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I know. I live in Resistencia, Chaco, so this is a common sight for me: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/15908735.jpg

The point wasn't about pretty landmarks tho, it was about the fact that, if there *ARE* buildings like that, then the economy can't be that bad. If there are cars filling the streets, and if the roads are nice to drive on, then the economy isn't that terrible (again: "yet"). I can see we're going straight to hell if Cristina doesn't react soon - it's going the same way as De La Rua: refusing to admit the economy is going down and do something about it.

As I said: I'm completely against Cristina's policies (I don't buy that "we have to close imports and make everything here" bullshit). But saying the economy is as terrible as the poorest countries is just plain typical Porteño exaggeration (well, those skyscrapers are in fact typical megalomaniac Porteño exaggeration too. The good kind of exaggeration, tho - don't get mad, porteños, I'm not hatin'! ).

The worst part? I constantly hear porteños (of middle class!) whining about the economy, and yet Roger Waters fills stadiums 10 times in a row.

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There's really no reason to see ads anymore unless you really want to, although I really can't understand why you'd want to. Plus, the disabling of the tracking cookies via ScriptNo is worth it alone, as is the anti-social mode which automatically blocks all the Facebook 'like' buttons and the other social networking crap that exists on every page out there now...

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There's really no reason to see ads anymore unless you really want to, although I really can't understand why you'd want to. Plus, the disabling of the tracking cookies via ScriptNo is worth it alone, as is the anti-social mode which automatically blocks all the Facebook 'like' buttons and the other social networking crap that exists on every page out there now...

AIDE works really well as a java IDE/compiler for my HTC Android phone. I also use Google docs for Writing reports and modifying spreadsheets, which works well enough.

Is it perfect? Not even close.

Given a choice I'd do my work on a desktop/laptop. The one major thing my phone lacks, to make it more productive, is a full keyboard, a mouse and a fill monitor. There's also a trade off in processing power for conveniences. Even without the docking station I still always have the phone to do work on when something needs a quick change, but the docking station would just mean I don't have spend time transferring code to my phone. Obviously this is for the specific type of work I do, it would be useless for writing larger applications, but for simple productivity apps this could work.

If you go read the patent, there are two things to note.

First, is that the patent provides very explicit flow charts that describe the algorithm that generates the summary. All Google and AOL have to do to win is show that they generate their summaries using a different algorithm.

Second, is that the patent is for an algorithm to calculate which section should be shown in a summary. You cannot patent algorithms. The patent shouldn't have been awarded in the first place.

I hate the USPTO and I hold a (hardware) patent.

http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs

Here is a link to it on Amazon (Soul of a New Machine, paperback) (and no I do not make a penny for the link, put it for informational purposes...though the cover of my copy (in storage so can not provide it) was very different than the one listed here. If memory serves, it was white primarily with some blue and silver, (found an image, I was close, enjoy) but I am guessing, it was back in the late 1980s or early 1990s when I read it. Actually an enjoyable read.

Also no company will pay anyone or any software development house enough money to check for every possible error, it would not be considered smart business and/or cost effective. Not saying I agree or disagree with that, just stating as a fact based on my experience working both in larger Fortune 100 software development and Small Office Home Office (SOHO) software development.

If you can get paid for it, do it, else that is what a maintenance contract (as many others have pointed out) should be for.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=App&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1645&bih=806&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=UIydfe3NA8Ui-M:&imgrefurl=http://teneo.org/eh/Clippy/&docid=sc1e-snloXGGoM&imgurl=http://teneo.org/eh/Clippy/Clippy%252520Suicide%252520Note.gif&w=581&h=476&ei=rwHVT_upMqTU2AWUsKSuDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=189&vpy=152&dur=100&hovh=203&hovw=248&tx=182&ty=123&sig=113702221213459023985&page=1&tbnh=149&tbnw=182&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:75

...I also noticed that my harddisk on "linux.cs.helsinki.fi" (which is where I keep the primary development sources) seems to be going, so keep your fingers crossed. I thought I'd better upload what I have now, rather than notice that I lost everything when I get back to work on Monday..

(Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)

Linus Torvalds, July 20, 1996

You sound late to the party...

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ia-supreme-court/1501187.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=iowa+comes+vs+microsoft&hl=en&prmd=ivns&ei=WdXUT-S4HqKe2AWhrPWXCQ&start=10&sa=N

Nice astroturfing there again, drinkypoo. Everyone knows that nobody actually uses Google+.

