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Obama was trying to do the classic Keynesian response to an economy in a death spiral and that is for the government to make up for the loss of consumer spending. Well it failed, all it did was delay the inevitable...

Blah blah blah. If only it was true. He actually didn't even try it, instead offering a program which barely prevented us from forming Bread Lines.

There's nothing structural about the economic decline right now, other than the lack of political will that allowed it to happen. Hell, even the New Deal wasn't enough to really save us from the Depression--it was World War II that actually allowed for close to full employment, and that was "stimulus" that just went to killing people. One could argue if the same amount of cash by percentages was spent by the government on domestic projects and infrastructure from 2007 on, we'd all have jobs right now.

Thunderbolt is only 4x PCIe 2.0, so you won't be using this to connect modern, desktop-class GPUs to your laptop

For multi-GPU systems in current desktops at least, there's little to no performance penalty going from 16x to 4x.

Good Lord, it's awful.

A couple examples of completely inappropriate non-sequitur groupings:
Lost, but only sort of the TV show
Obama, only not.

These were gleaned from my own FB page over the last two days.

I really hate this 'feature'.

Good Lord, it's awful.

A couple examples of completely inappropriate non-sequitur groupings:
Lost, but only sort of the TV show
Obama, only not.

These were gleaned from my own FB page over the last two days.

I really hate this 'feature'.

Good Lord, it's awful.

A couple examples of completely inappropriate non-sequitur groupings:
Lost, but only sort of the TV show
Obama, only not.

These were gleaned from my own FB page over the last two days.

I really hate this 'feature'.

Good Lord, it's awful.

A couple examples of completely inappropriate non-sequitur groupings:
Lost, but only sort of the TV show
Obama, only not.

These were gleaned from my own FB page over the last two days.

I really hate this 'feature'.

I found a couple of articles too. I suspect with the power of the $50 video card and the recurring obsolescence of the console that PC Gaming has a very bright future.

My 1994 Civic VX was stickered for 56mpg on the highway. I've averaged about 45 mpg over the past 80,000 miles... I think it's quite good for a car with 212,000 total. I think it'd do better without the ethanol...

The Civic VX burns "lean" sorta like a diesel... 5 wire oxygen sensor costs about $600.

California Emissions didn't like how the engine put out a lot of the NOx when doing the leanburn trick, so the Civic VX was neutered in 1996 to become the Civic HX, Someone here said the Japanese Civic HX was good for 70mpg - it had lean burn and a CVT...

Honda brought Lean Burn back for the 1st generation Insight in 1999. The 5-spd was good for 70mpg highway. The CVT insight didn't have lean burn, and only got 50-something. A few years later Honda figured out a catalyst to break down the NOx, and incorporated lean burn (that the air regulators are happy with) into all the Civic Hybrids.

The point here is that it's possible to make a gas engine that gets the economy of diesel, but Honda only uses this feature in their hybrids (and the mpg on these is rather poor compared to what they used to sell). Wonder why that is.

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF FUEL ECONOMY IMPROVEMENTS IN1992 HONDA CIVIC HATCHBACKS

Cached article

Link is a bit slashdotted. Google Cache to the rescue. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eMZHEQ4ntkUJ:www.kbiii.com/putschracing/%3Fp%3D50+Turbine+Powered+Batmobile+site:kbiii.com&hl=en&gl=us&strip=0

Buy a router and put DDWRT on it (lots of advantages, certain routers well supported) then use one of the LAN ports as your WAN port
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Dual_WAN
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gIv7HeSGSCcJ:www.sbhacker.net/forum/index.php/topic/5903-dual-wan-guide-for-dd-wrt-routers/+tomato+dual+lan&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

From the article:

After having obtained the IP addresses for the monitoring period, we have mapped
Their geographical location Using Them to GeoPlugin [11]. GeoPlugin is a free online
Which database API uses Maxmind [12] to resolve Internet Geolocation. They Provide
the following data for a Particular address: city, region, area code, dma code, country
name, country code, longitude, latitude, currency code, currency symbol and exchange
rate. For our experiments, we needed only city and country code.

