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I didn't just make the term up, it's almost as old as iOS:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=curated+computing

OK - this study: https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=chronic%20illness%20canada&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gpiatlantic.org%2Fpdf%2Fhealth%2Fchroniccanada.pdf&ei=VBN6T4-5N8rp0QHn3vGoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFkNG2k1ReuE_oxF-pMf78NLvowgg&sig2=g7Vzwd5KJiWRC0tr1_UfAQ&cad=rja says 35% of deaths in Canada are due to heart disease, stroke, and atherosclerosis, 29% to cancer, etc. The study isn't directly comparable to the CDC study, since the methodologies differ, but the numbers are fairly comparable.

You're remembering OS/2 1.0. With OS/2 2.x the price dropped. (I went into some detail about this in the post to which Harry links, regarding my history with OS/2.)

1) Why are you arselifters all such surly, miserable bastards?

I suggest you get out and meet a more diverse example of my brothers, we're not all sad-sacks. But if there's a trend that way, I could say it's because god is testing us. We're kind of like Catholics like that.

Don't you think that a few beers and a bop might cheer y'all up a bit?

We prefer not to get run over by drunks on the way home. Or to have wives beaten. Those are statistical minorities, I know, but if we all abstain it still saves the few.

2) What's the deal with those silly hats - the ones that look like massive pies?

Funny hats is just one of those things.

1) Why are you arselifters all such surly, miserable bastards?

I suggest you get out and meet a more diverse example of my brothers, we're not all sad-sacks. But if there's a trend that way, I could say it's because god is testing us. We're kind of like Catholics like that.

Don't you think that a few beers and a bop might cheer y'all up a bit?

We prefer not to get run over by drunks on the way home. Or to have wives beaten. Those are statistical minorities, I know, but if we all abstain it still saves the few.

2) What's the deal with those silly hats - the ones that look like massive pies?

Funny hats is just one of those things.

1) Why are you arselifters all such surly, miserable bastards?

I suggest you get out and meet a more diverse example of my brothers, we're not all sad-sacks. But if there's a trend that way, I could say it's because god is testing us. We're kind of like Catholics like that.

Don't you think that a few beers and a bop might cheer y'all up a bit?

We prefer not to get run over by drunks on the way home. Or to have wives beaten. Those are statistical minorities, I know, but if we all abstain it still saves the few.

2) What's the deal with those silly hats - the ones that look like massive pies?

Funny hats is just one of those things.

The definitive obituary for OS/2 was written in 1995 with this long USENET post fro Gordon Letwin, who was the lead architect of OS/2 on the Microsoft side.

Excerpt: "What was OS/2's problem? Why was it doomed? Because it's main attraction was as an engine to run MS-Windows applications. The problem is one of standards, and one of critical mass. Standards are of incredible importance in the computing world. They're critical in other domains that folks don't often think about. Your HiFi CD player, for example. It plugs into your preamp. And that plugs into your amp. And that connects to speakers. Each of those can, and usually does, come from a different manufacturer. The RCA connectors, and the signal levels themselves, are standardized. Standardization is a big plus in the computer field. You're much better off having thousands of products and vendors compatible with a single standard, even a mediocre one, than having dozens of products, one or two each for each of a dozen fragmented standards."

Never seen it? Here it is
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=roy%20scheider%20helicopter%20movie&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0085255%2F&ei=vNR5T_u5K6Oi0QWun8m4DQ&usg=AFQjCNH2niYl3uTQmBWgJQwutDlBSckFsw

Bert

If the Google token can only be verified by "the real Google", then Gawker can't tell a fake one from a legit one either.
Derp! Regardless, the real token is real once the attacker passed your credentials through the normal login routines. The attacker doesn't care about the token, the attacker cares about your username and password.

Gawker hands the token back to google via statically coded portions of their web and google validates it. This is built into the library. If your putative XSS attacker can compromise a system library they you are far more screwed than you think.

The tokes are use-once tokens. When a website asks Google’s OpenID provider (IDP) for someone’s email address, Google always sign it in a way that cannot be replaced by an attacker. The website won't be able to log you in.

True, the attacker may already have your Google password, if they are very very good. But this still won't get them much, because google's two factor authentication will stop them in their tracks, and even if the account doesn't use 2FA, google's IP range checking will. (Got caught by this just the other day when I tried to log in to google from a distant hotel. Had to answer the additional security question).

