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But lets play this game for real: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1331271480281&chddm=391&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:MSFT;TSE:RIM;NYSE:NOK;NASDAQ:GOOG&cmptdms=0;0;0;0&q=NASDAQ:AAPL&ntsp=0

Yeah, clearly AAPL is doomed, and so is the iPad.

I wasn't aware this was a controversial claim.

The US Army says they did, and I think it's a bit far from the events in question to be propaganda.

If you prefer a non-governmental source, here's something I found on Google books.

http://books.google.com/books?id=C-MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=Roman+ships+in+the+gulf+of+mexico&source=bl&ots=m3qx6VYTYQ&sig=FLk23A471oo1w-qv5Srm3Sa1t8M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SztZT53AM5CPsAKs5bTVDQ&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCA
Not my original reference, but an article on the same archaeologist. Forgot about the Phoenicians...

  http://www.midwesternepigraphic.org/inscriptions.html
I've actually observed the Oklahoma site myself accompanying Dr. Terry Walter on an archaeological investigation, he claimed to know of another site not far from there as well. He'd been conversing with someone at Harvards Archaeology program about this stuff for a while. Turns out Harvard had an interest in the content of my parent post at the time.
  Since references are not hard to find on any of this, I can only guess you're not used to digging for citations which would make you Beavis and Butthead sitting at the couch going huh huh huh...heh heh heh Slashdot's cool,Shut up Beavis, your moms a slut. She may be a slut Butthead, but at least she can use a search engine.
          Your balls are based on ubsubstantiated/hoax evidence.

Circa the mid-nineties... the media was gushing over the latest trend, how great it was going to be, and how it was going to solve our update problems. One example would be this piece by Brian Livingston. In the wondrous world of the future, "the user does little or no work, other than clicking a menu button to start the upgrade process. Sometimes not even that is necessary. The software dials up[sic] the vendor's BBS or the World Wide Web site automatically installs any components that are newer than the than those on the currently installed version.... This level of automation, of course, assumes that the user's PC is equipped with a working modem." But once we get to that point, nirvana is at hand. No more software bugs, all our software constantly and updated to the latest version, effortlessly.

These days, it seems as if I a significant amount of time unproductively waiting while my computer downloads and installs some massive update--most recently over one gigabyte for a recent Mac OS X point update. Sometimes, even after the download, the installation process itself can take ten minutes, during which time everything else the machine is doing typically slows to a crawl. Or involves the machine rebooting itself once or twice. Or involves the update program politely requesting that I shut down every application I'm running.

Not to mention the time wasted checking the forums to find out whether the current update is likely to break my computer, and figuring out how to block my system from automatically installing it until they release the improved patch.

But I'm not worried, I'm sure a car manufacturer would never release buggy update. They have far better SQA departments than all the rest of the software industry... don't they?

There is something which I hope could be added to Android. Basically a modification to the screen lock which works in conjunction with a Bluetooth device - as soon as the phone is out of reach of the device the screen lock would kick in - you could use any Bluetooth device, e.g. a headset. There is code implementing this available for Ubuntu, it should be possible to port this to Android.

Have you seen Tasker for Android?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm

-AI

As a footnote, salahamada is a made-up word waiting patiently for its debut. Give it a little love?

I think the TF2 pyro has that one trademarked

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC4QtwIwAg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9v2SlLIS9eU&ei=mQhZT_jJJZGTtwe30a2FDA&usg=AFQjCNHfkU2De9xACLqvISqlGLNjiYeXhQ

Is about time that we stop depending on the arrogant Google assholes, don't you think?

--
Marcan, asshole and proud.

The same is true of google maps though. Compare Vladivostok on Google Maps to on OpenStreetMap for example.

You think that's bad, check out North Korea: Google Maps vs. OSM.

Though I'm not sure how well to trust North Korean OSM. I can just picture some guy in a cubicle in NK building phantom roads and towns all over the place just because.

The same is true of google maps though. Compare Vladivostok on Google Maps to on OpenStreetMap for example.

