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I was looking at houses in Wisconsin and looked at the below house. There is a cell tower on it that is fenced in. The realtor told us that the property the cell tower is on is owned by a . We drove up to the fenced in area around the cell tower and to the right of it is a brick building with a big steel door on it it that has a sign that says "Property of the Federal Government". There are big black cables going right from the cell tower into the brick building and back out again. It's a DIRECT tap off the cell phone tower!

https://www.google.com/maps?q=...

I think you should look for literature review papers in a reputable scientific journal (ranks high in impact factor among similar journals in the field, or is something you've heard of like JAMA or The Lancet), written by authors who have published extensively on the subject. Google scholar might be a good place to start (e.g., like this).

I'm not saying not to listen to anecdotes and personal experiences, but those things are highly colored by wishful thinking and political animus. You may well find useful and constructive ideas, but you'll also need a counterweight to the heat and noise and boatloads of personal opinion. You need a filter. Until an expert researcher publishing in a reputable journal is forced to take an idea seriously, there is not enough evidence for you to take it seriously either.

Now that I've warned you off personal anecdotes, let me relate a personal anecdote. My sister had an autistic son, back in the day where Bruno f*cking Bettleheim was the worlds foremost "expert" on autism. His theory was that autism was caused by bad moms, what he called "refrigerator mothers" -- narcissistic women who were so self-absorbed they couldn't give their children the emotional nurturing they needed. Fortunately she had a masters degree in social work and had been a practicing social worker for ten years. So she set out to get him all the practical help he needed, including evidence-based social therapy. The result isn't that he's "cured" -- whatever that means. He was not magically turned into different, neurotypical person. He grew up into an autistic man who functions confidently in a world dominated by neurotypical people.

Finally let me address you as a parent. I know things are tougher for parents of autistic kids. Way, way tougher. But also keep in mind that parenting in general is tough. Children have a way of not giving you what you need emotionally and demanding things from you when you're not ready to give them. So while a lot of what you're going through most parents don't go through some of them they do. You've got to believe in your ability to make the right choice, and tolerate and forgive yourself for an occasional mistake. There's a whole culture out there that likes to make parents feel inadequate and anxious, and they especially like to prey upon parents who seem vulnerable. So don't be. Also you don't mention whether you have other kids, but if you do make sure you carve out a little time to focus on them. It won't seem like enough, but if you make the effort it will be.

Let me Google that for you.

Poetry from the 15th century: https://books.google.com/books...

"Peace makes plenty.
Plenty makes pride.
Pride breeds dispute.
Poverty's the fruit.
Poverty makes peace."

Other variations on the poem: https://books.google.com/books...

I got curious about that first phrase as it is the name of a Culture ship in Iain Bank's novel "Excession". :-)

And see also a funny sci-fi story about an alien invasion getting all the nations of the Earth to come together, like: "The Gentle Earth" by Christopher Anvil. :-) Or also "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin.

So yes, there may well be various social cycles in mood and expectations... Daniel Quinn explores those in his non-fiction book "Beyond Civilization". But I can hope it doesn't need to get that bad, and that we can relearn old truths from old stories less painfully than re-experiencing them first hand...

Anyway, glad we got a VIZIO a year or two ago. :-) Concerns about some smart features in other TVs (as previously discussed on Slashdot) did affect that choice. We barely use it though. It was mostly for use with a Wii and PlayStation, which have faded into the background compared to PC games like Space Engineers, Minecraft, and World of Tanks. Laptops (even a 14" Chromebook) are also much more convenient in our particular home for watching video together given where the VIZIO is. Still, the big VIZIO makes a great display for a tiny Raspberry Pi! :-)

But to think what my feelings were reading 1984 decades ago, and how impossible and fantastical it seemed to have spy cameras and spy recordings going on in every US home (along with Dick Tracy's impossible-seeming two-way wrist TV). And now we are pretty much there in terms of technology (even just laptops, let alone TVs). I hope we find better ways to use all that to build a happy healthy world that works for pretty much everyone.

Poetry from the 15th century: https://books.google.com/books...

"Peace makes plenty.
Plenty makes pride.
Pride breeds dispute.
Poverty's the fruit.
Poverty makes peace."

Other variations on the poem: https://books.google.com/books...

