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Chording keyboards work great.

Some of us have had this technology for well over a decade. MIT Steve Mann(Now Prof at U of Toronto) and Thad Starner invented wearable computing and they have been using this tech for10+ years already. Many of their grad students as well as interested techies also have.

I had a 386 based belt PC, HUD and Handeykey chording keyboard back in 1997 I had a 5 hour run time using pc104 low power useage computer boards and a Nicad pack that was actually a bandolier of batteries designed to run a video light for a camera operator.

when my coat was on, you could only see the hud. Steve Mann made his into funky glasses.

https://www.google.com/webhp?rlz=1C1PRFA_enUS419US419&sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&rlz=1C1PRFA_enUS419US419&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=wearable%20computing&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=4bd463be09dc681c&ix=sea&ion=1&ix=sea&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=4bd463be09dc681c&biw=1626&bih=777&ix=sea&ion=1

for more info into how google did not come up with this but built upon what others have been doing for a while.

Just finished reading the book. http://books.google.com/books?id=I0xiJfwPukUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alex+and+me&hl=en&sa=X&ei=awhET92BCYm22gXK15GaCA&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=alex%20and%20me&f=false

Please.

Microsoft created the standard *AND* implemented it. It's their own fault if they allow loopholes.

see: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114753028665775786510/posts/fuLZoEkJZNs

and NYT criticism of basically creating security loopholes: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/a-loophole-big-enough-for-a-cookie-to-fit-through/

google's fault? none, really.

title: "If you rely on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer’s privacy settings to control cookies on your computer, you may want to rethink that strategy."

Really?

Why don't you take a look at where this P3P comes form.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114753028665775786510/posts/fuLZoEkJZNs

Hint: Microsoft. So they created the issue and raised the flag about it.

So your focus on "ohhhh, the privacy!" is a false focus in comparison.

Wait, are you concerned with the privacy implications of +1 or are you bothered by the lack of -1? Pick one.

In any case, Google users get to choose whether they want to opt in or out of the service:

https://profiles.google.com/+1/personalization/

what the text SHOULD look like (assme angle brackets here; sorry for having to reformat to get around slash filters)

[META xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/01/P3Pv1"]
  [POLICY-REFERENCES]
        [POLICY-REF about="/P3P/Policies.xml#first"]
              [COOKIE-INCLUDE name="*" value="*" domain="*" path="*"/]
              [COOKIE-EXCLUDE name="obnoxious-cookie" value="*" domain=".example.com" path="/"/]
        [/POLICY-REF]
        [POLICY-REF about="/P3P/Policies.xml#second"]
              [COOKIE-INCLUDE name="obnoxious-cookie" value="*" domain=".example.com" path="/"/]
        [/POLICY-REF]
  [/POLICY-REFERENCES]
[/META]

and what googles looks like:

P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 [google.com] for more info.

now, without even having a compsci101 level course, anyone here see which is the more correct parseable string and which is weasel bullshit?

Just as individual telegraphers could be identified by other telegraphers from their 'fists,'

...anonymous posters can be identified by their Frists?

I'll fill in the parts you are missing, with GWT, you can use plain old Java to program WebGL using gwtgl, check out: http://code.google.com/p/gwtgl/

The standard mandates to ignore unkown policies, not to ignore the policy field, i. e. the complete string "This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info." must be ignored by conforming implementations because it contains no defined policy (like "ALL", "IND", "DSP", etc.). Microsoft does just that; that leaves and empty policy field, which according to P3P means that there are no privacy implications.

Just because people think they can shame Google into playing nice, doesn't mean those Doubleclick rat bastards will

That's those rat bastards at Doubleclick by Google?

Uh-oh, someone needs to adjust their World view...

Why not just use Flash & ActionScript, along with Unreal. Specifically, Scaleform. Since it already does the "never before seen" 3D GUIs you want, and game engines are particularly good at visualising extremely large data sets (we call them game worlds).

