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Obama dishonest: 6.7 million results
Romney dishonest: 2 million results

I call that proof that Obama is 3.35 times more dishonest.

Obama dishonest: 6.7 million results
Romney dishonest: 2 million results

I call that proof that Obama is 3.35 times more dishonest.

Except you can already use a Wiimote with just about any Android device. It's not like the primitive motion sensing technology that the Wii uses is some kind of breakthrough that requires a supercomputer.

That's OK, T Boone Pickens is working on correcting that.
All praise the invisble hand from which all blessing flow!!! whoops, broke the 1st commandment there

Or in this case, another city.

Tell that to Muslims in New Jersey.

For just storage use a formed hard nylon case then when your using it make sure its in a waterproof case with strap so you can wear it and protect it from falling and water damage.

If you can get around bringing the ebook reader just get some books on tape and put them on a tiny mp3 player or phone. If find this much easier to get my stories while traveling and one less device to lug around with me.

Back in the PDA days I had an awesome rugged case for my compaq, the case was really thick, enough to absorb shock from falls and sealed enough to protect it from a little water. Tried finding something like it for ebooks or tablets but no luck, maybe you can google some more and find something.

Why would they file if they don't want to file?

because the guy who filed is now more relevant, due to having filed it..

just look at the fucking logos. you can't confuse them.

why aren't they suing this http://www.bordbia.ie/industryservices/information/alerts/Pages/Danishmarketfocusesonenvironmentalinitiatives.aspx ? much more likeness. different color, gear..

https://www.google.com/search?q=keyhole+logo&num=30&hl=fi&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=AA9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=EbgjUJzjGOKg4gSSsIHwBg&ved=0CJ4BELAE&biw=1124&bih=564

frankly, OSI should just fuck off. they don't lose their protection on their logo due to this use anyhow what they're actually trying to do is bring more relevance to them as getting control of this new movement. furthermore OSI should just change their name, it's a bitch to even google.

I can't believe that no one mentioned Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time ! Chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America and published in 1970: stories were from 1929-1964. No ISBN in my (tattered) copy, but Library of Congress Card Number 70-97691. Edit: Oh wait: look here: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame_Volume.html?id=yPVbDv5DqkoC. 52 of 58 people rated it 4 or 5. You can then buy it right over in the left-hand column. Go, go!

Paint it.

Captcha: missions

I was/am sureMSI also offered it for awhile with the 10 inch Wind, not a bad little unit. it sure as fuck wasn't SUSE as I've used SUSE and whatever they had on the thing was NOT SUSE. It looked like a rip of the EEE UI mixed with a little gOS and that sure as fuck ain't SUSE.

But in the end it don't matter, given the choice people took Windows and so nobody cares. I mean if you think there is a market, why did Walmart pull it? Surely you don't think the company that prides itself on undercutting everybody would just walk away from selling laptops cheaper than anybody? they walked away because just as Canonical found out if it don't run the software they don't want it. Oh and just FYI but even one of the RH devs says the Linux desktop model is broken and getting worse and if he don't know the truth then who in the fuck does?

Frankly I wish Linux had a usable product, I really do. I probably went through $300 in bandwidth cap overages trying every. damned. distro. just to find one that would consistently update without shitting itself, know what i found? It don't exist, and frankly probably won't exist as long as Linus Torvalds is controlling the kernel.

I could give you a long list of what is broken but why bother? The community won't listen and things will never get better so who cares. In the end Linux was a beautiful IDEA that was wasted because in the end the community became a bunch of elitist programmer pricks that think regular people shouldn't touch their "precious" OS. The only time that Linux has ever sold shit was when Google took it away from the community and made Android, which mark my words will be locked down as bad as iOS by 2015. Nobody listens, nobody learns, they just keep doing the same old shit, bleeding edge software, kernel fucking, leaning on the CLI, and the shocked when nothing changes and nobody will take Linux. Hell when people would rather steal the other guy's product by like a 30 to 1 margin rather than take yours for 100% free, what does that tell you?

It tells me that nobody in the Linux community will actually bother to make a product people will take, that's what.

