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Car manufacturing plants are filled with the same companies cars because of the signs around the lots saying something along the lines of 'Free parking for this company's models only'.

Actually, they're filled with the companies cars because the union guys will key a foreign car on the lot and sometimes they take that further and lash out at domestic competitors cars ( though I have not heard many cases of that ). Most the engineering facilities don't have this phenomenon with the exception of the Chrysler HQ and Tech Center where policy is that only Chrysler cars are allowed in the main parking structure. The rest are fine, but you have to park in the back lot. To see the difference Look here.

In a sense it is, but a very recent one.

What's awesome here is that:

1) You think we give a shit about the 3rd world shithole that you live in.

2) You think we give a shit about your stupid comics store.

--
Marcan, asshole and proud.

Moreover, Elop did his best to sink their flagship MeeGo device, the N9, by deliberately only selling it in low-income, low smartphone areas rather than the core markets you'd expect to place any device you actually want to succeed - and despite being made into a pariah, it outsells their entire Lumia (Windows) line 3 to 1. This is a device that that Nokia don't even list on their website as a product, but it still outsells all their Windows phones combined?

Uh, telling a little white lie on geography can get you to the N9 pages. It's not limited to low-income low-smartphone countries either, but it's certainly not listed for the largest markets (US, UK, Germany, etc.). However, it is shown for Sweden and Finland. Since you likely are not linguistically comfortable with either Swedish or Finnish, the Google translate versions are here and here respectively.

Moreover, Elop did his best to sink their flagship MeeGo device, the N9, by deliberately only selling it in low-income, low smartphone areas rather than the core markets you'd expect to place any device you actually want to succeed - and despite being made into a pariah, it outsells their entire Lumia (Windows) line 3 to 1. This is a device that that Nokia don't even list on their website as a product, but it still outsells all their Windows phones combined?

Uh, telling a little white lie on geography can get you to the N9 pages. It's not limited to low-income low-smartphone countries either, but it's certainly not listed for the largest markets (US, UK, Germany, etc.). However, it is shown for Sweden and Finland. Since you likely are not linguistically comfortable with either Swedish or Finnish, the Google translate versions are here and here respectively.

Ubuntu does not do it: see? ("About 4,290,000 results (0.16 seconds) ")

You can add on filesystems into NT-based OS peterhawkins, in fact, it was built to be extensible and take on OTHER filesystems (you also omitted CDFS, & FAT32 in your lists, but no biggie there really):

In fact, here's one example of what I mean, & for Linux ext2:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Ext2IFS_1_11a.exe&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&sei=n-5pT9rNO4j50gGD15WwCQ

As far as SSH? PuTTy exists as a decent 3rd party solution, FREE too iirc (last time I used it was in 2009 though), & there are others for Secure FTP (SFTP), see here:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Windows%22+and+%22SSH%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=n-5pT9rNO4j50gGD15WwCQ

Same with NFS:

So - If you need *better* NFS support, 3rd party tools exist for it, as well as Microsoft's OWN "services for UNIX" (used to be "OpenNT" iirc, before MS bought 'em out - but, don't quote me on THAT one though).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324055

Lastly:

notepad.exe!

* Yes, here I must concede you MAY have a really solid point!

Notepad.exe may not be as nice as some tools are (such as UltraEdit for example & in terms of say, programming languages support for syntax etc./et al) but, it "gets the job done"!

(The only thing I don't like about it is the 'save as type files' defaults ALWAYS to .txt, & that's not always the extension of files I save as here that are indeed, text files (such as a hosts file, has no extension but is indeed, text)).

