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It's the top story on Google News, at least for me.

But dismissing GOTO outright just handicaps yourself in the case when it is the right choice. Not that it matters when it comes to Java but back in C land I agree with the Linux kernel guy's. http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.linux.kernel/msg/279236f3e970710b

It looks like Google actually does a pretty fair job of translating it.

As Robadob suggested, go read about loop labels.

Your example did not use labels, so your "//shit ..." is irrelevant to Robadob's post.

In my head I am picturing a giant tower 1800 meters high, with nothing but a lightbulb on top of it.

Probably something like this, or maybe this.

Wasn't their whole printer strategy selling printers with low cost ink? So am I understanding this correctly - their camera business wasn't making money, so they entered into the printer business, but rather than sell low margin printers and high margin ink, they sell low margin printers and low margin ink?

They did that already once in Denmark. They took over copyright on Tarzan and then forced a pre-existing character, Gummi-Tarzan, to change names to "Gummi-T"

Concrete houses was Edison's great dream a hundred years ago; cheap and mass producable.

They never caught on then. Why would we think they'd catch on now?

-some of the Edison houses are still around.
http://www.google.com/search?q=edison+concrete+houses

Mmm-hmm...

And yet a simple google search shows scholarly and serious articles discussing the issue of men's under-representation in nursing, including a very official-sounding organization known as the AAMN whose first goal is "Encourage men of all ages to become nurses and join together with all nurses in strengthening and humanizing health care."

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Men+in+nursing

http://aamn.org/aamn.shtml

I guess we should just conclude that these people are misguided, and that men are BIOLOGICALLY unsuited for nursing careers, rather than culturally and socially influenced. I guess we should also just conclude that the over-representation of young black men in jail also has a basis in their biology, rather than in the very real social and cultural issues affecting the black community? Hell, let's just declare every problem biological in nature, and wash our hands of it. Poverty? You're biologically unsuited to making money! Can't find a job? You must be biologically unsuited for it!

The lower Mississippi especially. Check out the state borders on this map.

You were still 100% wrong about Google not caring at all, though. They have an entire freaking website about it and have put more money and lobbying (what really gets things done in US politics) into stopping it than most other companies.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

If I were to guess, it's a standard LCD screen setup with the back light and diffuser removed and high quality, optically clear, and slightly different polarizer sheets used. So, it's basically using the outside as the backlight. This means it wouldn't work in the dark.

They claim that you can't see anything from the other side (which makes the ces video with the blinds kinda funny). Not being able to see anything on the other side means they're probably using some sort of directional polarizer, like a quarter wave plate in front of a circular polarizer (??).

This is not at all a new concept, but it must be getting cheaper.

The nice thing is that Facebook allows you to rope them into the protest.

Just do the following:

• In your favorite image editor, create an all-black JPEG image.

• Change your Facebook profile picture to that image.

• Upload the all-black photo to Facebook to post on your wall. In the description, type the following (or similar):

  If SOPA/PIPA pass, the Internet will look like this. Write your congresspeople. https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

  (This post has been censored due to copyright claim.)

That's it. Now you've helped take the protest to Facebook. Spread the word.

The nice thing is that Facebook allows you to join in the protest. Steps required:

• In your favorite image editor, create an all-black JPEG image.

• Change your Facebook profile picture to that image.

• Upload the all-black photo to Facebook to post on your wall. In the description, type the following (or similar):

  If SOPA/PIPA pass, the Internet will look like this. Write your congresspeople. https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

  (This post has been censored due to copyright claim.)

That's it. Now you've helped take the protest to Facebook.

Most of us are heavily opposed to both these bills -- when a second offensive attack with other bills comes our way, your emotions may not respond the same way, you may not care as much the second time or the third time around. The point is this, take a stand and plant your steak in the ground. Harden yourself because we all don't contribute the time will come when we will not care anymore. Now that the lines have been CLEARLY drawn, view this as (THE ONLY) opportunity you have to make your stand, because that's exactly what this is. Discount your emotional reaction - emotions can die over time, beliefs don't. Don't blow with the wind, stay very strong my (truly) tech brothers.

The time is short.
The time is now.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

I am collecting screenshots of blacked-out sites today so we can have them all in one place. If you know of any other sites, please email them to me.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117902136861919925087/albums/5698963233208682849

www.bluesnews.com is blacked out.

