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Yeah, because I'm sure they're totally not considering tracking individual faces when the technology is available.

What do you mean when?

Casinos already track 86'd players and whales.

https://www.google.com/search?q=casino+facial+recognition+systems

Every major casino is already recognizing their banned patrons and their whales automatically and has been for 5+ years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=casino+facial+recognition+systems

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

I evaluated storage prices in July 2009 and June 2012. This is a good chance to check how prices have changed.

What's the actual retail price for 10TB of storage?

July 2009: Platter = $750, Flash = $28,125
June 2012: Platter = $567, Flash = $8,200
November 2013: Platter = $450, Flash = $5,417

Based on the trends from 16 months ago, I would have expected the platter price for 10TB to be $495, and the flash price to be $4,506. Traditional drives beat my predictions, which seems to show that the industry has fully recovered from the various production and reliability issues which plagued the 3TB generation of drives. The pace of improvement for flash drives has slowed, but it's still jaw-droppingly quick. Will this pace continue to slow as the technical challenges become more complex?

New Prediction for July 2014: Platter = $416, Flash = $4,204
New Prediction for July 2015: Platter = $370, Flash = $2,875
New Prediction for July 2019: Platter = $231, Flash = $629
New Prediction for July 2024: Platter = $128, Flash = $94

This is all good news for the hard drive industry, and bad news for those of us hoping to stop relying on rapidly spinning disks. The predicted date when the technologies reach price equivalence is pushed back to May 2023, from the previous prediction of August 2020. If the pace of flash memory development continues to slow, and hard drives get a boost from helium technology, this date will drift even further out of reach. I don't want to imagine that hard drives could still have a meaningful role into the 2030's, but it's conceivable.

To end on a happier note for flash storage, consider that the price ratio for flash storage vs. platter storage was 37.5x in July 2009. After a little more than 4 years, the ratio is down to 12x! That's unbelievable progress, especially considering that flash technology is chasing a fast-moving target.

Link to the Permissions Denied app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stericson.permissions.donate&hl=en

It appears Cyanogen Mod used to have this feature.

And there's a lot of things that require root that shouldn't. Such as apps that back up you applications and their settings.

Part of Android's security design is to isolate apps from each other by running each app as it's own user_id. Thus, if you want to back up the data from all apps, you need root (or designate some sort of super-user that belongs to all of those groups in order to read those files). Just like in other *nix, user A cannot read user B's files if the file/directory permissions are restricted.

Android Firewall (linked above) allows easy blocking of net access to each individual app because they all run as separate user_ids, so the iptables rule is trivial.

Permissions Denied is another (root-only) app that can deny certain permissions to a selected app.

Both a firewall and selective permissions should be part of the core OS so users do not have to root their phones. If only Cyanogen Mod was installed by manufacturers/carriers...

You're out by a factor of ten. 10000 kg is about 22000 lbs

Like I said, it might differ by region, but most 'modern' houses around here that I know of have concrete floors/ceilings (**) except perhaps for the top-floor and the attic/roof that indeed most often is built around a wood-frame. I somehow associate wooden floors with pre-1960 tech but I might be biassed =)

(**: pre-tensioned hollow concrete slabs, not a clue what the correct word might be in English, https://www.google.com/search?q=welfsel&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=V213UqqKF4SZ0QWk2YGgDQ&ved=0CEYQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=840 )

Europe could be better but. apart from Scandinavia, they're much, much better than North America. Every other Euro country is less than 2x the world average.
Iceland is by far the most profligate with electricity so much that I had to leave them off the graph below to avoid too much skewing.

Electricity use per capita by country
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=wb-wdi#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=eg_use_elec_kh_pc&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:JOR:JPN:LTU:LIE:LVA:USA:GBR:CHE:SWE:ZAF:KOR:ESP:PRT:NZL:MEX:IRL:FRA:GRC:DEU:DNK:CZE:EGY:EST:CYP:CUB:CHN:AUT:AUS:BEL:BRA:BGR:BRN:BGD:CAN:FIN:SGP&ifdim=country&tdim=true&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

Energy use per capita ( kg oil equivalent )

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=wb-wdi#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=eg_use_pcap_kg_oe&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:JOR:JPN:LTU:LIE:LVA:USA:GBR:CHE:SWE:ZAF:KOR:ESP:PRT:NZL:MEX:IRL:FRA:GRC:DEU:DNK:CZE:EGY:EST:CYP:CUB:CHN:AUT:AUS:BEL:BRA:BGR:BRN:BGD:CAN:FIN:SGP&ifdim=country&tdim=true&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

Europe could be better but. apart from Scandinavia, they're much, much better than North America. Every other Euro country is less than 2x the world average.
Iceland is by far the most profligate with electricity so much that I had to leave them off the graph below to avoid too much skewing.

