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Matthew Regan and Ronald Pose did this in 1994.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E8%85%90%E8%B4%A5%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%7C%E8%85%90%E5%AE%98++inurl%3Aforum%7Cforums

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E8%85%90%E8%B4%A5+inurl%3Aforum%7Cforums&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS490US490&oq=%E8%85%90%E8%B4%A5+inurl%3Aforum%7Cforums

First is a search for two common ways of writing "corrupt official", limited to sites which have forums (filters out official news so you can actually see what people's opinions are). Second is a search for "corruption" also limited to forums. Delete the inurl:forum option for greater breadth. Use your preferred translation service.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E8%85%90%E8%B4%A5%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%7C%E8%85%90%E5%AE%98++inurl%3Aforum%7Cforums

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E8%85%90%E8%B4%A5+inurl%3Aforum%7Cforums&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS490US490&oq=%E8%85%90%E8%B4%A5+inurl%3Aforum%7Cforums

First is a search for two common ways of writing "corrupt official", limited to sites which have forums (filters out official news so you can actually see what people's opinions are). Second is a search for "corruption" also limited to forums. Delete the inurl:forum option for greater breadth. Use your preferred translation service.

Before worrying about China, Google "Cancer Cluster" and check out this country.
From Clyde, OH to St.Louis, MO, we have plenty!!

On SEVERAL levels no less - 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 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, & others)

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

7.) AdBlock can't help you avoid DNS request logs (

and hardly a new phenomenon.

You need a Masters Degree in many fields to have a snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere. This varies somewhat in technical fields, but as we see time and time again, once your age climbs over, say, 35, it can be tough as hell to get a technical job. Outside of tech fields, you need either a top flight BA/BS or a higher degree to set you apart, and there is no reason for this trend to reverse.

To the virulent detractors of my parent post:

a) everything mutates, ergo this argument is moot
b) n the case where vaccines are voluntary, and not administered to the population as a whole, they do promote resistant strains. See http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vaccine-resistant+strain&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=57YnUeTYNITc8wTl9IDQCg&ved=0CDEQgQMwAA
c) "retarded" is a relative assessment. Compared to what?

Children, and according to standford/NYU study:

Based on extensive interviews with Pakistanis living in the regions directly affected, as well as humanitarian and medical workers, this report provides new and firsthand testimony about the negative impacts US policies are having on the civilians living under drones.

So it's based on the testimony of the Taliban (the government of that region, which controls what people are allowed to say and think at swordpoint and kills anyone who independently talks to an outsider as a "spy") and al-Qaeda (a network of "humanitarian" organizations, particularly the only ones that the Taliban will allow to operate in their country, while all other humanitarian workers are held for ransom or killed). Pardon me if I find the sources to not be credible.

I should really remember to log in before I reply, the above AC is myself. More specificly, here's a bit more direct proof: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/reporters/1594/Recording-Industry-Association-of-America-Inc/ 98,809 URL's requested for takedown on 2/19 alone.

My uncle made one back in 1985 when he was a college student.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Interfacing_a_Quadriplegic_to_a_Computer.html?id=iNVXNwAACAAJ

I remember playing Choplifter on that thing.

Well... first we were talking about Android... maybe the OP knew the Apple walled garden crap (though I doubt it). But, hey, in any case even jailbreaking is far from somehow changing the firmware to become a TI calculator :)

And to follow up... turns out there are actually several projects doing just what we are talking about. You may need to provide your own ROM but that's just for copyright purposes...

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/01/17/nostalgic-and-awesome-fully-working-ti-83-ti-85-and-ti-86-android-emulators-hit-the-market/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/15/nostalgia-ti-89-calculator-emulator-finally-comes-to-android-download-it-while-you-still-can/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.supware.tipro&hl=en

My role at Microsoft was to build relationships within the online advertising community by supporting & educating through the Microsoft Advertising Blog, evangelizing through social media.

Mel Carson, Digital Marketing Evangelist at Microsoft, 2005-2012

Slashdot web interest, 2005-2012.
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http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/ Google produces a report that includes a breakdown of all requests Google has received since July 2011 to remove copyright-infringing content from its search index. Google updates the information daily.

Beach Boys Free MP3

You can see some takedown notices at the bottom of the results page, but Google is also letting in quite a few pirate sites too. The takedown notices seem like window dressing. Hmm, you would think that the search engine geniuses working on self-driving cars could figure out a way to filter out mp3skull, mp3lemon, mp3juices, etc etc. And this half-assed compliances continues for page after page of results. Substitute any other popular recording artist for Beach Boys, same thing.

I'd be pretty pissed off too if I was a businessman relying on the Google VP's promise to filter out the pirate sites.

I'm thinking that Google is afraid of losing part of their audience to specialized search engines flying fast and loose on the IP front.

