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" they can pass it on a day during the Retardican primary votes"

https://plus.google.com/113097276181543898574/posts/WduCuxwpTEv

Rep. Waters is a Democrat.

This may already exist but if not, how possible would it be to add an additional DNS that has rapidly updated IPs for politically (or otherwise) blocked servers? So long as the user could add this DNS to the ISP provided DNS server list it would be able to more rapidly react to such blocking based on DNS names.

The ISPs would of course block the alternate DNS unless it provided primarily non-pirate related alternative DNS services.

For instance, google's dns servers, at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4?

Google told China to back down, and got away with it. I doubt they're afraid of Belgium.

Isn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Research_Service_reports suppose to educate the Congress members?
For e.g. Skype

So, here is the proof http://books.google.com/books?id=XMJpnYmKNQsC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=Chinese+prisoners+forced+to+go+to+taiwan+korean+war+Panmunjom&source=bl&ots=MN8Aafvxap&sig=sE1au-AyvOm70Zy-_y8f67I75qE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x1LsTu_wGamKiALNkdXGBA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

..Control of the food supplies was a powerful means, and that, threats, beatings, slashings and the killing of the most stubborn, led to a gratifying number who muttered "Taiwan, Taiwan, Taiwan" when asked the key question...

Terrorism did exist in POW camps. It would have been a violation of Geneva Treaty, which USA didn't ratify. They really were kidnapped victims.

Would this link http://books.google.com/books?id=XMJpnYmKNQsC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=Chinese+prisoners+forced+to+go+to+Taiwan+Korean+War&source=bl&ots=MN8AaeDzdm&sig=dw1mnhtu2YtWaVxpSxvaYE4yu0I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2UvsTrXwOK3TiAKAsuj2Aw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false help to convince you that 22,000 kidnap victims were really kidnapped and beaten blue and black? It is a book. Better than other wikipedia articles. Your logic is different from the logic 50 years ago. It is not fair that you got 2 points while I got 1 point as I have a huge knowledge of Korean War.

See, that's the problem with propaganda those guys put out. The area of the solar cells is 500,000m^2, but the area occupied by the solar power plant is four times as big.

Is this link better? Okay not a formal motto, but certainly a supported statement by Google and one that they obviously think their investors should be aware of.

Don't use lead, it's bad for the environment. Use this instead.

Google didn't create Android. They acquired Android, Inc along with its proprietary developers and that hypocrite-asshole Andy Rubin bozo.

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Biggest asshole since Tavis Ormandy?

Please, don't confuse the arrogant hypocrites from the Android team with the rest of the Google engineers. They're a bunch of assholes who never understood Google's culture and who have very little to do with the rest of the company, particularly that Andy Rubin idiot.

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Another asshole joins Google.

No, Google is not evil, they're just arrogant and overconfident.

I hacked this a few days ago and have a way to remotely exploit it.

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I'm a bigger asshole than Tavis Ormandy!

http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/2846ca1b6bee64e1
"As I see it, there is a race going on. The race is between two trends. On the one hand, the internet can be used to profile and round up dissenters to the scarcity-based economic status quo (thus legitimate worries about privacy and something like TIA). On the other hand, the internet can be used to change the status quo in various ways (better designs, better science, stronger social networks advocating for things like a basic income, all supported by better structured arguments like with the Genoa II approach) to the point where there is abundance for all and rounding up dissenters to mainstream economics is a non-issue because material abundance is everywhere. So, as Bucky Fuller said, whether is will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race to the very end. While I can't guarantee success at the second option of using the internet for abundance for all, I can guarantee that if we do nothing, the first option of using the internet to round up dissenters (or really, anybody who is different, like was done using IBM computers in WWII Germany) will probably prevail. So, I feel the global public really needs access to these sorts of sensemaking tools in an open source way, and the way to use them is not so much to "fight back" as to "transform and/or transcend the system". As Bucky Fuller said, you never change thing by fighting the old paradigm directly; you change things by inventing a new way that makes the old paradigm obsolete."

