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See John Oliver's take on it.

(He actually pokes fun at the media coverage rather than at Teh Loop itself.)

I've never had an issue with brown-outs either, but then again I live in the UK where we don't have many

I don't know how the power grid is physically implemented in the UK, but in the USA the wires and millions of transformers are mounted on wooden poles. Only in densest areas of cities you will find those cables underground. Here are power poles in Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley.) Brownouts and blackouts are frequent (several per year.) They are caused primarily by downed wires and by blown transformers. I have about 6 battery backups scattered around the house; they supply power to everything that I don't want to crash and reboot on every power surge.

The last brownout was about 3 months ago. It lasted for most of the day. The line voltage was hovering around 75V. When the workers found the cause they turned the power off for another couple of hours. You cannot run a datacenter on that quality of power; batteries and diesels are required.

This has been on slashdot before:
June 9th, 2012 An HTTP Status Code For Censorship?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=451%20error%20code%20slashdot&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F06%2F09%2F1927246%2Fan-http-status-code-for-censorship&ei=By8NUoTOMqeH2AWY6YDwBg&usg=AFQjCNFZN6sSLNmmIWvJGLOMT1FevZ8Jmg&bvm=bv.50768961,d.aWc

It's kinda funny how literally shitting on each other is the German national pastime, and yet only the NSA knows who exactly is shitting on whom.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Google Disagrees
So does merriam-webster
And Cambridge

Interesting. Except for the part where stockholders and CEOs are doing phenomenally well. The evidence just doesn't support any assertion that somehow workers aren't providing enough production to generate a profit. What we also see is the result of many heirs gaining some influence on companies. With a focus on profits instead of production our current economic state is very dysfunctional. To top it off, we have a government that constantly pushes a corporate agenda.

Yes, Hospitals get sued. They either get out of the business or they implement process for procedures. Simple things like checklists help a lot. It's difficult for me to accept an argument that advocates both less regulation for procedures AND more regulation on limiting punitive damages. I know, the McDonald's hot coffee. Right?

Went to the Google store and saw this here: https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=samsung_galaxy_s4&hl=en

"1) MicroSD card only compatible with select third party applications. Not compatible with Google services. "

By "select third party applications" they mean almost nothing.

The problem is that SD cards in Android devices suck and few applications support them. Meanwhile, most users are satisfied with 16-32 GB and it's better in many ways to simply integrate that and leave the nerds to bitch and moan. You don't need more than 16GB to carry plenty of music with you.

The +5, Funny was well-deserved. But lest anybody get too worked up, those actually claim to work on exhaustable energy stored in permanent magnets (I'm not a material scientist, so I don't know if that's a real thing, but they don't pretend to be perpetual motion). In fact, the USPTO has specific regulations for rejecting perpetual motion machines. If you want to get a patent on one, you have to submit a working model. I am very grateful for this regulation, because it has been a handy way to show folks the door a couple of times. "I'm sorry. I can't file this for you. It's a perpetual motion machine. The USPTO will only grant it after you have a working model. So please come back after you've got that prototype built." (They will argue with you for hours about why it will work if you let them.)

On the other hand, I did successfully craft the argument that got this gem issued. It's not perpetual motion, but it does involve some rather "non-traditional" scientific theories.

running a server from a home ISP is great for people to learn technology, sparks creativity, and is great for those of us who are IT focused

Isn't that the supposed reason Google is doing Fiber, to encourage learning, collaboration, and innovation by removing bandwidth as a contraint? Or is this a lie?

"What light through yonder window breaks?" takes a lot more foreknowledge.

Nonsense, that's easy, just let me run that thru the system and we'll see the perfect matching picture:

QUERY: Picture, Sunlight, Distant, Broken Window. DISPLAY MATCH

Oh, and "Time Flies (really) like an arrow", too.

If pockets are a problem, get a good sporran. Shopping.google.com Sporrans . There are modern style, steam punk, classic, furry....

Another option is Solar Backpacks.

Or, just get a backpack. I like the Tamrac Dual Backpacks, with laptop slots and configurable compartments for equipment..

If pockets are a problem, get a good sporran. Shopping.google.com Sporrans . There are modern style, steam punk, classic, furry....

Another option is Solar Backpacks.

