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Wait, what now? You do realize that deleting the information from Google, from your Google dashboard actually does delete Google's data on you? It has nothing to do with browser privacy. Sign in to your Google account and you can view and edit quite a bit of what information Google keeps on you, and control (some of) the information they'll gather on you in the future.

You can view your dashboard here: https://www.google.com/dashboard/b/0/

Simply because you do not know that this feature exists, doesn't mean it does not.

In one of the episodes, which featured a biography of the family, they are described explicitly as a north Kentucky family. As evidence you'll see Shelbyville, KY http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Shelbyville,+KY just north of Springfield http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Springfield,+KY and there's even a place called Simpsonville http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Simpsonville,+KY just west of Shelbyville. I have no idea why they want to change their story now.

In one of the episodes, which featured a biography of the family, they are described explicitly as a north Kentucky family. As evidence you'll see Shelbyville, KY http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Shelbyville,+KY just north of Springfield http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Springfield,+KY and there's even a place called Simpsonville http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Simpsonville,+KY just west of Shelbyville. I have no idea why they want to change their story now.

In one of the episodes, which featured a biography of the family, they are described explicitly as a north Kentucky family. As evidence you'll see Shelbyville, KY http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Shelbyville,+KY just north of Springfield http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Springfield,+KY and there's even a place called Simpsonville http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Simpsonville,+KY just west of Shelbyville. I have no idea why they want to change their story now.

Just make a sign.

The corsix-th theme hospital project is coming along nicely. I am also avidly following the openclonk project. Yes I know neither of these are finished, and I know that is main complaint about oss games, but corsix is totally playable, and openclonk is one of those projects that is never meant to be finished, but will instead simply grow and improve forever, much like the original clonk series.

Apparently Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have agreed to settle out of court, while Apple, MacMillan, and Penguin apparently mean to contest it. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webpronews.com%2Fmacmillan-ceo-john-sargent-responds-to-doj-lawsuit-2012-04&ei=vu6FT8LLK9H4ggfzvozWBw&usg=AFQjCNGWnKvqJJnBbXAkg-k9tADur-eSJw

People are trying ; Robert Bussard (RIP) talks about IEC fusion

The US Navy is currently the entity throwing money into this pot Polywell FY 2011 Work, so the general lack of fuss about it is to be expected.

Don't talk reason to corporate executives! They're better than you in every way!

343 times better!

Entered as AC since slashdot has become overrun with corporate assholes in the last 3 years.

The headline asks one question, but it's pretty clear that you just want to learn how to be an investor. Why don't you google it or ask the question you really want answered instead of not asking it.

https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=At+What+Point+Has+a+Kickstarter+Project+Failed%3F

8 of the first 10 links on Google point back to this slashdot article.

Well, it's a full Chrome browser. (The Android browser is not Chrome.)

Android 4.0 has real Chrome now.

Another cloud feature has been added, this one to the updated photo editor. Photos can finally be uploaded individually or in bulk to Picasa. Curiously, it’s the only option currently available when you click the share icon in the photo editor — Google Plus hasn’t been added yet, though that seems inevitable.

Picasa and Google+ Albums became one a while back, almost a whole month ago. Keep up. ;) - HEX

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=santorum

This: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CD0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sodahead.com%2Funited-states%2Fron-paul-wants-to-eliminate-five-entire-federal-departments%2Fquestion-2361135%2F&ei=ZNSET9fmNMeJiALN-dz1BA&usg=AFQjCNEPv4j__nCWFxhFKfH_RHBW64ReBA

Wild speculation? What about communism? You can't think of a single fact to support communists destroying the world around them, in the name of freedom? You think that Soviet Russia and East Germany pale in comparison to the USA?

What about bubble zones? I doubt that that was brought on by conservatives.

What about political correctness?

I can't be bothered to look up the details of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but I was under the impression that some people can't tolerate the word "negro".

There is a launcher for Android phones that mimics WP7 (Metro) UI. It's been out there for over a year now, and it's still up.

I've done that at other intersections. But there is no such button here, as I mentioned earlier and as one can verify using Street View on the intersection in question.

There are entire malls of big-box stores. I once drove into one in Fremont, CA. They have a Best Buy, a Lowes, an Office Max, a WalMart, a Babies R-Us, a Smart and Final, a Sports Authority, and a 25-screen theater. The parking lot is all SUV-sized parking spaces. Instead of shopping carts, they have industrial flat handtrucks. There are no small stores other than chain restaurants. They'd just be in the way.

