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I don't think that Mr Luecke is a Sheikh, but I also don't think you can see this from space:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&aq=3&sll=30.084394,-97.128067&sspn=0.064316,0.126171&ie=UTF8&ll=30.086771,-97.140684&spn=0.052358,0.066347&t=h&z=14

Here is a google maps link. Much larger.

Once he realized that they wrote it upside down!!!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=uae+hamad&hl=en&ll=24.344281,54.325955&spn=0.013939,0.030899&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.223579,93.076172&t=h&z=16

Or is that standard in Arabic, like right to left, or top to bottom writing...

http://www.google.com/reviews/t

page to manage your blocked sites.

Fail, It's upside down

http://maps.google.com/?ll=24.344281,54.333744&spn=0.042071,0.092869&t=h&z=14 He somehow managed to write it upside down too. Whoops.

http://www.google.com/search?q=photos
Thats odd, that doesnt point to picasa at all!

http://www.google.com/search?q=social+networking
wait a sec, wikipedia isnt a google product.... whats going on here?

http://www.google.com/search?q=email
Wait a second, the top result is a sponsored ad, which DOESNT point to gmail!

Is it possible that youre just utterly wrong?

http://www.google.com/search?q=photos
Thats odd, that doesnt point to picasa at all!

http://www.google.com/search?q=social+networking
wait a sec, wikipedia isnt a google product.... whats going on here?

http://www.google.com/search?q=email
Wait a second, the top result is a sponsored ad, which DOESNT point to gmail!

Is it possible that youre just utterly wrong?

http://www.google.com/search?q=photos
Thats odd, that doesnt point to picasa at all!

http://www.google.com/search?q=social+networking
wait a sec, wikipedia isnt a google product.... whats going on here?

http://www.google.com/search?q=email
Wait a second, the top result is a sponsored ad, which DOESNT point to gmail!

Is it possible that youre just utterly wrong?

No. I've thought about it and have already spent over a year working professionally outside the US.

The county of Galveston opted out of SS and did quite well.

Use the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension to remove ExEx from Google search just for you. Also, it's quite amazing that you still get it high in your result, I mostly get StackOverflow at the top (as it should be).

Interesting anecdotal baloney, but you can at least console yourself (based on the vague information you provide) that the average number of births per woman in your country is either well below the rate of replacement or trending heavily downwards.

Easy administration

Deploy Chrome across your organization using the MSI installer. Control updates and customize your Chrome deployment with support for managed group policy and authentication protocols.

Thanks, but I tried that... It turns out that I intentionally don't stay signed in to Google services, so I wrote a userscript for Grease-Monkey instead.

// ==UserScript==
// @name F-Experts-Exchaneg
// @namespace http://userscripts.org/users/useridnumber
// @include http://www.google.com/search
// ==/UserScript==

var f = 1;
while ( f ) {
var a = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
f = 0;
for ( var i = 0; i < a.length; ++i )
if ( a[i].href.match('experts-exchange.com') ) try {
f = 1;
var p = a[i];
while ( p != null ) {
if ( p.tagName == 'LI' ) {
p.parentNode.removeChild( p );
break;
} else p = p.parentNode;
}
if ( p == null ) a[i].parentNode.removeChild( a[i] );
} catch ( x ){}
}
void(0);

(Sorry for the formatting, still haven't figured out how to keep slash from eating my &nbsp;s.)

I also have a script to remove all the "ads" links on search results -- Now that they don't color their backgrounds yellow or light-blue and I'm tired of accidentally clicking them. While I was at it I removed the non-intrusive side-bar ads too. Your move Google.

Alternatively, manually block sites from your results here: http://www.google.com/reviews/t

http://www.google.com/search?q=picard+facepalm&tbm=isch

Simply don't return any valid URLs in the results if Google detects a poison proxy.

Even better, have all the URLs be http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx or even better http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux or to be slightly evil^H^H^H^H self-serving http://www.google.com/chromebook/ .

The app was submitted ON the 4th.

Wrong. Read the original announcement again, and check the date.

sometime prior to today

the police were all in the same political party, were all members of the KKK, and were all complicit in that sort of behavior in the South

Oh... you must mean the Democrats.

Or maybe you're just bad at history.

Or maybe you're just hoping everyone else is.

From the developers:

We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later. If you downloaded within the first 1 hour 40 mins, you may have downloaded the older test version.

