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You can start with the classic text on the matter:
http://books.google.com/books?id=w4Gigq3tY1kC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Gravitation is how matter warps spacetime. There's no distinction to be made between that and gravitational pull. Next time do your own research before going off on some rant about how no one takes this seriously. Or better yet, listen when a crowd of educated people are telling you you're a dipshit.

the effort it takes to be so willfully ignorant....

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_acer_c710

how many, realistically, use Chromebooks? Or Google Apps, even?

Enough that Google think they can charge http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
for Google Apps for Business.

Aggregated, non-personally identifiable information would presumably be things like "we have 300,000 daily users in Chile" or "our data shows that 40% of our Californian audience are interested in technology", so that potential Chilean and Californian advertisers know what reach they might be getting, or "the Olympics was a popular search term in the UK last summer", as seen here. They're not going to share your personal search history, partly because it would be against their policies and would cause significant trouble for them, and partly because this is one of their main assets. Anyone can show you ads, but Google and Facebook can promise to target those ads based on the profiles they've build up of you, thus making them worth more to advertisers. It's wasteful to show ads to people who just aren't interested, but it's great if you can show them to the right people at the right time.

I wonder what sort of advantages there are to being a high-tech anything in Kansas.

Ask Google.

There's a company in Europe (don't recall the name) who are also developing an "enclosed motorcycle" type of vehicle, but they don't use gyros... below a certain speed or at too great an agle, there are two large "training wheels" which flip down and right the bike

That's either the Ecomobile or Monotracer. I first saw that on an ooooold show called Beyond 2000, which aired back when the year 2000 still seemed in the future.

There's a company in Europe (don't recall the name) who are also developing an "enclosed motorcycle" type of vehicle, but they don't use gyros... below a certain speed or at too great an agle, there are two large "training wheels" which flip down and right the bike

That's either the Ecomobile or Monotracer. I first saw that on an ooooold show called Beyond 2000, which aired back when the year 2000 still seemed in the future.

You can have Google Search in-house.

More specifically, you can buy Google Appliance which will index all of your in-house documents on a machine which lives in your office and provides a search interface for your own stuff.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/campaigns/gsa7.html

Activate 2-step authentication as well. Every 30 days, I have to enter a code that I receive via SMS in order to login to my Gmail account on a trusted computer (my home desktop). On every other computer, I have to enter a new code on every login attempt. So unless an attacker gains access to both my password and my phone, they won't be able to get in.

https://accounts.google.com/SmsAuthConfig

We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services.

So the key is what they consider "non-personally identifiable information":

This is information that is recorded about users so that it no longer reflects or references an individually identifiable user.

I thought you could be a google search appliance that would index all your local docs internally. I also thought there was a installed version of docs (in a similar manner), but I'm not sure. We never used it. Maybe they discontinued the rack-mountable google search appliance.

the search appliance is still around

Source?
I find this on their site https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6603
so if you have other info I guess legal action against them is possible.

Google does not sell personal information to third parties *ever*. They use that information to show targeted ads + search results. Period.

Are you sure?
http://www.google.com/analytics

And they have been pretty honest about that.

Their sincerity isn't to take for granted after the streetview affaire.

At a glance the patent seems to be for a very specific approach to measuring pulse oximetry. The approach seems near identical to US patent 5737439 Anti-fraud biometric scanner that accurately detects blood flow. In any event the basic technique for using pulse oximetry for liveness testing is described in Sandstrom, "Liveness Detection in Fingerprint Recognition Systems", 2004 and Hill & Stoneham, "Practical applications of pulse oximetry", 2000. The use of two IR absorption measurements is not novel (see patent 5737439).

If the intent is the latter, this has a good chance of driving users en masse away from Chrome as Google's security nightmare is probably just beginning.

Except Native Client was designed with security in mind from the beginning, and they take this very seriously. NaCl enforces some restrictions on the running binary that prevent it from interacting with the rest of the system; ActiveX never really had that. A while ago, there was a Native Client security contest where they challenged the community to break their sandbox ( https://developers.google.com/native-client/community/security-contest/ ).

