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I guess I should know by now that Danes are a race of fucking retards.

Let me Google that for you. You can even get it as a UPS for the server room if you want.

Has Apple laid an egg?

Yes.

My own pet theory is that Apple only made sure the Apple Watch would be successful to piss *you* off, specifically.

You can call down lightning. I wouldn't suggest it, but I know it can be done. The trick is _safely_ triggering the launch without getting fried.

Indeed, but this isn't anything new.

Waze already knows where you are whenever you're using it. It's a critical part of the functionality that allows it to work.

Furthermore, there's an excellent chance that Google also knows where you are, whether you think they do or not.

Personally, I'm OK with this at this time. Waze has saved me hours of waiting in traffic on the freeway, and Google's Location History helps me generate accurate invoices without wasting time on note-taking.

Your opinion may (and perhaps should) vary.

Curious if you were aware of how your GPS statistics might be affecting your automobile insurance rates year after year.

Oh, you have factual proof they are not manipulated by aggregating data from various sources?

Curious if you were aware of how your medical insurance rates might be affected based on where you travel. Or what food you buy.

Oh, you have factual proof they are not manipulated by aggregating data from various sources?

I could go on here, but hopefully you see my point. The reality is you have no damn idea just how much your life is actually affected by corporations aggregating and sharing data like this.

None of us do.

It is a bit of an interesting situation because the Century Boulevard exit shares the transition lanes from the 105 onto the 405. So from the Waze POV it probably saw it as the "105 Freeway" and noticed that it was less congested than the 405. Having said that, the instructions were "Take Century Boulevard exit" and not "Merge onto 105 transition".

This should link to the area. The exit is basically at the 105 and I merged back onto the 405 near W Arbor Vitae St

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

There are NO places where you can buy legal digital copies of movies without DRM.

I think I said that, actually.

That said, there currently exist no DRM-free legitimate sources for movies,

I then continued to clarify:

though there are many that work on all platforms, including Linux (and Android), which can not be said for iTunes.

Did you not read the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted? Hmm?

So what you're saying is "people should pirate, or not have digital copies of movies"

Where did I say anything about piracy?

iTunes isn't any worse than any other mechanism

Except for the whole "doesn't work on Android" part.

The only other one I'm even aware of is Ultraviolet

How about Amazon? Or Google Play? In addition to Google's native support on Android (obviously), they both work in-browser and both have iOS apps available: Amazon Instant Video for iOS Google Play Movies & TV for iOS.

Platform support alone makes both of those better options than iTunes. I'm not sure if you missed my point or if you were simply ignoring it.

Indeed, but this isn't anything new.

Waze already knows where you are whenever you're using it. It's a critical part of the functionality that allows it to work.

Furthermore, there's an excellent chance that Google also knows where you are, whether you think they do or not.

Personally, I'm OK with this at this time. Waze has saved me hours of waiting in traffic on the freeway, and Google's Location History helps me generate accurate invoices without wasting time on note-taking.

Your opinion may (and perhaps should) vary.

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Gamut is a perfectly cromulent word to use in that sentence.

You can change his plan too. Boost offers 2GB/mo 4G LTE for $30/mo, which simply degrades to 3G when he hits 2GB.

I don't bother with the higher plans. I play Ingress a lot, use it constantly for mail, and I do a lot of web stuff when not home. Like searching for reviews and price comparisons when I'm out shopping. I also occasionally tether my laptop if I need to do something and don't have wifi available. At home and when I'm in an office, I get on wifi. It's not a bandwidth saving measure though, it's just faster to be on a fat pipe than anything wireless trying to penetrate buildings. When I check my usage, I'm usually only at 1.2 to 1.5 GB per month.

I ran into my first problem with Boost a month ago. They messed up provisioning Visual Voicemail when I switched phones, so it isn't sending transcribed messages to me.

It would seem that they're targeting a small market with this new plan.

Ah, they got their site up. It was throwing an error last night.

