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My point was that people who advocate the purchase of gold know that in the long term the price of gold in terms of dollars or other fiat currencies has never gone down. Gold is a good means of preserving wealth, but not for deriving income from such wealth.

Excellent point on wealth versus income, I see you know your balance sheet. I was soul-searching to discover why gold-over-time comparisons tickle my funny bone, aside from being generally perverse. Not so savvy as Karl Denninger who has his reasons to be bearish on gold as an investment or plaything. As one who has never owned any gold or even more than a fistful of dollars I don't implicitly trust either, so I find it easy to make light of the choices that people of wealth are facing right now.

While pondering the dollar and gold I grew bored and made a sandwich, and contemplated that instead. Bread you can sink your teeth into, and throughout history love of it has transcended love of fiat money and precious metal.

Looking into bread vs. gold, I found this, "it is said that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC" (cited here)

Fascinating! What if you view bread itself as the exchange pivot plotted against on gold (for the US via the dollar)? A quick search did not reveal anyone who had done it, so I gathered gold fixes and one-pound-loaf statistics for the hundred years of 1913-2012 and created a gold:bread ratio. How many loaves/pounds of bread 'buys' an ounce of gold. Here is my resulting chart and data.

So in 1913 the gold:bread ratio was ~337.9 which is comparable to Nebuchadnezzar's time. It stayed more or less in the same magnitude until the 1971 Nixon Shock when gold heads through the roof. Bread rises steadily but gold's rise is meteoric.

1980 is the worst-ever year for bread, with ~1,281 loaves to purchase an ounce of gold. We're so used to seeing things from the dollar/gold point of view but 1970 and 2001 were really great years for bread, with gold purchasing power twice what it had in Babylon.

Then we went to war and everything went to hell. But the gold:bread chart does offer one surprise: even though gold is massive right now, the actual gold:bread ratio is similar to what it was in 1980 before it started to fall.

So what we need right now is a Reganomics sandwich.

You didn't read the basics of Bitcoin that's for sure

"[bitcoins] didn't take off until roughly the same time as this interview."

There is no Constitutional right to have a lawyer during questioning, only a Constitutional right not to have any statements you make during such questioning introduced at trial. Since they have ample other evidence by which to convict Tsarnaev without using any such statements, there is no particular reason to Mirandize him. We can just accept that the statements made without advising him of his rights are not admissible in court.

See this excellent summary by Orin Kerr for a bit of explanation of how it actually works (as distinct from how you or I or him believe it ought to work). You can also read the Supreme Court's decision in Chavez v. Martinez, 538 U.S. 760 (2003) directly, if you prefer,

Forget even connecting the Nook to your computer. I rooted my Nook Simple Touch and installed DropSync on it. That combined with Calibre's "connect to folder" feature and dropbox on my PC allows me to remotely manage all the books on my Nook. The set up isn't as easy as simply logging into your Kindle for Amazon's Whispersync, but it is more powerful since I can also REMOVE books as well as add them.

No boathouse, it was a boat in the back yard. You can see the trailer here https://maps.google.com/maps?q=67+franklin+Street+Watertown+MA

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22by+tftp%22+site%3Aslashdot.org

Party of the people:

https://www.google.com/search?q=planking&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N

Well, I've been searching since I made the comment, and the best I've found so far is this thread where a Google rep confirms that for every image search they keep a thumbnail of the item that was clicked on, as well as the IP address for 9 months (after which it gets anonymized), and identifying information for the cookie associated with you for 18 months (after which it gets anonymized and the IP address gets partially destroyed). What that means is that they never fully destroy the data, and that if the query was self-identifying in some way, someone could still tie all of the queries you made together since they would still be associated with the cookie data, even if that cookie data is no longer associated with you.

Take it with a grain of salt, however, since that's from back in 2011. As we all know, these tech companies have made big strides to protect our privacy better since then. Wait, no, I have that backwards.

I'm sorry, but you;'re incorrect about the wage gap being debunked "time and time again." While the wage gap is not 70cents on the dollar anymore, there is a significant difference in women's pay. In Ontario, according to Stats Canada, the gap is currently 25%. It's also the same in the US according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is worse than it has been since 2005.

I'm very sorry you feel discriminated against, but this supposed attack on male rights is horse shit made up by bitter people who cannot tolerate the fact that 1000 years of cultural manipulation by us white men is being undone.

The numbers of male nurses has increased incredibly in the last 30 years, and male nurses are currently making significantly more money than women, and are in higher positions.

There are massive campaigns to get more men involved teaching, and early child development. There's also employment campaigns to get more women involved in trades, including the more dangerous ones, those campaigns are primarily ones which you complain about in your first paragraph (scholarships directed at women).

