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Normally, I'd say that the parent was being unhelpful, but in this case with the the Scripting Layer 4 Android (SL4A) already having done most of the work for you, it would actually pretty easy to do this. Here are the beginning of their instructions:

Introduction
Part of the SL4A project is to define an API for others to develop new interpreters that SL4A (or any other compatible project) can support. Currently, this standard is for interpreters that can be run as a binary in a separate process. This standard will be extended in the future to also support running JVM based interpreters in process.

The Easy Way is a step-by-step description of how to build an interpreter APK that is compatible with SL4A.
The Way of Samurai describes how to use the interpreter.jar in your own project to interface with SL4A.
The Way of Zen describes the API in detail.

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And yes, I'm aware that the original question mentions SL4A, but says that that it doesn't provide "exhaustive" access to the platform, which triggers the question for me, what access does he want? Just tell me one thing that he wants (please not a fully shopping list), just have him pick one item, and I'll show him how he can add it to the the Scripting Layer for Android himself.

And yes, I do realize that's really not the original question that he was asking, and to that, I'd reply that not everyone in life always get what they want. "Basic" may be at the center of his Universe right now, but it's certainly not the de facto language for everyone these days and it would be presumptuous for him to think that his opinion should override everyone else's opinion on the matter. And it would also be presumptuous to think that a big faceless corporation, with so many developers and so many resources, should cater to *his* every individual needs all because it would be so simple and so easy to do for them. I'm afraid that's not how corporations work. Corporations usually have their own agendas and their own whims to cater to.

Normally, I'd say that the parent was being unhelpful, but in this case with the the Scripting Layer 4 Android (SL4A) already having done most of the work for you, it would actually pretty easy to do this. Here are the beginning of their instructions:

Introduction
Part of the SL4A project is to define an API for others to develop new interpreters that SL4A (or any other compatible project) can support. Currently, this standard is for interpreters that can be run as a binary in a separate process. This standard will be extended in the future to also support running JVM based interpreters in process.

The Easy Way is a step-by-step description of how to build an interpreter APK that is compatible with SL4A.
The Way of Samurai describes how to use the interpreter.jar in your own project to interface with SL4A.
The Way of Zen describes the API in detail.

[...]

And yes, I'm aware that the original question mentions SL4A, but says that that it doesn't provide "exhaustive" access to the platform, which triggers the question for me, what access does he want? Just tell me one thing that he wants (please not a fully shopping list), just have him pick one item, and I'll show him how he can add it to the the Scripting Layer for Android himself.

And yes, I do realize that's really not the original question that he was asking, and to that, I'd reply that not everyone in life always get what they want. "Basic" may be at the center of his Universe right now, but it's certainly not the de facto language for everyone these days and it would be presumptuous for him to think that his opinion should override everyone else's opinion on the matter. And it would also be presumptuous to think that a big faceless corporation, with so many developers and so many resources, should cater to *his* every individual needs all because it would be so simple and so easy to do for them. I'm afraid that's not how corporations work. Corporations usually have their own agendas and their own whims to cater to.

Simple

    Perl too. :) I had it on my Android phone, before I wiped it for another install. I don't remember right off where to get it, but it wasn't hard to find for those who have heard of a search engine. :)

    All the hooks for using the system are in place for interacting with the hardware in Java. That's probably the biggest reason for development to be done in Java. I believe it was at least partially implemented in Perl. At least that's what I remember from a year ago.

    Oh look, the link for SL4A. Perl, Python, Lua, Beanshell (?), and Rhino (?). I wanted to do my own GPS tracking program to update my own web site. Since there are plenty of apps that are already written, and mostly did what I wanted, I really haven't looked too hard at continuing. I may revisit it eventually, if I find that I have too much spare time on my hands. One of the things that I got hung up on was the speed and altitude limitations. 11 miles (18 kilometers) and/or (1,853 kilometers per hour).

    One of the things I wanted to eventually try is an air launch rocket (as opposed to the typical ground launch), with the ability to bring itself home. Prevailing winds where I live would put touchdown of a high altitude flight of any significant duration about 20 miles out into the Atlantic. Besides the fact I don't have a boat, I don't want to spend the time explaining to the US Navy or US Coast Guard why I'm in a rented boat, 20 miles off shore, with a big freakin' rocket. I'd rather violate FAA rules, than be tied up in a DHS interrogation for days. If it does manage to get up to speed or altitude, it'd be lost until it dropped enough speed and altitude, which may put it way off course for coming home. I'd love to be lazy enough to just put an android phone in to handle tracking. I may have to look at gray market components, which will add to the overall weight.

