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Is reported to be approximately 100 nmi (115 statute miles) east of this position.

Unfortunately I haven't found any online mapping resources that employ a reasonable projection for polar regions.

The U.S. had EVERYTHING to do with Al Qaeda! In fact the CIA were the ones who started the whole thing back in the 80'a. Back in the 80's when Russia was at war with Afganistan it was the CIA who was funding, training and arming the Mujahideen - and guess who was the leader of the Mujahideen? Yup Osama Bin Laden! The part of the Mujahideen lead by Osama Bin Laden eventually became Al Qaeda. The U.S. CREATED and for the most part has some control of Al Qaeda. Heck even Anwar Al-Awlaki (the Al Qaeda leader DINED at the Pentagon months AFTER 9/11!

References:

Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11
http://www.infowars.com/al-qaeda-leader-dined-at-the-pentagon-just-months-after-911/

Dining with the enemy: Al Qaeda leader linked to 9/11 hijackers 'was invited to the Pentagon for lunch after attacks'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322397/Al-Qaedas-Anwar-Al-Awlaki-invited-Pentagon-lunch-9-11-attacks.html

Mujahideen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen

Sec. State Clinton Admits U.S. Created Mujahideen that Became al-Qaeda
http://www.infowars.com/sec-state-clinton-admits-u-s-created-mujahideen-that-became-al-qaeda/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Cc3LfhQ-o&feature=player_embedded

Mujahideen
Al-Qaeda
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=mujahideen+al+qaeda&aq=0&aqi=g1g-m1&aql=&oq=mujahideen+al&gs_rfai=C07tUp9QoTOWrHYuugATN08X2CgAAAKoEBU_Qpa0Q&fp=e0fa4b5da4f245a4

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html

"The Mujahideen

Al-Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. In the mid-1980s, Osama bin Laden became the prime financier for an organization that recruited Muslims from mosques around the world. These "Afghan Arab" mujahideen, which numbered in the thousands, were crucial in defeating Soviet forces"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen

US, Pakistani and other financing and support
See also: Operation Cyclone

The mujahideen were significantly financed and armed (and are alleged to have been trained) by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the administrations of Carter[5] and Reagan, and also by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan under Zia-ul-Haq, Iran, the People's Republic of China and several Western European countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden
Claims have been made that the American government, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), are responsible for enabling "Afghan Arabs," and in particular Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
In mid-1979, about the same time as the Soviet Union deployed troops into Afghanistan, the United States began giving several hundred million dollars a year in aid to the Afghan Mujahideen insurgents fighting the Afghan Marxist government and the Soviet Army in Operation Cyclone. Along with native Afghan mujahideen were Muslim volunteers from other countries, popularly known

I've been using kmotion http://code.google.com/p/kmotion2/downloads/list, built on the motion package. but the author has found real work and work seems to have stopped on version 3.

I haven't seen anything that lists any Apple funding, although some articles mention Rackspace.

The primary political tension I was referring to was the continual battle between the county government and the city government here. The city has a very large (and pretty good) library system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Public_Library); they could have taken on this site as well. But it was probably easier to go bookless by not being part of the SAPL system (and Nelson Wolff, a county guy, couldn't get any credit if SA did it).

Turns out, this library is well within the city - it just happens to be funded by the county government (which isn't unheard of, although it was probably done for political reasons here).

I would argue that wi-fi and e-readers are not a complete replacement for a physical library location. Among other things, the building has useful services like desktop computers, meeting spaces, computer classes, and a place to pick up and learn about those e-readers.

Turns out, this library is well within the city - it just happens to be funded by the county government (which isn't unheard of, although it was probably done for political reasons here).

I would argue that wi-fi and e-readers are not a complete replacement for a physical library location. Among other things, the building has useful services like desktop computers, meeting spaces, computer classes, and a place to pick up and learn about those e-readers.

He was modded redundant because it's bullshit. In the same breath, he complains about useless results due to spam as well as Google's attempt to stop people making the results useless due to spam. And apparently Google's algorithms are "broken" because they "created" a problem, namely SEO manipulation. But then he goes on to explain that AltaVista was subject to SEO manipulation as well. And he's condemning Google for attempting to fix it, while blaming them for being unable to! After using this silly logic to come to some (wrong, but still) weak conclusions, he goes on to make broad proclamations about the demise of Google, while complaining about lawsuits (like what?) and "arbitrary rules" (like these? Seems like they're pretty reasonable, and Rap Genius admitted to violating them). Easily the most worthless comment I've read on Slashdot in months, at least above score 0, and that's saying something.