They're in Shanghai, not Beijing.

Here, actually: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=31.34923,121.573515

Cold Drink Wholesale?!?! Those stolen Coca Cola negotiating tactics make so much more sense now!

If anyone cares what pushed me over the edge, it was when I found they now require you have Google Plus to write a review in the play store. A move worthy of Microsoft at its vilest. This is not the only issue by any means though.

As someone who sells a game in google play I appreciated this move. Before, when a customer had a problem with the game, I had absolutely no way of helping the customer. Now at least I can help some of them by contacting them on their google play.

I would really prefer if I could simply reply to reviews and keep it anonymous, many of the problems people have are just misunderstandings or are a checkbox away. Any change that allows me to respond to reviews is very welcome.

apropos nothing, I'll just leave this here.

Amusingly, Google has now killed that page, presumably from embarrassment. But here's another one just like it, hosted by Google since 2010.

US Productivity has been rising since the beginning.

Since 1970 it's more than doubled.

Productivity in the US is so high that if it were equally distributed, everyone could get $38,000 worth of stuff - every man, woman, and child in the country - and then do it again next year. And the year after that.

Our productivity is so high we're beginning to run out productive job slots. To take an example, the number of people needed in agriculture is vanishingly small compared to the number needed a hundred years ago. Machines now do most of the work.

We read about this all the time: Google's self-driving car will put professional drivers out of work, Watson will put many doctors out of work... the list goes on.

Our culture requires people to work in order to be valid members. We look down upon people receiving welfare, government aid, social security, and so on. The talk around Washington is that people on medicare are moochers! Let's get rid of it and make them pay their own way!

We've doubled productivity, yet we haven't reduced the time we're required to work - in our "race to the bottom" people are working longer hours for ever lowering wages. Sometimes people have to work 3 jobs just to get by.

The solution is to reduce the weekly workload of all employees. If we went to a 30-hour work week with overlapping days, we could eliminate unemployment and pay everyone a living wage. As productivity rises, we could cut the working hours even more.

If we were more like the French, people would have more leisure time to enjoy the fruits of a highly productive society.

Don't knock the French - they've got this "working for a living" thing figured out.

Pretty sure those never actually got built.

I'm pretty sure they were..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48&hl=en

http://www.mksg.de/

Software should not be patentable. Period.

Right, software that runs the entire modern economy should have 0 IP rights given to those who create it, meanwhile swinging on swing gets 20 year IP protection.
http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227

http://google.com?q=begging+the+question

There are very few avian carriers that can safely transport snakes. The only one I'm aware of is the sea eagle.

Packet loss from hungry eagles is unacceptable for long links. Screech owls perform notably better due to their symbiotic relationship with blind snakes, but the screech owl's low carrying capacity and nocturnal habit make them unsuitable for general purpose avian carriers, and severely restrict their application in general.

What you describe wouldn't really work; it doesn't overlay your whole field of vision. It could, however, project the manual where you can look at it easily just by looking up and to the right, and you could use voice commands to navigate to what you need to see.

I've been watching the application stream on Google+ and so far the most interesting applications are all about what can be done with a voice-controlled camera on your head. So, like a GoPro, but smaller, lighter and more hands-free -- as well as with an Internet connection and the ability to interact with apps and people.

One I saw was from a surgeon who'd like to use it to record and share operations, interact with peers to get suggestions, etc. Think about doing a Hangout On-Air with an expert in the particular surgery you're doing, able to talk and get answers during the surgery, with the remote expert able to see exactly what you're doing, then to have it all recorded for future use. There are a lot of people with similar ideas in different fields.

Another was from a search and rescue guy, who wants to outfit his whole team with them, to provide real-time, hands-free communications and maps, with all of the rescuers plotted, and to be able to do audio or video communications between team members, and to share video streams.

Another was from a filmmaker who wants to explore using Glass to make a full-length feature film.

I think these sorts of innovative uses are what Google is looking for.

I'd walk into a wall.

Seriously, what about those of us who already have glasses? I guess I'm not hip enough. :(

Looking at some of the pictures, it seems like it should be pretty straightforward to add prescription lenses. For example, look at the model with tinted lenses attached near the bottom of this page. If your optometrist can get some lenses manufactured in that same shape, you should be able to screw them on just like the tinted lens.

From what I hear, the image projected through the glass block appears to be floating at some distance from you (maybe 5-10 feet), so as long as your prescription allows you to comfortably focus at that distance through the top of your lens, you should be able to see the screen. So even bifocals should be fine. I'm not sure about trifocals.

Blockly!

Maybe you've got inbound links only, and no outbound links. You're still a webpage.

Yes, then you have a web, but you are not part of the public World Wide Web. Or to quote Tim Berners-Lee

Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another.

(Emphasis mine).

Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another.