As much as it pains some of us, the web is the ultimate platform nowadays. There are plenty of web-based interpreters that are usually accessible from modern phones. repl.it has client-side online REPLs for Basic, Python, Scheme, JavaScript and a bunch of others. This post mentions alternatives for other languages, including Dart, Closure and F#.

Touch develop is a cut down limited pile of shit. The scripting layer for android walks all over it. Furthermore, if you don't like python, you can use perl, beanshell, PHP, ruby, shell script, JavaScript and more. Much more of the android API is exposed through the sl4a than with touchdevelop. As far as slash dot giving Ms credit, you're a slash dot poster and you're giving them credit. Disingenuous credit but credit nonetheless so stop bitching.

I agree that the 'wiped off the map' quote is a dishonest distortion.
I am certain though that Ahmadinejad has made very crude statements about Israel. Only, these statements are for public consumption only and often the the louder the statements, the less they represent what is actually going on. Take the 'wiped off the map' statement. This is a reference to an older quote by Khomeini, but in Khomeini's days Iran was an ally of Israel. The alliance was broken off after the 1990 gulf war, because with Iraq gone and the USSR gone Israel had to change its strategy and Iran became a regional competitor. It's then that Israel started to float the story about Iran working on a bomb, and Netanyahu was on the first row then, so he's fully aware of the background. A good introduction can be had by viewing a Trita Parsi speech on the treacherous triangle such as this one http://video.google.com/ /videoplay?docid=-7506561148101946170 .

As for their nuclear weapons program, well, in one word I'd describe it as nonexistant. A good source for that would be Flynt Everett - Hillary Mann at raceforiran.com as well as the american experts that matter - for example the NIE.

If you check iranian officials, they want passive nuclear capability: having a general level of technological development such that there is a credible threat that if they one day the situation becomes that pressing that they have to start working on a bomb, then they would be successful in a reasonable time. Every developed country has this capability, and many countries go further. Japan has an official policy of threshold capability. That means everything is in place so they can make a bomb in the shortest possible time, in this case 2 months.

There are good reasons to believe Iran is telling the truth about this, because , while there can always be some research, such as before 2002, they have a lot of reasons not to go further. There is the religuous , of fundamentalist reason if you want, that nuclear bombs are haram. This is the reason Iran refused to use chemical weapons in the war with Iraq. There is the reason that Iran would become totally isolated. There is the reason that they have a regional advantage they would lose if they triggered proliferation and everyone would get a bomb.

It is interesting that when you press that issue it turns out that for western and Israeli officials the nuance doesn't matter. Whether they're trying to make a bomb or are just technologically advanced enough so they could if they wanted, it doesn't matter. In both cases Iran is a player. Even Hillary Clinton has said such a thing (but I lost the reference.)
 

The question is whether or not it will contract back to where it would have been had it not been for pumping up the economy for loans first. Just today I read an article about the wages offered in Spain and Italy now (source, in Norwegian so via Google Translate) and you practically can't get permanent employment anymore. They're being forced into intern or temp contracts which make minimum wage or less with little to no benefits.

A salary of 1,000 euros a month is about to become an unattainable dream.

That's $1300/mo or $15-16k/year, I think a minimum wage job in the US is around $10-14k/year. He was offered a 1-year contract for half that, $7-8k/year working 10 hour days. Another woman with a master degree says she makes 300 euro = less than $400 a month and yet:

Among the 30 in our class, I am among those who make the best career.

They can pretend what they want with the GNP figures but Europe is experiencing a really bad crunch now for those that haven't already got a permanent position - those are quite well protected, unlike in the US but the rest is going to hell. Same with the US, a lot of people aren't in the unemployment records simply because they're either trying to study their way through the crisis, have given up or don't get more benefits so they don't count in the statistics. And in a really bad crunch where the government should be trying to fire up the economy they're almost broke - in case of Greece, Portugal and Ireland really broke - and have to hit the brakes hard for a double crunch. I don't think we're at the bottom yet, it will get worse before it gets better.

Speaking of which, why am I even still on this site. You can find everything on reddit as well, which now has a much more active community than slashdot. The founders of Slashdot have bailed, and Slashdot is dying.

http://www.reddit.com/r/slashdot
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology
http://www.reddit.com/r/science
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/geek
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux
http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware
http://www.reddit.com/r/android
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple
http://www.reddit.com/r/google

etc

In Soviet Russia, the man's roof was already in such condition, and he had been drinking when he decided to make the ridiculous report. Investigators could find no evidence of his suggestion, but found the roof to be an unacceptable public hazard. The local council will deliberate on financing its repair after the Next Year's festivities.