To check:
- Click on the gear icon on the top left of your App's homescreen and look right above the Help button, the version number of the App should be: 1.0.1.1809

- If that is not the version number, then please uninstall and reinstall by clicking on the link below: itunes.apple.com

G is a boy's word...

With apologies to Arthur Miller...

I heard some tinfoil hat types suggesting that lulzsec was actually fascist law enforcement types providing cover for legislation giving them more power to combat "cyberterrorism". They might be temporarily surprised, though they'll quickly rationalize that law enforcement just needed some fall guys.

Its not that far out there given recent events at the ATF and DoJ: http://news.google.com/news/search?&q=fast+furious+atf

check out Google News on News Corp, plenty of people know about this. Social Mention indicates that online sentiment regarding LulzSec is mostly neutral, with positive larger than negative.

It's not like any of this is secret. Go open Google News, or turn on a damn TV (Murdoch and crew were being interrogated by British MPs on TV not long ago, might still be)

And how many end users know how to edit HTML in their emails or even want to? And how many prefer to send their emails in plain text or Rich Text? Or what if I am texting it to somebody?

The browser should shorten it. You shouldn't have to. But even if the browser doesn't, I'd prefer the long version.

If they trust you enough to click a short, random URL, they should trust you enough to click a long, "intimidating" one. Just set it off with enough white space that it's distinct from the text around it, or send it in its own message.

If somebody asked me for directions to my house - I would much rather send them something I can copy and paste straight from Google's site (which is likely how this will work) into my email that is less intimidating.

Actually, this works just fine, is much shorter, and is readable enough that I don't think it's intimidating:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from:42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+@40.757308,-73.989735+to:350+5th+Avenue,+10118+(Empire+State+Building)

I don't know why Google Maps won't just give you that, though.

I'm curious - are you anti-zip files, too? I mean why zip 5 files into one when you could just attach all 5 to an email.

There are a few reasons that it might make sense to zip them. Lots (more than 5), big (and easily compressed), sensitive (and needing encryption) spring to mind. Short of those, I don't see any reason to zip them.

Sure, as Mohamed Mansour has seen. He made a Facebook friend importer for Google Plus, which was quickly shutdown by Facebook. That post gives a great overview of how Facebook is scrambling to keep their data!

Yes because it is much better to send somebody a URL that looks like this

There, I fixed it.

Yes because it is much better to send somebody a URL that looks like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16

Instead of using the shortener.

clearly... http://maps.g.co/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16 is a HUGE improvement.

Yes.

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16

is much better than

http://tinyurl.com/3e38b5d

1) In the former, I know what I'm clicking on at a glance: Google Maps.
1.5) I can also get a general idea of where in Google Maps it points.
2) Infinitely many such long links exist; not so with the short ones.
3) The long one can be shown as maps.google.com/maps?...

Yes.

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16

is much better than

http://tinyurl.com/3e38b5d

1) In the former, I know what I'm clicking on at a glance: Google Maps.
1.5) I can also get a general idea of where in Google Maps it points.
2) Infinitely many such long links exist; not so with the short ones.
3) The long one can be shown as maps.google.com/maps?...

You can look at a profile without needing an account. For an example, try Linus' own: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts

However, there doesn't seem to be an RSS feed (though I could be mistaken), so I don't know how you'd follow his posts without visiting his profile often.

India's TFR is declining as well. Granted population continued to increase due to previous high TFRs, but it also seems headed toward 2 or below.

"The government said that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) across the country had declined to 2.6 in 2008 from 2.9 in 2005." From one of the first hits on Google.

That's a huge decrease in just a few years. 0.3 points in 3 years. The same link says half the Indian states are at replacement level (2.1).

Also from the 1st Google SERP, 7 Indian states are below replacement level.

Yes because it is much better to send somebody a URL that looks like this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16

Instead of using the shortener.

Okay, I guess that means Microsoft aren't as annoying as I thought they were.

Never mind :-)

As a viable forum for dialog, Slashdot is among the weakest.

I would cite Media Matters as regards ACORN (viz: http://mediamatters.org/search/index?qstring=ACORN&x=0&y=0). You would cite RedState (viz: http://www.google.com/cse?cx=013850339485084395743%3Aernse1bcnr0&ie=UTF-8&q=acorn&sa=Search&siteurl=www.redstate.com%2F).

