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Ultimately under Jobs it was on an upwards trend, and whilst no one expected Cook to be able to keep up the pace (no one could) one would at least expect him not to oversee a 50% decline from that peak.

It wouldn't be hard to argue that Apple was 50% overvalued at its peak. Furthermore the stock right now is sitting right in the middle of its 52 week range and the long term trend puts it right about where it currently sits. Take 2012 out of the mix and the stock price is right on the trajectory it was on between 2009-2011.

But if Cook was doing a good job then it would've kept increasing, or plateaued or declined slightly.

CEO performance and stock price are only loosely correlated, particularly in the short term.

when they analyze your data so that they can sell you to advertisers

I think the wording of this statement is misleading. It implies that some information about you is being sent to advertisers, which is not the case.

their method is to build a profile of you based on your communications that they can sell to advertisers

And again, this is not the case. Google doesn't sell user profiles to advertisers.

this is not simply some filtering system like a spam filter, it is a system to catalog every bit of information about you to be able to understand who you are, what you do, where you go, what interests you have and who you communicate with so they can show you more effective advertising.

I changed the bolded words in your statement, to make it more accurate. Yes, Google's intent is to understand you in some depth, in order to both provide you with better services, and to show you advertising that is relevant to your interests.

Of course, if you don't want targeted advertising from Google, you're free to opt out, even while still receiving the free services.

Does this corrected understanding of what Google does and doesn't do change anything for you? Based on the line that I described in my previous post (GP to this one), it makes all the difference to me. If that's not where you draw the line, I pose the same question to you that I posed to rtb61: Where do you draw the line? Is analysis for the purpose of targeted advertising different from analysis for spam filtering or automatic categorization, and, if so, why? Is it just a distaste for advertising driving your attitude, or is there actually some privacy consideration that I'm missing?

First, you must understand a principal of cybernetics: The intelligence of a system is proportionate to its complexity. Physical size plays no part in determination of degrees of intelligence. However, the adult human brain has 100,000,000,000 neurons... This tiny brain structure has a very small number of brain cells comparatively.

Next, you must understand that the species of the system makes no difference in terms of measuring complexity. This small brain is far less complex, and thus less intelligent and aware than that of the animals people eat, even if you were to scale it up several times.

Those balking over the ethics of these mini-brains should be placed in the same category of PETA and Vegans. I've not seen such hue and cry from these folk over Google's attempt to create a far more complex simulation of a human brain; Where are their ethics then? Where's the conviction?

The complexity is what matters, not the species or even the medium of the existence; Be it organic or inorganic. I routinely delete and restart neural networks with an order of magnitude more complexity than this tiny batch of tissue holds. Cyberneticists grow brain tissue on electronics and think it's cute to have it drive tiny cyborg cars. More intelligent mice are fed to snakes. Some of you cook up brains with more power than this as a delicacy. Lions and apes and others with far more awareness than this patch of cells are caged for posterity because their habitat is being destroyed -- which is the destruction of huge collections of such organisms. Rich elitists and economists tweak giant cybernetic business structures, and laws are passed changing even larger cybernetic networks without any prior testing or much ethical concern to the very real harm such things do often cause to massive amounts of beings with the most complex of brains... You would pass a law or make economic changes without first testing the outcome on smaller scales? How foolishly barbaric! Testing on these tiny brains is a huge step in the right direction.

I would fight to grant selections of "human" rights to dolphins and primates, IBM's Watson, The Google search engine -- Redefine what it means to be a person; Throw away the imaginary line dividing sentient beings from non, and realize that there are merely degrees of awareness not some magical boundary that the complexity must cross; Realize that you have been blinded by your own-species-preference; Throw away all your ethics and reform them based on new understanding.

Look up Human:
1. adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings.
2. n. a human being, esp. a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.

