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Are you an author or publisher and don't want your books on Google? Remove them:

http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=175010

Given that there are very few people like you and very few services like Google Books, opt-out is a reasonable default. Making opt-in the default because of a bunch of malcontent potty-mouths like you is unreasonable.

They do not provide entire works. Simply short excepts.
If you want the entire work that is still under copyright they will show you an except and then direct you to where you can buy the book.

You can read a few pages, but you invariably hit a page that says:

you have either reached a page that is unavailable for viewing or reached your viewing limit for this book

Then there will be links on the side for places to buy the book, one of which MAY be google books, or maybe not.

Try it out on this book.

Any author, or his estate can opt out. None but a tiny minority do, because it sells books.

This is old news, and you obviously haven't kept up with this issue.
The only item under contention are abandoned works by unknown or dead authors with no heirs published after 1923. That is all. You've gotten yourself all worked up over nothing.

I'm using a different ad blocking extension, and blocking Youtube ads works perfectly fine.

> there's lots of good shows I'd like to watch: The...

At first I thought you were a network executive surreptitiously plugging the WB network.

Current content is new- if you are young. But the industry has been copying itself for years now. New shows resemble old so thoroughly. At this point, why not just do away with the show altogether and simply stream commercials? Half the shows are commercials anyway.

And as for movies, its pretty bad when the only accepted source material is bodice-rippers and comic books. Green Lantern? What's next, a movie about Marvin, Wendy, and Wonderdog?

You mean like MSI and ADMx (Group Policy) extensions for AD?

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html

and

http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates

But still constrained by the Periodic Table of Elements and the properties of matter. Unless you think it's different out there?

Well, obviously, for such a nearby region.


But new data suggests Stanislaw Lem might have been on to something. ("A Perfect Vacuum", "The New Cosmogony")

You mean like this? http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html

Chrome has been ahead of FF in Enterprise manageability for quite a while now, since Google at least put a minimal effort in (while Firefox had people like Asa giving the middle finger).

It's why I will never trust my personal files on the likes of Dropbox and other backup services.

encryption?

Proof of concept (and a bit more then that)
http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo95.png

Well, maybe this.

You're not very accurate on that, either. Government organizations need to be able to keep track of their email - especially internal communications - which they would not be able to do if they outsourced email and other telecom.

My son is a student at SIU Carbondale. The siu.edu email system is gmail. They farmed it out to google (apps). You might want to read more at the google apps for education website.

I think Go would be a better choice. C's great and all, but rather than spending development time "building useless OOP frameworks," they'll be spending their time managing memory; considering they're PHP/Python/Ruby programmers, it's possible most of them don't have a lot of C experience. Go would be a much better choice in this case. You'll still get a significant speed increase, though not as much as C, but it's garbage collected, so you don't have to learn how to manage memory all at once. Many people on the mailing list have come from a dynamic language like Python or Ruby, and say Go is a great improvement because of the type safety and performance. I haven't done much web programming myself, but ask around on the mailing list, there's plenty of people doing that sort of thing.

Use google and search for site:canyoucrackit.co.uk and select show ommited results. http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.canyoucrackit.co.uk&hl=en&safe=off&filter=0

The usual solution to this appears to be to pile on more and more frameworks until you have nothing but a twisty maze of frameworks, and then give up, throw everything out and start over.

If your application absolutely has to be web-based, maybe just write up a restful interface in jsp or Staff and throw together some javascript to glue it all together. Or maybe just write an iphone version in native objc. I suspect mobile development is how native development is going to creep back into vogue...