It's a long article, but is really worth a read.

Gawker sucks: Version that works without javascript

There's an alternate view presented by some professor of foreign affairs that I have been pondering since I read it.

Basically he says, yeah, America faces some crisis in the near future, but so does every other country, and a lot of them are worse. China for example, will face the fallout of the bond/currency crisis, and on top of it they face the constant 'threat' of the populace demanding democracy, and a rapidly aging population that results with a one-child policy.

He suggests that the thing of most importance in the next century is change.....the world will be drastically different in a decade than it is now, and that Americans are very good at dealing with change.

His first point makes a lot of sense, but the most interesting point is his second, and I'm not sure what I think about it. Is America really that good at adapting to change?

I would hope being aware of the software does not count as being non-trivial.

Any way, here's an excellent Privacy International report examining the software google used, gslite.

Error Establishing Database Connection. Google Cache Link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.flashuser.net/inspiration/30-creative-404-error-pages.html+google+cache&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk

To the rescue http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.flashuser.net%2Finspiration%2F30-creative-404-error-pages.html

A quick Google search turns up results from at least as far back as 2007 and one article (apparently offline) from 2004.

I guess the new product will be more efficient, but this is definitely nothing new.

>Scale makes all the difference in many things.

The argument against Google's streetview seems to be a variant of the "secretive government agency phone book problem", In that example, the entire phone book is classified but individual numbers are not.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-x18fG3G-ioJ:www.acsac.org/secshelf/book001/24.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us

Similarly, Google is right that it is taking pictures of public streets, which people are generally free to do (sensitive locations notwithstanding), but the objection is to the compendium of pictures as a whole. This seems to many to be a security problem, possibly because of how easy it makes it for someone to do reconnaissance without actually visiting and taking their own photos, the act of which, presumably, could be detected.

Google Cache

Not true, the children phrase is in the google cached version as you can see for yourself here.

Ummm... Google has a cache.

Listen to any gold bug discuss the intrinsic value of gold, as if it has some inherent value beyond what people will pay you for it. Or, if you'd prefer, all the people who can't sell their house because they can't get what they paid for it and it's "Worth more"

Considering EVERY single country on the planet
has some holdings in gold... I believe inherent value
defers to what people will pay you for it.

IN FACT... as I am liquidating my gold holdings
[yes I know I'm probably losing money as we aren't
near peak], I have a few items... where their value,
their "INTRINSIC VALUE" is way less than the fact
that they are solid gold.

Prime example, this lighter... can't find anyone to
buy it... because it's gold value is higher than the
intrinsic value of it being a lighter.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7fN_y9Jib-Y/TXkuulIDmqI/AAAAAAAABeU/y8sTvikRj8Y/s1600/1947+Ronson+Lighter+Banker.jpg

Get it?

And it is in NO WAY NEAR the valuation basis of
real estate. That's just a stupid ass analogy man.

-AI

Epoch times is dodgy but the original is from Apple Daily, the second highest circulation (300,000 in a city of 7 million) newspaper in Hong Kong. It is not particularly pro-Falun Gong. It has strongly pro-democracy (HK doesn't have much of that), pro-free market, pro working class, with the usual Hong Kong mix of high minded analysis, original poetry and literature, lurid celebrity coverage, and serialized softcore porn!

You need to follow the source!

The original is from Apple Daily, the second highest circulation (300,000 in a city of 7 million) newspaper in Hong Kong. It is not particularly pro-Falun Gong. It has strongly pro-democracy (HK doesn't have much of that), pro-free market, pro working class, with the usual Hong Kong mix of high minded analysis, original poetry and literature, lurid celebrity coverage, and serialized softcore porn!

The original article seems well researched. The guy who took it apart is an associate professor in electronic engineering in a local university (City University of Hong Kong). He said that there is a sensitive microphone (which seems unnecessary for its stated function) and a transmitter powerful enough to monitor major urban areas in Hong Kong from across the border.

