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Give us a link that doesn't require registration.. aieet?

FWIW, It worked for me.

I get past most of these semi-porous paywalls with a combo of firefox add-ons:

RefControl (for most it is sufficient to set the referrer to http://google.com/)
CS Lite (block all cookies from the paywalled site)

I also have noscript, Ghostery, RequestPolicy and RedirectRemover installed but they usually aren't necessary to get past the paywall.

Really? You couldn't do a quick Google for "China Ecuador oil?" That's all it would have taken and you'd know by now. Or if you paid attention to the news you wouldn't even need to do that. I generally provide links for stuff that isn't even moderately well known. If you don't know well known, currently news referenced public info, that's your problem. Like on a programming forum, at least try to show you did some research. Especially when the info isn't that hard to find. If you never saw this in the news you either only read the news superficially or use low quality news sources. I didn't even have to try to come across this info. Don't be so fucking lazy.

... and there's a potential huge opportunity for Samsung's marketing department here. As seen here, a court has just effectively ruled that Samsung's products are equivalent to Apple's. So, other than the Apple logo and brand name, why would you want an iThing when you can have the Samsung equivalent for any from a few tens of bucks to several hundred bucks less? After all, according to a US District Court, they are now essentially the same thing!

The trick (of course) would be for Samsung to pull off the marketing campaign without being found in contempt of court or getting their products pulled from the shelves...

Not only that, but this guy says if we don't have more CO2 we're not going to be able to grow enough food for the planet.
http://www.liebertpub.com/MContent/Files/Kleinman_ch19_p379-398.pdf

I hate to state the obvious but do you suppose there's a chance that the balance of trees to CO2 got a bit messed up when we cut them all down?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2BAdNIG5Q2FJlEdac1l-KXiTSCA?docId=CNG.dfe97e07f144a2d29eb615412e0c12be.a81

Maybe... put the trees back? If everybody on the planet planted 10 fast growing and 10 slow growing trees... well, do the math.
Or maybe a lot of C4 plants, the ones that use crazy amounts of CO2 and do really well when CO2 is high (the historical maximum is 7000ppm, we're at about 400ppm now).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation
"Today, C4 plants represent about 5% of Earth's plant biomass and 3% of its known plant species.[13][9] Despite this scarcity, they account for about 30% of terrestrial carbon fixation.[10] Increasing the proportion of C4 plants on earth could assist biosequestration of CO2 and represent an important climate change avoidance strategy. Present-day C4 plants are concentrated in the tropics and subtropics (below latitudes of 45) where the high air temperature contributes to higher possible levels of oxygenase activity by RuBisCO, which increases rates of photorespiration in C3 plants."

And no excess heat. The plan in TFA sounds to me like introducing cane toads to Australia.

What idiots/macfags have modded this insightful?

Android is establishing itself as an exceptional option for controlling UAVs and other autonomous vehicles.

http://developer.android.com/tools/adk/index.html

http://code.google.com/p/androuav/

http://code.google.com/p/aeroquad/

What idiots/macfags have modded this insightful?

Android is establishing itself as an exceptional option for controlling UAVs and other autonomous vehicles.

http://developer.android.com/tools/adk/index.html

http://code.google.com/p/androuav/

http://code.google.com/p/aeroquad/

> So, if Apple were to have won all her lawsuits, we'd have no
> HTC phones, no Samsung phones or tablets and no Motorolla
> phones being sold in the US.

Yeah, Apple is suing everyone... and everyone is suing Apple, and everyone else is also suing everyone else. (This one has nice labels.)

Some sued first, some sued second; some of those are offensive, some are defensive; some suits are worthy and some are full of shit. But you can't lay all the blame at Apple's feet. Apple wasn't even the first to sue. Or the second, or third--some of those suits among the other companies go back to before the iPhone was even out. EVERYONE is doing the same thing Apple is doing. Doesn't make it right, but again, you can't lay this all at Apple's feet. EVERYONE wants to be the only player in this game.

