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Another relative here, in the USA. :-) Send me an email if you want, my address is easy to find.

She was my father's aunt IIRC. I only met her once that I can recall, when my father and I visited her home around 1985. But she might have been at some get together or other other times we visited that does not stick out in my mind. I don't remember her speaking English and I do not know that much Dutch. They talked and I went for a walk around the area. I was overdressed in a overcoat and hat, and some neighborhood kids pointed at me and said "gangster" and chased me a bit, and I went into a store to avoid them. So, that's mostly what I remember of that visit. :-)

I feel diet and lifestyle (and the extent to which genes may interact with interests and habits) have a lot to do with this though. So does very early life experiences. Even being born premature might have had some value, in that the slower we grow perhaps the slower we age? Not having kids may have been a factor too? Also, there is a lot to be said for a positive outlook on life however you get that.

Related resources on healthy diet:
http://www.amazon.com/Food-Revolution-Your-Diet-World/dp/1573244872
http://www.amazon.com/Diet-New-America-John-Robbins/dp/0915811812
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/foodpyramid.aspx
http://drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx

Fasting (like for lent) which often connects to religion (and eating less in the past from being less wealthy) can also help:
http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-dr-fuhrman-on-fasting.html

And on getting enough vitamin D (and she was out and about plus maybe got some from herring she liked):
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about-vitamin-d/how-to-get-your-vitamin-d/vitamin-d-supplementation/
http://www.grassrootshealth.net/recommendation
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/vitamin_D_recommendations.aspx

Understanding about good and bad fats:
http://peakperformance.runnersworld.com/2011/05/may-9-the-great-fat-debate-does-the-total-fat-in-your-diet-matter.html
http://nutsci.org/2011/05/04/the-great-fat-debate/
http://www.adajournal.org/article/S0002-8223(11)00291-4/fulltext

Mental health:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bCuC2H-6k_8C
http://books.google.com/books?id=RKZreNYKNHQC
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/what-makes-us-happy/7439/
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/dobbs-orchid-gene

Treadmill workstations for computer users (but be sure to get vitamin D being indoors so much):
http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/08/the-treadmill-workstation/
http://www.squidoo.com/walkingwhileworking

Community level ideas for health:

Try again.

How long after the purchase will they prohibit anyone from using the term Turning Machine in any product or application?

http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder

Sorry Tricorder fans, Tricorder has been deleted from the Android Market by Google, at the demand of CBS's legal weasels. This all happened without any discussion or warning -- I was simply notified after the fact.

I think the outlines of a convincing alternative are coming into view.

The sources of the worlds current problems are complicated and messy. But there are two big themes.

One is that democracy increasingly feels undemocratic, a hobsons choice between two nearly identical sets of alternatives. Party democracy was for the longest time the only reasonable way of doing things, but modern technology offers us the potential for something better, namely delegated voting. By allowing people to automatically delegate their votes by topic, it gives decisions much greater democratic legitimacy and consequently reduces the power of "bad" lobbying (as opposed to "good" lobbying, ie, persuasion of the people through education and argument). This isn't directly related to the financial crisis. But societies current problems aren't purely about finance. They're about a feeling of powerlessness, a feeling that a small elite runs the show for their own benefit. And in the USA perhaps a feeling that politics is getting ever crazier and more influenced by lobbyists.

The other big theme is of course the financial system itself: how it seems to be constantly on the verge of collapse, how it went so wrong that the world entered recession and how nobody seems to have any ways to fix it. I know there are a lot of skeptics on Slashdot, but I think together Bitcoin and Ripple are the most concrete proposals for an alternative financial system. Banks and the financial system are so powerful today because they are trust aggregators and we cannot currently do without that, the result being that they cannot be allowed to fail. This results in the well known "moral hazard" - the profits are privatized but the risks are socialized, and nobody can opt out.

The underlying principle of Bitcoin is minimizing the need for trust. There's a lot more to Bitcoin than just sending and receiving payments. It's a complete framework for distributed contracts, an HTML of transactions if you will. The potential of the protocol is still being explored, but what's clear is that where previously you may have needed large, 'trustable' institutions to perform various kinds of of trades, now you can do them with cryptography instead. This in turn makes finance more competitive and thus democratic, by reducing the barriers to entry and allowing smaller lesser-known companies to compete on an equal footing. The 99% have a chance at doing the work of the 1%, which means the inequalities between finance and the rest of us should even out somewhat.

