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As long as you're not exhaling those iconic giant (hipster-douche) vape clouds onto everyone around you.

Ugh!

Perhaps they're just harmless water vapor, but keep it to yourself man

Nobody else signed up for my issues; therefore, I keep them to myself. I would hope others would do the same. :)

It's interesting (to use that word) that the top N results when googling vape cloud are like:

How do I get more clouds from my vape?
How to get massive vape clouds?
What is best for vape clouds?

Makes you wonder about peoples' motivations ...

The main problem with the entire X.509 system that I have, is that it just assumes everyone at the organization that makes your browser and where you get it from, is trustworthy.

What good is a certificate from an "authority" that I have never met in person, let alone got to know enough to decide if they are trustworthy?
What good is an "authority" just shoved down my throat by a browser maker that I have never met in person, let alone got to know enough to decide if the people there are trustworthy? (Or the devices that they use.)
What good is even a perfectly trustworthy browser maker who picks perfectly trustworthy CAs, if I download it over the outdated browser of my OS that I installed from a medium that was made with an outdated OS or on another computer, and so on, that all were never checked for trustworthiness?

Especially in a world of firmware with backdoors and crazy shit like dopant-level hardware trojans that you can't even detect with a microscope!

I have my own CA, and then the system makes sense, but what it's built on still makes it as pointless as WhatsApp's encryption between closed-source Facebook code (the client) and Facebook servers.

Am I supposed to just turn my brain off and assume that in that entire chain, there was not even a single dickhead with a big budget, who just wanted to spy on ALL the things? I've read the Snowden leaks and know about Five Eyes, China, Russia and Israel's efforts. Hell, I can do half that shit myself in my spare time!

We're bickering about utterly superficial pointless things. Who watches the watchmen? WE DO. In the very end, it is always oneself. And even that implies that we're competent in that in the first place.

ERROR 9001: EXISTENTIAL CRISIS. CONNECTION TERMINATED.

The white collar guys laughed when the blue collared folks had their jobs sent to China & Mexico.

No they didn't. I mean sure there's always some arseholes, but that sentiment was never there.

We told them to reskill.

Just don't tell a laid of "journalist" that....

What *should* "we" have told them? Those jobs went, never to come back. ...

WRONG!!!!!

In the first 21 months after that storied slayer of jobs - Barack Obama - left office, the US added 400,000 manufacturing jobs.

Don't want mass biometric surveillance in prison? Don't do something that would put you in prison, dumb ass. If I had my way, you wouldn't get out again.

That would be all well and good if the laws and justice system in the US were a little more sane. The population of the US is currently 326 million (2017). The population of the world is 7.5 billion(2017). The 2016 US prison population was 2.3 million including federal, state, local, immigration, military, juvenile. and civil detention facilities. The 2016 prison population for the entire world was 10.35 million. The US has 4.3% of the worlds population but houses 22% of the prisoners in the world. There are also 3.8 million people on probation and 820K on parole. That works out to 6.92 million people who are actively registered in the criminal justice system. That's a little over 2% of the US population.

With the number of laws on the books in the US, damn near the entire population could be arrested on any given day for an infraction. It just matters if you get caught, of if a police officer feels like finding something to charge you for. There are many states that have laws about which positions are legal to have sex with your spouse, in the privacy of your own home. In one of the Carolinas it's illegal to sing off key. There's a town in Arizona that it's illegal to wear suspenders, and another that it's illegal for a woman to wear pants.

There are 646K people incarcerated in local jails. Of those, 70% haven't been convicted yet as the justice system is backed up. There are almost 5500 people who are in civil detention centers in over a dozen states. These are people who were convicted of sexual crimes and have already served their entire sentence. But they are still confined, well, because.

Don't want mass biometric surveillance in prison? Don't do something that would put you in prison, dumb ass. If I had my way, you wouldn't get out again.

That would be all well and good if the laws and justice system in the US were a little more sane. The population of the US is currently 326 million (2017). The population of the world is 7.5 billion(2017). The 2016 US prison population was 2.3 million including federal, state, local, immigration, military, juvenile. and civil detention facilities. The 2016 prison population for the entire world was 10.35 million. The US has 4.3% of the worlds population but houses 22% of the prisoners in the world. There are also 3.8 million people on probation and 820K on parole. That works out to 6.92 million people who are actively registered in the criminal justice system. That's a little over 2% of the US population.

