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Mind, most Europeeans don't like censorship either.

England doesn't like the ruling either.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

Nobody has to decide what anything "means". The EU issued a very simple instruction - personal names cannot be used to search for outdated/false information. People who run businesses know part of the cost of business is that they'll be attacked. So long as they stick to the law, the attacks will fail. People complain and, in free countries, complain loudly on the Internet, TV and talk radio.

I don't like irrational complaints, but as there's nowhere rational to go, I have to deal with it. Google is bigger than me, and a good deal richer. (Rich megacorps with a reputation for evil getting defended on Slashdot for doing evil... Gone way downhill.) Why should I pity Google when they've the resources to deal with a few insignificant little gnat bites of complaints?

What's to "come clean" about?

Not withstanding the free-access pipe straight to the NSA..
We'd like to know which data Google sells to who. Its clear that they do sell the data.

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

"We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners"

MAY SHARE.. yeah right. Billion dollar Ad companies are all about sharing valuable data for free. They'd never charge for anything valuable. Oh no !

Whats the "aggregated" information on breast cancer patients aged 40-41 in zipcode 33333. Oh look ! Its only a single person. Lets sell that to some pill company to peddle some shit to this unfortunate user. Oh and ofcource .. google wont ever sell information. lol.. they only seel "non personally identifiable aggregated information". A distinction without a difference.

It's not really relevant to the content of my comment, but I'm a Google employee.

An ad company employee saying mining private data "is no big deal". No shit. Your company went full retard long ago. They've even got the shitty MBA language down. Just read this crap.,..

"Google Apps customers have been taking advantage of both Google+ and Hangouts for long enough that we recognize the separate use cases for both,"

Lol.. the users want both? So why seperate the two? Um.. Hello, its because they DONT WANT Google+. There would be no need to seperate the two otherwise.

" Our customers recognize the value of connecting face-to-face and are driving this demand."

Translation to normal speak: We fucked up.

Ad companies are and have always been slimy. Google is just good at seperating the engineers from the MBA slimeball crowd.

"The problem with Vim (and Emacs) is that they do not support anything modern, not even ctrl-z/x/c/v."

Any problem you think vim or emacs has is actually a problem with you and your lack of knowlege. There is a new tool called google that can help you learn about this sort of thing.

After all, ed is the standard text editor.

I made a chart of the public data available by the WHO. Both the cases and the deaths are matching a lot with the exponential curves onto them. I've put it online here: https://plus.google.com/+Jaspe...

So far, I've found four items of concern with your post.
1.
Your rate of 120,000 tons of CO2 are per year.
However, the 11.5 tons of CO2 is per kg of gold.
Hmm, comparing time (year) to substance (gold) may be a bit tricky, although I see you phrased an interesting question which might handle that right.

2.
If 1 kg of gold = 11.5 tons of CO2, and we're comparing to equal values of CO2, then for 120,000 tons of CO2 I get 120,000 / 11.5 = 10434.78 kg, which is 11.5 tons of gold. (Potential for confusion here... 11.5 tons of CO2 and 11.5 tons of gold.) So when you said 10.5 tons of gold, somehow you're pocketing 1 ton of that gold.

Yeah, I know, posts always sound smarter when they've got a bunch of numbers thrown around. It's not like numbers are ever used to lie.
I'm not actually trying to accuse you of being dishonest, but, rather, a bit sloppy (unless I slipped somewhere).

3.
I also notice that the site on eoearth.org (where you got the 11.5 tons per kg of Gold) shows graphs, at 160px. The entire graph is only a puny 160 pixels tall. Although, the tiny graph is a hyperlink that you can click on to be brought to an image that is... 160px. Oh, that's no better. It's still a postage-stamp-sized graph on my monitor, and even if I was using a lower resolution to make the graph bigger and blurrier, that wouldn't make the details any more readable.
So that site makes it look like they have details available, for those who just casually scroll by or maybe even use their mouse to notice that something is a hyperlink. They make it look like they have nice details available to share. But if you try to actually see those details, they're actually not all that available.