If ten people agree to a fight to the death, do you get mad at the winner for killing the others?

And a study by Google Trends shows that the US states with the most searches for 'pornography' are Utah. Arkansas and Texas. Not exactly the most liberal in the union. I do with Google had an option to show rankings per-capita though, so allow for differing populations.

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=pornography&geo=usa&sa=N

> He betrayed them with this massive stunt.

Massive stunt? He has offered to go to Sweden if he is not extradited to the US. And the whole handling of the rape allegation is obviously related to WikiLeaks. This is an attack on WikiLeaks, not a stunt by Assange.

Quiet you, you're getting in the way of a good Two Minutes Hate!

Next you'll be asking for evidence of the supposed mass-deaths caused by Wikileaks!

I live in Kansas City although not in one of the first phase of fiber hoods. On a local forum we had a discussion about this site already and I brought up the terms of service for residential fiber service.

...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...

... or use your Google Fiber account to provide commercial services to third parties (including, but not limited to, selling Internet access to third parties).

and hereis the page containing those rules. So without a written agreement you can't run a server. The "providing commercial services" part most likely means no sharing your gigabit connection, not "you can't work from home". I don't think google wants their residential fiber service to be used to start the next facebook.com. They want those entrepreneurs to pay a more for the business service. Whenever google fiber was first announced and what we heard on the local news was something to the effect of it's going to be an experiment by google to see what people will do with a giga-bit connection. At first that sounded like (to me anyway) that they would let us run our own web servers from home, but now it looks more like they just want to offer a web browsing only service for residential customers(like Time Warner).
 
My question to anyone who has an answer: How could someone use google fiber residential service to get their startup off the ground without breaking the terms of service?

> He betrayed them with this massive stunt.

Massive stunt? He has offered to go to Sweden if he is not extradited to the US. And the whole handling of the rape allegation is obviously related to WikiLeaks. This is an attack on WikiLeaks, not a stunt by Assange.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=HKG%3A1211&hl=en&gl=us

Google is phasing out Message Filtering and Small Business Edition, with no migration to Apps for Business. They also killed Google Message Continuity for Exchange in favor of pushing Apps. That may work for some people, but others are only going to use an Exchange focused solution. That was $13 per user per month.

Sure they don't...until you update the thing and Linus takes a steaming dump all over your drivers! But don't take MY word for it, how about one of the Red Hat Developers who says the desktop is "suckage" and the entire system is broken? Are you claiming HE has a "bias" too? How about a list of things horribly broken in Linux and please note the date of the list is 2012 AND it has links to every. single. example. so you can check them for yourself.

I repeat if you are willing to put up with a broken driver model (and don't give us the "If they'll only open their specs!" excuse because the other two work just fine without specs which makes it YOUR problem not ours) and updates breaking shit like its Win9X all over again, or have a reason such as server management or programming to run Linux? Enjoy, wish you nothing but luck. But expecting the average user to deal with that shit is like telling them "Hey want a free TV?" and when they say yes you hand them a pile of transistors andsome breadboards and say "Good luck LOL!". Because while there are plenty of "friendly" distros frankly they don't STAY friendly, that is unless you are willing to disable ALL updates and risk the machine ending up a broken mess or a zombie because it isn't patched. And oh yes Linux DOES have malware, I'll be happy to wallpaper the page with links to it if you'd like.

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/neurological-conditions/autism/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/autism-research-discovery_b_794967.html

Another indirect datapoint about the link between autism an vitamin D deficiency: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/higher-autism-risk-for-march-conception/

It may also turn out that some children are better at dealing with excreting heavy metals and other toxins than others for whatever reasons. See also Dr. David Brownstein on Iodine and Dr. Joel Fuhrman on vegetables and children's nutrition.

A book on dealing with tough times when all else fails:
"Dark Nights Of The Soul: A Guide To Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals"
http://books.google.com/books?id=RKZreNYKNHQC

Good luck!