So yes, to be part of the World Wide Web, your site has to have at least one link from another site -- otherwise it's not part of the public World Wide Web. It's the same with the Internet. Of course you can create another network using IPv4 or IPv6 to connect the nodes to each other, but as long as there is no external link into it, it's just an intranet and not part of the Internet.

Hoi Hoi-san!

It works well, but I've always been annoyed that Firefox doesn't just dish stuff off to the built-in Mac PDF renderer - which is resident all the time and is necessarily snappy.

There used to be a plugin to integrate Preview into FF & render PDFs in the browser.

Unfortunately FF4 in 64-bit mode broke it, and FF18 seems to have killed it completely. Pdf.js is clunky, slow, broken on many PDFs, and the cross-site restrictions of js mean it's useless on many academic journal sites. The other recommended alternative, Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin, is a piece of shit.

I did a LOT of work with RamDrive software decades ago that did very well... & here's some "ideas" you can use &/or apply to YOUR idea (good one by the by), albeit to a Linux machine (vs. Windows, which is my preference/weapon-of-choice) - principles are the same though with these excellent tools (ramdisks/ramdrives):

I do the list below, here on my home system, & PARTIALLY @ least, just to avoid JUST WHAT YOU SPEAK OF (wear & tear on HDD's specifically, as well as LESSENING THEIR WORKLOAD).

However, there's another 'benefit'!

IF/WHEN you remove these tasks/items working on your main drive, usually a harddisk drive (slowest part of computers typically)?

THUS - You let it essentially also WORK FASTER fetching programs & data also by lessening the slowest thing having to do the work!

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A.) Pagefile.sys (this you MAY want to "steer clear of" with software based ramdisks UNLESS you have 'tons of ram', up to you!) - remember: I do this on a solid-state unit (more below on that) nowadays though...

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)

* & more...

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Nowadays?

I use a "True SSD" based on DDR-2 RAM for the above though (in the 4gb Gigabyte IRAM)

HOWEVER - You can't TOUCH speed of system memory though, not with SSD's, & that's where RamDrive utilization, if you have enough RAM that is, ROCKS!

* Some "Food 4 Thought" for you there above...

I have been doing work for DECADES with ramdisks/ramdrives, they're useful & excellent IF/WHEN applied correctly!

(Even to the point of writing up my own based on the MS DDK + a front-end adjustment system for it in GUI that was simple to use -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22APK+Ramdisk%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=pTIkUafQM-qx0AGz_4HIDQ ).

APK

P.S.=> That last link above led to this (one of my 'finest moments' personally, in computing):

Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

... apk

I'm the same for

What I've done is written a script that generates random usernames and passwords and submits them to the form. The phishers then need to pick out the real stuff from the garbage I pumped in.

I've had phishers delete a form before Google did, simply because I pissed them off too much. *Very* satisfying, let me tell you. :)

Here's a phish I received just two hours ago: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RPht7SPAZywd3L13_lLMeB1pCAz6ufe6LX-S7YKtaR8/viewform
Feel free to join in the fun and type some garbage! The spam that contained the link was even written to spoof the quarantine message from our own antispam appliances.

Why wouldn't you trust Google?

II want a keyboard (I always have found even "the best" touch screens a hassle)

You're not alone. The now ancient Epic 4G is still clinging in the top ten Android phones: https://plus.google.com/114278817778674561147/posts/C6Ei9EWZ9Yg

Kind of shocking, but my wife and I both keep ours and are hoping somebody comes out with a keyboard case for the Note 2.

This one looks like a current scam. Try it and let me know how it works. BTW, no to both of your questions.

Here's a typical Google-hosted phishing page. Note that the page is long enough that the Google disclaimers at the bottom are pushed "below the fold", and some users won't notice. Such pages are used in conjunction with spam emails. Since the URL in the spam will be on Google, it makes it through most spam filters.

Google's own phishing detection catches some of these. Ones that mention "Microsoft Outlook" tend to be caught. This suggests that Google is using a simple classifier but needs a better training set. There's enough similarity between most of the fake login pages that many are clearly coming from the same sources or the same toolkits. It looks like there are only about two or three different attackers exploiting Google, and they're not working very hard at making convincing fake login pages. Or maybe the better-funded attacks aren't being detected by this approach.

One of the things our SiteTruth system does is report on major sites that host phishing scams. There are only 34 such sites today. As it has been for several years now, Google is at the top of the list.

Here's the list of all known phishing sites currently hosted by Google.. Scroll down through all that background data about the company to a big block of red "phishtank report (2013-02-01): Phony site reported via PhishTank." lines. Click on the links for a PhishTank report. The raw data comes mostly from PhishTank. Most exploitable hosting services (especially short-URL services) check PhishTank and the APWG list automatically, but not Google.

