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Google Checkout will be retired on November 20, 2013

For sellers of "digital goods" (whatever that means), Google Wallet will remain open. For sellers of physical goods, Google recommends Braintree. I'm under the impression that Google was shamed into closing Google Checkout for physical goods after one of Microsoft's "Scroogled" ad campaigns, which protested the fact that sellers could see buyers' postal codes.

The sheer amount of hate that banks, financial services and operators like Paypal have generated in the population at large is amazing. Exorbitant fees, slow transfers, arrogant customer service, publicly funded bailouts for amounts that almost defy imagination, systematic fraud reaching to the the highest levels of most governments of the world, few to no prosecutions of financial crime - the world of finance and banking it is a stagnated corrupt market that needs some serious competition, a bright light and a clean sweep.

Bitcoin is a tiny flicker of a spark in the dark rotten world of finance - not even in its infancy. Sure like any currency it can be stolen or used and abused to perpetrate fraud. Sure it is damn inconvenient to use or exchange, hardly anybody accepts it - but despite all this there is an army of people and entrepreneurs, early adopters with more joining every day that are willing to bend over backwards and work through the teething problems simply because it could almost possibly eventually bring much needed change to the almighty financial sector to which our economies now serve (as apposed to the other way around).

If you think mass media can drum up a propaganda campaign so the Military Industrial Complex can have their profitable wars, wait till you see how far and loud the corporate media "journalists" will willing to go when the financial sector stands to lose absolute monopoly over our currency for online global payments.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

In this area they are known as radiation whores.

Now, that might even be true. But I do find it interesting that Google and Bing searches for "radiation whores" has only your post above as the sole on topic link.

Ya, its totally all in my mind.

https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+fuzzy+text
https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+hdmi+text

Ya, its totally all in my mind.

https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+fuzzy+text
https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+hdmi+text

That's why theres thousands of google results without solutions for this exact thing?

https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+fuzzy+text
https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+hdmi+text

Also never said it was the tv. in fact pretty sure i stated that in the course of troubleshooting, the tv was eliminated as the source of the problem.

If its not the HDMI encoder how come... ...it happens on multiple tvs, including a friends who's works with HDMI ...doesnt happen with the other video outs ...doesnt happen with graphical text (and i know im not explaining that well, but if you read hte original post, it clearly illustrates where it happens with actual text, and not text in an image) ...doesnt go away with ClearType settings

etc etc etc. whatever. this is stupid. i am apparently the first person in the history of /. to encounter this common issue

That's why theres thousands of google results without solutions for this exact thing?

https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+fuzzy+text
https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+hdmi+text

Also never said it was the tv. in fact pretty sure i stated that in the course of troubleshooting, the tv was eliminated as the source of the problem.

If its not the HDMI encoder how come... ...it happens on multiple tvs, including a friends who's works with HDMI ...doesnt happen with the other video outs ...doesnt happen with graphical text (and i know im not explaining that well, but if you read hte original post, it clearly illustrates where it happens with actual text, and not text in an image) ...doesnt go away with ClearType settings

etc etc etc. whatever. this is stupid. i am apparently the first person in the history of /. to encounter this common issue

rofl. modded troll. thats hilarious.

i must be the first person in the entirety of /. history to ever see this extremely common issue.

https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+fuzzy+text
https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+hdmi+text

rofl. modded troll. thats hilarious.

i must be the first person in the entirety of /. history to ever see this extremely common issue.

https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+fuzzy+text
https://www.google.com/search?q=htpc+hdmi+text

First relative to the iWatch. If Apple brings it out.

Look & feel, from 2010. Add bluetooth, camera, a couple of updated apps, and you have the Gear.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ipod+nano+watch

200 is the subsidized price, its really closer to 600 without a contract.....

Uh no. Google was selling an unlocked Nexus 4 8GB for $200 on their store. They're sold out now, and rumour has it that they aren't restocking them either.

There have been attempts to interpret commands between different manufacturers.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130173835

There are several complicated, high-tech computer forensics applications which can circumvent any type of message burning or self-destructing images. If you think that you can send a message to someone and prevent them or someone spying on them directly from keeping a copy, then you're doing it wrong.

