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According to your beliefs, how's my afterlife like?

You will be eternally separated from God under that condition; not sure exactly what that looks like, but there is nothing good there. But that is your choice. Would you have Him torment you by forcing you into His presence for all eternity instead? Which is more merciful?

Also, define what you mean by "religion" and I will tell you whether atheism is a religion or not

2.Details of belief as taught or discussed

This is relevant in that atheists generally claim to have no faith or belief; they rely upon scientific proof. I find this somewhat shallow since it assumes there is some objective reality which can be observed and which in some way correlates to what we sense about it. That is an article of faith. If it wasn't you should be able to prove you exist without appealing to my senses? Since, by faith I can only believe that what they are telling me is based in some measure in objective reality. Even if you able to logically prove your existence or the existence of an objective reality that resembles what I can sense of it, you will still have to rely upon axiomatic articles of faith which by their very definition cannot be proven.

...There really should be a better solution. I think super-slippery seat material and underpants might solve it. But I haven't found anything suitable yet. Also, actually, air resistance *is* a problem if you're quick. As are too soft wheels and road resistance. Optimizing those gave me 5 km/h speed improvement *each* (over the "I don't give a fuck" method). ...

Look around, there is underwear available with a chamois ("shammy") insert for cycling. I've also taken a hammer and flattened painful seams in the seat area of jeans--use a zig-zag sewing machine to re-assemble the fabric without the bumps.

I've spent some time measuring bike air resistance in wind tunnels and you are absolutely right about clothes. If you change from loose flapping clothes to tighter ones, you might see an air drag reduction of about 10%. The next step from tight normal clothes to spandex is worth about another 10%. Depending on your air drag and choice of tires (and tire pressure), these two sources of drag might be about equal at 12-15 mph, as soon as you are going faster, air drag dominates. Reference, "Bicycling Science":
    http://books.google.com/books/about/Bicycling_Science_3rd_Edition.html?id=0JJo6DlF9iMC

The Google Play store does not say whether or not a 'free' app contains ads - especially the distracting blinking banner ads. It's fine for developers to do this and users may accept it rather than buying the app, but developers should disclose it up front. I get sick of downloading apps only to delete them. Plus many 'free' apps want access to your phone state, so they can see your phone number, who you call, and when you call them. Sneaky:

And take the children's drawing game which server up adult ads
Hannah-Siobhan - September 13, 2012 - Good basic game. Shame for the adverts my kids can click on, needs to have a lock screen option.
kristen - September 29, 2012 - Not kid friendly ads - Good time waster for kids, but the ads contain mature content, I saw buttocks yesterday...
Laura - September 19, 2012 - Version 4.0.1 - Disappointed - They show poor judgement with their advertising. With inappropriate pictures I cannot let my children use this app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=virtualgs.kidspaint

[citation needed]

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:NOK

You can look at their stock prices and earnings reports. Start around 2007, that's when things started to get interesting.

[citation needed] - (see: Samsung's recent profit reports)

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-apple-and-samsung-cornered-all-smartphone-profits/

ONE Android manufacturer - Samsung - appears to be making Android devices profitably. All the rest are losing money. And Samsung accounts for only 37% of the global profit share, with the remainder going to Apple. If Nokia were as good at phones as Samsung... they wouldn't have been in the nose dive already. In fact, Nokia had several things (in house OS dev) that Samsung didn't have, and they were still failing. There is nothing to suggest that changing course and going with in-house-customized Android would have somehow been a magical panacea when they couldn't get any of their other three in-house developed systems in a state where they'd reasonably compete with Android or iOS.

[citation needed] See the ratio to which the N9 completely outsold the Lose-mobiles.

I'll point you once again to the stock & company information linked above, and ask you to consider how you think selling a million or two units of a single phone is going to magically reverse Nokia's fortunes? Because they were selling these devices, and they always had the ability to sell these devices... but their revenues & profits & market share just keep on shrinking. That a million or two people around the world got so excited at the prospect of a MeeGo phone that they bought one is not surprising. This does not demonstrate any sort of mass market appeal, or ability to sell large (profitable) volumes.

So... [citation needed] on your bullshit - explain to us how Nokia - which was already pursuing Symbian, Maemo, and MeeGo for years, was going to magically correct their course and turn back to profitable, when pursuing that course had ALREADY put them well down the road to ruin?

