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No idea what he's talking about... a cursory Google search reveals that provision has been made to revoke certificates, so presumably he's making some larger point about something else. ...Damned if I know what that is, though. But I do follow the Convergence project and am testing out the browser plug-in... If Moxie reads Slashdot and sees this: Would you care to expound on the quoted Tweet?

Thanks for correcting someone without telling us what the right numbers are. So I have to Google it myself. Let's see...

Current levels:
Google search for co2 ppm: 380ppm, 390ppm, 350ppm, 380ppm, 385ppm. Fairly consistent.

Pre-industrial:
Google search for pre-industrial co2 levels: 280ppm, 280ppm, 275ppm - 284ppm, 280ppm. Looks good.

Would you care to tell us what was wrong with the original numbers? I'm assuming you're not simply arrogant and you just misread the first post because the rest of your post was... oh, nevermind.

Thanks for correcting someone without telling us what the right numbers are. So I have to Google it myself. Let's see...

Current levels:
Google search for co2 ppm: 380ppm, 390ppm, 350ppm, 380ppm, 385ppm. Fairly consistent.

Pre-industrial:
Google search for pre-industrial co2 levels: 280ppm, 280ppm, 275ppm - 284ppm, 280ppm. Looks good.

Would you care to tell us what was wrong with the original numbers? I'm assuming you're not simply arrogant and you just misread the first post because the rest of your post was... oh, nevermind.

"Now he's just doing Google Streetview underwater!"

Oh, you mean Google Inundation?

You really only need one link. But here's another. And here is a place where you can pop over to ask for help if you need it.

It'd save more energy to simply kill off half of the world population. But hey, since people are already here, and the newspaper & grass clipping are already there, might as well find a way to turn the extra waste into something useful that everyone can use.

If you start with the so called western civilization, you may find you don't need to kill half a population (the per-capita energy consumption in US is approx 3.5 times the world average).

Yes, I do have a link for you: http://www.google.com/

Here's the news cluster on the cholera DNA thing (I noticed the report in the BBC article was more about the epidemiological and physical evidence)

http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=en&hl=en&ncl=dZRaoK_eab_5VWM2dLwR4Fc2j5y9M

Transcend is a big name in flash drives, not a back ally Chinese computer store

My guess is she misunderstood. The flash drive that she demonstrates is only 16gb, there is no drive there that is labeled 2tb, and at one point in the video she even mistakenly calls it a 2 gigabyte drive instead of 2 terabyte indicating she's pretty good at making mistakes. She was probably told that in the future it could be 2tb, but it is not a product that will be released anytime soon.

that's why i trust my gut when making important decisions.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCUQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOBRKPoAPXEQ&ei=uSJdTpSHBcHqgQfA5u2aAg&usg=AFQjCNH3iJEpUjux3mTkziSatMByga23ZA&sig2=dRVnFTrryGaMQ991mG1Ukw

Developers are forced to fork over 30% of their revenues. Not just that, it's 30% of even subscription content now and many ebook apps were kicked out.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=android+magazine+app&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest#sclient=psy&hl=en&client=opera&hs=y5R&rls=en&channel=suggest&source=hp&q=apple+thirty+percent&pbx=1&oq=apple+thirty+percent&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=122067l131147l2l131208l36l24l8l0l0l0l227l2318l7.10.2l19l0&fp=1&biw=1920&bih=968&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&cad=b

Also, see

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1633249/Apple-Bans-Android-Magazine-App-From-App-Store

These are just the tip of the rejections.

Um, no. Google's true CA is not DigiNotar, but Equifax, according to the cert from encrypted.google.com. The rogue MITM cert for *.google.com was issued by DigiNotar, but there's not really a way to test this without altering DNS to point to the rogue site. Also, that cert was already revoked ("were you not paying attention?"), and I want to test revoked trust for all DigiNotar.

This should be obvious.

I guess computers can play a good game of chess, so is that the current standard of the state of the art?

I take it you were out of the country when Watson mopped the floor with Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy? And Google's self-driving cars don't count for anything? Sigh... I really think that for a lot of people, even when the day comes that a computer demands its rights and takes over the world when denied, they'll still be insisting that it isn't intelligent. That is... Unless it looks like BSG's Number Six or Rachel from Blade Runner.

I guess computers can play a good game of chess, so is that the current standard of the state of the art?