How about a revived effort to name a space station "Babylon"?

Space stations are far more important than planets anyway. What would you rather have named after you, a bustling 3D mega-city in space, or a spherical mountain somewhere far-off in the remote wilderness of the outer solar system?

What most people don't understand is that planets / moons are just chunks of natural resources for mining, and pretty inaccessible ones compared to smaller asteroids. We evolved on a planet, so we're biased, but if you really think about it - living on a planet is a nuisance! Most people living in space would choose to live on detached space stations instead.

Disadvantages of being attached to a planet include: approach difficulties, natural gravity, climate / weather, seasons, the "tragedy of the commons" of sharing one atmosphere (ex. pollution, diseases), lack of flexibility, etc. Robotized space manufacturing can print out vast space stations very easily, which can rotate for desired gravity, but planets come with their own gravity and make construction projects vastly more difficult. Space stations can be placed close to the sun for maximum solar panel efficiency, while most planets are far from the sun, and the sun's energy is further dissipated by the atmosphere, clouds, dust, etc.

(Make it worth my while, and I can go on about this for hundreds of pages...)

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PS: "Live long and prosper"? Vulcans must really like Ray Kurzweil and Ayn Rand. 8-P

--libman

Perhaps (and I could be wrong here) another reason to buy this Pixel is that it's got decent hardware but isn't going to be troubled by secure-boot and things like that so you can install your own OS on it if you get tired of chrome-OS.

No. It DOES have secure boot on it. It's got a dev mode and a 3rd BIOS slot that boots an more standard bios image (I probably could have phrased that better), but you will still be troubled by secure boot, assuming you find it troubling in the first place. If you choose to use it this way, you're stuck in developer mode, which means it will take 30 seconds longer than usual to load every time you start it, because the boot sequence feels the need to take that time to remind you that you’re in Developer Mode. More info from a google dev that put Linux Mint on it: https://plus.google.com/100479847213284361344/posts/QhmBpn5GNE9

It's got *some* great hardware, but it's lacking in other areas (memory, local storage, battery life (5hr is good for a full blown laptop, but I'd like to see more from a 12.5" chromebook), physical screen size (2560x1700 makes me want it on a 15"+ screen), no USB 3.0, no eSATA, no ethernet (has wifi)). I'm sure it's perfect for some, but I'm still looking for the one.

http://www.google.com/ ?

I plug in womprat. Starwars wiki comes up first. "Safesearch" drop down box on the right; "Filter Explicit results" is the first option.

Was that so hard that you still feel oppressed by a lack of options? What exactly are you complaining about?

Good call on posting your BS as an AC.

Google Help: Receiving someone else's mail
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10313

Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:

homerjsimpson@gmail.com = hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com
homerjsimpson@gmail.com = HOMERJSIMPSON@gmail.com
homerjsimpson@gmail.com = Homer.J.Simpson@gmail.com

All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You'll still go to your account.

Every time I watch one of those travel shows on TV where someone goes to Iran, I have to laugh a little.

I think if people saw that they would be completely uncomfortable with the idea of bombing the place. Their leadership are obviously a bunch of nutters and scumbags, but those are normal, modern people living in what looks like a reasonably modern city.

I know it's all superficial stuff, but people identify with what they know, and we don't usually hear about Iran portrayed as a place of regular people walking down the street in jeans, carrying Gucci purses and sporting fancy sunglasses.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tehran+women&hl=en&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a3CLgAuAq8k/R0yKggh5G1I/AAAAAAAADGU/vsS1fxuVXOc/s400/women_london_tehran.jpg

So, Google blows them off and the don;t go public for seven months? These are some nice guys!

Or perhaps they've been profiting for the past seven months. WFT Google?

Well, its not as easy as to pull off this exploit as it might seem.

From TFA:

So: given nothing but a username, an Application Specific Password, and a single request to https://android.clients.google.com/auth, we can log into any Google web property without any login prompt (or 2-step verification)!

