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The page that the Nexus 6 is presented on still has a link to the Nexus 5. My personal theory at this time (unproven) is that they're keeping the Nexus 5 around as their lower-end model, since they don't have anything to replace its price point with. Hell, the Nexus 5 page now shows the device running Android L (Lollipop.)

The page that the Nexus 6 is presented on still has a link to the Nexus 5. My personal theory at this time (unproven) is that they're keeping the Nexus 5 around as their lower-end model, since they don't have anything to replace its price point with. Hell, the Nexus 5 page now shows the device running Android L (Lollipop.)

If I can properly decode your sentence (which I suspect got fragmented because you tried to change the way you expressed it three to fours times before hitting submit), you are expressing a suspicion that it will only be available for AT&T and T-Mobile.

However, according to http://www.google.com/nexus/6/ one might be lead to believe it will be available on Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular also (based on pre-order logos). Not intimately familiar with the US cellular market, but I don't think exclusion of other carriers is based on fragmented spectrum.

I'm in opposition of your entitlist mentality where you think the distro developers should do whatever you want them to do.

So, are you also one of the people that block the passing lane on the highway, because the sign says 55? And I'm in opposition of (stupid) knee-jerk decisions of a distro oriented more or less towards the knowledgeable crowd of users, unlike e.g. Ubuntu.

Let's have a look at the social contract (http://www.debian.org/social_contract), which was recently "upgraded":
First of all, Debian is no longer GNU/Linux. It's just "the Debian system" [1]. Debian doesn't promise to remain 100% Free software anymore, just "100% free." (Yes, yes, according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), but these may change at a later point).
It's now "free works" instead of "free software" and new developments are to be published according to the DFSG, instead of unambiguously as free software.
They now "provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with no legal restrictions," instead of "an integrated system of high-quality, 100% free software [...]"

The choice should have been based on technical merit vs. political lobbying and that is what pisses me and many others off.
No, circular reasoning a-la we want gnome, because "think of the children/kittens/whatever", gnome wants systemd, so we want systemd shouldn't have been applied as the technical argument.
It's a shame that the init choice is being taken away from the users.

Since you've given me that systemd link, here's some more (I'll skip upstart):
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate...
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate...
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate...

Citation?

"I have decided to not write anything in this section, considering the aggressive tone I'm getting in return, which is all but fun. Anyway, the problems with Systemd have been debated a lot already, so it is useless to list them here again." (https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/openrc)

http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3031
https://groups.google.com/foru...
Everything else is a google search away.
Oh, and here's the vote, btw: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi... (the actual vote starts at #6236) "Please decide, because not having systemd as default is a bug"

Some more arguments:
http://ewontfix.com/14/
http://boycottsystemd.org/

G2G, got more important matters to attend to.

I'm not going to whine and bitch about it because I am not a distro developer

That reads to me like: "I'm not going to oppose a government decision, because I'm not a politician."

How do you think they should have realistically approached this?

Simple, choose the UNIX way, let the systemd/gnome people create another downstream distro, and let their users have the choice.

[1] Why make the change, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (or HURD) is basically out anyway, so why change to "Debian system", instead of a more conservative wording?

How much food do you think you could have grown on the grounds of the 200 acre Solana generating station in Arizona?

Here's a nice street view of the area from I-8 outside of Gila Bend, AZ, right next to the plant.
https://www.google.com/maps/@3...

Using the power to lift water up into a high lake, and then getting power back out by running a hydroelectric system is great, but this example in New Jersey gives a good example why any solution is going to be site-specific. It's pretty darned flat in this part of New Jersey. It's not an option unless you're pushing power into the grid here, and then storing it somewhere more mountainous, and then transporting the power back again. Other systems might be more economical, such as pressurized air in underground caverns that is used to drive turbines. It will take considerable investment beyond the solar power system to make it work, and many storage systems have hazards too.

two obscure commissioners on a "Digital Agenda" committee no one here has ever heard of?

European Pirate Party is certainly pro-open source and has made some comments:

Oettinger and Ansip are like night and day,” said Julia Reda, an MEP with the European Pirate Party, which focuses on internet regulation. “I am very pleasantly surprised by [Ansip's] level of understanding. He didn’t say anything outrageous in any case, which is a huge improvement over Oettinger.

Source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0... (if this appears paywalled, try via Google).

Time and time again your forecasts about legal disputes have been falsified in court.

Quite the contrary. The Federal Circuit reversed Judge Alsup's grossly erroneous non-copyrightability ruling, so I got this one right and most others got it wrong.

