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but what's the easiest way to tell if my computer and home router can access an IPv6 host?

Click here for Google's IPv6-only page.

It is now obsolete as they have discarded their previous whitelisting policy, but still useful for testing.

No, sorry, that was my main point, which is why I titled the post to refer to the famous aphorism "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Don't try to hijack it.

The GP said that windmills are so obscenely ugly that he's willing to fight against them being put in my backyard, where my neighbors and I damn well want them (because we, the actual local property owners, happen to like them much better than the obsolete Fukushima-style BWR nuke plant we've already got). He is explicitly rejecting my viewpoint, and that of most people in my state, and saying he will fight our wind projects because they are ugly. Read what he wrote!

Incidentally, the windmills I specifically mentioned in my post sit in beautiful mountain woodlands... not too far from from existing strip mines and coal-fired power plants, of course, since that's where the existing high voltage lines coincide with high wind potential areas - near existing Appalachian coal mines and gas wells.

Perhaps you'll be happy to know that 64 windmills won't be built in Pennsylvania because of local community groups protesting how ugly and environmentally devastating they are. What a triumph for aesthetic values! ...And for Big Coal, of course, those paragons of beauty and woodland preservation.

And who do you expect me to support, the Motorola idiots or the Google creeps?

--

I'm a professional professional asshole!

Any engineer worth his salt was taught about the time response of second order linear systems - spring, mass, damper. The scroll bounce is just the transient response of such a system to a step function when tuned to be slightly underdamped (light blue line in the figure).

It's obvious as hell and the only reason I can fathom why it's being upheld is because its merits are being judged by people who are clueless about math or engineering. This is as bad as the XOR cursor patent, which was also a patent on the graphical representation of a function widely known and commonly used in the respective industry.

Nice troll! Oh, wait, you seem to be serious.

No, really? "Laptop resolutions are copying Apple!", "Using onscreen keyboards is copying Apple! It's not like touchscreens and LCDs got better only recently and there are still slider smartphones produced!" and - this one I liked the best - "They have free arrangement of icons and widgets on home screen (like, you know, any desktop since 2000s) therefore they're copying Apple, even though Apple just has a grid of icons!".

I'll bookmark this post as "This is what fanbois actually believe"

May 8th is National DISRUPT A CAMERA day.
Hey slashdot, lets make this happen.
The internet is about joint-effort.
Who is with me?
I am dead serious.

I propose May 8th when the first patent was issued.
Patent link

Apple's '677 patent is exactly about a rectangle with rounded corners.

Read it yourself:
http://www.google.com/patents/USD618677

...These are a few small time platforms that manage to stay outside Apple's claimed IP They will always be too nonstandard to attract significant user or developer mindshare.

Or they were one of the most well known companies in this industry and they jumped onto some of Apple's Patents and never worried because they hold some strong patents of their own.

Completely agree. Sometimes I get depressed with how much stock people put in money around here. Work hard to get enough to support yourself and your family, but above that do what makes you happy.

I rarely express philosophy, but here I feel that a quote from the Swedish poet Stig Johansson is fitting: "All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were my life". (Apologies to Mr. Johansson for a horrendous translation. It rings a lot better in a Scandinavian language)

Is slashdot just linking to people's random ass blogs now?

Oh we've been linking to ass blogs for awhile now.

This is not wikipedia.

You didn't use google to find out that the charge circuit needs to be periodically reset, as even iRobot admits, or the robot will convince itself the battery's dead when it actually isn't?

An expensive mistake, that I also made on my first roomba.

What I really want is a roomba that looks like a trilobite, and a scooba that looks like a snail, and a looj that actually works.

