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. Yeah, your blood work tends to improve when you eat a simple vegan diet, and that's all soylent contains.

Because fish are just extremely fast moving vegetables? And commercially obtained calcium is never made from crushed bones?

A real vegan diet would kill a lot of people; some of us physically require animal-derived nutrition. Which is unsurprising, given our dental structure.

And the vegan ethical/moral argument appears to be bankrupt too. A mindful omnivore, who eats grass-fed beef, kills far fewer animals than a vegan who eats tofu.

Veganism aside, though, I have to agree with you that he's laying the pseudo-scientific health claims on with a trowel.

Use this link instead, click on the top result:
https://www.google.com/search?...

A pain, I know.

Here they are! Get them! Squash 'm! Eradicate 'm! Rid the world of this vermin!

Who in hell thought it was a good idea to use a system where a single piece of information, consisting of just a few bytes, gives someone a blank check to my bank account? There are innumerable ways to concoct something more secure than this, especially these days when computing power (to do encryption) is ubiquitous. Such methods are of course not bulletproof, but they're a hell of a lot better than a guy with a pair of binoculars stealing credit card numbers, or what happened at Target.

That was the old security system, they've made it even worse since adding NFC. They dont even need access to your card to get enough information to use it without your knowledge or permission. There's even an app for it for any Android phone with NFC
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samj.CardTest&hl=en

NFC on phones have no range due to low power but NFC has max range of 5 metres, so it's just a matter building the right antenna. Even though you wont get the max range of 5 metres, even a radius of 1 metre is enough in a crowded shop.

Also anyone who believes the bank will simply adsorb the cost of the fraud instead of passing it onto you and merchants who'll just pass it back to you (banks are likely to use the merchants, they don't have a choice but to suck up additional fees and look like the bad guy raising prices), well, I have a bridge to sell you.

Now we know what all those cats are doing on all those laptops.

I wonder if they are going to mandate chest x-rays for anyone coming back to space in order to look for any "abnormalities" they may have picked up out there.

"In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

"Google Still Holds 74% Majority Share of Search Engine Usage"
First hit from https://www.google.com/search?...

Engaging in monopolistic practices doesn't require 100% market control.

I personally don't think Google engages in evil monopolistic practices, but they certainly have enough market share to do so. And while they have made some mistakes, I think that, as a company, they generally try to do the right thing.

It isn't a new theory that the Voynich Manuscript is Nahuatl. Here's a book from 2001 positing that very thing:
Keys for the Voynich Scholar: Necessary Clues for Tahe Decipherment and Reading of the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript which is a Medical Text in Nahuatl Attributable to Francisco Hernández and His Aztec Ticiti Collaborators

The botany side seems to further reinforce this existing theory, as opposed to originating it.

Not only did they remove them, but in the process they broke much of the scrolling functionality for some users: https://code.google.com/p/chro...

I've received at least one complain from a user of our small company website, then found out that a few of our office folks were having the same problem (they primarily use Chrome, I primarily use FireFox.) It was double fun because I have auto-updating turned off for Chrome and, when I went to update, I wasn't affected by the issue so I had to find someone else's computer that was and do my testing there.

A lot of users who encounter this problem with wrongly blame the issue on the website they're using instead of on Google.

(I'm actually okay with removing the arrows; they were likely removed as stats showed they were rarely used, with people either using the moving part of the bar and dragging it, or just clicking on an "empty" part to jump up or down, or using their scroll wheel; that last functionality was kinda broken in this release, too.)

Nah, it'd be more like this

Good wireless keyboards and mice encrypt the data. Microsoft hardware does this

Yeah, right...

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

If you google "IOS Ignition", you'll find Ignition was $130 before it was pulled. You can see the price in the summary. Yeah, I'm somewhat less than happy about this myself...

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

http://www.google.com/tisp/ins...

http://www.google.com/tisp/ins...

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

U.S. trademark on the use of the word 'candy' in games and clothing.

There's already people using this trademark without approval!

Unfortunately, it looks like they have no plans (see "known issues") to allow you to remote into Linux desktops. So this lets you go from Linux -> Windows, but not Anything -> Linux.

Unfortunately, it looks like they have no plans (see "known issues") to allow you to remote into Linux desktops. So this lets you go from Linux -> Windows, but not Anything -> Linux.

Important note - Chrome Remote Desktop works by default as a screen scraper, so that anyone physically near the computer you've remotely logged in to can see what you're doing on the monitor. However, there's a simple registry key that you can add to enable "curtain" mode, which spins up an instance of Remote Desktop and connects to that, instead.

More information here.