Hey, it got a doodle! And the doodle points to... "a whole page for it". But no, it's cool. Reality can wait for your silly Google-hate.

I am collecting screenshots of blacked-out sites today so we can have them all in one place. If you know of any other sites, please email them to me.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117902136861919925087/albums/5698963233208682849

If Slashdot won't do anything to speak out against SOPA/PIPA, we users have to matters into our own hands, so instead of reading this extremely insightful comment about this old news story (its censored!), please take action and speak out against these terrible bills: http://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Recently my ISP started an 'ipv6 pre-pilot', I instantly joined. I now run dual stack ipv4/ipv6 (stateless + dhcpv6) with an opendns ipv6 dns server. After the proper firmware was pushed to my modem it took me 15 minuted to config. Surprisingly i have had no problems at all. Windows vista/7 and android devices all receive/figure out both ipv4 and ipv6 configs. ipv6 incapable devices just kept humming without even touching them. Adding ipv6 was utterly uneventfull....bummer... Things I have done: I changed my startpage to http://ipv6.google.com/ (only for myself, other's don't care) Only sometimes i see something like the images: you are using ipv6 ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:(yes too short) Using torrent I regularly see ipv6 peers (being connectable rocks) fun fact: the facebook ipv6 address is: 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3

the likelihood of getting selection pressures as extreme as the ones in the lab is fairly low.

Yeah, it's not like you get large vessels full of water, yeast, and things that yeast likes to eat anywhere else

Brewers were distinguishing between top and bottom yeasts before God got his driving license; certain styles of beer work better with one type than the other.

You know what one of the biggest Google searches is right now? "Wikipedia alternative".

It seems SOPA is trending higher than "Wikipedia alternative" at least according to the information available at the moment. It will be interesting to see which really spikes today (if any).

Try here

Yeah, cause there's so many unique ways to lay out a weather widget. Oh, right. Apple exclusively owns any layout they happen to use, and anyone else must use the most inconvenient format and layout they can think of.

Because Apple is so unique and innovative

Fucking idiot fanboys.

Did you know that for the past three year Google has actually published AAAA RRs for its online properties? However, the catch is that they won't serve you those as a response unless your /32 is on the list of vetted ISPs.

Even if you query one of their public IPv6 resolvers ( e.g. 2001:4860:4860::8888 ) you'll not see a AAAA for YouTube or Google+ unless you're on the list.

To pass the vetting an ISP has to demonstrate various technical aspects such as redundant, othogonally-routed global routes to Google's servers. For small ISPs such as mine, who have worked to implement native IPv6 connectivity, this is simply a step too far. So a proportion of the IPv6-connected world has to fall-back to v4 to talk to Google.

Read more about the frustrating policy here: Google over IPv6.

https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=ipv6+bugs&psj=1&oq=ipv6+bugs&aq=f&aqi=g-v2&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1618l3509l0l4620l9l8l0l1l1l0l193l905l2.5l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=ca580344a845b035&biw=1024&bih=679 Over 19.5 million pages for "ipv6 bugs" just from a simple Google search. Well played, sir. Well played indeed.

Plus, as the original poster likely knows, but for the benefit of anyone else out there, Google Earth Pro is free for non-profit use in many parts of the world, through the Google Earth Outreach program...

(Don't work for them, but do work for a Canuckian not-for-profit that has been the beneficiary of this program ourselves.)

Because of their composition, numbnuts. You know, inorganic chemistry is a good place to start.

Start here.

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=mars+meteorites+minerals

http://www.imca.cc/mars/martian-meteorites.htm

Try reading something for a change instead of immediately dismissing things you don't instantly understand.

--
BMO

It wasn't ever about being lazy. The default domain extension has always been .COM. So much so that all of the major browsers implemented keyboard shortcuts for it. (in the address bar, type "google" and hit control+enter -- presto chango, http://www.google.com./ It's a little spottier with other domain extensions in that there are some shortcuts defined, but not all browsers support it (and even when there are shortcuts, search toolbars sometimes intercept it).

It's about being forefront in the minds of customers.

How about this? I see a phone, fax and mailing address for each of their locations. I find it hard to believe that if you send a FedEx with ATTN: Legal Department you won't get a response.