It would be nice to have the system give you a choice of browser.

the google play store has many browsers

search engine (Duck Duck Go anyone?)

it also has many search engines, including Duck Duck Go

and an universal id instead of a Google one.

if you mean universal as in not related to google then you're actually making it less universal by removing the ability to link your id with other services such as gmail, gchat, google+ e.t.c.
if you mean universal as in - also across non-android devices, that would require owners of other OS's to agree and also some way to work out what happens when someone buys a product from one app store and wants to use those apps on another device e.g. i buy a game on google play but then switch to an iPhone, as i have already purchased the game with my universal id i should then be able to get it for free on the apple app store (otherwise what would be the point of it being universal) however how does apple get their cut from the app?
other issues for contacts would be that someone would have to store/own all your information for your universal ID which would then need to be shared accross all required parties.

It would be nice to have the system give you a choice of browser.

the google play store has many browsers

search engine (Duck Duck Go anyone?)

it also has many search engines, including Duck Duck Go

and an universal id instead of a Google one.

if you mean universal as in not related to google then you're actually making it less universal by removing the ability to link your id with other services such as gmail, gchat, google+ e.t.c.
if you mean universal as in - also across non-android devices, that would require owners of other OS's to agree and also some way to work out what happens when someone buys a product from one app store and wants to use those apps on another device e.g. i buy a game on google play but then switch to an iPhone, as i have already purchased the game with my universal id i should then be able to get it for free on the apple app store (otherwise what would be the point of it being universal) however how does apple get their cut from the app?
other issues for contacts would be that someone would have to store/own all your information for your universal ID which would then need to be shared accross all required parties.

It would be nice to have the system give you a choice of browser.

the google play store has many browsers

search engine (Duck Duck Go anyone?)

it also has many search engines, including Duck Duck Go

and an universal id instead of a Google one.

if you mean universal as in not related to google then you're actually making it less universal by removing the ability to link your id with other services such as gmail, gchat, google+ e.t.c.
if you mean universal as in - also across non-android devices, that would require owners of other OS's to agree and also some way to work out what happens when someone buys a product from one app store and wants to use those apps on another device e.g. i buy a game on google play but then switch to an iPhone, as i have already purchased the game with my universal id i should then be able to get it for free on the apple app store (otherwise what would be the point of it being universal) however how does apple get their cut from the app?
other issues for contacts would be that someone would have to store/own all your information for your universal ID which would then need to be shared accross all required parties.

Communicators: DUH! Motorola even named the first Flip-phone the "Star Tac" -- how did the author miss this OBVIOUS one?

Actually, Motorola used the "*TAC" designation for about a decade before the StarTAC, including on flip phones (starting with the MicroTAC, and including the TeleTAC, etc). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_MicroTAC http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://baber.com/baber/gifs/cellphone/motorola/teletac_dpc500.jpg&imgrefurl=http://baber.com/baber/cellular/teletac.htm&h=300&w=131&sz=16&tbnid=0MUDh7QvJLlC1M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=39&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmotorola%2BteleTAC%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=motorola+teleTAC&usg=__LixE5D_LyWJs4Xxu4tYK1xoXONc=&docid=xUetb3eYtp2oLM&sa=X&ei=SmtRUJ_mGeKDiwKesIGgDQ&ved=0CDMQ9QEwBA&dur=342 ...

"It's REALLY hard to do! It's basically exhausting."

So true. Something I posted in 2001:
"License management tools: good, bad, or ugly?"
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/gnu.misc.discuss/30tDY9VE92Y
"My question is: should software tools, protocols, and standards play a role in easing this required "due diligence" license management work (at least as far as copyright alone is concerned)?"

Also, where I hypothesized millions of US citizens arrested over copyright, same as now for marijuana: http://www.pdfernhout.net/microslaw.html

I'm thinking more and more that it is just not possible for anyone to really prove they have a legal right to have proprietary content on some specific device when you look really hard at it. Bills of sale might be forged, to begin with, so what does showing one prove? And if you not going to jail depends on some third party verifying something over and over, good luck. And many proprietary licenses are violated often if you have too many copies (including on backup media), so you really can never 100% prove you have right to the software on a device because there might be copies elsewhere, and how do you prove you don't have extra copies somewhere? A very problematical situation if someone really pushes things...

