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Next thing we need to do is start using all touchpad PIN entry and cypher it by having each of the keys (0-9) in a random place on the screen each time, that way, once you've entered your PIN, there's no way to know what number a certain gesture corresponded to

You mean, something like this? (Google translation)

http://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+sues+-apple - notice how "Samsung" always stands before "sues"? Bully indeed.

Yep, the only really useful application I ever ran into for AIR was the Pandora One client because it could add controls to the notification bar and be controlled by keyboard shortcuts. Now I just use the Anesidora Pandora extension for Chrome.

crying that they are the underdog while suing all competition out of the market.

You have described Samsung perfectly. http://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+sues+-apple

if I remember correctly they stated that they will put it inside cars and other embedded devices

Not Ford

So that leaves GM or Chrysler. ie, the two companies that needed repeated bailouts to survive. A match made in heaven^W purgatory.

Umm, they want to "tax you" the same way the goatse guy was "taxed" using GPS data

http://www.google.com/search?q=bills+GPS+tracking+mileage+tax

You _can_ switch off auto-updates for Google Chrome for Business: see http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=187207 although, as they say, they don't recommend it.

I note that using Chrome for Business and allowing auto-updates means that that one can have an auto-updating browser where the end-users are not administrators. This has never been possible with Firefox. It can be done with Internet Explorer too, of course ;-)

Your arrogance is based on ignorance. Might want to look to fixing that.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html

So sending me a link to a "start free trial" page is supposed to show you are not a whining moron? Perhaps you'd like a refund on your free trial dickhead.

Like every other manufacturer, they have good and bad products... Late 90's Chevrolet Lumina/Monte Carlo was a great car (aside from some engine gasket defects)... Hummer H2? You all are welcome to your own opinions, but I'm not a fan... Hyundai/KIA products are definitely competitive these days though...

http://www.google.com/search?q=burning+money&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1400&bih=921

Microsoft...you would have gotten a better ROI building a moon base.

Too late, Google already beat them to it: http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Chrome does not have built in session management, but there's an unobtrusive plugin called FreshStart ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmidkjogcjnnlfimjcedenagjfacpobb ) that is everything I ever needed and more.

The good news is someone opened an "Issue" for the google+ platform. You can follow it here: http://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=22

We've clicked on the star in an effort to show interest in the issue. So far this issue has more interest than any other issue listed, by almost an order of magnitude.

You aren't the only one who wants this. 171 comments on an android issue. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15030

I was under the impression that if a Google+ ban affected non-Google+ services, a user could downgrade his profile to get out of the Google+ ban. According to this article: "Products like Picasa, Reader, and Buzz will revert to the same state they were in before you upgraded to Google+" after a downgrade.

Unless you can't spare fifteen dollars for a USB floppy drive?

go to google.com/+ and you can sign up through there.

Or you can read the article and eventually find the link.

Your arrogance is based on ignorance. Might want to look to fixing that.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html

People like overpaying for things that start with "i".

Like the Samsung iNtercept?

It's 1 minute 23 seconds.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=250+MB+%2F+24+Mbps

For example Google does a insane amount ($60 BILLION) of tax dodging.

That is not at all what that article says. The $60B quote is total for *all companies* per year. Google is lowering it's tax burden by an average of $1B per year. It is also only applying this to overseas income, not US income, on which it pays the full rate. From the article you linked:
"Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years..." (no where near $60B)
"...helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent..." (overseas=not USA)
"Such income shifting costs the U.S. government as much as $60 billion in annual revenue..." (generality with the weasel words "as much as")
"International income-shifting, which helped cut Google’s overall effective tax rate to 22.2 percent last year..." (22.2% >> 2.4%)

So if the overseas income rate is 2.4%, but the overall one is 22.2%, that means Google is paying quite a bit in US taxes on US income. At an average of $1B per year, you are also overstating the "problem" by 60x.

Also, while I like revenue for my government, but why should overseas income come back to the US for a multi-national anyway, when they can spend it where they earned it, such as by building datacenters in the EU?

