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a treatise on why nosql dbs have scaling problems isn't going to turned into a cartoon anytime soon.

Agreed, that would just be rediculous!

I had to defeat some stainless steel T10 Security Torx screws in the process of doing my job, recently, as I was moving old hardware from one place to another.

Normally, I carry a large assortment of cheap "security" driver bits with me, but alas they were not with me at the time (indeed, they were 40 miles away).

Solution: I used a regular-old Klein T10 driver. I smashed it into the head of the screw a few times with the palm of my hand (no hammer needed), and the protruding post neatly bent over and squished itself into the valley of the Torx socket. This left plenty of surface area to neatly grab the fastener in the conventional way (with the same, and now proper driver), and remove it.

I was fairly amused that this worked the first time. And then I repeated it 7 more times for the other screws with similar success. (The Klein screwdriver was unfazed.)

(For the uninitiated: Torx screws intentionally require very little engagement depth to properly mate a driver to the fastener, by design. It is perhaps the singular thing they're very good at, and also the one thing that allowed them to be so easily circumvented in this case of them being modified for "security.")

Ah, now, don't go blaming Monsanto for EVERY evil.
The honey bee disaster lies on the shoulders of Bayer: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bayer+bees

...were loosing Glaser at an alarming rate...Are we at the beginning of the end now?

No. Please. Don't loose Glaser on the world!

The Serval Project is aiming to do exactly this (disclosure, I'm working for them ATM). Use the Wifi chip in android phones to create an adhoc network for situations where the phone network is down or non-existent. It's still alpha quality at this point, but we're working on phone calls, text messaging and file distribution using strong cryptography, without any central administration or infrastructure. And we're planning to use our file distribution system for a bunch of other services like collaborative mapping.

When will people seriously get it into their think marketer heads that although cartoons or videos may be more initially eye-catching, they have low information density and are worse at getting actual information across than plain old text?

First, density != effectiveness in human-to-human communications.

Second, text has medium density... it's more dense than a comic but less dense than a well-designed graph.

Finally, consider that your view of cartoons may not include everything the medium is capable of. Have you seen, for example, Scott McCloud's comic-book introduction to Google Chrome? Plain old text could have conveyed the same information, but it's doubtful the audience would have been as large or absorbed as much. Scott argues that cartoons can be more effective than pure text, and while I suspect he's only partially right, it is still worthwhile to try experiments like the one Polgreen is talking about.

Where are all the good end-user tools for S3 now?

As others have mentioned, Dropbox and SugarSync are consumer interfaces to S3. I think the fact that Amazon references "objects" and "buckets" in S3 terminology is directly because they didn't really build S3 to be an "online file system" type service (though s3fuse provides it). They intended to be merely the backend for the consumer services you mentioned.

That being said, clients aren't always strictly downloadable software. My most-used S3 client is built into my Synology DiskStation NAS and provides nightly backups to S3 (hopefully they add support for Glacier). Also, I frequently use Panic Transmit for Mac OS X, which is an FTP client that also has support for S3.

Micky wrote:
>...hell is filled with unbabtised babies.

Typo there, you meant _Limbo_. However, that view has been changed recently:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702216.htm

More nerdy discussion of the concept here:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rec.arts.sf.written/wPjAlej6vDU/discussion

GoogleBot supports:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35304

That is probably the one you are looking for.

When out West, if it's not a Lotus, Lamborghini, or Porsche, I would rather sleep...

Check out this boring road - reminds me of desert bus.

It starts with Sweden clearing him for travel. And he does so.

You don't need any clearance to travel and Sweden didn't issue any such thing. Unless an arrest warrant is placed on your head you can leave as you please. And Assange did leave.

After his lawyer was notified that an arrest warrant is coming his way

Then, he is called back.

He is not just 'called back'. An arrest warrant was placed on his head. Because he was abroad a European Arrest Warrant was issued and served. Then Assange used every possibility to fight extradition.

He's a suspicious sort, and offers to come back if he gets a guarantee he won't be extradited to the US. Sweden said no. He offers to meet in person, in the UK. But Sweden said no.

Here's where your story really stops adding up. He didn't offer a thing. He fought the arrest the best he could and when he lost he skipped bail and hid in Ecuadorean embassy. Only after that he and Ecuadorian officials started giving interviews and statements where they demanded he'll be given assurances.

