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This really doesn't look much like legalese to me. Seems a lot like plain english. Let me guess, you never actually read it? http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

I don't think it's the same. Google has a cached version now though.

Oracle appears to have yanked it, but you can still pull it up via Google's cache:

https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2Fus%2Fcorporate%2Fcontracts%2Fcloud-hosting-delivery-policies-1881437.pdf

These weapons must be banned from private ownership completely.

If you want that, get after a constitutional amendment that makes it possible. That's the only clear path. Make it say that no one but the military (and perhaps the cops, if you believe that's a good idea... but I suggest looking at the events of the last few decades before you go that far) gets to have weapons. Make it unambiguous and clear. Then I, and every other law abiding type, will turn in our weapons. The rest, you can arrest, I suppose, and good luck with that, they're likely to be very, very unhappy, but at least it'd be properly legal, which almost no gun law is at this point.

Having said that, it won't help. The problem isn't guns. The problem is crazy people. See here and here and here? That's what happens when guns are made illegal. Make knives illegal, did I hear you say? Sharpened broomsticks. Motor vehicles. Hammers. Screwdrivers. Chainsaws. Gasoline. Copper Sulphate. Fertilizer. Etc.

No, for certain the problem isn't firearms, or banning them. The problem is we have crazy people. Outright crazy fucktards. Raving loonies. Who we simply can't detect.

So at this point, since we really don't have the tools to detect crazy people, what we need to do is protect vulnerable groups. Armed guards and scanners at school entrances; if you're not student or staff, you don't get in. No one gets in with a weapon. Perhaps bring home all those military types and put them to work actually guarding us from danger, instead of serving as cannon fodder for no more benefit than to keep the arms industry spinning. They can be posted at McDonald's, at stadiums, etc. Everywhere. Make themselves actually useful.

Give us fifty years and I bet we'll have this solved -- we'll either be able to pick you right off the street when you're so fucked up you're actually considering mayhem, or we'll be able to genetically weed out whatever the fuck is wrong with these people, or perhaps even both. There's a really good chance for all of that.

But right now, we have no idea who is nuts and who is not, and we don't have any effective way of telling, even if we gave up every right and liberty we have, much less just regulated firearms.

Of course what's going to happen here is exactly the wrong thing, if anything. And these pointless slaughters of innocents will continue unabated.

You can fake GPS data on Android.

Also there exist a number of HP emulations but I don't know if there are any for TI.

Try Andy Graph. It fully emulates a TI-82 -> TI-86 calculator. I stopped using my real TI calculator after I got this app.
It used to be called Andy-86, but unfortunately doesn't come with TI ROMs anymore.

So, does this mean that the only valuable feature of Google I've found so far is going to stop today? That's the ability to sync all my Android device calendars through my gmail account. Gone? I won't be able to enter an appointment on my tablet and have it show up on my phone?

From TFA's link to Google's statements:

"What do I need to do if I’m already using Google Sync?

Nothing! Existing users can continue to use Google Sync on their current devices.

Starting January 30, 2013, users, other than paid Google Apps users, won't be able to set up new devices using Google Sync and should see our sync site for instructions. You can also consult with your device carrier or manufacturer for how they recommend to sync with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Contacts. Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government customers can continue to set up new devices with Google Sync after this date."

You guys really need a dictionary.

spy /sp/
Noun: A person who secretly collects and reports information about an enemy or competitor.
Verb: Work for an organization by secretly collecting information about enemies or competitors.

Note the word 'secretly'. I dont think this counts as secret: https://www.google.com/dashboard/

Similarly, I knew a few people who were involved in serious discussions of Middle-Eastern history, and found a similar problem: Any mention of Armenia would trigger a flood of bot-generated messages, some megabytes in size, from the Turkish crowd trying to interfere with anything that might mention the Armenian genocide. (Hmmm ... I wonder if they're watching this discussion. ;-).

Ah, the Serdar Argic "Howling Through The Wires" 1994 USENET World Tour. With T-Shirt from net.legend Joel Furr. And a net.poltergeist horror story from that summer. Good times, good times (dot exe).

I miss the web we lost, but I really miss the NET we USEd.

I don't know about out-of-the-box, but I've been happy with CardDAV-Sync and CalDAV-sync.

I don't know about out-of-the-box, but I've been happy with CardDAV-Sync and CalDAV-sync.

