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That's probably because assure and ensure both translate to "verzekeren" in Dutch.

That's probably because assure and ensure both translate to "verzekeren" in Dutch.

they already did http://maps.google.com/?t=8

High quality DRM-free movie downloads at a resonable price. As in, $5 or so.

I guarantee you most people will switch to downloading legally.

Don't think so. $5 is too much. Google will already let you stream a movie for about 4 Bucks They aren't finding it as profitable as they thought. Apple wants 15 bucks but thats Apple.

I believe the price point is closer to One dollar or Two dollars per view for a full length movie and 99 cents for a hour long tv show. That price will sell more views than theater showings, and easily earn back several hundred million dollars of production costs.

You can already get ponies on BitTorrent.

Yeah... "I don't know WHY they'd choose Angry Birds out of ALL the games written in Lua."

Maybe because it's probably the most readily recognizable and therefore immediately RELATABLE game that people know about? Eldavojohn usually seems to put some thought into his comments around here, but he might as well have just written "I WANT TO MAKE FUN OF FOX NEWS TONIGHT."

Other news outlets have reported Flame's relation to "Angry Birds" because it's written in Lua as well, but why talk about the general ignorance of news outlets when it comes to malware and security when we can use this as yet another excuse to single out ONE news outlet that's popular to hate on!?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q="Angry+Birds"+Flame

Until Internet is content is liable, it will be substandard.
I hear it is illegal to liable anyone in Germany? Anyone confirm that?
We really need that here.
The Internet is such a bully pulpit.

Make money while you drive.

The point is that the top part is going to take over the search results. The bottom part, where you don't have to pay for placement, is being removed entirely.

From TFA:

First, we are starting to transition Google Product Search in the U.S. to a purely commercial model built on Product Listing Ads. [...] Ranking in Google Shopping, when the full transition is complete this fall, will be based on a combination of relevance and bid price--just like Product Listing Ads today.

From Google Shopping:

Google Shopping will launch this summer with new features designed to make shopping even more intuitive, beautiful, and useful. With this launch, Google Product Search will be discontinued.

My favorite still has to be the newspaper story about the Enola Homosexual that dropped an atom bomb on Tokyo.

You do realize that you can actually post the word "nigga" on slashdot, right?

apparently AKabral is one of many avatars of Ironyman.

oh, and the word being referred to is nigger

Buttbuttinate. That is all.

There were 243 million CFL's sold in the US in 2009. And there were 34 reports of smoke, and 4 reports of fire in a US consumer product safety database from March 2011 through December of 2011 (see this article for more information). Seems like a pretty safe product to me.

In terms of your supposition that CFL's actually cost more than incandecents? Here is a study that says no, In terms of the ACEEE.org study, I can't find specifics (unless you are talking about the 2006 study, which is hopelessly out of date). But electric cars top the ACEEE.org list of cleanest cars this year.

Android 4 (for example on Galaxy Nexus) has encryption built-in.
http://support.google.com/ics/nexus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1663755

As any fan of Charlie Sheen's[*] oeuvre is well aware, chemtrails are created by the ancient aliens. They're terraforming (sic) Earth to be more like Zeta Rediculi.
This also explains reality teevee.


[*]oh yeah, that's right, I went there.
The alien disinformation smear campaign is just rutheless.

You mean like them manipulating their search results to catch microsoft red handed stealing their hard work? https://www.google.com/search?q=bing+copying+google?

Use Goolgle to find Motorola patent lawsuits.

Despite some claiming that this is bunk there is actually truth there. It would appear that there was a large number of documents released in 1994 that confirmed the stories locals (like my mother) had been telling people. I wish I knew where to find those US Army documents as they would be a great addition to the news paper articles I found with a quick Google search. If you are going to make claims like the parents you had better be able to back them up with sources:
Operation LAC
Operation Dew
Army test Sprayed chemical over the city in 1950s
Biological warfare tests near Corpus Christi safe, Army says
THE ARMY'S SMOKE SCREEN
Outstate spraying

Here's the thread (though won't show the original that started the war) Whoa! Win95 Boots in only 3 seconds! From google groups usenet archive

I'm not saying I *want* the judges to be ignorant of the topics they preside over, but having well-informed judges is a sticky problem.

