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So...uh...have you heard of this hot little dynamo?

"fairly clear" sounds like a interesting standard for evidence. Where does it rank on the scale from "reasonable suspicion" to "beyond reasonable doubt"?

This is /. and not a court. The courts will judge by their standard for evidence.

Please show the e-mail in which kimble states that what he is doing is illegal in the jurisdiction he lives in.

I assume that you will trust a torrent site as being not on the side of the government or media companies in this case?

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-what-made-it-a-rogue-site-worthy-of-destruction-120120/

Alternatively:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=megaupload+internal+emails

You have your facts wrong, but in an interesting way. We never decided that we couldn't force people into quarantine. One of the first pieces I ever read on drug resistant tuberculosis included an interview with a guy shackled to a bed in a New York hospital because he repeatedly skipped his meds. I didn't dig up that story which my quick search, but I did find this NOVA timeline. Check it out:

• New York City detained more than 200 people who refused TB treatment in the 1990s.
• The powers to involuntarily quarantine people were expanded after 9/11.

And a direct quote (from the as of 2004 part):

• The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, part of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, controls quarantine issues in the United States today. The Division oversees eight national quarantine stationsâ"in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. At present, federal, state, and some city health officials have the right to isolate or quarantine individuals who are ill or may become ill with a potentially lethal infectious disease.

So we never stopped quarantining people. Anyway, political correctness has nothing to do with TB treatment, or with drug resistant strains of TB. From my readings, drug resistant TB incubates in Russian Prisons and Mexican day laborers, and in India. Given your self professed aversion to political correctness, I'm surprised you skipped over those populations and leapt to "immune compromised patients with no self control." You may have meant inmates in the aforementioned Russian prisoners, who literally have no control over their surroundings or their treatments, but it sounded like an unsubtle swipe at gay people. That part of your comment sounded an awful lot like 90s-era hate speech, which had moved from "AIDS is God actively killing homosexuals to", "HIV isn't a problem because it only kills people who lack self-control [and have un-Christian sex before marriage]". I have never heard, anywhere, that people with AIDS are contributing to drug resistant TB. If they stop taking their meds, they die.

Lastly, you seem to be upset about "ObamaTax". That's okay. But to clarify, did you really think a government that can force people people to buy insurance couldn't already force them into quarantine? Or is the costs aspect that upsets you? Maybe you have some nuanced views, but you sure seem like a troll, so I don't mind feeding you LMGTFY links. But even if you are, I didn't want you worrying about our government not being able to quarantine people ;-)

You have your facts wrong, but in an interesting way. We never decided that we couldn't force people into quarantine. One of the first pieces I ever read on drug resistant tuberculosis included an interview with a guy shackled to a bed in a New York hospital because he repeatedly skipped his meds. I didn't dig up that story which my quick search, but I did find this NOVA timeline. Check it out:

• New York City detained more than 200 people who refused TB treatment in the 1990s.
• The powers to involuntarily quarantine people were expanded after 9/11.

And a direct quote (from the as of 2004 part):

• The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, part of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, controls quarantine issues in the United States today. The Division oversees eight national quarantine stationsâ"in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Honolulu. At present, federal, state, and some city health officials have the right to isolate or quarantine individuals who are ill or may become ill with a potentially lethal infectious disease.

So we never stopped quarantining people. Anyway, political correctness has nothing to do with TB treatment, or with drug resistant strains of TB. From my readings, drug resistant TB incubates in Russian Prisons and Mexican day laborers, and in India. Given your self professed aversion to political correctness, I'm surprised you skipped over those populations and leapt to "immune compromised patients with no self control." You may have meant inmates in the aforementioned Russian prisoners, who literally have no control over their surroundings or their treatments, but it sounded like an unsubtle swipe at gay people. That part of your comment sounded an awful lot like 90s-era hate speech, which had moved from "AIDS is God actively killing homosexuals to", "HIV isn't a problem because it only kills people who lack self-control [and have un-Christian sex before marriage]". I have never heard, anywhere, that people with AIDS are contributing to drug resistant TB. If they stop taking their meds, they die.

