Slashdot Mirror

https://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/
It's also in the Debian repository, possibly others.

To stream (in mplayer, by default):
$ get_flash_videos --play "$slashdot_url"

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CB4QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIRfluaMKoOY&ei=s9GBUJ-yEorG0QX864CgBQ&usg=AFQjCNF19tP_HhAF6GLxvQRq1fFV-Cr2sQ

I'm sure this is a big opportunity for them. I went browsing to Google News Brazil. I read the news with a little help from Translate and got an idea of what's going in the country. The big sites will discover they're not essential, nevertheless some people will leave Google News for the newspaper sites. We'll see what the pageviews will be an year from now.

"people are less likely than ever to bother checking cnn.com vs going directly to google news. "
false. Google news doesn't give you the whole story only a headline and a sentence or two.

Have you ever been to google news?
https://news.google.com/

"The only way to see the newspaper's side is if you imagine someone make a faux cnn homepage - listing only cnn articles and putting up advertising. That would seem fishy, wouldn't it?"
yes, but that's not happening here, so it isn't relevant.

I've explained this several times. Google site:slashdot.org erocs and you'll eventually end up at abuses of Unicode, such as breaking site layout with bidirectional control characters, that prompted the use of what amounts to a narrow whitelist of code points.

I understand, but I'm also quite sure there is already well-proven methods to work out such problems. How would all the other websites get around them otherwise?

look at this article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57535804/confrontation-may-loom-in-waters-off-israel/

and check how many American news sites report on it via Google:
http://www.google.com/news?q=Ship+to+Gaza+Estelle&lr=English&hl=en

Very very few. So, maybe the Brazilian news sites have something to hide? Filtered news is this news?

What a bunch of BS. Can you show any proof of your assumptions? namely:
- that kids at the age of 14 are not fully developed yet.

Google is your friend. Had you googled you wouldn't have looked so foolish, kid. Now get back to your damned homework and leave us adults alone.

I don't completely understand why Slashdot is being so conservative regarding Unicode support.

I've explained this several times. Google site:slashdot.org erocs and you'll eventually end up at abuses of Unicode, such as breaking site layout with bidirectional control characters, that prompted the use of what amounts to a narrow whitelist of code points.

Why are the red states the ones that get more from the government than they give?

Because population density has a positive correlation with both (A) more socialist political preferences, and (B) concentrations of wealth, and therefore a greater tax burden. Although there is some overlap, it doesn't necessarily mean that the same individuals within a state produce the wealth and also vote for the more socialist parties (Dems, Greens, etc).

The overlap that does exist has various explanations. Some wealthier individuals vote for the more socialist parties (or at least claim to in public) due to "rich man's guilt", desire to appear compassionate (without the direct expense of charity), or to appear "young and hip". It is possible to become moderately wealthy in this country by specializing on one thing, and without gaining the understanding of economics that encourages one to vote for freer markets (i.e. Republicans or Libertarians).

Urban areas often attract foreign immigrants and people looking to mooch off the state, while more self-reliant individuals who want to own their own home move to less densely populated areas. The latter also have more children, which means more tax breaks and more government services.

The more-urban states have been the first to industrialize, and therefore have considerable economic momentum in their favor. (This same phenomenon of economic and cultural momentum is what's keeping the Northern European countries afloat today.) They have the best universities (again, mostly for historical reasons), and top corporations may still find it in their interest to locate there because the benefits of density outweigh the added liabilities of taxation and regulation.

This, however, is gradually beginning to change...

--libman

Actually, it's:

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /

That way, you get to stay in the search index, while being excluded from news. (source)

Tea partiers hate gays the most [...]

Nonsense. USA isn't Iran, and the negative Rights of "gays" are very secure here. People don't hate things that aren't shoved down their throat (or down their children's throats through government indoctrination) (no pun intended). Take away government intervention in marriage, government-enforced anti-discrimination "laws", allow vouchers and free choice of schools, etc and you don't have a problem. What people should hate is the state!