"Matlab is more mature"

That is not even close to being true. R surpasses but not outclasses Matlab in many instances and vice versa. It all depends on what you're doing.

R has an unknown userbase (http://bigcomputing.blogspot.se/2011/07/figuring-out-number-of-r-users-in.html) but an impressive, free codebase (www.r-project.org)

whereas Matlab has some 300,000 users (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/lnt/multimatlab.html) and an equally impressive codebase ( http://www.google.com/search?q=matlab+code).

R is an excellent piece of software, but so is Matlab.

As for simplicity, I find them equally easy to learn.

That said I dumped Matlab years ago for R.

Someone should mod a ti89 with newer chipset and android OS.

Would this be equivalent?

Caveat: I am not a "math person."

in functionality, sure.

except for the one functionality of being able to use it in class, of course.

Someone should mod a ti89 with newer chipset and android OS.

Would this be equivalent?

Caveat: I am not a "math person."

That sounds less strict than what we already have in many states, like Connecticut, where this happened.
I live in NJ. No automatic weapons. 6 shells for shotguns, 10 rounds for rifles, 15 for hand guns. Long guns require a firearms ID card (background check including mental illness, fingerprinting, etc). Hand guns require permits (one permit per gun), at most one purchase every 30 days. There is no concealed carry unless you're an active duty law enforcement officer. No open carry. Extensive restrictions on the transportation of firearms and ammunition (cased and locked, in the trunk, unloaded, physically separated from ammo, and only between primary residence and either gunsmith, shooting range, or hunting area w/ a valid hunting permit, with "no significant deviation" from a direct route). Additionally, "scary looking" guns are also illegal. To keep us safe. If you think our laws are gun-friendly, I suggest you read up on Brian Aitken's case.

And yet Camden is still Beirut-in-NJ.

The turban is perfect. It makes sense to the ignorant

While not all muslims wear turbans and not all turban wearers are muslims (yeah, your mom is so proud of you for knowithg that) that doesn't mean it's ignorant to associate the two, you pompous ass.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGsVSnqSKiUoL0NMbPHtz8UopTnFx35tD0A_vOINDpMgw0cYpV_Q

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyNocXd6m1gvu_a2Uivh5QFO99ee9op_3YpMsVPWxOfXkSRp32

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRGRvx-9lxNe3OsMldn3a5alSxgkOMY5GHhE1Va09Pa8vsaGN3bbWXTNUQN

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ayatollah&hl=en&lr=&safe=images&tbo=d&biw=972&bih=500&tbm=isch&imgrefurl=http://www.plaidavenger.com/leaders/profile/ayatollah-khamenei/&tbnid=fHisye8mJXob7M&docid=ejrSCcVDaHkECM&ved=0CGUQhRYoAQ&ei=9fXKUIPJC4fB0QXxyYCICg&dur=6376

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&lr=&safe=images&tbo=d&biw=972&bih=500&tbm=isch&tbnid=rLnWatlTjJUuFM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden&docid=NOckD8r_nGpHfM&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Bin_laden_image_2.png/220px-Bin_laden_image_2.png&w=220&h=205&ei=U_bKUIOxBIa10QXtloGoDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=4&vpy=174&dur=917&hovh=164&hovw=176&tx=70&ty=89&sig=115256682362437148457&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=129&start=0&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:154

P.S. fuck google image search and the camel it rode in on.

The turban is perfect. It makes sense to the ignorant

While not all muslims wear turbans and not all turban wearers are muslims (yeah, your mom is so proud of you for knowithg that) that doesn't mean it's ignorant to associate the two, you pompous ass.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGsVSnqSKiUoL0NMbPHtz8UopTnFx35tD0A_vOINDpMgw0cYpV_Q

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyNocXd6m1gvu_a2Uivh5QFO99ee9op_3YpMsVPWxOfXkSRp32

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRGRvx-9lxNe3OsMldn3a5alSxgkOMY5GHhE1Va09Pa8vsaGN3bbWXTNUQN

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ayatollah&hl=en&lr=&safe=images&tbo=d&biw=972&bih=500&tbm=isch&imgrefurl=http://www.plaidavenger.com/leaders/profile/ayatollah-khamenei/&tbnid=fHisye8mJXob7M&docid=ejrSCcVDaHkECM&ved=0CGUQhRYoAQ&ei=9fXKUIPJC4fB0QXxyYCICg&dur=6376

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&lr=&safe=images&tbo=d&biw=972&bih=500&tbm=isch&tbnid=rLnWatlTjJUuFM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden&docid=NOckD8r_nGpHfM&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Bin_laden_image_2.png/220px-Bin_laden_image_2.png&w=220&h=205&ei=U_bKUIOxBIa10QXtloGoDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=4&vpy=174&dur=917&hovh=164&hovw=176&tx=70&ty=89&sig=115256682362437148457&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=129&start=0&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:154

P.S. fuck google image search and the camel it rode in on.