And yet you have no firm grasp on that distinction from animals. The harder you look the more characteristics of people they seem to have; You agree you are descended, a part of their animal kingdom, save for some arbitrary not yet understood cognitive line drawn in the sand. Telling indeed that you do not identify machine intelligence as human, despite them not being excluded, by definition... Who died and made you kings of the animal kingdom? Indeed, are they not still alive? What of "democracy"? HA ha, oh you...

You are at the verge of a technological singularity and yet you foolishly have not reformed laws such that these ethical issues can actually be addressed by culture at large. You proceed dangerously without these formalities, risking incite as you test the small cybernetic systems, or risking genocide in the event that beings with equal or more complex brains than you evolved in nature or the lab. I can see some even now claiming that self awareness is not demonstrated in the lesser forms -- painting dots on their heads in front of mirrors -- as if you humans have even the slightest inkling of what sentience is; Chauvinists

Exactly. And to those Americans who'll answer: "well duh, we don't want to lower our standard of living to China's level": Germany and Japan are at roughly half the US level and the UK, Italy and France are even lower.

it helps when you cite a source like this one instead of just arguing that it is obvious, because no it is not obvious just because i can google it, and find everything from scholarly documents to time lapse photography and not some poorly titled webzine that wants click throughs and spouts end of the world panic instead of real debate.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?hl=en&q=http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228778361_Rapid_disintegration_of_Alpine_glaciers_observed_with_satellite_data/file/32bfe5136e29b8870d.pdf&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm2Av-PDZ8VXErDlm2Ui1TffLc10og&oi=scholarr
yes i realize the alpine glaciers are melting as per your point, but your argument with the other poster was akin to saying "i'm right" "no i am" "no you are not" etc

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+policy

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+precedent

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+policy

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+precedent

Intresting chart:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z6409butolt8la_&ctype=c&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=s&met_y=gci_2.07&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&dimp_c=country:world&idim=country:USA:JPN&ifdim=country&ind=false&icfg

According to this, the quality of the US poer grid is compareable to Slovenia.

Unfortunately, this one here doesn't have data for the US: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_ele_out_day-energy-electrical-outages-days

But 8 hours power outage per year sounds more like a developing country to me. (Here: 17min in 2010. Drop from 18min in 2009)

The first chart appears to be an opinion survey- "How would you assess the quality of the electricity supply in your country (lack of interruptions and lack of voltage fluctuations)? [1 = insufficient and suffers frequent interruptions; 7 = sufficient and reliable]". I don't make a habit of dismissing charts completely, but this doesn't seem to be based on actual data about the power system. People in the US have an opinion of their electrical grid which is comparable to the opinion which people living in Slovenia have of their grid. This doesn't mean much to me and could be influenced by any number of factors.

The source of the second one is the "World Development Indicators database". So it makes sense that 1st world countries are not completely represented in that data. The US average of 8 hours (0.33 days) compares fairly well with a similarly geographically large country such as Russia (2.73 days), or a well-developed industrial power such as Germany (0.23 days).

Google tells me a brazillion is currently about 196.7 million.

Intresting chart:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z6409butolt8la_&ctype=c&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=s&met_y=gci_2.07&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&dimp_c=country:world&idim=country:USA:JPN&ifdim=country&ind=false&icfg

According to this, the quality of the US poer grid is compareable to Slovenia.

Unfortunately, this one here doesn't have data for the US: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_ele_out_day-energy-electrical-outages-days

But 8 hours power outage per year sounds more like a developing country to me. (Here: 17min in 2010. Drop from 18min in 2009)

It radically decreases the probability of such an event.

If a pass is 50% correct, there are 4 choices, no penalty for incorrect answers and all correct answers equally weighted, then the odds of passing are about 2 in 1000 -- low for a classroom. Too high for 24k Libyans, but I'm sure the test was harder than that even if it didn't penalize wrong answers.

