyone to write their own "advanced persistent threat."

Next season the "History Channel" will be running shows discussing possible extraterrestrial influences on Herbert's writings. :-)

If they're showing it next year, then it has been in production for about 6 months already, and they've probably finished main filming already. I wonder if they had the gonads to film at Armageddon (modern Meggido). Or more likely an important question - whether they had the budget for it.

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

No results found for +harbing verb

Here, the above link and the chicago tribune links are horrible. Sorry about the link format! https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

I'd thought I had read (maybe here?) about a proof of concept GPU malware authorship recently. I took a quick trip to Google.

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

I am going to grab the study and give it a quick read. There are a number of very interesting links that result from that search. I think you may be a bit out of date with your info that it can not be done. It looks as if it can be done and has been done including malware that effects both Linux and Windows. I am not sure if it would also effect OSX. I will read some more about it though but I figured I would share the search link with you so that you could check it as well. Disclaimer: I am a mathematician and an EE and not a security specialist.

How do you open a terminal window "here" on a mac?

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

Every X number of years, the battery has to be replaced at very significant cost.

This could be a good thing since new batteries can (theoretically) be built with greater range, so your car gets better with each battery swap.

That said, I'd still get a gasoline vehicle if I were shopping today, with the hope that I could trade my gasoline engine for an electric when the time was right.

If we're going to do a nationwide (USA) gas-for-electric swap, I think we'll need to focus more on engine swaps than car swaps. How can we completely turn over almost 250,000,000 cars?

Have you tried:

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

You can also check the form autofill for Opera - it is very nice and rather full featured. It seems to support multiple profile type things as well. Also, if you use Opera you can install an extension that allows you to use Opera extensions and Chrome extensions so you get the best of both worlds.

Basically, create a blog on Blogspot, and then set it up for a custom subdomain: How do I use a custom domain name for my blog?

Then follow the directions at a link.

The blog will be hosted on Blogger, which will handle maintenance, but the URL will point to (for example) https://blog.xyzzy.com/ .

I would still try to find something that you can place a trademark or service mark on, and have the home page explaining the product/service.

A blogging service like blogger or wordpress will let you use your domain on a blog they host. They keep security patches up to date and you just update content if and when you feel like it.

Well, that's only as far as I checked, I could have gone further but stopped. After 12 years of archives I figure they have them all.

well I went back to 91 on comp.os.minix to find the famous Linux announcement easy enough:

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

From Wikipedia:

Google Groups hosts an archive of Usenet posts dating back to May 1981. The earliest posts, which date from May 1981 to June 1991, were donated to Google by the University of Western Ontario with the help of David Wiseman and others, and were originally archived by Henry Spencer at the University of Toronto's Zoology department. The archives for late 1991 through early 1995 were provided by Kent Landfield from the NetNews CD series and Jürgen Christoffel from GMD. The archive of posts from March 1995 onward was started by the company DejaNews (later Deja), which was purchased by Google in February 2001. Google began archiving Usenet posts for itself starting in the second week of August 2000.

The entire point of portals is that they are located at physical locations that have historical or cultural significance. https://support.google.com/ing...
The list of the top ten most historically and culturally significant sites in the whole world would include the concentration camps.
This is political correctness at its worst, where in seeking sensitivity it in fact hides atrocity.

And Google Groups... so Usenet archives are pretty much gone now?

It's still there:

https://groups.google.com/

I've scrolled down to see topics as old as 2003, so as far as I can tell, it's all there.

You can use Hangouts for Google Voice calls without moving SMS to Hangouts. Just keep the SMS messages in Gmail. They appear as emails and you can reply to them as emails. The only trick is that to initiate a new SMS you have to go to https://www.google.com/voice#s... but after that first one, all the rest are treated as emails.

Is it just Google Earth for stars?

You mean like http://www.google.com/sky

Yeah. Okay. And how many companies are sitting on vast blocks that are only partially tapped?

There's some interesting economics coming up. Companies will bid up the price of IPv4 blocks, but that will also make it look like a better idea to move to IPv6. Google's stats show IPv6 users have gone up from roughly 3.5% to 7% in twelve months. If you expand the graph you'll see IPv6 is higher at weekends, when people are at home, and lower on weekdays.

So the price of IPv4 will go up, but this will push companies toward IPv6 migration, and when that happens the worth of IPv4 blocks will drop significantly.

Saddam Husseign was a major dirtbag, but you fail to explain why the West supported him in the Iran-Iraq war and why his nasty tactics were overlooked:

Iran was even worse and more savage.

Remember Iran using its own children as human landmine detectors? Yup the Iranians, under their ancient leaders were the mighty Persian empire, but under Shiite Islam they are extreme barbarians who seek desperately seek a global bloodbath to bring-on the arrival of their messiah. They are quite simply the most barbaric and evil regime on Earth at this time. Make no mistake, if they get nukes, there WILL be a nuclear war in your lifetime, because unlike everybody else on Earth, they WANT and NEED one to support their religious beliefs, which they take so seriously that they have a government policy of killing people for opposing.

A functional democracy?

Are you fucking kidding?

A democracy requires a free and open market of ideas. Do you really believe such a market exists in Iran?

Iranian Chain Murders
Internet Censorship in Iran
Blogger jailed for "propaganda against the state"

It doesn't take much of a Google search to find examples of suppression of free speech in Iran.