Feel free to correct me and show what official way he used to ask to be interviewed on the English soil.

Sweden has not charged him with any crime.

This is the favorite spiel of Assange's lawyer. Yes, he has not been charged. An arrest warrant was issued and under Swedish law he cannot be charged before he is actually arrested.

Why has Sweden said "no" to ever offer?

What offers did he make to 'Sweden'? Through what channels? And when? Citation needed!

I'm not sure on the timeline, but I didn't think that Julian was a criminal at the time Ecuador initially extended the offer for asylum.

Yes, you are clearly not sure on the timeline. But regardless of timelines, I doubt his bail conditions included stepping on Ecuadorian soil.

I didn't think it that unusual, other than the lengths that Sweden has gone to to get Julian back after they told him they would not charge him and he was released and told he could go.

Sweden issued an arrest warrant. Assange escaped Sweden. Then the Swedish prosecutor issued an European Arrest Warrant, sent it to Interpol and requested extradition.

That's it. That's all the length that the prosecutor has gone through. All the rest is Assange's and his lawyers theatrics

The United States relies upon private health insurance to provide much of the financing for medical costs. This is unusual: in Britain, Canada, and Spain, for example, health-care costs are largely paid for by the government. In Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, medical costs are paid for by a system of "social insurance": it is compulsory for most people to buy insurance, but insurance premiums are tied by law to income rather than to the risk of a claim.

The United States system makes it voluntary to buy insurance, and premiums are linked to risk, not to income. But these market-based premiums, beloved of many Americans, do not seem to be delivering health care that makes them happy. A recent survey revealed that only 17 percent of respondents in the United States were content with the health-care system and thought no substantial reforms were necessary. Why the discontent?

The superficial reasons are simple enough to describe: the system is hugely expensive, very bureaucratic, and extremely patchy. The expense first: US health cares costs a third more, per person, than that of the closest rival, super-rich Switzerland, and twice what many European countries spend. The United States government alone spends more per person than the combination of public and private expenditure in Britain, despite the fact that the British government provides free health care for all residents, while the American government spending program covers only the elderly (Medicare) and some of the marginalized (Medicaid). Most Americans worry about health-care costs and would be stunned to discovered that the British government spends less per person than the American government but still manages to provide free health care for everyone. In fact, if you figure in the costs of providing health insurance to government employees and providing tax breaks to encourage private health care, the US government spending on health care, per person, is the highest in the world.

Bureaucracy next. Researchers at the Harvard Medical School found that the administrative costs of the US system, public and private, exceed $1,000 per persons. In other words, when you count all the taxes, premiums, and out-of-pocket expenses, the typical American spends as much on doctor's receptionists and the like as citizens of Singapore and the Czech Republic spend on their entire medical care. Both places are countries with health outcomes very similar to those in the United States: life expectancy and “healthy life” expectancy (a statistic that distinguishes a long healthy life and a long life plagued by years of severe disability) are a shade lower in the Czech Republic than in the United States; and in Singapore they are a little higher than in the United States. The costs of US bureaucracy is also more than three times the $307 cost per person for the administration of the Canadian health system, whic

Mayak dumped high level nuclear waste into a little lake behind the plant. During the late 60's there was a drought not unlike the one in North America today. The lake dried up and the waste blew around the region.

That's not the best part though. The best part was when a huge, neglected storage tank blew up in 1957. It was full of high level waste that had been left without cooling because the 'engineers' decided it wasn't necessary to fix the broken cooling system. Being reckless fools, but not chemists, they failed to anticipate the concentration of nitrogen. The blast created the East Urals Radioactive Trace, a smear of exotic iotopses spread downwind of the blast/fire/spill/mess.

All this and much, much more were kept quiet, both inside and outside of the Soviet Union till the 80s. The place holds many dirty secrets yet. The Russian won't allow unfettered inspections of the place. They've lost a little of their European reprocessing business as a result.

So thanks for the Pu you fucking ruskies. Should have slagged the lot of you when we had the chance.

I have had a mac batter double in size and pop out of the laptop. (with about 2 hours charge left at the time it did that)

One of the three cells had gone bad.

Apples response: "They sometimes do that."

Pictures of not unexpected behavior of an apple laptop battery

... ethernet is a LAN protocol, not WAN.

