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The penis, mightier than the sword.

My dad's neighbor's Wifi SSID was "penismightier". It surprised me the first time I saw it (this is a pretty conservative Mormon area) until I manged to mentally reparse it. I pointed it out to my dad, who said he'd been laughing about it every time he saw it, ever since they set it up. My mom finally mentioned it to the neighbors one day and they were shocked and horrified. They had never noticed the "phallic" parse, believe it or not. They changed it immediately.

Like this Samsung ad gone wrong...
http://static.ibnlive.in.com/i...

Go look it up yourself. It's all over the web, and I've also replied to it elsewhere.

Wearing a mask is a false security. Touch something, instinctively rub you eye, oops!

Further we don't criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections

Having unprotected sex if you have HIV and don't inform your partner(s) in advance will get you a visit to jail. This guy got 5 years. 12 year sentence here. In Arkansas, this guy got 12 years.This guy in Texas, 15 years in jail.

And then we have this loser

A 31-year-old man who infected a teenage girl with HIV two years ago was sentenced to 75 years in prison Wednesday.

But Matthew Louis Reese could face 20 more years in prison if a judge decides Thursday to add the sentence from a third charge to his punishment.

Earlier this week, Reese pleaded guilty to three charges: aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury and sexual assault of a child.

The charges carried sentences of 55, 20 and 20 years in prison, respectively, and Dallas County prosecutors had asked visiting Judge Pat McDowell to make the sentences run consecutively.>more

So we do criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections

But an android can create holodecks.

But they're shacky and blurry.

POOR.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836...
RACIST.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
UNCIVILIZED.
http://www.firstpost.com/livin...
UNTOUCHABLE.
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com...
POLLUTED.
http://www.theatlanticcities.c...

It's true. Every phone that wasn't Designed By Apple In California looks just like this.

Like Marilyn Monroe walking over a subway grate.

Pervs click here http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mar...

Indian regime is spending $1 billion/year on space research where 836 million of their people are starving on 50 cents/day wage slavery.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2480424/VISUAL-EDIT-India-little-better-Ethiopia.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836-million-indians-live-on-less-than-rs-20-a-day/47645-7.html

"Android is more secure than iPhone."

The proclamation was made during a question-and-answer session at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, where it drew laughter from the attending audience.

http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/eric-schmidt-calls-android-more-secure-than-iphone/917208

On a related note there is a rumour that Nokia were about to switch to Android just before the buyout.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nokia-reportedly-considered-switching-to-android-before-microsoft-deal/421972-11.html

This leads some analysts to speculate that Microsoft bought Nokia to save Windows phone:
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/09/microsoft-bought-nokia-to-save-windows-phone/

I'm talking about the more recent revelations that came out this past June - regarding how the "friend finder" was slurping up information like your friends cell phone numbers etc. and storing that in shadow profiles (which got exposed because of the Facebook bug in their profile download tool).

The existence of Facebook and Google+ shadow profiles has indeed been known for a while.

Will you ever stop sucking Googles cock?

It's a remarkably average phone that when released they had to pull one part of the customization options because they couldn't get it right.

People have been engraving on stuff for years and Google managed to goof that.

http://tech2.in.com/news/smartphones/motorola-pulls-custom-moto-x-engraving-feature-focuses-on-quality-control/911612

No thanks; I'll carry on using (free) Google docs plus the Apple apps I already purchased, (for les than the monthly cost of Ofice360) for those very rare occassions that I want to edit 'office' docs on my iDevices.

Follows announcement that search engine for Siri will go from Google to Bing.

http://tech2.in.com/news/ios/apple-ditches-google-partners-with-bing-for-siri-search/876324

No, it's sesame street UI.

Here, compare:

sesamestreet.org's muppets page

And

The UI formerly known as Metro

Personally, I prefer my UI to treat me like my age is greater than a single digit. Simplicity can be a good thing, in moderation. This is not in moderation, was forced, unwanted, and hurtful to their brand and reputation.

Sesamestreet UI is a nonstarter on a desktop.