I'm sure the Iranian regime has deserved "better press [than] they have tended to get since Khomeiny toppled the puppet shah." "Better press" would have made the pure evilness of the regime much better known.

The "demented ravings of some of their past leaders?" How about the demented ravings of their current leaders (and here)?

- The west is plotting to "arouse the sexual desires" in Islamic Iran
- Israel is run by sub-human leaders
- Death to America
- Israel is the sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region
- Every Muslim who does not want to fight Israel is violating religious law
- The destruction of Israel ... is one of the pillars of the Iranian Islamic regime

I can't think of a greater coward in military service than a drone pilot. Except maybe an ICBM crew.

You have a strange definition of coward".

Just because someone is in a military role that doesn't expose them to enemy fire doesn't make that person a coward. By your definition, every military force on earth has a large proportion of cowards in their service.

Doesn't the F22 have the same issue? Either way a lot of money has been spent but are these even designed to be dog fighters?

http://www.google.com/m/search...

Granted the BBB has used the same AL business model for a century and is still un-sued. I expect they get away with it by never having any money, that can't be AL's method.

The BBB has been sued plenty of times. My understanding is that Angie's List has never turned a profit. They're both scams in my opinion.

Modern VBA is modern Visual Basic, which is C# without the curly braces, right? With either language you have full access to the .NET runtime and libraries, including LINQ. Excel has an OLEDB connector to let you use a spreadsheet as a (slow, single-user) DB. You can put all these pieces together to do "real programming" under the covers of Excel (at least for single-user use cases).

In fact, the open source Linq to Excel project does it all for you, or at least it's recommended by Stack Overflow. Might be worth a look.

Or broken DNS is so pervasive that it is interfering with their ability to offer other services. If you're interested in the privacy policy around Google DNS it's available here. The quick TLDR is:

What information does Google log when I use the Google Public DNS service?

Google Public DNS complies with Google's main privacy policy, which you can view at our Privacy Center. With Google Public DNS, we collect IP address (only temporarily) and ISP and location information (in permanent logs) for the purpose of making our service faster, better and more secure. Specifically, we use this data to conduct debugging and to analyze abuse phenomena. After 24 hours, we erase any IP information. For more information, read the Google Public DNS privacy page.

Is any of the information collected stored with my Google account?

No.

Does Google share the information it collects from the Google Public DNS service with anyone outside Google?

No, except in the limited circumstances described in Google's privacy policy, such as legal processes and enforceable governmental requests. (See also Google's Transparency Report on user data requests.)

Does Google correlate or combine information from temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that I have provided Google for other services?

No.

but if they wanted to, they could require reviewers to "check in" at the business (using GPS locating to ensure the customer was actually at the business)

snicker

The right way to do it is reputation. Reviews on TripAdvisor are generally ignored if they are not attached to a human with good reputation. Nothing else matters but the web of trust. It's difficult and time-consuming to fake enough content to get a whole bunch of accounts good fake rep in such a system.

I'm the Chromecast Community Manager; I noticed your thread and wanted to respond.

I don't know if you saw my response in our forum, but we posted the below around the Beta issue some users were seeing:

"We've recently updated Chromecast and a small percentage of users received a debug message on the home screen. This update should not have any material negative user impact. We are pushing a fix to those impacted users shortly. If you would like to update immediately, please reboot your device (you do not need to factory data reset your device)."

The OP posted links to our forum but if you have specific issues with the release not being addressed, please post in our forum.

Jacky

Clue: It's not "clean", it's dull and uninspiring.

More like "Tasteless" and "Nauseating".

Seriously. I can't even glance at some of those screenshots without feeling a little queasy for some reason.

Boy, this quote is more true than ever...

Good points. I tried your examples for fun and found that the ones such as "what is the national animal of Scotland" that resulted in a simple factual answer did not contain any ads. I've also done a number of searches in the past that resulted in an informative blurb that was extracted by Wikipedia, which didn't provide any ads, IIRC. I don't know if that's true in every such case, but it might be well be. If so, such results serve the user but don't produce any revenue for Google, except indirectly via continued customer satisfaction. Unless one deems such results to be some form of predatory pricing (the preceding link is itself another such example), it's hard to argue that they're anti-competitive.

I was having problems because the TV was interfering with the RF signal between the Chromecast and the WAP. Here's what I did, with excellent results:

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

$20 worth of cabling, and I got the thing connected via Cat5. Works great now, no disconnects anymore, and it no longer takes up a spot on wireless device list in the WAP.

Here's the first link I found related to a politician.

And guess what: if you search either for the politician or his son, the article is still found (first hit on the BBC site, in fact):
* https://www.google.com/search?...
* https://www.google.com/search?...

So neither the politician nor his son had the search results removed. Although if it had been removed when searching for the son's name, I would understand it. While politicians are public figures and cannot have such search results removed under the ruling (because there is a public interest in those results), I'm not sure the same holds for their family (it's not the son's choice that his father is a politician).

Here's the first link I found related to a politician.

And guess what: if you search either for the politician or his son, the article is still found (first hit on the BBC site, in fact):
* https://www.google.com/search?...
* https://www.google.com/search?...

So neither the politician nor his son had the search results removed. Although if it had been removed when searching for the son's name, I would understand it. While politicians are public figures and cannot have such search results removed under the ruling (because there is a public interest in those results), I'm not sure the same holds for their family (it's not the son's choice that his father is a politician).