Not anymore.http://google.com/search?q=ethernet+wan

2 Feb 2006 – Undoubtedly, Ethernet has become the technology of choice for wide-area network (WAN) connectivity for both the enterprise and the carrier.

That sounds innocuous enough - but keep in mind that he actually made GBP35,000/month in 2009 with these activities.
Given that they were merely link sites, his hosting costs weren't going to put much of a dent into those figures.

Shh.. I hear there's this website, Google that merely links sites and makes over $1,000,000,000/month in 2010. Oh, right, making money from linking isn't illegal or relevant per se. Of course, Google isn't going around directly encouraging users to upload other people's copyrighted works, but since "inciting to commit copyright infringement" isn't itself a crime AFAIK... Then again, it could be argued to be a form of conspiracy. In any case, linking would seem to be a moot point.

Now I'm not saying that his profiting is what made it illegal (it was illegal either way), or that 4 years in jail is an appropriate sentence - but let's not kid ourselves by suggesting that these site operators are only wishing to give to the world, to provide cultural enrichment to the needy, etc. They most certainly do profit by providing an avenue through which 'piracy' is committed.

Um, and? Do you think most site owners or, hell, copyright owners who make any sort of profit are "only wishing to give to the world, to provide cultural enrichment to the needy, etc"? Fuck no. They're in it for the money as a general point. And why shouldn't they be? It's not there's anything illegal or amoral about trying to make money. The fact that those actions may only incidentally provide cultural enrichment or whatever is really precisely a byproduct of how copyright was written; the fact that violating copyright might actually, even incidentally, have the same effect is both amusing and rather condemns the idea that copyright is necessary. Of course, the hard part is actually knowing if and when cultural enrichment actually is occurring. Personally, I don't think I can hand wave one way or the other about the need or effectiveness of copyright/copyright law in that regard.

That said, under my copyright reform suggestion, linking sites would in fact not be a valid target for legal action. But not because of some misguided 'free speech' concern. ( In case you were referring to the Pussy Riot thing - wow. Did you really just equate the two? If so, you may wish to read up on that case a bit more. It's many times more scary than any piracy-linksite getting targeted is. )

Very true. I only hope the GP was speaking in hyperbole. The whole Pussy Riot case in Russia is absurd.

Search for CN6880-4NIC10E. It has a Cavium OCTEON CN6880 32-core CPU on it with dual DDR3 interfaces. It would take some work to make it run Debian (requires running the root filesystem over NFS over PCIe or 10Gbe). All of the changes to support Linux are in the process of being pushed upstream to the Linux kernel GIT repository and hopefully sometime in the future I will get enough time to start pushing my U-Boot bootloader changes upstream as well.

All of the toolchain support is in the mainline GCC and binutils and glibc, though some of it might be in GIT since we just pushed our stuff up recently. The toolchain supports all of the extended instructions including those used for encryption and hashing.

There is a SDK but the SDK is generally quite expensive. The SDK is used for writing stand-alone applications that run on bare-metal on various cores in parallel with the Linux kernel. That way Linux runs on some cores and custom networking applications run on other cores without the overhead of a general-purpose operating system. Of course Linux could just as easily run on all the cores. It's a nice 64-bit MIPS platform as long as you don't need floating point. The CPU also has built-in acceleration for encryption, hashing, compression (deflate), pattern matching (regex) and RAID calculations (XOR/RAID6).

The PCIe bus just looks like another high-speed network interface as far as the CPU is concerned, so the card can basically be a network accelerator card for things like encryption or disk I/O. There's SDK add-ons to support things like TCP acceleration, Samba, SNORT, IPSEC and more.

an one even argue there's a difference between:
https://thepiratebay.se/
https://www.google.com/search?q=thepiratebay
https://www.google.com/ seatch for "thepiratebay" and click the first link

Yes, one can argue that. If argued in front of a judge, they'd even agree with the argument. If argued in front of any reasonable person, they'd also agree.

Open up TPB in one window, open up Google in another. Present to some person unfamiliar with either. Give them 5 minutes to explore each site. Now ask them to give a summary description of each site. I'd be highly surprised if your test subject would suggest there's no difference between the two sites.

