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I really can't explain this properly because I can't show you the symbols,

I know the symbols; I can read Japanese.

I'm sick of seeing the Chinese variant of the first kanji in "chokusetsu" whenever I type an email in Japanese

Why would you be seeing the Chinese variant if you're writing an E-mail in Japanese, presumably using a Japanese font? Note that even Google Translate manages to show you the correct local variants:

https://translate.google.com/#...

Are you saying the Japs and the Chinks should unify their writing systems? Because that's as disrespectful as the demonyms I have just used.

I don't see how suggesting that the Chinese and Japanese do what we in the West have done for thousands of years, namely rationalize, unify, and adapt our writing systems is "disrespectful". Writing in the West is several thousand years older than in China; we discarded ideographs in favor of our alphabet before the Chinese even had writing. I have lived in Western cities that had literate cultures a thousand years before the Japanese even had any writing.

Your analogy between ethnic slurs and cultural disrespect doesn't work. Ethnicity is an arbitrary accident of birth and has no bearing on anyone's abilities, morals, or other characteristics. Disrespecting someone's ethnicity is therefore not rational. Culture, on the other hand, is a collection of values, norms, behaviors, and achievements. And you are absolutely right: while I find Chinese and Japanese culture interesting and like some aspects of each, overall, I consider those cultures failures and examples of how human societies and affairs should not be organized. And I think I have history on my side. So, in that sense, I "disrespect" those cultures as cultures.

They mentioned that the flow temperatures recorded in the hot pixels are colder than typical basaltic / rhyolitic flows and were speculating that they didn't catch freshly erupting material, but rather material that had a little time to cool. But I can't help but wonder.... does Venus have carbonatite flows? They're colder, and if there's anything Venus isn't short on, it's carbonic compounds...

(BTW, with those not familiar with carbonatite lava, its really weird stuff - incredibly fast-flowing and smooth (often less viscous than water), erupts looking black or dark gray like oil, doesn't (visibly) glow during the day (just a fast moving black substance), at night it has a weird maroon glow, and it oxidizes to bright white as it ages)

(Just one of many unusual types of volcano :) )

They mentioned that the flow temperatures recorded in the hot pixels are colder than typical basaltic / rhyolitic flows and were speculating that they didn't catch freshly erupting material, but rather material that had a little time to cool. But I can't help but wonder.... does Venus have carbonatite flows? They're colder, and if there's anything Venus isn't short on, it's carbonic compounds...

(BTW, with those not familiar with carbonatite lava, its really weird stuff - incredibly fast-flowing and smooth (often less viscous than water), erupts looking black or dark gray like oil, doesn't (visibly) glow during the day (just a fast moving black substance), at night it has a weird maroon glow, and it oxidizes to bright white as it ages)

(Just one of many unusual types of volcano :) )

Still, I wish FF6 would get a remake.

It already did

The key point I made in my official response was overlooked by this article: the hotword module does not run at all unless you opt in, by going to Chromium's settings and turning on the "Ok Google" feature.

Once you turn it on, it's true that we don't send recordings to Google unless the hotword detector hears "Ok Google", but without explicit opt-in, this module is not listening. It is not even running.

A human can't do it? Alex Gray begs to differ.

I guess we could argue that it's "similar" (i.e. not the same), but it's pretty darn close ;-).

The Mandelbrot set is a very different animal from what these algorithms are doing. I agree that a human couldn't draw a Mandlebrot set, but in some sense this work is much less precise and analytic than something like a Mandlebrot set.

This is why we don't like you. You just read what he said, you even acknowledge it. Try this:

Anyone know of a good search engine?

It's one thing to misrepresent a trademark. The folks at Dow Chemical Company go nuts when people call something Styrofoam that isn't actually made out of said substance. But here, something was simply compared to Imax in a simile, "a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid" (Google). Absolutely no misrepresentation. Completely proper use.

You can do a fair amount of customization at Google's Account Settings page (you can also access this page by clicking on your profile picture and clicking "account" on a google.com page). Of course, this only works while logged-in.

To customize search results, you should turn on personalized search and look through your search history to delete searches that are probably not going to be relevant in the future. For ads, there's a list of categories that you're automatically assigned to based upon search history and views of pages with Google ads. You can add or remove categories as you choose. Of course, you have to turn on interest-based ads for this to be worthwhile.

I have previously suggested that they introduce http://classic.google.com./

I want 1998 Google. It worked. It's the only search engine that has ever worked -- before or since, including modern Google.

EVERY TERM EXACTLY AS WRITTEN, it's so blindingly obvious that I can't believe that the engineers at Google can't understand it.

