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https://www.google.com/search?q=nexus+5

Thank you, Firethorn, much appreciated.

10 ft/s decel - 5.7 seconds

I was looking at an online chart and it showed a stopping distance for a poor truck driver with standard brakes on the flat as 344 feet at 40MPH. Could you comment about how that kind of distance and time relates to the deceleration value? I'd like to talk to the local highway guys about it, and I don't think they do any of the engineering themselves, but I'm happy to work the problem with them (assuming I understand it).

Searching for Barker works just fine for me (right now, at least). It's not even trying to correct my spelling.

By using Google to find it.

Does anybody have a link to it? I can't see it.

PS: No, it's not here: http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2013/All%20doodles

On the other hand, did Dawkins ever even follow up with answers at all?

Yes.

OK, just at a basic level, but it's still all good advice.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34397

I wonder if the police from New Rome found a new place to live after his previous community was dissolved by the court for being nothing more than an excuse for the cops to ticket passing motorists.

It does seem similar; just a blip of a town along a major highway. I doubt they are issuing that many tickets to locals.

Hopefully this ruling can be used as precedent for future rulings against these cameras.

Well just enter '2 + 3' in your search bar : http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=EN#hl=en&output=search&q=2+%2B+3

Actually, 5 Points is a good spot.

Maybe, but you have to wonder why this is considered to be a front-page a news story. And you should wonder why an ordinary bar owner is being quoted in worldwide media. And maybe you should also wonder why this particular bar owner chose to take an anti-Google stance.

I wonder....

By the time the Great War had started, European aviation was greatly ahead of the USA's efforts.

Thanks to a Santos Dumont's invention, the Demoiselle (Google translation), which was released to the public domain by the author.

[O]f the three search engines only Google will actually use SSL, even if you go to http://google.com/ the form is submitted over https. The other two not only won't do that, they will *downgrade* you to http even if you explicitly navigate to https://yahoo.com/ or https://bing.com/. Iranians can easily use DPI to spy on Yahoo and Bing users, only Google presents a problem. So I'm not surprised Bing didn't get blocked, it's not clear to me why Yahoo did.

https://duckduckgo.com/ and https://ixquick.com/ both support SSL/TLS. The latter allows viewing searched content through their embedded HTTPS proxy service.

This seems inconsistent.

So, of the three search engines only Google will actually use SSL, even if you go to http://google.com/ the form is submitted over https. The other two not only won't do that, they will *downgrade* you to http even if you explicitly navigate to https://yahoo.com/ or https://bing.com/. Iranians can easily use DPI to spy on Yahoo and Bing users, only Google presents a problem. So I'm not surprised Bing didn't get blocked, it's not clear to me why Yahoo did.

The only explanation i see is that Iranian gov't is stupid - DPI is too hard, let's hijack the domains or blackhole a couple AS and go shopping (or shooting, or praying to almighty allah, or whatever). As to why Bing was left out, it's either
a) Iranian gov't is stupid, they were just unaware of Bing's existence. Unlikely.
b) Bing just doesn't work well enough in Arabic for the gov't to care. Also unlikely, given that Yahoo is powered by Bing and it got banned.
c) they contacted Microsoft and reached some kind of a deal where Microsoft bends over backwards but doesn't get banned. getting caught dealing with Iranian gov't is a big risk for Microsoft, but the potential reward of being the only game in a not-so-small country of 75 million people (mostly young and active adults) is just too high.

hmm...

I haven't decided what I think of Google glasses, but I expect people's reactions to them to resemble a moral panic or neo-ludditism. Surreptitious recording devices are pretty old technology at this point, and they've been available to the general public for years.

Now, look at the Google Glass website:

How to get one

The picture doesn't show a surreptitious recording device, it shows a pretty obvious recording device. I would probably only wear something like this in a situation where I wanted to take video, but I suppose some folks will wear them all the time. In which case, post a sign like they have at your friendly neighborhood Swingers Club and be done with it. (Again, why get hostile about a video camera just because it can be worn on someones face. The time to get upset about ubiquitous video cameras was when they started including them in cell phones, but I'm afraid that ship has sailed. Or perhaps back when they started selling small video cameras to the general public, but that ship sailed an even longer time ago.)