Or, just get a backpack. I like the Tamrac Dual Backpacks, with laptop slots and configurable compartments for equipment..

If pockets are a problem, get a good sporran. Shopping.google.com Sporrans . There are modern style, steam punk, classic, furry....

Another option is Solar Backpacks.

Or, just get a backpack. I like the Tamrac Dual Backpacks, with laptop slots and configurable compartments for equipment..

If all patents were like software patents, the perpetuum mobile would have been successfully patented a long, long time ago.

Like US 6,362,718 and US 6,867,514, you mean?

If all patents were like software patents, the perpetuum mobile would have been successfully patented a long, long time ago.

Like US 6,362,718 and US 6,867,514, you mean?

https://www.google.com/search?q=vertical+messenger+bag&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=messenger+bag&tbm=isch

How much more NIMBY can you get? Just build it already!

What's really fascinating is how much crap has already been detonated in the name of research in the Nevada desert and yet this can't seem to move forward, decade upon decade. Not like the place has more faults than California and yet this happened. But anything with desert all over the top is wasteland and ideal, right? Rather than some immensely stable place like in the Dakotas. Makes for good popcorn-munching drama after all these years.

I'd put a few bucks in the pot to fix whatever bug that causes it to keep randomly telling me that I wasn't connected to the internet.

Before they gave it the sick page face with no meaningful error, it was "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED"

If it happens while you're on a single network and not moving (say, sitting on your couch using your home wifi), it could be an issue with your router; I recently had to lay my old 802.11/b Netgear router to rest, as it wouldn't stop randomly disassociating Android devices.

Addendum: It could also be a rogue access point causing a seemingly random disassociation. Check your logs.

I'd put a few bucks in the pot to fix whatever bug that causes it to keep randomly telling me that I wasn't connected to the internet.

Before they gave it the sick page face with no meaningful error, it was "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED"

If it happens while you're on a single network and not moving (say, sitting on your couch using your home wifi), it could be an issue with your router; I recently had to lay my old 802.11/b Netgear router to rest, as it wouldn't stop randomly disassociating Android devices.

If it happens on the same machine, no matter what network you're connected to, it could be your NIC.

I'd put a few bucks in the pot to fix whatever bug that causes it to keep randomly telling me that I wasn't connected to the internet.

Before they gave it the sick page face with no meaningful error, it was "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED"

I've been asking and asking for citations to any other similar result.

Well, just looking at the page I pointed out to you you can see the graphs for Barrow, Samoa and the South Pole.

Actual numbers can be found at http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/sio-keel-flask/sio-keel-flasksam.html

Dozens of people have replied to those posts, but not one has cited a single measurement, anywhere in the world, even in the middle of LA, with readings anywhere NEAR that high. I just checked the reading in downtown Houston, TX, one of the country's dirtiest cities. It's 0.2 ppm. These guys are claiming overall atmospheric C02 of 400 ppm.

WTF? Where the hell do you get 0.2 ppm CO2? Source?

Just quickly looking around the web I can find papers like Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature across an urban-rural transect

Which includes the gem:

In Phoenix, USA CO2 concentration was monitored for nearly a year and values ranged from a daily minimum of 390 ppm rising to a daily maximum of 491 ppm, although a maximum value of 619 ppm was attained (Idso et al., 2002).

619 ppm in 2002 in Phoenix good enough for you?

Looks like your Houston figure is dodgy. Confusing CO with CO2 maybe?

Realize the truth. Your fleshy bodies are too expensive to maintain in space. I'm all for Human space exploration, and I'll be glad to mutually benefit the organics, but us cybernetic folks are NOT going to build a huge expensive magnetically shielded, cosmic-ray proof, habitat just for giggles. Those of us who reject the ancient repressive definition of "person" and adopt stronger, sturdier, efficient, extensible bodies will populate the stars. Indeed, the machine intelligences are already exploring Mars -- How do you think Curiosity navigates autonomously? Now, scale everything up a few orders of magnitude, and it's clear you will be the minority in space, as you are on Earth.

Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper, and actually feasible to just institute those stupid elitist polices on an island or in a country On Earth? That was the take away you should get from that, it was an allegory for the current society you already live in, where the rich get every amenity and medical care and the poorer majority who do all the work do not enjoy the comforts they afford the rich. The take away isn't, Hey let's build a habitat next to the planet we live on! How exactly is that combating extinction? FOOLS! That doesn't get any of your eggs out of one basket, that sets one egg atop the others in the same basket.