I know a bunch of lawyers and some judges and I (and they) would disagree with you on that point wholeheartedly. Why, because with knowledge comes the ability to recognize shenanigans going on, like in this case particularly. The judge was a programmer, not as a trade but as a hobby, and that familiarity was an asset to the outcome of the decision and not a liability. Now the plantiff might argue that they may have won with a less informed judge, but then that's not justice is it. That's getting away with something wrong. I don't see this getting an appeal. Another court would have a hard time justifying hearing the case if all or at least some of the judges in the appeal weren't also programmers. Judges aren't usually dummies, and will only hear an appeal if THEY feel that the previous court did not consider something or may have mishandled something. Plus, there are often long instructive periods that lawyers will go through to get judges up to speed that may not be as savvy as Alsup. There's been a case a buddy of mine has been working on for years now and most of that has been in discovery and educating the judge. I just don't see any grounds for appeal from this case, and if a court did decide to hear the appeal I can imagine that several other higher courts would be watching very intently due to the nature of the original decision.

Yes, Apple is so sneaky and secretive we never would have learned about the iOS security model without this unprecedented revelation. I feel so fortunate to live in the age of apple security enlightenment. If only there was some way to divine such special knowledge before this document was disclosed.

Security Starting Point for iOS
iOS Security Overivew
iOS Secure Coding Guide
iOS Security Reference

The list goes on ...

Nope, sorry, Linux still has major issues with driver, upgrades breaking shit, and with the DE wars and pulseaudio being flaky. Instead it'll be Vista all over again where even SJVN said Vista's failure hurt Linux as people just bought XP instead. In case you didn't hear MSFT quietly boosted the EOL for ALL version of Win 7 from 2014 for the non business versions to 2020 so anybody who doesn't want Win 8 will be able to buy Win 7 no problem and it'll last longer than most keep their systems for. I know my customers have been buying up quads with plenty of upgrade-ability so they can just bypass Win 8 completely.

So sorry, it won't be enough for MSFT to put out a bad product, not with their long support cycles. Linux would have to make a major breakthrough but instead according to one of the big cheese at Red hat Linux desktop is instead in its death cries due to design mistakes made 20 years ago. and hey, guess what? He also said it needs a fricking driver ABI! Nice to see even the guys at RH know a bad design when they see one.

Unless I'm misunderstanding UEFI, that's not quite right. Contrary to the headline-hype, I believe Microsoft's OTHER explicit requirement for certification is that end users must be furnished with a way to disable it that's impossible to do by mistake, but entirely possible to do voluntarily. For example, flip a DIP switch, place or pull a jumper, enter a 32-character encryption code printed on a tiny sticker permanently affixed to the motherboard, etc.

It's a bit more specific than that (source PDF):

MANDATORY. On non-ARM systems, the platform MUST implement the ability for a physically present user to select between two Secure Boot modes in firmware setup: "Custom" and "Standard". Custom Mode allows for more flexibility as specified in the following:

a) It shall be possible for a physically present user to use the Custom Mode firmware setup option to modify the contents of the Secure Boot signature databases and the PK. This may be implemented by simply providing the option to clear all Secure Boot databases (PK, KEK, db, dbx) which will put the system into setup mode.

b) If the user ends up deleting the PK then, upon exiting the Custom Mode firmware setup, the system will be operating in Setup Mode with SecureBoot turned off.

c) The firmware setup shall indicate if Secure Boot is turned on, and if it is operated in Standard or Custom Mode. The firmware setup must provide an option to return from Custom to Standard Mode which restores the factory defaults.

So it seems like it requires the switch to be implemented in UEFI setup software; it cannot be a purely hardware switch like a jumper.

How about Enterproid's Divide App It basically carves out an "Enterprise" section to an individuals phone. Space is encrypted and you can enforce Exchange mobile security policy. In function, when you log into the app it looks like a whole new Android Launcher with secure apps for phone, calendar, email, sms, etc. Give it shot. J

I guess mostly this

days numbered...

