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Fun fact: Agent Orange was, at worst, 99.8% dioxin-free.

Actually, most reports of Agent Orange dioxin contamination peg it no worse than 30 ppm TCDD dioxin concentration, which, of course, means the Agent Orange could still be 99.997% pure!

So, next time you see something that claims to be "99% organic" or "99 44/100% pure", just remember that it could potentially be several orders of magnitude worse than the contaminated Agent Orange used in Vietnam.

i am michael kristopeit. i live at 4513 brittany ct. eau claire, wi. 54701. i live there in the house i paid cash for with my wife and children and dogs and numerous firearms.

Dude, plant a few flowers around your house. A splash of color would really liven things up.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/content.html has the same "User Profile Name" section as before this, the policy is very much in place still for profiles that you or your public relations firm manage for you.

Open https://plus.google.com/111883881632877146615/posts?

There's nothing in the URL standard that says they have to be "friendly".

google "pepsi facebook" is good enough for me without needing to remember useless corporate shit.

Link #2: https://www.google.com/#q=pepsi+google ("pepsi google")
Link #3: https://www.google.com/#q=google+pepsi ("google pepsi")

Those searches aren't all that difficult either.

google "pepsi facebook" is good enough for me without needing to remember useless corporate shit.

Link #2: https://www.google.com/#q=pepsi+google ("pepsi google")
Link #3: https://www.google.com/#q=google+pepsi ("google pepsi")

Those searches aren't all that difficult either.

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.

They have huge limits on your account if you use pseudonym instead. And they only backed out of real name policy as it become impossible to verify with different nationals and they started losing users. Of course, they are still losing users.

Google just doesn't seem to get the full picture. They imitate Facebook but do it poorly. Lets take for example this pages change. They didn't implement pages properly, they only modified the profile system a bit and actually restricted pages. Google+ pages don't allow HTML or anything else like Facebook does. The absolutely worst thing is the url though; With Facebook you get facebook.com/nintendo. Companies can easily put that in to ads and other material. With Google+ the url is http://plus.google.com/58493672095786225. Awesome! Google just doesn't see the whole picture.

It looks, at least, like Google has abandon the "Real Name" policy. Looking at the Google+ Privacy Policy and Google TOS pages today, I could not find any mention of a real name requirement. Unless I missed something (possible), it looks like Google did the Right Thing after considerable pressure from the community at large:

• Google TOS
• Google+ "Privacy Policy"

Anyone know any different? Is it actually permissible to have a pseudonym-based account on Google now?

It looks, at least, like Google has abandon the "Real Name" policy. Looking at the Google+ Privacy Policy and Google TOS pages today, I could not find any mention of a real name requirement. Unless I missed something (possible), it looks like Google did the Right Thing after considerable pressure from the community at large:

• Google TOS
• Google+ "Privacy Policy"

Anyone know any different? Is it actually permissible to have a pseudonym-based account on Google now?

Just so I am clear, there is quite a bit of openness about the history and current state of the f-35 program. Where are the Solyndra documents?

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4153

That's a total bullshit argument.

NASA would beg to differ...
Evidence: The Case For NASA UFO's - Part 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8524267568796529301

As would these 500 men ...
http://www.disclosureproject.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkswXVmG4xM

Finally, you'll get your dam personal proof in ~2030, and the we can stop arguing about these nonsense questions and get to the real questions -- "What is your view on Religion? Politics? Economics? Math?" .. and the most important one "Why the fuck do you look like humans?"

Sorry I expected more than you prompted with the quote.

Running perl -Dx (perl must have been compiled with -DDEBUGGING ) dumps the Perl op code tree that perl compiles the script into. There is some discussion of the architecture, some discussion of the tree, a example walkthru and some documentation of the facility, as well as work using the system.

But it looks like (especially in the last several years) more "Perl call graph" work focuses on lexically parsing the Perl source. Which to me seems a great waste of this fascinating facility. Even though the graph is of a stack machine, not dataflow exactly, it seems like an interesting facility to target with a graph editor.

