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And this is a surprise or news worthy why? This application:

Wifi Key Recovery

Has been in Google's Play store forever. That strongly indicates that the key's are not stored encrypted (or with a very simple encryption) and that Android "secure" them by not giving normal applications access (the app require root to function).

The junior Senator from Minnesota played a crucial role in the early days of this technology

This smacks of intellectual dishonesty. When you hear a politician describe themselves as "pro-choice" do you actually find yourself confused as to what issue they're referring?

No. But by using a word that is a mirror image of the acceptable newspeak, I'm drawing attention to the use of language to reframe thinking (brainwash?) about abortion. It looks like it worked.

It's also interesting that my use of this term has caused so many to jump to irrational conclusions about where I fall on the spectrum of beliefs about this issue.

I turned off Backup on Android after discovering this

This is precisely why I never turned it on. Rsync Backup is a great Android app that I use to sync my phone to my home desktop and it integrates with Tasker so you can kick it out automatically every night when you get home.

buerocracy n. A system of rule or government by Algerian or Moroccan immigrants.

This might sound crass, posting anon.

I watched the phone-line guy video where he was beheaded by terrorists during the Iraq war. I didn't enjoy what I saw, but doing so seemed important to help understand the pit of depravity that humans can succumb to.

As a young teenager (far to young, but I had free reign at the video rental place via a signed paper saying I could rent all but the porno - which I found in my dads sock drawer...), I watched the Faces of Death series of videos. The money brain scene is fixed in my mind, as is the execution by firing squad. One can learn a lot about being decent and civil from scenes of gross violence.

I believe that grotesque images of violence and even death should be seen, in order to help us understand how precious life is. It is easy to take a life, and to leave the path of despair it causes.

What about war footage, showing soldiers killed and maimed on the battlefield (WW2, Korea). What of the numerous videos of US helicopters fire bombing villages during Vietnam? The death isn't obvious in the fireballs. Seeing death up front is much more powerful. The images of Hiroshima children are chilling, but very important:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hiroshima+child&client=firefox-a&hs=jay&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=np&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5DvnUfvlIsSbqwHB8YDICg&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=968

Savage acts require savage justice. But making savage acts available for viewing, not so much in my opinion. Reality, as horrific as is can be, is just reality. Choose not to watch if you wish, but understand, that for some, it is a learning experience about evil.

My eyes and person have witnessed events worse than death from the pain and torture of a terrible disease. Death would have been, and eventually was, welcomed. It should have come sooner, and would have, if not for the modern medical system and it's "miracles".

Are you sure your phone hasn't been patched? My Nexus 7 has, according to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluebox.labs.onerootscanner

Are you sure _your_ Nexus 7 has been patched? I have a Nexus 7 (wifi 32gb) running the latest updates and it has not been patched according to that same scanner. If you have a 3G carrier branded N7 maybe it was treated differently. The mud in the water is getting thicker on this issue, at this point I am ready to just start ignoring it since there are no exploits in the wild and the reports of where the problem is/isnt are varying so much.

Try either of these: http://dx.com/p/175870 http://dx.com/p/208694 and run http://code.google.com/p/rk3066-linux/ on it.

I haven't powered my Pi up once since I bought the simpler one with 1GB of RAM.

Yes, you are probably just naive. I make my postulations based on history. Lobotomy was an accepted medical practice during the early 1900's, and was actually developed in Portugal and practiced throughout the world. Indefinite internment has been practiced around the world, not just the US. Your short-minded world view apparently only remembers the past 10 years or so.

What I was getting at, is that some sort of biomarker would be used as a tool against the citizens. Some government bureaucrat would decide "Oh, you have a genetic pre-disposition to violence. You cannot own a gun, cannot drive a car, cannot vote, cannot own any sharp metal object over 3 inches long, and here is your new sub-citizen designation"

Are you sure your phone hasn't been patched? My Nexus 7 has, according to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluebox.labs.onerootscanner

Like everywhere else, you (the consumer) are not Google's customer.

They would honestly rather sell the devices to third parties who will support them and review/push patches and updates. The person selling the device for $100 is not incentivized to provide any support beyond what's required by law. Google charges $200 because you have higher expectations of them, and they are more visible. Samsung, ASUS, HTC, Sony, and the other big-name competitors in the tablet and phone markets can get away with charging upwards of $300-500 because they actually provide the support that the mobile carriers should be responsible for, given that they're the ones collecting all of the recurring fees (bargaining chips).