That actively tracks ALL zeus C&C servers https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=all & then "security-hardening" your Windows setup via CIS Tool & more (yes, they now have a Vista/Win7/Server2008 capable model of it) via this guide does the rest:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=YU_cTsPxFOrc0QGMhMiKDg

It's been WELL rated on this website (of ALL places, considering it's so "Pro-*NIX" here)

* THE APK SECURITY GUIDE GROUP 10++ THUSFAR (from +5 -> +1 RATINGS, usually "informative" or "interesting" etc./et al):

APK SECURITY GUIDE:2005 -> http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167071&cid=13931198
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2009 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1361585&cid=29360367
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2009 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1218837&cid=27787281
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2008 -> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&cid=25093275
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2010 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1885890&cid=34358316
APK SECURITY GUIDE (old one):2005 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154868&cid=12988150
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2008 -> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&no_d2=1&cid=25092677
APK SECURITY GUIDE:2008 -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1027095&cid=25747655
APK SECURITY TEST CHALLENGE LINUX vs. WINDOWS:2007 -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=267599&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=20203061

* Yes, that guide's points implementation To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&go=&form=QBRE

I.E./E.G.-> I have done so since 1997-1998 with the most viewed, highly rated guide online for Windows security there really is which came from the fact I also created the 1st guide for securing Windows, highly rated @ NEOWIN (as far back as 1998-2001) here:

http://www.neowin.net/news/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text

& from as far back as 1997 -> http://web.archive.org/web/20020205091023/www.ntcompatible.com/article1.shtml which Neowin above picked up on & rated very highly.

That has evolved more currently, into the MOST viewed & highly rated one there is for years now since 2008 online in the 1st URL link above...

Which has well over 500,000++ views

Guess you're not as picky as many others then: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20278

The first one is over 18 months old.

The second talks about "user experience" and "feelings" which is bullshit. The author offers no explanation other then it "feels" slow. I doubt he bothered to even time what he was doing to prove there is a real lag, not just imagined lag. I have a Desire Z and Iphone 3GS (for work), Placing them side by side and opening the SMS application on each respective device the Android phone is consistently faster, it just doesn't have the transition animations of the Iphone. Same with the browser, phone, settings, mail et al. all open to a usable state faster then IOS.

You could have at least bought up something legitimate like the TouchWiz lag on early version of Samsungs TouchWiz interface but then you would have to admit
1) it's not a problem with Android.
2) it was fixed almost a year ago.
The TouchWiz lag was a real issue, especially for people who's carriers haven't put out any updates passed 2.2.1 (but again, that's a carrier issue, not an Android issue).

Guess you're not as picky as many others then: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20278

The first one is over 18 months old.

The second talks about "user experience" and "feelings" which is bullshit. The author offers no explanation other then it "feels" slow. I doubt he bothered to even time what he was doing to prove there is a real lag, not just imagined lag. I have a Desire Z and Iphone 3GS (for work), Placing them side by side and opening the SMS application on each respective device the Android phone is consistently faster, it just doesn't have the transition animations of the Iphone. Same with the browser, phone, settings, mail et al. all open to a usable state faster then IOS.

You could have at least bought up something legitimate like the TouchWiz lag on early version of Samsungs TouchWiz interface but then you would have to admit
1) it's not a problem with Android.
2) it was fixed almost a year ago.
The TouchWiz lag was a real issue, especially for people who's carriers haven't put out any updates passed 2.2.1 (but again, that's a carrier issue, not an Android issue).

I gathered all 10 of the banners used in the 377 seized domains, and uploaded them here: DOJ Seized Domain Notices - Paul Nickerson - Picasa Web Albums

Umm, have you ran GoDaddy Sucks through Google? Your UID is low enough that I would have thought you'dve seen lots of interesting articles about GoDaddy here. A lot of people would disagree with you, and I won't do business with them and anyone that I know that is doing business with them I suggest to them that they run such a query and change registrars and hosts. Myself, I use Bluehost for hosting and Nearly Free Speech for registration with privacy protection.

https://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+sucks

Something I put together: http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery
"This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society."

Actually the iPhone is worse: http://www.google.com/trends?q=android+slow%2C+iphone+slow

Google's bug tracking system is public, Apple's isn't. I know which I prefer.

Kinda not true. Taken from Dianne Hackborn "How about some Android graphics true facts?"

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

"This means that many of the animations you see have always been hardware accelerated: menus being shown, sliding the notification shade, transitions between activities, pop-ups and dialogs showing and hiding, etc."

Yeah sadly it's a general latency problem with Android that doesn't seem to get mentioned.

