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Does anyone know if Maria is a MySQL fork?
Signs point to "yes."

Facts are so hard to confirm! Especially on the Internet!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=parents+television+council+fcc+complaints

I'm glad to hear that you had a good time while you were in Cuba and that things looked pretty good. If you re-read my post, you will see where I stated that modern products and conveniences were present for the wealthy few and the tourists, like you.

The fact that YOU didn't see any food shortages doesn't really mean anything at all, does it? There have been numerous food shortages over the past few years. Perhaps, you should read a newspaper once in a while, or do some research of your own. Just because your tour guide didn't show it to you doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

The healthcare is indeed legendary. However, I remain unconvinced that this single attribute makes up for fifty years of poverty and oppression for the populace.

The most interesting thing about Cuba is that presently, the vast majority of the population has known nothing else but Castro rule. Everyone 50 years old or younger has never known anything but Castro rule. Almost everyone is fiercely nationalistic, naturally. But, they are also completely indoctrinated into the Castro/Cuban way. Yet, if you get them aside and get them to open up, individuals will pine about change, travel and "escape". They don't want to leave the only home that they have ever known, but they know that they are severely lacking. Of course, it is easy to blame the U.S. and the "blockade" when that is the only reason for all that's bad that you've heard since birth.

Viva Fidel! /s

lmgtfy

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=definition+of+sarcasm

Number one isn't always possible. There are security restrictions. You can't use Javascript to write files to a client computer.

html5 local storage

You're welcome.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fizzbuzz+test

Was that too hard?

I am a "mph" kind-of-guy, & haven't performed the conversion from kph->mph

Let me Google that for you.

GI contrast, yes, should be familiar to anyone who isn't a moron. Seriously asking for suggestions of a replacement would have been pretty stupid, but he was being facetious, which again should be familiar to anyone who isn't a moron (or AC troll, I suppose).

And even if you are somehow not a moron, but just an extremely sheltered, naive Internet user - well, there's this site called Google...

The AAPS is a fringe group with less than 3000 doctors. It's like the American Osteopathy Association: its members are whack jobs, not real doctors.

Of course there's evidence that vaccination reduces transmission. Did OP even try to research that claim or its source before reprinting it? Did we think the pertussis wave in northern California came from some reason other than that non-vax transmit where vax don't?

So tired of this knee-jerk "well let's give time to the other side" bullcrap. No. Figure out if they're insane first.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vaccinated+less+likely+to+transmit

You can sue for copyright for something other than infringing. I've seen them sue for failing to distribute source in violation of the license, but that's not infringing.

Infringing: 1. Actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.): "infringe a copyright".

Without verifiable facts all you are doing is spreading bullshit, which is what he was doing, but he went and looked at the facts and found he was WRONG so he changed his position.

Here and Here. I know it's hard to find information now days.

Without verifiable facts all you are doing is spreading bullshit, which is what he was doing, but he went and looked at the facts and found he was WRONG so he changed his position.

Here and Here. I know it's hard to find information now days.

It could have been worse. He could have linked to this http://lmgtfy.com/?q=XMBC+lock

"drug testing kit"

Yeah no. I don't think the average dipshit would have any idea how to get ahold of that. And any they WOULD get ahold of. Are not going to 'detect' any sleeping medication the average teen could even get ahold of.

Home drug tests are MADE to test for things the average teen could get ahold of. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+to+buy+home+drug+test

Let alone who the hell keeps a milkshake around overnight.

Someone who was drugged after taking a couple sips? Being knocked out gets in the way of stuff like throwing away milkshakes. Pity the kids didn't have the foresight to throw it away themselves, but then again, what can you except from kids who drug their parents to check facebook after curfew?

This story sounds 100% made up. The media will eat it up tho. But not too much. It's too fake.

Try harder.

Facebook does have a way of making pictures of you public without your permission by letting others tag you in photos, but I think there's a setting to prevent that.

Please share. I'm a noob and I can't find it.

Welcome to the internet! Here's a helpful link:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+prevent+others+from+tagging+you+on+facebook

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

Do Windows, OSX, and Linux have security holes?

