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I think what he meant was it was the first instance of cyber-hacking (is that phrase redundant?) against a SCADA system. Besides, that's the exact wording the media is using.

I live in Springfield, and the media reports are pretty contradictory. The reports in the last few days were that the company that designed the system had evidence of a successful hack and they were worried that the design company hack would lead the attackers to information that would let them in the system.

Two nights ago the local TV news (WICS 20) reported that they had uncovered evidence in the SCADA logs that indicated that they were penetrated, now they say otherwise.

All over a burned out pump. Nobody got hurt, no services were interrupted.

News reports are also saying it's in Springfield; it isn't. It's a water district in two tiny towns a few miles away. Here's a map.

No, my first thought was internet over water pipes ...

Been there, done that.

A DVR is a device you pay ONE TIME FOR. A Tivo has a monthly charge. If the cable company chooses to jew you, that's between you and them, but a dvr has nothing to do with them, it has to do with intercepting and recording the signal.

Don't want to pay?

DIY

http://makezine.com/extras/4.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+into+dvr

use of their equipment might open U.S. infrastructure to espionage

makes one wonder what U.S. equipment (made by cisco, microsoft et.al.), which is used all over the world, can do for U.S. govt agencies.

anybody remember japan in the 1970s?

Funny, I can't remember when the ability to be able to drag and drop files in to web apps was added

It seems to be fairly common, being used by Gmail since April 2010, and is in the Mozilla docs.

I see it pretty clearly: the psychological trends are clearly sloped. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AhCPkU9sM_R4dFpyaXJXamxKUURyUFZJTnozc252Y1E&oid=2&zx=upmkrqcflv4

got going with 11085 page views so far: 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."

What does Google Insights give then?

Here's what I'm using on my android phone.

1) I installed Cyanogenmod, of course.
2) I use F-Droid instead of the android market. I don't even have the android market installed.
3) I use K9mail for email.
4) I'm using Zirco as my web browser. It has adblocking. If I had a fancier phone (with >= 512mb ram), I'd be running Firefox Mobile (that link sends you to the android market; I'd get it from F-Droid instead)
4) I use OSMAnd, so I don't even have to hit google for maps. Instead, I use my locally-stored OpenStreetMaps.

To sync contacts, calendar, and SMS, I'm planning to set up a Funambol server and use the Funambol sync client. But I'm only on Day 3 of phone ownership, so I haven't gotten that server set up yet. But at least the contacts can be exported into .vcf files, to copy out manually.

One thing I'm concerned about is that the Calendar app won't let me even start up the app until I've put in a server. So I don't have the option of using local-only calendar and exporting the ical files by hand. I'm hoping to fork the Calendar app to make one that compiles with only the Android SDK, and lets you use it in local-only mode. Apparently, k9mail started as a fork of the standard mail app for android.

Here's what I'm using on my android phone.

1) I installed Cyanogenmod, of course.
2) I use F-Droid instead of the android market. I don't even have the android market installed.
3) I use K9mail for email.
4) I'm using Zirco as my web browser. It has adblocking. If I had a fancier phone (with >= 512mb ram), I'd be running Firefox Mobile (that link sends you to the android market; I'd get it from F-Droid instead)
4) I use OSMAnd, so I don't even have to hit google for maps. Instead, I use my locally-stored OpenStreetMaps.

To sync contacts, calendar, and SMS, I'm planning to set up a Funambol server and use the Funambol sync client. But I'm only on Day 3 of phone ownership, so I haven't gotten that server set up yet. But at least the contacts can be exported into .vcf files, to copy out manually.

One thing I'm concerned about is that the Calendar app won't let me even start up the app until I've put in a server. So I don't have the option of using local-only calendar and exporting the ical files by hand. I'm hoping to fork the Calendar app to make one that compiles with only the Android SDK, and lets you use it in local-only mode. Apparently, k9mail started as a fork of the standard mail app for android.

Uh, the overwhelming majority of the poorly-spelled (and very RACIST) signs that have enjoyed such hilarious prominence in the media are in fact signs from Tea Party rallies.