I was demonstrably spot-on on five of the six most important smartphone IP decisions that came down in 2014.

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

Here's a version compatible with KeePass 2.0 databases. This version also has native support for syncing databases stored in DropBox, Gdrive, or even over FTP, (which beats my old method of using a 3rd-party file syncing app)

https://support.google.com/mai...

The best way to find this information for a certain mail provider is to include 'postmaster' in the search. Admittedly I had to click around a little to find Google's unlike most other providers where it is pretty obvious (they usually have a Postmaster Services page or something).

Good luck on your journey!

Note that VeraCrypt can't open existing TrueCrypt container files, nor can it create new container files that are backward compatible with TrueCrypt. Instead it suggests you do a clumsy, "un-enecrypt, copy over, re-enecrypt" lock-in process in order to "upgrade". At least the others (truecrypt.ch, Ciphershed, Tcplay / Zulucrypt, et. al.) allow you to keep working with existing TC container files.

Why this isn't in screaming bold text at the top of the VeraCrypt page (which is here, btw), is beyond me.

I haven't tried to contact them as it is rather difficult to actually find a way to directly contact the GMail admins. The only way I could think of would be to write a mail to some address from their WHOIS record, but I doubt it will get to the right people. I can somehow understand that they want to make contacting them hard, as they would probably get boatloads of complaints from admins who are just to lazy to properly test/audit their server configurations.

The only things I could find are these two guides. If you've followed those (which I did) and your mails still land in the SPAM folder, you're pretty much SOL.

I haven't tried to contact them as it is rather difficult to actually find a way to directly contact the GMail admins. The only way I could think of would be to write a mail to some address from their WHOIS record, but I doubt it will get to the right people. I can somehow understand that they want to make contacting them hard, as they would probably get boatloads of complaints from admins who are just to lazy to properly test/audit their server configurations.

The only things I could find are these two guides. If you've followed those (which I did) and your mails still land in the SPAM folder, you're pretty much SOL.

The fact that the only Judge involved who actually understands programming didn't just dismiss Oracle's allegations out of hand, he ridiculed them. How many of the programmers you refer to are also Judges who actually understand copyright law?

What a surprise! A Slashdot Book Review with 9/10 rating.
https://www.google.com/?q=site...'
You might want to normalize the ratings in your book reviews.

AFAIK, you can't directly see everything Google has on you, but you can see a little of it and opt out of the targeted advertising stuff on the ads settings page: https://www.google.com/setting...

It's a per-browser cookie that opts you out of targeted advertising, so you'll have to change the setting on all of your browsers.

I don't have a Gmail account, but Google blocks all e-mail from my server to its accounts...

Than your email server is not configured correctly.

Agreed. Often the reverse DNS lookup isn't setup correctly, or you've sent too many emails that were flagged as spam.
https://support.google.com/mai...
http://www.rackaid.com/blog/gm...

Almost all the mails I find in Google's spam filters are false positives, including Fidelity mailings and many legitimate mailings such as e-newsletters. My gmail accounts get virtually no "real" spam, but Google seems to program its filters to catch something. Mostly it's press releases, some of which do look spammy, but as a journalist I need to receive some of them. But it could be any mailing that meets Google's spam criteria, including a series of rapid-fire emails back and forth or routine administrivia like dental appointment reminders. (Interestingly, it has never flagged LinkedIn notices as spam.)

If you're missing something important, check your Gmail spam folder. You may be surprised.

Or disable the filtering.....
https://support.google.com/a/a...

heh, I didn't see your post before posting myself - or I simply would've replied to you. The only places on the net using the quote attributed to Newkirk are Scripps outlets, and they're all running the same story by the same author. Check out this.

The only places the PETA president's quote can be found are Scripps media outlets, and they're all by the same author, and they all use the same friggin web template.

"Google has no business using camels to 'cutesy up' its data-collection imagery," said Ingrid E. Newkirk...

My portfolio started taking a beating when these democracy agitators started causing trouble in Hong Kong.

Ah, so this is an obvious troll. Or at least the tongue-in-cheek sarcasm pointing out some of the more nefarious mentality that's probably going on in the upper echelons of US business. It's getting hard these days to tell the difference, and idiots like DNS-BIND can't read sarcasm. Poe's law is in effect.

so as to avoid labor costs getting out of control.

Just so everyone else is aware, the Chinese workers have steadily been earning more for years, and as they get more powerful, they'll want more rights/control/political power. The higher salary comes first, then the living standards, and now voting. And everything is in tiny little steps. Which is probably for the best. Nobody in their right mind wants giant sweeping changes that disrupts everything.

Sometimes you have to invite the trolls to tea.