I've been seeing reports that over the past few years, there's been an exodus of quite a number of people leaving NY

Yeah, the Onion had an interesting article about the mass exodus from New York City just a couple of weeks before I moved to it.

Well, I'm not sure when you moved in, but a loss of over 200,000 people from 2009 to 2010 isn't nothing. I wouldn't exactly call it a mass exodus, but that's still a lot of people.

I don't know why Sony would be skittish about going online only.

that's sad that the bar is so low that 100 is considered the average IQ.. 100 is extremely stupid btw.

Wha???

It seems it already works. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deceagebecbceejblnlcjooeohmmeldh/details

Great post. Something by me on a related theme:
"Why luxury safer electric cars should be free-to-the-user"
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/09eb7f4c973349f2
"This essay explain why luxury safer electric (or plug-in hybrid) cars should be free-to-the-user at the point of sale in the USA, and why this will reduce US taxes overall. Essentially, unsafe gasoline-powered automobiles in the USA pose a high cost on society (accidents, injuries, pollution, defense), and the costs of making better cars would pay for themselves and then some. This essay is an example of using post-scarcity ideology to understand the scarcity-oriented ideological assumptions in our society and how those outdated scarcity assumptions are costing our society in terms of creating and maintaining artificial scarcity."

http://www.google.com/search?q=galactic+superwave+theory

One example:
http://www.etheric.com/LaViolette/Predict.html
"Subsequent concurrence (1998): In 1988, when presented with Dr. LaViolette's Galactic explosion hypothesis, astronomer Mark Morris dismissed the idea as having no merit. However, in 1998 after ten years of observation, Morris was quoted as saying that the center of our Galaxy explodes about every 10,000 years with these events each lasting 100 years or so."

Imagine if you were to go outside one night and the sky suddenly lit up as bright as day and stayed that way for 100 years!

Maybe matter falls towards the galactic core, but interacts with the core to produce shock waves that push it away again, to form some sort of resonant process that happens every 10,000 years?

It's made to capitalize on irrational post-Fukushima fear. There's no legitimate reason for anyone (who's not a researcher or a nuclear plant employee) to be carrying a radiation detector around with them all the time.

As I consider myself an arm-chair ocean conservationist, I have been horrified by the increase in popularity of sushi over the last 2 decades, and the steady decline of the bluefin tuna population which has only narrowly escaped the endangered species list as a direct result of overfishing. Now, I can only hope that the trendy raw fisheaters continue their disgusting culinary habit, and if not become extinct themselves, at lease will be prevented from reproducing. Care for some sushi, friend?

Makes sense and you probably made a few bucks on ad views to boot. if you need Windows cheap just talk to any friends or relatives that are in school as most students with a .edu address can get Win 7 cheap and if you don't know any students get the OEM as it isn't like you're gonna be moving it from machine to machine. Not that MSFT really gives a crap, i've got the OEM Win 7 and I've replaced every part in my machine but the case and had no complaints from MSFT or hassles when i had to reactivate when i switched out the board.

Isn't it funny though how anyone who doesn't rigidly follow the groupthink and drink the koolaid is modded down? Kinda sad when considering even one of the big cheeses at Red Hat says Linux is a failure of design and then goes on to say what we are witnessing is the "death cries" of the platform. But hey, I bet he's a super sekret M$ Ninja, right?

So I search for "I will bring them home my first year. You can bank on it". And I find one result from Google. Your post. One result from Google doesn't happen a whole lot. Congratulations on putting that unique sequence of words on the Internet for the first time. You would think for something the president says it would show up somewhere. At least a blog. Ok so without the quotes Google has more results. Yours first, then 'What should you ask in an interview', then 'paying off credit cards' and well nothing that really backs up your quote.

