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If the complaints are about Apple taking a 30% cut of in-app purchases how exactly is Android an alternative? Google takes a 30% cut for both app purchases and in-app purchases as well. Yet somehow only Apple is "evil" for doing this.

Transaction fees for app purchases:

For applications that you choose to sell in Google Play, the transaction fee is equivalent to 30% of the application price.

In app purchases:

The standard 30% transaction fee applies to in-app transactions on Google Play.

If the complaints are about Apple taking a 30% cut of in-app purchases how exactly is Android an alternative? Google takes a 30% cut for both app purchases and in-app purchases as well. Yet somehow only Apple is "evil" for doing this.

Transaction fees for app purchases:

For applications that you choose to sell in Google Play, the transaction fee is equivalent to 30% of the application price.

In app purchases:

The standard 30% transaction fee applies to in-app transactions on Google Play.

I know quite well how their printers work. But in case you don't believe me here's Shapeways' take on the topic: support structures

Flush a fiber end down your toilet
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

not sure why you'd ever use a qr code reader other than the zebra crossing one. open source and handles everything.

The source code for the Barcode Scanner app can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/source/browse/trunk

It is free as in Free, Apache 2.0 license.

A thousand-year tornado is laughable, and makes you sound like you believe the bullshit weather movies on the Syfy channel.

That's just the sort of belligerent hubris that I'm talking about. You're still prattling on about how it's stupid to plan for the worst disaster to hit a plant's area within the last thousand years right after a once-in-a-thousand years earthquake fucked up Fukishima?

As someone who lives in Minnesota

As someone who lives in Minnesota, you'll be well familiar with the 48 tornadoes to swing through Minnesota in one day in 2010, and the flooding in Duluth that washed away homes and roads.

And that's the last two years. What's the worst natural disaster Minnesota's had in the last thousand years?

F5 is as high as they go, and they happen pretty routinely.

50 over a period of 60 years, two in Minnesota. That's not "routinely" for you.

Earthquake? You've got me there. The last earthquake in Minnesota hit in the neighborhood of 100 - 150 years ago and was a 6.something.

You mean 5.0 in 1975? Of course that's not an earthquake to worry about, but of course that means you need to plan for eathquakes even in Minnesota.

So, most of your post is fanboi denialism. Before you double down, the point isn't that Dayton should shut down all the nuclear plants in Minnesota because the next storm system will result in a meltdown. It's that nuclear plants need to be massively over-engineered before you can talk about how safe they are with an honest face. And no, going by the penny pinching corporate bean-counters definition of over-engineered is not going to cut it. Plan for the worst disaster your area might face, and for fucks sakes get the profit motive out of the equation.

That still sounds like a hassle. I myself use Chrome to Phone. Whenever I see something I want on my smart phone, I click a button on my browser and it appears on my phone.

Interesting post. I don't see why it was modded "Troll". Unless someone was horribly offended by your lol'ing and paragraph structure. The information about zinc seems moderately accurate, according to this study. Many other sources are available as well.

I like firefox though. They tell you you are SOL without the passkey. I have no idea how Chrome encrypts. It looks like it is linked to your google account. Google could easily be holding all the keys.

Chrome uses a passphrase to encrypt sync data. By default it will use your Google account password, but you can change it to use any passphrase. If the Chrome devs are doing it right, they should be running the passphrase through PBKDF2 to derive an AES symmetric key. It's worth noting, though, that the Dashboard for "Chrome sync" shows counts for the number of synced items of each type. Assuming they're doing the crypto correctly, I see only two ways the Dashboard could know those numbers: (a) if Chome sends the counts in plaintext as part of the sync, or (b) if the items are individually encrypted (which is generally a bad idea due to known plaintext).

I do know from personal experience that you're SOL if you lose the Chrome sync passphrase (or if you simply want to change it). You have to click the "Stop sync and delete data from Google" link in the Dashboard, wait 5 or 10 minutes for the delete to finish, then set up sync again for all your Chrome instances. Oh, and Chrome sync still doesn't support OAuth login, so setting up sync is a pain if you have 2-factor auth set up on your account (as you should).