You think that's bad, check out North Korea: Google Maps vs. OSM.

Though I'm not sure how well to trust North Korean OSM. I can just picture some guy in a cubicle in NK building phantom roads and towns all over the place just because.

The same is true of google maps though. Compare Vladivostok on Google Maps to on OpenStreetMap for example.

There are a number of reasons:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=97484157416073610

Remember, the police are not your friend. They deal all day every day with people trying to get the better of them, get around them, there is no way a person can be in that job and not be affected by it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years. After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive early Thursday and could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services, especially in northern areas.

Sky, meet Chicken Little.

Interesting thing going on here. After over an hour, First Post has not been modded at all yet. Your post is modded funny even though FP said same thing. My personal opinion is that this has occurred from the interaction between the First Post Phenomenon and putting the 'being famous sentiment' in his subject.

That's OK. iPad is still in the rapid growth phase.

Really? You think so?

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:AAPL

A big yawn there.

But it IS a tradeoff Blanche, it is. You see most folks are embracing the wonder that is "The Internet" and all the TV movies and other entertainment that this wonderful medium has to offer and Intel GPUs...well they suck REALLY hard.

But here is the dirty little secret AMD knows that Intel doesn't want you to hear, going so far as to shoot their Atom division in the face by killing off the Nvidia chipset business and hobbling Atom with insanely shitty rules like "Only 10 inches with crappy resolution" and "Only 2Gb of RAM" and the secret is this...Most folks simply aren't slamming even 5 year old chips hard enough to worry about, much less the newer ones. You see chips passed "Good enough" for the vast majority once we hit dual cores, so the fact that AMD's chips are 30% slower really doesn't matter if the user is only using less than half the power available anyway. And having that really nice GPU makes everything nice and smooth, with great HD video and even gaming if you so desire, although the majority isn't playing heavy CPU slamming games but crap like Farmville and Mob Wars

This is why both my desktop and netbook are AMD and I sold my full size for the netbook because i found when I was mobile I simply wasn't hitting the CPU hard enough to matter. My Thuban X6 has OCing headroom up the wazoo should I ever need it but with most games barely hitting dual cores and transcoding on 6 cores being so sweet i doubt I'll need it and the E350? Man whomever designed that chip needs to be given a Corvette and a raise by AMD because that thing is bloody brilliant! 6 hours playing HD video at default voltages (BTW if you have an E or C series check out Brazos Tweaker as you can add 20%-30% battery life by using it) and the ability to just pop in an HDMI cable for full 1080p goodness, hell it even plays L4D, Bioshock II, and GTA:VC (I could play the newer GTA games but I don't care for them) and all while staying cool to the touch and quiet as a churchmouse. The OEMs have taken notice (now that Intel isn't bribing them not to anymore) and you can see everything from HTPCs to laptops and netbooks to all in ones and desktops running Brazos. In fact last time I walked into my local Walmart Supercenter there were only 2 Intel units, both of which were bottom o' the line Atoms, the rest of the store? All AMD Fusions. I've built several office boxes (the traditional stronghold of Intel) with the E350 and the employees just love them, whisper quiet while giving them plenty of power for their everyday tasks.

Where Intel screwed the pooch was being too greedy. they SHOULD have made a deal with Nvidia to ensure plenty of new GPUs for their chips and instead they wiped out the entire Nvidia chipset business and made many of their chips simply overpriced and underperforming, especially in the laptop arena where you can't add a discrete. ION and Optimus was the perfect answer, with the low power shitty Intel chip for when you were on battery and the Nvidia chip when you were plugged in but now that the option is gone frankly I wouldn't touch Intel on a mobile unless it had a discrete and i warn my customers of the same. As we get more and more multimedia heavy folks want good graphics with smooth video and nice gaming and intel just don't have that. You can buy an AMD A series for probably half of what this chip is gonna cost, an E series for like one fifth, and while you won't notice the CPU unless you are doing number crunching or some other task one doesn't do on a mobile often you WILL notice the much nicer graphics. Intel just went the wrong direction on this IMHO and will pay the price.