I have a Transformer TF-101 and I was not happy with the lack of vendor upgrades to JellyBean. So, what did I do? I flashed the device to EOS4, voiding my (admittedly limited groupon 90-day warranty), I nullified the support requirement (early) for the vendor. Now TeamEOS seems to have evaporated, lucky for me they are still providing their sources on http://git.teameos.org/ but jenkins is down and the nightly builds have slowed to about once a month.

Guess whose device is unpatched according to the Bluebox Security Scanner? (who's got two thumbs and a transformer that's out of warranty?)

Might I suggest here https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=St+Marie%2C+Mt&data=!1m4!1m3!1d35531!2d-106.5221343!3d48.4125271!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d56752!2d-80.3896905!3d27.250567!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1
It is an old USAF base that has been shutdown.

I suppose you've been out to the site and taken a nice broad range of soil samples, then brought them home and analyzed them? Because military bases of all kinds have a tendency to become superfund sites because of decades of disposal of hazardous chemicals involving burying barrels or simply dumping things out in back of the shop.

cute name for a moon.

A bit of a preview for the future: Rainbow's End.

Oh, here, you can read some of the ideas and thoughts from this presentation he made.

It doesn't only seem plausible at this point, it seems practically guaranteed to arise.

Ahem, I hope your toast Jesus reference is frivolous. We all know the only true representations of Jesus are on tortillas.

        http://www.google.com/search?q=jesus+tortilla&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=1CjmUby8FYm9iwLCmYGADA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1586&bih=1008

Okay Destiny Florida was to be built not too far from where I live and pretty close to where I grew up. The nearest town is Yeehaw Junction, Florida. It has two gas stations/convenience stores and an old brothel that is now a bar/restaurant. It is in the middle of nowhere. You have route 60 which, 441, and the Turnpike their but no rail, no commercial airport and no real jobs. It is hot and humid in the summer and is nothing but cattle ranches and citrus groves. It is not a good location at all to build a community except that the land is cheap. It is a at least an hours drive to Kissimmee and people shop for groceries in Okeechobee, FL.

It was a boondoggle from the start. Honestly the ideal way to build something like that would be to get some companies form a team with companies like Google, Apple, Intel, Bank of America, Publix "in florida", and so on to build facilities their for jobs as well as things like banks and grocery stores.
Might I suggest here https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=St+Marie%2C+Mt&data=!1m4!1m3!1d35531!2d-106.5221343!3d48.4125271!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d56752!2d-80.3896905!3d27.250567!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1
It is an old USAF base that has been shutdown. Most of the buildings are empty so you could start with a lot of existing infrastructure and build from there. You already have an airport that could handle jets and lots of potential for wind power and about average for solar. It is the great plains so it is not the ecologically sensitive as the central florida wetlands and has already been developed as a community than left.

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Welsh, I assume? ;-)

Yes.

I kid, I kid.

I'm not.

Gee if only someone already had something like that.

http://www.geocaching.com/

http://www.google.com/maps

https://www.google.com/maps?q=N+25+18.340+W+22+28.100

Should do it.

If NASA's models are broken, then attack the models. Short of that, data-less speculation is just that.

The (re)insurance industry has more or less admitted that its statistical models are broken and that "1 in X00 years" is a meaningless metric based on information that is no longer relevant.
The future trend is for the insurance industry to require mitigation for extreme weather events or you won't get (cheap or any) insurance.

https://www.google.com/search?q=it+is+rather+obvious+that,+for+many+regions,+hazard+risk+can+no+longer+be+seen+as+stationary

The entire US is overdue for a Category 3, not just New York.

A quick google search...
http://images.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=category+3+landfall+USA

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bJhUmJyxrQs/ULy7NL1QbAI/AAAAAAAACQw/RlSJLqrsz5Y/s1600/hurrdrou0613.jpg

looks promising.

Anyway. Pretty obv been awfully lucky recently.

nor sugar water with yeast

and what you need is a CO2 trap

You do know that yeast produces CO2 right? Used that for a long time to make my plants grow greener in my fish aquarium.