Of course not.

Oracle's corporate focus comes down to only two directions: this one, and this one.

There is truly no other focus for them.

Oh, stop being silly. There is no need for 'affirmative action, etc.'. There are plenty of women terrorists to keep you quaking in your boots and giving up your freedom to the corps. and government, etc., etc. Google is your friend...:)

https://www.google.com/search?q=women+terrorists&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

From the link you provided:

sex: 3 Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions

gender: 3 The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones)

Hint: "synonym" doesn't just mean "identical in meaning". Check the dictionary if you don't believe me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+Synonym&aq=f&oq=define%3A+Synonym&aqs=chrome.0.57j58j61j62l3.1504j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Noun
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language

And fail again on your part, why can you do nothing but cite recently updated wiki articles?

At least use the source noted on the article, are you in highschool?

Makes sense.

People should remember though who they are really supporting, because it may turn around and bite them.

Note, that I, personally think that Chechnya should have independence, but Americans sticking their nose into that conflict and using it for their political agenda will backfire as it always does, just like it did in Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran earlier.

Been listening to the police scanner for 7+ hours now, and the map linked at the end of my post has the most accurate information I've seen so far on current happenings. (although updating it has slowed down a lot in the last 2.5 hours.) https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&authuser=0&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=200082141349599835237.0004daaf434ba5147dce8

DIctionary wise they are synonyms.
Maybe in your more narrow view they are, but I'm going off what they actually mean.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sex&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=sEdxUZfIC8nGrgGFx4Aw&ved=0CDAQkQ4&biw=1280&bih=679

Because in those instances we're tying one nutjob murderer to larger groups that he is not a representative member of. So why do you make that same mistake with muslims,

Who are you to say it is a mistake with Muslims? The Koran tells Muslims to go to war against nonbelievers. Mecca is occupied by the house of Saud which indoctrinates hajj attendees with the Wahhabi doctrine that Muslims are the supreme people who must follow God's command to destroy everyone else. The bestselling book of the 20th century was Sayyid Qutb's Milestones, which argued for Muslims to quit living in peace with the West and start killing people again. Most importantly, those Muslims who do not believe that Muslims must be nutjob murderers have been getting wiped out by those that do, to the point where the "extremists" are now a majority in most Muslim-majority countries. Look at what happened after the nutjobs murdered Salman Taseer. The people of Pakistan came out in large numbers to celebrate the killing of a liberal.

... assuming they're all evil or that there's a vast muslim movement to destroy the US?

There is in fact a "vast Muslim movement to destroy the US" called the Muslim Brotherhood. You might know them as the Taliban, al-Shabaab, the Syrian "youth movement" "freedom fighters", the "Bosniaks", the "Palestinians", the "Arab Spring", Boko Haram, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. We used to call them "Nazis." They run the Muslim Student Associations on college campuses. Do some research. I recommend starting with Revolutionary Sudan by Burr and Collins, as it ties many things together.

Two additional "vast Muslim movement[s] to destroy the US" include the Khomeinists and the Lashkar e-Taiba, each of which is strong enough to conquer countries. You really ought to start paying attention to what is going on in the world before you start calling better-informed people ignorant.

They do have an Android app. They've had it for years.

Kobo has an Android app.

Kobo Inc is owned Rakuten...who are Rakuten you may ask. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakuten Among its numerous online properties, its flagship B2B2C e-commerce platform Rakuten Ichiba is the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world’s largest by sales...in case you were wondering.

Because I know you want to know http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=rakuten.co.jp this is the washing machines they sell.

Cupcake allows you via a browser extension to run a bridge if you won't/can't install the whole Tor suite.

Currently available for Chrome / Chromium, Firefox is in the works.

Please help Tor!

Number one google glass app: Adblock

Given that "Glass Apps" are web apps that send and/or receive information to the device via the Mirror API, I'm trying to imagine how that would even work.

We have been working on step 1, speed-aware cruise control.
Thats step 1.

Speed aware cruise control

Google has published the patches but the carriers have not distributed them.

URL or it didn't happen. Google does not announce Android security updates on their official mailing list nor anywhere else. They don't publicly document the vulnerabilities they fixed with a new point release nor do they reserve CVE numbers for these. Not even speaking of publishing patches for individual vulnerabilities.

Not for me! A simple browser extension called The Great Suspender takes care of all those tabs I leave open for months. No leaking, no CPU usage, it's great for people like me who keep too many tabs open.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en

Seriously??? Vaccines give you autism? Whatever frigging dead trees land in your mailbox, please cancel them. Clearly your facts are out of wack.