Yes, you WOULD come along and decide to use the hosts file to block entire IP ranges. Which, of course, would require hundreds or thousands of entries, rather than a single firewall rule.

By the way, the hosts file won't even work to block IP addresses (on current versions of Windows at least). It only works for host names. I.e. "0.0.0.0 google.com" blocks http://google.com/ (but http://74.125.225.136/ still loads the Google website), while "0.0.0.0 74.125.225.136" simply doesn't do anything (both http://google.com/ and http://74.125.225.136/ load perfectly fine).

When all you have is a hammer...

Yes, you WOULD come along and decide to use the hosts file to block entire IP ranges. Which, of course, would require hundreds or thousands of entries, rather than a single firewall rule.

By the way, the hosts file won't even work to block IP addresses (on current versions of Windows at least). It only works for host names. I.e. "0.0.0.0 google.com" blocks http://google.com/ (but http://74.125.225.136/ still loads the Google website), while "0.0.0.0 74.125.225.136" simply doesn't do anything (both http://google.com/ and http://74.125.225.136/ load perfectly fine).

When all you have is a hammer...

Sure but it should have failed the "obvious to someone skilled in the art" test.

Care to explain why? You might be right, but you can't just say that something is obvious and leave it at that.

To show that something is obvious, you must:

• Examine the scope and content of the prior art - what does your base reference teach
• Examine the level of ordinary skill in the art - what could one of ordinary skill in the art have done at the time of invention in 2005
• Examine the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art - Find one or more references to combine or modify your base reference, and show how one of ordinary skill in the art would have found the difference between the application and the prior art to have been obvious without the benefit of hindsight of the already constructed invention (that is - that they would have been incentivized and motivated to construct the obvious invention)

And then after you've read that, go read Graham v. John Deere, 383 U.S. 1 (1966) and KSR v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. 398 (2005).

Sure but it should have failed the "obvious to someone skilled in the art" test.

Care to explain why? You might be right, but you can't just say that something is obvious and leave it at that.

To show that something is obvious, you must:

• Examine the scope and content of the prior art - what does your base reference teach
• Examine the level of ordinary skill in the art - what could one of ordinary skill in the art have done at the time of invention in 2005
• Examine the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art - Find one or more references to combine or modify your base reference, and show how one of ordinary skill in the art would have found the difference between the application and the prior art to have been obvious without the benefit of hindsight of the already constructed invention (that is - that they would have been incentivized and motivated to construct the obvious invention)

And then after you've read that, go read Graham v. John Deere, 383 U.S. 1 (1966) and KSR v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. 398 (2005).

So I looked and I see two, x-servers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theqvd.android.x# and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.darkside.XServer#. Am I missing something? Is there a major difference?

So I looked and I see two, x-servers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theqvd.android.x# and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.darkside.XServer#. Am I missing something? Is there a major difference?

Nuts, forgot one.

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. 1881. A sweet fairy story -- MacDonald and Dunsany were contemporaries, I think.

You should know, he's from the US Department of Defense, Social Disinformation Division. It's how the government misdirects you from important things like the fact that they have an on demand weapons deployment system still in orbit. An ICBM that they can launch any time, and drop anywhere within 90 minutes, with no possibility of traditional launch detection.

    They start planting little seeds of doubt here and there, so you'll begin to accept the fact that everything our government does is perfectly harmless ... and ... hey, check out Adriana. What channel was that? Do I have time to run to McDonalds to get a extramegasupersize BigMac meal with a double side of carcinogens? Oh, I don't subscribe to that channel? Sign me up! Extra FCC fees? No problem.. I need my Adriana..

    Wait.. what? ... oh shit, they're in my mind ... Vote Republican ... Happily pay the tax man ... Live the American dream of taxation with no representation.

