Slashdot Mirror

Have you got evidence that the NBA in fact doesn't reflect society? Yes, we can all think of why there might be more black 7 foot tall guys in the NBA that in society, but there's no excuse for not having the evidence to hand. The assumption that evidence will turn out as expected, especially for things that seem obvious, will make people not bother to check reality against what they're saying. This goes for all sorts of issues, such as the cause of ulcers, whether lower taxes increase government revenue, whether people act rationally, and so on.

Yes.

"Apparently the league is currently 71.8 percent African-American, 18.3 percent international and 9.9 percent white American and there's a problem."

Need more?

"For some reason, blacks have come to represent the vast majority of players in the NBA, even though they form only 12 percent of the U.S. population."

The above quotes are from links available on the first page of the search results I linked to. They represent the trend of data returned by the Search, and are not intended to be linked directly to the articles in question.

United States Census Info (to reflect "society")

White persons, percent, 2010 (a) 72.4%
Black persons, percent, 2010 (a) 12.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2010 (a) 0.9%
Asian persons, percent, 2010 (a) 4.8%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2010 (a) 0.2%
Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2010 2.9%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) 16.3%
White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 63.7%

Hands off of my new secret lair!

I've thought of a way they could tempt me to upgrade: faster upload speed.

That is what made me upgrade - I was getting a sync rate of ~1.3m (~1.1mbit/sec observed throughput) from Be and now have ~10m (~8.5m observed maximum sustained throughput), and that is a the main bonus of the line upgrade itself (getting a /29 IPv4 range and full IPv6 support were other things that drew me to the ISP I chose). Double-check what package you are on in this respect though as there are two classes available: some allow the full 10mbit if the line between you and the cab is short enough, others are capped at 2mbit.

with an 18 month contract, which is too long

There are ISPs selling the FTTC service with 12 month contracts. That may still be too long for your current situation, but worth looking into if not. https://spreadsheets0.google.com/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0AquiMM6uTUUzdHl4RGRZcnE1WWw0SVlLcVlzQWZuVFE&output=html is a useful list though not entirely up-to-date (AAISP who I am currently with, have changed their pricing recently and that is not reflected on there) or detailed (it doesn't mention upstream handling: AAISP do not meter that, some others don't also but with some it is counted against your quota - if you regularly upload gigabytes worth of stuff that could be pretty significant).

A lot of harvesting is already largely automated; this article's "new thing" is pre-harvest agricultural automation - specifically, using 'bots to plant stuff (or at least place seedlings and potted plants). Perhaps the foodstuffs you're describing won't be able to be automated (yet), but if it comes right down to it, we can grow our own tomatoes, melons, and squash to supplement the mass-produced (read: automated) foodstuffs like grains and tree-borne fruit. If bots can plant seeds, other bots can water/fertilize those seeds, and yet other bots can harvest the product, it'll be a revolution in the agricultural industry. The price still needs to come down, since they're targeting the "$25,000 to $50,000 per unit" price range, but all it will take is someone realizing they can still make a profit selling nearly the exact same thing for 10% of the price, making up the difference in volume - Selling an item for 10% of the profit will likely generate 20x the sales, thus actually generating twice the profit - something the music/movie industries might do well to learn.

The biggest issue with agriculture, as I see it, is that we're mass-producing corn (a product with dubious nutritional value) on most of our arable land, and then turning around and producing fuel with it. That land could be put to much better use with an actual nutritionally viable crop, or even as hemp (the productive qualities of industrial hemp are too many to list in a single post, but I'll throw some basics out for general consumption, and trust google to provide more information for those who are interested: paper, textiles (clothing, fabric, rope), biofuels, construction materials (mortar, fiberboard/particleboard, cardboard), oxygen (more than trees!)... the list goes on and on and on).

