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There's already a generic name. The government, in all its benevolence, has been permitting drug holders to "lock in" their expiring drugs and prevent generics from being marketed for a certain period after it expires. There are even drug companies that pay other companies not to produce their drug so they can continue to sell the brand name (at an inflated cost to ensure there's a profit even after these payments).

There's already a generic

There's already a generic name. The government, in all its benevolence, has been permitting drug holders to "lock in" their expiring drugs and prevent generics from being marketed for a certain period after it expires. There are even drug companies that pay other companies not to produce their drug so they can continue to sell the brand name (at an inflated cost to ensure there's a profit even after these payments).

Oh yeah? Well, when your pocket calculator can make a call or give me turn-by-turn directions through Shanghai, I'll consider it as a worthwhile investment. Until then, I'll stick with a device where I can load an HP 28S emulator (which supports symbolic operations) as well as make phone calls, answer e-mails - and get directions.

I used Familiar Linux back in the day, when my Compaq iPaq became little more than a paperweight. When it was new, I had bought the iPaq with the battery sleeve that had 2 PCMCIA card slots. I did use it for a couple things. One was a little wifi scan tool, kind a primitive Wifi Analyzer. The other was the fancy IR remote that you mentioned.

Since it was so limited, even though it was a little Linux box, it eventually just ended up sitting on my desk until the batteries died, and a few years later it end up in a box in the closet. I haven't seen it in a few years, so it got misplaced one of the times I've moved. No big loss, other than the huge amount I had paid for it when it was new.

Since I can do everything with my Android phone that I ever did with the iPaq, there really isn't a reason to even try to resurrect one.

Let me help you since you can apparently type out an entire summary but not the letters "google.com" into the address bar.

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

Quod Libet seems to handle large MP3 libraries better than anything else I've tried on desktops: https://code.google.com/p/quod... However, a decent MP3 player that handles a large library effectively? Yet to see one.

It's so secret that they have their own Google Code page for it over at https://code.google.com/p/ppap... with full source available for download including SDKs for plugin developers.

(feeling karma-guilty now) Some of my previous BGP bookmarks,

The RFC6480 I'm sure you'll want to read this first, every bit of it. Others may wish to skip on to the next chapter which is a good bit and has Marvin the Robot in it.

Introduction to BGP and How BGP best path (by default!)
[2014] spammers squatting on unassigned IP address ranges
  [2014] Using BGP advertisements to gather Bitcoin mining traffic (doing digital money with unsecured protocols, kewl!)
[2012] Packet Pushers #93: Lies and Routing in the Internet great interview with Geoff Huston. Look for the show notes links too.
[2012] Packet Pushers #105: BGP Origin Validation with Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) with Alex Brand from RIPE. Discussion of attack profiles, resistance and real-world challenges to its implementation.
[2012] Previous Slashdot: Engineers Ponder Easier Fix To Internet Problem
[2013] Denver pings Denver --- via Iceland! Someone's Been Routing Internet Data Through The Great Chefs Of Europe

Here's some confusing BGP routing diagrams to print out and tape to the walls to impress everybody.

I think the AC above is referring to these articles:
https://www.google.com/search?...

Have you ever seen police breaking cameras? What would you do if someone broke your camera? Call the police?

Who cares about what's censored in China? We want to know what's censored at home!

Google doesn't censor based on keyword in the US, or in almost any country. They do, however, remove websites from the search results. When that happens, they put a message in the results informing you what happened.

Also, they keep a collection of every website that's been removed, so you can see it.

Adding to towermac's "No, that's what happened", that's also my recollection from past reading of several books on British Intelligence in WW2. For now I can't find direct references to confirm that, so instead these sources.

http://www.robomod.net/pipermail/soc-history-war-world-war-ii/2006-January/000421.html
"when BP first broke into naval Enigma in mid-1941, the Admiralty took immediate advantage by sinking _all_ the supply ships for surface raiders that were in the Atlantic. (This was at or just after the cruise of BISMARCK.) This clean sweep alarmed the Germans significantly."

The round up of the supply ships was done in June 1941: 3 June Belchen, 4 June Esso Hamburg, 4 June Gonzenheim, 5 June Egerland, 15 June Lothringen

The information came from U110 and the inevitable other sources. The plan was to deliberately leave some of the ships alone, sink or capture enough to disrupt the network but no "perfect score" so several ships were to be left alone. Unfortunately for the planners at least one sinking was simply pure chance, the ships found each other. Thereby creating more alarm in Germany than the planners wanted.

