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Car analogy:

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

You're reading a retarded headline and acting like suddenly you can play quake on your phone

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

Citations needed.

XP Fisher Price

I don't recall very many people who hated XP. There was a rather small cadre who were very loyal to W2K, but few even of those hated XP. Like your brother AC says, "Citations needed."

XP Fisher Price

Wow. First time in my 5 years here that I've encountered the word "fucktard" on /. (google lists a total of 1310 instances over the entire history of the site https://www.google.com/search?as_q=fucktard&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=slashdot.org&as_occt=any&safe=images&tbs=&as_filetype=&as_rights=&gbv=1&sei=52n4Up6oI8z_oQStwYL4Bg ) Looks like there is something here to defend.

I haven't walked the seashore. I haven't examined the sediments (and never will now, apparently). I'm certainly not the bearer of an archeology sheepskin from some exalted university.

But ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.independent.co.uk/i...

Does anyone see more than two prints in any sort of logical and likely walking pattern? You know, one in front of the other, left foot, right foot? No, I didn't think so.

"Of the 50 or so examples recorded, only around a dozen were reasonably complete - and only two showed the toes in detail. Tragically, although a full photogrammetric and photographic record has been made, all but one of the prints were rapidly destroyed by incoming tides before they could be physically lifted."

That's odd: EVERY bare foot print I've ever seen clearly showed the toes (even Bigfoot's!). And how curious, that "footprints" cast in rock-hard sediment that has survived for a million years beside a seaside that's repeatedly changed depth over the milleniums .. suddenly are totally and almost completely destroyed by the very next incoming tide? How .. unfortunate.

The Happisburgh geology (readily available with the most trivial search) also does not support this. The beach surfaces and their underlying sedimentary structure are NOT a million years old.

https://www.bgs.ac.uk/landslid...
http://books.google.com/books?...

No, I'm sorry, I'm not buying this. Someone was seeing what they wanted to see.

All right. I took a peek into comp.misc through the Google Groups web interface. What I am seeing there is just more of this "fuck beta" raving and a lot of just general spam. No thanks.

Ah... Local Government can NEVER be swayed...

Here, let me help you...

From: https://docs.google.com/file/d...

In West Virginia, the vigor with which agencies seek to protect human health and the environment is impacted by actions and statements by state leaders. In recent years, their tone has been clear - too much regulation and too much involvement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Any serious recognition of the link between protecting a healthy, diversified economy appears lost in these statements.

Leaders have made numerous public statements to the effect, for example, in a 2012 press release announcing that the state is moving forward with its lawsuit against USEPA, Governor Tomblin is quoted das stating:

"This lawsuit is about the rights of our state to regulate itself within the scope of the existing federal and state laws. The EPA has overstepped its bounds, taken that right away and we're fighting to get it back." (Office of the Governor, 2012).

The Attorney General commented on West Virginia's lawsuit against USEPA for its enforcement of the Clean Water Act against a coal mine:

"At its essence, this lawsuit is about jobs in West Virginia and elsewhere... But this case is about more than coal mining. It's about the ability of states such as West Virginia to be able to engage and promote economic development, highway construction, and other needed investments without fearing a federal agency will step in years later and halt the project. That is why we strongly support Mingo Logan Caol Co's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court." (Office of the Attorney General, 2013).

In 2009, before a subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Environmenta & {Public Works, the [West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection] WVDEP Cabinet Secretary turned the role of the agency upside-down, stating that the "greater concern" for WVDEP is not protecting human health and the environment, but limiting regulation:

"Coal production is the leading revenue generator in West Virginia, and many in the State are concerned about losing the oppertunities for future economic developemtn associated with mountaintop mining. The greater concern for the Department of Environmental Protection, however, as protector of the State's wate resources, is the unintended consequences of the Environmental Protection Agency's recent actions that have the potential to significantly limit all types of mining." (Huffman, 2009)