A lot of harvesting is already largely automated; this article's "new thing" is pre-harvest agricultural automation - specifically, using 'bots to plant stuff (or at least place seedlings and potted plants). Perhaps the foodstuffs you're describing won't be able to be automated (yet), but if it comes right down to it, we can grow our own tomatoes, melons, and squash to supplement the mass-produced (read: automated) foodstuffs like grains and tree-borne fruit. If bots can plant seeds, other bots can water/fertilize those seeds, and yet other bots can harvest the product, it'll be a revolution in the agricultural industry. The price still needs to come down, since they're targeting the "$25,000 to $50,000 per unit" price range, but all it will take is someone realizing they can still make a profit selling nearly the exact same thing for 10% of the price, making up the difference in volume - Selling an item for 10% of the profit will likely generate 20x the sales, thus actually generating twice the profit - something the music/movie industries might do well to learn.

The biggest issue with agriculture, as I see it, is that we're mass-producing corn (a product with dubious nutritional value) on most of our arable land, and then turning around and producing fuel with it. That land could be put to much better use with an actual nutritionally viable crop, or even as hemp (the productive qualities of industrial hemp are too many to list in a single post, but I'll throw some basics out for general consumption, and trust google to provide more information for those who are interested: paper, textiles (clothing, fabric, rope), biofuels, construction materials (mortar, fiberboard/particleboard, cardboard), oxygen (more than trees!)... the list goes on and on and on).

While I object to what Alabama had in there, and the fact that it was not that effective (does not go after all of the illegals), but it did just go in and it IS having the desired and positive effect.

And yet, all the evidence says otherwise.

GDP per capita.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_cd&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=gdp+per+capita

That's the graph of what technology is enabling our brains to accomplish freed of more and more mundane matters.

When I log into gmail there is an ad saying g+ is going away, but your posts shall always remain. That shows they killed it without letting it mature.

I could be full of it but that, GoogleTV, and others show a history of quickly investing in things and releasing fast and then abandonding them. Maybe they only invest a small amount and see what sticks so the losses are not as big but you need a large budget to do large things sometimes.

I can see I'm arguing with an idiot here.

Google Plus is not going away you moron.

https://plus.google.com/up/?continue=https://plus.google.com/&type=st

Has the purchase even closed yet? From the press release:

The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.

It might be a little early for the Google purchase to have any impact on the phones. Hopefully someday, though.

The last Motorola phone I had was such a buggy piece of shit that I never consider them anymore and, having the Nexus Galaxy around the corner, why would anyone buy a Motorola handset?

--
I'm an arrogant asshole, so I work for Google now.

You seem to forget - you are unimportant.

For those who count: Mr Market

This. It's technically true that the economy recovered. But, the sad fact is that it's only growing at the same rate as before the recession which is only sufficient to add new jobs about the rate that population growth is adding new workers. We're stuck with high unemployment unless we can grow the economy faster than before (which is what usually happens after a recession). If they're right that we're headed to another downturn unemployment will go up even further, at which point we're looking at something closer to great depression levels of unemployment.

To idiots modding me down.

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

Learn the English language.

Truman Yafrio must be on here, as well.

According to Lenin. He was an expert. His position was that communism could only be achieved transitionally and that state capitalism was one of the transition phases. So, the USSR adopted state capitalism and then stalled out and stayed essentially under that system for the rest of its existence. You can just do a google search for Lenin and "state capitalism" to find all kinds of references. Here's one to get you started.

X-Keys or Monome or any one of a million Control Surfaces, for starters. Or Arduino obviously. Personally I think that for a lot of applications the best solution is to drop the knobs and switches, take apart an old USB keyboard, and build a custom button-based interface using the matrix board. Interface it with hotkeys built into your app, and this way it shows up as a regular HID without needing specialty drivers.

You might take a look at YouTube Downloader for Chrome. Adds a handy menu below any youtube video for downloading the video in various resolutions. The only time I need to use Firefox for this now are other places like Dailymotion the extension doesn't support.

What you have is really a small group of people on a shoe string budget with a truly horrendous administration / supervision problem (hint - the 'old' CCCP still lives in little pockets in Russia, nowhere more so than the space program).

The old USSR, however, could get space shit done, for the most part. Sure, there were problems - like with previous Mars probes - but heck, at least they've got those probes to Mars! This thing failed from the get go - not because of "pockets of USSR", but because there are fewer and fewer things left over from USSR that still work, and things developed in post-Soviet Russia tend to be fail more often than not.