APK

P.S.=> Thus, You CAN put the very things you mention into Windows, no hassle, & for free (and yes, you can extend its filesystem capabilities easily enough also, per the above example)... apk

You can add on filesystems into NT-based OS peterhawkins, in fact, it was built to be extensible and take on OTHER filesystems (you also omitted CDFS, & FAT32 in your lists, but no biggie there really):

In fact, here's one example of what I mean, & for Linux ext2:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Ext2IFS_1_11a.exe&btnG=Search&sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&gbv=1&sei=n-5pT9rNO4j50gGD15WwCQ

As far as SSH? PuTTy exists as a decent 3rd party solution, FREE too iirc (last time I used it was in 2009 though), & there are others for Secure FTP (SFTP), see here:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Windows%22+and+%22SSH%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=n-5pT9rNO4j50gGD15WwCQ

Same with NFS:

So - If you need *better* NFS support, 3rd party tools exist for it, as well as Microsoft's OWN "services for UNIX" (used to be "OpenNT" iirc, before MS bought 'em out - but, don't quote me on THAT one though).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324055

Lastly:

notepad.exe!

* Yes, here I must concede you MAY have a really solid point!

Notepad.exe may not be as nice as some tools are (such as UltraEdit for example & in terms of say, programming languages support for syntax etc./et al) but, it "gets the job done"!

(The only thing I don't like about it is the 'save as type files' defaults ALWAYS to .txt, & that's not always the extension of files I save as here that are indeed, text files (such as a hosts file, has no extension but is indeed, text)).

APK

P.S.=> Thus, You CAN put the very things you mention into Windows, no hassle, & for free (and yes, you can extend its filesystem capabilities easily enough also, per the above example)... apk

Or you can use God Mode to always win, with something like Incognito Regex for Chrome.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, avid gamer

(yeah, google translate.. Still, it's readable)

OK:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:ubuntu.com+linux#q=site:ubuntu.com+linux&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1&fp=367a43a0f858fe9
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.ubuntu.com+linux#q=site:www.ubuntu.com+linux&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1

OK:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:ubuntu.com+linux#q=site:ubuntu.com+linux&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1&fp=367a43a0f858fe9
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.ubuntu.com+linux#q=site:www.ubuntu.com+linux&hl=en&tbo=1&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=li:1

Your signature is a lie, as "mathematics" simply refers to conceptual systems that we group together based on human categorization. Saying that "There is only one math" is like saying there is only one programming language. And yes, I understand what Turning completeness entails, but categories rely on human categorization. If you want to do any categorizing of anything, like math from general cognition, you must rely on human perceptual systems.

Although, the parent is a jerk: linguistic meaning, like mathematics, is based on what we put into it. Chomsky's magical separation of performance and abstract correctness falls apart on close examination. Calling others ignorant is pretty shallow considering the history of the English language.

Tybejee suggests several ways to entice consumers to embrace m-wallets, including making targeted offers as part of the mobile wallet experience based on a consumer's prior purchasing history; tying in mobile wallets with loyalty cards and programs...

Right. The Google Wallet is an end run around banking privacy and security laws.

If the mobile wallet systems were coming from real banks, they might be trusted more. Not from "indemnify us against our mistakes and don't sue us" Google. "You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GPC, Google, and their subsidiaries and other affiliates, and its and their directors, officers, owners, agents, co-branders or other partners, employees, information providers, licensors, licensees, consultants, contractors and other applicable third parties (including without limitation Paymentech, L.P. and relevant Customers) (collectively "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, causes of action, debt or liability, including reasonable attorneys fees, including without limitation attorneys fees and costs incurred by the Indemnified Parties arising out of, related to, or which may arise from: (i) your use of the Services; (ii) any breach or non-compliance by you of any term of these Terms of Service or any GPC Party policies; (iii) any dispute or litigation caused by your actions or omissions; or (iv) your negligence or violation or alleged violation of any law or rights of a third party." ... "GPC may delay payment processing of suspicious transactions or transactions which may involve fraud, misconduct, or violate applicable law, these Terms of Service, or other applicable GPC policies, as determined in GPC's > sole and absolute discretion."

Those are much worse terms than banks are allowed to offer. They're more at the level of PayPal, which is notorious for delaying the release of customer funds. No contract with a financial institution should have a "sole discretion" clause like that.

Google insists that if you lose a phone with Google Wallet installed, you have to contact every credit and value card vendor with data in the wallet.

Tybejee suggests several ways to entice consumers to embrace m-wallets, including making targeted offers as part of the mobile wallet experience based on a consumer's prior purchasing history; tying in mobile wallets with loyalty cards and programs...

