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This "article" appears to be complete and utter bullshit.

If you value your time, stop reading now.

Much farther down in these comments, someone with lower karma posted links to youtube video & picasa jpegs of the connectors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSkUM6HonkY
https://picasaweb.google.com/111571551554338213029/WasTheIPodAccessoryPortInspiredByA40YearOldCamera?authuser=0&feat=directlink

These connectors are not even close to compatible:

1) As demonstrated, they do not even fit together.

2) The old camera appears to have a FEMALE connector (accepting a male PCB edge from a flashbulb or whatever), while the iPod has a MALE connector (wafer-card which inserts into the female enclosure on an ipod cable or dock).

3) The iPod connector has 30 contacts, while the old Polaroid connector appears from the pics to have 8 (or at most 9) contacts.

Comparing these connectors is like comparing apples...and dolphins.

Bad slashdot. No dinner. Go to your room.

It looks like someone should ban the OP.

Apparently Apple have got the video and images removed from the web, but here are they again =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSkUM6HonkY https://picasaweb.google.com/111571551554338213029/WasTheIPodAccessoryPortInspiredByA40YearOldCamera?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Good news on the generation efficiency thing...

There was an article a couple of years ago that looked into the history of one of the patents. Patent 6,269,361 that covers bid for advertisement placement in search results was developed by a company named Overture. Gates wanted it, but Yahoo bought the company in '03 for $1.63 billion. Microsoft started licensing the patent from Yahoo. There was also a settlement between Google and Yahoo over the patent. This could be the key that Microsoft wants to go after Google's ad words and keep any other competitors out of the market.

I have looked at the data:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+data

Unemployment was trending downward from the Reagan administration (30 years ago, the number you mentioned) until the current recession. Reagan jumpstarted a stagnant economy with deficit spending (contrary to what Republicans would have you believe), Bush the First got screwed over by the results of that policy, Clinton swept in just as the tech bubbles were beginning (read Clinton's words on "Does the President have power over the economy?" at http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/07/bill-clinton-economy-interview/ ), Bush Junior royally screwed up, and Obama, like Bush's father, both got shafted by the results of his predecessor's policies and has also failed to take substantive action of his own, preferring to play politics while accusing the other side of playing politics.

I have looked at the evidence, and I have no heroes in either party or their newfound crackpot offshoots. Rifkin was wrong back in the 90's, and he's not likely to be right about a hydrogen economy now. Rifkin seizes onto fashionable ideas, not onto what's actually going on. He's exactly the person you need to be telling to look at evidence, not ideology.

Here you go https://plus.google.com/116488482438030317181/posts/M9kTMbv7Sab?hl=en
And the video: http://vimeo.com/30244633

I just was struck by stacking the two devices. Made decades apart. Different purposes (mostly), and they are only micrometers off from each other. https://plus.google.com/116488482438030317181/posts/DZ64eTWEsXK?hl=en I don't know what other devices you could put in this stack that would match this closely. Then, looking at who created each made it interesting.

Images from the article: https://plus.google.com/116488482438030317181/posts/M9kTMbv7Sab?hl=en Video: http://vimeo.com/30244633

Here are image links on Google+ https://plus.google.com/116488482438030317181/posts/M9kTMbv7Sab?hl=en Hope that helps.

Now I come the spirit of the law: If the judge wants to block access to the piratebay, why doesn't he in his ruling say: "Providers should where technically possible not allow access to 'The pirate bay', this includes no access to the domains www.thepiratebay.org etc.". In that case it would be much clearer in giving examples, and taking the spirit of the law into it. Going around that would definitely show a breaking of the law (spirit and letter) or rather a ruling on the law, by a provider.

Please allow me to follow you instruction to the letter and possibly the spirit as far as I can tell from your example: The pirate bay

Do you see the problem with trying to write too generic laws that are open to interpretation?

Well imagine if IBM had patented the PC, then turned around and sued everyone for making IBM compatibles? There would either be no PC market, or it would be an IBM only market, but it would have grown at half the rate due to lack of competition and choice. Kind of reminds me of the growth of nearly every Apple business interest.

Well, imagine that IBM has patented all kinds of hardware of the PC, and has copyright on the BIOS. And they did sue companies that build 100% compatible PCs to stop them from building them because they violated that copyright, until Compaq got around that by re-engineering the BIOS. But later they found it more lucrative to simply force every PC maker into licensing all the trivial little details they had patented, like the keyboard interface, or Diskette drive and media type determinationfor 1% of the selling price per patent, up to 5% max.

