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I don't know about back in the day, but there are plenty of pizza choices now.

I suggest you read up on this a bit. I agree that the Seagate/Samsung tie seems to be a bit tenuous until you look at what this man did to get on the jury. He wanted to be there and that, my friend, demonstrates bias.

Upon further research, it appears that he also ignored the judge's specific instructions, presumably because as a (former?) patent holder, he knew more about patent law than the judge does.

If this was a fishing expedition, it was a good day out fishing.

Wireshark was already mentioned, so I'll list some other tools I've found useful:

Mtr is better than traceroute. It has ncurses and graphical versions.

For persistent ping tests, I can recommend SmokePing.

Any modern network should have SNMP monitoring capability in the switches and routers. Ask permissions to get read-only access on the devices and there's a wealth of information to be gathered. From basic information like port status, packet/byte counters, to more advanced like topologies learned by MAC learning and neighbor discovery protocols (CDP, LLDP). Or you can just buy one for the class. 100M 24-port managed switches are not that expensive and a Linux server can be used as a SNMP-enabled router (Install and configure snmpd).

To actually act on that data.. You can try one-off tools like Cacti for traffic monitoring, and NetDisco for device and topology discovery. Or a huge does-it-all tool like OpenNMS.

Managed network devices can also dump traffic, either using "monitoring ports" (that mirror traffic from other ports), sflow (sampled stream of packets, unless 1:1 sampling, only useful for statistical traffic measurements) or nflow/ipfix (aggregated flows).

I'm especially fond of nflow, in addition to previous tools. Nflows can be used to analyze, post-mortem, who contacted and where and how much data was transferred at what kind of approximate pattern. This kind of data can be dug out from a full dump, but it's usually infeasible to dump _everything_ to disk. I've used flow-tools.

I'm waiting for incognito mode not only not to leave track on the computer itself but also on the remote sites I visit. How is it incognito if I connect somewhere I've been before to and you send the cookies that were already saved for that site, for example?
 

According to the help page about Incognito mode,
it explicitly states it deletes all cookies when you exit incognito mode. Use it for single purpose at a time, and close it out after the fact, there will be no cookies left for them to find.

Never log into any account while in incognito mode, unless you ONLY log in there while in incognito mode.

How is this console different than hooking up your smart phone(same processor right?) to your television and bluetoothing in PS3 controllers?

No 2-year cellular contract, and no worry that a particular brand of phone or an Android system update will change the way Bluetooth works so as to make the application stop working. For example, the Wii Remote app is not compatible with HTC or Samsung handsets nor with Android 4.2.

OMG Ponies

You know Slashdot has Karma when your Captcha is trauma. No, seriously, the captcha for this post is trauma.

Yeah, most have clearly defined transfer limits in their ToS. It's trivial to configure tor on unix to max at a specified bandwidth, and that calculation is also non-difficult (Google will even do it for you in their search box).

Couple of things they fail to mention:

1) A lot of that ice grew in the 1940s.
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2012/2012.5/glaciers_greenland_photos/
"At the time many glaciers underwent a melt similar or even higher than what we have seen in the last ten years. When it became colder again in the 1950s and 1960s, glaciers actually started growing," says Dr. Kurt H. Kjær"

"Kurt H. Kjær has previously worked with his colleague Svend Funder from Center for GeoGenetics on investigating sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean. Results showed that the sea ice extent has been far from stable throughout the last 10,000 years."

2) This is what NASA has to say about the "unprecedented melt":
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html

"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data."

3) "Arctic Ice Threatens Northern Hemisphere
Posted on April 19, 2009 (note the date)
While the eastern Antarctic ice pack continues inexorable year over year growth, Arctic ice is greater than it’s been in the last 8 years, and showing massive expansion again this year."
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/AMSR-E.jpg

4) "Antarctic sea ice grows to record extent while Arctic continues to shrink"
http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2750

5) http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/climate/.images/HolocenePeriods.png
The world is warming, or cooling, depending on the time scale you look at. See for yourself.

6) The real problems are pollution in a general sense and deforestation. Given mans contribution to carbon is at best 3% and that we've removed so fucking many trees (look for yourself, fly over the Island of Borneo in google maps would be a good start, its gone, it's all gone)... what did you expect was gong to happen. "By Marlowe Hood (AFP) – Jul 14, 2011
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." http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

That's right, in 2011 the geniuses that know all about CO2 got the revelation that trees eat the stuff. Next time somebody calls them "experts" rememnber that.

