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I wonder why google trends isn't predicting the end of these various Google services?

I always post to the wrong one. so again.

I read Twitters TOS as listed today (Mar 22 2013)

"We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably
believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request..."
https://twitter.com/tos [twitter.com]

Reading the translated article then wikipedia. The case was heard and judged by the
Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris (Google Translate) a minor jurisdiction, that hears hears minor civil cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_France [wikipedia.org]
http://books.google.com/books?id=hJaEzC1CBe8C&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q&f=false [google.com]

I would think Twitter has the right not to acknowledge this court as being applicable or relevant.

Again Twitter TOS
"(iv) respond to user support requests,

They said no, enforcing their TOS of

"(v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the public."

I'm sure it says no hateful comments somewhere but at the most the guilty persons account be deleted.

The bubble is obvious: look at the 2013 BTC/USD chart.

Despite periodic "corrections", the price is still continuing to rise precipitously. The volatility is insane, but how viable is it that the price on 1 Jan 2013 was 1 BTC/~$15, and now it's trading for ~$70? The value has more than quadrupled in the 81 days so far in 2013. If the present bubble is extrapolated that represents roughly a 103,000% APY; clearly, that growth is unsustainable.

So... is anyone selling put options on BTC?

Seems like purchasing a few puts on BTC will pay off handsomely.

The problem would be that total sales tax would be
around 25-30%. Even more incentive to avoid the
tax. People buying stuff off the back of a truck
would be the norm.

If you want to increase prosperity, just go back the
road you traveled to get here: reduce all taxes in
the order that they were increased.

Economic output will increase tremendously. Just
keep reducing taxes until the tax burden is about
8%. Right now it is about 60-80%.

Laffer Curve: http://www.google.com/search?q=Laffer+Curve

I suggest it be made very clear what data is collected and precisely how it is used.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy

I can think of lots of applications for a device attached to your body, and telling time is far down on that list.

(Since I work mostly within view of computers I haven't worn a watch in my professional life ever. Nowadays with smartphones, the need is even less.)

Can bone conduction work with a watch-like device? You could hear your phone ring without disturbing anyone else, and if you could identify the ringtone you could tell how important the call is.

Would body measurements be useful? Heartbeat, temperature and blood oxygenation seem obvious. Would it help your doctor rule out certain diseases to know the characteristics of the fever - spiky/continuous, low/high level, exact date of onset?

Could the device make fitness measurements? Tell how much exercise you're getting per week, let you know when to get out more and which type of exercise best meets your goals?

If there's an embedded accelerometer, can the instrument detect tossing/turning at night? With the blood oxygenation, could it detect sleep apnea? Snoring? Other sleep disorders?

Could the device detect dust levels in the manner of a [non-radioactive] smoke detector? Would this be useful for people to monitor their allergies?

I once worked with a scientist at Berman Gund laboratories (Boston) who was amazed [at the time] that you could put a microprocessor on a lanyard connected to a light sensor mounted on the patient's eyeglasses. He wanted to see if the progression of Retinitis Pigmentosa correlated with the amount of light entering the patient's eyes.

Light sensors are now cheap and tiny.

Does the amount of light in a user's environment correlate with depression? With SAD? Does fluorescent light correlate with depression? Does brightness matter or total daily duration?

Will it have a GPS receiver? Could it display an arrow and distance information?

Lots of applications here. Telling time is almost an afterthought.

http://memeburn.com/2011/08/the-google-graveyard-20-products-that-failed/

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_Q?id=nexus_q&hl=en

Free Market companies have one overriding interest; to make profits for their shareholders, that is the only reason they exist.

Not really. First, there is no such thing as a "Free Market company" because markets don't exist without rules to define them, not to mention all the legal and fiduciary infrastructure that supports and defends the ability of a private entity to extract a profit from an activity. The "Free Market" is an unobtainable ideological goal, like Nirvana (the state of being, not the band). Second, the mandates of a corporation are defined in their corporate charter, which is in turn defined by the governing body under which it was issued. There is no God of Commerce that handed down a stone tablet, "thou shall only seek profit for thy shareholders."