I got curious about that first phrase as it is the name of a Culture ship in Iain Bank's novel "Excession". :-)

And see also a funny sci-fi story about an alien invasion getting all the nations of the Earth to come together, like: "The Gentle Earth" by Christopher Anvil. :-) Or also "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin.

So yes, there may well be various social cycles in mood and expectations... Daniel Quinn explores those in his non-fiction book "Beyond Civilization". But I can hope it doesn't need to get that bad, and that we can relearn old truths from old stories less painfully than re-experiencing them first hand...

Anyway, glad we got a VIZIO a year or two ago. :-) Concerns about some smart features in other TVs (as previously discussed on Slashdot) did affect that choice. We barely use it though. It was mostly for use with a Wii and PlayStation, which have faded into the background compared to PC games like Space Engineers, Minecraft, and World of Tanks. Laptops (even a 14" Chromebook) are also much more convenient in our particular home for watching video together given where the VIZIO is. Still, the big VIZIO makes a great display for a tiny Raspberry Pi! :-)

But to think what my feelings were reading 1984 decades ago, and how impossible and fantastical it seemed to have spy cameras and spy recordings going on in every US home (along with Dick Tracy's impossible-seeming two-way wrist TV). And now we are pretty much there in terms of technology (even just laptops, let alone TVs). I hope we find better ways to use all that to build a happy healthy world that works for pretty much everyone.

In addition to what you're looking for maybe an app that tries to detect seizures as well?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rd.epdetect&hl=en

I'm not an expert in X, so I'll have to lookup "grab_break" and xkb and screen locking screensavers.

With respect to the systemd binary journal, a design document is here: https://docs.google.com/docume... Each entry is digitally signed with the hash of the previous entry. So any attacker that gets root can rewrite an entry, but in order to make the digital signatures pass verification he's got to rewrite the digital signature on the modified log entry and on every log entry from that point forward in time - feasible, but a lot more work than just modifying a text file and then changing the timestamp in a traditional log. and you can use rsyslog alongside journald.

Clear cutting

Not sure what would prompt using that description here, but none of the candidates looks healthy.

RIM? If you don't run your own BES server, the RIM servers (or carrier BES server) have the password stored on them in order to download the mail. If you run your own BES server, it has full control on your domain in order to access mailboxes, and it has internet access to send mail to the RIM servers, where it is cached.

Oh, and RIM is a Canadian company, one of the Five Eyes, so in most respects no different than being American. I would love to see what the EU intends to use for email on phone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Apple - WA, USA
Google - CA, USA
RIM - Canada

Well, that covers all the major phone OSes.

How do you think that any country is any different anyways. The NSA had some of its programs exposed, do you really think there is a country on this planet that doesn't (or wishes they could) do anything that the NSA was doing? The NSA is chartered to protect the interests of the US, just like any other foreign intelligence organization, they will do what they can to accomplish that goal.

Would China be any better to host this stuff in? How about Russia? Japan (close allies of the US)? Korea (also allies)? Heck, any EU country is about as trustworthy, as most of them work very closely with the US through NATO. Guess we are all going to design, fab, code and run our very own cell phones/cell networks to prevent spying. What happens when someone then sets up their own cell tower to capture the unencrypted data stream? Are you going to then trust SSL or whatever encrypts the mail server conversations (over and above the cell network encryption that is being bypassed)?

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

ES File Explorer can browse your local network. Add the ES Chromecast plugin and you are able to stream many media formats with it. There are audio issues with certain formats, but I imagine that will be addressed at some point.

The better solution is simply to install the Plex server on your computer and drop $5 on the app for your tablet. Create a free Plex account, install the app on your phone, and you can access all of your media with a clean, professional interface anywhere you can get online.

ES File Explorer can browse your local network. Add the ES Chromecast plugin and you are able to stream many media formats with it. There are audio issues with certain formats, but I imagine that will be addressed at some point.

The better solution is simply to install the Plex server on your computer and drop $5 on the app for your tablet. Create a free Plex account, install the app on your phone, and you can access all of your media with a clean, professional interface anywhere you can get online.

ES File Explorer can browse your local network. Add the ES Chromecast plugin and you are able to stream many media formats with it. There are audio issues with certain formats, but I imagine that will be addressed at some point.

The better solution is simply to install the Plex server on your computer and drop $5 on the app for your tablet. Create a free Plex account, install the app on your phone, and you can access all of your media with a clean, professional interface anywhere you can get online.