Possibly this was in response to NASA and the NOAA bitch-slapping the IPCC by pointing out in 2012 they'd sort of ignored this fact in their "models":
"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."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/08/new_model_doubled_co2_sub_2_degrees_warming/

Which doubt caused Gaia-dude to recant, showing he has at least a modicum of intellectual integrity:

""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

Check this out! It's a true 48G/SX with a much faster processor, USB/wifi/3G and unlimited memory! I have built up my copy with EQstack, ALG48 and so forth.

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

It's actually winning people over to the 48GX platform who never used it in the past. Since this one runs at blistering speed there's no downside.

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

Granted, the HP48 is circa 1993 but this app is exceptional for those of us who are familiar and comfortable with the platform. The app is actually built around the publicly available HP ROM for the 48 so all of the programs on hpcalc.org can be installed and run just like on the real calculator.

Forgot about those. Personally, I was thinking in terms of Caprica's paper computer things people carried around in their pocket (link)

I'd love to have one of those.

Like the "Earth: Final Conflict" Global Link Communicator, this will allow the creation of small devices with large screens that unroll when in use.

I can run Octave on my Nexus 7 with this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.octave&hl=en

Though you'll want to install "Hacker's Keyboard" if you want to effective with it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard&hl=en

It's a lot better for any kind of technical typing than the stock keyboard.

I can run Octave on my Nexus 7 with this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.octave&hl=en

Though you'll want to install "Hacker's Keyboard" if you want to effective with it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard&hl=en

It's a lot better for any kind of technical typing than the stock keyboard.

Publisher do not mind being indexed, what they mind is the scrapping of their page and using exerpt, in say, google news. Why is that ? Because there are a lot of people like me which simply look at google new, read the exerpt, and don't bother with the full article. And that is that many impression / hit on their homepage that the publisher *loses*.

So again , this is not about indexing, this is about using news exerpt like this : http://news.google.com/?edchanged=1&ned=de&authuser=0.

As for threat of removing from the index, big fucking deal. The bulk of what such online journal get is daily ad impression due to recurring visitor. What they see is the industry as a whole would get more recurring visitor if google news do not exists.

Is this about search results? Most similar laws in the past have been about Google News (and similar services from other search engines). If they're asking to charge for search context, then sure they're shooting themselves in the foot - I don't know about you, but I hate results with no context. If they're trying to shut down Google News https://news.google.com/ then it's a slightly different story ... only slightly though, Google does only include snippets there too.

Yeah its a hoax

I'm +Eric Hopper over on Google+.

I'm angry for several reasons. But the biggest reason is that I gave the Humble Bundle brand name a lot of free advertising and word of mouth because I expected them to always be DRM-free and cross-platform. Them choosing not to be feels like a betrayal and a cheat because they're taking all that good will I helped them create to sell something that is at cross-purposes to the reason I helped them create this good will.

I'm also angry because I spent a bunch of money, always above the average, often significantly so. I spent it not just because I thought the games were worth it. I spent it because I believed in Humble Bundle and what I thought they were trying to accomplish. It was another way for me to invest in the brand.

If they had done something like this under a different name I wouldn't be angry at all. Create another brand "Pay What You Can" bundles or whatever and market your stuff under that brand if it doesn't fit the Humble Bundle image. Then I wouldn't feel like all the work and money I put into supporting the Humble Bundle brand was a waste.

Install AndroSensor and check out what you phone supports.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivasim.androsensor&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5maXZhc2ltLmFuZHJvc2Vuc29yIl0.

(Hint: I own a Galaxy Nexus too, it does have a barometric sensor. Btw, the proximity sensor has only two values: 0 inch and 2 inch. It's used to lock the and unlock the screen when you put your phone on your ear during a call)

Everybody laughs at Bing, but their aerial maps and photos are sometimes very good. Better than Google in many cases. Here is an example-

google
Bing

That said I only use them for their maps, and only if I need the aerial photo.

Is that how you little penguins operate? Of course it is. PURE deceit &/or half-truths.

(It is TRULY, the "why" of WHY You fools will NEVER get ahead, & see "the year of Linux on the desktop"... period!)

Bottom-line - People won't listen to bullshit artists & 1/2 truths, & certainly NOT those using unjustifiable downmods vs. facts!

NOW - The funniest part is, you all seem to *think* people are stupid and can't see posts you bogusly downmod like mine has been (for merely citing verifiable facts & truths... ones "penguins" can't handle!).

Newsflash - many here browse below the default moderation threshold (which is purest bullshit since anyone can pull a downmod - in fact?

