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Ohhh, did the poor wittle FOSSie get his panties in a wad this morning? And its kind of sad that FOSS attracts total fucking retards like yourself (Protip: Don't go full retard) or else you would have known I've been BASHING THE FUCK OUT OF WIN 8 YOU DIPSHIT which kind of makes it pretty hard to be a fanboi (like you so obviously are) or shill when I'M BASHING THE LATEST PRODUCT AS GARBAGE

And hey dipshit, you no able to read? how about You read the specs and compare because by the pathetic thing you call logic why then a G3 from 1997 is cutting edge, why it has a PPC chip too...right?

so go back to jerking over a Bash script FOSSie, nobody wants your shitty OS nor cares, BTW how is the marketshare? oh that is right..its been flatline for years. could it be the fact that even a Red hat dev says its a disaster or the fact that full of show stopping bugs that go back years? Nahh, that couldn't be it, why it has the blessing of the great and always classy RMS!

You should have noted that Mr. Oatmeal did some careful digging and posted a link to atheistcartoons.com, where this comic was originally conceived.
Still funny, in a very sad http://books.google.com/books/about/Laughter_through_tears.html?id=hyLzAAAAMAAJ sort of way.

I'll second that. Great app at $6. Once they've mastered the basics it's worth picking up Epic Math Tricks and Mental Maths (but beware of typos in MM).

Children were not originally designed to play with electronic devices. Children prefer objects which they can hold, throw, eat and break. This type of behavior can prove very expensive with an iPad. Better suggestion:

1. Borrow or buy a jigsaw with a thin blade. A hand jigsaw with a thin blade is okay but try to find a jigsaw with a table:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/tls/3430299340.html

2. Buy a sheet of thin 1/8 inch tempered hardboard (aka high-density fiberboard) or 1/8 inch plywood:
www.homedepot.com/buy/1-8-in-4-ft-x-8-ft-tempered-hardboard-832777.html
www.lowes.com/pd_95321-99899-95321_0__?productId=3605348

3. Buy some spray adhesive:
www.drillspot.com/products/1348820/3m_45_1025oz_spray_adhesive

4. Download puzzle templates suitable for your child's age
https://www.google.com/search?q=puzzle+templates

5. Find some nice colorful pictures or posters to make into puzzles. Car dealerships often have great car posters for little boys. Highway rest stops or AAA have maps which make great puzzles. Hair salons have plenty of posters of women's hair styles. Doll shops have promotional posters of dolls. Travel agencies have promotional posters of exotic destinations. You get the idea.

6. Spray adhesive to the back of the poster and glue it on to the 1/8 inch board. Let sit for a while to cure.

7. Spray adhesive to the back of the puzzle design and glue to the other side of the board

8. For younger children cut a rectangular border to surround the puzzle and another rectangle to go under the puzzle
http://www.dinosaurjunction.com/130-46-thickbox/t-rex-wooden-puzzle.jpg

9. Start cutting according to the puzzle pattern and make toys which your children can pass on to their children and which have been proven for thousands of years not to cause attention deficit disorder.

10. Store the puzzles in empty boxes you get from a shoe store or cigar shop

Or you could just spend $7 and order one online:
http://www.dinosaurjunction.com/400-Shop-for-dinosaur-puzzles
https://www.google.com/search?q=wooden+jigsaw+puzzles&tbs=p_ord:p&tbm=shop

Your kids will have plenty of time to play with computers when they grow up. No need to start when they are three.

Children were not originally designed to play with electronic devices. Children prefer objects which they can hold, throw, eat and break. This type of behavior can prove very expensive with an iPad. Better suggestion:

1. Borrow or buy a jigsaw with a thin blade. A hand jigsaw with a thin blade is okay but try to find a jigsaw with a table:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/tls/3430299340.html

2. Buy a sheet of thin 1/8 inch tempered hardboard (aka high-density fiberboard) or 1/8 inch plywood:
www.homedepot.com/buy/1-8-in-4-ft-x-8-ft-tempered-hardboard-832777.html
www.lowes.com/pd_95321-99899-95321_0__?productId=3605348

3. Buy some spray adhesive:
www.drillspot.com/products/1348820/3m_45_1025oz_spray_adhesive

4. Download puzzle templates suitable for your child's age
https://www.google.com/search?q=puzzle+templates

5. Find some nice colorful pictures or posters to make into puzzles. Car dealerships often have great car posters for little boys. Highway rest stops or AAA have maps which make great puzzles. Hair salons have plenty of posters of women's hair styles. Doll shops have promotional posters of dolls. Travel agencies have promotional posters of exotic destinations. You get the idea.