... to do the "developers developers developers ..." dance. Or is he going to get creative and do "start ups ... start ups... start ups..."

Although evaporation losses still need to be dealt with.

Water use through evaporation isn't a "loss" in this case. It is a feature. That's the mechanism carrying the heat away.

You can use giant dry radiators instead. They are called Air Cooled Condensers or ACCs. this plant* has a bank of air cooled condensers - the light gray banks on the left side of the plant. They use a huge amount of electricity but no water. A decision has to be made on which is more OK to waste- fuel or water. This plant burns natural gas in 2 gas turbines, using the waste heat to run a steam turbine. In Primm, Nevada, obviously water is more valuable than gas.

*If you zoom out from this map, the Ivanpah solar thermal facility is just across the border to the southwest. They use an air cooled condenser too.

One does not have an inherent right to the work of someone else. Such a right only exists when it is contractually forced by an agreement such as the GPL.

Indeed, that's the point. That's one thing the developer loses when he choses a BSD license over a copyleft one (not just the GPL).

There is no loss. You confuse loss with gaining a contractual obligation. An absence of gain is not a loss.

No, it is not a loss. It is simply coveting something one does not have. If you want to say it it unfair, sure, but a loss, no, not all.

Isn't it correct to call "a loss" something that you can have, and then at some point you can no longer have? I get quite a lot of hits on Google for that usage: https://www.google.com/search?...

No, because there never was anything you inherently could have, i.e. someone else's property. There is no lost opportunity because there never was a right to such an opportunity. Coveting someone else's property and not getting access to that property is not a lost opportunity.

The point is that with the GPL they cannot commercially fork code written by me. Of course they can do whatever they want with their own code.

They absolutely can use GPL code commercially. Commercial use does nor require distribution to external users. Commercial use simply means they make money off your work, and this is perfectly allowable under the GPL.

use != fork

A "fork" can be internal, private. The GPL allows such an internal effort to apply any subsequent changes or additions you make, to track your main "branch", and to use such code internally to make money and not reimburse you.

You forget the pesky little detail that I mentioned that users are under no obligation to use a proprietary BSD fork rather than the community version. They can stick with the community and have no such fear, use FreeBSD rather than Mac OS X for example.

Another loss for the user. With the GPL, I have the freedom to choose the products that I like. With the BSD license, I have to take what the community gives me ...

No. Both GPL and BSD users only have what the community happens to offer them. There is nothing to "like" beyond the community's offering. Plus there is your confusion of "loss" with failing to get something you never had but merely covet.

... And today this means that I might even not have the ability to run the free version of the software on my machine, because its manufacturers might decide (and they usually do) that it's not worth the hassle for them to release the source code of some machine-specific software that is required to use even the community version of the product.

Again, coveting something you never had, not a loss. If you buy a Windows box and it doesn't run BSD you did not lose anything. You did not buy a BSD box. If you bought a BSD box in the first place you would lose nothing.

Since Linux is GPL, and only because of that, at least Android phone owners can install a community-driven distribution on their phones. That's because the hardware manufacturers have to release both the kernel and the drivers. For the userspace parts, which fall under different licenses, they don't bother - and that's an endless source of problems for the users.

The fact remains that a user who wants to continue using their original vendor supplied software is forced to go without a patch despite the GPL.

Yes you mentioned GPLv3 but that was a crude attempt to manufacture a hypothetical, the reality is that Linux is what most devices will be based upon and Linux is inhe

There was no evidence for your speculation regarding a relationship between malpractice lawsuits and measles diagnosis. I thought so, note how when I cannot provide a reference (e.g. people stopped purposefully spreading) I make an effort to note so.

I didn't say that since you weren't going on about that and I didn't say that measles diagnosis would go up or down. I merely stated that there would be a lot of unnecessary measles testing.

But since you mention it, there's a lot of news about overtesting in US health care (a Google search reveals at least half a dozen distinct stories on this subject). I think this overcautious environment easily explains why there is so much measles testing these days in the absence of actual measles.

If you just claim things then don't back them up, then what is the point of our continued discussion? I was just doing it for anyone who comes across this in the future.