I take it you were out of the country when Watson mopped the floor with Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on Jeopardy? And Google's self-driving cars don't count for anything? Sigh... I really think that for a lot of people, even when the day comes that a computer demands its rights and takes over the world when denied, they'll still be insisting that it isn't intelligent. That is... Unless it looks like BSG's Number Six or Rachel from Blade Runner.

Have you been living on the moon or something because over here in Yorkshire I can see them just fine. http://www.google.com/+1/button/ You only see the buttons if you are logged on to your Google+ account.

Try this one

Maxwell has been making slow and steady progress for a while; out on a limb types have been hoping EEStor will finally produce something -- anything -- but that looks like they were either naive about the challenges they were facing, or outright deceptive about it. There are quite a few technologies in the lab, a quick search on Google turns up all manner of intriguing information.

Maybe I'm wrong but I found the 17 minute version on http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-432551007277565829#docid=6015075158384067074. Do I think the family should be allowed to have control? No. I think all copyrights should expire on death. I think all of it should enter the public domain. Now if they want to incorporate themselves well they can. And while listening to the speech I can happily say it took 28yrs to process the check that MLK came to cash that day (read the speech if you don't understand what that means)

Actual fact: Tyler Downer was one of the few people from Mozilla talking sense in the discussion that ensued during the about screen debacle. I suspect that the downright belligerent attitude taken by the usability group (mainly Asa Dotzler) played no small part in his departure. That thread was sad to read...he got shouted down for asking such crazy and unconventional questions as "who are we trying to help with this change?" and "what problem does it address?"

Please, Mozilla, stop killing yourself. We like your browser.

Yeah, private prisons are great. Please, we need more of this! Gotta keep showing that quarterly growth!

Ouch. To be fair, someone on the Chrome page pointed out that

No single opensource browser can render properly this tag properties:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915 (12 year old!)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50688
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241
[let's inline Chrome's bug for slashdot's benefit: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12094 ]

To be even fairer, IE8 from 2009 on my up-to-date Windows Seven PC has no problems rendering properly where all four OSS browsers failed.

It's such a simple logical failure too... it's a bizarre case showing that IE has some silent merits... Must be sanity-wrenching to find a bug like this prior to seeing confirmation that it's not YOUR code at fault because the once-leading browser has no issues rendering it.

I wonder how many thousands of devs around the world individually break their head per year once their corporations give the green light to move to OSS browsers, but someone notices THIS exact bug and pulls back. It's little wonder doc files and PDF distributions are so overwhelmingly prefered to HTML.

Ouch. To be fair, someone on the Chrome page pointed out that

No single opensource browser can render properly this tag properties:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915 (12 year old!)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50688
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241
[let's inline Chrome's bug for slashdot's benefit: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12094 ]

To be even fairer, IE8 from 2009 on my up-to-date Windows Seven PC has no problems rendering properly where all four OSS browsers failed.

It's such a simple logical failure too... it's a bizarre case showing that IE has some silent merits... Must be sanity-wrenching to find a bug like this prior to seeing confirmation that it's not YOUR code at fault because the once-leading browser has no issues rendering it.

I wonder how many thousands of devs around the world individually break their head per year once their corporations give the green light to move to OSS browsers, but someone notices THIS exact bug and pulls back. It's little wonder doc files and PDF distributions are so overwhelmingly prefered to HTML.

Yeah, i guess other browsers are just magical...

I usually get along using way less than that. For example, this is my (crappy) desktop at work, right now...

I get the list from the server, bad login, pass it to the firewall all decent servers can do this.

Or do you mean IP addresses for other countries?

I get them from a secret site on the internet....

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=IP+address+country+list&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Negative mass/energy is NOT antimatter, but rather "exotic" matter.

Sure. But I think the AC is referring to is how Dirac "discovered" anti-matter using nothing but math.

Basically, you can use a theorem about the Fourier transform to show that in certain circumstances, you either need to allow negative energy or you need to allow virtual particles to travel faster than light.

Assuming negative energies are nonsense, you're stuck with virtual particles (in this case, electrons) that travel faster than light. According to special relativity (which Dirac had to make compatible with quantum mechanics), for some observers, it appears that the electrons are travelling backwards in time. Then, using a symmetry property (parity times time reversal equals charge conjugation), you end up concluding that there must exist particles that appear to be exactly the same as electrons, but have positive charge -- and, as you wrote, antimatter is just that.

[Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist; I got this from Feynman's lecture "The reason for antiparticles", available in this book]

The amazing thing is that a few years after Dirac published this theory purely based on math, someone was able to do experiments to actually observe the antimatter that was predicted. Like the AC, I think that this shows that math is an integral part of doing physics, and not just some way to formalize what physicists know.

