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Anything above 3% isn't really practical for an economy our size.

Says why? You got a citation, or is this just some sort of general feeling?

China has a GDP if about (currently) half ours, yet has sustained an average 10% growth for most of the period between 1962 and today. Citation not needed.

Their current GDP is what ours was in 1994.

The U.S. will never see 7% without huge inflation which would eat most of your double.

uh, what? How precisely is an increase in the supply of goods and services going to cause inflation? It causes the opposite.

Your error is in assuming that because inflation increases the measure of GDP in whatever dollars are current, that anyone gives a shit about GDP in non-constant dollars. Nobody that talks about increasing GDP is using non-constant dollars. They are talking about increasing the real value.

Anything above 3% isn't really practical for an economy our size.

Says why? You got a citation, or is this just some sort of general feeling?

China has a GDP if about (currently) half ours, yet has sustained an average 10% growth for most of the period between 1962 and today. Citation not needed.

Their current GDP is what ours was in 1994.

The U.S. will never see 7% without huge inflation which would eat most of your double.

uh, what? How precisely is an increase in the supply of goods and services going to cause inflation? It causes the opposite.

Your error is in assuming that because inflation increases the measure of GDP in whatever dollars are current, that anyone gives a shit about GDP in non-constant dollars. Nobody that talks about increasing GDP is using non-constant dollars. They are talking about increasing the real value.

Well it's clear you are not a Professor of genetics.

But where do diseases end, where does aesthetics start?

In the dictionary:

A particular quality, habit, or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people.

The line is entirely subjective, based on someone's particular definition of "adverse". If, for example, parents see being a redhead as adversity, why should they be prohibited from engineering a blonde?

Who enforces that line for the rich?

Why should anyone?

Clearly this guy hasn't seen enough dystopian movies about two-class societies emerging from genetics.

Or perhaps movies aren't the best indicator of future progress. More likely than a two-class dystopia is just an evolution of our current society, where the rich can have medical procedures done on a whim, and the poor can have procedures done after months of careful planning and borrowing. For treatments that are widely recognized as being medically suitable, insurance providers will help reduce the impact of the cost.

This sounds like an incredibly great idea, that I'm sure will have no down sides.

I mean, if we weed out violence, that can only be a good thing. Nice docile people who won't put up any kind of fight. What could go wrong with that?

Also, aren't mental illness and creativity linked?
https://www.google.com/search?q=creativity+mental+illness

So if you weed out schizophrenia, for example, to create a superior being.. you could simply be creating non-creative people, who will never invent anything new.

Honestly, we don't understand the human mind and how it works... how can we choose what human attributes are safe to discard?

Best regards from Russia to UK

Unfortunately, MplayerX is unusable at its current state for a significant number of users because of this issue that has been open and unaddressed for months. The lag is unbearable and keeps me from switching from VLC. I would like to do so because MplayerX' killer feature, remembering the play position, is missing from VLC even though it has been requested by its userbase for years.

Having lived in Brazil for nearly two decades, I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a good place to live or work.

It is one of the more difficult country to do business (126th place), high in the Perceived Corruption Index (75th place), and the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the twelfth and thirteenth most expensive cities in the world for ex-pats to live (and the two most expensive cities in north and south america).

If you plan on using the internet at all, don't forget that Brazil is the world champion in content removal requests for Google and YouTube content. Just last week, a judge to order the blocking of Facebook in all of Brazil for 24 hours (although that order has been rescinded at the moment).

I love living in Brazil - I really do - but I would not consider it anything like the developed world, such as Australia or New Zealand if you want to start a business or do some serious work.

Having lived in Brazil for nearly two decades, I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a good place to live or work.

It is one of the more difficult country to do business (126th place), high in the Perceived Corruption Index (75th place), and the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the twelfth and thirteenth most expensive cities in the world for ex-pats to live (and the two most expensive cities in north and south america).

If you plan on using the internet at all, don't forget that Brazil is the world champion in content removal requests for Google and YouTube content. Just last week, a judge to order the blocking of Facebook in all of Brazil for 24 hours (although that order has been rescinded at the moment).

I love living in Brazil - I really do - but I would not consider it anything like the developed world, such as Australia or New Zealand if you want to start a business or do some serious work.