I just remembered: Carnage Heart for the PS1 and 2. You had to program giant robots for combat using a graphical programming environment.

Damn, how did I miss that?

Oh well. I found a paper citing 60% annual RAM capacity growth, or quadrupling every three years. IIRC, the last time 512MB was common was 2005 or so, which fits that model. That would put 512GB RAM as common around 2020.

You = Michael Kristopeit - and, what? No new account of the 1,000's you keep here?? After all, you're the only fool who posts made up words like "feeb" & "cower some more", and has literally 100's to 1,000's of registered account usernames here on slashdot too. Proof per this http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=feeb+site%3Aslashdot.org&btnG=Search and that's just another one of the trolling accounts you (actually others posing as you) use to harass others here: Grow up, you fool. If anyone's pathetic around here, it's yourself you effete and nearly always off topic illogical trolling imbecile.

Microsoft has always been a software company, with a focus on languages (remember, their first product was BASIC). Silverlight is a development platform and .NET languages are, well, languages. Those make perfect sense for a software company to produce.

Where do Bing and Zune fit in? Probably nowhere. But keep in mind that in order to be have successful products, you have take risks. Most of those risks will turn out to be unprofitable, but you don't know which ones will turn out to be profitable beforehand so you have to throw many things against the wall to see what sticks.

Do you want a good example of unfocused and money-losing? Have a look at http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html! How many of those things are part of an overall strategy? How many are making money?

dom

BTW, is the SQL actually MySQL?

You know, I could find that answer in probably about as much time as it to took you to ask it. I mean, this is slashdot, you'd think people could use the web. RTFFAQ.

The store icons are pretty fucked up, i wonder if that is actually an official samsung store though, kinda like those unofficial apple stores?

Yes, it is an official Samsung "store in store", "coincidentally" opened the same day an Apple Store opened in the same mall. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsamsung.hdblog.it%2F2011%2F09%2F24%2Fcuriosita-samsung-shop-in-shop-aperto-lo-stesso-giorno-e-nello-stesso-luogo-dellapple-store-di-catania%2F - BTW, Samsung changed the icons after a few hours: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsamsung.hdblog.it%2F2011%2F09%2F26%2Fsamsung-si-corregge-spariscono-le-icone-apple-dallo-shop-in-shop-di-catania%2F

And on the same blog I found yet another example, though not actually by Samsung itself. Maybe. Samsung is selling (or rather giving away) this Bada app. Notice something familiar about the icon? Yup, the background looks remarkably like the the iOS Maps App icon. But that's kinda generic, isn't it? Guess again

The store icons are pretty fucked up, i wonder if that is actually an official samsung store though, kinda like those unofficial apple stores?

Yes, it is an official Samsung "store in store", "coincidentally" opened the same day an Apple Store opened in the same mall. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsamsung.hdblog.it%2F2011%2F09%2F24%2Fcuriosita-samsung-shop-in-shop-aperto-lo-stesso-giorno-e-nello-stesso-luogo-dellapple-store-di-catania%2F - BTW, Samsung changed the icons after a few hours: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsamsung.hdblog.it%2F2011%2F09%2F26%2Fsamsung-si-corregge-spariscono-le-icone-apple-dallo-shop-in-shop-di-catania%2F

And on the same blog I found yet another example, though not actually by Samsung itself. Maybe. Samsung is selling (or rather giving away) this Bada app. Notice something familiar about the icon? Yup, the background looks remarkably like the the iOS Maps App icon. But that's kinda generic, isn't it? Guess again

Indeed, the Great Galactic Ghoul could possibly get another meal here...

PHP is the #1 requested feature for GAE and has been for several years. And Google has pretty much said no. BTW, perl is #3 and ruby is #4.

That is what people want. If I can take my app and move it to GAE, then it might be interesting. If I have to rewrite it in Java or Python...quite a bit less so. Sure, if I have a Java and Python app - and the man-hours to inevitably rewrite parts of it to work with GAE - then maybe I'm interested. Or if I'm starting from scratch, maybe. But honestly there are so many options for running code in the cloud (everything from a simple VPS to EC2) that having to shoe-horn what I want to do into what Google lets me do is a non-starter.