I'll let an OPEN "SORES" BIG NAME SPEAK FOR ME on that very account:

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"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192

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Deceitful little bogus downmodding trolls are JUST like:

The Chinese Water Army:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Chinese+Water+Army%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=tSchUJjPGYn36gGYtIDACQ

AND HBGary:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online... And all of this is for the purposes of infiltration, data mining, and (here's the one that really worries me) ganging up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise "real" people to smear enemies and distort the truth... "

and

"They are talking about creating the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader... And another thing, this is just one little company of assholes. I can't believe there aren't others doing this already. From oil companies, political campaigns, PR firms, you name it. Public opinion means big bucks. And let's face it, what these guys are talking about is easy."

and

"To the extent that the propaganda technique known as "Bandwagon" is an effective form of persuasion, which it definitely is, the ability for a few people to infiltrate a blog or social media site and appear to be many people, all taking one position in a debate, all agreeing, for example, that so and so is not credible, or a crook, is an incredibly powerful weapon."

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This takes the cake, as to how "PR Firms" pull crap, in "Confessions of a Shill" (pulling crap on anti-semitic stuff):

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread826545/pg1&addstar=1&on=13829871#pid13829871

Unbelievable... but, there it is, along with ALL THE OTHER PROOF just above!

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(Forums sockpuppeting mu

Username Genda is a known alias for Newt Gingrich - it was never going to happen.

"Someone who disagrees with the vast majority of scientists" - As if this is some kind of problem. Here is a list of people who would (or did at one point) qualify for that title: * Einstein * Galileo * Nicolaus Copernicus

Now I'm not suggesting that this congressman is a modern Einstein. But we should not disparage climate skeptics. ALSO: When the government's only solution to the problem involves either a worldwide regulatory regime, or some kind of Keynesian corporatist carbon-credits program, I have no problem with government being controlled by Climate skeptics, or even Climate Deniers for that matter. If you care about the environment. actually DO SOMETHING. Don't go crying to the government expecting them to do something about it.

Your'e right. You shouldn't cry to government if you care about the environment.

There is a significant density of Android phones. Just about everywhere.
I just whistled up a map of Calgary, and turned on the Traffic layer. I can see every traffic jam in the city in real time.

If you can't see that, perhaps you need to learn how to actually use your phone.

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Will Microsoft be using Blue Man Group to market it like Intel did for its Pentiums (3 and 4)?

> but IP itself in and of itself is not an obstruction to progress.

You want to try to tell that to Carmack who has an algorithm named after him (Carmack's Reverse) that he independently invented and he CAN'T use it due to idiotic IP laws.

* Description of his notes independently (re)discovering the algorithm
http://wayback.archive.org/web/jsp/Interstitial.jsp?seconds=5&date=1233022175000&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.nvidia.com%2Fattach%2F6832&target=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20090127020935%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.nvidia.com%2Fattach%2F6832

The patent in question:
* http://www.google.com/patents/US6384822

Quoting John Carmack:
* http://techreport.com/news/7113/creative-patents-carmack-reverse

"The patent situation well and truly sucks.

We were prepared to use a two-pass algorithm that gave equivalent results at a speed hit, but we negotiated the deal with Creative so that we were able to use the zfail method without having to actually pay any cash. It was tempting to take a stand and say that our products were never going to use any advanced Creative/3dlabs products because of their position on patenting gaming software algorithms, but that would only have hurt the users. "

So again, what are you smoking by claiming "IP itself in and of itself is not an obstruction to progress."

I strung together 7 raw images from cassini's website into a simple animtation: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5BO-IJLRe8EdjFiTDZJS21QNXM/edit

KYM doesn't confirm it, but it appears that escape goat is a nascent meme.

KYM doesn't confirm it, but it appears that escape goat is a nascent meme.

Seriously, did you eat your toe cheese on stage?

Try this query instead:
    https://www.google.com/#q=men's+blazers
The entire first page is full of items that are exactly what you are looking for.

As the web and search engines both evolve, you may need to change the way you search to get the same information. Something that worked before may not work now, and the critical words or phrases to get the best results are still there but they aren't the same as what they were in the past.

In your particular example, the exclusion is far too weak, as "women's blazers" matches [blazers -ladies], and once you start using unusual queries (very few people will use exclusions) the search engine will tend to be more literal since it doesn't have the statistics of many previous searchers using those terms to go on.

I read somewhere that fools love to quote facts that are easily dismissed by a simple internet search.

Most PSUs hit their peak efficiency at 50% load. So if you have a 350W typical load then you'll want to go with a 700W PSU to minimize your at the wall power consumption.

Also its nice to have a little room for power demand variance and future expansion.

1. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2624/3
2. http://hexus.net/tech/tech-explained/psu/29911-80-plus-certification/

Is it just because it's still covered by US6384822? Or was there some other reason for why Carmack's Reverse wasn't included in this release?

A lake called Vida is full of life. What's the big fucking deal?

Red Hat (and the Fedora project) is trying to prevent the balkanization of Linux userspace with projects like systemd, which only Ubuntu rejects.

Only Ubuntu rejects systemd ? As far as I know only three distros adopted systemd so far: Fedora (after all it is developed by their community), Arch (as it tends to rush toward shiny new anything (not necessarily a bad thing)), and OpenSuse (I don't have really any satisfying explanation for that move). Fedora is RedHat's testbed, and they've been known to drop tested techs before inclusion into RedHat.

From my point of view, the only project "balkanized" by systemd is GNOME, I don't get why a Desktop Environment would consider a hard-depend on a specific init daemon (if systemd can still be considered that, after including an httpd, some qrcode libs and a hard-depend to dbus).

Furthermore, having glanced over systemd sourcecode, I wouldn't consider it maintainable for the time being (it is a hardcoded feast ... https://plus.google.com/107219817074938512538/posts/PiJKFD49RUW for a few examples).

Or buy a Nexus device direct from Google. Stock Android UI, no crapware, and you also get the advantage of being among the first to get the latest OS updates (when other devices might never get them).

Sounds like you may want gerrit.

If you can't tell from the doc, check out this video.

When will Ubuntu for ARM be preinstalled on consumer ARM netbooks/smartbooks/ultrabooks like the Chromebook: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ What market(s)? We don't want to rely on hacks and technical installs like https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ forever ;)

When will Ubuntu for ARM be preinstalled on consumer ARM netbooks/smartbooks/ultrabooks like the Chromebook: https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ What market(s)? We don't want to rely on hacks and technical installs like https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ forever ;)

It is not when you kill off all the whales or tuna that we fuck ourselves over.

Actually, since whales are excellent carbon sinks, killing any whale is fucking everyone over.

Here's one you can try out yourself: http://code.google.com/p/captchacker/

The captcha's now are harder than they used to be but I have no doubt that if you run a few hundred through a breaker you'd get a few hits. Not quite human level, but impressively close considering where we were five years ago. Someone with some serious computer power to put behind it could probably do significantly better.

AI got a bad name because of the promises it made in the 60s and 80s, and there are lots of mystics who are critical of any AI, but practical things that have come out of AI research are in use every day by Google, Apple, Microsoft and millions of regular people.

Imagine what one of those 60s AI researchers (or even one from the 80s) would think if they saw the translator app I've got on my phone.

...if you block ads:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChrisPirillo/posts/CmNNmMBASPB#+ChrisPirillo/posts/CmNNmMBASPB

Chris Pirillo blocked me (oh the irony!) after I replied to his taunt with some legitimate reasons ad blocks can be used.

Finding similarities in abstractions is what humans do. If humans can describe something based on patterns that humans are capable of processing, then we will probably find them elsewhere! Abstraction doesn't give us mystical powers that allow us to divine the "true nature" of the universe (let alone understand what that questions means).

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

"In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical consideration that observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. Some proponents of the anthropic principle reason that it explains why the Universe has the age and the fundamental physical constants necessary to accommodate conscious life. As a result, they believe it is unremarkable that the universe's fundamental constants happen to fall within the narrow range thought to be compatible with life."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

And a google page of links: http://www.google.com/search?q=real+cost+of+death+penalty+cases&hl=en&safe=off&tbo=d&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=_FeyULTuO7K00AGu-oG4BA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=480&bih=295

Obamacare has already insured many more people, as it was designed to do.

Now show me where Obamacare has not done what it was designed to do. Or just stop posting purely ideological made-up propaganda.

I would like to post a couple of very interesting links

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/beyond-fun
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.necessarygames.com%2Fmy-games%2Floneliness%2Fflash&ei=qP-xUJWwF-m6yAHEhIAw&usg=AFQjCNF2Ja0DJ6wMb55AkI_4DPdjLDZU1w

He makes some very interesting arguments against making games purely for the sake of "Fun." Does the game really have to be about fun? Look at Indigo Prophecy (PS2) or Heavy Rain (PS3). Even Metal Gear Solid, without the guns, stealth, and violence, could have been a very good interactive movie. I would have payed money to watch as snake goes to battle, only to die a little inside. We should really break this habit of making games fun and start exploring other aspects like engaging narrative. We could free the market, setting new standards for better games.

Why build a special processor when ATI and Nvidia already do. Probably at a much lower cost per calculation then a custom machine.