Having lived in Brazil for nearly two decades, I certainly wouldn't recommend it as a good place to live or work.

It is one of the more difficult country to do business (126th place), high in the Perceived Corruption Index (75th place), and the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the twelfth and thirteenth most expensive cities in the world for ex-pats to live (and the two most expensive cities in north and south america).

If you plan on using the internet at all, don't forget that Brazil is the world champion in content removal requests for Google and YouTube content. Just last week, a judge to order the blocking of Facebook in all of Brazil for 24 hours (although that order has been rescinded at the moment).

I love living in Brazil - I really do - but I would not consider it anything like the developed world, such as Australia or New Zealand if you want to start a business or do some serious work.

Ooops, it looks like the US dollar has consistently gone down against the Australian dollar in recent years.

That page isn't very in-depth (to put it mildly.. it doesn't even link to the homework, much less info like "here are the possible requests, here's what you reply to them", some kind of example exchange between servers, etc.),

Yeah--it's an extremely high-level overview, for the most part.

The paragraph at the top of the page (about how the first, and possibly most significant step is almost a no-op in most cases: PuSH-enabling your RSS/Atom feeds so that people can subscribe to you) is pretty valuable even by itself, though. I gathered that you were probably expecting even that to be a lot of effort--just like I had expected it to be.

and the links that *are* on it, are mostly 404:

You should at least implement the http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from Link to link to your activities feed.

404.

To make this work, you'll need to implement the http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe WebFinger relationship (described in the OStatus protocol documents).

404.

Er..., oops. Yeah--it looks like things moved to different/better URLs and the links rotted; it'd be nice if someone had at least updated the links to point to the Wikipedia pages, e.g.:

• Salmon protocol
• Webfinger
• OStatus

It looks like the URLs that those links really *should* be pointing at are:

• http://webfinger.net/
• http://ostatus.org/specification
• http://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/

Sorry about that.

(I believe that those can all be found via the Wikipedia articles mentioned above, though)

The best (or at least easiest) way to get started is probably to get the StatusNet (PHP) or rstat.us (Ruby) code and start playing with it on a local server or a scratch domain â

I spoke to soon :/ (well, except for the list of OStatus sites, thanks again for that)

Start with `How to OStatus-enable Your Application'.

That page isn't very in-depth (to put it mildly.. it doesn't even link to the homework, much less info like "here are the possible requests, here's what you reply to them", some kind of example exchange between servers, etc.), and the links that *are* on it, are mostly 404:

You should at least implement the http://schemas.google.com/g/2010#updates-from Link to link to your activities feed.

404.

To make this work, you'll need to implement the http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe WebFinger relationship (described in the OStatus protocol documents).

404.

Why does the US want to eventually extradite Assange from Sweden rather than more quickly from the UK?

The UK would not extradite Assange to the US for a political crime, but Sweden has a more flexible agreement with the US.

Microsoft says that about everything and for some reason the press and sites like Slashdot breathlessly repeat it on demand every time. How many times can a company "bet itself" on every product, particularly when it is one for which they already own over 90% of the market? Even Windows Vista (which Microsoft "bet the company" on almost a decade ago) still made huge amounts of money for Microsoft despite being widely ridiculed as a total disaster.

The PDF reader in Chrome doesn't seem to be purely Google. On this page comparing Chrome to the open-source Chromium distribution, they mention that they can't open-source the Chrome PDF reader because:

The Chrome PDF plugin uses 3rd-party non-free code; no Free Software PDF plugin exists that supports all the PDF features we'd like (such as filling in forms). :(

Whose third-party code? Adobe's? Someone else's?

the top google results currently show she is wanted for hitting 2 people with her SUV while intoxicated.

Ubuntu 11 new enough for you? I ended up with two half ass working devices (as in "it works right now, cough and it won't") and one that supposedly was 'working" in the it would connect...as long as security wasn't anything you actually cared about on your wireless network.

Frankly I'm so God damned sick of FOSS zealots going "La la la no problems exist, its all candy and RMS in a dress passing flowers la la la" if I ever run into one on the street I'm just gonna bitchslap them, i swear to fricking God.