Any amount of searching "HTML 3D" would have turned up WebGL, which uses OpenGL in existing browsers... That would be a good prototype platform for me.

I take particular issue with the childish statements against using Java (and Swing), considering they already support 3D Swing components (see XTrans demo). Swing displays HTML components, even in tool tips. In fact, there is already an entire 3D collaboration framework in Java ready for any "Never Seen Before" GUIs you wish to dream up... It displays HTML, images, & PDFs etc.

Furthermore, their indignant remarks smack of ignorance, considering Java 2D & Java 3D exist, and both have rich non standard box shape intersection libraries, which can be used to create custom components of any shape or position, hierarchical or not restricted only in that they should be used in a Canvas, to save yourself some time.

They want someone to hand them a magic library that has all the bells and whistles already to go, but heaven forbid any of them have an API that requires using... Have fun inventing that shiny new wheel.

GWT

If you're using Chrome, I highly recommend ScriptNo. It took a while, but they've finally got a decent analogue of NoScript for Firefox. With it's most restricted settings, it pretty much blocks everything you don't whitelist yourself, and has a special "antisocial" mode that automatically blocks all the social networking bullshit every fucking site in the world has now.

ScriptNo and Adblock Plus are pretty much a necessity for web browsing these days, in my opinion.

Though to be fair, after reading the John carter wikipedia page, it does appear that they actually purchased the rights to this one back in the early 80s.

I'm not clear on why, but I just realized that the author of the original books was Edgar Rice Burroughs, and - well, he created a company to manage licensing his works which apparently still sues people for using Tarzan. Trying to find more info on that discovered several articles about Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. suing comic book companies for using Tarzan and John Carter himself.

So presumably we're talking trademark rights, and not copyright rights, since the movie covers only public domain books. Which also demonstrates quite nicely how trademark can be used to extend copyright well beyond the death of the author, since Edgar Rice Burroughs died over 60 years ago. And it's being used to extract royalties for making a movie based on public domain works.

Probably. Who knows, except the lawyers who worked out whatever rights we're talking about.

So maybe this is Disney being hoist with their own petard?

Google has been claiming "oopsies" almost weekly over the last couple months. In this case they put this in their policy: 'P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."' in what is meant to be a machine-readable field. Following the spec would have been easy-- omit the field altogether. Instead Google violates the spec in a way that benefits them. It's possible Google is just really incompetent over all these "oopsies", but they sure try to represent themselves as a company with above-average engineers. It has to be one or the other.

Can't say I really can fault Google for this. Explaining why would require an understanding of how P3P 1.0 objects are configured and how limited those types really are.

P3P 1.1 work has stalled (albeit in provisionally final state) and is likely to not restart; in its absence is P3P 1.0 which exists firmly in the world-as-it-was of 2000/2001. It covers cookies and certain types of form transmission, but doesn't cover privacy aspects of other types of persistent data, new transmission protocols (like SPDY), advanced caching techniques, or HTML5 storage. Technology has advanced past the point that P3P 1.0 is useful -- and quite simply, it's doubtful it ever really was. If you visit the link Google supplies it explains some of their reasoning, and it's pretty dang valid for a post-2007 view of the Web.

Those chucking bombs over this would be better served to focus their efforts on either modernizing or replacing P3P 1.0 -- or, better yet, trying something radically different like PRIME or Policy-Aware-Web tried to do.

...I guess it's time to start boycotting each and every Google product. Fucking hypocrites.

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In other words, if your server delivers a garbage or blank P3P header, the browser assumes there are no privacy implications? Sounds like a hole in the standard to me, such headers should be ignored IMO. Though Google really should have tested this properly with all browsers before deploying it in production it sounds to me like an oopsie, not at all like the Safari thing.