6. Spray adhesive to the back of the poster and glue it on to the 1/8 inch board. Let sit for a while to cure.

7. Spray adhesive to the back of the puzzle design and glue to the other side of the board

8. For younger children cut a rectangular border to surround the puzzle and another rectangle to go under the puzzle
http://www.dinosaurjunction.com/130-46-thickbox/t-rex-wooden-puzzle.jpg

9. Start cutting according to the puzzle pattern and make toys which your children can pass on to their children and which have been proven for thousands of years not to cause attention deficit disorder.

10. Store the puzzles in empty boxes you get from a shoe store or cigar shop

Or you could just spend $7 and order one online:
http://www.dinosaurjunction.com/400-Shop-for-dinosaur-puzzles
https://www.google.com/search?q=wooden+jigsaw+puzzles&tbs=p_ord:p&tbm=shop

Your kids will have plenty of time to play with computers when they grow up. No need to start when they are three.

Microsoft's own estimate for software costs on an enterprise desktop is $301/PC annually, plus $126 deployment costs. Who are we to argue with the people who get the cash?

Slashdot is just as much about science and math as modern technology. What better audience on Earth is there other than Slashdot for a question like that one?

Here you go.

DuckDuckGo has made a whole host of guarantees that they will never track you, collect personal info, etc. They've built their entire brand around these guarantees. (Their billboard slogan is "Google tracks you. We don't.") You don't have to simply trust their goodwill; their self-interest will enforce this too. If they broke their guarantees, their company would lose its reputation very quickly, their brand would soon be worthless, and they'd likely be vulnerable to a host of lawsuits.

Google, on the other hand, freely admits that they do collect and use such information. You have to read the fine print and look around to get a better idea about how they plan to use that info, and they won't tell you at all about the unintended ways this info gets used (here's DuckDuckGo's page about that).

i would prefer a moderate religious person over an atheist zealot, any day

What exactly is the definition of an "atheist zealot"? Asking for positive evidence sounds perfectly reasonable to me, especially whenever what those people profess is only one of a large number of equally likely alternatives. That's just simple logic of reasoning to me.

Just Google Damon Vix.

Such an asshole, the very air around him has a visible pucker.

Actually they will open source Internet Explorer first. Simply because it is a giant waste of capacity to invest into a product without direct cash flows. It's not sold and all that matters is the default search engine. Google on the hand virtually got Chrome for free, all taken from KHTML, webkit and quite a cheap investment. Why did they get their browser? Because they could, and their employees develop probably five other browsers as well which were never turned into commercial products. E.g. ever heard of Classilla?

Wireless (cellular) still costs money, and ties your p0rn downloads to you. Sneaking onto some unsuspecting dope's unprotected wifi is much easier.

Still, the story seems a little odd. Penetration tools on a motorbike make no sense. Even at a walking pace, you are out of range before you can penetrate any other station on the network. On an idling bike, you would certainly arose suspicion.

The best you can determine is if it is open or not on a drive by.
But you can do that with any cell phone and Any of several Wardriving tools.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jVmdMCkfcY0mi6bg-RVAJ0scaxSg?docId=CNG.08f465f0502f24565a5e31b0b7b8211b.141

Here is a link to Google Maps for Sandy Island.

According to Google, that's only a secondary definition. The primary definition is what United States citizens might refer to as "the Americas".

I see you have a very "American"-centered view of the world.

define:america

Typical Google practice is to redirect acquired domain names to google.com, or to a specific product page on google.com if relevant.