Are Android tablets better for this - say the Nexus 7, is it straight foward to hack it to a command prompt

I haven't tried it yet, but there are things like SL4A (scripting layer) and AIDE (Java IDE). And if you're willing to reformat the device and you have temporary access to a PC, you can get root.

and get a keyboard for real typing?

I bought a Bluetooth keyboard and paired it to my Nexus 7 tablet with no problem.

A quick search revealed these gems

http://tech2.in.com/news/android/malware-found-in-updates-app-on-google-play/523862

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-hosted-malware-on-its-play-store-during-q3-but-how-much-131309/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/more-malware-found-hosted-in-google-android-market/

If this is the case, you posting a citation proving it should be trivial. Or maybe your theory is nice, but it doesn't match reality...

You're right, it is trivial.

Citation 1
Citation 2

These were at the top of a simple google search, and are recent news items.

So yeah, maybe my "theory" (I presented no theory, just an observation of facts. You presented a theory. Please learn the difference) matches reality a bit better than yours.

The difference is that Opera Mini is explicitly advertised as a "proxy browser". If you choose to use it, you know what it is about, and what the implied security risks are.

Here, we're talking about a stock browser in a smartphone, doing this by default with no warnings given to the user. I don't care why they thing it's a good idea, it's a major compromise of security.

Opera Mini is pre-installed on a number of models from Samsung, Motorola, LG and others. I had a phone a few years ago that came with Opera Mini, I can not remember it giving any special warnings. http://tech2.in.com/news/mobile-phones/samsung-feature-phones-come-preinstalled-with-opera-mini/284642

It is a Nokia issue. Nokia gives you a cell phone with a MITM exploit preinstalled from factory. Opera allows you to download and install their MITM Opera Mini suit, if you so wish and trust them, or:

If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full web browser such as Opera Mobile.

A ton of devices have come pre-installed with Opera Mini, from Samsung, Motorola, LG, Sony-Ericsson, etc., depending on network operator. http://tech2.in.com/news/mobile-phones/samsung-feature-phones-come-preinstalled-with-opera-mini/284642

It is $200+. Apple's all time high is $705, and Monday it was trading pre-market below $500.

It is not cherry picking data. It is pointing out that the dance is winding down. It was a great ride while it lasted. I've seen this things before. Trees don't grow to the sky.

As this article points out Apple is merely a niche player now.

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-market-share-2012-11

Apple is 6th in China, the fastest growing market:

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/iphone-5-hits-china-as-apple-market-share-slips/310515-11.html

Apple is a company that has gone about as far as they are going to go unless they find new markets and new products. And finding something on the scale of the iPhone is going to be really unlikely. As one of the articles I pointed out, that's a once and a lifetime event.

I would say that an antenna like a cantenna would be the thing to look at.

Here's an instruction video too.

The main thing with a cantenna is to have a 1/4 wavelength distance between the antenna in the can and the back wall and the antenna in the can shall be a 1/4 wavelength. pin.

Here's also a good site with another cantenna calculator.

And when you make your cantenna you should allow for fine tuning of the position and length of the antenna pin inside the can.

Seems like the case.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/16/valve-makes-steam-for-linux-official/

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/09/13/steam-linux-client-release-looks-imminent-games-and-beta-spotted/

http://tech2.in.com/news/pc/steam-greenlight-lists-games-for-linux/435732

There's also the recent "reduction" of the poverty line to Rs. 28... $0.50 a day. So the new claim would be that only 30% live below the poverty line.

I'm no economist but I think India has far greater earth- and sea-based concerns that could do with some govt spending.

OTOH...if it's done for under US$100 million, then it could just be a great big advertisement to do more outsourced launches...or whatever the PC-term for that is these days...as a major revenue source in the future.

And all the rants above about Chrome and the rest of the Chromium based browsers is missing one thing...there is a REASON why FF usage has been dropping like a stone, and that is the devs at FF have taken a 'fuck you, we're going this way!" attitude that is running off their users!