If Christianity is a religion of love and peace, how did it get one of the easiest moral question ever, wrong (i.e., slavery). Seriously, behind killing someone and in front of taking their stuff without permission, is it that hard to think of slavery as immoral? Sure, now you're all against it in the modern age, but your books and teachers weren't. Which tells me a lot about the value of their morals.

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=new+testament+on+slavery

You seem to be assuming that your graph represents the top 12 antibiotic users in the world, but you're wrong. It's a list of Europe plus US, Canada and Australia. US didn't place 5th in the world, it placed 5th out of a handful of rich, highly regulated Western countries. Any number of Asian and Latin American countries use far far more.

Since you said I'm making up facts, let's go try Google:

keywords -- "China Antibiotic Use". Top result:

"on average each Chinese person consumes 138g of antibiotics per year -- 10 times the amount consumed per capita in the U.S. Meanwhile, three times as many Chinese people are prescribed penicillin compared with the international standard."

Now go try India and Mexico.

The 'warnings' and 'lies' you describe have yet to be seen by me..

Here, let me Google that for you. Amusingly Google autocompleted that for me from "app is d," so it's not exactly an uncommon error. Generally speaking, the app is not damaged when you get that error - it just isn't Apple-blessed.

So are the developers of that "App Store" app planning on becoming registered developers and signing the app? :-)

That message doesn't necessarily mean "not Apple-blessed"; sometimes it means "damaged or incomplete". Perhaps most of the time it means that, so that, "generally speaking", it is damaged.

Note that the "Mountain Lion: Damaged and Cannot be Opened FIX" video shows that, once you turn off Gatekeeper, it does let you run PwnageTool (unlikely to be blessed by Apple as it's a jailbreaking tool for iOS :-)), for which the message says nothing about damage, but doesn't show you whether Minecraft works after you turn off Gatekeeper - perhaps it doesn't, because perhaps the problem with the Minecraft app he has is that the executable image file really truly is damaged.

If you try and run it through the command line, it'll run just fine.

...which suggests that Gatekeeper is part of Launch Services rather than XNU.

Which kind of disproves the idea that Gatekeeper is about security, if all it takes to bypass it is fork() and exec().

So what program is going to do a {v}fork/exec or posix_spawn to launch it? And would Gatekeeper, in its default setting, keep that program from running? Perhaps the goal was to keep, for example, drive-by downloads from getting launched automatically, but not to keep nerds from running arbitrary executable images?

The 'warnings' and 'lies' you describe have yet to be seen by me..

Here, let me Google that for you. Amusingly Google autocompleted that for me from "app is d," so it's not exactly an uncommon error. Generally speaking, the app is not damaged when you get that error - it just isn't Apple-blessed. If you try and run it through the command line, it'll run just fine.

Which kind of disproves the idea that Gatekeeper is about security, if all it takes to bypass it is fork() and exec().

the power to destroy

Each governmental agency thinks it's an entity unto itself. Everything depends on this one agency. Every right and freedom must be subjugated to meeting the agency's goal.

Whether it's taxation, "homeland" security, child protection, consumer protection, cops, military, unions or any number of other things, everybody wants their agency to figure first in citizen's lives.

It's time for people to stand up for the principle that government may only exercise those powers expressly granted to it. All other powers are reserved to the people.

1. First, yes, we agree that if you're root, you can do anything.

2. But, again, yes I was talking about admin on the website software, whatever it is. And that would be "guy with all permissions". Of course normally, you should set up and use lower privilege accounts, which contain the bare minimum of stuff you need to do your daily tasks. Only log in as admin once in a while.

3. However, let's say you are logged in as site admin. And you go to badsite.example.com, and they manage through some combination of bugs in your browser, CMS, and non-secure possibly wifi connection to execute commands as site admin.

4. Assuming #3, yes, an attacker should be able to execute arbitrary PHP.

a. First of all, he can probably upload a PHP file and navigate to that.

b. Or, run dynamic PHP with eval(). Example in Drupal. Like it says "While this is a powerful and flexible feature if used by a trusted user with PHP experience, it is a significant and dangerous security risk in the hands of a malicious user." But, it's enabled on many sites anyway for the flexibility it offers. ("You go to war with the PHP site you have, not the one you want.")