I am referring to the nexus which was designed to avoid Apple's design patents. After reading your article, I am doubting that we've seen the last of this kind of activity from samsung.

Hey friend, have you tried live bookmarks for chrome? I'm not really into live bookmarks so i can't tell you how well it works or not, but it sounds like what you are looking for.

You mean like this? The location is from the USGS Earthquake Page showing the locations of the recent Oklahoma earthquakes. Is that a gas well right next to the quake location (that "bright square pad")? And could those be fault lines in the background?

It's hard to tell exactly what's on it, but I see a pad with what looks to be four tanks just north of there. It looks like it has a few horizontal and vertical separators too. Major hydrofracturing activity in Oklahoma is centered around other places though.. McAlester, El Reno and Elk City.

The kinds of wells that are known to be quake-causing, according to my geophysicist friend, are water disposal wells. These will have lots of tanks, often 10-20 tanks, for storage buffering. It will also conspicuously have electricity leading to the site to power the injection pumps.

The XY location of the quakes has an uncertainty of 8 miles. The depth was something a little less than a mile uncertainty. So you don't need to look *right* by the given epicenter. I don't think that particular facility could be responsible for releasing several high-magnitude quakes, when compared to what has been causing problems in Arkansas and Texas.

Those ridges may or may not be fault lines.. there is another phenomena that formed those here, the dust bowl. They're all over the place, so I can't say for sure, you'd have to consult the USGS maps. I think there is a fault line through Lincoln County.

Probably Google maps are too outdated to show a recent problem well, in hindsight. I'm curious what kind of operations are in the area, because I've never been there for work, but I have been nearly everywhere in the state where there are major operations going on. Based on the Prague homepage, it looks to be a depleted field, and I wouldn't expect any major hydrofracturing or disposal activity there.

...I don't think there's a lot of that kind of activity in that area. If you check the satellite maps you can verify that, wells stand out as bright square pads.

You mean like this? The location is from the USGS Earthquake Page showing the locations of the recent Oklahoma earthquakes. Is that a gas well right next to the quake location (that "bright square pad")? And could those be fault lines in the background?

Check out the D programming language. It also is what C would look like, had it been invented today. https://www.google.com/search?q=d+programming+language

Are we quite sure this server was hacked?

Universities have an enormous attack surface.
It didn't even take me 30 seconds to find two MIT websites that have been exploited

Both of these redirect to online pharmacies
open at your own risk
advocacy.mit.edu/coulter/?qq=3502
education.mit.edu/ar/ar/ar.php?q=541

You can find more if you like, just change "viagra" to whatever spammy keyword you can think of
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:mit.edu viagra

I don't think you understand the purpose of the barometer - it's to allow a faster GPS lock. On more than one occasion, I've entered a new destination into my phone while in a new town, exited a parking garage and then have to guess which way to go while I wait for the phone to get a GPS lock.

I have to call you out on this; it makes little sense to me. The phone already has a rough idea of where it is from cell tower triangulation.

Your approach would sam to be to do a power hungry full-on GPS scan every time the barometer shifted by much from the last setting. So what happens when you go into a tightly sealed building with a powerful HVAC? Or up an elevator 10 floors? All it would seem to do in everyday life is act as a battery drain for far less benefit than cell-tower triangulation gives you.

Even if it makes little sense to you, that doesn't keep it from being true. While the phone has a rough 2-D idea of where it is, the barometer adds a third dimension. I don't know what you mean about a "power hungry full-on GPS scan every time the barometer shifted by much" - the barometer is only used to get an initial lock, once GPS is locked, then there's no need to consult the barometer. And if the barometer is wrong due to environmental conditions, then it just means that the GPS lock will take longer.

