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As a geek I appreciate the hack but I wouldn't go looking for win31 + abandonware as a general solution. If you like Adobe sw, try their free android photoshop: PSExpress or the paid version: PSTouch.

There are other free options on android: Snapseed.

If there are specific games/apps on win31 you'd like to run again, that is great. There is a lot of old software out there that is still fun to play with. In terms of actual utility, support for touch/new file formats etc., I would look for a native solution first.

As a geek I appreciate the hack but I wouldn't go looking for win31 + abandonware as a general solution. If you like Adobe sw, try their free android photoshop: PSExpress or the paid version: PSTouch.

There are other free options on android: Snapseed.

If there are specific games/apps on win31 you'd like to run again, that is great. There is a lot of old software out there that is still fun to play with. In terms of actual utility, support for touch/new file formats etc., I would look for a native solution first.

As a geek I appreciate the hack but I wouldn't go looking for win31 + abandonware as a general solution. If you like Adobe sw, try their free android photoshop: PSExpress or the paid version: PSTouch.

There are other free options on android: Snapseed.

If there are specific games/apps on win31 you'd like to run again, that is great. There is a lot of old software out there that is still fun to play with. In terms of actual utility, support for touch/new file formats etc., I would look for a native solution first.

Yes if only there was some sort of policy regarding privacy that sites like Google would make public... Something that was easy to find, perhaps right on the bottom of every page. Something that said something like Privacy & Terms that you could simply click on to get information.

Much as I can agree with the sentiment, we cannot allow every single consumer out there to dictate what constitutes privacy data. Perhaps google should publish what it deems as privacy information, and then allow the consumer to decide to play along or not.

What an excellent Idea. I wonder why Google Never Thought About That.

I find Google far more forthcoming than most companies, and offering a much finer grained level of control.

I would also wager, that Judith Vidal-Hall has a facebook page, a Linkedin page. As far as I'm concerned, anyone signing up for either of those two services has abdicated all semblance of Privacy. Living in a country with CCTV cameras on every street corner, and a government hell bent on capturing every keystroke on your computer forever, how can she object if Google complies with her country's laws?

According to this, anyway...

So I don't see the point of Windows 3.1 on an Android device.

I don't care if it's onerous. And I don't really care why TWC decided not to peer with Netflix. None of that should affect how Netflix interacts with me as a customer. All I should have to care about is "is my pipe wide enough to receive the stream". If it is, Netflix should send me the stream. If not, Netflix should not send me the stream. The rest of it is none of my concern.

Netflix is the one changing the game, here. They are really the first B2C entity telling customers that they will treat them differently based on the topological structure of the internet between the customer and the business. That's really unprecedented.

What if Apple said "we're not going to deliver large apps to customers on networks that don't peer with us" or "we're going to charge an extra _% to deliver large apps to customers on networks that don't peer with us". People would go BALLISTIC. So why is it OK for Netflix to do that?

Would you rather have them turn it on and charge everyone more, probably loosing customers in the process? Maybe they should just charge TWC customers? As much as you don't like their decision, it is not some arbitrary position. Netflix is barely holding on. Their net income went from 226 million in 2011 to 17 million in 2012 in the face of skyrocketing content licensing costs. Compare that to TWC with a net income of 1.7 billion for 2012. Netflix could turn on Super HD for everyone, but they would have to raise prices and would end up loosing customers. Or, they could just charge extra to people on ISPs who won't or can't peer with them. Which would be better? Or would you rather have Netflix just go out of business? No business, not even an Internet based business, has a moral obligation to provide a service at a loss.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ANFLX&fstype=ii&ei=9KAGUcDzGPCy0QGc7QE
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWC&fstype=ii&ei=caAGUejWObGh0AGoRw

Treating customers differently based on Internet geography is not unprecedented. I'd bet that it happens a lot but just isn't publicized. Comcast already started doing this. First, Comcast had their spat with Level 3 where they wanted L3 to pay Comcast for delivering data that Comcast subscribers were downloading. Then Comcast followed up by exempting their in-house video streaming service from the data caps. According to surveys, 64% of US broadband customers are under a data cap. Time Warner Cable is not currently under a cap, but that is because the customer base went into open revolt when they tried it in Texas. Netflix is not changing the game, it is responding to conditions on the field.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/29/level-3-vs-comcast-more-than-a-peering-spat/
http://techland.time.com/2012/04/16/netflix-ceo-takes-swing-at-comcast-xfinity-over-net-neutrality/
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/01/data-caps-chart/

Oh, and the reason Apple could not get away with a similar scheme is because Apple is the 2nd most valuable company in the world. Size makes a difference, and Netflix really is not a very big company.

