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Huh? I thought only 4 and older models had slow issues with iOS7. I was told 4S did not have slow down issues with iOS7 like in http://discussions.apple.com/thread/5659915 and http://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/3UPe-U0c1CM ...

It's apparent that most people using this argument to promote vegitarinaism know nothing about farming. Vegetable crops require a lot of what farmers call "inputs". These are things like water, highly fertile land, fertilizer, labor intensive cultivation, and labor intensive harvesting. These things make growing vegetable crops expensive. The biggest problem is land. The amount of land that is suitable for growing such crops without very high inputs is relatively small.

I have to admit, I have never before heard the argument that growing vegetables is a bad idea because it's expensive. You would think that with 10,000 years of agriculture under our belts that we would know a couple things about issues like crop rotation, cultivation, and harvesting. Apparently we aren't very good at agriculture though, I was not aware of that. I just sort of assumed that since there are farmers in every single country, and since there has been agriculture going on for the last 10,000 years, and since there are a ton of unskilled workers looking for jobs, and since we can produce fertilizer to replenish land that is not rotated, that maybe we would be able to grow some crops by now. Maybe that's something that science can get on and figure out.

Please don't persist with that argument, that is a disingenuous argument. Here's a farm in America that has been operating for over 370 years, somehow they have managed to not destroy the land. It's almost as if farmers understand how plants interact with their land, and how they are best able to use the land. As for the shortage of land, I live in a desert. Most of our land is sandy dirt. The soil in my backyard garden is pretty awful, it requires help to support most crops. But that doesn't stop people from farming here. Look at this satellite image. You see all of those green areas to the west and south of the city? Guess what those are. This is nothing new, either. Before any white people settled this area, the Hohokam tribe was here. Guess what is one of things that the Hohokam people are known for. I'll give you a hint: Phoenix has canals going all through it that are not exactly modern.

We cannot sustainably and affordably feed the world without animal protein .

That is simply not true. Replacing huge animal farms with vegetable farms is a real possibility. If you want to talk about wrecking the land, stop by a stockyard with 10,000 head of cattle and see how that land is doing.

The fact still stands - right now, today, we are currently producing enough grain to feed the entire world. We don't even have to change anything! It's happening now! The only reason we aren't feeding the entire world with that grain and those crops is because we are feeding them to livestock, which take a lot of grain and produce a small amount of meat for a small amount of people. Americans use 220 pounds of grain per year to eat, and 1500 pounds per year to feed livestock. It does not take a doctorate degree to realize that those 1500 pounds of grain can go to people instead of livestock, and can be used to feed more people than the livestock can.

You want to talk about "inputs"? Let's talk about what is required to grow a cow from a baby to an adult 1,000 pound steer. Cows will consume between 1% and 4% of their body weight daily in food. For a 1,000 pound cow, that's 10 to 40 pounds of food per day, enough for several people. A cow will drink between 40 and 80 liters of water per day depending on temperatures. That's enough water for around 20 people in a day. They also have to be monitored for disease, because you wouldn't want something like Mad Cow spreading through a huge herd in a matter of hours or days and killing all of the cows that you have poured so much foo

Roku 3

also:
Chromecast

AppleTV

Agreed. The one I tried can't even handle yatse.

Are you retarded? There's over two dozen MS apps on the Play store.

free reign.

Fewer people think of horses these days.

To those who are unwilling to work, they deserve nothing. To those who are very willing but unable to work, they need the help to live comfortably. To those who are willing and able, they need compensation equal to their skill with a bare minimum to cover temperature controlled housing, food, transportation, utilities, and monthly entertainment for a family of 4. Where I live, this amounts to a net pay of about $2-4K per month. The current minimum wage does not come close to this requirement. Having both parents making minimum wage just barely covers this, but then there is no one to stay at home to ensure that the young one(s) are properly taught the very basics

In the current state of things, your average person has to work is ass off to barely tread water while you have the ultra fat-cats with enough personal GDP to tow the rest of the population through the ocean at the speed of a Cigarette.