Now I'm not arguing that he didn't promise to end the wars. I'm just saying your quote is nowhere to be found on the Internet so I'm wondering if you have a reference for what you are paraphrasing. On a side note "stick this red hot poker up my ass" returns 2090 results. "stick a red hot poker up your ass" returns 1420. "stick+this+red+hot+poker+up+your+ass" even returns 4.

So I search for "I will bring them home my first year. You can bank on it". And I find one result from Google. Your post. One result from Google doesn't happen a whole lot. Congratulations on putting that unique sequence of words on the Internet for the first time. You would think for something the president says it would show up somewhere. At least a blog. Ok so without the quotes Google has more results. Yours first, then 'What should you ask in an interview', then 'paying off credit cards' and well nothing that really backs up your quote.

Now I'm not arguing that he didn't promise to end the wars. I'm just saying your quote is nowhere to be found on the Internet so I'm wondering if you have a reference for what you are paraphrasing. On a side note "stick this red hot poker up my ass" returns 2090 results. "stick a red hot poker up your ass" returns 1420. "stick+this+red+hot+poker+up+your+ass" even returns 4.

So I search for "I will bring them home my first year. You can bank on it". And I find one result from Google. Your post. One result from Google doesn't happen a whole lot. Congratulations on putting that unique sequence of words on the Internet for the first time. You would think for something the president says it would show up somewhere. At least a blog. Ok so without the quotes Google has more results. Yours first, then 'What should you ask in an interview', then 'paying off credit cards' and well nothing that really backs up your quote.

Now I'm not arguing that he didn't promise to end the wars. I'm just saying your quote is nowhere to be found on the Internet so I'm wondering if you have a reference for what you are paraphrasing. On a side note "stick this red hot poker up my ass" returns 2090 results. "stick a red hot poker up your ass" returns 1420. "stick+this+red+hot+poker+up+your+ass" even returns 4.

So I search for "I will bring them home my first year. You can bank on it". And I find one result from Google. Your post. One result from Google doesn't happen a whole lot. Congratulations on putting that unique sequence of words on the Internet for the first time. You would think for something the president says it would show up somewhere. At least a blog. Ok so without the quotes Google has more results. Yours first, then 'What should you ask in an interview', then 'paying off credit cards' and well nothing that really backs up your quote.

Now I'm not arguing that he didn't promise to end the wars. I'm just saying your quote is nowhere to be found on the Internet so I'm wondering if you have a reference for what you are paraphrasing. On a side note "stick this red hot poker up my ass" returns 2090 results. "stick a red hot poker up your ass" returns 1420. "stick+this+red+hot+poker+up+your+ass" even returns 4.

I'm sorry, I can't answer your question. I haven't hosted a site; my reference to traffic coverage was in reference to personal use, as a requester. However, many small sites in HTTPS Everywhere's large default list use self-signed certificates. (They are noted as such, and disabled (from having HTTPS auto-enforced) by default). You can find many more by using HTTPS Finder , a complimentary plug-in that (quickly) auto-checks for HTTPS support and adds new rules for HTTPS Everywhere.

See my comments here: http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/looking-back-on-noemail-at-6-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-441324

And here: http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/2008-ibm-predicts-five-future-trends-that-will-drive-unified-communications-read-more-ibm-predicts-5-future-trends-that-will-drive-unified-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-441613

And here: http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev/browse_thread/thread/4cd369bdf16a346f

And here: http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/576771df555e729f

And a related back-burner open source project by me (being passed by): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

And by others: http://www.semanticdesktop.org/
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_Desktop
"The Internet, electronic mail, and the Web have revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate - their mass adoption is one of the major technological success stories of the 20th century. We all are now much more connected, and in turn face new resulting problems: information overload caused by insufficient support for information organization and collaboration. For example, sending a single file to a mailing list multiplies the cognitive processing effort of filtering and organizing this file times the number of recipients - leading to more and more of peoples' time going into information filtering and information management activities. There is a need for smarter and more fine-grained computer support for personal and networked information that has to blend the boundaries between personal and group data, while simultaneously safeguarding privacy and establishing and deploying trust among collaborators. The Semantic Web holds promises for information organization and selective access, providing standards means for formulating and distributing metadata and Ontologies. Still, we miss a wide use of Semantic Web technologies on personal computers. ..."