It is YOU and your type that continue to take the shit shoveled by the devs that make sure Linux doesn't go anywhere. if Linus "ego come and it won't go away" was working on a proprietary OS his ass would have been pink slipped so fast it'd make his head spin, but because the OS he works on is "free" that means he can crap in a box and nobody will say boo. if I hand you a sandwich that is 95% shit and 5% ham, would you call it a ham sandwich?

Hell even one of the Red Hat devs says Linux is in its death cries because of one bad move after another that has made the entire system a fucking mess, but will anybody listen? Nope, they'll just go "La la la" and then mod down anybody who points out emperor RMS is walking bare assed. If you'd like a list of fucked up shit here is a small one, only about two hundred major problems that just FYI many of which have been there for YEARS.

In the end I'll happily take the pepsi challenge with ANY user of Linux and LMAO when it falls down and goes Boom! Take any "normal" distro, don't give me that LTS bullshit because as we've seen with Ubuntu LTS means "see this list of things we fixed? Well fuck off, you can't have it unless you upgrade biotch" that was released at the same time as Win 7, install it clean, NO forum hunts or googling fixes allowed, and IF, which is a big fucking if, if you have the drivers working OOTB upgrade it to current and see what you are left with at the end. I can tell you because I've done it with over a dozen Linux distros and what you get is a pile of broken garbage, drivers fucked, programs gone to shit, its a mess. And don't try to pull that "Windows has to be installed clean too!" horseshit because you get TEN YEARS of updates minimum with windows, with Linux if you get a year and a half before doing the upgrade shuffle its a fucking miracle.

So far the ONLY one that has come close to passing the Hairyfeet challenge is RHEL which surprise! Costs $400 a year. Windows? $40 if you want Win 8, $80 if you want Win 7...kinda a BIG fricking difference there huh?

if you wanna push "free as in freedom!" or the whole "Linux works on dumpster dived hardware!" that's cool, but don't fucking lie. it makes the whole Linux community look like a bunch of FOSSies, with little RMS altars and pictures of Linus with hearts around it. Hell even Dell, one of the biggest OEMs on the fricking planet has to run their own repos because the drivers shit themselves....great QC you got there. Meanwhile the XP machine I'm typing on with an OS install from 2004 is running just fine with original drivers and the whole system is updated to current. And don't give me the "U must have teh viruz!" horseshit because any one of a dozen free AVs and 10 minutes of instruction from me and there ain't no fucking viruses getting on my builds. Yeah....no fricking contest, WinVista on its worse day is 1000 times better.

I'm British and I'm accidently sickened by this news, and I actually think our country deserves international condemnation over this but your rant is just stupid and wrong. "Before exiting Heathrow Airport, you will be recorded on more CCTV camera's than while driving from San Francisco to New York." That doesn't even make any sense, the distance between a plane and the exit to Heathrow isn't large enough for this to be true, unless you believe for some reason they have multiple CCTV cameras covering exactly the same spots taking the exact same redundant images for absolutely no reason at all. Hint: they don't. The UK has a CCTV problem, but your example is 100% bullshit, if you'd really actually been to Heathrow you'd know this.

I have been to Heathrow many times. And yes, I was exaggerating a but, but I'm glad to see that you at least agree with the message I was trying to bring: the U.K. has too much CCTV going on. It is impossible not to be on CCTV if you live in the U.K.

"The UK prohibits MP's of other European countries access because of their political views." Sure, the UK has refused entry to Geert Wilders, the Dutch far right extremist politicians which is presumably who you're referring to, but that's because the UK was dealing with a resurgent BNP at the time and we frankly didn't want to strengthen the far right platform. You realise however that countries like the US ban even simple holiday makers for jokes they've made on Twitter which the US authorities finds offensive? many European countries also ban extremists and so forth too.

There is a difference between the holiday makers making "terrorist jokes" and an MP who has been invited to speak about his political views. And you've just proved my point: the politics in the U.K. are so rotten that they want to avoid strengthening a far right platform. You know what? Even the far right (which whom I definitely do not agree), have a right to form a political voice. I order for people to respect your/a democracy, you need to allow political views that you do not necessarily agree with. I don't agree with Geert Wilders at all. But I will defend his right to freedom of speech whenever I can. The U.K. has a right to deny GW entry to their country, but that gives me the right to place them on my list of countries-who-oppose-democracy, and on my list of rotten-countries. And again, nothing against the individual Briton like you, but the system as a whole.