Kinda meh. https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=bikini+solar+cells

Google seems to be pretty satisfied that they can safely sandbox a python interpreter. Maybe they could put it into Chrome safely as well.

Oh, so it's a bit like: http://code.google.com/p/smalltalklabsbrowser/ or http://www.seaside.st/about/screenshots?_k=YFNy7uUZ

Ha! Sanity on Slashdot! Who would have thought?

You can read google's terms of service here: http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

If you don't like the terms, don't use their service. Nobody is forcing you to.

As for how much "privacy" you give up when using Google... Get over it. There is no privacy anymore.

How is using Pepper different than ActiveX with Internet Explorer?

One word: sandbox.

Google is (apparently schools don't have to pay).
I know my former school is now using Docs to let students easily collaborate with each other and give their teachers easy access for grading.

That's not how it seems from people complaining: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/reader/thread?tid=7fb4b96eb3f2514a&hl=en

Statements from Google which are on record and verifiable, versus anecdotal evidence of what happened to some undefined person. I somehow think I'm going to choose to believe Google on this one.

The current side effects of a Google Profile suspension, with confirmations by Google staff in various G+ posts, are:

• The Profile is removed from public view.
• Existing Google+, Google Buzz, and Google Reader shared items/posts are removed from view (whether they were originally public or limited).
• Access to Google+ is blocked (more correctly, limited to only viewing public posts).
• Access to Google Buzz is blocked.
• Access to Google Reader (not just its sharing features) is blocked.

...It's hard for me to find the confirmation right now, but there is _some_ effect against Picasa. I cannot remember the exact detail. I think (but cannot yet confirm) that it removes public albums from public view.

Any other side effects reported until now have been labeled bugs and were not experienced by everyone consistently. Of particular note, a Profile suspension currently does NOT (modulo reappearing bugs?):

• block access to Gmail, Google Voice, or any other top-level service;
• block or unsubscribe from Google Groups;
• force the use of Google 2-factor authentication (which would entail providing an identifiable phone number);
• prevent the use of Google Checkout (or by extension, prevent the purchase of Android apps);
• prevent the use of Android features unrelated to the three major services mentioned (+, Buzz, Reader).

So that's the state of the world today. Whether it stays that way is up to debate, and I posited that question in my post that clarified the name policies as being an artifact of Profiles (including a reference proving that users can be banned without even having access to Google+ to begin with).

http://adwords.google.com/

Well done on the consent form. Love the way it just drops reference to the real agreement:
https://sites.google.com/site/wiscgapps/wisconsin-google-apps-announcements/consentformandagreementavailable

Some of the confidentiality agreement is below. Love the way they name Google as "School Official" to mitigate FERPA. I also linked Wikipedia below for CIPA, COPPA, and FERPA. These are federal, not sure what the state laws and guidelines are in Wisconsin.

Maybe I'm paranoid, and it's okay for targeted ads for tutoring services to follow little Johnny around for a few years. I do feel bad for Wisconsin K-12 IT. I'm sure they've worked hard over the years to provide systems and AAA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAA_protocol) to help students, teachers and school officials protect information and student record data as required. Kiss that goodbye when managed AAA is replaced with self-managed peer-to-peer document security on a per-document basis. What's this "make public" checkbox? Looks cool! How many Wisconsin teachers and administrators are being trained to manage their own data governance in this environment?

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5. Confidential Information.

5.1 Obligations.
Each party will: (a) protect the other party’s Confidential Information with the same standard of care, but no less than a reasonable standard of care, it uses to protect its own Confidential Information; and (b) subject to applicable law, not disclose the Confidential Information, except to Affiliates, employees and agents who have a reasonable need to know it and who have agreed in writing to keep it confidential. Each party (and any Affiliates, employees and agents to whom it has disclosed Confidential Information) may use Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, while using reasonable care to protect it. Each party is responsible for any actions of its Affiliates, employees and agents in violation of this Section.

5.2 Exceptions.
Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) the recipient of the Confidential Information already knew; (b) becomes public through no fault of the recipient (in the case of Google, without Google’s reference to Customer Data); (c) was independently developed by the recipient; or (d) was rightfully given to the recipient by another party.

5.3 Required Disclosure.
Each party may disclose the other party’s Confidential Information when required by law but only after it, if legally permissible: (a) uses commercially reasonable efforts to notify the other party; and (b) gives the other party the chance to challenge the disclosure.