Google has several vulnerabilities. It's possible to host an attack page not only on Google Sites and Google Docs, but also on Google Spreadsheets. Recently, Google added a new attack vector; there's an open redirector at Google Accounts.

Amusingly, for some, but not all, of these phishing sites, Google's own anti-phishing warning pops up. But the part of Google that generates that blacklist clearly doesn't talk to the part of Google that does hosting.

Here's the oldest phishing site hosted by Google. On line since 2010-12-30. It's one of those "Habbo Coins" phishing pages, probably forgotten by the original attacker, since it forwards to a dead Hotmail account.

When we first started doing this analysis, Google wasn't on the list, because they didn't do hosting. There were about 150 sites listed in 2009. Through improved awareness, nagging and the Anti-Phishing Working Group, we're down to 34 - a few little sites with no clue, ones that just got hit by break-ins, and "bit.ly", which tries to keep up with their abuse problem but is falling behind. MSN, Yahoo, TinyURL, and most of the other big-time victims long ago solved their problems in this area. Google stands alone as a major service with an incompetent abuse department.

Lack of availability and the extra time it takes. For example, a rough map of my own commute:

Using Google maps, the trip by bus takes around an hour and 20 minutes, not to mention taking me due west to a transit hub when I need to go due south. The trip by car takes 20.

There's no trains that go anywhere near where I need to go.

I love subways, and have little issue with trains or buses. Unfortunately, 99% of the time none of them are good options for me. The exception would be things like visiting New York, Boston, or Washington DC, where I can get to them with mass transit and get around in them using mass transit.

Lack of availability and the extra time it takes. For example, a rough map of my own commute:

Using Google maps, the trip by bus takes around an hour and 20 minutes, not to mention taking me due west to a transit hub when I need to go due south. The trip by car takes 20.

There's no trains that go anywhere near where I need to go.

I love subways, and have little issue with trains or buses. Unfortunately, 99% of the time none of them are good options for me. The exception would be things like visiting New York, Boston, or Washington DC, where I can get to them with mass transit and get around in them using mass transit.

In Android you can get a barcode scanner software keyboard. It uses the camera. With this I scan barcodes into anything that takes text input including data capture websites and spreadsheets.

I don't think barcode scanning is the WinMo killer app. Can it even do QR codes?

Since "I have been summoned" (to 'slum' in the stygian depths of utter nitpicking smouldering HELL that is /., & "Though I walk thru this 'valley of the trolls', I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me" vs. this place replete with TROLLS, as FatPhil, to whom I am graciously replying?)

Well... that "all said & aside"?? See subject-line above, & this next below!:

To create a custom hosts file, that is "all business" & NO 'bloat', & "automagically"? You can use this (by yours truly, with SOLID undeniable reasons listed in its link WHY you ought to, as the parent poster suggests, & also below as well):

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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)

Please list the "many items" covered by this patent...

http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889?printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false

There is http://maps.google.com/gl which uses webGL to add some amount of integrated 3d stuff to Google Maps, wholly in-browser. Definitely more limited than the plugin-based or freestanding Google Earth 3d tricks.

I don't know whether this is because webGL is currently too fucked to support it, or whether there just isn't any demand, or whether it's a project in progress, or what.

I'm amazed at how easy it is to find complete PDFs of popular, current textbooks on line by googling. For example, the following search:

Introduction to algorithms Cormen Rivest PDF

gave me two PDFs in the top results on the first page that appear to be illegal, from sites from Czechoslavakia and the Netherlands respectively. Now, it could be that the publisher of that textbook authorized that use, I don't know. But this happens so often that I think Google just takes a blind eye to this kind of thing, even though they have people who should know better.

Take a loog at Gerrit

The entire country is bananas, and the US is to blame for that :)

Chiquita!

(Just pointing out that Mitnick is not the first social engineer hired to manage politics in Ecuador)

While there was indeed no valid case, that didn't keep Edwin Mellen Press from suing the American magazine Linga Franca in New York state court over a 1993 article where they called it a "vanity press". The case was eventually dismissed in 1998 after a series of appeals.

Some pearls from the original conversation. Alan Pope:

We're agile enough that we can migrate our desktop to QML if that's the decision that gets made. Unity has existed on four toolkits already, what's a fifth between friends ;)

Daniel Stone on wether Ubuntu Phone uses Wayland or not:

No idea, no-one from the project will respond even to direct questions. They've said in the past that they're writing their own window system, which is pretty tragicomic.

And the best one, the only thing that Mark Shuttleworth had to say:

As Kipling put it:

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

The rest of the poem is pretty apt, too. My kingdom for a link.
Mark

I wish success to Ubuntu Phone, really, but it hurts me a little bit that it receives the same or more attention from the community than Plasma Active, when the later delivered the same or more (specially if you value open governance and source code from day 1), with way less resources.

on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107555540696571114069/posts/HSL2C21DJt7