Google has been claiming "oopsies" almost weekly over the last couple months. In this case they put this in their policy: 'P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."' in what is meant to be a machine-readable field. Following the spec would have been easy-- omit the field altogether. Instead Google violates the spec in a way that benefits them. It's possible Google is just really incompetent over all these "oopsies", but they sure try to represent themselves as a company with above-average engineers. It has to be one or the other.

"You are not the first person to think such a thing- that putting all economic authority in the hands of a beneficient- but all powerful- government would advance humanity."

You paint a false choice between two extremes.

We can have a mix of:
* a gift economy (Wikipedia, GNU/Linux, Blogging, most of slashdot, Freecycle)
* an exchange economy with a "basic income" (like social security but for all from birth)
* an improved subsistence economy (home 3D printing, DIY everything learned by the internet and friends, techshops everywhere, cheap solar panels and LENR devices everywhere, organic gardening robots, and more)
* improved democratic participatory resource-based planning at all levels (organized face-to-face or through the internet).

There are lots of alternatives:
http://books.google.com/books?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC
"This dictionary provides ammunition for those who disagree with the early twentieth-first century orthodoxy that 'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism'. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional utopias, they could be excavated from the past, or they could be described in terms of the contemporary politics of anti-corporate protest, environmentalism, feminism and localism. Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century."

Most highly successful developed countries (of which the USA is questionably probably not one of them relative to a poor showing giving all its assets and historical advantages) have both a strong active market and a strong active state sector.

IMHO?

The only "realistic" interstellar space vessels that make sense would be captured asteroids utilizing Orion-like propulsion. I haven't looked at the maximum possible mass of an Orion-type spacecraft, but I believe it is substantially above billions of tons if you only have to consider the pusher plate system. Advances in material sciences, and the possibility of "super" systems strengthened utilizing magnetic/electrical charges could dramatically increase this number further, to the point where even the largest of asteroids could potentially be utilized as space craft.

These asteroids would be wired and covered with a variety of useful mounts, including lasers on turrets, a variety of sensors and cameras, railgun-style mass drivers, and a variety of openings protected by plasma windows. On sufficiently large asteroids, these openings could include hangars for auxiliary craft, such as surface to space launchers, and versatile, high-speed drones. Drones could be utilized as scouts, remote sensors, maintenance devices, or perhaps, weapons platforms (suicide or otherwise).

If you needed to militarize such a craft, you wouldn't have to do much. Many of the "tools" on this craft would be versatile enough to be utilized as weapons. A railgun, or sufficiently strong utility laser would be obvious. By virtue of utilizing an asteroid as your "hull", a significant amount of armor is "built in". Turrets/Windows etc. . . could be protected by a variety of means. The above-linked Plasma Window, as well as a variety of Plasma Bubble research suggests to me that the possibilities of creating mixed-phase materials that can be oriented into coherent structures using charges and magnetic fields-- by this I am suggesting a "metal" that retains it shape based on charge passing through, and whose tensile strength is determined by a combination of material properties and energy usage. One can envision clouds of plasma, or even clouds of metals/solids/liquids which could be strengthened utilizing such tools. I would think that these "shield" would not be utilized to protect the entire asteroid, and rather be deployed to protect sensitive portions of the asteroid.

Active countermeasures would be important, as well; railguns/lasers could be utilized to divert the course of incoming projectiles, while electronic countermeasures and radios would be utilized to disrupt/confuse enemy sensors. Boarding "combat" drones could be utilized to attack the propulsion, weapon, and control systems of enemy asteroid-ships; these would probably be launched in swarms, and by railgun.

The "vast" nature of space suggests that there could be two different form of battlegrounds. Interstellar distances are too large to be considered battlegrounds; it only really makes sense to consider solar distances. Inside solar systems, combat between, say, Mars and Earth would be a slow affair; I picture rail guns hurtling projectiles at a significant fraction of light, while defense systems utilizing lasers and smaller projectiles fire back to alter the course of incoming projectiles. At closer scales, combat becomes a more conventional affair, and probably looks like a cross between modern carrier combat and drone warfare.