Strange that you would say that. There was nothing in the description that claimed that ANY of the signs were from a TEA rally. Sure, some of them were, but I didn't see any that were recognized as a TEA Party sign that were racist. And if you want to play this game, there are no shortage of anti-Semitic signage at any OWS rally. Can we assume that OWS people are Nazis? How about all the "truthers" there? There are also no shortage of communists, anarchists, bums and thugs.

Seriously, if you want to try to compare TEA Party people with OWS or any other liberal rally, you may want to reconsider. That's not the sort of thing that will end up favorable for your position.

I would have expected ... I think...

Here is a whistleblower story you won't find on Slashdot because it isn't compatible with your preferred narrative. If you continue to discover large differences between reality and your training as a malcontent you should reconsider the propaganda you indulge.

Examples of very young hams abound. Documented cases of VEs (volunteer examiners) helping examinees cheat are few, and in comparison, nearly nonexistent.

That's just it, though: the politicians have stopped even pretending to run the country. Their only job is to get re-elected. They may dabble a little in policy on the weekends, and phone in a couple of votes when there's a pressing deadline (eg: debt ceiling), but otherwise the plan is to provide some cute PR and prevent the other guys from looking even a little effective.

I have also been to many rallies. And I have heard NO racism or hate whatsoever. Other than the invective spewed at the Tea Party people by the local leftist agitators out counter-protesting.

Oh, and the assaults and attempted assaults on Tea Party members by leftist and Union agitators.

It's not hard to find evidence of leftist hate against Tea Party people. Finding real evidence of widespread hate coming FROM the Tea Party is much harder. Which is why it had to be manufactured by leftist infiltrators.

"web browsing, reading PDFs and accessing my e-mails via SSH"

Yes, if only there were a single tablet on the market that didn't require rooting to do such complicated tasks as web browsing, reading PDFs, or even a single SSH client.

Look, I'm all in favor of individuals having control of their devices. But I'm pretty sure there's a reason nobody sells a rooted tablet that does exactly the same things as everyone else's tablets. If you can't even answer why you need root access, don't expect to find a product that will.

"web browsing, reading PDFs and accessing my e-mails via SSH"

Yes, if only there were a single tablet on the market that didn't require rooting to do such complicated tasks as web browsing, reading PDFs, or even a single SSH client.

Look, I'm all in favor of individuals having control of their devices. But I'm pretty sure there's a reason nobody sells a rooted tablet that does exactly the same things as everyone else's tablets. If you can't even answer why you need root access, don't expect to find a product that will.

Except that those signs and events aren't a lie...

...Free speech should always be allowed, regardless of opinion. Case closed.

- Disrespectful behaviour is bad behaviour, and bad behaviour should not be tolerated (and should never be legitimised for any reason, including free speech).

The left hand giveth, the right hand takes away.

Exactly who is going to determine what is bad behavior? In Iran, you cannot draw a picture and combine it with the letters m-o-h-a-m-m-e-d (or any of a series of spellings in English anyways) Actually, that's not limited to Iran - see Denmark Cartoons

The entire point was that you had to tolerate all speech. In fact, you even have to tolerate speech that causes harm, however, the one speaking may have to face the penalties for the harm caused ("fire" in a theater, for instance, or libel or slander)

When did that happen for the last time in known history? ITC has one purpose only -- to protect US companies from competition.

It will come back to bite them eventually. Other companies are doing the same like getting apple banned in Taiwan. By setting up this framework of protectionism now they will suffer when being banned in China becomes worse for multinationals than being banned in the USA

The article you are linking to actually talks about banning APPLES (the fruit) imported from the US in Taiwan. You probably wanted to refer to the ban of selling some Apple products in South Korea, which is seeked by Samsung. This ban, however, did not happen so far it seems.

well done for missing the joke entirely - that takes some effort!

When did that happen for the last time in known history? ITC has one purpose only -- to protect US companies from competition.

It will come back to bite them eventually. Other companies are doing the same like getting apple banned in Taiwan. By setting up this framework of protectionism now they will suffer when being banned in China becomes worse for multinationals than being banned in the USA

The article you are linking to actually talks about banning APPLES (the fruit) imported from the US in Taiwan. You probably wanted to refer to the ban of selling some Apple products in South Korea, which is seeked by Samsung. This ban, however, did not happen so far it seems.