And you still danced around the question of why something you claim is so vulnerable is becoming the standard. Could it be its far far harder than you glibly claim? Could it be you have never actually done any such programming in the real world? Pretty good at slinging the insults to cover you lack of knowledge. If its so easy go out and DO it some time.

Yeah, you're an idiot. The attacker can get around all of the protections in place if they can get their own script to run on the page. And I have no idea why you're thinking about fucking tokens at all. The attacker doesn't want a fucking token, they want a username and password. All they have to do is send it out to their own server via XHR and then let the normal stuff go on as usual.

Two factor authentication? Who gives a shit? Accounts that have a dongle will be skipped. Accounts that don't have a dongle will be harvested. It's trivial to get around the IP restrictions. You could even just do everything from an IP in a "mobile" block since the check is ignored. And then there's the cascade effect - when attackers have your google username, password, and IP, they'll start hitting other accounts you may have.

If you think it's so inconsequential, please post your gmail address and password.

Letwin was OS/2's chief architect and one of Gates' most trusted employees at the time. He wrote the book that introduced the operating system to applications developers (now available for a bargain price!).

Here is a Usenet post Letwin wrote in 1995, after it was obvious that OS/2 had lost out to Windows 95 (and eventually NT/2000) in the marketplace.

BTW I also found Letwin in an early group photo of Microsoft (Letwin is second from the right in the middle row). By comparison, here is the photo for Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

Their patent expires soon, it was granted in the US in 1996, it seem to be a hardware patent, they made a chip to do ‘fast Fourier transform’ to solve the problem of wireless signals bouncing off walls. The main inventor worked in radio astronomy, "Inspired to think about ways of cleaning up smeared radio signals to make searching for short pulses like those from exploding black holes easier." http://www.google.com/patents/US5487069 http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/CSIRO-honours-wireless-team.aspx

Not too difficult.

Google seems to disagree with you on that point.

How about Google Weather Control?

I can only say that, because of this -> 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=oNt4T_-HNeLr0gGn9rGsDQ

* Complete with Adamantium Skeleton, Neutronium Skin, & behind an impenetrable 100,000 megavolt forcefield secure...

(By yours truly... it just works!)

APK

P.S.=> I can't be infested setup that way (neither do users of it for years straight), also being armed with good common sense on how you use the web to stay uninfested by the machinations of 'lesser beings' - especially when no matter what kind of tech they use, it shows how to 'burn it out' cleanly & non-destructively, with tools users already own/have, or should... lol! apk

You both forgot this one:

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Is there something stopping Firefox from implementing the PPAPI? Perhaps this could become a new standard API for browsers across the board?

Pepper isn't open source.

But wait, there's more!

P.S: Your links, fixed - http://www.gmail.com/tap http://www.google.com/fiber

P.P.S: Seems like people at Google got way too much free time on their hands. If they'd stop fooling around they'd probably take over the world about now.

But wait, there's more!

P.S: Your links, fixed - http://www.gmail.com/tap http://www.google.com/fiber

P.P.S: Seems like people at Google got way too much free time on their hands. If they'd stop fooling around they'd probably take over the world about now.

But wait, there's more!

P.S: Your links, fixed - http://www.gmail.com/tap http://www.google.com/fiber

P.P.S: Seems like people at Google got way too much free time on their hands. If they'd stop fooling around they'd probably take over the world about now.

Those are Googlers.

Probably not, but Google's working on it: http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/

Sounds like a grab to boost G+'s userbase beyond Wil Wheaton and Google engineers.

Not gonna touch Google+ until they get rid of their "real names" policy and I'm not inclined since I've invested so much of my online social life with Facebook.

The real names policy has been relaxed, but that doesn't mean they don't already know precisely who you are.

What's more worrying is that this Patent they are applying for, if used by them, violates their own Privacy Policy, and their own openness pledge. After being dragged through a knot hole by the FTC and Congress, It seems unlikely they will actually put this into service any time soon.

I doubt this is being used yet. There is nothing on my Google Dashboard, even tho I've ignored multiple invites to G+. So if they are creating this phantom account its not accessible even by the user, and as such must be merely a book keeping entry to allow authentication. If G+ users hit that Invite button, they may simply record the invite in a file somewhere so that they can add both parties to each other's circles. They had been doing that with Gmail invites since day one. (back when you needed to be invited to Gmail).

Google plus does in fact allow photos/albums (maybe posts? I haven't checked) marked "public" to be viewed by anyone with the url.

Here are the first 99 photos from my trip to Death Valley last month, for example: https://plus.google.com/photos/114127672767084904209/albums/5718366559408412705

Hello Kitty USB flash drives.

