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Google's JavaScript libraries are purposefully written to run faster on V8 specifically, often at the expense of performance in other browsers. And at the same time, V8 is written to run the code patterns those libraries use faster, often at the expense of other code patterns used elsewhere.

That might be a problem if V8 wasn't open source, or if Google was preventing anyone from seeing how it works. As it stands, your argument makes about as much sense as saying that Linux and GCC were evil because earlier versions of Linux couldn't be compiled on anything but GCC. The thing is, nothing prevented anyone from changing Linux to compile in other compilers, or studying GCC to learn how to make other compilers compile Linux (and, indeed, today it's possible to compile Linux with other compilers).

So, if Google's libraries do indeed run that much faster in V8, what's preventing anyone from implementing these optimizations in other javascript engines, or writing their libraries to run fast on V8? Is it reasonable to prevent Google from optimizing anything just because other browsers and libraries would then be slower?

How is the GUI design is so dumb that users are confused about the simplest of tasks, and have to rely on information stumbled upon a web forum? How is that good, solid design? It means the use is *not* intuitive.

Look, we could all be driving cars with joysticks. But we stick to the steering wheel because it's a pretty good interface design. If you want to redesign something, then you ought to pull your very own personal internal Steve Jobs out of your ass. It had better be something better than a joystick.

That is stupid design. You are raising the user's cognitive load, instead of unloading it. That's why we have GUIs, because it's so much simpler than learning to concatenate Korn shell syntax, Bash syntax, and remember a shitload of esoteric commands (although all Unixheads do...). We unload the user's cognitive load, his/her working memory, etc. The user becomes more relaxed, productive...GUIs are not necessarily or always better, though, as we know from experience (see below GUIs X CLIs).

Mac OS X is a wonderful example where GUI can meet Unix-style CLI intelligently (Automator): http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/

You wanna see example of a simple and intelligent interface, done by people who thought long and hard about how to do these things? Try this demo of the Enso interface (follow on-screen instructions):

http://www.schuderer.net/ensoid/

Enso is now open source (it used to be Windows-only - BTW, I just learned this today), with the nice New BSD license.

http://code.google.com/p/enso/

Here's more brainfood on interfaces (GUIs X CLIs): http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/07/05/the-graphical-keyboard-user-interface/

Implementing something your own way is evil and proprietary.

Native client is open source. So is chromium.

But choice is GOOD! The more choice the better!

Some choice is good. Too much choice is not.

Scenario A:

You have a project with a set of requirements. You have three choices of programming language to use. You expend a week on each language to evaluate how well each language can be used to fulfill the requirements. Arguably, you have saved time overall by choosing the best language for the project.

Scenario 2:

You have three hundred programming languages to choose from. You expend just one day each on evaluating the languages. Seven months later, you choose a language. You have been working 80 hours per week but you haven’t even started the coding yet. And you are not certain that you have chosen the right language.

It's not 5% efficiency. Of the thermal energy they produce, in fact, more of it can be used than coal, since nuclear reactors can operate at higher temperatures than coal furnaces.

Actually that is not correct. While the reactor operates at a high temperature, the steam is only heated to around 523F at 823psi in the newest AP1000 designs. A modern ultrasupercritical coal-fired turbine operates at around 1100F and 3450psi. If you know your thermodynamics, then you can easily realize why the coal plant can achieve around 35% efficiency while the nuclear design efficiency is so poor.

If you use combined cycle, you can get upwards of 60% total fuel efficiency using the waste heat of a gas turbine to heat water for the steam turbine. Common steam conditions for this are 1050F and 2000 to 2400psi, with some newer designs going to 1070F or 1100F.

Google disagrees with you.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2564492&cid=38314978

AND YES:

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1.) The Linux sourcecode repository kernel.org was breached (and it runs Linux too) - this is NOT A GOOD THING!

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2.) Linux running on ANY OF THE 5 CA's I LIST ABOVE is indicative of 2 things:

a.) Penguins can't secure their own setups properly!

b.) Linux != "secure", per my p.s. below (which you heard here on /. especially, for YEARS, which the link above shows it is ANYTHING BUT SECURE!)