To avoid plugging a particular website, try searching for "corporate charters public good." One of the founding principles of the United States was to get out from underneath the tyranny of the British corporate structure, which essentially stated that corporations could do whatever they wanted in the name of profit (so long as they paid taxes to the crown). Even the Boston Tea Party was a manifestation of this desire; it was just a much a protest against the tax-exempt status of tea imported by the British East India Company as it was a protest against taxes on the colonists. As a result, American corporate charters used to put "benefit of the public good" as the first priority of a corporate entity, above even profit-making. Corporate charters also used to define a fixed life-span of a corporation to ensure that it didn't do what Google is doing, i.e., turn into an evil autocracy despite the best intentions of its founders.

Where's the announcement from China? Canonical has a long history of bullshit announcements that some big vendor is going to use their product. They've made that claim in the past for both Asus and Dell. In both cases, the Canonical product never appeared on those platforms, or was a very minor niche announcement.

I'm not finding any announcement about this on China government sites. However, the Ministry of Information Industry Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center is listed by Microsoft as an Microsoft Embedded Partner.

Here's a recent policy announcement on open source from CSIP. They encourage using Linux, but Canonical is not mentioned. The action agency on this is the "China Innovative Strategic Alliance for Open Source", but I'm not seeing them associated with Canonical.

PC and android device(s) just suddenly appear on the develope's desk when he/she wants to develop something for those platforms?

Yes, because he already owned a PC running Windows before starting to develop software. You might counter that one might have already owned a Mac, but a randomly selected x86 desktop or laptop computer is far more likely to have shipped with Windows than to be a Mac, and Macs can run Android SDK anyway. Entry-level Android tablets can be had for under $100, and brand-name ones from ASUS and Amazon for $200.

What if someone [...] now tries to develop other apps for Windows? The use still need to spend a lot of money (to buy Visual Studio) before start.

Visual Studio Express, MinGW, the JDK, and Eclipse are all distributed without charge. And even if you happen to have bought a Mac as your first computer, a copy of Windows 8 OEM to install in Boot Camp is $99 (not per year).

How does he/she know whether the Microsoft would accept

Windows 8 supports desktop and "immersive" (formerly Metro) applications. Desktop applications can be sideloaded, leaving Microsoft's policies out of scope entirely. Immersive applications come exclusively from the Windows Store, just like Windows RT applications. But unlike Apple, Microsoft publishes its guidelines for Windows Store applications, and I was able to view those without even being signed into Hotmail. Likewise, Google makes its distribution agreement and content policy for Google Play Store available to the public to inspect.

or whether the app is going to be success?

That variable is orthogonal to the concept acceptance policies of any particular platform.

PC and android device(s) just suddenly appear on the develope's desk when he/she wants to develop something for those platforms?

Yes, because he already owned a PC running Windows before starting to develop software. You might counter that one might have already owned a Mac, but a randomly selected x86 desktop or laptop computer is far more likely to have shipped with Windows than to be a Mac, and Macs can run Android SDK anyway. Entry-level Android tablets can be had for under $100, and brand-name ones from ASUS and Amazon for $200.

What if someone [...] now tries to develop other apps for Windows? The use still need to spend a lot of money (to buy Visual Studio) before start.

Visual Studio Express, MinGW, the JDK, and Eclipse are all distributed without charge. And even if you happen to have bought a Mac as your first computer, a copy of Windows 8 OEM to install in Boot Camp is $99 (not per year).

How does he/she know whether the Microsoft would accept

Windows 8 supports desktop and "immersive" (formerly Metro) applications. Desktop applications can be sideloaded, leaving Microsoft's policies out of scope entirely. Immersive applications come exclusively from the Windows Store, just like Windows RT applications. But unlike Apple, Microsoft publishes its guidelines for Windows Store applications, and I was able to view those without even being signed into Hotmail. Likewise, Google makes its distribution agreement and content policy for Google Play Store available to the public to inspect.

or whether the app is going to be success?