We do need to make sure we don't allow the downwards trajectory towards less tolerance to continue though and absolutely we should still work to reverse it.

By limiting free speech?

"The health system exceeds Mao's finest expectations when it comes to communist equality for all, especially the lack of quality." This is just stupid and wrong. The NHS works, it's one of the best systems in the world and used as a model for many other countries who want a progressive health system. If you think the NHS is somehow a communist issue, then presumably you think that the US having public police and fire services makes the US police and fire services communist too. In most civilised nations, healthcare is treated as an essential basic service just like policing, fire, and the military are. Sucks for you if you don't come from such a civilised society where people can focus on being productive, rather than having to worry as to whether they'll be made bankrupt for no other reason than they got ill.

Just check this link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=NHS+mistake and you'll see why I say this. There is one public system, and it is the NHS. Here in the U.S., I can choose which doctor I'd like to visit, if necessary. I agree with you that the insurance system is broken, but the quality of care is generally excellent.

"The police have a license to kill (remember the p

Then use Google's version.

That way you're just giving your Google password to Google.

Try GrooveIP. Works for me on my tablet using it as a speaker phone. I haven't tried it on an Android phone because I don't have one. Comes in Lite (free) and $5 versions...

I haven't tried Google's version but that is another option.

Try GrooveIP. Works for me on my tablet using it as a speaker phone. I haven't tried it on an Android phone because I don't have one. Comes in Lite (free) and $5 versions...

I haven't tried Google's version but that is another option.

Try GrooveIP. Works for me on my tablet using it as a speaker phone. I haven't tried it on an Android phone because I don't have one. Comes in Lite (free) and $5 versions...

I haven't tried Google's version but that is another option.

That's funny - during the opening ceremony, while your country was extolling the virtues of your NHS to the world, the US broadcaster aired a commercial (advert) that described how some hospital in the UK desperately needed a bunch of hi-tech baby incubators and how GE donated them.

Why would that be, pray tell?

Funny, though, that out of the three of them, if I were to choose the least "evil" one, it'd be Microsoft.

Why? Serious question. App Engine doesn't even lock you in that hard - there are APIs for exporting all of your data, and you can run your own App Engine cloud with an open source implementation like AppScale or TyphoonAE. Google is not hostile to these projects - they actually sponsor AppScale development. Is Microsoft sponsoring any alternative implementations of their server-side cloud software?

Funny, though, that out of the three of them, if I were to choose the least "evil" one, it'd be Microsoft.

Why? Serious question. App Engine doesn't even lock you in that hard - there are APIs for exporting all of your data, and you can run your own App Engine cloud with an open source implementation like AppScale or TyphoonAE. Google is not hostile to these projects - they actually sponsor AppScale development. Is Microsoft sponsoring any alternative implementations of their server-side cloud software?

Please google "Cloud Abstraction Layer".

Here; I'll help you out:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud+abstraction+layer

I was going to say "Sure, but Nevada doesn't have that many craters." Then I remembered it does have rather a lot :-)

Ah, I see you're a conservative software engineer.

From the "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" serie. http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%22laughing+man%22

Your Google Nexus One is T-Mobile compatible for high speed data access, so check out the Monthly4G offering.

They offer unlimited talk, text, and web for $50/mo, and a plan with 100 minutes of talk, unlimited text and web for $30/mo with additional minutes for $0.10/min.

Also, if you are willing to spend a little money to get a more advanced phone later on, I'd recommend picking up either a Samsung Galaxy Nexus ($349) or the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G ($300). Both options do not require a contract and are compatible with T-Mobile's HSPA+ network.

somehow he didn't sell several billion dollars worth of his tablets...

Next thing you know Star Trek episodes will be prior art.

Well, he never had anything but design concepts envisioning how others would build tablets in the near future. Like, ermm maybe IBM, who got a design patent in March 1994 for a Pen-based computer (which Apple references in its D504889 iPad design patent).