There seems to be very little misunderstanding if I just type your actual question:
    https://www.google.com/search?q=convert+from+a+WPF+Visual+to+a+Windows+Metafile

One thing that I think trips up people who used web search for a long time is that you drop words you don't think are important for keyword searches, but that actually hurts now that search engines use more than keywords. Keyword spam killed keyword search a decade ago, and regular people could not use pure keyword search anyway; so now (whether we like it or not) all search engines try to operate at more of a semantic level. If you go in with that mindset you can still find almost anything within a few tries.

or accidentally flying over a major airport Google does not show.

Google Maps does show the airport.

Click on that link anyway. It includes a search for "airport." When I did it originally, it came up with Los Angeles International as the only result. Clicking on it again to make sure the zoom level is the same shows me Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia as the top hit, followed by San Fransisco International Airport. At least Google's got both coasts covered?

It's weird because there's a "Denver Airport" place marker on Google Maps, but I guess it doesn't count for some reason.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=en

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/ApplevSamsung-1675ExC.pdf. Rectangular, rounded corners, "minimalist design".

How about, instead of something which monitors the audio track (surely a bit heavy for an embedded device which is already busy decompressing MPEG-4 video information), something which detects a commercial break information frame (the little box that appears in the top right hand corner ten seconds before the break cuts in) and triggers a mute or a fadeout until the second CBI frame appears at the end of the break, which reverses the switch. Something like this? It can be completely passive, since the CBI is an extra bit of signal.

Go through Google. Try this

Try this link through google search.

Look at the Google Maps SDK licensing terms.

Until Apple switched over to Apple Maps, those were the terms that iOS developers had to live with using the mapping SDK. Apple offers unlimited geocoding queries, Google has a limit of 2500 per day across all instances of your application!

Google also has higher limits if you pay them, but even those limits are way too low for a popular application.

Also under the Google Map regime, developers COULD NOT provide turn my turn directions on top of Google Maps. Now that Apple is providing maps there is no restriction at all to what overlays a developer chooses to put on a map.

In the end are not the users of a system served better by an endless variety of applications free to use maps in any way they like? It's not about any ONE application, it's about thousands of them.

The more interesting aspect of this story to me, is that Google also is offering an SDK for iOS developers. If Google really wants to keep collecting a lot of data, it seems like they would want to make it really attractive to use Google maps in an application over the built in Apple mapping framework.

Looking over the licensing terms though, it would seem the Google Maps SDK is kind of developer hostile. Not only do they have limited access to API keys at the moment, but look at the restrictions Google imposes on you as an app developer. Only 2500 requests per day for geocoding or directions - an absurdly low figure for any mapping application to be distributed to millions of people. Even the "business" plan (which I believe you have to pay Google for) as what I consider to be an overly low API request limit of 100k requests a day.

As an iOS developer there is NO way I would replace the use of the iOS mapping framework (where geocoding requests are unlimited) with Google's SDK.

An iOS, and Android app for tablets and phones, Simple Physics works very well to educate kids on forces, leverage, relative strength, etc. Build a bridge and drop rocks on it to see how many it can hold. Build a dam to withstand a flooding river. Build a shelter to withstand a bomb blast, all from the same simple "wooden" materials. My kids play this for hours when I let them.

There's also an excellent Wind Tunnel app for iOS that acts as a simple 2-D wind tunnel, with particle streams, smoke, pressure differentiation, etc.

Fun toys, and the kids learn while they play 'em.

http://investor.google.com/corporate/guidelines.html looks like what you want.

Nowadays, there are emulators and roms for just about every piece of older hardware, including the "Speccy". Here's a quickie google search link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=US&ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=zx+spectrum+emulator

Yes, but from the Google Maps FAQ:

Features that require a network connection - such as directions and Navigation - aren't available offline.

So how useful are offline maps if you can't use them for navigation?

