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It's funny how many Pogues videos have a RIP Shane comment on them.

Everybody just sort of assumes he's dead by now.

Well, because he's always had a bit of an out of control persona ... and, really, if you look at pictures of him he's never looked like the healthiest person alive.

He's just so famous for being utterly trashed on stage, or getting beaten up in pubs ... one just assumes he's dead by now. Glad he's not, but it's easy to see how people might assume he is.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cripple+fight

How about removing the "+" operator?
I have started to consider other search engines for the first time in years because of that dumb move that makes the whole searching experience even more annoying. Want to look for an exact term? Now you have to surround it with quotes, adding 3 additional keystrokes.

Where are you at? Put the following address in your browser address bar
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=piratebay.org+tron

If you hover over the ">>" you get the right frame to pop up with a display that says the page is cached...

Well, never say never...

Applying a state tax to interstate commerce is a clear violation of that authority, and the authority of the US government to levy excises.

Good thing it's a Sales and Use Tax, and not just a Sales Tax so that it's not technically a tax on interstate trade.

It wasn't the mouse at fault.

Maybe you should read something before starting with more nonsense. There are no monopolies except for government created ones.

What are you talking about? Good on you for having great health.

Meanwhile plenty of geeks suffer from computer-related health problems. The most common up to now has been carpal tunnel or repetitive stress syndrome.

The advent of touchscreens means people are bending their necks downward for extended periods. For many/most it may not be a problem.

For others, it can result in cervical spondylosis, a debilitating condition of the neck.

The reason for such articles is to encourage people to take preventive measures. One of the best is Workrave, a break reminder program for Win and Lin. Click to install. (Deb/Ub/Mint)

You call them 'Robber Barons', I call them successful entrepreneurs. Nobody should be in a position to steal power from the people with the use of the government system, as long as that rule is enforced (and obviously it's not), then we don't have a corruption problem, because with politicians having nothing to sell, nobody would bother buying anything from them.

Monopolies make power easier to maintain so they are the natural result of any unrestricted economic system.

- yeah, again, there are no such things as monopolies unless government is involved, because only government can create LEGAL barriers to entry into any market and that's what it does, legal barriers to entry enforced by the police, FBI, military, whatever. No company can create LEGAL barriers to entry for anybody else into any market, they can only compete and create barriers to entry that have to do with price/quality ratio. As long as the market is satisfied with price/quality ratio there is no problem with the economy that provides that product/service. Once the ratio is such that there is space for another company to make profit there it will.

You need to look at how the government actually creates monopolies and destroys competing markets, it happens all the time, here is a good read.

You can disable the indexing of your web history, effectively disabling "personalized search" at the same time.

Is it really disabled, or do they just stop showing it to you?

...they want their MCM-41-PEI back. Same substance (pei polymer on a zeolite matrix), same properties (CO2 capacity, temperatures/partial pressures,...). Discovered more than 10 years ago and currently in use on the ISS as a CO2 scrubber. Some people really have no shame.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=MCM-41-PEI&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Not a PHD in psychiatric sciences -> http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=Gretchen+Grundler&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=1

The real issue is if they are prioritizing thier data ahead of thier competitors...that would lead to more clicks to thier own pages which is more ad revenue. Kind of an anti trust issue here...

In the case of twitter, they had been asked to not use their (twitters) data, so are not using it (and therefore would be unable to involve it in some kind of prioritizing list). From Google:

We are a bit surprised by Twitter's comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer (http://goo.gl/chKwi), and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions.
https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550/posts/24uqWqvALud

You can disable the indexing of your web history, effectively disabling "personalized search" at the same time.

You can have everything right in your product but if no one knows about it and if there's no one telling you what would your product improve on the persons work or life, then your product is almost useless. This same trend can be seen with Linux and to an extend with some Google (and other geeky companies) products

Chrome has issue 44106, which despite countless requests for an implementation, was labeled "Won't Fix".

One developer says:

"Commenting on this bug has absolutely no effect at all on the likelihood that we are going to reconsider."