More Info here :p
http://plus.google.com/blergasdf1234thimbleturdorgasm99meatpoopypoopxv9donkeypie

But seriously, in this era of re-discovering and correctly honouring scientists for their hard-work and genius (like Alan Turing is now rightly getting, for example) why is Tesla still languishing? I mean, either, way, it was god-damn American* guy who made the light bulb, who cares which one it was? I think the US govt should buck up and admit they dun goofed, just like the Uk govt did with Turing.

*Wikipedia says he was an american citizen

And that was...what? 3 or 4 years ago? It hasn't been OO.o since oracle bought it and it forked ages ago and the LO guys are stripping out all the Java even as we speak.

I'll get hate for saying this but I really don't give a fuck, RMS is a nut or as the Brits say "snooker loopy" and while what he did 30 years ago was good frankly he passed batshit a looong time ago. As the head of RH said "RMS treats his friends as his enemies" and frankly RMS is only really good for religious dogma and shit stirring anymore.

I'd say a better take on Linux comes from one of the RH devs who says the current system isn't sustainable for just this reason, you have everyone and everything spread too damned thin and the QA and QC goes right down the shitter. So now instead of ONE product that's behind we have TWO products that are even farther behind...yay. The problem with all this wheel inventing was summed up by XKCD,everyone in FOSS land tries to play it up as a strength but that's bullshit, it just makes sure that every project is half ass and behind the competition because there is never enough manpower to get the job done right...thanks a lot.

If Samsung can find all these examples of prior art, how is it that Apple was granted patents in the first place? These are hardly the only examples of Apple being given patents on things that were obviously done by others well before they "innovated" them.

Prosecuting a patent (the act of trying to get a patent, not it's enforcement) is generally an excercise where a patent is sort of innocent until shown to be guilty. In this respect, a patent examiner is more like a district attorney, they tell you what you what your odds probably are and let you decide to continue prosecuting a patent. It seems to me that patent examiners seem to nearly always err on the side of allowing borderline patents and letting the courts sort it out later.

Also, even if the original claims are not possible, sometimes the patent search itself suggests how to amend your original doomed patent application, so that it has a better chance to pass. Generally, a patent office is in the patent granting business, not the patent denying business, so if there is any patent to get near your application and you are willing to spend enough time/money to search for and amend your patent in the patent procecution/search process, you will likely be able to find it and get a patent on it. Of course, it may be a very borderline unenforceable patent, but it will be the best that money can buy. ;^)

The patent law provides for the granting of design patents to any person who has invented any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. A design patent protects only the appearance of the article and not structural or utilitarian features. For instance, the roughly rectangular aspect of the structure would likely not be protectable for a smart phone (since existant lcd panels are rectangular, a minimal utilitarian enclosure would obviously be roughly rectangular).

AFAIK, the design patents in question are listed below. Be the judge yourself if you think the design is new, original and ornamental ;^)

http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889
http://www.google.com/patents/USD593087
http://www.google.com/patents/USD618677

Note that these are only design patents, if there were any utility or functionality associated with the design (say having rounded corners won't catch on your pocket seams, or being a certain size would fit in most pockets or hands), I believe this would require claims like a utility patent, which these patents are not. I doubt any of the utility patents on this would be allowed for any of the examples I cited as they would of course be too obvious.

If Samsung can find all these examples of prior art, how is it that Apple was granted patents in the first place? These are hardly the only examples of Apple being given patents on things that were obviously done by others well before they "innovated" them.

Prosecuting a patent (the act of trying to get a patent, not it's enforcement) is generally an excercise where a patent is sort of innocent until shown to be guilty. In this respect, a patent examiner is more like a district attorney, they tell you what you what your odds probably are and let you decide to continue prosecuting a patent. It seems to me that patent examiners seem to nearly always err on the side of allowing borderline patents and letting the courts sort it out later.

Also, even if the original claims are not possible, sometimes the patent search itself suggests how to amend your original doomed patent application, so that it has a better chance to pass. Generally, a patent office is in the patent granting business, not the patent denying business, so if there is any patent to get near your application and you are willing to spend enough time/money to search for and amend your patent in the patent procecution/search process, you will likely be able to find it and get a patent on it. Of course, it may be a very borderline unenforceable patent, but it will be the best that money can buy. ;^)

The patent law provides for the granting of design patents to any person who has invented any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. A design patent protects only the appearance of the article and not structural or utilitarian features. For instance, the roughly rectangular aspect of the structure would likely not be protectable for a smart phone (since existant lcd panels are rectangular, a minimal utilitarian enclosure would obviously be roughly rectangular).