Specifically in case of Phobos-Grunt. One major fail is that there was no constant communication with the satellite once its orbit deviated from what was predicted, so they spend a lot of time just trying to figure out what's going on in the very limited communication windows that were available. Why is that? Well, in USSR they had these kinds of ships, that could be positioned in anticipation of the launch in such a way as to give pretty much complete coverage of the sky regardless of where on orbit the thing goes. After USSR collapsed, all those ships were sold for scrap metal - they only have ground stations for tracking now.

As for bureaucracy, it's a problem for sure, it's far worse in Russia today than it ever was in USSR. Going by the simple measure of number of government employees per capita, it's 2.5 as large in Russia today as it was at USSR's heyday. Worse yet, at least in USSR only the connections mattered - now it's connections and money (bribes).

Anyway, this open letter was written by a disgruntled employee of the state company that developed the probe, and it was written two months before the failed launch. It explains a lot - my favorite quote there, regarding reliability measurements, purportedly coming from the manager of the person who wrote the letter: "If it's needed, I (personally!) will pay to the director of Reliability Centre [the department that's responsible for measuring], and he'll give us the number that we need to pass".

What you have is really a small group of people on a shoe string budget with a truly horrendous administration / supervision problem (hint - the 'old' CCCP still lives in little pockets in Russia, nowhere more so than the space program).

The old USSR, however, could get space shit done, for the most part. Sure, there were problems - like with previous Mars probes - but heck, at least they've got those probes to Mars! This thing failed from the get go - not because of "pockets of USSR", but because there are fewer and fewer things left over from USSR that still work, and things developed in post-Soviet Russia tend to be fail more often than not.

Specifically in case of Phobos-Grunt. One major fail is that there was no constant communication with the satellite once its orbit deviated from what was predicted, so they spend a lot of time just trying to figure out what's going on in the very limited communication windows that were available. Why is that? Well, in USSR they had these kinds of ships, that could be positioned in anticipation of the launch in such a way as to give pretty much complete coverage of the sky regardless of where on orbit the thing goes. After USSR collapsed, all those ships were sold for scrap metal - they only have ground stations for tracking now.

As for bureaucracy, it's a problem for sure, it's far worse in Russia today than it ever was in USSR. Going by the simple measure of number of government employees per capita, it's 2.5 as large in Russia today as it was at USSR's heyday. Worse yet, at least in USSR only the connections mattered - now it's connections and money (bribes).

Anyway, this open letter was written by a disgruntled employee of the state company that developed the probe, and it was written two months before the failed launch. It explains a lot - my favorite quote there, regarding reliability measurements, purportedly coming from the manager of the person who wrote the letter: "If it's needed, I (personally!) will pay to the director of Reliability Centre [the department that's responsible for measuring], and he'll give us the number that we need to pass".

we have other devices far better at it than that.

yes, and if it was up to you, i'd still be carrying around an MP3 player, a dedicated cell phone, a laptop, a portable DVD player, and a dedicated GPS every where i go.

No one listens to music on their TV,

did you know, that modern TVs have audio out? my google TV even has optical out.

if your TV's hooked into your home ent system, which of course it will be, why not? pretty slick to have pandora, iheartradio, pandora, podcasts, your google music collection, and every other streaming audio source available from android.

Mail, Calendar? To hard to read.

they are not if you provide a TV-optimized interface. there are quite a few TV-optimized web pages and they work well. check out http://www.google.com/tv/spotlight-gallery.html to see what i mean.

if it has a keyboard, there's no reason it can't function as well as and in place of a PC for general purpose computing tasks. there's nothing about the display being bigger that makes it unsuitable ... but you do need a TV optimized interface.

and many other things take on thing too

There are other terms you could use to define an organization based around an ideology, religion has a more specific meaning necessitating the God.
https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&ix=c1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define%3A+religion

