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And, by the way, the iPad really stinks.

Does it now ?
iPad stinks: About 849,000 results
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And, by the way, the iPad really stinks.

Does it now ?
iPad stinks: About 849,000 results
Android stinks: About 7,520,000 results

And, by the way, the iPad really stinks.

Does it now ?
iPad stinks: About 849,000 results
Android stinks: About 7,520,000 results

Besides, if the Earth is completely uninhabitable, Google can just retreat to their moon base.

Then HP should either consider to go back on its own footsteps or to sack the CEO.
Better both.
And, by the way, the iPad really stinks.

No, it actually was a bug in the way the function was called, not the library itself - see comment number four: https://plus.google.com/113641248237520845183/posts/g68d9RvRA1i

In reality, almost nobody* is going to call md5 via crypt() when a standalone md5() function exists, and people are often slow to deploy new versions of PHP - especially major shared hosting providers. Those who manage their own PHP installs and deploy shortly after release tend to have their own set of unit tests, which very likely would have caught this if their own code was affected (Hmm, I can't login anymore. Suddenly my password hash is only twelve characters long? That's not right...)

Of course, if you hit all of the worst cases and push this out, yeah, pretty serious problem.

* Yes, I've seen exceptions to that. Some weird AWS message signing comes to mind, IIRC. Hence "almost".

Please let me know where you went so I can look into sending my kids there.

Here you are. But don't forget your time machine, things change.

So what these developers are proposing is that I can have their application, but at the cost of my browser running like shit going forward.

Your 'but' is disingenuous considering you can disable the toolbar option in any installer of an application worth the bother. If what you're installing includes it whether you like it or not, I'd question that application developer's ethics.

Not to mention, they can sell ads to make money. Ads on the webpage that hosts the installer as well as in app ads. Lets stop pretending that toolbars are the only way to monetize free software or that its remotely acceptable way of doing business.

Nobody's saying they're the only way. In fact, a lot of the installers these days will push Google Chrome on people instead. Chrome gets lauded around these parts (except for people who prefer their FireFox add-ons; myself included), so I guess that one would be 'okay'?

If ads worked as well as you're suggesting, I'd imagine the authors would use them. But I can't remember the last time I worked in an application that pushed ads out into the interface and breathed a sigh of relief that at the very least the author didn't try pushing a toolbar on me. I can easily find threads in which users ask for, and receive, ways to disable those ads, however - from modifying the hosts file right on through to downloading the cracked copy.
http://www.google.com/search?q="how+to+disable+ads"+software
Probably because those applications don't actually give you the option of disabling the ads. They tend to be the 'free' version and if you want to get rid of the ads, you're supposed to actually pay.

See this

You cannot see until you are willing to look around.

No, they pay of other software developers and companies to include their toolbar with their software. Just see this or search for "google toolbar affiliate".

If employees keep it down to like maybe 30 minutes a day and no more and are self disciplined than I do not have a problem.

However, I am a big of the book Its called Work For A Reason by Larry Winget. Basically, he mentioned studies showed that people only work 40% of the time in the office. The rest is chatting, reading email, stretching, and browsing the web.

In the past, I worked at crappy jobs where you could not goof off at all. My first job was fastfood in highschool. I did retail work after that too where you constantly had to load shelves, talk to customers, and run cash registers and so on. You think I had the luxury of browsing the web? Or even txting on the phone? In these jobs I made $15,000 a year. Shouldn't I work even harder if I make $40,000 a year? If I browse the web for 3 hours with 4 other co-workers then I waste a whole workers pay/productivity. Over a year that costs $40,000 in lost productivity. How is that different from me taking money from the cash register at my previous jobs?

I am out of work at the moment and it drives me crazy to see people with lower work ethics keeping their jobs. I always try to look at it from the view of the owner and customer. If I am wating for a Latte at Starbucks I do not want to see employees browsing the web on their IPAD while I wait or browsing the web in the managers office. I want their butt making my coffee. I would then be a hypocrit to sit on my butt at work.

People can easily work twice as hard and this recession is finally forcing employees to do just that ... well some

Few people seem to be discussing this, but just this month, Motorola's CEO was publicly threatening to wage patent warfare on other Android vendors. That would have been during the time they were under negotiation with Google, so I believe Motorola strong-armed Google into buying them outright for $12 billion rather than simply entering into a patent license agreement, by threatening to cause an Android civil war.

Some people were acting like buying Motorola was some great power play, but it was really an act of desperation that cost Google two years' worth of revenue.