My other peeve with the current state of how things are: There are disabled people in America who are very willing to work and quite capable of performing many roles but cannot get stable employment. I personally know of several who are in this boat. One is disabled from birth with a mild physical form of Cerebral Palsy but is mentally very sharp. She acquired a degree in networking and has put together some of the most stable high end systems I've ever seen. She's never been able to get a position in the field of her degree or aptitude. She doesn't have the rounded aptitude to be able to manage her own business, and places that she's worked or tried to work will normally cut her off just before the date when her benefits would kick in (usually the day before her three month anniversary with a company). She needed a hand up, and I got along quite well with her personally, so I married her.

There are many other people that I know of that have very useful skill sets and aptitudes, but they cannot maintain employment because employers around here only see people with disabilities as liabilities. Most of the big name employers will hire people with disabilities for the PR or to fill the ADA quota that shows that they don't discriminate, placed in some kind of showcase position (like door greeter at Wal-Mart), and in all but the most exceptional cases people with disabilities are usually terminated around the time that their benefits package would activate (3-6 months).

It's 300 Linux games on Steam. This doesn't count any non-steam games.

Valve is also putting their weight behind this and getting other developers to release their games for Steam OS (and Linux). Metro Last Light is one of the most recent AAA titles. Check for yourself the current steam Linux catalog (hint, you won't find Free Civ on there).

As far as the OS, it's a component in the (not yet released) Steam Machines. When released, consumers will be able to pick one up for $499 pre-built, with a Steam controller .

The OS *by itself* is aimed at fans, early adopters, beta testers, whatever you want to call them. However it's just one part of a larger puzzle that Valve has been putting together piece by piece over the past few years (SteamOS + Controller + Steam Machines + Big Picture Mode + Family Sharing + Trading Cards + Achievements + Social + Steam Workshop + Porting Source to Linux + Optimizing Linux AMD/nVidia/intel drivers + Porting the Steam Client to Linux).

Come January the pieces come together.

Similar systems were announced in the 1980s in various popular tech rags. damn, live long enough and things just go in cycles.

http://www.google.com/patents/US4768256

Probably mostly a difference in exchange rate. As of this morning, a Euro is worth about 1.4 dollars. Looking at things this morning, I can get a cheap off-brand "60W equivalent" LED for about $16 each, but I wouldn't trust it or its advertised specs. I don't have time to do the research now, but a quality one will probably run me at least $20 each.

Who believes anything the NSA says anymore?

I honestly believe the only way forward is to encrypt ALL of our communications from here on. HTTP, SMS, email, voice, everything! Give them so much encrypted data they don't know where to look and what to decrypt. Even with their awesome hardware and unknown capabilities, surely it's an easy task to drown them in exabytes of encrypted data.

As a developer, I've taken the first step (shameless plug coming up). Awaaz is a Android plugin that automatically takes over any outgoing calls, and assuming the other party also has it installed, it will establish a direct P2P connection over the Internet and encrypt all communications using 256-bit AES. The symmetric key is exchanged using 2048-bit RSA, and new public and private keys are generated every single time, thus theoretically making decryption impossible. I encourage everyone to use it!

What really happened was that the norwegian IRS said that the bitcoin does currently not have any status as a currency in Norway and will be taxed as an asset.

They very clearly state that bitcoins have not been banned as a currency, only that it's status still has to be decided by Finanstilsynet (almost like SEC, but with a broader mandate).

The Norwegian IRS does not have the authority to claim it is a currency or not, only Finanstilsynet. All they do is tax what they see as an asset until Finanstilsynet gives other directions.

Nettvalutaen Bitcoins beskattes

Translated

Quite different heading than the /. heading.
Translated it just means "Bitcoins are to be taxed".

Yup, this is basically good news for Bitcoin since it means it won't be regulated as a currency. And Norway is a tiny, tiny market so it's fairly inconsequential.

And yet the price of Bitcoin is falling on this news. Talk about a nervous market!

They very clearly state that bitcoins have not been banned as a currency, only that it's status still has to be decided by Finanstilsynet (almost like SEC, but with a broader mandate).

The Norwegian IRS does not have the authority to claim it is a currency or not, only Finanstilsynet. All they do is tax what they see as an asset until Finanstilsynet gives other directions.

Nettvalutaen Bitcoins beskattes
Translated
Quite different heading than the /. heading.
Translated it just means "Bitcoins are to be taxed".

LED downlights don't exist/only for commercial applications?

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=led+downlight+fixture&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest#channel=suggest&q=led+downlight+fixture&tbm=shop

I can also get them at Costco right next to the PAR-32 and PAR-38 LED bulbs.