In which case duck.com should redirect to the Google WebM page

Instead it plonks the user onto the Google search home page. Convenient?

You're either fucking stupid or fucking evil; pick one.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/10/14340090-suicide-is-epidemic-for-american-indian-youth-what-more-can-be-done

A youth-suicide epidemic is sweeping Indian country, with Native American teens and young adults killing themselves at more than triple the rate of other young Americans, according to federal government figures.

In pockets of the United States, suicide among Native American youth is 9 to 19 times as frequent as among other youths, and rising. From Arizona to Alaska, tribes are declaring states of emergency and setting up crisis-intervention teams.

âoeIt feels like wartime,â said Diane Garreau, a child-welfare official on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota. âoeIâ(TM)ll see one of our youngsters one day, then find out a couple of days later sheâ(TM)s gone. Our children are self-destructing.â

http://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+rates+native+indians

Or perhaps you don't realize that even the term 'jew' is used in the perjorative, and so using 'anti-jew' would itself be offensive?

Google's explanation of the inclusion of "Jew Watch" in its search results claims that "Jewish" is less likely to be perceived as pejorative than "Jew". So what's wrong with "anti-Jewish" again?

Try this: Google search for Sandy Island. Then Google can find it.

Or someone read "12m" to mean "12 miles" rather than "12 meters". Errors of such magnitude have been made occasionally. Of course, they typically get exposed pretty quickly, everyone laughs, a correction is made, and life goes on. Except when it doesn't, because some person or piece of automatic navigation equipment believes the erroneous unit.

map

Heh... Low pikers, all of you...

LOX and a pit barbeque setup...

Once had the misfortune to sit shotgun with a STONED driver !! He drove up highway exit ramps TWICE in 10 minutes !! He otherwise seemed capable, unlike a drunk who would drive up an exit ramp !! Either drug is deadly in its results !! Lucky for him I don't drink, don't smoke !! What do I do ??

First, check yourself into rehab. Then, when you're sober, go read up some of these results - https://www.google.com/search?q=Punctuation+101.

Here's every "security" report he's made against Chrome. None were valid.

The same goes for, you chief - be constructive (No - i'm not the person who originally posted this)

This security researcher has a track record of not understanding even basic security concepts.

Basic misunderstanding of "memory corruption" vs. an "out of memory" condition: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108651

Basic misunderstanding of web security and the capabilities of Javascript: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=148636

This does not preclude the case where he's stumbled across something real, but it seems highly unlikely.

The same goes for, you chief - be constructive (No - i'm not the person who originally posted this)

This security researcher has a track record of not understanding even basic security concepts.

Basic misunderstanding of "memory corruption" vs. an "out of memory" condition: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=108651

Basic misunderstanding of web security and the capabilities of Javascript: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=148636

This does not preclude the case where he's stumbled across something real, but it seems highly unlikely.

Maybe he's talking about this lol. Or mybe this one. tl;dr dude is clueless.

Maybe he's talking about this lol. Or mybe this one. tl;dr dude is clueless.

They don't want us either

More seriously. I've always thought sports were fun. Big games with lots of rules that let you get exercise at the same time. I've never understood it why "nerds" profess to hate it so much. Most nerds like video games - those "don't matter" either.

I really hate it when people make lame attempts at pedantry.

I'll been electrocuted several times and I'm here to tell you about it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=electrocute+definition

After you convince multiple respectable sources such the Oxford Dictionary, I promise I'll follow suit.

There are two concurrent Samsung Chromebook versions:

The "Samsung Chromebook" ($249) is the ARM based one that is more or less a tablet motherboard in a laptop skin.

The "Samsung Chromebook 550($449) is based on whatever Intel is calling their Celeron-class CPUs these days, and is the successor to the one in the teardown above. Both, to the best of my knowledge, are build like more-or-less normal thin-n-lights on the inside, so there are some swappable parts.

The one in the teardown, if memory serves, is Samsung's slightly modified and bulked up version of the (atom based) CR-48 that Google initially released as a test/dev device for the Chromebook concept.