What I described is a CO2 trap... that zaps the little buggers if they come to investigate the source of the C02.

Yep. This isn't the first time customs agents for various countries have "accidentally" stumbled across North Korean contraband. It's a no-brainer to conclude that US intelligence agencies are responsible.

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/japan-seizes-suspicious-north-korean-cargo-transit-myanmar/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQJd8FsHXjzf35GeBg4bV1JrRfHQ?docId=CNG.caf81bda72044be6c361e53dc743c2a8.3e1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8227991.stm

Did you deliberately completely ignore what I wrote, or are you *that* stupid?

No. First of all, only locked-down company laptops where the user has no admin rights are allowed to connect to the company network at all. With that in mind:

  "His" laptop has a VPN, and even if he's at a Bucksstar in China, there's no such thing as a connection outside of the VPN.
The whole NIC is a virtual TUN device of a OpenVPN instance, which encrypts the whole packet, and sends it to a single very specific port on a very specific IP adress using the real NIC which has a firewall allowing ONLY that connection, and nothing else. That includes DNS and even ICMP. And even if somebody would do a MITM attack, it wouldn't work because only the real server can decrypt the packets and encrypt valid ones.

I have that exact setup on this exact box I'm writing this on.

Please learn how to Internet, before making such dumb comments.

Well... maybe your racket zapper might work because you're actively hunting them... but mosquitos are not attracted to UV light, nor sugar water with yeast, and so therefore bug zappers simply do not kill mosquitos. There are those that SWEAR by the zappers and insist that the studies and Science itself must be wrong... but these individuals are the same ones that cannot tell a midge or a crane fly from a mosquito. Bug zappers actually HELP mosquitos... because many of the bugs killed by zappers will feed on mosquitos. So bug zappers are worthless (unless you just have it in for the poor moths), and what you need is a CO2 trap

Instead of comparing people to zebras and gazelles it might be wise to compare people to other primates. Start with the other Great Apes. You could start with a Google search for great ape social behavior You'll find in our closest cousins that the weak are often taken care of and that the selfish are often ousted. An ousted chimp will die if it doesn't find another tribe.

Evolution works on groups. If we do consider zebras they are a great example of evolved traits that are more beneficial as a group than an individual. The stripes on a single zebra are not nearly as effective on an individual as they are in a group. Evolution selected the trait on the group. Not every individual even has to reproduce to contribute to the survival of the genetic code. This is taken to the extreme in many insects.

Consider. If Bob does not have children but his sister Mary does then he can still contribute the survival of the closest copy of his DNA that's around by helping ensure the survival of his nieces and nephews. In a capitalist society there is a strong likely-hood that the labor supply and labor demand will not always be equal. In theory, zero unemployment would mean no movement in the labor market. That's not necessarily good. I've read somewhere around 4% is good.

Regardless of the number, we need to accept that economic ups and down means fluctuating unemployment. Which society do you think is more likely to survive? The one that feeds its poorest or the one that lets the poor go hungry? The bottom 40% of our species in the land known as the United States have access to .2% of its wealth. We can cut social aid and see how evolution responds to that if you wish but historically the 'let them eat cake' attitude doesn't seem to be that successful.

Plants hovering up the CO2 is a common Denier Myth. Do you have cites for how that works?

Well, we wouldn't have an oxygen-rich atmosphere in the first place, if plants weren't hovering CO2. Second, it takes work to separate CO2 from atmosphere. As the concentration of CO2 increases, plants use less work to extract and use CO2.

As to your link, I find it interesting how much effort is wasted on making up evidence that elevated CO2 levels are bad for plants. For example, a lot of effort goes into claiming that CO2 can damage plants (linking to a study on the Paleoceneâ"Eocene Thermal Maximum which was a large and sudden release of vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, possibly originally as methane) by increasing insect feeding on plants, but what is ignored is that insect feeding accelerates the replacement of ill-fit plants with more successful ones.

Plant growth actually increased during that period of time (this article describes some of the fossil record and interprets it as a time of great evolutionary change and mobility of organisms.

$ man macho

http://www.google.com/search?q=man+macho

Hmm, it seems you can.

(ooh, yeah!)

More like Dr. Hu.

