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While I realize this doesn't speak to your overall argument, AndroZip is a decent archive management tool on Android.

I'm an athiest and attended a friends church (I was giving them a ride as they don't have a car) and sat in on a little discussion they were having about increasing membership and a short discussion of a bible passage (something about Jesus letting an immoral woman bathe his feat against the wishes of the Pharisees).

It was fairly interesting, but then I noticed on their website: We believe that the lost and sinful man must be saved, and that man's only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God...We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; those that are saved into the resurrection of life and those that are unsaved into the resurrection of damnation."

Sorry, but if you are going to believe that I as an athiest am damned, no matter what type of person I am, then I'm not going to give your church the benefit of a doubt either.

Hello, DCTech, LaserShark et al. Please report to your supervisor for pay reduction, your FUD is too easy to disprove.

There are many other times I've tried to do something on my phone, but been unable to without using a PC. Here's a big one - development. You can code for Linux, on Linux. You can code for Windows, on Windows. I've even coded for freaking TI calculators, *on* the calculator. But you can't code for Android on an Android device, nor can you code for iPhone on an iPhone.

You can code for Android on Android. AIDE is the best example, and it's been out for a while. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui

TIOBE is essentially just a big troll site. Their methodology is so far beyond unscientific it's not even wrong. Here is the result of my own unscientific poll:

C: About 234,000,000 results
Objective-C: About 41,400,000 results

See, C++ dominates Objective-C by more than a factor of five. You can take that to the bank. You're welcome.

TIOBE is essentially just a big troll site. Their methodology is so far beyond unscientific it's not even wrong. Here is the result of my own unscientific poll:

C: About 234,000,000 results
Objective-C: About 41,400,000 results

See, C++ dominates Objective-C by more than a factor of five. You can take that to the bank. You're welcome.

230*24*365=2,014,800. TFS says they the industry responded to 1.3M. Can they possibly have that many pending? Where are Verizon's stats?

Verizon is surprisingly good with customer data. I don't have any numbers relevant to this discussion, but Verizon has sued multiple times to keep customer information private. Of course, I pay them an arm and a leg... but you get what you pay for I guess. Excellent reception, speedy fast 4G and they'll fight for my privacy... hope they continue on that path!

230*24*365=2,014,800. TFS says they the industry responded to 1.3M. Can they possibly have that many pending? Where are Verizon's stats?

WTF are you talking about? The "star" you're talking about does not pop up a bookmarks menu, it pops up the ability to add the URL to your bookmarks. This is effectively what you get as of Google Chrome 20.0.1132.47m:

http://www.technipages.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Chrome-save-new-bookmark.png

While this is what I was referring to, re: how to access your bookmarks menu, and how the --bookmarks-menu flag was removed:

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/07/02/google-chrome-bookmark-menu-drop-down/
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-discuss/d2FEBGdVKv0

Presently in Chrome, the menu I'm referring to requires you to:

1. Click on the wrench icon
2. Scroll down to Bookmarks
3. Click on the Bookmarks menu entry (or wait for it to expand)
4. There's all your bookmarks; pick one.

So that's 3 clicks, or 2 if you choose wait-to-expand.

Don't mention the "Bookmarks Bar" because that DOES NOT provide a menu interface of all your bookmarks. People in the aforementioned threads also complained about this. There are "hacks" you can do to add a bookmark to your bookmark bar that results in a bookmark menu (recursive anyone?), but as I said that's a horrible hack for something that used to Just Work(tm) until it was removed.

After the removal of --bookmarks-menu, there was an extension called "Neat Bookmarks" which did what people wanted. However, it turns out that extension was spying on people and Google quickly removed it from their extensions store. Here's the analysis that lead to its removal:

http://stopmalvertising.com/malvertisements/beware-of-the-google-chrome-extension-neat-bookmarks.html

"Neat Bookmarks" looked like this (very Firefox-like, yes?):

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/17/neat-bookmarks-for-chrome-search-and-access-bookmarks-faster/

Furthermore, Google apparently keeps moving the "bookmark this page" star you refer to:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/KPW3FwZkd0Q

I'll keep piling on the evidence if this isn't sufficient...