If anyone is getting "cheated" here, it is the EU since they are the source of this income and that is where the taxes should be paid. Of course the fix is simple, if the EU would like to, it can fix its own tax laws. The US can cry all it wants, but it was never "our" money in the first place, just money earned by a multi-national which happens to have started out as a US company, income that our government would like the company to repatriate for no particular reason other than to pay taxes on it. Paying extra taxes for no reason is something shareholders would rightfully be annoyed about.

GE on the other hand, is relocating US-earned income, which does bug me. Still, I fully expect them to do that (serving their shareholders) until the US closes the loopholes they are using via legislation. That is where the solution must come from -- after all, as individuals when was the last time you overpaid your takes purposely? No, we only pay the taxes that are legally required of us, and no more. Companies will do the same. So just like with the Buffet rule, you need to change the tax law to effect the change you want.

12 condoms? That's a life time supply!

Nope, sorry, latex degrades in time. Especially if used with non-silicone oils/vaselines (e.g.massage oils).

They do: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

Get a domain for $10 a year and sign up. You can alias the whole domain and just blacklist/whitelist at will.

Or...

A 10-second Google search turns up the following quote at the top of a Wikipedia article: Bacterial cells are much smaller than human cells, and there are at least ten times as many bacteria as human cells in the body (approximately 10^14 versus 10^13).[6][7]

Because Wikipedia isn't a primary source, it's necessary to examine the peer-reviewed references to verify this claim:

The adult human organism is said to be composed of approximately 10^13 eukaryotic animal cells (27). That statement is only an expression of a particular point of view. The various body surfaces and the gastrointestinal canals of humans may be colonized by as many as 10^14 indigenous prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial cells (70). These microbes profoundly influence some of the physiological processes of their animal host (49, 103). From another point of view, therefore, the normal human organism can be said to be composed of over 10^14 cells, of which only about 10% are animal cells. The vast majority of the microbial cells in that mass reside someplace in the gastrointestinal tract (70). ... [Savage, Microbial Ecology of the Gastrointestinal Tract, 1977]

... For every cell in the human body (10^13 cells in total), there are ten viable indigenous bacteria in the GI tract... [Berg, The indigenous gastrointestinal microflora, 1996]

If he keeps dining like this, it won't take long for him to be pushing up daisies.

There was a time that the borg face was well earned. Microsoft at one time had a reputation for dirty deeds done cheap (a lot of behind the scenes Machiavellian manipulations and orchestrations designed to kill off competitors, real and perceived.) Bill had a reputation for being ruthless, and Microsoft had a penchant for partnering with other companies duplicating their core technology then burying them.

I applaud Bill for getting religion and looking to polish up his karma, being a humanitarian beats being a corporate hit man. That said, M$ is nowhere near the threat they use to be. They have solid competition on every front, and though Windows 8 may finally get them in the budding phone and tablet market, its going to be a long tough slog, and I wouldn't hold my breath. If I was going to put a borg face on anyone these days it would be Larry Ellison. Talk about assimilation and an ego with its own zip code.

I kinda like this image of Steve Balmer for the new Microsoft logo. Perhaps with little dark shades doing the Ray Charles/Stevie Wonder head tilt. Or better yet, a paper captains hat. Something rowdy without being too mean spirited.

Passion is often mistaken for anger. It is different; there is logic behind my words and actions. Thank you for the reference, I am watching it now. (Link, for others.)

Measured in comparable market share of viability of product. Not a measure of technical traits, speed, design, collusive dealing, abusive monopolistic practices, or heat.

Cyrix - Gone-dead-forgotten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix
PowerPC - marginalized and not consumed on the PC anymore - Apple dumped several years ago
DEC Alpha chip - dead as a door nail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha
AMD - limping along http://www.google.com/finance?q=amd

Perhaps you should try Cygwin's mintty

From that page: "Mintty is based on code from PuTTY 0.60 by Simon Tatham and team. The program icon comes from KDE's Konsole. Mintty ties directly into Cygwin and leaves out PuTTY's networking functionality, which is provided by Cygwin's openssh and inetutils packages instead. A number of PuTTY issues have been addressed."

They really should make it Cygwin's default terminal, if they haven't already.

There isn't quite that much difference as to be considered a fraction. Washington DC is more than just Washington DC (600k) it includes Arlington and a few other burbs (MSA 5.5M) whereas Washington state (6.6M) is just huge, the pop isn't terribly larger, and actually when you compare sizes it is practically empty.