Apparently Google Now requires Android >=4.1 or iOS >=5.0

http://www.google.com/landing/now/

I use Startpage on some of my machines as the default, but it's not as good at Google. Plenty of searches that provide fruitful results in Google return nil results in Startpage.

I sometimes notice this, do you know what it could be? Are you signed into Google at the time of doing a Google search from Google itself? Startpage results should be apathetic towards personalization as well as location, try deleting your Google cookies and using http://www.google.com/ncr to avoid the GeoIP country redirect.

Probably going to get modded down for asking such a simple(stupid?) question.. I've never been able to find this answer though.

From the article:

However, DuckDuckGo is using SSL encryption. Without DuckDuckGo's private SSL certificate, your search queries (but not your location) are invisible.

Can someone clarify this for me? I want to make sure I understand this. If I search for "Star Trek" in Google then I get redirected to

https://www.google.com/search?q=star%20trek&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp.

Naturally, "star trek" is the search if you are only provided that address. It also clearly shows that I am using firefox. Does SSL protect the actual web address from being sniffed without Google's SSL master cert?

If so, then its safe to assume that my cable internet provider could see that I'm using google(based on the IP address of the traffic) but can't tell that I might be a hardcore Trekkie or that I'm using Firefox(at least from the link.. surely they could sniff traffic from elsewhere and determine my user agent string). Is this correct?

So how do I determine what actually is protected by SSL and what isn't? Is there a cheat sheet somewhere? I've always been curious about this but I don't want a 4 year degree in network design...

Here is a solution to start https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kstych.SecureIM

So many things wrong with you said. First off, your economic growth is over 5% now, but has been around 10% for most of the last decade.
Secondly, India exports far more to USA, than USA exports to India. And that has been going on for the last decade. As such, your money should be strengthening against the dollar, not getting weaker. Yet, you can see that that with that ithe rupee against the yuan has gone in the right direction (i.e. when China imports more into your nation, the yuan should strengthen, which it does), while USA's money has strengthened against yours. That is backwards from where it should be. If India allows it to free flow, then the rupee will strengthen against the dollar because of so much one-sided trade.

India is manipulating their money against America, just like China does. And they do it to gain an advantage with the programmers.

Ever try to store an array of strings? Better to store it as one field and parse it in code!

If you're trying to store complex data structures in SQL, I would recommend protocol buffers. Imagine XML, but more compact, and with built-in support for versioning. It's open source too.

It seems the story author's browser is stuck on slashdot, so I'm giving a direct link.

https://www.google.com/search?q=oracle+versus+postgres&oq=oracle+versus+postgres&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i65l2j69i59j69i62l2.2581j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Then can the browser vendors at least look at the fucked up work arounds they had to do to get jquery to even work and fix them?

The problem is that jQuery is so poorly implemented -- and so badly broken that there no value can be gained from its examination!

It's pretty obvious that Resig et al. don't have a clue. The "work arounds" are "fucked up" because they were written by rank amateurs who *still* don't know what they're doing!

As far consistency between browsers, I agree that things have improved. Even IE. So much so, in fact, that a few polyfills is often more than adequate to take care of the differences between browsers. (Just be careful with them. Some are great, while others are total garbage.)

Read the links I posted and dig around comp.lang.javascript for a little bit. If you're still advocating the use of jQuery after that, I don't know what to tell you!

My view on the matter is anyone who is criticizing Jquery / Dojo / and is suggesting vanilla javascript is completely ignoring the fact that the reason allot of these frameworks exists is the base implementations are horribly, horribly broken and the effects of a piece of javascript can be inconsistent even within the same browser.

But neither jQuery or Dojo actually solved the problem! (Sometimes they'd even make the problem worse...) The myth from years ago was that jQuery took care of all your cross-browser concerns. That was never even a little bit true. jQuery was, and still is, inconsistent across even the few browsers it claims to support. That's to say nothing of it's ever-shifting API!

Things are not nearly as broken as you seem to think they are. The differences between browsers can easily be managed by knowing what features to avoid -- and you don't need to avoid very much at all! Usually a small and simple polyfill or two will take care of any features you need -- even if you need to support antique versions of IE.

Here it is. Looks like it is a popup which displays various promos and has quick links.