(After all - the 5 CA's breached weren't running Windows or MacOS X, now were they? No!)

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Facts are FACTS... period!

APK

P.S.=> In the end? Well... So much for the "Linux is secure" b.s. 'FUD' you saw spread about on /. FOR YEARS to mislead "noobs" with, ala:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Linux+is+secure%22+site:slashdot.org&hl=en&gbv=1&prmd=imvns&ei=xy7iTqyvKenc0QHksc3XBQ&start=0&sa=N

It's turning up PURE B.S. ... lol!

... apk

Going through his comment history is almost like reading satire, which pulled me in.

It's actually a troll, but it works because he's trolling Christians on a predominantly agnostic/athiest site. There is SO much that gives him away, starting with the "These atheist-backed scientists" as if Christians are anti-science. The fact is, over half of US scientists are, in fact, Christians. From conversations I've had here, many athiests don't think science and religion can coexist, and don't seem to be able to (or perhaps want to) understand that science answers "how" while religion answers "why".

Then there's the "it is clearly outlined in the Bible that God created Adam and Eve 5,000 years ago". Um, no, the bible doesn't say that. Not anywhere. There isn't a real preacher in the entire world that believes the earth is 5k years old. Some dimwit a couple hundred years ago did some faulty math, and somehow people believed the nonsense.

Then there's "I wish these scientists well with their work and pray that they will break free from the yoke of grants from godless individuals and governments." One google search dispells this lie.

Pastor Golf is a wolf in sheep's clothing. A very stupid wolf.

Have you ever been to H&M? The entire premise of that place is to sell "designer style" clothing for cheap. Sure its not Ross or some second hand store, but I applaud their attempt at making more choices, more affordable. And on that note, if they want to save a little money on models/advertising to keep their prices down then I am all for it. Although honestly I think the one on the left in the article looks kind of creepy like a Real Doll. Very weird. Obviously not quite the real thing.

Here's a decent recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/royal-icing-recipe/index.html . The reason it calls for pasturized egg whites is there's no cooking involved and raw eggs are risky. We have used powdered egg whites http://www.google.com/search?q=powdered+egg+whites&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 (reconstituted according to directions) to good effect.

Google is your friend

And it would seem that any standard FTP client from the last 15-20 years will do exactly what you want as far as uploading your files while preserving the directory structure.

You 'could' filter out the CO2 emissions and other pollutants [...] and pretty much all the coal dangers go away.

Not really

Pedal
Petal

Knowledge is power.

Pedal
Petal

Knowledge is power.

Well, the end of the cone containing the earth is about 0.5au in radius.

That is an approximation I think - I'd have to work out whether you can really treat the surface of a sphere like a circle since it obviously isn't one.

LG Prada [wikipedia.org] Try again. Apple wasn't the first, and the only thing that makes them "trying to look like the iPhone" is the focus on a large touch screen rather than tons of buttons. Seems the entire "Apple transformed the market" is the straw man.

The LG Prada makes my point very well because the LG Prada was not a big success, despite being made by a well-known factory and having a famous design imprint. Hardly anybody in the US has used it, because no US carrier even bothered to offer it. Clearly, it takes more than just a touchscreen to transform the market for phones. What Apple offered was a touchscreen paired with software that fully exploited the capabilities of a touchscreen. The LG Prada, on the other hand, just used the touchscreen to imitate an older phone design. For example, if you wanted to enter text, there was no QWERTY keyboard--you had to do it with multiple button presses on a numeric keypad. Essentially, what the LG Prada did was use the touchscreen to emulate older phone designs. Hardly surprising that nobody was much interested in it. It turned out that coming up with a usable touch-based phone was not as easy as it now might seem in hindsight. Modern smartphones do not merely imitate the iPhone in appearance, they also emulate in in software design--another one of those things that seems obvious once somebody else is brilliant enough to come up with it. Here is a comment from Andrew Munn, who worked on the Android development team.