When confronted by protestors asking Governor Tomblin to better prepare for a decline in coal production in West Virginia, he chose not to meet with the protestors and, instead, issued a statement via his communications director:

"Governor Tomblin has been clear, as have several federal judges, on the overreaching demands of the [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] from this administration... Governor Tomblin's primary focus has always been job creation... Governor Tomblin believes strongly that West Virginia coal and natural gas play a critical role in energy independence - and he will continue to fight for those industires and the jobs they create." (Ward, 2012)

It is within this context that the Freedom Industires spill must be understood - elected officials, agency heads, and members of the Legislature have made it clear that protecting human health and the environment will take a back seat to supporting lax regulation of industry.

So don't tell me that local politics is better than federal. It is far easier to sway local politics when corporations threaten the politicians that they will "lose jobs!" if they are regulated at all much less the little regulation the feds have now.

I agree they should change the site little. The commenting should stay as is. The threaded discussions should stay. The lack of smilies and other bullshit should stay. Modernising the skin isn't a bad thing, though. If they want to stick an image next to each story, so what? I disagree that bringing in new faces is a bad thing. New blood is always good, you just have to make sure that it's the right sort. That should be possible to do. TBH, I imagine the powers that be probably want to do something about this: http://www.google.com/trends/e...

italics
Bold
Link

Holy crap, the space to type the capcha is two characters long and don't show up as you type. What a mess (Windows 7, IE 10, not going to risk using my real browser).

If your favorite restaurant were about to go away, wouldn't you want to have a couple of last meals there? Preserving the discussion system is what the protest against beta is all about; we might as well enjoy it while we can.

I'll happily join in the "Slashcott." (I suspect I'll get more work done next week as a result.) Until then, I'll post about the story at hand, about the awfulness of beta, or about whatever else seems appropriate.

I'm suspicious you are all shills, and confused why on posting, you all get straight to "score:2".

http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot%20karma%20bonus

I suspect the computer would be programmed to respond in asking for further clarity given its multiple findings with multiple choices of which is included the choice of "Tea". From the link I provided there is a link to http://groups.google.com/group... describing circular flowcharting and example of what may be considered engineered vocabulary or dictionary sets.

Roman numeral accountants did not comprehend the value of zero, but the decimal system required a different way of thinking about math. Same sort of thing here, a different way of thinking about programming from the basics up.

When you think about it, there are other programming interfaces that simplify programming via GUI, such as CNC router G-Code generators such as Router-CIM Solid-Cim 3D http://www.cim-tech.com/solidc... (watch the video and know this automates the creation of g-code directly from the 3D CAD model) and the Aerospace industry....it has its highly bug free software generators.

using bold or italics ?

http://www.google.com/

Link to Google.

URL to a comment, I have no idea. I see how that'd be annoying.

Okay, so you have to use "em" for italics...

using bold or italics ?

http://www.google.com/

Link to Google.

URL to a comment, I have no idea. I see how that'd be annoying.

Okay, so you have to use "em" for italics...

So, you're arguing that water is cheaper for the fracking companies than for farmers? Or that farmers should be charged less than fracking companies? Or that both should be charged more or less than residential users?

I'm confused, since you've injected yourself into the middle of a conversation where my reply was rather self-evidently sarcastic, and the GP wanted to prioritize human consumption (see your reply's title). Nevermind that agircultrual users pay substantially less than residential users for each acre-foot of water used, even after you add in capital expense (see this CBO report.

Would it not be easier to just install traffic monitoring devices along roadways, and let your car's on-board navigation system interface with those? That way you don't need the traffic scouting drone, and the inherent risks that come with trying to operate one while driving.

Everybody is carrying a traffic monitoring device in their pocket or purse. Its pretty accurate and up to date too.

For example, fire up the Wayback Machine and look at some popular sites from a decade ago. Many of them look radically different. Can you honestly say they wouldn't look out of place alongside modern sites?

Point taken. Sites do need periodic updates.

