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I'm not sure if Force Touch enough to convince an Android user like myself to switch, but there are definitely some interesting possibilities for app developers.

Why would it make you want to switch? Android apps have been doing it since at least 2011. Android's touch API communicates sufficient information to implement this if you wish.

But this being Apple, they will give it a fancy name, everyone will think they invented it, and they will pretend like they invented it. Just like Siri, which came out after I'd been doing searches, sending texts, and starting apps by voice on Android for at least a year.

Google quake jumps frame rate brought me this page.

French GDP per capita is much higher than that of Albania. But the Albanian growth rate is higher. Where would you invest?

https://www.google.com/publicd...

You aren't particularly empirical are you ?

http://www.amazon.com/Einsatz-...

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

Take for examples, the Islamic State

To the people who got their head cut off by the IS terrorists, it's atrocity

But to people outside of the affected zone, the islamic barbarism might be used to parodize the so-called 'religion of peace'

What Google is saying is that we must be sensitive to atrocities ... does it mean that we can no longer parodying the so-called 'peaceful feature' of islam?

I also have a problem understanding those:

Google Play Developer Program Policies:
[...]
* Hate Speech: We don't allow content advocating against groups of people based on their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
* Sensitive Events: We don't allow content which may be deemed as capitalizing on or lacking reasonable sensitivity towards a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event.
[...]

Can a fellow Slashdoter make them more clear?

maybe i'm behind the news curve but...

is it still the case that a lonely developer can release an app he or she slaved over lovingly for months, only to see it ripped off and released by someone else who games the ranking system and reaps all the profits?

that seems to be the real threat to their app ecosystem

https://play.google.com/about/...

Intellectual Property: Don’t infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, (including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and other proprietary rights), or encourage or induce infringement of intellectual property rights. We will respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. For more information or to file a DMCA request, please visit our copyright procedures.

doesn't seem strong enough to me

google maps

I am not jealous, no way...

No problem. Simply search for the Virgina Battle Flag and you still find it. Censoring is still a bad move, but at least they're doing it halfheartedly.

As you can see here...BTW when is everybody gonna wake the fuck up and realize they are using this trivial bullshit to get us to ignore the corporate fucking they are trying to sneak through the back door with the TPP fast track?

"We have determined that the Confederate flag violates our Ads policies, which don't allow content that's generally perceived as expressing hate toward a particular group." I call bullshit: https://www.google.com/search?...

In England, if you want to make flag-patterned underwear and sell it, that's legal, but in the USA, forget it.

Bullshit.

You post publicly on both Google+ and the LKML. Some of your posts get a lot of attention on G+ like naming the next version 3.20 or 4.0, which is a different audience than the Linux Kernel mailing list.

What do you like and dislike about communicating on either platform, Google+ or the LKML? How do you feel about their respective audiences? Do you enjoy the tools you use to participate in public discussions on Google+ and the LKML?

You post publicly on both Google+ and the LKML. Some of your posts get a lot of attention on G+ like naming the next version 3.20 or 4.0, which is a different audience than the Linux Kernel mailing list.

What do you like and dislike about communicating on either platform, Google+ or the LKML? How do you feel about their respective audiences? Do you enjoy the tools you use to participate in public discussions on Google+ and the LKML?

Really? Let's ignore the fact taht just about any modern laptop will support Linux with maybe needing to download some Video drivers (or with Optimus, changing a setting in BIOS to disable the dual Optimus setting)
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspi...

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

Not as many Windows laptops, but plenty out there.

Still plenty of results on this search term

Actually, this happens all the time.

I have purchased ads from Google, and I have never been given their address. Google goes out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support. Same goes for Steam, eBay, PayPal. Today companies give you a forum and expect the community to support themselves. It's almost impossible to find them unless they sell a physical product.

Well, maybe you weren't given their address, but Google certainly doesn't try to hide their address or make it difficult for people to find. You can even Google for "Google Headquarters". But more on the subject of what ICANN's doing, their contact info is listed in their whois record.