It gets even better when the website in question has said (from the fine summary!): "First of all, we owe a big thanks to Google for being fair and transparent and allowing us back onto their results pages. We overstepped, and we deserved to get smacked". But apparently this is Google being abusive and throwing a temper tantrum (which he says twice). Someone should tell Rap Genius, because they don't seem to think so.

I know using google is beyond many people these days, but putting in a slight amount of effort, like - typing his name in, would have taken you a long way.

https://www.google.com/search?q=barnaby+jack

Well I have to agree with that but if you look at the presentation from Google I/O from last May and you'll see that VP9 uses less bandwidth for a given quality based on the demonstrations. That's the main reason for switching to it, plus it does deliver some great video. So if VP9 does play out that means less bandwidth than competitive codecs. Unfortunately VP9 to me at least is half baked because I've been watching the project since first seeing the I/O presentation and I have to say that it encodes very slowly, from full raw sources only using their app and the code is still buggy as hell. The FFMPEG integration isn't much better but hopefully Google will throw some more support around it and we'll see better speed and reliability. I also wonder what's going to happen with VP8?

Percentage of what people pay to watch ... sure 20% of zero

As I said, this is a tax on paid channels, which, as you could have guessed from the name, are not free.

99 % of those commenting here seem to think that TFA talks about a tax on something that is free (which wouldn't make sense).

Rule 35 of the Internet: When something doesn't make sense. Your first reaction should be to read it again more carefully, not to point out how stupid it is.

Paid channels... does the channel pay or does the common carrier pay?

The cable company here has "free" content and "additional fee" content.

Free to me on paid cable are many channels that are also free over the air.
But in both cases the channel pays for content and is in a position with knowledge
and contract terms and conditions. The channel may put content on the
air that has a negotiated terms and conditions for any number of markets.

Much of the "free" content on youtube has no union scale actors, directors, writers,
musicians, ... it is monetized well after the fact by attaching ad. content to
the "free" content.

Asimov was right, nanotechnology is sexxy!
Move over Natalie : Raquel Welch, tiny and miniaturized, in a skin-tight diving suit.
Fantastic!

my parents had a dog that could tell when my brother (diabetic) had low blood sugar. They had three dogs at that time and one of them would bark in the middle of the night if he was low. He could somehow tell while sleeping in their bedroom that he was having trouble from across the house. My guess is that his scent changed and the dog was especially sensitive to it, but that is pure speculation on my part.

Not being argumentative here -- was is the same dog that barked all of the time? Maybe one detected it, alerting another who then actually alerted you? (Doesn't matter, I know.) More to the point: dogs have accurate noses, but how fast does smell travel? (One, two, three, four.) I presume it was quiet at night; it could also have been sounds that the dogs were hearing (breathing, coughing, slight moaning, whatever.) No way to test and doesn't really matter; I'm just glad you had a dog that would alert you of the problem. I've heard stories of dogs "acting strangely" and somehow alert their owners before a heart attack or other critical events, so not unheard of. And we're a chemical machine; it makes sense that we'd give off odd smells if things are going badly. My dog tells me of the critical problem that he thinks his stomach is almost empty -- but I think he learned that from the cat. Not nearly as impressive as yours.

Sorry I had meant to specify that it was the same dog every time. The other dogs did not seem to notice the difference, even though they slept closer to his room. The three dogs slept in different rooms, though this sometimes happened during the day when they were wandering around the house as well. After he alerted, if you opened the door to let that particular dog out, he would run to my brother's door and bark outside of it until someone went in to check on him. My current dog definitely does not do anything of that nature. She can definitely tell when I am not feeling well, though. Normally she is the neediest dog on the planet. When I am sick, she just lays at my feet and tries not to bother me. That is probably just her reading my body language, though.

Okay, so we're talking British Isles here.

There's one very very very important factor in that region. It's the gulf stream. It's a major subatlantic current that moderates temperatures in the U.K. in the winter it brings warm water and moisture from the south atlantic. This causes a more moderate winter, with lots of snowfall(compared to similar latitudes elsewhere).

There's a lot research about it but the summary form is that the greater subatlantic currents that drive the gulf stream are dying as a result of climate change, which for the UK in particular means less snow and more cold.

Those aren't antithetical statements.

Percentage of what people pay to watch ... sure 20% of zero

As I said, this is a tax on paid channels, which, as you could have guessed from the name, are not free.

99 % of those commenting here seem to think that TFA talks about a tax on something that is free (which wouldn't make sense).

