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we have this thing called the internet, im sure if you look REALLY REALLY hard you can find the specs, there is this site, called http://www.google.com/ , check it out

This comes to mind

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ruvo%20brain%20center

The Ruvo Brain Center in Las Vegas

Seriously. (Picture)

Actually it kind of makes sense. We see in our modern developed culture that Childhood Obesity is on the rise. The Fast Food Industry has plainly stated that foods slow to digest are not their responsibility. We are already witnessing "in herds of up to a few tens of individuals per square kilometer" wondering in local Walmart Supper Stores. Possibly a grant could be established that would allow the study of ventallation systems exhaust particles of Nordstroms and Walmarts?

From: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1037451

"Google Authenticator is for users enrolled in 2-step verification. Google Authenticator is a mobile application that allows you to generate 2-step verification codes on your smartphone without a network connection."

I've not looked any deeper into it, but a 2-step verification indicates that you must have something more than just a password. So even if the baddy gets your password he can't log on to your gmail account.

It dosn't have to be your mobile, if a J2ME app does the same job then that of course works too.

I vote Shisno.

That way, it's offensive and derogatory to everyone! Win-win!

Sure, tell that to twitter or YouTube. or many, many other large web sites. Hint: they're not using java. Or C. or Go.

A substantial chunk of the Youtube backend is written in Go.

If you're looking to learn something new and general purpose, Python has a combination of decent docs (you can start with http://www.python.org/doc/ , http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_python/ , and http://www.lightbird.net/py-by-example/ ), good libraries (see http://pypi.python.org/pypi and https://github.com/languages/Python/most_watched ) and all-around flexibility (all the regular system stuff, lots of microframeworks for web, scientific computing tools, 2d+3d graphics).

You may want to take a look at IPython ( http://ipython.org/ ), Reinteract ( http://fishsoup.net/software/reinteract/ ), and DreamPie ( http://dreampie.sourceforge.net/ ) for some interactive shells/interpreters to play around with. I use vim for programming, but there are a number of IDEs. Of the ones I've tried, I thought IEP offered the most interesting tools: http://code.google.com/p/iep/

Probably the fastest/easiest way to learn (and learn if you like) Python is to go through Zed Shaw's book/exercises: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
There's a lot of other stuff on the Python wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

Slashdot definitely isn't what it used to be. For programming questions you may want to look at Stack Overflow or Quora. For general nerdly news, I find Hacker News, Techmeme, and The Verge tends to cover my bases better these days.

Their users, who are their customers and pay them money, they treat reasonably well.

No, they don't. Their users are very rarely their customers, by the way. Microsoft sells to OEMs, not to end users. And most telling of all is when they are on top, they get lazy as hell. Go look at IE6 for a shining example of that. Or Windows Mobile, which didn't really improve - at all. They released new versions that you couldn't upgrade to, and those new versions didn't really do anything new.

Google, on the other hand, focuses their aggression against their users.. Google's tries to collect as much info about its users as it can, which is a lot. Then they resell that data to advertisers.

Horseshit. Google *never* sells your data. They have *never* sold it, and they *never* will. The fact that you think they do and/or will shows you know absolutely *nothing* about how Google makes its money. Your data is completely safe in Google's hands. They will do everything in their power to keep your data under lock and key, because that is a huge benefit to how they make money. Keeping that data secret between you and Google is how Google stays in business.

This has them in trouble with the EU privacy authorities and most of the US state attorneys general.

There's several aspects to this. 1) Google doesn't play nice with the government, which is what actually gets them in trouble. They do things like call out and have public statistics on all the govt data requests they get and the percentage that get denied ( http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/ ). Nobody else does this. 2) Being continuously investigated is how you know you're successful. It doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong or that you shouldn't be. 3) Companies that hate Google pay the govt a lot of money (RIAA/MPAA for example), and they aren't doing it expecting nothing in return.

http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/wiki/images/0/03/Parteiprogramm-englisch.pdf

This is the manifesto in english. The changes to this manifesto need 2/3 of votes on a party conference.