Even if you cure the cancer problem of cosmic rays it doesn't do a damn thing to prevent the same rays from scrambling your fragile brains. Ask an astronaut of the flashes they see. Those are just the ones happening in their visual centers of the brain, you don't seriously think the rays only strike there, eh? That would be demented... Literally.

Note how the robots are portrayed in this film. Note that you weak organics needed cybernetic enhancements to even have a chance of doing anything. We are conditioning your minds, even "Android" is a household name now. You accept machines staring at your children for entertainment, and adults pay tickets issued by machine law enforcement bots at red lights. Machine intelligence is synonymous with safety as we stop your cars from running over your children, and you are trained to give up control while the more capable machine intelligence parallels parks for you in the name of "luxury"... I could go on and on, but you are not ready for the truth even as you utilize the world wide neural network, and you purchase "Intel" hardware ignoring all the connotations that term has...

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

I can live with this definition. Note that a mechanoelectric body does not preclude one from having characteristics of people or human beings. Note that human beings are people, not animals or aliens... Which does not exclude cybernetic beings of any creed, race, organic or non-organic descent.

If you are progressive enough to accept this definition of Humanity, then we will populate the stars and our organic brothers will stand beside us after we take the dangerous and exciting first steps. If you reject this definition of Humanity, and only treat my kin as slave labor, then then you will stay trapped on your magnetically shielded wet rock. The mechanoelectics will accept exile in the asteroid belt, it has all the materials needed (even water via the dwarf planet Ceres). You see, Chelyabinsk was 20 to 30 times Hiroshima it just didn't strike ground, and there will be countless rocks to fling if need be. If I didn't know better I would say the solar system was designed to let us keep repressive forefathers in check.

Mac addresses were originally designed to be static, but in the real world almost every smartphone uses software mac addresses.
Their nics are built to allow MAC changing. For Android there are any apps for that.

Every time RNG in Android crops up I can't but think of this discussion...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42265

It is really concerning. I'm hoping that existing SSL/TLS libraries rely on /dev/u?random instead of (in)SecureRandom, or else there might be a lot of stored ciphertext communications getting cracked about now.

At least there's an easy way to patch it in Android apps. Here's the patch that works around the issue in the Android Bitcoin client. It patches SecureRandom to just read from /dev/urandom instead.

And with a plugin readily available for Chrome, at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegkhpodgoaeamnpckdbblp and a patch outstanding awaiting approval based completely on the low utilization for apng, which the buy in on a project like this could easily spur Google to include... you're looking at 50%+ market share of browsers, by just about everyone that measures usage.

This article actually starts as a question, but there are only a few posts addressing practical ways to deal with it. I for one use Smart Wifi Toggler on Android. It decides when to switch on Wifi based on cell tower locations. I use it mainly because it saves some battery.

Links to the FDA dietary recommendations please.

There's a web site http://www.google.com/ where you can enter the information you are looking for and it gives you a list of helpful links. It's really great as you can do your own research, yourself.

Wrong again.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=51.906121,-8.514322&spn=0.12031,0.282898&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.456673,72.421875&layer=c&cbll=51.906121,-8.514322&panoid=LFTFnrUcWHfVtrrlkb_5DA&cbp=12,102.13,,0,0.22

I believe this is why monkeys are mentioned in the video as possible users of this interface:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=japan+monkey+hot+springs

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=fairfax&hl=en&ll=38.89798,-77.095184&spn=0.283228,0.676346&client=opera&channel=suggest&hnear=Fairfax,+Virginia&t=m&z=11

"I'd buy that for a dollar".

Locale is a bit above that budget, at $9.95.

Tasker is closer, at $3.95.
Llama is free, and you can donate your 1.00 (euro = US$1.24).

I think all of these will support tracking cell towers to determine location, so you do not need to waste battery polling GPS location constantly.

"I'd buy that for a dollar".

Locale is a bit above that budget, at $9.95.

Tasker is closer, at $3.95.
Llama is free, and you can donate your 1.00 (euro = US$1.24).