What I want is to avoid paying a fortune in roaming charges when I'm on vacation across Europe.

If you're just using it for control purposes, it is possible to do so in a way that is relatively safe. Use two separate computers

The beancounters will just love that.

The best you can do is provide a physical switch that physically disables the camera and microphone

For a camera a lens cap or flap would do. But for the microphone, unless you open the case and void your warranty, how will you know the switch actually does anything?

Look, I'm going to give you an example of what you would consider "not urban": Grant County Washington, US, served with Internet by Grant County PUD. 91,000 citizens. 2,679 square miles. 35 citizens and 10 homes per square mile. 64 acres per home. It is almost the least populated county in the state per square mile. Seriously cow country out here. It turns out the homes are still clustered in nexuses, and the cows roam in the vast areas between. This is the kind of place where your neighbors don't bother you about your personal firing range.

They've had gigabit-capable fiber broadband in Grant County to every home for over a decade, and turned an embarrassing profit at it as they're a nonprofit PUD. And they got into it accidentally, with technology that was then as dear as unicorn blood and has since become as cheap as rice. It was actually originally a project to save money on power meter reading labor using SCADA power meters that didn't work out because the vendor folded/deprecated the device.

Tell me again how population density is an issue. If Grant County WA US PUD can wire their 35 people and 10 homes/square mile folk with gigabit broadband fiber 10 years ago - accidently, surely there's money in giving that to people who don't live in a vast desert wasteland now, given advances in technology that have improved network performance over fiber over 10,000x in the meantime.

For comparison, the population density of Los Angeles County California is now 7,544 people per square mile, not 35. It is over 200 times as dense - and this is now when the tech is cheap, not before when the tech was expensive. How could you NOT make money at that?

Thanks, I actually do realize it's being built into the search algorithms, but it appears the upshot of the demo is to float a balloon (as if Google cares to float balloons at all) that they are evolving away from the simple list and are going toward non-list layouts like this space-waster and this "collection", and ultimately this interactive bubble diagram to - I would imagine - enable the user to fully take "advantage" of the internal algorithms. It seems they have that in mind, and I personally don't like any of them as much as a simple list, and the least one is the graph itself. I may have jumped the gun and in my mind thought they were going to implement the graph as well as the other alternative layouts at the same time, but it doesn't actually say one way or another if the graph-layout will be presented as a tool. I don't see why the wouldn't, they have a mock-up already.

Thanks, I actually do realize it's being built into the search algorithms, but it appears the upshot of the demo is to float a balloon (as if Google cares to float balloons at all) that they are evolving away from the simple list and are going toward non-list layouts like this space-waster and this "collection", and ultimately this interactive bubble diagram to - I would imagine - enable the user to fully take "advantage" of the internal algorithms. It seems they have that in mind, and I personally don't like any of them as much as a simple list, and the least one is the graph itself. I may have jumped the gun and in my mind thought they were going to implement the graph as well as the other alternative layouts at the same time, but it doesn't actually say one way or another if the graph-layout will be presented as a tool. I don't see why the wouldn't, they have a mock-up already.

Thanks, I actually do realize it's being built into the search algorithms, but it appears the upshot of the demo is to float a balloon (as if Google cares to float balloons at all) that they are evolving away from the simple list and are going toward non-list layouts like this space-waster and this "collection", and ultimately this interactive bubble diagram to - I would imagine - enable the user to fully take "advantage" of the internal algorithms. It seems they have that in mind, and I personally don't like any of them as much as a simple list, and the least one is the graph itself. I may have jumped the gun and in my mind thought they were going to implement the graph as well as the other alternative layouts at the same time, but it doesn't actually say one way or another if the graph-layout will be presented as a tool. I don't see why the wouldn't, they have a mock-up already.

Sorry, but I fail to see how this is so different from all those other messy "graphing" methodologies and so-called analytical tools that have laboriously forced themselves into my workspace only to writhe around awhile and die because they have overly-specialized utility, and waste more screen space than Outlook 2013 i.e. mindmaps, flowcharts, music maps, radar graphs, bubble diagrams, et al, not to mention the hundreds of failed graphical programming languages.

Call me skeptical, but I think it will end up in the Google Graveyard Of Flops.