I'm suprised this monster has survived the recession.

though stupid political beliefs are fair game.

= Mormonism. Look up Joseph Smith, the scammer who founded mormonism. Don't bother with wikipedia though; his entry has been heavily sanitised. If you take any aspect of that "religion" seriously you are being naive.

No one cares and I'm going to tell you why: First of all it does not use 64k, it is dynamically linked to several megabytes worth of libraries (D3D et al). Second, it only works on the proprietary and obsolete Microsoft system. Third: Game engines already do this and way more. After all, most of this is running as a shader on the GPU.

--
Marcan, asshole and proud.

Using sipdroid with Google Voice or any SIP provider you can record calls locally, silently and if wanted, automatically. I assume other similar apps (like csipsimple) behave similarly, but I've only used sipdroid personally.

Google Voice alone will record calls if you press 4 during the call, but does not record locally and announces that you are recording to both sides of the call. You have to enable this feature first. See: http://support.google.com/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115082

As always, be familiar with the laws about recording telephone calls in your jurisdiction. If unsure, don't. ;)

I did find one that didn't trigger, but a quick email to the city and a day or two wait fixed that issue.

Four calls to the city and two calls to the state didn't fix the intersection at West Coliseum Blvd and Speedway Dr, Fort Wayne, Indiana. After the sixth call, a representative of INDOT called me back and told me that nothing could be done to adjust the intersection to pick up bicycles, and that I should just right turn on red, U-turn, and right turn again.

My trailer supports 100lb, and it is a toys-r-us special.

The instructions for my Walmart special state that the trailer supports up to 100 lb, but only 50 lb per child.

You're more likely in the modern world to encounter the Loch Ness monster than any truly honest dialogue on race.

The situation here in Australia is quite different although there certainly are and have been serious racial problems. One of the biggest sports in this country is something called "Rugby League" which is a different sport (with it's own world cup) to what most of the world calls "Rugby".

Anyway, the season opener is called the All Stars Game which is the Indigenous All Stars Vs the NRL All Stars, basically, Blacks Vs The World. The Indigenous side are incredibly proud to play for their people. Nobody says its racist and you hear a lot of "it's such a great concept". I think this game does a hell of a lot to support "honest dialogue" and perhaps shows shows that a nation can move on from its genocidal past in a relatively short period of time.

Is this type of thing possible in todays USA?

Any recommendations anyone have for a good free Android alternative for something to take quick snapshots, apply a basic filter, and share them with people? Tried Vignette and Retro Camera and they both sucked compared to Instagram.

I am not a instagram (or facebook, for that matter) user, but I did take a quick look at Pixlr-OMatic and it's probably what you're looking for.

Have you thought of getting an Atlas? Maybe just browsing google maps?

Here's a helpful starting point: http://maps.google.com/?q=Ireland

Now find Tottenham and Paris and be surprised that they aren't in the bit of the map we know as Ireland.

ohh please stop trolling and use the Market/Play search box

At last check (which, granted, was several months ago) all "call recording" apps for the DX do not record the call stream, but rather use the speaker to record calls through the mic.

But by all means, continue with your childish assumptions. After all, what fun would the internet be if everyone actually owned a clue?

ohh please stop trolling and use the Market/Play search box

iPad is high tech? Saint Louis has a .com church. Here it is on Google Maps, the actual name of the church is faithchurchstlouis.com.

They operate in an abandoned warehouse that use to be an indoor go-kart track before they moved in.

Ever heard of "hyperlinks" Sherlock?

aka

Citation needed

Ever heard of "getting off your lazy fucking ass", Sherlock?

But since you've already proved yourself to be mentally challenged, I'll save you the "trouble".

Ever heard of proper use of quotation marks, Mr. Holmes?

Try Navfree:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navfree.android.OSM.ALL
There's also a Navfree USA, which you can play with. They store the maps locally, and you can download just the states/countries you want. I have two issues with it - the address search is pretty bad (but if you have data I think it uses Google or something to help) and around me the maps, even the latest ones, are pretty out of date - they don't seem to actually be grabbing new OSM data when they release a map update in my state at least. But it's free, and it wouldn't hurt to throw it on your droid while you're in Germany.