You should check it for yourself:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22alpha%5C.beta%22

It doesn't work.

let's here about all these scenarios; as someone with extensive unsupported experience in eastern Alaska and Yukon. I know of only one situation. It does not favor a long gun. Out of 50+ encounters, I've never needed a gun. Of the several stories of acquaintances that have used their gun on a bear, I know of one that sounded legitimate. The rest wanted to take down a bear and its better with a cool threatening story. I'm interested in other threats in addition to one encountered by at most a few thousand people per year that should dictate national gun gun policy. I'm very pro-gun (I own 31), but this is patently ridiculous.

I grew up in a fairly rural area. After my sister and I reached a responsible age, we kept a .22 next to the back door at all times. It was used frequently to intervene in fights between our cats and foxes. Also to scare off any animals in the garden. The number of gunshots I heard on a weekly basis was proof that we weren't the only family shooting guns off the back porch on a regular basis.

An imperial gallon is simply 4 Liters, a metric measurement.

nopee. an imperial gallon is a little more than 4.5 liters.

you're thinking of the little-used unit "quadliter", which falls between a US gallon and an imperial gallon.

Prices are crazy in the US. When I look what I pay in Europe for the sae distance in flight, Europe is much cheaper.

And now check prices from e.g. Brussels to NYC to Brussels.
Now do the same for NYC to Brussels to NYC.

These are basically the same flights. Flying from Europe to the US and back is cheaper than US to Europe and back. Check them out on https://www.google.com/flights...

I think there is more going on than them being nice to customers.

i.e. when searching for code-related stuff, use code.google.com

You're post has just generated $1.37! Thank you for making Dice money. Please post again, but this time with more swearing. We've determined that using the word "fuck" at least once in every sentence adds an additional 13.8% to your post, and the word "cunt" an additional 15.7%. Be sure to mention Rand Paul, either in the negative or the positive, as either way generates a whopping 27.4%.

For instance, if you had written your post thusly, we calculate your post would have earned Dice over $5.00!

"Linking to some *fucking* guy's ramblings in a "word document" in OneDrive, *just like Rand Paul*: a new low for Slashdot, that *cunt-like* *Rand Paulian* news source. Is any website immune from *fucking* corporate "monetizing" (just like *fucking* *Rand Paul* *cunt* any more? Could slashdotters pitch in to fund a fork?: https://www.google.com/contrib... [google.com]?"

AFAICT, they blithely ignore all the things that *used* to make it possible to actually give Google value - the Google-fu expressions, including most importantly +term and -term.

Umm, the + operator was deprecated in 2011. I don't exactly know what effect it has had since then. (It seems to do something, but it's highly unpredictable.)

Try using "intext:" or "allintext:" or similar commands. They don't quite work consistently either, and more frequently than not they will eliminate results that actually SHOULD be matches, but it's at least something that has an effect.

Linking to some guy's ramblings in a "word document" in OneDrive: a new low for Slashdot. Is any website immune from corporate "monetizing" any more? Could slashdotters pitch in to fund a fork?: https://www.google.com/contrib...?

That solution would be a much better solution if the rules for how Google treats punctuation were explicit, easily discoverable and consistent.

If you can point me to a page of documentation revealing these rules, I will appreciate it. Googling for it (assuming it exists) has so far been unsuccessful.

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

The solution, then, is to understand how Google treats punctuation within even a quoted string and modify your search accordingly.

That solution would be a much better solution if the rules for how Google treats punctuation were explicit, easily discoverable and consistent.

If you can point me to a page of documentation revealing these rules, I will appreciate it. Googling for it (assuming it exists) has so far been unsuccessful.

In fact the bit about "consistent" we know is not true, since Google tells us it isn't:

• "Except for the examples below, Google Search usually ignores punctuation" (usually means unspecified exceptions),
• and
• "Even though you can use the punctuation marks below when you search, including them doesn’t always improve the results. If we don't think the punctuation will give you better results, you'll see suggested results for that search without punctuation."

• (We will ignore what you type whenever we think we know better than you.)

I agree with AC. The comments by grimmjeeper and Spazmania here are bizarre.

The fact that "." has been used a wildcard in Kleene grammars, and used in regular expressions, is irrelevant.

There is nothing in Google's query instructions that suggests that search strings in quote are regular expressions, or is a Kleene grammar of any sort, or that a period is even a wildcard. It explicitly states that the asterisk is a wild card, no mention of a period.

If I search for carbuncles, I don't need to see cars of somebody's uncle.

What are you talking about? I just searched for carbuncles and didn't get anything like that.

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

and the first thing it told me was that there was no match at all for that exact phrase. A very useful response to searching an exact phrase. It then went on to try to give me something useful but only after being very informative by telling me it could not find what I was looking for.

