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Spend a few hours and browse some of the paid ads and ads that look like real articles about cures and balms from 1850~1915 or so newspapers in a Google newspaper search. I now understand why regulation or at least a standard is now in place that labels some things as "This is an advertisement" and why there are labels on things that state "not medically proven" and such.

One random example here at the bottom of page 1 column 4.

http://news.google.com/newspap...

If you look and read random papers you will many more scattered throughout with some wild claims.
Ointments that promise to fix just about anything. Aspirin is even in some of those ads promising to fix all kinds of things, it is still around but had many more claims for fixing ailments back then. Left without regulation, people WILL make wild claims to make a buck, that is why we have many of these consumer protection regulations now.

Spend a few hours and browse some of the paid ads and ads that look like real articles about cures and balms from 1850~1915 or so newspapers in a Google newspaper search. I now understand why regulation or at least a standard is now in place that labels some things as "This is an advertisement" and why there are labels on things that state "not medically proven" and such.

One random example here at the bottom of page 1 column 4.

http://news.google.com/newspap...

If you look and read random papers you will many more scattered throughout with some wild claims.
Ointments that promise to fix just about anything. Aspirin is even in some of those ads promising to fix all kinds of things, it is still around but had many more claims for fixing ailments back then. Left without regulation, people WILL make wild claims to make a buck, that is why we have many of these consumer protection regulations now.

Your search-fu is weak, tepples-san.

I'll just say that I would love to see a night sky featuring this ring system at, oh, say, Jupiter's distance from Earth. It would appear several times larger than the full Moon, and many, many times brighter. Anybody want to cook up a rendering?

The first reply to yours contains the BBC story with artists impression of this particular system:
http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

However there have been plenty of artist conceptions drawn and rendered of the exact scene you describe.
Here's an image search to one (very good) artist site with a ton of these:
https://www.google.com/search?...

I'm sure there's plenty more out there too.

Sorry, this isn't a 9/11 reaction. this is the reaction to a potential explosive device.
If you can be killed by being within 100 feet of something, and you're only say 20% sure of what it is, do you say.. eff it, prolly some science project or something? no, you remove it. how do you remove a potential life threatening thing? do you jiggle it around and see if it goes boom? or just make sure it goes boom in an expected way with people and property out of the way?

http://news.google.com/newspap...
and that's just the FIRST news paper article that comes up when you google bomb squad
but hey.. 9/11

I'd even be willing to check a few boxes to mark my interests.

FYI, boxes to check: https://www.google.com/setting...

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

What's your point?

A quarter of California drivers have no insurance.

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

how does it get better than that?

Quite a few ways, actually, all of which would have been apparent had you just clicked the link, but if you need it spelled out for you...
1) uBlock is available for multiple browsers and is available via official stores/sites for at least some of them (with plans to get into the others). Doesn't matter to you, perhaps, but it does matter to some of us, especially if we're looking for something to recommend to non-techie friends and family.

2) uBlock actually leads to a reduced memory footprint for your browser, whereas AdBlock Plus (on which Edge is based), increases the browser's memory footprint.

3) uBlock has SIGNIFICANTLY better CPU performance than ABP and its competitors. Nearly an order of magnitude.

4) uBlock is slightly better at blocking unnecessary server hits. About twice as good as ABP, and just a shade worse than Ghostery.

All of which is to say, by nearly every measurable metric, it's better than the thing that you think is the best.

SMH... You do know what He3 is, right? It's a Helium Isotope.

Helium's melting point

Absolute Zero

Helium freezes at just a degree above Absolute Zero. The dark side of the moon's entirely too warm for frozen He3. It's sequestered in the regolith of the Moon's Surface and is constantly replenished over time by the Solar Wind.

I guess I shouldn't expect better...it is /. after all.

SMH... You do know what He3 is, right? It's a Helium Isotope.

Helium's melting point

Absolute Zero

Helium freezes at just a degree above Absolute Zero. The dark side of the moon's entirely too warm for frozen He3. It's sequestered in the regolith of the Moon's Surface and is constantly replenished over time by the Solar Wind.

I guess I shouldn't expect better...it is /. after all.

If you have Google Maps or Apple Maps, you need your data connection. There are other options available. I use Sygic and others are available. All offline. Some free, some you pay for.