Disclaimer: I happen to work at Google, but I don't interact with Chrome except as a user. I'm using knowledge gleaned only from using Chrome sync with my personal account.

I like firefox though. They tell you you are SOL without the passkey. I have no idea how Chrome encrypts. It looks like it is linked to your google account. Google could easily be holding all the keys.

Chrome uses a passphrase to encrypt sync data. By default it will use your Google account password, but you can change it to use any passphrase. If the Chrome devs are doing it right, they should be running the passphrase through PBKDF2 to derive an AES symmetric key. It's worth noting, though, that the Dashboard for "Chrome sync" shows counts for the number of synced items of each type. Assuming they're doing the crypto correctly, I see only two ways the Dashboard could know those numbers: (a) if Chome sends the counts in plaintext as part of the sync, or (b) if the items are individually encrypted (which is generally a bad idea due to known plaintext).

I do know from personal experience that you're SOL if you lose the Chrome sync passphrase (or if you simply want to change it). You have to click the "Stop sync and delete data from Google" link in the Dashboard, wait 5 or 10 minutes for the delete to finish, then set up sync again for all your Chrome instances. Oh, and Chrome sync still doesn't support OAuth login, so setting up sync is a pain if you have 2-factor auth set up on your account (as you should).

Disclaimer: I happen to work at Google, but I don't interact with Chrome except as a user. I'm using knowledge gleaned only from using Chrome sync with my personal account.

From Moscow with love

The Linux kernel is great, it actually has good engineering and design.

I acknowledge that the Linux kernel has many virtues, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it a masterpiece. It must be remembered that most of it is merely a knockoff of numerous ideas that came from proprietary UNIX. True innovation is a very rare thing, and it is far more likely to happen in proprietary software first. Smart people who devote their lives to learning and then improving something full-time usually like to get paid...

This is why we need a more symbiotic relationship between proprietary and free software - and, if Linux has achieved this to some degree, then it has done so while swimming against the current due to GPL! If, instead of Linux, there was an agreement that the top UNIX vendors would release their code as copyFREE say 4 years after each release, this would result in an ecosystem of code-sharing forks the best of which would be considerably better than Linux, with all the effort that has gone to reinventing the wheel (proprietary / copyLEFT / copyFREE) going toward more innovative ends instead.

The problem with GPL is the kind of crap user-mode code that is out there. It seem more like a culture of programmers trying to designs systems. [...]

I agree, and this is exactly why the quantity of the various GPL-licensed "gnome4-scratch-my-back" packages is irrelevant. CopyFREE software just needs to win the "commanding heights" of the new client stack, and it is well on its way thanks to Chromium and HTML5.

Again, this isn't a FreeBSD vs Linux, but a BSD culture vs GPL culture.

I'd prefer to frame the debate as copyLEFT vs copyFREE. FreeBSD (or any BSD) isn't my favorite copyFREE project by far, but it is the most competent source of lower-level system components that we have for now. True innovation is happening elsewhere: HTML5, Node.JS, Redis, PostgreSQL / SQLite, NaCl, Go, Haskell, etc, etc, etc.

--libman

Not in the least. I've been in the 'core' of a couple of small research-grade swimming pool reactors (including this one), and you can see the blue light quite well and with no danger from radiation.

This is the funniest comment I have read about a SAMS Book

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/msg/c314cb9da94e527f

SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 10 Minutes advises the following

Do not use inline functions. The compiler is better at optimizing your code than you think. Avoid using inline functions; let the compiler make your code run as fast as you can.

This is obviously not good advice.

One of the responses.

The advice is reasonable for the level at which the book is
written. I think there's a consensus in the C++ community that
one should not use inline functions until one has at least 14
minutes experience with the language.

Oh - the good old days of Usenet.

Are you telling me that none of the millions of iPad owners wishes he had a tool for experimenting with app development directly on the device, no Mac required? Very few I'll grant, but nobody?