Whoops you'r right - I should check my sources! The argument still stands though

Look at this: Issue 2814: Give user control to override the permissions. It shows a great deal about how the CM devs think.

The gist of it is that they don't want to allow users to spoof ID/GPS/etc data because companies "need" that data for marketing purposes.

With all due respect, I think that decision should not be theirs to make.

When did that happen for the last time in known history? ITC has one purpose only -- to protect US companies from competition.

It will come back to bite them eventually. Other companies are doing the same like getting apple banned in Taiwan. By setting up this framework of protectionism now they will suffer when being banned in China becomes worse for multinationals than being banned in the USA

The article you are linking to actually talks about banning APPLES (the fruit) imported from the US in Taiwan. You probably wanted to refer to the ban of selling some Apple products in South Korea, which is seeked by Samsung. This ban, however, did not happen so far it seems.

When did that happen for the last time in known history? ITC has one purpose only -- to protect US companies from competition.

It will come back to bite them eventually. Other companies are doing the same like getting apple banned in Taiwan. By setting up this framework of protectionism now they will suffer when being banned in China becomes worse for multinationals than being banned in the USA

I counter this with the notion that at least Google is (relatively and to my knowledge) transparent with the way they handle your data. See: https://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/

Better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't.

"Windows has made great strides in security over the past 10 years, but that doesn't make it a secure OS." - by Enderandrew (866215) on Monday November 21, @02:19PM (#38127292) Homepage

That's when YOU THE USER have to "make it so" (ala Jean Luc Picard)... soooo, how to do THAT? Easy, with 1-2 hours of your time, ala:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Search

OR

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

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I've been writing guides for that since 1997 in fact, & yes, they CAN & DO actually work (e.g.-> I haven't been "hit" by a malware since 1996, & because of what's in the guide - in fact, I WROTE IT because of that (really PISSED ME OFF is why, & when that happens, with anything? If I have the means, I do something about it))...

Also, neither have my friends, family, or paying customers that apply + follow its principles.

To "immunize" a Windows system, I effectively use the principles in "layered security" possibles!

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 online (actually MORE, but 1 site with 75,000 views of it went offline/out-of-business) & it's been made either:

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1.) An Essential Guide
2.) 5-5 star rated
3.) A "sticky-pinned" thread
4.) Most viewed in the category it's in (usually security)
5.) Got me PAID by winning a contest @ PCPitStop (quite unexpectedly - I was only posting it for the good of all, & yes, "the Lord works in mysterious ways", it even got me PAID -> http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2007/09/04/pc-pitstop-winners/ (see January 2008))

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Across 15-20 or so sites I posted it on back in 2008... & here is the IMPORTANT part, in some sample testimonials to the "layered security" methodology efficacy:

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SOME QUOTED TESTIMONIALS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID LAYERED SECURITY GUIDE I AUTHORED:

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=2

"I recently, months ago when you finally got this guide done, had authorization to try this on simple work station for kids. My client, who paid me an ungodly amount of money to do this, has been PROBLEM FREE FOR MONTHS! I haven't even had a follow up call which is unusual." - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

"APK, thanks for such a great guide. This would, and should, be an inspiration to such security measures. Also, the pc that has "tweaks": IS STILL GOING! NO PROBLEMS!" -

=> Google Native Client.

Here's the UN report. It should be pointed out that the UN investigator had to make this report without unmonitored access to Manning because the US government refused 'unfettered' access, which is what the UN expects of all cooperating states.

Here's a Welsh MP expressing her concern about Manning's treatment, particularly relevant because Manning is apparently a Welsh citizen in addition to being a US citizen.

Here's Amnesty International.

If you haven't noticed that there's at least a serious question regarding whether Manning's been tortured, you've probably been limiting yourself to mainstream US media.

generally I think most people can agree with the basic facts that OWS are highlighting.

That depends on what you define as the "basic facts" -- and that's the problem. Quite a few people can get on board with financial system reform and political reform, or some payback for the bank bailouts. But the laundry list of demands from the OWS group goes well beyond those specific concerns: https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/

For example, have you noticed the intense anti-war protesting going on at the very same rallies?