Other related thoughts:
http://pdfernhout.net/on-dealing-with-social-hurricanes.html

> It would be foolish to expect Google to stand up for you
> any more than their bottom line dictates

From Wikipedia:

"While the official corporate philosophy of Google does not contain the words "Don't be evil", they were included in the prospectus (aka "S-1") of Google's 2004 IPO (a letter from Google's founders, later called the "'Don't Be Evil' manifesto"): "Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served -- as shareholders and in all other ways -- by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains." The sixth point of the 10-point corporate philosophy of Google says "You can make money without doing evil."

An image of their philosophy is here Their current page seems to have watered things down a bit--it only talks about not being deceptive with ads.

I'm not saying Google shouldn't be involved with protecting copyrights as they see fit, but giving a media company carte blanche to delete whatever content they want isn't the way to go.

Or how about Google changes their motto to reflect their reality.

http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html

Google's APKs aren't DRM'd

Indeed, they are not. However, Google now provides a licensing API.
http://code.google.com/googleapps/marketplace/licensing.html

"As much as a firearm".... Are firearms expensive? I mean, compared to a nearly ubiquitous children's plaything like a Nintendo 3DS?

Not quite correct, unfortunately - if this were the case, all the issues would be fixed with the advent of full hardware acceleration on Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich... unfortunately, that hasn't happened.

A few Googlers have tried to explain it, but unfortunately, no user (or dev, unless they can work around this issue - which they can't) gives a flying fuck about the technical details - we just want everything to be smooth.

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s

It's pretty much a patent on software. Software for controlling a vehicle, but software nonetheless. Claim 15, for example:

An article of manufacture including a tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions encoded thereon, the instructions comprising: instructions for detecting a landing strip with a first sensor responsive to a vehicle stopping; instructions for detecting a reference indicator with a second sensor, responsive to the first sensor detecting the landing strip; instructions for identifying reference data associated with the detected reference indicator, wherein the reference data comprises an internet address; instructions for wirelessly retrieving the autonomous vehicle instruction based on at least the reference data; instructions for switching a vehicle to autonomous operation mode; and, instructions for performing the autonomous vehicle instruction.

This claim format is known as a Beauregard claim. Such claims have long been used as one of several ways of claiming software-implemented inventions, though their long-term viability is somewhat suspect (hence all the "tangible non-transitory" hedging language). The other claims are to a method (also basically software) and to a vehicle running the software on a control module (since Google didn't invent the car, that's basically another software claim).

The tangible/non-transitory stuff is not really voluntary, but more what the current Patent Office practice is causing applicants to do if they want to keep their Beauregard claims (any computer readable medium claim that could read so to encompass signals per se violates 35 USC 101, In re Nuitjen, 500 F.3d 1346; see also).

Also note that one Federal Circuit panel has more or less held that if the underlying method on the computer readable medium is nonstatutory on its own, the computer readable medium won't necessarily save it (Cybersource v. Retail Decisions).

It's pretty much a patent on software. Software for controlling a vehicle, but software nonetheless. Claim 15, for example:

An article of manufacture including a tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions encoded thereon, the instructions comprising: instructions for detecting a landing strip with a first sensor responsive to a vehicle stopping; instructions for detecting a reference indicator with a second sensor, responsive to the first sensor detecting the landing strip; instructions for identifying reference data associated with the detected reference indicator, wherein the reference data comprises an internet address; instructions for wirelessly retrieving the autonomous vehicle instruction based on at least the reference data; instructions for switching a vehicle to autonomous operation mode; and, instructions for performing the autonomous vehicle instruction.

This claim format is known as a Beauregard claim. Such claims have long been used as one of several ways of claiming software-implemented inventions, though their long-term viability is somewhat suspect (hence all the "tangible non-transitory" hedging language). The other claims are to a method (also basically software) and to a vehicle running the software on a control module (since Google didn't invent the car, that's basically another software claim).