I don't care if it's onerous. And I don't really care why TWC decided not to peer with Netflix. None of that should affect how Netflix interacts with me as a customer. All I should have to care about is "is my pipe wide enough to receive the stream". If it is, Netflix should send me the stream. If not, Netflix should not send me the stream. The rest of it is none of my concern.

Netflix is the one changing the game, here. They are really the first B2C entity telling customers that they will treat them differently based on the topological structure of the internet between the customer and the business. That's really unprecedented.

What if Apple said "we're not going to deliver large apps to customers on networks that don't peer with us" or "we're going to charge an extra _% to deliver large apps to customers on networks that don't peer with us". People would go BALLISTIC. So why is it OK for Netflix to do that?

Would you rather have them turn it on and charge everyone more, probably loosing customers in the process? Maybe they should just charge TWC customers? As much as you don't like their decision, it is not some arbitrary position. Netflix is barely holding on. Their net income went from 226 million in 2011 to 17 million in 2012 in the face of skyrocketing content licensing costs. Compare that to TWC with a net income of 1.7 billion for 2012. Netflix could turn on Super HD for everyone, but they would have to raise prices and would end up loosing customers. Or, they could just charge extra to people on ISPs who won't or can't peer with them. Which would be better? Or would you rather have Netflix just go out of business? No business, not even an Internet based business, has a moral obligation to provide a service at a loss.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ANFLX&fstype=ii&ei=9KAGUcDzGPCy0QGc7QE
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWC&fstype=ii&ei=caAGUejWObGh0AGoRw

Treating customers differently based on Internet geography is not unprecedented. I'd bet that it happens a lot but just isn't publicized. Comcast already started doing this. First, Comcast had their spat with Level 3 where they wanted L3 to pay Comcast for delivering data that Comcast subscribers were downloading. Then Comcast followed up by exempting their in-house video streaming service from the data caps. According to surveys, 64% of US broadband customers are under a data cap. Time Warner Cable is not currently under a cap, but that is because the customer base went into open revolt when they tried it in Texas. Netflix is not changing the game, it is responding to conditions on the field.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/11/29/level-3-vs-comcast-more-than-a-peering-spat/
http://techland.time.com/2012/04/16/netflix-ceo-takes-swing-at-comcast-xfinity-over-net-neutrality/
http://gigaom.com/2012/10/01/data-caps-chart/

Oh, and the reason Apple could not get away with a similar scheme is because Apple is the 2nd most valuable company in the world. Size makes a difference, and Netflix really is not a very big company.

Check out Andor's Trail by Oskar Wiksten and Scott Devaney (primary devs, others have also contributed of course). It's also available through the Play store.

If you're a fan of old-school hack & slash RPG's like Legend of Zelda, this is a delightful variant with hours (and hours and hours) of addicting gameplay :o)

Check out Andor's Trail by Oskar Wiksten and Scott Devaney (primary devs, others have also contributed of course). It's also available through the Play store.

If you're a fan of old-school hack & slash RPG's like Legend of Zelda, this is a delightful variant with hours (and hours and hours) of addicting gameplay :o)

The Simple Directmedia Library (SDL) is a cross-platform library which there are many apps for, especially games. These games are ofte cross platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, and there are some fairly popular ones.

There is a lot of software out there under SDL 1.2 and before. SDL 1.3 and on was completely rewritten, relicensed and there is not anywhere near as much software out there using it. There are ports of both to Android - the SDL team did a 1.3 and on port, a fellow named Sergii Pylypenko ported SDL 1.2 to Android, as well as a lot of supporting libraries, as well as a number of games.