Of course when you add search query details for 'pirate' sites or for 'pirated' contents to the URL, there's far less of a difference. But that's the major, major difference between the two, isn't it? TPB presents the information for you, along with very useful categories, links to the latest content, etc. Google presents you with a search box and a bunch of links to their other services (none of which are comparable to TPB either). (Common) Sense is very much a player here.

It doesn't detract from your earlier statement - or the odd legal approach taken (conspiracy to defraud) - but the whole "TPB is exactly like Google" argument falls apart right at the moment the sentence is finished with ", but for 'pirated' content.". Nobody in their right mind would argue it in a court of law anymore - I don't know why some people continue to suggest this comparison :)

an one even argue there's a difference between:
https://thepiratebay.se/
https://www.google.com/search?q=thepiratebay
https://www.google.com/ seatch for "thepiratebay" and click the first link

Yes, one can argue that. If argued in front of a judge, they'd even agree with the argument. If argued in front of any reasonable person, they'd also agree.

Open up TPB in one window, open up Google in another. Present to some person unfamiliar with either. Give them 5 minutes to explore each site. Now ask them to give a summary description of each site. I'd be highly surprised if your test subject would suggest there's no difference between the two sites.

Of course when you add search query details for 'pirate' sites or for 'pirated' contents to the URL, there's far less of a difference. But that's the major, major difference between the two, isn't it? TPB presents the information for you, along with very useful categories, links to the latest content, etc. Google presents you with a search box and a bunch of links to their other services (none of which are comparable to TPB either). (Common) Sense is very much a player here.

It doesn't detract from your earlier statement - or the odd legal approach taken (conspiracy to defraud) - but the whole "TPB is exactly like Google" argument falls apart right at the moment the sentence is finished with ", but for 'pirated' content.". Nobody in their right mind would argue it in a court of law anymore - I don't know why some people continue to suggest this comparison :)

... which is so awesome, even, because that's already down the slippery slope: Piratebay and Demonoid don't have TV shows/movies either, they only link it themselves (torrents are just oversized links). So that means there is now someone in jail for linking to a site linking to pirated bits. Can one even argue there's a difference between:
https://thepiratebay.se/
https://www.google.com/search?q=thepiratebay
https://www.google.com/ seatch for "thepiratebay" and click the first link
?

Sense is really just not a player here.

... which is so awesome, even, because that's already down the slippery slope: Piratebay and Demonoid don't have TV shows/movies either, they only link it themselves (torrents are just oversized links). So that means there is now someone in jail for linking to a site linking to pirated bits. Can one even argue there's a difference between:
https://thepiratebay.se/
https://www.google.com/search?q=thepiratebay
https://www.google.com/ seatch for "thepiratebay" and click the first link
?

Sense is really just not a player here.

You're right. You missed something. In fact you pretty much missed it all. Welcome to 2012. You can find out more about 2012 and the developments that have happened in the auto industry here.

This response is being posted because you clearly didn't understand the last two comments, and I want you to waste more time putting together a long-ass response that has nothing to do with anything whatsoever.

Incidentally, I was running an anti-malware tool on my PC and it found I had something called apkapp2backgrounddaemonprocessengine.exe installed which is apparently dangerous malware according to a ton of websites. Someone with your PC experience might know: can you tell me how to remove it?

I was hoping this would contain advice, but I couldn't find anything.

Mr. Gates gave a rather insightful and intelligent discussion of this problem at a recent Ted Talks. He makes a pretty solid point that some kind of nuclear power is our only way out of the carbon-destroying-the-earth problem.

Sorry, I avoid the asshole of the internet

Google is an asshole? What is Wikipedia then? Urethra?

what does that have to do with 4chan?

Its Zuckerberg's handle is "moot."

Not at all - Paul Allen has an interest in nuclear power generation. Even Google were thinking about investing in nuclear fusion research.

Should Google go Nuclear?

I have a few suggestions on good places to store/recycle lawyers...

Yeah, fucking regulations, who needs em!

I am sorry, that's due to a random variation, calling it "reduced" is far fetched.
US is still the global leader at polluting our planet, outdoing other industrialized countries and whole continents by a large factor. And given that our government is still doing nada about it, it sits deep in the pocked of the energy industry.

It originated as an acronym; it is now fully acceptable to use as a proper or even regular noun. Indeed, this seems to be the preferred usage, as shown by the Federal Department of Rockets and Laser's own usage.