Hosts ARE superior to 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:

---

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"

---

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):

---

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")!

---

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 REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL also! )

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

---

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 programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means y

Hosts ARE superior to 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:

---

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"

---

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):

---

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")!

---

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 REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL also! )

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

---

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 programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means y

Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock &/or Ghostery 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:

---

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"

---

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):

---

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")!

---

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 REDUNDANT & WASTEFUL also! )

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

---

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 programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblo

Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to VALIDLY 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:

---

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"

---

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):

---

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")!

---

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 LOADS FAR BEFORE ADBLOCK DOES, making adblock REDUNDANT & wasteful in fact since hosts are the 1st thing your IP stack calls on via its built-in DNS resolver, which your browsers + email need to do, before adblock even BEGINS to operate)!

That is also far, Far, FAR FASTER than ring 3/rpl 3/usermode apps like browsers (& addons slow them down (known issue in FireFox).

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

---

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 programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languag

On several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on them, listed below in fact.

"AdBlock has a scheme where if your Ads are place sympathetically, they're not blocked." - by devitto (230479) on Sunday March 10, @08:39AM (#43130099) Homepage

Hosts have a BETTER one - don't WANT an ad (or anything else that may be blocked in hosts) blocked?

Just open hosts (in Windows, beneath %WinDir%\System32\drivers\etc, & you MUST do this as administrator class user - save the file elsewhere if need be, & then overwrite via drag-N-drop copy overwriting the original hosts) with a text editor to do so!

One like notepad.exe & boom: Edit out that line item entry, save hosts again, & DONE!

That easily! A user has DIRECT control of them...

Here's how I generate custom hosts files for gaining users & myself added speed, security, reliability, & even anonymity to an extent!

(Easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data online):

---

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"

---

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):

---

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")!

---

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

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

---

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 it

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:

---

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"

---

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):

---

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")!

---

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).

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

---

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 programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora, & others)

6.) AdBlock can't help you blow past DNSBL's (DNS block lists)

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (hosts can via hardcoded favorites)

8.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. TRACKERS (hosts can)

9.) AdBlock can't protect you vs. DOWNED or "DNS-poisoned" redirected DNS servers (hosts can by hardcodes)

10.) Hosts are EASIER to manage, they're just a text file (adblock means you had BEST know your javascript, perl, & python (iirc as to what languages are used to make it from source)).

& more... as a tiny 'sampling' & proofs thereof!

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Same with Ghostery:

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FROM -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2931443&cid=40412193

But don't forget that pretty much any numerical analysis will take place on a computer with a limited ability to represent floating point numbers. There will be a diminishing point of returns when decreasing dt when the increased precision from the smaller dt is eaten up by the increased errors in the floating point numbers.

One of my favorite descriptions of this problem comes from RW Hamming's book, "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers": http://books.google.com/books/about/Numerical_Methods_for_Scientists_and_Eng.html?id=Y3YSCmWBVwoC

One of the big criticisms of MS is that it did not start with how humans were going to interact with it's equipment.

One must be careful when using this definition of human. This wide net catches up the technophiles and the feature freaks with the technophobes and the Alzheimer's patients. The wider market is all that Google is courting here with their Not Dorky Glasses(tm). That group is made up of very different people from the early adopters. It should be obvious that majority of users of computing devices today are not going to use these devices the same way someone who would come to slashdot or install GNOME 3 would.

It's not like a google search wouldn't uncover the massive industry dedicated to showing how foolish such generalizations are. Yet we continue to make bad UI choices and target the wrong crowds, often poorly like armchair quarterbacks at the human interface Superbowl. Your average human has more than the average number of legs, that still doesn't mean you make one legged pants. Why do developers continue to churn out the proverbial pocket, pant and half-a-fly?