The best of them is the Quake III Arena clone OpenArena. It was just release and still has a little cleanup to do, but is not that buggy and has a 4.0 rating. He has been fixing it up more and those problems are sure to be dealth with. He has other ports of popular open source games to Android as well - OpenTTD, and GemRB (Baldur's Gate engine). Gerhard Stein has put out some of these - Free Heroes and VCMI (Heroes of Might and Magic engine), Commander Genius and OpenTyrian.

I have done a few of these open source SDL ports as well, with two on Google Play right now. One is an anime-style puzzle game Lily Hop, based off the open source Hex-a-hop game. I think the port came out well, although it is not popular and even if it was I am not exactly sure how I would monetize it even with ads.

Another open source SDL port I did is of the popular Linux math game Tux of Math Command, which I call
Free Math Games for Kids. That one is more popular - it has been downloaded over 35,000 times since the summer, and gets several hundred downloads a day. It could probably be more popular if I did more work on it - the original has translations to many languages, but I only offer it in English and Spanish currently. I have just been too busy to implement the other translations.

The Simple Directmedia Library (SDL) is a cross-platform library which there are many apps for, especially games. These games are ofte cross platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, and there are some fairly popular ones.

There is a lot of software out there under SDL 1.2 and before. SDL 1.3 and on was completely rewritten, relicensed and there is not anywhere near as much software out there using it. There are ports of both to Android - the SDL team did a 1.3 and on port, a fellow named Sergii Pylypenko ported SDL 1.2 to Android, as well as a lot of supporting libraries, as well as a number of games.

The best of them is the Quake III Arena clone OpenArena. It was just release and still has a little cleanup to do, but is not that buggy and has a 4.0 rating. He has been fixing it up more and those problems are sure to be dealth with. He has other ports of popular open source games to Android as well - OpenTTD, and GemRB (Baldur's Gate engine). Gerhard Stein has put out some of these - Free Heroes and VCMI (Heroes of Might and Magic engine), Commander Genius and OpenTyrian.

I have done a few of these open source SDL ports as well, with two on Google Play right now. One is an anime-style puzzle game Lily Hop, based off the open source Hex-a-hop game. I think the port came out well, although it is not popular and even if it was I am not exactly sure how I would monetize it even with ads.

Another open source SDL port I did is of the popular Linux math game Tux of Math Command, which I call
Free Math Games for Kids. That one is more popular - it has been downloaded over 35,000 times since the summer, and gets several hundred downloads a day. It could probably be more popular if I did more work on it - the original has translations to many languages, but I only offer it in English and Spanish currently. I have just been too busy to implement the other translations.

The Simple Directmedia Library (SDL) is a cross-platform library which there are many apps for, especially games. These games are ofte cross platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, and there are some fairly popular ones.

There is a lot of software out there under SDL 1.2 and before. SDL 1.3 and on was completely rewritten, relicensed and there is not anywhere near as much software out there using it. There are ports of both to Android - the SDL team did a 1.3 and on port, a fellow named Sergii Pylypenko ported SDL 1.2 to Android, as well as a lot of supporting libraries, as well as a number of games.

The best of them is the Quake III Arena clone OpenArena. It was just release and still has a little cleanup to do, but is not that buggy and has a 4.0 rating. He has been fixing it up more and those problems are sure to be dealth with. He has other ports of popular open source games to Android as well - OpenTTD, and GemRB (Baldur's Gate engine). Gerhard Stein has put out some of these - Free Heroes and VCMI (Heroes of Might and Magic engine), Commander Genius and OpenTyrian.

I have done a few of these open source SDL ports as well, with two on Google Play right now. One is an anime-style puzzle game Lily Hop, based off the open source Hex-a-hop game. I think the port came out well, although it is not popular and even if it was I am not exactly sure how I would monetize it even with ads.

Another open source SDL port I did is of the popular Linux math game Tux of Math Command, which I call
Free Math Games for Kids. That one is more popular - it has been downloaded over 35,000 times since the summer, and gets several hundred downloads a day. It could probably be more popular if I did more work on it - the original has translations to many languages, but I only offer it in English and Spanish currently. I have just been too busy to implement the other translations.

The Simple Directmedia Library (SDL) is a cross-platform library which there are many apps for, especially games. These games are ofte cross platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, and there are some fairly popular ones.