And I tend to defer to the Federal Department of Rockets and Lasers in matters regarding all things laser and/or rocket.

http://code.google.com/p/gitso/
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"Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another's screen. First, the support person offers to give support. Second, the person who needs help connects and has their screen remotely visible. Because Gitso is cross-platform (Linux, OS X and Windows) and uses a reverse VNC connection, it greatly simplifies the process of getting support. "

As much as you can (to a point as needed only of course for certain use-cases)!

Face it, I use ALL of this - I wrote it:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=y6UxUMf5CY_g6wHT04C4Dg

& practically wrote the book on "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" on PC's per that guide... sound cocky? Read on...

(Nice part is the above, one day getting sick of seeing malware run rampage on many folks systems, knowing I was never "hit" since 1995-1996 doing that guide? Well, turned out nice & got me paid a tiny fee on 1 spot it did well in)

It began way, Way, WAY back in 1996 or so... proof here:

I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=3

"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life

This is one of those put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is situations. Ken Stark and his buddies have refurbished ~1,500 computers, putting Linux on them, and donating them to poor kids in central Texas since 2005 (interview at LXer.com). Now he's battling throat and neck cancer. From his blog at http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2012/08/this-is-where-we-are.html (written by her partner Diane):

Ken's cancer has just recently begun to spread to his right lymph node but his Oncologist has assured us that this is 80 percent curative if he gets the needed surgery in time.

Unfortunately, his 1100 dollar a month SSI disability disqualifies him for Medicaid care and the local county low-income insurance he was receiving. This leaves us with about 2 weeks to either raise enough money for at least the OR for the surgery (we are hopeful of finding a surgeon to do the work pro bono) or raise enough money for the entire procedure. We've spent hours upon hours researching and contacting the links some of you have provided but they are so limited in scope that 90 percent of them are not helpful at all.

We are looking at two weeks, maybe three before the cancer spreads past the point of surgery being an option. After that, we've been told just to make him as comfortable as possible until he passes. I'm not ready to accept that.

Stupid, this Medicare exclusion. More about the guy, by Steven Vaughan-Nichols of ZDnet fame:

+Ken Starks is a Linux and open-source supporter. He also runs a non-profit that's donated thousands of PCs to low-income households. Now, he needs help to fight cancer. For more on what's happening with him see:

http://thomasaknight.com/blog.php?id=71

https://plus.google.com/113169713749496726739/posts/aXdV6DZivhS

There's a donation page at Indiegogo, or you can do it directly from his blog. They have gathered about $7,700 and just reserving the OR costs about $50,000. Pitch in if you can. Anyway, spread the word.

Thanks for reading. I don't even know the guy; I only learned about it through an unsuccessful Firehose submission and decided to do something.

Sweden can't extradite him to the USA without Britons and the european court approval.

and Sweden won't extradite him to the USA, it's just a temporary surrender.

Disadvantages:

1.) Harder to work with firewall rules table than textfile (for the inexperienced)

2.) Eats CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O

3.) Is another "layer of complexity" over the IP stack (hosts aren't, they're a filter that makes for LESS work via blackhole 0, 0.0.0.0, or 127.0.0.1 slowest/largest/worst of lot loopback adapter address)...

Want more? You're outnumbered already...

Ok - this is the WORST of a bad lot on Windows firewall:

Hell, look up rootkit.com, & see their article on "Windows Firewall" Vista onwards being EASIER to "unhook"... it'll blow your mind!

I warned MS on it, to no avail, here -> (See 3rd or 4th post down in fact) http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rootkit.com%22+and+%22Windows+Firewall%22&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1

Hey - That's what UAC, ACL's, & Read-Only attributes, IN COMBINATION, are for... lesser privelege users NOT running as Admin IS "where it's at" for security for those reasons, on hosts files.

Centrally maintained's easy too - logon scripts &/or autoexec parse via gpedit.msc can make copying updated current hosts files a SNAP in Windows AD environs (or other networked environs).

Want more? Ask... all I have to do is *think* for a minute or so... lol!

APK

P.S.=> Do I advocate firewall usage? Sure... & other things for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" - best thing we've got going, see my post here on THAT note in fact -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3058625&cid=41048439 because I've been doing PC security since before there WAS a field in it... my post above has proof that also! apk

[PSA] Ken Starks of HeliOS fame has 2-3 weeks left

This is one of those put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is situations. From his partner's blog at http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2012/08/this-is-where-we-are.html

Ken's cancer has just recently begun to spread to his right lymph node but his Oncologist has assured us that this is 80 percent curative if he gets the needed surgery in time.