Ever heard of "hyperlinks" Sherlock?

aka

Citation needed

Ever heard of "getting off your lazy fucking ass", Sherlock?

But since you've already proved yourself to be mentally challenged, I'll save you the "trouble".

What app do you use and what is your work flow? It's been about a year since I've looked into it but it just wasn't a simple. "Do This This and This". I'm going to be traveling to Germany in a few weeks and although my droid will be a useless phone (CDMA) I'd love to take it as a GPS/portable computing device.

Thanks.

You can use rmaps with map files made using Trekbuddy Atlas Creator. There are lots of tutorials online such as this youtube one. It can also read OSM.

I used it two summers ago while travelling through China and Japan, which was very convenient. I had a global (google) map with not much detail, then in the places I knew I would be I included tile zoom down to level 16-18 depending on the detail available. This allowed me to save a lot of space while still have the detail where I needed it. At the time OSM wasn't very good in rural China for understandable reasons.

he noticed that the night sky was not only wrong but the left side was a mirror of the right side.

Wow, exactly what people on USENET had noticed soon after the film was released!

I'm going to write to this Tyson guy and suggest that he becomes an astronomer!

Just for completeness' sake – here's a local boating/fishing loch near me... http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=57.57835&lon=-3.63681&zoom=17&layers=M and on google maps http://maps.google.com/?ll=57.578162,-3.633428&spn=0.006512,0.015407&hnear=63+Calcots+Crescent,+Elgin+IV30+6GL,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16.

Notice that google doesn't mark the cabin, or the path leading to it. Similarly, it marks a path on the east side of the loch as a road... Which I'm sure will be useful when your sat nav directs you down a 2 foot wide path. It also manages to mark a peninsula as an island.

Sure, there are areas where OSM has less detail. But then, there are areas where google has no detail, or worse, incorrect detail. Finally, if you do find an area where OSM has less detail, it's pretty easy to fix that – use any one of the easily available data sources to add detail, or better yet, survey it yourself with your GPS, and add the data.

There's a Tower of Pisa in Vegas?

Not exactly, but it was called that early in its development

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

Google Street View Link

I agree with some of the ideas hint at, but as you point out Android doesn't exactly fit your definition for another reason.

For those interested, here is a google map of the location they are building this. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.430485,-111.934547&num=1&t=h&z=14

Perhaps now they feel they've captured a significant enough portion of the market and decided to start capitalizing on it? That would be my (admittedly uninformed) guess[...]

Google Maps API is still free to use as long as you don't charge for access to your website: https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing

You do realize that Apple makes more than just smartphones, don't you?

The article only took smartphones into account.

And from the article I linked to discussing the Samsung $5 billion: "“(While) 60-70 per cent of (Samsung’s) profit came from handset sales this quarter, ... with memory chip prices rising, chips will play a big part in second quarter profits,” said Kim Sung-in, a chip industry analyst at Kiwoom Securities."

That's *handset sales* not all of which are smartphones -- Samsung sells a whole lot of dumbphones and not even all of them are Android phones. Samsung also sales Windows Phones and their own bada phones,

"Chip sales" also have nothing to do with Android -- especially with Apple being their largest external customer.

Apple don't say. But they do say "The Company sold 17.07 million iPhones in the quarter. Apple sold 11.12 million iPads during the quarter. The Company sold 4.89 million Macs during the quarter. Apple sold 6.62 million iPods."
So less then 50% of the devices sold by Apple were handsets.

That's nice and all, but 70% of Apple's revenue comes from the iPhone and you're off by quarter....Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the quarter ending in December.

And Apple's net income was $13 Billion not $6 Billion....
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii

Same problem with the newer kindles - they use the same generation pearl E Ink display as the kobo. I don't have a significant issue with ghosting - it's there if you look VERY closely, or have a black-heavy image on a previous page, but it's not an issue when you're just reading text. You can set it to do a full refresh every page, same as the kindle 3, or up to every 6 page turns, which is the default. I have it set on every 4 turns on my kobo, which provides a decent balance between the two for speed/vs ghosting. Even on 6, my kobo touch shows nothing LIKE that amount of ghosting in that screen shot.

