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You can buy them right now on the Google Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=galaxy_nexus_hspa

The DAC in this case is inside the iDevice, rendering the claimed infringing "interface" a fancy headphone jack.

What these manufacturers have successfully argued is that because the DAC is in the iPod, rather than their devices, then they aren't infringing a patent that covers devices that convert digital audio to analog. The judge agreed that the digital to analog conversion happens inside the iDevice, so the external device is not infringing. The open question is whether Bose will now sue manufacturers who stream or transfer digital audio to external devices that do include a DAC for playback.

Btw, here's the patent.

http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/

Never really got off the ground so far though...

See also this paper I co-wrote and presented to the 2001 SSI conference on doing all that as an open-source project:
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/SSI_Fernhout2001_web.html

Or my graduate school plans from the 1980s:
http://www.pdfernhout.net/princeton-graduate-school-plans.html

Of course, decades later, this may all seem obvious. I've ended up working more more towards a general purpose social-semantic desktop ideas, while thankfully the rest of the world is finally starting to embrace an open source "maker" movement (but with scattered and poorly-integrated tools and repositories). I agree we need better analysis tools for all this, as well as better standards for encoding manufacturing knowledge.

Some other ideas I've posted towards encouraging that:
http://opengov.ideascale.com/a/dtd/21-000-Flexible-Public-Fabrication-Facilities-across-the-USA/8412-4049
http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/A-global-effort-to-develop-self-replicating-space-habitats/76206-8319
http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/The-need-for-FOSS-intelligence-tools-for-sensemaking-etc./76207-8319
http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Towards-building-a-21st-century-society-in-the-USA-through-open-research/44914-8319

Or:
"Getting Greece and Iceland to be 99% self-sufficient by mass; international consortium"
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/openmanufacturing/YzbzBFjeBkg

A high degree of automation also probably requires a new vision for "economics", and I've written on that as well on my website (about moving towards a more "Star Trek" like economy).

This all has encountered tremendous resistance/apathy for a variety of reasons. Part of that resistance is probably that trying to talk about manufacturing webs goes against the grain of capitalism, which focuses on lots of narrowly-defined actors who try to socialize all their costs of producing one strand of the web as externalities while privatizing their profits and creating intellectual rent-seeking monopolies to lock those profits in indefinitely. For example, when I was in grad school at Princeton in the 1980s in Operatiosn Research, the professors were very excited about "picking up nickles before a steam roller" (make short term profits while ignoring systemic risk). To talk about systemic risk, or ways to deal with that, went against a narrow short-term focus on profitable optimizations (the kind that lead to lots of industry support and related grants). Thus, ironically, all those professors who contributed intellectually to our current economic disaster (for the 99%) were heavily rewarded for decades with resources and prestige, and then they get to shrug off the disaster their ideas helped cause as an unpredictable "black swan" economic event. Those who tried to do anything about it pro-actively were essentially punished. :-) Such is life, I guess. I'm glad that overall alternatives continue to emerge. A book related to why interdisciplinary work that goes against current cultural grain is so hard to do:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplined_Minds

Still, I thi

You could take a look at some of the options: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/bug-tracking-system/ source: google

By Japanese, of course, you mean Korean(s) .

Don't worry, like most western people you automatically think "Asian people who use modern technology and don't wear conical hats" = Japanese.

Ah. I thought I still had subscriber credit. I got one of those 'as thanks for...you can now use Slashdot without ads' emails.

I get "Disable Ads" too. Perhaps it comes if someone subscribed in the past and then consistently keeps his account's karma Excellent for months, or possibly if someone has configured his browser's Flash Player in click-to-play mode.

Beyond captchas?

After trying for months to keep ahead of spam using a regex extension called AbuseFilter, I ended up realizing that Google's ReCAPTCHA was broken. I switched my MediaWiki to QuestyCaptcha. Each of about a half dozen questions about classic literature links to a Wikipedia article that contains the answer. Successful spammer registrations dropped to zero. Someone using a wiki farm wouldn't have this sort of story to tell to an interviewer.

If you're merely showcasing a web application, you don't need SSL.

In other words, the "warn" method.

Yep, and KeePassDroid on Android.

"There are RFIDs in credit cards? Really? Have you got more information on that?"

It's in the Google.

http://www.google.com/search?q=RFIDs+in+credit+cards

You just described Pidgin with OTR.

There appears* to be a Pidgin plugin for Facebook. So, Pidgin+OTR, plus convincing whomever you're chatting with to install and enable the same thing, is the solution. Of course, as with most technological problems, the third part of that sequence---the human part---is going to be the hardest problem to solve. The tech exists, if only people would use it.