I claim it's only partially this 'every human' culture but mainly lack of training. Outside of the craft industries the engineers, developers and other creators of our stuff start off learning how to solder circuits to breadboards and sling code at a compiler without even the idea they need to consider how people will use this stuff. Run tar --help verses git --help verses gpg -h and see for ask yourself which one was designed to be used by people and which one was slapped together to be run by a machine.

What Google is doing here is something salespeople, marketers, Apple and the military have known since the first rock got sold to the first caveman. You can sell to everyone on envy what you cannot sell to everyone on features. And Google is out to "sell" to everyone (i.e. put ads in front of as many eyeballs as possible.)

I wish them the best of luck with their Not Dorky Glasses(tm). The very existence of contacts and their popularity among the visually impaired strongly argues against their success in Western markets.

Accidental porn.

obviously you have no reason to believe my testimony, and i'm not going to risk the anonymity of the people who told me this, but they were real google employees. I presume there are many real Google employees on Slashdot and maybe some of them will weigh in, if they feel comfortable doing so. Google's internal philosophy that algorithms solve everything is well-known. So is its investment in a variety of predictive technologies; even reading through the documentation of its cloud-based Prediction API (likely much less extensive than Google's own internal systems) suggests many services that, when applied to the workplace itself rather than interactions with customers/projects, would make this sort of capability not just possible but even likely. Look especially at things like "sentiment analysis" https://developers.google.com/prediction/ https://developers.google.com/prediction/docs/sentiment_analysis Third-party companies sell related technology as well: http://toatech.com/company/ Google (and the CIA, if you want me to play the excited alarmist) have both invested in a company called Recorded Future, apparently a successful purveyor of "predictive analytics": http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ Recorded future appears to be a real company: https://www.recordedfuture.com/this-is-recorded-future/

obviously you have no reason to believe my testimony, and i'm not going to risk the anonymity of the people who told me this, but they were real google employees. I presume there are many real Google employees on Slashdot and maybe some of them will weigh in, if they feel comfortable doing so. Google's internal philosophy that algorithms solve everything is well-known. So is its investment in a variety of predictive technologies; even reading through the documentation of its cloud-based Prediction API (likely much less extensive than Google's own internal systems) suggests many services that, when applied to the workplace itself rather than interactions with customers/projects, would make this sort of capability not just possible but even likely. Look especially at things like "sentiment analysis" https://developers.google.com/prediction/ https://developers.google.com/prediction/docs/sentiment_analysis Third-party companies sell related technology as well: http://toatech.com/company/ Google (and the CIA, if you want me to play the excited alarmist) have both invested in a company called Recorded Future, apparently a successful purveyor of "predictive analytics": http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/ Recorded future appears to be a real company: https://www.recordedfuture.com/this-is-recorded-future/

Google will simply stop offering free GApps for Education for Massachusetts Schools and Non-Profits. The reason the service is free is google is counting on that data.

Not quite. Google Apps for Non-Profits does show ads, yes, but Google Apps for Education does not show advertisements to students or staff (it's like Google Apps Premier in that regards, except for the increase in quota). Google also goes farther than the bill, because University accounts are free of ads (not just K-12 accounts). Google only asks that once the students become alumni, that the ads get turned on by the University staff. It has always been that way since the very beginning of Google Apps.

May be, this bill is targeted at the Kindle (or perhaps the iPad). I believe these two have made more inroads into the K-12 market than Google Apps anyway.

