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I was drinking, heavily, and have no idea what I did. I really need to learn to stay away from the keyboard while drunk.

It certainly does seem to behave like an STD I guess. Did you add it as a second account?

https://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/accounts

California requires that I own a lock and/or safe which was purchased at the same time as the weapon

Yeah, it's crazy, I mean, I haven't filled my 30 gun safe yet. Most handgun safes hold at least 2-3 weapons. Why force me to buy a lock I'm not going to use because I have a perfectly functional safe at home?

Some of the dealerships I'm at have 'free' cable/trigger locks in a basket. It's up to you whether you take one or not. BTW, I know one guy who uses the cable lock that came with his gun on his gym locker...

Seems to me like most modern 1911 triggers have holes in them.

Mine's a milspec, no holes. A google search of 37 images for "1911" that is actually of a 1911 with the trigger exposed gave me 20 with holes, 17 without. Almost even. Even then, I wouldn't rate all of the holes as suitable for either putting a padlock through, or even if you can get a padlock into the hole, that it would restrain the trigger enough to prevent discharge.

For example, this image has the holes rather far forward...

The lock is for pure child safety. I prefer a safe.

Nah, they've been around longer than metal cartridges. Stone ammo is similarly ancient.

https://www.google.com/search?q=paper+cartridges&tbm=isch

Using drones for delivery is not a new idea at all, problem is no one has the money to spend on something that will not make a profit. Other drone delivery systems are at least using them to deliver beer or newspapers or other things, and if a disaster struck I suppose they could be used to deliver water instead of beer https://www.google.com/search?q=drone+delivery

For those of you who don't know, asm.js is a subset of JavaScript that's meant to be easy to compile. In other words if you use asm.js the code your will work in all browsers, but should run faster in some. In that FAQ they say their compiled asm.js runs at about 1/2 the speed of C, making it roughly twice as fast as JavaScript V8.

Which is wonderful, except that JavaScirpt is a prick of a language, and so I'd imagine that asm.js is a tedious, prick of a language. But Dart compiled to asm.js - sounds like a marriage made in heaven.

i think this is what you are looking for...

http://www.google.com/robot

Taxes. RTFSummary for chrissake.

I did read TFSummary. It implied the only way a company contributes to society is by paying taxes. I was pointing out corporations contribute tremendous amounts to society even if the corporation pays no taxes. Taxes are how we fund government but government is not society, it's a creation and tool of society.

And further, since I view corporations as nothing more than the collection of people who invest and work for them, I don't think it's significant whether the employee, investor, customer, or company bursar writes the check to the IRS. Google "Who bears the burden of corporate income tax" to read more about this.

Well.. to sum it all up, check Sony's stock. 18 minutes worth of conference on a game console, probably only something like 8 minutes concerning games, the rest is for gimmicks. What could I possibly say?

Sorry, it ain't over yet.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=vampire

Search Interest generally spikes in October with the highwater mark being October 2011. However looks like May 2013 has the highest search interest in vampires for the month of May, ever and all-time interest should peak this October.

Interest in Zombies and Werewolves may have reached a plateau.

zipgun

This feature is already in the latest Canary build of Google Chrome.

"why do I need this?"

Why to relive the glory days of /. of course!

From the Google Talk Developers page: "Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP."

Actually, I think you're routing your calls through Google Talk even if you make your VoIP calls from within Gmail. If you "Try the new Hangouts" from within Gmail, you'll find that you can no longer make GV calls until you switch back to the old Google Talk interface.

I'm glad to see that Nikhyl Singhal of Google reassuring users that the cutting-off of GV is only temporary, and that it will be integrated with Hangouts/Gmail later: https://plus.google.com/106636280351174936240/posts/DG6h32BWaQW

As long as they run a different OS we can get around the patent? Time to add some ideas to the public domain.

Someone want to make a website that scrapes through software patents on http://www.google.com/patents and adds ' on a linux based computer' to the end of them, and then reposts them as public domain?

http://groups.google.com/group/android-ndk/tree/browse_frm/month/2012-04/59c6fbc7a103a326?rnum=61&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fandroid-ndk%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2012-04%3F

You can do that in the NDK, though it is somewhat discouraged :)

Pics or it didn't happen.

Okay.

Makes me wonder how fast they are having to add storage. For that matter, what type of storage are they using to use for the constant read / writes. And that is just for YouTube - forget Gmail, Google Earth, Google Docs and Google. Man, I would love to see pictures of Google's DataCenter. Oh, wait, I can Google it:
http://images.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1536&bih=891&q=google+data+center&oq=google+data+&gs_l=img.3.0.0l9j0i10.648.2409.0.4177.12.11.0.0.0.0.297.1367.3j6j1.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.14.img.4Zg6ztnIvrI

You can always take a peek inside to find out.