Work on Android started before the release of the iPhone, and at the time Android was designed to be a competitor to the Blackberry. The original Android prototype wasn’t a touch screen device. Android’s rendering trade-offs make sense for a keyboard and trackball device. When the iPhone came out, the Android team rushed to release a competitor product, but unfortunately it was too late to rewrite the UI framework.

This is the same reason why Windows Mobile 6.5, Blackberry OS, and Symbian have terrible touch screen performance. Like Android, they were not designed to prioritise UI rendering. Since the iPhone’s release, RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia have abandoned their mobile OS’s and started from scratch. Android is the only mobile OS left that existed pre-iPhone.

It was only after iPhone that Android scrambled to imitate the iPhone's software and hardware design

Before the release of the iPad tablet PCs never got the type of market penetration that it did, mostly due to the lack of good user friendly software. Tablet PCs were developed more with the Geeks and enthusiasts in mind so the average person couldn't figure out how to easily use it. With the creation of the iPad, Apple was riding its own coattails to success. It was marketed, essentially, as an iPhone with a bigger screen. They capitalized on the iOS software that scaled well and chose the size well, probably after some good R&D. However, the form-factor concept of a flat, rectangular screen, with bezels on the side is nothing new. Tablet PCs before the iPad did it just as well. The iPad's name is reportedly a homage to the Star Trek PADD, which looks extremely similar to the iPad. As I said, the concept of a flat, rectangular, bezeled device is nothing new at all. There's nothing novel about it.The software running on it that takes advantage of the form factor and makes it as useful and easy to use, that is novel.

Exactly. There is more to a successful touch phone or pad than just the form factor. What transformed the market was Apple's felicitous combination of a particular hardware design with software designed and optimized to take adva

Options for "DNSBL filtered 'secured'" DNS servers:

A.) Norton DNS (198.153.192.50 and 198.153.194.50/198.153.192.40 and 198.153.194.40/198.153.192.60 and 198.153.194.60) -> http://nortondns.com/ & you can even see how it updates every few minutes vs. known malicious sites-servers, here -> http://safeweb.norton.com/buzz as well as get a GOOD read on how/why it works, etc.- et al, here https://dns.norton.com/dnsweb/faq.do

It filters vs. MANY threats online & IS UP TO DATE as is possible I'd imaging (see those links, you'll understand WHY I state that). It's part of WHY I use it as my PRIMARY DNS here...

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B.) ScrubIT DNS (67.138.54.100 and 207.225.209.66 ) -> http://www.scrubit.com/ & here is a good read on how/why it works via its FAQ's as well -> http://www.scrubit.com/index.cfm?page=faq

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& of course

C.) Open DNS (208.67.222.222 or 67.138.54.100) -> https://store.opendns.com/get/home-free

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EACH IS FREE, & WORKS vs. threats online of MANY kinds, doubtless via a form of DNSBL they use for filtering those threats out!

(E.G.-> Phishing/Spamming, Malware hosting sites/servers, Maliciously scripted hosts-domains etc./et al & more...)

* Personally speaking - I use ALL 3 of them, "in combination". Yes, I am using that latter term loosely is why I quoted it!

(Mostly as "failovers" for one another, in case my primary can't resolve a host/domain name to an IP address, & w/ Norton DNS as primary, I can "fall back on" the others listed above...)

I do so, in a "layered triumvirate formation" in BOTH my IP stack DNS settings in Windows (OS/software-side), as well as in my LinkSys/CISCO router here (hardware-side))...

APK

P.S.=> DNS has issues though, period - it needs SOMEKIND of "Revision" for IPv4 @ least...

See - I don't know if Moxie Marlinspike's DNS solution for SSL protection via a browser addon's the answer either, ala http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22DNS%22+and+%22Moxie+Marlinspike%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=zwPhTs2wOMrL0QGTs-StBw

OR

If OpenDNS' tool here is either!

However: They're better than nothing!

(It's that, or use the "secured DNS" (filtered rather via DNSBL) that I use, & the way that I use them in layered/phalanx style defensive formation noted above, if not ALL of them in "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" style... in combination simultaneously, along with other means (like I use in a custom HOSTS file vs. online threats mostly))!