1.4 Ads.
a. Default. The default setting for the Services is one that does not allow Google to serve Ads. Customer may change this setting in the Admin Console, which constitutes Customer’s authorization for Google to serve Ads. If Customer enables the serving of Ads, it may revert to the default setting at any time and Google will cease serving Ads.
b. Selectively Showing Ads. Notwithstanding Section 1.4(a), if Customer separates different classifications of End Users by domain or Google provides the capability for Customer to show Ads only to particular sets of End Users within the same domain, then Customer must enable the serving of Ads to End Users who are alumni.
c. Selectively Showing Ads. If Customer chooses to separate different classifications of End Users by domain, then Customer must enable the serving of Ads to Alumni. If Google provides the capability for Customer to show Ads only to particular sets of End Users, then Customer must enable Google's serving of Ads to End Users who are not Students or Staff. http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/education_terms.html

It seems that ChromeOS is based on hardened gentoo (clues can be found here https://sites.google.com/site/chromeoswikisite/home/what-s-new-in-dev-and-beta/shell-acess-with-verified-boot), and hardened gentoo is.... hard (grsec + pax + some kind of MAC mechanism). And while I agree that ChromeOS is very basic, just a browser on top of it. But all other browsers were successfully attacked, it means that the OS has protected the browser.

OMFG MALWARES! sigh ...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fsecure.ms.dc&hl=en

that's f-secure's (the authors of the report) mobile app that costs $10.58. you think it's just coincidence that it's always someone with a product to sell that's behind these reports?

It's worth noting that Asian americans have a higher life expectancy than residents of japan.

Japanese Americans have a higher economic status than the median American, and higher than the median citizen of Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income

Since race is strongly correlated with life expectancy, the mere fact of a more diverse population brings US numbers down, even if we handle every racial group better.

When we control for socioeconomic status the race correlation of life expectancy either is drastically reduced or else disappears entirely. You are trying to paint an economic problem the U.S. has (extreme disparity of wealth and serious poverty) which we could attempt to rectify as an inevitable genetic thing that no one can do anything about.

Life expectancy is a poor measure to star with, since it's not closely tied to medical care in particular.

Since it contradicts the considered option of the world medical community you need to at least try to post a link to substantiate such a radical claim.

In fact since 3/4 of the potential years of life lost in the U.S. before the age of 65 are due to medical conditions your claim is nonsense. The link is very strong.*

Social factors are a major cause of premature deaths. Life expectancy at later ages may be more relevant, as medical conditions start taking over causes of death instead of accidents and violence.

The claim is false for those under 65, as well as for those over 65, which are acknowledging here.

The definition of live birth as actually calculated differs from country to country and this has a large impact on numbers. As a way of avoiding those differences in counting live births, I suggest perinatal mortality instead. And, go figure, the US is better than some of the countries that regular infant mortality would suggest would surpass it. The UK (25th) for instance goes from being 2 better than us to 1 worse on rates. It's funny, but the numbers on that wiki link do not correspond to sorty by any of the actual infant mortality numbers. I believe perinatal has it's own landmines, but the time frame immediately surrounding birth is more connected to medical system than from birth to 1.

We do better true, but we are still 24th on the list.

*There is a claim that has been bouncing in the right wing megaphone echo chamber for four years asserting that if you control of accidents and violence U.S. life expectancy jumps to number one. The claim is false and traces to a single miscaptioned table in a report by conservative think tank economists Robert L. Ohsfeldt and John E. Schneider. The table shows that the U.S. would lead in life expectancy if U.S. life expectancy tracked the life vs GDP trendline of the OECD. In fact it does not, it does far worse - which is exactly the problem that needs to be solved.

Felicity Kendal.

Deliciously Pert.

After spending a significant amount of time studying the data and politics surrounding this issue, I concluded that global warming is a baked cake at this point (no pun intended) The US contains a little over 4.5% of the worlds population says Google yet we are responsible for the majority of world emissions. Now consider that we are trying to cut back, meanwhile China is rapidly industrializing, increasing its footprint with every passing day. When you think of the footprint China will have when it is as industrialized as the USA, any hope of avoiding serious global damage is tiny at this point.

He wrote:

In Romania we have a law

http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/malpraxis

"Romanian - Detected" "English"
Malpraxis Malpractice

But your needlessly pedantic bullshit is surely helpful... somehow.

You're probably right; oil was probably a cherry on top.