Yes.

Does Windows supply a backdoor for the U.S. or other governments?

Yes.

Should you really trust your Linux multiverse repository?

No.

Do Google and Apple data mine your private mobile phone data for private information?

Yes.

Does Ubuntu's sharing of my data with Amazon compromise my privacy?

Yes.

Can the U.S. Government seize your cloud data without a warrant?

Yes. (The U.S. government can do anything. Your only recourse if they do something wrong is to sue them. Suing them typically takes years of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars for you. Thus, in a practical sense no one really has any firm rights any longer because the system in charge of correcting breaches to those rights is not accessible or swift for an average citizen using it.)

Can McAfee or Kaspersky really be trusted?

No.

Naturally, the question arises of how to establish and maintain an ironclad workstation or laptop for the purpose of handling sensitive information or doing security research. DARPA has approached the problem by awarding a $21.4M contract to Invincea to create a secure version of Android. What should we do if we don't have $21.4M USD?

Use FreeBSD or other extreme minority operating system.

Is it safe to buy a PC from any manufacturer?

Not any, but likely most.

Is it even safe to buy individual computer components and assemble one's own machine?

Again, usually it would be. It seems like software is typically the vector of attack. Hardware much less often comes with built-in vulnerabilities.

Or might the motherboard firmware be compromised?

Less likely than the OS, but remotely possible from some manufacturers.

What steps can one take to ensure a truly secure computing environment? Is this even possible?

Don't connect your computer to the Internet. Even if the OS is hacked, the motherboard firmware is hacked and the hardware itself is hacked, it doesn't matter if nobody can access it but you.

Can anyone recommend a through checklist or suggest best practices?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=secure+hardware+and+software+computing+checklist

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FWIW, it also has appeared in Physics 101 texts that tornados have DC currents.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=electric+current+inside+a+tornado

I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before...

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=tornado+reactor+movie&l=1

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=edit+hosts+file+windows+8&l=1

For one, editing your hosts file is unchanged from the previous version (you were a lying idiot over-simplifying to the point of incorrectness). For another, the security feature restoring it to default can be disabled, so your oversimplification was still incorrect, even if we forgive the simple factual errors in it.

Maybe you should realize that you're barking at the middle-man? It's the publishers who insist on using DRM and therefore buying a modern game entails the very thing you said: you lose access to it sooner or later anyways, whether or not you use Steam or something else. All Ubisoft-games, for example, insist on using UPlay these days and when UPlay goes down... well, a quick google tells you everything you need: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=uplay+down

With the above in mind I actively choose to support Steam. Atleast Valve tries to do well by its community, their DRM-measures are very benign and they offer features in Steam that are actually useful to me. If I avoided any game whatsoever with no DRM I'd be left with out-of-date games or Indie crap, neither of which I want to touch.

You screwed up the unit conversion by a factor of 100. It's 0.0018 light years away. We're going to need a bigger rocket.

No, it just creates "pages" of icons if they don't fit the length of the bar.

Yep, dig for your window in the underground taskbar. Keep clicking. What, you need to do work? Why are you using windows then? Got it.

Regardless of that, pinned apps don't really cause overflow, because you pin those apps which are heavily used - i.e. the kind of stuff that's normally "always open" in any case.

ok, so you have conveniently forgotten that I explicitly mentioned that only pinned but not running applications cause the clutter? And that the same problem is not there for first level entries in the start menu. So the answer to your question is NO because pinning has this problem of cluttering and first level start menu entries don't. Do I have to repeat myself a million times to make you understand this?

It's not randomly reordering - it's in most recently used order,

No, you are wrong again, shill. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+7+alt+tab+order+

Breaking the encryption offline:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cloud+wpa+cracker

Undersea cable tap:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Operation+Ivy+Bells

Listening in a government facility is done passively. Your arp flood would be noticed, yup.

Breaking the encryption offline:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cloud+wpa+cracker

Undersea cable tap:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Operation+Ivy+Bells

Listening in a government facility is done passively. Your arp flood would be noticed, yup.

A source request? REALLY?