(Especially if DNS servers are set into "recursive mode", as I am SURE YOU OF ALL PEOPLE REALIZE, that DNS's VERY susceptible to DNS redirection poisoning (over port 53 via UDP/TCP, iirc)...

So - lastly:

Yes, I also know who you are Mr. Nagle, especially via your RFC I complimented you on this past week here no less on -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2556266&cid=38265686 )!

Yes - I respect that in fact.

I.E.-> Not everyone, especially on /. here, does something to "help the human condition" via good works as you have.

... apk

But, the fault lies elsewhere as well. After all, who the fuck was supposed to be doing the compliance audits, pen-testing, network security, firewall security? You always hire a reputable outside person/company to do those things.

I expected to find a bunch of "certified by X" badges on their website but it just says, basically, "we're safe. Trust us."

If they weren't on the government gravy train they probably would have been gone a long time ago.

And what makes the government where "the cloud" resides any more respectable of my privacy than my local government?

- well, that's an easy one.

If you have your data in some places like these, then you may want to consider places like these instead.

They would have to write their Java application with a stand alone graphics back end or build it on top of a minimalistic Window Manager; but, this is the closest answer I've seen. If the developers are Java centric something like ewm could work.

Don't you realize that? Here, take a read on that account http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22recursive+DNS%22+and+%22security%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=ZL3gTqbgB6n20gGPqt2tBw

* Take a few reads there from the link above - & "Read 'em & Weep"...

(So much for your "point-of-view", because it's been the bane of DNS for YEARS now... especially for security!)

APK

P.S.=> Your hand != GF either... lol!

... apk

No highspeed cameras, but here you go - disposal of a couple of 1000 pounds of sodium metal by dumping it into a lake. Old newsreel footage from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....

That makes dynamite fishing look wussy.

Old newsreel footage from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....

On a scale from "zero" to "impressive", that's impressive. Got to pass that one on to Dad (a retired chemist).

It should appear as random data (as opposed to an empty or freshly fully-formatted drive which appear zeroed or one'd depending on the case). This then means either it is encrypted, or has been securely erased. However, sometimes byte chains can be detected within the data. Use a tool like https://code.google.com/p/tcdiscover/ to test your volume.

Although there are more advanced tools available to LEA. Plausible deniability is more important than how hidden the volume is, and you should never give up the key to your external volume until forced to do so or in dire circumstances. It should be currently almost impossible (in most cases) to detect the second hidden volume within the outer volume.

So, work on that outer volume. Frequently write files to it - generally, as often as you're writing files to your hidden volume. So many people leave an empty outer volume and then expect plausible deniability to work when the volume was created 2 years ago and last modified 3 days ago. While it's "possible" that they "just erased all their data a few days ago", it's not plausible, hence the turn of phrase.

Truecrypt isn't designed to be invisible at all. Aside from entirely encrypted drives, it's fairly obvious if someone HAS encrypted data. Truecrypt is about hiding that data via hidden paritions within outer encrypted containers, and plausible deniability.

Truecrypt volumes are generally detectable:
http://www.jadsoftware.com/?page_id=89
https://code.google.com/p/tcdiscover/
And if the researchers discovered drives that are filled entirely with random data, then they know they're either securely formatted or encrypted, and would likely consider them the latter - if they're securely formatted the file system appears intact. If the entire drive is encrypted (or securely erased from the MBR up) then the FS is not intact, and it's a fair bet that the researchers are claiming they found all sticks with intact file systems, formatted to the same volume as the stick, with single partitions.

As are those hidden within files:
http://16s.us/TCHunt/index.php

But - the reason for the ramble: Never make the mistake of thinking Truecrypt is invisible. It's not. What's "invisible" should be your second hidden volume within the Truecrypt container - if you've set it up correctly. And there have previously even been attacks on that, in the event attackers are able to gain access to the external container. Work on your plausible deniability. Don't rely on TC to do the work for you or you'll end up with leaks everywhere.
http://www.schneier.com/paper-truecrypt-dfs.pdf

Almost every time this density thing comes up I point out that in this town - and in the whole county - they have gigabit fiber to the premises at reasonable rates. This is not an urban metropolis. Zoom out the map a little and switch to satellite view to see what I mean.