Unfortunately, his 1100 dollar a month SSI disability disqualifies him for Medicaid care and the local county low-income insurance he was receiving. This leaves us with about 2 weeks to either raise enough money for at least the OR for the surgery (we are hopeful of finding a surgeon to do the work pro bono) or raise enough money for the entire procedure. We've spent hours upon hours researching and contacting the links some of you have provided but they are so limited in scope that 90 percent of them are not helpful at all.

We are looking at two weeks, maybe three before the cancer spreads past the point of surgery being an option. After that, we've been told just to make him as comfortable as possible until he passes. I'm not ready to accept that.

Stupid, this Medicare exclusion. More about the guy, by Steven Vaughan-Nichols of ZDnet fame:

+Ken Starks is a Linux and open-source supporter. He also runs a non-profit that's donated thousands of PCs to low-income households. Now, he needs help to fight cancer. For more on what's happening with him see:

http://thomasaknight.com/blog.php?id=71

https://plus.google.com/app/plus/mp/374/#~loop:view=activity&aid=z132y3njjzjei5iic04cjds4ztnpef1pjb0

Pitch in if you can.

+Ken Starks is a Linux and open-source supporter. He also runs a non-profit that's donated thousands of PCs to low-income households. Now, he needs help to fight cancer. For more on what's happening with him see:

http://thomasaknight.com/blog.php?id=71

https://plus.google.com/app/plus/mp/374/#~loop:view=activity&aid=z132y3njjzjei5iic04cjds4ztnpef1pjb0

What's it like to be so wrong all the time? APK == troll

What's it like to be so wrong all the time? APK == troll

APK, you're not fooling anyone. What's it like to be so wrong all the time? APK == troll

APK, you're not fooling anyone. What's it like to be so wrong all the time? APK == troll

APK, you're not fooling anyone. What's it like to be so wrong all the time? APK == troll

What's it like to be so wrong all the time? APK == troll

What is really fucking sad is these FOSSies worship their OS like its a sacred cow which makes them not only retarded but blind as well. Notice how they ALWAYS say I'm some sort of "pro M$ Shill" yet I've written dozen of times how Steve "LOL I wanna work in Cupertino LOL" is probably the shittiest tech CEO in history, how for every decent product they've put out a half a dozen stinkers, and how they are completely fucking over their business customers with their "ZOMFG we gotta be like teh Apple!" consumers over all strategy.

Hey FOSSies? if your OS sucks I'm gonna point that out, no sacred cows for me. Kinda funny how one of the developers of Red Hat makes damned near the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT that I've been making here for years, is he a "M$ Shill" too? Hell Dell has to run their own repos because they can't even get any QA on Linux, even when they only sell a dozen units with Linux tops, are THEY "M$ Shills" as well?

I don't care who makes what, if it does what it says on the tin and does it reliably, be it footpedals or OSes, then I'll give it high marks and sing its praises. If it falls down and goes boom, if it needs to be constantly babied and futzed with just to keep it running, like a 75 Dodge with bad rings? Then damned right I'm gonna point out it sucks ass. Don't like it? Quit kissing dev ass and demand a better quality product, how about that?

Apart from being wedge-shaped (so they'll get their ass sued by Apple), the moment I looked at the video and saw the huge block of a power charger, it was clear that this isn't the portable Air-slayer that it might have been. I want something I can take away without having to lug half a ton of support equipment with me.

But the show-stopper is that vertical resolution. 900px is strictly for the brain-dead. Manufacturers think all anyone ever does is watch videos. Some of us need portable computers to do (gasp) work, and that means being able to see a whole-page document at readable resolution without having to use a microscope and without having to scroll the page vertically. Even my old Dell 4:3 Inspiron has a 1400×1050 display, and the only competitor to that at the moment is Apple's Retina display, which I tested last week and find I can read perfectly. Yes, I know you can get screens up to 1080px high, but the quality is crap and the prices ludicrous.

So snooze on, Lenovo, you've got a lot of research to do yet. Have a Google for laptop vertical resolution...