Theodore Sturgeon also predicted the mobile internet in the 1950s and its possible social, political, and military implications. And much, much more. That one story inspired Ted Nelson and project Xanadu and Hypertext (so, ultimately the World Wide Web), as well as many other technologists (like for nanotech).
http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Although I'd agree with others that Stanislaw Lem and Ursula K. Le Guin are awesome.

And my person favorite is James P. Hogan, who predicted the difficulties with a transition from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking:
http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?titleID=29&cmd=summary
"In the meantime, Earth went through a dodgy period, but managed in the end to muddle through. The fun begins when a generation ship housing a population of thousands arrives to "reclaim" the colony on behalf of the repressive, authoritarian regime that emerged following the crisis period. The Mayflower II brings with it all the tried and tested apparatus for bringing a recalcitrant population to heel: authority, with its power structure and symbolism, to impress; commercial institutions with the promise of wealth and possessions, to tempt and ensnare; a religious presence, to awe and instill duty and obedience; and if all else fails, armed military force to compel. But what happens when these methods encounter a population that has never been conditioned to respond?
    The book has an interesting corollary. Around about the mid eighties, I received a letter notifying me that the story had been serialized in an underground Polish s.f. magazine. They hadn't exactly "stolen" it, the publishers explained, but had credited zlotys to an account in my name there, so if I ever decided to take a holiday in Poland the expenses would be covered (there was no exchange mechanism with Western currencies at that time). Then the story started surfacing in other countries of Eastern Europe, by all accounts to an enthusiastic reception. What they liked there, apparently, was the updated "Ghandiesque" formula on how bring down an oppressive regime when it's got all the guns. And a couple of years later, they were all doing it!"

I hate to break it to you, but Google Drive doesn't actually copy the docs down to your machine; the files you see are just metadata that references the file in Google Docs.

Only if you don't set up offline access.

You should read the short story "... And Now The News." It's truly one of the most eye opening short stories that nobody knows about. In many ways, it's a gloriously alternative view about the sadness of life and the optimism that people can have. Truly one of the best stories I'd recommend to anyone.

Here's the link:
http://books.google.com/books/about/And_Now_the_News.html?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC

Some more commentary:
http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/faq.html

Sure. Their stock price went from $15 to $3 in less than 6 months.

Except their scribblings have none of the exact details that you claim they do. They are nothing but rough drawings.

I'm not sure what you're looking at, then. I'm talking about the design patents in this case, such as this one. There are no "scribblings" or "rough drawings" anywhere in there.

What words? The ones that say 'Fig. 1' and 'Fig. 2'? What I quoted was the entirety of their patent's claims. You can even see so for yourself.

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

3x the cost of a DVD is a fortune?

(google search) - $12 for 50 versus $26 for 50?

Everyone uses them, except you, because your post is a shitpost.

3x the cost of a DVD is a fortune?

(google search) - $12 for 50 versus $26 for 50?

Everyone uses them, except you, because your post is a shitpost.

Dude, we lost a data center in 2002 to a SuperSoaker. One of the admins offered to do a tour for "Bring Your Terror of a Child to Work Day" and failed to check SuperSoaker's at the door.

I've never been more proud of my son.

Seriously though, yes, a hurricane could easily knock out east coast data centers. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=hurricane+isabel+baltimore

But I guess we slashdotted google+ anyways
Chips and dips AKA https://plus.google.com/photos/105030465637303791249/albums/5645165571128591969 brings up a blank page

How to get quality software to Linux. There is tons of it now, but not for the consumer.

Not for the enterprise consumer, but for anything anyone needs a computer at home for, Linux has more than enough software for anyone's needs.

GiMP is not Photoshop

True, but photoshop isn't for the home market, the damned program costs as much or more than the computer it's running on. Most non-professionals using photoshop are using a pirate version. There's no need to spend $700 to edit the photos you shot with your cell phone.

There is no real possibility of editing video.

Google says you're wrong.

Open/Libre Office is not, for the average consumer, an alternative to MS Office.

What does the average user need an office suite for? Writing grandma, cropping photos, balancing the checkbook. Oo is perfectly capabe of doing anything the average non-enterprise user needs. Why would a home user spend a couple hundred dollars on a program they would seldom use?

The overall experience is not particularly high quality (I use Linux every day, it isn't).