Right. The Google Wallet is an end run around banking privacy and security laws.

If the mobile wallet systems were coming from real banks, they might be trusted more. Not from "indemnify us against our mistakes and don't sue us" Google. "You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GPC, Google, and their subsidiaries and other affiliates, and its and their directors, officers, owners, agents, co-branders or other partners, employees, information providers, licensors, licensees, consultants, contractors and other applicable third parties (including without limitation Paymentech, L.P. and relevant Customers) (collectively "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, causes of action, debt or liability, including reasonable attorneys fees, including without limitation attorneys fees and costs incurred by the Indemnified Parties arising out of, related to, or which may arise from: (i) your use of the Services; (ii) any breach or non-compliance by you of any term of these Terms of Service or any GPC Party policies; (iii) any dispute or litigation caused by your actions or omissions; or (iv) your negligence or violation or alleged violation of any law or rights of a third party." ... "GPC may delay payment processing of suspicious transactions or transactions which may involve fraud, misconduct, or violate applicable law, these Terms of Service, or other applicable GPC policies, as determined in GPC's > sole and absolute discretion."

Those are much worse terms than banks are allowed to offer. They're more at the level of PayPal, which is notorious for delaying the release of customer funds. No contract with a financial institution should have a "sole discretion" clause like that.

Google insists that if you lose a phone with Google Wallet installed, you have to contact every credit and value card vendor with data in the wallet.

http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v2/i6/p1853_s1
http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v2/i10/p3804_s1

Seems like there are plenty of Papers on it.

It makes a nice neutron source but a terrible fusion power plant because it will always take more energy to run it than you will get out.
There is a very good reason for ITER.

I dare you to Google "potato law".

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&q=potato+law&oq=potato+law
I don't take well to dares

At any rate, the teacher should be reinstated and the damned administrators should be fired.

Naw, I'm pretty sure it went like this:

Parent: This book is pornographic and the teacher is reading it to my 14 yr old!
Superintendent: Ender's Game? (thinking: I haven't read that) What parts are pornographic? (read: take quotes out of context and make them sound bad)
Parent: (thinking: shit! I haven't read it either! I just hate that teacher!) .... um.... (quickly googles ender's game pornographic) .... See! It's right there, at the top of google! Ender's Game is pornographic!
Superintendent: OH! Well! That changes everything! I will definitely fire that teacher! .... by the way, are you voting for Santorum? Google "Santorum" and let's see what comes up....

"tomhudson's ethics" (GOOGLE), which is u, had u change ur name here I see http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=tomhudson+site:slashdot.org&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=Hd9oT83vGojbsgLxyLGtDQ to Barbara not Barbie. 3rd result shows why you did it too. Seems your stalking others by anonymous posts and telling others to join you in it, which is a violation of this site's policies and the law itself mind you, did you in. Think twice about taking on your betters by less than honorable means scumbag next time. You won't have to hide yourself like you do now obviously.

Higher than for Foxconn workers. This has been reported by various media, just google it. The wikipedia article cites this The Economist article, for instance.

at subsidence farming.

You, sir, are undermining your own argument!

Ahh yes, being in a hurry and blind reliance on spellcheck are not a good combination. I wish my browser's spell checker would look at frequency of use in language (or look at surrounding words for the best fit) when ordering recommendations!

At least I'm not the only one to make that mistake!

MANY years ago, my uncle took me on several trips - trails and the like. One time we went on an abandond RR path. We knew what is was for one key reason: They removed the RR ties, and the 'bumps' were still there. After reading your story; I though I could look it up, and sure enough, I found it. You can see here, the former RR track going north / south. Last time that I saw it, there were no houses around the adajcent lake.

I do the same thing follow old rail line.

Been using it to keep track of the last remaining Wooden Trestles a long a 100+ year old line here in the Western part of NC.

https://picasaweb.google.com/104509350788295110986/TripleCRailRoad

Got root?