But you don't have to believe me, listen to a Google Android engineer:

https://plus.google.com/112413860260589530492/posts/jVJhPyouWDP

It's been widely reported in the press:

https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=android+gps+lock+barometer

I don't think you understand the purpose of the barometer - it's to allow a faster GPS lock. On more than one occasion, I've entered a new destination into my phone while in a new town, exited a parking garage and then have to guess which way to go while I wait for the phone to get a GPS lock.

I have to call you out on this; it makes little sense to me. The phone already has a rough idea of where it is from cell tower triangulation.

Your approach would sam to be to do a power hungry full-on GPS scan every time the barometer shifted by much from the last setting. So what happens when you go into a tightly sealed building with a powerful HVAC? Or up an elevator 10 floors? All it would seem to do in everyday life is act as a battery drain for far less benefit than cell-tower triangulation gives you.

Even if it makes little sense to you, that doesn't keep it from being true. While the phone has a rough 2-D idea of where it is, the barometer adds a third dimension. I don't know what you mean about a "power hungry full-on GPS scan every time the barometer shifted by much" - the barometer is only used to get an initial lock, once GPS is locked, then there's no need to consult the barometer. And if the barometer is wrong due to environmental conditions, then it just means that the GPS lock will take longer.

But you don't have to believe me, listen to a Google Android engineer:

https://plus.google.com/112413860260589530492/posts/jVJhPyouWDP

It's been widely reported in the press:

https://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=android+gps+lock+barometer

There is a lot of speculation on many sites about Microsoft being the financier but AFAIK there is NO PROOF.

hence

Citation Needed.

and

Where's the Beef (to borrow a phrase from a US Election)

OK, dipshit. Here you go: "In early 2003, Microsoft started paying SCO what eventually grew to $16.6 million for a Unix license, according to regulatory filings."

Of course, this won't satisfy you as your dipshit A/C modus operandi is to reflexively deny things such as the Holocaust and Microsoft supporting SCOX.

This is a good reminder that earthquakes do eventually occur in many places that we like to think of as earthquake-proof, even if they're rare.

Especially if people are expending a lot of fracking time in Oklahoma...

google groups shows you as being wrong http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?hl=en?hl=en& if i recall correctly google groups doesn't allow you to download binaries.
sure your newsfeed might be relegated to binaries, but the google one is quite diverse and has many languages, and plenty of content.

Parsing buffers in memory http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22parsing+buffers+in+memory%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&ei=ucq1ToqKIYqW2QWmr-nMDQ

Problem with corporal punishment is that it is usually delivered in a state of hate and rage, giving the whole method a bad rap. I have also noticed, with my kids at least, that physical pain, or the threat of it, is a small motivator compared to the things that really matter to them.

I lived in Texas for a couple of years, and the thing that amazed me about the extra conservative conservatives I met there was how they publicly expressed a set of values that they themselves could not live up to. It's nice to aspire to improve yourself, but wishing for your children to be "better people" than you or your parents ever were doesn't make it so, belt or no belt.

Cash and Short Term Investments were $25 Billion as of 9-24-2011 balance sheet.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL&fstype=ii

Parsing bitmap data http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22parsing+bitmap+data%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&ei=xbW1TtyPGs242QXhk8DMDQ

From 2001: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/browse_thread/thread/df4b4363d544f766/
"My question is: should software tools, protocols, and standards play a role in easing this required "due diligence" license management work (at least as far as copyright alone is
concerned)?"

Still not really answered...

OMFG AC, here I go again.

2. Banks with $10b in assets have millions of transactions per day and computers make this a massive profit center for banks at the expense of consumers.

Every bank has transactions in proportion to the amount of money it has under its control. What the hell do computers have to do with it?

3. The rate is cranked down to provide relief to merchants and consumers

If it were to provide relief to merchants and consumers, it would apply to all banks. Instead, Dick Durban is telling people to switch to smaller banks who will continue to charge merchants the same amount that were previously charging.

which reduces the massive profits of banks who then proceed to be outraged that they'll only make $4.2 billion in profits this quarter instead of $4.6 billion.