But I will add to this that the contemporary "square-cut"/"whitespace" designs of the BBC, digg, and beta, with back-groundless headers and unclear divisions between page content, are confusing, sterile, and extremely off-putting. It feels like my content is being served up on an anti-septic tray; there's no warmth (Even metro had the wit to add colour).

Geeks come to slashdot to be bathed in its soothing green light". You need to show that image(that version) to the design team, so that they get a better understanding of what kinds of feelings people have when they come to this site.

And then you need take them down to a traditional, wood lined bar; smelling of beer and comfort foods, worn-in fabric, filled with govial conversation -- (and not a polished cafe, smelling of coffee and plastic, laminated leather seats and people trying to sound they're on a television show). Slashdot is a place people go to let their hair down, and to post their feelings into the conversation.

My comments to the Diaspora list: https://groups.google.com/foru...

A video I put together a couple years ago for a Kickstarter project, but did not proceed with, thinking Kickstarter is not a great match for funding open source software (as opposed to projects where people get something tangible -- although I liked your user ID suggestion):
http://twirlip.com/

Work I've done towards those ideas there:
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...
http://sourceforge.net/project...

Anyway, I'd like to see the Slashdot community (and the world) move towards a more distributed model of knowledge sharing instead of towards just another website. Essentially, it would be a model where users posted content to shared archives (like in response to a discussion topic). The archives would be RESTful systems that mostly just accepted and served content files and perhaps provided some indexing. All the presentation would be done in the web browser via JavaScript-powered tools (now that you can compile C to JavaScript and run it fast, anything is possible in the browser). The content objects could be tagged in such a way that further posts could reference the previous posts moderate them up and down, or refine them into new posts, or link concept maps or hierarchies to ideas in specific posts. In some ways similar to Slashdot, the application used to read the content could check digital signatures for content (done using public key cryptography) to calculate valid mod point usage and to give priority to posts from "friends" or others who were deemed by the user (or other trusted users) to be non-trolls. Copyright licensing for posts (such as Creative Commons) could be specified in digital form. Still lots of things to be worked out for a fully distributed system. In the end, a specific community might still have some central database of users and karma and public keys hosted by some community-approved group organized by some official non-profit constitution, but at least the content would be replicated everywhere and available for local processing in creative ways. That distributed nature would reduce the risk of all the content being lost in another "Iron Mountain"-like scenario.

Well, those few needed tweaks never stop piling up. On top of that, UX research and (more importantly) user expectations continue to evolve.

What research? Which users? "Users" aren't a monolithic group, you know. Slashdot attracts a very different crowd from, say, espn.com.

And "UX" is a stupid buzzword. When I go to a website--any website--I'm not looking for an "experience." I'm looking for something that loads quickly, renders readably, and provides the functionality I expect.

To keep up with that, websites either need to constantly change in small increments, or to do it in big chunks.

Or not change at all. That's an option. It really is.

The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.

It's been "cutting it" for fifteen years, more or less; it's certainly changed some during that time, but it's still recognizably the same site. Why shouldn't it be good for (at least) another four?

In another post, you wrote:

For example, fire up the Wayback Machine and look at some popular sites from a decade ago. Many of them look radically different. Can you honestly say they wouldn't look out of place alongside modern sites? If you were browsing through modern news sites and you stumbled across this, would it not give you pause? At some point, your website just looks old and unmaintained -- that's why virtually every major website updates their design.

That BBC page isn't bad. Not great, but at least as good as the current one. And really, a decade ago was when the web was at its best. The browser wars were over, and it was reasonably easy to code a standards-compliant page that rendered well in the major browsers of the day. Sites offered all the functionality you expected, and still managed to load quickly even when a lot of people were still on dial-up (often faster than they do now over DSL and cable).