That this article suggests GeoCities was a blogging network tells me this was written by someone who never visited sites hosted by GeoCities.

Really though, Y! has a horrible track record. The question is, will enough users stay to keep it viable? Will they trust Y! enough to keep putting their efforts as users into the site?

..what was geocities then?
what do you think homepages with regular updates were..

I think the real question is what is yahoo going to do about the popular content on tumblr now that they're footing the bill for transfers.

https://www.google.com/search?num=30&safe=off&site=&source=hp&q=tumbler+tits+and+ass

flickr isn't dead though. it still serves it's purpose quite nicely - and has actual paying users.

Dafuq's a rapper? Some kind of a flat bread, like a tortilla? Hmmm - - - Learn to spell sonny, it's W R A P P E R!!

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=beef+wrap&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=XwGaUcCiF4ns8wTh24D4DA&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=631

+Tripping - it would be challenging to get power to the furniture if it is not against a wall.

Problem solved.

Yeah, yell, any drunken sailor that almost double the value of my investment in one year (you have to click on the button) is alright with me

The question is why. What has Yahoo actually done in the last year to justify a near doubling of their share price? Have they put out a new product that everyone loves which is making them gobs of money? Unless you consider canceling work-from-home and paying out a shitload of money for a half-assed content summarizing app stroke of genius ...

Yeah, yell, any drunken sailor that almost double the value of my investment in one year (you have to click on the button) is alright with me

Fire ants do interbreed.

http://www.caes.uga.edu/commodities/fieldcrops/forages/events/FC13/03/ANR-1248%20Fire%20ants%20and%20cattle.pdf
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/07/fire_ants_joes_outdoor_office.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=vxt5BqOKEAIC&pg=PA510&lpg=PA510&dq=fire+ants+interbreed&source=bl&ots=8eWZaSkLp_&sig=uJHTanPl1LV7mhieoReC1eX0plc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dwiYUdimJ-rI0gHttIGwBQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=fire%20ants%20interbreed&f=false

Also, they do bite before stinging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ants

Different plant "species", such as of pine, do interbreed as well. The distinction of species vs. sub-species is often blurred in the wild.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-plus-discuss/Udd-IeQCsdc/Chkw-LP2MKAJ

Bacon Peak?

I wouldn't second guess my doctor, and I'd avoid second guessing my air conditioning guy

Then you're a fool, because these people will often harm you or rob you blind, out of ignorance, greed, or both:

https://www.google.com/#q=contractor+scams

http://www.euractiv.com/health/unnecessary-surgery-weighs-eu-he-news-507491

Second guessing such people with little more than "I don't get it" is an error you should be expected to be called out on, unless you want to allege that they're all in league or conspiring to defraud us or something.

Oh, that stupid "conspiracy" canard. There's a third possibility: doctors and contractors are just acting independently in their own interest. Most of them harm and overcharge you while firmly believing that they are helping you.

We shouldn't make the naivite of people like you the basis of law, not in health care and not in climate change.

That means American personal cars and homes produce between 1/4 and 1/5 of the world's CO2 emissions.

That can't be correct. Total human emissions of CO2 only account for about 3% of the world's CO2 emissions, so do you mean that American cars and homes account for between 1/4 and 1/5 of that 3%?

What you are missing here is a citation for that 3% number. Here, let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+fraction+of+co2+is+due+to+humans

Yeah... I was originally pretty happy about that comment, especially the part where they made the explicit comment about messaging systems being a mess for no really good reason... which they followed by announcing the new Hangouts where they seem to be giving up on XMPP compatibility. Seemed like a bit of stab in the back of going "Yes, we are all for interoperability in messaging services which is why we are discontinuing interoperability in our messaging service."

t doesn't matter how good your company is or what your corporate charter's stated mission is, you're still portrayed as a Big Evil Company that's out to greedily gather money and decimate your adversaries

Because they're are usually a Big Evil Company and the mission is just PR bullshit.

Example?

Lets take Google.

Google's mission from: http://www.google.com/about/

"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

And Google does things like this:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-admits-it-was-blocking-wp8-maps-2013-1

http://wmpoweruser.com/surprise-or-not-google-demands-microsoft-cease-and-desist-with-official-youtube-app/

Is it the press' fault that they need to cover this up by putting it on page 12 and concentrate on Google's clean image in the front page?