Big industry brought it on themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River used to literally catch on fire. It was declared so dead that not even slugs or leaches could live in it. If the manufacturers didn't willfully throw industrial waste in the nations waterways and rivers there would not have been a need for environmental regulation. Its important to realize that almost all regulation was a result of institutional abuse by industry. So blame the manufacturers not the regulation. They move to China because they can pump toxic chemicals in the air over there and dump industrial waste into the waterways. When you don't have proper environmental regulation you get this and and this So what would you do? Ask them kindly to please stop poisoning us?

Big industry brought it on themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River used to literally catch on fire. It was declared so dead that not even slugs or leaches could live in it. If the manufacturers didn't willfully throw industrial waste in the nations waterways and rivers there would not have been a need for environmental regulation. Its important to realize that almost all regulation was a result of institutional abuse by industry. So blame the manufacturers not the regulation. They move to China because they can pump toxic chemicals in the air over there and dump industrial waste into the waterways. When you don't have proper environmental regulation you get this and and this So what would you do? Ask them kindly to please stop poisoning us?

If you stumble through the wal-marts and targets - sorry, you won't find many American made goods if any. That's because these box stores, the Dollar Generals, the Home Depots, are all about making as much profit as absolutely possible, without regard to the communities that support them.

Most of my tools are now US made. It took a little looking at first, but it's really not that difficult. There's even a website to help: http://google.com/

Many (not quite most) of my clothes are American made. Yes I pay a little more, but then I should. Shoes shouldn't cost $19. Your savings come at the expense of slave-wage labor. Your savings are another's exploitation.

There are so many sites specifically devoted to buying US made goods. Have a look and put your money where your mouth is.

I wouldn't describe many of the founding fathers as particularly religious. You have Thomas Jefferson who famously tried to rewrite the bible.

Check out this page (courtesy of a book published in 1842) which quotes a letter from John Adams to his wife Abigail, recounting the first meeting of the Continental Congress in 1774:

When the Congress met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with Prayer. It was opposed by Mr. Jay of New York and Mr. Rutledge of South Carolina because we were so divided in religious sentiments, some Episcopalians, some Quakers, some Anabaptists, some Presbyterians and some Congregationalists, that we could not join in the same act of worship. Mr. Sarnuel Adarns arose and said, "that he was no bigot; and could hear a Prayer from any gentleman of Piety and virtue who was at the same time a friend to his Country. He was a stranger in Philadelphia, but had heard that Mr. Duche deserved that character and therefore he moved that Mr. Duche an Episcopal clergy man, might be desired to read Prayers to Congress tomorrow morning."

Now, John Adams chose to recount this episode because his wife had strong religious beliefs and would be quite interested. But it is still a factual description of an event that I would find exceeding hard to describe as a meeting of men who were "not particularly religious."

If they were indeed not particularly religious, they would not open their meeting with prayer, and even if they did, they would not be so concerned with the content and delivery. It is surely more accurate and better supported by the evidence to say that the founding fathers had widely varying religious views which could sometimes become a point of contention. Hence the first amendment (after much water had passed under the bridge).

I suggest you dig a bit deeper. The official inflation in Argentina is around 12% anually, which is a number computed by the INDEC (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, or National Institue of Statistics and Census). This organism is under official intervention since 2007, and it hasn't been providing accurate indicators since then. Actual inflation rates in Argentina are around 25%, which indeed is a tad under Venezuela.

I know this sounds ludicrous, but it is the truth. It's gotten so bad that any consultants publishing inflation indexes that differs from the official ones provided by the INDEC are being forced to pay fees for "confusing the population". This people then resorted to publish their numbers through congress members, who act as a proxy: http://en.mercopress.com/2011/08/09/argentina-s-congress-inflation-index-for-july-1.62-doubles-the-official-rate . You could also browse some other INDEC indexes (http://www.indec.mecon.ar/, sadly only in Spanish) which are way even worse. This organism claims that a typical family of four is above poverty with 1600 Argentinian pesos per month, or roughly 380 dollars. To put that in perspective, a moderate trip to the supermarket here can set you back between 50 and 70 dollars.

Argentina isn't doing well. The economic growth indexes are indeed impressive, but are tied solely to the international increase of soy prices. In more ways than one we (and most of South America for that matter) were extremely lucky. There's no real growth - industrial occupation is roughly the same as 10 years ago, for example. The economy works due to a mix of public subsidies and strong push of middle-class consumption - for example, the government funds (literally) plans to buy LCDs and other appliances on 50 installments. No, that's not a typo. The best way to buy a new TV in Argentina is to be in debt with a bank for 4 years: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=es&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1261524-los-secretos-de-las-50-cuotas-sin-interes

Don't be fooled by the GDP growth indexes in Argentina. They're more or less on par with the rest of South America. Meanwhile Argentina is perhaps the only country in the world where people buy appliances in installments and houses with cash.