Everyone knows that vaccines give you CANCER, not autism. Some people *shakes head sadly*

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice won't get sex with robot again.

The corporate news outlets didn't get to be the only players in town by mistake

The corporate news outlets aren't the only players in town.

I get most of my news from Google News, and right now they have stories from the big corps, but they also have content from Xinhua, Al Jezeera, several local papers and several blog sites.

1. Let me know when I can _compile_ on a smart phone. Last time I checked there is NO native compiler running on iOS -- you need a "real" computer (aka desktop) for that.

Oh, I agree. Something like an Android phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui&hl=en

This guy for one: http://www.google.com/about/jobs/lifeatgoogle/self-driving-car-test-steve-mahan.html

And to suggest that the team(s) working on this (Google and others) hasn't/haven't "thought this through" is just plain ignorant.

Hi! Let me be the first to welcome you to "The Internet!" My name is Anonymous Coward, but you can just call me "you," or "buddy," or "guy."

On "The Internet" we have a phenomenon known as "trolls" and these people, while occasionally entertaining, mainly spend their time intruding upon communities and eliciting emotional reactions from members in the service of carrying themselves into a receptive state where they can give themselves sexual pleasure using their hands and/or accoutrements. The worst thing you can do is reply to them in an emotionally charged manner, as you have done, since this gives them the satisfaction they seek. My recommendation for the future, and I sincerely hope this advice worms its way into your brain, is to fully ignore them until they go away. They really do!

Once again, welcome to "The Internet" and I hope your stay is fruitful and fun! Check out https://google.com/ to search out other things we have to offer. It truly is sensational! Just watch out for those trolls!

Because Google is held up as the shining example of what the telcos *could* be providing us... yet in Japan Sony is offering twice the speed for less cost. So maybe Google's offering is not the holy grail of home internet and telcos should be doing better.

Though no other companies that I know of are providing *free* network access (except WiFi in some areas, and I presume a nearby resident could use a bridge to use it as a home network for other devices)..

from https://fiber.google.com/about/

Free internet at today's average speeds
Future-proof your home with free Internet at today's average speeds.
You can upgrade to Fiber speeds anytime, with no additional equipment needed.
Up to 5Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed â No data caps â Free service guaranteed for at least 7 years â Includes Network Box
$300 construction fee (one time or 12 monthly payments of $25) + taxes and fees

That intrigues me even more than the ultra high speed Internet for which I don't really have any use.

What the fuck...

Instead of linking to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzwnxaShzzQ...

you link to http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CFoQtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQzwnxaShzzQ&ei=a2VtUYz0L6-j4AOXzID4BQ&usg=AFQjCNHLeF2qjbR5EYX3KDEjpDTGTUIQrw&bvm=bv.45175338,d.dmg?

Why do that?

Getting lasik back in '04 was the best 4 grand I ever spent.

From the FAQ:

If you’ve had Lasik surgery, ask your doctor about risks of eye impact damage before using Glass.

Sucks to be you!

Speaking of which, I wonder if they will offer prescription Google Glass or if they expect the bespectacled amongst us to wear contact lenses.

Yes, there is a prescription lens version coming.

Is Glass indestructible?
Can I use Glass while operating a jackhammer?
Is it OK to go scuba diving with Glass?

https://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064131?hl=en&ref_topic=3063354

Is there really a noticeable difference between 1Gbps and 2?

I'm not a network engineer, but by my calculations, 2 Gigabit fiber is twice as fast as 1 Gigabit. But please double check my numbers:

2 / 1 = 2

The Earth gets blasted by supernovas, and all we get is some minor deposits in a geological layer.

Google says you're wrong. Supernovas have caused many mass extinctions, including The second-largest extinction in the Earth’s history, the killing of two-thirds of all species, may have been caused by ultraviolet radiation from the sun after gamma rays destroyed the Earth’s ozone layer.

... baby monitors and walkie-talkies can pick up interference and other communication...

Even Aliens!

I'm a Gnome 2 refugee typing this on a Macbook Air, not a MS apologist.

Except in the context of this article Apple is down 22% YOY, while Linux enjoys a steady growth. Real Gnome2 refugees run Cinnamon on a Pixel...like Linux https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/dk1aiW4JjHd

Read the UI guidelines. The display resolution is 640x360.

A lot of the the new, popular indie games available aren't exactly taxing on system requirements. Granted some of them could stand a bit of optimization, but having a common framework and a fixed hardware target (exacly what the Ouya provides) really will help there

Ouya could also be a way for good indie games to get noticed in the first place, due to having less competition. With Google Play having almost a million apps already, it's hard for the developers to get their games discovered among all those thousands of tower defense clones and such, unless they can afford some real marketing.