Considering that the site eoearth.org is a website called "The Encycopedia of Earth", you would think that an encyclopedia wouldn't be trying to bury the details.

4. If the EPA.gov says electricity is 0.69 tons of CO2 per megawatt hour, I'm off-hand guessing that's spread out over a national average. If these guys are running a custom data center, and their goal is not to provide fast bandwidth for customers (or employees), then they are probably going to place that data center in a place with cheap electricity. That is likely to be a place where electricity is easy to make, and may be less wasteful than the American average. (I say American because EPA.gov is the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States. But this data center was stated to be in the Republic of Georgia.)

So, in a nut-shell, your impressive-looking numbers don't appear to necessarily be accurate for this situation.

Yes, I'm sure nobody in all of China already has an inexpensive HEPA air purifier.

I'm sure someone in China does have an inexpensive HEPA air purifier. I am not sure what your US Google search has to do with what people have in China though.

Yes, I'm sure nobody in all of China already has an inexpensive HEPA air purifier.

Looking at the pictures of Skellig Michael [aside: didn't Michael Skelling used to be an NPR reporter?] it seems very likely that the stacked-stone huts will be used in the new films.

If this is a sign that there's no nexus around Tatooine, this thing might actually have legs!

And as far as the other issues you mentioned, those are caused by people who should know better.

I have become so disgusted with humanity that I am all for protecting the defenseless creatures over human beings.

Humans have proven that they are not worthy of this planet. I for one wish these guys existed. so that they can come down and say, "I don't give a shit about your petty squabbles. Cut the shit out or you will be destroyed."

And then disintegrate all the weapons and combatants before taking off.

As an author, I can tell you that Amazon and their eBook pricing means more money (overall) for Authors. Maybe not for the "best seller"s who don't actually sell many books, but their publishing house prints lots of them and sends them out to stores, so while they end up on the bargain rack or destroyed, they still make the NY Times list based on the lay-down. Yeah, the authors people don't actually want to read will ultimately make less money, but the real authors that people like and want to buy from will make a lot more.

There is currently a battle going on in the industry between the special favorites of the big 6 publishing houses and the midlisters and independents. There are very few authors who can get a reasonable deal out of one of the publishing houses. Everyone else is getting contracts which require them to sign away their works forever, sign away any future works in the same genre, sign away all electronic rights, etc... for a $5K advance on a one or two book contract.

The midlisters and indies are running to ebooks and small publishing houses as fast as they can. It's not a mystery why. Amazon will pay 70% on an ebook. A publisher will typically pay maybe 15% (on poorly documented bookscan sales numbers, even on eBooks, which should be exact!) Where they used to purcahse only limited publication rights, which expired after they took the book out of print, now they want contracts where the author will never get their book back, even if the publishing house isn't actually doing anything with it.

If you are a well-known celebrity, or you sell millions of copies, then a big 6 publisher may work with you on somewhat fair terms. Otherwise, they won't edit you (it's gotten much worse over the last few years), they won't market you and they'll barely make sure your latest book stays on store shelves for a month.

The big 6 publishers are not only an issue in terms of IP rights and author payments, but they are also a very bad gatekeeper. Ever wonder why so many old SF authors stopped publishing and much of what is out there now is crap? It's because they're being picked by a publishing house with a NY "editor" who probably doesn't even like SF. They literally drove popular authors (who wrote what people actually wanted to read) out of the business. If an author sold too much (i.e. more than the editor projected), did they reprint and push the book? No, they'd keep the same print run and just stop publishing it when it hit the number projected as the max, usually tiny. Baen was the only real exception of any size in the industry. Jim Baen also did eBooks right from the start (gave old ones away in order to promote newer books in the same series/by the same author). That's all just starting to turn around because of Amazon, on-demand publishing and eBooks. Old famous authors are even starting to put out the books their publishing house stopped selling, or that they couldn't get published in the first place because it wasn't the editor's latest fad.