Ah yes, now you have two comments. Congratulations.

I have been working for the past 1 and 1/2 years on writing a game for mobile. It is closed source.

Over the years I have contributed to several open source projects.

We worked extremely hard to make this a reality. Our customers are extremely happy with it. When someone purchases the game, they do it because to them, the value they are getting is higher than the value of the money they spent, otherwise they would not do it. Likewise, the value of the money is higher to us, than a single copy of the game. So everyone gets higher value in a voluntary exchange, there is 2 winners, and no loser.

So who the hell is Richard Stallman to tell me or my customers that we are doing something wrong? How the hell are we harming our customers, if they were being harmed, they would not buy the game. Only our customers have the right to decide if they are being harmed or not.

You know what is wrong and unethical: to interfere in a voluntary exchange between two people. That is restricting on both mine and my customer's freedom. I am glad that this extremism has not made it into legislation. The only exception to this would be if the transaction involved harming another person or his property which is not the case by simply selling a game.

You are a sick, foul, disgusting subhuman piece of filth who is paid to lie, slander, and befoul a medium which was designed to be open and free of corporate mouthpieces like yourself. You are a hideous nonhuman. We didn't create the Internet for you to spew your sick, depraved corporate hatespeak. GTFO now.

Goodness me, such vehemence! Clearly something is chafing. I'd address your supposed discussion points, but given that the highest level of intelligence you seem to possess results in the above paragraph, I'm not sure you'd understand them. Come back when you've grown up, son.

You still forgot to log in, or is that a symptom of mashing at the submit button with such frothing rage that someone is wrong on the internet that you need to rush to attack them and thus forget basic things like how to use a discussion board.

Also amusing on "having facts to hand" and "who cares outside of China". I assume you haven't heard of this cool new thing. It's called "Google". You can type things into it and it returns a list of relevant URLs (also called "links" or "website addresses") that you can follow. You can find almost anything really quickly and easily! Maybe you should try it sometime. The website address is http://www.google.com./ Type that into the address bar at the top of your browser window. You don't have to type the http:/// part if you don't want to. Type what you want to find in the search box that comes up and then you too can have facts "close at hand". Well, assuming that your parents haven't blocked Google on your computer. You might have to ask them if it's ok to go there.

There was a study that there are about 4% of the population that are true multi-taskers. The tests were done regarding cell phone talking and driving. I do believe that a small group can do more than one task at a time, such as typing this message and holding a conversation.

Good thing you remembered this nameless study, otherwise you'd have lost this argument! Phew!

Good thing I can apparently google cell phone driving multitasking in less than 5s and note the 3rd entry

I may have been lazy or in a hurry with the last post. You, however, should please turn in your geek card to the next real geek you meet.

Doomsterism can be seen as immoral because it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy leading to lack of effort, as well as can lead to people fighting over perceived scarcity with the technologies of abundance (like using nuclear energy to fight over depleted oil fields, or using genetically engineered plagues to fight over poorly yielding farmland, or using killer robots to force other humans to work like robots in factories and plantations and such).

"The problem is that there are no "smart solutions" on the horizon to the energy problem,"

Hort term, solar power and probably cold fusion; logn term, hot fusion and space-based solar power used in space by trillions of people.

"to the global warming problem"

As above and by making the best of the changes by cooperation (since other planets may be warming too, some of this may also be from increased solar output).

"or to the biodiversity problem."

I agree what we are doing to the biosphere to is tragic and immoral (especially the depletion of fish stock in the oceans). However, much biodiversity is represented by bacteria who are not going away. Also, we are getting digital worlds and designed DNA sequences, so eventually the total genetic diversity may be much higher, maybe much much higher if we think about total information diversity.

"We are also running out of most finite natural resources, and we have no viable replacement options."

Citation needed. Counter citation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_parity

I'm not disagreeing that we have serious problems. We may also blow ourselves up fighting over them. But we have no irresolvable technical problems in giving every human on Earth a very high standard of living, and further expanding the human population to trillions living in space.

And just to help people move beyond a doomsterish ecofascist paradigm that seems to be growing all too common in the USA, here is something by me from twenty years ago, and some commentary on it:
http://groups.google.com/group/openvirgle/msg/ac0ffaab1aa1c8ca
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A letter from Gaia to humanity on the joy of expectation

Don't cry for me. When I let you evolve I knew it might cost the rhino and the tiger. I knew the rain forests would be cut down. I knew the rivers would be poisoned. I knew the ocean would turn to filth. I knew it would cost most of the species that are me.