The tangible/non-transitory stuff is not really voluntary, but more what the current Patent Office practice is causing applicants to do if they want to keep their Beauregard claims (any computer readable medium claim that could read so to encompass signals per se violates 35 USC 101, In re Nuitjen, 500 F.3d 1346; see also).

Also note that one Federal Circuit panel has more or less held that if the underlying method on the computer readable medium is nonstatutory on its own, the computer readable medium won't necessarily save it (Cybersource v. Retail Decisions).

Are we forgetting that you can also purchase apps on Android, in some (but not all) cases, with direct carrier billing? For example, I bought Minecraft: Pocket Edition by billing it to my AT&T account

It's a combination of non-GPU-accelerated interfaces on many Android devices and the fact that Android doesn't provide as robust or helpful a GUI API (transitions, effects, widgets, events, GUI management in general) as iOS.

It simply takes more work to make an app look good on Android, and even then it'll still "feel" worse because everything's being rendered in the CPU.

not true. Even on older devices not "everything" is being rendered in the CPU. transition animations in particular have always been hardware accelerated.

https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s

Further, in Android 3.x (honeycomb) apps could specify a flag to have all rendering hardware accelerated.

In Android 4.x (ICS) this flag is on by default.

However, iOS is undoubtedly smoother when it comes to animations, so maybe their use of OpenGL is just plain better, I dunno. I'm an android user so I dont have much experience beyond someone occasionally showing me something on an iphone...

It's possible to do some analytics of apps with Google analytics because you can always get an app to generate a HTML request. And Google will tell you how to do that. But it's a hack.

It is clearly derived from the web-based version, but they have an SDK for it (Android, iOS) that looks a lot more like a traditional API than any sort of HTML hack. I imagine it's making HTTP requests behind the scenes, but what doesn't these days?

Moreover, the point is that it seems reasonable for Android developers to find the Google Analytics SDK more easily than iOS developers, because Google developer docs on Android are naturally more likely to discuss Google APIs like that than the equivalent Apple developer docs on iOS. That would be true even if Flurry is better by some measure; "better" doesn't mean "more popular" as anyone can tell from Microsoft's historical desktop market share.

It's possible to do some analytics of apps with Google analytics because you can always get an app to generate a HTML request. And Google will tell you how to do that. But it's a hack.

It is clearly derived from the web-based version, but they have an SDK for it (Android, iOS) that looks a lot more like a traditional API than any sort of HTML hack. I imagine it's making HTTP requests behind the scenes, but what doesn't these days?

Moreover, the point is that it seems reasonable for Android developers to find the Google Analytics SDK more easily than iOS developers, because Google developer docs on Android are naturally more likely to discuss Google APIs like that than the equivalent Apple developer docs on iOS. That would be true even if Flurry is better by some measure; "better" doesn't mean "more popular" as anyone can tell from Microsoft's historical desktop market share.

They have keyboards for iPhones.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=keyboards+for+iphone&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=8862461336801209181&sa=X&ei=VpHqTv6oJOGUiQLG0bDyBQ&ved=0CLoBEPICMAQ

Once I used Swype, I stopped caring about mobile keyboards. The one-size-take-it-or-leave-it ecosystem of iPhone allows them to do keyboards the way they should be done. As an add on accessory.

Interesting device, but it looks like it adds quite a bit of bulk to the phone and must be somewhat heavy since it has its own battery. Amazon reviews were poor. I'd rather have a built-in keyboard that doesn't add much bulk or weight. I'm pretty happy with my Droid-1 keyboard and am looking forward to the Droid-4

It's not just the feel of a virtual keyboard that I don't like, but the fact that it takes up so much screen real estate. When I'm SSH'ed into a server or router, I don't like 1/3 to 2/3's of the screen being obscured by the virtual keyboard.

They have keyboards for iPhones.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=keyboards+for+iphone&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=8862461336801209181&sa=X&ei=VpHqTv6oJOGUiQLG0bDyBQ&ved=0CLoBEPICMAQ

Once I used Swype, I stopped caring about mobile keyboards. The one-size-take-it-or-leave-it ecosystem of iPhone allows them to do keyboards the way they should be done. As an add on accessory.