Are these proposals perfect? No. They are, however, concrete and specific ideas that can be debated on the details, rather than merely slogans to be thrown around.

Sorry,
I don't get about what you are nitpicking constantly. The original parent poster claimed Prolog "is the same" as Lisp, which it clearly is not.
That you can write a parser/interpreter for another language should be obvious. However you are right in the case of Lisp/Prolog that this is surprising easy and the "guest language" fits so nice into the host language.
BTW: I usually read posted links otherwise I would not find gems like this ;D https://sites.google.com/site/prologsite/prolog-problems I wished that had existed when I studied CS, I guess more people would love prolog then.

However the final nail in the coffin is that he doesn't know how to spell photon (it is not spelt foton!)...

Not every language spells photon as such. For example, Dutch, the language of the author, spells it as foton. So yes, photon is spelled "foton", just not in English.

As to the paper, the sort of error that supposedly happened with GPS, strikes me as the sort of error that would not be corrected by the system since it's not relevant to GPS's primary task, positioning to within tens of meters. It's particularly suspicious given that it is of the right size to explain the anomaly.

I will bring you the definition of what you are http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=what+is+a+nutjob%3F&btnG=Search ROTFLMAO!

"We actually have a new metric to report of 550,000 Android Devices activated a day! "

https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCbpZ7

You needed something like a chef mat

Google+ is dieing. Google trends confirms it.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2B%2C+google+plus&date=mtd

just because it's in a case with the apple logo doesn't make the hardware magically better. the parts are exactly the same as the other laptop's granted some laptop models have heat dispersion issues and mac's are not immune. a simple google search would show many mac book both pro and non have had over heating problems.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=overheating+mac+books

really do your homework.

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+activation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&lr=lang_en#pq=iphone+activation&hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=8&xhr=t&q=iphone+4+activation&qe=aXBob25lIDQgYWN0aXZhdGlvbg&qesig=XLmPgR3zxn9b7jGXld54Ww&pkc=AFgZ2tlaUel7DP39FfKh34fxiYL1bHIbzn5WdbVX3hSy47HOmsADfaEgURfkrUAWR-BKQr3I9JAsxNpecw3Xs9tUpxxOE6HHiQ&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&lr=lang_en&safe=off&tbs=lr:lang_1en&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=iphone+4+activation&aq=0&aqi=g2g-c2&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=8e7fa2636e8b849&biw=1920&bih=1034

You could create an array of cameras to capture highspeed video

I was thinking more along the lines of Google Image Search for white refrigerator.

http://www.google.com/search?q=white+refrigerator&tbm=isch

The images are small enough that you can't see their logos. So how many of those can you tell apart? Can you tell me which ones are manufactured by Westinghouse, just by their visual appearance?

You now, why don't you show me yours in this collection, because you sure moved it a lot lately: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1394&bih=855&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=goalposts&oq=goalposts&. Or tell me two from your page that are made by different manufactures and ask me two tell them apart. Because the judge didn't hold up two tablets neither made by Apple nor Samsung and asked which was made by which manufacturer.

I was thinking more along the lines of Google Image Search for white refrigerator.

http://www.google.com/search?q=white+refrigerator&tbm=isch

The images are small enough that you can't see their logos. So how many of those can you tell apart? Can you tell me which ones are manufactured by Westinghouse, just by their visual appearance?

You now, why don't you show me yours in this collection, because you sure moved it a lot lately: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1394&bih=855&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=goalposts&oq=goalposts&. Or tell me two from your page that are made by different manufactures and ask me two tell them apart. Because the judge didn't hold up two tablets neither made by Apple nor Samsung and asked which was made by which manufacturer.

I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.

Bravo! this has been reposted only 35 times over the past couple of years and keeps on getting moderated as funny. Some jokes don't get old, apparently.

Of course no one ever thought about making a tablet as simple rounded rectangle with touchscreen plus webcam/few buttons! Especially not Samsung, no siree!

I missed that, I'll have to give that a whirl. I assume this is the one you mean: http://code.google.com/p/ooo2gd/

I was thinking more along the lines of Google Image Search for white refrigerator.

http://www.google.com/search?q=white+refrigerator&tbm=isch

The images are small enough that you can't see their logos. So how many of those can you tell apart? Can you tell me which ones are manufactured by Westinghouse, just by their visual appearance?