You would argue that Clinton started it all. I would claim that the economy burnt out during Clinton's era, and we started with NAFTA to export US jobs, causing a slow meltdown that caused housing prices to devalue. That never happened before.

The war on Afghanistan had a bit of justification, as Al Qaeda at the time was thought to be sheltered by the "Taliban". The war in Iraq was strictly about pissing off GB and oil. All else was a red herring. There were no WoMD there; never were.

The "war on terror" was a method to constrain the populace against a tiny faction of highly effective terrorists, all while gaining the enmity of much of the Islamic world. The oil, and the money, was burning thru the fingers of government, and contractors like Halliburton.

The banks, feeling an uptake in the economy, made obfuscating tradeable instruments, while pumping mortgage money out like it was made of thin air-- and it was. Now that the music has stopped, the banks have gotten off largely free from prosecution.

That congress was duped into one war, and underwent a siege mentality for the war on terror, doesn't forgive their actions. The Libyan action is wrong, too, IMHO.

http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=solar+shingles&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Link

News Corp was already pushing this storey as if they are victims, I see no good from actually giving them something to claim victimisation over.

If you have any pigeons left over, google might be interested: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Wake me when it can detect an opening in the opponent's defense and strike at it.

Or even better, when it can cope with an attack from Pozdniakov - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1478623914238877457

Not just that... now that you're on an Android platform, you don't need to synch your contacts across phones as long as you are moving to an Android phone. You turn the phone on, plug in your Google account details, and there's all your contacts, calendar, your email is set up, etc.. You can also log in to GMail or Google Calendar and modify it all directly from a PC. That is one thing that iOS and Blackberry are both sorely lacking.

That is incorrect, it's called Google Sync. I have an iPhone and use Google services exclusively and they are all integrated into my phone. http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/

That's the wrong patent application. The author (who doesn't seem to understand patent law) linked to another application by the same inventor. The correct publication is here.

The first claim in the application (which may or may not be the one that will appear in the actual patent, though it's probably pretty close) is very specific. It requires, among other things, that "each user device [have] a local database and an application for... sharing desktop resources," and that "the information and the application services being delivered to the users are based upon knowledge of relevant experts." I don't see how you could argue that Twitter infringes here, and it definitely doesn't address messaging or chatting in general.

Human Operating System (HOS)

I think they just made that up! (Also - I don't think it means what they think it means.)

Almost certainly an effort to get people interested, though it appears that the original patents (for Ni not Al) just expired a few years ago (1990-2009).
The original purpose has always been about batteries, and I can't imagine that it hasn't been tested.... that it's not ubiquitous either means that it's not that good, or that whatever innovation actually makes it good hasn't been popularized.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=ydwfAAAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=4957543&hl=en&ei=yU0jTvrfMMPWiAKE0Mm9Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA

I can't imagine that everyone in the field of battery electrodes hasn't heard of this technique.

Yes. They will stop at nothing. Interesting point, they sure got those scanners contracted and built in a hurry. Almost like they were in the works before the "incident". Strange huh?

But this guy himself was not advertising a competitor per se any more than if he advertised his company site which linked to a Google Site. Or am I not understanding it correctly?

Darn. :(

RIP

However, they have a policy that you have to use your real name when signing up for Google+.

No, they don't, this is rumor that keeps getting repeated, here is the G+ name policy.

They require you use the name you "commonly go by". "If you use your full name", they suggest it'll help people find you, but really the point is to provide what people would type in the search box to find you.

OK, I'll grant that webapps aren't the best for *everything*.

Specifically, mining or other industrial control or information apps where you have to have a highly customized user interface. Stuff like:
http://platform.netbeans.org/screenshots.html
or
Palantir

But for your average ho-hum corporate HR data-entry app? Web's it.

No installation. Stateless. Testable. Cross-platform. Copy-pastable. Font-resizable. Scriptable.
If it's written right, you can bookmark locations within the app with hypertext. Try that with a normal application. And also get/set information. See REST

I'll agree that many corporate web apps aren't written correctly. They're not written for heads-down data entry. But's that not to say they couldn't be.

After a 4-char field is filled up, use Javascript to move to the next field automatically. Associate labels to fields. Set keyboard mnemonics for fields (Alt+letter)--it's in the HTML spec. Order the fields for easy, logical tab order.

Don't force the user to use the mouse to save the record and move to the next one.

Can you name other problems you have with webapps vs. desktop?

Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?

Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.

the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01

La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be

Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?