Also for the GP, what you're looking for for your garage is called an LED panel light fixture:

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=led+panel+light+fixture&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest#channel=suggest&q=led+panel+light+fixture&tbm=shop

LED downlights don't exist/only for commercial applications?

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=led+downlight+fixture&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest#channel=suggest&q=led+downlight+fixture&tbm=shop

I can also get them at Costco right next to the PAR-32 and PAR-38 LED bulbs.

Also for the GP, what you're looking for for your garage is called an LED panel light fixture:

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=led+panel+light+fixture&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest#channel=suggest&q=led+panel+light+fixture&tbm=shop

Yes, because they outlawed small electric heaters as well. Your education system in Canada must be really lacking for you to really be that dumb.
http://www.amazon.com/Lasko-101-Personal-Heater-White/dp/B005Q1APZS/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1387153170&sr=8-14&keywords=small+electric+heater
http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-Ceramic-Heater-Small-Room/dp/B004GBKPYK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1387153224&sr=8-13&keywords=tiny+electric+heater
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/706168623975461667?gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=OY2-CyTHCqygSwz2lm5_UA&ds=sh&pq=tiny+electric+heater&cp=17&gs_id=jy&xhr=t&q=tiny+electric+desheater&pf=p&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=iXN&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&sclient=psy-ab&oq&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.57967247,d.aWc&biw=1456&bih=777&ech=3&psi=d0euUqaJKuScyQG5goC4BQ.1387153271112.1&emsg=NCSR&noj=1&ei=hEeuUry7GIm4yQGbpYGoBQ&ved=0CJABEKYrMAQ

I can go on and on, but it seems that the very stupid canadians dont know about electric heaters.

"...but said the opinions of her former employer would not guide her work."

I wonder if she rolled her eyes and winked after saying this.

Probably not. It would have been difficult for her, even if she wanted to do it. Michelle Lee appears to have cultural issues in regards to patent law. No bio page available.

If you want to avoid that pesky visible light there are ceramic heaters that fit into an Edison socket.

No, you are completely misunderstanding that article.

Before mail clients stopped loading images by default, it was possible to embed a "web bug" image in an email. Essentially a transparent non-image that is referenced with a unique ID for each user. When the email was viewed, the mail client would request this web bug, and their server could record a) that this particular user opened the email, b) when they opened it, and c) whatever information they could glean from a normal HTTP request - where in the world you are, what software you are using to read the email, what language you have your mail client configured to use, etc.

If at any point you click "Load images", you will be sending this information to whomever sent the email. It's just that by default this would not occur in the majority of mail clients.

Gmail are switching to proxying the images and loading them by default. This means that email senders will get a) and b) by default. You can remedy this by switching your Gmail settings back to the old default of not loading images by default.

However because they are proxying the requests for the images, the people sending emails no longer get access to c) - things like your IP address, location, software, etc.

You seem to have invented some kind of nefarious arrangement between email marketers and Google, but that appears nowhere in the article you link to. It does not describe Google sharing data at all. All the article describes is the fact that by default, email marketers can now get a) and b) by using web bugs - this is something you don't need an agreement with Google to use, it's a natural consequence of the technology in question. It's your browser that shares the data, and it does so by performing a normal HTTP request - this is information you send to each and every website you visit. There's no http://google.com/download-private-data-muhahaha.zip link that email marketers now have access to.

This change improves privacy and has no loss of privacy if you change your settings to not load images by default. If you leave the settings at their defaults, you gain privacy in some ways and lose it in others.

Dropping nukes on Japan was about two things :

1) revenge

and

2) Showing the rest of the world what they could expect if they messed with the US.

It's too bad the U.S. didn't try dropping a nuke on Detroit -- there's a chance that Detroit would look as good as Hiroshima does these days.

The IETF is the official name of the 'Elders of the Internet' mentioned in this video.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDgQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiDbyYGrswtg&ei=LdGtUubBH9TMsATK0oDICw&usg=AFQjCNFBy44NoDrPLOCiq1g54j1FoZ9dgw&sig2=1mVXPzNhCXnfxb_jPPP3Zg

Dart is available under the BSD 3-Clause license, so if they are poisoning the well for other adopters, it's by subtler means, and 'dart2js' is designed to do exactly what it sounds like, for compatibility with any remotely recent JS implementation.