If you instead give -1 for every wrong answer, and we assume that you still answer every question (because you don't know *anything*), then the above is instead the probability you get a score >= 0. The odds of passing are about 46 trillionths. That does a decent job of filtering the entire earth.*

I don't like tests that, though. They prey on risk-aversion, biasing people against giving answers that they have middling confidence in. Being able to eliminate 2 out of 5 options *is* knowledge and the fact that this improves their odds of a correct guess is a feature, not a bug. Of course, the best is non multiple-choice tests and a rational person evaluating the answer based on the displayed knowledge, even if there is an error (yes, that can fall prey to unfairness, but multiple-choice tests have flaws too).

*You might think "he should just guess 20 times, because any given guess grants an expected value of -0.5 to the test". That's what I thought, but when I run the odds, just guessing on 20 of them gives odds of about 1 trillionth, so it's about 46 times better to guess on every one of them. You're just more likely to get 21 right answers and 1 wrong answer, than to get 20 right answers and no wrong answers. Turns out, for a test with the outlined parameters and varying only the number of questions, on any test where you know too few answers by 3, and have absolutely no clue about any others, then you should just guess on all the other questions, if I did the math right ( https://www.google.com/search?q=0.25+*+0.25+*+0.25+*+0.25+*+3+%2B+0.25+*+0.25+*+0.25+*+0.75&oq=0.25+*+0.25+*+0.25+*+0.25+*+3+%2B+0.25+*+0.25+*+0.25+*+0.75&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.16026j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fp=13d6aa3a7d487f41&q=((0.25%5E4*+.75++*+5)+%2B+0.25%5E5)+-+0.25%5E3&safe=off ).

Have you considered to be part of one of the open source foundations?
http://www.spi-inc.org/ Software in the Public Interest ( http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/ )
http://sfconservancy.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy
http://www.ffis.de/ (Germany)
And the most known Eclipse, Apache and Outercurve Foundations

The process for handling the money is very similar as you have described. The foundation is the entity that receives the funds (money or equipment) and tag them for the project that they were donated. So the foundation keep the donations for each project independent. If you need money for a conference or to pay the hostings and your project have the resources then they can send the project leader a wire or a check or in some cases make the payments directly in behalf of the project. The expenses have to match the legal policies for a non profit organization (all the previous samples are fine).
Each foundation has its own rules and processes to be accepted, there was a really interesting thread some months ago in the vertx mailing list where some of the foundation leaders exposed their own strengths: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vertx/WIuY5M6RluM%5B1-25-false%5D look at the posts from:
Jim Jagielski (Apache), Bradley M. Kuhn (SFConservacy), Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Jenkins, this project is on SPI), Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse), Paula Hunter and Stephen Walli (Outercurve)

The main obstacle to self-driving cars isn't technological, it's cultural. Even if they get a commercially viable product on the road in 2020, it'll be at least a generation of these things being on the roads before people become comfortable enough with the technology to trust their lives to it en mass.

That's assuming no catastrophic failures in that time period. All it will take is a couple major accidents caused by bad GPS/LIDAR/What-have-you, and back on the shelf it goes.

Hell, it wouldn't even take an actual technological failure, but merely a perceived one - remember all those incidents of "unintended acceleration" in several Toyota models? Nobody could prove that it was any sort of actual malfunction, yet Toyota sales still suffered from all the bad PR.

My issue? The potential for intentional tampering by clandestine agents - why bother arguing with dissidents, when you can literally arrange for their vehicle to have an "unfortunate accident?" Death by GPS is enough of an problem with human-controlled cars; What happens when your auto-car insists on taking that hard left over the bluff, and manual control is locked out?

You linked to just https://www.google.com/. Did you think that we didn't know about search engines or something?

Though I agree with your sentiment, it'd be nice if you used actual facts and even looked at the company ticker symbol. Morgan Stanley is not Microsoft. Now retry your arguments with out the wrong facts.

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=358464

It's all politics - Turkey gets to "stay out of it" while pushing NATO to take action. To foster exactly the opinion you're displaying: the big, bad USA attacking Syria while Turkey calls for peace. When in reality, Turkey is putting lots of diplomatic pressure on its NATO allies to solve its problems.