So you had to know two things:

1) Someone's Username
2) Someones Application Specific Password.

You had to know their PASSWORD. Or you had to "set up an an intercepting proxy with a custom CA certificate to watch the network traffic" to try to capture the encrypted password". These ASPs are encrypted with the sending device id. (That Device ID is yet another thing that the attackers KNEW up front. If you didn't know that Device ID, setting up the Intercepting Proxy wouldn't help you.

Granted if you know the password its game over. Two factor authentication only works if every piece of software supports it, and until it does big long hairy App specific passwords still have to be used.

You can't derive this password unless you also know the device ID, because its encrypted.

The big HOLE here is that ANY one of your valid Application Specific Password gave you access to ALL parts of your Google Account.
So an ASP for SMTP allowed you to access your Account dashboard. They really weren't Application Specific on Google's end. That is the part Google fixed.

But again, its not as big of a gaping hole as the summary makes it out to be. Because you still needed to carefully craft an intercepting proxy, know the originating device id, decrypt the password, and log in VERY QUICKLY because the encrypted password is date stamped with a short life span. This would be very hard to pull off in the real world.

So yeah, it needed fixing.
I'm glad its fixed (for the most part), but there was no giant emergency here.

Those pictures of wind farms in California are interesting. Compare to pictures of danish wind farms

Totally different strategy.

However I would like to believe that neither american nor danish engineers are idiots. The windmills are likely placed in the most optimal way according to the landscape and economics.

I've never user other browser than https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini.android ("Mini", not "Mobile"), besides the default...

Ask yourself a silly question. Why would a country that is awash in oil go to these lengths, including being the subject of sanctions, merely to build a few nuclear power plants? It makes no sense. The only answer reason that a country would go through all this is to obtain a nuclear weapon, because that changes everything. Come on folks, are you all really that naive?

Why? Well, there is the little matter of Iran having some of the worst air pollution in the world. See for yourself. It is so bad that the Iranian health ministry attributed approximately 5,000 deaths last year to air pollution. Is it so inconceivable that Iran might want to go to a less polluting form of power generation?

As far as the sanctions go, I think Iran would look at what happened in Iraq and wonder if they would be lifted even if they did cooperate.

With Chrome, your sync data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy which basically means they can plunder it any way they feel like to serve you ads.

A shameless plug, but check out my android app: Tiny Travel Tracker http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rareventure.gps2_trial&hl=en

You can store your GPS path for your entire life in an encrypted database on your phone. I found it really useful for remembering things I'd otherwise have forgotten. "Oh yea, I went to *that* bar, now I remember"

If I were to record my entire life, that would mean also recording other people, when they are interacting with me on a daily basis. What sort of privacy laws pertain to this?

So personally, I would use this only on my property and public property. And then I would separate the data between data from the property I was on and public property and just be mindful if I was sharing that the people in the public property video did not give their consent to be recorded. I think this means different things in different states so if you would tell us your state/commonwealth you could probably get better information. Personally, people would act weird if they knew they were being recorded and since it was for my own personal records and on public property I wouldn't see how it would come to light that I own it let alone archive it.

If you wanted to be absolutely respectful of other people I would suggest only using it on your property and then bringing a stack of waivers with you for people to sign before you started recording. Good luck!

Quote TFA:

Keith's research has shown that the generating capacity of very large wind power installations (larger than 100 square kilometers) may peak at between 0.5 and 1 watts per square meter. Previous estimates, which ignored the turbines' slowing effect on the wind, had put that figure at between 2 and 7 watts per square meter.

Seriously, you have to wonder how this effect was over-looked by the original engineers.

Yet there appears to be hope. When you look at large windfarms, you will see the older ones were built much more densely than the modern ones, which endeavor not only to place turbines in the gaps between other turbines, but also leave more room between the towers as well as using towers of varying heights.

It would appear that simply reading their meters, the engineers are realizing that densely packing turbines behind each other is going to give progressively less ROI for those that are downwind.