[...] libertarians hate climatologists the most

Only those that commit academic fraud (which, in this political climate, sadly, is most of them), and those that push socialist solutions where free market solutions to pollution control would be more effective.

I like climatologists who don't ignore basic scientific concepts like error margins for crudely collected data, urban warming, ice cycles, the >95% of total CO2 emissions on this planet that have nothing to do with man, water vapor, and of course the sun. Real scientists don't jump to politically convenient conclusions to get funding, and know when to say "we simply don't know".

--libman

If only there was some way to nicely ask Google not to use a page that the content providers could use.

On purpose. Apparently the company was founded in 2004 and named after the fictional company from the Terminator franchise. Since they're going after the publicity, they should open a satellite office at 47131 Bayside Parkway, Fremont CA, the real-life location of the company's offices. And keep an out-of-service SWAT van in the parking lot.

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:RIMM

The increase in PE ratio due to their reduced earnings are ripe to be augmented by a cool product like the glasses they've been working on.

https://plus.google.com/+projectglass/

I'm so much more excited about those than anything Apple makes and that could really give Google the growth they need.

That's something people don't seem to get, not even economists. I'm twice as rich as someone in Chicago who earns the same salary as me, because prices up there are twice as high.

Only for some things. You both need a place to live, and housing is the biggest influence of the cost of living, so that most certainly affects how rich you are. Buuuuuut we're approaching a global economy. If you want, say, some computer hardware, the cost to both of you is roughly the same as the cost to someone in a shack of the slopes of the Andes and as the cost to someone in a chalet on the slopes of the Alps. So for items which have a wider market, the person in Chicago really does earns twice as much as you. But you certainly have a nicer house. Probably more square footage. Same lesson goes for clothes, oil, food*, cars... pretty much anything they can put on a cargo ship. Land, labor, and taxes are local, and the "cost of living" index really does matter.

*food. Food is cheap, the biggest costs to restaurants is actually the labor. Paying someone to smile at you as they point to a table you can sit at is expensive in America and cheap in Thailand. The hostess needs to afford her house too.

Also, remember that if you live in the third-world, you usually get PAID in third world prices. But if you were to live in a 3rd world (or up and coming 2nd world) and sell to the first world, THEN you would indeed live like a king. And you'd be funneling first world cash to the third world, contributing to the big problem of trade deficits but ultimately balancing out inequality.

That's something people don't seem to get, not even economists. I'm twice as rich as someone in Chicago who earns the same salary as me, because prices up there are twice as high.

Only for some things. You both need a place to live, and housing is the biggest influence of the cost of living, so that most certainly affects how rich you are. Buuuuuut we're approaching a global economy. If you want, say, some computer hardware, the cost to both of you is roughly the same as the cost to someone in a shack of the slopes of the Andes and as the cost to someone in a chalet on the slopes of the Alps. So for items which have a wider market, the person in Chicago really does earns twice as much as you. But you certainly have a nicer house. Probably more square footage. Same lesson goes for clothes, oil, food*, cars... pretty much anything they can put on a cargo ship. Land, labor, and taxes are local, and the "cost of living" index really does matter.

*food. Food is cheap, the biggest costs to restaurants is actually the labor. Paying someone to smile at you as they point to a table you can sit at is expensive in America and cheap in Thailand. The hostess needs to afford her house too.

Also, remember that if you live in the third-world, you usually get PAID in third world prices. But if you were to live in a 3rd world (or up and coming 2nd world) and sell to the first world, THEN you would indeed live like a king. And you'd be funneling first world cash to the third world, contributing to the big problem of trade deficits but ultimately balancing out inequality.

A pet peeve of mine (and one of my biggest gripes with Google News) is promoting news sources that are nationally or geographically far removed from the event in question. In this case, I noticed the British spelling of "finalise", which directed my attention to the fact that the linked article is from the BBC. So then I assumed this was in some way related to the London Stock Exchange, or it was the UK division of Google that prematurely released the figures. However that is not the case as this was indeed suspended on NASDAQ and involved the parent Google company.

I'm not sure why we are subjected to a journalists biased view, rather than post the financial statements. http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html.