Mmmm, I'm a liar which is why the yellow cake scare is in Snopes as well as thousands of other articles debunking the alleged "intelligence" from Italy on Iraq purchasing yellow cake like Wiki.. Too bad you don't have enough balls to post with a name for public ridicule.

Please go ahead and quote me more easy to debunk main stream media war propaganda under a real name you coward!

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetreeofliberty.com%2Fvb%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D142839&h=0&w=0&sz=1&tbnid=aGFAr9WTVQ2pUM&tbnh=184&tbnw=274&zoom=1&docid=IXBjg5RBkmFF0M&hl=en&ei=nrcmUoivGsrm2gWnpYD4BQ&ved=0CAMQsCU

Would you kindly pay a visit to one of the many url shorten services online ?

Look at Battle for Wesnoth or Nikki and the Robots for examples of commercial free software but not necessarily free culture.

America's Cup

The history and prestige associated with the America's Cup attracts not only the world's top sailors and yacht designers but also the involvement of wealthy entrepreneurs and sponsors. It is a test not only of sailing skill and boat and sail design, but also of fund-raising and management skills.

It's still sailing at its best and sailing is one of the most graceful and productive things we've ever done. The yachts are elegant, no matter your hatred for the rich who own and sail them.

If you are speaking of the yachts in this race, I tend to agree. If you are speaking of yachts in general... I find some utterly ugly.

When does that occur? According to this book, the incident of dementia increases at great age. Only 5% of people over the age of 65 have clinical dementia. This goes up to almost 50% at age 95. It significantly increases when one gets past the mean lifespan for a person.

Talk about not getting it. Consider the end result, not the numerical years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+contributions+to+linux

Getting old so you can get Alzheimers or other forms of dementia, or simply be a non-productive burden on an "entitlement" society, is good?

When does that occur? According to this book, the incident of dementia increases at great age. Only 5% of people over the age of 65 have clinical dementia. This goes up to almost 50% at age 95. It significantly increases when one gets past the mean lifespan for a person. I suspect that if we had done this study at the beginning of the last century, we'd see that far lower ages would have similar dementia rates (say subtracting twenty years off).

These are people who keep KitKat bars in the fridge, what can you expect?

The part that surprised me is that the people at Google couldn't think of another 'k' name until they happened upon a candy in the fridge when they could have Googled it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+candies&btnI

It doesn't sound like the whole story. Also, 'kiwi' would have been a healthier option.

When 30 St Mary Axe (that's the street address) was under construction there were several proposed nicknames. Things like the Dildo.

Beat "The Prick of the Prarie"

you forgot to link to some on topic pictures https://www.google.com/search?q=crane+lifter&num=30&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&biw=1473&bih=773

Considering Elop successfully tanked Nokia's stock, I would say mission accomplished.

Can you spot where in this Nokia 6-year stock graph that Elop took over?

The question isn't exactly when he took over (9/21/2010), but when he started making big company destruction announcements (2/2011) - and that you can spot in the 6 year graph.

Yeah, but looking at that graph it is a bit of a stretch to lay the tanking of Nokia's stock on Elop. That was already happening, big time. Would going for Android have been a more profitable choice? Maybe, but sure doesn't seems to be for HTC.

[lack of democracy] is killing the Chinese economy

China has been on an exponential economic growth curve for over 20 years. Either China is a paragon of democratic innovation or your premise that democracy is a necessary condition of economic growth is just wrong.

Which is it?

Considering Elop successfully tanked Nokia's stock, I would say mission accomplished.

Can you spot where in this Nokia 6-year stock graph that Elop took over?

The question isn't exactly when he took over (9/21/2010), but when he started making big company destruction announcements (2/2011) - and that you can spot in the 6 year graph.

There's also the "death ray" in Las Vegas caused by a concave building with lots of reflective glass.

Well, I don't know much about LA school districts, but holy cow this search showed up a lot of crazy recent sexual news stories. So I have no clue what's going on down there.

Considering Elop successfully tanked Nokia's stock, I would say mission accomplished.

Can you spot where in this Nokia 6-year stock graph that Elop took over?

Funny thing is there are plenty of ASX listed companies that do a lot to contribute to the raw materials of these batteries but just loose money Such as Galaxy Resources and Lynas Corporation. https://www.google.com/finance?q=ASX%3ALYC&ei=CP8lUrirI4elkgWu-AE https://www.google.com/finance?q=ASX%3AGXY&hl=en&ei=P_8lUvCZB4WpkgXQlwE I guess its a lot like farmers and the supermarkets, those at the top get the money.