TFA seems to make the assumption that these drugs actually work, when there is no scientific evidence that they do.

So the military use of "go-pills" is based entirely on placebo? Two of the amphetamine salts in Adderall are dextroamphetamines. The same used by the military for night missions.

You didn't look very hard. Google Scholar

I think you will find that most of those papers state there is a performance benefit but it comes at a cost.

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Thanks to the 4chan IRC logs we know that this is the standard tactic of the GamerGate crowd. Accuse the "SJWs" of everything they themselves are actually doing, using a vast array of puppet accounts. The most damning thing is that if any of this were true you would be welcoming it, since you could effortlessly get all the SJWs banned from Twitter. Just go and report their old posts right now. In fact, if you link to a few right now I'll do it for you.

Come on, I'm calling your bluff. Let's see your hand.

Gamergate actually tracked down an alleged harasser of Zoe Quinn and gave the information to her and the FBI, imploring them to investigate alleged harassment of both Quinn and Brianna Wu. Gamergate is not a harassment campaign, and it's not a small group of "cis white male nerds" with a ton of sock-puppet accounts. Look up #NotYourShield. Again, you claim to require evidence for your beliefs but do not require any evidence for the sock-puppet claims while ignoring any evidence to the contrary. Just as you have said, there's been no evidence that gamergate has harassed or "doxed" anyone either. There's also PLENTY of evidence in the twitter streams of various SJWs, indeed here's a thread whereby gamergate screencapped hateful shit SJWs say and made it into a meme: "Actually it's about equality." Checkout reddit's TumblrInAction for more SJW hypocrisy, or just search the phrase. (gee, it's like you're willfully ignorant, like you have some ulterior motive other than representing reality)

Even the articles written by SJW journalists provide copious amounts of evidence that these SJW journalists are (sometimes literally) in-bed with developers, and not disclosing their personal relationships. So, if the evidence is out there why aren't mainstream news sources covering gamergate as anything but a harassment campaign? (gee, it's like they're willfully ignorant, like they have some ulterior motive other than representing reality). Recently we've become aware that the GDC / IGDA awards have been essentially rigged, the judges don't play the games they downvote, and frequent judges vote on games except in years they submit a game, and then those games win awards as they're judged by their friends. Meanwhile the little guy who created equal or better quality content is bilked for his $100 entry fee without ever having a chance of winning, as it will be the clique-made SJW pandering walking simulator that win awards.

So, what's the deal? We have tons of evidence that you refuse to look at, with more happenings almost every day. We even have alternative and neutral game journalists we're supporting, as well as charities which we fund (even ones to help get girls into gamedev)... But no, it's somehow all just hateful troll sockpuppets who hate women so much that they sponsor a female only gamejam? The cognitive dissonance hurts, I get it. You don't want to believe that the media is colluding to push a narrative, but we have proof that's sadly what is happening.

In case you haven't noticed the average slashdaughter knows the SJW jig is up. That divide and conquer bullshit is just a tool by the media and state to control the populace. Re-evaluate your world view, because it's not based in reality -- it's based in unevidenced ideology, outright lies, and propaganda. Women's rights needs a divorce from Feminism. There never was a pay gap, not since at least the 70's.

Should have included this, but: They explicitly describe their criteria for a "good" mobile site, which I'm guessing the "mobile sites" that are receiving so much hate don't meet:

https://developers.google.com/...

https://developers.google.com/...

Should have included this, but: They explicitly describe their criteria for a "good" mobile site, which I'm guessing the "mobile sites" that are receiving so much hate don't meet:

https://developers.google.com/...

https://developers.google.com/...

It isn't rating a site positively for having a mobile version. It is rating it positively for "not looking like shit on mobile".

It's not just saying "oh this site claims to have a mobile version, great!" or "I don't see a mobile-specific version, ding it in the results!", it's "Does the site render well on mobile?" with various criteria for "renders well on mobile".