Then goes further to say:

"We made the decision not to make this configurable long, long ago, even before we WontFixed this bug in comment 59 (over a year ago itself). Accordingly the bug is closed because that reflects not only our current stance but the position we've had for a very long time."

So thus "bug" sounds like a feature! Now, talk of listening to customers.

Maybe this is why everyone I know at Google uses Firefox (or Safari!), even at work.

Verbatim search at the bottom of the left sidebar. http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=g_verb&answer=1734130

i totally disagree
they do their wish only,and dont care for others
google

Forget what "programmers themselves" think about OTHER people's jobs - programmers think this about their own jobs!! How often do you start something thinking it'll take half an hour, and it becomes a weekend project that you actually finish some time next week?

This goes for both code and systems administration. You often go on IRC after you've already tried doing something for a few hours or days, thinking it was no big deal. Of course, in retrospect, it isn't. Unless you can't get it to work at all, and give up after 40 hours - the most radical underestimation of all.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22but+I+could+never+get+it+to+work%22+%2BLinux

You can have everything right in your product but if no one knows about it and if there's no one telling you what would your product improve on the persons work or life, then your product is almost useless. This same trend can be seen with Linux and to an extend with some Google (and other geeky companies) products

Chrome has issue 44106, which despite countless requests for an implementation, was labeled "Won't Fix".

One developer says:

"Commenting on this bug has absolutely no effect at all on the likelihood that we are going to reconsider."

Then goes further to say:

"We made the decision not to make this configurable long, long ago, even before we WontFixed this bug in comment 59 (over a year ago itself). Accordingly the bug is closed because that reflects not only our current stance but the position we've had for a very long time."

So thus "bug" sounds like a feature! Now, talk of listening to customers.

https://www.google.com/pda?pws=0&safe=off&hl=xx-pirate&lr=lang_en&q=nuff+said

If you're looking for x86 SOC, Intel's new Medfield might be your best bet. Medfield article

If you were to give these the Raspberry Pi treatment...let's say a Pi board's cost is 1/2 cpu, 1/2 everything else. So the everything else is about...rounding up....let's say about 15 bucks. So add about $15 to whatever Intel charges for Medfield and you'd have your x86 Raspberry Pi.

It will be more expensive than $25 total, because...well...Intel is involved. No way a Medfield chipset will sell for ten bucks. But it would still be cheap and let you run Wine or other groovy stuff on a dinky cheap board.

It might be close though. I found this atom board for $57, and that's a full motherboard with a lot of expensive slots and heat sinks and the like. The actual Atom chip probably isn't more than $15-20 bucks. If Medfield is in this ballpark you could still be pretty cheap.

P & P are supposed to be the authorities. Hey, google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=yLmGPtZTHUYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false .
Page 18 is there, at least in my view.

I would describe my feelings as more hair-on-fire. And I'm still not doing enough, we live in New England, have oil heat (ugh!), and 8 years of kids in college yet to pay out. I will say, I much prefer the "luxury" of staying warm, to the luxury of driving around in a monster armored wheelchair.

Uh, the "story" comes from a the official Google Search blog, not from TechTalk: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html
Opening Google.com itself links to this: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/plus.html#u=su

I didn't even read the Techcrunch article, because someone at Hacker News had already linked to the Google blog.

I see the 'google-analytics.com' on several sites when I go in an enable certain domains in chrome. I block all JS and cookies, and only allow what I want to.

So, I block all the facebook, google, and doubleclick stuff that shows on the page.

Having said that, I've been using google for years. I am sure I was stupid sometime back in the day and logged into my Gmail, G+, Google Wave, Gdocs, etc on an unsecure browser, and they have my settings.

If you use Google login, do you know that you should turn off your 'browsing history' with google? Yea, they keep track of that shiat...

https://www.google.com/history/

Then shut it down... I turned mine off years ago, but if you haven't done that, you're being tracked regardless...

I cannot understand why any self respected geek would feel attached to Android at all. That Andy Rubin hypocrite pissed on the community when he decided not to release the Honeycomb source code. The framework itself is nothing to write home about. A mediocre API written in Java running on a bastardized VM. Meego is a much better option.

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Marcan, there is a new arrogant asshole in town.