Maybe with Ouya many niche genres such as turn-based strategy games (a genre that has completely been overrun by real-time clickfest games) could flourish again. I've been toying with the idea of porting my hex strategy game Populus Romanus and its successor to Ouya, but haven't taken a look yet how much the different control method would need changes in the application, compared to the ordinary Android touch interface.

A lot of the the new, popular indie games available aren't exactly taxing on system requirements. Granted some of them could stand a bit of optimization, but having a common framework and a fixed hardware target (exacly what the Ouya provides) really will help there

Ouya could also be a way for good indie games to get noticed in the first place, due to having less competition. With Google Play having almost a million apps already, it's hard for the developers to get their games discovered among all those thousands of tower defense clones and such, unless they can afford some real marketing.

Maybe with Ouya many niche genres such as turn-based strategy games (a genre that has completely been overrun by real-time clickfest games) could flourish again. I've been toying with the idea of porting my hex strategy game Populus Romanus and its successor to Ouya, but haven't taken a look yet how much the different control method would need changes in the application, compared to the ordinary Android touch interface.

Yet in one fell swoop a single company has managed to cover every major road in every city. The system works incredibly well. Slow update rates mean you don't need everyone to have a smartphone, but if even a tiny portion of the population use the feature you get very accurate data.

Evidence http://maps.google.com/ why not compare it to your sensor network.

Indeed, there's little reason for anyone to buy a new PC anymore. I'm typing this up on a Core Duo 1.8Ghz with 3GB RAM. It's maybe not as snappy as my primary machine with an i7 and 8GB and awesome switchable VGAs, but it's still sufficiently capable for web dev and graphic design and certainly any office tasks. But I have a hard time believing that Windows 8 as no role in this ... it's a massive dose of WTF is this shit?

Then enter the proliferation of tablets and smartphones, and suddenly a lot of people have no reason to own a fully-fledged computer. Why buy an over-featured device that will just add complication? If all you need is something for email and dicking around on FaceTwitstagramtrest, a tablet or smartphone is all you need. They are devices with interfaces designed for consumption with little interference of features. This is why mobile software mostly sucks and desktop software is so much more fully-featured. They are necessarily limited by their interfaces.

If PC makers expect to live through this transition, they need to refocus their efforts to users who actually use their computers as computers, not glorified TV sets. No more shiny-ass, overstyled, glitzy shit laptops would be a nice start, ie.: go back to making this tidy, understated and decidedly square, business-looking sort of thing, stop removing useful features, give us the form factor we actually want and stop making the godawful shiny, plasticky lumps of crippled shit that laptops are today.

Oh, and please, please, PLEASE give us our 7-row desktop-style keyboards back! How does anyone actually manage to get anything done on these bullshit 6-row monstrosities?

Oh, and can we have the red X button back to get the * out of this new * that we didn't want to be in in the first place?! and this forum wants fewer junk characters :) - it apparently doesn't realize how frustrated consumers are!

Indeed, there's little reason for anyone to buy a new PC anymore. I'm typing this up on a Core Duo 1.8Ghz with 3GB RAM. It's maybe not as snappy as my primary machine with an i7 and 8GB and awesome switchable VGAs, but it's still sufficiently capable for web dev and graphic design and certainly any office tasks. But I have a hard time believing that Windows 8 as no role in this ... it's a massive dose of WTF is this shit?

Then enter the proliferation of tablets and smartphones, and suddenly a lot of people have no reason to own a fully-fledged computer. Why buy an over-featured device that will just add complication? If all you need is something for email and dicking around on FaceTwitstagramtrest, a tablet or smartphone is all you need. They are devices with interfaces designed for consumption with little interference of features. This is why mobile software mostly sucks and desktop software is so much more fully-featured. They are necessarily limited by their interfaces.

If PC makers expect to live through this transition, they need to refocus their efforts to users who actually use their computers as computers, not glorified TV sets. No more shiny-ass, overstyled, glitzy shit laptops would be a nice start, ie.: go back to making this tidy, understated and decidedly square, business-looking sort of thing, stop removing useful features, give us the form factor we actually want and stop making the godawful shiny, plasticky lumps of crippled shit that laptops are today.

Oh, and please, please, PLEASE give us our 7-row desktop-style keyboards back! How does anyone actually manage to get anything done on these bullshit 6-row monstrosities?

Oh, and can we have the red X button back to get the * out of this new * that we didn't want to be in in the first place?! and this forum wants fewer junk characters :) - it apparently doesn't realize how frustrated consumers are!

