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At least in Germany, and I think the entire EU, you have to have some kind of imprint page with contact data, so one knows who to sue or contact in case of problems.

Ah, I just checked, and on google.com there's an "About Google" link, and at the bottom of that page, there is an imprint link, leading here: Google Imprint. So apparently, you can even call them, but it goes to Ireland. And there's a Germany-specific e-mail address.
They also give the large number of messages as a reason to use their usual web-based forms.

This is a case of them having their own filter bubble, IMHO. where they think what they predicted people would contact them about is good enough because those are the only things people can contact them about.

The danger zone works out to about 350 meters in radius. Most countries have opted for exclusion zones around 500 meters just to be safe.
That is nonsense.

So the land around a wind turbine is for all practical purposes uninhabitable by humans.
That is nonsense.

In Germany most "on land" (as opposite to "off shore") turbines are simply placed on fields.
https://www.google.de/maps/dir...

So MW for MW, just the regular operation of the largest wind farm in Europe renders about 4x as much land uninhabitable as the second-worst nuclear accident in history. Hydroelectric dams create a lake behind them, rendering that land uninhabitable.
That is complete nonsense.

Moron yourself: http://www.dictionary.com/brow..., or better: https://www.google.de/search?s...

Hey moron, a nation that sells a lot more coal plants than they do renewables is NOT pushing renewables. If the customer wants a coal plant, the seller is not pushing coal plants but supplying the demand.

And if you can not see that installing 700 new coal plants esp in nations that do not even have coal
What has the question if a nation has coal to do with it? Were is _your_ logic and intelligence here?

Thinking Distance: 34 ft (10 m)
Braking Distance: 61 ft (19 m)
Stopping Distance: 95 ft (29 m)

That is also one of the reason we dropped first city speed limit to 50 then to 30 kmh - because in city the braking distance due to lack of visibility is very important. I can't judge for the number on really braking but I can vouch that the reaction time is usually above the 750 millisecond range and at 30 kmh this is nearly 5 meter. Or for the imperial unit for the car case we are speaking of : 35 mph for an attentive human reaction time of 750 ms this is 50 feet per second or roughly 42 feet , or 14 yard. So the women would have had no chance to apply brake. The car itself will also take quite some time so even with lidar :

No matter the velocity, that velocity is reduced 15 fps every second. If the initial velocity is 60 mph, 88 fps, after 1 second elapsed, the vehicle velocity would be 73 fps, after 2 seconds it would be 58 fps decreasing progressively thereafter.

https://www.google.de/url?sa=t...
so even discarding the human and assuming lidar instant response, the car would still need 136 feet to brake, so into yard about 45 yard. Impossible to avoid the woman even if car start braking instantly. That said I would like to know if it did start to brake on its own or not...

I do not want to order my coffee/fries/whatnot on a touch screen. I've got that in my pocket already, thank you. I want a young cute lady smiling at me, and recognising me as a regular parton and listening to my wish and extra-special order.

I can get a coffeebot for my kitchen and never leave home already.

That is just not the point of it.

I *want* to go to the japanese quarters and have some hot stuff prepare my hot stuff and pay them for it. ...

One thing's for sure: No bot will replace them any time soon.

That was mainly because they gave him an overdoze and he got an allergic shock.
Completely preventable ... but it does not mean the gen editing had worked.

BTW: https://www.google.de/search?q...

500k hits ...

You are a decade behind in CRISPR research.

Ah yes, Abraham and his reindeer.

The blue ones are called smurfs.

Vadder Abraham

That is wrong and easy to google ...
https://www.google.de/search?q...

https://www.energy-charts.de/e...
https://www.energy-charts.de/p...
https://www.energy-charts.de/t...
https://www.energy-charts.de/e...

https://www.google.de/search?q=lg+prada&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F31%2F2007&tbm= - Slashdot swallowed the link

>> That's why you run such a prototype ...
The prototype is much much more closer to trailers :

https://www.google.de/webhp?ie...

Take a look, Indonesia and Australia are only 186 nautical miles apart.

Yeah, but the the two reefs are over 2000 miles apart

Download some of the min C compilers and adapt it to generate the code you need.

E.g.: http://bellard.org/tcc/

But if you google https://www.google.de/search?q... you find dozens.

Replying to myself but here it is - straight from the Schultz's mouth.

RIM creates a phone that is supposed to protect my privacy but the company has a history of bending over for governments.
The Priv is a great idea but offered by a company that is not trustworthy.

https://www.google.de/search?q...

The Netherlands has few options for renewable energy.
That is nonsense, look at this: https://www.google.de/maps/pla...