If you add a (bluetooth) OBDII dongle, you can get the car data from the engine as well.

Many people have added their tablet (Apple and Android) as their primary interface for media. There is specific software available to do all this. Nothing stops you doing the same with your phone.

At this moment about 95% of the time all my radio does is transfer the sound of my phone to my boxes. I have not configured a radio station yet in the 5 years I have it. On big road trips, I prefer the Garmin, because it is easier to add a route like this into a route on the Garmin using Tyre and the Garmin software.

Added advantages for using my phone and not an internal system? When I want to do changes to it, I can do it at my desk. I can get a new device and upgrade or downgrade it as I please. If I drive with somebody, I can listen to their music. If they steal my car-radio, I buy a new one for 50-100EUR.

Wow! Le Crueset pots, $800.00

"The heavy cast iron fry pan I use has a tough enamel surface that can be scrubbed hard with steel wool as often as you like."

That is probably not enamel. It is probably Powder coating.

http://news.google.com/

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

There are several articles on Taxi Scams ... no they don't happen at all /rolleyes

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/...

A common taxi driver scam is to get more money from a fare by taking the long way. While that sometimes means taking a less-than-direct route, in egregious cases it can mean driving passengers around in circles.

And if you really want the scoop on how easy it is for you to report a Long Haul just take a gander at this ...

http://www.vegaschatter.com/st...

So, you were saying?

I have a Panasonic similar to this one
I was able to figure out the link that would essentially give me the picture the camera sees right now (ie, take a picture mode). Then I wrote a c# program to grab that photo, compare that to the prior image and save it with a time stamp if it was sufficiently different. That "compare" part was never fully fleshed out so I just saved everything. I think I had it going every 15 seconds so it chewed up some disk space. But I digress.

If you can grab the current picture from the web cam you can roll your own "grab the picture, upload to site" script. Both of those should need credentials, so their are security implications. I believe my cam had it in the URL like an FTP user@host configuration. It also had a PTZ (pan,tilt,zoom) control via web page. So getting the right angle from the mount may be easier with that.

well under the gop healthcare plan you may want to be in prison if you need anything high cost and you have an preexisting condition

Except these days, most prisons are privately owned and run under government contracts. Their track records speak volumes. They're not gonna spend a dime they think they don't have to to stay profitable. See this, this, and just for the hell of it, this. Further examples can be googled of course.

Use quotes. So instead looking for Pi 2 Model B plus you look for " Pi 2 Model B plus ".

I would somebody here to already know how to use Google, but Punctuation, symbols & operators in search are pretty normal and easy to be used.

That does not mean they have a good naming scheme. Just that using google should not be an issue.

"But putting the collectors in space will be stupid and uneconomic for the foreseeable future."

Maybe and then again, maybe not.

I don't think there is any point in making the investment for power satellites unless the cost of power produced from them is less than that from coal.

If you can get the cost of power down to $2400/kW, then the cost of power gets down to 3 cents, undercutting coal at 4 cents per kWh.

The cost of the parts and the rectenna is expected to be around $1100/kW. That leaves $1300/kW for transport. I *think* the mass of a kW reference to the ground will stay under 6.5 kg/kW (a thermal, not a PV design). That means the cost to lift large amounts of cargo to GEO can't exceed $200/kg.

Reaction Engines thinks Skylon will put cargo in LEO for $120/kg, leaving $80/kg for the cost of the LEO to GEO leg. That can't be done with chemical propulsion, but it looks like a ground powered arcjet tug that moves about 15,000 tons at a time could get the cost down to perhaps $65/kg. The arcjets exhaust velocity for this cost is around 25 km/s.

There is an IEEE paper that goes into the details here https://drive.google.com/file/...

Likewise, why is Netflix on the Microsoft side when their product is cross platform?

Ever try loading Netflix on Linux? Cross platform my ass.

Sure, Linux is my my preferred platform to watch Netflix.

Oh, maybe you mean desktop linux? That works too, but I don't usually watch movies on my laptop.

Nobody likes a monochrome nyancat.