As I point out occasionally, many, if not most, of the problems with web spam, phishing, etc. on the web are because Google doesn't verify the identity of the business behind a web site.

Businesses don't have any right to anonymity. Even in Europe. In the European Union, businesses come under the European Directive on Electronic Commerce.: "Member States shall ensure that the service provider (defined as "any natural or legal person providing an information society service" i.e. a web site) shall render easily, directly and permanently accessible to the recipients of the service and competent authorities, at least the following information: (a) the name of the service provider; (b) the geographic address at which the service provider is established ... (c) his electronic mail address...". The European Privacy Directive is only for individuals. If the search end of Google took a hard line on that, search would be much less spammy. Currently, they can't even keep totally fake business locations out of Google Places. Yes, "Illusory Laptop Repair is still in Google Places, right in the middle of the railroad crossing. So are so many phony business locations that it's been covered at length in the New York Times. Legitimate local businesses are screaming about this; customers try to find them and end up calling some outsourced lead-generation service, thinking it's a local company.

Google wants to use Google+ for "crowdsourcing" recommendations. They used to use Citysearch and Yelp for that, but those became too polluted with fake recommendations. The trouble with "crowdsourcing" is that crowds can be sourced. You can buy "likes", "recommendations", and "+1"s in bulk on any of the black hat SEO forums.

Recommendation systems only work in three situations - when the number of reviewers is huge compared to the number of items being reviewed, as with movies, when the reviewer is known to have bought the product, as with eBay and Amazon, and when the reviewer's identity is verified and their reputation is known. Google seems to be trying for #3. To make that work, they have to tighten the screws on "Google+" users. Tightening the screws on businesses would be more productive.

I'm getting to the point where I no longer like Google, nor it's products. Verify this, Google+ that, really now.

Agreed, but isn't this better than what they were doing?

Before they would ban everyone they thought was fake. Now it appears they'll let you be fake, but you get a extra "This is a REAL Person!" badge if they verify you.

This is a GOOD thing. So now you can have your fake and anonymous profiles for those that are worried what they say on the internet will get back to their job, and you can have your "real name" accounts for family and friends.

Really they should have been doing this since the beginning but better late than never, and this is the first feature they've added that has not been a direct copy from Facebook since Facebook still bans people that they think are fake even though they're real.

Good job Google+, I might switch to you yet.

LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. The really free version

OpenOffice is not free? According to Google, it is Open Source (and see the new Google Best Guess feature...).
I don't want to be the devil's advocate, but whatever one may think about Oracle, it isn't fair to tell OpenOffice is not free.

Google seems to agree with GP: the query sewage drug use returns a lot of hits to research that looks legit on the surface and seems to confirm that drugs are indeed found in sewage. Nothing specifically about DC in the first few results, but it is not impossible that you find something relevant if you dig in.

two words: Luggable Computer

Have you heard of unpaper and Tesseract? If you put these two tools together you get really really good OCR, and its all free software.

Huh, that's nice. I've probably seen that a few times when I try all the F# keys to see what they do in a particular application, and then promptly forgot it. I think I'll keep using Ctrl-F, though, as I frequently have the text I want to search for in the clipboard, and so doing Ctrl-F then Ctrl-V (no need to release the Ctrl key between combos) is faster than F3 then Ctrl-V.

And on a related note, I like having the Google Quick Scroll extension installed on Google Chrome (not sure if there's something available for Firefox). If a website linked to by a Google search result has any viewabl;e text that was part of the reason that that website came up as a rsult, Google Quick Scroll will let you jump right to it.

The granddaddy of them all was the Xerox Star workstation from 1981. This was what Steve Jobs saw while visiting PARC and became the inspiration for the GUI on the Lisa/Mac. As Jobs (the 1994 Jobs) said, Apple was always "shameless about stealing great ideas". Too bad the 2011 Jobs thinks behavior which helped build up Apple should be illegal for anyone else.

Au contraire, he displayed exactly the same behaviour back in the '80s. After lifting the essence of the WIMP-desktop from PARC to create Lisa and Mac, the fruit company pouted its face (sour Apple) to the courts and whined about Microsoft 'stealing their ideas from Apple' in the famed 'look and feel' lawsuit. Of course they claimed Microsoft stole 'their ideas' without any mention of PARC, as they were already convinced those ideas were by right theirs and not Xerox's. That is what they mean when they state they 'think different', I guess.