Rule 35 of the Internet: When something doesn't make sense. Your first reaction should be to read it again more carefully, not to point out how stupid it is.

my parents had a dog that could tell when my brother (diabetic) had low blood sugar. They had three dogs at that time and one of them would bark in the middle of the night if he was low. He could somehow tell while sleeping in their bedroom that he was having trouble from across the house. My guess is that his scent changed and the dog was especially sensitive to it, but that is pure speculation on my part.

Not being argumentative here -- was is the same dog that barked all of the time? Maybe one detected it, alerting another who then actually alerted you? (Doesn't matter, I know.) More to the point: dogs have accurate noses, but how fast does smell travel? (One, two, three, four.) I presume it was quiet at night; it could also have been sounds that the dogs were hearing (breathing, coughing, slight moaning, whatever.)

No way to test and doesn't really matter; I'm just glad you had a dog that would alert you of the problem. I've heard stories of dogs "acting strangely" and somehow alert their owners before a heart attack or other critical events, so not unheard of. And we're a chemical machine; it makes sense that we'd give off odd smells if things are going badly.

My dog tells me of the critical problem that he thinks his stomach is almost empty -- but I think he learned that from the cat. Not nearly as impressive as yours.

As twocows pointed out, it does work on IE11. After double-checking, I can say that it works on IE10 and IE9 as well. I had IE8 in mind when I mentioned "not IE" due to many companies remaining on IE8. Still, the point of responsive design is to make the website automatically reconfigure for tablet and mobile browsers. Nobody is running a smartphone with IE8. Thanks to CSS coding, you can have your website work on desktop-tablet-mobile responsively and still support IE8 on the browser. (There are even JavaScript libraries to help bring CSS3 media query support to IE8, though that might be unneeded.)

*cough* *cough* soma

I find PocketCloud works great too. Supports RDP and VNC.

You might like this too then: https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/antarctica

Plenty of other places to explore too on streetview.

Could also check out http://www.airpano.com/ - not as extensive but aerial.

No one said it? LIAR!!!

I'm more in favor of not infringing on PETA's rights to harass hunters

I wasnt aware that harassment was a protected action. I was more under the impression it was illegal.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Harassment+statute

Microsoft's built-in remote display technology.

The best RDP client for Android is Remote RDP

For the MAC, you could install xrdp which provides the same protocol to access linux/osx.

RDP is a very lightweight protocol, originally created by Citrix way back and bought or licenced by Microsoft, as they do with the bits of Windows that are any good.

Forward port 3389 to your machine on your router. This won't work with the Home edition of Windows.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.rdc.android

Also the way they put down huge numbers of animals, which on its own might be defensible, but then kinda-sorta argue that there's a moral equivalence between humans and animals.

War is a racket - Major General Smedley Butler
Read that one book of confessions and never again support any war anywhere ever again.
Also,
Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins

Once you finish those two, you are pretty much enlightened and pissed at the same time.

By Carl Sagan.

Changed my perspective quite a bit, haven't looked back since.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Demon_Haunted_World.html?id=Yz8Y6KfXf9UC

Part of educating is creating, messing up, creating some more. Tinkering. Ipads(and all tablets really) SUCK at creation. They are content consumption devices. They are nothing more than smart TVs in your hand. Stop giving them to kids!

Errr wha? Get a bluetooth keyboard and you can use them to write essays, fiction, music. Amazing portraits have been made with iPhones, much less iPads. $5 gets you a fully functional painting program, saving on art supplies and even the educational price of Illustrator.

Can I code on a tablet? No thank you.

Dig out the bluetooth keyboard again and get an SSH app. Then connect to the linux box running on an old celeron at the school.

Can I pick one up in shop class and do the math to figure out the angle of a roof beam? No thank you.

Okay gramps, slow down before your hurt yourself and forget to mow that lawn. A $5 app can get you an A or a B in a Calc I course and maybe pass Calc II. Differential and integral calculus, 3d cartesian and poloar graphing, linear algebra, and even equation solving:

fsolve(exp(x)2x2= 0;x=10::10)
-> [0:53983527690282;1:4879620654982;2:6178666130668]

I'm guessing that, just like three everyday, it was going to travel about 100' from my office desk in Everett, WA. Where it then turns east and travels under downtown. I'm guessing that it's going to either the Cherry Point or Arco refinery.

https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d1611!2d-122.2011388!3d47.9790728!2m1!1e3&fid=7

Apparently not much, at least not to stockholders: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TGT

Back the time window up to 12/13-12/17. I would wager the small dip in value was seen as an opportunity to buy, especially in the Christmas season. Also, one of the the wonders of automated trading.

"representation" is about money, add cash.

Yup. Money is speech. If it doesn't work, you didn't send enough. Doesn't even have to be small, unmarked bills anymore.