That variable is orthogonal to the concept acceptance policies of any particular platform.

I've understood for years that I couldn't rely on anything in my butt that was new, experimental, or not terribly well known.

Man, cloud to butt keeps delivering in hilarity...

Why should somebody in another state have to keep track of the tax laws in every municipality in every state in the country?

They don't need to, this problem has already been solved:

• http://www.taxrates.com/
• http://www.taxdatasystems.com/
• http://www.zip2tax.com/
• https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=sales+tax+database

I have customers that use these vendors for taxes as well. The software I work on at my day job integrates quite nicely with these:

• http://taxware.com/
• http://www.vertexinc.com/

President Nixon began decreasing troop levels in 1969:
Bill Moyer's Journal Vietnam Timeline.

The renewed focus on Nixon looks like more "operation change the subject" to deflect news stories related to Hillary Clinton's leaked emails.

While I agree with you in principal (the ability to run whatever I wish is one of the reasons I use Android and avoid iOS myself), in practice, what you describe is the same on both platforms.

If I'm selling a commercial app, even on Android, the built-in store is more or less the only avenue to making money. Google's store has rules just like Apple's does.

Sure I can sell through Amazon or some of the other third parties instead. But this obviously greatly diminishes my potential market (and they will likely have similar rules too). What percent of Android users ever install a third party store? What percent are even aware they can do so?

If you're talking about commercially selling software to sideload, the problem is even worse. Most users have no idea this is possible. So in effect, if you're investing a lot of money into a project and Google says "no", the results aren't much different from Apple saying "no".

Jesus, have you ever used google before? Have you ever read the news?

LET ME GOOGLE THAT FOR YOU

Christ, it isn't even that difficult to find he wanted to extend the Iraq war http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/about_that_iraq_withdrawal/

How are the internet services in Karesuando?

If 100Mbit is available there, then the US is really failing hard.

Can't wait until next spring. I'm pretty sure that's when this will get the axe.

You're wrong. It already got the ax last summer (July 2012) when that service was called Google Notebook (or Google Notes). Google Notebook could already be shared between all your devices, and it wasn't just limited to the latest release of Android either.

Why did you make this transition?

We loved working on Notebook, but sometimes we have to make the hard decision to focus more of our efforts on products and technologies that will yield the most benefit to users in the long run. With all the great innovations and improvements to Google Docs in the last few years, we think it’s a great replacement for Notebook. http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html

Personally, I just like PushBullet. It doesn't have all the functionality Google Notebook used to have, nor will it ever have half the functionality Keep will have (since it's really designed to push things to your devices, not really push things both ways). But I really like it. It's simple. It's elegant. And it just does the things I need it to do.

And no, I don't know those PushBullet guys. I have no affiliation with them.

Also: http://books.google.com/books?id=yRMgYc-8mTIC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=mars+nitrates&source=bl&ots=ODL9aBy2LA&sig=Q3X_KKKufBHj2PLeXAExQIWtsyg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=di9KUa29J4TA9QTYzIGwDA&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw

If you read the blurb, this is not really a "new" product, but rather an extension of Google Drive. If you use Google Drive, you already have the product.

http://drive.google.com/keep

Yeah, Motörhead is the only band I had to put stuff in my ears for during a show. However, they already did the damaging a building thing in Cleveland back in 1984 (the very tour where my ears needed the aforementioned protection).

were this radioactive rat: Pizza!!

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

http://www.google.com/search?q=persis+khambatta&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&gl=US&tbm=isch&nomo=1&biw=480&bih=295

this: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=Linear&chdeh=1&chfdeh=0&chdet=1363731839991&chddm=581026&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:EA&&fct=big&ei=S-VIUeiEAcmpigLBMw

I'd like to think that more people would have an idea of what is actually in these fluids. There is a lot of information out there. Don't say "BUT.. BUT... THE COMPANIES DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW WHATS IN THEM!" because that's not necessarily the case. Southwestern Energy has a nice inforgraphic as to what can go into a frac fluid, and in approximate quantities. You can find many more online. Even Halliburton tells you what's in their fluids!