Okay, genius, then give me the search for the actual string "alpha.beta".

And what's funny is that google lists * as the wildcard operator and does not even list . as an operator at all. https://support.google.com/web...

The advanced search fails similarly to using quotation marks:

https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=...

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

The last is done with the advanced search. Every result on the first 10 pages does not even contain the string for which I searched.

Sure, in an unquoted string. But enclosing the whole thing in quotation marks does help.

If all else fails, you can do an advanced search where you can enter an exact phrase to look for.

Did you mean: "Are there any search engines left that try to think for me?" Try one of the following:

https://google.com
https://bing.com
https://duckduckgo.com
https://dogpile.com

I wonder if AdBlock should refer people to alternative means of supporting web sites that publish useful content. I'd like to see something like Contributor gain widespread acceptance.

https://www.google.com/contrib...

For myself, in particular, I wonder how long it will take v8 to support it.

This or something similar will do the trick. It has 1 FXO for connection to the POTS network, one FXS port for connecting analog phones, and ethernet to connect to your LAN. This model also has a built in router and a WAN port, so it could be your internet gateway if you wanted, or not. It should be able to connect to Asterisk via SIP, and allow the FXO and FXS ports to be configured as an Asterisk trunk and extension respectively.

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

Actually, it is on many of them (at least Vonage has it). For the mobiles, there's well... there's an app for that (okay, there's a *lot* of apps for that...)

I turned that on, and the calls dried up. Haven't had one in weeks.

Not only was it read, taken seriously, and a wrong righted; but as studies has previously proved by a post from one of the only of a handful of people who used Google +.

I might of at least posted the link https://plus.google.com/+Keith...

You do realize Samsung has their own store, and isn't interested in your access to Google's, right?

You do realize that many of the pre-installed bloatware Samsung made apps are updated via the google play store right? Let me list just a few..

These are pre-install bloatware that can be disabled but not uninstalled. They also show up while searching the app store.
Samsung Link
Samsung Push Service
Samsung Print Service Plugin

These are pre-install bloatware that can NOT be disabled or uninstalled. They are also hidden on the app store to prevent non-samsung owners from installing them. They DO update via the normal Google Play store.
* Samsung Security Policy Update
* Samsung Video
* Video Editor
* Photo Editor
* Samsung Hub
* Samsung keyboard Note 3/10.1 (Not the same as the 'Samsung keyboard' app but might work together)

You do realize Samsung has their own store, and isn't interested in your access to Google's, right?

You do realize that many of the pre-installed bloatware Samsung made apps are updated via the google play store right? Let me list just a few..

These are pre-install bloatware that can be disabled but not uninstalled. They also show up while searching the app store.
Samsung Link
Samsung Push Service
Samsung Print Service Plugin

These are pre-install bloatware that can NOT be disabled or uninstalled. They are also hidden on the app store to prevent non-samsung owners from installing them. They DO update via the normal Google Play store.
* Samsung Security Policy Update
* Samsung Video
* Video Editor
* Photo Editor
* Samsung Hub
* Samsung keyboard Note 3/10.1 (Not the same as the 'Samsung keyboard' app but might work together)

You do realize Samsung has their own store, and isn't interested in your access to Google's, right?

You do realize that many of the pre-installed bloatware Samsung made apps are updated via the google play store right? Let me list just a few..

These are pre-install bloatware that can be disabled but not uninstalled. They also show up while searching the app store.
Samsung Link
Samsung Push Service
Samsung Print Service Plugin

These are pre-install bloatware that can NOT be disabled or uninstalled. They are also hidden on the app store to prevent non-samsung owners from installing them. They DO update via the normal Google Play store.
* Samsung Security Policy Update
* Samsung Video
* Video Editor
* Photo Editor
* Samsung Hub
* Samsung keyboard Note 3/10.1 (Not the same as the 'Samsung keyboard' app but might work together)

If the whole page was published along with it's ads then Sunday Time received free publication and access to customers it would otherwise have not reached, so not loss in fact they got free benefit.

The real problem is the reality that News Corporation is the first media empire in history that is actively not trusted and in fact loathed by a substantial portion of humanity. It it's core markets it is hated. Seriously https://www.google.com/search?... that search "Fox reporter attacked" 27,100 results, just that exact phrase.

We are talking a media empire in serious trouble of imploding as it loses the majority of it's audience to old age and they will not be replacing them because they are a very peculiar audience in deed. The majority also suffering from the mental disablement of lead poisoning, hence the gullibility and poor social and moral balance. Which means the next generation to age will not be going to News Corporation as they are not suffering from lead poisoning to the same degree.

In all likelihood News Corporation will never recover from this taint and in order to recover some investor value it will need to be broken up and the pieces sold off to other media empires.