BTW, is the SQL actually MySQL? Or is it "some subset of MySQL mixed with some unique other things we added". If the latter, then again I'm a whole lot less interested. I'm interested in working on my app, not rewriting its DB layer.

Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors.

Because contractors never lose classified information. 'The government is incompetent while private enterprise does things so much better' is such an ignorant meme don't you think?

Cases like Manning being able to get a dump of the entire international cable DB would indicate that the government holds itself to a much lower standard than it holds contractors.

Because contractors never lose classified information. 'The government is incompetent while private enterprise does things so much better' is such an ignorant meme don't you think?

First: I personally don't own any Apple products, thus your assertion is wrong.

In fact, here is a comment explaining why I HATE these types of phones, and here is a comment describing the phone that I do own. Yes, it's a simple old Nokia 6303c, with buttons, with camera taken out and with all phone unrelated functions turned off.

Thus I have just proven another AC to be wrong on his assertions. What an accomplishment.

Secondly: the wealth of new ideas that Jobs has generated are more than just the iPhones and iPads and iPods, all that.

He also produced the first computer animated movies, like Toy Story. He basically ensured that Pixar lives.

While you may be in a camp of hating Apple products, you cannot deny, that other products have borrowed extensively from Apple hardware and software solutions, as so many current gadgets look like they might have been created by Apple, and it's not a coincidence. So yes, by saying what you are saying, you are proving to be an idiot, which was my point.

Of-course I was not talking about that kind of idiot, I was more talking about this kind of idiot, but you are almost out there with them.

Except ... they lay out in their ToS that they give you a minimum amount of notice so you can move off if they discontinue a service. For AppEngine, thats 2 years I believe, and Google App Engine is not the only way to run apps for Google App Engine, you can also use the alternative OSS stack that will serve app engine apps: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

So ... if two years and a free alternative (free as in beer and speech) is 'leave me hanging' then you don't really belong in the tech industry, you won't make it.

Answer is simple, see their stock price... http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ACLWR

Thanks for the comment and reading what I wrote.

Herbert Snorrason might agree with you (and this is not to disagree):
http://groups.google.com/group/openmanufacturing/msg/b9664aa1473d6d53?hl=en
"But there's another point I want to make: I'm a humanities major; history, in particular. That's a subject not exactly known for clarity or brevity. But even so, you manage to surpass everything I've read during my studies. That includes the writings of people like Karl Marx. In the original.
    Say what you will, but that doesn't seem very practical-minded to me. "

I guess that leaves lots of work for others to say what I say in better ways. :-) Which might be a good thing given stuff coming out of the lab like this: :-)
    "PR2 Fetches Sandwich from Subway "
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIYRQC2iBp0

One attempt by me to be less verbose and more clear and simple: :-)
"The Richest Man in the World: A parable about structural unemployment and a basic income"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA

It would help to have better tools for everyone to have better discussions:
http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/-The-need-for-FOSS-intelligence-tools-for-sensemaking-etc.-/76207-8319

I guess the key point is that cheap energy, like cheap robots, can be in many cases be substituted for human labor and human intelligence and so the economy is fundamentally transformed.

Links you might like about the research-proven value of detailed diverse discussions:
http://www.amazon.com/Difference-Diversity-Creates-Schools-Societies/dp/0691128383
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/researcher-responds-to-arguments-over-his-theory-of-arguing/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Focused-Conversation-Access-Workplace/dp/0865714169

I'd much rather pay the extra 99c and not have to do a 10minute round trip in the car.

Agreed, the added value is worthwhile... however, your system is either piracy (frowned upon by the court system), or not quite there yet (I hear Netflix/Hulu have horrible selection).

My method allows me to hit a website, pick a movie, find out which nearby kiosk it's in, go pick it up, and be watching my chosen movie in just a few minutes.

Or were you referring to iTunes? If so, then my response is that I'd just as soon not give any money to a company that thinks the "walled garden" is a good concept. Or that decides it's ok not to honor a warranty. Or that sued a major US city for having the nerve to be called "the Big Apple".

As an aside, RedBox has spit in the face of the movie industry several times, and I kinda like their chutzpah. For example, when they were told they wouldn't be allowed to purchase DVDs at the same time as other rental outfits because they wouldn't wait to distribute them to their customers, they responded by buying retail DVDs at Wal-Mart and distributing those (or at least threatening to, I don't recall exactly how all that went down). They caved in eventually, but they stood up for themselves pretty well, and I've always rooted for the underdog. There's a bunch of stories at techdirt about Redbox, and they've had a fairly exciting legal career for the short (relatively speaking) time they've had their doors open (so to speak).