I wonder if the good professor made any differentiations based on the age of the wind farm development?

Are you getting lots of ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors? There's a Chromium ticket about that...

I don't know about Australia and Canada but French rural areas contain a large number of small villages (about 35000-40000). It results in a complex network of small roads and I believe it is much more difficult to connect than a few farms along a highway with huge fields in between.
The disadvantages is not just the size (population density and area are somewhat average) but the fact that the population is more evenly spread out than in most other countries.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about :
- USA : https://maps.google.com/?ll=38.350273,-99.51416&spn=0.98327,1.983032&t=m&z=10
- France : https://maps.google.com/?ll=44.570904,2.411499&spn=0.893188,1.983032&t=m&z=10

I don't know about Australia and Canada but French rural areas contain a large number of small villages (about 35000-40000). It results in a complex network of small roads and I believe it is much more difficult to connect than a few farms along a highway with huge fields in between.
The disadvantages is not just the size (population density and area are somewhat average) but the fact that the population is more evenly spread out than in most other countries.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about :
- USA : https://maps.google.com/?ll=38.350273,-99.51416&spn=0.98327,1.983032&t=m&z=10
- France : https://maps.google.com/?ll=44.570904,2.411499&spn=0.893188,1.983032&t=m&z=10

I have Ubuntu installed on my phone. I'm looking forward to this year's faster processors.

Linguists are particularly interested in both single words, pairs of words, triples and so on. The Google Ngram database fits on several dvds.

I love Doctor Who and the series has entertained me for decades.

Always thought the Daleks had a great look, even if going up/down stairs was a problem. But thanks to the Daleks, I got Davros, and my namesake, Nyder.

Of course, we can't forget the picture of Jo Grant (Katy Manning) posing with a Dalek: https://www.google.com/search?q=jo+grant+doctor+who+dalek+nude+picture&hl=en&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=iBYrUYz4OuKXiQLN74DoCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1133&bih=844

Anyways, thanks for the Daleks and may you not come back as a zombie.

Not the GP, but my CD collection went up from a handful to 220ish CD's during the Napster era.

Through napster I discovered music and artists I didn't even knew existed. I would then go to the local Circuit City and would buy their CDs (sometimes their whole discography) since I had got a taste and I liked it. I wanted more and I wanted it all at the highest quality.

When Napster was shut down I refused to send a penny to the RIAA and its labels. A Nine Inch Nails album - Ghosts (which Trent released as an independent an sold directly through his website) was the first CD I bought after all those years.

After that I bought a few CDs (less than 10 though) thanks to the guidance from RIAARadar (a website that has sadly gone silent).

I bought a lifetime membership to Magnatune. I have gotten my money's worth in album downloads from that site.

I pitched in a donation to Musopen (many CDs worth) during their Kickstarter a few years ago to help them record and release free open music. The recording was done, the donors were given the first downloads and it has been great.

So I have been willing to put money in the proverbial guitar case, but to this day I still refuse to hand money to the RIAA. When given the opportunity I will gleefully hand my entertainment dollars to their competition instead.

I now own about 230 physical CDs and I will likely own no more than that for the foreseeable future.

I'll continue to pump my (now more numerous) entertainment dollars to other non-RIAA recipients at every opportunity. Not (just) out of spite for what they've done to the music scene and to stifle the growth of consumer friendly distribution channels, but to cast my votes, my dollars to a better alternatives.

Who is your email provider? Your email provider might have sold your email address.

What's your email address? You might have an easily guessed address.

Do you run your browser in something other than incognito mode? Google Chrome saves your Chrome user profile on their servers these days to sync with your Google account (this is on by default and is enabled the moment you sign into any Google account). This profile includes things such as form entries for the purposes of auto-complete. If you want to see this in action log into any Google account (such as Gmail) on one computer then log into a third party site and select save password in Chrome when logging on. Now go onto a computer you've never used before. Log into your Google account there. Go to that third party site where you saved your password before. Notice how Chrome auto fills your login details on that computer you haven't touched before? Your Chrome profile and all the details with it aren't stored locally. Google has them.