AFAIK, the design patents in question are listed below. Be the judge yourself if you think the design is new, original and ornamental ;^)

http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889
http://www.google.com/patents/USD593087
http://www.google.com/patents/USD618677

Note that these are only design patents, if there were any utility or functionality associated with the design (say having rounded corners won't catch on your pocket seams, or being a certain size would fit in most pockets or hands), I believe this would require claims like a utility patent, which these patents are not. I doubt any of the utility patents on this would be allowed for any of the examples I cited as they would of course be too obvious.

If Samsung can find all these examples of prior art, how is it that Apple was granted patents in the first place? These are hardly the only examples of Apple being given patents on things that were obviously done by others well before they "innovated" them.

Prosecuting a patent (the act of trying to get a patent, not it's enforcement) is generally an excercise where a patent is sort of innocent until shown to be guilty. In this respect, a patent examiner is more like a district attorney, they tell you what you what your odds probably are and let you decide to continue prosecuting a patent. It seems to me that patent examiners seem to nearly always err on the side of allowing borderline patents and letting the courts sort it out later.

Also, even if the original claims are not possible, sometimes the patent search itself suggests how to amend your original doomed patent application, so that it has a better chance to pass. Generally, a patent office is in the patent granting business, not the patent denying business, so if there is any patent to get near your application and you are willing to spend enough time/money to search for and amend your patent in the patent procecution/search process, you will likely be able to find it and get a patent on it. Of course, it may be a very borderline unenforceable patent, but it will be the best that money can buy. ;^)

The patent law provides for the granting of design patents to any person who has invented any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. A design patent protects only the appearance of the article and not structural or utilitarian features. For instance, the roughly rectangular aspect of the structure would likely not be protectable for a smart phone (since existant lcd panels are rectangular, a minimal utilitarian enclosure would obviously be roughly rectangular).

AFAIK, the design patents in question are listed below. Be the judge yourself if you think the design is new, original and ornamental ;^)

http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889
http://www.google.com/patents/USD593087
http://www.google.com/patents/USD618677

Note that these are only design patents, if there were any utility or functionality associated with the design (say having rounded corners won't catch on your pocket seams, or being a certain size would fit in most pockets or hands), I believe this would require claims like a utility patent, which these patents are not. I doubt any of the utility patents on this would be allowed for any of the examples I cited as they would of course be too obvious.

Probably because of this - https://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185834&topic=1099588&ctx=topic#gvoice

And we laugh every time we see someone with an Android device, because some of us put more value on user satisfaction than some dubious ideological idiocy about "openness" (it's a fucking appliance).

Android is better value. It's the best bang for your buck. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But it's NOT the best user experience, the evidence is undeniable.

It's like someone with a Toyota saying "I laugh every time I see someone with a BMW, knowing they paid too much". Good for you. Nobody cares.

patenting the buttprint authentication system for toilets. nobody but you will be allowed to use the commode.

version 2: hydrofluoric acid bidet security countermeasure and automatic facebook update (frees up your hands for, uhh, other activities...).

false buttprint matches will still be identified via facebook, so your countermeasure incident is posted automatically too. connects to facebook via google TiSP http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/tisp/

product slogan: protect your shit! crowdsource me plz, you can reach me at those.are.my.stains@buttprintz.com.

This is exactly right. For how many years were people telling them that Google Maps wasn't showing Louisville, Kentucky and various other "lost cities"? It took them years to fix these problems.

I'm sure it's quite a few:

MAC OSX
Windows
Android
iOS
BB OS

"But seriously, are there any schemes or research out there that has been working on the topic of creating a managed secure environment for average consumers?" - by sageres (561626) on Wednesday August 15, @10:43AM (#40996727)

Yes - I post PART of it here today -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3050133&cid=40997381 which SPECIFICALLY shows you how to "stall" the botnet C&C Servers (& more) ,b>for Zeus + it's variants (Citadel, & Ice IX, which Krebs noted specifically in his REVETON article).