Also, border searches now occur a hundred miles or so inside the actual US border, so most US Americans (who are mostly bi-coastal) can in theory be searched at any time this way by warrant-less border-related searches.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

Since, as above, people can't really prove they have legal access to anything they paid for, that makes almost everyone in the USA effectively a felon who can be arrested tomorrow by the border police if someone with some power wants to push the point. So, using only freely-licensed information might just become the safest option, even if that might also not be good enough (how do you known a statement about something being under a free license is really valid?). We'll see how all this "artificial scarcity" plays out...
http://www.artificialscarcity.com/

This book has a section on why goods with low incremental costs for distribution should be free according to the authors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_More_Equal_Societies_Almost_Always_Do_Better

A "basic income" could fund creators rather than copyright monopolies...
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/
http://www.livableincome.org/amillionairegli.htm

If your work gave you an XP laptop frankly you are working at a shitty place and I'd tell them to take it back, especially after that guy spent nearly 3 years trying to clear his name thanks to a badly configured XP laptop handed him at work that turned out to have a backdoor that some scumbags were using to run CP through the thing.

But again you wanna compare to a 12 year old OS then dig out a 12 year old Linux distro, because otherwise you are purposely trying to rig any comparison. You are talking about an OS that has been legacy for over 5 years, that no longer gets ANY updates but security, and which hasn't been sold for half a decade so fair is fair, compare it to a 7 year old Linux.

At the end of the day that doesn't change the fact that Linux internals are deep fried ass and I'd be happy to take the pepsi challenge to prove it. funny that I have yet to see a single person try to take up the challenge either, probably because they know Linux will die hard.

The challenge is incredibly simple, we will take ANY distro that was released the same quarter as Vista, and I will give Linux the advantage by taking not only one of the most hated OSes but by giving them only HALF the amount of updates XP has had, we'll install it on two identical systems, make sure all the drivers are working, and update BOTH systems to current.

And I can tell you because I have done it that the Linux unit will be totally fucked by the end of the updates. The sound won't work, the DE is more than likely to be glitching if the graphics drivers are even functional, and the WiFi won't have a snowball's chance in hell, I don't care which chip you choose. that is just FIVE years mind you, barely half the time you get with Windows.

I'm sorry but as a wise man said "Linux is free..if your time is worthless" and no truer words have been spoken. Take a modern version of Windows like 7 and you can slap it on ANY laptop made in the last half a decade and upgrade from RTM to the last patches from patch Tuesday and it will ALL work, every. single. driver. will be functional, including wireless and printers. Try that with Linux? You get a broken mess, why? because Torvalds and the other devs frankly don't give a damned if YOU have problems, all they care about is scratching THEIR itches.

Since the FOSS koolaid drinkers modded it down you might not have seen it so I urge you to take a look at this list filled with show stopping bugs (with links) and compare it to to the same list from three years ago and see how many haven't been fixed after THREE years. Hell go to the Ubuntu bug tracker, they have bugs SIX years old. Maybe you'd like a Linux dev's thoughts on the subject so here is a RH dev and he says the desktop is "suckage" and while his take is different than a retailer it all comes down to basically the same thing, devs biting off more than they can chew and designs that worked 20 years ago but don't work now being hung on to.

So we retailers have a DAMNED GOOD reason why we won't touch Linux with a 50 foot pole, and I have a reason to be kinda pissy about it, because I'm tired of being lied right to my face with total bullshit about how "Linux is ready for the desktop!" yet when I point out obvious problems, documented up the ass I might add, I get the same parroted "use distro X!" "Works for me!" and "You must be an M$ Shill" retarded garbage. Frankly if Linux wasn't free it would be deader than BeOS right now, and rightly so. The devs engage in Mickey Mouse Amateur hour shit when it comes to the internals, NO stability, NO ABIs, NO QA or QC, yet because its "Free as in freedum!" the community will happily take their crap and bitch at anyone who points out emperor RMS is running around bare assed. Well if it actually worked why is ALL the B

What good is apathy if nobody knows just how strongly you don't care?

