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C# does not appear to have 40 Critical bug fixes every quarter like Java does either.

Sure they do

You need to do better than that. Try secunia:

Silverlight 3: 2 vulnerabilities
Silverlight 4: 7 vulnerabilities
Silverlight 5: 4 vulnerabilities.

Hardly the swiss cheese that is Java applets.

C# does not appear to have 40 Critical bug fixes every quarter like Java does either.

Sure they do. The flaws aren't in the language (with Java or Silverlight), after all, if you're running a program on your local machine in either of those languages, they're designed to give you access to the filesystem, etc. the flaw in the idea of trying to run foreign code on a local sandbox. Good luck.

C'mon now...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=evolution+in+bacteria

In this case the actual story is itself incorrect. Still, it wouldn't have been too difficult to research this one:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=telegrams

Slash is a news aggregator, and it's best to assume that summaries submitted by the the public will be of a pretty low standard. A Slashdot editor only has two things to do before posting a story.

1) Confirm the subject matter is kind of relevant and/or will generate some activity
2) Check for illegal or offensive content (including clicking the links).

No need to fact-check a story. In the future it's a job that'll be done by scripts, if that's not already the case. I welcome our robot overlords and would send them a congratulatory telegram if only telegrams existed anywhere outside of India.

Wrong, wrong, wrong! And wrong!

It's a common fallacy spouted by those who foist surveillance on us. See here, here, or any other of the many hits when you search for privacy "nothing to hide"

It goes right along with the "privacy and security are mutually exclusive" fallacy.

People like you that are trading your long-term liberty and privacy for a current sense of security are going to rue this day eventually. These essential freedoms need constant vigilance. Many of our forefathers died defending them. They're rolling in their graves now seeing how so many are nonchalantly pissing them away.

Here's your homework. Go read the Constitution of the United States of America. No, really. Read it line by line and understand why some say it's the most important and influential document created in the last 1000 years.

Let me fucking google that for you.

Its a catch-phrase for how the Romans used to keep their population distracted so they didn't rise up and overthrow the declining empire.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=microsoft+ramcard

1. This page
2. Google Reader Being Retired
3. What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader?

After riding Bush's case about "lacking congressional authorization for Iraq"

Problem is: this never happened.

Here's what google has to say on the subject:

No results found for "lacking congressional authorization for Iraq".

Removing the quotes and changing the wording does not report any other matches either.

Obama was critical of many of the war policies of Bush (e.g torture), including some that he has continued as president (Guantanamo, drones). But not seeking authorization for Iraq is not one of them. Maybe you are confused with the fact that in 2007 Senator Obama asked Bush to seek explicit approval for attacking Iran by clarifying what the approval of action for Iraq did not imply authorization for this action.

Tell me how exactly you can defend that hypocrisy?

I'm not defending this. You made up a strawman to move away from the facts that I stated: "he stopped two wars and refused to engage in two others".

I clearly hadn't read more than the first few lines of the help on Java TimeZone info or I could have found out that the answer was already there, without having to wait for it. As another poster pointed out IBM already provides free Java timezone updates.

Let me google that for you! But more to the point, writing a tool that will grab those updates for yourself and storing it where you need it looks like a bash script or batch file candidate. Our brains are more than a match for Oracle's bean counters. Let's use them!

cheers...ank

It will look exactly like they do today.

[...]

All the "cloud" has done for the world is given consumers a place to store pictures of their cat's and access to music they would have otherwise (or already have) stolen. [...]

Also, in 15 years, people will still be pissing off Bob the Angry Flower. :)

There better be a prize for this, or I just wasted a number of minutes of my life reading the challenge.

Go argue against these guys.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dont+feed+the+trolls

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=coral+die+off

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=correlation+economic+freedom+prosperity

Health insurance is public AND private. You only get to opt-in to a private plan if you make over a certain amount of money

The "public" option in Germany is merely a regulated private market. And Germany's health care system faces the same problems as the US system.