I have tried setting up Tight VNC for relatives, and while it is possible, it is also inconvenient while away from my own home. Now I just use Chrome Remote Desktop You do have to be logged into Chrome.

Cheers,
the_crowbar

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp

Works well for me across linux/osx/windows too, I got my retired mum to run it during a phone call so I could help her out.

I would rather walk 30 meters on a cobblestone road to my local shop, surrounded by thousand year-old architecture, then spend 30 seconds in a car suffocated in concrete and traffic.

It's not an option to select. Not here, at least. Many US roads are not designed for walking. You can be killed by a car, or arrested for jaywalking. There are no sidewalks on many roads. The road that I live on does not have sidewalks for at least 5 miles. It's just a property of the locale. You can, of course, find a place to live that is more designed for walking... it's called ghetto. You will find plenty of people walking there. Just don't come close to them. IMO, 50 miles would be a good, safe distance.

The food too is not even comparable for the crap that passes in the U.S. In Europe, you can be relatively poor and live like a king.

Well, the only way to eat reasonably healthy food here is either to cook it for yourself, or to pay big bucks for dinner at a good restaurant. (Note: Olive Garden and Red Lobster do not qualify. At Denny's you can be assaulted. I do not even know where a good, not franchised, restaurant might be nearby.)

Almost everything you purchase is locally grown, locally made, and locally sold. It's a completely different way of living that Americans don't understand.

In the USA you will find megastores, megaparking, and megaconsumption. Those tiny stores would have a hard time surviving. They wouldn't have access to anything local because in most places there is nothing local. Territories specialize in something, and that's it. When I buy apples, they likely were grown a thousand miles away, if not more. I have lemons in my backyard, and plums, and peaches, and some apples (in season.) Those are local. Everything else is coming from all over the world.

Who in their right mind would spend 30 minutes in a store? You don't have to do that Europe. Most of your shopping consists of little artisan shops that provide local produce, cheese, wine, meats, and takes you only a minute to order.

Our stores can easily be 100 x 100 meters long. It will take you a while to get to the right shelf even if you know where it is. However every store has its own layout, even stores of the same company.

If you live your life going from point A to point B, you will find it severely lacking. You miss out on the good stuff. You will consequently have fewer friends, less sex, and fewer thoughts.

It is often said that work, work and more work is a national obsession of americans. Europeans are laughed at for taking long vacations and working sparingly. I, personally, prefer to work; not necessarily for the man - I have plenty of hobbies. But none of them involve socialization. I deal with machines - they can be trusted. Humans... maybe in some parallel Universe.

Case in point: When I lived in Europe, I got a little something extra from the baker's cute daughter. :)

I hope that it was easily treatable. Modern medicine is pretty good :-)

https://sites.google.com/site/...

By the way, to get a better size perspective of the rock, check out this show from the front Hazcam:

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/f/3540/1F442454318EFFCAEOP1214L0M1.JPG

You can easily see that this object could have been tossed by the wheels when you see the size comparison to the wheels.

All I can see in that picture is a shadow of and armless Johnny Five from Short Circuit. How did he get on Mars, what happened to his arms, and why is he screwing with Opportunity?

Well for one thing, the Google boys like to spy on us.

To date, they have been open about it. Startlingly open, to the point that they have working groups like the Data Liberation Front and clear documents that state that you can delete your data, but they can't wash your meta and abstracted data from their summarized data, only your identity, if you delete it.

They are in a business where the SOP is not to explain what they do and push the boundaries of what they can get away with without getting caught. Google, on the other hand seem to be honest, to the point of penalizing internal divisions that have made ethical missteps using the same rules they hold outside groups accountable to.

Have no illusions: they do collect data, and are a commercially motivated company, and no amount of good behavior should result in a lax approach to watching them carefully, especially given their scope. But to date they are the best option out there, allowing and encouraging people to give informed consent (having two versions of all legalese, one legal, one plain language to communicate) and giving people the ability to opt entirely out of their constellation of services, even after having been a user in the past.

A newer generation of ARM core improved the branch predictor, and most things got faster. One core library used by a certain mobile phone OS got noticeably slower. It turned out that in the old CPU, the wrong branch was being predicted at a specific point that caused a load instruction to be speculatively executed and then discarded. When they improved the prediction, the correct path was taken. The value of the load was required some time later in this case. The bad behaviour was costing them a pipeline flush, but pulling the data into the cache. The good behaviour was causing them to block for a memory read. A stall of a dozen or so cycles became a stall of a hundred or so cycles, even though the new behaviour was effectively better.

http://www.google.com/patents/US5642493

Funny thing about "minorities"...