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging. It's a good thing Nokia realized this, and a shame you don't get it.

Yes. Industry still uses mathematical estimation techniques similar to AWE (asymptotic waveform analysis), but they are considerably inferior. We used a far better algorithm in this patent. Since then, we've advanced well beyond this algorithm, but the fact is, backwards trapezoid can be computed exactly for the future point in time very fast in a near RCL tree. A 100 point actual simulation, taking into account nonlinear effects at the driver as well as non-linear capacitance, is simultaneously the most accurate (better than SPICE because of it's target error), and fastest approach. Universities studying this topic are in the dark.

I would much rather have a variety of operating systems or platforms which use common protocols and formats so that I can switch between them. Technology evolves, operating systems change. Locking one's self into one platform at the exclusion of others is not a good idea. At least not for the consumer, it just makes it harder to switch when the existing platform falls to provide the quality demanded

I think you are confusing platform lock (the ability to migrate data from one platform to another) with platform interoperation (running multiple platforms at the same time). Those are quite different things -- migration involves a looking at the data a solid blob to move form one place to another, interoperation is largely about synchronization. Consumers absolutely want the former, but usually can't be bothered for the latter.

For example, Chrome stores bookmarks in HTML making them very easy to migrate from platform to platform -- if I decide to go back to Firefox, I will have no problem migrating. On the other hand, I would not for a second tolerate the giant pain in the ass necessary to run Chrome on my laptop and Firefox on my desktop and try to keep them in sync. This is not a dig on Firefox either.

Basically, the concern that you have ("locking one's self into one platform") is totally orthogonal to the point made in the article ("running everything on one platform has marked advantages in terms of consistency and sync").

Dude, you gotta learn to use Google:

1 go to www.google.com

2 type in "forced ranking intel"

3 3 read the top 10 results in the first page.

The are :

http://american-business.org/383-forced-ranking-systems.html

http://www.faceintel.com/discharge.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZT57xSrPJ5YC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=intel+forced+ranking&source=bl&ots=BWTYfQm01x&sig=O61ae4i3pKexc_C5-yyCf5hVXdw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j5d5UIyhM83ryAHc4oHACw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=intel%20forced%20ranking&f=false

http://www.markedbyteachers.com/university-degree/business-and-administrative-studies/despite-the-fact-that-intel-has-become-the-most-successful-company-in-the-microprocessor-industry-with-90-percent-market-share-it-still-has-some-problems-one-example-of.html

http://www.sibson.com/publications/perspectives/Volume_11_Issue_2/e_article000162170.cfm

http://business.highbeam.com/137618/article-1G1-116862343/forced-ranking-good-bad-and-alternative-one-out-five

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-01-08/the-struggle-to-measure-performance

http://books.google.com/books?id=9G1F5ymrYQgC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=intel+forced+ranking&source=bl&ots=C_Yp3z06bj&sig=Ioi8YTP1sHT4H2utqbAqo84Gu0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j5d5UIyhM83ryAHc4oHACw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=intel%20forced%20ranking&f=false

http://www.halogensoftware.com/resources/reference-library/profiling-or-stack-ranking.php

and so on and so forth

---> BIGGEST. FAIL. EVAH.

YOU WIN!!! You WIN!!!!

Jack, what do we have for the guy who can't Google?

Well Dave, we have a free lobotomy followed up with an all expenses paid five weeks recovery in beauuutiful downtown DEEEEE-TROIT! !

Wow that's great jack.. well it's like the old saying .. those who already have, only get more!!!

Thanks for playing "I Post On Slashdot!!!"

Dude, you gotta learn to use Google:

1 go to www.google.com

2 type in "forced ranking intel"

3 3 read the top 10 results in the first page.