Also, the big 6 publishing houses have a massively left-leaning bias. They've spent decades now killing the sales numbers of entire genres because the authors were required to toe the line of the latest politically correct movement. You can date books in some genres by the issues and characters the editors required. Many books that adults like have been pushed into YA categories, just because if it it's not "edgy" enough, the NY editors don't want to buy it. Forget about what will sell, they buy what they'll want to tell their NY publishing friends about at the next cocktail party.

Scalzi is the poster-child cheerleader for the big 6 publishing houses. He's on the "inside" of the publishing establishment and does everything he can to defend them. He could care less about SF authors, just about his publishing buddies.

You want the real scoop on Amazon and Authors? Go look at Mad Genius Club, or According to Hoyt.

As an author, I can tell you that Amazon and their eBook pricing means more money (overall) for Authors. Maybe not for the "best seller"s who don't actually sell many books, but their publishing house prints lots of them and sends them out to stores, so while they end up on the bargain rack or destroyed, they still make the NY Times list based on the lay-down. Yeah, the authors people don't actually want to read will ultimately make less money, but the real authors that people like and want to buy from will make a lot more.

There is currently a battle going on in the industry between the special favorites of the big 6 publishing houses and the midlisters and independents. There are very few authors who can get a reasonable deal out of one of the publishing houses. Everyone else is getting contracts which require them to sign away their works forever, sign away any future works in the same genre, sign away all electronic rights, etc... for a $5K advance on a one or two book contract.

The midlisters and indies are running to ebooks and small publishing houses as fast as they can. It's not a mystery why. Amazon will pay 70% on an ebook. A publisher will typically pay maybe 15% (on poorly documented bookscan sales numbers, even on eBooks, which should be exact!) Where they used to purcahse only limited publication rights, which expired after they took the book out of print, now they want contracts where the author will never get their book back, even if the publishing house isn't actually doing anything with it.

If you are a well-known celebrity, or you sell millions of copies, then a big 6 publisher may work with you on somewhat fair terms. Otherwise, they won't edit you (it's gotten much worse over the last few years), they won't market you and they'll barely make sure your latest book stays on store shelves for a month.

The big 6 publishers are not only an issue in terms of IP rights and author payments, but they are also a very bad gatekeeper. Ever wonder why so many old SF authors stopped publishing and much of what is out there now is crap? It's because they're being picked by a publishing house with a NY "editor" who probably doesn't even like SF. They literally drove popular authors (who wrote what people actually wanted to read) out of the business. If an author sold too much (i.e. more than the editor projected), did they reprint and push the book? No, they'd keep the same print run and just stop publishing it when it hit the number projected as the max, usually tiny. Baen was the only real exception of any size in the industry. Jim Baen also did eBooks right from the start (gave old ones away in order to promote newer books in the same series/by the same author). That's all just starting to turn around because of Amazon, on-demand publishing and eBooks. Old famous authors are even starting to put out the books their publishing house stopped selling, or that they couldn't get published in the first place because it wasn't the editor's latest fad.

Also, the big 6 publishing houses have a massively left-leaning bias. They've spent decades now killing the sales numbers of entire genres because the authors were required to toe the line of the latest politically correct movement. You can date books in some genres by the issues and characters the editors required. Many books that adults like have been pushed into YA categories, just because if it it's not "edgy" enough, the NY editors don't want to buy it. Forget about what will sell, they buy what they'll want to tell their NY publishing friends about at the next cocktail party.

Scalzi is the poster-child cheerleader for the big 6 publishing houses. He's on the "inside" of the publishing establishment and does everything he can to defend them. He could care less about SF authors, just about his publishing buddies.

You want the real scoop on Amazon and Authors? Go look at Mad Genius Club, or According to Hoyt.

If your users are being equipped with 2FA client devices (or apps), an easy way to apply this security to a website is with the mod-authn-otp Apache module (disclaimer, I wrote it).

Starting from the Earth getting kicked out from the center of the universe to the present hypothesis that visible matter is just a tiny fraction of all the stuff in the universe, having the mass of the Milky Way reduced is just another step in what Carl Sagan called The Great Demotions. Hopefully by now humanity is getting used to it.