Did you use a public network or a network where not all computers were trusted? Most online form data is sent plain text.

I'm sure there's a million other ways someone could have your email. So why are you so sure it was them?

That's why you should install Herp Derp for YouTube.

Google itself has already provided detailed instructions for how to dual-boot Linux Mint on the thing on launch day. So that's one worry cleared up. Since there is Chrome for Linux, and you can do anything in Chrome on Linux that you can do in ChromeOS there's no reason not to default boot to Linux when that option gets sussed out. Should only be a few weeks, and Google will cooperate.

I'll bet Linux Mint is a wonder to behold on a 2560 x 1700 at 239 PPI display. Imagine the field photography review potential. The world of professional video editors is probably doing their best to deplete the supply. Of course Mint is a media focused distro so it's got all the goodies available.

Document edit pros can probably use the thing as it is. Google docs gives the power of live collaborative documents that can't be had as well anywhere else, and this device gives the glory of seeing it in full quality with art as it would print, from wherever you happen to be. Add a second 30" 2560×1600 with mini DisplayPort or through an adapter HDMI to an arbitrarily large bigscreen available everywhere. With 3G even, so you don't have to rely on local network.

Sales pros should be all over this too. If you can't carry your product with you because it's too large you need must have the finest portable display to show it on. For these folk price is not an issue. The best of them ask each month "what is the best today?" and then demand whatever that is - and get it. What's a few thousand dollars every few months to outfit a Sales Warrior with the sharp spears he uses to bring in millions in gross profits a year? Just asking him WHY he needs it is wasting his valuable time.

It has the finest display available of any mobile client compute device in the world. That alone commands a premium price. And it's a touchscreen! And it's smaller than a Macbook Air in every dimension. Also it's the Latest Thing all the Cool Kids have.

And then there are the lawyers, doctors, sports pros, the rich, those who want to appear to be rich, and on and on who don't care about this petty amount, to whom high cost is a plus, or will just charge their customers the cost before you even start to talk about why Joe the mechanic down the street would want one. We know why Joe wants one. Mobile HD porn. We don't have to be embarrassed by that. The Internet is for porn. Speaking of which, the devices will be highly in demand in the Internet porn industry as well - which is like most of the Internet.

Of course Mint opens up all the various remote machine management potentials and remote desktop options too. Remote into SIX 800x600 rez machines at the same time (some can be higher) without any of them overlapping on your screen on the device itself - and up to six more with an attached display for a total of TWELVE PCs on your display at the same time (probably at least one local and one VM). And room for other stuff on the screens also, without you even start counting multiple USB-attached slow-mo displays. And it has 3G. The thing's a mobile Nerd Command Center. Did I mention that it's got all of the latest Intel virtualization technologies present and enabled? It does.

Needs more storage. You can get a terabyte pen drive though. That pen drive will, by itself, cost more than this whole beautiful machine.

The Note is a phone that is also a tablet. This is a small professional notebook. Top end phones cost less than small professional notebooks. Although they exist in separate domains, I think the analogy is apt. Would you prefer a car analogy? I don't do those usually.

1st of all - Ghostery's owned by advertisers. Read this from CISCO ->

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More dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, Cisco said:

http://www.securityweek.com/easier-get-infected-malware-good-sites-shady-sites-cisco-says

(& I can put dozens more out to go with it if you wish - "ask & ye shall receive"...)

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This is a far, Far, FAR better solution in the next link below, by "yours truly", since it's merely working natively with the custom hosts file itself, & that only!