I write audio software and it's the poor red headed stepchild of IOS in comparison:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434

Guess you're not as picky as many others then: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20278

Guess you're not as picky as many others then: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6914 and http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20278

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63% of women in science, engineering and technology have experienced sexual harassment ... Demeaning and condescending attitudes, lots of off-color jokes, sexual innuendo, arrogance; colleagues, particularly in the tech culture, who genuinely think women don't have what it takes - who see them as genetically inferior

OK, so 63%........including arrogance? Programmers are arrogant, but to people of all gender. It's how we are, and it's not misogynist, it's misanthropist. Still, for the sake of argument, lets assume they were talking about sexual arrogance. In the nursing industry, it's as high as 90% [LINK pdf]. And yet there are still more nurses. So clearly there isn't a strong correlation between sexism in these two industries and proportion of women to men. Or rather, there is a correlation: there are more women working in the field with more sexual harassment. Most likely it isn't a meaningful correlation, however, it's more likely that women don't like working with misanthropes.

But let's go with your assumption that women don't like the IT field because of sexual harassment, not because of misanthropes. The article is talking about women not being able to find a job. Presumably they want to stay in the IT industry, despite the sexual harassment they experience. So the numbers in the article you just cited are not related at all to this situation.

In other words, utter logic fail by you, babe. Now, you might think I am being anti-woman by calling you babe, but you are wrong. I am showing favoritism. If you were a man I would have called you a brain-dead retard. It's just another example of the favoritism women get in the industry: you get a compliment instead of an insult.

But just look at your own "reason" #2 for an example of sexism.

Another example of you not being able to use logic. #2 was one potential explanation, and it might be true for a small segment of women that age (we are talking about 1.6 percentage points here, which is obviously not all women, or even most women). You don't know unless you investigate the numbers, and you haven't. That's why it's a logic fail by you.

If I said, "women are worse than men at sports," that's not sexist, that's true. The fact is, women are just as capable and just as intelligent as men. You are never going to convince men to not be attracted to women, and vice versa. But women are perfectly capable of surviving and excelling in that environment. There is nothing to stop them but themselves.

Looks like we've got a Google hater on our hands here folks so put your critical thinking caps on and let's review.

They're using their huge market share to unfairly promote their other products left and right.

Do you always talk gibberish or are you trying something new today? Google can promote all they want, there are no laws against promotion. If Google forced you to use Chrome to access their sites, then we would have a problem but there not so let's move on.

They have the most dominant position to do this too - the largest search engine on planet.

Good for them. They did it fair and square.

They can put out anyone they want out of business.

So can anyone else. As long as the competition laws are followed.

For years they have scraped smaller websites and then returning their own sites higher in search engine results.

Do you have any proof of this? If not, your just making shit up.

They push Google+ to every that comes to Google.

See first answer.

How is Diaspore or other smaller social networks ever going to challenge that?

The same way Google did it against the giants of the time. Yahoo, Alta Vista, Lycos, Microsoft MSN Search. They provided a better product.

They push Chrome to every IE user in a very spammy way, and they always do it in YouTube too.

See first answer. In addition, IE less than 10 is such crap that they're doing everyone a favour. And, it's not spam. I've never gotten anything in my inbox from Google promoting Chrome.

Recently all the flight ticket search engines started fearing as Google introduced their own one and embedded the results directly in search results.

Afraid that Google might offer a better service? Who's side are you on anyway? Consumer's or do you work for the flight ticket search engines'?

Now with Google+, they're tieing all their products together too. YouTube just got a much more "social" and google+'ish look, and in one of their recent videos they show how search results, maps, calendar, news, music, video and every other Google service will integrate with Google+.

I love it. It's a great feature. And you know, Google provides an open API to almost all of their products. You're free to use them and tie them to your own products. So they're actually helping you compete with them by letting you use their services via on open API! This is cooperation which is the opposite of anti-competition. http://code.google.com/more/

Because of their market share that is blatant monopoly abuse and I'm good to see that EU is finally doing something about it. US is still investigating Google, but with Google having bought so many politicans in Washington and friends in NSA and FBI I'd be more surprised to see if they did something.