Lastly, you seem to be upset about "ObamaTax". That's okay. But to clarify, did you really think a government that can force people people to buy insurance couldn't already force them into quarantine? Or is the costs aspect that upsets you? Maybe you have some nuanced views, but you sure seem like a troll, so I don't mind feeding you LMGTFY links. But even if you are, I didn't want you worrying about our government not being able to quarantine people ;-)

pharma companies spend 50% on advertising

Yeah but that requirement is obviously driven by the presence of human-piloted vehicles on the roadways.

Would be nice if you had reference what you mean by "that requirement"... Assuming you mean it in reference to dedicated roadways, it's not 'human-piloted' that's the issue, so much as the sheer volume of traffic. 250 million cars on the road is 250 million cars on the road, regardless of who's controlling them.

On top of that, thanks to our continuing foray into the abject failure that is trickle-down economics (/rant), people are hanging on their cars for much, much longer... If the trend continues, 25 years from now the majority of cars on the road very well may be 2012 model years.

In 25 years, do you think you'll be able to drive your own car anymore? I doubt it. Autonomous vehicles are coming, and I suspect that in a quarter century we'll be regulating human-operated vehicles off public roads.

First off, assuming we don't extinguish our species by then (always a possibility), who gets to drive what and where will be the least of our problems.

Second, 25 years is a long time in the socio-political and technological sense. Who knows what might happen? Any prediction that far out is pretty much guaranteed to be incorrect. Otherwise, we'd all have been flying our jetpacks to moon condos by the 1980s.

Thrid, no, I don't think I'll be able to drive my own car, I know it, and for several seemingly obvious reasons:

- Not everyone will want/be able to jump on to the self-driving car bandwagon.
- Preventing people from operating their own motor vehicles on publicly funded roads is a Constitutional violation of the right to travel freely
- Upgrades to the entire country's infrastructure would have to be decided, approved, and funded by Congress... you know, the fucktards who are typically so busy arguing about petty bullshit like spoiled 8-year-olds, they appear incapable of so much as considering such important matters.
- Again from the political angle, "regulating human-operated vehicles off public roads" sound commie. Nobody (in America, from an idiot-political standpoint) likes commies.
- There are almost 60 million miles of paved roads that would have to be altered, and another million miles of unpaved roads which, more than likely, would be ignored. No big deal for those living in highly urbanized areas, but what about those of us who live in the boonies? Your self-driving car would never make it within 10 miles of my country home.
- "Death by GPS," only w/ self-driving cars, you can't blame it on human error. Can't wait for the flood of lawsuits because of a simple map glitch (['turning left here' "Shit, that's a ravine, NNNNNOOOOOOOOOooooooooo..." SPLAT] * [every car on the road] = [one really big fucking mess])

I do imagine there will be a fair number of automated autos on the roads within the next 25 years, but the idea that they will completely replace human-controlled autos is specious at best.

Citation please? I find it difficult to imagine in what universe Apple would use a half-finished, poorly marketed and mediocre system like Azure for their cloud offerings.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=icloud+azure

And you can totally set the TTL on any DNS record, therefore preventing caching.

But in practice that only prevents caching in recursive resolvers, it does not prevent caching in browsers. A lot of browsers will deliberately keep using the result of the first DNS lookup even after it has expired for security reasons.

It's advanced, I know.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3Agift How about _you_ look it up?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=zuckerberg+Winklevoss

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define+ward

PHP itself is an acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor..

Hm, for some reason I had "Pre-Hypertext Processor" in my head. I must've seen or heard it somewhere.

(And now YOU have too, haha!)

Indeed. And instead of gold, they trade in cell phone minutes.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cell+phone+minutes+as+currency

First 3, and it was there, and I wasn't selective.

Nope. Try again. I signed out of my google account, cleared cache, tried different browsers - it's not there. I can only assume your cookies are selectively finding stuff to validate your (skewed) perspective.

You are wrong again. You've been wrong on everything you've said

I don't think you've demonstrated that at all.

and never addressed any of my questions, just cut them because you can't answer them.

Actually, I addressed all of them, but you ignored my answers, or didn't understand them. Let's see ...

AK Mark asked

Which ones? The ones in the states I've lived wanted to push "states rights" to eliminate Roe v Wade, then make abortion illegal. They want to take over the government, then tell you what to do, same as all the others, well, that and abolish taxes on the rich and increase them on the poor.