As for getting a human for technical support on ads: Start at www.google.com -> Advertising at the lower-left -> AdWords Help Center under Learning & Support at the bottom -> CONTACT US at the upper-right, followed by See local phone number. In the US, their number is 866-2GOOGLE, representatives available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm Eastern Time, in English and Spanish. Doesn't seem like they're "[going] out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support"

Actually, this happens all the time.

I have purchased ads from Google, and I have never been given their address. Google goes out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support. Same goes for Steam, eBay, PayPal. Today companies give you a forum and expect the community to support themselves. It's almost impossible to find them unless they sell a physical product.

Well, maybe you weren't given their address, but Google certainly doesn't try to hide their address or make it difficult for people to find. You can even Google for "Google Headquarters". But more on the subject of what ICANN's doing, their contact info is listed in their whois record.

As for getting a human for technical support on ads: Start at www.google.com -> Advertising at the lower-left -> AdWords Help Center under Learning & Support at the bottom -> CONTACT US at the upper-right, followed by See local phone number. In the US, their number is 866-2GOOGLE, representatives available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm Eastern Time, in English and Spanish. Doesn't seem like they're "[going] out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support"

Actually, this happens all the time.

I have purchased ads from Google, and I have never been given their address. Google goes out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support. Same goes for Steam, eBay, PayPal. Today companies give you a forum and expect the community to support themselves. It's almost impossible to find them unless they sell a physical product.

Well, maybe you weren't given their address, but Google certainly doesn't try to hide their address or make it difficult for people to find. You can even Google for "Google Headquarters". But more on the subject of what ICANN's doing, their contact info is listed in their whois record.

As for getting a human for technical support on ads: Start at www.google.com -> Advertising at the lower-left -> AdWords Help Center under Learning & Support at the bottom -> CONTACT US at the upper-right, followed by See local phone number. In the US, their number is 866-2GOOGLE, representatives available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm Eastern Time, in English and Spanish. Doesn't seem like they're "[going] out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support"

Actually, this happens all the time.

I have purchased ads from Google, and I have never been given their address. Google goes out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support. Same goes for Steam, eBay, PayPal. Today companies give you a forum and expect the community to support themselves. It's almost impossible to find them unless they sell a physical product.

Well, maybe you weren't given their address, but Google certainly doesn't try to hide their address or make it difficult for people to find. You can even Google for "Google Headquarters". But more on the subject of what ICANN's doing, their contact info is listed in their whois record.

As for getting a human for technical support on ads: Start at www.google.com -> Advertising at the lower-left -> AdWords Help Center under Learning & Support at the bottom -> CONTACT US at the upper-right, followed by See local phone number. In the US, their number is 866-2GOOGLE, representatives available Monday to Friday, 9am to 8pm Eastern Time, in English and Spanish. Doesn't seem like they're "[going] out of their way to make sure there is no way to find a human for technical support"

Search google for "confederate flag" and click the "shopping" tab.

https://www.google.com/#q=conf...

Now replace "confederate" with just about any other potentially offensive term (nazi, communist, rhodesia) and you get plenty of results.

(NOTE: I don't support flying the flag. It's a rebel flag and I don't like it. But banning it from the marketplace? That seems rather self-defeating)

I don't have examples, I don't work in the loan business. I have mainstream media articles:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/0...

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

http://articles.philly.com/201...

The reasons stated include increased student debt as one of the issues, and short credit histories. However, these are people who would have got loans before either the big garbage loan bubble or the crash, from my read of the article. In general, they are not BAD credit risks, just not completely pristine.

No, I am not.

Did you forget how Google works?

Average mechanic salary

Average welder salary

Average machinist salary

No, I am not.

Did you forget how Google works?

Average mechanic salary

Average welder salary

Average machinist salary

No, I am not.

Did you forget how Google works?

Average mechanic salary

Average welder salary

Average machinist salary

Please go install the Batman app and get out of our hair already.

If you try to access google.com from Germany, it automatically redirects you to google.de.
If you want the "original" Google from abroad, you need to type google.com/ncr.
This link should work the same all over the world :
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...

For Chrome, this will be a moot point later this year as the Java Runtime Environment will no longer launch and run applets in it.

https://support.google.com/chr...