There is a lot of software out there under SDL 1.2 and before. SDL 1.3 and on was completely rewritten, relicensed and there is not anywhere near as much software out there using it. There are ports of both to Android - the SDL team did a 1.3 and on port, a fellow named Sergii Pylypenko ported SDL 1.2 to Android, as well as a lot of supporting libraries, as well as a number of games.

The best of them is the Quake III Arena clone OpenArena. It was just release and still has a little cleanup to do, but is not that buggy and has a 4.0 rating. He has been fixing it up more and those problems are sure to be dealth with. He has other ports of popular open source games to Android as well - OpenTTD, and GemRB (Baldur's Gate engine). Gerhard Stein has put out some of these - Free Heroes and VCMI (Heroes of Might and Magic engine), Commander Genius and OpenTyrian.

I have done a few of these open source SDL ports as well, with two on Google Play right now. One is an anime-style puzzle game Lily Hop, based off the open source Hex-a-hop game. I think the port came out well, although it is not popular and even if it was I am not exactly sure how I would monetize it even with ads.

Another open source SDL port I did is of the popular Linux math game Tux of Math Command, which I call
Free Math Games for Kids. That one is more popular - it has been downloaded over 35,000 times since the summer, and gets several hundred downloads a day. It could probably be more popular if I did more work on it - the original has translations to many languages, but I only offer it in English and Spanish currently. I have just been too busy to implement the other translations.

The Simple Directmedia Library (SDL) is a cross-platform library which there are many apps for, especially games. These games are ofte cross platform for Windows, Mac and Linux, and there are some fairly popular ones.

There is a lot of software out there under SDL 1.2 and before. SDL 1.3 and on was completely rewritten, relicensed and there is not anywhere near as much software out there using it. There are ports of both to Android - the SDL team did a 1.3 and on port, a fellow named Sergii Pylypenko ported SDL 1.2 to Android, as well as a lot of supporting libraries, as well as a number of games.

The best of them is the Quake III Arena clone OpenArena. It was just release and still has a little cleanup to do, but is not that buggy and has a 4.0 rating. He has been fixing it up more and those problems are sure to be dealth with. He has other ports of popular open source games to Android as well - OpenTTD, and GemRB (Baldur's Gate engine). Gerhard Stein has put out some of these - Free Heroes and VCMI (Heroes of Might and Magic engine), Commander Genius and OpenTyrian.

I have done a few of these open source SDL ports as well, with two on Google Play right now. One is an anime-style puzzle game Lily Hop, based off the open source Hex-a-hop game. I think the port came out well, although it is not popular and even if it was I am not exactly sure how I would monetize it even with ads.

Another open source SDL port I did is of the popular Linux math game Tux of Math Command, which I call
Free Math Games for Kids. That one is more popular - it has been downloaded over 35,000 times since the summer, and gets several hundred downloads a day. It could probably be more popular if I did more work on it - the original has translations to many languages, but I only offer it in English and Spanish currently. I have just been too busy to implement the other translations.

Tipping points are a certainty. We can observe them in the paleoclimate record, and we observe them occurring today. For an example see the effect of shrinking summer Arctic ice extent on albedo. This is already occurring. You can read more on tipping points here: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/6/1786.short

Impacts are also a certainty. For examples review the following 1.6 million papers: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=impacts+of+climate+change&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=

MuseScore Player
Partly closed but based on MuseScore from the same people.

EbookDroid Nice PDF reader.

MuseScore Player
Partly closed but based on MuseScore from the same people.

EbookDroid Nice PDF reader.

When I said "before Reagan", I meant "before Reagan was president of the United States". The huge economic damage allowed because of Reagan's ignorance, carelessness, and willingness to reward supporters didn't begin until after he was elected president. See this 1986 L.A. Times article: 'Star Wars' Leads All Defense Costs: Anti-Missile Program Fast Becoming a Solidly Entrenched Part of Budget. Quote: "About 6,500 scientists have signed a pledge not to work on 'Star Wars.' "

"Low cost" hardware: Exactly correct. In the beginning, still quite expensive.