The are :

http://american-business.org/383-forced-ranking-systems.html

http://www.faceintel.com/discharge.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZT57xSrPJ5YC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=intel+forced+ranking&source=bl&ots=BWTYfQm01x&sig=O61ae4i3pKexc_C5-yyCf5hVXdw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j5d5UIyhM83ryAHc4oHACw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=intel%20forced%20ranking&f=false

http://www.markedbyteachers.com/university-degree/business-and-administrative-studies/despite-the-fact-that-intel-has-become-the-most-successful-company-in-the-microprocessor-industry-with-90-percent-market-share-it-still-has-some-problems-one-example-of.html

http://www.sibson.com/publications/perspectives/Volume_11_Issue_2/e_article000162170.cfm

http://business.highbeam.com/137618/article-1G1-116862343/forced-ranking-good-bad-and-alternative-one-out-five

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-01-08/the-struggle-to-measure-performance

http://books.google.com/books?id=9G1F5ymrYQgC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=intel+forced+ranking&source=bl&ots=C_Yp3z06bj&sig=Ioi8YTP1sHT4H2utqbAqo84Gu0E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=j5d5UIyhM83ryAHc4oHACw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=intel%20forced%20ranking&f=false

http://www.halogensoftware.com/resources/reference-library/profiling-or-stack-ranking.php

and so on and so forth

---> BIGGEST. FAIL. EVAH.

YOU WIN!!! You WIN!!!!

Jack, what do we have for the guy who can't Google?

Well Dave, we have a free lobotomy followed up with an all expenses paid five weeks recovery in beauuutiful downtown DEEEEE-TROIT! !

Wow that's great jack.. well it's like the old saying .. those who already have, only get more!!!

Thanks for playing "I Post On Slashdot!!!"

I'm guessing: The U.S. Secretary of Defense has no knowledge of computer technology whatsoever, except what he learned from his children. But he wants to be cool, seem knowledgeable, get his name in the news, and get government contracts for associates, so he put his name on a scary memo written by his staff, who also have such associates.

That's a guess, but it seems a likely guess given the fact that technically knowledgeable people use different language and recommend examination of code for security problems and sloppiness.

Some of those who want government corruption want continuous war because government "defense" contracts provide easy profits, and it is easy to keep corruption secret.

If they get easy money, the corrupters don't care who is killed, what lives and property are destroyed, or how much money is wasted. For example, the book Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban provides a huge amount of detail about a small part of the corruption.

Divide the cost to the U.S. taxpayer of just the war in Afghanistan ($574,624,781,538) by the population of Afghanistan (35,320,445). The U.S. taxpayer has already paid 16,268 hard-earned dollars for every man, woman, and child in Afghanistan. The results: Mostly, things are worse.

If those who want corruption can't get the taxpayers to pay for killing other people, they want "cyber war". See, for example, Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran.

The U.S. government has invaded or bombed 27 countries since the end of the 2nd world war.

Constant war makes us poor.

Wait, there is another Jon Leibowitz, that is not Jon Stewart? (And also not his brother.)

Apparently, there is.
That screams for some funny trolling. ;)

a short story that inspired Ted Nelson and so the hypertext web: http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

How about they jam their "social API" up their arse, and use the now-free developer time to maintain feature users want?

Or, at the very least, those developers could be retrained and fruitfully employed. Testing cluebats on the Mozilla community co-ordinators & technical evangelists - who would rather gaslight people with different opinions than listen to them - might occupy a few...

If what you want is a good, unlocked Linux phone, get a Galaxy Nexus. It's $349.00, it's unlocked, it runs Linux (wrapped in Android but allowing you to build your own kernels), and it's actually a good phone. If you're not in the US market, and you don't want the N9, consider the Razr i, which also has an unlocked boot loader. Me? I'm happy with my iPhone 4S, I'll just keep iOS 5, thank you very much ;-)

It's a book about management, but told through the eyes of a software development manager via tales and stories. Very good book.

http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1430243147C

Reminds me of how I can identify with the situations in the movie Office Space. I can easily identify with the stories in this book.

I do consider those (although the only one I can think of that he's admitted to is gay rights). There are many areas where he hasn't practiced what he's preached but hasn't come out and said that his opinion or position has changed (transparency, war in Afghanistan, IP issues) - and I consider failure to meet a goal or hypocrisy to be worse than a (slowly or consistently) changing position.

Since you're being lazy or obtuse or looking through glasses that are rose-tinted to the point of opacity, here, have a spoon-feeding:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mitt-romneys-top-contradicting-comments/story?id=14805513

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82058.html

These are the most blatant, undeniable, concrete examples, but there are plenty more where he bends sweet lady truth into a pretzel that could be considered flip-flopping, such as:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/mitt-romney-lies-newt-gingrich-super-pac-ads_n_1195119.html

I think we need some of that new quantum state measurement tech to figure out his position on abortion:

http://americablog.com/2012/10/romney-flip-flops-twice-on-abortion-in-one-day.html

DON'T LOOK:

https://www.google.com/search?q=romney+flip-flop

I also enjoy the all to rare locations where they enter retail and commercial premises http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/. Let's you not only scope out where to park when you get there but also where exactly you want to go in the store or business.