WTF are you talking about? The "star" you're talking about does not pop up a bookmarks menu, it pops up the ability to add the URL to your bookmarks. This is effectively what you get as of Google Chrome 20.0.1132.47m:

http://www.technipages.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Chrome-save-new-bookmark.png

While this is what I was referring to, re: how to access your bookmarks menu, and how the --bookmarks-menu flag was removed:

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/07/02/google-chrome-bookmark-menu-drop-down/
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-discuss/d2FEBGdVKv0

Presently in Chrome, the menu I'm referring to requires you to:

1. Click on the wrench icon
2. Scroll down to Bookmarks
3. Click on the Bookmarks menu entry (or wait for it to expand)
4. There's all your bookmarks; pick one.

So that's 3 clicks, or 2 if you choose wait-to-expand.

Don't mention the "Bookmarks Bar" because that DOES NOT provide a menu interface of all your bookmarks. People in the aforementioned threads also complained about this. There are "hacks" you can do to add a bookmark to your bookmark bar that results in a bookmark menu (recursive anyone?), but as I said that's a horrible hack for something that used to Just Work(tm) until it was removed.

After the removal of --bookmarks-menu, there was an extension called "Neat Bookmarks" which did what people wanted. However, it turns out that extension was spying on people and Google quickly removed it from their extensions store. Here's the analysis that lead to its removal:

http://stopmalvertising.com/malvertisements/beware-of-the-google-chrome-extension-neat-bookmarks.html

"Neat Bookmarks" looked like this (very Firefox-like, yes?):

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/17/neat-bookmarks-for-chrome-search-and-access-bookmarks-faster/

Furthermore, Google apparently keeps moving the "bookmark this page" star you refer to:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/KPW3FwZkd0Q

I'll keep piling on the evidence if this isn't sufficient...

BluePutDroid will do the same thing. It works by turning your android device into a bluetooth Human Inteface Device (HID). So, it will work with pretty much any device that has bluetooth. Don't have bluetooth? I'm sure you can find a cheap bluetooth USB dongle.

I use it for my PS3. It also has mouse control and has a screen for the PS buttons. I can't handle the 'typing' using PS3 gamepads...

I guess I could use it as a keyboard for my laptop which has bluetooth, but i dunno why, they already built one in!

Good points. See also my essay: http://groups.google.com/group/virgle/msg/e34f9013282af9d7
"The policy of "Mutually Assured Destruction" (MAD) with strategic nuclear weapons policy is based on decision makers being rational and not wanting their own country destroyed (were they to use their nuclear weapons and receive reprisals or even just spreading radiation). This essay explores a few reasons why this MAD policy will ultimately fail due to irrationality or other reasons for bad decisions by humans or the bureaucracies they inhabit. This reasoning is also applicable to understanding why any similar policies about bioweapons or drones or nanotech and so on could also fail. Then the consequences of this are explored, and some alternatives suggested (including sharing information leading to healthier local communities and ultimately creating space habitats)."

Fixed your link.

... and Chinese (Simplified) http://translate.google.com/#auto|zh-CN|Buckminsterfullerene and click the "Listen" button for some prepubescent humor...

But, every time I tried to download it, it prompted me for what program to open it in.

That's really just an implementation detail of whatever browser you're using. I've never had this issue and I can't exactly tell you why other than the fact that none of my Android devices use a stock ROM. I do know that the Opera Mobile browser on Android will allow you to download anything you want.

But you can't code for Android on an Android device

This is not true.

But, every time I tried to download it, it prompted me for what program to open it in.

That's really just an implementation detail of whatever browser you're using. I've never had this issue and I can't exactly tell you why other than the fact that none of my Android devices use a stock ROM. I do know that the Opera Mobile browser on Android will allow you to download anything you want.

But you can't code for Android on an Android device

This is not true.

1) The "Bush Tax Cut" which ensured the US federal government had insufficient taxes to do their job, combined with the trillions spent on overseas wars.
Passed by Both Houses of Congress based on what was thought to be good information at the time. [wikipedia.org]

It's never that simple and easy, every single vote by every last member is a twisted web of politics and inside deals.

3) An obstinate congress which blocks anything, regardless of whether or not it is good for the country.
Oh Like when Obama's Administration with a Democratic House and Senate majorities failed to pass budgets? [foxnews.com]

Ok, now you're just trolling. But what the hell...

You can replace that with "Oh, Like when Any President with a Either Party House and Senate majorities failed to pass Whatever Legislation . (And then point it to a reputable source such as the Congressional Voting Record instead of a hack of a news channel.)

There is one Android app which makes your phone work as a HID over bluetooth, both as mouse and keyboard. However it needs the phone to be rooted in order to work, and I found it to be quite unstable, and severly unpolished.

But it works.

