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The quickest way to do a back of envelope, order of magnitude estimate, is to just look at the orbital speeds for 0 km altitude orbit: 7905 m/s and say a 200 km altitude orbit: 7784 m/s. There is only a 120 m/s difference here, and although transfer orbits aren't perfectly efficient with delta-v, they aren't that far off for small changes in radius, and you would only need second half of the typical transfer orbit delta-v, as you start in the elliptical orbit.

Or you could just say use the actual formula from some transfer orbit, and get that the delta-v_2 = 60 m/s (this is for twice the altitude change of the previous comment). Now if you were trying to fire directly into geostationary orbit, the delta-v needed in space would be on the larger order of 1.5 km/s, although you would also now need to deal with a 10 km/s launch instead of 7 km/s...

time warner doesn't have a bandwidth cap

Maybe. But as a TWC customer, when using their service means you get stuck behind peers with well established shitty performance for months and months and months, the distinction between poor bandwidth and poor peering may be irrelevant to your perspective.

https://www.google.com/search?q=twc+slow+youtube

And yet, in this day and age of Google, you are SO fucking lazy that you can not even be bothered to look PRIOR to posting such a stupid comment?
That is pathetic. Even more pathetic is that you were modded up.

When sudo is launched, that's when the malware requests root. That's one method.

There is nothing from stopping a piece of malware requesting root via the su application. The thing is that the prompt shows information on which package is requesting the elevation. In this case, only if the piece of malware could exploit the su application, could it completely undetectably masquerade as an application for which the user would allow root privileges.

Another method is to use a video overlay to put a benign looking button on top of the prompt

I would be highly surprised if su applications do not prevent this (in a way similar to how the UAC elevation prompt prevents it in Windows).

Before assuming I have no experience

That's not what I said. I said: "You obviously have no experience whatsoever with a rooted Android phone."
You can Google 'reading comprehension'.
Also: here is a little bit of gratuitous 'rooting experience' for you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu&hl=en

Note you're also implying Steve Kondrick doesn't know what he's talking about.

I'm most certainly not. I support his idea of creating more fine grained powerful permissions. There are a number of applications that I have given access to root privileges because there is no other way. An AdBlocker that needs to modify the hosts file needs root, but I would rather just give it access to only that specific file.

His motivations are obviously the implementation difficulties of root privileges in SEAndroid: "+Koushik Dutta and +Chainfire are working hard to permit root in some way on 4.3, but I feel that anything done at this point might severely compromise the security of the system and we should start considering better options. "

There's also this: https://www.google.com/settings/dashboard

Move along, nothing to see here. https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/aYgumDrwA1d

What I would love is to selectively choose the permissions to grant an app and fake the permissions I don't allow; for example, give the app access to a fake contacts list so the app itself has no idea whether it has access to my real contacts.

The new Jelly Bean release finally has the beginnings of just such a feature. It's still hidden to the user because it doesn't seem to be quite finished yet, and it's a bit broken in that the permissions you are allowed to enable/disable for an app only seem to show up in the list after the app has used that permission once before, but it's definitely a start! There's an app in the Play store (which does not require any persmissions!) that will give you a launcher to the hidden WIP "App Ops" interface.

http://www.pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transcending-militarism.html
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Likewise, even United States three-letter agencies like the NSA and the CIA, as well as their foreign counterparts, are becoming ironic institutions in many ways. Despite probably having more computing power per square foot than any other place in the world, they seem not to have thought much about the implications of all that computer power and organized information to transform the world into a place of abundance for all. Cheap computing makes possible just about cheap everything else, as does the ability to make better designs through shared computing.
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http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-rant-on-financial-obesity-and-Project-Virgle.html
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Look at Project Virgle and "An Open Source Planet":
http://www.google.com/virgle/opensource.html
Even just in jest some of the most financially obese people on the planet (who have built their company with thousands of servers all running GNU/Linux free software) apparently could not see any other possibility but seriously becoming even more financially obese off the free work of others on another planet (as well as saddling others with financial obesity too :-). And that jest came almost half a *century* after the "Triple Revolution" letter of 1964 about the growing disconnect between effort and productivity (or work and financial fitness):
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC2a_TripleRevolution.htm
Even not having completed their PhDs, the top Google-ites may well take many more *decades* to shake off that ideological discipline. I know it took me decades (and I am still only part way there. :-) As with my mother, no doubt Googlers have lived through periods of scarcity of money relative to their needs to survive or be independent scholars or effective agents of change. Is it any wonder they probably think being financially obese is a *good* thing, not an indication of either personal or societal pathology? :-( ...
So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?
Google-ites and other financially obese people IMHO need to take a good look at the junk food capitalist propaganda they are eating and serving up to others, as in saying (even in jest):
http://www.google.com/virgle/opensource.html
"we should profit from others' use of our innovations, and we should buy or lease others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own goals" -- even while running one of the biggest post-scarcity enterprises on Earth based on free-as-in-freedom software. :-(
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See also, for the future both of them together may create, the upcoming movie "Elysium":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)
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In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on Elysium, a Stanford torus[8][9] high-tech space station governed by President Patel (Faran Tahir), in a utopian setting which includes access to private medical machines that offer instant cures, while everyone else lives below on the overpopulated, ruined, "Third World slum"[7] Ear