I'm sorry.

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

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A former coworker once vandalized the list of fatal bear attacks (he added a friend of his to the list). Wikipedia has since been corrected, but not before the name Nick Ruberto (who is alive and well) appeared on several other lists of bear attacks (on some lists he appears as Nick Roberto, but all other details are the same.): https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...

According to my ex-coworker, he received a one-year edit ban once discovered, which was increased to a lifetime edit ban when he appealed.

The City of London is a semi-autonomous part of London which has special rules, and a separate government. https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

http://www.google.com/search?q...

My Windows XP Pro SP3's Windows Explorer kept crashing because of SecureROM that was from C&C3:KW addon. It took me a while to figure out why.

Do you consider the TPM acceptable? I have sort-of-working but woefully incomplete code for this. There's also the work-in-progress OpenCryptoChip.

I have found FreeOTP much better than Google Authenticator.

Given the limited information, it's hard for me to speculate, but if you were using MMX it's quite likely the compiler went into gray areas of the spec when optimizing.

In any event, that is not a case of you defanging the AMD crippler and then b ad things happen.

Recognizing that courts don't always get tech matters right, multiple courts and regulatory bodies have found that Intel implemented the crippler as an illeg al business strategic move rather than for technical reasons and have ordered th em to stop it.

More recently, icc was caught detecting that it was compiling a benchmark and generating code that skipped some of the computation if it detected an Intel CP U. It seems to be part of a pattern of behavior.

Given that, I'd say the preponderance suggests the intel compiler is a poor c hoice of compiler unless you intend to use it only on GenuineIntel AND you valid ate the results by running an intel compiler version against a non-intel compile d binary and make sure the results match.

For software tokens, Google Authenticator has apps for Android, iOS, and BlackBerry. They implement the TOTP standard, so any compatible code-generating software (such as the J2ME app I have on my non-smartphone) will work with it.

They also have a PAM module that works with SSH (or anything else that uses PAM). I've used it before, and it works great.

For reference, neither the apps nor the PAM module depend in any way on Google services, they don't send any data to Google, and will work perfectly happily in a totally offline environment (assuming all the servers and client apps have synchronized clocks).

Just want to point out that their address is a mile down the street from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Look, you can all argue over SecureROM, but I downloaded my free Sims 2 and I of course, am going to do what everyone else who isn't bitching is doing, Nude patches.

https://www.google.com/#q=sims...

There's a google link to get you all started. First 2 links they want you to pay, screw that.

Have you tried the Google Keyboard?
I can't compare to Swift Key since I've never used it, but it doesn't exhibit the problems you mentioned. At least for me it's been working perfectly in every app I've ever tried, including games.

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

but onscreen keyboards are waaay faster. because the keys on phones like the Galaxy S Pro (originally sold on Sprint, called the Epic 4G) cannot really be typed as fast or as quickly as a touch screen. the keys are too small, require too much pressure to punch in, and all that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=epic+4g&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=HSLXU9zMJ6q48gHBhIC4AQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1536&bih=725

the only benefit to physical keyboard over touch screen would be more keys are available such as Alt, Ctrl, Del, Shift, and Tab, which more traditional PC apps benefit from like remote desktop or SSH clients, terminal service, and shit like that. I also like the keyboard to double as a gamepad if they ever decided to ship one again on a high-end model, because touch screen game controls suck (I mean for FPS, platformers, and RPGs; you gotta have a regular controller).

the world record for cellphone typing was done on a touch screen. I'd wager it's twice to three times as fast as a physical slide out keyboard.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/5/fastest-touch-screen-text-message-record-officially-broken-with-fleksy-keyboard-57380/

Vaccines in Pakistan? Do you have a link for me to read about it? Thanks.

Simply google it... -- https://www.google.com/?gws_rd... -- and you will see many links for your reading.

And exactly why do you think that Putin invaded Georgia, Crimea and now close to doing the same in East Ukraine, if not Ukraine?
Chamberlein allowed Hitler to do the same tactic as he sought resources. That lead to a global war. What exactly do you think is going on now?