Then you're running the wrong distro; I see that here often. One fellow was saying last week that he couldn't play MP3s on his Linux machine, well DUH, he was running Red Hat. You don't use a server OS for a desktop client, you use the right tool for the job. There is no "Linux", there are a LOT of Linuxes. I'm running kubuntu, and it's not as pretty as Windows 7 (I have that on a notebook) but otherwise it's superior in every way to Windows.

If Linux lacks quality, why do you use it every day? I call bullshit, friend. If Linux wasn't better than Windows, nobody would use Linux because the computer already has an OS when they buy it.

Several ways: Blocking tracker servers via hosts files, disallowing cookies & javascript (only used where I see fit which is online banking or shopping mostly, & ONLY where need it for functionality, nothing more - Otherwise it opens doors to malicious scripts @ times even in adbanners, see below)

Then, also by using Opera features like DNT options it has, not sending referring sites OR geolocation data to ones I am on now, & more... it works: I never get a "sick"/infected/infested system, period, & I certainly do NOT get tracked either (well, other than by ac trolls around here on /. that is, lol)!

FireFox NoScript & AdBlock + IE TPL's (tracking protection lists), + filtering DNS servers do the rest on other browsers along with Web-Of-Trust & Haute Secure (Opera) & general "system 'security-hardening'" -> 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=8H4iUMXuHuHa0QH5wIBQ by "yours truly"...

"Layered Security"/"Defense-in-Depth" is the way to go, and yes, it actually works...

* Now, you also just KNOW I'm going to post my "usual" on hosts files, so here goes:

I use hosts in the following ways (see my 'p.s.' below, in detail, for your reference) to COMPLIMENT & OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS IN DNS & OTHER MECHANISMS LARGELY!

Custom hosts files gain me the following benefits (A short summary of where custom hosts files can be extremely useful):

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1.) Blocking out malware/malscripted sites
2.) Blocking out Known sites-servers/hosts-domains that are known to serve up malware
3.) Blocking out Bogus DNS servers malware makers use
4.) Blocking out Botnet C&C servers
5.) Blocking out Bogus adbanners that are full of malicious script content
6.) Getting you back speed/bandwidth you paid for by blocking out adbanners + hardcoding in your favorite sites (faster than remote DNS server resolution)
7.) Added reliability (vs. downed or misdirect/poisoned DNS servers).
8.) Added "anonymity" (to an extent, vs. DNS request logs)
9.) The ability to bypass DNSBL's (DNS block lists you may not agree with).
10.) More screen "real estate" (since no more adbanners appear onscreen eating up CPU, Memory, & other forms of I/O too - bonus!)
11.) Truly UNIVERSAL PROTECTION (since any OS, even on smartphones, usually has a BSD drived IP stack).
12.) Faster & MORE EFFICIENT operation vs. browser plugins (which "layer on" ontop of Ring 3/RPL 3/usermode browsers - whereas the hosts file operates @ the Ring 0/RPL 0/Kernelmode of operation (far faster) as a filter for the IP stack itself...)
13.) Blocking out TRACKERS
14.) Custom hosts files work on ANY & ALL webbound apps (browser plugins do not).
15.) Custom hosts files offer a better, faster, more efficient way, & safer way to surf the web & are COMPLETELY controlled by the end-user of them.

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* & FAR more... read on below IF you are interested (for detail).

AND, for those of you that run Microsoft Windows 32 or 64 bit? An automated hosts file creation & mgt. program:

http://securemecca.com/public/APKHostsFileInstaller/2012_06_01/APKHostsFileEngineInstaller32_64bit.exe.zip

(You simply extract its files to ANY folder you like (usually one you create for it, doesn't matter where, but you MUST run it as administrator (simple & the "read me" tab shows how easy THAT is to do))

What's it do for you?

It's a custom hosts file mgt. program that does the following for end users (Calling it "APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++") after it obtains custom hosts fil

Rob is probably one Portman that you don't want to see naked and petrified.

It's pretty easy to find plenty of evidence that h4rr4r's post is spot on. Google "Portugal decriminalization".

https://www.google.com/search?q=portugal+decriminalization

h4rr4r speaks truth, whether or not you want to hear it.