I'd much rather pay the extra 99c and not have to do a 10minute round trip in the car.

Agreed, the added value is worthwhile... however, your system is either piracy (frowned upon by the court system), or not quite there yet (I hear Netflix/Hulu have horrible selection).

My method allows me to hit a website, pick a movie, find out which nearby kiosk it's in, go pick it up, and be watching my chosen movie in just a few minutes.

Or were you referring to iTunes? If so, then my response is that I'd just as soon not give any money to a company that thinks the "walled garden" is a good concept. Or that decides it's ok not to honor a warranty. Or that sued a major US city for having the nerve to be called "the Big Apple".

As an aside, RedBox has spit in the face of the movie industry several times, and I kinda like their chutzpah. For example, when they were told they wouldn't be allowed to purchase DVDs at the same time as other rental outfits because they wouldn't wait to distribute them to their customers, they responded by buying retail DVDs at Wal-Mart and distributing those (or at least threatening to, I don't recall exactly how all that went down). They caved in eventually, but they stood up for themselves pretty well, and I've always rooted for the underdog. There's a bunch of stories at techdirt about Redbox, and they've had a fairly exciting legal career for the short (relatively speaking) time they've had their doors open (so to speak).

True... but the sheet steel used to form the case of almost all PCs would provide very good magnetic shielding.

Flat sheet steel does little to curb static magnetic fields.

Experiment: Find a CRT, and a magnet. Observe how they behave together. Next, put something steel (the side from a PC case?) between the two, and observer that they behave almost the same... Feel free to repeat with iron filings, aluminum and steel cans, old license plates, or whatever. It shields somewhat, and does a bit of scattering, but it's lousy (and certainly not "very good").

One can use an appropriately curved chunk of curved steel to accomplish some shielding. See, for instance, shielded speakers, which use a cup to completely surround the magnet, sometimes in addition to a second magnet which is only used to help counteract the external field of the first.

But, you know, your PC case isn't shaped like that.

There are certain high-permeability materials (Mu-metal being one) which do far better, but they're pretty far removed from the common mild steel of a PC. (I haven't verified this, but I've read that Mu-metal is used on the back side of the neodymium magnets inside of a hard drive, and if that is the case it would easily explain how one side sticks ferociously to the side of the fridge, and the other side won't even pick up a paper clip.)

They don't exist /as such/, but there are patches that make players ignore the "do not skip" bit. For instance, here's one for a Philips player (DVP5160) , and one for the Mac OS X player. If you want to search for more, the technical name for the limitations is "User Operations Prohibition", or UOP.

Note: IANAL (thank god).

A very informative writeup on the copyrightability of facts and even compilations of facts in the U.S. is this.

To quote the "bottom line" from that writeup:

--Facts that are readily available from numerous sources are pretty much public property for anyone to use (though even here, there may be some "hot news" limitations on how quickly such facts can be copied and republished).

--Facts published in an open fashion, without user restrictions (e.g. a book that includes facts from research that the author undertook) may be okay to use, though I am not aware of any recent case law on this particular situation.

--For facts that are subject to a user license, it is important to read the license very carefully, as for the most part, these licenses are worded to restrict use and republication of the information at hand.

I've never seen Shanks' atlases (and, at this point, I intend to avoid reading them - it's bad enough that I'm "mentally contaminated" by having seen AT&T's UNIX code, I don't want any more "mental contamination"), so I don't know what his (and, for the international atlas, his co-author's) sources were, and don't know whether his atlases read like Eggert's comments (e.g., "well, this source says X, and this other source says Y; for reason Z, I'm going with the first source") or what. He's almost certainly not the original source of the information, as he's not, as far as I know, somebody in the government who set the offset from UTC and the daylight savings time rules for particular locales, so the atlases are probably somewhere between "facts that are readily available from numerous sources" and "a book that includes facts from research that the author undertook", with the "research", in the latter case, being research in other sources.

In particular, note the specific rejection of "sweat of the brow" per se as a basis for copyright protection in matters of databases. The key is whether the database is "arranged and selected in an original manner." I can see this case being decided either way. The White Pages telephone directory is not protected, but on the other hand you cannot copy Webster's Unabridged without consequence. Whether you can copy the gist of a subset of articles in the dictionary is more arguable.