I have two points about your post. The first is that Ron Paul got 21.4% in the Iowa Caucus. The Iowa Caucus is not a straight up vote, it is necessary to spend several hours at the meeting. The candidates who do well at the Iowa Caucus are the ones whos supporters are willing to wait out everyone else.

Yes. Also, the "security" situation surrounding this caucus required the votes be taken out of state (to Illinois, home of organized crime) and be counted in secret. So yeah, I'm totally betting the Iowa caucus represent's the people's choice. The Google Trends consistently showing a completely different picture must just be a fluke.

you're exactly what you've claimed to be: NOTHING.

i've written my own programming language, bootstrapped my own compiler for it to build my own operating system. i knew myself when i was 6 when i wrote computer programs, not just websites. i used to work for a chip manufacturer supplying parts for the original ipod.

i am michael kristopeit. i have degrees in computer science and mathematics from the university of wisconsin. i was one of only 2 students in my graduating class invited to join the computer science honors society upsilon pi epsilon. i did receive a grant in my 3rd year from the national science foundation to build an "expert system" to teach students differential equations, but i've never called myself an "expert". who are you quoting? you're a paranoid delusional ignorant hypocrite.

i have served as a digital systems engineer building internal and external facing applications for billion dollar international companies since 2000. i earn a mid 6 figure salary and i have over 1,000,000 exercisable stock options. i live with my beautiful wife and children and dogs and numerous firearms. you live in the bushes in the middle of shantytown.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.boycottsopa.android

There's an app for that (for Android) that allows you to boycott companies that support SOPA by product with a scan of the product.

There is also a Chrome addon that does the same except with websites: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gagmjmoimnkgoijihaaeodbefhcapjcj?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

And in case this passes there are add-ons already out that will bypass SOPA: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/desopa/

who is "us"?

you're exactly what you've claimed to be: NOTHING.

i've written my own programming language, bootstrapped my own compiler for it to build my own operating system. i knew myself when i was 6 when i wrote computer programs, not just websites. i used to work for a chip manufacturer supplying parts for the original ipod.

i am michael kristopeit. i have degrees in computer science and mathematics from the university of wisconsin. i was one of only 2 students in my graduating class invited to join the computer science honors society upsilon pi epsilon. i did receive a grant in my 3rd year from the national science foundation to build an "expert system" to teach students differential equations, but i've never called myself an "expert". who are you quoting? you're a paranoid delusional ignorant hypocrite.

i have served as a digital systems engineer building internal and external facing applications for billion dollar international companies since 2000. i earn a mid 6 figure salary and i have over 1,000,000 exercisable stock options. i live with my beautiful wife and children and dogs and numerous firearms. you live in the bushes in the middle of shantytown.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

I've seen many people claim this. What, exactly, are you searching for that it doesn't come up quickly? 90% of the things I search for are answered in the first 3-4 links. The only time I even have to go to the second page is if it is an obscure and/or very specific piece of information that I'm looking for. Facts are usually answered directly by Google even before the first link. Out of curiosity I did a quick comparison of searches for two facts (release date of The Darkness 2, one of the first things to spring to mind) by searching them on Google and Bing. Google knew the answer without my even visiting a link and told me what websites had the information. Bing didn't. I'd say that is pretty much a win.

For fun, I also did an Altavista search. Google is considerably better IMO.

i am michael kristopeit. i have degrees in computer science and mathematics from the university of wisconsin. i was one of only 2 students in my graduating class invited to join the computer science honors society upsilon pi epsilon. i did receive a grant in my 3rd year from the national science foundation to build an "expert system" to teach students differential equations, but i've never called myself an "expert". who are you quoting? you're a paranoid delusional ignorant hypocrite.

i have served as a digital systems engineer building internal and external facing applications for billion dollar international companies since 2000. i earn a mid 6 figure salary and i have over 1,000,000 exercisable stock options. i live with my beautiful wife and children and dogs and numerous firearms. you live in the bushes in the middle of shantytown

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

Ask yourself,
1) Who is Dell's primary audience?
2) Who is the tablets primary audience?
3) Which one of these has more money to spend?