The intent to make the populace manageable could not be clearer than we find it in the first publications of John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board:

That quote too is out of context - it had absolutely nothing to do with industry. The document the partial quote came from was purely about rural education - making better farmers. The document is "The Country School of To-morrow" - subtitled "In which young and old will be taught in practicable ways how to make rural life beautiful, intelligent, fruitful, recreative, healthful and joyous."

See for yourself: http://books.google.com/books?id=QzhDAAAAYAAJ

Oh, I think it's important to continuously draw attention to hypocritical actions/statements of corporations, whether it is A or B.

I guess they used http://www.google.com/ determine earth was a closed system?? .. hmm like a glass bell, CO2 just cracked their green $ desires in their desert of brain drought

HP are going bankrupt by more than doubling their stock price in six months? I mean admittedly they only have a $50b market cap, so yeah, I'm sure they're real worried about their imminent demise right now.

I think Uranus is blue because of methane in its atmosphere.

ANCHORY www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/anchory.htm Jan 29, 1998 - ANCHORY, formerly known as the SIGINT Online Intelligence System, is an NSA database of SIGINT-derived information. Access to the ...

DODIIS AMHS (Automatic Message Handling System) www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/amhs.htm Jan 26, 2000 - The Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) provides a user-friendly means to send and receive messages via the Automated Digital ...

http://www.truthliesdeceptioncoverups.info/search/label/Nucleon

Mainway - which predominantly collects unstructured telephone metadata; and,
Marina - which predominantly collects unstructured internet metadata; and,
Nucleon - which analyzes spoken words and emails; and,
Prism - which obtains and analyzes digital data obtained straight from the servers of major telecommunications and internet providers

ArcMap - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcMap main component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs, and is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data.

DISHFIRE - http://beyondsof.com/sigint-analyst-tsscici-poly-cied-arcgis-arcview-googleearth/

PINWALE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwale

OCTSKYWARD- https://www.google.com/search?q=OCTSKYWARD&aq=f&oq=OCTSKYWARD&sugexp=chrome,mod=17&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

INTELINK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelink

No, because JS scripts get cached locally and loaded from there if already present - many, many sites use Google's JS library CDN as the source for libraries, as then the user's browser only ever downloads each file once, and then every site that also links to the same library loads it from the local cache.

Plus there's things like local storage now, which means web sites can store data and assets locally (up to a limit), and use that as a cache. Writing a remote version check and update handler is pretty trivial for an application.

google

site:.linkedin.com (FASTSCOPE|WEBCANDID|Dishfire|PINWALE)

That means there are 6 year old PCs with BluRay Drives, which means they can decode 1080P video with no lag.

Provided that you had a video card with the necessary circuitry.

Most tablets have dedicated video decoders and many have encoders (for wireless video). This saves battery power.

The next big thing is H.265-- and I'm guessing there will be a few years of people complaining about battery life and high cpu-load until video chipsets incorporate dedicated circuitry.

I think the problem is that all the freakin Javascript has to be loaded and processed (Javascript JIT??). I maintain that Javascript should only be used when implementing AJAX calls or fancy user interfaces. When you are building applications that do a lot on the client side you are loading a bunch of stuff and Javascript as a system was not designed for that. I call abuse. As a developer web applications appeal to me because of their ease of deployment and easy access, but compared to building rich desktop clients the development process and paradigms suck--a real pain for seemingly simple things. Enhanced data tables are one thing which require a library to implement--as they must be on the client side--and I wouldn't claim these as simple. That's just one thing in a handful that crop up in developing a decent web application that can replace those that are desktop/rich client based. If you want to target all devices you face a list of compromises in order to tone down impact on the mobile devices. It would be nice if the Javascript could be compiled and cached.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7807235/javascript-just-in-time-compilation

I think V8 solves a lot of these problems.

https://developers.google.com/v8/design

A lot of people don't read that.

My co-worker has a taxi company's app. They want full permission for everything. I didn't load it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appbuilder.u66459p124918

Same with the Cineplex app. Way too many permissions for something that's just showing a ticket:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivemobile.cineplex&hl=en

A lot of people don't read that.

My co-worker has a taxi company's app. They want full permission for everything. I didn't load it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appbuilder.u66459p124918

Same with the Cineplex app. Way too many permissions for something that's just showing a ticket:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivemobile.cineplex&hl=en