http://www.pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transcending-militarism.html
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Likewise, even United States three-letter agencies like the NSA and the CIA, as well as their foreign counterparts, are becoming ironic institutions in many ways. Despite probably having more computing power per square foot than any other place in the world, they seem not to have thought much about the implications of all that computer power and organized information to transform the world into a place of abundance for all. Cheap computing makes possible just about cheap everything else, as does the ability to make better designs through shared computing.
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http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-rant-on-financial-obesity-and-Project-Virgle.html
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Look at Project Virgle and "An Open Source Planet":
http://www.google.com/virgle/opensource.html
Even just in jest some of the most financially obese people on the planet (who have built their company with thousands of servers all running GNU/Linux free software) apparently could not see any other possibility but seriously becoming even more financially obese off the free work of others on another planet (as well as saddling others with financial obesity too :-). And that jest came almost half a *century* after the "Triple Revolution" letter of 1964 about the growing disconnect between effort and productivity (or work and financial fitness):
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/C_CC2a_TripleRevolution.htm
Even not having completed their PhDs, the top Google-ites may well take many more *decades* to shake off that ideological discipline. I know it took me decades (and I am still only part way there. :-) As with my mother, no doubt Googlers have lived through periods of scarcity of money relative to their needs to survive or be independent scholars or effective agents of change. Is it any wonder they probably think being financially obese is a *good* thing, not an indication of either personal or societal pathology? :-( ...
So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?
Google-ites and other financially obese people IMHO need to take a good look at the junk food capitalist propaganda they are eating and serving up to others, as in saying (even in jest):
http://www.google.com/virgle/opensource.html
"we should profit from others' use of our innovations, and we should buy or lease others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own goals" -- even while running one of the biggest post-scarcity enterprises on Earth based on free-as-in-freedom software. :-(
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See also, for the future both of them together may create, the upcoming movie "Elysium":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)
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In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on Elysium, a Stanford torus[8][9] high-tech space station governed by President Patel (Faran Tahir), in a utopian setting which includes access to private medical machines that offer instant cures, while everyone else lives below on the overpopulated, ruined, "Third World slum"[7] Ear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ylee/The_Two_Faces_Of_Tomorrow
"An artificial intelligence system solves an excavation problem on the moon in a brilliant and novel way, but nearly kills a work crew in the process. Realizing that systems are becoming too sophisticated and complex to predict or manage, a scientific team sets out to teach a sophisticated computer network how to think more humanly. The story documents the rise of self-awareness in the computer system, the humans' loss of control and failed attempts to shut down the experiment as the computer desperately defends itself, and the computer intelligence reaching maturity."

However, the 1950s movies "Invisible Boy" and "Forbidden Planet", both featuring "Robbie the Robot" would also be good. The first is about AI out of control, the second is about augmented humans out of control.

But lots more on these themes. Brave New World and 1984 are classics. Norbert Weiner's (founder of Cybernetics) "The Human Use of Human Beings" is great, as is Vannevar Bush's original "Memex". Reading "The Pleasure Trap" and "Supernormal Stimuli" might show them what they are up against.

Vernor Vinge's stuff is great, including about high school in the near future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Vernor_Vinge#Fast_Times_at_Fairmont_High

But together all more than the time of reading just 200 pages...

Theodore Sturgeon's short sci-fi story from the 1950s called "The Skills of Xanadu" is something maybe better than all of these on how computers could affect society, because it provides hope, and it sparked Ted Nelson's Xanadu work on Hypertext that contributed to the Web. It is online here and short:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PP1

UK units are irrelevant because the UK has no space program.

Oh?