The NPAPI block is active now, but there is a way to disable it. With Chrome 45 and later, it will not be possible enable it.

Inflation is an actual number derived from actual predefined things listed by your government's statistics department ( see here for the UK version). So if people are just making up stuff, that's not inflation.

In the same vein uBlock Origin is pretty sweet, too. I recently came across uMatrix and I dig the interface.

When was that Forbes article written? 2009?

Houston is currently experiencing "historic highs" with median single-family unit prices of $223k and rising. The average sale is $292k.
Source

What's happening here in Houston is that investors are buying a couple of what we used to call "starter homes" for $150k each, tearing them down, subdividing their lots and selling three (or more!) 3+ story townhomes on those two lots for $400k+ each. As a bonus, when these companies subdivide they establish themselves as the Homeowners Association and deed themselves $100+/mo in "maintenance fees".

https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

TFA doesn't link to it, so I had to some additional mouse clicking and text parsing to find it.

Interesting figure. Where'd you get it?

Someday, kid, you will learn to internet. Then I won't have to waste my time telling you how to find easily-located information, such as my stated claim. Why don't you spend some quality time with some basic web user tutorials? You don't seem to know how it works. This isn't fucking news. I've said it here again and again, and provided the citations. You should know by now. If you cared, you would know, because many of my comments on this subject have been in these discussions and have been highly ranked. But you don't. You just want to take the piss. Well, you can have all my piss, and my vinegar, too. Now go learn to internet like a good little boy.

I am not, in fact, a lawyer, but I do know how to use Google (unlike so many here). For instance, I can, without any adult help, open up my web browser, and type in http://www.google.com/ and go to a convenient search engine. In the search box for that search engine, I can type in "eula struck down as unconscionable" and click on the button labeled "Search." And get results such as

this, which talks about Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc., in which Linden's TOS (specifically, the arbitration clause) is struck down as unconscionable not once, not twice, but at least three or four different times and ways ("procedural unconscionability" and "substantive unconscionability" in two different ways, and then again on the latter after Linden amended it).

Wired also covers Gatton v. T-Mobile, again on an arbitration clause, and ruled unconscionable both procedurally and substantively. Also unconscionable for prohibiting class action lawsuits, because "that form of litigation is often the only means of stopping and punishing corporate wrongdoing." It also discusses Douglas v. U.S. District Court, which is about changing the terms of a contact after it has been signed, and which was ruled unconscionable. Gatton is often cited as recognizing that all click-wrap license have an element of unconscionability that must be considered by the court.

This has a link to this", which is a ruling on McKee v. AT&T, ruing their arbitration clause unconscionable.

Note that these are the first three results on the search, and the fourth is on McKee v. AT&T again.

Also note that these are all different courts, state and federal, all over the country.

Unconscionability is an affirmative defense - the defendant has to demonstrate why the contract is unconscionable, but it does, in fact, happen, and more importantly, it took me, literally, less than ten seconds to find example (and five of that was waiting for the browser to open.)

To quote the third link, you may now feed my cats for a week.

You still use NoScript?
uMatrix is available for Firefox now.
Goodbye NoScript. Goodbye RequestPolicy. Goodbye CookieSafe. uMatrix does it all and does it better.

Your web browser is a dog. uMatrix is its leash.
It's available for Chrome as well.

Is this Google Apps or Consumer Gmail? Have you raised this issue with Google? https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c...

Is this Google Apps or Consumer Gmail? Have you raised this issue with Google? https://productforums.google.c... https://productforums.google.c...

Since I've actually read all of those (as I had to pass exams in all of these jurisdictions), I can compare them meaningfully. I can definitely say that it's not just about the language. For starters, the Russian version has a lot more text in general, while other versions were more picture-heavy. But also the sheer amount of rules was significantly larger in Russia, and the theory test much more complicated as a result.

It's also written in a much drier and more formal language. I suspect it's because the rule books in other countries don't copy the laws verbatim, but try to condense them into something easier to read and understand, while in Russia what you get is what is in the law.