I also think 'ultra-socialist' is unfounded.

Really? The very link you posted is like pages and pages of charts railing about one single thing: income inequality. Not to mention the aforementioned laundry list of demands. As I posted in another thread, what does "healthcare for all", "protection of the planet", "student loan forgiveness", "ending wars", etc, etc have anything at all to do with fixing corruption of or regulating the financial industry? How are student loans or wars even related to corporations? To me, that document reads like a mixed combination of good ideas and "demanded free handouts". It's the latter that people find fault with.

Progressive taxation, uncorrupted politics and the rule of law (for banks and individuals) are not radical - they're the way the system is actually supposed to work.

I would agree that these are noble and sensible goals. Sadly, OWS has demanded far, far more than just that. Hence, my original post comparing the Tea Party to OWS is very accurate. Both started with focused and sensible goals (the original Tea Party targets were the bailouts and stimulus spending whereas the original OWS targets were wall street fatcats/the financial industry/banks/the bailouts) - however the Tea Party and OWS have both since expanded to now encompass a wide swath of their related party's platform stances. That's why you see the attacks on defense spending, the demand for universal healthcare, and the green movement amidst the OWS demands.

Pull out the pork demands and I can get onboard with OWS. But if they continue to make generic ludicrous free lunch demands instead of remaining focused on a specific problem, I simply won't support it.

I had an antibiotic resistant infection and had to travel to Tbilisi, Georgia to get proper treatment, which ended up curing the infection. There has been interest from big pharma in the 90s into phage treatments for the west until they realized that you can't patent phages, which you can literally find and isolate from your backyard. No patent = no big money for pharma = no lobbying/testing to have it approved as a medication. If you are interested on the subject please feel free to inform yourself by watching the very good doc on the subject: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8887931967515748990 If you don't feel like bickering with me about it you can also contact the head microbiologist working at the Institute where I was treated. Here's the institute's homepage: http://www.eliava-institute.org/ Feel free to PM me too and I can send you my test results from the institute; I'm all about transparency and hopefully bringing this great treatment to the west. Right now the Eliava institute mainly does work on finding phages which kill bacteria that live in oil pipelines. The oil industry is where the money is.

If you don't like the choices Apple offers, Apple is not stopping you from choosing alternatives.

Yes it is. Google apple android lawsuit .

The original claim also included health benefits besides hydration.

No, the original claim was dehydration and its effects:
The claimed effect is “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance”.
Source: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1982.htm

concomitant/knkämitnt/
Adjective:
Naturally accompanying or associated.
Noun:
A phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.
Synonyms:
adjective. attendant - accompanying
noun. concurrent

Source: http://www.google.com/search?q=concomitant

The claims were found to be unsubstantiated, the press of course simplified this to the point of hysteria.

The scientists were found to be idiots, and the press, the public, and the politicians forced to put this into law were found to be publicly ridiculing the scientists.

Roger Helmer, a Conservative member of the European Parliament, called it "stupidity writ large."
"The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly paid, highly pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true," he told the Telegraph.
Source: search google for "eu dehydration" and get your own sources. It's all over the news right now, and the EU is a laughingstock.

Next time someone tells me Americans are fat, I'm going to give them a link to one of these articles and respond that Europeans are retarded.

This is modded "funny", but actually this would be very useful. Because you could send the browser along with your HTML and be done at once with all browser-compatibility problems. Plus you could make browsers supporting other languages (e.g., Python, Haskell, you name it).

Of course javascript would not be the appropriate target-language for this (I guess, due to efficiency issues), but the idea in itself is very interesting. A better target-language would be closer to the machine (no closures, and no garbage collection); the NaCl project might actually be a better candidate.

I'm betting that somewhere, somebody is already writing a browser in NaCl.

My parent clearly shows why this is a loser.

People will just code around the blocked words.

However, this will make for much frustration from people trying to have a significant conversation and inadvertently step on banned words.

Read the list . (Same as above, I just copied it here to give you another whack at it.)

Way too many common words used in meaningful conversations are on that list.