I.E. -> It's no added weight to process data for the IP stack itself really, doesn't need to remain resident (though the program below can & be useful) & it makes gathering reliable data from 12++ reputable security oriented sites easy as apple pie possible:

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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 Ghostery's concerned especially, not after this):

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

Evidon, which makes Ghostery, is an advertising company. They were originally named Better Advertising, Inc., but changed their name for obvious PR reasons. Despite the name change, let's be clear on one thing: their goal still is building better advertising, not protecting consumer privacy. Evidon bought Ghostery, an independent privacy tool that had a good reputation. They took a tool that was originally for watching the trackers online, something people saw as a legitimate privacy tool, and users were understandably concerned. The company said they were just using Ghostery for research. Turns out they had relationships with a bunch of ad companies and were compiling data from which sites you visited when you were using Ghostery, what trackers were on those sites, what ads they were, etc., and building a database to monetize. (AND, when confronted about it, they made their tracking opt-in and called it GhostRank, which is how it exists today.) They took an open-source type tool, bought it, turned it from something that's actually protecting people from the ad industry, to something where the users are actually providing data to the advertisers to make it easier to track them. This is a fundamental conflict of interest.

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, redundant.

Hosts ARE superior to AdBlock - & on several levels I invite anyone to disprove me on, 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).

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 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 mana

There's nothing racist about the actions of a culture bringing about the repercussions of those actions.

The incredibly racist, it's part of the overall culture. There are people within the race that are not racist, but being racist is a cultural value in the overall national culture. It's not me making this observation. I am speaking of the overall culture, not the race. The race is an Asian person of Japanese person. The culture is the racist copyright grubbing one that I'm referring to.

If i used your logic every white person would be trailer trash, every black person would be a ghetto thug, and every Asian person would work on an assembly line and live in a sweat shop dorm.

Copyleft is a practical handicap, as well as a moral one.

The practical handicap, first off, is that you need a lawyer to understand how exactly it will handicap you and your business. In many cases your business model would be sabotaged, as you don't have the freedom to do what you want with your own additions and enhancements to a piece of copyleft software. Those restrictions tighten over time - most people paid no attention to them before GPLv3. (Linux was smart enough to stay with v2, but all its distros depend on GNU components that didn't.) And what of GPLv4, v5, and beyond? Knowing the anti-market socialist mentality that gave birth to the GPL, it's entirely reasonable to be concerned. Software is a relationship that requires a significant investment of time, to master it to the point where you can extend it. Rational people shouldn't invest this time in software that comes with legal threats attached.

The moral handicap is that it uses copyright, backed by government force. A "license.txt" file is intended to be an "implicit contract", which makes about as much logical sense as wearing a "by seeing me you agree to obey me" t-shirt! By equating copying with theft, you're no better than the RIAA! And GPL needs copyright far more than Microsoft or Apple, because the latter make a growing fraction of their income through legitimate explicit contracts (B2B, SaaS, hardware bundling, etc) rather than EULA's. Free software is a natural market phenomenon, but copyleft is an economically-retarded ideological movement that has hijacked it, and has done a great deal of harm - limiting how the software can be used, and thereby discouraging its use. Stallman's wet dream is to undermine the free market in software, make software development economically unsustainable, and then have to government come in to fund and regulate the development of all software. Copyleft software is not really "free software", and, by using it, you give credence to the socialist definition of freedom - using force to get your way.

So now we are gradually seeing an increase in copyfree projects relative to copyleft ones. Companies are increasingly reluctant to use any GPL software that they can avoid. Linux itself is difficult to avoid for now, but that may change in the future.

--libman

talked about "eviscerating" defense? Or are you talking about all those horses and bayonets?

Again, Narrative. But nice try there.

Adblock = INFERIOR to custom hosts files, on SEVERAL levels no less, was all I was trying to show you (& yet I was downmodded)...

Take a read & be enlightened as to EXACTLY why vs. competing "solutions" in Adblock = crippled by default, Ghostery (owned by advertisers - talk about "foxes guarding the henhouse", you'd have to be a REAL 'cluck' to use it knowing that) & yes, even vs.DNS servers (which hosts can actually supplement as well as save complexity, CPU usage, RAM, & other forms of I/O they use, especially if setup as a separate system locally for home users, + thus electricity too)!