* The rest is YOU "security-hardening" your system, & I wrote up guides for THAT from 1997-2008, that still do the job excellently:

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=9s4rUNnAK6Xu0gGeqIDYCg

---

* THE APK SECURITY GUIDE GROUP 18++ THUSFAR (from +5 -> +1 RATINGS, usually "informative" or "interesting" etc./et al):

APK SECURITY GUIDE:2009 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1361585&cid=29360367
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2009 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1218837&cid=27787281
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2008 -> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&cid=25093275
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2010 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1885890&cid=34358316
APK SECURITY GUIDE (old one):2005 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154868&cid=12988150
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2008 -> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&no_d2=1&cid=25092677
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2008 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1027095&cid=25747655
APK SECURITY TEST CHALLENGE LINUX vs. WINDOWS:2007 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=267599&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=20203061
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2010 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1638428&cid=32070500
APK SECURITY GUIDE (old one):2005 -> http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168931&cid=14083927
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APK SYSTEM TUNING:2010 -> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1497268&cid=30649722
APK SECURITY GUIDE: 2008 -> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&n

Where's the "No Sources Except Tin Foil Hat Blogs" moderation? Are we so happy to accept this unsubstantiated claim just because it meshes with our prejudices?

Well now, unfortunately, Ardin and Wilen have have managed to purge the web of all but the most ridiculous information relating to them, so efficiently that most fortune-500 companies can't afford such effective PR. Impressive.

For example, the fact that Anna Ardin wrote her Master's thesis on the use of rape as a weapon - Google that. You'll get tons of hits containing it in the cached summary, and yet, every single one of them seems to go to an unrelated (or redacted) page. You can, however, still find copies of her curiously-no-longer-existant blog where she detailed her "seven steps to revenge".

Or the fact that Ardin's cousin served as deputy head of ops in Afghanistan. Again, cached summaries, but no content actually says that (interestingly, two years ago you could find this information everywhere; today, I can barely find reference to it except one bullet point on a website I wouldn't tend to trust as a source, except insofar that it agrees with a reality that has somehow otherwise vanished).

Or the fact that Ardin spent several years working as an anti-Castro organizer in Cuba, somehow "personally" funding the movement until Cuba deported her - Which I can only find in Spanish (guess her PR whitewashing friends don't speak Spanish) and the occasional snippets here and there.

Or the fact that it horrified Sofia Wilen to learn that the police (and not just any police; not the local police; but rather, a detective Ardin knew personally from an entirely different jurisdiction) had charged Assange with rape, when she (apparently something of a germophobe) only wanted to compel him to get an STD test.


Yep. Completely unsubstantiated - If you require a link from CNN. If you actually dig a bit, a much darker picture appears than that of two girls falling victim to a serial acquaintance-rapist.

They didn't prove him wrong. They made his exaggerated claim actually correct.

The average URL for Google+ profiles is something like http://plus.google.com/u/0/101560853443212199687/ instead of plus.google.com/shortname

He made an exaggeration with his long ridiculous example, and then Google made it true. It seems to have coincided with an announcement that Google is introducing vanity URL's.

Actually, they have started adding custom url's.

TFS actually highlights what I consider to be Google's biggest problem: they don't listen.

Actually, they did listen to what the Oatmeal told them. https://plus.google.com/u/0/101560853443212199687/posts/L2K5K1GzaSh#101560853443212199687/posts/L2K5K1GzaSh

Apple US store iPad US$399
Apple DE store iPad EU399

399 USD = 325 EUR

So it has been like that since the 24th of May (about a month after the original post, see the comment by Google employee Allan Cross at the bottom), and that's now being touted as news?

Ouch.

np: Future Sound Of London - Museum (From The Archives Vol. 2)

Bellingham Costco shoppers take to Facebook to ask for 'American Only' hours Business Bellingham News
Canada milk Bellingham dollars - Google Search

And one time, while in Bellingham, I do believe I saw someone putting gas cans into the back of a car with Canadian plates at a gas station. (The "smuggling" aspect aside, isn't that really dangerious to do?)