What is the death of most of my species to me? It is only sleep. In ten million years I will have it all back again and more. This has happened many times already. Complex and fragile species will break along with the webs they are in. Robust and widespread species will persist along with simpler webs. In time these survivors will radiate to cover the globe in diversity again. Each time I come back in beauty like a bush pruned and regrown.

Be happy for me. Over and over again I have tried to give birth to more Gaias. Time and time again I have failed. With you I have hope. I cannot tell you how happy I am.

Your minds, spacecraft, biospheres, and computers give me new realms to evolve into. With your minds I evolve as ideas in inner space. With your technology I can evolve into self replicating habitats in outer space. Your computers and minds contain model Gaias I can talk to; they are my first children. Your space craft and biospheres are a step to spreading Gaias throughout the stars.

Cry, yes. Cry for yourselves. I am sorry those alive now will not live to see the splendor to come from what you have started. I am sorry for all the suffering your species and others will endure. You who live now will remember the tiger and the rain forest and mourn for them and yourselves. You will know what was lost without ever knowing what will be gained. I too mourn for them and you.

There is

It would also be nice if they could take care of the occasional reversed images.

If any employees of Dell, HP, or Asus are reading this

What about Lenovo? The keyboards in ThinkPad laptops (not the cheapest ones that I'm told are rebadged IdeaPad) are so renowned for quality that Lenovo has started making a version for desktop PCs.

The details of the ornamental design in question are (a) the lid, (b) portions of the lower body. Claiming that a design patent can't be broad is like claiming that a normal patent can't be, because, you know, it only covers the claims, completely ignoring that the broadness comes from just how broad of claims can be smuggled past the examiner. Similarly here the patent is a broad or narrow as how little definite detail can be used while still getting the patent approved. Compare to the patent linked by Grond, that covers one specific, and only one specific, design.

The scope of a patent is defined by its claims as read in light of the specification, but design patents only have one claim, which simply refers to the drawings in the patent specification. The figures in design patents are drawn in a very particular way. The most important thing to know is that only the solid lines matter. The dashed lines are only there to provide context and do not represent the claimed design. In this case, most of the laptop is drawn in dashed lines. It's a little hard to tell because of the relatively low-quality PDF, but it looks like only the lid is drawn in solid lines. Compare that to the parent design patent, D642172, which covers more of the case, the keyboard, etc.

The first thing that popped into my mind was the short story by Isaac Asimov: Alexander the God.

I've never heard this claim before - do you have a source that involves actual science?

Sure, LMGTFY:

• List of scholarly articles about autism and diabetes
• Maternal Obesity, Diabetes Linked to Autism

There are many more. Google for "obesity and autism".

Uhh...this is the SAME guy that says everyone that doesn't worship at the feet of RMS is a "sekret M$ Ninja" that works in a hidden cove in Redmond to destroy FOSS. The guy is the new twitter without any of twitter's style, he just screams "Shill" while he craps all over himself with impotent nerd rage.

And as far as loss of FOSS "freedoms"...whose fault would that be? its because the FOSS products have frankly been piss poor knockoffs of other real products that we see ourselves in the situation that we are in. Frankly the FOSSies have had 20 damned years to make a better product and the ONLY time they gained is when google bitchslapped them and took Linux away from them and made an actually usable product. Hell Gnome has ripped off Apple's OSX so badly I'm shocked they don't just use their wallpaper while they are at it which is extra hilarious as Linux is a windowing OS while OSX is an application based OS so having a top mounted menu bar doesn't even make any damned sense!

In the end its not a "conspiracy', its not MSFT hiring Ninjas to kill FOSS, its piss poor half baked products that frankly never get any better. look at ANY forum after a release and see how many "update broke my drivers" post you see, i bet my last buck they'll number in the hundreds. there is NO QA, no QC, its ALL half baked and poorly built. they can get by with this in the server space because MSFT charges ass raping prices there, but that shit just won't fly in the consumer space. And if you think I'm a "M$ Ninja" for saying this perhaps you'd like to tell this Red hat developer that says the same thing only nicer he is a "M$ Ninja". For the record MSFT hasn't even given me so much as a T-Shirt, I'm simply not slurping the FOSSie koolaid. if a product works it works, if its shit its shit, and right now Linux on the desktop is firmly in the latter category. As for why read the link above, he lays it out better than I ever could.