Drop a bunch in the parking lot.

Use Google to get the data in a couple of days. Latency is a bit low, but hell, it's a backup.

Is there something stopping Firefox from implementing the PPAPI? Perhaps this could become a new standard API for browsers across the board?

Can you enlighten us on this HTML magic to which you refer?

rel="noreferrer"

That's correct, and it's the "digital" and "unified database" thingies that scare me to death.

So it seems bad? It's even worse within historic contextualization.

The brazilian government has a disturbing, and increasingly stronger, tradition of imposed culture homogenization and control centralization.
That, so I understand, has roots from an old fear of country desintegration. We have disgraceful examples from a not-so-distant past (1940s, 1950s) when european migrants (most living in the southern region) were forbidden (or strongly discouraged) to publish local newspapers in their language, to teach such languages in local schools and even (that happened to germans descendants) books, if not entire libraries, were destroyed since the material is not in the "correct" language. Brazil had a massive influx of immigrants in the late 1800 early 1900, and yet that fact is, at best, a side note on History classes children attend. It is as it never happened and people simply existed as an cohesive nation.

Nowadays we may go to places where most people are, let's say, of ukrainian origin, have such physical appearance, but do not know anything about their ancestral language nor from which region they came from. Their culture was intentionally destroyed and a "brazilian culture" (being to national culture what Esperanto is to a natural language) was pushed down their throats.

The public administration is extremely centralized, by design. The brazilian "federal system" is not that, except for the name. The states in Brazil have less autonomy than the provinces in Canada (even disregarding Quebec). The brazilian constitution itself has absolute clausulas petreas (entrenchment clauses) on that matter, including absolute indissolubility of the so-called federation.

The fact the brazilian capital was moved to a fabricated city in the middle of nowhere, far from the dangers of popular revolt, says a lot.

Now we have IT developed to levels allowing storage and processing of every single citizen.
And not even that is news. Even IT specialists are not usually aware of the level of information concentration in Serpro.
It's immensely ironic to find intelectualized brazilians bashing the horrendous privacy laws from foreign countries, while oblivious to what is solidly stablished under their own noses.

More recently, the brazilian government realized that, even with all the brainwashing efforts, the economic mid-class suffered a big hit in the 1980s and 1990s and started to get somewhat smarter and, the most worrying, insatisfied.
Meanwhile the upper class have money and never cared about such things. The government is usually friendly, otherwise there's always the option to leave the country.
The lower-class, often uneducated, people is busy trying to survive and know nothing about anything. No danger here either, and any possible enlightening is kept under control with substandard education.
Few years ago the federal government started a brilliant strategy of economic empowerment of its low-class citizens (education be damned, nobody wants the cattle starting to think) with actions which include a program that, in practice, give free money to people (Note: Brazil's economy management improved immensely the last years, but it also had a dumb luck. The last years there's an influx of money clogging the government pipes so, for a while at least, it is viable to do such things).
At the same time the, now inconvenient, mid-class is being crushed by taxes, while being accused of low-class parasitism by clever populist propaganda from the very government. The last years it has been talked about a "new mid-class" with indirect suggestion

Why not?

If no-one (except the police, and professional criminals who'll mostly use them in gang wars), everyone will be safer.

But if you have a gun, you'll feel safer, but make everyone else less safe (as a criminal may sell it). This is especially true if street criminals (who probably wouldn't have guns if they weren't so cheap on the blackmarket) don't have them.

I beg to disagree. It's trivial to lie with statistics, and I won't pretend that most (if not all) of the sites returned by Google aren't biased, but...:stats on gun ownership vs. violent crime.

skylink sc-1000

I only have the Googling experience so far, though I once designed and installed security systems for businesses. For my business I use ADT, but for home, I really don't like adding another monthly service bill in addition to phone, cable, internet... so yes I'm a tight wad.

BTW. Video record the burglars if you want and maybe with lots of work you might cause them a little grief. But a really loud alarm, and maybe some strobe lights might actually make them stop and move on to a less noisy place.

I'm told the number one thing you can do to deter break-ins (this according to an ADT guy) is to add more outside lighting. Don't see how that would help in the day time though. Maybe very obvious, large real or fake outdoor cameras would be equivalent?

Bree: http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&q=bree+belgium&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x47c0d3cb55137519:0x40099ab2f4d4ef0,Bree,+Belgium&ei=Whd2T9-JJofQhAfTnfTJDQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CEEQ8gEwAQ

The real question they should ask is why not all Robin Hoods can speak with an English accent.