We make a host of additives for frac fluids, like viscosifiers (the chemicals guar or xanthan gum), friction reducers like PHPA (the chemical partially hydroxylated polyacrylamide), and sand (the chemical silicon dioxide) or ceramic beads (typically bauxite based).

The items mentioned in the article make it sound like "they are adding benzene and barium to the fluids, and we had no idea that they do this!". I'll help you guys out. Barite (barium sulfate ore) is added to every oil well in the world as a weighting agent for the drilling mud. It's solubility in water is nil. Would water that is flushed down a well that has been drilled capable of picking up barium that has formed a filter cake on the walls of the bore? Sure, but it's also in EVERY WATER OR OIL MUD USED IN EVERY WELL IN THE WORLD.

Benzene in the frac fluid? Nobody adds benzene to frac fluid. Here is most likely how it got there: oil based drilling muds use diesel as a carrier fluid (if the drilling is done on land, not the case offshore). Diesel has 30% aromatic content (ie. benzene, toluene, xylene). IF the well was drilled with an oil mud AND the well was recently finished being drilled AND it was recently cleared out, then the first part of the "waste" frac fluid will probably contain benzene.

They don't care right? WRONG. They do on site testing to make sure the sample doesn't sheen or have any type of oil based fluids in the water. If it does, then the water has to be treated before being disposed (i.e. sewage, lakes, rivers, etc). So my question to the people testing these fluids: At what point did they test for benzene? Did the frac water come from a well that was drilled using diesel? Did the frac water come from a well using water based fluids? Were these random frac waste samples? What part of the country did these frac water samples come from? Did the frac water encounter aromatic hydrocarbons in the formation?

These things are needed to come to a conclusion as to where did these chemicals come from.

Cite your goddamn lies. Oddly enough, if I search for historical books referencing both canon and arms, I can find several situations, such as this one or that, where cannon are referred to as firearms, and NONE supporting your goddamn position.

I wasted 20 minutes, trying vainly to find something, anything, having any support for what you're saying, and all I find is contrary evidence.

I tried. I tried to pretend you weren't a liar. Why don't you provide me with the evidence that it's true. Moreover, you certainly haven't defended your obsessive almost moronic point I addressed with #3.

Cite your goddamn lies. Oddly enough, if I search for historical books referencing both canon and arms, I can find several situations, such as this one or that, where cannon are referred to as firearms, and NONE supporting your goddamn position.

I wasted 20 minutes, trying vainly to find something, anything, having any support for what you're saying, and all I find is contrary evidence.

I tried. I tried to pretend you weren't a liar. Why don't you provide me with the evidence that it's true. Moreover, you certainly haven't defended your obsessive almost moronic point I addressed with #3.

But the US government has a program called PEPFAR that focuses on AIDS, TB, and malaria.

It focuses on AIDS which happens to also be a developed world disease. The funding which happens to go in part to fighting malaria, goes to the The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria which was "seeded" in 2002 with funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

So that Gates money not only goes far, it also channels one to two orders of magnitude more in public funds. I suppose that does indicate however that there are some Third World health issues where the politicians are willing to burn money in order to show up billionaires.

Well, I don't much of substance to add to this conversation, so I'll be pedantic instead. The possessive "dropout's" is actually correct in this case, since he's talking about comments belonging to a hypothetical dropout. And the subject "you" is correct because he's requesting others take a specified action, the reason for which is to improve his own experience while reading the comments.

Personally, I think Slashdot's mod system is about as good as you're going to get on an anonymous internet forum. Good posts tend to get modded up, bad posts tend to get modded down. We need the -1 for posts that are actually worse than simply mediocre (or just haven't attracted interest). I browse at -1 to see everything, and can filter out the stupidity myself when I feel like it.