If anything it's pretty lenient, in many cases rating sites which people say suck on mobile as "mobile-friendly" - including slashdot.org itself. https://www.google.com/webmast...

I believe that this is what Google's system is doing. It isn't looking for "this site has a specific mobile variant", it's looking for "the site does not suck on a mobile device".

If anything, it's apparently lenient, since most of the comments here say Slashdot is shitty when viewed on a mobile device, but Google's "Mobile-Friendly Test" at https://www.google.com/webmast... ranks slashdot.org as "Mobile Friendly"

The test Google is doing is not looking for a "mobile version" of a site, it's looking for whether the site renders well on mobile. They're looking for basic things - are the fonts big enough to read, are the links clickable, etc. The BBC site (at least BBC News) passes their tests fine. They have a tool you can use to test for compliance.

The only time I have ever been aware of hitting a mobile site is when you have that "gah, WTF is this crap?" moment where you can't find anything and the link you followed has been swallowed by the crap which has said :"hey, you're on a mobile, how about we fail to show you what you were looking for?".

Their guidelines suggest suggest this is one of those things that will be punished. Which makes this smartphone user quite happy.

Linus Torvalds said that about C++. For some people, there is a very strong C/C++ divide. I think from their perspective (I use C++ but didn't drink the koolaid) C++ encourages you to be lazy (yet overcomplicated!) and they have a point. Every time you type a character into the chrome address bar, there are 25,000 std::strings created. Shit like that wouldn't happen in C.

Maybe in C it's harder to do things, so you need to think about it more and do it correctly.

The reality seems to buck your prediction: the US is currently ahead of most other countries according to Google's data.

According to google's own tests, Wikipedia is indeed mobile friendly:
https://www.google.com/webmast...

The summary says that Wikipedia does not have a mobile site. That isn't true. The BBC article linked from TFA actually says:

Sections of sites owned by the European Union, the BBC and Wikipedia currently fail the search giant's Mobile Friendly Test developer tool.

I just tested the Wikipedia mobile site with their tool and it says "Awesome! This page is mobile-friendly." However, if you feed it wikipedia.org instead of en.m.wikipedia.org it complains that the links are too close together, which is definitely not the case. Even the picture it shows of "How Googlebot sees the page" is quite clear.

IPv6 would help both enormously.

In the long term, yes. In the short term, going offline for the 93.69% of their users who don't have IPv6 yet would certainly be seen my most as a completely dickish move - I'm pretty sure their investors would be upset, for one thing.

Lower latency on routing means faster responses.

How does IPv6 yield lower latency? If anything, the latency on IPv6 is often slightly higher than IPv4 owing to the prevalence of IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels where native IPv6 interlinks aren't available, along with larger headers slightly increasing the latency of cut-through routing.

IP Mobility means users can move between ISPs without posts breaking, losing responses to queries, losing hangout or other chat service connections, or having to continually re-authenticate.

Does anyone actually implement IP mobility? It requires support from your ISP, and I've not heard anything about any ISPs implementing it.

Autoconfiguration means both can add servers just by switching the new machines on.

DHCP does pretty much the same under IPv4 - I can't see this being a boon to Google/Facebook. (TBH I wouldn't be surprised if their infrastructure was too complex for any of these protocols - they've probably got some home baked protocol for doing that stuff).

Because IPv4 has no native security, it's vulnerable to a much wider range of attacks and there's nothing the vendors can do about them.

So no different from IPv6 then... both protocols have ipsec support (I think it's mandatory for IPv6 whereas the IPv4 version is an optional backport, but all major OSes support it in both cases so that's neither here nor there). However, ipsec use is currently pretty much reserved for VPNs - you can do adhoc ipsec but no one does. About the only thing you get from IPv6 is that IP addresses are much sparser, so scanning/attacking by picking addresses at random isn't effective.

I suspect that book is still foundational in most University advertising/marketing progams.