It's not our fault. They changed their accent after we got here.

What is insightful about this comment? I'm fine with people not liking Best Buy, but there is no substance to this.

You will find a lot of substance here... http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=why+best+buy+deserves+to+fail&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

An Italian article (Google translation) has slightly more detail. (Note that 'Ereditato' is mistranslated as 'Inherited'; I've replaced it below.)

To put an end I received today the resignation of spokesman for Opera, the physicist Antonio Ereditato. "There is no desire on my part of the controversy, I hope this concludes a phase," Ereditato told ANSA.

Some collaboration members have requested a motion for the resignation of Ereditato and in spite of the motion not passed, has created a rift inside. In light of this situation, Ereditato considered it appropriate to resign because the partnership was no longer manageable. "It 's been a very painful affair within the collaboration," said the director of the National Laboratories of Gran Sasso, Lucia Votano. "The motion presented by the researchers reflects the difference in judgment on the world in which the affair was conducted," he said. "It is now clear that there was error, it is understood that the measure was having problems and things are back," he added Votano. For now it's time to turn the page.

The Vice President of INFN, Antonio Masiero, Opera hopes that the collaboration will "unite us and new leadership in pursuing its primary objective specifically to observe the emergence of new types of neutrinos from the mu-type neutrinos from Cern" , ie the study of the phenomenon called neutrino oscillation.

Not much detail, unfortunately. Part of the group wanted him gone (for reasons unknown) and he wanted to end the controversy, so he stepped down.

It's not an algae. It's a bacterium!

Prokaryotes rule!

(Who do you think will be around after silly humans trash the planet back to the Proterozoic?)

> And your employer needs your ssn to employ you, pay you and deduct your taxes, for verification, etc.

Total nonsense. It would behoove you to actually check the facts before posting lies.

https://www.google.com/search?q=taco+bell+ssn

One of these perhaps
https://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/033012-visa-mastercard-breach-257824.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46904168
https://www.google.com/news?ned=us&q=VISA%2C%20MasterCard%20Breach&btnG=Search+News

Some people also believe in faries and vampires. One of the best things I've seen on this dates to 1887, in Popular Science. http://books.google.com/books?id=tyoDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA841&ots=q-UT8wqLWR&dq=%22evidence%20as%20well%20as%22%20vampires&pg=PA841#v=onepage&q=%22evidence%20as%20well%20as%22&f=false/

Actually, here in Norway, the consumer watchdog has already decided that Apple has been misleading in their advertising of the iPad as 4G. Last time I checked, Norway was in Europe.

Sure, it reinserts itself, but when it's finished does it take itself out, flip it to the other side, and then reinsert itself again?

Haven't you seen a robotic tape loader?

(Notes how the article conveniently forgets to mention the cost of the tape robot in their price comparison. Nobody's going to manage a lot of tapes by hand...)

Heh, I'm renting a room right now, and pretty much had to do a wifi makeover to get good connectivity in the basement. The signal was very spotty, and it seemed like we would have to reconnect every few minutes if anyone upstairs was also using the signal.

They didn't want to run wires down to the basement, but I found that there was great wifi signal in the wine cellar around the corner. I bought a wifi extender to bounce the signal around the corner. It helped a little bit, but my system would still bounce between the repeater signal and the weak access point upstairs every once in a while. I guess the repeaters only work well if you're well beyond the range of the original access point, and I'm sure it was causing more congestion since it was repeating everything on the same channel.

Then I found if I set it to wifi-tether mode and ran a CAT5e cable to my computer, it would work much better than my computer's wifi. With the big antennas, it did a much better job holding on to the weak signal. But the bandwidth still wasn't ideal, was only getting 15Mbps instead of the full 25Mbps.

Also there were more devices we wanted hooked up to wifi, so I ended up setting it up in wifi-tether mode, and ran the long cable to an old wifi access point I had in our area running on a different channel. I'm actually using the old wifi access point as a wifi bridge (it's plugged into one of the LAN ports instead of the WAN port), so it doesn't act as another router hop, and the DHCP / gateway is served directly by the landlord's wifi AP. Not exactly an advertised setup with the wifi repeater, but now all of our devices get a wonderful and stable signal... definitely happy to have this flexible wifi repeater unit in my toolbox.

If you have an Android device, Wifi Analyzer will do a pretty decent job showing you what's on each channel and what the crossband interference might look like.