And for the most part, they looked great! I was a regular Salon reader in those days; please don't try to tell me that the current crapflood looks better. Yahoo was still a useful web index in those days, as opposed to ... whatever it's supposed to be now. Google News was attractive, fast, well-organized and information-rich; it's still not bad, but it's definitely not as useful as it once was. And you know, there was this really nifty technology news site that I absolutely loved; there's still something at that URL, but it looks like the domain might have been hijacked or something.

or they can be like uber and let the victim be the one holding the bag.

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

Rename the beta site and call it "DiceNews for Dicks". Then load it up with stories about the Deport Justin Beiber Movement http://www.google.com/url?sa=t... and news for Kardashian stories https://www.google.com/search?...

Leave Slashdot alone!

Rename the beta site and call it "DiceNews for Dicks". Then load it up with stories about the Deport Justin Beiber Movement http://www.google.com/url?sa=t... and news for Kardashian stories https://www.google.com/search?...

Leave Slashdot alone!

$601898.17 (source)

You've fucked your economy too hard for your dollar to be worth that much any more. In much the same way as beta will fuck /. too hard for it to be worth coming back to.

This isn't a design/marketing website, and we don't appreciate the ascetic as much as you might have anticipated

ascetic: characterized by the practice of severe self-discipline

aesthetic: concerned with beauty

Beta, why do you style the link text so small?

This isn't a design/marketing website, and we don't appreciate the ascetic as much as you might have anticipated

ascetic: characterized by the practice of severe self-discipline

aesthetic: concerned with beauty

Beta, why do you style the link text so small?

I think we're about on the same page. I use libraries as needed. If I can use one library to do 4 functions well, I won't use 4 different libraries to half-ass it because I found code in a forum post somewhere, and didn't want to think beyond "hey, lets copy & paste this in!" I won't include a library to save myself 3 (or 10) lines of code that I could put into my own function. On occasion, where I only needed a few lines of a huge library, I copy it (license permitting, of course), and note where and why I got it.

He didn't give us a lot to go on for this argument. He was doing something. He wanted to use jQuery. Panasonic said "no". He's complaining that they refused it. It wasn't even clear if he included jQuery with his code, or if he was calling it from Google or elsewhere. (i.e., <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js">) Including it with the code guarantees it won't get updated, ever. Calling it from elsewhere means that the TV must have Internet access to operate that function, which can't be guaranteed. You could quite literally have a bunch of apps, all using different versions of jQuery, wasting memory or storage space, when the functions could have been done in a few lines each, or it may have been unnecessary and leftover from during the dev cycle and never cleaned up.

From here: https://developers.google.com/...
They provide ajax.googleapis.com access to versions: 2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.0, 1.10.2, 1.10.1, 1.10.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.0, 1.8.3, 1.8.2, 1.8.1, 1.8.0, 1.7.2, 1.7.1, 1.7.0, 1.6.4, 1.6.3, 1.6.2, 1.6.1, 1.6.0, 1.5.2, 1.5.1, 1.5.0, 1.4.4, 1.4.3, 1.4.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.0, 1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.0, 1.2.6, 1.2.3

What happens if next year Google decides not to host jQuery, or say all the pre 2.x versions. It could go the way of all those lovely Google Maps API sites that were v1 and many v2 sites. It's less than idea to force users to update. Users are dumb. That makes a support nightmare for them, for reasons the users simply won't understand.

If his code was very needy of the jQuery library, I could see it as being reasonable, but we can only guess. I know there's lots of cool stuff that can be done with it. I've only done some. :)

Although, Her Twitter seems a more promising contact channel. Still active.

After reading through other linked profles from her Google Plus profile, especially the CrunchBase one, I'm getting pretty confident that I've nailed it.

Who else would have the power to force through such a profound destruction of value, stretched through such a long time period without any checks?

If you really want this madness stopped, petition the boss of Dice Holdings, Michael P. Durney - President and CEO or possibly Klavs Miller - Senior Vice President, Technology.

If someone else better skilled in writing would make a petition on http://www.petitiononline.com/ and direct it at those guys, that would be so much more effective than ranting here in comments, which these people probably had never looked at.