I've been using using BluputDroid for a while. It acts as a bluetooth HID device. It's only requirements are that the phone be rooted, and the desktop have a bluetooth adapter and the correct stack installed. It doesn't require a questionable third-party server to be installed and running on your desktop. I've used it on my two HTPCs without issue. Considering you can get a small bluetooth dongle off of eBay for $5, it's well worth the price of admission.

Thank you for making my day: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113359744831907494757/posts/VVKNnfPNPf7 :-)

What was ignorant about my comment?

It is fact that DNSChanger does not infect OSX. It doesn't infect iOS. It doesn't infect Linux, or BSD, or Amiga, or Android, or BeOS, or Plan 9, or Chromium, or OS2, or Solaris, or EMACS. I happen to be running one of the many OSs it does not infect.

Seriously? https://www.google.com/search?q=dnschanger+osx

Why didn't they have Google Public DNS take over the IPs that were used by the bot net (or something)?

FTFY

Apple's success was the GUI, iPod and iPad.

MS saw the redefinition of the market and created a product that trumped Apple in the marketplace causing Apple to go into bankruptcy.

MS saw the iPod era, tried it on and couldn't get the legs but really nobody really cared cause the iPod didn't turn Apple in to a market monster, just a market leader.

Samsung is going after the iPad, the one product which has been responsible for Apple's crazy revenue growth. Samsung is getting traction as seen with the iPhone. Apple is scared history will repeat itself and rightly so see http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii and click Annual Data. 2011 saw the iPad and look at the massive revenue growth, that's the iPad, the Phone didnt do that!

god is it that hard to actually follow the law. apple uses tons of "other people's patents" but guess what they actually pay for them! Duh!

Yes, that is why if you Google "Apple pays patent lawsuit" you will get no results. Unlike most of us on Slashdot who think that software patents have devolved into a corporate arms race that has created a minefield for independent developers; Apple considers it a civic, perhaps patriotic, duty to proactively find and pay for patents that apply to their product lines.
not.
duh.

Google does.

So there's no reason to go to Best Buy. To get a better deal on a TV, check Amazon or Walmart. To get a better deal on an appliance, go to Lowe's or Menards or Sam's Club. Want a better selection of movies, games, or music? Amazon.

Screw Best Buy, with their overpriced products and ripoff "services". Plus, the Geek Squad is mostly known for screwing up customer's machines and stealing software.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&q=geek%20squad%20screwed%20me&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&fp=54147a6c24560a3&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1599&bih=963
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/05/geek_squad_caug/

You could but then you may need a USB hub as well.
If you are going to use it as a small PC you will want wifi and a keyboard which works out to two USBs
If you want to use it with XBMC you may need a second USB to add blue tooth, or an IR receiver.
or you could always use a smartphone running this http://code.google.com/p/android-xbmcremote/ for a remote.
Of course that is for the minimal hackers out there.
Now if one wants to really get into the spirit of things you can add and SPI Wifi module like this http://www.cutedigi.com/wireless/wifi/wifi-module-with-spi-interface-to-8-bit-mcu-zg2100mc-wishield.html
And then an IR module to the UART on the GPIO http://www.lirc.org/receivers.html for a complete XBMC solution.
That would leave the USB port free for a card reader, USB memory stick, or Bluetooth adaptor.

• Michael David Crawford

I'm all over The Series of Tubes as I published my first site in 1994, and was on Usenet and mailing lists long before that.

out of 27,300,000 total hits we have at Number Ten and so stil on the first page:

Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event on alert after man threatens explosions, guns
by Molly Young, The Oregonian

More than 150 people at the Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event at Portland State University are on what event organizers described as a "lockdown" after a man who was asked to leave this morning later made threats of violence.

Six police officers were at the PSU Business Accelerator building on 2828 S.W. Corbett Ave. this afternoon.

After the man, Michael David Crawford, was removed this morning, he apparently threatened violence, explosions and guns, co-organizer Jeff Martens told participants at an afternoon meeting announcing the "lockdown." The threats were made on a Twitter account using the hashtag of the event, though the tweets appear to have been deleted.

Participants are allowed to enter and leave through one entrance, and Portland police said the event was not on an official lockdown.

Is British Airways going to treat me like family after they read that?

Here's What Really Happened.

The reason I haven't sued the Startup Weekend corporation, The Oregonian and, because they deleted exculpatory evidence from their site, Twitter for defamation is not because I don't want to or because I don't think I'd win metric boatloads of damages, but because I've been busy fixing up my websites. They were, at least for a whiile, a multitude of sins.