More about Electric Pencil: This 1982 InfoWorld article is interesting: "Electric Pencil, first micro word processor".

Quote: As Electric Pencil began to sell successfully, Shrayer was amazed at the demand for his product. He considered naming his firm the Electric Pencil and Eraser Company, but settled on Michael Shrayer Software. He sent a few brochures to dealers and the response was overwhelming.

Another quote: "We always felt that if Shrayer had had the inclination to upgrade Pencil, that no one could have taken that market away from him. Electric Pencil was like Kleenex and Coke. It was generic, and he could have owned the microcomputer word-processing market."

The California culture in the late 70s encouraged "do your own thing", but Michael Schrayer was the most counter-cultural person I've ever met, in both good and self-defeating ways.

The original comment was tongue-in-cheek. But most computer date representation systems are prospective from modern zero date.

For example, Unix time was originally coded as elapsed whole seconds since midnight January 01, 1970 and represented time as an UNSIGNED 32-bit integer. Such systems still exist and will roll over on 2038.

Actually, unsigned 32-bit integers won't overflow until about 2106 or so. It's the signed ones that overflow in 2038.

The original comment was tongue-in-cheek. But most computer date representation systems are prospective from modern zero date.

For example, Unix time was originally coded as elapsed whole seconds since midnight January 01, 1970 and represented time as an UNSIGNED 32-bit integer. Such systems still exist and will roll over on 2038.

Actually, unsigned 32-bit integers won't overflow until about 2106 or so. It's the signed ones that overflow in 2038.

I see more of a yo dawg story than an underdog story in this.

The Wal-Mart T-Mobile Unlimited text and Web plan is $30 per month. It's limited to only 100 minutes of voice...but I use Groove IP with Google Voice to use the data for voice calls...so that $30 per months buys me unlimited voice, text, and data.

Dung!

OH MY GOD!!!
A whopping 16 bucks pay increase per year! Where do I sign up!?!?!

Seriously, the annual inflation correction on unemployment benefits here is probably roughly that... per month.

Danny Noonan: I planned to go to law school after I graduated, but it looks like my folks won't have enough money to put me through college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Lacey Underall: [to Danny] Nice try.

The economic point here is that, when we let government sodomize markets, mis-allocation of resources occurs.
Cranking out graduates with degrees in Recreational Whining is fine for grievance-group-based politics, but suck-tacular in general. See Instapundit

(offtopic) The Nexus 7 I agree, but... Where can you buy a frikkin Nexus 4 for $300usd?

Google Play, 8GB. Currently out of stock. https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb&feature=microsite&hl=en

There is much rubberiness in what exactly a "criminal" act. There are generally two types of breaches of law; civil (a private matter between two parties) and criminal ("an act so horrendous it is a crime against society"). Criminal acts used to be covered by Common Law overseen by judges who kept the whole thing 'just'. But governments took this over and now 'criminal' is whatever the government decides to write in statute as being criminal. Statutes always trump Common Law, which really ties the judges' hands. Enter lobbyists. They lobby to have anything that violates their client's business model declared criminal by statute.

Were Aaron's actions an act so horrendous what he did was a 'crime against society'? I think not. Just because some dorkenmeiner government official wrote it into a criminal statute so they could lock up people doing it doesn't mean it genuinely was 'an act against society'. The 'Terms of Service' violation under the Computer Fraud act is laughable. I would love to know how the hell that go in there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

Governments workers have incredible power over the citizenry, and they have rewritten laws to make them so ridiculously broad so they can get anyone for anything. You would be amazed what you can be imprisoned for. Here's an example where a guy was imprisoned for not properly supervising one of his employees. No one was hurt, but federal employees went after him. We're not talking about the FBI here, but federal agency employees love to flash their badges and throw their weight around. It's good to be the king. The poor sap probably can't believe that he ended up doing hard time. So those readers beating their chest about Aaron that he 'did the crime - do the time' really should know what they are signing up for: http://books.google.com/books?id=Tu5RB6YHf10C&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=51Ya4U8XFt&dq=lynch+in+the+name+of+justice (Go to page 43 of this Google Books preview). http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120803gw.html

Japanese on Iwo Jima was "desperate defense with no hope of victory".