An iptables front-end on Android. Droid Wall is sweet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.droidwall.free

As each android app runs as a separate uid, it makes it easy to block net access app-by-app. The problem, of course, is when the app you don't really trust needs net access for a real reason. Sometimes you can allow net access, let the app do it's thing, then revoke it so it's not background connecting all the time.

Also the ability to set some apps wifi-only and others 3G-only is pretty handy. This saves hours of battery life.

"Yo Dog" meme in there somewhere

http://www.google.com/search?q="Yo+Dog+Meme"

http://www.youtube.com/
http://picasa.google.com/
http://plus.google.com/

Three enough?

Ah hell, I'll throw one more in for free: Google Music (specifically, the "locker" feature) - remember, they never got official signoff from the labels that the music locker service was legit and they were okay with it. Labels could still go after Google for that service, though it's not clear that they'd actually win.

You don't think Google is *intensely* interested in the outcome of cases regarding uploads of copyrighted materials to online sharing services, given that they own & operate sites intended for sharing, and which can - easily & trivially - be used to share copyrighted content?

It's cool that Google is advocating for this, but make no mistake: filing this brief is also serving their own interests.

http://www.youtube.com/
http://picasa.google.com/
http://plus.google.com/

Three enough?

Ah hell, I'll throw one more in for free: Google Music (specifically, the "locker" feature) - remember, they never got official signoff from the labels that the music locker service was legit and they were okay with it. Labels could still go after Google for that service, though it's not clear that they'd actually win.

You don't think Google is *intensely* interested in the outcome of cases regarding uploads of copyrighted materials to online sharing services, given that they own & operate sites intended for sharing, and which can - easily & trivially - be used to share copyrighted content?

It's cool that Google is advocating for this, but make no mistake: filing this brief is also serving their own interests.

Not all prosthetic hands are controlled via EMGs. Actually, the majority are what are called "body powered." Through the socket and harness, you tension a cable using the shoulder and back muscles, and that is used to control the hand. Typically, the cable directly actuates the prosthesis, like the cable on a bike directly actuating the brakes. In other cases, the cable is a linear potentiometer, and the prosthesis uses that input to actuate motors. It may sound like a kludge, but wearers can achieve impressive function. It's not a replacement for a good hand, but compared to a non-functioning hand, could provide her with a great benefit.

Haven't read TFB and stopped reading TFR at this line:

"The book is made up of two parts; with part 1 comprised of 11 chapters on general topics. "

I wonder what is Microsoft's position on the use of the word 'comprise'

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=how+to+use+the+word+%22comprise%22

This is the same guy who wrote the partially completed android X11 server that was posted on /. recently. I didn't see the story there either. I mean, it was impressive that he had implemented most of X11 by himself, but a fully featured x11 app already existed on the market ( here), so I don't consider it newsworthy.

How does his blog keep getting on /.'s front page?

It still doesn't excuse the iPhone or iPad, and "officially" they're not user replaceable. I also don't consider the need for a pentalobe screwdriver truly user replaceable even if I can get around it.

Try adding some synonyms; "freedom" is used more than "liberty" these days.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=liberty%2Csecurity%2Cfreedom%2Crights&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=0

I've always thought that if I return to working from home, I'd build a backyard office:

https://www.google.com/search?q=backyard+office&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch

By being separate from the house it's easier to separate work from home life. When I used to work from home I got distracted by home things. And TV.

Adaway works for me.

It's even open source. You need root, first, though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway&hl=en

Well, as a counter example, I was sick of ads on my Droid "Free" metronome app, so I wrote an ad-free one, and yes, it was produced via "Good Will". And unlike the ad-festooned apps, mine comes with both Cowbell and Fart sounds!

There is indeed a more efficient way to do it. If you use backsmali you can disassemble the app, remove the Admob crap and rebuild it. It is trivial to automate the patching with perl/python. You will also save storage space since the resulting .APK is smaller. The thing here is to not let Google make a cent out of this.

--
mchurch

Somehow or another, the copyright MAFIAA has managed to hijack the public conversation such that the only value or goal of public telecom policy is to stop copyright violations.

It's time to stop fighting defensive battles on "what's the best way to stop copyright violations".