It's never been about doomsday for the whole planet. It's about poverty, war, and general misery for billions. But Slashdot Libertarians are still stuck in their echo chamber where anything less than a massive asteroid strike is preferably to a tax increase. Didn't you know that the suffering of poor people is really just a plot to take away your money?

Some new arid areas are expected to appear in the south of N. America, South Africa and Mediterranean countries. Overall, hardly a doomsday scenario.

Oh, just some "new arid areas". No big deal. If you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Maybe you should read a bit about the massive drought that hit Texas last year. Or the many, many wildfires due to our entire state being a tinderbox. August in Houston was extra fun, with 29 out of 31 days reaching highs over 100 degrees F, with all-time highs of 109 F being reached on four separate days. Maybe you'd rather see some pictures, if that's your thing -- look, I Googled it for you! You know it's bad when people are hoping for a hurricane to bring drought relief.

Let me make this simple for you: no water = no agriculture, no cities, few people, lots of fires. Texas has 25 million people. That's a lot of misery you can spread around. A lot of potential refugees moving to your neighborhoods. But clearly letting my state be destroyed is preferable to allowing TEH EVIL (nonexistent) MARXISTS enact their EVIL (nonexistent) SOCIALIST AGENDA! (Which everyone in the world except Slashdot Libertarians is in on, of course.) Those evil socialists just hate the obvious solution of having billions of people and most of our agriculture pack up and move. But not Slashdot Libertarians! In addition to being IT administrators, they're *also* the worldwide experts in the economics of relocating entire populations, and can tell you with 100% certainty that it's super-cheap and mostly painless as long as we let the free market work its magic! Unlike carbon taxes which will instantly destroy the world economy! Because Cambodia!

(I really heard someone here compare fighting climate change to Cambodian communism once. Incidentally, Cambodian communism was all about forcibly relocating large populations, but if you want to be a good Slashdot Libertarian, you don't sweat the details.)

How much does what IBM has done help us towards being able to produce photonic logic?

None of it. They're just working toward miniaturizing and reducing the cost of these things. https://www.google.com/shopping/product/8819852028889869930?q=LR4%20CFP

How about dozens of show stoppers, would that work? Well here ya go and here is the page from 3 years ago so you can compare. Hell even one of the developers of Red Hat says trhe current "let the devs do it" is made of fail and the problems he list are damned near identical to mine, too many drivers and too few devs equal no QA and QC so buggy shit gets shoved out the door, so I really don't know how much more proof one needs besides the fact that every major OEM and BB retailer has tried your product and now treats Linux like a pox upon their houses, never to be mentioned again, why? because unlike Internet sellers they actually have to support the products they sell, and the mess that is Linux makes that a losing proposition.

You obviously haven't driven in Australia much.. Google maps

See how you are driving through national parks and farmland before getting back to an urban area?

I'm from Victoria and know the area around Mildura and Murray Sunset fairly well, and there's no way you could mistake the Sturt Hwy for anything other than a major road. On top of that, there's huge green signs along the road telling you the way to Mildura for miles around. Anyone who deviates from the one major sealed road in the area and instead heads down one of the dirt tracks that leads into Murray Sunset is not thinking very straight.

Or ignore those that charge and get the one with the source available...

http://code.google.com/p/adosbox/downloads/detail?name=aDosBox-v0.2.5.apk

Not quite. The slight difference here is that Mildura refers to the City or the county depending on the context. If people frequently referred to Arizona City as Arizona, you would end up with the same kind of bogus police warnings.

This is not to discount Apple's fault (or Google's, for that matter), far from it. If you ask for directions to Mildura (respectively Arizona), then -- duh! -- you almost certainly mean the city; and if not you want to reach its border, as opposed to the precise middle of it.

At any rate, the sensationalist stories that surround this police report amount to click-hungry journalists who are collectively making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Put another way, it's as if mindless users followed Google Map directions to Arizona, instead of Arizona City, and ended up in the middle of Tonto National Forest, and issued a warning that Google Maps are inaccurate. Well, duh, how about suggesting to zoom in instead, so as to make sure you're not heading in the middle of nowhere?