You obviously don't know what monopoly abuse is and you obviously don't use Google enough to find the information so here's the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law

https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/WTLyn7dqYoR
Linus on Gnome3
"Now I just hope those things become part of the standard gnome shell setup and made available in the regular "system config" thing rather than hidden off. Sure, make them default to off if you want that "clean default", but make them easy to find and part of the standard install.

Or would that be too close to "Ok, we admit we were wong" and thus not politically acceptable?"

How about once it has the architecture to allow the breadth of plugins? See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=92761&q=adblock&colspec=ID%20Pri%20Mstone%20ReleaseBlock%20Area%20Feature%20Status%20Owner%20Summary&start=100 for more information.

>>In my example, the perception is that it's entangled until observed, but in *reality* the ball is already in one of the boxes.

Nope. (Well, in the non-quantum physical ball case, yeah, sure, one ball was in a box. But it's not a very good analogy.)

Your concept of 'realism' has to be thrown out the window. Or your belief in the speed of light as the great cosmic speed limit. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_locality

When you're not observing an electron, the electron ceases to have a definite position. If you'd like to imagine it as a smear, or a cloud, that's a reasonably accurate analogy. You may *think* that an electron secretly has a position when you're not looking at it, but you'd be wrong. (Unless the speed of light limitation is wrong.) The wavefunction IS the reality, at least according to certain interpretations.

Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos has a reasonably good explanation here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=DNd2K6mxLpIC&lpg=PA82&ots=ub6L_OJfGU&dq=mulder%20and%20scully%20quantum%20physics&pg=PA81#v=onepage&q=mulder%20and%20scully%20quantum%20physics&f=false

Oh, just for completeness, some citations for Ultima 7 and 8, courtesy of Google Groups if anyone wants to know:

Ultima 7, voodoo memory manager

Ultima 8, Phar Lap dos extender post by Jason Ely

Oh, just for completeness, some citations for Ultima 7 and 8, courtesy of Google Groups if anyone wants to know:

Ultima 7, voodoo memory manager

Ultima 8, Phar Lap dos extender post by Jason Ely

Now that they will have statistics to show which extensions are most used (i.e. what users are missing the most). Will GNOME undo the mess?

To quote Linus:

"They don't need a bug report. Trust me on this. They seem to feel that they need different users."

So no, I think the die is cast on this issue. GNOME devs have decided that they know better than their users, and if we would just open our minds to enlightenment (sorry), we'd all get along better.

Again, many people don't even have a huge problem with GNOME deciding what we need; it's the fact that they've removed a bunch of things that they've arbitrarily decided we don't need that's getting everyone's panties in a twist.

Obviously not all 1,035 open issues matching "bookmarks" are exclusively bookmarks bugs... but you'll see a good handful of them here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=bookmarks

That doesn't really answer the question. Software can have many bugs around minor issues without actually being unusable. Stuff like "bookmarks bar flickers on mouseover". What is it that makes bookmarks actually not usable for you?

Check out ScriptNo

Obviously not all 1,035 open issues matching "bookmarks" are exclusively bookmarks bugs... but you'll see a good handful of them here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=bookmarks

I thought that was a solved problem.

No, sequence assembly is still an area of active research; here is a sampling of papers published on the problem this year alone. Part of the problem is that "next gen" sequencing produces reads which are less reliable the farther down the fragment you go -- and the fragments are short, so there a hell of a lot of them to reassemble. The overall volume of sequencing is getting bigger and cheaper all the time, but there are some really serious reliability problems that need to be ironed out.

You should go a little easier on him until you have all the facts. For all you know, his "hacking" amounts to "I changed the URL from ``...?mode=show-account&userid=1'' to ``...?mode=show-account&userid=2'' "

That said, people freak out about "hacks" as minor as this, and anyone who's been on Slashdot long enough (sorry, I don't feel like doing the searches right now myself) knows that lots of people in exactly his position have been royally screwed over (up to and including fines and jail time) for trying to do exactly what he's doing, so my advice to him is the same as yours, though for different reasons: walk the fuck away and say no more.

> They're responsible for their own security, not some random
> passerby... If they blow security, they're on the hook for the
> consequences. We have very well established methods
> for doing that kind of reinforcement.

Yeah. It's called "all the customers get fucked in the ass and have to spend months repairing their credit and nothing bad happens to the company."