Typical conservative new jerk. How abut you educate yourself? naw, facts will be contrary to your belief.

"Google may say Don't Be Evil, but how do such flaming Liberals define Evil to start with?"

http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html

fucking troll asshat.

I guess you meant this posting.

Yeah, that could only have been done by an utter design genius.

Why the dripping sarcasm? This is true. Good industrial design has always been about stripping a thing down to its essentials and making it as simple and focussed to its task as possible. And that does take an utter design genius.

Before the iPad, tablet design was like this and this and this.

The hallmark of good design is that after we see it, it seems "obvious", and design illiterates think there's absolutely nothing special about it. But they can't explain why nobody thought of it before then.

Why aren't LCD monitor companies fighting each other in court?

They're too busy conspiring with each other instead..

... claimed in the suit? Rectangular LCD touch screens? I think it goes a bit deeper than that. Its the internal h/w, but more than that, the application s/w and drivers that matter.

No, it's fucking not.

It's this design patent right here (Or the European equivalent, in the German case, same pictures though.) Which is for a round-rect slab with substantially smaller corner radiuses and markedly different side/end profiles than the iPad or GalTab.

Which is stupid, because design patents are supposed to cover the purely ornamental, not functional, aspects of a design, and a round-rect is the only obvious way to hold a rectangular LCD panel and be comfortably holdable (no sharp corners) -- the exact radiuses chosen are pretty much the extent of ornametal design, and in this area the patent doesn't even match the iPaf! But it's not about internal or software voodoo, it's purely about the external design, and if a person with ordinary eyesight can't tell them apart at 10 feet, it pretty obviously violates that patent (which should never have been granted).

Rectangular LCD touch screens? I think it goes a bit deeper than that.

Nope. Here's the specific patent Apple has on an "ornamental design for an electronic device". The claim is on the drawings as shown. Nothing about internal hardware, software, drivers, or anything else except a flat rounded box with a screen on it that one may hold and use as shown in figure 9.

Has GDocs added features recently? Seemed rather stagnant over its life to me (like most Google products - initial enthusiasm and then they lose interest and go do something else).

Personally, without something as fundamental as indents in spreadsheet cells it is useless to me. And to many other people, it seems. I realize it's only one feature of many possible ones, but it's an example of what happens when you have a company providing your software as opposed to a community. Their priorities (and attention-deficit problems) always outweigh yours.

Has GDocs added features recently? Seemed rather stagnant over its life to me (like most Google products - initial enthusiasm and then they lose interest and go do something else).

Personally, without something as fundamental as indents in spreadsheet cells it is useless to me. And to many other people, it seems. I realize it's only one feature of many possible ones, but it's an example of what happens when you have a company providing your software as opposed to a community. Their priorities (and attention-deficit problems) always outweigh yours.

Has GDocs added features recently? Seemed rather stagnant over its life to me (like most Google products - initial enthusiasm and then they lose interest and go do something else).

Personally, without something as fundamental as indents in spreadsheet cells it is useless to me. And to many other people, it seems. I realize it's only one feature of many possible ones, but it's an example of what happens when you have a company providing your software as opposed to a community. Their priorities (and attention-deficit problems) always outweigh yours.

Has GDocs added features recently? Seemed rather stagnant over its life to me (like most Google products - initial enthusiasm and then they lose interest and go do something else).

Personally, without something as fundamental as indents in spreadsheet cells it is useless to me. And to many other people, it seems. I realize it's only one feature of many possible ones, but it's an example of what happens when you have a company providing your software as opposed to a community. Their priorities (and attention-deficit problems) always outweigh yours.

I have, have you? The Galaxy tab looks like the exact same trade dress as their picture frames and their Touch of color line of LCD TVs and monitors. As those all came out before Apple started using the design, I would have to say that Apple copied Samsung here, not the other way around.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=samsung+picture+frame&hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=oWCYTtHaPMbl0QHr582uBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=samsung+picture+frame&hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=oWCYTtHaPMbl0QHr582uBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075#hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=samsung+touch+of+color+&pbx=1&oq=samsung+touch+of+color+&aq=f&aqi=g-S10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=12425l14142l0l15153l15l13l0l5l5l1l215l1169l1.6.1l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=7ed6882dc08ff4ec&biw=1920&bih=1075

Sorry about the hellish links, Google does not lend itself to easy linking...