Made-up-number billion in profits on what revenue? Let's look at Bank of America:
$75 billion in revenue in 2010, net loss of $2.2 billion in 2010, or 2.9% loss.

Want more? Citigroup:
$79.5 billion in revenue in 2010, net income of $10.9 billion in 2010, or 13.7% profit.

13.7% return on investment is slightly above average for corporate investment--a US Treasury bond will yield 13%. Bank profits are not extremely high. The repeating of "BILLIONS IN PROFIT" as a mantra is a way to snag useful idiots who think that's meaningful. It's fucking propaganda. The more is invested in a company, the more it needs to make to keep investors interested. If they've got TRILLIONS INVESTED, they damn well better be making billions back on that investment.

4. Banks which used to give customers toasters to open accounts now decides depositors are really just profit centers and attempts to increase their profit margins on those who fund the deposits they use to provide loans and other services.

Because it doesn't currently pay enough to lend money, so they need to make money moving the money around instead. The real estate market is headed for another correction, and everyone knows it. What else do people borrow for? Oh, credit cards? Those are easier than ever to get!

The banks who are borrowing at nearly 0% from the fed and then buying treasuries rather than loaning the money to businesses to spur the economy as intended?

And whose fault is it that the banks can borrow money from the Fed so cheaply? Why would anyone be surprised that they seem uninterested in borrowing from customers and paying them for the privilege of holding their money?

And how in the world can you expect anyone, corporation or person, to put their money at risk by investing in businesses when they can loan it instead to the US government with no risk at all? Since the US government can just order more printed, they'll "never" default!

Certainly something needs to change, but it's NOT THE DEBIT CARD TRANSACTION FEES.

OMFG AC, here I go again.

2. Banks with $10b in assets have millions of transactions per day and computers make this a massive profit center for banks at the expense of consumers.

Every bank has transactions in proportion to the amount of money it has under its control. What the hell do computers have to do with it?

3. The rate is cranked down to provide relief to merchants and consumers

If it were to provide relief to merchants and consumers, it would apply to all banks. Instead, Dick Durban is telling people to switch to smaller banks who will continue to charge merchants the same amount that were previously charging.

which reduces the massive profits of banks who then proceed to be outraged that they'll only make $4.2 billion in profits this quarter instead of $4.6 billion.

Made-up-number billion in profits on what revenue? Let's look at Bank of America:
$75 billion in revenue in 2010, net loss of $2.2 billion in 2010, or 2.9% loss.

Want more? Citigroup:
$79.5 billion in revenue in 2010, net income of $10.9 billion in 2010, or 13.7% profit.

13.7% return on investment is slightly above average for corporate investment--a US Treasury bond will yield 13%. Bank profits are not extremely high. The repeating of "BILLIONS IN PROFIT" as a mantra is a way to snag useful idiots who think that's meaningful. It's fucking propaganda. The more is invested in a company, the more it needs to make to keep investors interested. If they've got TRILLIONS INVESTED, they damn well better be making billions back on that investment.

4. Banks which used to give customers toasters to open accounts now decides depositors are really just profit centers and attempts to increase their profit margins on those who fund the deposits they use to provide loans and other services.

Because it doesn't currently pay enough to lend money, so they need to make money moving the money around instead. The real estate market is headed for another correction, and everyone knows it. What else do people borrow for? Oh, credit cards? Those are easier than ever to get!

The banks who are borrowing at nearly 0% from the fed and then buying treasuries rather than loaning the money to businesses to spur the economy as intended?

And whose fault is it that the banks can borrow money from the Fed so cheaply? Why would anyone be surprised that they seem uninterested in borrowing from customers and paying them for the privilege of holding their money?

And how in the world can you expect anyone, corporation or person, to put their money at risk by investing in businesses when they can loan it instead to the US government with no risk at all? Since the US government can just order more printed, they'll "never" default!

Certainly something needs to change, but it's NOT THE DEBIT CARD TRANSACTION FEES.

"StreetScooter", great name for a product... that isn't a scooter.