If you're curious, here is [google-translated] current edition. For laughs, go to the annex where it has several sections on signs, and see how many of them you knew before. You are expected to know every single one, and any of them can show up in the theory test.

How fucking dim is it possible for one person to be? Mainstream medics know quite a lot, contrary to your ridiculous conspiratorial stance, and one of the things they are very aware of are the limits of what they know and what medicine can and cannot do. By contrast, it's perfectly clear from your citing of your personal anecdote you know very little indeed about what evidence in medicine actually looks like.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/?titl...

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

https://sites.google.com/site/...

Except experience with the "risk compensation effect" has been mixed. It turns out that sometimes taking away street markings and traffic control devices makes a place safer; in other cases it makes it more dangerous. Specifics matter, that's why it's called "traffic engineering".

If you look at places put forward as examples of "shared space" traffic design they look distinctly Old World -- they're in neighborhoods that are designed around pedestrian traffic. American Sun Belt cities aren't designed around the needs of people, they're organized to maximize the flow of cars. San Diego might well be the most pedestrian hostile urban environment in the world. It has residential neighborhoods without a single store or even playground within convenient walking distance of most of its residents. You need a car for everything, and everyone needs a car. Traffic everywhere is heavy and fast.

Here's one of the San Diego intersections in question, 4th and Broadway. Compare it to a Dutch shared space. Click a few times to move around both neighborhoods to see the difference. Yes, the Dutch city has a lot more bikes, but that's a result of the real difference, which is that the Dutch neighborhood is a destination; most of the people there are going places that are there. The San Diego intersection is a crossroads; almost everyone there is heading somewhere else.

Now you can put a fountain in the middle of the 4th and Broadway intersection; remove all the traffic signals and markings in the neighborhood and put up a four way stop sign, obliterate the distinction between sidewalk and roadway in the area. All these things would probably make this particular intersection safer. But it won't make the city as a whole safer because it doesn't address the underlying planning problem: San Diegans have to drive everywhere. The fast, heavy traffic will simply shift over a street or two on the grid. You'd have to make those same changes on all the possible alternate routes as well. This would make the city safer, at the expense of trapping many residents in commercially lifeless residential neighborhoods.

You can't make the city safer transforming a single intersection or even a handful of intersections into "shared spaces". To make that work you'd have to radically redesign the entire city to eliminate most of the driving people have to do. That's actually a really good idea, but good luck convincing San Diegans to pay to have their city transformed into Leeuwarden. In the meantime people will continue to be killed at the crossroads.

Except experience with the "risk compensation effect" has been mixed. It turns out that sometimes taking away street markings and traffic control devices makes a place safer; in other cases it makes it more dangerous. Specifics matter, that's why it's called "traffic engineering".

If you look at places put forward as examples of "shared space" traffic design they look distinctly Old World -- they're in neighborhoods that are designed around pedestrian traffic. American Sun Belt cities aren't designed around the needs of people, they're organized to maximize the flow of cars. San Diego might well be the most pedestrian hostile urban environment in the world. It has residential neighborhoods without a single store or even playground within convenient walking distance of most of its residents. You need a car for everything, and everyone needs a car. Traffic everywhere is heavy and fast.

Here's one of the San Diego intersections in question, 4th and Broadway. Compare it to a Dutch shared space. Click a few times to move around both neighborhoods to see the difference. Yes, the Dutch city has a lot more bikes, but that's a result of the real difference, which is that the Dutch neighborhood is a destination; most of the people there are going places that are there. The San Diego intersection is a crossroads; almost everyone there is heading somewhere else.

Now you can put a fountain in the middle of the 4th and Broadway intersection; remove all the traffic signals and markings in the neighborhood and put up a four way stop sign, obliterate the distinction between sidewalk and roadway in the area. All these things would probably make this particular intersection safer. But it won't make the city as a whole safer because it doesn't address the underlying planning problem: San Diegans have to drive everywhere. The fast, heavy traffic will simply shift over a street or two on the grid. You'd have to make those same changes on all the possible alternate routes as well. This would make the city safer, at the expense of trapping many residents in commercially lifeless residential neighborhoods.