I didn't see Handbrake on that page of search results from Freecode so I thought I'd offer this up as well. Fairly simple interface, runs flawlessly on Windows 7 and Ubuntu for me. Open source and easy way to get DVDs into m4v format. Plus there are preset resolutions for things like iPhones, iPods and I found the resolution for a PSP. So basically I spend my flights with circumaural Sennheisers and Futurama or MST3K playing on my PSP -- the worse part about that setup being that Sony's memory card cost me a ton. So far it's ripped the blu-rays I've put in just fine as well.

Rip them to m4v and host them with PS3 Media Server and then they're good to play over your network to your PS3 or XBox 360 (and probably any other UPnP compliant device).

Do I feel guilty that I have shelled out $35+ for each of the 22 sets of MST3K and each season of Futurama and then violated copyright to move said shows onto any device capable of playing video? Not one fucking bit. Go ahead and do your little song and dance, I've got my shit figured out (thank you open source!).

We have Chrome remote desktop, which allows accessing other machine's desktops using any chrome browser, and we now have Chrome for Android. I have to think that eventually these two things will work together to give remote desktop client abilities to Android phones.

We have Chrome remote desktop, which allows accessing other machine's desktops using any chrome browser, and we now have Chrome for Android. I have to think that eventually these two things will work together to give remote desktop client abilities to Android phones.

We have turned a corner where obeying the law is no longer protection from arrest or confiscation.

You turned that corner so long ago you can't even see it from here.

When your cops are not punished for publicly murdering unarmed, downed citizens, and the army kidnaps foreign leaders and invades sovereign nations without casus belli, your government is not operating under the rule of law. Unsurprisingly, your government and law enforcement is going to become ever more brutal, corrupt and repressive.

I already use my Android phone to do some light remote work. I use ConnectBot http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ to SSH into a remote workstation. For graphical apps, I set up port forwarding for VNC (there's a menu option for it in connectbot) and use AndroidVNC http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/

I have my VNC server set to only accept connections from localhost (and it's firewalled, too), so that only connections which are forwarded and encrypted via SSH wind up being accepted. This way I get secure remote access, the VNC protocol tends to be less bandwidth-intensive than raw X, and it preserves my session in case I get disconnected.

Don't get me wrong, an X server on Android is a cool technical achievement, but existing SSH and VNC clients for Android are a more practical and secure way of accessing your workstations/servers on the go.

I already use my Android phone to do some light remote work. I use ConnectBot http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ to SSH into a remote workstation. For graphical apps, I set up port forwarding for VNC (there's a menu option for it in connectbot) and use AndroidVNC http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/

I have my VNC server set to only accept connections from localhost (and it's firewalled, too), so that only connections which are forwarded and encrypted via SSH wind up being accepted. This way I get secure remote access, the VNC protocol tends to be less bandwidth-intensive than raw X, and it preserves my session in case I get disconnected.

Don't get me wrong, an X server on Android is a cool technical achievement, but existing SSH and VNC clients for Android are a more practical and secure way of accessing your workstations/servers on the go.

Reread the bit about spread over 4 Continents... remember time zones?

If they are spread over 4 continents and don't telecommute you still have the same problem or even worse, since even if you wake them up at their 3am, the data they need might be at the office. Whereas if they telecommute, the data is in their home office.

And, beyond that, in an office environment, if I have a minor need, I can take a break go for a walk, look and see which of the three people who might help me looks least engrossed at that moment and talk with them for a minute.

Proper use of IM (which you seem to be ignoring) can help. Too bad there's at least one patent on auto-busy: http://www.google.com/patents/US20060064646
(it doesn't seem to handle the case of the user thinking hard about a problem so that case would require a "manual busy" which is suboptimal).

The main problem with telecommuting is it's harder to do stuff like play foosball with your colleagues and bosses after work or during lunch breaks. :)

When I think of ginger I think of a this
 
Not until reading these comments did I ever think of "ginger" as pejorative.

Just some weird British word for redhead. The root itself isn't any kind of red. Do you Brits have some fascination with Gilligan's Island?