So street view airports, bus terminals and train stations, as well as those many recreational locations is also cool, even when you are only street view touring.

Would also be interesting to add in recorded video and sound, just the same as images are embedded in google maps. Enter a famous pizza restaurant and watch them cook up a pie etc. Start adding some motion into street view with 'video frames' at interesting locations (now don't you dare patent that shit).

As well as starting to incorporate more bloody mirrors for far better streaming rates on all of Google's services, some of Google's stuff is bogging down to shit and becoming useless it times. No matter how good it is, if it ain't accessible it is a waste of time.

I would say that "Sack of lying shit" is a little overboard.

How about "wrong and recalcitrant" "dissembler", "loose with the truth", "teller of tall tales", "fantasist". You've got the wrong end of offended.

and whether the paywall has been removed had no bearing on my posting, merely that a paywall existed at all.

No paywall - ever. Weasel much (apologies to the furry kind).

don't jump to conclusions

The assertion of a paywall was made - I tested it and found it untrue. I checked that it had never been true.
Eat your own dog food

and stick to a productive discussion

Deliberately distorting the truth is what you call "constructive"? What sort of "thing" are you constructing?
paywall
Would you like me to spoon feed you and show you how Google cache works? Or would you prefer to weasel around with "but that doesn't mean there wasn't one earlier"?

rather than being an armchair quarterback.

Words to live by. Now would be a good time to start.
and - that's not me you're describing - but it speaks volumes of you.
Hint: not a paywall, never was a paywall.

The greatest derangement is to believe something simply because you wish it to be true.

These guys are... building their own "pods". Anybody who's... screw[ing] up something so central to their business model, what else might they screw up?

Google does basically the same thing, building all their own servers.
http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend

Happened again in 1993 in Orange County; a private jet for In-N-Out burgers crashed on approach to John Wayne, killing their top 2 executives, a consultant, and both pilots. A 757 was ahead of them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=in-n-out+plane+crash+john+wayne

. Lots of pictures of what it looks like here.

Nevermind.

...not jetwash. Jetwash is the turbulent stream of air behind a jet coming from out of the back of the engines. That is mostly dangerous while on the ground, when there is a small, light aircraft sitting behind the jet.

Wake Turbulence comes off the wingtips of *all* airplanes in flight, while the wing is generating lift. It's like horizontal tornadoes spinning off the wingtips. It can flip another airplane upside down Lots of pictures of what it looks like here.

I almost got rolled 90 degrees on short final while landing at EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, WI a few years ago landing behind a P-51 Mustang. I was in a Van's RV-8, which fortunately is very aerobatic and has a quick roll rate. It took full right stick to get the aircraft rightside up again and the whole event was over in a split second, and I landed normally. but with quite the adrenalin dump flowing in my bloodstream, and almost experienced a brown smelly dump flowing in my pants! As soon as I touched down, the tower controller said, "Nice job RV.... Uh, sorry bout that..... (sheepishly) Uh, caution wake turbulence?"

What's weird is ... streeview just goes in circles.... no way out!

Also, Google Maps still works just fine in iOS5. Don't update until you're sure, because you can't go back.

To continue on-topic, Mitt also reversed his stance on the 47% issue. Immediately after he made those comments he admitted that they weren't "elegantly" stated, but that he stood behind the message and would continue to carry it. Now he's saying that those comments were "completely wrong".

Indeed, that probably goes for everyone here. Linus sounds like a cool guy. I especially agree with "I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15" (or 17"!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more." Mine is about the size of a hard cover book, and weighs about he same.

Depends on what you do with it. My "15-inch monster" isn't too bad - it's a Retina MBP, so it's relatively light and thin - and I use it as my primary machine, so I want a bit more "disk" space and screen space. I mainly move it around the house, so it's good that it's portable, but it doesn't have to be as portable as a road warrior's machine.

I wonder what distro Linux uses?