Baloney... the story was NOT in the public eye (proof) and it wasn't headed that way. Despite very clear warnings from previous whistleblowers, everybody had their head in the sand. Snowden provided concrete, compelling evidence that forced the issue of NSA domestic spying into the US political dialog.

And yeah... he could have stayed anonymous if he'd wanted to be kidnapped and hauled off to a black site. Putting his name and face to the news gave the story credibility and staying power. Snowden is the man to thank for the 82% concern about NSA surveillance and the ~60% support for weakening the Patriot Act. True, it's not enough to put an end to their shenanigans and restore reverence for human rights and due process, but it's definitely a setback for the NSA.

I peed my pants a little.

You might think about getting some help.

Check this incident out. Naturally, Qubes could not protect him because his laptop did not have an IOMMU. But the real interesting thing to me is where/when this implant was actually put in his system (he says he bought it new, in person, and the symptoms appeared sometime after a period of normal behavior).

...government in US kill people in their homeland (cops killing innocent people)...

If you think this is any sort of "official policy", even remotely, a simple google search will correct that ignorance.

...as well as abroad (bombing Middle East).

Well, the terrorists were targeting the US; now they are targeting each other. Not ideal, but, hey, they need to kill somebody!

to sum up! ...

You are silly.

India is the world leader in these stickers, from traditional simple red/maroon circles, to really fancy pieces that are almost jewelry . They should be able to whip up a few million eyes, noses and lips in a jiffy.

google really throws a hissy fit when I send email from my home (on a vpn) using imap. mostly they grey list me and time me out. but this anti-vpn concept annoys me. I don't believe it rejects fraud.

It does reject fraud. I know this because I designed the system at Google that is rejecting your logins, back when I worked there. There's a blog post about the system here. Obviously location (actually: geographical coordinates) are not the only thing that is used, it's just a signal that's carefully blended with others.

The main reason location works as a useful anti-fraud signal is that the datasets that hackers are working off are very sparse. Normally only usernames and passwords. So they don't know where in the world you live, meaning that they have to guess. It's almost like a second password. And mostly their guess will be wrong, leading to an ID verification check.

Now if you use VPNs or Tor or whatever that actually move you around the world constantly, then you're in a tiny minority of people that this heuristic doesn't work for. That's not so great. But here's a tip - if you enable 2-step verification on your Google account and then give your IMAP client an "app specific password" you shouldn't see rejected logins anymore, as is documented in the Google support pages. If your IMAP client knows how to use OAuth to log in, that would also work, but most don't.

Here, let me explain why no one will sell them oil in Euros:

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

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

I'm not entirely sure of what the AC is speaking...

FYI, the Big Bang Theory isn't astrophysics.

Really? That's odd, I wonder why it's covered in this book and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and... etc.

Please learn a teensy tiny bit about the fields of knowledge you wish to dismiss.

Please learn a teensy tiny bit about the fields of knowledge you're discussing before you correct people.

FYI, the Big Bang Theory isn't astrophysics.

Really? That's odd, I wonder why it's covered in this book and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and... etc.

Please learn a teensy tiny bit about the fields of knowledge you wish to dismiss.

Please learn a teensy tiny bit about the fields of knowledge you're discussing before you correct people.

Congratulations on your announcement of your complete incompetence to the word. Hmmm ... I wonder what I should google for if I want to know about Trudeau's PEN Remarks? So many decisions ... Oh wait! Here's a crazy thing to try!

Check out this movie!!!

Yeah, that makes sense, if you completely ignore all of human history.

Look at California. Sure, they've got a drought, but consider their long-range prospects; southern California is a desert with millions of people living in it. Lake Mead is going away. Agriculture drinks up the water faster than it comes in, even when there is no drought. Desalination is an option, sure, but they should have started building the infrastructure ten years ago, and it'll be both outragously expensive (large-scale desalination always is) and unpopular (they'd have to use nuclear power - they can't handle their power needs now, much less run extremely power-hungry desalination plants).

Is there a mass migration away from southern California? Nope. And why would they? They have jobs, they have their homes and friends, and moving is a pain in the ass. They won't move until they absolutely have to.

Despite what you believe, we are exactly like frogs in a boiling pot. Take that from a guy whose senator still thinks global warming isn't happening at all. Change is expensive. Those with money and power want to keep their money and power, and change is their enemy. They'll fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo - which is why global warming is a political debate in this country, whereas it's a given in the scientific community.

I don't think there's going to be some sort of horrible apocalypse that will end civilization. I do believe that we'll suffer major economic damage. I like the idea of my grandkids having the same opportunities as I did. I'd rather they didn't grow up in a soup line or ending up in WPA-style work camps.