Need hints how to interpret it?

They'll need to invest in nuclear No, why should they?
or import more power from other countries. What would be wrong if they would?

https://www.google.de/maps/@47.9078423,7.5711826,14.75z

Distance from Germany is measured rather in meter than kilometer. With prevailing winds from the west.

About the pollution: Currently none that is made public by French authorities. What became public, however, is that a bit ago, they kept under all blankets that the reactor was out of control (control rod control and sensors were down due to water entering the elctronics) and a manual emergency shutdown with borate flooding had to be performed.

It's debatable if it was technically "out of control" as long as they were able to do an emergency shutdown, but it's gross negliance and irresponsible if an emergency shutdown is NOT reported as an incident.

Add this to the bad overall situation after 40 years of operation, microscopic fractures in the reactor vessel and the plant having more "incidents" than 3 year old after a soda spree....

This is a dirty bomb waiting to happen.

He's pretty much right. The "Free Market" has no monopolies (including no patents, no copyrights, and no proprietary standards

Not according to the inventor of the "Free Market". https://books.google.de/books?...

1. Not news. Story reheated too many times. Older articles:
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/...
http://www.voanews.com/content...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/his...

2. The Russians did it too.
https://books.google.de/books?...

3. The Germans/Axis did it too:
http://www.track-link.com/foru...
This is also mentioned in the monumental 1970s British documentary "The World At War", which I strongly suggest to watch instead of reading this drivel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Like this?

Yeah, I replied to his "experimenting" mail.

That guy has not much clue about current technology :D considering that pumped storages are a century old: https://books.google.de/books?...

"The oldest pumped storage plant went into Operation in Schaffhausen / Switzerland 1909 and is still in Operation today. The oldes in UK was built 1920 in Walkerburn, Scotland."

Not only the title is wrong. Also no grabbing was involved.

The sentence in the summary (and article) that the robot "grabbed him" appears to me as a non-native speaker's translation of this newspaper artikel. It says "Der Mann sei von dem Roboter erfasst und gegen eine Metallplatte gedrückt worden."
Yes "erfassen" can mean "to grab" (although one would normally just use "fassen" for that) but in this context it means "to hit and push". You will find lots of sentences were people were "erfasst" by a car and I think we can all agree that cars usually do not grab people.

So instead of a malicious robot grabbing his tormentor and throwing him against a wall, the poor guy probably was just caught between one of the joints of the robot and a metal plate when the respective part of the robots arm moved towards that plate.

maybe try turning safe search back on and not searching with such ambiguous keyword combinations as "giant cock"?

Have you used Google lately? A couple of years ago they began to also search for "similar" words, including abbreviations and acronyms. Which, depending on the subject, can lead to totally off-topic results. E.g. https://www.google.de/search?q=Wisconsin+Tourism+Federation - WTF indeed. Their search-by-data is also often useless (esp. when looking for older stuff), because most sites now include links to current articles even on ancient pages, which of course drown out the actual content.

You can easily find out for yourself by going on Google Maps and checking the same routes by car and public transit. Worms to Wittenberg 4:30h vs 7h, Trier to Gotha, 3:40h vs 5:50h, Poole to Cardigan, 4:10h vs 7:30h. Even on direct routes, isn't much of a win: Munich to Berlin is 5h vs 6h (train still being slower). Note that with trains, you still need even more time to get from your home to/from the train station, while the car travel times apply pretty much from anywhere around a city.

There are, of course, other factors, like rush hour, traffic, and train scheduling constraints. Those add travel times to both modes of transportation, but in my experience, cars come out ahead in terms of trip time even with the worst traffic congestion.

No idea what you find rude.
And no idea what you "believe" reasonable or unreasonable.

There is no real loss involved in AC/DC conversion. Why should it?

This one is 98% efficient:
http://www.power-mag.com/pdf/f...

This one 98.5%: https://www.google.de/url?sa=t...

Sorry, your idea and the other /. ers that AC/DC conversion sucks up 25% is completely insane. There is no physical law thinkable of to cause such a loss.

Why when somebody tells me some word does not exists, they do not check for themselves ?

https://www.google.de/search?q...

It is not as if using google was hexenkunst...

not some attempt to smear Russia with a bad photoshop job

Maybe it does serve a dual purpose.
According to that video from your link, the union of engineers received the satellite photo from some George Bilt from MIT. Supposedly the photo was made by a US or UK reconnaissance satellite.