Sources:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS443US443&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=population+of+washington+state (nice graph at top of search)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Metropolitan_Area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

Germany could of course be producing 40% less co2 per capita like some other industrialized nation...

Patent 4,893,271, issued in 1990 and expired, covers an implementation of this idea in which the slow clock is a crystal oscillator, and the high-speed clock is synthesized, using the crystal oscillator as the reference of a phase-locked loop. It was used in tens of millions of Motorola radio pagers for exactly the reason stated in the article -- lower power consumption in sleep mode, while retaining the ability to process fast once a signal appears.

The actual unblemished truth is that the popular "renewable" sources can not supply but a minority proportion of the world's needs for energy.

[citation needed]
TFA:

Germany wants to boost the share of the country's power needs generated by renewable energies to 35 percent by 2020 from 17 percent at present.

Seems that Germany thinks is possible to cover more than 1/3 of its energy needs from renewables, in only 8 years from now. This on top of Germany already producing less than half CO2/capita than some other developed nation.

There are two open issues in android regarding that. 11211 and 3748. Both are flagged medium priority and one & two years old respectively. But seriously, phones hold tons of private information and are frequently lost. Manual encryption of sensitive data is never going to work, with app developers strewing it everywhere (e.g. thumbnails), so OTFE of /data and /mnt/sdcard is the best solution.

Sadly, I suspect someone thinks users prefer convenience over security, so it'll likely be a while before we see these implemented by default. (Normally, I'd think users would prefer convenience, but with something like 1/8 losing their phones I think you could explain the danger fairly easily.)

There are two open issues in android regarding that. 11211 and 3748. Both are flagged medium priority and one & two years old respectively. But seriously, phones hold tons of private information and are frequently lost. Manual encryption of sensitive data is never going to work, with app developers strewing it everywhere (e.g. thumbnails), so OTFE of /data and /mnt/sdcard is the best solution.

Sadly, I suspect someone thinks users prefer convenience over security, so it'll likely be a while before we see these implemented by default. (Normally, I'd think users would prefer convenience, but with something like 1/8 losing their phones I think you could explain the danger fairly easily.)

According to Haaretz ...

Actually, it's "according to Gideon Levy". Take any anti-Israeli statement this man says with a grain of salt. The man was caught taking out of context, and in some cases downright lying, in order to make his point.

Ben-Dror Yemini actually took the time to systematically analyze one of his rants (to the British "The Independent"). Someone took the time to translate the original article to English. You can read Ben-Dror's refutation of the piece (and the man) here.

Shachar

The best method I've seen for a data center is to have a patch bay in each rack going to a MDF (Main Distribution Frame.) Any inter-rack connection goes to the MDF and then to the destination rack. Google MRJ21

Here's the back side of a MDF for a Clearwire data center using MRJ21 connectors and cables.

https://picasaweb.google.com/113772475339822154680/MOSTLW1#5472658522459177938

When I built a 100 rack data center I banned cable ties. Wax string is the way to make a clean data center, and one that won't tear your forearms when you go digging in the cable ladder. I also banned premade patch cables. Make them to length and terminate them yourself, cheaper that way. Go to any decent DC powered facility to see how it's done.

https://picasaweb.google.com/113772475339822154680/MOSTLW1

"The most merciful quality of the human mind is its inability to correlate its contents" --HPL

who? http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hpl

Books recommended in the parent comment:

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)

My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)
My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)

The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)
The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)

Books recommended in the parent comment:

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)

My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)
My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)

The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)
The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)

Books recommended in the parent comment:

The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)
The Decline and Fall of the American Automobile Industry (1983)

My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)
My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (1964)

The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)
The Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)
The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008)

Patents = innovation.
So patenting a linked list with two pointers is a sign of innovation?

http://www.google.com/patents?id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false

Same comments as always (it'll break, Apple what!!!???, I had a TI-83, etc.) and as usual, nobody links to Clifford Stoll's book that pretty much covered the topic of tech in the classroom years ago.

Thanks for the linkbait slashdot. Taco may be gone, but you're just as classy as ever.