See my comments here: http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/looking-back-on-noemail-at-6-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-441324

And here: http://ibiblio.org/pjones/blog/2008-ibm-predicts-five-future-trends-that-will-drive-unified-communications-read-more-ibm-predicts-5-future-trends-that-will-drive-unified-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-441613

And here: http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev/browse_thread/thread/4cd369bdf16a346f

And here: http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/576771df555e729f

And a related back-burner open source project by me (being passed by): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pointrel/

And by others: http://www.semanticdesktop.org/
http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_Desktop
"The Internet, electronic mail, and the Web have revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate - their mass adoption is one of the major technological success stories of the 20th century. We all are now much more connected, and in turn face new resulting problems: information overload caused by insufficient support for information organization and collaboration. For example, sending a single file to a mailing list multiplies the cognitive processing effort of filtering and organizing this file times the number of recipients - leading to more and more of peoples' time going into information filtering and information management activities. There is a need for smarter and more fine-grained computer support for personal and networked information that has to blend the boundaries between personal and group data, while simultaneously safeguarding privacy and establishing and deploying trust among collaborators. The Semantic Web holds promises for information organization and selective access, providing standards means for formulating and distributing metadata and Ontologies. Still, we miss a wide use of Semantic Web technologies on personal computers. ..."

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=wuxga+laptop&oq=wuxga+laptop

Since you are obviosly talking about the US, I would recommend seeing "Republic Lost" by Lessig: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CHEQtwIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIk1AK56FtVc&ei=PkLFT5ulHsaO6gGDp6G2Cg&usg=AFQjCNEv39wgSpN2l7e04sZCIfKsh4_mPw

Here goes: BitDefender Flamer removal tool

Better idea: Google Translate

My https://www.google.com/ [google.com] seems to be signed by Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. Is that who it should be signed by?

Check the fingerprint instead... If your employer has installed rogue root keys on your PC, he could theoretically create fake CA certificates as well. It would say Thawte, but not be the real Thawte...

One question: if some employers are actually doing this, how does their system react if there is another man in the middle in the chain:

Employee ----> EmployerMITM ---> internet router ---> AnotherMITM ---> bank
Would the EmployerMITM at least notice that the bank's certificate is off, and block the connection, or would it just seamlessly let it true?

If the former, expect trouble when connecting to your hobbyist site whose key you usually check by fingerprint (you can no longer access it...)
If the latter, expect undetected wiretapping by third parties other than your employer when communicating with banks or e-commerce sites.

How do such proxies usually handle this situation?

My https://www.google.com/ seems to be signed by Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.
Is that who it should be signed by?

Woosh: http://translate.google.com/#en|de|woosh

Just curious, how are they blocking your searches? Not that you really want to get into this game with your employer, but couldn't you just run your search at https://www.google.com/ instead?

They have blocked the https version of google, bing, and some others. I am sure that I could find some search engine but it might attract unwanted attention.

Just curious, how are they blocking your searches? Not that you really want to get into this game with your employer, but couldn't you just run your search at https://www.google.com/ instead?

WTF?? This shouldn't even be necessary here on slashdot, but anyway LMGTFY:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mycleanpc&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb
SCAM

Why? Koreans "love their 'ActiveX'" is why -> http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Korea%22+and+%22ActiveX%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=vsfET6reBaiT6gHt9-i_Cg

* Now, I don't mean they "love it" better than anything else - it's just how MUCH of their internet for the masses IS designed, still to this very day...

APK

P.S.=> Personally, I've got NOTHING against anyone doing what the article states, but what happens IF a site's "ASP.NET" though (.aspx)?

Then, the "pressure" would be on the OTHER browser makers to support it, not how the website's designed imo @ least!

(Additionally - That'd mean they'd be "dropping support" for customers that use such sites IF they don't support access to them directly (I've seen FF addons that do "IE pages" via using an instance of IE set into a TAB in FF though, @ least that's a "work-around start"))... apk