Had to get fairly specific to get the 2009 article to come up on the first page (lots of hits about the recent de-listing), but this gives first hit, searching from Germany
https://www.google.de/search?q=Stan+O%27neal+merill+lynch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=Stan+O%27neal+merrill+lynch+peston+site%3ABBC.co.uk

Funnily enough, that still results in a little note at the bottom stating:
Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe. Learn more

Freifunk Berlin has solved this by creating VPN connections, so that the traffic does not appear to come from you, but from the VPN exit point.

In the european parliament not the parties decide in most cases, but the members. This gives very much power to the citizens who can speak directly with their MeP. Hoever, most times they don't, and let the MePs speak with the lobbyists instead.

Look at the literature. Here is a start:

http://scholar.google.de/schol...

A few thousand units is not nearly enough to move the needle on price. Setup costs diminish greatly at around 10,000 units (usually) but that's isn't where the big money is here

They have shipped well over 20'000 developer kits so far. That's a device only sold through their website, known to be low-resolution, lacking position tracking and to become obsolete within a year due to release of the much improved consumer version. I have little doubt that they will sell a lot more units once the consumer versions hits the retail shelves. They also have something like $90 million venture capital, so they certainly can do some volume ordering.

The primary reason is that this technology always has been a solution looking for a problem.

Total immersion is a problem and people have wanted to solve for a long long time. At the moment it's still a little niche due to lack of hardware, but there is no shortage on people with tipple monitor setups, TrackIR and other gadgets to get as close to the real thing as possible. Rift can provide a better experience for much cheaper.

No matter how good the headset is, there simply isn't any evidence that there is mass market levels of demand for full immersion VR in any of the likely markets.

Look at some reaction videos on Youtube, everybody from 6 year old kids to 90 year old grandmas seems to enjoy the experience, a lot. Disney also did some research back in the 90's with they Aladdin Virtual Reality Carpet Ride and concluded that it's basically fun for all ages, no need to be some hardcore sci-fi geek to enjoy a bit of virtual reality. All the gaming aside, who would say no to an IMAX cinema in his living room? Virtual reality can provide that.

It's kind of like a Segway - neat but really just an expensive toy with limited real world application.

The Segway cost as much as a small car, so it's not that surprising that it didn't take of. If the Segway would have cost as much as a bike it would have had a much better time with mass market adoption. The Rift by contrast is pretty cheap, well within the realm of other gaming peripherals, cheaper then a big TV.

At this point looking at your posts on this subject, you are glossing over major key points and are playing word games. Again: You have not addressed the key question yet you go on and on about caring for these women. The women DO deserve their day I think nobody disagrease. So let me repeat: tell us why Sweden is stalling and not doing an interview to move this case forward? They will interview a accused murderer in Serbia but they will not interview Assange. That clearly shows that Sweden prosecution does not have the girls interest at heart. I think everyone involved wants this to get to trial so these little details can be fleshed out in court, but Sweden is stalling by not performing a simple interview. Political Asylum is not given lightly, so the ball really is in Swedens court.

Sigh. *again*. You have not addressed the key question yet you go on and on about caring for these women. The women DO deserve their day I think nobody disagrease. So let me repeat: tell us why Sweden is stalling and not doing an interview to move this case forward? They will interview a accused murderer in Serbia but they will not interview Assange. That clearly shows that Sweden prosecution does not have the girls interest at heart. I think everyone involved wants this to get to trial so these little details can be fleshed out in court, but Sweden is stalling by not performing a simple interview. Political Asylum is not given lightly, so the ball really is in Swedens court.

The women DO deserve their day. So tell us why Sweden is stalling and not doing an interview to move this case forward? I mean they will interview a accused murderer in Serbia but they will not interview Assange!? That clearly shows that Sweden prosecution does not have the girls interest at heart. Also please explain why the girls texted a message, paraphrased in English "that we have to figure out a good plan of revenge." . This is in addition to one of the girls previous publication of the guide "Seven steps for revenge against an unfaithful lover". You have to admit, that does not put the story you have highlighted in a good light. I think everyone involved wants this to get to trial so these little details can be fleshed out in court, but Sweden is stalling by not performing a simple interview. Political Asylum is not given lightly, so the ball really is in Swedens court.

The whole article is just a sales job:

That is the basis of the proprietary technology Carlsson offers through his start-up venture, Ayasdi, which produces a compressed representation of high dimensional data in smaller bits, similar to a map of London’s tube system.

The first place to look when people make such claims is at their publications, neither Gunnar Carlsson nor Simon DeDeo have significant publications that show that their approach works on real data or standard test sets. The statements in the article that these kinds of approaches are new are also bogus (I don't know whether they are deceptive or ignorant).