With the number of laws on the books in the US, damn near the entire population could be arrested on any given day for an infraction. It just matters if you get caught, of if a police officer feels like finding something to charge you for. There are many states that have laws about which positions are legal to have sex with your spouse, in the privacy of your own home. In one of the Carolinas it's illegal to sing off key. There's a town in Arizona that it's illegal to wear suspenders, and another that it's illegal for a woman to wear pants.

There are 646K people incarcerated in local jails. Of those, 70% haven't been convicted yet as the justice system is backed up. There are almost 5500 people who are in civil detention centers in over a dozen states. These are people who were convicted of sexual crimes and have already served their entire sentence. But they are still confined, well, because.

if only there were some way to spoof your geolocation

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

(or u can just use chrome dev tools if you dont trust browser extensions)

U.S. President Donald Trump has accused China of stealing American innovations and technology and has slapped trade tariffs on $234 billion of Chinese goods to punish Beijing.

So how is this story really related to the Chinese IP theft accusation? Perhaps, we should also be reminded of American's own dirty history and current activities?

Counter-notification that the copyright claim is false or in bad faith is already a mechanism available to Youtubers. While this can turn into an extended and lengthy process for restoring the video, if the claim is baseless and the original copyright complaint can't be substantiated by initiating court action in the defendant's jurisdiction, then the video should be restored within 10 business days. https://support.google.com/you... Since a scammer is only looking for quick money and not a protracted legal battle that they can't win anyways (they're playing whack-a-mole odds to see who complies), this is a non-issue if the youtubers just use the tools provided them. Why did not a single top comment in this article, or the source article, or slashdot's commentary article mention this mechanism? Because none of you bothered to even google what someone might do in this situation.

One thing I hadn't read yet, do Facebook and Google have similar apps for Android? It seems likely they would... but I had not read that they did.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.userpanel&hl=en_US

The Screenwise Meter mobile app is used to manage registered panelists' participation in market research panels. If you are not a registered panelist with Google, this app will not function; please do not download or use this app. This app works in sync with external Screenwise measurement devices.

ABOUT PANEL RESEARCH: Like many other companies, Google brings together market research panels to help learn more about things like technology usage, how people are consuming media, and how they use Google products. This is part of our Panel Research program.

Apparently there are "Screenwise" devices that you put near your TV that track usage (a la Nielsen, I guess), and the Screenwise Meter app works with them somehow. The panel enrollment page is here, but it's by invitation only.

How did we end up with a government where no one on either side ever fixes anything?

You have a system where a large percentage of the rulers are psychopaths or sociopaths and they crave power which has to be given to them by voters and to get this they have to promise voters things that they never intend to deliver, and you expect them to get rid of things that they can dangle in front of voters, like stopping robocalls? The politically-desirable outcome is media coverage, not solutions to real problems.

It's a well-known secret that both parties have an agreement to slowly raise the minimum wage below the rate of inflation but to have a big media shit-storm every time to socially signal to "their" voters that they're being represented. The whole thing might be the biggest con in history.

I'm glad to have found a good call blocker that works on Pie; had to update my voicemail to say, "sorry, you're not on my contacts list." Government didn't solve this problem for me, nor did I ever expect that it would. Some dude called Vlad Lee did and he has a Play Store account.

I've not seen a Pakistani passport so I legitimately didn't know. Goalposts firmly in place, mofo.

You've just moved them again. Now you must have personally seen a Packistani passport. The link wasn't enough, so I'm sure that a collection of Google results won't meet your standards either.

I take it back. You're not hardly better, you're no better.

There was a widespread claim a few years back that there was a half-million shortage of Software Engineers that would reach one million by 2020. I cry bullshit on that, as it is quite difficult for many coders to find work - guys with grey hair such as myself, women, latinos, African Americans and those who specialize in coding other than web or mobile apps.

I only got back to work when I totally gave up on getting into mobile or web then hung out my shingle as a driver and embedded coder. That's worked out well but what I _really_ like a about coding?

"Check this out Mom. See what happens when I click _this_ button?" "Yes... ."

"I wrote that!" "OH MIKEY!"

Mikey Likes To Make His Momma Proud.

I have traced that million-coder shortage claim to the Obama Administration's Official Whitehouse Blog from 2013, which reported that there would be openings for 1.4 Million coders in 2020, but that there would only be 400,000 new CS graduates.