* I can't test any of this to see if it works because I don't have a Facebook account and never will.

Pidgin appears to support Facebook chat with a plugin; do you know if OTR works correctly over it? (I don't have a Facebook account and never will, so I can't test.)

If so, even if you have Pidgin+OTR, the problem becomes convincing the people you're chatting with to install it, especially if you're chatting up random strangers.

Wow, that looks extremely similar to the red light created by the Starfish Prime thermonuclear bomb detonation in space! In that case, it was fast electrons from the nuclear explosion, spiralling along magnetic field lines and eventually colliding with oxygen atoms in the atmosphere, which emit a red glow when excited.

I'm going to guess that this is a picture of oxygen being excited by runaway electrons produced by lightning. Cool!

Future archeologist: Hmm, and what is this? Of course, this must be some kind of religious idol. Probably holy symbol of sun worshippers.

LOL!
See also, David MacAuley - Motel of the Mysteries

It's a lot more than that; plenty of non-GE crops are patented. For example, say you go to buy a Fuji apple. What could be more open source than that right? Not if it is a Gale Gala, a patented bud sport of Fuji, or if he picks up a peach, it might be one of the many patented Flamin' Fury peaches. If he eats a carrot, it might have the patented line S-D813B as a parent, or if he eats a pepper, it might be the patented hybrid 9942815. Lots of plants, not just genetically engineered ones, are patented, so avoiding every patented fruit, vegetable, grain, nut, oil crop, ect. and any food produced with them would be quite the challenge.

I don't know how things are in Germany, but I'd have to imagine they grow their share of patented crops there, and even if they didn't he'd have to watch out for anything imported from countries where those varieties are grown. You'd pretty much have to eat exclusively whole fruits and vegetables that you know the variety, or things where the varieties are very likely to be not under patent like lychee or persimmon, and maybe things that haven't had much breeding work done on them like kiwanos and jícamas.

It's a lot more than that; plenty of non-GE crops are patented. For example, say you go to buy a Fuji apple. What could be more open source than that right? Not if it is a Gale Gala, a patented bud sport of Fuji, or if he picks up a peach, it might be one of the many patented Flamin' Fury peaches. If he eats a carrot, it might have the patented line S-D813B as a parent, or if he eats a pepper, it might be the patented hybrid 9942815. Lots of plants, not just genetically engineered ones, are patented, so avoiding every patented fruit, vegetable, grain, nut, oil crop, ect. and any food produced with them would be quite the challenge.

I don't know how things are in Germany, but I'd have to imagine they grow their share of patented crops there, and even if they didn't he'd have to watch out for anything imported from countries where those varieties are grown. You'd pretty much have to eat exclusively whole fruits and vegetables that you know the variety, or things where the varieties are very likely to be not under patent like lychee or persimmon, and maybe things that haven't had much breeding work done on them like kiwanos and jícamas.

Most websites are "NOT SECURE" enough, so pretending that they are is simply dangerous. Wanna know how secure that website is? The Login is not on a SSL connection. Nuff Said!

Grabbing credentials going over the wire of a non-SSL site is not at the top of my worries, but having SSL certainly gives people a false sense of security. Any idiot (well, almost) can obtain and install an SSL certificate for their webserver, but that doesn't mean said idiot remembered to lock down phpMyAdmin or any other number of stupid things.

I've never head "flatline" mean anything but "dead." (Note: I'm 39. Far have I been and much have I seen.) Yes, it's originally a medical term, but everyone outside of medicine knows it. If it was only used in medicine there wouldn't be 4.3 million matches for it. The term became very well known after the 1990 movie of the same name. The proper (though less exciting) term that should be used here is "leveling off."

This place is not a place of honor.

The goal here is to kill the PC outright

Hence the approval of AIDE on the Google Play Store. AIDE lets people make an app for an Android device on a (docked) Android device.

^^ This. The Japanese one could have 5 champions or they could all be losers.

Some of the extras are the goofy little outfits and 5 seconds of entertainment many of the contestants put on before they start their run.

On and lets not forget "Women of Ninja Warrior". Komiya Rie, Mikie Hara, and Ayako Miyake. Lets not forget Sara Jean Underwood. Maybe the American version needs to get her on there. As for the guys, Makoto Nagano is just a pure badass.

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb

Currently it's the fault of the Republicans

Again, look at who's actually been in charge for the last three years and in control of such things. The baton won't be passed on to the Republicans until they win the next election.