This is one thing I give credit to all the different Chromium based browsers for because there have been VERY few UI changes and the ones that have happened have been fairly subtle. the FF devs seem to get a bug up their ass and totally crap all over the UI without a care in the world as to what the users think. Hell look at these mockups of the next UI by Mozilla and they might as well say "We ONLY want Windows 8 users! If you aren't into Metro UI then piss off" and is it ANY wonder that Chrome and its ilk have blown away FF?

I used FF before it was even called FF and the Moz Suite before that but it has been obvious at least to me that somewhere between V4 and V7 that they quit giving a fuck what the users thought and became nothing but devs scratching itches. The rise of Chrome is a classic case of users voting with their feet as if the FF devs had just held a damned poll and ASKED WHAT WE WANTED then frankly they wouldn't have seen their users nosedive as its pretty damned clear that like me most users do not want to go where they are heading.

How much did they pay on the Google Books settlement? Oh, wait, that wasn't 'breaking the law', as there wasn't a court involved ... so let's go with:

• Deceptive AdWords, Australia
• Content regulation, India
• Copyright of news snippets, Germany
• Copyright of books, France

And how many do you need? Only one to disprove your claim that there aren't any. To claim 'tons of' ... more than that. (and in that case, showing where they won doesn't show that there aren't any that they lost)

(and look, I'm supportive of some of the stuff Google does ... but your selective listing is insinuating that they've never done illegal stuff, which was the original claim ... and doing illegal stuff, and being found guilty by the courts are two different things, as everyone tries to settle out of court to avoid setting a legal precident)

and now india is not only becoming a superpower

I disagree.
836 million Indians are living/starving on 20 rupees/day ($0.38) as per Govt of India.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836-million-indians-live-on-less-than-rs-20-a-day/47645-7.html

Except that this never actually happened.

Actually, it did happen, just not as part of the PSN breach.

Sony Confirms Stolen Credit Card Information
Sony Online loses 12,700 credit card account numbers, 24.6 million accounts compromised

It was stolen from SOE (the part that does the MMOs) and not the part that does PSN.

But none-the-less Sony did have unencrypted credit card data stolen from them, and it happened just after Sony announced 77 million PSN accounts had been compromised, so it's not hard to see why people confuse the two.

The Animaniacs clip with Constantinople and Particle Man always get take down notices when posted on Youtube. I can't find them. It really is a loss to entertainment's posterity - what with all these protection of creations. Let the stuff ride, if not for free, then charge us something reasonable!

It is interesting, there may be a whole new generation that listens to TMBG and not even realize it. I instantly recognized the sound of the Johns in Coraline (Other Father Song), and they do the intro for Malcolm in the Middle and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Well, here's Istanbul (not Constantinople).

For Particle Man, just remember, there are other video sites that are not YouTube.

Voila!

And so you don't have to try to hunt them down yet again the next time these vanish from the Web, I highly recommend installing Unplug, so you can download video files from YouTube and other sites and save them locally to play back in the media player of your choosing.

Based on the relativity theory though, humans are pretty much earthbound, Mars at best. 1 light year = guess what?

To achieve anything significant in the universe, it's pretty obvious it needs to be broken.

All of our theories, laws and measurements are earth based and earth bound.

Now Einstein's theory is probably 100% on planet earth in our current physics model, but I'ma laugh if you say it applies to a place in space thousands of light years away. It very well may, but neither you nor I can prove that, and pixelated images from a space telescope aren't going to reverse that chain of thinking.

Also Einstein wasn't aware of the physics picture we have going on right now with quantum mechanics and subatomic particles.

I think the goal is to ultimately evolve our physics model to compensate for new discoveries and hopefully utilize them.

Also, in regards to not knowing what your talking about...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html

there's some food for thought in regards to shit nobody knows what they're talking about... including... YOU!

Lastly, there's a more than a few links on this from various places...

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/would-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-be-proved-false/187145-11.html

It's all speculation at this point, I'm certainly not saying it's going to be broken by a long shot, but as I stated at the top, it needs to be to coincide with all those sci-fi movies and keeping an open mind never hurt anyone.

I'd take a one size fits all cure for cancer before this shit though.