I'm not seeing the lock-in here, though they haven't stirred enough buzz to get it more widely adopted.

Again, I hardly suspect them of altruism; but they don't seem to think that they have the power to push a 'Google only' JS replacement, and so would rather try to improve webapps generally, even on competitors' browsers, as a strategic move against platform-native applications.

Thus, it would be fair to say that "rationabilitas" is Latin for "reasonableness".

For what it's worth even Google Translate agrees with you.

Code must be boring and have no relation to culture or commentary on everyday life.

"That's Not Funny' really does rule the world.

You can also play games with your browser sessions. Both firefox and chrome support multiple browser sessions running simultaneously. I have one just for google searches, another just for youtube, another just for banking, etc. That keeps your cookies and other fingerprinting information like extensions, browser history, etc unique to each task.

If you run firefox with these arguments it starts up with a picker that lets you choose which profile to run:

firefox --ProfileManager --no-remote

I give each profile a different theme and change the titlebar to start with a prefix (like "GOOGLE: xxx" or "BANK: xxx") with the customize_titlebar add-on to make it easy to visually distinguish between different sessions.

I also use the user-agent switcher extension to give each browser session a different user-agent. I usually set them to say the OS is Windows (I'm on linux) to blend in better with all the other Windows users and then each one is set to report a slightly different version of firefox (like 25.0 or 25..0.1 or 24.0 etc).

It is not just about hiding yourself it is about polluting their databases. Switching the user-agent isn't 100% -- some javascript can figure out the browser version via other means. But it is low-hanging fruit because the user-agent gets transmitted with every single http request your browser makes, so anyone passively sniffing the wire will get whatever you set it to.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

There is a similar add-on for chrome by a different author, haven't used it myself:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US

For firefox you have to make an additional change in about:config in order to have your user agent stick permanently because java gets confused on startup if it is spoofed. Create a new preference 'useragentswitcher.reset.onclose' and set it to false.

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Stereotypical jews have big, hooked noses and think everything is anti-semetic.

How am I supposed to spy if we don't collect data?

The question assumes that spying is needed. This is an unproven assumption. We have no evidence the spying is needed or beneficial, it has been proven only harmful or at best useless.

We're not threatened by other large nations because we have Mutually Assured Nuclear Destruction. Therefore the scaremongers had to invent a new bogieman: Terrorism. The threat is inconsequential. Falling in the bathtub is a greater threat to American lives than terrorism. You're about 4 times more likely to get struck by lightning than die in a terrorist attack. Accidents and Heart Disease kill FOUR HUNDRED TIMES more people EVERY YEAR than a 9/11 scale attack. When you compare the threat of terrorist attack to any other real threat to human lives their scaremongering doesn't match the facts.

Six times more people die from the flu every year than a 9/11 scale attack. We need proportional protection. The budget to protect us from terrorists is out of control. The anti-terrorism budget should be AT MOST one sixth of the budget we spend on ant-flu or 1/200th of the anti-accident budget, 1/200th the anti-heart-disease budget. How much does the government spend to protect citizens from lightning attacks? Is it FOUR TIMES the NSA's budget?!

The government needs no secrets. Our army is big enough and we are powerful enough that we need keep secret nothing. If nothing is secret, you need not fear spies, eh? They've taken the limited power we gave for them to have secrets, and used it against their own people to create a Stasi-like despotic apparatus -- The very thing our soldiers have fought against. Who will answer the call to fight for a government who's action has become indistinguishable from the enemy? The NSA has damaged us, stripped our honor, and shamed us in the world's eyes, our technology sector is suffering due to distrust. The NSA is a threat to national security.

The people should KNOW they can trust their government. We must not allow them to keep secrets. No one has proved the secrets are needed. We are brave enough to risk 400 times the threat of a terrorist attack by driving to McDonald's for a kid's Happy Meal. The public shouldn't have to wear tinfoil hats fearing government spying of citizens unless the government is also handing out lightning insulation suits. We should be able to prove their actions are not harmful to the people or violations of our constitution. We can't do this if there are secret unconstitutional actions.