According to TFA this a case of the city being mislocated, and is more akin to people asking for directions to Arizona City and instead being sent to Tonto National Forest.

This seems like a non-story. Open Street Map correctly locates Mildura. When you do a search for Mildura on it, though, GeoNames offers three potential locations: Mildura, Mildura Airport, and Mildura Shire, which OSM locates where iOS6 reportedly locates Mildura:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-34.1770076751709&mlon=142.1488380432129&zoom=11

Put another way, it's as if mindless users followed Google Map directions to Arizona, instead of Arizona City, and ended up in the middle of Tonto National Forest, and issued a warning that Google Maps are inaccurate. Well, duh, how about suggesting to zoom in instead, so as to make sure you're not heading in the middle of nowhere?

I'm pretty sure people demand that US stop aiding any country who is murdering civilians (When they are made aware of it). Google Egypt gas cans made in us.

All of your examples seem to focus on Israel as a sole victim of criticism when it's really not. Russia, China and others have a lot of bashing of their own governments (although no one tries to equate criticism of China's government with some religion or ethnicity). Israel might appear more on the news (world and US) because it's a very relevant ally and placed right in the middle of THE US conflict zone of choice.

Relevant article regarding anti-semitism and any critique towards Israel's government

You obviously haven't driven in Australia much.. Google maps See how you are driving through national parks and farmland before getting back to an urban area? Well Apple maps just takes you through a different national park and dumps you there. 45C is also 113F. And there is no phone reception or water. And people have already been stuck for 24 hours

My understanding, based upon reading the GPL was that distributors were only responsible to those they've distributed the binary to, not the whole world. This seems to also be the stance taken by AnDosBox (another android dosbox clone), who distribute the sources only to their customers.

I believe DosBox Turbo to be in full compliance with the GPL. IANAL... and I'll admit its possible I could be wrong, so I am going to begin distributing the sources with the binary starting with the next release to be absolutely sure. Please give me a week or so to compile the new APK and upload the release.

My understanding, based upon reading the GPL was that distributors were only responsible to those they've distributed the binary to, not the whole world. This seems to also be the stance taken by AnDosBox (another android dosbox clone), who distribute the sources only to their customers.

I believe DosBox Turbo to be in full compliance with the GPL. IANAL... and I'll admit its possible I could be wrong, so I am going to begin distributing the sources with the binary starting with the next release to be absolutely sure. Please give me a week or so to compile the new APK and upload the release.

AnDosBox, which is another dosbox clone for Android, also distributes the source only to users.

Why is this such a surprise? If anyone wants to hide a server/service behind the cloak of anonymity, then yes, a tor hidden service is the way to do it. People do it for good reasons (eg. journalists under threat of death for publishing accounts of gov't actions) and nefarious reasons (silk road comes to mind). Hell, even Yelp blocks access from tor nodes b/c (they say) a large majority of bot traffic comes from the tor network. Is this really the first time a botnet has used tor, or is this the first time a botnet has been caught?

Next thing you know, they'll say the bad guys and terrorists use VPN to access the internet.

You sound like you are trying to be reasonable in all of this - you're trying to work with upstreams, you haven't said no to source requests, your pricing is not high etc. However there's a risk you'll run into issues:

It may be worth including the source to inside the apk - that way you can head off any requests for the source with a response that they are distributed alongside the binaries (which is close to what you want to do - distribute to those who financially contribute) and you should buy the binary to get the source :-). As it stands (unless you are already including the source in the apk), someone who hasn't purchased the binary can ask you for the source and you're obliged to fulfil the request (for a reasonable fee). The 0.74 DosBox source compresses down to under 900Kbytes with xz but I don't know how big your apk is.

Further, it seems that at the moment the DosBox Turbo subversion repo on Google code is empty. It doesn't do your reputation any good - it would be better if that area didn't exist or had instructions on where to find the real source.