My "truncated and misleading version" was due to spending about 30 seconds on google, but look for yourself. Turkey has hardly been a silent bystander in all this.

I, too, would be amused by folks who used the 1970s as a baseline for global warming data. So, just for the heck of it, I googled images for global warming hockey stick and it seems most of the graphs start at the year 1000 or before. However, among the top four there is one graph that starts at 1970; amusingly, it was created by a global warming sceptic. I suppose you can cite example an example somewhere of someone who bases their global warming theories only on the last 45 years, but it certainly isn't the mainstream.

It's at a 3rd of what it was 4 years ago.
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:MS

and people aren't pleased with SOny, but at least Sony is responding to their issues.
Here is why people are having issues with MS:
"So why did the market freak out? The biggest reason was that Microsoft booked a $900 million charge for “inventory adjustments” for its Surface tablets. In plain English, Microsoft admitted that its heavily-promoted tablet is selling poorly. And that’s an ominous sign for the Redmond firm’s long-term prospects. Tablets and smartphones are the future of computing, and Microsoft is falling farther and farther behind the market leaders, Apple and Google."

So there venture into the direct tech is going is failing.
and then(and this is classic Ballmer):
"But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shouldn’t be too depressed. Microsoft probably won’t lead the next generation of high-tech innovation. But history suggests that Windows and Office, its existing cash cows, will continue generating profits for years to come."

That is not what you want a CEO of a tech company to say. MS should OWN the tablet market and cloud computing, but Ballemr surrounds himself with idiots, and management is pact full of people who won't make a decision, or take a risk.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/24/microsoft-is-doomed-but-first-its-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money/

An undocumented API has changed. Now can we stop overreacting?

How is the API undocumented?

Developers might also want to take note of the following:

Warning: The current Google Cast SDK is a preview SDK intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this SDK significantly prior to the official release of the Google Cast SDK.

Yes, but you can tell it to size the pdf pages exactly to the size of your device's screen. So then the pdf fits perfectly onto the device, and there is no need to alter the flow of the text due to the width of the device.

Yes, that'll work for your particular current device, and if you're happy with it, fine. I'll note that polishing an epub is really easy with only basic knowledge of CSS, though. Sigil is basically an IDE for epubs, and with it you can reformat an epub in minutes, most epubs only require slight changes to CSS. With an "official" plugin you can launch Sigil directly from calibre.

The epub is then usable as-is on most devices, and it is a very good source format if you want a fixed page format like PDF, or other flowing formats like K8 for Kindle. If anyone's interested I can describe a few "sensible default" modifications to particular CSS classes.

Agree completely. Personally I was really hoping for the Chromecast stick to support DLNA rendering robustly (and maybe it will yet be hacked to do so).

In the meantime, while I sincerely hope Koush continues his efforts, it's no surprise that his little workaround got broken. Might even be deliberate like he claims, but the API warning is right there in black & red.

Let's see what's possible after the API is finalised; Google may not be willing to throw the content gates too widely open, but they've always been hacker-friendly for the two-brain-cell market.

...researcher Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo...

if a synthetic skin is studded with pressure and heat sensors...

...or suckers

Hmm, that's interesting that he misunderstood the tides--and somewhat surprising, since even in Dante, Aquinas, and others there seems to have been some (admittedly vague) idea that the tides were caused by the moon. A quick Google search brings this up: Here.

That's not an out-of-body experience.

That's because Zothecula seems to do a lot of contributing for gizmag.

Shoot the Moon is also a game with two steel rods and a steel ball.

So if they made a Star-Wars themed version, would they call it "Shoot the That's No Moon"?

It would be suprising if this didn't happen. the API for 3rd party aps is still in beta and to sign up for the dev program right now tell you this sdk is for dev purposes right now and not production use.. ( https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/ ) Eventually I expect the ability to cast content from my android devices, but for right now Google has been very clear to devs the state the cast is in right now.