That's Tac Nayn.

any microcontroller that you can write to is suitable for controlling a wireless device all that need be is to have a good band size oscillator and a reciever tunable to those frequency, see ftdi for a usb host controller, or find an old electronics shop for a composite sink. you could see ramsey for a heater of a transmitter. but also digital circuitry makes things alot more power conservative see my website for a good controller implementation http://sites.google.com/site/a...

Since you don't like the quality of Foscam, how about an old Android phone? I own a Foscam and had no problems with the quality, so I assume you want a higher resolution. Any old or cheap Android phone will likely have a high enough resolution. Combine that with something like autocam and write a small script that ftps the picture (have never tried autocam so I'm not sure if it is OK...). The phone will have wifi etc. all build in. You might needs some creativity to mount it to a wall.

I was looking for practical, real-world things I can do right now to enhance my life through science and technology.

That doesn't look like it was the point of the book. It looks like an overview of the field, not a how-to guide.

Instead, I got very thin treatments of many subjects

I don't think that's fair. According to Amazon, the book covers 90+ topics in 288 pages. I don't see how they could be in-depth about any of them.

important subjects left out (like the 19th Century Russian Cosmism movement (precursor to transhumanism))

The Cosmism entry is on page 52.

New York Under Water by 2010? that's insane! it was clearly 2012, Jeez those guys missed it by a few hundred days. what morons!

superstorm+sandy+causes+flooding+in+new+york+city

Outlook: https://play.google.com/store/...
Word: https://play.google.com/store/...
Excel: https://play.google.com/store/...
Powerpoint: https://play.google.com/store/...
OneNote: https://play.google.com/store/...

Outlook: https://play.google.com/store/...
Word: https://play.google.com/store/...
Excel: https://play.google.com/store/...
Powerpoint: https://play.google.com/store/...
OneNote: https://play.google.com/store/...

Outlook: https://play.google.com/store/...
Word: https://play.google.com/store/...
Excel: https://play.google.com/store/...
Powerpoint: https://play.google.com/store/...
OneNote: https://play.google.com/store/...

Outlook: https://play.google.com/store/...
Word: https://play.google.com/store/...
Excel: https://play.google.com/store/...
Powerpoint: https://play.google.com/store/...
OneNote: https://play.google.com/store/...

Outlook: https://play.google.com/store/...
Word: https://play.google.com/store/...
Excel: https://play.google.com/store/...
Powerpoint: https://play.google.com/store/...
OneNote: https://play.google.com/store/...

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

See the value of K-8 programming by watching an interview of a 9 year old!

How can I teach my child electronics with an Arduino kit?

yes it is, its linked in the summary.........
https://play.google.com/store/...

Microsoft has in the past complained that Google Inc., which manages Android, has blocked its programs from the operating system."

MS has a bunch of apps in the Play store. https://play.google.com/store/...

AFAIK, the only MS app Google has blocked was Microsoft's YouTube app, which violated the YouTube terms of service.

Yeah.. well, those "terms of service" was that they required Microsoft to implement their Youtube app in HTML5, while neither the iOS or Android Youtube app had such a requirement and was not implemented in HTML5.

As I recall it was about not making it easy for users to download copies of videos. I could be wrong.

According to this story MS fixed that, but still met a HTML5 requirement from Google that was not required of the iOS and Android apps.

unless it's bundled in the office suite it's not there, only OWA https://play.google.com/store/... As I indicated I'll go back and look again but the Office package for Android wants you to create a fucking account to use it. So it's back to the mantra of tying you to another fucking service account, which is not what I want to begin with. Microsoft should me talk to Exchange, IMAP, SMTP and POP3 like other Android mail clients without all the bullshit.

Microsoft has in the past complained that Google Inc., which manages Android, has blocked its programs from the operating system."

MS has a bunch of apps in the Play store. https://play.google.com/store/...

AFAIK, the only MS app Google has blocked was Microsoft's YouTube app, which violated the YouTube terms of service.

Yeah.. well, those "terms of service" was that they required Microsoft to implement their Youtube app in HTML5, while neither the iOS or Android Youtube app had such a requirement and was not implemented in HTML5.

As I recall it was about not making it easy for users to download copies of videos. I could be wrong.

Microsoft has in the past complained that Google Inc., which manages Android, has blocked its programs from the operating system."