No kidding. In other news area man constantly mentioning that he doesn't have a TV.

Actually, iOS does support auto-resizing. Unfortunately:

No, that's not right, Cocoa was fine; they must have just reinvented the wheel for iOS, poorly.

No, Cocoa was not fine. The autoresizing system Cocoa uses sucks. iOS 5 supports it just fine, though, but it's nearly useless. And support is there by default, as there are still a few times when the view size changes in iOS and you need to rely on Cocoa Touch's autoresize:

1. Landscape versus Portrait. The view will autoresize by default. Unfortunately, autoresize is so bad at what it does, that I wound up overriding it and just manually setting the bounding boxes of the widgets on screen. I expect most apps do that because the autoresize support is so awful. (Apparently this is the reason why, until iOS 4 or something, Xcode's default template for iOS apps disabled the portrait mode entirely.)

2. The view shrinks because you're in a call. When in a call, the status bar doubles in size and your app loses several pixels off the top. (I think it's 22 in retinal, but whatever, you get the idea.) This is something that just about no app bothers testing for, despite the iOS simulator including explicit support for testing. But it's another thing autoresizing is supposed to deal with.

Fortunately, another AC responder indicates that they're adding a new "constraint based" system for iOS 6. Sadly, having also written a Cocoa app that used the new support for that, this is almost certainly going to be even worse. It's call "auto layout" and there are some 200,000 Google results on how to disable the damned thing.

This reads like a car ad from the tailfin era of the 1950s. "Pontiac Steps Out Longer, Lower, Wider". This was such a big deal at the time that Pontiac, MI named their main street Wide Track Drive. In 1996, they changed it back to Woodward Avenue, after the Pontiac plant closed.

It's just a new model, with very minor changes over the old model. Does about the same stuff. Get over it.

LMGTFY: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.krepublishers.com%2F02-Journals%2FJHE%2FJHE-18-0-000-000-2005-Web%2FJHE-18-3-000-000-2005-Abst-PDF%2FJHE-18-3-181-192-2005-1306-El-Ghannam-A-R%2FJHE-18-3-181-192-2005-1306-El-Ghannam-A-R-Full-Text.pdf

Please, review my books - paste my weird artwork everywhere and quote me til Armageddon, just please, review my books.... http://sites.google.com/site/wistertown/

Source?

It's time you learned to use google, like the rest of us. Only a complete idiot would be unable to find citations for that without my help. Congratulations.

Mecanization is awesome for society

Yes, just look at how it's helped your spelling.

In a world in which it has been decided that each of us must work, mechanization is not awesome. It simply leads to unemployment for which we are criminalized. There are not enough jobs to go around. We must either get over the mercantilist idea that each of us must work, or we must stop progress, like our government clearly desires.

In any case, machine cultivation leads to hardpan which leads to flooding which leads to killing the soil, again. And don't ask me for a citation, because it's trivially easy to find, and only a complete asshole douchebag dumbshit would be unable to locate it.

My G+ post says it all! https://plus.google.com/104513481148804401726/posts/ZkXvYYfoXpD

Office Suite Pro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobisystems.editor.office_registered&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2Jpc3lzdGVtcy5lZGl0b3Iub2ZmaWNlX3JlZ2lzdGVyZWQiXQ..

If only there was a way to search for stuff I didn't already know...

... Check out some of the $0.99 ebooks by unknown authors with self-publishing "publisher" listed on Amazon. You will find they are - surprise - unreadable drivel.

And then spend 5 seconds on Google and find millionaires who've made their fortune self-publishing. Clearly, Big Publishing is superfluous for a talented writer. (Also, you can go to any B&N and find shelves and shelves of "drivel" -- publishers don't guarantee quality.)