Sorry, but I fail to see how this is so different from all those other messy "graphing" methodologies and so-called analytical tools that have laboriously forced themselves into my workspace only to writhe around awhile and die because they have overly-specialized utility, and waste more screen space than Outlook 2013 i.e. mindmaps, flowcharts, music maps, radar graphs, bubble diagrams, et al, not to mention the hundreds of failed graphical programming languages.

Call me skeptical, but I think it will end up in the Google Graveyard Of Flops.

Sorry, but I fail to see how this is so different from all those other messy "graphing" methodologies and so-called analytical tools that have laboriously forced themselves into my workspace only to writhe around awhile and die because they have overly-specialized utility, and waste more screen space than Outlook 2013 i.e. mindmaps, flowcharts, music maps, radar graphs, bubble diagrams, et al, not to mention the hundreds of failed graphical programming languages.

Call me skeptical, but I think it will end up in the Google Graveyard Of Flops.

Sorry, but I fail to see how this is so different from all those other messy "graphing" methodologies and so-called analytical tools that have laboriously forced themselves into my workspace only to writhe around awhile and die because they have overly-specialized utility, and waste more screen space than Outlook 2013 i.e. mindmaps, flowcharts, music maps, radar graphs, bubble diagrams, et al, not to mention the hundreds of failed graphical programming languages.

Call me skeptical, but I think it will end up in the Google Graveyard Of Flops.

Looks like we get it just fine.

I just saw a documentry on ancient Alexandria last night with that historian hotty, Betteny Hughes, and how it and Egypt was the center of learning, knowledge, multicultural and tolerant of others.

WTF happened to them?

By the standards of the Ancient and Medieval world, current day Egypt is multicultural and tolerant of others. For most of human history, "tolerant" meant that the state would not burn down the houses or places of worship of those who did not not adhere to the state religion. It also meant that non-believers were generally not killed and seldom imprisoned simply for being non-believers.

It did not mean that non-believers were exempt from religious law. It did not mean that non-believers received the same services or were not economically penalized. The Ottoman Empire at it's zenith is often held up as a great, multicultural and tolerant society. Except that non-muslims were taxed at a significantly higher rate for the specific reason of encouraging conversion. Christian churches were directly taxed, often quite heavily.

Google doesn't let you weight search terms, but they do the other two: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861&rd=2

Saber Ayad was arrested on September 13 after angry groups of men surrounded his house and called for his death, accusing him of heresy, atheism and promoting Innocence of Muslims – a short film regarded by many to be offensive, as it portrays the Prophet Mohammad and Islam in a negative light.

I just saw a documentry on ancient Alexandria last night with that historian hotty, Betteny Hughes, and how it and Egypt was the center of learning, knowledge, multicultural and tolerant of others.

WTF happened to them?

Is Egypt's backwardness really because of Islam or has the religious peanut gallery just ruined it for everyone including their fellow Muslims - kinda like how the Evangelical Christian nuts are ruining Christianity for everyone else here in the States.

Quit your crying, your usual searches still work: NSFW

Already exists:

http://support.google.com/images/answer/1325808/

Yea, from that:

Google's use of user-submitted images and URLs

When you use Search by Image, any images that you upload... will be stored by Google and treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Google uses those images and URLs... to provide and improve our products and services.

A better reason to not utilize this "service" (read: moneygrab), I have not seen.

They already are...

http://www.google.com/search?q=goatse&tbm=isch

Already exists:

http://support.google.com/images/answer/1325808/

Yeah, pretty much. There is some Chinese medicine in Japan, but it's called kanpou or Han-style medicine.

But if you want to reach 90%+ of all devices you'll have it on the play store.

Humble Bundle seems to be doing just fine bypassing the Play store (and Google's fees) entirely.

Of which very few people are going to ever do.

Again, this is what Humble Bundle does.

Nope. Google prohibits using 3rd party payment processors for in-app purchases. Google is acting no different than Apple.

Again, this is only for apps sold via the Play Store. You're welcome to bypass the Google ecosystem entirely. And they take a very small percentage of the transaction, which is more in line with typical credit card fees, nowhere near close to the 30% Apple charges.

Google is acting nothing like Apple.

Cool - as long as you admit that the app store does not encourage hobbyist programmers. And FYI, even we can develop stuff that's useful. Here's one I wrote for Android that I personally use every day: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhagwad.projects . It's something that many iOS users have asked me to develop but I've had to say no to.

End result: Customers are not getting to use an app that does something useful and is free.

How is this in any way a good thing?