[That reminds me of Peter Fleming (yes, the brother of Ian) - he was a head of British deception operations in South East Asia and said something to the effect that before you tell the enemy a lie, you need to know what the truth really is.]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.history.war.world-war-ii/lK9Bw0ZptJU
... In the Med in 1941-1942, ULTRA allowed the British to intercept a very high proportion of the Axis supply ships going to North Africa. If the British had simply flown straight out to the target each each time, even the Germans would have realized they "knew something". Certainly it would have become obvious to the British sailors and airmen, and there were Axis agents in Egypt who would have relayed this fact. Therefore the British air and naval commanders in the Med made sure that no Axis ship was attacked until it had been 'spotted' by an Allied air patrol, and for each patrol sent to a known target, two others were sent out at random. ...

http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10926
... Until May 1943, the Milk Cows operated more or less at will, mainly because the North Atlantic Shark Enigma was not reliably broken until then. After that, their fates were sealed. In the next three months, another five of them had been sunk. A year later, all ten of the type XIV U-tankers had been lost. In the majority of cases (except U-464), their demise was directly attributable to their location being learned by the Allies through their signals being intercepted and decrypted. In all cases (except U-490) they were initially detected by aircraft. This was not by chance, as the aircraft were ordered to search the particular area in which they were expected. ...

>Where?

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

Plenty of captchas are video ads that require you type the slogan of the company as the answer to the captcha.

And look at this Sony patent http://www.google.com/patents/... [google.com] . Figure 9 (image 10 of 21) will horrify you.

I've already seen plenty of captchas that are video ads that require you type the slogan of the company as the answer to the captcha.

And look at this Sony patent http://www.google.com/patents/... . Figure 9 (image 10 of 21) will horrify you.

Thus proving that the dinosaurs had an advanced technological civilization based on deuterium fusion.

Historical documents show that tyrannosaurs used their relatively small arms to operate the controls of fighter jets, so it stands to reason that dinosaurs figured out economical fusion power. I wouldn't be surprised if all the fossils we've found are just the dinosaur lawyers and telephone sanitizers.

Joe Biden, serial plagiarist.

Jared Diamond mentions some Pacific Island language that has words for "towards the sea" and "away from the sea", as in "there is a speck of dirt on your seawards cheek"

Hawaii has that.

mauka - towards the mountain
makai - towards the sea

The mauka side of a house is whichever one faces the mountain. If you live on the north side of the island, mauka is southward, and on the south side mauka is northward.

Also, if you are in Honolulu, and you are heading "eva", you are going west. If you are somewhere west of the town of Eva Beach, you might use that phrase, but I'm not sure whether it would mean you are going west or east.

Google has instructions for webmasters on how to exclude their websites from google news if they find the presence of their website on google news objectionable. But that is not what they really want. They want google to bring them their incoming traffic and they also want google to pay them for the privilege of bringing them their traffic. It would be like the movie industry expecting the TV news programmes to pay them for the privilege of plugging their movies on the fluff segments about the latest hollywood blockbuster.

Node.js - written in C with a few x86 and ARM assembler bits

Uhm, it uses the Chrome v8 JS engine which is written in C++.

Were it a headline, it wouldn't distinguish it from WebP which got alpha channel in 2012, and is lossy format.

Sorry, I was posting from a mobile so citing was not practical. See:

"A Treatise on the theory and practice of Seamanship", Richard Hall Gower, 1808, p. v-vi.

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

"In justice to the Author, it becomes necessary for him to state, that during his late voyage to India, Mr. Steel*, a bookseller, of Union-row, Little Tower-hill, republished nearly the whole of the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th chapters of the first edition of this work, in a voluminous Compilation termed, "Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship." However illiberal such treatment must appear to the truly generous mind, the Author Would the more freely forgive Mr. Steel had he not* by artfully endeavouring to evade the piracy, been guilty of such misrepresentation, as has a tendency to bring his professional knowledge in question. Several deviations of this sort are contained in the 2d volume, 4to, of Mr. Steel's work, and are produced to shew that the Author has just reason for complaining."

*Ehum*

Ericsson value: 40 billion USD
Nokia value: 30 billion USD
Sony: 23.6 billion USD
Motorola Solutions (sold network part to Nokia): 15.6 billion USD.
(All stocks counted using Google finance?)

Ericsson P/E: 23.18
Nokia P/E: 60.30
Motorola Solutions P/E: 26.80

It's true Nokia was the biggest of them all in phones. It's true Ericsson started to make phones with Sony and later let them take over all of it.