You must be living in USA, the country of locked phones, but just check the Nexus line, Sony Ericcson and even Nokia

You don't find "all you can eat" deals because you are looking in the wrong place. Adding grocery store to your search is basically the same as adding "that isn't all you can eat". The word you want to add to your search is "restaurant". http://www.google.com/search?q=all+you+can+eat+restaurants gives you 160 million hits. I think it is safe to say that "all you can eat" food deals are widely available.

I use NotScripts, and while it's not quite as good as NoScript, it still works great. Seems development has stopped though, but it's already perfectly functional as-is.

Actually, I use NotScripts for Chrome OS, which is basically the same thing but removes the need to edit configuration files with a password first. It does introduce the possibility of web sites looking at what sites I've disabled and enabled, but I really don't care if some site knows I let youtube.com run scripts on my browser. This also makes it easier to recover your site settings from a corrupted profile, or when you want to move them to another computer, both of which have happened to me.

Adblock for Chrome has been preventing the ads from downloading for ages now.
Reference: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom

The real cause of this is the outsourcing of jobs from Kyoto nations and those like America that ARE working on it, to None Kyoto nations that believe that they can take shortcuts to build up their economies. That does not show 2008 where America continued downwards, while China, India, etc accelerated upwards even more. You will note that kyoto nations are pretty flat-lined, but the REAL issue is that 3rd world nations and china are building large numbers of new coal plants in an effort to take manufacturing from nations that have MUCH cleaner output. Basically, the outsourcing is partially caused BY KYOTO, and those that push kyoto ignore it, or the possibility of other ideas. Note, that if a tax is put on all goods, then fast growth nations will avoid building coal plants and chose other means of growing their electricity.

There's NotScript that tries to duplicate this functionality, although it's still in infancy based on some of the comments I see...

Once that matures I'll have no reason to stay with Firefox.

Bullshit. You can test your claim easily by installed Cyanogen and comparing it to the manufacturer's performance. I tried it on a Galaxy S and the performance was the same as with the Samsung firmware. I also tested a HTC Hero where it made a big difference, but that turned out to be due to the Sense UI in the official ROM because when I installed a Cyanogen mod with Sense performance was the same.

When comparing the iPhone to an Android phone you have to remember to turn off all the features that the iPhone doesn't have. Unfortunately that is almost impossible because Android is designed to multitask and run apps in the background, but you can get close.

Turns out more people seem to have having speed problems with the iPhone than Android phones: http://www.google.com/trends?q=android+slow%2C+iphone+slow

Keep in mind that Android outsells the iPhone considerably so the difference is not because the iPhone is more popular.

Your sarcasm is not required.

Found a whole book on this topic: Earthquakes and animals: from folk legends to science, By M. Ikeya (Google Books). Studies going back to at least 1923 are found via Google Scholar. I'd be all in favor of studies which would figure out what mechanisms are involved here; we in the Pacific NW of the US are due for a real monster of a subduction quake someday, the hardship and loss of life will be quite extreme, and some advance notice would be welcome, to say the least.

Of course, test it out in some region which is prone to frequent minor quakes. And hope that it works in a region like ours, with very strong temblors happening about every half millennium. I'd assume it would, as Japanese quakes are also brought on by subduction; or is that only the case with the very strong ones?

Found a whole book on this topic: Earthquakes and animals: from folk legends to science, By M. Ikeya (Google Books). Studies going back to at least 1923 are found via Google Scholar. I'd be all in favor of studies which would figure out what mechanisms are involved here; we in the Pacific NW of the US are due for a real monster of a subduction quake someday, the hardship and loss of life will be quite extreme, and some advance notice would be welcome, to say the least.

Of course, test it out in some region which is prone to frequent minor quakes. And hope that it works in a region like ours, with very strong temblors happening about every half millennium. I'd assume it would, as Japanese quakes are also brought on by subduction; or is that only the case with the very strong ones?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.canyoucrackit.co.uk%2F#q=site:http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/&hl=en&prmd=imvns&filter=0&fp=1&biw=1680&bih=795&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&cad=b see the second link ? not very mi6 this thing...