Ditto, except MOO 1 not MOO 2 (I play it some but it's just not as good as the original).

Speaking of not as good as the original, I also still play TFTD. Tacky and unoriginal as the story may be, it has some elements I like.

BTW have you seen XComUtil? (ironically, the guy's now at BioWare): https://sites.google.com/site/stjones/xcomutil Speaking of DLC...

Also http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts/ and http://ufoai.org/wiki/index.php/News (I've played the latter, it's excellent).

A pop 250 adults study was done in Nagasaki in 2001 and constitutes a baseline for the Japanese population. The comparison is to Belarous, in the shadow of Chernobyl. As the only country ever to be attacked with nuclear weapons Japan is acutely sensitive to radiation hazards, and knowledgeable about the effects. "Irregular" in this case refers to the presence of abnormal cysts of a specific size detected through ultrasound. Thyroid cysts in children is quite rare, and for them to occur in 36% of the population is definite cause for concern.

I wrote (forked, really) a book reader for Android earlier this year which has had over one million downloads since then. So I am obviously Android biased, but I also have looked into the field somewhat.

The main question is, why would you want to get something other than an Android tablet (or "phablet") as a reader? The main reason would be electronic paper - usually using eInk technology, like those Kindle's with eInk technology have. The Amazon Nook also has eInk, and other companies put out electronic paper products as well - Sony, Kobo etc. It is supposed to be easier to read, easier on the eyes, readable in bright sunlight etc. You can go to a store and try it out. Other people have commented about this technology, I have tried it but not on a regular basis. I don't know of any Android e-Ink products unfortunately, although the Microsoft/B&N Nook is a fork of Android.

Then there are Android tablets and phablets. One thing about them is you can choose different book readers - you can choose my book reader, or Google Play books, or the Kindle Android app, or the Kobo Android app, or apps like Aldiko, Moon Reader, Cool Reader, or the open source app I forked from - FBReader. Google Play is getting big on selling regular books like Harry Potter or Suzanne Collins or the like. You can buy them from apps like Kindle Android as well.

Then there's plenty of free apps with free books. My app is free and has free ePub format books in different languages - English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, French and Spanish. I will probably be adding more languages in the coming months. All of my ePub books which are free are in the public domain. Most, if not all, of them were published before 1923 and are thus public domain - Mark Twain, H.G. Wells and the like are popular English language books.

Plus, you can use your Android tablet/phablet for things other than book reading. You can buy a 7 inch Google Nexus 7 tablet, which people love. I have a Samsung Tab 10.1 which is 10 inches which I have been happy with. Try them out in a store, see how big they are and how much they weigh. If you are on a sofa or bed reading, how heavy will the tablet be on your stomach? The Samsung Tab 10.1 is 1.25 pounds, which is about the weight of a 500 page hardcover book. Since the weight is more evenly distributed, and not concentrated in the center like a book, it feels even lighter. But there are smaller and lighter tablets/phablets out there as well.

Slashdot has always been a fan of free software, and in terms of my app, it works out well in all directions. I have contributed back to my fork upstream, in the form of things like language translations. My app is on an open source framework - Android. While the app handles more than one book format, it concentrates on the book format which is the standard open one - ePub. My app primarily traffics in public domain, pre-1923 books in a variety of languages, so the content is free-as-in-beer/free-as-in-speech. The app made me over $430 in ad revenue last month. The ads are non-intrusive - originally I had ads over books while you were reading, but when testing it I found it annoying and distracting, so I put up ads before a book opened and hoped that I would still make money even though the ads were not as visible all the time, and it has worked out. Over time I will continue expanding languages, and sending those to my code upstream, FBReaderJ, and perhaps make other improvements and send those upstream as well. It is a free software ecosystem where the benefits flow back and forth in all directions and that has worked out for everyone.

>> 10k+ pages on an iPad

Pfff. This would be much more impressive on an eye-pad.

Not only did Sony start the whole official support for unlocked bootloaders, they have been so good at contributing back to Android that they're now getting official AOSP support.

http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/

"I've added a git project for the Sony LT26, i.e. Xperia S. This seems like a good target: it's a powerful current GSM device, with an unlockable bootloader, from a manufacturer that has always been very friendly to AOSP" - JBQ

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!msg/android-building/zji_sQGN9Oo/MoaS0xidmRMJ

It seems to work out just fine.