You must not have used Windows 2000.

No doubt Schmidt is an imbecile who did a lot of damage, but he is not the one causing it today. It's assholes like Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin that pretty much dictate where the company goes these days. Larry Page, despite being a brilliant engineer, has no idea of how to run a company. So they let him go on with these crackhead projects once in a while to keep him (and Sergey) happy.

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You'd have to be extremely naive to actually believe that.

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> Honestly, that's all just hyperbole. There's nothing wrong with Facebook.

It's not what Facebook does with your data, it's that Facebook gives employers excuses to fire you, universities to expel you, etc, etc.

Ever gone to a pub *WHILE ON VACATION OVRSEAS* and bought some alcoholic beverages? A teacher has been fired for that http://www.gadailynews.com/news/61845-teacher-ashley-payne-fired-for-posting-picture-of-herself-holding-beer-on-facebook.html

For a whole lot more horror stories, do a Google search
http://www.google.com/search?q=g+fired+facebook+post
"About 53,100,000 results (0.10 seconds) ".

And it's not just about angry rants and compromising photos
Ever indicated support for a politically liberal position? If your boss is a political conservative, they'll look for reasons to fire you. Ever indicated support for a politically conservative position? If your boss is a political liberal, they'll look for reasons to fire you. Your religion and sexual orientation are obvious targets. What about idiot "friends" who post racist remarks on your wall?

Ever reached for your mouse and accidentally clicked "like" on a porn site... oops... that now shows up on your wall.

Ever applied for a loan, mortgage, or credit card? Your Facebook friends can screw up your credit rating. See http://www.pcworld.com/article/246511/how_facebook_can_hurt_your_credit_rating.html
and
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/13/as-banks-start-nosing-around-facebook-and-twitter-the-wrong-friends-might-just-sink-your-credit/?show=all

Simple risk-management... don't touch Fecesbook with a 10-foot pole.

Chrome has been a platform for a long time ... where have you been?

And for a web-app you need to be compatible to the browser, which comes from, guess who, Google.

Most web apps are written in this language called "JavaScript"; you might have heard of it, it's standardized by an organization called W3C.

One is open technology, the other is an effort at establishing closed technology under the control of a single provider.

Are you talking about Dart? Yeah, it's so closed it has its own repository with its source under the BSD license. Oh, wait...

but all this stuff looks very much like the anti-competitive evil Microsoft is so famous for.

Yeah, I'm sure you'll be able to point where has MS shared the source of ActiveX and similar technologies under a free software license. I'll wait.

All it will take is a google search: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=age+115

Done and done. Although I do wish that this process was built into the applications themselves, installing plugins to Keepass and Chrome does seem like a bit of a stretch for the average user.

That's "a way" for a 'workaround', per this article -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724072(v=vs.85).aspx but, that's NOT how it is "by default" (which is where I was leading to & hence, the suggestion for a 64-bit port, & not just because 64-bit's the 'future' but because of this 'issue').

* Problem is, by default (especially in "older" code) don't HAVE that "workaround" incorporated either (older work of mine included, shown below)...

Proof/pertinent quote/excerpt:

"By default, a 32-bit application running on WOW64 accesses the 32-bit registry view and a 64-bit application accesses the 64-bit registry view."

From -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384129(v=vs.85).aspx

APK

P.S.=> I wrote a registry cleaner YEARS (heh, 14++ yrs. ago now for 32-bit) -> http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22APK+Registry+Cleaning+Engine%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=wVdBT6WtO6Tv0gH9g6yXCA and "ran into this 'snag'" once I moved to 64-bit Windows 7 ... One of these days, I'll be "porting it" to 64-bit code (via Delphi XE2) though, when I find the time!