PRISM is not the first spying apparatus. There was Omnivore, Carnivore, ECHELON, Five-Eyes, and more. Remember how the PATRIOT Act granted immunity to the ISPs retroactively for their assistance in violating the 4th amendment? Yes, remember BEFORE 9/11 how the NSA had secret rooms in telco buildings where all the fiber optics ran through -- Where it was apparently split by mirrors to create PRISM? BEFORE 9/11?!?!!?! OK, NSA. Your fucking move. Prove you are not fucking pointless, you fuckers had your decades of spying on all communications and you FUCKING FAILED to prevent the worst terrorist attack we've ever faced! We even gave you MORE powers and you FAILED again to prevent the Boston Marathon Bombing. The ball is in your court to stand down, the evidence is not in your favor, pushing the issue will get you eliminated for good.

Expensive + Useless = Unnecessary; NSA == Unnecessary.
I'm a scientist, so before we agree to continue funding for these expensive and pointless pork-spending protection systems, including the DHS, I need hard evidence that they are needed. As it stands the facts prove these expenses should be stripped from the budget and given to health care, and research, or at the very least, NASA. The biggest thre

This, most likely... though it can't seem to back up Play applications that you've paid for (AFAIK there's encryption involved)

ADB (debugger, part of the SDK) also has backup/restore functionality - though I've never used it personally so I don't know if it's actually usable without already being rooted.

Its easily found on Play store in many incarnations, so if you want it you have it. I've been using it for months. Whats the big deal ?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colortiger.appopsinstaller

• Missile Command (Google Play or Amazon)
• Missile Defense (Google Play)
• Thwaite (NES ROM with source code, runs in NES emulators for Android)

• Missile Command (Google Play or Amazon)
• Missile Defense (Google Play)
• Thwaite (NES ROM with source code, runs in NES emulators for Android)

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

It is worth mentioning that the Youtube Center browser extension can disable DASH and make many other improvements to Youtube's interface. Firefox Chrome

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

I hate to reply to an AC, but I hate wrong information more.

Multiple stories corroborate that the actual number potentially losing healthcare is one million, not the five million the AC suggested. These are policies that don't meet the ACA's minimum coverage levels, and thus are no longer allowed to be offered.

This has been a point pounded hard by those on the right ("If you like your plan you can keep it" was a lie!), wanting to point to people losing insurance. The left's typical response is that the plans are junk plans, and folks are better off being forced to get a real plan. Since those arguments are all over the web, I'm going to skip past them. Visit Google News to find them if you have missed out.

As is often the case, reality isn't simple enough to be captured in a sound byte. The law had a provision to grandfather old plans:

So what happens to the plans that don't meet the new minimum standards? They will likely disappear. A handful of existing plans will be grandfathered in, but the qualifying criteria for that is hard to meet: Members have to have been enrolled in the plan before the ACA passed in 2010, and the plan has to have maintained fairly steady co-pay, deductible and coverage rates until now.

What insurers have done is made sure no pre-2010 plan stayed in effect (yes, they cancel millions of plans every year), and for the few that have they have made sure the co-pays, deductibles, and coverage have changed significantly. Why would they do that? Well there are a about 4 million people on junk plans. How bad are these plans?

One example: the "Go Blue Health Services Card'' for which cancer survivor Donnamarie Palin of New Port Richey has paid $79 a month. For that, she gets $50 toward each primary care doctor visit, $15 toward each drug — but zero coverage for big-ticket items like hospital stays.

Get in a car wreck, no coverage. Get cancer, no coverage. Need a wart removed, no coverage. Break your arm, no coverage. Yeah. That bad. But they have one thing going for them, they are cheap. $79/month if you don't understand what you're (not) getting seems pretty cheap compared to hundreds of dollars for real insurance. In plain, simple terms these people were going to get a price hike. Now, you're an executive at a health insurance provider faced with the prospect that 4 million people are going to get letters saying "Your $79/month policy is going away, we'd like to offer you a $450/month policy, but it covers a lot more!" Yeah, that's going to lead to lots of bad press on the evening news.

But the way ACA was written had a convenient out. Make sure the law forced the cancellation of the plans, and then flip the narrative to say the government is canceling your plan. It should be no surprise that it took insurance executives about a nanosecond to figure this out and set the wheels in motion. Just make sure no plan qualified or could be grandfathered in.

