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Your an idiot.

Delicious irony! You're uneducated, which explains why you've fallen for oil company propaganda.

Global cooling was a conjecture [not scientific theory] during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. The current scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth has not durably cooled, but undergone global warming throughout the 20th century.[1]

But you go ahead and listen to the Koch brothers self-serving fairy tales.

I'm simply not going to pay hardback prices for an ebook, and I suspect there are plenty of others who feel the same way.

That would be this guy.

Hell, I'm a bit offended that, when I buy a brand new paper book, it doesn't come with a digital copy. Pure rent-seeking, it is.

Oh, well, only a matter of time before I scavenge enough parts to build an automated book scanner.

It is implied by the usage of resurrected.

Actually, we use "resurrected" for lots of non-living things, e.g. a plan.

Getting a little hysterical now, aren't we?

They've been doing this for a long time. They have lots of doctors figuring it out. Pilgrims are required to get vaccinations. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2u48UKUiN7P-J4kpKLxAebg0ovg?docId=CNG.acecd21530a5cd7893d6d481941594e6.261

Claire Chennault, OTOH, did indeed run one:

http://books.google.com/books?id=g-NiFRg1khAC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&dq=chennault+brothel&source=bl&ots=gGL0BO-ZRH&sig=knCPOPDH-Y0e_lJtvUh0vNAN_ms&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RVcEUqe3B-mkyQHZ0YHgCg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=chennault%20brothel&f=false

Damn! [...] I was looking forward to watching them :(

Firefox, Opera, and Chrome/Chromium support VP8/WebM out of the box. Internet Explorer just needs the following codecs installed:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/webmmf/thankyou.html

Hookers supposedly got their name from General Hooker in the Civil War

Accent on "supposedly". Here it is five years before that war:

http://books.google.com/books?id=6EfnQ2HMU9QC&pg=PA201&dq=intitle:americanisms+hooker&output=html

How do you access all of your data at the NSA? do they offer a subscription service or something?

Yes, they do!

"A.) Pagefile.sys (partition #1 1gb size, rest is on 3gb partition next - this I didn't do on SSD though)" -

CORRECTION = "this I didn't do on software-based ramdrives though"

* :)

Only reason? I didn't have enough excess RAM in my systems to pull it off is why! That was the ONLY reason along with the fact that the 1st DDK based RamDrive software I used, was my own:

http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=4b498971aefdff90&psj=1&q=%22APK+RamDisk%22

(Was limited - Fat 12 floppy filesystem 32mb size limited iirc & that's what you have to redo/overcome to create "unlimited size" ones, especially in today's 64-bit environs being predominant)...

However - it CAN be done though, via EEC systems/SuperSpeed.com (& now certainly with 64-bit software ramdrives as well) or others that used MS Windows bootup RAM range exclusions (provided you have TON of ram that is to start with).

I prefer doing pagefiles on my Gigabyte IRAM (just as I did on CENATEK's rocketdrive for years before it), to offset seek/access being slower on HDD's, less fragmentations of the HDD's filesystems, & also of course, separated from HDD's creates less "head movements" for paging too... it works.

APK

P.S.=> Need more "consciousness fuel" today I think (coffee)...

... apk

ChromeOS isn't closed - well, no more than Android is. ChromeOS is actually based on Gentoo, believe it or not, so if anything the foundation is even more open.

However, in general everything in ChromeOS is web-based, and web-based apps in general don't have touchscreen UIs. I'm not sure that we'll ever see full Android-ChromeOS convergence. If we do, the result will be a platform that is actually much closer to the traditional Linux distro.

Wait, what? The chromebook pixel is fully touchscreen enabled, and ChromeOS fully supports touchscreen, including all of Google's native apps. Tell me this is some attempt at a bad joke?