There are a couple of insightful posts by a Google engineer addressing this specific myth. The original reddit comment, where your comment originally came from, generated a very interesting discussion on the subject over at G+.

There are a couple of insightful posts by a Google engineer addressing this specific myth. The original reddit comment, where your comment originally came from, generated a very interesting discussion on the subject over at G+.

One of the problems is that "following too closely" isn't an offense, or any kind of problem at all. Simply put, there's absolutely nothing dangerous about it. If it were, there would be some kind of enforcement against it.

You don't know what you are talking about.

>> Playing games with your friends all in the same room: fun
>
> What about having a girlfriend instead?

What about having a girlfriend who is also a gamer and plays games with you and your friends? :D

And then we can finally stop the H264 vs WebM battle, because IE9 will only support H264.

Internet Explorer 9 supports both H.264 and WebM. No other video codecs are supported by IE9. WebM support is added by installing the media foundation components:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/webmmf/

You can test WebM support in IE9 with Microsoft's IE9 test drive video support demo:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/videoformatsupport/default.html

and you would be surprised just how low value something needs to be for the chance to be taken.

Like your fathers ashes.

Actually, Google provides a WebM fiter (tech preview) that IE can use to display WebM video. The Theora folks could do Theora as well that way.

It's not in the OP, but the engineer provides more information in his blog post.

Instead, the machines boot off the network. A server machine hosts a master disk which is shared by all the game machines. Machines can boot up in two modes:

Master mode: The machine reads from and writes to the master image directly.
Replica mode: The machine uses its local storage (60GB SSD) as a copy-on-write overlay. So, initially, the machine sees the disk

image as being exactly the same as the master, but when changes are written, they go to the local drive instead. Thus, twelve machines can operate simultaneously without interfering with each other. The local overlay can be wiped trivially at any time, returning the machine to the master image's state.
So, before each LAN party, I boot one machine in master mode and update it. Then, I boot all the machines in replica mode, wiping their local COW overlays (because they are now out-of-sync with the master).

Server room pics

Ingredients:

1) shock ball
https://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/91b8/

2) sound activated switch, or remote control key fob
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&cp=15&gs_id=4t&xhr=t&q=sound+activated&tok=cfDqh3Z4o5al7PvFQnbO6A&newwindow=1&safe=off&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1158&bih=1045&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=4723724170775609297&sa=X&ei=2y7qTuy_FurL0QHZx83ICQ&sqi=2&ved=0CEsQ8wIwAQ

3) small high current battery with 12v dc charger to power the above two circuits

4) Some wire mesh, or thin wire to thread through the knapsack and straps. Note: A good connection to the metal zipper is essential.

While this home brew device, like your theft deterrent bag idea, will not prevent a thief from smashing through your car window to open the door, it will be quite entertaining to the people passing by, and present an event that they might actually take note of and thus produce viable witnesses. Add a motion activated video camera to your car dash if you want to watch for yourself. I bet the video would go viral on Youtube and you will quickly identify the culprit.

If you've got a netbook or a tablet, consider a drop leg gas mask pouch. You'll want to check that the dimensions are large enough for your device of course, but I'm ordering one for my netbook.

I take the train a lot. If I get up to go to the restroom or the cafe car, I don't want to leave my netbook at my seat (everyone around me knows I have one because I've been using it). It's took big to stuff into my pocket, and it's a pain to have to pack it back up in the laptop bag and then take that with me, so I'm hoping the gas mask pouch will work better.

It's better than a fanny pack. People laugh at you for wearing those (and rightly so). But no one's going to give me grief if I'm wearing a gas mask pouch.