A better question is, "What should be the goal of telecom policy". My view: freer communication.

Just as we accept that some people will die on the highways, but we don't shut them down. Some people may be offended by various speech, but we don't shut down the 1st amendment. Some people may get shot, but we don't abridge the right to bear arms.

So, similarly, some copyright violations may occur, but we don't abridge the right to communicate. Also the 1st amendment amends the copyright clause.

Another link, more recent data, sourced from China state media:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i1FL2q8ZO_Z93-mOqOx5eSYQW36Q?docId=CNG.fe11c1b55d60e484a37a458dccdd1b34.8f1/

Oh yeah, really interesting.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=liberty%2Csecurity&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

http://books.google.com/ngrams/

Don't spend the whole day on it.

Well obviously Google employees working in their moon office would have astrophysics degrees.

(As an aside: that page is the second hit for googling "google jobs" for some reason.)

Bullshit. Not only does a merge of Android kernel features not mean you can play angry birds under some regular Linux distro (you'll need, oh, Dalvik and Android's windowing system which is not X11), you can already play Angry Birds in Chrome, no Wine required. The kernel is entirely irrelevant. If you don't know what you're talking about, just shut up.

...SEO optimization guide on my websites. Will I now be penalized for doing so?

I have games on 30 stores including Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=AllBinary I have my AllBinary Platform with 1.2 million plus lines of code. https://github.com/AllBinary/AllBinary-Platform I have 8+ years of the last 12. I will build a self replicating robot army in 7 years or less. Oddly I do have 2 phone interviews for NC this coming week.

Good to know, thank you. We're actually both right. And thanks.

"Easy cases make bad law."

They go after Kim Dotcom because they think they can make an unsympathetic defendant of him. That's part of why all the trumped up bullshit in the complaint vs. "Megaupload" as well (constant words like "mega conspiracy", "child porn", and so on created to scare the crap out of the grand jury).

If you don't defend him, though, then that sets a precedent and other people get fucked over by the bad precedent. Why do you think the MafIAA run away from court every time they look like they are about to lose a case? It's because settling or "dropping" the case doesn't create precedent, but losing in court would.

by Theodore Sturegon from the 1950s: http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

He also envisioned in that story the internet, wireless mobile computing, a gift economy, groupware, nanotechnology, the open source movement, an abundance outlook on life, and more...

SABAM (the group in question) said, in a response, that it was a misunderstanding (translated, Dutch original). They charge 15 euro per public reading, and they cannot distinguish between adults and children. They always have to charge (their words, not mine).

For those of you wondering where the misunderstanding is: they invented a nice strawman for that, by saying that the library wasn't yet slapped with a yearly fee of about 250 euro. Which is true, that hadn't happened yet. But, from the sound of it, SABAM has every intention to do so.

Thankfully, this hasn't gone unnoticed. SABAM is losing favour with politicians. Hopefully this storm will go somewhere. Note that SABAM isn't the only rightsholder club in Belgium (there apparently is some competition! yay free market!), so dissolving them ought to be an option.

SABAM (the group in question) said, in a response, that it was a misunderstanding (translated, Dutch original). They charge 15 euro per public reading, and they cannot distinguish between adults and children. They always have to charge (their words, not mine).

For those of you wondering where the misunderstanding is: they invented a nice strawman for that, by saying that the library wasn't yet slapped with a yearly fee of about 250 euro. Which is true, that hadn't happened yet. But, from the sound of it, SABAM has every intention to do so.

Thankfully, this hasn't gone unnoticed. SABAM is losing favour with politicians. Hopefully this storm will go somewhere. Note that SABAM isn't the only rightsholder club in Belgium (there apparently is some competition! yay free market!), so dissolving them ought to be an option.

Liberals. We're not using words correctly any more. We're in a world where so-called "liberals" want to preserve the existing power structure all over the world, to the point of idolizing murderous, oppressive dictators and bullies.

I'm not sure that "liberal" is the right word. In my mind, a liberal is someone who craves liberty, which today's crop of tell-you-what-to-do liberals most certainly do not.