Well, since they don't care about users--or usefulness--but only about "technology," perhaps that explains the lack of basic features, like the inability to resume downloads. Perhaps it also explains some of the "over-engineering" going into such basic features. *sigh*

Well, since they don't care about users--or usefulness--but only about "technology," perhaps that explains the lack of basic features, like the inability to resume downloads. Perhaps it also explains some of the "over-engineering" going into such basic features. *sigh*

And before anyone rushes to a conclusion either in support or against Anonymous, I encourage everyone to read past articles by Stratfor on google cache (advanced search, so might trigger captcha)

but the publicity around it left what reputation the church had in ruin. No longer are they just an obscure cult most people have barely heard of - after the Anonymous-ran campaign on social media, everyone knows to avoid them, and they even got the criticisms mentioned on TV news.

Huh? Scientology has been "exposed" many times. Whatever "anonymous" did was barely noticed.

but the publicity around it left what reputation the church had in ruin. No longer are they just an obscure cult most people have barely heard of - after the Anonymous-ran campaign on social media, everyone knows to avoid them, and they even got the criticisms mentioned on TV news.

Huh? Scientology has been "exposed" many times. Whatever "anonymous" did was barely noticed.

The first thing I do when I install Firefox on a new computer is switch the default search engine to DuckDuckGo. Google can take their money and shove it up their ass.

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Google Chrome Help Forum: Is the new built-in PDF viewer in Chrome more of a headache than a tool for you too?

Yes, because people are going to buy mediocre Shitorola devices instead of Samsung and HTC ones.

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There is a lot of whitespace activity in Europe. Here is one summary.

It is NOT public in incognito at the link posted in the story. Nor in Firefox Private Browsing.

If it seems so for you, its because you've some how destroyed your incognito window anonymity by logging in somewhere along the line, either in the past, or in the current session.

This link works in Incognito https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&output=html
but the story link does not.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&pref=2

The actual link was part of the parameters to the Google account login link that appears in the summary.

Whoever posted the article did so with the login as part of the link

Just shows that timothy doesn't open any article submitted.

BTW the link submitted by AC at the same time is better - it's html - the google docs link pops up error messages (seriously, Google, 2011???) when I open it.

Html link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&output=html.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&pli=1#gid=0

Whoever posted the article did so with the login as part of the link,

You so silly. The classic Kindle is perfectly rootable. It even has an motd set for when you ssh into it the first time! Installing weird fancy programs like nibbles or a local terminal is as simple as adding the appropriate signature to your keychain and popping the .jar (well, .azw2) into the documents folder. Amazon's effort toward securing the device against local attacks has been described as "accidental at best."

Welcome to Kindle!

What's not as easy? Add an account on an iPhone and you are offered the choice of iCloud, MS Exchange, GMail, Yahoo!, Aol, Hotmail and MobileMe. Choose GMail, put in your name, email address and password, and you're done. Gmail and Google Calendar.

It's certainly not obvious, but you generally don't want to choose "GMail" to access google services on iOS.

Instead, you really want "MS Exchange". Yes that's right, "MS Exchange", which you use to access Google Sync, which gives you push gmail, calendar, and contacts (but not notes). Google Sync works well, but it does have the crazy issue of lumping all of your contacts into one big pile; even though you may have organized them into contact groups at google's end, Google Sync gives them to iOS as one big lumpy pile.

Instructions for Google Sync are here (don't skip the part at the end about specifying which calendars to sync): https://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=14252&answer=138740

Tip: if you get a lot of mail, and find the push email sound annoying on your iOS device, you can mute the push sound for selected messages using gmail filters: any message that gets marked as read does not cause a sound on the iOS device.

FTFA: "The Novo7, an Android 4.0 tablet based on the MIPS JZ4770 processor. It retails for under $100."

Stop saying it's available for under $100 because it doesn't really exist

There's no reviews, it's not for sale, it's vaporware. How can you claim it's the year of Android based on a vaporware product?

https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:botched+site:slashdot.org
Nobody but the hypersensitive cares about "phrasing"

The difference for me is that while I will gladly eat GM food I don't take the word of the GM food producers as gospel. If you had a clue how this industry operates you would know what goes on behind the scenes. Ever heard of a gene gun? Anyway, There is no long-term evidence that shows that GM crops are inherently safe and there is evidence that some of the methods used are not safe. So until I am sure that long term ingestion of GM products are safe I would like to know what food product is GM so I can avoid it until the long-term data is out. The cigarette companies told people for decades that their products were safe until the long-term data suggested otherwise. By this time they have made hundreds of billions of dollars. When the data came out that their products were not safe all they had to do was pay the fine and label their products. By this time many millions of people around the world died using their products with the confidence that their products were safe. The leaked documents from companies like Monsanto that are refusing to label their products are not very convincing either. Also note that Monsanto totally dominates this industry. And Monsanto round-up ready crops contaminate farms growing non-GM crops then Monsanto comes with an army of lawyers to sue sue sue the farmer whose crop just got contaminated for patent infringement. That is the industry practice and one I would like to avoid if possible until at least the long-term data is out.