It seems completely understandable how they wouldn't offer an easily-findable email address, since doing so would immediately result in a thousand emails a minute containing profanity and death threats because the personal website of John Smith #2945 is not on the first page of search results for "John Smith" etc., which would make it useless to someone with a legitimate issue because their email would get lost in a thousand pages of noise.

If you can put together an error-free 7x9 table in Notepad++ in five seconds, get off Slashdot and get back to your hyperproductive life. (Also, I call BS.)

Use zen coding: table>tbody>tr*7>td*9

I agree that the previous poster was unhelpful, but I think text+browser design is faster then Dreamweaver. For one thing you get to test the design in multiple browsers easily/naturally.

I'm on the server side of web development, but HTML/CSS gurus I work with mostly use Firebug for all their WYSIWYG needs. They need to test in plethora of browsers and produce high-quality code, so relying on any individual IDE for visual design would be impossible.

That being said, maybe take a look at Komodo Edit (choice of many HTML/CSS coders I know), or figure out how zen coding works by trying it with one of the supported editors here.

P.S. What I am trying to say: if you are serious about your work, you don't need WYSIWYG. Even if you are a hobbyist, you don't need it.

The source is on their Google Code page. It seems a bit sill that they don't provide a link to it on the front page of their website. Also, I have a feeling that the word "library" refers to a standalone Dart source file rather than a body of code which you link against and call from your own application. From the spec overview:

Dart programs are organized in a modular fashion into units called libraries. Libraries are units of encapsulation and may be mutually recursive.

Most people still have no idea what SOPA is

49 out of 50 times, you're correct. However, this bill started receiving coverage in national news outlets, and not just tech-related ones. Granted, some of what was covered wasn't quite accurate, but at least it was getting some national media coverage on the "this is bad" side of things.

(My emphasis). This is very scary, if true. Even in Norway the largest newspapers publish articles extremely critical to SOPA, this is partly because your draconian corporate-ordered laws will have a direct impact on the rest of the world as well. What's more, US corporations will not step back from abusing the diplomatic system for their own ends, and they will probably employ it to impose similar laws in other countries.

If your general public is not even aware that your politicians is going down this path, you guys need to fucking wake up. The current plutocracy is bad enough for you in the first place, but please don't drag the rest of us down with you. While this setback of SOPA is good, we're not exactly trustful that you guys won't do something similarly crazy in the near future (PIPA, for instance, also seems overly broad).

Is this a programming language with an existing shell script interpreter style implementation, too?

An interpreted language bundled with a REPL? I'm not sure if Dart has a REPL, but it would be pretty trivial to implement. Fortunately the Dart specification *does* support shebangs (so #!/usr/bin/dart), check out the relevant section here (they call it a script tag). Here's an excerpt:

A library may optionally begin with a script tag, which can be used to identify the interpreter of the script to whatever computing environment the script is embedded in. A script tag begins with the characters #! and ends at the end of the line. Any characters after #! are ignored by the Dart implementation.

I don't understand why they need the #! script tag for a library. How about for a main script? Just put that on a "hello world" example, make it executable, and see if it runs.

So where's the source code to build /usr/bin/dart from? I don't see a download link on their website.

For example, NaCl is released under a BSD license with source code readily available. Are you saying the same was true of ActiveX since it's launch?

Actually yes. If you want to write your own ActiveX controls or containers you can do so without having to reverse engineer anything. ActiveX was M$' big thing in the 90s, they provided plenty of documentation to get everyone on board with it.

Of course writing anything involving ActiveX tends to be a painful experience, but that's more to do with the tech itself rather than any attempt to obfuscate anything.

Is this a programming language with an existing shell script interpreter style implementation, too?

An interpreted language bundled with a REPL? I'm not sure if Dart has a REPL, but it would be pretty trivial to implement. Fortunately the Dart specification *does* support shebangs (so #!/usr/bin/dart), check out the relevant section here (they call it a script tag). Here's an excerpt:

A library may optionally begin with a script tag, which can be used to identify the interpreter of the script to whatever computing environment the script is embedded in. A script tag begins with the characters #! and ends at the end of the line. Any characters after #! are ignored by the Dart implementation.

searching for your name on google yields the first result: How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web

jay little has a few thoughts about you, too... and your "shitware" application offerings.

you claim to own a house, but oddly, your listed address ends with "Apartment #1, Lower Level"... and even though you're 45 and single ever since your admittedly abusive relationship ended, there is a person named jan who is 65+ listed as living with you. you couldn't possibly be so cliche as to be a 45 year old living in your mom's basement, could you??????