Dells primary audience is business, tablets are consumer items and rarely used in businesses. Business budgets tend to be much higher then consumer budgets, they also turn over computers much faster. Michael Dell knows his audience, as much as the Apple fanboys hate to admit it and he's been quite successful because of that. Dell is still the number 2 PC maker in the world, second only to HP and both HP and Dell can attribute this success to corporate customers.

He's right, tablets are not a threat to traditional PC's.

So if all of that is true, how do you explain this?

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:DELL&fstype=ii#

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii#

Ask yourself,
1) Who is Dell's primary audience?
2) Who is the tablets primary audience?
3) Which one of these has more money to spend?

Dells primary audience is business, tablets are consumer items and rarely used in businesses. Business budgets tend to be much higher then consumer budgets, they also turn over computers much faster. Michael Dell knows his audience, as much as the Apple fanboys hate to admit it and he's been quite successful because of that. Dell is still the number 2 PC maker in the world, second only to HP and both HP and Dell can attribute this success to corporate customers.

He's right, tablets are not a threat to traditional PC's.

So if all of that is true, how do you explain this?

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:DELL&fstype=ii#

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii#

"I said no such thing, I said 'Supreme Court only deals with laws within the sovereignty of the US.'"

Yes, I know. Which is incorrect. (I fixed the quotes for you, by the way.) Your example was of a U.S. citizen acting on their own outside the borders of the U.S. But that is irrelevant to the issue. Agents of the government do not automatically lose all legal restrictions on their behavior when they set foot outside U.S. territory. We also have laws regarding military behavior, which are also overseen by the Supreme Court, and which are still in effect wherever that military happens to be. Outside U.S. "sovereignty" or not, it doesn't matter. So you are very clearly wrong.

And yet you still swing and miss.

Note 2 things: they are agents of the government, and behaving on behalf of the government. This places them under the rule of the government. Note that if they happen to do something while off-duty, while they may still get punished by the US, often local rules apply first. Note the recent incarceration of a US serviceman in Korea for rape. He won't be punished by the US until he's done with his Korean jail sentence. (btw, this would be known as citing references in support of a point, it's not some opinion piece by an unknown website.)

Had his activities while being off-duty been legal, there would have been little recourse for the US gov against him. Should you argue that if he took drugs, and when he returned to duty, he would have been punished by failing a drug test, you'd still be incorrect, because the drugs would be in him at that time, and that's what he would have been his "crime".

"And yet you failed to produce a single one. Bullshit."

I shouldn't have to. If you can't find information about it, you are clearly inept. It took me 5 seconds. I am not here to hold your hand.

Ahem. Maybe you should try that Wikipedia article after all. It was the Yemenis who arrested him. The, AFTER he had been interviewed by the FBI, spent some time in that Yemeni jail, U.S. authorities told the Yemenis that it was okay to let him go.

Note that this was in 2006, not 2001 as alleged in your linked article and debunked as stated previously. Another "fail" on your part.

Seriously. And speaking of citations, you still haven't shown me ONE credible bit of evidence that he did anything other than spew hateful words (which, I repeat, is not a crime or at least sure as hell isn't treason under the law). Until you do, I still maintain that he was murdered. And here's a hint: things like "... such and such newspaper wrote that someone in the State Department reportedly said...", and "... he is thought to have met or talked to" are not evidence.

"I shouldn't have to. If you can't find information about it, you are clearly inept.... I am not here to hold your hand"

...who is a bigger asshole, Andy "Hypocrite" Rubin or the Samsung idiots. If you are a geek you should stay away from the mediocre Android shit and focus on Meego/Tizen.

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Marcan, there is a new arrogant asshole in town!

500Mbps seems to be the original source. However, this source, which seems considerably more reliable, being written by an expert in the field, states it could be up to 500 megabytes, and points out how a high-res camera can use 75 megabytes to stream. Speculative, but by far the best source I've seen. 50mbit/s is far too low. Even a single truly highres camera (keep in mind these are probably more than HD cameras) can use more than that.

you are NOTHING

alex, p, k?... is that what your mom tells you to when you've been alone in the basement too long without a potty break?

still living in the bushes in the middle of shantytown, alex?

you are NOTHING

Copyright laws evolved from the British crown outsourcing censorship.