I suspect it's more like "whether you can cite the Encyclopedia Brittanica's claim of X about Y when talking about Y" - but, again, I've not read Shanks.

The work in contention clearly entails a whole different level of research than the White Pages, and quite possibly a level comparable in some sense to Webster's Unabridged. These are not obvious facts growing on trees.

I.e., just as Eggert dug into a whole bunch of documents, including but not limited to Shanks' atlases, to do his updates to the time zone database, Shanks presumably looked at a bunch of sources to produce his atlases.

However, to receive awards based on damages, you have to show damage! Again, that may or may not be the case here. I would suggest that plaintiff does intend to show damage. I have seen the work in question (heck, it's found on a lot of Unix-like systems and repositories). IMHO attribution is given, but there is no verbiage cautioning the reader that its use should be restricted to its intended mission: i.e., telling time in the course of normal operation of the operating system and common programs running thereon.

Actually, its intended mission could be summarized crudely as "make localtime() and mktime() work", and those routines are used for more than "telling time" in the sense of telling you what time it is now by feeding the result of time() to localtime(); they're used for reporting the local time corresponding to time_t values of all

Note: IANAL (thank god).

A very informative writeup on the copyrightability of facts and even compilations of facts in the U.S. is this.

In particular, note the specific rejection of "sweat of the brow" per se as a basis for copyright protection in matters of databases. The key is whether the database is "arranged and selected in an original manner." I can see this case being decided either way. The White Pages telephone directory is not protected, but on the other hand you cannot copy Webster's Unabridged without consequence. Whether you can copy the gist of a subset of articles in the dictionary is more arguable.

The work in contention clearly entails a whole different level of research than the White Pages, and quite possibly a level comparable in some sense to Webster's Unabridged. These are not obvious facts growing on trees.

However, to receive awards based on damages, you have to show damage! Again, that may or may not be the case here. I would suggest that plaintiff does intend to show damage. I have seen the work in question (heck, it's found on a lot of Unix-like systems and repositories). IMHO attribution is given, but there is no verbiage cautioning the reader that its use should be restricted to its intended mission: i.e., telling time in the course of normal operation of the operating system and common programs running thereon.

It would be unfortunate indeed if it has come to this merely because of a misunderstanding or oversight. I hope it can be rectified happily for all out of court, and that neither party ends up being hit with crippling legal bills. I presume all readers will agree that would benefit no one of positive value to society.

Also here is an example of one of the clamps: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=grounding+clamp+i-beam&gs_upl=2434l2434l0l3528l1l1l0l0l0l0l198l198l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=933&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=12394699248708498676&sa=X&ei=1FeOTvqTNNOGsALSzrWmAQ&ved=0CHQQ8wIwAg

site:slashdot.org search function completely sucks

As far as I know, hydrogen can be produced pretty simply using water and electricity.

I will not fall into the trap of citing potentially polarized
sites that may have agendas behind them... so I will
simply state:

There is nothing, either simple (on the scale needed)
or inexpensive (if you're using the electricity you're
producing, to produce electricity... you gotta see that
there's a cost involved, right?) in the production of
Hydrogen. [beyond concept]

Look it up some time:
http://www.google.com/search?&ie=UTF-8&q=hydrogen+production+cost

That is why our vehicles (for the most part) nowadays
are powered by dino juice. [cited that way colloquially]

-AI

meh, too many traps to say that simply

This thread on weldingweb shows how the Magnegas project pitches their "product". Read the thread and note their marketroid's responses.

http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?t=53589&highlight=magnegas

If it sounds like the Petroldragon spiel that's no surprise.

http://translate.google.com/translate?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF&u=http%3A%2F%2Fit.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPetroldragon&sl=it&tl=en

When you encounter such folk on web forums, draw them out that they may bury themselves!

His "feedparser" site is down, but the software is still at Google Code, and there are other maintainers.

If there is really a God, and I am keeping an open mind, I believe he, she, or it would not be very happy with the things perpetrated in his name

I don't know, total lack of reaction (which would be supposedly of zero effort) leads to conclusion that he, she, or it is at the very least indifferent.