Finnish was "pre-planned defense in order to make enemy bleed so hard, that even Stalin would decide that gains aren't worth the cost".
It succeeded twice with quite possibly the single most insane-looking numbers in history. It was crazy enough to warrant wikipedia page screenshot becoming an internet meme:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://data.whicdn.com/images/18990146/finland-be-afraid-be-very-afraid_thumb.jpg&imgrefurl=http://weheartit.com/tag/soviet%2520russia&h=200&w=240&sz=11&tbnid=e8G9SZNgTBMY-M:&tbnh=87&tbnw=104&zoom=1&usg=__Tk2w1zc2NxuOzEu4OclPzzBZzVc=&sa=X&ei=RjoDUfekBYbKtAaMuYCwCQ&ved=0CCEQ9QEwAw

This success was repeated in 1944 where Finns faced the single biggest offensive in the entire WW2 war European theatre. Soviets focused 20 artillery pieces per every kilometer of the front line. They could literally dig people out of trenches with this much artillery. In the end, finns held out and even pushed back in spite of being completely outnumbered and outgunned. Stalin remembered the lesson from Winter War and signed a peace treaty with Finland allowing it to stay independent again. It ended up going in history as the only country mentioned in Molotov-Ribbentrop that didn't get conquered by either Germany or USSR.

The main difference between these strategies is that Japanese viewed their empire as something holy and to be defended to the death, to the point where survivors should commit suicide if they failed. Finns viewed their country as something of theirs, and to be defended for as long as it remains defensible with as little losses as possible. Key difference was that finnish commanders valued lives of their soldiers very highly for the times. Japanese commanders treated their soldiers as completely disposable pawns. Difference could be explained by the fact that Japan is one of the most populated regions on the planet, while Finland is one of the least populated ones.

It's the advantage of not being a huge country with long and proud history. You learn that to stand between the giants and survive, you need to show humility to the giants in most things, but also show that when needed, you can sting them so painfully, that any potential attempts of capture will not be worth it. And most of all you learn that when you're losing, minimize your losses so you can fight another day.

I saved this toast cartoon from many years ago... fun.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9E-AUVchcP6NmhoNS1nQlphNHM/edit

...and thoroughly documented.

This is not the same as the remote debugging for Chrome on Android your cite. This is the ability to actually run ICS 4.0 as a VM on your PC. No android device is actually required. The also appear to have a goal to run Android as the native OS on desktop hardware. Interesting, as Microsoft is trying to make their OS look and feel like an app-centric OS like apple and android, someone is trying to go the other direction.

Well Hitler was a Christian... http://books.google.com/books?id=EY2npqn0J8UC&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false

The problem with chinese products is that you don't know if they will try to get your data or not. Thats the advantage of US based products/services, with them you are sure

...and thoroughly documented.

RIM has positive cash flow, no debt, and significant capital assets and cash

RIM has had an operating loss for the last 4 straight quarters. While you are correct that the company isn't on financial life support (yet), their prospects are not looking especially cheery. Their cash hoard is around $3 billion which while substantial is tiny compared to Google, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung. All their major competitors have extremely strong balance sheets, far stronger than RIM. It's a bit like playing poker when everyone at the table has a much larger pile of chips. You still can win but the odds are not in your favor.

RIM is far from dead and with their new offerings have continued opportunity to grow.

The sales numbers for RIM's products are do not back you up. Competing products from Apple and Android makers are in far higher demand. RIM's product line is pretty widely considered to be not competitive. While RIM might succeed yet with some brilliant new products, there is little evidence so far that we should expect anything that will put them ahead of the curve.

Another thing to consider - RIM is still has the only FIPS compliant smart phone on the market.

Which is something that the majority of the market could not care less about. At best it gives them some breathing room for a little while. But the number of people who really need that level of security is a pretty small fraction of the overall market. RIM needs a product offering with much broader appeal and significant advantages over the competition. Right now this is a battle they are losing and losing badly.

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Interesting, it still finds lots of music. Weird that the MAFIAA hasn't discovered this yet, and sent them lawyer's love letters...