IIRC if you're poor, the cost of the insurance is subsidized.

It's complicated. Of course, in the US, if you're poor, you're generally covered by Medicaid too, so what's your point?

My point in all this is that being what a US reactionary would consider a "socialist" country does not translate into necessarily having a basket case economy.

Germany is in no way a "socialist economy". Germany has somewhat less of a free market than the US (mostly rooted in conservatism and corporatism, not socialism), and it pays for that with a lower standard of living and lower growth rates, just as you'd expect. Canada is a sparsely populated resource rich country; using it as an example to emulate makes about as much sense as using Saudi Arabia or Luxembourg.

If there's a smaller # of uni grads in the population (citation needed), maybe more people go into the trades than here, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

Gosh, you want to have it both ways: the sky is falling in the US because the government doesn't arbitrarily continue to fund excess useless college degrees, yet in Germany going into the trades is supposedly a good thing.

As for statistics, ...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=percentage+college+graduates+by+country

Evidence? Let me google that for you: "hot drinks oral cancer"

Let me also add that the inner ear canal probably is a very effective wave guide for microwaves as well as sound. Likewise, the human lens probably is very effective at focusing the microwaves (though more effective at focusing light). In both cases, the intensity will increase greatly, causing... heating. And DNA damage.

Yes, and it was classified. The mind boggles.

The 651 page, taxpayer-funded version of LMGTFY.

I can only imagine how long the still-classified document for connecting to an office printer must be.

The symbolism of a diamond standing for love and commitment is purely a De Beers invention. Want to impress your wife? Give her a new Mercedes. Love her forever? Give her a diamond!

My point exactly

Have you ever seen anybody advertising a commodity before? "Gold is Forever", anybody?

Every. Goddamned. Day. I work in finance...

It is a commodity, and is advertized as such on financial markets. It is not advertized to the general population on MTV.

These guys produces a flawless artificial diamond for use in technology, and got death threats over it.

[citation needed]

Although you can Google it, we don't know who the threats came from, so it is irrelevant. I would assume De Beers don't need death threats to destroy a startup, they can just acquire it, and it is possible that they did, but death threats can be extremely helpful when the owner refuses to sell.

If the price went down it could revolutionize semiconductors industry.

The price is currently a few dollars per carat, in powder form.

The stated reason why Apollo Diamond was trying to grow large artificial diamonds was not to undercut De Beers, but to be able to manufacture a CPU on a 1x1 inch diamond wafer. [citation] Clearly a diamond powder does not cut it.

I have to say, the headline honestly surprised me. A franchise with as much potential as Star Wars, and yet it's like they went with the lowest bidder.

Or do they not have google at Disney? Virtually the entire first page of results for "EA Reputation" slams them, or is full of people very blatantly trying to work around the accepted fact that EA has a god-awful reputation.

I can find no words. Really, honestly, it is shocking. It's like the first thought was, "Let's get some businesses in here", and then they went into group-think. The immediate reaction I would have had--no, scratch that, I probably wouldn't if I were as rich as Disney, and had scammy showmen knocking at my door, but the first reaction I damn well SHOULD have had is, "Will they make good product?" And the judge of that isn't what executives think, it's what the target audience thinks.

Those reports about EA being named the worst company in America two years running are, without a doubt, overblown. However, they are the target audience providing feedback over the quality of the product.

Disney handed it over.

I don't get it. Do we need to email them the link? http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=ea+reputation

Seriously?

Was that so hard?

Pulverized horse poop is orders of magnitude worse than anything that can come out of a car.

[citation needed]

You are either an idiot or a troll. Burning gasoline produces large quantities of very fine soot which are a major carcinogen. Also, unburned gasoline comes out of the tailpipe of every gasoline car at startup, and that is much worse than anything which can come out of a horse.

Here is one citation

Here is another

Perhaps you prefer the new york times

Other sources are easy to find

Like it or not, the car was the solution for one of the worst pollution problems in cities.