My apologies for interrupting your sanctimonious grandstanding, but I provided links to the particular claim you are grandstanding about. And since we're supposedly arguing for posterity, let me note again the following quote:

Please show me this predictive model. 'Vaccines make diagnoses go down" is not a useful prediction because that evidence is consistent with all sorts of alternative explanations. That is an egregious case of affirming the consequent:

I think this demonstrates the profound unreasonableness of your entire argument. A model with a testable prediction is considered useless when it comes true. There are always alternative explanations, especially when one decides to overlook evidence contrary to the explanations.

From that same post, the intellectual hole gets dug deeper with this assertion:

A prediction needs to be precise to be of any value.

In other words, we can ignore a three orders of magnitude improvement in measles cases because nobody bothered to nail down the next significant digit. It's an absurd argument.

One does not have an inherent right to the work of someone else. Such a right only exists when it is contractually forced by an agreement such as the GPL.

Indeed, that's the point. That's one thing the developer loses when he choses a BSD license over a copyleft one (not just the GPL).

No, it is not a loss. It is simply coveting something one does not have. If you want to say it it unfair, sure, but a loss, no, not all.

Isn't it correct to call "a loss" something that you can have, and then at some point you can no longer have? I get quite a lot of hits on Google for that usage: https://www.google.com/search?...

The point is that with the GPL they cannot commercially fork code written by me. Of course they can do whatever they want with their own code.

They absolutely can use GPL code commercially. Commercial use does nor require distribution to external users. Commercial use simply means they make money off your work, and this is perfectly allowable under the GPL.

use != fork

You forget the pesky little detail that I mentioned that users are under no obligation to use a proprietary BSD fork rather than the community version. They can stick with the community and have no such fear, use FreeBSD rather than Mac OS X for example.

Another loss for the user. With the GPL, I have the freedom to choose the products that I like. With the BSD license, I have to take what the community gives me. And today this means that I might even not have the ability to run the free version of the software on my machine, because its manufacturers might decide (and they usually do) that it's not worth the hassle for them to release the source code of some machine-specific software that is required to use even the community version of the product.

Its also a humorous example given the fact that Android phones with their GPL based Linux host are not getting critical patches.

Quite the opposite. Since Linux is GPL, and only because of that, at least Android phone owners can install a community-driven distribution on their phones. That's because the hardware manufacturers have to release both the kernel and the drivers. For the userspace parts, which fall under different licenses, they don't bother - and that's an endless source of problems for the users.

To make a concrete example, try asking Sony about the source code for the GPL kernel of an Xperia phone. They'll give it. Try asking them about the source code for the BSD kernel of the Playstation 3 and see what happens ;-) .

Yes you mentioned GPLv3 but that was a crude attempt to manufacture a hypothetical, the reality is that Linux is what most devices will be based upon and Linux is inherently GPLv2 and will not be changing.

Are you trying to make the point that the GPLv3 is better than the GPLv2? You're bashing an open door, as I strongly agree with that.

A straw man. No where was your property, the community BSD code, at risk of loss. Only the commercial fork's code, and that code is not yours, it is someone else's property.

We're talking about the mere "forced benevolence is not freedom" statement here. Do you think that the laws that force people not to rob my house give me freedom, or not?

You are under no obligation to use commercial forks. Again, you may stay with FreeBSD and not run Mac OS X. Nothing Mac OS X does or adds takes away from anyone who wishes to use FreeBSD.

Of course I have no obligation to use commercial forks, it's a freedom of choice that I have. Then again, it might become an obligation if the machine that I can buy only runs the commercial flavour of the project. The most relevant example f

What legitimate informational purpose is served by allowing a bunch of random shitheads around the world to watch another human being being literally roasted alive?

Peoples don't know what 'burn alive' mean. It is very abstract the public because such display where not seen since the Salem witch hunt. It is important to be reminded how horrific it really is.

War photography is crucial to really understand the nature of war and crimes such as these. For example picture like this or this changed the face of war.

These islamic warrior are dumb enough to post evidence of there barbaric acts. Let's not get it go to waste. Publish and re-publish them until the public opinion is stronger against islam and its violent ways.

What legitimate informational purpose is served by allowing a bunch of random shitheads around the world to watch another human being being literally roasted alive?

Peoples don't know what 'burn alive' mean. It is very abstract the public because such display where not seen since the Salem witch hunt. It is important to be reminded how horrific it really is.

War photography is crucial to really understand the nature of war and crimes such as these. For example picture like this or this changed the face of war.