I remember seeing this on "That's Incredbile". Dang, Cathy Lee Crosby was so hot back then, I am surprised she didn't spontaneous combust! http://www.celebs101.com/gallery/Cathy_Lee_Crosby/21276/cathy_lee_crosby_photo_7.jpg Though today, not so much.. http://im.in.com/connect/images/profile/oct2009/Cathy_Lee_Crosby_300.jpg

a) Who cares what Apple thinks or their brand (in context of this discussion). If the RIAA or one of it's members files suit and gets access to music stored in iCloud in discovery, Apple has to obey the law.

On what basis would they sue ? They wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

b) If 90% of Apple's customers use iCloud for storing pirated music, that will be a problem with the business plan, unless you are right about some legal/license arrangement existing in advance.

Apple has indeed signed agreements with all major record labels prior to launching this service. Further more only songs that don't exist in the iTunes catalogue will get uploaded, the rest will just be made available for download to you. Now have a look at the iTunes catalogue, whatever is not in there I probably bought legally because it's going to be relatively obscure.

c) Assume nothing. It would be wise to read the contract, terms of service and any license agreement between the labels, RIAA and Apple before putting yourself and your family at risk. Personally, I hope Apple has got a solution on this. If not, then I'd rather not be left out in the wind like iPhone developers are right now (see Lodsys).

Reading the terms is never a bad idea. And you seem to have missed that Apple has developer's backs on the Lodsys situation. Unlike Google which has been silent on the matter despite its developers also being targeted.

I've seen such sensationalist headlines with my own eyes

this is a slashdot comment about CNN headline from one of the earliest entries about fukushima
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2036214&cid=35478190

It's disgusting; CNN.com's current main page headline is "Japan's reactor problems mount; death toll rises."
WTF?

which was a reply to another post saying that summary makes it look like the deaths are the direct result of fukushima (which it did).

iamrmani was one of several people reporting updates on the Fukushima Nuclear plant that has been struggling following last Friday's disaster. A third explosion (Japanese) has been reported, along with other earlier information. MSNBC has a story about similiar reactors in the US. We also ran into a story which predicts that there won't be significant radiation. But already Japan is facing rolling blackouts, electricity rationing, evacuating the area around the plant, and thousands dead already.

example of article
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/blast-at-japan-nuclear-plant-death-toll-rises/145722-2.html

Your Indian Govt/Ministers/MLAs/MPs doesn't want you to prosper.
They fear you might vote as per your conscience.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836-million-indians-live-on-less-than-rs-20-a-day/47645-7.html

his wife was not killed. There goes your moral high ground http://ibnlive.in.com/news/osamas-wife-not-killed-in-raid-white-house/151062-2.html

That strikes me as an overstatement. Either that, or my search parameters meet my needs better than your search parameters, or some such nonsense.

From time to time, I do notice trash crop up in a search. Sometimes, the first 5 or 10 results are pretty obviously noise accompanying the signal. But, ten pages of results? Never. Not even a full page. Crap - I'm going to check something - some stupid term - UTERUS!

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=uterus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I clicks the first ten links:
wikipedia - not good, not bad, it's informational
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19263.htm - looks alright, educational, I guess and seems to lead to other educational material (didn't check)
www.medicinenet.com/uterine_cancer/article.htm - looks alright again - educational, but there are links to what look like practitioners sites.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/226-hysterectomies-in-6-months-in-rajasthan/149579-3.html - news article, appears to be about forced sterilization, or unethical doctors
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/17/2171976/south-florida-activists-pen-the.html - 'nother news article about an activist group
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/prolapsed_uterus/article_em.htm - looks like a mirror of medicinenet above - same adverts, different article
http://www.nuff.org/health_theuterus.htm - you'll note I'm not digging deeply - looks like a nonprofit concerned with women's health?
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/uterinehealth/a/abouttheuterus.htm - looks like what the name implies - educational
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html - lots of links, looks like it's educational, but again, I'm not digging deep here
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5918 - another medicinenet mirror, this happens to be yet another related article

Somewhere, somehow, perhaps my settings tend to show pertinent results? I don't know - maybe you're trying to pull the wool over our eyes?

Post the full video or it didn't happen!