What I was really referring to on Twitter when I reported that I knew a straightforward way that I myself, from the comfort of my own home, could "make a large industrial facility detonate like a Bunker Buster Bomb" is lucidly explained in Jonathan Swift Sticks it to the Man.

ProTip: Obama and whoever the Prime Minister of Israel fucked up royally when they authorized StuxNet. Just you wait until the Iranians download their free eval copy of the Trihedral Engineering VTS - Visual Tag System - Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition industrial control system software.

HMI / SCADA just about has to be the single most human-life critical software known to man. Wouldn't you think they'd Read The FIne Manual before - at the time I was hired - writing a half million lines of what Trihedral founder Glenn Wadden, a brilliant industrial engineer but an incompetent coder, described as a million line program that's only half complete?

Michael David Crawford, who looks forward to lighting smuggled Cuban cigars with burning hundred dollar bills.

The Google Images search app helps our customer service team to recognise high profile travellers such as captains of industry who would be using our First class facilities enabling us to give a more personalised service.

"Sorry Mr. Gates! We didn't recognize you without the pie in your face!"
Consider the service an upgrade! From first class to zero class!

Pop scientology alt.support.ex-cult into Google groups search for some good creepy laughs. It's a shame it only goes back 4 years, the early 2000's saw many a scientology recruiter trolling that group.

it did change. it changed from bushs buddies/crooks to obamas friends/crooks it is change just not a meaningful one.
  heres a link to an image that i think sums it up

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=e24&channel=fs&tbm=isch&tbnid=6WJ89esdLNNTWM:&imgrefurl=http://memebase.com/2011/04/22/memes-very-demotivational-bushbama/&docid=Xc7LS8I8Gf1MRM&imgurl=http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/demotivational-posters-change.jpg&w=450&h=548&ei=79b3T_KWE8Wg2QX705XeBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=328&vpy=130&dur=1757&hovh=248&hovw=203&tx=137&ty=174&sig=106688447006569763817&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=133&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:78&biw=1600&bih=670

Please let us know when you find out how to play enough different types of media to call it a "media player".

HTH, HAND

As a matter of fact, the Sony stock performance has been absolutely terrible for for the last 10 years .

Whether the company performs poorly because of its evil practices, or whether its the other way around, thats a more difficult question to answer.

For instance, torrent magnet links could be hosted in the downmodded comments on slashdot very easily, using google as the search method to find the content.

because me and the other 20% of the voters in the GOP primaries that voted for Ron Paul

You spelled "11%" wrong.

You spelled Diebold wrong.

Works perfectly on my Android phone. As a matter of fact, there is a little development environment that caters to just that sort of thing in addition to Python, Perl, PHP, Beanshell, and so on.

Some say there are links between Bin Laden family and the White House. The attack was very convenient for beefing up military and invading random foreign countries, something that Bush promised to do during elections in 2000. This also raises some questions about Bin Laden's assasination: why kill him, why not bring him to trial? Was it Bin Laden who was killed or some innocent scapegoat? Was Obama afraid that some inconvenient facts would surface during a public trial?

The green check mark next to the website name is missing. It means it is not verified, or the app for some reason does not include the signature of "youtube.com". For an example of an app that is signed by Youtube.com - check here

You can't honestly think that the developer of that extension is actually youtube.com. Just look at the screenshot with the drawn-on red arrows...

Also note that an official app would have a green check next to the developer as seen in the official YouTube app.

A list of all Google extensions is here.

You can't honestly think that the developer of that extension is actually youtube.com. Just look at the screenshot with the drawn-on red arrows...

Also note that an official app would have a green check next to the developer as seen in the official YouTube app.

A list of all Google extensions is here.

I don't think Google objects to MP3 rips of the soundtracks of their videos - after all, YouTube offers an official Chrome extension that does the same:

YouTube Downloader: MP3 / HD Video Download (Note that the developer of the extension is youtube.com)

I think they have a problem because the external service drives people away from the YouTube website. In any case, I can't see why Google would not have the right to simply stop serving Videos to the IP addresses of the servers of the download service. So in some sense, they were nice to send a letter asking him to stop.

Because you believe the media's portrayal of RIM -- a company with no debt, $2 billion in assets, positive cash flow, extensive global market share in enterprise and military markets, and a newly reshuffled leadership and pared-down workforce -- as hopelessly crippled merely because they're losing market share in the US consumer market, an area where they have never been a stellar performer.