I took a couple of quick snaps to demo;

Here's the kobo on a mostly blank page after 5 page (back) turns before refresh (next would do a full refresh)
https://picasaweb.google.com/103418843325186142125/Kobo#5729046541116884130
and what it looks like in the middle of text, again after 5 turns without refresh.
https://picasaweb.google.com/103418843325186142125/Kobo#5729047194047324946

(ignore the slight orange cast, that's a combo of lighting and my fairly naff phone cam - the rectangular shadow middle-bottom in the first one is the phone shadow)

Same problem with the newer kindles - they use the same generation pearl E Ink display as the kobo. I don't have a significant issue with ghosting - it's there if you look VERY closely, or have a black-heavy image on a previous page, but it's not an issue when you're just reading text. You can set it to do a full refresh every page, same as the kindle 3, or up to every 6 page turns, which is the default. I have it set on every 4 turns on my kobo, which provides a decent balance between the two for speed/vs ghosting. Even on 6, my kobo touch shows nothing LIKE that amount of ghosting in that screen shot.

I took a couple of quick snaps to demo;

Here's the kobo on a mostly blank page after 5 page (back) turns before refresh (next would do a full refresh)
https://picasaweb.google.com/103418843325186142125/Kobo#5729046541116884130
and what it looks like in the middle of text, again after 5 turns without refresh.
https://picasaweb.google.com/103418843325186142125/Kobo#5729047194047324946

(ignore the slight orange cast, that's a combo of lighting and my fairly naff phone cam - the rectangular shadow middle-bottom in the first one is the phone shadow)

Hmm. I thought this problem was the case with all e-ink readers, but doing a quick search on the net suggests it might be a problem with some displays manufactured by LG. That would be awesome.

They don't?

http://www.google.com/nexus/

"Go read their patents." So you have nothing.

I think you might have a point. Just look at how vague and unspecific that diagram is.. Everyone was doing wireless LANs in 1993 after all, these guys are hopeless.

I always like to go back to first principles. When Patterson, Gibson, Katz first described RAID, they detailed how it worked, and how you can break the data up over multiple inexpensive disks, how can you stripe data, and how to use parity. In 1987, x86 architectures were a 286 or maybe a 386. So, when they implemented parity for RAID, it had to be done in specialized hardware, because the CPUs are not fast enough. We have all seen how a Windows NT 4 server slowed to a crawl when you turn on the openGL screen saver, or used winmodems. The CPUs in those days were simply slow.

Today, a Phenom II X4 945 can compute RAID6 parity at close to 8GB/s. A throughput of 500 MB/s requires less than 1.5% of CPU time. (see: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10)

Now, of course, there's some overhead, processes swapping, etc. And RAID is more than simply calculating parity. The numbers I have seen do not go above 5% of one core however.

Can specialized chips implement RAID functionality faster than an Intel CPU? Sure, that's obvious. But again - if your server cannot handle a 5% load on one CPU on top of what it is already handling - you are sizing it wrong.

Why would software RAID be better? Because you cannot easily implement new technologies like ZFS in hardware. Well, you could, after all, firmware is just software that's written to a chip instead of the hard drive, and runs whatever processes/algorithms you want it to run, on whatever processors. But when new revisions of ZFS come out, it is not as easy to upgrade.

By the way, this is assuming well implemented software raid. Crappy software raid will give you really crappy performance, obviously.

As an example - Cisco always used low powered CPUs (compared to their competitors) and always marketed their "we have specialized hardware ASICS for switching and routing" because they were too cheap to use real CPUs. And so what happens when you cross the threshold for whatever they designed the ASICs to hold/process? Your performance dives off a cliff. Or what happens when you implement IPSec? Or IPv6? Well, buy more Cisco equipment I guess. Cisco's CEO thanks you: http://etherealmind.com/poster-reassuringly-expensive/

Now go watch this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6304964351441328559# at :34'50" they tell you software raid gave them a 20% to 30% increase over hardware raid.

This old dog has learnt to go with the times. You should too.

The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.

twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:

CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).

Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.

Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
Then, of course, twit about it and prove me wrong.

The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.

twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:

CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).

Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.

Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
Then, of course, twit about it and prove me wrong.

The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.

twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:

CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).

Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.

Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
Then, of course, twit about it and prove me wrong.

The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.

twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:

CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).

Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.

Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
Then, of course, twit about it and prove me wrong.

The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.

twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:

CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).

Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.

Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
Then, of course, twit about it and prove me wrong.