The German word for scooter (according to Google Translate) is "Roller", so I'd guess the project name is in Germlish or Engeutch or whatever. Maybe it's like the mock Swedish names IKEA gives things that make your wife say, "Oh, honey, this Dyra skithög is just what we need to organize our string collection!"

Ya. Don't hold onto that dream too tight. I have a little story to tell you...

I was a Wells Fargo customer. I was moderately satisfied with them, except when they screwed with me..

I had to take a trip up to Boston.. Fly up, rent a car, drive an hour, and spend a week working. No problem. When I got there, I caught the shuttle bus to the rental car parking lot. When I got there, they said "Sure, we'd rent you a car, but your card has been declined." I had plenty of money *in* the account, so I figured a quick call to the bank would fix it... Business account, business traveler, they'll get it fixed right up, right?

I spent the following hour on the phone, where they explained to me that there was possible fraudulent activity relating to my card. They couldn't tell me *what* the activity was, just that they had cancelled my card.

They did kindly tell me that I could go to any Wells Fargo branch, and get a temporary credit card. I asked which one was walking distance from Boston's Logan airport, as I had $20 in my pocket, and no car to drive anywhere, because I *couldn't* rent a car, because they cancelled my card. They didn't answer.

A few more phone calls, and becoming gradually pissed off, I managed to arrange for a ride. A coworker drove the hour *to* the airport, so we could drive the hour *back* to work. (Sorry B'). He also spotted me some cash, so I'd have more than $20 to my name for the week while I was there.

I am one of the many who had financial problems for an extended period. As it turns out, credit card companies really don't like it if you don't pay them for over a year. That bank card, and the cash in my pocket, was all I had.

I finally did find out where the closest branch is. 106 miles, or 2 hours, each way.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the concept of flying across the country to work on site for a week, they kind of appreciate it if you are there to work. Telling them, "Sorry, I need to spend about 5 hours of the 8 hour work day, driving to a bank in *the next state*, to fix some mental deficiency they're having, just won't go over very well..

I managed on the borrowed cash, and finally made it home, late Friday night.

So, I had the opportunity to get more pissed off until bright and sunshiny Monday morning. I went straight down to the closest branch, and asked for details on the fraud. They told me, "Oh, there was no fraud. We mailed you a new bank card. Since you never activated the new one, we cancelled the old one."

I tried to explain the absolute failure of logic in that one. Did they not see airplane reservations, rental car reservations, hotel reservations? They finally told me where they mailed the card to. Not my residence, where I get my statements, and the only address they claim to have on file for me. Not my previous residence. They mailed it to a place I hadn't lived for years.

It then took them about an hour to figure out how to issue the temporary card. They issued it, but it didn't work. So they tried again. and again. They told me I would have my new card, with my name on it and all, in 7 to 14 days.

14 days later.

I opened a new account at a local credit union.

21 days later....

I got the bank card and checks for the credit union.

24 days later...

I got my new card from Wells Fargo. I couldn't activate it.

The CA model is broken. Always has been. Your browser comes with several hundred baked-in CAs, each with complete authority over what your browser thinks is a trustable connection. It's like a RAID 0 array with 600 drives. Just asking for trouble, huh? And it's hard or even impossible to tell when one of those drives is reading or writing bad data. Like the truism about hard drives, "hard drives just fail (so get backups)", CAs fail. Evidently.

Being a CA is a "race-to-the-bottom" business where vendors compete on price. Anyone can be a CA (go right ahead — get OpenSSL and google how), but to compete you have to aim for cheap and cheaper; the landscape is littered with shoddy and dodgy businesses, let alone organizations (e.g., governments) with other interests specifically prioritized over your security. Even if CAs were almost always well-run, you'd still have some rotten ones sitting at the tail of the bell curve. And, again, those failures have complete power over your browser's security.

The model is inherently faulty.

A Google search yields no useful result.

Scratch that.