There's a number of aspects of what you said that are inaccurate, and I believe the approach you're taking is deficient in a number of areas.

Let me cover a few of these off:

1. Cloud access does not lead to wasting time with flash games.

Firstly, I think you are confusing cloud computing with Internet access. Leverage a cloud service (e.g. Google Apps or some SaaS based learning service) is completely different to unfettered internet access to play flash games. If your school chose to use Google Apps or Office 365 it doesn't all of a sudden mean a deluge of flash games.

2. Chromebooks can be managed with Chrome Management Console

With the Chrome Management Console you can control a vast array of policies - such as URLs that can be visited, what can be installed etc. All reasonably similar to the level of control you may have now on your windows machines. However, Chromebooks go beyond this as it is much harder for a student to bypass the controls that Chromebooks have as they is so locked down and have TPM for verified boot etc. So your statement that it's easier to "curtail games on your system" is probably false. For a brief summary, look here: https://www.google.com/chrome/... there's a whole lot more info on the detailed policies if you search for it.

3. The hidden cost and inefficient of managing your own onsite storage and backup.

You're almost spending more money than you need to managing your own infrastructure. Your cost of storage is certainly an order of magnitude higher than Google's due to their scale. You're doing backups - but it sounds like they're on site. Where's your geographic redundancy? Google will store your data across multiple geographically separate datacentres and manage all the infrastructure for you.

4. Your unjustified fear of losing control

You seem to still believe that Google is mining kid's information to serve them ads - yet Google Apps for education doesn't serve any ads. (http://www.google.com/edu/trust/)
You also seem to believe that using the cloud means you don't know who will access it. In fact Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. all make it pretty clear the controls they put in place regarding security and privacy - and back these up with SLAs etc. I'd have a lot more confidence in their security and privacy controls than in your own IT team. This is probably most contenious area, but you could start by talking to other schools who have made the shift to see how they overcame these kind of concerns.

I get that change is scary - and there's a lot of cloud FUD out there. But I'd really suggest you take the time to understand as it is fundamentally shifting how the vast majority of IT systems are delivered. I also think that keeping on doing things how you've always done them isn't a sustainable strategy in the long run.

No, graffiti works with the finger as well. Grafitti is currently my prefered text input method on my phone. See: https://play.google.com/store/...

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

Read the discussion:

https://code.google.com/p/chro...

Comment #101 specifically says that he (and a bunch of other developers) would hate to lose extFS support, so they're looking into how they can make it work with volume renaming and how to guard against security issues. The summary here on /. is deliberately inflammatory. No, Google as such has not dropped extFS support in Chrome OS, all that's happened is that a couple of developers have suggested it.

Windows NT (includes 2K, XP, 7, 8, 2008, 2012 etc.) was "borrowed" from DEC:

http://books.google.com/books?...

DOS was "borrowed" from CPM

Doublespace was "borrowed" from Stac Electronics

MS Flight simulator...... etc. etc. etc.

Even thier "cloud" offerings stole search results from Google
http://googleblog.blogspot.com...

Microsoft has a long history of appropriating the work of others. No, unfortunately, these are real people whose livelihoods are stolen, not puppets from mars. A good friend lost his job at Stac after MS stole their product, stacker, then after losing in court, and having to pay $23M in damages, counter sued that the only way Stac could have created stacker was to reverse engineer DOS since MS didn't provide documentation that would have made such a product possible (exactly opposite what MS told anti-trust investigation). MS only got $3M back via their suit, so they acquired Stac, then fired everybody.

But, MS's theft as a business model doesn't seem to be sustaining the company. MS, while still fat with money is bleeding it fast, and has nothing, that is cash flow positive, except legacy stuff. People speak of the irrelevance of MS all the time-- it is not hyperbole. And, anyone who knows anything about MS business practices will not mourn their passing.

This: https://code.google.com/p/chro...

Here you have a local source on these facts through Google translate

The version of the story you have is completely wrong. You have been misled by sites that manipulate facts on you and should distrust all information from these for the future.

Greenpeace does not oppose GMO crops

They destroy research and lie about lifesaving GMOs. What do you call the destruction of scientific research? There's a reason I referred to the as book burning thugs. These people actually think destroying basic research is a good thing.

Greenpeace has concerns about the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops

No they don't. Thousands of varieties of crops co-exist just fine with the proper seed saving techniques. A transgene does not change that. To give an example in some GMO crops, yellow flesh is dominant over red flesh in papaya, and yellow kernels are dominant over white in corn, yet there is still white corn and red papaya. Why is it then that these varieties can co-exist? Proper seed saving techniques. The transgenes operate on the exact same principles, it's just that no one makes a fuss until genetic engineering is involved and Greenpeace relies on you not understanding the basics principles and understanding the background context of seed saving to spread that excuse. They are lying to you.

calls for more precautionary research and monitoring of GMO's before widespread adoption.