According to Chromecast's official support page, Linux isn't supported: https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/3209990?hl=en. I'm hearing mixed reports that it works, or doesn't, on various distros. At any rate, Google has done a lousy job of supporting the platform that made them rich (think Picasa for Linux, the non-existent Linux Drive client, etc.). I don't have a Chromecast. For one thing, it doesn't seem to do much more than my Blu-Ray and HDTV can already do. For another, I'm not sure I could even use it with my Linux box. Has anyone been able to use it with Linux?

Apple says that certain features require a complimentary Adobe Creative Cloud membership, but Adobe lists such membership at $49.99 per month.

There are two levels of creative cloud memberships, one includes subscriptions to a bunch of apps ( that's the $49.99 / month ), and the basic level which is sort of like an icloud / dropbox service for storing files ( which is free for 2 GB worth of storage ). The feature that requires creative cloud is that dropbox-like service.

Also the descriptions on appstores are written by the developers, so is what Adobe is saying, not what Apple is saying. I just checked on my Nexus 10 and the description is pretty much the same in the Google Play store.

So what does Photoshop for a tablet cost?

$9.99 for tablet, $4.99 for phone.

The Latex-lab guys have LaTeX for Google Docs working very well. Our maths faculty use it all the time. See http://docs.latexlab.org/docs Source http://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/

Excel 4.0 was revolutionary because it introduced autofill.

Not excusing this, but perhaps they've tried and haven't been able to redesign a mailer that doesn't somehow infringe on Netflix's mailer patent (and any others that likely exist):

http://www.google.com/patents/US6966484

All they need to do is to license the technology from Netflix. Is that what patents are meant to be all about?

Even I'm not sure if I should be appending that comment with a "</sacasm>" tag or not.

Not excusing this, but perhaps they've tried and haven't been able to redesign a mailer that doesn't somehow infringe on Netflix's mailer patent (and any others that likely exist):

http://www.google.com/patents/US6966484

AOL might disagree.

Weather balloon or swamp gas. There's only two options.

You can upload your content to Google play and then stream it from there. Certainly not ideal at this time, but if you have a problem with it go to https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/ and write your own app to stream that content!

Hopefully someone like Plex will create an app for it to make this easy for everyone.

In hot water for all that monitoring of my veeblefetzers, potrzebies and axolotls.

It's a great day for antidisestablishmentarianism and neoanarchalsocialrepublicanists.

Okay, I was aware of "axolotl", but veeblefetzers and potrzebies surprised me. Wikipedia pages and all!

You can even ask google to convert "1 potrzebie" to metric.

+1 internets to you, sir!

(This is going into my WTF? that's real? list, alongside "Legends of Nascar" commemorative plates.)

Both Donald Knuth and I are massive fans of the old Mad Magazine. This seems to be a Potrzebie Friday, if ever there was one. I'm building an inventory system and test data are Veeblefetzers, Potrzebies and Axolotls. For further research I may have to fish out my copy of Gasoline Valley.

This is all rather off-topic, but the spirit of the OP was to obfuscate in event anyone is (ha!) monitoring us.

In hot water for all that monitoring of my veeblefetzers, potrzebies and axolotls.

It's a great day for antidisestablishmentarianism and neoanarchalsocialrepublicanists.

Okay, I was aware of "axolotl", but veeblefetzers and potrzebies surprised me. Wikipedia pages and all!

You can even ask google to convert "1 potrzebie" to metric.

+1 internets to you, sir!

(This is going into my WTF? that's real? list, alongside "Legends of Nascar" commemorative plates.)

No wonder Siri can never find the "carr park" I've been sayign it wrong all along...

Perfect Boston Accent

Sounds like you made some pretty poor choices.
Here is a list of devices with that sort of stuff available:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers

Buying devices without drivers available is voting with your dollars for this to continue. If you want it to stop you have to take some responsibility.

I will find you through Google.

Even if signed out of google this may not be as anonymous as you think.

Though they say this process will make it so.

I will find you through Google.

Even if signed out of google this may not be as anonymous as you think.

Though they say this process will make it so.

Since it's already being done, why not? As long as it's optional, it shouldn't be an issue. You can manage your Google ad preferences here, by the way, including opting out of personalization altogether. Note that you have to be logged in either for editing your preferences or for Google to track you.

The only drawback here is that it will take a lot of engineering effort as well as time to get Firefox's preference estimates to come close to being as good as those of established ad companies.