The DosBox devs don't appear militant (the issue id's use of DosBox on Steam was settled amicably) so it's unlikely you will be hit by a GPL violation from someone with real copyright on DosBox.

You should be able to charge for the work you do but make sure you get snagged on licence gotchas.

Thanks for the very lively and interesting discussion. The OP e-mailed a few days ago asking for the source code for DosBox Turbo. I informed him that I make available the source code to my users whom I've distributed a binary to and that the GPL specifically allows for this. I also make available the source code to the upsteam DosBox devs, and forwarded them copies not too long ago. Furthermore, I've contacted the aDosBox devs and offered to port many of my improvements into the free aDosBox software for everyone to benefit. I've never heard back from the aDosBox devs, and I am assuming it is a dead project, as there has been no activity in over a year and no response to my messages in over 4 months.

While I respect the OP's opinion that (actual price on Google play is $3.49) is too much to pay (don't forget Google takes 30% off the top), the reality is, a majority of my time is spent providing user support, fixing bugs in various Android devices that my users have, and implementing new features and suggestions from my user-base. I've amassed a collection of no less than 8 different Android devices, so that I can reproduce a wide range of reported bugs.

The OP and I may disagree on what my time is worth; however, we did have a constructive discussion about perhaps moving to a model of charging for the value add-ons (which I currently provide for free), although, I'm not sure how easy that would be within the Google Play framework. I also suggested to him that there were numerous avenues for him to obtain a copy of the binary free of charge if price was a factor (one only has to search the various Android warez sites) and that I had no problems with him going that route.

While the OP may disagree with me, I believe that being able to charge for GPL software (and comply with the GPL) allows for development of better software with features and bug fixes that would normally never occur. Believe me, it is very time-consuming to sit around for hours answering user e-mails, or spending hours to fix hard to reproduce bugs that occur only on a specific version of Android or a specific device. Few, if any people, would do that kind of tedious work for free.

"I wanted to update/install my nvidia drivers, so I opened the dash and typed "drivers". IT DISPLAYED GOLF CLUBS on sale at Amazon!"

Presumably the new version will buy them for you as well.

Considering spent fuel casks can survive being dropped out of an airplane, a head-on rail collision, or attack by rocket propelled grenades, what more assurance do you need that nuclear waste transport is safe?

I don't want any "assurance" at all. I want control. I want *my* elected representatives to be involved in the decision making. I want *my* elected representatives to have direct veto power over planning and decisions, not some mid-level Washington bureaucrat who got the job because he was a good friend of the last president's largest campaign donor. Or a senator from Wisconsin who doesn't really care that Yucca Mtn.stores 50% more waste than it was designed to hold (as would be almost certainly the case if it was approved), he only wants to get the waste out of *his* backyard as quickly as possible.

Your contention that Utah is patriotic in an "old-fashioned sense" is utter nonsense, given that Utah has the lowest ratio of military enlistments to population in the country. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2005/11/who-bears-the-burden-demographic-characteristics-of-us-military-recruits-before-and-after-9-11.

That's an easy statistic to pull out, but it doesn't have a whole lot to do with the conversation at hand. That has more to do with the fact that 2/3 of the state are LDS. LDS men are strongly encouraged to go on religious missions when they are 18 or 19, which happens to be about the same time you enlist in the military. There is an overlap of roughly 100% in rural Utah of the type of kids that would go into the military and the type of kids that would go on LDS missions.

I think the more relevant statistic is that rural Nevada has the highest recruitment rate in the US. That is the environment in which Sen. Reid was raised. And although rural Utah has a much lower rate of military service, the culture there is very, very similar with regard to how they view patriotism and service to country. They have the same attitude towards the military, but the religious nature of the state skews the statistics with regards to enlistment.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

Here's what I think when someone just dumps a generic link that has no bearing on their argument.

http://www.google.com/#q=idiot+definition

If they do, it will be along the same lines as Google's Chrome - free, but impossible to actually build from source and use.