When a small percentage of the population has nothing particularly special to offer the rest of the population, we worry about them becoming marginalized and ignored, possibly even subject to prejudice.

The percentages aren't small and the trend lines are running strongly against an all white male geek elite. If he wants high paying high tech jobs to remain in the states, he has to come to terms with a changing population.

When a small percentage of the population has something that everyone wants, something that most people don't have the capacity to get for themselves, and especially something that others can't take by force - We call them "elites", not "minorities".

The Roads Must Roll

This is the technocratic argument that has always haunted the geek elite --- and Heinlein pinned it's pelt to the wall in 1940.

As an industrial civilization expands, its complexities multiply. With each new development the web of interlocking units becomes more tangled. Each small unit grows more important, more susceptible to shock, more liable to halt the entire organism with its own individual breakdown.

--- Introduction to the Modern Library edition.

When an elite becomes too arrogant, too powerful, its power is broken.

The free market already fixed this problem, if you don't like your provider, you're free to chose another. That's what makes capitalism and America great.

-- Ethanol-fueled

Lt Cmdr Data's reply.

The Google Quantum AI lab puts this news into perspective and I put my positive spin on it here.

Having talked with one of the co-authors of the paper, he actually came away impressed at how far D-Wave has come in ten years. Although not yet far enough that I'd win my bet with him, that the D-Wave two could beat classical computing across the board.

So in short, yes, the BBC's reporting on quantum computing is atrocious. Not the first time either.

It's impossible to write non-trivial software that is absolutely 100% perfect.

"It's impractical to write non-trivial software that is absolutely 100% perfect."

See: https://www.google.com/search?q=provably+correct+code

Don't forget the other side of the coin too https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+lobby+billions

Your backpack makes more sense than all those people carrying things, but seriously, Americans, have you never heard of the wheel?

It doesn't have to be connected to an internal combustion engine!

https://www.google.com/search?q=wheeled+shopping+bag

EBTC's profit margins on internet service were above 40% in 2012. See the document below. They have also built out line of sight wireless internet service, so they will not need to maintain those rural DSL cabinets in the future. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1MxEnYSkSD_V2ZjdEdfeFNTMnM They could easily serve all of their existing customers using wireless if they chose too. Prairie iNet is a company that uses similar wireless technology. They can serve 250 customers per tower. EBTC currently has 3 wireless line of sight towers. Prairie iNet offers speeds of up to 20 Mbps with unlimited usage for $70 per month. They offer service in a smaller town 8 miles south of EBTC. http://www.prairieinet.net/residential/pricing-plans/

Please explain how the wealth will be distributed if only 5% of the population works.

One possibility: as Alan Watts once suggested, all wealth produced by machine is public property. "Our machine GDP per capita was $50,000 last year. Here's your voucher, citizen."

How will I buy a new pc to write that novel (which AI can write better)

Your credit voucher would cover the PC. And an AI can't write better than I can, any more that another human being can write better than I can...from the point of view of my satisfaction, anyway. I write because I enjoy it.

If "someone/something can do it better" dissuades you from doing something, you'll never do anything. I saw Michael Hedges play guitar...why should I ever bother? I've seen world-renowned martial artists in action...why should I bother? I've got books by writers who are better than I could ever hope to be...what should I bother? When you find the answer to that question, it doesn't change if those other creators are silicon instead of flesh.

If stuff will be distributed by some arbitrary rule instead of market competition

What you call "market competition" rests on a huge number of arbitrary rules about property, business practices, the formation of corporations, employment, "intellectual property", monetary policy, and so on.

product development will stop

No more so than writing novels, playing music, or making love will stop. Designing new things for humans to use is a creative pleasure.

no income means profits are useless as well so there is no incentive to grow. This is NOT a good thing

Actually it's a necessary thing. The growth of our population must end, indeed must reverse, and consumption per capita cannot grow without limit. Therefore the growth of production must at some point cease. "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" -- Ed Abbey.

It's not a replacement website, it's actually just a Chrome extension that appears to helpfully mangle the official website.

Now if only he could doing something similar to the /. beta or the mobile site!

If you need proof, just try to find AdBlock Plus on the play store. google unceremoniously axed it in 2010 [...]

What are you talking about?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en-US

Perchance he meant AdBlock on the Play store?

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=adblock

Posting AC for moderation purposes.

If you need proof, just try to find AdBlock Plus on the play store. google unceremoniously axed it in 2010 [...]

What are you talking about?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en-US

Perchance he meant AdBlock on the Play store?

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=adblock

Posting AC for moderation purposes.