You thought iTunes was bad wait until you install Samsung Kies, nothing inspires confidence more than the first message it gives you on its home screen is "if this fails to connect", why would it fail ?, ok so it fails to connect press the "troubleshooter" button and it re-installs the phone drivers ! (10min operation) which has no effect on why it wont connect, not to mention it is slow beyond belief using 1GB RAM just to open, written by the lowest bidder in .NET 4, in a word awful, how awful ?

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=1&q=samsung%20kies%20worst

no joke

Samsung is doing a better job of improving Android than Google is.

Except its interesting to note that Samsung have started offering Google Play Edition Phone due to demand for it. HTC has also a Google Play edition.

Where are the Samsungs compelling first party Apps? A quick search on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/search?q=samsung&c=apps shows a couple of nice Applications to use with your Samsung smart tv and nothing else. Google Inc is a different story https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Inc.

Samsung is doing a better job of improving Android than Google is.

Except its interesting to note that Samsung have started offering Google Play Edition Phone due to demand for it. HTC has also a Google Play edition.

Where are the Samsungs compelling first party Apps? A quick search on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/search?q=samsung&c=apps shows a couple of nice Applications to use with your Samsung smart tv and nothing else. Google Inc is a different story https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Inc.

How easily people forget that AWS is Amazon's excess server capacity.

Is this common knowledge? I've never heard this before. Do you have a source?

Vogels also noted that Amazon eats its own dog food. As of Nov. 10, 2010, all of the web traffic for Amazon.com is being served by Amazon Web Services, he said.[1]

[1] Miller, Rich. Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects. Data Center Knowledge, June 22nd, 2011.

You might also like: to try using google before asking questions thus easily answered on slashdot.

I've operated and admined thousands of Windows based PCs and I have never once seen a system update that broke anything.

Lucky you.

FUD. I have a micro USB3 portable SSD which is backwards compatible to any of the MicroUSB2 cables I have around.

https://www.google.com/search?q=micro+usb3

The only real-life difference with lightning is "doesn't matter which way I plug it in". The rest is just great technical sheet data.

I don't want a sidebar. I want a ribbon. You get all used to the ribbon, and you don't want to go back.

I don't want a sidebar or especially a ribbon. I fucking HATE that goddamned ribbon. That ribbon is one of the larger reasons I'm glad I'm retiring next year. The ribbom in Excel is nothing like the ribbon in Word, and neither is anything like the ribbon in Access. Outlook is even worse. What's worse than that is when they upgraded from Office 7 to 10 they changed where crap was in the damned ribbon.

That ribbon is insane. After thirty years of file-save we had "funny wierd non-hovering icon"-save. At least they brought "file" back with 2010. See, lady I'm literate. I hate icons. Icons are fine for kindergartners but not for the literate. I don't want to have to hunt through three rows of confusing icons, I want to hit one of half a dozen written words that indicate what's behind it.

Usually when I try stuff like libre office, I can only go a day, maybe a week, before I run into formatting problems and critical missing features.

I'm writing a book using Open Office and after saving it in .doc it formatted perfectly in a friend's copy of Word. I saw folks at slashdot praising LibreOffice and tried it out. As soon as I opened the book in it, I closed the program and uninstalled it; no full justification is a non-starter for me.

Do you know what happens when a student tries to make their lab report in LibreOffice, or on a mac or something, and then uses a school windows computer to print it 2 minutes before class? The formatting gets all messed up, and I doc them points because of it.

Do you know what happens when you save your document in PDF format? It prints the same on every computer and every printer. No Microsoft garbage needed. And BTW, since you claim to be a teacher I'm docking you points for misspelling a very simple word. Sheesh, with teachers like you no wonder the Converse street bar has "Todays Special's" and so many slashdotters don't know the difference between the verbs "lose" and "loose" (never mind there, they're, and their). But it kind of gives me an idea why you like the ribbon. I'll bet you had a hard time getting through college what with your dyslexia (yes, the ribbon is great for dyslexics and children).

And why are you asking for PAPER?? Why not just have them email you a PDF? It's the 21st cenury, get with the times.

Lsyncd plus some of queue to sync when destination device is available.

Even sunlight has its limits.

Well of course ... you've never heard of the dark bulb?

Here's one reference and then here's the first part of another here

Bah!! I can't find the original article, the only online reference I can find to it is this:
1989/10 Reprinted in "The Best of "The Journal of Irreproducible Results" ISBN 0-89480-595-9, (ed. Dr. George H. Scherr), James L. DeLucas, "Definition of a Darkbulb"

But I've actually got an old copy of JIR right here -- let me hold it up to the CRT and you can read it for yourself.