It's my understanding that 'story' is the magical tag that promotes submissions to post status.

I guess maybe what I need is a custom rss feed reader that can tag each article as 'interesting' or 'crap'. Maybe I'll write a bayesian filter.

Has anyone already done that, I wonder...
http://superuser.com/questions/188036/bayesian-filter-for-rss-feeds

Damn if Google hasn't already done it:
https://support.google.com/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69980
A third option, Sort by magic will rank items by "magic." Personalized magic ranking is automatically generated, taking into account your past reading behavior (including liking and starring) and global signals. We'll do our best to display items in the most relevant and interesting order -- click the Like button on things you think are important or enjoy reading, and we'll learn to put items like that first.

Guess I'll have to check it out. I already use reader.

This shirt by Think Geek fits.

Um... https://www.google.com/search?q=IPO

Although you state you're not looking for stack or infrastructure recommendations, I'd still recommend having a look at Google Mobile Analytics. They have an SDK for Android and iOS that makes it very easy to integrate in your apps.

FBI could just have paid Blue Toad to take the blame

That's assuming that Blue Toad isn't just a front-company for the FBI to start with. No payment necessary and is possibly how the FBI got the list in the first place. i.e. The normal way, through an undercover operation, disguised as an iPhone developer company.

Good thing they don't make Android apps then. Ooops

Global population is not growing nearly as fast as it was then, and its predicted to lower even further.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_pop_grow&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=world+population+growth

People have less children, especially in developed countries. They often average less than two children per couple, thus reducing population, no increasing it.

https://plus.google.com/107120186043045385763/about?gl=us&hl=en

I'm not bothered by your being pedantic — you can't possibly be more pedantic than I am, as I'm about to demonstrate.

Res publica is Latin. I've forgotten most of my High School Latin, but I still know a First Declension noun when I see it.

The Greek name for Plato's dialogue about government is Politeia, which translates as (wait for it!) "Government". When Cicero translated this work into Latin, he titled it Res Publica in order to emphasize the supposed similarity between Plato's imaginary "perfect government" and the Roman Republic. During the middle ages, this was the only version of the book available in Western Europe — few people spoke Greek, and all literate people spoke Latin. Which is why the title in English is The Republic.

> The future of computing is $79.95 tablets in
> blister packs at the convenience store.

Yeah, the same way that cheap MP3 players from drugstores totally own the portable music player market. Oh, wait...

There is room in the world for good products. Not coincidentally, Apple is the most valuable company in the world right now because of that.

Furthermore: the dream of ubiquitous computers, so cheap they're practically disposable, goes back quite a ways. 20 years ago, the dream was for something you could carry that was powerful enough to run WordPerfect on. Oh my God, wouldn't that be amazing?!?!?

But the state-of-the-art has advanced. Look at what we expect out of devices today: they should know where we are to within 10 meters with the help of dozens of satellites, what direction we're facing, where we're going, how fast we're moving, show us 360-degree 3D maps derived from satellite imagery, do real-time voice, text, and video communication (at 30fps, naturally) anywhere that we have a wireless network signal, and record and play back high-definition video. (Also, it needs to render Facebook quickly and accurately. Bill Moggridge, God rest his soul, wouldn't've seen that one coming early on.)

By the time today's high-end devices are hanging by a cash register, the new ones--the ones that everyone wants--will have 3D scanners and printers, heart and lung monitors, and God knows what else included. We've already got communicators; next are tricorders and replicators. Possibly transporters. :-)

Hundreds of years ago, people dreamed of indoor plumbing everywhere. And HVAC. And horseless carriages. And motors and power supplies so cheap and plentiful they could be squandered in toys for infants. And food that can be stored for months. And so on. Now we literally walk around with supercomputers in our pockets. 20 years from now there will be a story here about a new computer that's small enough to install in one of your front teeth, not just a molar.