You can't make the city safer transforming a single intersection or even a handful of intersections into "shared spaces". To make that work you'd have to radically redesign the entire city to eliminate most of the driving people have to do. That's actually a really good idea, but good luck convincing San Diegans to pay to have their city transformed into Leeuwarden. In the meantime people will continue to be killed at the crossroads.

Cereal doesn't grow on trees, it's all processed. Same goes for bread, coffee and almost everything you eat except for perhaps fruit.

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

Coffee doesn't grow on trees? WTF!? Since when?

I don't know who this "Lauren" person is, but their blog post is about as insightful as, I dunno, Luke Skywalker, or maybe a pet rock. Why can't editors just link to the real detail?

https://drive.google.com/file/...

Note that I didn't say finest. It's a personal blog post rather than actual reporting, and contains little more than the summary. You are entreated to go read https://drive.google.com/file/... - the 300+ pages of filings yourself in lieu of a journalistic treatment with more substantive information. A noble academic endeavor, but not really a "first cup of coffee" piece.

I suspect this altruism won't last long.

With in a year his credit card and auto debt will become a burden and he'll keep everything for himself.

If he gets out of that, he'll meet some girl and then the money will be sucked out of him again.

THEN, he'll get her pregnant and end up paying nearly $250,000 until they turn 18...more if he's a real Dad and pays for college.

So just take that money and put it into a Roth Account or something.

One of the reasons I use Gmail is I can forward my ISP mail to the Gmail account and if need be Google allows me to respond to an email using my ISP account (once you validate the account by replying to an email sent to it by Gmail).. So I get a great spam filter, lots of storage, and access from anywhere if I so choose. I don't see them going anywhere, as the are handling email for enterprise customers as well as 500 million users. They may shut down some day, but I expect email itself to evolve long before that happens...

I use both Gmail and Google Apps for my own domain email and their spam filtering is very good.

Yes, google is soo awsome that recently some asshole used my email address as their From:. Now if I send email using my email address to gmail users, I get a link to,

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

1. ALL spams email was from unauthorized hosts, they check SPF records after all
2. ALL my mail is from authorized sender, but alas, it bounces.

So yes, Google is sooooo good at filtering spam that it filters legitimate users if spammers use your email for few hours. Awesome, isn't it? Maybe the world should block @gmail.com if they receive spam with forged @gmail.com.

the doc https://docs.google.com/docume... noted in the mailing list post fails.
is it as simple as issuing adding an option to the makefs.ext4 then a mount command for a partition and providing the password to a prompt?

No, not everything where men currently dominate. Not mining, not oil rig work, not farming, not anything involving manual or dangerous labour.

There was actually a lawsuit a while ago about a company that wouldn't let women work in the car battery division. Because of the risk of lead getting into the workers' systems, and the effects of lead on a developing fetus, no woman of child-bearing age was allowed to work there, unless she had her tubes tied.

Of course, the job paid more than other areas, because the men and older women who worked there were exposing themselves to lead poisoning every day.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03...

other stories of it: https://www.google.com/webhp?c...

If I were a poacher, and the premium for "real" horn was sufficient for me to keep poaching, I'd start delivering the head with the horn. Not sure we'll see printed heads in my lifetime.

Oh, you never know!

Venus is the most important archetype in mythology. The stories tend to share a common theme of Venus going through a dramatic transition from an object of beauty to one of horror.

What people have generally failed to realize is that Plato believed in a recent, human-historical event in the solar system, and he attributed all of the mythological archetypes to this single event.

From Plato's Dialogues at https://books.google.com/books...

"Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burned up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now, this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving around the earth and in the heavens, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth recurring at long intervals of time"

(Notice that Plato is unwittingly describing a debris field that would regularly return to the earth after an initial catastrophe -- even though Plato has no idea what gravity or a debris field actually is ...)

And, to make sure that everybody understands the meaning of the ancient myths, he further states:

"All of these stories, and ten thousand others which are still more wonderful, have a common origin*; many of them have been lost in the lapse of ages, or exist only as fragments; *but the origin of them is what no one has told"

We can debate his intent, but what I generally find is that people are not actually aware that Plato said this at all.