Using CyanogenMOD, I also quite often set my phone up as an HSDPA-wifi, HSDPA-USB, or even wifi-usb tether, depending on my situation... and it usually works much better than whatever lousy wifi access point I might encounter in public.

Citation needed.

The environment as an etiologic factor in autism: a new direction for research. (2000)

Autism, Brain, and Environment. (2006)

ASD-CARC Genetics and Environments Studies. (2007 or so.)

Nurture over nature (page 8). (2011)

What, like Opera? Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, speed dial, several other things that later browsers copied. Those only became features once someone created an extension for them in Firefox, right?

Have you looked at a vanilla install of Firefox? Compare that with Opera and the number of features in Firefox is pretty much approaching zero.

If the only thing you want to compare is plugins or add-ons, instead of actual browser features, then you should look at things like this, this, and this to avoid making yourself appear uninformed in the future.

If the Google token can only be verified by "the real Google", then Gawker can't tell a fake one from a legit one either.
Derp! Regardless, the real token is real once the attacker passed your credentials through the normal login routines. The attacker doesn't care about the token, the attacker cares about your username and password.

Gawker hands the token back to google via statically coded portions of their web and google validates it. This is built into the library. If your putative XSS attacker can compromise a system library they you are far more screwed than you think.

The tokes are use-once tokens. When a website asks Google’s OpenID provider (IDP) for someone’s email address, Google always sign it in a way that cannot be replaced by an attacker. The website won't be able to log you in.

True, the attacker may already have your Google password, if they are very very good. But this still won't get them much, because google's two factor authentication will stop them in their tracks, and even if the account doesn't use 2FA, google's IP range checking will. (Got caught by this just the other day when I tried to log in to google from a distant hotel. Had to answer the additional security question).

And you still danced around the question of why something you claim is so vulnerable is becoming the standard. Could it be its far far harder than you glibly claim? Could it be you have never actually done any such programming in the real world? Pretty good at slinging the insults to cover you lack of knowledge. If its so easy go out and DO it some time.

Well you could do it on your own just as you described. Make it as fancy or as simple as you like. .........Or you could call a local installer (or multiple) to come out and do a site survey using similar tools, and to give you a bid.

See, his question is confusing, because he wants to know "what I can do on my own in terms of placing a few individual cells and.....measuring and recording their output...." but then didn't think to google "USB voltmeter" which, clearly, would be the simplest method of "measuring and recording" the output from the solar cells.

So my question is this: how is he going to have the knowledge to install solar panels correctly but not have the knowledge to google "USB voltmeter"?

I feel like I just gave a 3-yr-old a loaded weapon.... hope he doesn't electrocute himself

If you want a good back-of-the-envelope measurement and don't trust the solar guys, why not just buy a cheap time-lapse camera, set it to record every half hour or so, and check the solar coverage on the images of some representative days?

That was my thinking, except forget the camera, go straight for the PC. Run the electrical cords into the house and hook up a cheap USB voltmeter to your PC. I would contact that website with what you're trying to do and ask if their USB voltmeter would be suitable for your experiment.

USB multimeter would be a good option too.

...breastfed baby's don't get Iron...

Wait, *double take*, what???
A quick scan reveals that the iron in breast milk is the best source, more easily absorbed than any other way.

Since you're either retarded or willfully obtuse, I'll spell out one XSS scenario for you.

Go read up on OpenID and then come back and apologize for calling people names.
See also how Google does this.

1) Gawker puts a sign in with Gmail account button on the page.
2) You click that and a NEW HTTPS window shows up, sent to you by GOOGLE. (You do understand HTTPS don't you?)
3) You enter your Gmail address and password.
4) GOOGLE sends an encrypted token saying Yes/No and possibly your name back to Gawker.
5) Gawker waits for this token and validates it directly with Google.

Once you get hit by XSS the entire page containing that script can be altered, including that NEW HTTPS window, which is now sent to you by SOMEONE WHO IS NOT GOOGLE.

Thanks for trying, though.

I've missed my tape drive! My TR-3 1.6/3.2 circa 1996, was plenty for the hard drives available at time and pretty much a requirement for Windows 95 considering how often it killed itself, but within just a few years the hard drives far exceeded the capacity of tape. Fortunately by then Windows 2000 was out and life has been good since.

I'd love to use tape again, but with 1.5/3.0TB drives selling in the $1,500 range it still doesn't make sense, not when I can buy a dozen 2TB hard drives for the price of one 1.5/3.0TB tape drive

Now we have hipster geeks?!