They went for a second opinion from a PI who said that the transmission range would be a lot lower that the estimated 20 km in built up areas. However, there is no particular reason why China would confine its monitoring to the Chinese mainland outside of Hong Kong. Even apart from the fact that they have taken over the UK/US built monitoring facilities in Hong Kong covering the entire South China sea, Hong Kong is full of Chinese owned companies who could be directed to operate monitoring stations in what is, after all, sovereign Chinese territory.

The main cause for alarm in the original article is whether this might compromise commercial secrets in negotiations between private Hong Kong businessmen, and Chinese companies with semi-official connection.

Coral Cache isn't working for me, but google has cached it.

...what those glass-cutting machines were for.

You'd think that by now people would learn how it goes with Apple rumors.

With all due respect, fuck off. You don't get to say "with all due respect" after accusing me of lying and talking down to me like I'm an idiot.

Awww... you mad, bro?

So I've googled around at it seems that the older version of the Lion feature page has auto save, versions, and resume all listed with an asterisk, with a note below saying "Available with apps that have been developed to work with Lion". So, apparently, it does require apps to be written to support it. Which would be no surprise, since if they had some magic pixie dust, they'd use it on iOS, as well - but it's not automatic there.

Unfortunately, the current feature list is more vague in saying "Some features are available only with applications developed to work with OS X Lion" without specifying which ones.

Sony is a big company with a lot of activities, and not all of them are objectionable.

Given their poor hardware quality, rootkits, data breaches, exploding batteries, inventing fake movie critics, removing advertised features, obnoxious viral marketing, spying on environmental activists, being seen as one of the two worst companies in America, and whatever else I couldn't think of off the top of my head, I'd say "most" rather than "not all".

This was being done in 1967 on general electric mainframes, from what I understand; the motor-generator system was, in effect, a flywheel electric storage device for regulating power and providing a few minutes of electricity to allow proper system shutdown in event of complete power failure.

This was being done in 1967 on general electric mainframes, from what I understand; the motor-generator system was, in effect, a flywheel electric storage device for regulating power and providing a few minutes of electricity to allow proper system shutdown in event of complete power failure.

I'll add them to the lis:

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Software_distributors_paying_Microsoft_patent_tax ...actually, HTC started paying MS back in April 2010:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dOa4j5g0dXYJ:www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/apr10/04-27mshtcpr.mspx

HTML version of the PDF via Google

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:15iKIgSAkDwJ:johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:15iKIgSAkDwJ:johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf+http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/paper/pixel.pdf&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=iceweasel-a&source=www.google.com

Google started using the word App in 2006 for Google Apps (well before the Apple trademark application in 2008).

App was a buzzword in 2002 for Microsoft 95/98 application development.

Numerous references exist for making an "app" in various perl and php forums around 2000.

A killer app for computer chat published in the Economist in 1999.

Article titled "The Killer App" published in the Harvard Business Review in 1998

App Launcher software patcher circa 1998.

"DOS App" used on uunet in 1994...

And that is just from a few minutes of googling...

Apple did not invent the term "App" as a word.

Google started using the word App in 2006 for Google Apps (well before the Apple trademark application in 2008).

App was a buzzword in 2002 for Microsoft 95/98 application development.

Numerous references exist for making an "app" in various perl and php forums around 2000.

A killer app for computer chat published in the Economist in 1999.

Article titled "The Killer App" published in the Harvard Business Review in 1998

App Launcher software patcher circa 1998.

"DOS App" used on uunet in 1994...

And that is just from a few minutes of googling...

Apple did not invent the term "App" as a word.

Y Combinator.

Yours In Osh,
K. Trout, C.I.O.

Here you go:

http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf -- or Google's cached version -- http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Point of history: Elcoteq manufactured the KIN for Sharp. If you care about that bit of digital history it were best that you archive it now because the great eraser is coming for it. Elcoteq were nearly ruined by the sudden stop, and we've heard nothing from Sharp. What could that mean?