Or maybe... I have an impression that one of the few things which would make sense (you know, logic, supposedly one of the gifts which makes us ~"in image" ...surely not to be discarded in such cases?), is if ~souls (flavoured in a way preferred by each deity; so far winning ones perhaps not so clear ;p ) are essentially a food; or maybe sensory organs of sorts, etc.
Other things which would readily make sense being even more unsettling... (spoiled kid with an ant farm; or maybe destroyer and damager, the worst of sinners; or the twists in classic dystheism, maltheism, gnosticism - unfortunately for the Gnostics, following the true deity and uncovering the real nature of the mainstream Christian one as an usurper, the Demiurge, gets you branded by his influence as a heretic and is overall a relatively dangerous thing to do ;p )

If there is really a God, and I am keeping an open mind, I believe he, she, or it would not be very happy with the things perpetrated in his name

I don't know, total lack of reaction (which would be supposedly of zero effort) leads to conclusion that he, she, or it is at the very least indifferent.

Or maybe... I have an impression that one of the few things which would make sense (you know, logic, supposedly one of the gifts which makes us ~"in image" ...surely not to be discarded in such cases?), is if ~souls (flavoured in a way preferred by each deity; so far winning ones perhaps not so clear ;p ) are essentially a food; or maybe sensory organs of sorts, etc.
Other things which would readily make sense being even more unsettling... (spoiled kid with an ant farm; or maybe destroyer and damager, the worst of sinners; or the twists in classic dystheism, maltheism, gnosticism - unfortunately for the Gnostics, following the true deity and uncovering the real nature of the mainstream Christian one as an usurper, the Demiurge, gets you branded by his influence as a heretic and is overall a relatively dangerous thing to do ;p )

Remember, when the Earthquake struck Japan, the Fukishima reactors were shut down immediately - they were turned off, the reactions stopped. But the thermal mass, the retained heat in the system, kept the water boiling and superheated for weeks.

That's false. Only the chain reaction stops when control rods are inserted. Nuclear reactions continue. And even this only keeps a flow of water superheated for a few days. Fukushima occurred because the backup generators failed and there was nothing to keep the water flowing.

Heat up a 50 pound block of nickel to a temperature of 200 deg C, then start pouring water on it at the rate of 5 liters per minute. It'll take hours to cool down the nickel to a point where the water no longer flashes to steam...

Now you're just making things up. The amount of water you can flash to steam by quenching 50 lb nickel from 200 to 100 dC is ((0.54 (kJ / kg)) * 50 pound * 100) / (2260 (joule / mL)) = 0.541902389 liter.

Google language tools don't work on twitter.. But you can copy and paste into google translate The most interesting part is the time line where he says it is in auto-sustain mode.

You don't know much about the GPL, do you? You were almost right about one thing: "nobody can take the code private." Only the copyright holder has the right to change the license. Anyone else, however, can make changes to the software, not provide those changes back to the copyright holder AND make money by selling GPL software. Any modifications you make to the software are also licensed under the GPL and you are not required to share the source code with anyone except the people that use your modifications. If you sell object code (binaries) of the software to customers, you are required to provide the source code to your customers upon request. The price you charge for the software is only limited by what your customers are willing to pay and you can't charge anything more for the source code.

It's not difficult. Reading the GNU project's philosophy on selling GPL software might help you better understand how it works. Looking up "selling GPL software" on Google is also an option.

1st, I'd suggest just trying the 6++ settings I noted on a Windows 7 desktop for starters (do look them up to, so you can verify what I stated as to each one also - to be safe(r), of course!)

Then? Well - you'll see I am "telling it how it is" (for each)...:

"Holy smokes, AC - you're just a little bit above my head with some of that. I'll have to actually do it all, and see." - by Runaway1956 (1322357) on Thursday October 06, @10:13AM (#37625404) Homepage

Trust me, using gpedit.msc? It's a LOT SIMPLER THAN WHAT IT LOOK LIKE (per what I wrote)... by far!

Again - &, I actually USE it that way in fact, where ANY/EVERY user, including admins like myself, HAVE to do more than "click a button" to do various system level or higher priv. things!

(That was a result of my recently taking the newest CIS Tool test (4 Win7/Srv2k8)).