Absolutely, but who cares about truth any more? Drugs are about MONEY! Decriminalization fucks with cash flow, and needs to be avoided at all costs.

"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is pretty darn bleak: a crazed and omnipotent computer has killed off all of humanity except for six people; by the end of the story there is only one left alive, and he has been turned into an amorphous blob that will live forever in torment (with no mouth and yet needing to scream).

Speaker for the Dead is also pretty depressing. After reading it, I was done with Orson Scott Card and I still haven't gone back. Some humans get killed on a newly settled planet, and Ender goes to investigate. Since there is no faster than light travel for matter (only for information), by the time he gets there years have gone by and pretty much everyone's life was ruined by the tragedy. Then Ender's investigation rips open the old wounds. Then he figures out what went wrong and it was all a horrible tragic misunderstanding. I was upset about all this, because Ender was fabulously wealthy and had unlimited access to the "ansibles" (FTL communicators) so at the beginning I thought he was going to play Nero Wolfe, hire someone on the planet to be his investigator, and solve the mystery immediately after it happened and before everyone's lives were ruined. Nope.

Dancers in the Afterglow had such a downer of an ending that it left me thinking "WTF?!?" for days. A plucky female gets captured by bad guys, who torture her, cut off her arms and legs, and put fast-reproducing bacteria in the wounds so they can never be healed properly. At the end of the story she has been rescued, has been given care, seems to be coping and is almost happy again... and then a meteor falls from the sky and kills her instantly. WTF?!? (I don't think Jack L. Chalker hated women... he never wrote anything else like that; and e.g. Mavra Chang found a pretty happy ending in the Well Worlds series.)

There was a short story, "Quietus", where there was some sort of apocalypse and there is only one young man left alive. Against all the odds, there is also one young woman left alive, and he meets her. Through a tragic misunderstanding, an alien who came to help kills the man, and the woman is left grieving over the dead body. The alien then has to live with the knowledge that he had rendered an intelligent species extinct.

steveha

"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" is pretty darn bleak: a crazed and omnipotent computer has killed off all of humanity except for six people; by the end of the story there is only one left alive, and he has been turned into an amorphous blob that will live forever in torment (with no mouth and yet needing to scream).

Speaker for the Dead is also pretty depressing. After reading it, I was done with Orson Scott Card and I still haven't gone back. Some humans get killed on a newly settled planet, and Ender goes to investigate. Since there is no faster than light travel for matter (only for information), by the time he gets there years have gone by and pretty much everyone's life was ruined by the tragedy. Then Ender's investigation rips open the old wounds. Then he figures out what went wrong and it was all a horrible tragic misunderstanding. I was upset about all this, because Ender was fabulously wealthy and had unlimited access to the "ansibles" (FTL communicators) so at the beginning I thought he was going to play Nero Wolfe, hire someone on the planet to be his investigator, and solve the mystery immediately after it happened and before everyone's lives were ruined. Nope.

Dancers in the Afterglow had such a downer of an ending that it left me thinking "WTF?!?" for days. A plucky female gets captured by bad guys, who torture her, cut off her arms and legs, and put fast-reproducing bacteria in the wounds so they can never be healed properly. At the end of the story she has been rescued, has been given care, seems to be coping and is almost happy again... and then a meteor falls from the sky and kills her instantly. WTF?!? (I don't think Jack L. Chalker hated women... he never wrote anything else like that; and e.g. Mavra Chang found a pretty happy ending in the Well Worlds series.)

There was a short story, "Quietus", where there was some sort of apocalypse and there is only one young man left alive. Against all the odds, there is also one young woman left alive, and he meets her. Through a tragic misunderstanding, an alien who came to help kills the man, and the woman is left grieving over the dead body. The alien then has to live with the knowledge that he had rendered an intelligent species extinct.

steveha

I work on web search at Google, and I can assure you that there is no such -req operator. All that you're doing is filtering out results that match the word "req". :-)

When you find a query where you think you need lots of quotes, you might be interested in Verbatim mode, which can be enabled in the left-hand search tools:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1734130&topic=1221265&ctx=topic

Here's the official list of supported search operators:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

There are also some legacy operators like [inurl:foo], [intitle:foo], and [allintitle: foo bar baz]. http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

I work on web search at Google, and I can assure you that there is no such -req operator. All that you're doing is filtering out results that match the word "req". :-)

When you find a query where you think you need lots of quotes, you might be interested in Verbatim mode, which can be enabled in the left-hand search tools:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1734130&topic=1221265&ctx=topic

Here's the official list of supported search operators:
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

There are also some legacy operators like [inurl:foo], [intitle:foo], and [allintitle: foo bar baz]. http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

and her ideas worked so well that she died penniless and living off the socialism she so despised (look it up, she did).