I think historically, a more influential book has been Darrell Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics", the second book in this list. It was originally written in 1954. And while less rigorous, it is an entertaining read and probably gets its point across to a much wider audience. I know for a fact that Huff's book is still used as a text in college statistics courses... but probably only the lower-level classes.

Not to be confused with the much more exciting book, "How to lie with Statisticians"

I second this. Personally I use Redshift to accomplish the same thing on my PCs, and the simpler Nightfilter on Android (although the latter doesn't automatically adjust based on your latitude and time of day).

The difference between "night" and day mode is, well, night and day. When I turn if off late at night my eyeballs scream and then heave a sigh of relief when I re-engage it.

you don't even need to setup DHCP. your router just hands out prefixes, and the devices on the net autonomously decide their address by appending their mac address

If you don't set up DHCP, then how do devices on the net bootstrap enough service to be able to resolve www.example.com. into an IPv6 address? Does each machine need to run its own recursive resolver or rely on 2001:4860:4860::8844?

Perhaps you missed world IPv6 day when they both jumped at the same time to enable their front pages? There are a lot of things that don't work right in an IPv6 only world, such as Skype but the list of things that doesn't work is getting shorter. If you take a look at the statistics it's quite encouraging to see a steady growth curve.

https://www.google.com/intl/en...

the reason we're not seeing an increase in testing scores (which is what you mean by "discernible improvement") is because we've allowing more and more people into higher education since the 70s. Basically we started a "war on poverty" and stopped abandoning the poor to their fates. Before they wouldn't even make it into high school, let alone college. No schooling for disadvantaged children meant no test scores for disadvantaged children.

A little googling and you'd easily find this article explaining it. But it's much more fun to complain about paying taxes (which is the subtext of your post) than look at root causes...

I have IPV6 at home (took some calls to AT&T Customer Support). I don't have it at work, the migration will probably start small network endpoints (phones (apparently t-mobile has already switch), and home networks).

Link local IPV6 is already fairly broadly available - it's the fe80 prefixed address on your ifconfig output. You should be able to ping other ipv6 addresses on your network (*nix to *nix).

Google's IPv6 stats page indicates this too... https://www.google.com/intl/en... has a peculiar comb effect for the last few years. Zooming in seems to give a bit more insight. Google's count of IPv6 connections has a full 1% swing over the weekends vs the week days. Due to IPv6's addressing method, each unique device on your network appears as a unique device on the internet, vs the NATed IPv4 that we all know and love. This would also have an accelerating increase in the number of unique IPs that are visible on the weekend. I know I use more devices over the weekend (chromebook, phone, laptop, table) vs during the week.

Open to other insights, but our homes will be likely IPv6 before our offices are. (Of course aggressive tech companies like google and facebook are likely already IPv6).

1 inch of water per SQFT is for those who want that golf green lawn. Until about 6 years ago I never watered my lawn and it remained reasonably beautiful with just normal precipitation. Now I only water my lawn when it's dry for extended periods. I water for only 15 minutes per section (whatever amount of water that equals to I'm not sure but I managed to do the whole lawn which is about 30x30 total which is about 1/3 inch per sqft).

Watering a 30x30 ft lawn with 1/3 inch of water is around 180 gallons, so if you're spreading 50 gallons over that lawn, you're only getting around 1/10th of an inch of water, barely enough to penetrate the soil.

So the point is, I get whatever I get out of the 50 gallons. It's water that isn't coming out of the city's water supply. Those that are more serious (such as some I know) will get a 1000 gallon tank installed at time of construction. Each 50 gallon saves me $10 (based on the lowest rate in the consumption chart) and based on my bills I figure I save between $25 and $40 a month.

Where do you live that you pay $0.20/gallon for water? In San Francisco, the water+sewer rate is closer to $0.02/gallon. The city with the highest cost for water + sewer in this chart is Atlanta, GA ataround $0.026 per gallon.