Finally, shell and others have all the major contracts for the oil/nat gas.

Right here, it's a bit confusing because the maps in the article are turned ~90 degrees.

I was going to say a simple pair of binoculars or a scope would help, but even with that the underside of a plane is not marked as well as I thought

Aside from that, if it had RADAR indication but no visual, all you know is "aircraft in our space, shouldn't be there" and you'd be foolish NOT to shoot. The town where you grew up could be destroyed. 1000 people you've been with your entire life, wondering why you *didn't* shoot, vs. a few hundred strangers. It's a no-brainer.

I'm sure that Googling for screenshots when you're looking for multi-purpose libraries like Boost is really effective. https://www.google.com/search?... That is some quality drill-down right there.

Here is the disclaimer I used at the bottom of that same post:

And obviously, if I was a different kind of developer, or if I was a different kind of project manager with a different kind of community/user focus, my sources could be very different.

What would happen with say, a firefox add-on which did the opposite: Generate a large number of fake clicks in short time with the intention of getting someone booted from Adsense( or whatever)?

Wikipedia is aware of the existence of joe jobs in click fraud: see Click fraud#Non-contracting parties. Google is supposed to be able to detect this. And apparently AdSense publishers who become the victim of such a joe job are supposed to report this to AdSense staff. But like you, I'm not certain as to how Google's response to such problem reports can scale.

Funny, I remember the same thing. And it's an old usage to -- I see from the Electric Interlocking Handbook (1913) at http://books.google.com/books?id=ZPINAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93&dq=%2B%22buss%22+electric&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4kfUU4_2McW1iwKwyYHIBA&ved=0CFgQuwUwBg#v=onepage&q=%2B%22buss%22%20electric&f=false that it's been used in the industry.

What's wrong with just googling for stuff

Googling usually works for me, but I browse the results with the image tab. This way, I only take a look at open source projects with actual screenshots.

In any case, the original question seems to be asked from the point of view of a marketer. A developer will often know where to advertise his open source project for the type of community he's catering for. That's the key. Know your community of users. Know where they hang out and what they read. And once you have a couple of users that recommend your open source project (assuming they like it), then your project will start to gain page rank in Google, and other indexes.

Just to give you a personal example. As an Android developer, I often hear of relevant open source Android projects I can use on DevAppsDirect, Android-related meetups, StackOverflow questions, and through Google searches. And obviously, if I was a different kind of developer, or if I was a different kind of project manager with a different kind of community/user focus, my sources could be very different.

For those of you wondering, google is a search engine. It lets you get answers to questions like What the fsck is a Buss Duct?" If you want to be a Karma Whore, you can then pop back here to Slashdot and post what you found, and cross your fingers in hopes that some idiots who don't know what Google is will mod it as "Interesting" or "Informative".

Sometimes you don't even need to change the file format - optimization can be applied to already compressed gzip/deflate files (which PNG uses) which can be used to create a more optimal deflate/gzip file. See tools like DeflOpt and defluff (DeflOpt can sometimes make even zopfli encoded files smaller).

Good point. Going even further, from something I wrote in 1992: https://groups.google.com/foru...
---
A letter from Gaia to humanity on the joy of expectation

Don't cry for me. When I let you evolve I knew it might cost the
rhino and the tiger. I knew the rain forests would be cut down. I
knew the rivers would be poisoned. I knew the ocean would turn to
filth. I knew it would cost most of the species that are me.

What is the death of most of my species to me? It is only sleep.
In ten million years I will have it all back again and more. This
has happened many times already. Complex and fragile species will
break along with the webs they are in. Robust and widespread
species will persist along with simpler webs. In time these
survivors will radiate to cover the globe in diversity again. Each
time I come back in beauty like a bush pruned and regrown.

Be happy for me. Over and over again I have tried to give birth to
more Gaias. Time and time again I have failed. With you I have
hope. I cannot tell you how happy I am.