I believe that 98% of the phrases on that list are indeed used for nothing else other than naughty texting. But what's to say that other "naughty words" will quickly be coined and substituted for the censored ones?

We cannot enforce morality through technology and censorship like this. It will just frustrate everyone.

What, you think they're going to do this on a Commodore 64?

I looked it up, and folks in the US send 80 billion SMSes per month. That works out to about 30k SMSes/sec on average across the entire United States. Now, I realize that certain times of day are more likely to have SMSes than others, so let's say, to a first order, the peak rate of SMSes is 100k/sec. Now divide that among all the cell towers, understanding that some will be busier than others.

Let's say a given cell tower has to process 100 SMSes a second, each at the full 160 character limit. That's 16kB/s. Let's say each word take 1000 cycles to test for, which should be on the high side since it assumes you can't use, say, a trie to take advantage of common word roots, or use pattern matching accelerators (which are quite common in this space). 16kB/s * 1000 * 1600 = 25.6Gcyc/sec. That sounds like a lot, but it isn't.

A single board in one of these cellular base stations has literally dozens of processor chips, most with multiple cores, running in the GHz range. And that's just one board. My employer sells a chip in this space which crunches away 10Gcyc/sec across all of its 8 processors, and our customers put dozens of these on each board.

On GSM networks, SMSes are control channel messages. They go via a low bandwidth side channel that is nowhere near as compute-intensive as the main voice channel. If you're provisioned to handle a certain number of phone calls, you're more than adequately provisioned to handle SMSes and the corresponding filtering, as long as you do the filtering at the base station.

Seriously. He magically appears on every space story, but still remains anon. Lame!

The "Space Nutter" troll goes by "Quantum Apostrophe" over on fark.com. His schtick is the self-contradictory notion that research dollars should be allocated to life extension and not space exploration.

(The irony is that if he gets his wish, he'll be part of the 6.9 billion people who are genocided the weekend after the invention of clinical immortality serum, because the Earth's basically full even with our present limited lifespan.)

He will die of old age for the same reason as I won't personally get to retire on Mars. I'm OK with that, because the species' long term prognosis gets a lot brighter as soon as someone manages to establish a colony off this rock. He's not OK with that, and would prefer to damn the species to extinction, so long as there's an 0.000000001% chance that he might personally avoid dying of old age.

A pity he doesn't register here. Sometimes he's actually cogent. But this isn't one of those threads.

See also: http://www.google.com/search?q=federal+reserve+trillions

Amusing Tannenbaum 1992 quote: Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.

That is exactly why my favorite Science Fiction title is AquaNox. Post-apocalyptic / cyberpunk atmosphere aside, the story is so well thought-out as to be downright scary, in exactly the same sense as 1984 is scary.

The vast majority of music isn't produced in France or in French. Even music consumed in France. The French government have a history of trying to distort this in honor of gallic pride. In 1993, the French passed a law requiring French radio stations to play at least 40% French language music even though listeners didn't want it.

Information on this latest levy is pretty sketchy but it appears to be a tax to fund Centre National de la Musique whose goal appears to be to fund French music production.

So the French are collecting a tax based on the assumption of music piracy - where the majority of piracy is of British or American music - and then, by the looks of things, giving it entirely to the French music industry, not to the artists and labels whose music is actually pirated by French listeners and internet users anyway. Tres Francais.

Gotta love Americans missing the point of regulation that protects the consumer.
On the other hand in US frozen Pizza is a vegetable now, you know, to protect frozen pizza corporations from healthy food regulations.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=pizza+vegetable

No, the pizza SAUCE contains some amount of a serving of fruit/vegetable. It may be surprising, but sometimes vegetable servings can come in unlikely packages, and forms. One of those is PIZZA SAUCE! So, if there is sufficient sauce on the pizza, surprise surprise, one can consume a serving of vegetables just from consuming the sauce.

Gotta love Americans missing the point of regulation that protects the consumer.
On the other hand in US frozen Pizza is a vegetable now, you know, to protect frozen pizza corporations from healthy food regulations.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=pizza+vegetable

What we use our beloved Personal Computer For ?