Come off it. Ayn was just a scared little woman frightened by dictators. I could spend hours recounting the holes in her philosophy, but others have done it much better than I ever could.

The gall? Calm down there big boy. I said the OEMs failed MS in terms of the quality of their hardware and the crapware they install. That's factually accurate.

No, that's weasel-speak. MS set the market up that way by the way they sold Windows licenses and then expected them all to fight tooth and nail for the market share. The market has determined that as long as a PC can run Windows it doesn't need to do much else. That's just how it is. Characterizing that as a fail when billionaire after billionaire and multi-billion dollar company has been minted one after another is just ludicrous.

You're arguing against a point that nobody is making, least of all MS.

Are you fucking retarded?

I said the OEMs failed MS in terms of the quality of their hardware and the crapware they install.

The distinction of how they supposedly failed them is moot when you are talking about the quality of the hardware and the preinstalled programs as that is all the differentiation they have in a commodity market. That's the only way they could "fail" MS with the way you're phrasing it. It's like having a car in any color you want as long as it's black and then saying well "you can have it in any color you want". Please troll less stupidly.

They would know because they've seen the Android tablet designs. Most are poor, some are good, none can separate themselves from the ipad as far as design goes. MS doesn't want to releast Windows 8 and then wait, and watch, and then react. They want to be ready with a compelling tablet day 1. Makes sense.

I'm perfectly calm but I call stupidity when I see it. Computex Taipei 2012 where most OEMs debuted their Windows 8 tablets. Not a single x86 tablet there is derivative of an Android design so how the fuck are you saying they are? Are you blind? Just stupid?

None of those looked like a viable iPad competitor. Launching with those tablets would result in poor sales.

Ballmer himself says he doesn't expect stellar sales with the Surface tablets. So if the Surface doesn't sell and the Computex tablets don't sell, what the fuck does that leave? Cheap commodity Windows shit like it always does. If it happens to have an x86 processor onboard it will sell. Otherwise it will collect dust right next to the Surface Pro and all the other pretentious expensive shit.

Says the MS-hating lemming with the inflammatory post. If you disagree with their strategy on Surface it's fine. But drinking one flavor of Kool-Aid and accusing others of drinking the wrong brand is pretty rich. Ultimately with or without Kool-Aid arguments need to stand on facts and logic.

If I'm an MS hating Lemming then you should be able to rationally refute my points. You've failed as everything you've said has been wrong as in the case of the supposed Android derived Windows 8 tablets or contradictory when you say in the next breath that those Windows 8 tablets (that are not Android derivative) aren't competitive with the iPad.

Face it, dude. You got told.

Where OEMs have failed MS is in the quality of the hardware they put out, and the crap they pre-install.

MS is sitting on a worldwide 90+ percent desktop market share and 40 something billion dollars in cash right now on the backs of preloading their OS on OEM hardware for the last 30 years and you have the gall to say they've been failed? Failed would have been if the PC hadn't sold and Apple or Amstrad or Amiga or whoever else would have taken over the market and you wouldn't even have ever heard of Micro-soft. And if people wanted so-called high quality hardware without "crap", it ain't hard to find. You think that MS putting out a thousand dollar touch screen ultrabook is somehow going to change what people want to buy? If people wanted to pay that kind of money they have always had the option. This entire mantra of the OEMs have failed is pure bunk from apologists rationalizing MSs cargo cult aping of Apple with the Surface tablet introductions. Pretending that it has anything to do with Acer et al selling people cheap laptops is ludicrous and delusional.

I suspect MS needed to make Surface PCs because they needed an iPad competitor and they alone had the bucks and design chops to pull it off.