CA sold off their utilities suite division, and CA's disreputable (this deals with thor schmuck) being caught in accounting and other types of scandals:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/CA-Struggles-with-Scandal/

and

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22CA%22+and+%22scandal%22&btnG=Search

The link at Windows IT Pro also shows that Jeremy Reimer (whom arstechnica no longer employs as a writer because of this and other misdeeds of his) was caught impersonating APK on his forums also, as well as libeling he childishly, email harassing apk, and stalking him forums to forums, on top of making threats to apk and his home as well which ended up bringing not only Reimer's ISP Shaw Canada into it, but Canadian law enforcement into it in a Det. Felton of Vancouver BC, which made Reimer and his friend Jay Little stop (along with a Jarrett DeAngelis who was caught lying there also and on this forums too).

(That said, it's known that that impersonating apk was also done at arstechnica forums itself also and they were also caught using the same email from multiple usernames while impersonating apk there also (ManWithNoHead = GOD = same person)).

Your sources are no reputable.

You are not reputable.

You can't even do an adhominem attack properly, as illogical as it is and invalid to begin with.

Your further messes have been shown throughout this exchange and you resorting to the last resort of trolls in off topic illogical adhominem attacks does the rest.

You lose and not even with any grace or dignity.

I guess it depends a bit on what you are trying to do. Linux has analog synths, digital sound editors (with a lot of plugins and tools to play with), sequencers, notation software, and quite a lot of other tools. As a semi-pro (I get paid for a lot of what I do, but can't quit my day job), I've yet to find myself in a situation where I couldn't do what I needed to do running Linux.

Now, my needs are mostly pretty simple, because most of what I do is geared towards live performance rather than recording, but the tools are there and are pretty good quality.

Google news is your friend; same article but sans paywall.

You're welcome.

Another useless lawyer with an agenda.

Ad hominem.

What else is new ...

No point.

Anyone with a brain can see

Discrediting tactic.

that Google is ripping off FOSS and doesn't give a shit about returning anything back to the community.

Au contraire mon ennemi!!!
http://code.google.com/opensource/

Google is involved in many projects that are open source. "Giving back" while be it a charitable notion; does not work the same way in Open Source, as it is a perceived exchange to those contributing.

The idea of 'switch' implies a dubious dichotomy: either Windows or Linux. I run both, with Windows 7 x64 as my boot OS and VMware 7 (they finally got it really right) running a Centos VM; a Backtrace VM; and a Windows 7 VM (reverse debugging! - Too bad they killed it in VMware 8).

It's what the British government started a little over a decade ago:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5376212150896990926

"The Trap: What happened to our freedom? " sort of talks about how the government tried to set up metrics for everything, and it failed miserably.

We need a culture, not metrics.

regret to inform you that being against the Crusades is illegal now

In particular, there's a notice inside there telling that if a web site indexed by Google is modified, it will be automatically updated, without the need for a direct intervention by the user to also update the indexed information.

I don't think Facebook will have much trouble implementing a similar system, if they already haven't one.

Wayback Machine would probably need more work; e.g. in case somebody discovers that his cell phone number ended up on a web page in 1997, I think that he probably could request that information to be removed (the phone number, not the web page). They can probably get away with providing an email address accepting privacy-related requests.

There are content providers starting to use Dual-Stack so they are supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.
Here are just some of them:
http://www.v6.facebook.com/
http://ipv6.google.com/
http://www.comcast6.net/

Bit of a shame they still don't publish AAAA records for their main addresses though :(

Also, v6 facebook is a bit broken - a lot of their internal links are absolute references to www.facebook.com, so you only have to click a few things and suddenly you find you're on the v4 site instead of the v6 one.

Droids and iDevices do support IPv6, at least over Wi-Fi. T-Mobile has an experimental IPv6 only APN: https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/lg-mytouch

I use connectBot - the very first release of it I downloaded didn't properly handle the keyboard dock, and I had to get the "development release" from the developer's website ( http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ ), but that was several months ago, and the fix should be in the main branch by now. The only down side is that it's a terminal connection only, and doesn't do file transfers.