The precautionary principle is idiocy. It says that unless you can prove something will not happen, you do nothing. Imagine if I tried to ban vaccines or wifi on the same principles, demanding that someone prove they will not, through a currently unknown mechanism, cause autism in X+1 years, demanding that you prove a negative. How foolish would it be to say that? Why does that suddenly make sense once GMOs are involved? This precautionary principle excuse is the agricultural equivalent of Russell's teapot. I suggest you read Carl Sagan's Dragon in my Garage analogy to understand why the precautionary principle is completely irrational. GMOs are extensively studied. A rational risk assessment would say there is nothing wrong with using them.

It might be helpful to search out their position papers on these things

Okay. Here they say, quote: "We continue to work with governments to get rid of genetic engineering once and for all." Here they say: "Greenpeace has been an advocate for keeping Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) out of our food supply and encouraging consumers to only buy foods that are GMO-free." They use lots of fearmongering imagery. That's not anti-GMO? The hell it isn't. Greenpeace is one of the biggest anti-GMO organizations out there, they've got no science to back them, and their work has helped hold my field back by at least a decade and a half, as well as contributed to hunger, malnutrition, environmental degradation, and climate change.

Found the reference. Search terms: Africa corpse water.

I'm sick of steampunk. I'm waiting for the world to rediscover the high tech aesthetic of the 30's and 40's; a world of analog meters, control wheels. bakelite and art-deco design touches.

One of the highest expressions of this design aesthetic is the Triumph 830 wobbulator. Truly a thing of beauty. If Fred Astaire had ever danced with an oscilloscope, this would be the one.

Umm, pretty much every diabetes study out there suggest otherwise - take your pick and do a search for "The rats/mice were fed sugar until they developed diabetes."

I just did something a lot more to the point:

https://www.google.com/#safe=o...

As you can see, the answer to the question in my search varies from either a resounding no (diabetes.org outright says its a myth) to being exactly in-line with my own previous commentary.

Yeah, I have already been looking forward to this kind of successful proof on systemd's actual advantages. And with all the old-fashioned unimportant people such as Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan at Google, I think the company will not even have a thought on runit, nosh and s6 which are all techinical inferior, poorly written/documented, and do no play well with everything else. Good luck :D

s/I have already been/I have always been/
Other typos do exist, but this one is particularly worth correcting.

Sure, you can just plink them to death..... https://www.google.com/search?...

I look forward to the obvious impending demise of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Mint, and just about every other Linux distro around other than Slackware (which as far as I'm aware is the only big one that hasn't implemented systemd).

Yes, plus Funtoo, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, CRUX and so on. Also I'm completely sure that with the wider adoption of systemd, systemd's rock solid design will ensure it's always free from safety and security bugs, which will even strengthen its wonderful reputation and eliminate any controversy about it.

Well, Google hasn't announced any plans to move away from Upstart on Chromebooks but I'm sure that is just a matter of time - other than having the best-selling laptops around I'm not sure how those matter. Maybe they'll switch from Upstart to a hodge-podge of traditional bash scripts.

Yeah, I have already been looking forward to this kind of successful proof on systemd's actual advantages. And with all the old-fashioned unimportant people such as Rob Pike, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan at Google, I think the company will not even have a thought on runit, nosh and s6 which are all techinical inferior, poorly written/documented, and do no play well with everything else. Good luck :D

You should start your own Linux distribution company founded on a systemd-free platform. It sounds like you'll have thousands of seasoned linux contributors lining up at your doors to help build your product, and you can fork Debian or whatever to start with.

. I already know quite a few developers with similar ideas. But we decide that the actual feel of sysadmins after wider adoption of systemd after will urge them to vote with their feet. Quoting Richard Feynman, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Wish you good luck with your propaganda ;)

Someone needs to go tell that plant to go clean up their act. At the very least, it's wasting methane.

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

https://drive.google.com/file/...

that's a shuttle hanger....

You might find the intro of this book of interest (just noticed it today) as it talks about the conflict between scarcity and post-scarcity ideas, including market failures and market-based solutions: http://books.google.com/books?...
"Sustainable Growth in a Post-Scarcity World: Consumption, Demand, and the Poverty Penalty -- by Philip Sadler"

IMHO, universities have an implicit moral obligation (including "in loco parentis") to be candid and as accurate as possible with their students about things like career prospects; that they fail to do so as evidenced by this issue is problematical whatever the reasons (including "selection bias" that you only see relatively successful academics working in universities and the advice they give may have worked for them decades ago but may not be very useful either now or for other personality types).