That said, I'll be a little wary the first time I try using it at the airport. I know they make "tactical" handgun holsters in a similar style, and besides, I'm sure there's going to be at least one "security" person who's going to wonder why I'm at the airport with a gas mask strapped to my leg, but what can you do?

like to those used for firearms by people who carry concealed weapons when they're forced to leave their sidearm in their vehicle (e.g., when dropping by the post office or a bank).

http://www.google.com/?q=vehicle+firearms+safe

William

The phrase "these United States" has been used only rarely, at least in the publications scanned by google, and much more Post-Civil war than before. There is a curious spike in 1983.

You're making yourself look like a fool. International Justice Mission (the people that Google are working with) is a faith-based religious organization whom, it turns out "rescues" people who don't want to be rescued.

The International Justice Mission is one of nine organizations that Google is supporting with this round of donations.

The fact that IJM is a "faith-based religious organization" seems irrelevant, unless you want to compare what "atheism-based secular organizations" have been doing to address the same ills.

When you say people "don't want to be rescued," upon what do you base that opinion? Seriously, because that statement gives me the creeps. Had much experience with that, have you? Conducted many interviews?

As far as the difference between prostitution and human slavery, both exist in San Francisco (where I live) but it only takes someone as blinkered as you -- and not anyone who works in law enforcement -- to tell the difference.

I have a lot more words to say about that.. And "malware" would be much kinder than any of them.

Back to posting disinformation on Facebook. Lets see what new obscure location I can live today.. I've already been in to places like Wild Goose Chase, Australia, Gambell, AK, and of course, ever semi-secret government installation that I could find. I was a bit upset that I had to explain one of them, because Facebook refused to accept the location. Where, oh where, do I want to live today?

I have a lot more words to say about that.. And "malware" would be much kinder than any of them.

Back to posting disinformation on Facebook. Lets see what new obscure location I can live today.. I've already been in to places like Wild Goose Chase, Australia, Gambell, AK, and of course, ever semi-secret government installation that I could find. I was a bit upset that I had to explain one of them, because Facebook refused to accept the location. Where, oh where, do I want to live today?

So the question becomes...are you paying your licensing fee whenever you make toast?

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-katrina-trial-idUSTRE77171J20110802&sa=U&ei=TPzoTtnIKJKHsALq15DtCA&ved=0CBoQFjAC&usg=AFQjCNHXrFcWPhxoZ_2QSti4ezArsrIDIQ

False. They had plenty of coverage.

Google isn't powerful enough to end US state and Federal prison systems.
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+prison+slave+labor

Specifically, GameboyRMH here is referring to comment #10
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21932#c10

I hear ya. RSS Live Links and Foxish Live RSS mimic live-bookmarks reasonably well, but sometimes run up against the bookmark API's limit on # of bookmark operations per hour (or what have you). The former, at least, also tends to cease updating if I hibernate the comp during a session. Built-in functionality would be alot less flaky, and remove the need for every damn site creating their own personal live-feed extension.

I hear ya. RSS Live Links and Foxish Live RSS mimic live-bookmarks reasonably well, but sometimes run up against the bookmark API's limit on # of bookmark operations per hour (or what have you). The former, at least, also tends to cease updating if I hibernate the comp during a session. Built-in functionality would be alot less flaky, and remove the need for every damn site creating their own personal live-feed extension.

Looks like they're having similar problems:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21932

Chrome doesn't even try to build with PGO, last time I checked.

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/533e94237691e2f6

Summary should read: Visual Studio is too teh suck to link Firefox on Windows with PGO.

Firefox links just fine with VS, if you don't use PGO. The problem is that Visual Studio's PGO routine loads all our object files in at once, then uses a ton of memory on top of that. And the linker for 32-bit programs is itself a 32-bit program; if there were a 64-bit x86-32 linker, we wouldn't have this problem. But so far, Microsoft has not given any indication that they will release a 64-bit to x86-32 cross-compiler.

Note that Chrome doesn't build with PGO at all, last time I checked.

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/533e94237691e2f6

Note: Visual Studio 2010 seems to help a bit, but not much. We use VS 2005 because it's the last version whose CRT supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP before Service Pack 2.