There are two concurrent Samsung Chromebook versions:

The "Samsung Chromebook" ($249) is the ARM based one that is more or less a tablet motherboard in a laptop skin.

The "Samsung Chromebook 550($449) is based on whatever Intel is calling their Celeron-class CPUs these days, and is the successor to the one in the teardown above. Both, to the best of my knowledge, are build like more-or-less normal thin-n-lights on the inside, so there are some swappable parts.

The one in the teardown, if memory serves, is Samsung's slightly modified and bulked up version of the (atom based) CR-48 that Google initially released as a test/dev device for the Chromebook concept.

I see that emissions per capita have gone down, but I have also noticed that the population of the U.S. is growing. We need to decrease total carbon dioxide emissions, not emissions per capita. Additionally, North America has by far the largest per capita carbon dioxide emissions among continents (excepting Antarctica), so I wouldn't necessarily go tooting your horn about how great America is about emissions.

I agree that taxing items according to the carbon emissions can easily solve the problem of countries not wanting to cooperate with decreasing emissions. But we need to decrease our total emissions, too.

I see that emissions per capita have gone down, but I have also noticed that the population of the U.S. is growing. We need to decrease total carbon dioxide emissions, not emissions per capita. Additionally, North America has by far the largest per capita carbon dioxide emissions among continents (excepting Antarctica), so I wouldn't necessarily go tooting your horn about how great America is about emissions.

I agree that taxing items according to the carbon emissions can easily solve the problem of countries not wanting to cooperate with decreasing emissions. But we need to decrease our total emissions, too.

Unless I'm missing something, the premise here is that felony monopolization is a fig leaf for not bribing bureaucrats.

Extortion, vandalism, making contracts with the intent of breaking them, none of these constitute crimes or even happened in this world you're painting for us, is that it?

Finally, Microsoft went beyond encouraging ICPs to take advantage of innovations in Microsoft's technology, explicitly requiring them to ensure that their content appeared degraded when viewed with Navigator rather than Internet Explorer.

That's one sentence from paragraph 328 of the document detailing their crimes. Them demanding exclusion and degraded functionality for a perceived threat to their market presence is nothing new, it'd fit right in with that document and with the cynics' view of their character -- and "felon" is unquestionably a characterization. Outside the courtroom it's a simple matter of perception. Legally, of course, it's an absolutely correct description of the corporation as a whole.

The complaint clearly states they are filing suit based on the 520 patent.

There are no software patents in EU though.

That's not true. Or rather, it's true in the exact same way that there are no software patents in the US. Under In re Bilski, software alone is unpatentable, but if you recite a method that's tied to a machine, then it's patent eligible subject matter. EU law is identical - software alone is unpatentable, but a method that's tied to a machine is patent eligible. For example, EP2095366 is a patent recently granted to IBM corresponding to US Patent 7760821. Both are directed to a method that's implemented in software, but both are patent eligible by virtue of being tied to a machine.

This is the correct link for the patent at issue: http://www.google.com/patents/US5597520

I didn't want either of the two running to win.

From the survey details they had three target answers:

"Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan, the Republicans" or "Barack Obama / Joe Biden, the Democrats" or "Third party candidate / Undecided"

It sounds like you would have answered "Third party candidate / Undecided"

This is part of the reason that the one-party system has a stranglehold on America because it craftily marginalizes decenters.

Hey you leave my centers out of this :-) But in all seriousness, this is about an election poll ... you should have been out campaigning for Gary Johnson or whoever you wanted a long time ago. I think that campaign finances are the root of the problem that we should attack but apparently you are just upset that some Google Survey didn't allow everyone to write in specific names? An that's what's marginalizing third party candidates? A little late at that point.

Israel drafts women into its army along with men, so you only have to look.

They have been gracious. They've repeated given up terroritory, repeatedly come to the table.

The truth is, you hear 3-4 Israeli's killed, and 10-12 Palestinians. But how many of those Palestinians get up and walk afterwards?

Google "Pallywood"
https://www.google.com/search?q=pallywood&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=

Anatomy of an enemy (How to start a war)

that's kinda the point.