... apk

A fellow slashdotter directed my attention to this post. This sort of persecution made by these people has started a couple of weeks ago, when I read this post and this post and this post outing the bonch and overly critical guy accounts as accounts used to astroturf slashdot by posting the same marketing drivel, copied almost verbatim from the same PR script.

Then, after stumbling on a post where the bonch account was being used to post messages trying to discredit the astroturfing going on in slashdot here, I've posted this message in reply to bonch, outing that account as being one of a set of shill accounts employed to astroturf discussions here on slashdot.

Due to this, I started to receive personal attacks from anonymous posts. I've posted this message, and a couple of followups such as this reply.

As further retaliation, I had all the posts listed in my comments section suddenly modded as -1 troll, and a wave of messages posted anonymously with conspiracy theories and attacking me personally, such as this one, started to be posted in multiple discussions. This particular version has been repeatedly posted, often in the same discussion and as the first post, as can be seen here

So, thank the people behind accounts such as bonch, Overly Critical Guy, TechGuys and others for this spam and astroturfing campaign. It appears that their astroturfing operation isn't working smoothly anymore, as bonch complains here. So, to stave off some of the flak they have been receiving, they now waste their time with online stalking, personal attacks and creating absurd conspiracies regarding people who posted messages outing them as corporate shills. They quite often throw accusations like this through anonymous posts. For example, after MrHanky pointed bonch as a shill, the overly critical guy and SharkLaser accounts start attacking the user who outed bonch, and start to throw the shill and conspiracy accusations with the followups to this thread. In this post the Overly Critical Guy account is used to post the exact same accusations, but as they precede the post where I out these shill accounts, they only mention users such as Galestar, NicknameOne and flurp.

So, keep up with your conspiracies to try to save your ass. And while you keep blabbering how posts outing the people behind shill accounts, such as bonch, overly critical guy, sharklaser, jo_ham, and others, are posted by conspiracy theory loons, maybe you can spend a minute arguing why those affected by these shill outings actually take the time to compile and publish all this personal information on a single user who happened to post a message reiterating their outing.

Just 1.28 cm more and it would have been 50 meters exactly. What a coincidence. You might almost think they had gone metric.

They have. You're seeing the rounded number. https://www.google.com/search?q=50+meter+in+feet = 164.041995 feet (164 feet ½ inches)

I see they'll be missing planets again in the future.

Yeah, imperial bad metric good. But the NASA of yore somehow hit the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc etc using teh evul miles and pounds-force. Maybe it has to do with _mixing_ units between suppliers and integrator without proper communication?

I can't download the history, but i can view it all here: https://www.google.com/history/

Google refuses to release the Chrome source code for no real reason. And no, Chromium and Chrome are not the same thing. Given all their recent privacy fuck ups I won't touch any Google-branded piece of software (or service for that matter) with a 10ft pole.

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Let me throw this into the "drone shooting" ring.

For years, police have been trying to trace indiscriminate firearms discharge in populated areas, Like around New Year's day.

They have sensors.

Or you could just go with the simple solution and use roundabouts.

The simple solution isn't that simple when you take the time to actually look at a map sometime. (Go ahead, try it, we will wait...)

Rebuilding every intersection that has stoplights to have roundabouts doesn't work, and can't be afforded, even in those countries where roundabouts are common. Oh, wait, that would be NOWHERE. Even in the EU where everyone sings the praises of Roundabouts they are RARE.

The mystery of the human genome was sort of like a protective lock that prevented people from engineering terrible plagues. Now that mystery is going away, with lots of well-meant good intentions to cure genetic diseases and so on. With that protective "code" widely understood, we had better be sure to learn how to be nicer to each other, and use that knowledge to build a better society rather than tear everything down.