Lastly, from a Stanford math professor, I would expect better citation statistics overall; I don't know what's going on there.

http://scholar.google.de/citations?user=nCGwiu0AAAAJ&hl=en

http://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2009&q=author:%22gunnar+carlsson%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

The whole article is just a sales job:

That is the basis of the proprietary technology Carlsson offers through his start-up venture, Ayasdi, which produces a compressed representation of high dimensional data in smaller bits, similar to a map of London’s tube system.

The first place to look when people make such claims is at their publications, neither Gunnar Carlsson nor Simon DeDeo have significant publications that show that their approach works on real data or standard test sets. The statements in the article that these kinds of approaches are new are also bogus (I don't know whether they are deceptive or ignorant).

Lastly, from a Stanford math professor, I would expect better citation statistics overall; I don't know what's going on there.

http://scholar.google.de/citations?user=nCGwiu0AAAAJ&hl=en

http://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2009&q=author:%22gunnar+carlsson%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

12600 Links according to Google News ;-)

Google is your friend: https://www.google.de/search?q=1.5+million+android+activations+per+day&oq=1.5+million+android+activations+per+day

Result 2: Microbial Monitoring and Disinfection aboard NASA Spacecraft... sounds promising, but it's paywalled. For $17.50 though I might be able to get access to a dense academic tomb. Thanks, Google!

I put the name into Scholar, and found a (free) PDF by the same author, 5 years later than that article.
It is comparing bacterial and fungal contamination of ISS, Mir and Shuttle missions.

Perhaps you are searching with the wrong keywords. Try "sterilization of spacecraft".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection

Unless you're using Firefox, this doesn't stop the NSA from reading it:

http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fnetzwelt%2Fweb%2Fwindows-hintertuer-gefaehrdet-ssl-verschluesselung-a-913825.html&act=url

Oringal article in German.

Here the missing link, slashdot has eaten: https://www.google.de/search?safe=off&client=safari&hl=de&biw=768&bih=928&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=o0-aUeKYGYTP4QSS14GQBQ&q=wago+federklemme&oq=wago+federklemme&gs_l=img.3..0i24.4551.8163.0.8930.3.3.0.0.0.0.236.498.0j2j1.3.0...0.0...1c.1.14.img.O-56byaxP3s

We have very sophisticated wire connectors here in the EU. You can see several examples here. Stew terminals are in fact in most cases not allowed any more in the EU (see here for more details)

Another one of my grandpa's favourites which I still think slightly gross. (but at least I've tried it...)

Funny enough, since a few years, I aquired a taste for several of his other favourite dishes that mostly come from the tradition that no part of a pig should go wasted after you've used a bit of your own food rations to raise it for a year.

This one for example tastes much better than it looks: https://www.google.de/search?q=eisbein&rlz=1C1GPCK_enDE415DE415&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=E2eRUbuwF8_Eswbdl4DIAg&ved=0CDoQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=959

I'm not yet ready for the boiled pig's head....

No he didn't. The link he provided doesn't even mention me. Does Google have my telephone number stored? The only valid answers, according to law, are either "yes" or "no". The question isn't answered on this page http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. The link only contains an abstract description but no concrete details. The latter is required by law.

Germany has a law that every website (at least any commercial website) has to have a page with legal info, including an email address for contact purposes.

Google did so: http://www.google.de/contact/impressum.html

But when you write an email to the email address listed there, you only get an automated message giving you some FAQs and a note telling you that your email will not be read.

So you can not actually contact Google that way. (Contact in this law is suppost to be a means to start a conversation.)

Now, did Microsoft avoid fulfilling the meaning of the law in this way?
As far as I know: No.
So there doesn't seem to be a reason to go after Microsoft in the same way as Google.

If you know more -- feel free to share.
Otherwise please stop this kind of stupid rant.

Well, to contact Google in Germany, you could always just go to: http://www.google.de/contact/impressum.html

E-Mail: support-de@google.com

Well that is exactly the point of the complaint.

If you write to this address (support-de@google.com) you get an automatic reply which tells you that Google will not read or respond to your email.

Well, to contact Google in Germany, you could always just go to: http://www.google.de/contact/impressum.html

E-Mail: support-de@google.com

I did:

https://www.google.de/search?q=datenschutzerkl%C3%A4rung+google&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

First hit:

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

I did:

https://www.google.de/search?q=datenschutzerkl%C3%A4rung+google&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&channel=fflb

First hit:

http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Why should a company located in the USA obey german law? [...]

"With over 70 offices in more than 40 countries, chances are we’ve got opportunities near you."

Offices in Germany == subject to German law.