What the hell is a "hate group"? Terrorists?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hate+group&l=1

Sure I have.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipv6+spoofing

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=anything+but+porn

Meh, close enough.

"Developer freedom" is lost.

What? That is the most made up, sympathy-baiting term I've heard on this site. Oh, and not everyone on this site (far from it) is a software developer.

I think you've been in a coma or living under a rock the past few years. I suggest you click on this link, read up on the stories that come up in the first few pages of the search and then come back to Slashdot to debate with a straight face that developer freedom is not lost on the iOS App Store compared to the PC or even Android.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+bans+app+store

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that a developer has a divine right to have an app he makes available on the app store.

"Developer freedom" does not mean "the freedom to force someone else to sell their product".

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=six+inches Statistically, I think you'll be unpleasantly surprised.

"Developer freedom" is lost.

What? That is the most made up, sympathy-baiting term I've heard on this site. Oh, and not everyone on this site (far from it) is a software developer.

I think you've been in a coma or living under a rock the past few years. I suggest you click on this link, read up on the stories that come up in the first few pages of the search and then come back to Slashdot to debate with a straight face that developer freedom is not lost on the iOS App Store compared to the PC or even Android.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+bans+app+store

yes, you read it correctly, but you did not read it. Try this:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sarcasm

I use the Mercury Browser exclusively on my iDevices. It came from the AppStore. Didn't need to install it through Cydia or anything, so what's this about Apple being anti-3rd party browsers?

Lazy!

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

Here, have a great afternoon.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eat+shit+and+die

Did you even bother to look before exploding here? It seems you'd rather be partisan about this issue rather than actually discussing it.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NHS+rationing

NHS rationing 'forcing patients to go private' - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk â Health â Health News
Sep 24, 2012 â" More patients are going private because the
NHS is increasingly cutting back on providing a range of treatments.

NHS rationing is putting health at risk, says doctors' leader | Society ...
www.guardian.co.uk â News â Society â NHS
Aug 31, 2012 â" Mark Porter, the new British Medical Association's chair of council, says cuts and rationing of drugs may harm patients.

BBC News - NHS care, including knee and hip operations, 'rationed'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18495981
Jun 19, 2012 â" Access to NHS care - including knee and hip operations - is being restricted, data from trusts in England suggests. The evidence, gathered ...

BBC News - Patients suffering under NHS rationing, say GPs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18143085
May 21, 2012 â" Creeping rationing of NHS care is making patients suffer unnecessarily, doctors are warning.

The painful truth about rationing in the NHS | BBC History Magazine
www.historyextra.com/feature/painful-truth-about-rationing-nhs
As part of its plans for reforming the NHS in England, the government is looking at how our medicines are selected and what they cost. This may sound like a ...

GPs face the flak as NHS rationing drive accelerates | News Article ...
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/gps-face...nhs-rationing.../14614479.article
Sep 19, 2012 â" Exclusive GPs are bearing the brunt of increasing pressure to ration NHS services, with three-quarters saying local rationing of treatments is ...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=homicide+rate+in+united+states+over+century

I hear that, during that time, a small manufacturing city in Japan renamed itself Usa (UH-suh). Then some of their manufacturers stamped "MADE IN USA" on their products, to try to fool the consumers.

I hear that the sum of human knowledge has been placed on some kind of world-wide network of information retrieval machines, so that anyone can immediately determine which ideas are factual and which are just bogus.

I'm guessing you're just being cute with your post, but on the off chance that you're serious, you should check out www.google.com. It's pretty awesome.

Here's a demo of how you could have used it to educate yourself.

Nonsense

or 411631.5 Yen. or 3144.99 Pound Sterling. or 3899.6450 Euro.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=5000+CAD+to+USD

Red Hat
Canonical
SugarCRM
Bacula
Zend
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+source+company (Don't know if they're making a profit, but with questions like yours, they should)
Oh, any 90% of "webdesign" companies

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=50+knots+mph

Bam. Couple seconds to type it into google, half a second for a reply. Done.

Here's the conversion.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=100.1+kmh+in+mph

If only there were a way to find things like that.