Funny thing is there are plenty of ASX listed companies that do a lot to contribute to the raw materials of these batteries but just loose money Such as Galaxy Resources and Lynas Corporation. https://www.google.com/finance?q=ASX%3ALYC&ei=CP8lUrirI4elkgWu-AE https://www.google.com/finance?q=ASX%3AGXY&hl=en&ei=P_8lUvCZB4WpkgXQlwE I guess its a lot like farmers and the supermarkets, those at the top get the money.

The government provides the mission and funding, the private sector does what it does best.

Bribe senators & congressmen for contracts, inflate the costs to double or triple original estimates, deliver 20 years after spec while milking every dollar they can from the government? So, you want to turn NASA into the Defense Industry II?

At least the defense industry gets a workable budget.

2013 Estimated NASA budget : $17,000,000,000 - http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/632697main_NASA_FY13_Budget_Summary-508.pdf

Estimated cost of one year of the afghan war: $109,500,000,000 - http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gNQ3JbWwd6t-PzkuECkRJvsAlNkA

FY 2013 Intelligence Budget: $52,000,000,000 - http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inside-the-2013-us-intelligence-black-budget/420/

DHS 2013 Budget: $54,807,277,000 - http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/mgmt/dhs-budget-in-brief-fy2013.pdf

We spend about 3 times as much on intel and spying on our own citizens than space research and capability

When you add in DHS it is 6 times.

A year of one war is almost 9 times the NASA budget.

This does not include all the other crazy defense spending. Even if NASA were completely axed today, it would not take even a tiny dent out of our national deficit. Cutting 'unnecessary' NASA spending is just a way to please ill-informed constituents, and make it look like our elected legislators are working to reign in spending. They are NOT.

That Wikipedia link refers to it as "a dog park," not "a dog's park."

The vignette about the "dog's park" is from the book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The '60s. It hasn't filtered down to Wikipedia yet.

Just a reference to the book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by economist A. O. Hirschman which discusses the issue of people choosing to exit a system rather than stay in it and fix it. See this blog post for a discussion of this book.

No mention in the summary of the massive subsidies the British tax payer would have to pay to build maintain and close these costly Chinese made disasters waiting to happen.

Nuclear power: leaks show new EU push | Environment | The ...

https://www.google.com/#q=ball+gag&safe=off

Nothing can be easy enough for you it would seem.

My sister is a junior in high school and lives with our mother and her father in the country, and I'm trying to figure out how she can attend college without having to rent a room. But I would agree that this is easier for students whose parents live in the city than for students whose parents live in the country.

Car pool

Do colleges tend to offer services to match non-driver students with carpool drivers who live nearby?

or ride a bike to the bus. Do anything you can. check out community colleges

It's still a 34 mile ride each way between Warren, IN, and the Fort Wayne bus system (source: Google Maps).

[Required supervised driving] costs nothing but expenses of the car.

That and somehow figuring out how to afford to pay another licensed driver over 25 to sit in the car. Some parents are willing to do this for free; other parents aren't.

Not likely ETFs are day traded so sudden drops in value is mitigated.

If the S&P 500 loses 10% in a year, an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 will lose 10%. I don't see what sort of ETF would have lost only 5% when the S&P lost 20% (from ~1200 to ~960) in the 2008 correction. Besides, doesn't one already have to have a few thousand dollars to start buying shares in an ETF without having most of the investment eaten up in trading fees?

Nothing can be easy enough for you it would seem.

My sister is a junior in high school and lives with our mother and her father in the country, and I'm trying to figure out how she can attend college without having to rent a room. But I would agree that this is easier for students whose parents live in the city than for students whose parents live in the country.

Car pool

Do colleges tend to offer services to match non-driver students with carpool drivers who live nearby?

or ride a bike to the bus. Do anything you can. check out community colleges

It's still a 34 mile ride each way between Warren, IN, and the Fort Wayne bus system (source: Google Maps).

[Required supervised driving] costs nothing but expenses of the car.