But what I was referencing in my closing statement about Romney was the foreign policy people he's got as his advisors and future members of the Cabinet. He's got the entire board, except for one obvious person, from the Foreign Policy Initiative, aka PNAC II. You think bullying American influence is bad now under Obama? Just you wait.

Well, that would explain why the vote flipper phenomena (don't have a good summary of the effect, though it is IMHO probably voter fraud through rigged vote tabulation, but here's a huge collection of discussion, graphs, and informal studies of from that time) was going on in the Republican primaries. A collection of the same old remoras that have been attached to previous Republican candidates would not be promising especially in that light.

Calling Shenanigans here.

Car: 363 miles, 7+ hours each way with no traffic jams (good luck!)

363 mi x $0.555 per mile = $201.47. Double that to get back home.

You don't have to show up at the train 2 hours ahead of time, so I don't really understand your 8hrs + 2hrs estimate. (You do have to get to the train station, but, you also have to get to the freeway.)

If I have the choice of spending, basically, two days driving or save $150 and spend two days working on my laptop / reading / watching a movie / sleeping / grabbing a drink in the cafe car, I'd take the train every time. I find driving tedious and boring and I think that anyone who actually prefers it to anything else must have watched way too many car commercials.

As a man who considers himself Christian, I'm saying the same damned thing.

Chalk it up to a scam angle used to push out crap tablets.

(besides, if you want a bible on an iPad that bad, well: go get one - there's like a bajillion of them in there!)

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=iphone+no+problem,android+no+problem&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all says it all.

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/

There actually is a keyboard layout optimized for swiping. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it really is faster once you learn it.

I think you might want to try a less crowded field. There are tons of those style of racing games, some that have very good art that no single developer could ever compete with.

As an example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polarbit.RecklessRacing

Your game may be 100 times better, but these guys have the shiny. In a crowded market the shiny counts for a lot.

Well... you cna get it and judge for yourself
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.po.pequenosvelozesttr

There is a free demo version with you don't have a dollar
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.po.pequenosvelozesttrdemo

Well... you cna get it and judge for yourself
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.po.pequenosvelozesttr

There is a free demo version with you don't have a dollar
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.po.pequenosvelozesttrdemo

Considering the binary downloads necessary to make a fully working ROM for the Nexus 7 are available for download right on AOSP I would find it pretty absurd if they made those binaries useless by locking the device.

I'm hooked on Swype myself, but if you're looking for alternate layouts try the Hacker's Keyboard. You can switch between a whole list of layouts (mostly for different languages) but QWERTY and DVORAK are among the options. It's great for working a CLI too, since most Android keyboards don't have easily accessible escape, tab, ctrl keys.

http://code.google.com/intl/pt-PT/opensource/projects.html

They give you APis that you have to pay for. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

Don't most Android owners just call their phone a "phone", not an "android phone"? Where Apple owners who call their phone "my iPhone", so that we know they are cool?

I tend to agree that iPhone users are likely to be more prone to drop their phone into the toilet, but including "android" in the trend results might skew things.

I'd guess (feel free to prove me wrong) that only people who spent a lot on their phone try to find out more info if they break it, so they search for repair info if it was broken/wasn't working properly and wasn't under warranty. A lot of those missing "cracked android screen" searches probably ended up as landfill.

Aren't these results also biased based on market penetration (I mean the "high end" smartphone market)? You'd need to filter results for iPhones compared to only other phones of similar quality to get a result you could use to refute the GP's suggestion that an iDevices "is no more nor less likely to break than other good-quality stuff".

This is the best citation I can come up with to prove that market penetration impacts on the results:

Google Trends search for "blackberry cracked screen"

"Your terms - blackberry cracked screen - do not have enough search volume to show graphs."

In my experience Apple gear is no more nor less likely to break than other good-quality stuff.

Are you sure about that?

• Google trend searches of android vs iphone cracked screens.
• Google trend searches of android antenna problems vs iphone antenna problems.
• Google trend searches of android water damage vs iPhone water damage.

Or are iPhone owners just more prone to hitting their phones with baseball bats, removing internal antenna cables and flushing their phones down the toilet?

In my experience Apple gear is no more nor less likely to break than other good-quality stuff.

Are you sure about that?

• Google trend searches of android vs iphone cracked screens.
• Google trend searches of android antenna problems vs iphone antenna problems.
• Google trend searches of android water damage vs iPhone water damage.

Or are iPhone owners just more prone to hitting their phones with baseball bats, removing internal antenna cables and flushing their phones down the toilet?

In my experience Apple gear is no more nor less likely to break than other good-quality stuff.

Are you sure about that?