The statues are not available in english, so I'll post the translated German version:
  http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&twu=1&q=piratenpartei+grundsatzprogramm?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundessatzung%0A

As for the rest (positions, election program) please try to find it yourself or ask.

Relying upon Chavez is an increasingly doubtful idea.

Report Gamemaker to Google. Maybe if they are removed from all search results they will run out of money to carry on this annoying spam campaign.

You obviously have no fucking clue of what you're saying. If you hash the pass before sending, then what happens if someone sniffs the connection? They can just send the hash!

The hash effectively becomes the password.

So no, it doesn't increase security. But you know what does? Two-factor authentication. And do you know what big consumer oriented company start offering those first? I'll give you an hint.

I dunno. It gives me serious pause.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mark+beast+microchip+stigma&oq=mark+beast+microchip+stigma&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.12...64612.69823.0.71120.13.12.1.0.0.2.713.2604.0j1j4j1j1j0j1.8.0...0.0.&mvs=0

I would go with a rooted nook because it has Bluetooth which the Fire lacks. It also has a faster CPU than the PI. The real benefit of a rooted Nook would be Google Nav.
If you have an android phone that you can use as a hotspot you can use this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comptonsoft.tgps_lite
To share your GPS with the Nook or any other rooted android tablet.
You could also work this in just for fun http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10227
And for real fun you could combine this.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11028
With this http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11058
and this http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10530
To make a GPS updated IMU that would mimic a GPS but keep your location for short periods of time if you drop GPS lock.
And Yes I have been toying with the idea of mounting a Nook color or some other 7" tablet on my motorcycle handle bars using a RAM mount or on a tank bag for navigation.

According to Google, [cite], it made about $40 billion last year in income. How much is a $20 million dollar fine compared to that? Let's put it this way... if you earned the median income for 2011 for your personal income ($49,445), and you were fined an equivalent percentage, the fine would be $24.74.

In other words, Google is being fined less for violating your privacy than you would for a parking ticket.

Oh yeah, that worked so well for the Native Americans and AIM when the FBI came shooting to the reservation. Don't get me wrong, despots deserve an ass-kicking, you just have to remember that your government has been busy preparing for your upset now for about the last 15 years and they just about have you dialed in now "Ya big-ol-nasty terrorist you"!

The previous 500 articles about evidence of water on Mars just weren't sufficient to drive the point home. Anyone could have missed these articles that are posted. Every. Bloody. Month.

Mounting Evidence for Water on Mars
Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars
Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes
Strange Globs Could Signal Water On Mars
New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars
"Puddles" of Water Sighted on Mars
Positive Proof of Water on Mars
A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater
NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water"
Recent Evidence Of Water On Mars Near Equator
NASA Announces Water Found On Mars

I suspect NASA has a PR department dedicated to nothing else other than churning out press releases about discoveries of water on Mars, and for some strange reason, every one of them must be reposted on Slashdot by some OCD person.

You think I'm exaggerating? Check this out! A search for "water" and "mars" restricted to the "nasa.gov" site yields over 842,000 hits. That PR department has been busy!

I can't wait for the MSL rover to arrive this August so that we can read even more fascinating press releases about hints of water on Mars.

Was listening to this in the audio book just yesterday. Yeah, the book published seven years ago that already has a Disney cartoon made of it...With the recent awakening of the rover 'Opportunity' from it's winter slumber I am looking forward to new reports containing new info.
 
Now if we can only get a squeegee to mars to clean them panels.

Roving Mars A good read.

[citation needed]

The first 100 hits from

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22barnes+and+noble%22+%222600%22+%22lawsuit%22

don't mention anything about lawsuits, threatened or otherwise, from 2600 to B&N.

Javascript is a client-side scripting language that allows us to modify the DOM (the visible webpage) and make API calls to get data. Without it, there is a hell of lot we just simply cannot do anymore.

Websites that are heavy on JS/AJAX and want visibility in Google need to reimplement at least basic navigation and content on the server side. more info.

The *really* good accountants I've known also understand something important, which is the limitations of their discipline.