Indeed, there's little reason for anyone to buy a new PC anymore. I'm typing this up on a Core Duo 1.8Ghz with 3GB RAM. It's maybe not as snappy as my primary machine with an i7 and 8GB and awesome switchable VGAs, but it's still sufficiently capable for web dev and graphic design and certainly any office tasks. But I have a hard time believing that Windows 8 as no role in this ... it's a massive dose of WTF is this shit?

Then enter the proliferation of tablets and smartphones, and suddenly a lot of people have no reason to own a fully-fledged computer. Why buy an over-featured device that will just add complication? If all you need is something for email and dicking around on FaceTwitstagramtrest, a tablet or smartphone is all you need. They are devices with interfaces designed for consumption with little interference of features. This is why mobile software mostly sucks and desktop software is so much more fully-featured. They are necessarily limited by their interfaces.

If PC makers expect to live through this transition, they need to refocus their efforts to users who actually use their computers as computers, not glorified TV sets. No more shiny-ass, overstyled, glitzy shit laptops would be a nice start, ie.: go back to making this tidy, understated and decidedly square, business-looking sort of thing, stop removing useful features, give us the form factor we actually want and stop making the godawful shiny, plasticky lumps of crippled shit that laptops are today.

Oh, and please, please, PLEASE give us our 7-row desktop-style keyboards back! How does anyone actually manage to get anything done on these bullshit 6-row monstrosities?

Oh, and can we have the red X button back to get the * out of this new * that we didn't want to be in in the first place?! and this forum wants fewer junk characters :) - it apparently doesn't realize how frustrated consumers are!

Indeed, there's little reason for anyone to buy a new PC anymore. I'm typing this up on a Core Duo 1.8Ghz with 3GB RAM. It's maybe not as snappy as my primary machine with an i7 and 8GB and awesome switchable VGAs, but it's still sufficiently capable for web dev and graphic design and certainly any office tasks. But I have a hard time believing that Windows 8 as no role in this ... it's a massive dose of WTF is this shit?

Then enter the proliferation of tablets and smartphones, and suddenly a lot of people have no reason to own a fully-fledged computer. Why buy an over-featured device that will just add complication? If all you need is something for email and dicking around on FaceTwitstagramtrest, a tablet or smartphone is all you need. They are devices with interfaces designed for consumption with little interference of features. This is why mobile software mostly sucks and desktop software is so much more fully-featured. They are necessarily limited by their interfaces.

If PC makers expect to live through this transition, they need to refocus their efforts to users who actually use their computers as computers, not glorified TV sets. No more shiny-ass, overstyled, glitzy shit laptops would be a nice start, ie.: go back to making this tidy, understated and decidedly square, business-looking sort of thing, stop removing useful features, give us the form factor we actually want and stop making the godawful shiny, plasticky lumps of crippled shit that laptops are today.

Oh, and please, please, PLEASE give us our 7-row desktop-style keyboards back! How does anyone actually manage to get anything done on these bullshit 6-row monstrosities?

Oh, and can we have the red X button back to get the * out of this new * that we didn't want to be in in the first place?! and this forum wants fewer junk characters :) - it apparently doesn't realize how frustrated consumers are!

Now your getting it. As a market matures, margins drop, and Apple moves towards obscurity.

Apple's had higher profit margins than its peers for over 15 years.....

As for asking PC companies Intel's average quarterly gross margin in the last five years is 59.97 per cent,

Try again, more like 24%
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AINTC&fstype=ii&ei=5KFsUdDoDIGylgPPDQ

Apple's profit margin is a little higher.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&fstype=ii&ei=QaJsUdCmIpqKlgOY_QE

and Microsoft's is even higher at 78.31 per cent

Try again.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AMSFT&fstype=ii&ei=nKJsUYjxEYiQlAPeswE

Perhaps you should look at Financial *performance* rather than the the top and bottom line

Silly me for actually thinking profit and loss is more important than some random numbers,

Now your getting it. As a market matures, margins drop, and Apple moves towards obscurity.

Apple's had higher profit margins than its peers for over 15 years.....

As for asking PC companies Intel's average quarterly gross margin in the last five years is 59.97 per cent,

Try again, more like 24%
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AINTC&fstype=ii&ei=5KFsUdDoDIGylgPPDQ

Apple's profit margin is a little higher.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&fstype=ii&ei=QaJsUdCmIpqKlgOY_QE

and Microsoft's is even higher at 78.31 per cent

Try again.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AMSFT&fstype=ii&ei=nKJsUYjxEYiQlAPeswE

Perhaps you should look at Financial *performance* rather than the the top and bottom line

Silly me for actually thinking profit and loss is more important than some random numbers,