These islamic warrior are dumb enough to post evidence of there barbaric acts. Let's not get it go to waste. Publish and re-publish them until the public opinion is stronger against islam and its violent ways.

You may know its end better by the term holocaust.

The people I grew up with, many of whom had actually escaped from Germany, or fought in Germany, some of whom knocked out a few Nazi tanks or troop trains, usually referred to it as "The concentration camps" or just "World War II."

The term "holocaust" didn't become popular until around 1980, when some of the Israel-firsters started using it to justify doing everything they wanted to do, like blowing up Sol Hurok's office and killing his Jewish secretary. Because -- Holocaust!

https://books.google.com/ngram...

The term "holocaust" was also a good draw for fundraising and for shaking down European governments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It offends me because it's a religious term, whose literal meaning is that Jews were killed as a sacrifice to God. That's an insult to every Jewish atheist who died (or survived) fighting the Nazis.

This installed for me over WINE http://dl.google.com/earth/cli...

However certain things like the search function are not working for me.

https://dl.google.com/earth/cl...

The Ball Bearing plant was shut down a few years ago, the NRO said so. That's why all those huge dishes are still there and move from time to time.

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

It isnt because your bias makes you refuse to read sceptical scientific discussions that they dont exist.

Projection isn't a river in Egypt.

Stop reading media crap or rebuttals by propaganda sites and, just for your educational purposes, read some scientific sceptical sites and make up your own mind.

Or maybe read some original papers on the issue! Of course, if it doesn't agree with Anthony Watts, then you'll probably consider it propaganda. Bet you never read these.

While this is in general great practical advice (and no doubt hard won), I can quibble about your point #3 on complex dependency graphs requiring rewrites as the "only way out". Certainly this is more of an issue in C++ than something like Java where code can be more easily replaced at runtime. However, at least in Java, the idea of "mocking" can sometimes be useful to test code even with complex dependencies without (significant) initial rewriting.

I used mocking with JMockit successfully in the large Java project previously mentioned. I tried other frameworks, but preferred that one. JMockit supported creating unit tests for code which was not originally designed to be testable and had complex interdependencies in how objects were constructed. However, JMockit did have a substantial learning curve, even aside from hours spent trying to come up with tests for domain-specific specific code. Eventually I created some supporting code to make the mocking easier for our project, and then another developer improved even further on my work, making mocking our specific application much easier. So, at least in our situation, with a huge complex Java codebase in production, limited developer time, and limited tests initially, mocking was a big win IMHO that let us start to get a handle on everything without having to rewrite a lot of code at first.

That said, in general, code is easier to maintain and understand when it does not have complex dependencies. "Dependency Injection" is a good idea in a lot of cases -- although it can have its own downsides in making object construction code harder to follow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

So, while I'm quibbling about "only way forward" because of the possibility of mocking, I'm not saying rewriting in such situations in necessarily a bad idea or even quicker than mocking sometimes -- especially as mocking can introduce its own issues.

With JMockit, one such unexpected issue was that mocking an object created mocks up the entire class hierarchy (causing issues when you wanted to mock one class but test a sibling class). This was a subtle issue that took a while to understand, and I did not see documented explicitly anywhere (at least in introductory material) although I think there was a bug/feature request about it somewhere.

Another JMockit issue was that mocks were instantiated and removed in relation to threading somehow and there could be issues with mocks remaining in place when previous unit tests had not completely finished running all their threads. This could sometimes lead to unit tests failing occasionally due to thread timing issues and the mocking, when a class that was mocked in one test or with certain "expectations" was then accessed by another unit test which mocked different objects or had different "expectations". Sometimes this (unfortunately) happened embarrassingly on other developer's machines with different OS or hardware or on our Hudson/Jenkins build server just by the force of numbers of times the tests were run. Usually I could get around these cases either by adding delays at the end of the unit test to let all the threads complete or, better, by having improved mocks or other code that ensured the threads were finished before the test ended.

That said, even with both of these issues, both frustrating to understand and then work around, mocking was still a big win for the project IMHO.

I have not used any C++ mocking frameworks so I don't know how well they work or what their limits are. However, for suggestions about some such frameworks see this StackOverflow discussion:
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

The top rated answer there is about "Google Mock" but there are other choices.
https://code.google.com/p/goog...