No highspeed cameras, but here you go - disposal of a couple of 1000 pounds of sodium metal by dumping it into a lake. Old newsreel footage from a time when men were men and chemists were the most manly of them....

Area map. http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9953/69353655.jpg Map of the sheriff's office, military base, bomb range and house that got hit. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214849410118080227465.0004b382bf3f98cc75a8d&msa=0&ll=37.728095,-121.884813&spn=0.0501,0.086002

I thin he has earned a generous severance package.:) https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=netflix+generous+severance+package&oq=netflix+generous+severance+package

Qwikster was announced Sept. 19, compare the timelines: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1323291600000&chddm=159898&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:NFLX&ntsp=0

I guess the NIMBY's were right... ...but anyway, the Alameda County bomb range is in a fairly populated area. I'm amazed this hasn't happened before. Here's a map of the area. Point A is approximately where it landed, which is not far from the park and ride I used to use. The dark brown patches to the northwest of A is where the bomb range is.

Yeah. And if for some reason, you share it to someone.. and they post it anywhere, and google pics up the url, forget it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7&oe=utf-8um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

You can also run a search for partial image names through the google image search api using facebook known static content servers.

Yeah. And if for some reason, you share it to someone.. and they post it anywhere, and google pics up the url, forget it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7&oe=utf-8um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

You can also run a search for partial image names through the google image search api using facebook known static content servers.

Chrome is good but in some ways still a joke. e.g. It still doesn't support resuming downloads. That's right. And the devs just make excuses, while they make important stuff work--you know, stuff like WebGL, or YetAnotherJavaScriptEngine, or ruining the preferences dialogs. They have their priorities messed up.

Actually spear hunting is alive and well. http://www.google.com/search?q=boar+spear+hunting

I prefer the "S" corporation over the LLC...you can save on the employment taxes (SS, Medicare) that way.

May I suggest the LLC with S corporation tax election? File a Form 8832 to elect taxation for your LLC as a corporation, then file a Form 2553 to elect taxation under subchapter S.

Best of both worlds: get the benefits of S corporation income splitting with the "no fuss" LLC. It's nice not to have to do yearly shareholder meetings, board of directors elections, etc, if you have a corporation consisting of 1 or 2 owners.

However, beware the IRS. That crazy guy that crashed a plane into the IRS back in 2010 actually brought up a legitimate point: the law specifically discriminates against single person corporations in the field of "technical work" (eg. computer consulting, software development, etc).

Yes, the law has a specific "fuck you" for Slashdotters who start their own consulting corporations in our particular field. For any other field a single-person consulting corporation is fine, just as long as it isn't computer/technology consulting.

Anon, because who wants to be designated a Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer by the IRS?

There are loads of articles about whether or not iPads can replace computers, on both sides of the argument.

There was also the Army Corps of Engineers model of the entire Mississippi/Missouri/Ohio/Arkansas/Red river basins. It was built by POW labor near Clinton, MS. See what's left of it here. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.30606,-90.316173&spn=0.003922,0.006335&sll=36.977452,-121.987122&sspn=0.118622,0.202732

No, they didn't make the first DSLR 20 years ago.

Correct, it was 35 years ago... here's the patent

I'm European and live in Europe. I've been to 14 different countries in Europe and lived in two of them. People don't have guns. Police do. And yes, police officers are also people, but let's define people then. People != police in my previous comment.

How does using OpenGL, so you don't have to tweak in assembly so things are portable to anything running the library, needing to be rewritten for a different arch? I just don't get these responses. The whole point of the vast majority of Google's code is so it is recompiled to bytecode to the device running your applications. If your spending a lot of time writing code to run fast on an arch somebody, me apparently, is missing something. There is even a JVM to AVM2 bytecode interpreter. http://code.google.com/p/j2avm/

No programmer worth their salt will willingly accept that pay, and if they do, you probably don't want them.

But the idea of what is a reasonable salary is relative. In India, the average household income is 390,000 INR, which is about $7,600 in USD. A wage of $14/hr works out to almost $30,000 annually, which is almost four times the average household income.