Curunir_wolf responded:

Well people can call themselves whatever they want, but if they're pushing that kind of agenda they aren't people I would consider libertarian and not anyone to whom I would lend support. ...

and more ...

AK Mark asked

If I declare CO2 to be an unwanted pollutant, can I sue GM for making pollution machines?

This was actually addressed before the question, not in a direct response to you, but it was in the same thread:

You can't expect police to go around arresting people because you have an irrational fear of them. If they actually assault or initiate force against you, then, yes, government should step in to help.

AK Mark asked

If I declare CO2 to be an unwanted pollutant, can I sue ... my neighbor for breathing?

That's actually an interesting question, but I would say that while the actual direct answer is "yes", ultimately your neighbor would counter-sue for YOUR breathing, and as neither of you can exist without breathing, neither of you (or the government) can force you to stop, as that would violate your most fundamental right to exist.

AK Mark asked

Does it matter if it's benzine and my children have cancer?

Certainly it does. There is long-standing precedent for holding polluters for the liability of the damage they cause, and government has a role in ensuring that those harmed are made whole, where possible, and ending further damaging behavior.

AK Mark asked

Which assumption is wrong? What step of logic is wrong?

I'm actually convinced I answered this, but you simply didn't like my answer. You even dismissed everything in the video I posted that tried to explain it simply, until it mentioned "property rights", and then you jumped on that and went back to this idea that only property owners have rights, without understanding the video at all. I'll try one more time.

It's your assumption that property confers rights that is wrong. That's not true. While property rights of an individual are important (read John Locke's Second Treatise of Government), it is only one of the three important pillars of inherent rights, the others being life and liberty. None of the three can exist without the others. The "property" in this philosophy is not specific to real property, but includes an individual's right to own property in general, whether real, personal, monetary or consumable, the clothes on your back or the property you have contracted with another to secure on your behalf. So the assumption that is wrong is that somehow it is only landowners, or the wealthy, that have rights. Every living person is entitled to all the same and equal rights.

To put it simply, you have 2 and only 2 options on the subject of property rights: (1) You have a right to own property, or (2) You ARE property.

Yeah, you're right - you won't find coverage of this on any mainstream media propaganda site!

I wish somebody would cover this vital issue that's very important to me. So important that I've overlooked the literally hundreds of articles written about it in the last couple years.

Yep, you're right. No Mainstream Media coverage at all. Better write to Ron Paul, he'll save us!

If you disassemble any modern bit of electronics, it's very likely that is has some Sony derived component in it.

They're everywhere! Ahhhhhh!!!!!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Execution+stack

"And I won't have to do the google typing for you."

That's what http://lmgtfy.com/ is for. :)

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+screws+developers

If you try doing a google search, you'll find plenty of news outlets (including Cult of Mac) reporting instances of Apple screwing developers. I count at least five different cases in the last three years just by a cursory glance on the first few results.

wtf, are you just drooling on your chair bitching?
LMGTFY. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=thunderbolt+expansion+cards

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

-oma = tumor or swelling
melano- = melanocyte, a melanin-producing cell in your skin (melas = dark, cyte = cell)

Do you not have a basic education?

You're an ace reporter, right? Ever think to stop the car to get your article out?

Again, as an ace reporter, you should understand how to use Google. So why not google for the studies that show cell phones are far more distracting than talking to passengers or listening to the radio?

Oh wait. You're a reporter, so you need to be spoonfed. Here you go.

Another automotive killer is travel. Simply make it illegal to operate a motor vehicle more than 50 miles from county of registration and that alone will cut accident rates by a considerable amount.

Um... "Most car accidents happen close to home. Only 1% of accidents occurred more than 50 miles from home. Most people drive close to their home, which is why car insurance rates depend heavily on your home address." http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+accidents+occur+close+to+home

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

Creationism is based on specific facts,

"My holy book says so" is not fact-based reasoning.

evolved in multiple species using multiple methods happened? ... I'd like to understand how that's possible.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=evolution+sexual+reproduction , Wikipedia: "Sexual reproduction first appeared by 1200 million years ago in the Proterozoic Eon. All sexually reproducing organisms derive from a common ancestor which was a single celled eukaryotic species"

Riddle me this: there are 100,000 known fragments of viruses in the human genome, making up over 8% of our DNA. Virus copies are also found in chimp DNA. Why would a creator insert broken copies of viral DNA into his creations? I've never heard a good creationist explanation for that.