A comment on the Gosling blog has a link to a very clear picture from less than a second before the crash showing the left elevator trim tab missing, also possible smoke from under the rear fuselage in the vicinity of the tail wheel. There do not appear to be any major control inputs to my inexperienced eye other than a slightly depressed right aileron and possible up elevator, though the latter is hard to see. The view shows only the top of the plane and no background to show the plane's orientation. The pilot is hunched forward with his helmet at the front of the cockpit.

Another shot, less than a plane length before impact, shows the tail wheel deployed and the pilot's head is not visible in the cockpit, though the picture would show it if it were above the edge of the cockpit.

That tail wheel is normally retracted in race trim. Odds are control flutter from the unbalanced elevator combined with the high-G pull-up maneuver shook it open.

Eyewitness reports say Jimmy [Leeward] did everything he could to keep that plane out of the crowd. He was probably pulling on that stick with everything he had.

Curiously, the rear portion of the left elevator is not clear, although the shot is fast enough to freeze the propeller and the angle is a perfect left-side profile. The elevator may have been fluttering at an extreme rate, blurring the view, or it may just be a consequence of the low contrast of the elevator against the fuselage with identical paint. At the time of the crash the plane is right-side up, flying above the crowd from the back towards the front of the crowd, as if trying to pull out of a loop and it impacts at about a 45 degree angle.

Another video from the parking lot shows that the plane lost vertical control about 12 seconds before impact and first nosed up several hundred feet in 7 seconds before turning from vertical up to vertical down in less than three seconds, apparently at near full speed the whole way. The crash happened less than three seconds after the plane nosed down.

Also see: the gallery for the AP story "3 dead, 56 injured in horrific US air show crash" for high-resolution versions.

Refrigerant fluid needs to be pumped, so there is a seal around the shaft from the electric motor to the pump mechanism.

There does not need to be a shaft seal. Almost all modern small to medium sized mechanical refrigeration compressors are hermetic or semi-hermetic; that is, the motor, drive, and shaft are all contained inside the system along with the refrigerant.

Though there is no explanation of how it works at the link you provided, "Einstein's green refrigerator" seems to be an absorption refrigeration cycle, which was well known at the time, having been around since the mid-1800's. (According to Wikipedia "In 1922 Baltzar von Platen and Carl Munters . . . enhanced the principle with a 3 fluids configuration. This "Platen-Munters" design can operate without a pump." and "In 1926 Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd proposed an alternative design known as Einstein refrigerator".) Mechanical pumps are usually used in absorption refrigeration, this design "pumps" the fluid using the differences in vapor pressure and density, relying on boiling, condensing, and the force of gravity. The fact that it does not have any mechanical pumps or moving parts, but relies on gravity, probably means it would be impractically tall and/or very inefficient.

Since butane is a Class A3 refrigerant (very flammable) and ammonia is Class B2 (toxic and flammable) it is doubtful that this system would be used in residential settings. It used to be common to use ammonia, butane, or sulfur dioxide in refrigerators, but there were many tragedies like the one described. Ammonia is still very common in industrial refrigeration systems where safety can be monitored and controlled, and butane, and even sulfur dioxide, have their niches. But ammonia systems are no longer sold for residential use, even in sealed systems, for a variety of reasons.

More here.

lacking a better translation, here is one from Google:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chowngroup.com%2Fconvention.html

Lots of choice though, I guess that could bother some people.

http://www.google.com/search?q=honeycomb&oe=utf-8&lr=lang_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=1034#um=1&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&tbs=lr:lang_1en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=honeycomb+android&pbx=1&oq=honeycomb+android&aq=f&aqi=g6&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=101411l104328l2l104440l8l8l0l4l4l1l405l1390l2-1.2.1l4l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=752cc44099da74f6&biw=1920&bih=1034

here, have invites, I don't need 'em:

https://plus.google.com/i/upkIlH-ikcw:lVUWSKUAc30

if you use your account for anything but slagging off google+ and facebook I'll have a sad though :/

At current number (including all the treaties and other crap within) the world's strongest man couldn't carry it.

Of course that's because our law, thanks to the Republicans, is so fucking byzantine that even the government themselves can't tell us how many federal felonies are possible - let alone state felonies and misdemeanors of all levels.

Here you go: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865