I'm the ac op that posted that. These are the devices. the http config with admin enabled just as you would get if you were on the LAN. Similar to a story a few months back about printers being on the net.

OP Delivers ... Check out the very first article. (not like this was hard)

bases, trotting, dugout!? What IS this? Some sort of millitary or pig (of the oinking kind) reference? C'mon... just ONE clue would be nice!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=baseball+trotting+dugout

As they say on some sites... [citation needed] I have never seen anything to indicate that road markings are detected any way other than visually on these vehicles.

From http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+self+driving+car+road+tracking+mechanism&l=1:
These vehicles use an expensive laser mounted on the roof to map the car’s surroundings in 3-D and rapidly process this picture, reacting deftly to other cars and pedestrians.

I'm not sure whether you consider "laser" to be "visually", but it certainly isn't passive vision, which puts it out of the regular human range.

Mercedes uses multiple sensors including visual and radar. http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1210218-1-1210321-1-0-0-1210228-0-0-135-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html

Given that the first hit in my very first search gave me the first link, and a link on the first hit of the second search gave the second, I can't believe you've tried to educate yourself. You've made up your mind, and you don't want information. It can only confirm what you know, thus is a waste of time, or conflict, and we've seen here how you deal with conflicting information.

I honestly believe self driving cars are the future. I just don't believe for a second that any current generation computer system could handle driving as well as even the average driver.

And I think you've vastly over-estimated the abilities of the average driver.

I've never seen anyone who could think use [citation needed], and you've followed that observation. Those that can think will at least try one quick search first. And you obviously didn't, as the first search I tried gave the answer to the [citation needed]. First hit of first search. Too much trouble for you?

DLC

Only in the same sense that the Amazon deliveries can only be cancelled by burning down your own house so the package has nowhere to be delivered.

Google is your friend.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=itunes+store+no+credit+card

Answer is to click the "None" button when asked for payment details.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+source+selfish

Boy this was hard.

Or even harder

Useless ad-hominems. The results are the results. If you don't like the source, find one yourself the same way I did.

The photos are only 2D -- in some cases as low resolution as 1.2 megapixels. It is only the actual snowflakes themselves that are 3D as opposed to the standard 2D-like images of snowflakes we normally see. To print actual snowflakes in 3D will require different equipment and another method of photography.

As far as #D fractal software, there doesn't seem to be a shortage.

In the time you spent typing that post you could have read the comment carefully...

See if you can spot it this time round...

Pedantic GP is pedantic. Over-eager-to-feel-superior AC should not feel superior

actually this is what i searched for Googles Defintiion

NK waged war in 1950. What they just did was declare... Never mind, you've ignored history and current events until this point so I'll leave you with this.

Okay, lets stop 'going back and forth for the sake of going back and forth'. I will explain in totality because it seems like you simply don't get what fracking is properly and are attempting to attack my credibility to justify yourself. It is very VERY logical that is it harmful to human health in the same way that smoking is. I.E putting dangerous chemicals into the human body.

1. Look at this. http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.3/unpacking-health-hazards-in-frackings-chemical-cocktail/graphic.

Now granted, over 90% of fracking fluid is water and sand, but that 1% is still a hell of a lot when you pump millions of gallons per site.10,000 gallons of chemicals per mil of fluid remember. And most of that fluid will be absorbed by porous rock whereas I very much doubt kerosene distillate and many of these chemicals have that luxury.
More info about how it gets from the site to the water supply, lawsuits etc:
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fracking+lawsuit
http://www.dangersoffracking.com/

2. The Sabatier process makes methane, and uses hydrogen. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here, because that's just carbon neutral, not actually green. When you consider that most of that CO2 is not going to be collected from the atmosphere (due to the cost of doing that) then you realize it's just the same as hydrocarbons pollution-wise. If you're talking about doing that in reverse, that is just a form of electrolysis and has the same problems I mentioned before. Namely, it's not green, it just shifts the blame from the car to the pump.