And as for Nokias phone business I guess we all kinda know where they are now and how much wealth that generated lately ..

I assume Ericsson or Huawei are the largest players in the Network field.

Ericsson may have lost its phone business to Sony:
31 Oct 2014:
"PlayStation profits up but Sony on course for £1.2 billion loss", metro.co.uk
Ericsson seem to be the more healthy company ..

31 Juli wsj.com:
"But Sony's mobile-phone unit, which a year ago had been the company's most profitable electronics division, posted an operating loss amid sagging sales."

Not that I've looked into it a lot. But I'm not sure you're giving Ericsson enough credit.

https://www.google.com/finance...
Says 3.7 billion for Huawei but I don't know whatever it's all the stocks and if it's of any use.
Likely not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Says $3.46 billion in profit 2013.

Not any longer. I sold off the actual business a couple of years back and went on still making my own stuff. I usually get my customers directly from Google Helpouts. I fix their horticulture problems, they're usually more than happy to buy stuff from me, or contract me out for development work, from LED lighting to designing and building the entire facility for the client. Yes, I pretty much do it all.

Current development - driverless AC-direct flickerless LED. Just need a better remote phosphor with some persistence, I've already tamed the driverless/circuitryless problem, down to only requiring a simple resistor. It's all in the LED config, otherwise.

Not any longer. I sold off the actual business a couple of years back and went on still making my own stuff. I usually get my customers directly from Google Helpouts. I fix their horticulture problems, they're usually more than happy to buy stuff from me, or contract me out for development work, from LED lighting to designing and building the entire facility for the client. Yes, I pretty much do it all.

Current development - driverless AC-direct flickerless LED. Just need a better remote phosphor with some persistence, I've already tamed the driverless/circuitryless problem, down to only requiring a simple resistor. It's all in the LED config, otherwise.

I disagree with this type of statement that paints all closed source code as bug ridden by default.

To be fair, most of it is. You even have guys at Google saying that bugs are no big deal.

The vast majority of linux users use Ubuntu, with Unity (they don't know what XFCE is). They just don't post on Slashdot. Take a look at this Google Trends frequency of search terms here.

Mint barely registers compared to Ubuntu. (Also, distrowatch really is useless).

The only people I know (aside from a few sysadmins with RHEL) that run another distro are my parents, because I put Mint on their computer. I just use FreeBSD now.

Since we actually have a widely accepted portable assembly language now, I have been pondering this very question. LLVM assembly holds a lot of potential, similar to how the TAOS operating system promised back in the early 90's with its virtual processor assembly: https://sites.google.com/site/...

The guy who inspired me to want to program used to write assembly on a 386 with a slightly hacked copy of the 8086-oriented freeware assembler CHASM. He read compiled binaries in hex like code. I asked him, "Doesn't it take a lot more time to write in assembler?" "Not that much", he replied, "You break things down into functions and build libraries of code you don't have to reinvent, just like in C." The guy was freaking brilliant.

We've so frequently created new languages around new ideas in programming, and that's great, but eventually the number of abstractions becomes quite an issue. People are willing to write operating systems like MenuetOS in assembly in x86_64 asm. That's great. I'd love to see a compiler there to do validation of code, uphold Ada-like programming by contract, that sort of thing, but I'd love to see assembly programming make a comeback.

What problem will be solved RIGHT NOW by passing strict regulations for ISP's to abide by?

The fact that the United States is something like 26th of industrialized countries in average internet bandwidth, AND more expensive than even those that have far better service.

The US has between 10 and 1000 times the land area of other "industrialized countries".

And, so fucking what? Not being able to watching Netflix at 4X HD seems to be somewhat of a first-world problem...

The big ISPs haven't been investing in infrastucture, because they haven't had to.

Yep, that AOL dialup everyone's using sure has stagnated...

They don't compete. In 80% of the United States, people have only one real choice for low-latency, modern broadband.

Cherry-picking. What's a "real choice"? What's "low-latency"? What's "modern"?

Gee, you seem to have really limited things with your choice of words. Now WHY would you do that?

Oh, yeah, because you had to constrain things so you could have an argument.

Ooops.

Instead, they've just been pocketing their insane profits.

You left out "1%!!!", "EVUL CORPARASHUNS!!!", and a few paeans to Marx.

You can't expect free market forces to fix a situation in which there is no free market. The obvious answer is Title II Common Carrier status.