20 cents for one radish seed?

That's what genetic engineering is about. Patent the seeds then charge every farmer to use seeds. If farmers don't use your seeds, or saves seeds, then they get sued.

Fact is is that there is not a shortage of food. The problem is what is done with it as well as distribution. In the US more corn is grown to feed cattle, who naturally eat grass not corn, than what people eat. Other animals raised for food require more land for growing their own feedstock. Then there are problems with food distribution and storage. Food grains rotting due to poor storage in Punjab. Empty stomachs, rotting food stocks. Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.

Falcon

Found it: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wikileaks-cablegate-some-indianorigin-people-supplying-equipment-to-iran/136079-53.html

Yeah, should've redacted that one I would think. That's irresponsible. I'd say they can easily identify the one person who fits that description and do all kinds of nasty things to him and/or his family.

I don't know about that "peaking" thing being now. It seems that IBM is either going to compete or collude with Apple's 3D display which appears to be coming out pretty soon. Apple's not known for pie-in-the-sky, because they want to make money.

It's only a security threat if you can't trust the site that the programs are originating from. Sure, this search engine *may* be able to dump a tracking code into their output and therefore break the TOR privacy[1], but you have to ask how likely to happen is this? And my answer: very unlikely.

Please. If you do not understand the fucking problem. Do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.

http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/defcon-17-gregory_fleischer-attacking_tor.pdf
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060704/cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-google/
http://www.xssed.com/news/41/A_new_critical_Google_XSS_vulnerability_promptly_corrected/
http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/dec/googles-xss-vulnerability
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-28-n28.html
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-fixes-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-YouTube-comments-1032988.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/orkut-attacked-by-bom-sabado-worm/131714-11.html
http://www.geek-news.net/2010/09/twitter-hit-with-major-xss-hack.html
http://lynnepope.net/twitter-xss-attacks
http://nemesis.te-home.net/News/20090407_Metasploit_Decloaking_Engine_and_TOR.html
http://securityandthe.net/2008/12/23/finding-a-hidden-ip-address-just-got-easier/

and
http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/jaimonjoseph/326/62006/is-indias--35-laptop-really-indian.html

They do the battery swap without robots in Nepal.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nepal-literally-cleans-the-air-with-green-vehicles/66036-2-6.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/66036/nepal-literally-cleans-the-air-with-green-vehicles.html

But their electric vehicles look rather different too ;).

They do the battery swap without robots in Nepal.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nepal-literally-cleans-the-air-with-green-vehicles/66036-2-6.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/66036/nepal-literally-cleans-the-air-with-green-vehicles.html

But their electric vehicles look rather different too ;).

What a load of crap, back in 2006 NBC dateline had a bunch of muslims go to a Nascar race and see if they were harassed, guess what they were NOT bothered at all.

Funny, I can't find any record of Dateline actually running that segment. What I do find is a billion news articles about how NASCAR and others like Michelle Malkin got their panties in a twist about it with the typical faux indignation of the bigotted right. I would have expected NASCAR's PR people to be smarter than that, but apparently not.

This sort of idiotic bollocks is what perpetuates the myth that the US is full of racists.

You've picked a strawman. Just because such attacks do happen does not mean that "the US is full of racists" what it does mean is that there are some racists here. Don't pretend that just because your silly strawman is false that no such racist attacks happen at all.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sikh-attacked-in-another-hate-crime-in-new-york/57501-3.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09162007/news/regionalnews/muslim_biz_gal_beaten.htm

I know you are trying to funny. But this moon mission has indeed prompted NASA scientist of Indian Origin to knock at Indian ISRO's door. Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/space-there-nasa-scientists-call-up-isro/76741-11.html?from=search

link to enough sites in your comments?

The URL appears in the status bar, so it's not a problem.

Something's starting to annoy me. When you submit an article and link to a page on another site, you don't have to put the name of the site in a hyperlink. Nearly every person here knows how to get to the main page for the site if they want to, and usually the main page isn't directly relevant to the story.

Sometimes it seems like people link for every word in the article and it's hard to figure out which link is the one with the story.