Rounded corners, rectangular screens being 'theirs' is nothing new, really...

Ada.

Why i think that it is not good idea to fly on Russian rocket this days?
Maybe because their launch success ratio dropping lately, and it is not good idea to end up as Express AM4 satellite.
Especially because they use instead of aerospace IC's, smuggled usual IC's from Taiwan. Keywords to search in this translation. "not designed to work in space".

See http://www.techlib.com/area_50/xraydefender.htm -- tho techlib.com isn't resolving right now (server down, I'll bet), so you'll just have to try an alternate source:

http://www.techlib.com.nyud.net:8090/area_50/xraydefender.htm coral cache says gateway timed out...
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/www.techlib.com/area_50/xraydefender.htm wayback machine doesn't have it archived...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SErH8Fhj52cJ:www.techlib.com/area_50/xraydefender.htm+site:techlib.com+backscatter&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&ie=UTF-8&source=www.google.com -- you can at least read the text on google, and get thumbnails of the images on the page:
http://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&q=site:techlib.com+backscatter&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
Too bad the schematic isn't readable at thumbnail-size, but maybe techlib.com will be back up soon?

Then you were confused. Congratulations?

phone jack
wall jack

The jack is the port. It is not the plug.

Then you were confused. Congratulations?

phone jack
wall jack

The jack is the port. It is not the plug.

Actually it's unlimited and free for photos up to 2048x2048. Yes it kills flickr for general usage.
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1224181

The fact that Apple stock is hovering around $364 at the moment is probably stopping quite a few people from buying it.

S&P dropped their rating on Google stock from "buy" to "sell" after the Motorola acquisition, and knocked $200 off their one-year predicted price for Google stock. That's very unusual.

Google's track record with hardware is not good. They were in the direct sales phone handset business for only a few months before they had to exit it. Customers insisted that the hardware work, and wanted customer service when it didn't. Google couldn't handle that. Their approach to the "Google Search Appliance" (Mini size) is weird. There's no phone support for this rack-mounted enterprise device. If it breaks, they FedEx you a new one. After three years, the Google Search Appliance stops working and you have to buy a new one. Really. That's Google's approach to enterprise support. That won't fly with Motorola's customer base.

S&P dropped their rating on Google stock from "buy" to "sell" after the Motorola acquisition, and knocked $200 off their one-year predicted price for Google stock. That's very unusual.

Google's track record with hardware is not good. They were in the direct sales phone handset business for only a few months before they had to exit it. Customers insisted that the hardware work, and wanted customer service when it didn't. Google couldn't handle that. Their approach to the "Google Search Appliance" (Mini size) is weird. There's no phone support for this rack-mounted enterprise device. If it breaks, they FedEx you a new one. After three years, the Google Search Appliance stops working and you have to buy a new one. Really. That's Google's approach to enterprise support. That won't fly with Motorola's customer base.

O HAI! I herd ur new at teh internets.

"Do-no-evil magic"? Citation bloody needed. Those days are past. Look at the Google+ names fuckery - stuff like blocking Hong Kong users from their email because they don't think their names sound American enough. Even their own employees!

You are not the customer, you are the product. Eric Schmidt stated it clearly last year. Make no mistake: Google has decided it's finally time to cash in.

This has abolished their goodwill in an instant. I'm seeing people seriously question Google for collaborative documents, for email, even for search. How much bad will do you have to be running up for people to think Bing might be a better idea?

Then I would think you'd be rather more upset given the number of hardware makers that are going to switch away from Android after this.

Hmm. Seems that the actual hardware makers are positive on this, contrary your position:

“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”
– J.K. Shin
President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division

“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Bert Nordberg
President & CEO, Sony Ericsson

“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.”
– Peter Chou
CEO, HTC Corp.

“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D
President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company

Well, a few years ago, I used to think Government agencies told the truth and knew what was going on.

Lately, my trust has been shattered.

At the end of the Bush administration, we had Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson stand up and issue statements like "the world economy is stronger than I have ever seen it".

Now, we knew we had a housing bubble inflated by Greenspan's too-low interest rates and insistence by our government onto banks to force them into bad lending practice, otherwise known as the "Community reinvestment act". So what does Bernake, who made a name for himself studying the Great Depression at Princeton do? Hikes the rates so high that all those suckers who borrowed money, who were counting on the inevitable inflation the government is engineering, could not pay their loan payments. Then the banks, counting on those loan payments being made on time crashed. And our government runs the printing press bailing themselves and their chosen buddies out. Everyone else gets burned big-time.