I do not see the word "mock" used so far in this Slashdot d

The Department of Social Engineering's activities here would not be so concerning but for things like:

>O.C.G.A. 16-11-38 (2010)
>16-11-38. Wearing mask, hood, or device which conceals identity of wearer

>(a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when he wears a mask, hood, or device by which any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to >conceal the identity of the wearer and is upon any public way or public property or upon the private property of another without the written permission of the >owner or occupier of the property to do so.

>(b) This Code section shall not apply to:

>(1) A person wearing a traditional holiday costume on the occasion of the holiday;

>(2) A person lawfully engaged in trade and employment or in a sporting activity where a mask is worn for the purpose of ensuring the physical safety of the >wearer, or because of the nature of the occupation, trade, or profession, or sporting activity;

>(3) A person using a mask in a theatrical production including use in Mardi gras celebrations and masquerade balls; or

>(4) A person wearing a gas mask prescribed in emergency management drills and exercises or emergencies.

(Otherwise known as "that Treyvon law", due to the foolishness of both the Soros funded leftie ninnies on the one hand, and the gallus-snapping sons (and daughters) of Eugene Talmadge on the other. Reactionary tools, all. In other, just one more piece of compartmentalized dialectic from the legislature and the police industry, relieving corporations from the liabilities resulting from allowing clerks to shoot punks who come to rob the store, chipping away at everyone's property and privacy rights in the process. Source: )

Yeah, yeah, there are plenty of good cops. Not the issue here. Now, in another feat of dazzling irony, back to work overcoming computer phobia make a sale or two.

Straw man bullshit, Junior. Nobody said there should be no regulation. But, what many municipalities have done is grant monopolies to companies with the expected result that service is poor, prices are high and there is no alternative. Where there are multiple broadband vendors, service is better, prices are lower and consumers have choices. It is not rocket science, except to you.

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Straw man bullshit, Junior. Nobody said there should be no regulation. But, what many municipalities have done is grant monopolies to companies with the expected result that service is poor, prices are high and there is no alternative. Where there are multiple broadband vendors, service is better, prices are lower and consumers have choices. It is not rocket science, except to you.

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Straw man bullshit, Junior. Nobody said there should be no regulation. But, what many municipalities have done is grant monopolies to companies with the expected result that service is poor, prices are high and there is no alternative. Where there are multiple broadband vendors, service is better, prices are lower and consumers have choices. It is not rocket science, except to you.

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Holy crap, there are a LOT of complaints about Verizon ...

The ignorance is strong with this one.

How is a website going to play the music stored on my phone when I have no Internet connection? Much less how I'm going to be able to stream music in such a case.

You honestly, are trying to ask how a web app would stream music, and get this... over the Internet? Also, regarding local playback of things like mp3's using web application development strategies, I'll let you google it.

You really haven't seen what the web platform is capable of these days, have you?

No, we have. People like you just highly exaggerate what it can do. If web apps were really that amazing, no one would be writing native apps anymore. Yet this isn't even remotely the case.

I understand, I really do. I know the history. Do you remember when Apple first announced that the iPhone would only use web apps? Have you used one from 2007? In retrospect, it seems like it would have turned out to be the worst of ideas. I wonder what Steve Jobs thought when presented with the idea that a nice curated store could bring everything under one roof... and get a 30% (or so) cut of the pie?

Today, web apps really are best for consumers, for the present (2015), and the future.

It is often illegal to expose others to a disease, knowingly. https://www.google.com/webhp#n...

The *only* reason I run FF anymore is because of YouTube downloader.

Chrome is just faster, less of a memory pig, and PDF + Flash + mpeg4 just work out of the box.

With the excellent extension Tab Outliner I'm all set.

The Mongols didn't do that; Tamerlane did, and it was 70,000.

Tamerlane while not ethnically Mongolian was married to Mongolian nobility. But instead, I was thinking of the siege of Zhongdu. Genghis Khan didn't bother to stack the heads of the dead, but he did leave a big pile of corpses behind.

I hope you don't refer to yourself as a nerd at all, becuase this is basic Gmail 101. Go to your google account: https://accounts.google.com/Se... and turn on 2 factor authentication, set up your cell phone as the secondary, or order a yubikey.

Google Authenticator, it's been around for a while now.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1066447?hl=en/

You can enable it once you have created an account: https://www.google.com/landing/2step/

I've been using it for years now with the Android app and it's been terrific. You can also just use it via SMS. Other software vendors can even leverage Google's app for their own products (One example I know is Guild Wars 2 can use Google's app for 2 factor on your game account)

Get it right, it's MUH SOHJINY.