From the chromium web-site "Due mostly to its history and its complexity, Chromium uses a nonstandard set of custom tools to check out and build. Here's an overview of the steps you'll run:"

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions

...as for Valve on Linux. They are not just here for the penguins they are being driven out of Windows. I see no reason why the wouldn't continue to support Linux, especially if they plan on promoting a cross-platform storefront. Lets be honest Android on its own will have more installations than Windows next year.

Really? Show me the warming:

Okay look at some of these.
google images of global temperature charts

Why do experts on Co2 not know trees eat the stuff? From last year: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

Funny, the article states how important forests are to absorbing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and then goes on to suggest that the deforestation we are causing is responsible for adding to the atmosphere 12 to 20% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide per year. So instead of using forests as carbon sinks and perhaps planting many more, instead we are slashing and burning them and dumping those carbon sinks into our atmosphere. Then the article describes how a very bad drought in the South American rainforest caused a significant reduction of the tropics to absorb carbon, and how an even worse drought happened in 2010.
Did you actually read the article? I do not think it means what you think it means.

Really? Show me the warming:

Okay look at some of these.
google images of global temperature charts

Why do experts on Co2 not know trees eat the stuff? From last year: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

Funny, the article states how important forests are to absorbing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and then goes on to suggest that the deforestation we are causing is responsible for adding to the atmosphere 12 to 20% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide per year. So instead of using forests as carbon sinks and perhaps planting many more, instead we are slashing and burning them and dumping those carbon sinks into our atmosphere. Then the article describes how a very bad drought in the South American rainforest caused a significant reduction of the tropics to absorb carbon, and how an even worse drought happened in 2010.
Did you actually read the article? I do not think it means what you think it means.

Google shows a brief snippet (a few lines) at most of the content and then provides a link to the actual content itself.

As for Google refusing to remove sites: You are misinformed. I had Google delete one of my employer sites just a few weeks ago and the process took just under a day. The only time Google ever refuses to remove a site is when it does not belong to you or you dont want to take the proper steps and just email/call them with a demand for removal. The reality is that there are several ways to remove your content from Google. You can display an error on page access, There is Google Webmaster Tools that allow you to delete a url of your choice from a website you control until the next scan, there is the usual robots.txt and http meta tags. Google even provides instructions explaining in detail how to restrict what gets indexed or even remove your site from Google News or from all Google searches.

Why I am wasting time replying to your profane post whe you can use google all by yourself I don't know but.... World Bank just last week.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://climatechange.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/Turn_Down_the_heat_Why_a_4_degree_centrigrade_warmer_world_must_be_avoided.pdf&sa=U&ei=w8DDUO2tDMnJ0QH07ICwAw&ved=0CBsQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNEWQfQA-XNnDdeVCH3dMvQCW8wgyw

Rule 34 called. It disagrees. (NSFW+ I did not click that link to validate the reference. Feel free to scrub your own eyes out yourself.)

the size of congress is spelled out in the constitution moron

Article I, section 2, says:

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have at least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

(with the first sentence updated by section 2 of the 14th Amendment, further updated by the 19th and 26th Amendments), so, if "the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand", that allows up to about 10,000 Representatives.

The Constitution doesn't explicitly say how many Representatives there should be per person, it just says that number must be less than or equal to 1/30000 of the population, So "The House is supposed to grow (and shrink) with population, yet it has not for nearly 100 years." is not true and the size of Congress is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution.

Blame for Congress not having grown in size can be laid at the feet of Public Law 62-5.

Really? Show me the warming:

http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/climate/.images/HolocenePeriods.png

Why do experts on Co2 not know trees eat the stuff? From last year:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

Those aren't scientists. They marketing assholes.

WTF kind of "Co2 Scientist" is surprised to find plants use Co2?!?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

They don't know math well. They don't know biology well. They don't know astrophysics well. All they really know how to do well is take money from the nuclear industry (who really hate coal) and cut scary press releases, that so far have all turned out to be lies.