Or, in other words:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/quotes
"Elwood P. Dowd: Years ago, my mother used to say to me, she'd say "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so so smart, or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

In general, our society needs to move to "A Newer Way Of Thinking" like Albert Einstein (and now Donald Pet) talk about, given we can either use abundance to build a better world for all, or we can use it to destroy that possibility for all:
http://www.anwot.org/
http://anwot.org/blog/2011/07/10/stren-70-why-do-we-have-destructive-aggression-and-war/

And a basic income for all is part of that transition to a newer way of thinking, even though it seems all these social trends are very slow processes. I've heard that is until the trends reach some tipping point like about 10% of the population understands them and values them, and then the trend races forward. It's amazing that it was considered as much as it was in Germany recently:
http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_snd-basic-income.html

There really is no alternative to a newer way of thinking and related socioeconomic policy, given the power of WMDs at this point in the hands of disgruntled people at the edges of the society who may think the whole thing is grossly unfair. The miracle is that people are so peaceful anyway, and that things like blowback actually so rarely happen.

Likewise, if LENR (what was formerly called cold fusion) pans out, while it will open up many possibilities for good, it will lead to more destructive possibilities as well, and probably, after a brief spurt of new jobs, we will see massive formal-sector unemployment as energy can often substitute for labor. Related links (even if things are still up in the air, and solar panels are a proven technology also rapidly dropping in cost):
http://www.google.com/search?q=lenr
http://pesn.com/2012/01/12/9602009_NASA_Admits_LENR_Cold_Fusion_Game_Changer/
http://energycatalyzer3.com/news/cold-fusion-being-studied-at-mit
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/12/newenergytimes-gets-three-nasa.html
http://energycatalyzer3.com/news/billionaire-donates-money-for-cold-fusion-research-at-us-university
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/29/ge-solar-power-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels-in-5-years/

They call him kid because he a retard. No one older than 16 with half a brain would have done something so stupid.

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By discrete

"Discrete" means not continuous, like a signal that has been sampled. Assuming you meant "discreet":

you mean inserting checks in the box. That way the "elders" see who is paying the bills.

See what I wrote about checks in my reply to Anonymous Coward. Replies to previous Slashdot stories express incredulity that people still carry a checkbook. Instead, a growing number of people carry a debit card or an auto-paying credit card to make retail purchases, and they pay their utility bills with ACH and pay cash in person-to-person transactions. Say I choose to contribute to the local congregation's fund in twenties instead of with a check. What in the Bible encourages the elders to discriminate against me?

Contracts allow for downsizing and layoffs due to budget cuts is entirely different. Even tenured professors can be laid off due to budget cuts. Getting fired from a job means you specifically violated your contract or simply aren't performing well, firing for which is something that is near impossible to get away with in many school districts (Case in point: Until recently, New York City's "rubber room", Reason's flow chart of the process or Google preview, see also, Washington, DC).

The idea is that it is wasteful for multiple companies to run multiple cables which do the same thing

And this idea has been debunked. It's no more wasteful than putting more disks in a RAID is wasteful. The waste comes from local governments' inability to efficiently price access to tear up the roads (PDF).

Please don't forget that you need a strong and active government to keep the market free.

- don't take it the wrong way, but this is what's called an 'oxymoron'. You can't have free market being forced by threat of violence. It's sort of like "noisy silence", "sweet sorrow", "artificial grass" and all these other contradictions.

It is again, propaganda that is pushed onto the people by government that makes you believe in such .... silly thing.

There is no such thing as a 'natural monopoly', and definitely government laws cannot make market FREE.

The purpose of government is to exist and to be chained by the Constitution, all so that others are denied the power that being government allows. That's what is broken - people broke the system and now the government is not what people need it to be (something that exists to deny some usage of it in order to prevent abuse of power, that government holds).

The only help that people get from government is the fact that it exists as a system that is understood to be completely inherently evil, and as such is actively prevented from meddling with people's affairs, and prevents individuals from becoming government.

Individuals becoming government - that's where the danger is. Bush and Obama becoming kings that kill people on a whim - that's the danger.