I used to use a "throwaway" password for most sites, that I used for a lot of things. Over the past 10 years I realized that a single password was leaving me vulnerable, so I just started using a password gen plugin in chrome and that seems easy enough to use. I don't even bother writing down the password, I figure if I need it again, I'll just use the password recovery down the road.

It's not about Science its about the actions of corrupt companies that are pushing GM food. You have to look at the SOURCE of the science. You don't take the word of Monsanto scientists as truth about the safety of GM crops just like you don't take the word of oil company scientists as gospel.

BT *may* be safe however lots of stuff occurs naturally in the soil that is not safe. Anthrax comes to mind. I am not against Genetic engineering. I do however have a problem when companies like Monsanto hides internal research that shows negative results of GM crops. I think we need proper oversight in this area. I am also not for companies like Monsanto patenting strains of GM crops then suing people when their GM crops cross pollinate other crops. Also I recommend you watch the documentary The World According To Monsanto. I don't think these people should be the custodians of GM crops. When you go out of your way to hide what you are doing from consumers and lobbying so people don't know when a product they are purchasing is GM or not then you are corrupt and your products are more than likely unsafe and should be heavily scrutinized. You cannot trust Monsanto that their products are safe after the actions they have demonstrated in the marketplace.

Irate slavik slashdotter #1:
Google translate does a much better job: one trip to outer space please, thank you

It takes about 1000 gallons of embodied energy to make a 1.5-ton car, and most of the resources are recyclable. Meanwhile your 2001 Buick Regal gets 21 mpg combined according to the EPA. Over 120,000 miles it will consume 3,300 more gallons of gasoline than a 50 mpg Prius; that's 10 *TONS* more gasoline which turns into 32 *TONS* of CO2. (Here's a spreadsheet.) And every one of those gallons took additional fuel to produce, spill, and deliver.

That's why every reputable study concludes 75-90% of the lifetime pollution of a car occurs in its operation, not its production.

I'm not knocking you for driving an old car, so long as you don't drive much. But everyone who smugly puts down Prius/Leaf/Volt drivers for hurting the environment with their shiny new toys is misguided.

Yup. Google helps us out here. If we're using offsite resources like that, there's a fair likelihood that it's cached in the user's browser even if it's the first time they've visited the site.

And then Google also gets to look at the referrer data.

The profit is getting elected. The contribution IS a bribe, especially if both mainstream candidates are "donated" to. Just because it's legal doesn't make it moral or ethical, especially when the unethical laws are passed by the politicians who benefit from them.

Oh, and you might find this interesting, as well -- plenty of $$$$$ to be "earned" as a congressman or senator.

Baidu used to blatantly offer pirated music to their users: https://www.google.com/search?q=baidu+pirated+music

Another biased & agenda laden post from Anonymous Coward.

Yup. Google helps us out here. If we're using offsite resources like that, there's a fair likelihood that it's cached in the user's browser even if it's the first time they've visited the site.

This only matters if people go to the first page, and never go to any additional ones.

For most websites these days, you'll take the initial hit from javascript and the 'branding' images when you first get to the site ... but the changing content per page is much lower.

If websites are using standard javascript libraries being served by Google's CDN, then it's possible that someone visiting your page already has jquery, mootools or similar cached and doesn't need to load yet another copy.

I also didn't see if they had any comparison between transferred size vs. used size. (eg, javascript that's sent compressed) ... and as this is from an new archive ... does anyone know if Archive.org could analyze their holdings to see what the longer term trends are?

Very little, if it's powered from nuclear power (or solar/wind/geothermal).

Which is still a tiny % of power generation. But I remain hopeful.

Have a peek at this in Solano County, California or have a peek via Google Maps Very impressive area to drive through.

I just hope these advances in super computing are taking best advantage of low power processors

It's not a life-threatening problem unless you live in the remote hills of North Dakota or something.

Or Alaska, like me. I've seen as much as 246 miles on a single tank of gas on my motorcycle, although 200 miles is more typical. However, there are trips I've planned where range was a concern -- for example, riding the Haul Road to Deadhorse, a trip I'd like to make some time in the next couple of years, and for which I will probably rig up some way to carry an extra gallon or two of gas.