It's not a replacement website, it's actually just a Chrome extension that appears to helpfully mangle the official website.

im using adblock plus on chrome right now. ...and its been installed over 10,000,000 times according to the google play store.

apparently youve been hating on chrome for the past 3 or 4 years and not noticed that youve been wrong the whole time

Perchance he meant AdBlock on the Play store?

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=adblock

Or did you read something that wasn't written by him?

To be clear, when searching on the terms michelle obama princeton classmate the results are a bit more reputable and include links to articles debunking the false association between Michelle Obama's and Toni-Townes Whitley's concurrent matriculation and political corruption.

Princeton is where both matriculated (Michelle Obama also attended Harvard law school). "Yale" as a search term surfaces disreputable links in this context. "Princeton" and "Harvard" as search terms return links to more reliable articles.

Like the original contract for this website which went to a college buddy of the POTUS' wife, without open bidding.

The executive whose company won the no-bid contract is Toni-Townes Whitley and the only association she and Michelle Obama have had is that they were classmates at Princeton.

The right-wing media attempted to twist this fact of attending the same school at the same time as proof of cronyism. Fortunately for those of us who would be informed rather than manipulated, the biggest evidence of this failed smear campaign is the blasted Google landscape around the search terms "michelle obama yale classmate".

The only people repeating this as proof of corruption are biased right-wing media organs and poorly informed /. readers.

• joemiller.us/.../michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-executive-company..
• foxnewsinsider.com/.../hannity-krauthammer-michelle-obamas-connecti..
• www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-b
• freedomoutpost.com/.../michelle-obamas-college-classmate-toni-townes-...
• dancingczars.wordpress.com/.../surprise-michelle-obamas-princeton-bud...
• www.thecollegefix.com/post/15151/
• www.rightwingnews.com/...obama/michelle-obamas-classmate-a-senior-...

I guess Nagios Enterprises will never confirm that. It's left to the user, opening http://www.nagios-plugins.org/ and https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/ and compare their content. https://plus.google.com/101435336006767659040/posts/W2HUysCafyD That's also mentioned in Holger's announcement here: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/archive/devel/2014-January/009417.html

Both are from the store.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn?hl=en

and

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/exif-viewer/nafpfdcmppffipmhcpkbplhkoiekndck

For what it's worth, I was able to get them to go away entirely about an hour ago finally. I had to go to the Google Sync Dashboard, and clear *all* of the data (they won't let you clear just parts), at which point I basically had a blank profile. I think the issue is definitely on Googles side, and involves the way profiles are sync'd across various devices.

Both are from the store.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/turn-off-the-lights/bfbmjmiodbnnpllbbbfblcplfjjepjdn?hl=en

and

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/exif-viewer/nafpfdcmppffipmhcpkbplhkoiekndck

For what it's worth, I was able to get them to go away entirely about an hour ago finally. I had to go to the Google Sync Dashboard, and clear *all* of the data (they won't let you clear just parts), at which point I basically had a blank profile. I think the issue is definitely on Googles side, and involves the way profiles are sync'd across various devices.

If you need proof, just try to find AdBlock Plus on the play store. google unceremoniously axed it in 2010 [...]

What are you talking about?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb?hl=en-US

He's a racist troll. He needs help. You should have googled it for him.

He's a teen!!! The brain of a teen has been demonstrated time and time again to have an underdeveloped sense of risk.

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The Illinois town of Valmeyer was moved from the flood plain to a nearby bluff after the Mississippi River flood of 1993. I'm not sure how much of the actual town (other than its charter) actually moved.

It got pretty damp there (ahem), and there may not been much worth salvaging, even before taking into account the cost of the move. (Not that the cost mattered. It was free. The federal government paid for it, so it didn't cost anybody anything. ;-) ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valmeyer,_Illinois

There was a time when massive buildings were moved several blocks, and it was no big thing. As in banks-built-during-the-19th-Century massive. Cheaper than tearing it down and building a new one, or selling the old one and building a new one where you wanted it, I guess. Just like moving a one-story frame house, only a bit more challenging. https://www.google.com/search?q=moving+large+structures

So if they wanted to move some of those buildings when they move the city, it might (possibly) be worth doing.

“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” - Rod Sterling

Perhaps it is. But OTOH, Rod Serling and his staff were able to make a virtue of the vice of commercial advertisementbreaks in their selection of delimitations between acts to good effect. Remember, limitations in form can be an excellent artistic inspiration. Viz sonnet form for some examples of constraints as inspiration.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Todd Giffen, also known as "StrStr", also known in Springfield Oregon as the Park Masturbater , as he likes to "whip it out" in a number of the public parks near his Centennial Blvd. digs... Todd will tell you (on his Twitter feed) that the NSA beams instructions into his head to "pleasure" himself...