Well, at least earlier in 2012, part of the answer was "not OpenSUSE", at least on the laptop. He's apparently used Fedora in the past, at least; he probably doesn't use any of the Real Man's Linux Distributions, given that, at least back in 2007, he said "Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't interesting to me."

If he uses a GUI or a CLI? If GUI (which I doubt), which one?

Prepare to have your doubts busted; at least as of whenever he made the announcement (I'm not going to sign into my Google account just to read his posting, but the article in question is from April 2011), he was using Xfce, after switching from KDE 4 to GNOME 2.

Of course, "GUI or CLI" is a bit ill-stated. I "use a GUI" in the sense that I don't do a console login on my Mac and run on the console tty, but a lot of what I do is in a GUI app called "Terminal", so I'm using a CLI in a GUI. In the 2007 interview in answer to "What software do you use everyday? Your browser, desktop (if any), email client and so on?" he said "Well, ignoring the actual development stuff (make, compiler, editor etc), it ends up being mostly just xterms and "alpine" (the newer version of the venerable old "pine" email reader. Strictly text-based, thank you very much)." In the next paragraph he also included a browser, but it sounds as if it's in the "a lot is a CLI in a GUI" category.

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According to this, 16.7EBq of Xenon was released by Fukushima, and plugging that into the forumla wikipedia gives to convert Bequerels to grams says that about 2.4kg of Xe-133 was released. Haven't seen anything that says Xe-136 was released, but I didn't look that hard.

Ultimate Rotation Control is the app I use.

It's highly configurable and just works.

The next big thing will obviously be Quantum communications.

https://www.google.com/search?q=quantum+entanglement+record+broken

Instantaneous signalling, unlimited distance, perfect "reception" at all times, inherently secure.

Of course, I would presume our military already has it, (lag would suck for the drone pilot, hmmm?) but hey, I'm talking about something I could get in my future cell phone.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=from:+japan+to:+china&saddr=japan&daddr=china&hl=en&sll=33.728725,121.197535&sspn=24.456251,44.560547&geocode=FRhxKAIdfJI9CCkvGX_XD05nNDFEUmZ81HVC9Q%3BFZw0IwIdReU1BinBQsblZI5QMTFvNp80fKodlQ&dirflg=d&t=m&z=5

Step 41.

Didn't Google do this already like 5 years ago?

Your search is too cursory. You can disable auto-update with a group policy and push updates MSI to clients manually.

Let me google that for you

By contrast, how are Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, RedHat, Samsung, IBM, Google, VMWare/EMC, NetApp, Canonical, and about 100 other tech companies doing? Most are still stable-to-growing, even in this economic climate.

Microsoft is also stable-to-growing. You dont seem to know what you are talking about, or are willing to lie. Microsoft is pushing record revenue numbers. Sure, not as much as Apple.. but then thats just cherry picking the guy at the top.

..and I never mentioned Microsoft. You are proving my point that you are just cherry picking shit looking for karma points. Congratulations... dishonesty paid off.

Might try a keyboard with arrow keys. Hacker's keyboard is a nice one.

Though the keys get kinda small if you use the full 5-row layout in portrait mode, at least on my Incredible S.

The are keyboards with arrow keys that help a lot:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cootek.smartinputv5

Re-written:

Ecoboost engines are horrible. Also, as Ford says, "DO NOT TOW ANYTHING with Ecoboost."

Good for a person who wants [a] full size truck to check power meters or do little or no farm work. Don't believe me? Google ecoboost problems.

I see 20 of them a week, broken, mis-firing, and, well, trash. [That's] what they [Ford] gets for using old Mazda/Volvo engine [designs] and hooking turbos and such to them.

Keep buying them, I could use the extra cash. Just think, timing service will be soon 1200$-2k a pop. Weeee.

AC Outlets with real earth ground

Though you will want to have one or two adapter plugs (cheaters) lying around, to bypass the earth ground in certain equipment. I have run into problems where my scope's earth ground caused problems in circuits I was trying to measure. For certain things, it is fine to have equipment floating. I would not recommend that for your power supply! Better would be to have a power supply that had isolated outputs, with an additional connection available for earth ground.

You could sign up to our developer email list, I don't think we have a low traffic announcements list.