But consider that my own degree is in Physics yet I do just fine. That blog cited the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics for both figures but I have been unable to find the original publication - if there even is one. I emailed a specific individual at the BLS who was in that general line of statisticsifying but got no response. Later this week I'll send a few dead trees to them.

My own take is that hiring managers and recruiters are completely unable to judiciously select the right candidates to interview due to - as I've read repeatledy, no citation but RSN I'll have one - that job board posts for coders result in on the average one thousand applications.

Surely that would make your own eyeballs bleed.

The Balkanizations of languages, applications - web back end, front end, mobile, embedded, systems, MIS even nuclear weapons design - results in it being very very difficult for the right coders to connect to the right companies. That and the fact that Google Trends convinced me that the single most-consistently searched-for keyword is "jobs" resulted in my building what - by 2020 I hope - will be a comprehensive list of links directly to the Jobs or Careers Portals of every Computer Industry that hires through its own website. BEHOLD:

• The Global Computer Industry Index
• Telecommuting and Remote Work

(The exceedingly basic web design is intended to enable my site to work well for the ancient boxes and browsers found in the developing world, most rural public libraries as well as those owned by low-income people.)

About a month from now I'll form a Non-Profit Corporation to take over the operation of Soggy Jobs. The IRS takes about a year to approve 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible Status, at which point I'll apply for charitable grants from Google.org, employment- and economic development-oriented philanthropists, and government employment and economic development agencies.

That will enable me to hire - just at first - an Entry-Level SQA Engineer, a Journey-Level Back End Developer and a Senior Front End Developer; I've got lots of plans for modern boxes and browsers that I shan't divulge until they... wait for it... Beta.

After the IRS approves my deductible status I'll form subsidiaries in most industrialized nations then apply for their non deductible statuses. That's going to be really complicated and will require some cash as I'll have to retain a bunch of non-profit corp formation attorneys.

San Francisco consistently gets the most hits. My most-loved page is that for

Various roles in the military, for starters

How dare them desire privacy, it's clear we must obscure all surveillance so they are unaware of it.

Desire privacy is fine, expect privacy in a public setting is concerning to me. I mean, people seems to still be surprised when they post on public sites and get caught out? https://www.google.com/search?...

like brick layer

Moreover if you've been paying any attention there's been massive productivity boosts in all those fields. My company is throwing up a new building for a little over 1000 employees in 10 months. When I was a kid that kind of thing took years. They've had these puppies for at least 10 years now. I'm sure you can find equivalent tech in plumbing if you know where to look.

As for carpentry, I know some blue collar guys pissed because they used to get free wood at job sites when the job was over. That's all stopped. They order exactly what they need and it comes pre cut. There's your automation. It happens at a factory and a computer automatically handles the logistics of getting it there. Before long you won't even need the drivers. Just a couple of day laborers to unload it all and hammer it together...

no.

"Unbeknownst to Raskin, Jobs had his own reasons for visiting PARC: Xerox's venture capital arm had recently made an investment in Apple, and had agreed to show Apple what was going on in its lab."
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html

"Xerox was anxious to get a piece of the action and was more than willing to allow an Apple contingent to take a peek at PARC. After all, an investment in Apple was likely to turn a handsome profit when the company eventually went public, whereas the stuff in the PARC labs was an intangible asset that would probably never make it to market—it had already languished for six years. Xerox signed an agreement never to purchase more than five percent of Apple's shares and invested $1 million by buying 100,000 shares at $10 each (within a year these split into 800,000 shares worth $17.6 million when Apple went public."
https://books.google.com/books?id=mXnw5tM8QRwC&pg=PA75&dq=%22xerox+signed%22#v=onepage&q=%22xerox%20signed%22

Even if he is granted a patent, that's no indication that it works as well as he hopes that it does. A patent is just an indication that he's created a novel invention. Nothing about a patent says that novel invention is actually useful. People get patents for cat litter boxes, they're nothing special in and of themselves.

It could be this:
https://patents.google.com/pat...

But if it is, it was filed in 2011 and granted in 2015 so it isn't exactly new. I don't know why he can't show us photos if he's been working on it since before 2011.

Some people already named Signal. For the rest, do you know how to click a link?

> In January '84 the only GUIs actually on the market were ... (snip)

Yup, GUI's were all the rage in the mid 80's.