My recommendation: log in with the least privilege necessary. And turn dynamic PHP in your CMS.

Note: You can turn off the eval() function in php.ini with disable_functions. However, many PHP CMSs and frameworks make use of it for some of their dynamic magic/polymorphism/etc.

1. First, yes, we agree that if you're root, you can do anything.

2. But, again, yes I was talking about admin on the website software, whatever it is. And that would be "guy with all permissions". Of course normally, you should set up and use lower privilege accounts, which contain the bare minimum of stuff you need to do your daily tasks. Only log in as admin once in a while.

3. However, let's say you are logged in as site admin. And you go to badsite.example.com, and they manage through some combination of bugs in your browser, CMS, and non-secure possibly wifi connection to execute commands as site admin.

4. Assuming #3, yes, an attacker should be able to execute arbitrary PHP.

a. First of all, he can probably upload a PHP file and navigate to that.

b. Or, run dynamic PHP with eval(). Example in Drupal. Like it says "While this is a powerful and flexible feature if used by a trusted user with PHP experience, it is a significant and dangerous security risk in the hands of a malicious user." But, it's enabled on many sites anyway for the flexibility it offers. ("You go to war with the PHP site you have, not the one you want.")

My recommendation: log in with the least privilege necessary. And turn dynamic PHP in your CMS.

Note: You can turn off the eval() function in php.ini with disable_functions. However, many PHP CMSs and frameworks make use of it for some of their dynamic magic/polymorphism/etc.

Provably by the same standard that all other political discussions are proved -- based upon available data.

That was my point -- just like the metric of "how many people smoke pot" there are no good data on charitable giving. Consider, though, that a synonym for "liberal" is "generous" (liberal portions) and a synonym for "conservative" is "stingy". Of course, that's only one of many differring synonyms for each word.

Collecting 100% of the income from the rich, would not come close to eliminating the deficit.

True. It shows that spending cuts AND more taxes are needed. Unless they get in another war or spending frenzy, revenue goes up in boom times because the more people are employed, the more they're paying taxes. We're paying for two of the longest wars in our history right now, which is the principal cause of the defecit; notice the budget was balanced until 911?

I wouldn't want to see taxes as high for the rich as they were under Truman, but 15% for a stock market gambler in a safe air conditioned office is WAY too low, considering a roofer risking his life in the hot sun and actually creating wealth rather than shuffling it from hand to hand pays far more in tax is insane.

Your Heritage Foundation link is firewalled off for "politics/opinion". Perhaps you have a less biased link? Like the New York Times ("By this measure, federal taxes are at their lowest level in more than 60 years") or CBS News ("High Taxes? Actually, They're at a 60-Year Low"). In fact, look at results from Google, with a few exceptions like dailykos, they're all highly respected mainstream outlets.

The Reagan tax *rate* cuts (and loophole elimination) greatly increased federal tax revenues

Think about that for a moment. Rate cuts reduce revenue. It was the loophole elimination that increased revenue.

Over two years (2010 and 2011), Romney's total income was $42.5 million. He paid $6.2 million in taxes in gave away $7 million to charity.

What he gave to charity has no bearing on his taxes, except that he can deduct it (and note this in his religion, he is demanded to tithe 10%, as opposed to most Christian faiths that merely suggest 10% and demand nothing). He said himself (you probably saw the clip youself) that he never paid less than 13% in the last ten years. He, himself said he paid 13%.

Also, don't forget that most of that income was capital gains, which are the funds that drive economic expansion. Sounds more than fair to me.

That's right. How are you going to expand economically without the roofer creating that wealth he's investing (or gambling, unless they are investments that are being held). Selling your stock does nothing to drive economic expansion, buying it does. Yet you don't get the break from buying, you get the break from selling. Taxing capital gains as income would reduce the incentive to simply be a parasitic gambler and ionstead be an incentive for long-term investing. These guys that buy 1000 shares of PG&E on Monday and sell them at a profit on Tuesday (or even a second later) are parasites.