I didn't say that ChromeOS wasn't touch-screen enabled, only that web-based apps in general don't have touchscreen UIs. Google's native apps supporting touchscreen was actually news to me, but when I'm browsing websites on Android from time to time I still run into sites that depend on mouseover for something, and that doesn't work with touchscreen (though it would work fine with the trackpad/ball if your device has one and the OS supplies a cursor).

I'm not really saying it can't be done, just that so far nobody really does it that way, perhaps a few Google apps aside.

I would presume that you are enjoying your shiny new Google Glass. carry on then.

Google still works. It just requires a little more thought on what kind of terms you would like to see in the articles you want to read. It could still use some tweaking.

Proof and sources:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/02/liar-liar-pants-on-fire/317/

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/newecn/Classes/Art/INT1/Mac/1930s/1930sAA.html

http://www.economonitor.com/danalperts2cents/2009/01/23/unhappy-days-are-near-again/

Or just look at https://www.google.com/search?q=unemployment+1930s+graph&client=firefox-a&hs=9cz&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=riwDUqS_CqOdyQHG24DYDw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1536&bih=694
  where you can see dozens of nice little graphs that show unemployment dropping throughout FDRs term.

Once again- no knowledge of history.

Face it, Google just isn't getting what they wanted out of the platform.

Or they got exactly what they wanted: market penetration. The majority of happy Android users will have no problem upgrading to a closed Chrome Mobile as long as they get keep their apps (which will then be emulated in an Android VM, a VM within a VM if you will). And Google dropping old, smelly, and open Android means they won't keep their apps on future Android devices.

ChromeOS isn't closed - well, no more than Android is. ChromeOS is actually based on Gentoo, believe it or not, so if anything the foundation is even more open.

However, in general everything in ChromeOS is web-based, and web-based apps in general don't have touchscreen UIs. I'm not sure that we'll ever see full Android-ChromeOS convergence. If we do, the result will be a platform that is actually much closer to the traditional Linux distro.

Wait, what? The chromebook pixel is fully touchscreen enabled, and ChromeOS fully supports touchscreen, including all of Google's native apps. Tell me this is some attempt at a bad joke?

>The information is simply not there

If you have a relatively small focal depth, it is. Google "depth from defocus".

I'd be very interested in knowing how NASA plans on disinfecting its spacecraft prior to launch so it doesn't wind up detecting now, or years or centuries down the line, what we brought with us.

Google can be helpful. So can wikipedia.

*sigh* a few years ago I'd have said "Google is your friend."

Only if you request chrome to do so, and then specifically tell it to sync your passwords,

If you log into Chrome it asks you to sync everything by default. Most people will choose the default. Passwords by default are checked.

And then specifically tell it to save your passwords. And if you do, it offers to let you use an encryption password for your chrome sync.

Yes it asks if you want to save a password in the password list. You should answer no to this, but keep in mind that people will say yes not knowing the risks associated with the choice.

As for the encryption password. It asks you when you first setup chrome, but again by default it uses your Google Password for the Encrytion Key. Grandma will not type in a different password if it doesn't force her to, and if it does, most likely she'll forget it and have to wipe all of her settings and bookmarks when you have to Reinstall Chrome.

Ideally, the option to show passwords should not exist. If I have a problem with a Password I should just simply delete it and go though the site procedures to recover my password. Having an easy to read password store that's cloud accessible is asking for trouble.

I believe "google account auth + secondary encryption key" counts as two factors.

I'm specifically talking about 2 Step Verification. Two factor comes into play when it comes to storing your Chrome User data using the secondary encryption key, Which also isn't a bad thing to do.

*I* think I can handle a certain amount of texting while driving, it's the lawmakers who think I can't. They're pushing laws for us to not read texts while we drive... and they want to text us while we're driving. Small problem there...

links:

Minessota [cbslocal] article you mentioned, in 2011.

Texas [foxnews] has one as well in 2009.

Or the LMGTFY [google], if you prefer.