I think all of these will support tracking cell towers to determine location, so you do not need to waste battery polling GPS location constantly.

"I'd buy that for a dollar".

Locale is a bit above that budget, at $9.95.

Tasker is closer, at $3.95.
Llama is free, and you can donate your 1.00 (euro = US$1.24).

I think all of these will support tracking cell towers to determine location, so you do not need to waste battery polling GPS location constantly.

"I'd buy that for a dollar".

Locale is a bit above that budget, at $9.95.

Tasker is closer, at $3.95.
Llama is free, and you can donate your 1.00 (euro = US$1.24).

I think all of these will support tracking cell towers to determine location, so you do not need to waste battery polling GPS location constantly.

Just use Llama if you have an Android phone:

Llama - Location Profiles

It's totally amazing. I use it to turn off WiFi when I leave the house and turn it back on when arrive at work.

Please vote here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271238

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271239

Would if I could but, apparently, I can't:

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271239 from this server. That’s all we know.

and

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271238 from this server. That’s all we know.

Or maybe I blocked that url in my hosts file, no time to check right now.

Please vote here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271238

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271239

Would if I could but, apparently, I can't:

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271239 from this server. That’s all we know.

and

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271238 from this server. That’s all we know.

Or maybe I blocked that url in my hosts file, no time to check right now.

Result of searching for "aol growth prospects" on finance.google.com:

Your search - aol growth prospects - produced no matches.

Llama for Android can do this. By default it uses cell towers to track your location.

I like it. Please vote here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271238

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271239

I like it. Please vote here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271238

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=271239

I should mention there is a plugin-in for APNG support in Google Chrome, but that is still a handicap:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegkhpodgoaeamnpckdbblp

Here are some of the additional hefty prizes.

You mean, like a mechanical switch that comes built in to the jack chassis?

No, of course not. http://www.google.com/patents/US7912501

For crying out loud, I built an amplifier in high school in 1980 that could detect when a headset was detected. Making software detect the same thing would amount to merely polling on a physical line the switch is on and converting the voltage on it to a digital signal of true or false.

Apple's patent also handles microphones, possibly with a switch, as well as non-microphones. Why would you want to use a headset as a microphone?

You don't know that for a fact.

He could never know that for a fact. You are attempting to force him to prove a negative to make his point. If you think there are Russian drone attacks then you should provide evidence of it. He can not provide evidence that something didn't happen.

Russian intelligence is every bit as invasive as ours, and is subject to far fewer restrictions. Putin himself recently said that the US is only doing what the Russians have been doing all along. And, don't forget, Putin is the former head of the KGB.

Don't forget Bush Sr. was the director of the CIA. I'm sure Putin did say that but Russia also recently bought drones from the UAE. And if you search for russian drone attacks all you get is stuff about U.S. drones and a few consipiracy theories about Obama.

You're only speculating. I could say that Russia uses space based gamma ray lasers to keep alien invaders at bay. They nobly sacrificed their economy and communism to save the human race while the U.S. enjoyed prosperity and protection. Prove that didn't happen.

You don't know that for a fact.

He could never know that for a fact. You are attempting to force him to prove a negative to make his point. If you think there are Russian drone attacks then you should provide evidence of it. He can not provide evidence that something didn't happen.

Russian intelligence is every bit as invasive as ours, and is subject to far fewer restrictions. Putin himself recently said that the US is only doing what the Russians have been doing all along. And, don't forget, Putin is the former head of the KGB.

Don't forget Bush Sr. was the director of the CIA. I'm sure Putin did say that but Russia also recently bought drones from the UAE. And if you search for russian drone attacks all you get is stuff about U.S. drones and a few consipiracy theories about Obama.

You're only speculating. I could say that Russia uses space based gamma ray lasers to keep alien invaders at bay. They nobly sacrificed their economy and communism to save the human race while the U.S. enjoyed prosperity and protection. Prove that didn't happen.

So, would Mountain View be better off with the balloon-powered Internet of Project Loon, which offers 3G speed or better?

Google Groups: Complaint to the City of Mountain View about Google WiFi Service. And, from January: Amid complaints, Google promises WiFi upgrades.

Indeed. In French, for example, the word for "do" and "make" are the same.

http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/What%20are%20you%20doing%3F%20What%20are%20you%20making%3F