Market without force of government intervention is free in itself. Some companies will do better and some will do worse, but there is never one company that will hold on to its dominance forever, and even holding to dominance for a very long time is problematic, as companies age, they become difficult to maneuver and they don't react to the market changes quickly enough.

But government helps to destroy companies, that is true, destroy them with various 'anti-competitive' laws at the time when those companies are very much profitable because they provide a product that may dominate the market for THAT TIME PERIOD. So what? The people pay to that company voluntarily. Gov't can break it, but it's never done to help the market of people, it's done to help special interests who want a piece of that pie.

It's always about special interests aiming at grabbing some part of that money, success, it's never about individual customers, because individual customers are already voting with their wallets.

There is no problem with companies that are huge - economies of scale. They provide the lowest prices for the products and eventually that's what brings in the customers, that's all.

That's GOOD. That enforces the free market to innovate and to invent ways to drop the prices (or maybe to increase quality or maybe both).

It is competition, and gov't regulations are by design against competition, they create monopolies, they destroy competitive markets and they pretend this is done to help consumers and that's the propaganda that's being pushed upon everybody.

Same as all the war propaganda, same as all the money propaganda.

Slashdot, where people's knowledge of technology is only surpassed by their knowledge and understanding of of economics.

But here you go: major foreign holders of treasury securities. Holdings at the end of Dec 2011:

China: 1100.7B USD
Japan: 1042.4B USD

And oh, here's the data on the Japanese GDP since 1960.

FYI, it's grown from 4.6674T USD in 2000 to to 5.4588T USD in 2011. Sure, it fell for a while from the high of 5.2644T USD in 1995, but to state that their economy is not performing well only shows your stupidity.

So its gone even farther, now justification and truth is based on your articulation? wow asshat.. opinions dont seem to matter when fanboys are involved or paid shills. just look at http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=ipad+1+crashes+ios5&pbx=1&oq=ipad+1+crashes+ios5&aq=f&aqi=g-s1g-b1g-bs2&aql=1&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=3327l10284l0l11023l19l15l0l3l3l1l547l4371l0.5.5.1.3.1l18l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9e445bf01bc094d5&biw=1918&bih=982 and stfu. Im tired of dealing with this bs

LaTeX is excellent for journal and technical book publishing and some other applications, but it was not designed for collaboration over the Web, and for full multiformat output.

BookType, and its predecessor Booki, are designed for collaborative authorship around the world and for multi-format output, including HTML, PDF, print-on-demand, and others. The original development was sponsored by FLOSS Manuals, http://www.flossmanuals.net/ which creates manuals for Free Software applications. I have worked on manuals with them for How to Bypass Internet Censorship (now available in Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, Russian, and more), Firefox, the Linux command line, mifos microfinance software, and more, and they have dozens of other titles. FLOSS Manuals also pioneered the Book Sprint, collaborative writing of manuals by 8 or 10 people (writers, subject-matter experts, editors, artists, tech admins) gathered in a room, and several others (particularly proofreaders) over the Web within a week. We did the Censorship book from Monday morning to Friday evening in a rented house in upstate New York, ordered copies from Lulu.com, and then went out for dinner. Pics available, such as https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102331710307773485600/albums/5634256041091466881/5634256041835752050

Since then I have become Program Manager for Replacing Textbooks at Sugar Labs, the Free Software and OER partner of One Laptop Per Child. The rationale for the program is that netbook and tablet computers such as the XO-3 cost much less than printed textbooks, and have many other advantages in any school system, but especially for poor children in developing countries. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_textbooks, http://booki.treehouse.su./ Our mission is to end poverty and the various other ills associated with it. This includes unnecessary disease, disability and death; oppression of the poor and minorities around the world; much of government corruption; and wars of oppression or plunder. Naturally, more is required than computers to accomplish all of this, but it cannot be done without giving every child unfettered access to information and to other people around the world. See, for example, http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/02/15/sharing-in-gaza/

Sugar Labs plans to host book replacements in every traditional school subject, and whatever else our students need, at every level of development in every language needed. I am currently working on an Algebra text where every math statement can be copied from the document and pasted into a software session to execute and if desired plot or graph. There are more than 100,000 other OER packages available at various other Web sites that we have listed. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Open_Education_Resources

Umm yes it does.. go read a forum.