Read about a "basic income" , a "gift economy", a "planned economy", and "local subsistence" for ideas about alternative ways of organizing economies. A whole book on that:
"The dictionary of alternatives: utopianism and organization"
http://books.google.com/books?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC

Other ideas:
http://www.altruists.org/ideas/society/abundance_or_scarcity/
"The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking. (Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967))"

Finally science can explain Carrot Top.
http://www.google.com/search?q=carrot+top

I refuse to believe Carrot Top has a higher pain tolerance without arduous testing. Let me go grab my sledge...

Oh, and I hear Gallagher was a red-head before he dyed it (what hair he has left) - let's test his pain tolerance too.

Finally science can explain Carrot Top.
http://www.google.com/search?q=carrot+top

I see a lot of nice little things come out of google. While they aren't large projects, they produce a lot of useful tools for developers like Guava and PlayN.

For bigger projects their Mapping tools are pretty amazing and seem to be getting better with time. Their street-view is also really nice. If they pull off self-driving cars it will also be amazing.

I see a lot of nice little things come out of google. While they aren't large projects, they produce a lot of useful tools for developers like Guava and PlayN.

For bigger projects their Mapping tools are pretty amazing and seem to be getting better with time. Their street-view is also really nice. If they pull off self-driving cars it will also be amazing.

and an accompanying infographic

When this word plateaus, I will bring back synergy.

Every time I hear that argument, I respond with "Science hasn't proven that unicorns don't exist. But that doesn't offer ANY evidence that they DO."

http://www.google.com/patents/US4429685

What I've been doing is creating my own ebooks from websites that have a lot of material that I need to read. I just can't read on a monitor if it's a large amount of text. This is what I do: either use a conversion website or Sigil.

Another good tool is calibre, which, among tons of other functions, such as being an e-library manager and providing the ability to automatically strip DRM out if you're so inclined (and manage to find the 3rd party plugins required), allows one to automatically download new blog entries and transfer them to an e-reader on a regular basis. As for individual long web pages, I really like Instapaper, configured to send the pages I queued to my Kindle once a week (it provides a daily option too).

Steve? Is that you? You know when you wave your arms and dance like a monkey people laugh at you!

I have proof of democracy fail. Hank Jonson was re-elected AFTER this vid went viral on youtube.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cts=1330970223776&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzNZczIgVXjg&ei=aP5UT_iFAZGctwf0nqivDg&usg=AFQjCNG42tfOok4MQpOKLRdhkV3RxUvapA&sig2=_LjgJlWJi_I9aFJlIp-WeA

...e-ink really is a vastly better way to read lots of text. I can read much faster and more comfortably on my Kindle than on the iPad.

YES!

What I've been doing is creating my own ebooks from websites that have a lot of material that I need to read. I just can't read on a monitor if it's a large amount of text.

This is what I do:
either use a conversion website or Sigil. I should also mention that I have a 1st gen. Nook - ePub format - so I don't know how my system would work with the Kindle.

The only kink in my system is PDF. A lot of "ebooks" out there are on PDF and PDF is the shittiest format for electronic book readers. PDF is really for printers.Don't get me wrong, when I want a dead tree copy, PDF rocks, but I'm trying to get away from paper - it's too expensive.

Talley up the costs of printing a PDF - either at home or at an office supply store - it adds up fast!

Stealing a book in PDF format? Plah-ease! It's a hell of lot cheaper just to buy the printed book from Amazon if you need a hard copy.

Yay! Someone read, comprehended and responded appropriately to this assertive nonsense. Most of the rest of this discussion, here at good ol' Slashrot, sounds like it emanated from people who had dragged themselves away from the Fox News during the commercials to ponder the depths of the wisdom they'd been presented with during the previous 11 minutes.

I wonder if many of them had bother to ask themselves what they respond to from a candidate or whether the facade offered is sufficient to judge the likely performance of any of them. After all, some of the most important decisions of those elected to office are embodied as appointees and may have little to do with the topics covered in speeches, debates or even their previous performance. And when is the last time you were introduced to a prospective presidential cabinet during the election cycle? (Would it have changed your mind to know who GWB surrounded himself?)