Also right on Iran and Iraq being old enemies, and yes, I'd much prefer to keep them aimed at each other, that is until the whole ME explodes on account of those two. That's why I would see the U.S. weighing the long-term benefits of removing one wildcard from the equation.

The arms race "starting" is more in the context of Iraq reconstituting itself militarily after the first Gulf War, which was followed by a relative lull in their military spending, not in the absolute timescale. More of a natural extension of their long-term opposition, progressing past Iraq's use of chemical warfare of the Iran-Iraq war. That's why Saddam was stalling inspectors and making it seem like they had more to hide. This same arms race is what many people are fearing now between Iran and Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

http://books.google.com/books?id=qFCkQRQApSwC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States.

The vote Thursday by the U.N.'s most powerful body on a resolution drafted by North Korea's closest ally, China, and the United States sends a powerful message to North Korea that the international community condemns its ballistic missile and nuclear tests — and its repeated violation of Security Council resolutions.

The new sanctions are aimed at making it more difficult for North Korea to finance and obtain material for its weapons programs.

I apologize for making it sound like the United States was the sole proposer of the new resolution -- I actually got that vibe from the DPRK press releases. I didn't know until I read this that China (at least is reported to have) co-authored them with the US.

The statement said North Korea "strongly warns the U.N. Security Council not to make another big blunder like the one in the past when it earned the inveterate grudge of the Korean nation by acting as a war servant for the U.S. in 1950."

It's their standard MO and I hope it doesn't affect the UN's resolution. Another quote from North Korea:

"Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our right to a preemptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest," said the statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

More details from reuters on what the new sanctions mean as well as South Korea's push back.

And I'm pretty much done with any Slashdot discussion on this since the apologists and "MAD is good" folks have been mighty thick on these past few news stories. We have entered into the era of "Hey everybody, we have nuclear weapons now do what we say or we will nuke you!" Like a teenage gang member who found his first handgun ...

R. A. Salvatore struggles to be a mediocre writer on a good day. If he can write a chapter without the phrase "purely on instinct" it feels novel, though he probably ruined it with one of his other thousand writing tics. I kept a count in one book, and was annoyed to almost the point of physically illness when that phrase appeared three times in three pages referring to three different characters. You can basically only read one book or short series of his if you're an adult. He's the Harry Turtledove of Fantasy.

I'll grant that Salvatore writes those novels for a young teen audience, so he might do better if he tried for an older work. But I see no reason to assume he would. I'll also grant that he's a million times better than the likes of Ed Greenwood. Jesus. I only ever read the Kingless Land, but I find it difficult to believe that anybody who penned that monstrosity could ever produce a worthy book. And while Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman are much better authors than Salvatore (still not great authors, but readable and they can make interesting settings), at least Salvatore never tried to make the rapist a good guy. Fucking Skylan. I now have a policy of avoiding authors known for D&D or Star Wars books until I get an explicit recommendation otherwise, even though I was already avoiding the D&D and Star Wars books themselves.

Will calipers (Image) still get confiscated? They cost +$100 for a good one.

By the time you get to 1767, we're definitely leaning more toward "technology" (Though I didn't see this particular one mentioned in said document.) The math and devices are pretty well understood and the methods are shared openly. I'm sure I could find earlier documents if I were inclined to dig around a bit. This one actually popped up on a search for... something else I was looking for. Needless to say, I immediately decided I wanted to be a member of the Order of the Commissioners of Longitude. If they let me in I promise I'll sit in the back and be very quiet...

Uh, there's many ways to run Java apps on iOS. Just because it doesn't come with a JVM doesn't mean you can't run a JVM or recompile your Java code so you don't need a JVM.

Yep.

Examples of his attitude:

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/msg/a11ebc20417db2c2
http://iamleeg.blogspot.com/2007/02/apres-ca-le-fosdem.html

I've been doing the following with Ramdisks/Ramdrives below, & since 1992 or so, 1st by using separate HardDisks (slower seek/access by FAR)!