I wrote the folks for the CIS Tool for Windows 7/Server 2008 security test, they gave me a trial model I scored 94% on, actually higher & submitted some findings/thoughts to the folks that created it that they will find useful (the tests' pretty highly esteemed, better than MS' "Baseline Security Advisor" in many ways, imo @ least))

* Those 6-7 settings I put up definitely WILL make it like a *NIX setup, security-wise, on using higher privelege items (&/or protected areas + processes in the system, like installs, etc./et al) where the user HAS to "sign in/log in" WITH PROPER CREDENTIALS to do anything higher privelege related, & even on installs (perhaps the MOST important one to secure, to stop unseen ones, or help, moreso here).

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"And, I have to admit that when and where strict discipline is required" - by Runaway1956 (1322357) on Thursday October 06, @10:13AM (#37625404) Homepage

It is, along with user-education (so they too can understand WHAT to avoid & why)... because of settings like those & some guides I did over time since 1997 for securing Windows:

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

Shows myself, and yes, others, not showing infestations for years to decades++ (myself since 1996 in fact), via implementing tests like CIS Tool (that make it actual FUN TO DO no less, like a benchmark of computer security really in a way) & other measures in "defense-in-depth"/"layered-security" fashion (the best thing we have going today really).

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"Windows can indeed be pretty danged secure." - by Runaway1956 (1322357) on Thursday October 06, @10:13AM (#37625404) Homepage

Absolutely & testimonials from the guides links I've been doing for Windows users since 1997 show it too!

Also, MOST of what hits Windows now, & especially since it's the "most used" by far, overall?

3rd party app problems like JAVA, &/or Adobe Flash/Acrobat Reader issues... ala/e.g.:

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Java, Adobe vulns blamed for Windows malware mayhem - Five products hit in 99.8% of hacks: By John Leyden, Posted in Security, 28th September 2011 07:31 GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/28/window_malware_infection_exposed/

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And, those exploits? They could be foisted upon other OS' too, just like javascript exploits due to faulty DOM could be also...

"The military uses Windows all over the place, and it's pretty secure." - by Runaway1956 (1322357) on Thursday October 06, @10:13AM (#37625404) Homepage

The versions the U.S. Military @ least, gets are "security-hardened" too, & have gotten them that way, since 2004... not SURE if they're as security-hardened

I would have if it had matching documentation, but according to Google, it doesn't.

a social reaction starts

And those 'social reactions' have some epic highlights in France.

CC.

Jobs didn't have the "regular" adenocarcinoma that has a 5% five-year survival rate, he had a rare form that has an estimated 80%-90% ten-year survival rate when detected and acted upon early.

Alternative medicines on the whole are snake-oil treatments that sucker the desperate and ill-informed. Anecdotes do not make science. Unsurprisingly some hold the opinion that there is a greater than zero chance that Jobs would be alive today had he not attempted to treat his cancer with alternative therapies.

Rally? While unemployment peak a few months after Obama took office, it start in 06, and seclated sharply.

Only an idiot, or a person with an agenda, believe Obama casue this unemployment rate. Also, it's getting better. Slowly, but better.
Tarp(Bush) and the auto bailout(Obama) stopped it. look at the trend, it was rising like crazy.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&tdim=true&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+unemployment+rate

I realize you were probably joking, but in the environment we have right now, facts need to be listed, not punditry Bullshit.

Please to fall prey to the anti-Obama redrick and lies. Remember, the pubs stated that their number one priority that needs to be done at all cost, was make Obama a 1 term president. Before Jobs, before tyhe economy, before 99% of the people in this nation.

froma retired republican staffer:
http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

yeah, they've gone insane.

Yes, it is. There are several extensions, one of which is Facebook Disconnect.

I don't know if they want you to block Google Analytics, but they give you a browser add-on to opt-out from it. It works in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.

And what do that link prove? Nothing. It doesn't even link to a video... it just links to someones account. If you have an actual case of FoxNews or whomever calling a republican "democrat" in response to wrong doing, THEN EFFING PROVE IT.

Actually it's a playlist (only a few hundred) of that user's videos, each of which document specific intentional falsehoods perpetrated by the so-called Fox News. This isn't some great conspiracy to smear Fox, you know? If you're as interested in this issue as your shrill rage suggests, you should try watching one or two.

If you have enough time to post, you have enough time to toss your question into google and find more. I also have that time! Here you go.

http://www.google.com/search?q=republican+labeled+as+democrat+fox

Evidently, Marks Foley and Sanford are two, although I have to admit I didn't read past the second link.

enjoy