• Google trend searches of android vs iphone cracked screens.
• Google trend searches of android antenna problems vs iphone antenna problems.
• Google trend searches of android water damage vs iPhone water damage.

Or are iPhone owners just more prone to hitting their phones with baseball bats, removing internal antenna cables and flushing their phones down the toilet?

Good points.

I think the main observation to take is that very rapid, unpredictable changes (a floor polisher, say) also tends to introduce only very _local_ changes. The effects stretch for decimeters, rather than meters, and for seconds or so when the machine is close. A larger, fixed machine that is either on or off, on the other hand, would essentially introduce two alternate local maps, both of which could be estimated and learned.

Remember that these sensors are fairly insensitive to small changes; they have to happen really close for it to have any effect.

"how could you confirm the validity of the introduced changes to the magnetic field map? In computer vision we do this with training that requires user interaction."

To be fair, there's plenty of systems that do estimate validity of changes autonomously. Remember that vision poses a rather different set of issues such as rapid and radical lighting changes that are absent here.

"[...] but claim sub-meter accuracy in an active location seems hyped"

I think the sub-meter accuracy is completely achievable. But don't expect to, say, drop a robot in a spot and it will know where it is immediately or anything. I would assume it would take several minutes of moving about and sampling a largish area before you could identify the approcimate position, separate out local, transient changes from the underlying signal and get a good fix. The move variable the loval environment, the larger a total area would you need to sample to become sufficiently confident you are looking at the right place.

re: blog - thanks! Though I mostly post smaller stuff on Google+ nowadays: https://plus.google.com/105059362788808645801

In English, Colombia is spelled with an O. Not a U. SO STOP MAKING SHIT UP.

Here, look it up for yourself:
https://maps.google.com/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/co.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35754.htm
http://www.colombiaemb.org/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1212798.stm

It's Microsoft's long established development culture – watch what Apple does... then implement whatever that is in Windows.

Ballmer's previous failed plan for beyond the OS was " last to cool, first to profit." That didn't go over so well.

Microsoft is not entirely unlike the relentless Joshua from WarGames, but unlike Joshua, Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to learn.

I imagine it may have had something to do with the number of articles that talked about the role Linux played in the discovery of the higgs.

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/07/05/1855212/linux-played-a-vital-role-in-discovery-of-higgs-boson

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&site=webhp&source=hp&q=linux+higgs&oq=linux+higgs&gs_l=hp.3..0i8i30.1397.8592.0.9661.15.12.3.0.0.0.391.2274.1j7j3j1.12.0...0.0.JkXqKuaocrQ

A smartphone seemed like overkill since for much of the last five years I was in Tajikistan. Cell coverage is good in some spots but 3G.... not so much. You could guess this from the photos I linked to. (I am the guy with the hair)

Now I am in Norway, which has screamingly fast wireless data. So I am seriously considering an Android Smartphone. I have been researching and have decided on a modest unlocked Nexus S, doubly so since its bootloader is unlocked and I can put that awesome looking Cyanogenmod firmware on it. A little surprised myself that I had never seen anything about Cyanogenmod, but then I have not been looking at all. w00t!

Jean-Baptiste Queru: "Nexus S works much better with AOSP: the camera works, GPS works, NFC works, and those are broken on AOSP builds for Galaxy Nexus." More here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112218872649456413744/posts/QkKumgFm6pm

AOSP has the proprietary binaries necessary for a from source build of Android for the Nexus 7 which would be kind of pointless if the boot loader wasn't unlockable so you're probably safe.

You can download Elixir 2 for the pull down widget functionality and it has the battery percentage in the statusbar as well, though as you say it is in addition to the regular battery indicator.

https://www.google.com/webhp?q=Bing

(Hit the I'm feeling lucky button if you like... if not, all your answers can be found via Google!)

Okie dokie.

Thanks, Newt. Are you still running for president?

The only people that want to think it doesn't matter are either illiterates or Republican who think schools should be funded from pennies out of a water fountain.

There is nothing wrong with making a mistake in tweets or comments on forums but for a business having mistakes on their sites. It just makes me think you cut corners and don't care about quality fullstop.

For example: http://www.google.com/nexus/#/galaxy/features

A little over half way down is a heading that says "People everywere". It' been that way since the site launched and it's been talked about on the web and yet Google can't be fucked to fix it.

It just reminds me of all those Android bugs that lasted between numerous version. For a bunch of people that are supposedly the smartest of the smart, they do a pretty shoddy job, imo. So that's why I don't buy Android goods and more and I am transitioning off their web products. I can only assume if quality matters so little elsewhere then who knows how god their web security is. I'm not going to risk it.

So that explains how the Rock got super powers!