I like that Slashdot's readership has a much higher-than-average technical knowledge (expected due to the nature of the site), but I don't find the civility to be better than the rest of the internet when corrected for what I assume is a higher age and hopefully maturity.

Regarding the meaning of "nanoscale", I'm not aware of an accepted IEEE defition, or anything similar. Various opinions of its definition range from:
Google: "Of a size measurable in nanometers or microns."
American Heritage Science Dictionary: "Relating to or occurring on a scale of nanometers."
PC Magazine: "At nanometer size. Any device only a few nanometers in size is nanoscale. Nanotechnology is said to comprise elements less than 100 nanometers in size (100 nm)."
Wikipedia gets a little more specific, but claims 1-100 nanometers as one criterion.

The resolution of this printer, at 30nm, seems to satisfy the letter of these definitions, so I'd say it's correct enough to say it's a "nanoscale printer." It's technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

You only want to do the symbolic gesture, cause you dont actually want to give up your A/C, your furnace, your comfortable house outside the city the requires a commute, your high tech toys.

You are an unethical and dishonest debater, trying to create a false dichotomy. I drive a car that gets 50mpg easily. It is big enough, safe enough and fast enough to serve my purposes and gets me from A to B comfortably. Contrast that with someone who drives a 12mpg suv as a single occupant commuter vehicle and who almost never uses 95% of the space or capability. That is waste.

Consider the CIRS building at the University of British Columbia. It is a net producer of energy, and a net consumer of CO2. Consider passive houses, that consume 90% less energy than a regular house and yet cost about the same as a regular house when components are built in a factory. When such technologies are available, it is waste not to use them.

I agree that cost doesn't necessarily equate to fiscal transactions - I'm just saying that for me, and for many other people, the coin google works in is on which has value to google, but not to the consumer of the services

So, you don't value your privacy. That's a personal choice, and it's yours to make.

If you consider that a particular currency has no value, then a service that requires you to pay with that currency *is* free to you.

Your personal opinion (which is subjective) as to whether or not something has value does not change the absolute (objective) fact that the services provided by Google are done so in exchange for payment.

FYI, you may not find any fiscal value in your own private information, but Google sure as hell does, to the tune of several billion dollars a year.

Google used to offer search through a SOAP API. With no ads. They discontinued that. Then they offered search through a "Web Search API", again with no ads. That's deprecated, rate limited, and going away, although it still works if you have an old API key for it. ("Google Custom Search" does not support general web searches, and costs $5 per 1000 queries.)

Google used to offer search through a SOAP API. With no ads. They discontinued that. Then they offered search through a "Web Search API", again with no ads. That's deprecated, rate limited, and going away, although it still works if you have an old API key for it. ("Google Custom Search" does not support general web searches, and costs $5 per 1000 queries.)

Except for all the actual research that goes on

Actual research results in published papers with high impact factors. NASA allocates about 1.7 billion per year to ISS, while Lawrence Berkeley National Lab uses 800 million for it's entire budget. If you want to make the claim that ISS research is cost-effective, I'd like to see your numbers.

That was shorthand for "Google could buy the companies that comprise the RIAA". e.g. the RIAA "big three" are Sony Music Group, UMG, and Warner. I could only find market capitlization for Warner (1.3bn), but the entirety of Sony (not just the music group) is valued at 16bn. Google has $50bn cash on hand.

androgenic

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

As I understand it... and I could be wrong... you are both sort of right... The updates for Nexus devices are pushed out by Google. Google keeps updating Nexus devices until they deem the devices as unable to adequately run the latest updates to Android. Google has already worked their magic and has available, right now, updates for most of the Nexus phones using GSM networks. However, due to the nature of CDMA networks, Google has to wait for the CDMA carriers to provide APKs containing the core telephony functionality and requisite platform keys for each respective carrier's CDMA networks. Once the said APKs are available, Google will work their magic on the device image and push out an update notification to your device. And if you are ever in doubt as to whether or not a new Android version is available for your Nexus device, you can always check here for the latest factory images for Nexus devices: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

...Apple and Microsoft are not pushing computers with 16GB total storage and 9GB of free space...