For a creative accountant, there aren't really any limits to the discipline.
See: Google, Apple, and Greece as recent examples

It's amazing how many of these supposed CEOs are glorified accountants.

In our takeover-squeeze-discard corporate culture, it's the auditors that thrive.

What are you talking about?

I see no evidence that Google is asserting copyright over search results. Go ahead do a search and look for a copyright symbol...there is none.
https://www.google.com/search?q=linux

As a comparison do a Bing search and Microsoft does assert its copyright at the bottom of every page.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=linux

Copyright has nothing to do with terms of service. Google is under no obligation to let you or anyone else use their service in a way they don't want. That's completely different than Oracle asking the government to fine Google for supposedly violating their copyright on something that is possibly not copyrightable like an API. Oracle is not alleging that Google violated a terms of service. They are alleging that Google needed a license in order to copy copyrighted material.

Google created their service and for the most part they can decide how the service is used. If someone is using their service in a way that hurts Google they are within their legal or moral rights to not provide that service in a way that hurts them. Just like as a website operator I can decide how my web server is used. I can choose to ban Google's IPs if I don't want them to access my service. I can use a robots.txt file to instruct their HTTP agent to ignore certain pages. If my website's content is copied in a way that is not covered by fair use I can ask the government to fine those who are violating my copyright but that is separate from determining what IPs may use my web server as a service. Just like Google could choose to ask the government to fine someone who violated their copyright in a way that is not covered by fair use.

Can you cite any references where Google has alleged that someone violated their copyright on a search result that you believe is covered by fair use?

Here are some other Java video options:
Cortardo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortado_(software)
FMJ (a play on JMF)http://fmj-sf.net/
VLC Java Bindings - http://code.google.com/p/vlcj/

Although, even with those options we wanted to do single-frame stepping forward and backward, so we wrote a JNI interface (although these days you'd use JNA instead) to FFMpeg and used that. Worked a treat.

Well the definition disagrees with you...

I can't figure out how you'd get this far in life with that faulty definition.

O RLY?

Virgin Media has blocked just the IP address currently exposed via DNS for thepiratebay.se, far as I can tell. (I haven't tested exhaustively.) https://plus.google.com/109104274582476853846/posts/4ZDXRpUt99J

TBP advertise a whole bunch more addresses via BGP, which I'm sure they could start using pretty quickly, if they wanted: http://bgp.he.net/AS51040#_prefixes

This is a pretty obscure outcome of the recent Quantitative Easing of the Fed and the Bank of England, and a little confusing as Microsoft is a US company.

You have to remember that Microsoft's main European headquarters is in Dublin in Ireland, and hence operates in Euros. The quantitative easing of the pound means that the UK goods become cheaper to export, and that conversely, it becomes more expensive for UK-ians to import good from abroad. In this case, it has become 33% more expensive for them to import MS software from Ireland.

I'm not sure I follow. The Euro has hardly been outperforming Sterling

Indeed over the past three years there pound has been steadily recovering its value against the Euro, which should make imports from the Eurozone more affordable, not less.

Now, compared to the US Dollar, the pound is well below where it was pre 1999, but has been quite stable for some time now. It seems very strange to be blaming 29% price changes on currency fluctuations that are no-where close to 29%

The main reason to publish your article in a pay-for journal is to get peer review.

If only there were open access peer reviewed journals.

So she doesn't deny it.

I know jokes lose their meaning once they're explained... but maybe a hint will help?

I apologize if it's a dumb question, but isn't the whole point of a black hole that not even light escapes?

The gravity tore apart the star before it entered the black hole. Watching all the videos about black holes and space might lead one to think that orbits are easy to achieve, but after I ran some particle simulations using simple Newtonian physics in my game engine, I noticed that most particles will slingshot around a source of heavier gravity when they approach, and be flung too far away for gravity to recapture it. In a stellar nursery this sling shot effect places a limit on the star's size, the other main contributing factor being initial density of the nebula. This is true for black holes as well as planets or asteroids approaching a star. So, although some of the star will fall into the black hole, a lot more of it gets flung away from the black hole -- It's a classic case of Conservation of angular momentum...