Now that the Scooby Doo "how did they do it" moment is over, there is one bit left to tidy up. The savvy reader will notice 1 million Californians had their policy cancelled, but o

5 minutes and I made this dork. https://www.google.com/search?q="card+type"+"card+number"+"cvv2"+pastebin&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A11%2F1%2F2013%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F12%2F2013

Sometimes, Google just baffles me. The lack of direction in their product lines makes me shake my head.

We have several distinct software platforms:

1) Android. Development in XML with Java used as glue to hold everything together. Unless you don't. You can use standard C libraries and call the Linux kernel directly, bypassing the Dalvik Java VM.

2) Chrome browser. Development largely in javascript, again there are some obvious exceptions. Javascript is, of course, preferred because it's safer, so ChromeOS protects you by having everything done in Javascript. Except that it isn't.

3) ChromeOS. Kinda/Sorta like using the Chrome browser, except that it's not, because you are developing things that run as if they were actual clients. In Javascript. And of course, this too, is just as strictly enforced.

4) But Let's not forget the 4th platform in the trio: Google's Go language is clearly a contender, and it's designed to replace C, except for a few bone-headed decisions like linking everything statically resulting in enormous binaries. Because you really, really need to have the same library installed once for every app installed, because that way you get to recompile everything installed on your system any time a security update comes out for your favorite library. Except that, of course there are exceptions here, too.

And most importantly, you cannot target all these platforms with any single codebase written in any language. It's like they are trying to make their product suite as difficult as just using products from multiple vendors anyway.

It's really quite simple. A lot of Google projects started from a handful of people going "you know what would be a cool idea?" and doing it with very little approval or red tape (the fabled 20% time). That's certainly the only explanation I can think of for DART, at any rate.

Go is basically what you get when you hire a former Plan 9 developer, expose him to Google's internal hermetic build system (where a 100MiB binary is small), then let him build cool stuff to keep him from getting bored.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but do not speak for my employer. I don't work on any of the teams mentioned in your post. The information in this post is already available to the public in various places.

Sometimes, Google just baffles me. The lack of direction in their product lines makes me shake my head.

We have several distinct software platforms:

1) Android. Development in XML with Java used as glue to hold everything together. Unless you don't. You can use standard C libraries and call the Linux kernel directly, bypassing the Dalvik Java VM.

2) Chrome browser. Development largely in javascript, again there are some obvious exceptions. Javascript is, of course, preferred because it's safer, so ChromeOS protects you by having everything done in Javascript. Except that it isn't.

3) ChromeOS. Kinda/Sorta like using the Chrome browser, except that it's not, because you are developing things that run as if they were actual clients. In Javascript. And of course, this too, is just as strictly enforced.

4) But Let's not forget the 4th platform in the trio: Google's Go language is clearly a contender, and it's designed to replace C, except for a few bone-headed decisions like linking everything statically resulting in enormous binaries. Because you really, really need to have the same library installed once for every app installed, because that way you get to recompile everything installed on your system any time a security update comes out for your favorite library. Except that, of course there are exceptions here, too.

And most importantly, you cannot target all these platforms with any single codebase written in any language. It's like they are trying to make their product suite as difficult as just using products from multiple vendors anyway.

It's really quite simple. A lot of Google projects started from a handful of people going "you know what would be a cool idea?" and doing it with very little approval or red tape (the fabled 20% time). That's certainly the only explanation I can think of for DART, at any rate.

Go is basically what you get when you hire a former Plan 9 developer, expose him to Google's internal hermetic build system (where a 100MiB binary is small), then let him build cool stuff to keep him from getting bored.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but do not speak for my employer. I don't work on any of the teams mentioned in your post. The information in this post is already available to the public in various places.

Sometimes, Google just baffles me. The lack of direction in their product lines makes me shake my head.

We have several distinct software platforms:

1) Android. Development in XML with Java used as glue to hold everything together. Unless you don't. You can use standard C libraries and call the Linux kernel directly, bypassing the Dalvik Java VM.

2) Chrome browser. Development largely in javascript, again there are some obvious exceptions. Javascript is, of course, preferred because it's safer, so ChromeOS protects you by having everything done in Javascript. Except that it isn't.

3) ChromeOS. Kinda/Sorta like using the Chrome browser, except that it's not, because you are developing things that run as if they were actual clients. In Javascript. And of course, this too, is just as strictly enforced.