I don't have to because if the iPad 1 to iOS5 was such a terrible experience, then the news would come to me. I wouldn't need to go looking for it. Apple is in everyone's crosshair, so any news would be all over. Haters would calling apple the worst company ever, fanboys would be defending it, and the rest of us would be laughing at both haters and fanboys.

I didn't catch your Apple Employee ID by the way.. what number was it? jeeze loser

I know that lately slashdot users have become fans of the ad hominem arguments. I expected the moment I slightly defende apple to be called a shill. Unfortunately for you, I neither work for apple nor care about apple as much as you want to imply. So, suck it.

In another post you did a google search and and used that as an argument towards your point which is "ipad 1 suck/crashes if you install ios5." I did something similar. I searched for "ipad 2 crash ios5." Here are the results. Following your logic, ipad 2 sucks with iOS5 too!! omg, someone called the press...

ok Im tired of it. Paste this into your browser mr anonymous Apple Employee: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=ipad1+crashes+ios+5&pbx=1&oq=ipad1+crashes+ios+5&aq=f&aqi=g-l1g-bl2&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=1505l8253l0l8972l19l17l0l0l0l1l1078l7344l0.4.3.3.2.3.0.2l17l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=4ece59c6c15d750a&biw=1920&bih=946 It's my fault for not thinking about what would happen should I post a simply FACT about an Apple product. Facts are meaningless when sheer enthusiasm for where you spent your money abounds.

... he impersonated an army officer to take command of the launch site for nearly two days after 14 people were killed when an Interstate 40 bridge fell in eastern Oklahoma...

So you made me curious and I looked into it. It seemed some words were used commonly as rough approximations.

This book claims that 5, 10, 40, 50, 100, and 1000 all were frequently used as approximate quantities. It does not mention 120, but it doesn't rule it out, either. I can't find any scholar claiming that 120 is an approximate number - but maybe you'll do better.

Here's an actual example:

http://code.google.com/p/django-tagging/issues/detail?id=160

Basically, the subquery was run all the time, leading to an amplification of biblical proportions. The solution there was to put that subquery in another subquery (yo dawg), as shown in http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/04/30/how-to-optimize-subqueries-and-joins-in-mysql/

We also tried with a temp table, but this solution was cleaner :) The performance difference was around 1/100th of the time for a sample query.

We also confirmed that the problem still existed in MySQL 5.5

I was very surprised when I saw a few--or a few dozen solar heaters in almost every Tibetan village when I went there in October. I have no idea if they get it all the way up took boiling. The main use seems to be to get the kettles hot and then finish on the stove.
As you can see in this picture, they also make a great dog bed.

The fanatical athiests spending money to put anti-religion messages on busses and billboards

And religious fanatics spending money to put religious and anti-atheistic messages on buses and billboards are perfectly okay.

are they spending any feeding the poor? If so, I've never heard of it.

Because you're blind and deaf, probably.

How many athiests are against vengeance? How many are for doing good to those who harm you?

I don't know, probably not less than same amongst christians. Some christians are pretty vicious. Some are barely hiding their schadenfreude behind "Ha! That's God's punishment for you" when disasters strike - instead of, you know, helping victims as Christ would do. Sure, you could argue that those who don't follow these tenets vehemently are not true christians, but then you could also argue there were only thirteen true christians at all, or may be even just one.

PS: Oh, and by the way, the word is "a-the-ist", from negative prefix "a-" and "theos". I'm not sure what an "athiest" is, probably superlative form of "athy" - as in athy, athier, athiest, but it is a sure sign of illiteracy.