MS has a bunch of apps in the Play store. https://play.google.com/store/...

AFAIK, the only MS app Google has blocked was Microsoft's YouTube app, which violated the YouTube terms of service.

Yeah.. well, those "terms of service" was that they required Microsoft to implement their Youtube app in HTML5, while neither the iOS or Android Youtube app had such a requirement and was not implemented in HTML5.

Awhile back Google started asking money for Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook®. I think I speak for many when I say that this is a neat gimmick I could have continued using to sync my Outlook Calendar at work with my private Gmail Calendar. For Google that was one way to reduce MS' influence on Android by penetrating Outlook and make corporate users see alternatives. Alas, Google decided to make peanuts and the regular user stopped using Apps Sync for MS. I guess that now MS Outlook on Android considered by my employer for making workers more productive whilst using their own device. Security on Outlook for Android should be interesting.

Microsoft has in the past complained that Google Inc., which manages Android, has blocked its programs from the operating system."

MS has a bunch of apps in the Play store. https://play.google.com/store/...

AFAIK, the only MS app Google has blocked was Microsoft's YouTube app, which violated the YouTube terms of service.

Heck, Microsoft doesn't even have a compelling YouTube alternative!

whaa? videos.bing.com is a total pornucopia.

It's not the same thing. Bing Videos is a search engine, analogous to the Google Videos search engine. YouTube also offers hosting for videos uploaded by users. And in fact, for one random category I just viewed in Bing Videos two minutes ago, a large number of the videos were hosted on YouTube. Bing Videos is to Google Videos as what is to YouTube?

Cone of Silence.

One of the best science texts ever. So far ahead of its time... http://books.google.com/books/...

You def have no idea at all. Look at Finland, and THEN say cutting expenses is not the way to go.

Interesting. I took you up on that challenge, and even a simple Googling of Finland Recession tells me Austerity has been a nightmare for them.

Hit 1 title: "Finland: Double-Dip Recession or Depression?"

Hit 2 title: "Finland's Economy is headed for a 'perfect storm'"

Hit 3 title: "Finland Economy falls back into recession", digest: "Finland entered its third recession in six years, preliminary data showed, as government efforts to halt debt growth collided with the longest ..."

My personal favorite, the title of hit 7: "Pro-austerity Finland falls into triple-dip recession"

Yeah. Gotta get me some of that in my country!

Only cowards need to hide behind masks, the same as KKK and ISIL members.

Or people who look like you . Seriously, you walk around in public with that four-eyed mug and pudgy body? I bet you're a real hit with the ladies, especially when you're playing Selena Gomez, Adele, Lita Ford or some of your other shitty music, lol.

Also, Godwin, but nice attempt at trying to vilify the people who make it possible for you to have freedom.

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Have fun.

I agree about the point, that carriers are preventing upgrade (also some distributors like Samsung). But how about "Galaxy Nexus", Google's own device?
It is not getting a patch as well.
https://developers.google.com/...

I got curious, so I searched for their current prices.

TL;DR:
1000 Mbps down/up + TV = $120-130/month (depending on city)
1000Mbps down/up = $70/month
Both types: construction fee waived with 1 year commitment
5 Mbps down / 1Mbps up = $300 construction fee up front + $0/month for 7 years (from date of connection)
    OR $25/month for the first 12 months for the construction fee + $0/month for the remaining 6 years

Amortized over time, basic tier service from Google Fiber costs roughly $3.57/month for the first seven years. Your budget may not have room for the $70/month 1Gbps, but you could certainly afford their basic service.