> and a remarkably craptacular version of Windows

While Windows 1.0 was announced in 1983 it doesn't actually ship until November 20, 1985. Ironically a Microsoft engineer coined the term "vaporware" due to it taking so long! Who knew.

> GEMS was a year later

GEM (not GEMS), announced in 1984, was released on 28 February 1985 before Windows. Ventura Publisher, released in 1986, the first DTP on PCs used GEM. I'm not sure why it took until the March 1987 issue of Infoworld to review it (lead in time?). Technically, Aldus Pagemaker 1.0 was released in July 1985 for Mac OS but it didn't get ported over to Windows 1.0 until 1987.

And in 1986 GEOS was released.

Anecdote appears to be legit. Local police kept equating it to swearing. https://translate.google.com/t...

Thailand at night from space
https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

https://www.google.com/search?...

Tell me how is that treehouse in the yard where you hide from your parents working out ?

so I can't resist feeding you a bit more, even though I know we're not supposed to feed the trolls.

WWII doesn't really matter in this context. It's a strawman you're using to distract from my main point, which is that giving all the money to the 1% hasn't stopped them from outsourcing jobs. We just borrowed $1 trillion and gave it to the 1% in the form of tax cuts and they used it for mother f*king stock buy backs. No jobs, no investment.

Companies don't hire because they've got money, they hire to meet demand. That is why demand side economics works and supply side (aka trickle down) fails. That's the "OVERALL" economic picture that you're ignoring.

But you're just an alt-right troll. You're not interested in solving problems or being right, just winning. I'm not the one that figured that out either, this guy is. He's got a whole series of videos on guys like you.

Thing is, if you're being paid it's not enough. Eventually they'll eat you alive. And if you've drunk the kool-aid then stop. It's poisoned. Go watch the videos on the Alt-Right playbook linked above and learn how you've been had.

Can it also detect use of Gutter Oil?

https://www.google.com/search?...

There's reasonable evidence that homo erectus could control fire. The main difference between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon seems to have been that Cro-Magnon's lived in larger groups, so there were more sources to exchange ideas between

If I had to pick one thing, I'd pick language. And the problems with the FOX P2 gene https://www.google.com/search?... show that it is genetically mediated. (Well, of course that was obvious. But only after you notice that it's obvious. There are lots of examples of people trying to teach grammar to chimps.)

I haunt a number of forums and found it a little tedious to have to ctrl+f whatever item I wanted to "click" on.

Firefox has a built-in feature to select links as you type on a page; no need to even press Ctrl+F first. On Chrome I have found the extension Type-ahead-find to closely replicate that feature.

but I wish I could stop saying it: the Luddites were real people put out of work by technology in a society where if you don't work you don't eat.

It took a _long_ time for technology to catch up. The Luddites died jobless. Their kids did too. There were decades of unemployment and social strife following the industrial revolution until the two greatest employment programs in history restored full employment.

The tech that came out of the war (and the mad rush to rebuild the world) kept us going for this long. But the rich don't want another World War. It's their stuff, why would they let us break it? I remember when Pakistan looked the other way when some of their folks attacked India's capital. I was ready for WWIII. Didn't happen. India sucked it down because it would have been bad for business.

This means we're not gonna have wars save us this time. The next industrial revolution is upon us in the form of computerized automation. I've never _once_ heard a credible explanation of exactly what jobs we're all gonna retrain for. That's because there isn't one. You say that it's just that I can't imagine those jobs? That's because by the time they're available I'll be dead and I'll have died dirt poor.

It doesn't have to be that way. We can learn from history for a change. We know technology unemployment is coming. Now's the time to do something about it while we still have some economic power.

Fun fact: one of the tones of the word Bing means "disease" in Chinese. Proof: https://translate.google.com/#...

Good joke. As if Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are going to vote against corporate interests.

It's Google v Oracle. There's a megacorporation on both sides of the courtroom. The Supreme Court is going to vote against someone's corporate interest, if they grant the writ at all.

Google had better have been eloquent beyond all measure. Their lawyers have been working on this writ of certiorari since before October. If they fail to convince the Supreme Court to grant a hearing, it's all over and Oracle wins and software as an industry basically ends, swallowed by lawyers.