Electricity use per capita by country
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=wb-wdi#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=eg_use_elec_kh_pc&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:JOR:JPN:LTU:LIE:LVA:USA:GBR:CHE:SWE:ZAF:KOR:ESP:PRT:NZL:MEX:IRL:FRA:GRC:DEU:DNK:CZE:EGY:EST:CYP:CUB:CHN:AUT:AUS:BEL:BRA:BGR:BRN:BGD:CAN:FIN:SGP&ifdim=country&tdim=true&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

Energy use per capita ( kg oil equivalent )

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=wb-wdi#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=eg_use_pcap_kg_oe&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:JOR:JPN:LTU:LIE:LVA:USA:GBR:CHE:SWE:ZAF:KOR:ESP:PRT:NZL:MEX:IRL:FRA:GRC:DEU:DNK:CZE:EGY:EST:CYP:CUB:CHN:AUT:AUS:BEL:BRA:BGR:BRN:BGD:CAN:FIN:SGP&ifdim=country&tdim=true&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

I rolled my own similar solution using rsync and S3... s3backer.

I think this could be a hoax. It's not a scientific paper, not in a peer-reviewed journal's letter section. It appears via a Google circles posting from Kerry Emanuel who is a well-known, though partially reformed, climate denier. It looks like the Google+ account the letter is published in was just created. Plus, the facts are either skimpy & wrong. Saying we cannot ramp up solar & wind power fast enough, but can ramp up nuclear, is directly in opposition to what's happening. Solar installations are going up by double-digit percentage points each year, and meanwhile we haven't had a new nuclear power plant in over 40 years. The only pair that is underway (which is pictured in the Yahoo! story) is years from completion. There are only 19 permit applications active for new nukes in the US, and the power industry (which is notoriously risk-averse) has for decades shied away from their huge liability and expense.

A very similar solution to this is gitso which is hosted at google code http://code.google.com/p/gitso/ As with UltraVNC Single Click, your client downloads the appropriate software for their OS starts the program and then populates the dialog box with your IP or web address. Then, if you have set up your VNC server to listen for connections and if you have forwarded the listening port correctly, then you are good to go! While I too have used Teamviewer for family and friends, I find this a very simple solution for clients who need sporatic support.

It's a pretty arrogant assumption to assume that the best are where you think they are because that's where you think the best are. I'll go back in time to make my point to a chap named Charles Lindbergh who you might recall was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. When he accomplished his feat it surprised many, many people because he was a former pilot for the US Post Office and not a traditional glamorous background. It turned out that flying for the Post Office back then was just about the most dangerous job you could have a pilot with 31 out of the original 40 pilots killed.

The presumption that the only people capable of doing a given thing well work at certain places is called arrogance, and that arrogance has cost entire countries their industry. History abounds with examples from the downfall of the American Auto industry to the rise of giants like Capital Group or Wal-Mart. You can't assume that just because someone didn't learn to do a given thing in a given circle of people that they can't do it. The arrogance of the circles also fails to understand that many people don't live in certain places (Silicon Valley etc) because they don't want to or because they can't. The entire concept of the social circle as being a decider for talent fails the tests of history with outsider after outsider unsurping the arrogant time and again in industry after industry.

Isn't the iPad Mini and the Surface 2 only about $50 apart? Plus you can pay a little more and get 3G/LTE on the iPad Mini. I don't think the Android tablet are competition to the iPad given the lack of tablet optimized apps. Sure they're trying to improve but even with this effort, it doesn't mean you'll get a truly tablet optimized app. So even if there are some, they might not be obviously identifiable vs another which just stretches the display.

If you have rooted it, as I assume a /. user would have, there are a million apps to uninstall preinstalled apps, for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jumobile.manager.systemapp&hl=en Just be careful not to uninstall the Phone app or something.

By far the easiest and cheapest would be to have them be running Google Chrome and install the remote desktop app. They need to just fire it up, have it generate a code, and give you that code that you plunk in your end. It's fairly fast, secure (one-time codes), and works on mac, linux, and windows.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp?hl=en

Really? If you go to the play store page for quickoffice, you will see that all that is required for Quickoffice to run is Android 2.2. BTW, I am not talking about the quickoffice viewer that comes with every android, but rather the editor. Check again here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quickoffice.android&hl=en

What are you, Catholic? We need to control people through guilt and shame? Really? That's a US view that's not seen elsewhere. And, having been to places where being on the doll/benefit isn't looked down on the way it still is in the US, the US has the worse system and still more "shame" to it. Yes, kids in school get picked on for having discount lunches. I've seen them beat up for it. And you want to make life harder on them because you feel there's insufficient "shame".