Go look at some newspapers from the 60s when the word was in use.

The word is still in use. And it took me only a few minutes to find this 1958 citation where "moon shot" refers to a potential Russian mission to set a small payload to the moon, and this 1959 one where it's used to refer to Lunik II. And this. And this.

I'm sorry, but you're incorrect. Since the 1950s, "moon shot" means shooting a rocket at the moon. Nothing is implied in the term about what's on or inside the rocket.

Go look at some newspapers from the 60s when the word was in use.

The word is still in use. And it took me only a few minutes to find this 1958 citation where "moon shot" refers to a potential Russian mission to set a small payload to the moon, and this 1959 one where it's used to refer to Lunik II. And this. And this.

I'm sorry, but you're incorrect. Since the 1950s, "moon shot" means shooting a rocket at the moon. Nothing is implied in the term about what's on or inside the rocket.

Go look at some newspapers from the 60s when the word was in use.

The word is still in use. And it took me only a few minutes to find this 1958 citation where "moon shot" refers to a potential Russian mission to set a small payload to the moon, and this 1959 one where it's used to refer to Lunik II. And this. And this.

I'm sorry, but you're incorrect. Since the 1950s, "moon shot" means shooting a rocket at the moon. Nothing is implied in the term about what's on or inside the rocket.

Go look at some newspapers from the 60s when the word was in use.

The word is still in use. And it took me only a few minutes to find this 1958 citation where "moon shot" refers to a potential Russian mission to set a small payload to the moon, and this 1959 one where it's used to refer to Lunik II. And this. And this.

I'm sorry, but you're incorrect. Since the 1950s, "moon shot" means shooting a rocket at the moon. Nothing is implied in the term about what's on or inside the rocket.

Also, I too support criticizing Microsoft for their relationship with NSA, but it is interesting how many shy away from recognizing Google, Apple and others having the exact same relationship.

Not the same relationship, because you can bet impact projections mean different tax dollar amounts, and different deal sweeteners. The official Google Talk client targets Windows first
MacOS has Facetime and iChat. Sure, you can own those separately, but supposing we had to give out a sardonic award for the largest breach^W accomplishment, you wouldn't go to the alternative guys first.

They are all targets, but guess which company started it all, thanks to owning the fattest install base for the longest number of months? Boom! 80+ percent userbase in a single compromise op. Want ~100%? the NSA can follow up on that during their spare time while the majority of the data pours in.
The same company bought Skype just to add NSA backdoors. It was not enough to just scoop up old users, so the NSA forced it as a replacement to the Windows Messenger client back in April of this year. Also juicy, considering how Skype has Native Windows, Linux and OSX clients. That is thinking big, my friend.

You could argue that Google already has a bigger footprint than Microsoft of total installed base of devices and users. It was recently published that Microsoft true share if you looked across different devices, and not only on traditional x86 PCs, was less than 30%. Add together Android, Google Mail, Search and other services and they have a much higher effective share and reach than that.

Nice, glad you like it!!! Come join us on Google+, we've got a Omate TrueSmart & GLASS community going on! https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104860063598575161591/communities/111599684337254042909

... because only 1.1 million other people already know this.

FUCKING SERIOUSLY?!?!?!??!1111

but instead of the boringly predictable GOOGLE IS EVIL!!!!1eleventy karma-whoring[1], shall we examine why exactly this third-party program broke with the new update?

Were they, perchance, using an undocumented API, or one that was known to be unstable?

This seems to be the public API for Chromecast: https://developers.google.com/cast/devprev
but I'm not enough of a programmer to tell if there's explicit support for the kind of thing AirCast does; however, get a load of this:

Warning: The current Google Cast SDK is a preview SDK intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this SDK significantly prior to the official release of the Google Cast SDK. We strongly recommend that you do not publicly distribute any application using this preview SDK, as this preview SDK will no longer be supported after the official SDK is released (which will cause applications based only on the preview SDK to break).