Although, Her Twitter seems a more promising contact channel. Still active.

After reading through other linked profles from her Google Plus profile, especially the CrunchBase one, I'm getting pretty confident that I've nailed it:

Hill was named Managing Director of Dice.com in November 2010. She is responsible for the development and direction of all activities for Dice.com, with particular emphasis on product development and innovation, building and maintaining industry presence, and managing large account sales. Dice.com, a Dice Holdings company, is the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, and the companies that seek to employ them. NYSE: DHX

in 2012 Hill was appointed President of Slashdot Media - running the SF and NY-based company and its three media properties, SourceForge, Slashdot and FreeCode. Slashdot Media is owned by parent Company Dice Holdings, Inc.

Who else would have the power to force through such a profound destruction of value, stretched through such a long time period without any checks?

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

> Let's just stop bagging on Adobe...

1. When I have to work around some bullshit because the image editor I paid for (b)locks me from even viewing what it thinks are high resolution scans of money ... Adobe can fuck off.

* https://www.google.com/search?...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
* http://www.rulesforuse.org/pub...

2. When they start charging "rent" for software as a service ... Adobe can fuck off.

"According to CNET and various other sources, CS6 will be the last version of Adobe's Creative Suite that will be sold in the traditional manner. All future versions will be available by subscription only, through Adobe's so-called 'Creative Cloud' service. This means that before too long, anyone who wants an up-to-date version of Photoshop won't be able to buy it â" they will have to pay $50 per month (minimum subscription term: one year). ..."

"We've made it really clear to folks that you get the discounted price only for the first year," Morris said. "We're pretty confident that even when the price normalizes at the $50 list price, most of these customers are going to stay."

* Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001...

Translation: We're going to gouge customers whether they like it or not. $ucker$!

So no, we'll stop bagging on Adobe's crap once they stop being dicks not before.

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

In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.[2][3][4] No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view,[5]

And on the other side we have a massive political campaign to deny climate change:

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

http://www.scientificamerican....

Hah, unless Google fixes their bandwidth greedy sync engine for Google Drive, offering free storage is not much of an incentive...unless the people who buy it have not actually tried to use GD before, I suppose.

seriously. how could you, with a clear conscience, be against fairness in network access?

Your flamebait doesn't deserve much of a response, other than to point out that 194 pages of FCC regulation doesn't necessarily either 1) provide fairness in network access or 2) do it the right way.

For example, you probably didn't know that on page 2 of FCC 10-201 the following appears:

No blocking. Fixed broadband providers may not block lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices; mobile broadband providers may not block lawful websites, or block applications that compete with their voice or video telephony services;

The way I read that, any ISP that uses the RBL or other email blocking service is breaking the law. They are blocking lawful content.

and like racial segregation from the 50's, history will show the republicans to be on the wrong side of history, too.

Yeah, like that Civil Rights Act of 1964 that they all filibustered and voted against. Oh, wait ... some truth:

The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress ...

On the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) completed a filibustering address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier opposing the legislation.

Vote totals

Totals are in "Yea-Nay" format:

By party

The original House version:

Democratic Party: 152-96 (61-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80-20%)

Cloture in the Senate:

Democratic Party: 44-23 (66-34%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82-18%)

The Senate version:

Democratic Party: 46-21 (69-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82-18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:

Democratic Party: 153-91 (63-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80-20%)

In other words, filibustered by Democrats, and every vote on the issue, while around 2:1 (mostly less) by Democrats, was never less than 4:1 supported by Republicans.

A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate and end the filibuster.

You might notice from the vote tally that had the Democrats "rallied around the flag" and provided the 67 votes themselves, there would never have been a filibuster, and that of the 100 votes total, Republicans had just 6 of the nays.

I.e. DRM doesn't work. Moreover, it has the opposite effect, rather than preventing copying, it encourages more copying!