Shame has been shown to be one of the biggest motivators to shape behavior and it is much more powerful in the rest of the world, especially outside of the West. Scroll down to see about 30 results, there are plenty of papers and articles here.

Doesn't work for corporate executives. They show shame and guilt when ordered by their lawyers, and yet offend at a rate greater than any minority slums (they just have legal representation to get the charged dismissed/reduced)..

Isn't the 1% a pretty small and biased sample size?

Google published a remote desktop plugin for the Chrome browser. It's not Open Source, but it is free (as in beer), and professionally written installation / setup instructions are available in multiple languages.

Actual remote access for you will be controlled by the user, they create a one-time passkey in Chrome and share that with you to connect to their system.

Here's the plugin page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp

Here's the support page: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1649523?hl=en

For non-technical users adding a browser plugin is going to be much easier to understand than messing around with port forwarding and system permissions.

Google published a remote desktop plugin for the Chrome browser. It's not Open Source, but it is free (as in beer), and professionally written installation / setup instructions are available in multiple languages.

Actual remote access for you will be controlled by the user, they create a one-time passkey in Chrome and share that with you to connect to their system.

Here's the plugin page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp

Here's the support page: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1649523?hl=en

For non-technical users adding a browser plugin is going to be much easier to understand than messing around with port forwarding and system permissions.

yeah, there is a simple but not trivial version for the installation of windows 8.1 (if you want to reinstall from version 8) aswell:
Install 8.1 from chip.de instruction [englich translation]
But this definitly not customer friendly.

Wouldn't the NSA design a system where they already knew how the student would do by observing classroom behavior? This kind of responsive ("predictive") system was exactly the sort of thing that researchers wanted to develop when I was at EDM 2013 in July, by the way.

Not that ads are inherently evil. I know some people disagree, and believe that ads are pure manipulation. ... I think the way Google does ads is at least neutral on the good/evil to humanity scale.

I don't object to the ads. I object to the model they build to target ads to me specifically.

So opt out of targeted ads. https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en. You may also want to opt out of analytics (Google it).

Personally, to the degree that I have to see ads I'd rather see ads that have some relevance to me.

So you know, I am with you on this, but our OP may have his head befuddled but certain news centers and are talented in twists separate bits into a new meme. Perhaps he/she was refering to this source. However you slice it, it is old, it is not true, and it is a reflection of how far down the road to fascism the US has gone.

Not everywhere, in my county they are also used to prevent people using "shortcuts" and inconvenient as possible. Want an example?

Look at this one mile stretch of Ashton Avenue in the map. 35 MPH and the police sit there all day every day and pull people over. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=prince+william+county+map&ll=38.770698,-77.506721&spn=0.015073,0.033023&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hnear=Prince+William,+Virginia&gl=us&t=h&z=16

I can show numerous examples of this in my area. The road I live on is two lane a winding road twisting road through the woods with many hidden intersections and blind hills. Speed limit, 45. How is Aston Avenue 35? There was another road in the are that was 40 similar to Ashton that the police hung out on daily as well but they finally raised it to 45. That 4 lane road road connects two 4 lane roads on each end with much more traffic, red lights, businesses and they are 55. go figure.

Well, it's more complicated than that. But his perspective seems to be one applying a humanistic vision in conjunction with empiricism. The fact that it's an unusual approach to charity is what's really baffling.

Baffling indeed.

Yes, having the people educated is one thing that needs to happen. But it is one of many components.

In order to give them Internet access they must also have power and communications systems. They must be literate or all the words are meaningless.

If the people are dying of malnutrition then yes, additional education about farming techniques and food safety can help. If people are dying from sanitation problems then yes, additional education can help. But it is just a single thing on the long list of things that need to happen to transform a society.

Sure they can give the rural slash-and-burn farmers an Internet-enabled computer with satellite modems and solar power chargers. It is nice to teach a farming community that for generations has practice slash-and-burn techniques that they should read about alternatives, but that by itself will not solve anything. Give them computers and Internet access and all you will have is a community who still practices the same techniques, with the change that they now can watch cat videos and play Angry Birds. The technology by itself won't transform them.

It takes a lot of pieces working together. It is true that giving computers to children can help benefit the community as shown through "Hole in the Wall" and other experiments but that little bit of education is only one facet, there are hundreds of other facets that need to be addressed. Providing a little bit of education is useful, but does not help much against problems of rampant disease, abuse, family planning, nor does it provide the tools and technology needed to implement what is taught. Teaching the community "this is what refrigeration can do for you" doesn't help if they cannot get electricity. Teaching the community "these are health issues that chlorinated water can treat" doesn't help when the village is struggling just to get enough muddy water so everyone can subsist.

There is much work to do. If one group wants to help by adding educational tools, that is certainly one useful thing. But Gates is right that there is a very broad spectrum of changes needed to bring regions out of poverty, and Internet access alone is not enough.