My suggestion from 2008 when Greece ran out of tear gas: https://groups.google.com/foru...
"Now, does this make any sense if you understand the possibilities of open manufacturing or an open society? In Greece you have a warm climate, access to oceans, lots of sun and wind, an educated populace with a 2000+ year history of democracy (on and off :-), no obvious external enemies declaring war, and so on. And they are so worried about their future ability to make and use things (which is how I translate "fears for Greece's economic future") that they are running out of tear gas? This all makes no *physical* sense. The place should be a paradise. Instead it is in "self-destruct mode" according to one editor. It must be *ideology*. Or, more correctly, ideology *embodied* in a certain type of productive infrastructure. ...
So, ironically, we have the worst of both systems. We could have a really centralized system run efficiently with a tiny fraction of the workforce now, with a lot less variety perhaps (that is, all the old Soviet Central Planning stuff would work now that we have the internet and great software and great designs and great computers if we accept some voluntary simplicity), but with everything very cheap (essentially, just given away) and 99% of the population doing whatever they wanted with their time. Or, we could have a freewheeling diverse gift economy of local open manufacturing where people just make whatever they want in an open way, with all sorts of useful and useless items. (Aspects of the two extremes may even converge, since what are the 99% of people going to do with the generic stuff but customize it? :-) Instead, we have a system in the middle that produces some variety at a huge expense of human effort taken away from family and civic duties, and it is a system now with so many questions about its uncertain future (including that anyone who is young will have a dignified place in the economic scheme of things) that an entire country has just run out of tear gas. This makes no sense (except of course, that some people do benefit from this, like tear gas manufacturers, school teachers who get paid to keep kids off the streets preparing them for non-existent jobs, people who are near the top of the economic hierarchy already and feel secure, etc.).
Anyway, this suggests one target of open manufacturing could be a community of size ranging from Iceland (about 300,000 people) to Greece (about 11,000,000 people). That's certainly an interesting size range. I would think 99% closure of those economies by mass should be easily doable. Computer chips, some medicines, and maybe some other specialized components might be the major imports after the system was set up. Note that while one may not expect Greece or Iceland to "self-replicate" any time soon, the ability do do so ensures it can be self-repairing.
Anyway, it kind of comes down to how much economic security is worth to a country compared to minimum effort. Given the massive youth unemployment in Greece, and the economic fears of depending on a global economy, it would seem like maximizing productive efficiency through participating in global production would not be at the top of their priority list now that they are out of tear gas. Unfortunately, they did not invest in this research ten years ago. So, this is only theoretical at this point. It might take a very expensive crash program to bring together thousands of researchers for a year to make headway in any time that might make a difference. Still, politically, that is an out for Greece. We could all move there, recruit all the educated youths off the streets, and spend a year figuring out how to make Greece work for everybody and be 99% self-sufficient by mass. :-) But, no need to move with the internet really. Maybe somebody on the list could coordinate moving the rioters off th

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explain to me how this is diffrent than any entity in the USA. Just about all US Companies hand over data to the feds when asked. Many even partnered with the government. That was in the snowden leaks, i.e. official docs, so its hard to say it doesn't happen.

Also, from google's own website, here is the cooperation they do with the government.

Here is government requests for user information from google:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

Here is government requests to remove content:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

and here are "copyright" takedown notices, to include the now overboard use of the DMCA as cenorship by private government like entities:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

But its only orwellian when a government we don't like does it? I think the most ironic is the last one, which is censorship by private organizations, the most chilling and most common, and fully supported by the government. I fail to understand how complicance with the rulling regime is a "communist" thing,

explain to me how this is diffrent than any entity in the USA. Just about all US Companies hand over data to the feds when asked. Many even partnered with the government. That was in the snowden leaks, i.e. official docs, so its hard to say it doesn't happen.

Also, from google's own website, here is the cooperation they do with the government.

Here is government requests for user information from google:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

Here is government requests to remove content:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

and here are "copyright" takedown notices, to include the now overboard use of the DMCA as cenorship by private government like entities:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

But its only orwellian when a government we don't like does it? I think the most ironic is the last one, which is censorship by private organizations, the most chilling and most common, and fully supported by the government. I fail to understand how complicance with the rulling regime is a "communist" thing,

explain to me how this is diffrent than any entity in the USA. Just about all US Companies hand over data to the feds when asked. Many even partnered with the government. That was in the snowden leaks, i.e. official docs, so its hard to say it doesn't happen.

Also, from google's own website, here is the cooperation they do with the government.

Here is government requests for user information from google:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

Here is government requests to remove content:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

and here are "copyright" takedown notices, to include the now overboard use of the DMCA as cenorship by private government like entities:
https://www.google.com/transpa...

But its only orwellian when a government we don't like does it? I think the most ironic is the last one, which is censorship by private organizations, the most chilling and most common, and fully supported by the government. I fail to understand how complicance with the rulling regime is a "communist" thing,