I actually take issue with your assertion that DRM doesn't work. I posit that DRM works exceptionally well - it's just that most people aren't aware of exactly who DRM mechanisms are mostly aimed at: the distribution channel, the software and hardware vendors. Not the end users.

I urge you to read Ian Hickson's most excellent post on the matter. It's well worth the couple of minutes invested, but if you're impatient, this is the main takeaway:

DRM's purpose is to give content providers control over software and hardware providers, and it is satisfying that purpose well.

aren't concerned about being liable no you will be on hook on your own as they will try to use fine print to get out of it. Ask uber about that

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

Good idea. Here are some books for a start (hint: being humbled by receiving an honor is a common expression in literature).

Google Books Search

You are 100% bang on when you say " Let's try this! No, this! No, that! " -- Microsoft is running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

It is because MS doen't have a freaking clue about *good* User Interface or User Experience. To understand UI you need to understand TWO things:

1. S/N and
2. Flow.

Here is the perfect example of Microsoft being total fucktards: google: visual studio 2012 menu all caps

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

We use uppercase and lowercase in books to make it EASIER to read. Reading off a screen is already harder on the eyes why the hell would you make it even more so?!?! Oh, and let's get rid of those underlines so people can actually *see* and *learn* the hotkeys / keyboard accelerators. Let's dumb the UI down to full retard mode because how dare anyone suggest you can design a UI for novices and the power user!

Microsoft will never understand that you need to take advantage of the strengths AND be aware of the weaknesses of the hardware to massage the Software + Hardware + User Experience. Microsoft has all the arrogance of Apple without understanding why Apple makes some of its changes. (Apple is by no means a saint, but they tend to have a more consistent User Experience.)

> they poisoned their own corporate environment

Yup! Stack Ranking has to be the dumbest move ever. As a company you want to motivate your employees; it is also import to not demotivate them.

Again, MS is clueless.

Take you pick of the whole of the internet Libertarian waffle is everywhere ie citation "see internet" and if your still having trouble https://www.google.com/search?.... Now if I was a Libertarian I would be entitled to charge you for that service as nothing would be for free in Libertarian world and you requested the fee, initiated the contact and did not stipulate any limits on cost, as such it would be my economic free right to charge you what ever I deemed applicable. You have to be careful what you ask for in a Libertarian world and how you ask for it.

It would be nice to have multiple standards for charging stations, and it work across all cars.

Teslas come with a bunch of adapters to charge using a standard 110V outlet (which is fine for overnight charging), some 220/240V outlets (hint: if you're staying with a friend and they have an electric dryer, guess what...) and J1772 plugs, which ARE the standard EV charging socket, in the US. You can buy adapters from them to charge off damn near any socket you could possibly find in the continental United States, and since sockets imply current ratings, "safety" is taken care of (provided the wiring was installed properly and to code, which is not an EV's responsibility.)

Circuits may vary [...] safety features/interlocks [...] patent neutral [...] etc

If only there were a body of professionals in the field of electronics...and if only they came up with a standard that encompassed this sort of thing!

Oh, wait. There is.

If only there were a way to search worldwide hypertext documents for such information before you posted....

The arrogance of ignorant slashdotters never ceases to amaze me. If this were the 60's, Slashdot would be chiming in from its armchairs about how NASA really needs to make sure those astronauts have a way to breath oxygen on the way to the moon, and some way to talk to people on the ground.

the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.

Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.

I'd probably rewrite that to say that people are ditching iPods for smartphones -- unless you have an agenda.

Nothing to do with an Agenda...Although the fact that you did not want to correct iPod to MP3 Player Market screams at your own. The reality is the MP3 Market was the iPod market...in the same way the smartphone market is the Android market.

The technique is called cloaking. You basically check if a page request is coming from Googlebot or not to decide what to return (or redirect). See: https://support.google.com/web...

The services you mentioned have different rules, of course.

Some of those tools use the browser identifier to decide to let them in or not.