They're seeing what happens when something gets close to a black hole, not goes into it. You can see things "going into a black hole" before they've reached the event horizon. Also: In my sim, elliptical orbits that didn't result in the object being flung away became tighter and rounder orbits over time.

That schools don't have kids play with simple sims like these in class is Ridiculous! My high-school age little brother hasn't played a traditional game in three weeks. Since I gave him the gravity sim (particle engine stress test) to play with -- all he does is simulate solar systems and formation of stars, or big stars eating little stars, etc. It's the first time I've ever seen him interested in space beyond the Halo Universe! He asked me about Quantum Physics yesterday!

We'll never get to witness that, either Sol will become a red giant first, consuming anything that still lives on the earth, or, the gravity of the black hole with eat the earth before Sol succumbs. Either way, we'll already be dead.

Unless, of course, you have reservations at Milliway's

Considering this year's Earth Day slogan,
There may yet be another option...

Security. Accountability...

On the security front (by which I mean protection against access unauthorized by the owner of the data center), I think it's pretty clear that Google has a far better track record than the Department of the Interior.

On the accountability side, I'm sure the contract holds Google very accountable, not to mention the fact that if the news of a loss of DoI data due to Google's negligence or malfeasance were to become public, it would have huge negative repercussions on Google, entirely aside from whatever the government would do to them.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Google engineer, one that works on security at Google, but I don't work on Docs or know anything about this deal. I didn't even know that the FISMA certification only applied to a segregated system.)

2m^2? Typo perhaps? That's about the size for a model airplane's wings, not a four passenger general aviation airplane.

The specifications page calls it 20.9 m^2 (224.8 ft^2, which Google tells me is 20.9 m^2. That means1kW of power from solar, assuming all of your other numbers are correct -- although that still isn't enough output to negate your argument :)

How about a YouTube vid of these notions failing miserably for all to see? I get no end of hits on a search of course, and but of course most of those are sincere/marketing.

Don't know how effective such a demonstration would be; you'd have to have some sort of seal of approval behind it as well for it to carry any import. TED Talk, perhaps? You just can't expect people to grok thermodynamics, any more than you expect the checker at the KFC to be able to enter in "$4.99" on the register instead of stabbing at the button with the picture of an Extra Crispy Bucket. I mean, be real. /sarcasm again

"git clone https://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/" asks you for account with real name?

What exactly are you talking about?

Err this is for web based stuff so no even with Microsoft they can update at a whim.

Not sure what your yammering about TOC's is about. The feature is still right there: http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106342

No they didn't. All this study did was establish that some people have more children than other people, and that some people starve. Hey, no shit. They didn't establish *at all* that there was any impact, or that the genetic selection made future generations more hardy against...anything, including starving.

Go learn about evolution. If some people have more children, and others starve, the next generation has a higher frequency of the alleles present in the people who have more children. This is evolution. Evolution DOES NOT work "towards a goal" or in order to make "future generations more hardy against... anything", but in response to current selection pressures at the time. This is one of the most annoying and pervasive misunderstandings about evolution, even some of my 3rd-year undergrad students continue to make this mistake.

Which would have been an interesting thing to demonstrate, had they actually demonstrated it.

Which they did. All they need to demonstrate is that the distribution of children was not egalitarian and spread evenly through the society. This may seem like it's always obvious, but if they have a measure of the inequality of the distribution of children, that's also a pretty good (rough) estimate of the speed of evolution.

No it's not. It's not *even* correlational. Correlational is when you have two observations, A and B, and you can demonstrate that A changes with B. Here, they have A (reproduction), but *there is no B*.

The correlation is the thoroughly well known one between sex-selection and evolution, which it's not in the scope of a study like this to try and prove. What they proved was there *was* sex selection, and have a quantified figure of it. The original paper is available from: http://sites.google.com/site/alexandrecourtiol/publications . Not just was there opportunity, but "[they] showed that the intensity of Darwinian selection in this population was in line with empirical measurements of the opportunity for selection reported for other species" meaning that this is evidence to support that our "modern", "egalitarian" societal structures like monogamy, agriculture and social support have no significant effect on evolution whatsoever

Again, what did we actually *learn* from this study, other than the fact that living in Finland in the 1850s probably sucked?