'How the heck can they do this, given that Honeycomb is licensed under the Apache Software License v2?

Actually, this is precisely why they use the ASL instead of the GPL.

google cach of old ars article with good explanation.



And seriously, the name Brian "Proffitt" sounds like someone trying to generate clicks.

Most people are not going to disable javascript because they can't comprehend it or its too much of a nuisance. NoScript is great though when you set it to ignore bookmarks and can just hit "allow all this page". What bothers me most about this crap is the dialogue box used to interfere with closing the tab, also allowing the tab to reappear with session restore if you kill the whole window. The average n00bs have to be falling for this like dominoes. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_s3wM0-7Zzhg/TZ9zJ7IKr3I/AAAAAAAAASY/SYcC0tJPJZ0/Browser%20exploit%20rage%2002.png Subscribing to Sophos Labs' YouTube channel has been rewarding: http://youtu.be/9Xna558F_m8

Eh?

Google Cache of TFA

You mean like things like "Windows" right?

Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".

You are incorrect. Prior to Apple using the term, it did not exist (and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise). But more importantly, App Store is generically both a package manager and a software repository. "App Store" is no more a generic term than "Kleenex," or "Laundromat."

Here is something with a timestamp from 1999. It's not my first choice since Archive.org is refusing to cooperate. This is not an "early" use by any means. BBS systems from the 80s featuring warez (among other things) also featured the term "App".

Those signing up for the controversial 1 Malaysia email service will have to buy a USB biometric device sold by Tricubes Bhd or go to any National Registration Department (NRD) office to get their account activated, the company said today. Tricubes chief executive Khairun Zainal Mokhtar said the USB device would also allow myemail.my users opt for the more secure end-to-end data encryption for an additional fee, which he described as "a fraction of the cost".

And if this previous description of the CEO by a disgruntled executive is any indication, I would rather trust Google rather than my government to handle my email.

First, there are so many lawsuits among mobile companies that a single extra one isn't going to have a chilling effect. All of these companies have enough cash that the cost of fighting a lawsuit alone will not hurt them (a big judgement might be a different story).

Secondly, MIcrosoft licensing costs aren't very much for Windows Phone 7. Estimates of licensing costs are between $5 and $15 on a phone that, with a data plan, ultimately costs thousands of dollars. Or, in the case of Nokia, Microsoft is paying Nokia to use it. $5 is still a cost, but it's not the reason people don't like WP7.

Then the article gets plain idiotic. It says Apple makes money on hardware, not on their OS. But this is true of every single Android phone as well.

The next factual error is a surprising one, but still serious. Look at the numbers of iOS vs Android devices. There are a lot more people using iOS than Android (note the figures include tablets). Surprising, but if you're going to write a tech journal you should be on top of this kind of thing.

Finally there is no reason to question why Apple is suing. It's about money. Just like every single other lawsuit in the mobile space. They all think they can get some extra money by suing, so they do.

The list of contributors (authors) is here. I guess they couldn't find anyone to report on Canada. Linnar Viik, information society expert and Rector, Estonian IT College, must have thought highly of 'Net freedom in Estonia, though.

In other words, if you spent time poring over these rankings you've been had.

Of course, this was meant to be funny, but the fact is that SciAm long since stopped being a "science" magazine, and turned into an advocacy magazine.

From slash articles on Bjorn Lomborg, to umpteen editorials and thinly-designed hit pieces on the Bush Administration's politicization of science data, SciAm abandoned objectivity entirely. Certainly, they'd always had a vaguely leftish tilt, taking an obvious anti-Reagan stance in the 1980s, but the magazine nevertheless maintained SOME credibility at that time by not pushing their politics too far.

The problem with today's level of technology is that it's beyond simple understanding.
Either you listen to experts who have their own biases and politics (ala FOX or CNN), or you try to grab as much raw data as possible - only possible thanks to the internet - and logically try to parse it yourself, despite the knowledge that you may not personally have the training or experience or both needed to interpret it correctly.