How the fuck would they know? They kept foisting Windows on the OEMs with fucking styluses and pretending that those were good enough. They haven't even released Windows 8 yet and already they've been failed? Are you even parsing what you're writing here?

The OEMs are busy working on Android tablets. Left to the OEMs they would take an Android tablet design and re-purpose it for windows.

Um, are you delusional? There were a fuckton of Windows 8 tablets shown off at Computex that were not Android retreads.

Fuck this. Dude, get off the fucking Kool-Aid before you OD.

Where OEMs have failed MS is in the quality of the hardware they put out, and the crap they pre-install.

MS is sitting on a worldwide 90+ percent desktop market share and 40 something billion dollars in cash right now on the backs of preloading their OS on OEM hardware for the last 30 years and you have the gall to say they've been failed? Failed would have been if the PC hadn't sold and Apple or Amstrad or Amiga or whoever else would have taken over the market and you wouldn't even have ever heard of Micro-soft. And if people wanted so-called high quality hardware without "crap", it ain't hard to find. You think that MS putting out a thousand dollar touch screen ultrabook is somehow going to change what people want to buy? If people wanted to pay that kind of money they have always had the option. This entire mantra of the OEMs have failed is pure bunk from apologists rationalizing MSs cargo cult aping of Apple with the Surface tablet introductions. Pretending that it has anything to do with Acer et al selling people cheap laptops is ludicrous and delusional.

I suspect MS needed to make Surface PCs because they needed an iPad competitor and they alone had the bucks and design chops to pull it off.

How the fuck would they know? They kept foisting Windows on the OEMs with fucking styluses and pretending that those were good enough. They haven't even released Windows 8 yet and already they've been failed? Are you even parsing what you're writing here?

The OEMs are busy working on Android tablets. Left to the OEMs they would take an Android tablet design and re-purpose it for windows.

Um, are you delusional? There were a fuckton of Windows 8 tablets shown off at Computex that were not Android retreads.

Fuck this. Dude, get off the fucking Kool-Aid before you OD.

Where OEMs have failed MS is in the quality of the hardware they put out, and the crap they pre-install.

MS is sitting on a worldwide 90+ percent desktop market share and 40 something billion dollars in cash right now on the backs of preloading their OS on OEM hardware for the last 30 years and you have the gall to say they've been failed? Failed would have been if the PC hadn't sold and Apple or Amstrad or Amiga or whoever else would have taken over the market and you wouldn't even have ever heard of Micro-soft. And if people wanted so-called high quality hardware without "crap", it ain't hard to find. You think that MS putting out a thousand dollar touch screen ultrabook is somehow going to change what people want to buy? If people wanted to pay that kind of money they have always had the option. This entire mantra of the OEMs have failed is pure bunk from apologists rationalizing MSs cargo cult aping of Apple with the Surface tablet introductions. Pretending that it has anything to do with Acer et al selling people cheap laptops is ludicrous and delusional.

I suspect MS needed to make Surface PCs because they needed an iPad competitor and they alone had the bucks and design chops to pull it off.

How the fuck would they know? They kept foisting Windows on the OEMs with fucking styluses and pretending that those were good enough. They haven't even released Windows 8 yet and already they've been failed? Are you even parsing what you're writing here?

The OEMs are busy working on Android tablets. Left to the OEMs they would take an Android tablet design and re-purpose it for windows.

Um, are you delusional? There were a fuckton of Windows 8 tablets shown off at Computex that were not Android retreads.

Fuck this. Dude, get off the fucking Kool-Aid before you OD.

It's pretty easy to find plenty of evidence that h4rr4r's post is spot on. Google "Portugal decriminalization".

https://www.google.com/search?q=portugal+decriminalization

h4rr4r speaks truth, whether or not you want to hear it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll

I think Google says it all in their description of their 2-factor authentication

2-step verification drastically reduces the chances of having the personal information in your Google account stolen by someone else

Emphasis mine but yeah, straight from their site

I used to think that way too. But there are a number of lesser known open-source tools to convert AA size PDFs to fit 6" screens without resorting to vanilla reflow.

http://code.google.com/p/sopdf/ (had to compile)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
http://code.google.com/p/papercrop/

There are also plain image based converters like this one.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13135

Together, they could handle (crop and clip) all the PDFs I tried them with so far. The trouble with them is that they have individual strengths and one needs to pick and choose by PDF type. By the time we get polished do-it-all tools, we will likely have cheap AA sized eReaders.