Why do you think it's more moral to take money away from those that earned it rather than letting them keep it?

How do you consider gambling "earing your money"? I consider someone either producing wealth (the fry cook, programmer, roofer) or someone in a related, non-producing but necessary job (the IT staff, upper management, accountant) as earning their money.

When a guy buys a lottery ticket and wins, I don't consider that "earning". If a talented professional poker player comes home from the casino with $10k, he didn't earn it, either. The day trader is no different.

If you want to stimulate investment, reward the buying of shares (perhaps with a tax credit or dedu

It's the lesser known post malum ergo propter malum fallacy.

After evil therefore because of evil?

Google translate gives:

evil for evil's sake, then, after

For Android I use Unified Remote, works well for controlling my HTPC. It's Windows only but much more full functioned than most of the competitors (there's even an API for writing custom remotes). There's another one out there that uses a Java server for the PC portion that I tried but it only did basic keyboard and mouse emulation and Google doesn't show it in my list of previously installed apps now.

Burn the mother fuckers already, and get on with your life.

Yeah, but those of us who don't have a life can use half-dead Android phones as Arduino controllers.

  Or we could use them with AndroUAV to control our own drones.

http://www.amarino-toolkit.net/

http://developer.android.com/tools/adk/index.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/Androino-Talk-with-an-Arduino-from-your-Android-d/

http://code.google.com/p/androuav/

and run it in a chroot jail. Then benchmark the processor with Povray 3.6:

    Debian 7.0(armhf), gcc 4.6, -mhard-float -mcpu=cortex-a9 -march=armv7 -mthumb
        -mfpu=neon -funsafe-math-optimizations
    Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 4 seconds (4 seconds)
    Photon Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 30 seconds (90 seconds)
    Render Time: 1 hours 20 minutes 38 seconds (4838 seconds)
    Total Time: 1 hours 22 minutes 12 seconds (4932 seconds)

    Debian 6.0 (armel), gcc 4.4, -mfloat-abi=softfp -mcpu=cortex-a9
    Parse Time: 0 hours 0 minutes 4 seconds (4 seconds)
    Photon Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 43 seconds (103 seconds)
    Render Time: 1 hours 49 minutes 59 seconds (6599 seconds)
    Total Time: 1 hours 51 minutes 46 seconds (6706 seconds)

Here are some results compared to other processors:
Ordered by pps/GHz:
Core i5 2400S (2.5 GHz): 235.17 pps ; 94.07 pps/GHz
Athlon II x4 (2.8 GHz): 179.82 pps ; 64.22 pps/GHz
Celeron 220 (1.2 GHz): 81.15 pps ; 67.62 pps/GHz
Pentium 4m (1.5 GHz): 36.24 pps ; 24.16 pps/GHz
Exynos 4210 (1.2 GHz): 29.90 pps ; 24.91 pps/GHz (-mfloat-abi=hard)
Atom N270 (1.6 GHz): 28.96 pps ; 18.10 pps/GHz
Exynos 4210 (1.2 GHz): 21.99 pps ; 18.32 pps/GHz (-mfloat-abi=softfp)
PowerPC 750 (700 MHz): 20.47 pps ; 29.25 pps/GHz
Pentium !!! (450 MHz): 12.43 pps ; 27.62 pps/GHz

For Android phones, use it as a Web/FTP/DNLA/DNS/Email/Proxy server.

Plug it in and use VNC to a separate session to make it a mini-head for monitoring things like email, tweets, system sensors, etc. For example, what I did with my tablet.

Actually, unless you already know the company, neither the logo nor the writing is especially recognisable imho. The logo look like a cardboard color print test and because now the writing is in a simple font, it could be anything. Hardly recognisable to me. At least the previous logo and font were unique (or at least somehow distinctive). It almost seems as if after trying to copy iOS from Apple, they were now after the Google logo and color branding.

with people living closely together

Directly after you quoted:

despite having 1/10th the population density

You know that there are a lot of Americans out there struggling to overcome the stereotype that Americans are stupid, right? Please don't undercut them.