3. In case you haven't noticed, banking is a cartel. Stop living in dreamland. If one bank raises it's rates the other banks will do the same universally because they can and it's profitable. In reality if a bank gives out too many bad loans, it is bailed out by the state. You should know all too well about that seeing as we and the rest of the West are sitting in a recession as a result of that right now.

4. The iPad didn't need to be subsidized, most of the R+D for the tech was done by Xerox/PARC in the 80s and 90s, it was also lead by a huge giant in an industry next door to it; computing. It's a poor comparison for anything but the point I was making but if you want to beat the strawman I will show it's a pointless comparison. GM, Dodge, Ford and all the other US car companies make some of the most uneconomical cars in the world. Fact. Even Honda looks bad next to it's eastern rivals because of it's Americanization. None of the above companies would seriously make EVs their main business focus. It would be a life threatening decision for them and would frankly require them to make an about turn on lots of their marketing, policies etc etc. There is no truly 'green' US car company that is large enough to fab it's own components and design it's own cars so the DoE had to finance the creation of a new company to carry out aforementioned goals. So it's like the DoE seeing a public need for iPads but there being no Apple and no Xerox PARC. So the DoE makes it's own East India Trading Company to do the work for it.

It's all well having businesses like the AC Propulsion that do engine conversion but actually making real EVs that are normal enough to be embraced by the general public is not something that has been done before. (Look at this list http://ev.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_EV_companies and I bet you can call every car there too quirky for general tastes except the Tesla without talking about their power-train or fuel tech.)

Did you even read what I wrote? I already explained why the Tesla was priced out of most people's range, the tech needs to come down in size, but to do that it need

I really didn't want to get into specifics, and waste a bunch of time on minutia in this thread, discussing the pros and cons of each, and details like one not having some edge feature Neat or some other does.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+document+management+system

There are oh so many out there, and lots and lots of others have endlessly discussed the benefits of each. There's even new ones every day, because, as the OP said, it's just a matter of a tiny bit of programming to fit all the existing pieces together.

"Guess" is not a technical term. "Theory" is. "Theory" has a definintion in science that's orthoginal to common usage. Same as "broadband". 128k DSL is "broadband" in technical definition, and 1 Gbps is not. No amount of correction can correct that now, but that doesn't change the engineering definition of "broadband".

At best, you are arguing against "guess" because ou are offended at then number of people that associate "guess" with "theory". That makes you wrong, because I'm not making that mistake. At worst, you are making up shit so you can argue with strangers on the Internet, and have an irrational fear of "being wrong" (which you are, but won't admit) that requires you lie to yourself, which makes you look stupid.

"Guess" is orthoginal to "educated guess". "Educated guess" is hypothesis. If you don't agree, don't argue with me, argue with the 1 billion English speakers who disagree with you. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hypothesis+educated+guess&l=1

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=pygame+android

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gun+list+newspaper+robbed

Let me Google that for you . . .

here http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tdp

There are plenty of automatic parking garages:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=automatic+parking+garage

hard real time

No data, eh? Drink some coffee, take a deep breath, then click on the link. Any level of distraction is a bad thing, it seems.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=distracted+driving+statistics

My thoughts too. What the fuck is submitter talking about?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=donglegate

Basically, a nosy bitch at a tech conference overheard two guys make a "dongle" joke (and possibly a "forking" joke), and instead of acting like an adult and ignoring them or asking them to stop, or even complaining privately to the conference organizers, she took their picture, and tweeted it to the world.

Guys were kicked out, one was fired from his job. Upon hearing this, certain parts of the Interwebs that shall remain nameless (okay, it was 4chan) started DDOSing her site and the site of her employer. She ended up being fired herself.

Sheesh.

Ghostery (Firefox plugin) allows you to block these trackers, it works great and you can also see when sites are loading the tracking code.

https://www.ghostery.com/

Ahh. LMGTFY.

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