Yes, let's just wake up the whole country for what is usually custodial interference, because if there's one thing people are good at, it's spotting license plates when they're home sleeping in bed. Hope you like getting an average of one alert every two minutes. (203,900+58,200)/365 = about 700 per day, and that's not even counting the runaways. Let's say the bulk of the country lives in one of ten major metropolitan areas... you'd still get them 70 times per day. Even if only 1 in 10 gets an alert, that's 7 per day... 50 per week, 2500 per year.

But we don't get that many, do we? No matter which way you look at it, someone is deciding which cases are worth waking everyone up for and which aren't. You can let the government decide, or you can decide for yourself.

And of course, it's well-known that there's a tri-core PPC in the Xbox 360. There's also a castrated little PPC core in the front of the PS3's processor

Whoa there. If you're going to defend PowerPC, you should acknowledge that the PPC core in the Xbox360 is the same core as in the PS3. The PS3's main work is done by the 7 vector processors (alternately called "APU"s, "SPUs", "SPC"s, depending on who's talking), but the CPU core is the same repipelined Power4 with a VMX unit on it. My memory fails me, but there may be a minor change in the VMX for the 360. Microsoft didn't want to spend the time on custom vector units, so they just asked for enough cores off the shelf to meet their objectives.

Refer to The Race for a New Game Machine for more details if you're truly curious. It was written by two of the lead designers/architects of both CPUs.

Another way to competitively break your phone:
smashr.

There's a couple of problems here.

The first is that Microsoft still assumes that the world wants to do nothing better with their devices that make Word docs and spreadsheets and PPT presentations, and "consume media" (I hate that expression). Meanwhile, the world has found lots of other fun things to do with their devices, and tablets and smartphones are great at doing a lot of them. And those same devices are not that great for doing a lot of serious number crunching, presentation making, and so on. (It's not impossible, but I think power users of ipads etc. would tell you it's not a better experience).

The second problem is that there are other suites out there that work pretty damn well, even off line. I'm a huge fan of softmaker office on both the desktop and on Android. I use it on my Google Nexus 7 to take notes in meetings, then transfer to my desktop for finishing up and distributing, etc. It works perfectly well with no wifi connection available, and is a pretty damned powerful bit of software that's getting good reviews.

The third problem, as mentioned above, is the fact that publishing a sub-standard product for the competing product might work when you've got the market lead and people are already interested in your platform. But when you're playing catch up, it's a loser's strategy. Who wants to buy a crappy version of Office365 only to find out it works better on a platform few others use, with hardware you don't like and don't want to buy, etc.?

This losing strategy is sponsored by Steve "Anchor" Ballmer, sinking Microsoft since the day he took the helm. Watch out for those rocks ahead, captain!

Microsoft still has not learned to compete without being abusive monopolist, especially in a market with many competing products. People buy office for compatibility Insurance...Cue scenarios where a power-point document not working justifies the cost to a home user of £8($12) A month...The cost of a top of the range 7" tablet every two years. Competing products are free or equivalent to a one off payment about the same as Microsoft one month from Microsoft. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub read the reviews the product is simply annoying what should be potential customers by overcharging for an Office product.

The fact that this software is impossible to find on the play store(unlike 365 Sex positions...seriously there are not that many)...its incompatible with my devices, and doesn't work on the more useful tablets!? Microsoft do not understand that people will buy into there ecosystem if you offer them a great product...at great value. If those exist, potential customers may be more willing to look at Microsoft's hardware offerings as something more than a sad joke.

I hope that these guys vomit their cheerios when they see how many previously complacent customers jump to the competition and never come back.

Hence all the commercials about "slow DSL". Comcast has power because in a lot of areas, the competition can't even deliver 2 Mbps.

Will they start warning people about downloading VLC

That depends on whether the MPEG-LA is willing to get into bed with Comcast the way the MPAA has.

What about a warning for downloading Snowden's stuff from Wikileaks?

Worse yet: a warning even for downloading information about a plush snowman sold by Target.

Say you now have a Netflix app that will in the background download what it expects you to watch. Then if you want to watch it it is available even if it is offline.