Anyone who wants to use our daemon as the basis of a port to other platforms is welcome to start one. We've also got an asterisk channel driver, if you'd like to use any other voice protocol like SIP to talk to other Serval phones or use Serval phones as extensions in an office PBX. But I wouldn't call either of those options polished.

I think the project has a lot of potential. We've invested a lot of time in the last year building our basic set of services to a demonstrable state. Though there's always something else that could be improved.

You could sign up to our developer email list, I don't think we have a low traffic announcements list.

Anyone who wants to use our daemon as the basis of a port to other platforms is welcome to start one. We've also got an asterisk channel driver, if you'd like to use any other voice protocol like SIP to talk to other Serval phones or use Serval phones as extensions in an office PBX. But I wouldn't call either of those options polished.

I think the project has a lot of potential. We've invested a lot of time in the last year building our basic set of services to a demonstrable state. Though there's always something else that could be improved.

Then please be sure to post on every single "Linux is ready for the desktop!" article that they are full of shit, okay? you can't have your cake and eat it too, either its an OS for embedded and server which doesn't give a crap about driver stability or its a desktop, which is it?

Oh and sorry to rain on your parade, but i already tried it with Debian AND CentOS, not gonna even bother with RHEL because that is $400 a year which would make it completely pointless. Wanna know what happened? Sound and wireless fall down and go BOOM! and again this is giving Linux an advantage of less than half the MSFT OS support cycle.

So if you say its not a desktop product then PLEASE, by all means, every time there is a Windows thread on here and someone says "Just use Linux!" you tell him its broken and shouldn't be used as a desktop. funny you mentioned RH because of of their devs agrees with me and says Linux sucks on the desktop and its because of hanging onto outdated ideas like the kernel devs should be responsible for every single driver, which is anybody thought about that for even 5 seconds they'd see how stupid that is. you have maybe 50 guys qualified to write and debug low level system drivers in Linux, you got 10,000+ drivers, and Linus and pals constantly futzing with the internals. Anybody with 2 working brain cells can see the math doesn't work.

So I'm just sick of it, I'm sick of the lies, sick of the FUD from the FOSSies, sick of the out and out bullshit. Either fix the serious issues that Linux has with its core design or kindly accept there will NEVER be any share on the desktop and stop bringing it up. I used Linux exclusively for 5 years and if its one thing I can say without hesitation its that Win2K was a better desktop than the latest Linux. At least you could patch Win2K From RTM to update rollout 5 without any drivers breaking, can't do that with Linux.

While it is nice for someone to be making an easy-to-use all-in-one encryption app, the real question for me is this:
Does it encrypt phone calls; real, phone-to-phone, no-VoIP phone calls.

There are already several solutions out there for encrypted VoIP. Even a free, open-source general-purpose Android SIP client CSipSimple supports ZRTP for key exchange (or 'of course' a free, open-source ...)
However, I have not found a single app (and indeed only a few specialised devices) to actually make encrypted phone calls without using VoIP, and none that have made encrypted phone calls over GSM voice. A few people have talked about phone call encryption over GSM voice (e.g. at DEFCON) and there are many papers on the topic of data-over-GSM-voice), but I haven't yet seen it implemented. If this *does* implement it, *then* I'll be pumped.

On the SMS front, there is already TextSecure for sending encrypted SMS, and all the key exchange is handled through SMS (and perhaps MMS? I believe only SMS). Mind you, Moxie Marlinspike hasn't released the source for it (and it is now owned by Twitter, so we'll probably never see it).

While it is nice for someone to be making an easy-to-use all-in-one encryption app, the real question for me is this:
Does it encrypt phone calls; real, phone-to-phone, no-VoIP phone calls.

There are already several solutions out there for encrypted VoIP. Even a free, open-source general-purpose Android SIP client CSipSimple supports ZRTP for key exchange (or 'of course' a free, open-source ...)
However, I have not found a single app (and indeed only a few specialised devices) to actually make encrypted phone calls without using VoIP, and none that have made encrypted phone calls over GSM voice. A few people have talked about phone call encryption over GSM voice (e.g. at DEFCON) and there are many papers on the topic of data-over-GSM-voice), but I haven't yet seen it implemented. If this *does* implement it, *then* I'll be pumped.