I have, have you? The Galaxy tab looks like the exact same trade dress as their picture frames and their Touch of color line of LCD TVs and monitors. As those all came out before Apple started using the design, I would have to say that Apple copied Samsung here, not the other way around.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=samsung+picture+frame&hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=oWCYTtHaPMbl0QHr582uBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=samsung+picture+frame&hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=oWCYTtHaPMbl0QHr582uBA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075#hl=en&rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=samsung+touch+of+color+&pbx=1&oq=samsung+touch+of+color+&aq=f&aqi=g-S10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=12425l14142l0l15153l15l13l0l5l5l1l215l1169l1.6.1l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=7ed6882dc08ff4ec&biw=1920&bih=1075

Sorry about the hellish links, Google does not lend itself to easy linking...

Context to the quote:
http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/tenthings.html

I live amongst them, along with millions of other people. Here in New England, the history is this: Prior to European settlement, 75% of the land was covered in trees. The Europeans showed up, cut down the forests and made farms of the land. At this point, roughly 25% of New England was forested, the other 75% was largely farms. Later, the farmers moved to the mid west and west, abandoning the farms in New England, which were a bitch to farm because of the rocky soil. The farms were abandoned and trees grew up in their place. That's why you can hike through forests in New England and find old foundations and very long lines of stone walls in the middle of nowhere. Back in the day, those forests were "somewhere." Even with our "sprawl" in New England, roughly 75% of the land is forested. I can attest to this as I live in a forested burb. Deer, turkeys, foxes, etc. routinely walk through my yard. Don't believe me? Then just pull up http://maps.google.com/ and search on New England. Then look for deforested land... if you do the visual math, you'll see that it is mostly still forested here.

I guessed you missed this the other day: https://plus.google.com/108635142374103391422/posts/b9HcPfQ6z4c

You could try doing something like this - http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/radish.html

This implementation uses an indoor solar powered cholesteric LCD screens that read data from your google calendar via IEEE 802.15.4 wireless communication.

This would meet the low power requirements, or you could get one of the eink dev kits and hook that up instead. If you're using gCalendar then you have a prebaked solution, if not you would have to figure that out. Most calendar apps support exporting as iCalendar so that would be a good starting point.

The problem with private keys as you suggest is that they have vulnerabilities of a different sort: They don't scale and they lack centralized administration. Someone suggested in another thread that it would be great if users could store their private SSH key on a USB thumb drive. To me, this sure sounds convenient to the user but it would be a nightmare for anyone that employed them. They could be fired for insubordination and walk right out the door with a key that lets them remotely access all of the company's servers--even if you disable their account from a centralized location (LDAP, Active Directory, etc). To truly disable their access you'd need to login to every server they ever had access to in order to remove their authorized_keys file (you could use the SSH Power Tool to do it--which I also wrote =).

Where I work we have over 40,000 Unix (or Unix-like =) servers and only about 2,000 of them have some kind of NFS-mounted home directory setup. Those servers are managed by about 37 different IT organizations across the planet but nearly all of them (except those in DMZs and special restricted environments) can be logged into via user's Active Directory accounts. There's literally hundreds of teams of sysadmins, DBAs, and application administrators of varying sorts that administer their respective things across a wide variety of geographic locations and organizations. There's not a single admin team that has access to everything the other teams have access to. Also, there's a number of servers that you can't just login to (to make a change) except during special maintenance windows on the weekends (don't ask--super duper restricted--all sorts of alarms would go off and regulators would probably storm in, LOL).

I have friends that work at other big businesses with similar situations (tens of thousands of servers with accounts managed via AD/LDAP). When an employee leaves the organization, how do you propose you disable their access? With key-based authentication you need to visit every server they ever logged into to make sure their authorized_keys file is disabled. With password-based authentication you only have to disable their account in AD/LDAP (it's a cinch!).

I can go on and on about this topic... Especially in regards to Kerberos authentication, 2-factor methods, and whatnot. But the point I'm trying to make is that key-based auth isn't the be-all, end-all to SSH authentication that you're making it out to be.

Mind blowing achievement that I think gets little attention. If only we could pair the Siri interface with Watson, and have him tie back to Google, Wikipedia, and Wolfram Alpha, the amount of discoveries we could make would happen in weeks if not days.