4) But Let's not forget the 4th platform in the trio: Google's Go language is clearly a contender, and it's designed to replace C, except for a few bone-headed decisions like linking everything statically resulting in enormous binaries. Because you really, really need to have the same library installed once for every app installed, because that way you get to recompile everything installed on your system any time a security update comes out for your favorite library. Except that, of course there are exceptions here, too.

And most importantly, you cannot target all these platforms with any single codebase written in any language. It's like they are trying to make their product suite as difficult as just using products from multiple vendors anyway.

Sometimes, Google just baffles me. The lack of direction in their product lines makes me shake my head.

We have several distinct software platforms:

1) Android. Development in XML with Java used as glue to hold everything together. Unless you don't. You can use standard C libraries and call the Linux kernel directly, bypassing the Dalvik Java VM.

2) Chrome browser. Development largely in javascript, again there are some obvious exceptions. Javascript is, of course, preferred because it's safer, so ChromeOS protects you by having everything done in Javascript. Except that it isn't.

3) ChromeOS. Kinda/Sorta like using the Chrome browser, except that it's not, because you are developing things that run as if they were actual clients. In Javascript. And of course, this too, is just as strictly enforced.

4) But Let's not forget the 4th platform in the trio: Google's Go language is clearly a contender, and it's designed to replace C, except for a few bone-headed decisions like linking everything statically resulting in enormous binaries. Because you really, really need to have the same library installed once for every app installed, because that way you get to recompile everything installed on your system any time a security update comes out for your favorite library. Except that, of course there are exceptions here, too.

And most importantly, you cannot target all these platforms with any single codebase written in any language. It's like they are trying to make their product suite as difficult as just using products from multiple vendors anyway.

Try farming without tools to plant, harvest, process and cook the result. Same goes for foraging. Without tools to process and prepare foraged food, you'd do very well in vitamins and minerals but you'd never get enough calories to support the needs of your anatomically modern human brain. Go to the produce store and imagine living off this stuff if (a) you had to find it and (b) you couldn't use tools to prepare and cook it. You need about 1000 calories per day to survive. That's ten pounds of spinach -- if someone harvests it and hands it to you. If you forage it for yourself you might need to eat 20 pounds of tender plant leaves.

People often imagine our ancestors living in a Garden of Eden filled with modern, selectively bred fruit trees (e.g. hybrid apples grown on grafted trees) bearing year-round. But such a favorable environment has never existed. The ability to prepare and eventually cook difficult-to-eat foods such as roots, grains and nuts with shells was a major driver of later human evolution.

We also imagine *chimpanzees* as the way we see them in the Tarzan movies, but in fact those are always baby chimps. Adult male chimps are much larger; not quite as big as an adult male human but 4x as strong a human of comparable size. Look at the way chimps climb; humans can't do that without some kind of aid. Just take a look at chimp teeth. Obviously chimps are much better prepared than humans to survive without tools.

Uniform Commercial Code, while not law itself, which has been incorporated into the laws of most US states, disagrees with you. That link is for Ohio, just one of many states which have incorporated UCC into its laws; see also: Maine, South Carolina, Nebraska, and Google, if you care for a more complete list (HINT: Louisiana is the only state that has not adopted UCC article 2, which applies here).

Whoa whoa whoa,

controls us through the "utopia where the people are bribed into apathy/foolishness" (courtesy of MPAA/RIAA mafia + youtube and friends),

I don't think you're giving enough weight to the message that Aldous Huxley tried to impart. It's not just the big-name corporate time-killers that get people to waste their lives, it is every form of recreation. From minesweeper to every indie game to the big-name AAA console titles. From drinking with friends, to bars, to that beer culture that's pervasive in universities. Miley Cyrus distracts the masses, but you can't discount the effects of that little mp3 player blaring constantly.

Ever hear about how long it took someone to get the orb or Zot or the amulet of Yendor? Ever hear about YASD? Ever see those MASSIVE Minecraft creations. (And how they swore they did it in-game rather than using an editor).

The crux here is that it's all just a waste of time. But hey, it keeps people happy, so it's hard to say that these are all bad things. Trying to get rid of recreation is ballstothewalls tyrannical. I'd have to say that moderation is important. In all thing, balance.

#2 and #4, Orwell vs Huxley, aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but they're certainly attacking society from different angles.

What happens once all the still-working used netbooks on Amazon are bought up?