Hitler came to power due to the Great Depression, and the Great Depression came after a period of deflation, but the Keynesian claim that therefore deflation causes depression is a case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc. As can be read here, deflation does not correlate with economic downturns when you look at the wider data set from history around the world. In fact, the great depression is practically the only data point that supports the idea.

If your an enterprise customer - you can just call them :). They have pid key that appears in the apps control panel that changes every week.

If your a regular user - you can use this: http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=portal_contact_options.cs

Verizon's the first, but watch Google and others to follow now that it's mainstreamed.

Introducing: Google Now!

Interdasting, its almost like you can predict the past.

Except that the right to choose abortion does not affect 100% of women, it affects only the very small minority who have an unplanned pregnancy and who cannot or are unwilling to raise a (new) child.

Right now in the United States 49% of pregnancies are unplanned, of which 43% end in abortion. One in three women will have an abortion by age 45. So it affects a lot more people than just a "very small minority", especially when you consider that women's partners and existing children are also affected.

Now, a new study shows that providing women with free contraception decreases the abortion rate by 60-70%, in part because they tend to choose methods that are less vulnerable to failure but more expensive upfront (IUDs, implants). Shockingly, the political "Pro-Life" movement tends to be staunchly anti-contraception, almost as if they care more about controlling female sexuality than the welfare of the developing potential child.

I sincerely doubt that Romney cares much about women or children who are not his possessions, but he's representing the party that has been forced to align itself with racists and theocrats to get the political support they need for their tax breaks - if he wants to stay in power he'll have to appease them, which means opposition to abortion, contraception, and sex education. The more contraception access is restricted, the greater the need for abortion will be - so while abortion rights might not be as important as long as they're not in a position to be threatened, as soon as the people who intend to limit abortion rights come into power they will become more important.

Google says it was delayed. http://www.google.com/nexus/#/q

Canada kimberlites:

Greenland kimberlites: and

African Karoo missing lava sills here and here

Also... I forgot to mention that we really do see a huge scatter in the data for the age of the moon rocks: here .

And yes, that last guy is a creation scientist. I don't happen to agree with his conclusions, but I agree with his methods a lot faster than with those of a lot of proponents of "standard" conclusions. I happen to think that our real science, as you might call it, is driven by those who -- while disagreeing with the creation scientists -- still listen to them, especially when they say "you have an inconsistency here" or "I disagree with your statistics there", etc.

Canada kimberlites:

Greenland kimberlites: and

African Karoo missing lava sills here and here

Also... I forgot to mention that we really do see a huge scatter in the data for the age of the moon rocks: here .

And yes, that last guy is a creation scientist. I don't happen to agree with his conclusions, but I agree with his methods a lot faster than with those of a lot of proponents of "standard" conclusions. I happen to think that our real science, as you might call it, is driven by those who -- while disagreeing with the creation scientists -- still listen to them, especially when they say "you have an inconsistency here" or "I disagree with your statistics there", etc.

Oh, forgot to add something, you mentioned kids having trouble using keys for controllers. Suggest getting a PS3 standard controller from a store or E-bay. Plugs in using USB connector and the current kernel (2.6.37+) provides the drivers (hid-sony) See article on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/fofix/wiki/GameControllers

I get that a "Cyber-Pearl-Harbor" is meant to imply we'll get caught with our pants down

Some dude called Gary McKinnon (note spelling, editurds) did the equivalent of flying over on December 5th and dropping eggs and flour bags on your ships.

I doubt any of the Pentagoons grokked the lesson, mind.

a comparison that effectively equates the deaths of the good citizens and soldiers of Pearl Harbor to a hard drive crash.

I think if they manage to frig about with power systems, aircraft navigation & the like it might be a bit more serious than one random nerd losing his pr0n & w4r3z collection.

Unless I am missing something, debt doesn't come from printing money.

Maybe the solution is to print 14 trillion, and then, when the books are settled, tax the banks for 14 trillion.