"Googles native client seems secure enough... https://developers.google.com/native-client/"

But again... Native Client is nothing more than pre-compiled HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. It doesn't do anything new, it just pre-compiles it.

It is very, very far from a complete OS running in a sandbox.

Classic hydro is not what people usually think when they talk about 'renewable'.

All people that use that newfangled thing called internet seem to disagree with you.

Appliantologists

I just don't get it! So in winter this town is in almost perpetual night? So what the fuck are these mirrors going to reflect moonlight???

Switch to decaf and chill out. The town is not in perpetual night. At about 60 degrees north latitude, that's impossible. However, because it is situated in a deep valley that runs east-west, it is in the shadow of the surrounding mountains for five months out of the year.

(This I was able to find out with about 30 seconds' research - about as long as it took for you to dismiss these people as idiots and write your short-sighted post.)

What kind of Mad-Maxian post apocalyptic nightmare has the USA turned into?

It is truly revolting. You need to look hard for a road sign that is not yet defaced or shot up. Every other overpass is covered in graffiti. Every fifth delivery truck is covered in graffiti. Every other teenager rides in a rusty car, plays gangsta rap, wears pants on his ankles, and some may try to kill you for a wrong look. I do not stop in unsafe places, of which there are many. But why do I tell you all this, come and see for yourself! You'd kiss the Canadian soil as soon as you cross back. Mere Mississauga, a little industrial suburb within GTA, looks like heaven once you have to visit Niagara Falls (that is on the US side) and come back.

But I work in the USA, and that work is important.

The KDE philosophy may be fine IF you can throw more or less unlimited resources on it

"Will Stephenson from openSUSE giving a talk on how to make a more lightweight #KDE at #akademy2013 . KLyDE (the optimized version) has a memory footprint of only 119 MB!"
https://plus.google.com/106620870500514995860/posts/GuXFD4wqj3V

Btw, funny how you attempt to prove "KDE philosophy" the Extragear application Digikam that is not even part of mainline KDE.

IMHO the "Mac Premium"

Mac is "mid range" for exciting premium products you have to look at companies like google with the Pixel

Umm .. I'd suggest that you don't understand what is meant by "mac premium".

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/,

The Chromebook is not in the same league as an Air .. they perform two different functions. If you don't have an internet connection then the Chromebook is somewhat crippled, whereas the Air is stand alone.

this low resolution laptop so electronics is not cutting it. no wonder Apple have had drops of 22%; 2; and 7% over the last three quarters...and the reason they are not selling is not the iPad which is down -14%.

I'm not disagreeing that Apple needs to pick up the pace, however those drops can be explained by commoditizing of the market, not that Apples products are suddenly inferior.

IMHO the "Mac Premium"

Mac is "mid range" for exciting premium products you have to look at companies like google with the Pixel http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pixel/, this low resolution laptop so electronics is not cutting it. no wonder Apple have had drops of 22%; 2; and 7% over the last three quarters...and the reason they are not selling is not the iPad which is down -14%.

It doesn't need a remote. The specs listed on the Google Play Store shows that it supports CEC. That means that the remote control for your TV (assuming you have a modern TV that supports the CEC standard) IS the remote for your ChromeCast. CEC is not like the old 'program' your remote days. CEC passes commands from your TV to your external device, so you don't select different devices on your remote. It just works.

I am currently using CEC for XBMC on the Raspberry Pi. It works seamlessly. One remote controls both the Television and the Raspberry Pi. No setup was required. It just works.

It's a Nexus. That means it will get updated.
Not necessarily, the Nexus one stopped at android 2.3.6 and is no longer listed at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and the Nexus S stopped at 4.1.1, never making it to 4.2.

This is a decent code sample too:
https://code.google.com/p/adamkoch/source/browse/#git%2Fbitmapfun

From, here:
http://developer.android.com/training/displaying-bitmaps/index.html

(adam koch is an Android developer advocate at Google, and the code comes from the AOSP but is backported to use the support lib)

There are two apps you need to know about: ReKey from DUO security and Northeastern University. ReKey will fix the MasterKey problem if you do not want to wait for a patch from your carrier. (http://www.rekey.io/)

The other app is from Bluebox Security and is called Bluebox Security Scanner. The Scanner app will simply tell you if your phone has the Master Key vulnerability. Bluebox Security Scanner

According to Google Trends, interest in GNOME and GTK+ is soon to be extinct.

For crying out loud, Google Trends compares search terms without any context. All the comparisons I've seen in this discussion make as much sense as mine. Time to write a new story about Gnome losing to goblins and dwarves?