Let's see - Jesse Jackson, the Urban League, and Comcast don't agree with you. That's quite the diverse collection of people from all over the political and ethnic spectrum

Yet you have the unmitigated ARROGANCE to claim the proper course of action is "obvious".

Not only that, your response to a situation made bad by government regulation is MORE GOVERNMENT REGULATION. Why don't you go ask Eric Garner if picayune government regulation is a good thing.

It worked just fine for landline telephones. It can work for internet.

(PS: before anybody yells that it didn't work for landline telephones, yes, it did. Ma Bell wasn't broken up for lack of service and high service fees. It was different reasons altogether.)

Pathetic attempt to deflect arguments related to the breakup of Ma Bell unleashing innovation in telecommunications is pathetic.

What's the color of the sky on your planet? In the 100 years before Ma Bell was broken up, we went from rotary-dial telephones to rotary-dial telephones.

In the few decades since Ma Bell was broken up, we went from rotary-dial telephones to smart phones that can surf the internet, do video chats, take HD videos.

Yeah, no innovation there.

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

These things don't exactly come cheap...

But not because they were necessarily happening, but because they were coded in such ways that made them the common weapons of every agenda.

Kind of like in America we are constantly accusing the other political party of being nazis, or trying to become a dictator. And yet in reality probably no president has ever actively tried to become a dictator (much less a nazi), and have all voluntarily stepped down.

What is your thesis about?

Also, on the tangentially related topic of ancient gestures, if you don't mind me asking, what do you think of these two painted hand gestures? Would they be effeminate? Or is it too far removed to do any speculation?

Van Gogo, Rembrandt, and their contemporaries have been dead for quite a while, and copyright was much more limited (or non-existent) then.

Here's another limitation of fair use - you can't resell anything covered by copyright that you've imported from elsewhere..

here you go

The court in this case held that it was against the law to strip the individual pictures from a book and, in effect, create derivative works.

It still won't update from a 0.9 to a 1.0 version with a regular patch, prepare for all kinds of sorrow while you try to upgrade. Dependencies, good luck. Back up everything you have, twice, before you attempt updating through the SDK Manager.

Gradle also hit 1.0, what a coincidence. If you get it upgraded correctly in-line without having to delete the entire IDE and start over, Gradle now takes longer and not less time to do builds.

In addition, Gradle's upgrade will break your unit tests. Suddenly you get new errors like "The current Gradle build type does not support this test." Now that you have Android Studio updated, finally, you have to rip out Gradle and reinstall it by hand to fix this.

Google suddenly closed 11,000 bugs all at once, claiming they're all fixed and obsolete. 11,000 bugs, just solved overnight! Yeah Fucking Right.

Your best bet is to back up your entire environment, wipe the PC, reinstall the operating system, reinstall Android Studio from the ground up, and then import your projects back in. Make sure to sacrifice a few chickens in your backyard and pray to Sergei to make everything work.

I wish I'd never touched this platform, the developer tools are a constantly evolving state of CLUSTERFUCK.

Courts should punish intentional facilitation.
If you can't be bothered to sell a $1 security dongle with the software as other software companies do, then you must be intentionally facilitating piracy.
The courts are not there to be abused in the face of intentional facilitation, especially as best practice is already known.

Or you could use software activation, as other software companies do? As Microsoft does? Because Windows 7 and Office 2010 activation were certainly put there to intentionally facilitate copying.

As for your comment that hardware dongles are a "best practice," pull the other one, mate. Nevermind that the $1 dongles don't work.

Courts should punish intentional facilitation.
If you can't be bothered to sell a $1 security dongle with the software as other software companies do, then you must be intentionally facilitating piracy.
The courts are not there to be abused in the face of intentional facilitation, especially as best practice is already known.

Or you could use software activation, as other software companies do? As Microsoft does? Because Windows 7 and Office 2010 activation were certainly put there to intentionally facilitate copying.

As for your comment that hardware dongles are a "best practice," pull the other one, mate. Nevermind that the $1 dongles don't work.

When Krebs presented the Post with his story about the Russian spammers, rather than run with it, the Post lawyers got in the way and were terrified of being sued for libel by the Russians.

Sure. The cost of a vice-Presidential candidate's wardrobe is a much safer thing to report...

I run all my desktop browsers with ABP. I thought I never click on Google Ads, however recently I checked the history of my primary Google account and was very surprised to find that I had, and not just a few times, many times, and on things I had been interested in.

You can see your own history through Google's History site: Google History for Ads. It's pretty interesting. I don't know how they're getting me, but I assume it's on my phone. In any case, it's been so subtle (and useful) that I am in no way upset (I actually needed/wanted these things).