So, while it's true that no American programmer worth their salt would accept that pay, many highly skilled Indian programmers would consider themselves rich if they were making that much.

Last time i checked on ADMX files google was still having issues generating them. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97047 again, its something that they may work on when they get around to it, if they had some sort of QA this would not have been an issue in the first place.

"Actually it happens every time you make a post, but you're so incapable of seeing anyone elses opinion but your own that you don't even realise that you're wrong about nearly everything, and that the whole of Slashdot is laughing at you." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

FUNNY - YOU CANNOT PRODUCE ONE, lol, though!

So, as you can see, because of that? I am laughing @ you... easily.

(You "talk a big game" but you cannot produce squat to your credit, ala next below):

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"Yes actually, I'm head of software development at a fortune 500 company and I'm not even 30 yet." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

LMAO - I was working in Fortune 500 companies @ the age of 25-26 DECADES AGO (doubtless while YOU were still in diapers I wager)...

So, your point is what here?

See, I could SAY what you do, but then unlike yourself? I tend to prove things with concrete, verifiable, & reputable information as to things I've done in computing...

Now - Were I to use "your methods"? LMAO - I could say I am President Obama or Bill Gates too, but I don't (unlike yourself, lol, unable to back up/prove ANYTHING you state about yourself).

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"Yes, I graduated with a 1st class Honours in Computer Science at Cambridge, England." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

Yes, & I have SEEN what your "A levels" require over there in the UK, & what you're taught there too:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22A+levels%22+and+%22computing%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=Xh_eTvjBLeLd0QHBp-21Bw

OR

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22A+levels%22+site:theregister.co.uk&gbv=1&sei=oyDeTonSHojq0gG_tKSTBw

LMAO (Word, Excel etc.) for Computer Science oriented education... truthfully?

THAT is truly, laughable.

Here in the states they call that "office tech"!

( & it's under BUSINESS related educational acumen course tracks by comparison usually).

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"Sometimes APK, there are bigger fish in the sea." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

Of which, lmao, YOU are clearly not! Otherwise you could actually POST some proofs to the contrary to my statements in that regards about yourself.

Plus?

Well.. & I freely acknowledge that, & even CREDIT those that have done well in the art & sciences of computing, unlike yourself obviously (from this week no less, here):

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2556266&cid=38265686

Animats DESERVES it...

See, unlike YOU & "your kind online", Mr. AC "ne'er-do-well" troll?

He can "back up his bluster" with proofs (he's John Nagle, look that name up) - you, by way of comparison? LMAO, nothing/zero/nada/squat.

Again - You're a LOT OF TALK, no action (provable action that is): An "armchair QB" who talks a lot but cannot back up his b.s., especially when asked to!

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"and trying to flaunt your claims of how amazing you are will only make you look more stupid, as you end up trying to flaunt them to someone who genuinely is just that much more accomplished than you. In this case, you have done exactly that." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesd

"Actually it happens every time you make a post, but you're so incapable of seeing anyone elses opinion but your own that you don't even realise that you're wrong about nearly everything, and that the whole of Slashdot is laughing at you." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

FUNNY - YOU CANNOT PRODUCE ONE, lol, though!

So, as you can see, because of that? I am laughing @ you... easily.

(You "talk a big game" but you cannot produce squat to your credit, ala next below):

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"Yes actually, I'm head of software development at a fortune 500 company and I'm not even 30 yet." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

LMAO - I was working in Fortune 500 companies @ the age of 25-26 DECADES AGO (doubtless while YOU were still in diapers I wager)...

So, your point is what here?

See, I could SAY what you do, but then unlike yourself? I tend to prove things with concrete, verifiable, & reputable information as to things I've done in computing...

Now - Were I to use "your methods"? LMAO - I could say I am President Obama or Bill Gates too, but I don't (unlike yourself, lol, unable to back up/prove ANYTHING you state about yourself).