I'm pretty sure you can still find 'em... this one for example is on sale this week, for damn near netbook prices. Yes, it's about $100 more than most netbooks cost, but it's in the price range of a midrange tablet, and it has a keyboard.

If you prefer something cheaper, you could, you know, buy a tablet and a bluetooth keyboard for less.

And failing that, there are always chromebooks. That was my plan for my next ultraportable... buy a 13" chromebook, wipe the drive, and install my Linux of choice....

I have a related problem at the moment - a couple of years ago someone accused me of sharing some other porno film, again T-Online was involved. My wlan is wpa2 with a 63-byte random, generated mixed upper/lower string and it accepts only one Mac address, I have checked both PCs which were on at the time for Trojans / Virii with a bootable scanner and there was nothing.

Did you have WPS enabled on your router? If so, there is a vulnerability that can crack access to your router, even if you are using WPA2:

https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/

Maybe so, then again that might not be necessary as NSA are on very good terms with their Swedish equivalent FRA as revealed by a Snowden leak published in Sweden a couple of days ago which reported how FRA assisted NSA in the hacking of target machines in operation Winterlight. I can easily see how Sweden would bend over backwards to help USA gaining physical access to the cables just like with the extraordinary rendition of two asylum seekers in December 2001.
I long ago ceased being proud of the (imaginary) neutrality and foreign politics of my native Sweden, and sadly find it easier and easier to explain why over a decade ago I decided to leave Sweden and its great health care, education, welfare, beautiful nature and so forth.

This was reported on the Dutch site Tweakers as being a hoax, as reported by the layyers office itself here. Translations here and here respectively.

This was reported on the Dutch site Tweakers as being a hoax, as reported by the layyers office itself here. Translations here and here respectively.

home laser/routing cnc's are now more popular than ever...

also cnc shops are cheaper than ever for such work.

if you want to bother with the hand tools https://www.google.com/search?q=beehive+plans&oq=beehive+plans&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1579j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

though, knowing bees, some twigs in a barrel with 3 holes would work just fine.

Why need I stop? Nothing you've posted here is contrary to my comment. I think you may need to read it again.

P.S. -- You seem to be off, by a factor of 60, in your estimate of how long it would take you to research this. It should only take 5 minutes to find the appropriate laws, maybe another 7 to read them. Here. And the first result.

OK, let's back up a second and make sure that we are not kidding ourselves into thinking that any music played on a computer cannot somehow be recorded.

The record labels and movie studios have become comfortable with analog reconversion for private use that includes a DAC-speaker-microphone-ADC or DAC-display-camera-ADC in the path, just not digital reconversion that doesn't include this highly lossy step. Besides, a lot of video streams are considered rentals, and the provider wants to deter users from keeping the video past the rental period, which is a violation of terms of service.

I'm also not going to google for you how to maintain session state without cookies.

I just did, and I'm going to explain why I don't like the solutions that I found on the first couple pages of results.

• Associating a session with an IP address allows session hijacking if multiple users are behind one NAT or proxy.
• Including the session ID in all URLs and as a hidden input in all forms is fragile: someone using the back button would end up starting a new session. And as this page points out, it's more vulnerable to session hijacking when a user shares a link to product pages that happen to include old session IDs that may refer to private information.
• Storing a session ID in the modification date of an image is also fragile, as it causes session loss when a device's RAM fills up and the user's browser starts purging things from cache. I don't see how it would work anyway, as there's nothing to associate the HTML page load with the image load other than the IP address, which I mentioned above.
• window.name requires JavaScript and doesn't obey the same-origin or even same-domain policy.
• HTTP authentication requires users to register and log in before shopping, which users find prohibitively inconvenient.
• This page recommends making an order form that lets users copy and paste SKUs from another browser window and key in quantities, but it's almost as inconvenient as a phone order.

What keywords should I have used instead?

But as long as you make sure that the back buttons works, on all pages, all the time, even on your landing page

Cookies handle the back button better than the leading cookieless solution (session ID in URL) does.

you will be a much better developer.

I have tried to keep to this philosophy on an online store that I maintain on behalf of my employer, even though it does use a session cookie, does use the occasional (optional) animation, and does use the occasional (optional) script. We don't use anything like the Facebook/Twitter/Google+ social recommendation crap that too many sites use.