That's how advertising should be. Beyond that, all the un-targeted stuff deserves to be blocked.

Probably something to so with the fact it's called "QuickOffice Pro", which is a legit Office application and therefore they are charging 2.99 to unsuspecting public.

They obviously aren't intentionally buying an app called " tap to exit pro" at 2.99 and then calling it a scam.

Actually, it was that legit software, and it still was until Google bought it and then after dumping it for Docs, Sheets, and Slides replaced it with the scamware update.

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

I'm older and heard of it many times.

The article is light on technical details, so I wonder if it's an emulator like the NeogeoX, or a reimplementation like the C64 DTV. The price also seems a bit steep since it is now possible to re-implement a full ZX Spectrum on a user-friendly FPGA board which loads games from sound files dumped from tapes. Compatibility is still worked on but you get many other systems as an added bonus, and the HDL code for all of it is open source and available online.

Highly unlikely. If they break the crypto, it will be noted, as it would not work with other implementations. The CPRNGs are not compromised, that would be infeasible with the number of people watching (but they have tried, see here: https://plus.google.com/+Theod...). There is not really space for subtle leaks of key material in the PGP datagrams.

That does not mean they cannot break it, but it would come with a high risk of being discovered and the flaw would be attributable at least for GnuPG. There is also the risk of the NSA compromising the Linux kernel. One of the design-features of git is forward-hashes, so anybody with a repository copy can find out who exactly put in the malicious code. GnuPG uses git as well and so does other FOSS security software.

As the surveillance and control fascists fear nothing more than having their evil machinations pulled into the light, a high risk of that is usually enough to deter them. And with code in git, any whistle-blower could just point to the critical parts and there would be no way of denying the compromise and who did it. Sure, sometimes they can compromise things so that it just looks like an error, but that has gotten extremely hard these days.

Well, I submitted that too early. It has been released.

There's a draft of an English version, "Brainchains." Excerpts available here.

Just like during the Cold War era.
For every paid (or blackmailed) Soviet agent there were a thousand 'useful idiots" in CND.

concierges_sans_salaire.jpg

You're an idiot.

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

It's an artificial lake - coolant reservoir for the power plant, and its water mirror is quite a bit above the river level (105m above sea level vs 101m) - it depends on the pumping station for filling, and would need quite a bit of a channel (about 40km, most of it over Belarus terrains) to provide water at current level without need of pumping. Meanwhile, natural drainage and evaporation can quite efficiently cause water level to drop if the influx stops. So - the pumps need to keep running.

Also, where did you find any large lake upstream the Pripyat River from it? Or did you confuse it with the Kiyv Reservoir?

That Joyent guy has a name, Bryan Cantrill.

And he has a sexist past. Look how he responded at the bottom of this post (If you think it's funny, you're a misogynistic porcine woman hater, etc). More importantly, note that his avoidance of technical subjects began early. He's management material, right there.

whoa ho ho there. This whole thing is about some language nuance. If you're going to try and use a broad brush, you'd best use it consistently.

Because MLK and Rosa Parks were typically refereed to as "civil rights activists", and the term "social justice warrior" (I had to google that by the way) only gained traction THIS year.

If we're going to get in a huff over language, I believe that civil rights and social justice, while having a large overlap, aren't quite the same thing. Social justice is farther-reaching while civil rights fall short of, say, firing people over whether they call you a negro or black or a colored person.

Justice is usually a reactionary thing. Retaliatory even. Rights are things you have all the time. (And violating rights should lead to justice). It's really best to stay positive, and the SJW term brings with it a negative aspect that isn't going to help the effort.

Transferring 100 TB @ 100 Mbit/s would take about 12.5 days 1TB == 1048576 Mb

1TB = 8e+6 Mb (Mbit). Transferring 1TB at 100Mbit/s takes about 23:18 hrs (overhead excluded), so 100TB would take more than 97 days.

All of you people need to just stop embarrassing yourselves. Your estimates are worthless given that they take so long to calculate and are off by so much compared to just getting the exact result. (100 TB) / (100 Mbps) = 92.5925926 days Feel free to resurrect your manual calculation approach the next time the worldwide technological apocalypse strikes and kills Google forever. At that point, no one will mind the inordinate amount of time it takes you to come up with an estimate that's off by 5%.

Good lord, you two. Are you masochists insofar as you simply enjoy doing things the hard way in order to increase your chances of making a mistake?

(100 TB) / (100 Mbps) = 92.5925926 days