Very likely. Some of the streaming music services already do this. Google Play Music and MOG are two I am familiar with.

You can't patent math.

As TFS states, it's the implementation that is patented. Not sure which ones belong to blackberry, but google patents has a number of related patents based on a quick cursory search.

Please do pump-up summaries by including pseudoscientific commentary. Lead does not cause crime any more than global warming causes piracy.

In my experience, led is quite good a STOPPING crime!!!

Please do pump-up summaries by including pseudoscientific commentary. Lead does not cause crime any more than global warming causes piracy.

I've explained this several times. Slashdot introduced a code point whitelist after past abuses of bidirectional override characters.

So either whitelist known characters, or simply fucking ban bidirectional override characters. Or is the codebase stuck at the same time the cookies at the bottom of the page are?

I've explained this several times. Slashdot introduced a code point whitelist after past abuses of bidirectional override characters.

This. I tried a few alternative services when I first heard that Google Reader was going away. Most left something to be desired. Someone here mentioned TTRSS. I gave it a shot and haven't looked back since. A mobile skin is available that works acceptably on iOS, and there are apps for Android that are even better. (I'm kinda partial to this one.)

UM... https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+five+plus+seventeen easily gives the answer.

This is quite an ingenious attack, but I am very surprised it has taken people so long to find it, as it is very straightforward and easy to understand conceptually. Makes you wonder "how did I not think of that".

Although it may seem like the requirements of a successful attack are difficult to achieve, this may not be the case.
It is usually very easy to inject some plain-text in the source code of webpages.

On facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php/INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE/
If you view the source of that URL you can see the text "INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE" appears 3 times in the source code.
By appending the query string, on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkugwOYbFw&INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE
And on google:
https://www.google.com/?INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE

That means that an attacker can extract secret information from a lot of the HTTPS pages that you're visiting.

When I first read about this attack, the first fix that came into my mind was to just append /* [random text of random size] */ to all text/html responses.
  But this may cause troubles: if the random padding is too large, the purpose of compression
is defeated. If it is too small, workarounds may be found.

Maybe it is time to start thinking of algorithms that perform compression and encryption together, not separately?

This tehnique won't work for long: https://www.google.com/search?q=five+plus+seventeen

Minteye was very thoroughly broken.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhabrahabr.ru%2Fpost%2F167359%2F&act=url

Essentially, the guy realized that jpeg pictures with distortions should have a completely different size than the undistorted picture. But all pictures delivered by minteye were of identical length. He figured they were padding the files with zeros, and he was right. By counting the number of zeros at the end of the file, the local maxima/minima was the correct file. He wrote a few lines of javascript, and it was broke.

If they have nothing that wil get rid if the pain your argument is invalid. You are not trying to coerce information from them via pain - it is simple punishment. I'm sorry for believing in spanking kids (NOT beating them they are NOT the same thing.)
In this case the game master never gets a bloody nose, as the perpatrator knows it would be their death. Even a metaphorical bloody nose. I don't understand why you think hitting someone with a reed and causing non-permanent damage is creul.

There is no way of stopping the pain except to never offend again. That is the only manner of getting rid of it. As a result recitivism rates are near-0 http://books.google.com/books?id=7Ei5GwzChNQC&pg=PA284&lpg=PA284&dq=recidivism+rate+in+islamic+states&source=bl&ots=V-nV-uxT6w&sig=iUUwet4bl1Vy1PGlqdWi-RxCK24&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Yw4AUuLNJO-GyQH-xYCYCQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=recitivism&f=false is an example of an in-depth analysis.

As I said I don't agree with it, but you can't argue with results. They are not having permanent slashes carved into their flesh by whips; that is solely a relic of western culture. The punishment is strictly designed to inflict pain and minimize permanent damage. It is an empriically effective means of punishment (using recitivism rates as the criterion of evaluation), and you simply refused to accept that. Simply inflicting pain on an offending party does not a cruel punishment make.