If you're refilling your 50 gallon barrel 2.5 to 4 times a month with rainwater, you probably don't need much water for irrigation anyway, sounds like you're already getting regular rain.

https://www.google.com/insides...

then there is the 3d sets
like
http://www.imagebam.com/image/...
http://www.imagebam.com/image/...
or one of my picassa albums
https://plus.google.com/u/0/ph...

You can play the android version of the bot here: https://play.google.com/store/... It comes with a good tutorial on how to play. Relevant xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1002/

[probably as part of the Qualcomm/whomever chip for processing cell phone signals]./ Since the signal is [most likely] coming from the cellular chip

It's apparently part of the bluetooth module in a lot of phones, rather than the cellular radio..

You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly.

This is generally accomplished by using headphone wires as antennae.

Hardware-level support for FM is apparently present for some fairly popular devices, but not activated in software. I don't think that the difficulties (power requirements, technical difficulty of implementation, etc) are as serious as you're making them out to be.

It is coming, finally. In 2010 0.1% of the connections to Google's services were native ipv6, and about the same used 6to4. Now, about 6% of the connections are native ipv6, while 6to4 is almost completely gone. 6% is enough that it's actually starting to matter. The fraction currently seems to be growing by 2.5 percentage points per year, though it might still be accelerating. So perhaps we will finally be free from the curse of NAT in a few more decades.

Did SCTP have horrible behavior, or the tested implementation? The QUIC doc says nothing about that. QUIC vs SCTP is on page 8.

https://docs.google.com/docume...

How exactly does one do "long term storage" on something the size of an aircraft carrier
Serious question, it's not like you can just park it in the garage/barn and cover it with a tarp.

You park it . If you think you may need it soon, or if Congress orders you to, you can cocoon critical parts to keep out moisture, but pretty much you simply park it.

How exactly does one do "long term storage" on something the size of an aircraft carrier
Serious question, it's not like you can just park it in the garage/barn and cover it with a tarp.

You park it . If you think you may need it soon, or if Congress orders you to, you can cocoon critical parts to keep out moisture, but pretty much you simply park it.

Here's the tool google uses for extracting meaningful terms from pages with Microdata or RDFa Lite attributes:
https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/

http://www.google.com/loon/where/

One of the first apps that drove my choice between IOS and Android, was the availability of a Graffiti app for Android. Reasonable clone of text input that Palm made popular.

Unless it's in China, who the heck wears a watch nowadays, other than old people?

LMGISTFY: https://www.google.com/search?q=celebs+wearing+watches&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=m44yVfDnIJG0adWKgfgP&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1301&bih=821

Psst:

https://play.google.com/store/...

There's a Graffiti input method for Android. Haven't used it so I'm not sure which version of Graffiti it is or how close to the original Palm implementation.

Bookmark this: https://www.google.com/maps?output=classic.

I'm pretty sure at some point in the past, I've installed a Graffiti input method for one or more of the Android devices I've owned, after seeing someone I knew using it. Ah, yeah, found it and it's listed as "Installed", though it's not on any device I'm *currently* using...

I suspect that book is still foundational in most University advertising/marketing progams.

I think historically, a more influential book has been Darrell Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics", the second book in this list.

It was originally written in 1954. And while less rigorous, it is an entertaining read and probably gets its point across to a much wider audience.

I know for a fact that Huff's book is still used as a text in college statistics courses... but probably only the lower-level classes.

used to be required in university statistics intro classes: http://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_use_and_misuse_statistics.html

I suspect that book is still foundational in most University advertising/marketing progams.

At least one president of the American Psychological Association published a statistics book intelligent enough that it used to be required in university statistics intro classes: http://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_use_and_misuse_statistics.html

Not that he would have disagreed with the comment about social psychologists...

No with trees you need to cut them down and harvest the wood. If used in durable goods it becomes a very effective method for sequestering carbon. If you really want to go for long term sequestration then dig a giant hole and then fill it so there is a giant pile of harvested trees and then cover it with dirt.