For those playing along at home, if the last ruling in Oracle's favor stands, Novell essentially owns the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel reimplements the UNIX kernel API. If the ruling by the blithering idiots in the Court of Appeals is allowed to stand, that's illegal without a license. Novell's lawyers would have to write a license to allow Linux to continue to exist. All of the standard system libraries, especially things like libc, would become embroiled in legal battles to determine who owes what to whom. Odds are, Microsoft's implementation of libc is too new, and Microsoft would require a license from someone else to keep it. But the parts that are C99 were developed jointly, so it could take centuries of lawyer-time to figure out who owns what.

We're going to hope that Google's lawyers were able to convey all of this to the Supreme Court. They'd better. There were 11 lawyers involved and the writ is 343 pages.

If you clicked on the link in the reply, it doesn't work (epine may have cut it off unintentionally), but the original link does.

https://groups.google.com/a/ch...

and they might even survive. Yeah, it's technically 4.83 months, but since when is any construction project on time?

That said, it's probably not a good idea if you value human life. And at any rate it's really just a distraction/vanity project. I'll believe Trump is concerned for our future when he makes good on his campaign promise of Universal Healthcare.

Before jumping ship, it's worth reading the actual thread discussing this change: https://groups.google.com/a/ch...

That was super useful. Almost makes you think it could be placed in the story summary ... but, nah, that might lead to useful discussion.

Yes, Google is listening with one ear, but the overall tone (so far as I scanned) ran the gamut from hostile to cynical to mind boggled.

Interestingly, it remained civilized as these things go, and there were few posts in the hallowed mushroom-cloud apocalypse tradition of the fight/fulminate/flight triangle of charred human remains, whose mortal moral fuses went outright Code Magnesium. While it's orbiting around that general quadrant, it's not yet an ad-blocker black hole of no return.

Nice that Google still dips their big toe into evil before jumping straight in, nigh irrevocably.

And yet, somewhere deep down, you know they want to.

Before jumping ship, it's worth reading the actual thread discussing this change: https://groups.google.com/a/ch...

Google staff are participating. They are talking about the need to keep the old API around indefinitely, perhaps with some limitations on functionality. The purpose of the proposal is to gather feedback from add-on developers about what functionality the new API doesn't offer and needs to be kept in the old API.

In particular, they recognize that for privacy reasons it's important for users to have a 100% guarantee that certain things are blocked and not merely hidden, which is the main performance issue at the moment.

Also, the developer of AdBlock Plus chimed in to dispel the myth that it's got something to do with them. They point out that AdBlock is affected by the change as well.

Deepfakes: https://www.google.com/search?...
Adobe voice fakes : https://www.google.com/search?...

But I guess a couple of hardware tokens (issued, say, to the member and his aide) could be used to authenticate the session.

Deepfakes: https://www.google.com/search?...
Adobe voice fakes : https://www.google.com/search?...

But I guess a couple of hardware tokens (issued, say, to the member and his aide) could be used to authenticate the session.

Never mind, I found it. It's not in API documentation, but in a Google docs proposal for Manifest V3:

In Manifest V3, this API will be discouraged (and likely limited) in its blocking form. The non-blocking implementation of the webRequest API, which allows extensions to observe network requests, but not modify, redirect, or block them (and thus doesn't prevent Chrome from continuing to process the request) will not be discouraged. As an alternative, we plan to provide a declarativeNetRequest API (see below). The details of what limitations we may put in the webRequest API are to be determined.

Thank you for digging this up! So it's "not be discouraged." They're hoping to trade an increase in network performance (i.e. reduction in resource calls) by decreasing the request filtering "power" [and transitioning request filtering to the pre-request "onBeforeRequest" stage].

Those who use the older API won't ever be happy to change their code/model, but those who leverage the new API may actually experience a reduction in dropped network traffic and an associated increase in browser user experience. Interesting trade-off...

I believe gathering detailed performance metrics of any revamped ad-blocking extensions would truly convince devs whether the Chromium implementation of the API really does improve overall performance... or whether it's just a dick move by some Chromium devs as part of an evil plan. (Cue the conspiracy theorists...)

Maybe Draw is being replaced with Jamboard? https://jamboard.google.com/

Considering the moon is in space this the first, TINIEST step in the journey of a 170,000 (*) light years. =P

Will it make a difference? Too early to tell but at least people are starting to get serious about taking space seriously. Baby steps are important even if only baby steps.