I used to think that way too. But there are a number of lesser known open-source tools to convert AA size PDFs to fit 6" screens without resorting to vanilla reflow.

http://code.google.com/p/sopdf/ (had to compile)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/
http://code.google.com/p/papercrop/

There are also plain image based converters like this one.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13135

Together, they could handle (crop and clip) all the PDFs I tried them with so far. The trouble with them is that they have individual strengths and one needs to pick and choose by PDF type. By the time we get polished do-it-all tools, we will likely have cheap AA sized eReaders.

Browsing the source, I don't see code for bink nor mss. What is there is the header file to link to library for bink and mss. http://code.google.com/p/darkreign2/source/browse/source/3rdparty/#3rdparty%2Fmss

https://www.google.com/search?q=conway's+game+of+life

Look to the right.

There is no reason to turn on two factor authentication for some secondary email, or even use a Gmail account for this.

You get non-descript messages with some digits in this email, and they are use-once codes. You can paste them on the bulletin board after you use them and nobody could use them again.

Once you get the Google Authentication app on your phone, you need never use this again.
Lose your phone?

Sign up for a google voice (or voip or something) account?

Maybe with a different password.

Second point in the FAQ:
Why you shouldn’t use Google Voice to receive verification codes

If you use Google Voice to receive verification codes, you can easily create a situation where you’ve locked yourself out of your account.

For example, if you are signed out of your Google Voice app, you might need a verification code to get back in. However, you won’t be able to receive this verification code because it will be sent to your Google Voice, which you can’t access.

You have to have a phone to set it up. You can then disable the phone and re-enable it with:

> Mobile application
> Switch to an app to get codes even when you don't have cell coverage.

And then remove your phone #. So at minimum it's going to cost you a burner phone.

The awesome thing about Google Authenticator is that it's open source. You can download and compile a PAM package (and it's in the Debian repositories). http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/ So anything that uses PAM can use google authenticator.

I have it setup on my outward facing SSH server so to get into my house's server you're going to need my password and one of my devices.

Not exactly what you asked for but snes-sdk is a tinycc-based C compiler and SDK for the SNES. Pretty cool if you want to write your own games and don't want t write everything in assembly.

http://code.google.com/p/snes-sdk/

Seriously, is this worthy of an article on Slashdot?

From the looks of things the assets are included. There's a 790MB rar file here

http://code.google.com/p/darkreign2/source/browse/#svn%2Ffull_game

someone thought about it already, it's not a matter of 'if', it's a matter of 'how much effort will be put into it'p
clinical immortality should be possible from a scientific point of view, but statistically (we know statistics dont mean something will happen ofcourse) your chances of dying by accident would increase the longer you live

The remote delete feature is the dumbest of dumb feature I ever heard of. That alone is a good reason not to use Apple products.

While Android phones are perfectly fine with you?

Your not looking very hard. I'll start with a little town called Barrow Alaska. I think we can both agree that it is in the Arctic Circle. They also have a Polaris dealership.

Eskimos Inc Polaris
PO Box 1273
Barrow , AK 99723
907-852-8000

If you really want you can look things up directly on Polaris's website. As I said I worked there, I dealt with the dealerships for a couple of years. They also have dealerships in arctic circle in Canada. They have dealerships that operate under everything from Harley Davidson motorcycle shops to general stores. While you always had a limited amount of dealer to dealer sales, we sold directly to dealerships in almost every town northern Alaska and Canada.

I'm not quite sure what point your trying to prove here.

Doesn't really have anything to do with being new. All modern ARM GPUs have closed drivers. That's part of the reason it can be a bitch getting newer Android on older handsets sometimes. If you look here at the binary blob page for the Google Nexus devices you will notice that all of the devices except for the Nexus One have a binary for the GPU and most for Wifi/Bluetooth. This despite the fact that Google has professed a strong desire to have the hardware be completely open. Hopefully this will change at some point as this hurts the efforts of porting standard Linux distros to things like the Xoom but as of right now you can forget open source in the ARM space.