Applications using this preview SDK will work only on Chromecast receiver devices that are whitelisted for development. Google will provide whitelisting for Google Cast receivers for development and testing purposes until the final SDK is released. See Whitelisting your receiver.

So it seems my guess was correct and you're all bellyaching about a program taking advantage of an unstable API, with a feature not guaranteed to be there, and when the documentation recommends not distributing production apps yet.

In short, non-story click-whoring. I hope you're proud of yourselves.

[1] I know I'll get modded down for this, but...

Read Koush's actual post - the update breaks his Cast app for Android, which works around the app whitelisting to stream directly. Nothing says anywhere that casting arbitrary content from Chrome tabs is broken.

Also, I too support criticizing Microsoft for their relationship with NSA, but it is interesting how many shy away from recognizing Google, Apple and others having the exact same relationship.

Not the same relationship, because you can bet impact projections mean different tax dollar amounts, and different deal sweeteners. The official Google Talk client targets Windows first
MacOS has Facetime and iChat. Sure, you can own those separately, but supposing we had to give out a sardonic award for the largest breach^W accomplishment, you wouldn't go to the alternative guys first.

They are all targets, but guess which company started it all, thanks to owning the fattest install base for the longest number of months? Boom! 80+ percent userbase in a single compromise op. Want ~100%? the NSA can follow up on that during their spare time while the majority of the data pours in.
The same company bought Skype just to add NSA backdoors. It was not enough to just scoop up old users, so the NSA forced it as a replacement to the Windows Messenger client back in April of this year. Also juicy, considering how Skype has Native Windows, Linux and OSX clients. That is thinking big, my friend.

so can someone provide something directly from that,

That would be here , translated here.

Unless I'm not following the Translationese though, I can't see any mention of the Chinese in the network.

It's more likely that some, perhaps a lot of these fires, including this one, are arson — initially started by people directly or indirectly related to fire departments:

California Arsons by Firefighters
Firefighter Arsons
Percentage of Arsons by Firefighters

Putting constructive criticism aside ... even one, is one too many.

It's more likely that some, perhaps a lot of these fires, including this one, are arson — initially started by people directly or indirectly related to fire departments:

California Arsons by Firefighters
Firefighter Arsons
Percentage of Arsons by Firefighters

Putting constructive criticism aside ... even one, is one too many.

It's more likely that some, perhaps a lot of these fires, including this one, are arson — initially started by people directly or indirectly related to fire departments:

California Arsons by Firefighters
Firefighter Arsons
Percentage of Arsons by Firefighters

Putting constructive criticism aside ... even one, is one too many.

Not any more...

I'm 13 and None of My Friends Use Facebook - Mashable
mashable.com/2013/08/11/teens-facebook/ - Cached
Aug 11, 2013 ... Facebook is losing teens lately, and I think I know why. ... my mom heard I was getting bullied on Facebook, she would tell me to quit right away.

Teens: Facebook's becoming more 'meh' | Technically Incorrect ...
news.cnet.com/.../teens-facebooks-becoming-more-meh/ - Cached
Apr 10, 2013 ... Earlier this year, a couple of slightly anecdotal studies suggested that Facebook was showing its laughter lines and that teens were moving ...

Report: Teens leave Facebook for Twitter, because they want less ...
www.geekwire.com/.../pew-report-teens-facebook-twitter-instagram/ - Cached
May 22, 2013 ... Facebook is still the social media king, but teens are using Twitter and Instagram at an increasing rate recently because, well, there's just too ...

Teens have âoeWaning Enthusiasmâ for Facebook - Geek News Central
www.geeknewscentral.com/.../teens-have-waining-enthusiasm-for-facebook/ - Cached
May 29, 2013 ... The Pew Research Center released the results of a study called âoeTeens, Social Media, and Privacyâ on May 21, 2013. One of the findings was ...