(You probably think I'm doing a dig at Amtrak there with the "government program" and "screw it up" bit, but actually, that really was the plan. I'm not kidding. A few years after Amtrak's creation, Louis W. Menk, the then chair of the Burlington Northern, actually blurted it out in public, saying that the government was making a mess of screwing it up. Look it up.)

I did look it up. You are correct sir, but man it took some digging to find.

Doing Math is mental exercise. The only real way to get any real benefits is to just do it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=the%20secrets%20of%20mental%20arithmetic.

http://www.google.com/search?q=1001%20math%20problems

Doing Math is mental exercise. The only real way to get any real benefits is to just do it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=the%20secrets%20of%20mental%20arithmetic.

http://www.google.com/search?q=1001%20math%20problems

Until Chrome gets a solid NoScript-ish plugin, I'm sticking with Firefox.

ScriptSafe is a solid NoScript-ish plugin.

In many ways, I actually prefer it over NoScript.

Here is a link. Scroll down to "Leisure Can Kill". Yes, the year is 1979, but this is the future.

In March 2009, Google purchased the Summa Mill from Finnish paper company Stora Enso and converted the 60 year old paper mill into a data center.
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/hamina/
Here is a video about Googles sea water cooling system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ

I mean, the trend is to remove choice and features and pretend that configuration makes it too hard for the poor lusers (ala, gnome3).

One bug with chromium that has been marked as WontFix for this very reason, is issue 11612. "You can install an extension (that doesn't work in most situations you need it to, such as in the default about:blank)!". As bad as firefox has been getting since version 2, at least *that* particular feature still can be turned on.

But I do have to ask, WhyTF would anyone want an inbuilt PDF viewer? That's the first thing I disable in browsers that do that by default (except in very old editions of SuSE, where it was installed into the system and not able to be disabled because SuSE, at least then, liked to load everything unconditionally and not overridable by the user). Yes, you can have a poor replacement for a PDF viewer that isn't a first class PDF viewer and can't print and is slow, and half the key bindings just plain don't work, or you can have it in a dedicated PDF viewer that does One Thing Well, just like Unix intended.

As part of the big roll out of these changes, a lot of google chat users have discovered their most frequently used contacts have been automatically "Blocked on Google+", despite not themselves not having Google+ accounts. People have been left with no option other than to sign up to Google+ to access their "Blocked" circle to see what contacts have been blocked, and unblock them.

Yeah but this is Microsoft, yes ad-blocking and video downloading are good for the consumer, but Microsoft is the one doing it so that makes it bad.

In fact Google even allows YouTube downloaders on their own marketplace.

Likewise, most here that are arguing that Google is entitled to not have it's TOS broken, also think Jailbreaking iOS devices is OK, and the Pirate Bay are heroes.

I'd say most people here use ad-blockers and youtube downloaders too.

You really think that Google has the luxury of not caring?
They have to care. If they allow this app, they set up the next Viacom, Sony, RIAA and MPAA suit against them.

Bullshit, they allow youtube downloaders in their own app store!

Google gets warrants to hand over data, just like everyone else. There are some differences however in how Google handles government requests.

1. Google tries to be very transparent about what requests they get from the government, and how much they are forced to hand over.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government/

2. When George W. Bush asked for search data tied to IP addresses, all the major search provides just handed it over without a warrant and Google refused. Google's response was to go one step further and alter their policies to anonymize their logs even sooner to help protect their users.

3. Google has even considered moving data centers to the ocean to keep your private data away from government demands.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/googles-search-goes-out-to-sea/

Do SEC filings count as credible references? Or Microsoft's own statements?

Google made over 43 BILLION dollars in ad revenue last year.

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

Microsoft made 1.45 billion in ad revenue last year.

http://marketingland.com/microsoft-q4-2012-earnings-online-advertising-revenue-up-12-16740

Microsoft themselves have admitted repeatedly to trying and largely failing in the contextual ads in your email business, and have publicly stated they've tried other tactics, such as these "deals" ads instead.

http://marketingland.com/seeking-to-banish-distraction-microsoft-replaces-hotmail-display-ads-with-deals-4790

I just read technology news daily and pay attention. And again, EVERY one of your posts on your account (a fairly newer account) is defending Microsoft data-mining while blasting Google and Apple for the same thing. So I ask again if you're an astroturfer or just ignorant?

I've had the same online identity since BBS days. I praise Microsoft when they do well (such as their surprisingly good anti-virus products as of late) and I blast Google when they fuck up (logging the SSIDs of wireless networks). I call them as I see them.