They have been bleeding cash for four consecutive quarters, losing market share globally, have precisely zero products that consumers are interested in, and are even losing market share among corporate types. While they do have cash they don't seem to be using it to particularly good effect. They've had a unbroken string of mediocre to bad products. Replacing the management team is not cause for celebration, it is cause for worry. Same with reducing headcount. Those might be necessary steps but they weren't taken because RIM is in good shape.

People said the same thing about Apple not that long ago, and that demise seemed at least as imminent, if not more.

Research In Motion isn't Apple. Apple was/is an exceedingly unusual case. While I agree it is too early to pronounce them dead, there also is absolutely no evidence yet that they are in anything other than a death spiral. I strongly suspect RIM will get bought out, probably by someone like Microsoft.

'nuff said

http://www.google.com/search?q=o'brien+ds9&tbm=isch

Time to move to a more interesting game you can also play in your phone.

Have you ever played go?

(disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the game nor the server creators).

https://reader.google.com/ sounds like it would work well for you.

http://edsopinion.com/tag/bill-and-melinda-gates-charitable-foundation/

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"The foundation exists to provide tax shelter for about half of his fortune and the Foundation is designed to change Gates image from a ruthless businessman to a compassionate Humanitarian. "

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_shelter

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT(s):

"Tax shelters are any method of reducing taxable income resulting in a reduction of the payments to tax collecting entities"

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http://taxshelteradvisorsllc.com/foundation.php

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

" The charitable foundations that we work with gives you not only a tax deduction, but also, through reinsurance, the foundation provides payments for a desired numbers of years and a desired number of deferred years, if wanted."

---

* Lots more of that is here, take a read -> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22foundation%22+and+%22tax+shelter%22&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1

APK

P.S.=> And, there you go... & again/once more - I don't blame the man for doing it, it's basically the same as what you go thru when you do your taxes (you're offered all sorts of investments that yield tax breaks)... apk

The disc was comprised by a man named Carl Sagan

I don't usually post grammar-nazi stuff, but this error is particularly awful.

A whole comprises its parts, as in "My computer comprises a microprocessor, memory, a monitor, and input devices."
A whole is composed of its parts, as in "My computer is composed of a microprocessor...."

There simply is no such thing as "comprised by," even though many people seem to think so. Reading the summary, one gets the impression that they chopped off Carl Sagan's arm and pressed it into a record.

The correct usage would be to say that "the disc was composed by a man named Carl Sagan." [As though readers at /. don't know who Carl Sagan is, or that he was a man.] But considering that he didn't actually write or narrate the content, "composed by", too, is incorrect. If this were a book, one could say that he served as editor. But when it comes to music "editor" often means the guy at the mixing console, which Sagan definitely was not. The most correct thing would be to say that Sagan curated the disc.

The English language, like computer languages, is a terrible and wonderful thing, but only if you use it correctly.

What I worry is that they didn't so much find it as they got to the end of the list and are concluding by process of elimination that that must be the Higgs.

This is where you show that you're absolutely clueless about science and the scientific method.

The Scientific Method:
1) Observation
2) Theory
3) Prediction
4) Experiment

Memorize it. Write it on your shower wall. Repeat it every morning. If something doesn't do all of those steps it isn't science. (3) and (4) are the most important (and they're what most pseudoscience skips...)

The physicists at CERN made a prediction about the Higgs Boson. What they're doing now is step (4). They don't have a wishy-washy list of possibilities, they have a definite prediction, made at step (3) before they started building the machine.

Sorry for ranting but your post sums up everything that's wrong with modern education and where it's failing.

Look at the pictures and think. Do you really, honestly believe that people who are capable of designing that fit the Fox news image of "scientist"?

What killed them is that they failed to recognize that they didn't know much about developing electronic devices and that, in-fact, their products were low end to midrange. As a result they charged way too much money and lost sales to cheaper but more functional products.

They also tried really hard to preserve the take pictures and send something off to be turned into prints model in the form of an expensive digital to print offerings.

Meanwhile, the consumer market was flooded with inexpensive snapshot cameras that could easily print to a consumer color printer. They would have had to offer a great value (read low cost but high quality) on the pro side to gain any traction against the incumbents since they were known for their film, not for cameras.

It's not my responsibility to correct your gross ignorance. Try this site.

You'll find that developer response to BB10 has been overwhelmingly positive, and that developer Jam sessions are consistently sold-out.

Try learning something about a product before you mindlessly bash it.