Video: "Money As Debt"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5352106773770802849

Brilliant idea, but better might be a Fischer clock, which adds time each time the button is pushed. That way the debaters get a little extra time to respond whenever their opponent is done. They'll still be able to respond to every point, but if they're long-winded earlier they'll get less time later.

Good call. Iran isn't racist like that. They aren't bent on killing Jews at all. Arabs, Christians, Atheists, anyone really, just line up and Iran will gladly commit national suicide for an opportunity to kill you. Here's a picture of how Iran sent its own children to certain death in an attempt to kill Arabs: http://books.google.com/books?id=uaLNr45HmKAC&lpg=PA62&ots=7OUFL9gUX0&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false

Ha...I recognize the panel on the tape drive here:

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all/18

if a fucking pacemaker can be hacked and compromised [...] God help us all. Just wait until they drag us into this war with Iran here soon, and China and Russia decide to team up to end our bullshit and we end up descending into WW3.

Can you imagine the utter chaos in the U.S. when all our magic electronic boxes suddenly stop working, or worse, work silently behind our backs to sabotage and/or kill us?

I'd like to propose a new logical fallacy, the "Fireman Bill" fallacy.

That's where you start with a problem and predict a series of possible - but highly unlikely - events which lead to total catastrophe.

I don't see it on the Lofical Fallacy Bingo card. (Some are close or have similar characteristics, but none address the complete goofiness of the argument.)

Where does one go to register these things?

For example, when was the last time you needed to convert moles to something else?

Oblig: http://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

Which of course leads to the 2nd strip down after you search for this: http://www.google.com/search?q=star+nosed+mole

Ugh (And yeah, it was just a few days ago that I searched :) )

My god! It actually is a series of tubes!

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/tech/8

I understand this is a sad story, but look at the search trends for the alleged guy. On sat Oct 13, 33 web searches for his name. That is an awful low number for a bunch of kids looking for this guy on a Saturday night. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Kody%20Maxson&date=today%201-m&cmpt=q

He deeply believes in the same type of socialistic approach that's led the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) to the brink of bankruptcy. Spain and Greece both currently have unemployment over 20%!

1. Several countries are far more socialistic than Spain or Greece and doing fine: Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Germany turned the corner a couple of years ago and are now slowly improving. See for yourself
2. The reason Spain, Greece, etc are in serious trouble is well-understood: Basically, the big German and UK banks loaned them a lot of cash shortly after the Euro became unified, and after the financial crisis demanded all their money back. Spain is a particularly bad example if you believe that massive government deficits caused a crisis, because Spain's government was running at a surplus when the crisis hit.

Romney's economic ideas are a proven formula for turning around the economy.

Romney's economic ideas don't add up - the congressional staff that handle these kinds of proposals crunched the numbers and found that there was no combination of loopholes that would allow a 20% reduction in tax rates to have no effect on revenue (4% would have worked, 20% isn't even close to working). How is that a proven formula again?

I understand: Since 1980, every Republican running for president has tried to pretend that they were Ronald Reagan running against Jimmy Carter. But Barack Obama is not Jimmy Carter, Mitt Romney is definitely not Ronald Reagan, and the current economic problems are nothing like the problems we had in 1980.

Hmm... I agree about the map service, but for stocks, it brings up a summary along with links to multiple stock sites (example search for goog). Google Finance is first, but Yahoo Finance and MSN Money are the next two. Perhaps Google could do the same for maps and other queries. I wouldn't click a link to Bing Maps but it would be nice if they would list it as an option. I really don't see how that could be anything other than good for consumers as it would encourage competition among the services. Users that liked Bing Maps better could still use Google's search, for example. (Of course, you can always open websites separately, but the one linked from you search results is going to be the easiest to use.)

Yep. Here's why.

Yeah, there have been no tablets with a full OS on them previous to now. Not a single one.

The difference: Nobody likes full blown Windows on a tablet. That's why nobody, including you, remembers that they've existed for a decade.

Why do you think it hasn't kept up? Even if something isn't available within the coldfusion function set, there are there tons of addons like CFC's or custom functions . And if you can't find what you are looking for there, you can always use pure java inside a coldfusion application.