Long story short, Moore's Law will continue to apply, and Apple, Intel, and Microsoft will continue to do just fine.

Well, sure. Knowing my 6-year-olds, they'd remove the bumper* and then drop the tablet on the sidewalk. They're just that talented.

But that's the marketing spin.

Like I said, if they were serious about kid-proofing, they'd ruggedize it like a $4,000 DoD job. And charge $4,000 for it. But I guess that market is already taken.

*Knowing my kids, they'd remove the bumper even if it were an integral part of the tablet's case. They're just that stubborn.

FWIW, Jeff Foxworthy has used "You might be a redneck if..." as the title to several of his books.

(my support email to google fiber-)

Hello,

I've recently filed an FCC form 2000F complaint regarding how your
current terms of service for google fiber prohibit hosting any server of
any kind. I feel this is in violation of paragraph 13 of FCC-10-201
which I believe cements my right as an end-user to provide novel
services to the internet at large via a server hosted at my residence
connected to my fixed broadband internet service. While I have
communicated secondhand with Milo Medin about this, perhaps this is a
more official channel. Please tell me if I've misunderstood the concept
of "Net Neutrality" or your Terms of Service. All I want is to host a
linux lamp server. I.e. web pages and files served with apache via IPv6
to other IPv6 clients on the internet. And probably I'd want to host a
quake3 server as well as other entrepreneurial servers I conceive of and
deploy due to the abundance of helpful free and open source server
software available to me.

A length debate on the subject (57 posts, 15 authors) was recently held
on the discussion forum for the Kansas Unix and Linux User's Association
(ironicly hosted on google groups rather than someone's server at home
running linux+mailman). I encourage an official response clarifying the
situation from Google.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/kulua-l/LxsOtdglNM0

Thanks for any feedback, Regards,

-dmc
Douglas McClendon
da...@cloudsession.com

(note, this online/form tract was reached after selecting that the
target of the complaint was a fixed broadband internet service provider,
believed to be in violation of the 2nd(blocking) of the 3 primary open
internet rules layed out in the FCC's 10-201 report and order preserving
the free and open internet.

--- REF# 12-C00422224 ---
Google's current Terms Of Service[1] for their fixed broadband internet
service being deployed initially here in Kansas City, Kansas, contain
this text-

"You agree not to misuse the Services. This includes but is not limited
to using the Services for purposes that are illegal, are improper,
infringe the rights of others, or adversely impact others enjoyment of
the Services. A list of examples of prohibited activities appears here. "

where 'here' is a hyperlink[2] to a page including this text-
"Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do
so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber
connection"

In my professional opinion as a graduate in Computer Engineering from
the University of Kansas (and incidentally brother of a google VP) I
believe these terms of service are in violation of FCC-10-201.

[1] http://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html
[2]
http://support.google.com/fiber/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2659981&topic=2440874&ctx=topic

--- (end of form 2000F complaint text)

(my support email to google fiber-)

Hello,

I've recently filed an FCC form 2000F complaint regarding how your
current terms of service for google fiber prohibit hosting any server of
any kind. I feel this is in violation of paragraph 13 of FCC-10-201
which I believe cements my right as an end-user to provide novel
services to the internet at large via a server hosted at my residence
connected to my fixed broadband internet service. While I have
communicated secondhand with Milo Medin about this, perhaps this is a
more official channel. Please tell me if I've misunderstood the concept
of "Net Neutrality" or your Terms of Service. All I want is to host a
linux lamp server. I.e. web pages and files served with apache via IPv6
to other IPv6 clients on the internet. And probably I'd want to host a
quake3 server as well as other entrepreneurial servers I conceive of and
deploy due to the abundance of helpful free and open source server
software available to me.