On the eastern seaboard, where I spent my teenage years, you can walk five minutes and cross through three different municipalities. However, where I live now, there are roads where you stop to fill up with gas at every opportunity whether you need it or not, because the next gas station might not be open and if don't top off now, you might not be able to reach the one after that ;)

You can think of gnome-shell as being like Chrome or Firefox. It's a basic application that is extensible and configurable. If someone complained about pop-up ads on Firefox, you'd tell them to just install Adblock and NoScript. Similarly, gnome-shell is highly configurable, and all the things people don't like can be changed if it's important to them. I created a document describing my configuration. I like gnome-shell much more than gnome2 with compiz. It's different, and like everything there's a bit of a learning curve, but in the end my workflow has improved. I normally keep 7 desktops filled with windows, so it's not a basic end-user use-case either.

I written wmjump some time ago, for switching between workspaces and applications. Here it is: http://code.google.com/p/wmjump/ This uses ``hints'' similar to Vimperator's. If I had more time, I would maintain it more often. But it works, more or less, on all window managers which support EWMH. I use it myself (with xmonad), and I still think that this is the best format for switching windows.

A lot will depend on how google handles it. If you google "gingrich" and hit "I'm feeling lucky" or just look at the first result returned, what page will it be?

No matter how bad newtgingrich.com turns out, it can't possibly be as bad as what you get when you google Santorum
https://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=santorum...

Or can it?

For those who sympathize with this shithead I will let you know that this guy is an arrogant asshole. His piece of shit p2p program is a joke that only runs on Windows and uses ads to make money. The idiot named it 'manolito', which is about the lamest name you can choose.

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Try this phone from 2001: Samsung SPH-i300

If you think that is the same as an iPhone then that goes a long way to explain the utter stupidity of you thick Android fanatics.

Well it looks like the gotcha with regards to FAT patents is U.S. Patent 5,745,902 which covers long to short file names in FAT and was filed in July of 92 so shouldn't it be dead by July next year?

The bigger problem is ExFAT which i'm already starting to see thumbsticks formatted in and wouldn't be surprised if before long memory cards and other NAND flash comes in ExFAT. Now with ExFAT since they have it patented up the ying yang and most of those patents are from the mid 00s you are looking at late 2026 or thereabouts before anybody that hasn't got a license can use them.

Flashing LEDs are frequently the "application" cited for Arduino. But it is FAR more capable than that. For instance, Arduinos are used as the processor for the Arducopter autopilot system for multirotor remote controlled aircraft.

win32k.sys is responsible for Windows window manager, keyboard input, and GDI among other things. So you are knee deep in it regardless what you do. Apparently this oh so important system file is quite familiar with being exploited. At this rate, christ, at least do a real code audit of the friggin file.

The big antitrust issue is Google's preference for its own services in search results. Search for "new movies" with Google. Everything on the screen is a Google ad or service. No organic search results appear above the fold. The same thing happens for "DVD player", where everything is either an ad or Google Shopping.

As Senators Kohl and Lee write: "Rather than act as an honest broker of unbiased search results, Google's search results appear to favor the company's own web products and services. Given Google's dominant share in Internet search, any such bias or preferencing would raise serious questions as to whether Google is seeking to leverage its search dominance in adjacent markets, in a manner potentially contrary to antitrust law." Exactly.

US antitrust law comes from an era when railroads dominated the economy. Railroads could use their routes and shipping rates to extend their influence into real estate (especially in the western US, where the railroads came before the population) and manufacturing (by favoring affiliated manufacturers in shipping rates). Google now has something of a comparable position on the Internet.

The big antitrust issue is Google's preference for its own services in search results. Search for "new movies" with Google. Everything on the screen is a Google ad or service. No organic search results appear above the fold. The same thing happens for "DVD player", where everything is either an ad or Google Shopping.

As Senators Kohl and Lee write: "Rather than act as an honest broker of unbiased search results, Google's search results appear to favor the company's own web products and services. Given Google's dominant share in Internet search, any such bias or preferencing would raise serious questions as to whether Google is seeking to leverage its search dominance in adjacent markets, in a manner potentially contrary to antitrust law." Exactly.

US antitrust law comes from an era when railroads dominated the economy. Railroads could use their routes and shipping rates to extend their influence into real estate (especially in the western US, where the railroads came before the population) and manufacturing (by favoring affiliated manufacturers in shipping rates). Google now has something of a comparable position on the Internet.