Microsoft is pushing a tablet with 64GB of total storage, but only 23 GB of free space. Apple sells devices with 32 GB of storage, and only 24 GB free space.

Google is pretty much the only one that's heavily pushing users towards being slaves of their cloud. And yet the Linux crowd seem to cheer them on.

That's because we know that most folks should be slaves to some cloud. Tycho of Penny Arcade says it well:

But what I like about this laptop is that it is not gregarious in any way. It barely exists; there are many, many things it can’t do, which is fucking great. If I was going to spend over a thousand dollars on some sliver of mobile computing, I would buy a generalist device: I’d get a MacBook Air, or emulate Gabriel’s example with a Surface Pro. That cover/keyboard thing is no joke. But those machines are much, much more than I want, let alone need. And what I need is very, very simple: a window that looks out onto the Cloud.

Thus far, I’ve gotta say: I like the view.

The Chromebooks fill a niche market for a device to just use the Web. Not to play video games, run heavy computations, or manage a company's network. They are a generic interface to everything on the Web, as the Web was designed to have.

By the way, Google reports the Drive outage is fixed.

Seeing how Google is taking their sweet time to fix Latitude for Blackberry users, is it the next product to be axed?

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/maps/PDx5fW-SiFI/77dIbvuMR5sJ

And Google isn't addressing the for ALL Blackberry users.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/maps/PDx5fW-SiFI/77dIbvuMR5sJ

Correction: it was "don't *be* evil" (emphasis added). There is a subtle semantic distinction between doing some evil and actually being evil. Such hair-splitting is probably what lets Google managers sleep at night.

More from the link:

Our commitment to the highest standards helps us hire great people, build great products, and attract loyal users. Trust and mutual respect among employees and users are the foundation of our success, and they are something we need to earn every day.

Nice words they've got there.

How I'm dreading November 1st when iGoogle will be retired...
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2664197

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Well, each one required a 55 gallon barrel of lubricant, a week.

Reading through this and the rest of the thread, I just don't buy your claim at all. Googling around, I'm getting oil change intervals of as long as seven years for the latest generation of wind generators (with lubrication reserviors of around a barrel in size) and lubrication. Obviously, that's not what your windmills are. I doubt going through lubrication at that high a rate, just doesn't make sense even with subsidies.

And if a significant portion of that actually is leaking (which seems to be what you're claiming, then that would be a serious environmental issue (for California). But I don't see the alleged "dark grease streaks" even on pictures closer up than your linked image. Sure, there's probably some sort of grease streak there, but it doesn't show up on pictures, means it probably isn't leaking that much.

The "IP Stack natively provideth 1st" built in - custom hosts files, natively, & tightly integrated with the IP stack + its built-in DNS resolver engines @ the kernelmode/ring 0/rpl 0 level - clean, fast, & over 44++ yrs. of optimization poured into it over time since 1969. The IP stack loads @ OS startup, thus the hosts file too into RAM for speed, & that makes AdBlock &/or Ghostery, wasteful + redundant.

Hosts ARE superior to Ghostery &/or AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.

Here's how I generate them, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online:

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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:

http://start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&catid=26:64bit-security-software&Itemid=74

Which, if you read the list of what it can do for you as an end user of the resulting output it produces listed in the link above, you'll understand how/why...

"It's as strong as steel, & a 3rd of the weight" - Howard Stark from the film "Captain America"

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Especially vs. competing alternate 'solutions', noted below in AdBlock/Ghostery & yes even DNS servers, next, as 'examples thereof'...