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"Yes, I graduated with a 1st class Honours in Computer Science at Cambridge, England." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

Yes, & I have SEEN what your "A levels" require over there in the UK, & what you're taught there too:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22A+levels%22+and+%22computing%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=Xh_eTvjBLeLd0QHBp-21Bw

OR

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22A+levels%22+site:theregister.co.uk&gbv=1&sei=oyDeTonSHojq0gG_tKSTBw

LMAO (Word, Excel etc.) for Computer Science oriented education... truthfully?

THAT is truly, laughable.

Here in the states they call that "office tech"!

( & it's under BUSINESS related educational acumen course tracks by comparison usually).

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"Sometimes APK, there are bigger fish in the sea." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @08:27AM (#38278748)

Of which, lmao, YOU are clearly not! Otherwise you could actually POST some proofs to the contrary to my statements in that regards about yourself.

Plus?

Well.. & I freely acknowledge that, & even CREDIT those that have done well in the art & sciences of computing, unlike yourself obviously (from this week no less, here):

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2556266&cid=38265686

Animats DESERVES it...

See, unlike YOU & "your kind online", Mr. AC "ne'er-do-well" troll?

He can "back up his bluster" with proofs (he's John Nagle, look that name up) - you, by way of comparison? LMAO, nothing/zero/nada/squat.

Again - You're a LOT OF TALK, no action (provable action that is): An "armchair QB" who talks a lot but cannot back up his b.s., especially when asked to!

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"and trying to flaunt your claims of how amazing you are will only make you look more stupid, as you end up trying to flaunt them to someone who genuinely is just that much more accomplished than you. In this case, you have done exactly that." - by Anonymous Coward on Tuesd

Add TreeStyleTabs.

The current Chrome analogue is a joke.

Canada and the US are both large consumers of paper (and have been for a long time). They've had the pretty much the same levels of forest for 100 years.

thats canada and the u.s. are you aware that there are 190+ countries in addition to those two ?

and, even in that, you are wrong :

https://www.google.com/search?q=usa+imports+paper&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

"The U.S. ranks 1st in paper imports Ranking America"

http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-u-s-ranks-1st-in-paper-imports/

snippets = dozens of pages = not fair use

Stop lying. Google shows "dozens of pages" only for publishers and authors who opt into their partner program.

http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43729&topic=9259&hl=en

And, if, for some reason, your book slipped through the cracks, you can have it removed.

But what you and the publishers really want is to force Google to promote your books and then pay for the privilege. And you want to make it so cumbersome for small authors and publishers to get onto services like Google that you retain a monopoly. I don't think so.

What we have to admit here is that Google is a massively wealthy company, and that authors are, in general, poor as shit.

The reason authors are "poor as shit" is simple supply and demand: there is a glut of authors and books. The world doesn't owe you a living as an author. If you can't make it as an author under the existing copyright law, which is already very strict, choose a different profession or get a day job to pay the bills.

Authors own their property, just like you own your toothbrush or your socks.

Copyright is a temporary, limited grant by the government. It is nothing like physical property. Read the Constitution.

Google comes in and makes money off of this property, without asking, in violation of the rule of law and the custom of law.

There is nothing in copyright law that generally prohibits others from profiting from your writings; such a notion is contrary to the very idea of copyright laws. Your rights in your copyrighted materials are limited.

There are countless scandals and corruption episodes going on right now that we will never know about because there are no journalists being payed to report on them.

Same thing applies to journalists as to authors: either there is a demand for their services or there is not, either they can make a living at it or they can't. Because of the Internet, it turns out that we need far fewer journalists than we used to, so a lot of them lose their jobs. I don't see a problem.

The publishers are often horrible, but Google is just another publisher - the funny thing is that it doesnt really pay anyone to write anything, and there is only one of it (i.e. its a monopoly).

Google has spent billions on creating free software. That alone more than makes up for any moral quibbles you may have with them.

"United States Patent US 7,551,922 B2 Jun. 23, 2009"

"tracks the data collection activity occurring on the devices and maintains detailed information about the specific data collection profiles that are active on the devices .. The queries may be structured in such a way that performance information is gathered about the effect of a simple activity, such as a button press by the user, or information may be gathered about more complex transactions" link

And his books still appear on Google Books. So if there was a point, I missed it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Scalzi&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1