What you're pointing out is when man cuts all the trees down things go to shit. Look at a realtime real-color animation of the globe spinning. Notice that big brown part in Africa, Asia and Europe? That's where man grew up. When you take out all the trees you get desert.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81
"Forests soak up third of fossil fuel emissions: study
By Marlowe Hood (AFP) – Jul 14, 2011 (note the date)
PARIS — Forests play a larger role in Earth's climate system than previously suspected for both the risks from deforestation and the potential gains from regrowth, a benchmark study released Thursday has shown.
The study, published in Science, provides the most accurate measure so far of the amount of greenhouse gases absorbed from the atmosphere by tropical, temperate and boreal forests, researchers said.
"This is the first complete and global evidence of the overwhelming role of forests in removing anthropogenic carbon dioxide," said co-author Josep Canadell, a scientist at CSIRO, Australia's national climate research centre in Canberra.
"If you were to stop deforestation tomorrow, the world's established and regrowing forests would remove half of fossil fuel emissions," he told AFP, describing the findings as both "incredible" and "unexpected"."

Excuse me but what kind of Co2 scientist finds it "increadable" and "unexpected" (!) that trees eat CO2?

Keep that in mind next time somebody refers to them as climate "experts".

Maybe it had something to do with NASA and the NOAA point out the IPCC model forgot to include the fact plants eat CO2. "experts".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/08/new_model_doubled_co2_sub_2_degrees_warming/
"8th December 2010 13:24 GMT - A group of top NASA and NOAA scientists say that current climate models predicting global warming are far too gloomy, and have failed to properly account for an important cooling factor which will come into play as CO2 levels rise."

Note the date.

Course, the fact they admit they were lying didn't go unnnoticed:
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite
"James Lovelock, the scientist that came up with the 'Gaia Theory' and a prominent herald of climate change, once predicted utter disaster for the planet from climate change, writing 'before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.' Now Lovelock is walking back his rhetoric, admitting that he and other prominent global warming advocates were being alarmists. In a new interview with MSNBC he says: '"The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books — mine included — because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened," Lovelock said. "The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now," he said. "The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that," he added.' Lovelock still believes the climate is changing, but at a much, much slower pace."

are you sure? LGPL says, you need to redistribute the changes on the project itself. So its not "viral" when you link dynamically. But if you link statically, your project becomes part of the lib/the lib becomes part of the project, so its one project as result. Then you may be required to give access to the source.

I *think* you can distribute object code, not source code, so that a user can relink your code with a LGPL library.

See Q2a: What is the implication of static linking?
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/439136.html

Some of us 'basement dwellers' have developed avionics for aircraft with ejection seats; the idea that a game console would interfere with our hardware is laughable.

I'd sure hope that avionics in aircraft without ejection seats are at least as robust.

And how many devices and in how many configurations did you test your avionics against?

Oh, wait. You didn't, now did you. You only tested that it worked properly in a very limited configuration, with a very limited set of other devices nearby, and not in any free-for-all, come-any-come-all set of tens of thousands of different consumer-grade piece-of-shit devices made to no consistent specs that could potentially spew all kinds of RF interference.

Speaking of aircraft with ejection seats, we STILL have F22's trying to suffocate pilots.

Yep, you're right. Laughable.

You are laughable.

Go back to your basement and grow a brain.

hardy har har

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Putting together other two lists, one can see that
* UK - 63 mils population, IPV4/population=1.958, IPV4/internet users=2.342 - 0.21% IPv6 adoption
* US - 313 mils population, IPv4/population=4.911, IPv4/internet users=6.28 - 1.97% IPv6 adoption

In UK's case, the IPV6 adoption may have little to do with the need - as countries with lower need (higher IPV4 availability) adopted IPv6 in higher percentage?

There could be more to this story, given the interest from the Linux community.

There is an on-going discussion, or rather expression of frustration with Google, going on in the Google groups regarding Google Drive and the lack of support for Linux See here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/j_SmC6bMsEo/discussion%5B276-300%5D

Could that be the reason behind the departure?