Solutions that used to be good & I even recommended them in security guides I wrote up over the decades now -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=ka3yUKzxB-6_0QHLroCQCA

That did extremely well for myself (and users of them), for Windows users, for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" purposes - the BEST THING WE HAVE GOING vs. threats of all kinds, currently!

(Not anymore though, & certainly NOT far as AdBlock's concerned especially, not after this):

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Adblock Plus To Offer 'Acceptable Ads' Option:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2213233/adblock-plus-to-offer-acceptable-ads-option

(Meaning by default, which MOST USERS WON'T CHANGE, it doesn't block ALL ads - they "souled-out"... talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse")!

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Plus, Adblock CAN'T DO AS MUCH & not from a single file solution that runs in Ring 0/RPL 0/kernelmode via tcpip.sys, a driver (since it's part of the IP stack & tightly integrated into it) which is far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers, & addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

Hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack queries on webbound requests -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172218

(Thus, since the IP stack is already loaded by the OS @ bootup & on requests by client programs - guess what? Hosts make adblock & ghostery, REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL, also! )

To wit, 10++ things AdBlock can't do, hosts can:

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1.) Blocking rogue DNS servers malware makers use

2.) Blocking known sites/servers that serve up malware... like known sites/servers/hosts-domains that serve up malicious scripts

3.) Speeding up your FAVORITE SITES that hosts can speed up via hardcoded line item entries properly resolved by a reverse DNS ping

4.) AdBlock works on Mozilla products (browser & email), hosts work on ANY webbound app AND are multiplatform.

5.) AdBlock can't protect external to FireFox email progra

If you make an illegal lane change and hit me, I will be submitting my tapes to government

I have a recorder in the car for the same reason. Nobody can claim privacy on the road; it's designed for just the opposite.

Or are you going to deliberately try to run me off the road if you see a camera mounted on my helmet?

Sometimes bicycle riders try to run me (in a car) off the road. This happens automatically when they ride on narrow roads. To pass safely the driver of the car has to cross the double yellow line. In many locations this is patently unsafe.

I've not seen the advertising that indicates that the glasses are streaming live 100% of the time. You must have read the secret manual.

It doesn't matter what the Glasses do today. They are likely to be able to stream continuously tomorrow. As I understand, the only limiting factor now is the battery. The bandwidth will be free, courtesy of the government.

<sigh /> /b/ happened. That kind of stuff happened LONG before 4chan. Remember the Good Old Days? Before The September That Never Ended?

Remember alt.tastless? Remember all those really highbrow BBSes? THSTNE was the best thing that ever happened to the Internets, despite the (to this day) wailing of the oldtimers. There is no way that teacher could talk to that farmer without all those AOHell n00bs looking for pr0n on alt.binaries

Go ahead and give up on whatever you want. I take full advantage of the open nature of things, like sidewalks and crosswalks. Just because there is an 8-lane highway in between, doesn't mean that I should walk in it.

I really don't want some of the scumbags that let their ids puke all over the interwebs to be dictating any policy. They just fuel the watchers anyway.

There's always been a tradeoff between security, peace and prosperity. It is always about balance, a word that a lot of folks these days seem to need defined for them. I don't want all of anything, but I need some of everything. We all do.

Still doesn't mean he wants to print/mill parts. Those tools have many artistic uses. Printing parts would be a terrible waste.

Actually also being actively ported to other languages, including javascript, ruby and python.

Allow me to provide some data from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's Survival Scores Research Study: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fletc.gov%2Freference%2Fresearch-papers%2Fsurvival_scores_research.pdf%2Fdownload&ei=up5EUdO3FbDLyAHi2YCQAw&usg=AFQjCNF1ZxlAG0Av6U-paxnsJ2g56jRlKg&bvm=bv.43828540,d.aWc&cad=rja See page 32 for the relevant information: in simulated shootouts, most of the participants only achieved a hit rate of 20% at a range of 3 yards. The bulk of the study focuses on WHY this happens; the various psychological and physiological stress responses that make accuracy relying on fine-motor skills so difficult.