If you look at other countries like in Western Europe, there is not as much of a conflict between being reasonable "successful" in a field and having a family and hobbies and such. Example: http://www.salon.com/2010/08/2...
"Germany's workers have higher productivity, shorter hours and greater quality of life. How did we get it so wrong? ... But even before the recession, American workers were already clocking in the most hours in the West. Compared to our German cousins across the pond, we work 1,804 hours versus their 1,436 hours â" the equivalent of nine extra 40-hour workweeks per year. The Protestant work ethic may have begun in Germany, but it has since evolved to become the American way of life. ... In comparison to the U.S., the Germans live in a socialist idyll. They have six weeks of federally mandated vacation, free university tuition, nursing care, and childcare. ... How did Germany become such a great place to work in the first place? The Allies did it. This whole European model came, to some extent, from the New Deal. Our real history and tradition is what we created in Europe. Occupying Germany after WWII, the 1945 European constitutions, the UN Charter of Human Rights all came from Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Dealers. All of it got worked into the constitutions of Europe and helped shape their social democracies. It came from us. The papal encyclicals on labor, it came from the Americans. ..."

Various studies show that overwork does not make people more productive in the long term. Lots of things suffer -- including creativity. Overwork in the USA is a cultural pathology. BTW, it is also problematical to try to motivate the best creative work via rewards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

As for technological innovation, there is a lot of discussion related to that by people like Langdon Winner and E.F. Schumacher (including related to "appropriate technology"). Just look at how US federal dollars went as subsidies via land grand colleges to big agriculture research vs. small farm research. Why were research funds for decades going into ever bigger mechanized harvesting operations and related plant varieties (the tasteless tomato) instead of multi-purpose flexible agricultural robotics useful for small farms and heirloom seeds? Why is funding "Seed Savers" heirloom seed production (seeds with a variety of natural resistance and good nutrition) or remineralizing US soils via ground up rock dust not one of the USA's top defense priorities vs. defending long supply lines of imported oil used to create monocultures propped up in dead soil doused in petro-chemical-derived synthetic fertilizers and pesticides?
http://www.seedsavers.org/
http://remineralize.org/

Markets may be good at producing certain types of abundance, but in the absence of political oversight, markets are pro

Yeah, but I'd contest that that claim is spurious

Netflix offers several test streams for validating your speeds, and Google has a Video Quality Report

I find that the Speedtest.Net results are a realistic estimate of my actual best case upload/download speed, but there are certainly some websites which are much slower to load, for various reasons. If you suspect your ISP is throttling some websites intentionally, you can always browse through a VPN service.

As mentioned previously, local WiFi problems are often the root cause of slow page loads. Go wired. You can also use the network debugging tools built into Firefox (Network Monitor) and MSIE to try to determine what parts of a page are particularly slow.

They are all ISP run, or open to bribery. The most independent one I've seen is https://www.google.com/get/vid... which is an ISP quality measure, not a speedtest.

Ever heard of https://support.google.com/acc...

That was my first thought. And before someone gets upset at needing a mobile device or a computing device in order to generate that pin number. Google even allows you to use pre-made pin codes, so if you're ever caught in a foreign land where the authorities are about to knock down your door, you just need to swallow the paper containing those codes.

No, is monolithic Note the part where he repeatedly gibbers about that stuff is impossible to separate.

A good tool for monitoring this stuff if you're on Android is Fuelio, it not only allows you to collect the data but it has all kinds of nice graphing capabilities and the pro version includes the ability to backup to Google Drive or Dropbox, you can also export to CSV if you want to switch applications or do your own data manipulation.

And fuck you Poettering. DIAF already.

You can dislike Systemd all you want but for the love of all that is holy please refrain from this hate-culture around the man who started the project. It's apparently not funny.

Any new features to their keylogger? Oh excuse me.. we call that the address bar in other browsers.. :)

You can disable it by following these steps.

According to this page and this bug report, the only differences between Google Chrome and the copy of Chromium on my laptop are Adobe Flash Player, patented audio and video codecs, digital restrictions management for HTML5 video, and Google's crash reporting plug-in.

According to this page and this bug report, the only differences between Google Chrome and the copy of Chromium on my laptop are Adobe Flash Player, patented audio and video codecs, digital restrictions management for HTML5 video, and Google's crash reporting plug-in.

Nein.