On a hunch, I tried my own search terms too, an I was quite surprised to notice that inurl:cfm inurl:page_id has several vulnerable sites on its second page...

inurl:sourceforge inurl:id_dsa -inurl:id_dsa.pub

Never tried this one, I use Navigator (beta) with OSM:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapfactor.navigator
Works well for me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navfree.android.OSM.ALL&hl=en

OSM based, IIRC.

California (and New York) are hemorrhaging population and business.

I wish people would stop saying things that are demonstrably false.

Idiot.

They are a very large player and I hope they unfuck what cisco's been fucking up.

I find your abundance of faith... Disturbing.

Citation please.

http://investor.google.com/earnings/2012/Q4_google_earnings.html

In addition to the Google Talk client, there are many other clients out there that provide a great communications experience. We believe users should have choice in which clients they use to connect to the Google Talk service and we want to encourage the developer community to create new and innovative applications that leverage our service. To enable this, Google Talk uses the standard XMPP protocol for authentication, presence, and messaging.

What does this mean for those who care about security? For one, you can choose software that includes Off-the-Record end-to-end encryption (OTR) such as Pidgin with the OTR plugin on GNU+Linux or Windows, or Adium (which has OTR built-in and enabled by default) on Mac OS X. On Android you can use Beem or Gibberbot, although I personally recommend Beem (and if you are using iOS you obviously don't give a shit about security anyway). By using OTR, Google has no idea what you are typing, even as you use their servers to send & receive XMPP data. As a bonus, you can proxy any of these applications over Tor, so Google has no idea where you are even connecting from, anonymising your IP address.

Because of the benefits of an open protocol, the fact that Google is in the US is far less of a problem than Microsoft being in the US because Skype by design restricts your ability to know how it communicates with Microsoft's supernodes and other Skype clients. This is the very nature of proprietary software: to subjugate you, keep you ignorant, and wield power over you. Google may not be perfect, but at least they are committed to using open standards as the base level of their communication networks, and explicitely encourage people to use what software they want, allow proxied and/or Torified connections to their services, & allow you to use end-to-end encryption with crypto keys that YOU control.

TL,DR:

I am very happy to find out a friend has a Google account, so that as soon as they use it with OTR encryption, I can communicate with them safely & securely from my own XMPP server with end-to-end encryption using an standard, open protocol. Incomparably better than Skype.

So, Chile to Finland to Taiwan?

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/index.html

Hasn't Samsung learned its lesson when it copied Apple and got fined a billion dollars for doing so?

Apple Stock Crash Coming in 3... 2... 1... BOOM There, 50% of APPL valuation gone.
You really think MS wants to drag their fucking name through the mud too? "Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest", Hehe, yeah, no.

If you don't like the user interface that the handset manufactuer cooked up and puked on your Android phone, just install ADW Launcher on it, and you get a functional as well as speedy.

I did that on my Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to get rid of Sony's TimeScape.

Fuck Geohot and the shitheads responsible for this!

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Marcan, professional asshole

No, but I did make it through Quantum.

Try https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+bomb+detection+ports&oq=nuclear+bomb+detection+ports

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We're entering an era where more countries have nuclear weapons. They've become too easy to make. Isotope separation used to take huge gaseous-diffusion plants. Entire cities were built just to enrich uranium. Centrifuge plants are now medium sized industrial park installations. That's URENCO's plant in New Mexico. It produces enough enriched uranium to power a sizable fraction of US reactors, and it's being expanded. A much smaller plant could enrich enough uranium for a few bombs.

Once you have enriched uranium, making a nuclear bomb isn't a huge job. As a build, it's roughly comparable to making an auto engine from scratch, a job that some auto racing shops can do. Machining uranium isn't that hazardous. Here's a how-to guide from Union Carbide from the 1980s. (Plutonium is a totally different story; there you need glove boxes, remote manipulators, and huge precautions against dust escaping.) There aren't many secrets left about how ordinary atomic bombs work. It's been almost 70 years, after all. (Some of the tricks of fusion weapons still haven't leaked out.)

We've been very lucky that this was a hard thing to do. But it's not that hard any more, and it keeps getting easier.

Did you google this first? No you didn't.

https://www.google.com/search?q=radiation+detection+at+us+ports+and+borders&aq=0&oq=us+ports+radiation+detection