Höfuðborgarsvæði is 63% of Iceland's population (aka, well under 80%) and 189 people per square kilometer is only the population density of Indiana (yes, even our capitol region is surprisingly low density - for example, here's the president's residence, Bessastaðir, which is perhaps 7km from downtown Reykjavík (Miðbær)). But 63% is well under the percent that have fiber. You can expand to Suðurnes to get Keflavík and Grindavík and parts of Suðurland to get Hveragerði and Selfoss and with parts of Vesturland to get Akranes and Borgarnes... but that's still not enough. Yes, 1/3rd of Iceland's population is in one city, even if you assume that everyone in and around it has fiber, you really have to go out into "the boonies" to get 80%. And that's for *fiber*. On a mountainous volcanic country in the middle of the North Atlantic.

Ebay insists you opt-out by paper mail:

You must mail the Opt-Out Notice to eBay Inc., c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 2778 W. Shady Bend Lane, Lehi, UT 84043.

This appears to be somebody's house.

Maybe with an old keyboard at floor level and some bits and pieces from the DIY store, he could rig himself up a shift-key foot pedal?

I don't see a person like the story poster doing it, since it would require wiring dexterity and soldering for a project that will be dropped in six months, so DIY is probably not his intention.

That said, one can easily purchase a real foot pedal aimed at the music industry at Radioshack or music stores. At around $20 dollars, it's cheap and more sightly than whole keyboards (or half ones) rigged to sit on the floor because it has a single big clicker rather than 100+.

Someone with the engineering knowhow could adapt the end plug to USB somehow, but the extinct PS/2 probably would be easier to implement.

Technically, the states have the right to overrule most Federal laws within their borders. That is why you can buy certain guns in Arizona that would normally be illegal at the Federal level. The caveat is that the guns have to be manufactured in Arizona, sold to a Arizona citizen, and never leave Arizona.

Thankfully, this no longer applies in order to protect us from the pothead menace...

https://plus.google.com/events/cs8qqqn96f2ktfvm66s3sb2cpes/103112149634414554669

That salmon was caught fresh that day. Also pics of the laser near the bottom.

Or just drive from top to bottom of Texas. One single state, over 900miles (almost 1500km to you non USA'ers). We're the second most populated state & 26th in population density (pretty much right smack in the middle).

I do not think DIY should be regulated beyond requiring that the person doing the work "is competent" (which is what the laws pertaining to UK gas plumbing state[1])

England and Wales went through this in 2005 with the introduction of "Part P" of the Building Regulations. Basically anyone doing electrical work that is notifiable (most major work) must either be registered or must report the work to the Building Control dept of the local council for a fee. The councils generally don;t know how to handle this so mostly just get an electrician in afterwards to perform a full system test for another fee making, say adding a new circuit cost around £200-300 in fees alone.

Prior to the introduction of Part P the government's own stats for England and Wales stated there were around 5 deaths per year from fixed electrical wiring. It notes a further 25 possible deaths due to fires where the fire was due to an electrical source of ignition but that does not break down into fixed wiring vs appliances and extension leads. Most informed sources estimate the number of deaths from fixed wiring directly or by resulting fire to be around 10 per year.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CFsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stockport.gov.uk%2F2013%2F2994%2Fdevelopmentcontrol%2F14406%2F41351%2Fpartpelectricalsafety&ei=QvU1UJaYHe210QW8mIDoBQ&usg=AFQjCNGZgEjqrIWPIGTCIWqii5Metf20jw&sig2=2aV0bfyQw0v8RUIUotcsTg

The number of deaths on the road in the GB was 1901 in 2011. Scale that back a bit to remove Scotland.

Do I think limiting who can do electrical work is a waste of resources? Yes I do. The resources would be far better spend on road safety.