If you have a Google account.
Go here.
Once you see that you can see exactly what Google knows, and that you can have control over who can see it you will not worry as much.
Google has more info than anyone else, but many places have a lot of info on you. Most hide what they know about you and many sell the raw info.
Google, So far, only uses the info to target ads to you. Not really a bad thing. I would rather see a targeted ad than one for Maxipads or Viagra.
Google also give you quite a bit of control over it. The major plus though is that they do not split it up and make it difficult for you.
Google search, Play store, YouTube, Google Plus, Gmail, Drive and more. All those settings, all that information displayed for you to control in one place.
Name someone else that does that for you.

Your response indicates that you either misinformed/uninformed or just plain naive. Google has FAR more data collected about you and your activities than what it displays in your History dashboard. Think about the Google properties, search, Plus, Gmail, Apps, Android, ads everywhere, Voice, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa...

Have you used Google Now? Does your dashboard show when you walk into the airport or any of the other location information that Google constantly collects? Does dashboard show your airline boarding pass? With Google Now, you simply walk into the airport and Now pops up "cards" with flight information boarding pass, car rental and hotel info... It is fantastically cool! The fact that a single source has all that information and that you have little to no control over it is very frightening to me.

Furthermore, that you disable stuff on the dashboard does not mean that Google does not continue to collect, log, "aggregate", track etc. your activities across the web, store that information for at least 18 months and have it readily available for sale to third parties or disclosure to law enforcement agencies or even subpoenas by INDIVIDUALS.

Google is the one stop shop for those wishing to view the expansive dossier that Google has amassed about you. Second behind Google is Facebook, even if you NEVER had a Facebook account or visited Facebook.com!

I have no issue with myriads of people/companies collecting bits of this information in the course of my business and maintaining it in their disparate databases. However, I resent and fear the central all encompassing database that is Google, ripe for the picking. It is a massive tool that someone could use against you. That it hasn't happened, to you, yet doesn't mean that it isn't a threat or that it should be ignored.

How did they end up owning this patent? Alcatel-Lucent is not on the original patent.

Patents are property that can be bought and sold. Whoever has ownership of the patent has the power to enforce it by taking infringers to court, even if the owner had nothing to do with inventing the patented invention.

Also, now that the patent has been thrown out, what changes in here? I can't find anything in there showing its updated status.

That link goes to a google page (i.e., absolutely unofficial), and maybe nothing will change. The Patent Office may not get around to updating the patent on record, either. But barring a successful appeal to the Supreme Court, the patent is unenforceable. Alcatel-Lucent therefore cannot use the courts to compel a license fee out of anyone. In effect, this renders the patent worthless, i.e. dead.

A computer can interpret Shakespeare

Alas the grief and dedly wofull smert :
      The carefull chaunce shapen afore my shert ;
      The sorrowfull teares, the sighes hote as fyer,
      That cruell love hath long soked from myn hert.
      And for reward of our greate desire
      Disdaynful dowblenes have I for my hier.

And here's the computer interpretation:

And chaunce carefull shapen above my shert;
        And teares sorrowfull, the and his hotel sighes as fyer,
        That love cruell hath soked the long Maine HERT.
        To reward the desire of our greate
        dowblenes Disdaynful I have for my Hare.

I think you're wrong there, fellow.

I'm pretty sure GPP is making fun of Ken Ham's thought-stopping advice to his followers, which is supposed to immediately make "evolutionists" stop dead in their tracks, fall down on their knees, pray for forgiveness, and embrace the obvious Truth. Or something like that.

• We thought Patents were Progress. But, Patents don't guarantee production or innovation. They only enable lawsuits.
• Running the US Patent Office as a cost-recovery operation is a mistake.
• It is a mistake to organize the US Patent Office to create economic incentives to grant poor patents.
• Scaling up the Patent Office to produce more poor quality patents is a mistake.
• It is a mistake to grant all patents that meet minimum standards.

Miles

OpenFlow solves problems current systems cannot. If you can't see the difference between OpenFlow and current systems, then that's because you don't understand the problem domains.

Translation: Let's reinvent SNMP and try to administer network with it, like people tried in 90's! a modern equivalent of This time it's different!

Google has already shown that using their system, you can increase bandwidth and resiliency, while reducing latency. Once you understand that Google is working with hundreds of non-blocking 10Gb ports with sometimes asyemtric properties, like route latency and load, you will find routing hundreds of Gigabits over these links start to have problems with current routing and link teaming setups.

Translation: Google Big.

There is also the whole problems of device support where bugs have been found on equipment, but the parts are no longer supported. Having a way to reprogram and implement your own logic alleviates the dependency on manufacture support.

Translation: Firmware Is Magic.