5.4 FERPA.
The parties acknowledge that (a) Customer Data may include personally identifiable information from education records that are subject to FERPA (“FERPA Records”); and (b) to the extent that Customer Data includes FERPA Records, Google will be considered a “School Official” (as that term is used in FERPA and its implementing regulations) and will comply with FERPA.

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FERPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FERPA

CIPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protection_Act

COPPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act

http://translate.google.com/#en|es|cunt

Probably worked for you because you are already logged in to google.

Use this link to avoid logging in.

Eh? Google+ features checkin on the mobile G+ app (it's the checkmark in a circle in the top, see the screenshot for "stream") and their latitude platform.

Eh? Google+ features checkin on the mobile G+ app (it's the checkmark in a circle in the top, see the screenshot for "stream") and their latitude platform.

Apparently not. P.S. Rachel Kristopeit is a dog fucker.

http://www.google.com/search?q=leda&tbm=isch&biw=1680&bih=871

Porn. Lots of porn. Lots and lots of porn. Except... it hangs up openly in art galleries around the world. Drawn by some of the most respected names in classical art, including Leonardo. How can that be porn?

I really fail to see why so many people are determined to point out the pointlessness of a device that people are happily buying and using.

Logically, if people are buying them they cannot possibly be useless. People are not total idiots.

Let me put my tinfoil hat on for a moment... Beatings aren't necessary, the US gov't can simply use the NSAKEY to decrypt anything encrypted using Microsoft libraries...

This story is about an Ubuntu laptop. I doubt any Microsoft libraries were used.

I haven't bought new from GameStop in years because of their general practice of lending new copies of games to employees and then later selling those games as new. Last time I tried to buy a new game from them, it looked like this guy's game, so I just walked away without buying. Now I only buy new from my local Target store, or online from Amazon.

I still go to GameStop to buy and sell used games, though.

Sure, suing for linking to it is pretty stupid, but US government seems to be closing sites that link to TV series too.

Lets at least get real here. Real Alternative is trivially googleable. If you were actually looking for it and couldn't find it, something's wrong with you.

Let me put my tinfoil hat on for a moment... Beatings aren't necessary, the US gov't can simply use the NSAKEY to decrypt anything encrypted using Microsoft libraries, this was revealed back in NT4 and again when Win2k SP2 source code was leaked. This is to make their encryption methods export compliant. This is the only legit news article I could dig up on it right now, but if you look around, I'm sure you'll find more. Pretty sure I read somewhere that there's another "unknown" key out there that they think is for the UK gov't to use as well; actually that might be what was revealed in the SP2 source code leak.

"some asshole on the internet who you don't actually know, but who is glad you did what you did."

Same here. :-) I don't have mosch's low number, but I read for a long time before I finally posted.

Thanks for creating such a wonderful community forum, Rob. I gained so much understanding about contemporary technology stories through slashdot as well as feeling in touch with the pulse of geekdom. I probably would not be half the technologist I am without slashdot.

All the best with your new ventures as well as finding a new healthy balance in your life.

And remember:
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/06/24/0125225/Lack-of-Sunlight-Could-Lead-To-Early-Death
    http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/04/29/0724246/Vitamin-D-Deficiency-Behind-Many-Western-Cancers
    http://www.google.com/#q=site:slashdot.org+vitamin+D"

And get your vegetables, too! :-)

Both VMware and KVM are overkill. How many hosts have enough RAM to give each guest 1TB, much less 2TB? Wake me up when the hardware catches up to the point where those capabilities matter.

*poke*poke* It's your "hardware is ready" courtesy wake up call.

You can get some mid-range IBM blade centers, or some low end HP BladeSystem hardware, or really any of the many many systems that can easily handle that in a low end configuration.

If you need to get serious, you start loading rack cabinets with such gear, along with some SAN cards sprinkled throughout.

At that level of hardware, it would be extremely wasteful not to run something like VMware ESX. This is the target audience after all, not the geek with a lowly double digit count of CPUs in their spare bedroom.

Granted, it was extremely nice of them to release ESXi without vSphere for free for us lowly geeks who, like myself, might only have a couple 4 or 6 core home built systems, who don't need all those high end features (*drool* none the less), but when I'm at work running the "little big iron", I'm very thankful for vSphere and such solutions to manage my hardware with 36 GB ram per node and a 480 gb SAN.

I want one!

http://www.google.com/search?q=kevin+mitnick's+business+card