Your minds, spacecraft, biospheres, and computers give me new realms
to evolve into. With your minds I evolve as ideas in inner space.
With your technology I can evolve into self replicating habitats in
outer space. Your computers and minds contain model Gaias I can
talk to; they are my first children. Your space craft and
biospheres are a step to spreading Gaias throughout the stars.

Cry, yes. Cry for yourselves. I am sorry those alive now will not
live to see the splendor to come from what you have started. I am
sorry for all the suffering your species and others will endure.
You who live now will remember the tiger and the rain forest and
mourn for them and yourselves. You will know what was lost without
ever knowing what will be gained. I too mourn for them and you.

There is so much joy that awaits us. We must look up and forward.
We must go on to a future - my future, our future. After eons of
barrenness I am finally giving birth. Help me lest it all fall away
and take eons more before I get this close again to having the
children I always wanted.

(Paul D. Fernhout, Lindenhurst, NY 6/92)

===========

The preceeding is something I just scanned in from 1992, written while I was
in the SUNY Stony Brook Ecology and Evolution PhD program (where I had gone
to learn more towards simulating gardens and space habitats). I had learned
there that it took about 10 million years to regenerate lots of biodiversity
from a large asteroid impact event, and this had happened several times in
Earth's history.

The following is a related statement also just scanned in of what inspired
it written at the same time.

--Paul Fernhout (NY Adirondack Park, Oct 2008)

=================

If one accepted that modern industrial civilization has initiated
a great die-off of species comparable to the one sixty-five
million years ago, how should one feel about this?

Is overwhelming sadness and anger the best emotional response? On
the surface it may seem so. Apparently modern civilization and
the accompanying pollution and deforestation are pulling apart a
tapestry woven over billions of years. Anger at the short sighted
and narrow values driving industry may seem well placed.
Certainly feelings of joy and excitement would seem out of place.

Here are a few thoughts that may affect one's feelings. High
levels of biodiversity can be generated from very low ones in
about ten million years. On the time scales of the earth this may
not be a blink of an eye, but it is a short nap. To humans this
may mean a great loss, but Gaia might barely notice. It has after
all been only sixty-five million years since the last die off.

Not all species will be affected equally. A simplification will
occur where the more specialized creatures wi

That's not how it works, either. There's settlement-free peering (the "real" peering) and there's paid peering and there's transit. Peering is when two networks exchange data which is destined for the respective other network. Transit is when two networks exchange traffic that is destined for some other network. Transit is the real cost factor, because nobody carries transit traffic for free: You want me to carry your data to someone else? What's in it for me? Whether peering is settlement free or not is a matter of negotiation. Most networks publish peering policies in which they describe where and with whom they will peer and what the conditions are. For example: Google, Comcast, Verizon, and few others. If you want to dig even deeper, there's a database of peerings (use guest login). It is indeed often a matter of size, and the resulting negotiating power, who pays whom. There are however "peering sluts": CDNs will typically peer settlement-free with anyone above a relatively small minimum size, even though CDNs are true behemoths on the internet. That's because their business depends on reaching everybody, and settlement-free peering is still a lot cheaper than the transit for their huge traffic flows. Netflix is in this category, for the same reason.

>> Someone gets an Office file, modifies it with LO, sends it back. Then they receive the e-mail "hey buddy, everything looks wrong". What happens now?

Not a problem. Everybody uses Libre, and that's the whole point of migrations well done.

>> How much of those €1M savings will be used to sponsor LibreOffice?
Don't know for toulouse, but Munich contributed a lot back, in the form of a kind of frameword, at least.

>> Can we please hear a "status update" of these cities or governments switching to OSS?
https://media.ccc.de/browse/co...
https://www.google.com/search?...

My favorite example is Sherri Shepard not knowing that the Earth is round. This is (was?) a co-host of a very popular talk show.

Pretty funny to watch, actually.

[citation please]

There are earthworm species that are native to North America (see, for instance, Hendrix's Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America). There are also exotic / invasive species. These species (as well as one or two native species with expanding ranges) are definitely a problem, but that is a different statement from "earthworms are not native to America."