People who already understand this thoroughly may simply have had their intuitions confirmed (which is also important), but it remains a widely held belief that since the modern age people have no longer evolved, due to societal constructs which limit evolutionary effects. Anything which helps to dispel this ridiculous belief is great. Also, there are few well-analysed figures of these characteristics of human societies, especially historically. Also, see the above paragraph.

(Sincerely, MSc in genetics)

NDK was certainly usable long before 2.3 - it was just a pain (and still is, because you still really need to support 2.2).

I can't say for certain which games use the NDK and which don't, but as someone who has ported iphone games (hey, go buy MiniSquadron !!!), i'd say a straight C++ port is much more likely than anything based on HTML5 (Even using the NDK, android phone graphics performance is generally poor compared to equivalent iphone models. Relying on HTML5 , i suspect performance for anything mildly complex would be terrible)

Just because you're stupid doesn't mean the law MUST protect you. Just because you believe something is private, that doesn't make it true. There already was a case where the court decided there is no expectation of privacy on unencrypted Wi-Fi, and in Google's case it wasn't found illegal by court as well, it was found questionable and irresponsible by public. Saying "But I didn't know how to secure it!" won't help you in court or in insurance company. People just need to learn to RTFM, all the routers now have manuals with Big Friendly Pictures and Big Friendly Setup Wizards which tell you to set the password.

Ah I'm not talking about cancer being like evolution, talking about evolution if you live in a niche of really high radioactive potassium consumption from eating bananas all the time, after a bazillion generations you'd expect the survivors to be better than the average human about excreting radioactive or otherwise K and/or getting by with as little of that nasty stuff inside them as possible, despite it being a big part of their diet.

I was not sure how much a bazillion so I decided to google it and found this
It seems like a bazillion is about 125000.

it's that they went into the network and collected data

They didn't "go into" the network. They collected data that was floating on the airwaves around them. The proper analogy isn't with walking into an open door, but taking a photo through an open window. From the street. Something that Google has already done.

Here's the OPPLI in (blurry) action https://plus.google.com/u/0/115086605502283579628/posts/5GPEAzHyk1s

Second.

For up to about 6-8U, vertical is great.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rack+vertical+mount

'Fits' better in existing small rooms (i.e. closets), and still gives you plenty of access.

Re:capitalism

If you input the word capitalism into Google's Ngram viewer
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=5&smoothing=3
the word becomes popular around 1880, and about 10 or 15 years earlier in Britain. This agrees with what I have read. I have read, many years ago, that the origin of the word was undetermined, but that it was almost certainly popularized by Karl Marx.

The only reason I mention this is that Marx defined Capitalism, as control of the state by capital/Capitalists. I would prefer the term competition over capitalism. Capitalism is a poorly defined word, while competition is familiar to anyone that understands a market.

I love how you use a car analogy, and yet when exactly the same thing happens in the car world, nobody gets sued!
Think the Chrysler 300, widely known to be a Bently knockoff, and people sell kits to make them even more so, and yet no lawsuit. Similarly most of the recent Hyundais try to look like Mercedes.

Lawsuit.

The whole of the evidence in this case preponderates in favor of finding that Roberts chose for his automobiles the exterior shapes and features of the Daytona Spyder and Testarossa with the intent of deriving benefit from the reputation of Ferrari.

Note that, although that case is trade dress related, design patents and trade dress protections are highly similar, and the distinctions are irrelevant to this discussion.

Handy map

(Perhaps "close to the original" was a poor choice of words.)

Because it sucks.

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5

If Linus Torvalds says he can't cope with a fairly popular and mainstream distro which is supposed to be one of the friendlier ones how can anyone else be expected to cope with any of them? And this is but the tip of the iceberg.

Now you may down vote me for challenging your precious world view.