Copyright has really always been about the powerful controlling the flow of information. Check out around 12min into Falkvinge's Google Tech Talk.

Originally copyright only applied to organizations because you needed money to own a printing press, but now that anybody can copy, they conveniently forget that disorganized copying cannot compete with institutionalized distribution, ala iTunes, and attack individual copying.

Is there any doubt why they're passing SOPA/PIPA this year? It's WikiLeaks, Hacktivism, the Arab Spring, the European Summer, OWS, the possible African Spring, and the coming stronger protests.

you're worthless.

you're worthless.

you're worthless.

you're worthless.

you're worthless.

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dunno about candidates, but there is a Chrome Plug in that tells you when you are visiting web sites that support SOPA.

Perhaps the real issue is Android isn't really for you and you need an iPhone :)

Because before I got my phone I knew about http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ is all I'm sayin, at&t can go f itself.

You can also get free texts (across data) haven't looked at that one too hard though. $10 a month ($10x24=$240 over 2 years) > teaching the people on my plan how to do so and then be stuck accountable for at&t's inconsistent broadband.

Not much but how about this?
Suppose you want to build a remote weather station that is powered by solar power.
You could use simple Morse to communicate with it or with more CPU power you could use PSK31?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31
A PI should have more than enough power to do that while an Arduino probably would not.
Or for Robotics? Or......
I see these as filling different niches The PI model b also has a NIC onboard as well as USB. You can and a NIC to the Arudino but it isn't as cheap as the PI then. Also the USB port means that adding Wifi and or bluetooth is also pretty cheap as you can just use cheap off the shelf USB devices.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=USB+Wifi&hl=en&prmd=imvnsr&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1170&bih=580&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=1441979504990399921&sa=X&ei=DEULT764OYb50gGpzPinAg&ved=0CLMBEPMCMAE
and http://www.google.com/products/catalog?pq=usb+wifi&hl=en&ds=pr&cp=5&gs_id=n&xhr=t&q=usb+bluetooth&tok=OjXamipMnNn461K3sUf7PQ&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1170&bih=580&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=5941927603346482198&sa=X&ei=LkULT727Gsba0QHs2szUBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CKwBEPMCMAE
for example.
You will also have a full USB stack, BlueTooth stack, and TCP/IP stack with the PI.
So both have pluses and minuses. If you just want to open a garage door then an Arduino is probably good enough.
If you want to open it from your smart phone or you computer on your wifi network and log when people show up and maybe even use a web cam to see who is going in the garage? Well a PI might be just the ticket.

Not much but how about this?
Suppose you want to build a remote weather station that is powered by solar power.
You could use simple Morse to communicate with it or with more CPU power you could use PSK31?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSK31
A PI should have more than enough power to do that while an Arduino probably would not.
Or for Robotics? Or......
I see these as filling different niches The PI model b also has a NIC onboard as well as USB. You can and a NIC to the Arudino but it isn't as cheap as the PI then. Also the USB port means that adding Wifi and or bluetooth is also pretty cheap as you can just use cheap off the shelf USB devices.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=USB+Wifi&hl=en&prmd=imvnsr&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1170&bih=580&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=1441979504990399921&sa=X&ei=DEULT764OYb50gGpzPinAg&ved=0CLMBEPMCMAE
and http://www.google.com/products/catalog?pq=usb+wifi&hl=en&ds=pr&cp=5&gs_id=n&xhr=t&q=usb+bluetooth&tok=OjXamipMnNn461K3sUf7PQ&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1170&bih=580&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=5941927603346482198&sa=X&ei=LkULT727Gsba0QHs2szUBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CKwBEPMCMAE
for example.
You will also have a full USB stack, BlueTooth stack, and TCP/IP stack with the PI.
So both have pluses and minuses. If you just want to open a garage door then an Arduino is probably good enough.
If you want to open it from your smart phone or you computer on your wifi network and log when people show up and maybe even use a web cam to see who is going in the garage? Well a PI might be just the ticket.