Yes, a strong case has been made for AGW (weakened, IMO by the grandstanding and uncritical adulation of Al Gore, frankly). But AGW != GW, and as much as I've seen points that are persuasive, I've seen a lot of goalpost shifting and smoke and mirrors, more akin to televangelism than to science.
Several months ago, in discussing this subject, I found a list of more than 160 serious climate scientists that objected to AGW - http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/ - interestingly, that site no longer comes up? Google cache at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QW7i-7So08MJ:www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/+copenhagen+climate+challenge&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com

Strange? Hard to decide?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YAuU8Ek5y4oJ:www.parliament.uk/deposits/depositedpapers/2011/DEP2011-0648.pdf+DEP2011-0648.pdf&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com Page 1 DECLASSIFIEDRESTRICTED 1 RESTRICTEDDECLASSIFIED DNSR/22/11/2 4 Nov 09SUCCESSOR SSBN SAFETY REGULATORS’ ADVICE ON THE SELECTION OF THE PROPULSION PLANT IN SUPPORT OFTHE FUTURE DETERRENT REVIEW NOTE Issue1. Safety Regulators’ advice to support decisions to be made impacting the design and progress of thesuccessor SSBN.Background2. In response to a request from the SRO, this advice has been prepared by Cdre Andrew McFarlane (theDefence Nuclear Safety Regulator - DNSR), with a ship safety contribution from Mr Gavin Rudgley (the NavalAuthority). It has been reviewed with Mr Howard Mathers (the Chairman of both the Defence Nuclear and theShip Environment and Safety Boards), with the independent Defence Nuclear Safety Committee1 and with DrMike Weightman (HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations)2. 3. The aim is to set out the legal and policy framework within which the project must propose and theDepartment must in due course decide on the appropriate propulsion plant for the successor SSBN, andagainst which both the statutory and internal MOD regulators will review the safety of the acquisition, operationand support of the deterrent, to inform their permissioning of specific activities. It is informed by the analysisand emerging evidence provided by the project of the options under consideration, and the formal review ofthis undertaken by the Reactor Plant Safety Committee and the Project’s Platform Safety Committee.The Legal and Defence Policy Position4. The most significant legislation is the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA). Among the manyprovisions of the Act, two are fundamental. There is a duty on employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practical, the safety of employees,and of others who may be affected by their undertaking. There is a duty on suppliers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that equipment will besafe when it is being used. These provisions are underpinned by a large body of case law. In summary it is always a legal requirement toreduce risks to people so far as is reasonably practical which is commonly expressed as reducing risk as lowas is reasonably practical (ALARP).5. Among the many regulations made under the HSWA, two are particularly significant. The IonisingRadiations Regulations set out the basis on which the radiation risk to employees must be reduced ALARP,and the Radiation Emergencies (Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations set out the basis on whichthe potential consequences from a radiation emergency are to be managed, in order to protect bothemployees and members of the public. 6. The Nuclear Installations Act (NIA) (which is a statutory provision of the HSWA) defines the process tobe followed to demonstrate that the risks to people from nuclear plant are reduced ALARP. The Environment 1 This will be reviewed by DNSC members at their meeting on 10 Nov 09.2 This was undertaken at the Senior Operational Liaison Meeting on 3 Nov 09. Page 2 DECLASSIFIEDRESTRICTED 2 RESTRICTEDDECLASSIFIED Act and the Radioactive Substances Act (RSA) require that the environmental impact of nuclear plant isminimised to the best practicable environmental option using best available techniques – this is synonymouswith reducing the effect on the environment ALARP.7. There are defence exemptions from some aspects of this legislation (notably from the licensingrequirements of the NIA when the submarine reactor plant is intact or under direct crown control, and from theRSA when under direct crown control), but there is no general exemption from the HSWA. Thus the statutoryregulators, the Nuclear Installations Inspect