Then, later applying Software-Based Ramdrives to database work with EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on paid contract (which did me VERY WELL @ both Windows IT Pro magazine in reviews, & also MS TechEd 2000-2002 in its hardest category: SQLServer Performance Enhancement & SuperSpeed.com too - since I improved their wares efficacy by up to 40% via programmatic control & tuning programs for them) - which, only the past few years now it seems, OTHERS are finally "latching onto" for performance purposes in database work in industrial environs!

Then using software ramdisks (even one I wrote up based off the MS DDK template -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22APK+RamDisk%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=Ak43UduzLYbk8gSauYCIDA to do so (per the list below on how I apply them)

&

Now FINALLY using RamDisks/RamDrives in hardware:

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A.) 2000-2005 using the CENATEK "RocketDrive" 2gb PC-133 SDRAM based on a PCI 2.2 bus

B.) 2005-present using the Gigabyte IRAM 4gb DDR2-RAM based on a PCI Express bus

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Doing SOMETHING sort-of along the lines of what's being done in the "hybrid" caching scene, & that's using equipment/hardware like I do in the following ways:

For example - I do it this way (along with other things, & on a "TRUE SSD" (not based on FLASH ram & it's performance degrading life expectancy lessening "ways")):

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1.) I move files around to different drives (1 being what I call a "TRUE SSD", that uses DDR RAM, the Gigabyte IRAM 4gb PCI-e 8x slot based SATA 150gb/sec. solidstate drive I have)

2.) A Promise Ex-8350 PCI-e 8x slot based 128mb ECC RAM Raid 6 capable Caching Controller (that controls 2 10,000 rpm Western Digital 16mb buffered "Velociraptor" HDDs)

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(Both supplementing the existing caches noted above @ the Operating System filesystem level, AND, the block device level)

I also supplement my 10,000 rpm SATA II disks using a Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC memory Caching Controller (keep it OFF hdd's as much as possible, & in RAM instead is the idea/game here).

I move the following things off of my WD Velociraptor 10,000 rpm 8mb buffered (which also lessens physical head movement on disks & THIS is where I am going to make it even FASTER, read on & reduces fragmentation as well in the same stroke - "BONUS"):

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A.) Pagefile.sys
B.) OS & Application level logging (EventLogs + App Logging)
C.) ALL WebBrowser caches, histories, sessions & browsers too
D.) Print Spooling
E.) %Temp% ops (OS & user level temp ops)
F.) %Tmp% ops (OS & user level temp ops)
G.) %Comspec% (command interpreter location)
H.) I also place my custom hosts file onto it, via redirecting WHERE it's referenced by the OS, here in the registry (for performance AND security):

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters

And the "DataBasePath" parameter there...

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Which also acts more-or-less, like a *NIX shadow password system also!

(That's good, vs. any malware that *might* attempt to 'mess with it since the original residing in %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc is pretty much only a 'decoy' @ that point, lol!)

However, modern Windows uses UAC to protect it, & I also apply read-only rights to it to supplement that, & my hosts file import/deduplicate/favorites hardcoder mgt. system I wrote -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&It

but now he's moving to Mac OS X?

Why didn't he just work in Objective-C from the get go?

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/msg/a11ebc20417db2c2

Reminds me of the MacSnobs who used to complain of my pointing out the advantages of using NeXTstep instead of Mac OS 9 and earlier. It kills me that Mac OS X was so watered down to accommodate such ignorance. I'd give my interest in hell for:

  - vertical menu
  - pop-up main menu set to the right mouse button
  - top-level print, hide, quit and services
  - not having to load Carbon
  - to have Display PostScript (I never had an eps file which would display and not print --- it's wearying the number of times .pdfs will fail to print, or fail when being refined / pre-flighted)
  - to have PANTONE colours at the system level (I'm really tired of having to deal w/ RGB from MS Office products)

William

I don't believe that story for a second.

Here's a good example that made the news, of a couple from Virginia being arrested for trespassing on a public street, after asking directions from a particularly ill-tempered Baltimore City police officer. Notably, the incident made the news and sparked an investigation, as the wife arrested had police officers as both of her parents (thus apparently making her testimony more credible than typically civilians).