Oh boy; here we go again. As a cognitive scientist, I'm appalled by /. people buying on the hype.

Hmm.... huge discoveries... intelligent machines... let's see:

Wolfram: who was the cowboy in washington?

Google: who was the cowboy in washington?

Yup. No improvement after all these years.

Wanna Tip? Please read some Hofstadter.

Gary Whitta has pics up on G+, as he is in the same line with Woz: https://plus.google.com/114522811866073303399/posts

I can imagine Woz cutting in line and yes some people have complained about it.

If it were me, I'd let him cut, but only in exchange for an autograph :)

Incidentally, are you also going to defend patent 5443036 as non-obvious? Because it's really obvious.

P.S. PDF is not supposed to be a editable filetype.

Adobe Acrobat X Pro software enables you to create and edit PDF files.

Foxit PDF Editor.

Nitro PDF Professional editor.

Edit PDF files with PDFescape.

Sometimes, thirty seconds with Google can keep you from saying really stupid things.

Typical of android owners, they know nothing at all about computers and what filetypes to use for editing.

You may submit your apology to me and my Samsung Epic at your leisure.

This is troubling. One of the most important aspects of being a teacher is being able to tailor instruction based on the unique perspective of the student.

As an example, two students present two WILDLY different interpretations of the same material. It takes a more personalized approach to be able to correctly rationalize the origin of either the miscalculation or the brilliant, new solution. Without taking the time to understand, to really understand, how that persons mind works, you won't be giving them the education they deserve.

Online courses can be a godsend for some, but for most ends up being a frustrating and lacking experience.

I guess it boils down to is, do you want to pay for an education or a piece of paper.

Remember, many online "universities" will gladly sell you a doctorate for the right price. And you need never attend a single class.

Maybe, if Apple is really, really lucky, it will be almost as cool as their last game changing UI development.

It actually changed with the latest algorithm update, they're using it now. You're correct about stack exchange like sites actually, they have a huge bounce rate and it's causing trouble for them. It's being discussed on their webmaster forums too, this case is about similar site DaniWeb.

Have you seen Leonard Nimoy lately?
aw man, that was mean, now I'm going to Star Trek hell.

CSB

I'm pretty keyed into the patent issues since I've both generated patents for the place I work and had to defend my work from patent infringement claims. I don't see how preventing patent sales or assignments would improve things for inventors, it would reduce our value to companies.

[Large Company who I won't name] has a team of lawyers who make money by licensing patents. What this means is that they first send you a sternly written letter that you are infringing and requesting a meeting. You review their vaguely worded patent that has little to do with your product, and a lot to do with the fact that they have pursued this claim with other folks in the past, always successfully. You and your lawyer sit down across the table and eventually come to an agreement where they license you the patent in exchange for a percentage of the profits from the product. For a high-tech product this may work out to be 2-3% of what it cost to develop the product. If we had our own patent portfolio like the big guys, we would have fired back a countersuit. Since we're small, its just the cost of doing business. We factor it in. As far as I'm concerned its just another tax.

Then there are ones like the cursor patent on the X-or operation. I got hit with that one back in the 80's when I designed a display controller. Its tough to blame the trolls if the PTO hands out a patent on a well-known mathematical operation see claim 11. It didn't matter to me whether it was the original inventor or someone who had bought the patent. The problem was not that the patent had been sold, it was that it was granted in the first place.

You need a daemon to proxy between the WebSocket connection (which, remember, isn't a straight TCP stream) and the ssh server proper. Although it appears this doesn't need to be on the machine that the ssh server is running on, so it doesn't look like too much of a hardship. Also, I can't find any reference of which of the umpteen different WebSocket variants it supports.

There's actually a number of these things out already, such as ConsoleFish or ShellInABox. There's also an HTML5 VNC client, which looks very interesting.

Noticing the ... er, "interaction" you describe. How did you reconfigure your browsers to stop it? I'm poring through the prefs and not seeing a "Use custom settings" option or something.

I was hopeful that "Default search options" was the answer, and that I could just change
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=002683415331144861350%3Atsq8didf9x0&q=%25s&ie={inputEncoding}&sa=Search
to "http://www.google.com" ... but when I try that, it just reverts.

(Yep, I'm a lazy perpetual newbie with a bad memory.)

timothy

Shellinabox has been doing this in JavaScript for a while now. There's source and binary packages for everything from Red Hat to Debian armel.