There are content providers starting to use Dual-Stack so they are supporting both IPv4 and IPv6. Here are just some of them: http://www.v6.facebook.com/ http://ipv6.google.com/ http://www.comcast6.net/

Whenever you see that phrase, you know it'll be one of the standard, carefully slanted apologist screeds. Very clever stuff.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Say+what+you+want+about+Microsoft&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&lr=lang_en#pq=say+what+you+want+about+microsoft&hl=en&sugexp=ppwl&cp=1&gs_id=45&xhr=t&q=%22Say+what+you+want+about+Microsoft%22&tok=Rc2-00AgyNDmPNWliZKo0A&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&lr=lang_en&safe=off&tbs=lr:lang_1en&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=%22Say+what+you+want+about+Microsoft%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=ab0947b33f38f3e6&biw=1920&bih=1034

Believe it or not...

Or 4 Libraries of Congress (off to the left)

So, you think that weight is a better scale of how much manufacturing a nation does? You are kidding. Right? Good luck with finding that out since it is considered as useful as CO2 per capita. In addition, the discussion was NOT manufacturing exported, but manufacturing.

However, LMGTFY.
And that produced a new report with a graph.
Heck, here is a http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/02/16/rising-us-exports-trade-deficit-oil-china/">new article about exporting.

America is the world #2-3 exporter in terms of manufactured goods (Germany passed us in 2008,9, but we recovered in 2010). The problem is that China CHEATS causing loads of imports to America. That leads to a misperception that America has quit manufacturing. Have them quit cheating, and we will rise to #1 again. When ppl say that USA can not compete, does not manufacture, and does not export, they do not have a single clue of what they are saying, OR they are simply lying to protect something (basically politicians). The best thing that America can do is raise the trade barriers to China, alone. All other major nations, esp. EU nations, have the sanity to say that they will not allow China to do this garbage.

False equivalency.

For a sales site it is required that both types of users be able to use the site. No OS is *required* to be friendly to a certain type of user. In fact it would be beneficial to the non-tech end user if the computer was an appliance that just ran a fixed set of apps. OSX/iOS with a locked App Store is quite close to bringing this kind of device to the market soon.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a fixed set of apps" or "locked App Store". The current App Stores are "locked" in that you need Apple's approval to sell an app on the App Store, and the iOS App Store is "locked" in that it's the only place you can get apps for an un-jailbroken machine running iOS, but they're not "locked" in the sense that the current set of apps on it is the only set of apps that will ever be sold on it. The set of apps you can run on a machine running Mac OS X or iOS is larger than the set of apps that come with Mac OS X or iOS, so the set of apps the machines come with is not a fixed set of apps that are the only apps that the machine will ever be able to run.

When I hear "appliance that just [runs] a fixed set of apps", I think of a machine that comes with the only apps it'll ever run; that's not what a machine running Mac OS X or iOS is. Apple does sell machines of that sort, such as the AirPort {Express,Extreme} (which don't run particularly user-visible apps) and the Apple TV (which currently has a fixed set of "apps", although the functions it can perform can be extended with software updates), but the Apple TV might, at some point, be another iOS platform supported by the App Store.

One might argue that a Chromebook is such an "appliance", but, well, there's this programming language out there called "JavaScript", and a whole bunch of places that upload JavaScript code, so even that is arguably not a fixed-function appliance.

The API is at https://developers.google.com/+/api/

D

From the link: "The Google+ API currently provides read-only access to public data." Or as Steve Yegge refers to it: "the Stalker API".

The API is at https://developers.google.com/+/api/

D

From the link: "The Google+ API currently provides read-only access to public data." Or as Steve Yegge refers to it: "the Stalker API".

Judging by google trends, it doesn't seem like Mint is even a blip on the radar compared to ubuntu: http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux+ubuntu%2C+ubuntu%2C+mint%2C+linux+mint&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

I've been using Clementine for awhile now. It's still a bit rough around the edges (no podcast support) but it looks and works just like the old Amarok 1.4 did. (I always hated Amarok2... I kept old KDElibs around just so I could run 1.4 as long as possible) I forget if Clementine is a complete rewrite or a port of 1.4 to Qt4 libs.