A length debate on the subject (57 posts, 15 authors) was recently held
on the discussion forum for the Kansas Unix and Linux User's Association
(ironicly hosted on google groups rather than someone's server at home
running linux+mailman). I encourage an official response clarifying the
situation from Google.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/kulua-l/LxsOtdglNM0

Thanks for any feedback, Regards,

-dmc
Douglas McClendon
da...@cloudsession.com

(note, this online/form tract was reached after selecting that the
target of the complaint was a fixed broadband internet service provider,
believed to be in violation of the 2nd(blocking) of the 3 primary open
internet rules layed out in the FCC's 10-201 report and order preserving
the free and open internet.

--- REF# 12-C00422224 ---
Google's current Terms Of Service[1] for their fixed broadband internet
service being deployed initially here in Kansas City, Kansas, contain
this text-

"You agree not to misuse the Services. This includes but is not limited
to using the Services for purposes that are illegal, are improper,
infringe the rights of others, or adversely impact others enjoyment of
the Services. A list of examples of prohibited activities appears here. "

where 'here' is a hyperlink[2] to a page including this text-
"Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do
so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber
connection"

In my professional opinion as a graduate in Computer Engineering from
the University of Kansas (and incidentally brother of a google VP) I
believe these terms of service are in violation of FCC-10-201.

[1] http://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html
[2]
http://support.google.com/fiber/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2659981&topic=2440874&ctx=topic

--- (end of form 2000F complaint text)

(my support email to google fiber-)

Hello,

I've recently filed an FCC form 2000F complaint regarding how your
current terms of service for google fiber prohibit hosting any server of
any kind. I feel this is in violation of paragraph 13 of FCC-10-201
which I believe cements my right as an end-user to provide novel
services to the internet at large via a server hosted at my residence
connected to my fixed broadband internet service. While I have
communicated secondhand with Milo Medin about this, perhaps this is a
more official channel. Please tell me if I've misunderstood the concept
of "Net Neutrality" or your Terms of Service. All I want is to host a
linux lamp server. I.e. web pages and files served with apache via IPv6
to other IPv6 clients on the internet. And probably I'd want to host a
quake3 server as well as other entrepreneurial servers I conceive of and
deploy due to the abundance of helpful free and open source server
software available to me.

A length debate on the subject (57 posts, 15 authors) was recently held
on the discussion forum for the Kansas Unix and Linux User's Association
(ironicly hosted on google groups rather than someone's server at home
running linux+mailman). I encourage an official response clarifying the
situation from Google.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/kulua-l/LxsOtdglNM0

Thanks for any feedback, Regards,

-dmc
Douglas McClendon
da...@cloudsession.com

(note, this online/form tract was reached after selecting that the
target of the complaint was a fixed broadband internet service provider,
believed to be in violation of the 2nd(blocking) of the 3 primary open
internet rules layed out in the FCC's 10-201 report and order preserving
the free and open internet.

--- REF# 12-C00422224 ---
Google's current Terms Of Service[1] for their fixed broadband internet
service being deployed initially here in Kansas City, Kansas, contain
this text-

"You agree not to misuse the Services. This includes but is not limited
to using the Services for purposes that are illegal, are improper,
infringe the rights of others, or adversely impact others enjoyment of
the Services. A list of examples of prohibited activities appears here. "

where 'here' is a hyperlink[2] to a page including this text-
"Unless you have a written agreement with Google Fiber permitting you do
so, you should not host any type of server using your Google Fiber
connection"

In my professional opinion as a graduate in Computer Engineering from
the University of Kansas (and incidentally brother of a google VP) I
believe these terms of service are in violation of FCC-10-201.

[1] http://fiber.google.com/legal/terms.html
[2]
http://support.google.com/fiber/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2659981&topic=2440874&ctx=topic

--- (end of form 2000F complaint text)

Try blaming google less and consider it a cheap reminder to not let the tablet babysit your children.

If you really don't want to spend the time watching them setup a PIN for inapp purchases.
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1626831

Not true: you can change your Google Ad Preferences or opt-out.