Something that in some browsers, can be modified by the end user....

The technique is called cloaking. You basically check if a page request is coming from Googlebot or not to decide what to return (or redirect). See: https://support.google.com/web...

The services you mentioned have different rules, of course.

the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.

Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.

I'd probably rewrite that to say that people are ditching iPods for smartphones -- unless you have an agenda.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will recognize the winners of the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement in a ceremony on Wednesday, February 5. The award recognizes and supports communities that use innovative policies and strategies to develop in ways that protect the environment, provide housing and transportation choices, and strengthen their economies. WHO: Gina McCarthy, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gwen Keyes-Fleming, Chief of Staff, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Kasim Reed, Mayor of Atlanta Roy D. Buol, Mayor of Dubuque James Erb, Mayor of Charles City Steve Hansen, City Councilman of Sacramento Randy Blankhorn, Executive Director of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning WHAT: National Award for Smart Growth Achievement ceremony WHEN: Wed., Feb. 5, at 11 a.m. EST WHERE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Rachel Carson Green Room, William Jefferson Clinton South 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 The ceremony will feature remarks by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and representatives of the communities receiving awards, and a video presentation of each of the winning projects. The ceremony will be followed by a panel discussion and reception on Capitol Hill hosted by Smart Growth America and Congresswoman Doris Matsui of Sacramento, California. The EPA administrator will not be part of the discussion. The EPA building is located above the Federal Triangle Metro station on the Blue and Orange lines. Media should arrive no later than 10:30 to go through security. Please RSVP to attend the ceremony by going here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AC6no675DqX0a-b7bq-2HGTHwWFsRpkCxXcz7leduiA/viewform

The french page is more thorough http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... I was a student of his, and he is indeed well known in the field of cryptography. This might give you a glimpse of his relevance: http://scholar.google.com/cita...

the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.

Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.

No, bookmakers don't compute odds. They compute (and recompute) a number that will put 50% of the betting population on each side of the line. It has nothing to do with who is going to win.

That bookmakers try to split the betting money 50-50 might be true when the betting is against the spread. But not all betting is against the spread. It is also possible, for example, to bet on the "moneyline", i.e. on who is going to win the match. It is easy to see then that moneyline betting pays different odds for each team in match. In such cases the bookmaker, if he wants to guarantee a profit, has to split the money in a different way, for example if a team has 90% chance to win the match, he needs to take about 90% of the betting on that team. This is rarely possible though, because most betting happens on the favorites and when the favorites win the bookmakers mostly lose money.

You are also overlooking another component: That some bookmakers want to get the early action, and when they open the betting there is no line consensus to follow, so they have to set their own price. When this happens it means they *are* analyzing the matchup.

But even if we ignore all the aforementioned and only look at spread betting, where the 50-50 split is mostly possible, even then, it is not true to say that the betting odds have "nothing to do with who is going to win". They have *everything* to do with who is going to win. Peer-reviewed research has shown, time and time again (look at any of the papers here) , that betting markets are extremely efficient, i.e. betting odds reflect very closely the real probability of events. This happens *exactly* because the line is, to a large extent, shaped by public betting, which means that misconceptions on part of individual gamblers are cancelled out.

Sure. Cash from the government (in form of mailed checks or tax rebates) is the most efficient way to get out of a liquidity trap quickly, it's followed by federally-funded shovel-ready projects. Obama managed to push through such a stimulus and it helped, but it was about 3 times smaller than needed. Australia did the right thing and so it had experienced next to no recession pain: https://www.google.com/publicd... On the other hand, EU did exactly the wrong thing and imposed harsh austerity and still hasn't reached the pre-crisis level.

It's also correct that purely monetary policy can do little in case of liquidity traps - a loose monetary policy is necessary to get out of liquidity trap, but by itself it can't really affect investment and demand levels.

This is not terribly new; every satellite has to undergo acoustic test in a facility that similates the noise of a rocket launch. There are many such facilities.
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