And if you don't like the idea of using commercial software, there are a bunch of open source coldfusion servers now.

No? There are a lot of free open-source blog systems around. With very short descriptions of how to install it:
1. Just get a cheap hosting solution (preferably outside Mafia territory),
2. upload the decompressed archive using a FTP program,
3. point your browser to your domain,
4. set the few settings it asks you,
5. make the config file read-only on the server,
and you're done!

Takes just a couple of minutes, and neither effort nor skill. Plus, the hosting price is what you pay for the added feature of a bit more independence.

I don't know that this is a surprise. This is a neat, new item for the CIA museum.

That said, the same kind of thing was developed by others. Nate Saint , (also) one of the 5 missionaries martyred in the Ecuadorean Amazon, developed a similar device for raising and lowering items. They picked up a parrot in a bucket from a Piper Cub, according to the books "Through Gates of Splendor", and "The End of the Spear".

That said, this isn't the only neat new item that could go in the CIA museum. There could be all kinds of momentos from governments overthrown, Americans murdered at the behest of international companies(in Chile, for example), the US presidency seized (Reagan / Bush at least through Bush Jr), and wreckage accomplished. Thanks, if I want to go to see a museum, I'll take my kids to see Nate Saint in the stained glass window of the National Cathedral. He, at least, accomplished some good. If I want to go see neat new devices, I'll take a look at things developed by Steve Saint, his son.

Google Advertising FAQ: How do I opt out of interest-based advertising?

Google Now is an example of a product that could not exist without data sharing. The premise is that it cross references data to make timely suggestions, such as letting you know when you should leave for the airport if you have a flight, and if your flight is on time. It can do this even though you never explicitly told it you have a flight or made a calendar entry.

The Blockly Maze Demo is fun, and simple, but it won't occupy the kids for all that long.

(Somebody already posted about Scratch, which seems to have a similar programming interface but is more mature.)

CableCard to the rescue? Google it: CCI

CableCard = DRM
I was hoping to build a MythTV box utilizing CableCard until I discovered that most (all?) of the "premium" channels would be blocked entirely from MythTV - and would have draconian restrictions on them even if I went with WMC.

Duly noted, though apparently both are common...
https://www.google.com/search?q=hitler+trains+run+on+time

Roguelikes will teach you your ABC too, great for a young kid

All kidding aside, Angband is one of the best games I've ever played to date still. After about 1000 tries, I did an ironman noupstairs win.

The learning curve is moderate to learn all the keystrokes and commands, but the game itself is really indepth and pure fun if you know what depths to get your resists. Make sure you download a version of Angband that has autosquelch in it. The guy who wrote autosquelch did it mostly out of a kind gesture for me! It shows you how cool Open Source guys can be. I wish I had his name, but I don't because I lost that data with a hard drive crash. I thought it was Dr. Andrew White, but Angband's page is saying: Dave Blackston.

I actually encountered something REALLY cool in Zangband once. I charmed some monsters who were spawning and polymorphing themselves. So half the dungeon was a bunch of monsters I owned, and the other half was a bunch of monsters that spawned as enemies. It was like one giant war around me. I have been making video games on my own, on the off chance I can recreate the scene, because it is incredibly... interesting.

Of course Angband's learning curve is about too much for anyone under 9. But if you've never played it, you can find it Here. It is the predecessor to games like Torchlight. Compared to Nethack, you actually do a lot more hack and slash in Angband because you're fighting tons of monsters. If you want ez mode imo, go half-troll/warrior.

Can be easily found with a google search for When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook scribd (I didn't link directly to the copypasta'd article because of copyright, I did not post the content to scribd, just googled so I could read the damn thing, yadda yadda yadda)

You have apparently never been to Los Angeles. The 110 Freeway (Pasadena Freeway) is one of the oldest freeways in the country, and was designed before "on ramps" were really a thing. At one point, there is literally a stop sign on the on ramp: http://maps.google.com/?ll=34.092524,-118.206208&spn=0.00122,0.001446&t=h&z=20