Ummm... Link broken: "404. That’s an error. The requested URL /ads/preference was not found on this server. That’s all we know."

Some of Google's ad people must subscribe to /. :)

Are you thick-headed? I was referring to my very first statement: "In this state."

Your very first statement, where? Link to it. Because the only time I saw you say it was, "In my state -- I'm not going to tell you which one it is, because I don't discuss my location on Slashdot" i.e. as part of the very same sentence trying to excuse yourself from providing a citation.

BTW, what you originally wrote was "in most US states would be illegal" - if that were true you should be able to provide a citation to the law in another one of those 26+ mythical states. Since all you do is hide behind claims of being cyberstalked it seems pretty obvious that you are wrong, that you know you are wrong and that you are desperate to flim-flam your way out of admitting you are wrong.

You didn't even get what I meant by that, did you? Sheesh.

You meant that "it is water under the bridge" but you thought you would be clever and mimic my earlier statement. The thing is, you don't seem to understand that what I wrote was a standard form of insult that only works when you quote something already written once before. Since you did not actually use the words "water under the bridge" before that (nor, as far as I can tell, even the concept), your mimicry just became a display of your ignorance.

HERE is the article I was referring to.

If you want Cherokee Purples, why not grown them yourself? Tomatoes are the easiest thing to grow and the CP is fairly forgiving. My first year growing anything at all, I was able to get a few CP's from my plant, and I knew nothing. Still no nothing, but more than I did back then.

If you are limited on space, may I suggest Raybo's InnTainers (PDF warning). If you are not growing inside, you may skip all the waterproofing steps. If nothing else, this will give you a rough idea as to how to make your own, even if you don't follow Raybo's steps to the letter. I just set one 18 gallon tote inside another rather that all the steps he uses. Sure, his are better, but mine were easier and more idiot proof. With this, you can grow two plants per container that will even work on an apartment balcony or home deck.

Also, THIS is worth a look.

HERE is the article I was referring to.

If you want Cherokee Purples, why not grown them yourself? Tomatoes are the easiest thing to grow and the CP is fairly forgiving. My first year growing anything at all, I was able to get a few CP's from my plant, and I knew nothing. Still no nothing, but more than I did back then.

If you are limited on space, may I suggest Raybo's InnTainers (PDF warning). If you are not growing inside, you may skip all the waterproofing steps. If nothing else, this will give you a rough idea as to how to make your own, even if you don't follow Raybo's steps to the letter. I just set one 18 gallon tote inside another rather that all the steps he uses. Sure, his are better, but mine were easier and more idiot proof. With this, you can grow two plants per container that will even work on an apartment balcony or home deck.

Also, THIS is worth a look.

a lot of their income comes from ads.

The vast majority of their income comes from advertising.

My sons first computer was a pentium dual core laptop, and he got it when he was 2.

About six months ago, we built together an ivy bridge/z77 machine in an Antec Skeleton case. If you want visibility, thats a good way to go. Clear plastic case is good too, but they don't fit well and are a PITA to take apart and reassemble. Obviously I didn't let him socket the cpu, but his little fingers were pretty helpful in a lot of instances. Whole thing probably ran me about $450, and it'll be a good computer for him for 5+ years.

Your 7 year old needs the same computer everyone else has. Fisher Price it and you'll have a throwaway next year.

https://www.google.com/search?q=antec+skeleton&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS477US477&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Jg5NUKWeLZDbigK_soH4CA&sqi=2&ved=0CB0QsAQ&biw=1920&bih=955

It's already happened, specifically in the Republican primary elections:

Short version: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByJAC-sfXwumZzI2bVlON2VTMnFyYVZZSnpDYnNyQQ/edit?pli=1
Long Version: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByJAC-sfXwumdkE4d0Y2eWtURTZ2eDM5RmlLc3ZhQQ/edit?pli=1