I love how you connected it to waterboarding as a means of grasping at straws. As I said that argument is entirely invalid when there is NO way of stopping the pain.

Not sure is this is already super well known, but only 1 word is actually used for verification. In this example you could type "thrand " and pass it. The verification word always looks similar in font/size to 'thrand'. Oh, and the other word I believe is a scan from a book and if you *do* type it in, it will help the digital scan of the book actually pin point what word it is.

Just imagine the horseshit we'd see when the next Terri Shiavo circus happens.

"Her pupils dilated! She's saying something!"

'No! It's the drugs!"

And round and round and mo' money mo' money for Fox News.

And which one(s) do that? Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all have Flash enabled by default if it's installed, and all of them auto-play videos that are in background tabs. By your standard, they all suck, it would seem.

You can obviously use a Flash blocker or use browser settings to disable plugins until they are clicked, but none of them are configured that way on first launch. Personally, I like to whitelist Flash on certain sites (e.g. Hulu, YouTube), but I still don't want videos playing in background tabs just because I chose to not disable the plugin. I want them to wait to play until I actually am on that tab. Safari does this right out of the box, and it's a really nice touch, but it's the only browser that does it as far as I know, and while I like Safari decently well on my Mac at home, I can't stand it on my Windows computer at work, and even the Mac version is giving me headaches due to the piss poor support for userscripts.

For Chrome, I've handled the problem using an extension: Stop Autoplay in Background Tabs for Youtube. Works great, but it's definitely not configured like that out of the box, so by your standard, Chrome apparently sucks.

For Firefox, I've been looking for an extension that does the trick, but so far all of the ones I have tried fail under various conditions, most of which are obvious, non-edge cases. Again, by your standard, Firefox sucks.

Opera too, apparently, since out of the box it has Flash enabled and auto-plays videos.

I didn't bother testing IE, but maybe it does what you described and you're a big fan of it?

Honestly, I was expecting something like Google TISP. Because that's one "pipe" coming into your house that you don't need to drill a hole in the wall for! After all, it's all just a series of tubes, right?

But seeing as how it isn't about Google, now I'm feeling down in the dumps. This is a pretty crappy development, if you accept TFA in toto. Or maybe they're just taking the piss.

Except as a rule they dont attack humans in the wild. Even the one documented attack was a non-fatal one.
If that orca wanted to kill the human he wouldnt have let him go. I even suspect the killer whale mistook
a surfer in a black wetsuit swimming among seals for a seal. You dont swim in the waters of northern california without one.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19960117&id=GIo1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=QiEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3872,1646286

Why dont orcas attack humans? 1) Orcas that attack humans would tend to be hunted down 2) Humans are not part of the regular diet
of an orca.

The definition of homicide means when both the killer and the person being killed are humans.
Citation: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homicide
Many more citations: https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+homocide&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

They don't want a repeat of the PBS Kids Super Why app debacle, where they had inexperienced developers design a very static ui which really didn't scale at all. The app worked on a single device on android 2.2

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beancreative.superwhy.android

Problem is that some cheap routers keep the functionality alive even when you disable it!

Some are notorious for being hackable with WPS even when the functionality is disabled:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ags-JmeLMFP2dFp2dkhJZGIxTTFkdFpEUDNSSHZEN3c

Any other arbitrary guidelines you'd like to throw in?

Here's the Chromebook Pixel. It's 3:2 at 2560x1700. I don't know if you want wider or taller since you didn't specify.

Here's the reference to hurricane Greta's "gale diameter" size. I forgot to put it in my reply above.

Companies with similar products have similar political goals. I commend you on your deep insight, but I don't see how that delegitimizes their political activity nor do I see how corporate donations and event sponsorship constitute "agitation". Agitation usually means trying to whip up a mob mentality and promoting civil unrest which are not usually tactics used by corporations.