Fact is - Custom Hosts files users benefit end users of them by gaining you added speed, security, reliability & even anonymity (to an extent in the latter) also!

This is the tool I designed to generate them for you, easy as apple pie, from 12++ reputable sources for custom hosts file data, in both 32 or 64 bit form for Windows users:

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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).

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 programs, hosts can (think OUTLOOK, Eudora,

but besides a strong federal government what do you suggest can stand it's ground against the uber-wealthy? Join or die you know.

I think we forget just how much power the wealthy had up until the end of WWII. What changed was that since everyone came back a war hero they finally felt some entitlement. The felt they'd earned something besides a nasty & brutish death. We've lost site of that. It's the opposite of an entitlement complex. Mitt Romney said that what's wrong with the 47% is they feel entitled to food, housing and healthcare, and nobody though to ask what the hell is wrong with that? Who ISN'T entitle to that?

We're not broke people. Really. We're not. This is what people in politics call a "Narrative". It's a story to get you to vote a certain way. Specifically to vote for massive tax cuts for the rich so they can pocket all the gains in productivity from the last 50 years.

Cut all the "Waste" you want. It'll never come close or be a drop in the bucket against what the ultra wealthy are taking from you on a daily basis. I tell ya man, dog eat dog capitalism for the poor, socialism for the wealthy...

https://www.google.com/search?q=adblock+chrome
https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+domain+request+filter
https://www.google.com/search?q=notscripts

Youre welcome. Dont let that stop you from trotting that out every few releases, even tho these have existed for, oh, a few years now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=adblock+chrome
https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+domain+request+filter
https://www.google.com/search?q=notscripts

Youre welcome. Dont let that stop you from trotting that out every few releases, even tho these have existed for, oh, a few years now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=adblock+chrome
https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+domain+request+filter
https://www.google.com/search?q=notscripts

Youre welcome. Dont let that stop you from trotting that out every few releases, even tho these have existed for, oh, a few years now.

When was the last time N Korea arrested visitors saying they were CIA spies? On the contrary, N Korea is very welcoming to foreigners, including Americans.

Charges as CIA spies? How bourgeois. It is much simpler and a better reflection of North Korean socialist morality to just hold a trial.

2 U.S. reporters get 12 years in N. Korea - June 08, 2009

Two American television journalists today were convicted of a "grave crime" against North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, a move that increased mounting tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive Asian state.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, were sentenced by the top Central Court in Pyongyang in a two-day trial that started Friday as U.S. officials demanded the release of the two women.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor" but gave no further details.

Because the pair were tried by the nation's highest court, there can be no appeal.

Of course the North Koreans are not especially shy about grabbing Americans.

North Korea says it has arrested American citizen - Sun December 23, 2012
North Korea arrests American; continues shelling near disputed border - January 28, 2010
North Korea arrests US man - December 29, 2009

And foreigners? The North Korean government loves foreigners. . . in a sort of "collect them and trade them!" kind of way.

Japanese kidnapped by North Koreans return home in tears
Kidnapped by North Korea
Armed North Koreans kidnap Chinese sailors
Jenkins Photo Proof Of Kidnapping? - ". . .she is a Thai national who was kidnapped by North Korean agents. . ."
Did North Korea Just Kidnap Two American Journalists?
Kidnappers Incorporated
Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting - North Korea had kidnapped nationals from at least 11 other countries, including France, Italy and the United States.

It seems they want to impress them, not arrest them.

Impress them in a Potemkin village sort of way, yes.

Welcome to Lenin Disney: North Korea’s otherworldly tourism experience

The surreality of visiting North Korea begins at customs. Officials in full military dress — and there are a lot of them, judging by this clandestine video shot by a Canadian tourist — announce that anyone carrying a cell phone must surrender it, to be returned on leaving. The experience gets weirder from there, based on the numerous travelogues and reports that have emerged since the country lifted many of its restrictions on American tourists in 2010.

Tourism is an opportunity for North Korea, whic