Is there a comprehensive list of problems that regulation has "solved? Can you also include a complete list of the problems it has caused, so we can decide for ourselves if the cost is worth it?

Hereyago. "About 4,740,000 results". That work for ya', Sparky?

"Do they know anything about "Cyber" security? If so, have they stopped using Microsoft Windows -- the number one attack vector of computer security problems -- and moved to a secure operating system? No." - by gavron (1300111) on Thursday June 07, @07:30AM (#40242581)

The ONLY reason Windows gets attacked most is it's used most: Get THAT through your head! How/Why?

Simple: Malware makers are JUST LIKE PICKPOCKETS - they go to where the MOST unsuspected & least "security-saavy" users are, & currently, that Windows (as it dominates the PC desktop + Server spaces by a HUGE margin, around 94% to what? 5% MacOS X & 1% Linux approximately??).

ANDROID, by way of comparison on smartphone computing platforms, also illustrates that VERY SAME THING:

I.E.-> When you're the most used "kingpin" on any computing platform in terms of marketshare & user "mindshare"? You're going to be "targetted for termination"... period.

The MAIN REASON MacOS X &/or Linux are not as attacked is the opposite: NOBODY USES THEM BY COMPARISON, so the "numbers" just aren't there to justify attacking them, vs. Windows... not enough "ROI" possible!

Period, & yes, that IS the "way it works", in reality...

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" -- the number one attack vector of computer security problems --" - by gavron (1300111) on Thursday June 07, @07:30AM (#40242581)

Sorry, but the #'s are as follows:

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1.) Maliciously scripted websites (which could affect ANY system that they're geared to attack, not just Windows, which because it's most used they're "customized" for attacking it vs. other options I noted in terms of OS used).

2.) JAVA vulnerabilities (for the same reasons as #1 - it could attack other OS just as easily IF the attack was customized for those other OS's))

3.) Flash & other Adobe products flaws (such as .pdf file scripting attacks - again, for the same reasons as #1 it could attack other OS just as easily IF the attack was customized for those other OS's)

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* That's REALITY as to where the most threats used to attack PC users come from!

(Additionally - YES, they could be customized to ANY OS but they are not - they are geared to Operating Systems that are MOST USED, not least used, for the reasons noted above earlier here by myself (not enough return-on-investment for efforts expended on malware creation exists on Operating Systems other than Windows on PC's &/or Servers combined...).

Heck - Lastly?

Hey - no doubt ABOUT it: ANDROID proves that last part's assertion easily for me on other computing platforms, albeit in smartphones where it is "top most used" & thus, topmost attacked... Linux based as it is, or not...

APK

P.S.=> Now, can you secure a Windows NT-based OS bearing PC vs. malware? Absolutely!

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=Q_DRT7H1GtTU6QGVkYWmAw

Yes, it actually works & mostly by VERY simple principles of cutting off ANY/ALL "doors" into a PC + patching & security tweaking - but perhaps MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL - clueing users into WHERE the threats come from, how to stop them, & educating them...

... apk

As to Android it is not true that it does not support IPv6, my HTC Desire displays v6-only web sites just fine when it connects via wlan, k9 connects to the mail server on v6, even the kWS web server on the Desire is reachable from outside on IPv6.
But IPv6 support is incomplete http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3389 (long entry with various issues)

And thankfully the government is working on it.

From those comments, one more: do you allow www.google.com? One more proxy! http://www.google.com/gwt/n

Nothing new They've been using rats for landmine detection in Africa for quite some time now.

After the first line of your post, I'm rather dismayed that the link you provided didn't start, "https://" ... :(

If you like using HTTPS, here are two plugins to ensure you're using it where it's supported:

HTTPS Everywhere
Enforces HTTPS use on supported websites using rule list.

HTTPS Finder
Detects HTTPS support on newly visited sites and creates new rules for HTTPS Everywhere.

Do remember that he [Obama] was the first (and so far only) Presidential candidate to forgo Federal matching funds for his campaign, since skipping those funds meant he didn't have to abide by the campaign finance limits.