The privacy policy for Google Public DNS is different than that for the rest of Google. It's also public. You can, you know, read it, then you can stop spreading FUD. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

That's like saying the NSA won't spy on you because the Constitution is public and you can read it.

I'm very sure that IE isn't coded into Namebench, in any way. You can check the source code here. https://code.google.com/p/namebench/downloads/detail?name=namebench-1.3.1-source.tgz

if you are on linux and dont want to use truecrypt binary for whatever reason,you can use zuluCrypt[1] to create and manage truecrypt volumes using a GUI solution

[1] http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/

There appears to now be a similar, open-source DNS benchmarking program available: namebench. I haven't tried it out, but it looks promising.

You may use a random server supplied by any person on the internet. Results will be random, of course. Why not use a tool designed to find the best servers FOR YOU? You could see an even greater improvement.

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

Default ISP servers are often the worst of the worst.

You can try this tool to check your existing DNS for performance and behaviour. Google's is very well behaved by the way, so please don't spread FUD.

I have been using Google Keep. https://www.google.com/keep While not great it is adequate. Integrates with google account, although better integration with calendar would be cool. Works with google drive. Posting because some organizations are more open to letting you use google apps. Google keep is relatively new and seems not a lot of people have found it. Here is a pretty good review of Google Keep. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/five-things-worth-noting-about-google-keep/

Why do you need the source code?

Just slap Microsoft OneNote to your Nexus 7 and be done with it. For your work PC, it comes bundled in MS Office.

Bullshit.

Wasn't CGI fired by the province of Ontario in 2012 for absolutely screwing up a simple single-payer health care website? Why yes, they were.

Also, I'd like to hear your defense of useing Marklogic, an XML-based database as your backend storage mechanism. Any reason beyond client lockin?

Virginia site:

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=216982776010311433218.0004eecaacf0ee8b5d025&msa=0

They don't have a third floor.

1366x768 is good enough for watching a movie on a 13" screen. It's not nearly good enough for doing real work, though, unless you're a full-screen alt-tabber. If you are, you're going to have some problems with the context switching. It turns out your mind also switches contexts.

72dpi is like 24fps. Just barely good enough.

ASL is my son's first language, and there are plenty of people in his life who refuse to learn to speak with him.

If its a hard sell, there's probably a reason for that.

Technical solutions are the focus of this article.

ASL to text is drastically harder problem, but it appears to be under development.

Text to ASL is starting to be available but probably only useful for people too young to read. (Showing them the text would be quicker if they could read). However it might serve as a teaching aid for other to learn ASL.

The deaf seldom speak clearly enough for any speech recognition to work. Siri and Android speech recognition is haphazard enough when any random accent is involved, and becomes useless when a speech impediment issue exists.

A quick search for "deaf" on Google Play (store?) gives a few options. Among them:

Deaf Helper -- speech->text

headphone pass-through-- also translates sound to vibration

Talk to the Deaf ($2.71) -- speech to text and text-to-speech.

etc. Dunno why I'm retyping the list as you can just look at it yourself.

A quick search for "deaf" on Google Play (store?) gives a few options. Among them:

Deaf Helper -- speech->text

headphone pass-through-- also translates sound to vibration

Talk to the Deaf ($2.71) -- speech to text and text-to-speech.

etc. Dunno why I'm retyping the list as you can just look at it yourself.

A quick search for "deaf" on Google Play (store?) gives a few options. Among them:

Deaf Helper -- speech->text

headphone pass-through-- also translates sound to vibration

Talk to the Deaf ($2.71) -- speech to text and text-to-speech.

etc. Dunno why I'm retyping the list as you can just look at it yourself.

A quick search for "deaf" on Google Play (store?) gives a few options. Among them:

Deaf Helper -- speech->text

headphone pass-through-- also translates sound to vibration

Talk to the Deaf ($2.71) -- speech to text and text-to-speech.

etc. Dunno why I'm retyping the list as you can just look at it yourself.

Really? That's how you're going to layout your comment? By putting the relevant part of the comment in the subject, which is a link, it's difficult to highlight with the mouse so we can copy/paste which inconveniences anyone else who might have an inkling of interest in your, well, subject.

Since you're too "clever" (or lazy) to properly edit your post in the first place, and as a courtesy to everyone else who might be interested, here is the google results link for "barnaby jack jackpotting atms"

HTH HAND et. al.

Haha, of course you can you big liar!

As long as you stick to free apps, there's no need to hand over your credit card details. And there's dozens of iPad apps that do SMB or FTP, including free ones (though I'm partial to the $5 Files Connect). For direct device-to device sharing, Feem for iOS and Feem for Android are great and free.