That and somehow figuring out how to afford to pay another licensed driver over 25 to sit in the car. Some parents are willing to do this for free; other parents aren't.

Not likely ETFs are day traded so sudden drops in value is mitigated.

If the S&P 500 loses 10% in a year, an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 will lose 10%. I don't see what sort of ETF would have lost only 5% when the S&P lost 20% (from ~1200 to ~960) in the 2008 correction. Besides, doesn't one already have to have a few thousand dollars to start buying shares in an ETF without having most of the investment eaten up in trading fees?

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Atranspires&oq=de&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j69i60l4.966j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Transpire: occur, happen

It is now revealed.

That's why he's in trouble. High strength magnets are not a toy.

They certainly are a toy. By the way, there are other adult toys kids should not have access to --- such as hunting rifles used in hunting sports.

Firecrackers, BDSM gear, high powered laser pointers, racing cars, four wheelers/ATVs, diving boards, dirt bikes, soldering irons, CNC tools, wood carving and arc welding tools, and the list of adult toys/hobbyist products goes on and on; of adult toys that nobody should allow their kids (or kids) unfettered access to, aside from exceptional situations --- very responsible kids who first understand the dangers and are supervised, and known to be very careful and responsible.

You can develop full APK apps for Android...from the Android platform. It's not even hard.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

But then there are graphing calculator apps like... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-graphing-calculator/id378009553?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphing-calculator-hd/id374274107?mt=8 and Mathlab's pretty good, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.mathlab.android&hl=en So I guess, iPad and android tablets do more than a graphing calculator. Did Phil Nicols get '''something''' from TI to say that a computer is less educational than a calculator?

If you have sufficient programming experience, I'd recommend basing this solution on redgrep. It's an llvm based expression compiler that should be able to combine multiple expressions into a single machine code state machine, assuming it doesn't run out of memory in the process. With a bit of effort you could output all of your compiled expressions into a single executable so you'll only need to wait for the compilation time when you add more filters.

Thanks that wasn't helpful at all. Since Oaxaca is in mexico, I'm still, trying to figure out what the issue is.
Heaven forbid I don't know the intricacy of a completely different country. If there is a problem you would think they would call themselves Mexican on their website.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Oaxaca&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x85c0d84f3a0e5c51:0x44c60c433dd90bc9,Oaxaca,+Mexico&gl=us&ei=eBAhUtbiKsXHigKai4DoBQ&ved=0CKkBELYD

and Chiapa is a federal entity of Mexico, so again, I'm not sure what the issue is.

You seem to be implying the the term Mexican is derogatory. Do you think that's how I mean it? becasue I don't.

the Chiapa are Mexican the same way California are American.
I look forward to getting down their, and if my experience holds true, the people their will be far more nicer and forgiving of any ignorant fopaux I do then some jerk wad on the internet.

Pause[d] and stopped mean the same thing. You're just trolling.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

Idiot.

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Apause
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Astop

Pause[d] and stopped mean the same thing. You're just trolling.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

Idiot.

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Apause
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Astop

Indeed, there are books and websites dedicated to old laws that would seem crazy by normal standards but are still on the books. They've never been removed, it's just that they ceased to be prosecuted. Perhaps pot use will fall under this.

The problem is, though, those laws are still on the books. They could be used for malicious or targeted prosecution. How about getting fined for bothering bullfrogs in Arizona, or a 30-day sentence for flirting in Little Rock Arkansas?

Dropping prosecution is a good start, but eventually outdated laws need to be removed.

Nokia's share price has gone down over 50% since Elop took the helm..

There, fixed that for you: In September 2010, when it was announced that Elop would become the new CEO of Nokia its stock was at about $10 and today it is at $4. Besides ... Nokia Downgraded By Moody’s Deep Into Junk Territory

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vietnam+CIA+false+flag+

Like Iraq, Vietnam was also based on manufactured false information. You may limit your reading to the wikis, or you may dig deeper, as you wish. But, Tonkin Bay, which was the primary igniter in getting our troops into Vietnam was entirely a false flag operation.

My favorite part from TFA:
In this case the XO is sporting parental controls that track usage and learning styles. The tablet also has a Journal app that details and breaks all this down for the parents

If anyone believes the information is "for the parents" I have some nice property to sell about 200 miles north of here depending on the tide and winds.