That's how Orson Welles got from job to job in NY

no one ever cites those studies that show lower speed limits are safer... Because they don't exist.

...really?

That's fascinating.

Here's one.

Or perhaps this?

Suck it.

You're joking right? Most farms are actually barely making profit, the ones that do are largely owned by corporations and even then aren't nearly as profitable as you would like to think. Especially when you have companies like Monsanto bending them over a barrel over seed prices and lawsuits. The cost to produce crops has been steadily rising (Johnson, 2012) (USDA ERS)

I would say that, if admissible, this "invention" (PDF) completely prevents any company from displaying ads alongside search results, killing Adsense:

But that's a big "if". If the wording is too broad, it will be easy to find prior art. Hell, the old Archie-based internet could be seen as doing this.

However I think that Google will go the other way. What is a "search argument"? I would think it's words such as "and", "or", "like" that are used to narrow the results. At least as a computer scientist, that's what the term usually means. Even though Google has these arguments available, the vast majority of searches don't use them.

There are plenty of other terms in the patent that can be beaten to death and shown to not apply. The thing about patents is that each claim is taken in its entirety. If Google can show that any of those bullet points don't apply to them due to their specific wording, they don't infringe.

I believe these things use lists of hashes of the domains to increase the speed of lookup. It's possible that you have a hash collision with a malware site. They are super rare, but possible. Not sure what you can do about that. It's also possible that there is something that reads as an infected file hosted on your site. A pdf or something that looks like a virus.

I would say that, if admissible, this "invention" (PDF) completely prevents any company from displaying ads alongside search results, killing Adsense:

This invention relates to an advertisment machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network. The machine receives, from the user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information and searches, based upon the received search argument, a first database having data network related information to generate search results. It also correlates the received search argument to a particular advertisement in a second database having advertisement related information. The search results together with the particular advertisement are provided by the machine to the user.

We claim:
1. A method of searching for desired information Within a data network, comprising the steps of:
  -> receiving, from a user, a search request including a search argument corresponding to the desired information;
  -> searching, based upon the received search argument and user profile data, a database of information to generate a search result; and
  -> providing the search results to the user
  -> Wherein searching the database includes correlating, as a function of a fuzzy logic algorithm, the received search argument and user profile data to particular information in the database, and providing the particular information as the search results.

Perpetuating a lie https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YDYUrD22Xq12nKkhBfwoJBfw2Q-OReMr0BrDfHyfyPw/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g1202bd8e5_05 here is Googles response.

The bottom line is their is a real problem with Apps stealing users data on *every* platform; it needs to be addressed, The Android lie is not only offensive; It obscures a real problem.

Or what I feel is the better of the two main droidwall spinoffs - AFWall+

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.ukanth.ufirewall

It is definitely less Google friendly named, I just noticed they added a parenthetical (Android Firewall +)

http://www.google.com/wallet/faq.html?utm_source=google-wallet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=instantbuy_101713&utm_term=oct172013

Latest version of Google Wallet, which runs on Android 2.3 or newer.

Under: Where can I use Google Wallet in-store?
"You can tap to pay using the Google Wallet app on select NFC-enabled Android device anywhere contactless payments are accepted, which includes hundreds of thousands of merchant locations in the United States."

It does look like a serious site, and there are no obvious disclaimers in this translation, which reads like a serious article. If it is a hoax, they went through a lot of effort (although the scientist pictured does look like he could be a convincing vampire). Also, it's from several days ago.

Galaxy Nexus isn't supported. Source.

I find this terribly annoying. Why isn't a two year old phone supported? This release of Android was supposed to be touted as the anti-fragmentation update.

Yea, that was my reasoning when I bought a Galaxy Nexus from Google 18 months ago. Ask me how that turned out....

After all those weeks of rumors, how did they manage to still get the wrong specs _after_ the device was announced? According to the order page the CPU is 2.3 GHz, not 2.2.

It looks like a really nice phone, i just wish it wasn't so large. I know it's only "slightly" larger than the Nexus 4 due to the reduced bevel, but the Nexus 4 was already too large. I really want a nice phone with a 4.0" or 4.3" screen. (And no, the "Mini" versions of the HTC One, Galaxy S4 and Droid don't count. They reduced the CPU and/or RAM and/or Storage for all of those when they made them "Mini".)

https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+4+randomly+turns+off

My fairly new N4 does it a few times a day. I see many other identical complaints online.
For everyone it occured synchronous with the 4.3 release.

>Is that a well known problem?
https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+4+randomly+turns+off

>My N4 doesn't seem to have it.
I wish mine didn't.

Galaxy Nexus isn't supported. Source.

Try "Android Firewall" (needs root)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtschohl.androidfirewall&hl=en