I don't believe that is accurate. This suggests that Steve Forbes skipped on matching funds in 1996 and 2000. G. W. Bush skipped on matching funds in 2000 and 2004, which caused Howard Dean and John Kerry to forgo in 2004 as well. Over the last decade, everybody who wins, forgoes matching funds, as well as a significant number of the losers.

There are valid reasons to say Obama is doing things that are bad, but I think we have a real tendency to say "He's the first to do this!" when he's doing stuff that has been the trend for quite some time.

And with open source drivers you have to pray a handful of guys can keep literally dozens if not hundreds of drivers working so its a trade off there as well. I'd urge Linux fans to read this article by one of the developers at Red hat where he says the current system is totally broken simply because you have an ecosystem where a handful of devs are trying to own and maintain 20,000 packages AND the drivers AND keep it all updated and its just impossible. Not only does he recommend a hardware ABI so the companies can just write their own drivers without having to dump them on the kernel devs, but he recommends more of an Android market approach with a sandbox for apps and the devs focused on maintaining the core system and improving it there. its a good read and he makes a lot of good points.

As for AMD/ATI, it works for my customers and me and that is what matters. the odds you'd get AAA gaming to work on system wide ASLR is probably zip anyway, the stuff is just too buggy. Like it or not Nvidia seems to be focusing more on workstations and HPC than gaming as the Fermi cards are hot as hell and power hungry. not a problem if you are putting it in server tower with plenty of fans but that IS a problem with most desktops being midtower cases. So as long as the drivers don't crash, the games run, and the heat and power usage stay reasonable like the price is I think I'll just stick with AMD thanks anyway. I don't see how system wide ASLR is supposed to stop a bug when the biggest attack vector is the browser which Win 7 has sandboxed in low rights more if you use IE or Chromium based, and on top of that the good free AVs like Avast and Comodo also sandbox so I just don't see any nasties getting through all of that yet being magically stopped by system wide ASLR. if they cook up a bug that gets through low rights mode and two sandboxes? i don't think ASLR is gonna stop 'em.

I tried to word all of my assumptions in a manner that makes it obvious what solution I think should be explored if they were wrong. For example, "[W]hy not part-time enroll the child in a local school? ... Assuming that's entirely untenable..." -- obviously I think that a possible solution is part-time enrollment in public school for science education, but if that's not possible...

I don't think Slashdot is necessarily the worst site to ask generally geeky questions but I think the submitter could probably get more bang for his buck by finding a good homeschooling community -- I mean, we tend to be in IT not education. I'm making the assumption here that they exist and googling why homeschool seems to give a lot of varied reasons for homeschooling and their associated communities.

Ballmer's communication style (mostly screaming until you are hoarse and jumping around to get attention) is finally starting to assert itself in Microsoft's UI. Expect the next version to include characters that turn red and jump around, chanting when you mouseover them and screaming "GIVE IT UP FOR ME" when you click them:

FILE!
FILE!
FILE!
EDIT!
EDIT!
COPY!
YEAH! GIVE IT UP FOR ME!!!!

(Then you wait several seconds for your operating system to catch its breath.)

I for one am thankful that I know keyboard shortcuts.

angel'o'sphere blathered:

Again, what part of "Ray Bradbury always referred to HIMSELF as a fantasist, not a science fiction writer" is unclear to you?" Unlear for me is that he did that :D

Because you don't know anything about the man. Here's just one (hint: try the second-to-last paragraph on for size) of many citations of his description of his own work as fantasy, not science fiction.

And clear for me is that mars chronicals is SF.

See above.

OTOH most of the categories are not well defined. And frankly I'm a bit tired about this. Is star wars fantasy or SF or is it science fantasy (what ever that is supposed to mean)?

You consider the categories of sf vs. fantasy ill-defined because you're an ignoramous.

Star Wars falls within the subset of sf called "Space Opera". It misses being fantasy by grace of the pseudo-scientific explanation of The Force being a product of midichlorians.

A 3-D video-wall with Smell-O-Vision that somehow magically transforms into the actual African veldt is NOT science fiction, Sorry this makes not much sense. Wether it is SF or fantasy can not be decided on this single sentence, but only in context.

Horseshit, sailor.

Bradbury proposes no mechanism by which the veldt display becomes an actual veldt. That's because it's a horror story, not sf.

You are a nincompoop, Angelo. Your argumentum consists exclusively of sticking your fingers in your ears, firmly shutting your eyes, and screaming, "No, no, no, no, NO!" at the top of your lungs.