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

The article mentions, box2d-js. The more current port is box2dweb: http://code.google.com/p/box2dweb/

They're mimicking the old Microsoft here - make your own "standards" and break the web by making features and sites that only work Google's browser.

From Dart's wikipedia page:

Google will offer a cross compiler that compiles Dart to ECMAScript 3 on the fly, for compatibility with non-Dart browsers.

And, in fact, dartc already cross compiles Dart code to plain Javascript. Once it's integrated into browsers, use it or don't use it.

It's like Microsoft all again.

Right, that's a stretch. You conveniently cherry pick details here. For example, NaCl is released under a BSD license with source code readily available. Are you saying the same was true of ActiveX since it's launch?

This.

I've used SQL Server and Postgres/PostGIS for spatial queries, and PostGIS is much better. SQL Server's spatial indexes are not as good, and require a lot of work to even be acceptable. PostGIS indexes don't require any work and are faster.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sql+server+spatial+slow

Have a look at this post from Sebastian Delmont on google plus. I found an excellent eye-opener to whats out there related to GIS tech that you can "roll on your own". If you are doing simply radial distance calculations than as mentioned the Haversine forumula is your friend. I added a radial search to a dealer locator for an online store in under a day with some python and a bit of time to geocode and cache all the address data via google.

They had a fix on their google code page: http://groups.google.com/group/openvsp/browse_thread/thread/a185021b0712cf77 you need to run the latest version of fltk

You can't use "for" and "per" interchangeably. "For" is multiplication, "per" is division. 1,000 Joules per second for 3,600 seconds is 3,600,000 (J/s) * s or 3,600,000 J.
https://www.google.com/search?q=1+kWh+in+J

Biotech is good. Trusting corporations like Monsanto not to sweep issues under the rug that they have found when it comes to food and biotech not so good.

... there is no "Genetic Engineering" yet, only genetic tinkering and selecting (with a lot of praying involved) the best outcome, much like mother nature does. Humans have been growing GMO for milenia, and even have GM themselves ... if you're an adult and can metabolize milk, you're it.

Please stop with that bullshit just stop. When you use a gene gun and blast dna from a bacterium randomly into the genome of a plant species so as that crop can be doused with Round-UP(tm) you are not doing the same thing that farmers have been doing for millennia. sorry to bust your bubble.

virgin galactic may or may not fit into my world view - but i can assure you it definitely does not fit into the world view of the wealthy investors, who are making much more money in high frequency trading automatically, than investing in virgin galactic et al and waiting them to turn a profit.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=high+frequency+trading

At no point does it state that the icons cannot be removed. [...] "This app cannot be uninstalled from the phone's software library"

The original claim was: "There are icons you can't remove on the iPhone. [But this is a]lso true of any Android phone that's not a Nexus and not rooted." You are correct that any shortcut icon can be removed from the home screen of an Android device. But if you touch the little grid of squares at the bottom center of the home screen, you end up on the "phone's software library" screen. An icon that cannot be removed from this screen is still an icon that cannot be removed from the phone. I will wait to continue this discussion until we can agree on a definition for "icons you can't remove".

it only applies to two handsets

To find reports that apply to handsets other than the two handsets mentioned in the LA Times article, go to Google and put in android "can't remove" site:slashdot.org .

Here we have a systematic trail of incorrect statements. That sir makes you a liar.

Past scientists have made a "trail of incorrect statements" due to incomplete understanding of physical laws. These statements were "systematic" due to the scientific method supporting them. So if lacking complete understanding of the world makes me a liar, we all are liars and need a savior.

Even the article mentions it:

This is similar to the way Google offers reports on search trends based on its users’ aggregate search activities.

In fact, all of this is public information too. You can look at search amounts for specific searches here.

"Number of Global Searches" and "Number of Local Searches"? That's not a lot of information.

So you're telling us that Politico won't be getting Facebook's users age/birthday, gender information, party affiliation, and zip code, along with the number of times they mentioned a candidate's name positively or negatively?

Now I agree that this slashdot headline is mostly just for click-bait purposes, but personally, I would still love to see the specific report Politico was getting. The same goes for Google, if Google delivers any report privately to any company out there, I would love to see that private report as well (to make sure it only matches what's listed in the public adwords web page you just linked us to).