I don't know about earthworms, but I did hear years ago that the native species of lady bug in North America had been entirely supplanted by an Asian variety, and there were no native Lady Bug species left.

[citation please]

There are earthworm species that are native to North America (see, for instance, Hendrix's Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America). There are also exotic / invasive species. These species (as well as one or two native species with expanding ranges) are definitely a problem, but that is a different statement from "earthworms are not native to America."

The biography of former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies." [1]

From GP's comment "megatron" It's pretty obvious... I think you need to actually read what he said before you duck and cover.

Let me help you a bit with that...

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

Actually there is. I refer to you Google Classroom (using Google Apps for Education). http://classroom.google.com/

This provides interactive access to the students up to 24 hours every day. The teacher gives feedback and the student receives it immediately, regardless of whether or not they are in class at the time. With Hangouts a "sick" student can be in class, and participate without having to infect classmates with Virus of the year. And so on.

What is a waste of money, is spending it on is old style industrial education items like "Chalk and blackboards", 35 MM movies/VHS', and Books that are obsoleted every time Pearson and Congress comes up with the latest greatest version of Education (e,g. NCLB, Common Core). Imagine being able to get Creative Commons Licensed material/media/books that are Free and edited on the fly to conform to every Jurisdiction's lame-ass requirements, which ultimately will leave politics out of education (once it shows how silly it a lot of it really is). Tie in Khan Academy, and MIT courseware and ..... and you have EDUCATION that goes through PhD level work available ... for free ... for anyone.

I foresee the time when we dump Industrial Education and start providing kids all the education they can handle at any age and quit trying to pigeon hole them into "age" segregated classes, and start putting them into online sessions with educational peers.

And at $200 ea. Chromebooks offer even the lowest income people a chance to own technology that can help bridge the education gap. $200 buys one, maybe two textbooks these days, something school districts have to do every year or two. Are they as capable as a Laptop? Probably not, but they are usable for 85% of what kids need in school.

To be honest, I don't know whether or not to feel sorry for your kids, or you. Here we live in an age where the world is at your fingertips and you spouting off like it is a pure scam. Kind of hypocritical of you being on /. (using a computer and all) don't you think?

Percentage of US consumers using broadband 74%
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr...

Percentage of US marketshare served by Comcast 25%
http://www.dailytech.com/Marke...

Percentage of Comcast customers on IPV6 30%
RTFS

Percentage of people that use Google 100%
http://google.com/

ASSUMING NOBODY ELSE HAS IPV6 EXCEPT COMCAST 5.5% PRODUCT

Google says 4%

virtually any other country? Read on...

/EMOTE FACEPALM

Somewhere on the internet there is another nit for you to pick maybe next time a little basic English will help

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

virtually
vrCH(w)l/
adverb
adverb: virtually

        1. nearly; almost.
        "virtually all those arrested were accused"
        synonyms: effectively, in effect, all but, more or less, practically, almost, nearly, close to, verging on, just about, as good as, essentially, to all intents and purposes, roughly, approximately; More
        informal pretty much, pretty well;
        literary well-nigh, nigh on
        "the building is virtually empty"
        2. by means of virtual reality techniques.

The reason I used the word virtually was precisely because I didn't want to have a pointless argument about which country during WWII did the least to collaborate, or was the least sympathetic to the Nazis.

The helicopters were in Miami https://www.google.com/search?...

Uh. Nope. Completely nope.

Read some history then come back and participate in the discussion if you wish.

The link is to a book published in 1994. Actually Unix was developed in 1970 and it's name was a pun on the Multex OS which was available in the mid 1960's. So basically Unix has been around for almost 43 years. As for Linux which began in 1991 it has been around for 23 years and definitely does not look at going away any-time soon.

With regard to the article different UI's such as KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc are consistent for a given UI across all Linux distributions and even support touch screens. Of course having the same UI across multiple screen sizes is IMHO stupid and even more so if the user cannot configure the display to their liking.