I think you need a time-out.

So reading this I realized I, myself, last night Googled for:

the weapon causes suffering should I be angry

Sounds vaguely threatening. You could read that as saying "If you get me angry I will cause you pain with a weapon." However, I was searching for a quote. If you type that into Google you actually get what I was searching for among the top links:

A peaceful Buddhist quote, in this link in a book of the Dalai Lama.

Both the weapon and my body Are the causes of my suffering. Since he gave rise to the weapon and I to the body, With whom should I be angry? - Bodhisattvacaryvatra, 43

500 specialized channels so anyone could find the kind of material they wanted to watch anytime.

Remindes me of Wierd Al's Cable TV

I got celebrity hockey
The Racketball Channel too

This article is much better --

http://www.google.com/search?q=booth+babe&hl=en&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=L-HQT--QHerE2wWK9f23DA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CFgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1745&bih=922

But does it have hooks that allow it to communicate better with Windows? Or with MS's office suite? Private protocols?

Not that I know of. The EU anti-trust decision back in the day (to a large extent courtesy of Samba team) forced Microsoft to document all protocols it uses between products. To the best of my knowledge, that requirement is still in force today.

Aren't they already trying to prevent other phones from talking to Exchange?

Again, not that I know of. Most phones use ActiveSync (for the sake of push), which is publicly documented but patented, but it is licensed out for a reasonable (presumably; no-one complained so far, at least) fee to anyone who asks - at least I've yet to see a smartphone that didn't support it, regardless of the manufacturer and the OS. Certainly, both iOS and Android do.

Also, curiously enough, of late MS has been releasing a bunch of products on competing mobile platforms that interact with its enterprise intranet services. For example, a Lync client for iOS and Android.

Click!

And for me, the penny finally drops. Because I was about to say "yeah, but that's a computer course." However, people keep arguing that computer programming is the "new Latin" -- the sine qua non of modern education, and I now see why they're correct. I've been following the Coursera Machine Learning course (to a point) and working through the book Natural Language Processing with Python, and I'm learning a lot about matrix manipulations and list manipulations... and this through Octave and Python respectively. (Well, relearning mostly, but Octave and Python are new to me.)

These languages transform mathematical calculations and manipulations of text into computer programs, and computer programs are fairly easy to assess automatically -- therefore the subject becomes more suitable for quick grading. But more than that, as I go, I'm building up my toolkit of technologies that I can apply to real-world problems in various spheres.

I've not been employed in any dev work in a long time, and in the roles I have, I often see opportunities for automation that my less-IT-literate colleagues miss.

So we need to turn every subject possible into a programming problem , and everyone's a winner.

Oh, yes you do. it's called don't be a twat.

Seriously, it's hard to take you as anything but a troll for raising a fuss over such a simple conversion. If you can't understand the units, then convert them to something you can.

In fact, in the time you spent griping about this, you could have made the conversion and then posted it for the relevant slashdot audence to see! And that would actually be doing something useful.

Considering that the FAI lists the world record for free distance for open-class GLIDERS at 2259km (1403 miles), then I'd have to agree with GPP that no, 515 miles for a POWERED airplane (even solar powered) isn't all that impressive.

Note: if you just click the FAI link, you won't see the results I'm referencing above. You have to select "DO - Open Class Gliders" in the "subclass" drop-down box, "Free Distance" in the "Type of Record" drop-down box and "World" in the "Record Zone" box. Sorry...I couldn't find a way to link to just the results I found.

[Disclaimer, I am a pfSense developer, employee, and book author so I'm a bit biased] :-)

pfSense is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with quite a few things patched in the kernel and base system. We've been doing quite a lot of work lately on getting the last few bits of IPv6 going along with some other features we have in the chamber for 2.1. IPv6 support is the main focus of pfSense 2.1 so changes in other areas have happened but they have been minimal in comparison.

Here is a spreadsheet covering the current status of IPv6 in various areas of pfSense. Some of those will have to wait for pfSense 2.2.

We just got one key feature holding back 2.1 from being released solved, and there are a few more bugs left but progressing rapidly.

In fact I'm struggling to think of even one case where the name of a TLD actually is the best site in it's category?

When you want to google something where do you go? Google.com!

And if you want to wiki something? Wikipedia.org!