How would the algorithms deal with that?

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

It seems to be popular among kernel developers. This guy uses it too...

Erm... Monsanto GM modifications are open source. The sequence of nucleotides and the method of their insertion is clearly described in these patents: https://www.google.com/patents... , https://www.google.com/patents... and other related patents. Feel free to use them, they are expired as of the last year.

Erm... Monsanto GM modifications are open source. The sequence of nucleotides and the method of their insertion is clearly described in these patents: https://www.google.com/patents... , https://www.google.com/patents... and other related patents. Feel free to use them, they are expired as of the last year.

On a Nexus 5 here.

- 5.0 shipping was announced something like a month before I could actually get either an image or an OTA update
- The Nexus 5 got the 5.0.1 fixes well after other devices like the various Nexus tablets
- The Nexus 5 still hasn't got the 5.0.2 update despite several other devices having it
- That's awesome that 5.1 is out! But for nearly all of us who care, it isn't: https://developers.google.com/...

Basically, Google does an awesome job talking the talk, and a shitty job of meeting the expectations they themselves set amongst their most fervent followers.

It's a good thing the factory image for 4.4.4 still exists.

iPhone 4 units aren't even new anymore, anyway.

It's not even out yet for any of the Nexus devices. https://developers.google.com/...

Trademarks aren't allowed to prevent people from making derivative works using the character that's trademarked.
https://www.google.com/search?...

There is only one worth mentioning (the others simply don't block JS all the time) : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5matrix/ogfcmafjalglgifnmanfmnieipoejdcf?hl=en
I haven't checked it on the mobile version but it's worth checking. It can block everything from plugins, CSS, Images to Javascript or even HTML5 video/audio. Can enforce HTTPS on all sites, and allows the use of pre-defined hosts lists. And it has a much cleaner and easier GUI than NoScript.

You could use a proxy auto-config file on your iphone to block at least some of the junk. it won't be as good as adblock(+) and no script but it would be better then nothing. https://code.google.com/p/adbl...

Last night's big news story here in LA was an alleged sexual assault - by and Uber driver.

What's your point?

My point would be the part about background checks that you snipped out so that you wouldn't have to answer it.

A quarter of California drivers have no insurance.

Well there's your problem right there. Good luck with that.

Not a problem for me. I have uninsured motorist coverage, which you cannot by auto insurance without in California. It's only a problem for people who get in an accident with an uninsured driver under circumstances where their insurance won't cover them. Like, say, while driving for an illegal limousine service without commercial insurance (and driving without insurance is a criminal offense in California).

St. John's Wort is no more effective than placebo.

(Sources: Search for "effectiveness of X" and pick nih.gov or webmd)

OK, sounds like fun! Lets see... google "effectiveness of st john's wort"... pick the first NIH or WebMD link. Got it, that'd be this one:

Is there scientific evidence that supports the use of St. John's wort for depression?

There is some scientific evidence that St. John's wort may be helpful in treating mild depression, and the benefit seems similar to that of antidepressants. However, two large studies, one sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), showed that the herb was no more effective than placebo in treating major depression of moderate severity; ironically, the conventional drugs also studied did not fare any better than placebo, either.

Hmm. So, according to the first link (that you recommended) St John's wort is about as effective (or ineffective) as conventional drugs. Only cheaper and with far fewer side effects (Source: ask anyone who's taken a conventional antidepressant)

Meanwhile, Wikipedia (with references) says:

An analysis of twenty-nine clinical trials with more than five thousand patients was conducted by Cochrane Collaboration. The review concluded that extracts of St John's wort were superior to placebo in patients with major depression. St John's wort had similar efficacy to standard antidepressants.

And what about side effects?

The rate of side-effects was half that of newer SSRI antidepressants and one-fifth that of older tricyclic antidepressants.[9] A report[9] from the Cochrane Review states:
The available evidence suggests that the Hypericum extracts tested in the included trials a) are superior to placebo in patients with major depression; b) are similarly effective as standard antidepressants; and c) have fewer side-effects than standard antidepressants. [...] St John's wort is generally well tolerated, with an adverse effect profile similar to placebo.[21]

Follow through with the references at your leisure.