Subliminal Politics: Myths and Mythmakers

    --- I thought not, and in a flash, I was no more ---

Also, as a note, there are already dozens if not hundreds of patents for this concept as well: https://www.google.com/search?q=sketch+image+search&btnG=Search+Patents&tbm=pts&tbo=1&hl=en

There are already dozens if not hundreds of patents in this same area.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sketch+image+search&btnG=Search+Patents&tbm=pts&tbo=1&hl=en

I remember IBM DB2 ads from the 90s about, well, sketch-based DB searches. IBM called it "Query by Image Content", or QBIC. It was easy to find one using Google Books -- in this case, CIO Magazine, Sept. 1, 1995: http://books.google.com/books?id=AAcAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&ots=GGDbllo74W&dq=ibm%20db2%20ad%20bottle%20%22perfect%22&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bneajlpihgbinpbljjcadddjljghilho

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sudoku-helper/?src=search

Could be another answer. I don't see any mention as to whether it tracked what addons/extensions were in use at the time, but this is something that could easily be gamed.

Yet, they haven't shot at anyone.

Unlike certain free country which is pillaging and burning things around the world, both militarily and politically.

Stop that fucking nonsense, ok?

Since what you wrote is false, how about you first?

State Sponsors: Iran

Iranians 'targeted Israeli diplomats' - Published: 15/02/2012 at 04:35 PM

Thai authorities charged two Iranians on Wednesday over an alleged bomb plot against Israeli diplomats, officials said, piling pressure on Teheran over accusations of a terror campaign against the Jewish state.

Authorities said they had laid criminal charges against two Iranian suspects accused of involvement in the three blasts in central Bangkok yesterday.

One of the men -- named as 28-year-old Saeid Morati -- lost both legs after he hurled an explosive device at police while fleeing an earlier blast at a house in the capital. The satchel containing the bomb, which he threw at a police vehicle, bounced off another vehicle and exploded at his feet.

A second Iranian suspect, Mohammad Hazaei, was detained trying to board a flight out of the country at Suvarnabhumi airport. A third Iranian suspect is believed to have fled to Malaysia, officials said.

"These three Iranian men are an assassination team and their targets were Israeli diplomats including the ambassador," a senior Thai intelligence official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Their plan was to attach bombs to diplomats' cars." . . . .

Israel accused Iran of orchestrating attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia on Monday.

An Israeli diplomat in New Delhi suffered grave shrapnel wounds when a motorbike assailant attached a bomb to her car on Monday.

Experts: Iran's Quds Force Deeply Enmeshed in Iraq

U.S. blames Iran for new bombs in Iraq

Iran’s Quds Force was blamed for attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq

Iran's Quds Force: Supporting Terrorism Worldwide

Leader of Iran’s Al-Quds Forces Says Iraq and Southern Lebanon Are Under His Control

Iran threatens to close Strait of Hormuz over EU oil sanctions

Iranian weapons seized in Afghanistan

One more, then I'm going to stop since this could easily turn into a seemingly never-ending story. I've hardly touched on Iran's activities around the world. I've hardly even scratched the surface of Iran's involvement in Lebanon, and with Hezbollah, and the massive amount of arms that they've been providing. You do know that Hezbollah, aiming at the desturction of Israel, has 50,000 rockets now, right?

Simon Wiesenthal Center: Iranian Calls to Destroy Jewish People Unparalleled Since Nazi Germany

Frankly, I'm baffled by how people miss this. I guess it doesn't come up at the "anti-Zionist" meeting

>What policy or action did Obama put in place that lead to finding Osama?

Obama made the hunt for bin Laden a priority. Bush had backed off. Reference: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/696wnfcp.asp

More references available through google. Try this search: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=obama+vs+bush+osama

But I doubt you'll care - a read of your posting history shows that you've made up your mind on a variety of topics, facts be damned.

No, far from. Cellphones are a "necessity" for homeless people. Search for "homeless cellphone" on . Almost everyone I know who refuses to have a cell phone is making over $100K/yr. Yes, there's a blatant sampling error in my observation; I have one because I've been forced to have one by work.