Besides, who needs Mono when you can write cross-platform apps with Qt? Stuff like automatic garbage collection isn't enough to get me using .NET, not when Qt is pretty good about cleaning up after itself at the QObject level. Sure, you may have to do some manual GC here and there, but its nowhere near as bad as vanilla C++ is.

Of course they're going to talk about version numbers in the "Google Chrome Releases" blog. Now compare these and see which one advertises the version number: http://www.google.com/chrome/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

here is a great youtube downloader. you might have to restart the browser a time or two to get it working. but it is very convenient. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linimbofbhfiebblpncbhgefaolagapd?hl=en-US

Seriously, this is like announcing an iPod dock for MGB motor cars (only arguably less useful). It doesn't hold interest for that many people and the audience that it potentially COULD affect are not likely to install it...

O RLY? Just Google it.

And, yes, presumably they wouldn't be offering this if they didn't think it's useful to be able to run Windows on x86 blade servers plugged into IBM mainframes.

...is Google for? Maybe it's so you can find this site? Hint: it's a tiny $25 computer.

Raspberry Pi has been covered numerous times at slashdot. I'm surprised you haven't seen it before.

Recent security breaches on Linux listed next:

---

KERNEL.ORG COMPROMISED:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised

---

Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/more_linux_sites_down/

---

Mysql.com (runs Linux) Hacked, Made To Serve Malware:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2218238/mysqlcom-hacked-made-to-serve-malware

---

Then, there's ANDROID, and it's showing us all that all the FUD on /. for years now that Linux is secure is just that, fud. ANDROID's being torn up in the hundreds with exploits and yes, ANDROID uses Linux kernel.

"Toss out Windows, start with a custom Linux distro and go from there" - by GameboyRMH (1153867) on Tuesday November 08, @09:04AM (#37984364)

Isn't ANDROID a "custom Linux"? Then, how come it's being TORN UP SO BADLY IN SECURITY & NEARLY DAILY YOU HEAR ABOUT EXPLOITS ON IT FOR YEARS NOW??

* That's all recent news of Linux security breaches there above, folks, and for all those years we all kept hearing "Linux = secure" around here, well... read 'em & weep above!

APK

P.S.=> By the way - You CAN secure Windows, & I've done so (remained uninfected since 1996 in fact on Windows NT-based OS by using what's in the link below):

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&ei=2Em5TufwI-qe2AWdvY2dBw

And, yes, it actually WORKS...

However: Don't let ME just say it, I'll let others from the links above say it instead:

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!" - THRONKA, user of my guide @ XTremePcCentral

AND

http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=672ebdf47af75a0c5b0d9e7278be305f&t=28430&page=3

"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to cal

Something about the Zetas being a bunch of vicious psychopaths who promised to murder 10 innocent people for every one of them exposed.

http://news.google.com/news/story?q=anonymous+mexico+released&ncl=dDDFCRps7NE7hAMKfHxwafes1bMuM

After the release of the Anonymous threats, the kidnapped member was released with a note that promised to kill 10 people for every name exposed by the group.

Sounds like their plan worked

sarcasm

Yes, but I live in Florida, and we have this HUGE phosphate strip mining industry that's eating a giant hole in the middle of the state while simultaneously creating huge piles of radon emitting slag next to the port. Without worldwide agricultural dependence on our phosphate production, we'd lose a couple of hundred blue collar jobs amounting maybe 0.1% of the economic impact of tourism. The strip mining would stop, the industrial port traffic would be reduced, all those clouds of sulphuric acid coming from the refineries would stop. Oh, please, please don't stop using our phosphates!
 
/sarcasm

With Google+ the url is http://plus.google.com/58493672095786225. Awesome! Google just doesn't see the whole picture.

Just type: +Nintendo or +Pepsi into your browser's google search bar, or into google search directly. Takes you right to the page. Much easier than a URL. Once there, you are on the URL, so if you like, you can bookmark it.

but it's a little bit harder to put in advertising material.