(*) The Milky Way galaxy may be much bigger than we thought

Never mind, I found it. It's not in API documentation, but in a Google docs proposal for Manifest V3:

In Manifest V3, this API will be discouraged (and likely limited) in its blocking form. The non-blocking implementation of the webRequest API, which allows extensions to observe network requests, but not modify, redirect, or block them (and thus doesn't prevent Chrome from continuing to process the request) will not be discouraged. As an alternative, we plan to provide a declarativeNetRequest API (see below). The details of what limitations we may put in the webRequest API are to be determined.

You mean by implementing dns-over-http, bypassing the hosts file and any DNS based ad blocker?
https://developers.google.com/...
Firefox already supports it.

Word to the wise: wget https://dl.google.com/linux/di... Rather than using the online "installer" that does the download. Keep older versions on some share, it may protect you from this "upgrade".

You're vastly oversimplifying Chrome Apps - our app (Jade Support https://chrome.google.com/webs...) is very full featured with Javascript based UI, WebAssembly Compilers and Bluetooth Communications. User data is from GDrive (and soon also to allow OneDrive) which uses up the bandwidth you're talking about.

But a lot of work is being done at the thin client level and it performs very well - especially when you compare it to Windows apps written in C++ doing the same function on a platform with the same processor, memory and storage.

Google got a lot right with Chromebooks and performance for apps (not just web pages) is one of them.

If you think Android is about "Freedom" then you haven't visited https://myactivity.google.com/ If anything Google is using those to devices to collect a tonne of data about people.

“Rita Kappel from Zwolle”: https://translate.google.com/t...

The blacklist lists a 2-year suspension, with an update wayyyyy down the page indicating that the suspension was reduced, as noted in the OP. And you really have to read into the text to find this out.

This comment stood out in the legal proceedings:

"The Central Disciplinary Court has declared a number of complaints components to be (partially) unfounded and has imposed on the plastic surgeon the lower measure of conditional suspension for a period of 4 months with a probationary period of 2 years."

So it seems that some of the original 9 complaints are unfounded, and this is a case of he said/she said, with a dispute of what actually happened.

If we are really serious about combating fake news, then why shouldn't Google have to delist the biased and misleading blacklist, in favor of other more accurate reviews?

I note that Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) complained that doing an image search of him came up with a photoshopped image of his head on a Nazi uniform in the top row. (source) Scott complained to Google and got no response, and only after asking his followers complain did the image get *somewhat* downranked. It's still there in the first page of image results.

He points out that the image came from a twitter account with 15 followers:

“Now, these are real pictures that people have ‘memed up’ on Twitter and somewhere else, but here’s the thing, if you click through to those pictures they are the least, smallest, most minor mention of me compared to everything I’ve been doing for years. So, I’m asking myself, and I’m gonna ask you as well, do you think given that – so one of these clicks through, one of the pictures of me wearing a photoshopped Nazi uniform, if you click through it goes to a fake Twitter account that’s pretending to be me that has only 15 followers.”

Adams asked: “Do you think that a fake Twitter account that has only 15 followers would have enough followers that Google’s algorithm would pick that? Of all the pictures there are of me, there are a lot of pictures of me in the public domain, in articles. I was probably in 25 major articles last year alone, and this one little 15 user fake Twitter account is the fourth image that comes up?”

It seems perfectly reasonable that people should start pushing back against Google's search manipulation, and the "right to be forgotten" seems to be a good first step.

all drugs, including the hard ones. Treat those (Heroine and the like) as medical conditions from start to finish. You go to a government facility, get your fix, and the moment you come down you're in treatment. Pass Medicare for All (it'll save $5 trillion a year) so we're sure there's care for everyone.

The only downside is you won't be able to use our drug war against populations you don't like anymore. Yes, that includes dirty hippies.

Bear in mind that these are small islands off the north coast of Scotland. They have a dialect word "yarfast" meaning "tied down so it won't get blown away". https://books.google.com/books...

Nope, I don't throw any love at Google and am currently moving all my services away from Google.

What I cherished is the community we had built. Now we have to rebuild it somewhere else.

If you're interested, here is my farewell letter on G+: https://plus.google.com/+Marti...

I did this drive last month: https://www.google.com/maps?ll...

It didn't take 14 hours. It didn't take anywhere near 14 hours, even though I stopped and got out of the car a few times, stopped to take photographs a few times, encountered a sandstorm;

Google's time calculations in Australia are fucked up.