Youngest Millennials Reducing Time On Facebook, Turning to Tumblr
www.policymic.com/.../youngest-millennials-reducing-time-on-facebook-turning-to-tumblr - Cached
A 6% difference in teens' use of Tumblr over Facebook may not seem significant ... and 30% of teens would un-friend their parents if they could get away with it.

Are Young People Moving Away From Facebook? - Vocus
www.vocus.com/.../are-young-people-moving-away-from-facebook/ - Cached
Jun 13, 2013... Snapchat and Vine, young people are moving away from Facebook, ... Vocus on Twitter Vocus on Facebook Vocus on YouTube Vocus on ...

How Teens Are Really Using Facebook: It's a 'Social Burden,' Pew ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../teens-facebook-pew-study_n_3313812.html - Cached
May 21, 2013 ... Facebook, teens say, has been overrun by parents, fuels .... .blogs.nytimes.com/ 2010/09/15/dont-tell-facebook-friends-that-youre-going-away/" ...

Teens moving away from Facebook 'drama'; what does 'ready for ...
www.syracuse.com/news/.../teens_moving_away_from_faceboo.html - Cached
May 22, 2013 ... New York City council calls for an end to giving standardized 'field tests' to students.
News for facebook teen moving away from

Why Facebook Is In Decline
Forbes - 5 days ago
Teens hate it when people try too hard; it pushes them away. ... notes that people âoeâ¦are moving away from social networks like Facebook that ...

Teens Starting to See Facebook as Old and Creepy - TechNewsWorld
www.technewsworld.com/story/78111.html - Cached
May 22, 2013 ... "Just because teens may be moving away from Facebook, that doesn't mean everyone is moving away from Facebook," she said. "And it ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+teen+moving+away+from

Love or hate, you'll look at his work differently if you see it in person.

I want to second this. To get a small taste, the Google art project has very high resolution imagery available to the public. Zoom in close on the crescent moon, in Starry Night. Closer, on the crescent's bottom-right corner where the gap ends pointing upwards. The yellow stroke with the large thick blob on the end, and a bit of a hole on it? One of Van Gogh's dragons! (If you don't see it, it may help to rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise (or your head counterclockwise), like an emoticon.)

I've made a table which shows (S&E population percent)/(U.S. population percent)! This is more useful because it shows density of S&E workers in a state population. PDF: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1W_IMAeewo2bVZMYmFkMUN0OTA/edit?usp=sharing

Snowden downloaded NSA secrets while working for Dell But that was top secret documents, not access to the spy data. Snowden had claimed to be able to access that as well, but I don't know at what role he was in, when he claimed he could do that.

You can buy the Nexus 4 straight from Google for basically the American list, no contract required. Wind has some nice no-contract plans if you're in a part of the country they cover.

You searched for "rotten tomato" not "RT" - there's a difference. How the hell should I have known that's what it signified?

ahem.

Sad news, looks like Guynet's reference is a book, not an peer reviewed article:

http://books.google.com/books/about/Migration_and_health_in_a_small_society.html?id=dZwPAQAAMAAJ

Couldn't find data there with a casual search, but maybe someone has it somewhere.

You misspelled Illinois. The picture at that link is the last guy to run our power plant. Maybe he's taking over Microsoft?

This guy was our last mayor (he's dead, shot himself). Recognize those two guys?

You misspelled Illinois. The picture at that link is the last guy to run our power plant. Maybe he's taking over Microsoft?

This guy was our last mayor (he's dead, shot himself). Recognize those two guys?

Or at least have the federal government power pushed back to the spirit of the constitution, defense, freetrade and bill or rights.

The spirit of the Constitution has nothing to do with free trade. Congress is deliberately given broad power to regulate trade. According to Madison, the Constitution was intended to take the power to regulate commerce away from the states and to grant Congress more power that the British Legislature ever had.