However, a Google search of "Wireless Dat Service" turns up nothing (so far) but reposts of the same article...

A Google search yields no useful result.

Scratch that.

However, a Google search of "Wireless Dat Service" turns up nothing (so far) but reposts of the same article...

It couldn't be someone who has an axe to grind on Android phones, no?

Contrary to troll belief, that is an excellent question; TFA states that the study was done by "WDS" - however, it never specifies what "WDS" stands for.

A Google search yields no useful result.

As an example, my family recently started experiencing respiratory distress and we suspected toxic mold because of the exceptionally damp, warm summer we had. Yet after *30* pages of search results in Google it is *impossible* to find any information of any kind that isn't trying to sell you a kit.

  https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=+symptoms+of+home+mold

  On the first page of that search are links to the EPA, The Minnesota Department of Health and a medical site.

  Granted, there is crap there but a Bing search with the same terms provided fewer relevant links, IMO.

http://www.google.com/search?q=compile%20java%20to%20native

No, it isn't evil of MS to pay AVG. What's evil is changing the search engine by default and worse, installing a goddamned toolbar!

(link says google because cracked.com is firewalled off here)

It's just plain WRONG to install stuff on someone else's computer without their permission. Period. And they did NOT have my permission! Look, I changed the default search to google, why would I want someone else to change it back?

The evil is using its desktoip monopoly to further its search engine. Hell, they got in trouble with the DoJ for using their desktop monopoly to make IE the dominant browser, how is this any different?

Quotes do not always prevent Google from auto-correcting: https://www.google.com/#q=%22quoties+like+this%22

Have you tried putting a + in front of your words on Google recently? The plus is deprecated, they are going to drop it, it was all over the news. But even if the plus was supported in the future, it's a usability nightmare.

You sure?

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=151ef6cf0a761b74&hl=en

One of the reasons for this is that, across the board, there seems to be a notable reluctance for Google to include input from meatspace, whether that is for customer support or many other issues. Example: There is a web development company which poisons results in my state by automatically generating pages with an overly large (even by and according to Google standards for keyword stuffing) amount of specific keywords. Like so: a search for "Web design My_town, My_state" will return this companies' site at #1 because their php script packs those terms in *8-10 times in 3 small, generic paragraphs* of text. They are specifically gaming Google results; this tactic does not work nearly as well for them in a Bing search.

The company is not local to any of those results, with the exception of the 2 towns they are actually located. I have submitted this site to the Google Webmaster report pages several times over the last year, with no response and no effect. Granted, there are brazillions of pages and I would assume many thousands of such reports, and I understand that Google cannot put eyeballs on every incident immediately, but in this case it would seem that something would be done as *the report is coming directly from a long-term, current user of their services, via a channel explicitly provided to report such abuse*. Why otherwise have such a channel? This is just one example of how I have seen Google starting to slide down from their place at #1. Google could easily use some of their ready cash to pay more people to fill in some of these types of 'holes' in their infrastructure in order to provide better results and a better customer experience.

That doesn't mean the usage works out the same:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=151ef6cf0a761b74&hl=en&start=40

Losing + to Google+ hampers my usage. I used the Boolean "+" quite often and don't believe I will ever use Google+.

Thanks Larry.

You'd be surprised!

Google Code search allows regex matching, e.g.: [abc]+foo.

Apple's bringing of patent lawsuits against Android manufacturers was apparently one of Steve's last acts before his death. "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." Try to tell me that those words are a call to something other than the storm of patent lawsuits they unleashed on the industry recently. Don't try to tell me Steve took Apple with him: if anything, his influence is still guiding the company's hand, and I can only hope that his successors will be less competent.

Maybe google for "the apple store"? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+apple+store%22

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. slashed its global employment by 1,400 jobs...to boost profits and re-balance its work force to pursue new product areas

Phrases like re-balance work force to pursue new product areas make me want to vomit.

So am I an asshole for making a note to check out AMD as an investment opportunity?

Yes and a pawn.