1) Net Surfing, Chatting, E-Mail, Downloads/Uploads, Torrents.
2) Viewing/Managing Archive/PDF files and Pictures.
3) Listening/Viewing Audio/Video, Burning CD/DVD.
4) General Office Applications like Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation Graphics, Database, Drawing, etc.
5) Managing Calendar, Contacts, To Do list, Notes and Schedules.
6) We also use utilities for cleaning repairing Windows registry and file system, Anti-Virus, and Anti-Spyware.

Here is my answer. These are free software one should get after a fresh install of Windows or anytime for that matter...
1) Net Surfing, Chatting, E-Mail, Downloads/Uploads, Torrents.
Net Surfing : Firefox. Install NoScript and AdBlock Plus for increased security in Firefox. (Others Chrome, and Opera).
Chatting/IM : Gtalk, and Meebo (Others Pidgin, Skype, and Google Wave).
E-Mail : Thunderbird With Lightning. (Others Edora ).
Downloads : Orbit Downloader. (Others GigaGet and Free Download Manager).
Uploads : Core FTP LE. (Others FileZilla ).
Torrents : uTorrent. (Others Vuze ).
Plug-in/Add-on/Extension : Flash(IE), Flash (Non IE), Silverlight, Shockwave Player, Google Toolbar, .Net Framework, Java Runtime Environment, Visual C++ Runtime, and DirectX.
2) Viewing/Managing Archive/PDF/E-Book files, Pictures and CD/DVD burning.
Managing PDF : Adobe Reader. (Others Foxit Reader )
E-Book Reader : FBREader And Amazon Kindle for PC.
Archive Manager : 7-Zip. ( Others PeaZip).
Picture Manager : Irfanview (With PlugIns). (Others XnView and Picassa).
CD/DVD burning : CDBurnerXP. (Others ImgBurn, Deep Burner, and Explore&Burn)
3) Listening/Viewing Audio/Video. VLC Player
(Others The KM Player, QuickTime Player, RealPlayer, Winamp, DivX Play, and Audacity). You can also use K-Lite Codec Pack which will enable Windows Media Player to play every kind of Audio & Video file.
4) General Office Applications. LibreOffice From Document Foundation.
(Others OpenOffice.org, Google Docs, and Lotus Symphony ).
5) Managing Calendar, Contacts, To Do list, Notes and Schedules : Thunderbird With Lightning.
6) Utilities :
Cleaner/Optimizer : CCleaner, Defraggler, and Advanced SystemCare .
Anti-Virus : Avast. (Others AntiVir Personal, and Comodo Internet Security).
Anti-Spyware : SuperAntiSpyware. (Others SpyBot).
Automatic Update Checking : Update Notifier, (Others Filehippo Update Checker.)

Details with download links in this site - http://sites.google.com/site/shirshasin/ :)

Please mod the parent down, the claim is not correct and not supported by http://code.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_alpha_study.html

No, you are not correct.

The Dev Agreement forbids downloadable code, but it does not prevent interpreted code -- there was a small time when interpreted code was not allowed to call iOS APIs directly, but that restiction has been gone for a while now.

Lua is used widely in games on iOS, both directly and though SDKS like Corona. There is Wax a framework for writing Cocoa touch apps in Lua. In the App Store itself you will find 4-5 different Basic interpreters, a python interpreter, ruby, and the excellent iLuaBox.

Then linked from the original article is the study is basing it on. http://code.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_alpha_study.html
It's essentially saying that nearly the entire reason it's a fraction smaller in lossless mode is because there's no alpha support. Combining it the "optional" alpha mode with the "optional" lossless mode merely makes it near-identical in size to PNG, according to them.

The more features you take out, and the more you degrade the pictures, the smaller they are in comparison to the original. Is this somehow surprising?

Don't forget that browser was one of the first (in 1995) to support the CSS drafts that existed at the time (first dating back to October 1994!).

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

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

but especially in the same page :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking#Panama

despicable.

Yep, color profiles are in.

Speaking of cheese, is this map data going to be available on Google Moon?

I miss the days when the Google maps folk had a sense of humour.

Me, too. Fortunately, Google folk are smart enough to realize when a joke is no longer funny.

It's true . . . Netcraft confirms it.