The broader question : which companies/organisations are ok.

e.g. a company selling sex toys (totally legal in their market) and another selling horror movies have been denied service by visa/mc/paypal
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/eu-maste-reglera-hur-visa-mastercard-och-paypal-far-bete-sig/

The regulation is required if you do not think that visa/mc/paypal should be the ones deciding which companies should be allowed to accept payments online.

Per the discussion here(which includes a Google dev who wrote up some early instructions on running standard linuxes on this ARM Chromebook, and at least one Linaro project person, among other clueful types, Apparently mainline kernel support for the Exynos 5 SoC is expected in the near future but not 100% just yet.

As for ARM packages, you are very likely out of luck for 3rd-party binaries(eg. Flash, Oracle JVM), and may be a more or less second-class citizen in some areas(the javascript JIT compilers in suitably recent versions of Chromium and Firefox do support ARM targets; but older ones didn't, and older or less common JIT compilers like psyco tend to be x86 only); but aside from that most of the FOSS stuff should be cross platform.

That generation (generalizing Big time) - both Dems and Reps - have a completely different view of America. They were the kids who were alive during WWII and saw everyone working together to defeat evil. The government was Good. The government fought for freedom.

To them, we are the source of Good, Truth, Justice, and that we can do no wrong. They lived during the US' best economic times, they saw the US become a World power and pretty much lead the World.

My 20 something daughter and her grandparents talk as if they come from two different countries. It's really entertaining. I look forward to Thanksgiving.

Aren't those made by Samsung? Does google do the drivers and only leave Samsung the hardware?

Yes, Samsung makes the 10, however, AOSP hosts the factory images and drivers since it is a true Nexus device. The AOSP site is always my first stop when I'm planning a new Android purchase.

Hmm...more important that pronounciation... Does anyone actually even USE gifs anymore??

If OED found enough recent references to make it word of the year; of course.

e.g: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=tumblr+gif About 3,970,000,000 results for "tumbler + gif"

Next task is to try and get VirtualBox running so I can boot my Windows install without rebooting the system.

I tried this.

It worked fine for a week or so, but then the whole thing locked up with some anti-piracy measure deciding I'd cloned the system onto too-different hardware (which, essentially, I had).

I'm not quite as fresh to Windows as you. I didn't use one at all while at university, but now I have a Windows PC at work, which I use only for email (Outlook) and Word. Supposedly, I don't have permission to install software, but I only found that out when I couldn't remove something and phoned the helpdesk. I'm not sure why I'm able to install things, but not remove them.

At work, we changed a lot of technologies we use (for software development) recently. A couple of colleagues complained that it was too difficult to install and set up all the software, so I found Npackd, which helps. That package manager has made Windows a bit more bearable for me (especially once I found that MSysGit includes a copy of Bash, so I get a decent shell).

You can right-click on the taskbar (start menu bar) for the Task Manager, or do Ctrl-Shift-Esc.

You don't seem to be getting an answer to your "what percent is man made" question.

That's odd.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+percentage+of+global+warming+is+man+made

Leading to:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=three-quarters-of-climate

Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years

Good enough for you?

"as ecosystems ADJUST, funny how log lasting natural systems tend to be highly resilient and self-adjusting"

I've been pointing this out since 1985. Nobody listens.

In 2010 NASA and the NOAA bitch slaped the IPCC with this. "Your model is broken".

"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/

This guy says unless CO2 rises, we won't be able to grow enough food to feed a more populous world. Grow food... uses CO2... at this point some sort of light should go off over your head. http://www.liebertpub.com/MContent/Files/Kleinman_ch19_p379-398.pdf

Keep in mind it's not so much CO2 output from man as it is REMOVING ALL THE FUCKING TREES. It didn't work so well in the Dust Bowl (thank you Ken Burns) and apparently this is some sort of revelation to those who study CO2 (wot?)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

The rate of deforestation has increased. Go do a flyover of Borneo Island in the good and understand 95% of that island is unexplored. Now most of the trees are gone. Same in Brazil.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.x11server&hl=en

True dat!