Nobody gives a shit about ZFS but server admins. Just to make this clear, pathetic as it may be that I have to spell this out for FOSSies but apparently they are too clueless to understand this, that or they know they can't win on the subject at hand so they move the goalposts so here goes: We are NOT talking about your LAMP, your cell phone OR your toaster. the majority does NOT care about these things and are NOT the subject at hand which is DESKTOPS. Go run your benches on your LAMP and post them to "Nobodygivesafuck.com" thanks.

As for repos if you are TRULY not smart enough to go to the site of the person that makes the software and download it? Then you should stay on Linux because you are too retarded to run anything else. But if downloading Adobe Flash is soooo damned difficult for you there is Ninite which is "check box, push button" and I might remind you your much touted repo system? yeah they were serving malware in the form of an infected Quake 3 for over a year and a half, sorry. And that's just one we KNOW about, not telling how many we don't because if you honestly think a handful of guys can check a revolving door of 20,000+ packages and understand even what 25% of them are doing I have some magic beans you might be interested in.

It doesn't change the fact that Linux? completely pointless on the desktop. this is why no B&Ms carry it, why both Walmart and Asus dropped it, its just pointless. The only REAL legitimate gripe, which was Windows requiring one to run as admin, was fixed half a decade ago. Even one of the Red hat engineers admits the Linux desktop model is broken but of course since that goes against your RELIGIOUS DOGMA you will probably say he's a M$ Ninja, sekretly working to attack RMS with fungicide on them nasty feets.

This is why i enjoy laughing at FOSSies, like Moonies or any other religious loonies the amount of hoop jumps they have to go through to justify their dogma in the face of logic is just as funny and entertaining. Just admit your logic follows the circle of loon already, otherwise please go back to compiling something as the vast majority of the world really DOES NOT CARE, it really really don't. Oh and guess what? Android shows what we have been saying all along, that as soon as Linux was a valuable target it would get fucked by the malware writers and surprise! android malware is all over the place. great security you have there chief, really makes it worth the bullshit and hassle. of course if you prefer that "security by obscurity" thing maybe you should go with haiku instead, that would make you REALLY leet, LOL!

Is that the society we want to live in? One where you slip government officials a little something on the side with the understanding that you will be treated as a preferred citizen, and then the government welches on the deal? That's not the social contract I was brought up to expect.

Hey, works for Walmart! ...well, except perhaps the "government welches" part. *sigh*

I'm not going to refute your experience with Exchange, but I will mention that where I work, we use Google Apps, and there is a calendar bug that is preventing people from accessing their calendars. This has been a problem for nearly 3 weeks now, and all I have to tell my complaining users is a 12 day old response in a forum stating that they've identified an issue and are working on it. Granted, that's less stress for me as I can't really do anything, but I don't think my users are very appreciative.

Vote on (star) this issue to get vertical tabs back in Chrome:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=99369

But look how many of these patents are turning out to be invalid on reexamination. It sucks that the patent office has an incentive to approve every patent (making money on reexamination fees), and it sucks that the little guy can't deal with a lawsuit (regardless of merit). It still doesn't seem that likely to lead to a patocolypse, as most developers are ignoring that sort of patent and getting away with it.

Isn't it funny how all the Linux guys can't seem to keep Windows running and clean, while everybody else doesn't seem to have a bit o' trouble? I got an old Sempron 1.8Ghz running XP that I got from a customer in a trade in around 08, that thing is running with the same install and NO BUGS, no crashes, hell other than slapping another Gb of RAM into it I haven't done a damned thing except run it damned near 24/7 as a nettop and file server and it just purrs like a kitten. The box I'm typing this on has had the same Win 7 install since RTM in Oct 09, again perfect and hassle free.

So if you wanna go all batshit? hey, knock yourself out, who am i to judge. but frankly Linux is a hell of a lot more of a PITA than Windows on its worst day. Don't take my word for it, read this fine article from one of the Red hat devs who says what linux is going through now is its "death cries" from mistakes made in the design at its conception. he says the quality will continue to go downhill simply because there is no way to QA an entire repo and have any progress and he's right.

So if you want to spend your weekends fiddling with your PC like a 73 Dodge? hey whatever floats your boat. the rest of us just use a decent AV and a tiny bit of common sense and magically we don't have any problems. Oh and before anybody responds with the usual BS please go to TM Repo and make sure you're just not repeating memes, or if you are at least give us the TM to save time, thanks.