I'll spell; it out as many times as necessary. Corporations in in similar industries all share similar goals. If they are allowed a bigger voice in politics on account of being enormously more wealthy than individuals then those goals will be served and not the goals of the majority of people. You claimed (which claim was a lie) to not see the problem with this. Well buddy, that's the problem.

It's amusing to see you are concerned about the connotations of the word "agitation" - which is used correctly (look it up) yet you claim people don't "give" money to corporations. Libertarians love the word games.

And consider this, if one sincerely confuses the meaning of words in their own thinking, then that's an honest mistake. OTOH if one continually "playing dumb" about the shared and obvious meaning of words like "giving" and attempting to cloud the meaning of what is being said , then that's something more like "sociopathic manipulation ."

We here having a not-so-nice conversation and what are you doing? Attempting to dodge the sense of what what's being said to you by pretending to believe that when people say "giving money to corporations" they intended to say "donating money to corporations"

It's a form of lying and manipulation., "I am not going to really engage in ideas, I am going to pretend you said something you didn't and see if I can derail your original point, a point for which I have no real rebuttal."

Not having an effective rebuttal to your opponent's point is cause for a review of your own beliefs in people who aren't narcissists. For narcissists it's a signal that they need to engage in verbal sleights of hand .

Fact stands as is- corporations with enormous wealth use that wealth to agitate for policies which are harmful and destructive of the common good while best for their own short term good. If the political system were better engineered to neutralize the differential effectiveness that wealth now provides, the common good would be better served.

Finally, because you seem not to understand this , the point of any democracy is to serve the common good of its members. This does include securing their liberties, but not at the expense of the everyone else.

This is 4th grade shit. Perhaps you were home schooled.

I don't think American auto companies actually claimed they would go broke if they were mandated to install airbags as standard equipment. Rather they claimed that it would raise the cost of their products, making their products less competitive in that segment of the market which wanted lower cost vehicles. No need for you to be hyperbolic.

  Lee Iacocca claimed the "Japs" would "eat us (US car companies) alive" to Nixon :

http://books.google.com/books?id=-7JU3Xk3NTgC&lpg=PA111&ots=j3Z9hOa6NI&dq=airbag%20nader%20iacocca&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q=airbag%20nader%20iacocca&f=false

There's not need for your total historical ignorance except that , like all libertarians of which you are decidedly one, you prefer to *hypothesize* about the nature of reality from *first principles* and draw your conclusions deductively rather than, you know, go out and deal with reality as it is.

Fact stands; US automakers resisted the deployment of airbags and in so doing condemned to death thousands of Americans who otherwise would have lived and they did this to line their own pockets and they *could* do this because they are rich in a political system that favors the opinions of the rich at the expense of the rest of the nation's citizens.

It's called Google Device Policy, but it's only been available for Google Apps for Business users

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.enterprise.dmagent&hl=en

It's great to have a general user option soon, but for those of you with business needs, the option is already there ;-)

It is, of course, tempting to dismiss his extreme claims as some sort of mental aberration -- perhaps resulting from his having hit the jackpot with the sale of his company for, by some accounts, between $3B and $4B to one of the most prominent credit rating agencies in the world.

On the other hand, he did sell his company for between $3B and $B to one of the most prominent credit rating agencies in the world.

Moreover, if we give the initial statement in Clark's Laws any credence: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right.", RHN's age and the fact that he is commenting on his specialization should be given some weight.

With this in mind, I would ask you to review the linked presentation -- which I located at Sandia's website (and of which I recommend you commit to memory lest it disappear down the memory hole) -- made by RHN at Sandia in 2006. Note he proposes an "Extraction System Organization" with a budget rising to $300B/year by 2015.

In particular, I found this item interesting:

Collectors and Analysts have no need to know how extraction system works (this knowledge should be highly restricted) – users need only know extraction system’s capabilities and how to use it.

CAUTION: Some obviously psychotic individuals claim there to be a deep relationship between credit card companies and the surveillance state. They should be locked up for their own safety.