Its like watching a BatMan episode. When it all looks hopeless, Adam West will always come up with a can of magic Bat Spray which renders the problem harmless. Nothing says the Bat Spray needs to follow any of the laws of physics or common sense - its conjured on the spot.

Energy Crisis? No problem! Run the Press! We have the World's Reserve Currency - we can print our way out of anything. The whole world owes us for being who we are. The guy who goes to work is just a loser. The number one skill is connivery. Who can I pay off to get me a monopoly so someone else can't do something that legally only I can do - and I can even get the other party to pay for the enforcement. Patent troll!

Watching the FED trying to undo the crash is almost like watching an engineering student that has no idea of the strength of materials or stress analysis try to repair a bridge after overloading it. I could ask him the shear strength of a bolt, and he just gets a blank look on his face, much like the financial types get a blank look of their face when they try to explain why people can't pay their loans.

I get the idea that Princeton University graduates lack the financial equivalent of a "strength of materials" course of an engineering curriculum. I get the idea Princeton is a Rich Man's Kid's college, catering to those who have no idea what its like not to have enough money to pay a bill.

I tried like the dickens when I was employed in the aerospace industry to dissuade folks from mixing code and data ( such as javascript ) because it was so apparent that doing so just opens the door to mischief. I tried like the dickens to convince them to use software that used public standards so that interoperability would be possible. I just got labeled "not a team player" and laid off, without honor.

I did what I thought I had to do.

Yet I see its salesmanship and social skills that make one a valued member of society. Yes, the Bible may highlight Joseph rising from being a slave to the second in command under the Pharoah of Egypt because he told the King the truth. Is anyone in Government even interested in the truth? ( But then, this is a loaded statement. For each of us, in our own interpretation, is our own truth - which may not be an absolute truth).

I will see ex-government officials doing a study of mechanical resonance phenomena and getting nice salaries, yet Brady Perendev does it and goes to jail.

To me, this is so obvious. What if I came up with the idea of calling in UL, TUV, etc to measure the amount of water in a garden hose, then I told them to measure the amount of water I "built up" in a bucket. Then I use their symbols in my investment brochures that imply I am on the verge of solving the world's fresh water problem.

My grandpa got several patents in the 1940's, back when a patent actually meant something other than a method and system for trolls to screw over real innovators :-P FU USPO

I don't quite understand why some achievement of one's ancestors is a reason to make one proud.

Somebody said it better, just Google for "ancestry Samuel Butler"

the economics of spam

About $3 a can, or $4/lb.

No, this is.

Perhaps we should ask the Mythbusters?

No hot chicks on Google+, you say?

Counterexample: Felicia Day

I wouldn't say none of them https://www.google.com/takeout/

Perhaps Google did not add group because Google already has groups:

http://groups.google.com/

https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3Dl1U-un51wJc%3AoJyH2EUK8x0

Word. Not to mention that most ATM skimmers are very difficult to detect, and are often indistinguishable from some of the regular "bling" that an ATM might have adorning their card slot.

But I guess it's worthwhile to attempt to rip it out anyway and see what happens :-P

http://images.google.com/search?q=ATM+skimmer&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&biw=1270&bih=810

I didn't notice libertarians express any disinterest when their corporations got government bailouts, paid for by taxpayers.

Were you looking for it at all?

I've never heard of a libertarian complain that the government interfered in blocking union workers from aggressive strike behavior.

Not all libertarians are anarcho-capitalists. Randians for example would not mind the government stopping violent thugs.

I've never heard of a libertarian complain that he didn't wish to receive Social Security or Medicare, when eligible.

When a robber offers to return some of what he stole from you it's not immoral to accept it back. Most libertarians believe that the same thing applies to the state and what it taxed from you.

You need a Google account for Google services (market, gmail etc) but can set one up from the phone.

But doesn't one need another, already working mobile phone to verify a Gmail account? Or do the Google apps for Android handle that?

Google is effectively paying an amount roughly equal to their 2010 profits.

I'm sorry, but what are you talking about? Google agreed to pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility. Google's 2010 net income was $8.5 billion. Unlike you I didn't pull that figure out of my ass. That's according to Google's own financial statement.

And MMI's financial information indicates they have $3.05 billion cash on hand (and $98 million debt). So Google is only paying about $9.5 billion in effect.