After the case garnered some publicity, a wave of similar stories emerged, including a number from Baltimore PD members themselves.
https://www.google.com/search?q=couple+arrested+for+asking+directions

I personally find Chrome Remote Desktop extension to be just slightly more slick than TeamViewer.

It requires Chromium to run obviously.

SuRun is a program that brings UAC to Windows XP, but with a lot more granular control. I still run XP at home, and SuRun allows me to run as a limited user. It works quite well, and you can customize rules to always run specified programs with admin privs. It can also automatically prompt for credentials when required. The only main problems I've encountered as a regular user account is with Adobe's Flash Updater failing and when installing certain software--I had to log in as a true admin to install Acronis True Image. If I re-run the Flash updater with SuRun, it works fine. Windows Update works fine if set to automatically install critical/security updates; but if I manually want to install optional updates, then I have to log in with an admin account. SuRun site translated into English

http://www.google.com/reviews/t is the page you can use to block a site from Google's search.

But they offer, like Google, a nice way to opt out of this.

I think you typo'd and meant to say "unlike Google", but for the record, Google makes it equally possible to opt-out of personalized advertising (in both Search and Gmail) through their Ads Preferences Manager.

It's already a bad day for Redmondians. Haswell is slated to be introduced in 2014 will mostly offer the BGA designed Broadweil "System-on-a-Chip CPU", pre-sodered on an Intel motherboard like Atom chips are now. There will be nothing to upgrade - in effect this will be a device in PC clothing. There are rumors of high-end LGA packaging, but the upgrade possibilities will be limited to a few paltry offerings. No one will be making consumer upgradable parts anymore. Another way of saying it is that It will become cheaper for Dell just to replace the whole "PC-thingy" than to repair it. Yet Another Way... Intel's Ivy Bridge product cycle ends in 2014. Its successor, Haswell, will not have a desktop chip. The English story: http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/26/intel-kills-off-the-desktop-pcs-go-with-it/#.UTU5hjZMn2A As tablets and smart phones replace desktops and notebooks, Intel, Microsoft and the desktop manufacturers struggle for market-share. The end of the desktop in 2014 does not mean the demise of the notebook, or of Microsoft, or of the support jobs they bring. It does foreshadow their end though. This time its a question of what and who will be left behind. Intel's market-based decision will shrink the computer field in general, and IT departments everywhere. With a paradigm shift away from a smart-client/server model to a dumb-portal/Cloud one, the computer becomes just another office supply, and the IT department becomes marginalized. When in the cloud, other services seem more viable. Virtual storage and backup deals mean goodbye to lots of servers, and that backup guy too. No longer dependent on the IT department, HR, Customer Service - hey, every department can find alternatives in the cloud. And those alternatives in the cloud will be supplied by the same people who make the software installed on their computers now. By putting Office online, Microsoft separates their biggest revenue stream from their troubled operating system. Microsoft will want to make up for the loss of revenue. They will “incentivise” their cloud products, making services cheaper than anything an IT department can provide. The stakes are even higher because Microsoft has to move into cloud, which is Google’s home turf. Google enters the market meeting Microsoft head on, feature-to-feature and with a better price - for now. Both competitors want a piece of the IT department, especially in these changing times. So count on predatory pricing to make the move even cheaper. These giants are in a fight for their corporate lives, so don’t think for one moment they’ll do anything that’s not in their financial interest. Every perk will have its price. The original story: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpc.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2Fcolumn%2Fubiq%2F20121122_574440.html

Hmm, are gAds served from Google's servers or from those who publish the ads? I honestly don't know - I thought it was former, due to all security/privacy/etc. implications of latter, but I'm not sure as only Google ads I see after adBlock are text based.

PS: Oh, and they apparently won't serve ads based on information about your pregnancy.

If, however, I'm not OK with algorithms parsing the email, I can just stop using the free service. Simple.

You can also simply opt out:
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/