To require being a member of an accredited institution to do water plumbing (with the possible exception of sealed heating systems) is even more laughable.

There is a difference between regulation and limiting electrical and plumbing work to members of a closed shop artisan/union style which seems to be the case in Australia and becoming the case in the UK.

[1] I am legally allowed to do my own gas work in England, provided it is "not for hire or reward".

Google Chrome - Get a fast new browser. For PC, Mac and Linux -> https://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en-gb

LibreOffice Productivity Suite -> www.libreoffice.org/download/

What? You mean Chrome runs on more than one operating system?

Thanks for the link to LibreOffice, but LibreOffice is not MS-Word.

Wine or Crossover might be an option, I'll try it out again, but last time I tried it I had lackluster results.

I have been interested in the differences in the various banners that are put up on these seized sites. I have a Python script I run now and then to gather all of the banners. Right now I have 16 banners from 757 seized domains hosted at 4 IPs. If you'd like to see them, you can check out the Picasa Web Album.

Read up on the extradition laws and you'll find it's *harder* to be extradited from Sweden than the UK

no, u

In spite of this, in a fit of political correctness, the author feels compelled in the last paragraph of the story to print a quote from someone who has done no specific research on phoning while driving, but he still fees competent to weigh in suggesting bans be followed by stiffer enforcement.

The person being quoted is D. L. Strayer, who a quick google scholar search reveals has done a proverbial shitload of distracted driving research, much of it focused on phone use.

From Pterri Pratchett's Lords and Ladies
I don't feel like the Queen of the Fairies, moaned Bestiality Carter.*

Here's their PR team

While I don't disagree with most of what you said, I do think you're overstating your disagreement a bit. They said "contribute", not "cause". Is it fair to say that antibiotics may contribute to obesity? Quite likely, yes. The extent to which they contribute is a second discussion, and by all indications it's not significant. Even so, acknowledging that there may be an issue is a first step to better medical practices in the future. If antibiotics' contribution made the difference in pushing a mere 1% of obese Americans over the line into obesity (note: I pulled 1% out of thin air), fixing that issue would mean helping about 1 million people drop below the obesity threshold (math check: there are 311M Americans and roughly 35% of adults are obese according to the CDC).

The place is looking kind of run-down, but its been chain link fenced for years.

No idea how it looks on the inside.

Service is usually done by replacement. If you get a phone from any retailer around here, and you have a problem with it, you bring it back and they handle it.

I use the nexus phone. My talk time is 17 hours. I've also put in the 2100 mAh battery, so it's probably now well over 20.

The support line is linked here: http://support.google.com/nexus/?hl=en

It is? What's the magic incantation to turn that on?

I ask because of tools like iExplorer, which let you access the entire iOS device's file system and download files unencrypted.

Which means that if it's on by default, it's trivial to bypass. I've used the tool I linked before to try and debug a broken iPad - you just plug it in, and it can pull files off the device, just like that. It's also not the only solution.

And that's not mentioning things like iCloud backup, which is turned on by default last I checked. And, sure, Apple says it's encrypted (except your email and notes - those aren't). I'll let someone else download the source to the iCloud server software and see if they're telling the truth...

I'm always careful when running third party Windows tools, for obvious reasons, and tend to test them on an old Slackware box using wine rather than immediately rushing to install on my brand new Windows 7 PC. What I found was disturbing, the APKTools package I downloaded installed something called apkapp2backgrounddaemonprocessengine.exe, which according to several sites is extremely dangerous malware. Fortunately I tested first on the Slackware box and quickly restored the .wine directory from a back-up, otherwise I could have been in trouble. So my advice, be careful! You don't want your PC to be infected with this kind of thing!

> a person should do whatever they please, as they wish, just as advertisers do.

This. A thousand times this.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small... They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that... Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy (and others)

What's worse is that it doesn't even work. I have it on good authority that APK uses his HOSTS method to "protect" his own PC, but that it's infected with the notorious malware apkapp2backgrounddaemonprocessengine.exe (advice on the severe danger it poses to PCs here.