On the SMS front, there is already TextSecure for sending encrypted SMS, and all the key exchange is handled through SMS (and perhaps MMS? I believe only SMS). Mind you, Moxie Marlinspike hasn't released the source for it (and it is now owned by Twitter, so we'll probably never see it).

They're not. They're getting closer to turning a profit, but they have yet to actually do so. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AP&fstype=ii&ei=sfd0UNiGEKWdiALN1gE

If DNA can

For a long time, DNA couldn't, but nobody bothered to question the prosecutors when they had an N-point match and their lab guy said it must be the right person. Some researcher decided to run through the DNA fingerprints on a lark and see how many people matched each other and suddenly there were dozens of "one in 113 billion" 9 loci matches and all the prosecutors started running helter skelter around screaming "no you aren't supposed to use it this way! Pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain finding dozens of people with nine loci matches! Make her stop! Make her stoooooooop!" (cite: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/20/local/me-dna20 )

These days though, the DNA technicians just swear in then lie in court rather than bothering to do the work. Hey, if the prosecutor thinks they're guilty they probably are, and when they're caught its not like the DA is going to press perjury charges against the star witness. (cite: http://www.google.com/search?q=crime+lab+dna+scandal&gs_l=news )

If you don't own a Mac and have a developer license then you likely don't know enough about iOS to develop your own applications for it.

You can't develop for iOS on an iPad. You can develop for Android on an Android device. Droid does what iDon't. And even if one did have a Mac and "know enough about iOS" after a year of experience, the developer SDK still expires after a year.

How many Objective-C developers on PC, more than 0?

I admit the GNUstep community is an edge case, but it's still greater than zero.

People who care about creating their own programs: 0.01%. (and that's being generous.)

In 2004, the U.S. population was 293 million (source). By your estimate of 100 programmers per million, you'd expect there to be 29,000 programmers. But in that year, there were 760,840 people employed as software engineers in the United States, who made up about one out of every three engineers in the nation (source). That's not even counting people who aren't programmers per se but whose job includes some programming, computer science and software engineering students, and hobbyist programmers. So I'd guess your estimate is off by two orders of magnitude.

People who care about not getting malware: 99.99%.

There are ways to limit the damage that malware can cause without forcing everybody who buys a computer to rely exclusively on a single application repository curated by the operating system publisher and subject to said publisher's ulterior motives. For example, a platform could use the Ubuntu/Android model of having multiple competing repositories. Or it could use the OLPC/Android model of limiting the capabilities given to an application while still allowing self-signed software to run.

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they're fairly cheap and good. Run on 4 C batteries or can be hooked directly to a car battery. Different models take different capacity SD cards. I have two for my birdfeeder. One takes bursts of 3 pics when the PIR detects movement, it uses a visible strobe for night time. The other is more up your alley, it uses a pir also, but can take picture bursts OR video, and uses a grid of 35 IR LEDs, range is about 35 feet. The IR leds are visible but only if you really are looking for them. I have a 16 gb SD card in the video one, which is more than it says it supports, but you have to format it carefully for it to use it to full capacity.

Hunters strap them to trees, there's slots on them for that. There's also a locking latch to access the controls, battery, and sd card, but it's not really going to help much if they really want to take the evidence. Just camo it lightly and you'll be fine. I'd recommend getting two, one to watch the dumping area and one to watch the road (to try to get a plate #)

Resolution varies depending on model.

Place signs around the area (they do not have to be large) saying, "Video Surveillance in Use." Make sure you clean up any existing trash.

If dumping persists, use a game camera to take pictures, then tack up some large prints of the perps dumping.

Something like this: https://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=video+surveillance+signs&hl=en&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1173&bih=640&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=8862164393585909605&sa=X&ei=okp0UO2UPMWXiAKB-YHAAQ&ved=0CGsQ8gIwBg

People really pay attention to little cues like this when they are doing something nefarious. Good luck.

Motorola made a variety of phones prior to the Google take-over. It didn't just make Android phones. I would assume a "consumer choice" issue wouldn't care about phones that a take-over target makes that are likely to continue being made, so much as devices and categories of device that a take-over target makes that are likely to be discontinued.

In addition to many home grown operating systems, Motorola was a maker of Windows Mobile phones, and was talked up as a WP7 OEM until the Google takeover. So if this is about Nokia being a provider of Windows phones, why would this apply to Nokia and not Motorola?