IF only the school systems in america werent structured how they are I imagine that we could have many folks finishing schooling much earlier than 18 and college a few years later..

I know many students who were held back merely because they had to wait to go on to the next year.. at best put in an "advanced placement" course..

we could easily have students graduating highschool at 14 or 15 ...if not sooner.. with the 'smart' ones beating that.. all of the time.. but.... it just doesnt seem to happen

^^^^^^^^ THIS

I'm more interested in how he got a college to even *look* at him. I've been looking into it, and I can not find a state that will grant a GED to anyone under 16 and even then you need high school superintendent permission. Without a GED even community colleges won't allow someone to take a class.

So how did this kid cut through all the red tape to get to college without a GED?

I'm nineteen years old and what's a Google ?!

man chmod

or

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=permission+775

It's a term of art[1].

1. term of art

It's a term of art[1].

1. term of art

> now some idiot is claiming that the women dropped the charges.

Damn you're a fucking moron..

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=julian+assange+charges+dropped

I agree. It is embarrassing. Neither of these dorks have a clue how to use lmgtfy.com. You don't say "LMGTFY" and then post a link to wikipedia.

Come on. This is old news. If you take a look at the links above, you'll see that energy payback time, even for a roof top installation (with all the gear and labor) is on the order of a few years for a system that can last a couple of decades.

I moved here (Texas) from Utah. Lots of people I know here moved here from other states that are more expensive to live in. Sure, I hate that we get the bulk of our energy from coal (although I personally pay a premium to get mine from wind farms) and the idiots that plan highways seem to fund them by the linear foot (read: they are narrow, typically 2 lanes each way) and we can't open carry, but otherwise it's not bad. It's the difference (for me) between raising my kids in apartments (all we could afford in SL valley) and owning a house in a nice neighbourhood.

I'm sorry you fail at trying to comprehend relatively normal jargon. definition of luser. If you don't understand Wiki I'll help you with Google.

You're getting Bing and Google confusedhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=range+check+algorithm+java&l=1/

You doubt that Apple would sue the pants off you if you did the same thing in your basement and posted instructions on a website regarding how you did it? Go ahead, try... see what happens.

What happens? Nothing.

Apple's problems wasn't that they were doing it; it's that they were selling it.

Microphones: actually haven't changed their shape, but only the really nice and expensive ones still look like that.
Microphone Examples

Magnifying Glasses: Still quite widely in use, but apparently not so well-known among the Jersey Shore iPhone OMGLolcats crowd as they are among the Bill Nye vs Niel DeGrasse Tyson awesomeness level debaters.
Mag Glass Example

Binoculars: Really? People don't know what these are? They are still the best way to get a stereo 3D view of something at huge distances in a compact device. I have several pair on my shelf right now. People have them at sporting events every time I go.
Binocular Example

Television: My television still has an antenna. After the recent switch from analog to digital, however, it is no longer the rabbit ear dual collapsible one in the icon. It now looks vaguely like some sort of alien ship or horrible instrument of torture with alternating flat fins(and sharp edges...). Not sure it's worth changing the icon, though.
Antenna Example

Wrenches and Gears: Because what happens under the hood of your car is pure magic, and nobody can explain it. Even if young folks don't know what gears actually do, they recognize them from the steampunk jewelry and stuff.
Gears Example

Ironically, if you use Google.com to search for "search engine", the first thing it takes you to is Dogpile.com.

Proof:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=search+engine&l=1

FTFY. Incidentally, Google-owned/originated patents have been used by handset manufacturers to sue... well, Apple, mainly.

[citation needed]

Here ya go

Sorry, but in the first page of results there isn't a single case where Google is suing anyone.
Have you bothered actually reading the links instead of relying on bad journalists writing story titles?

Because as I read through the list of comments you've made, I noticed a fair amount (not a lot, but certainly not zero) of posts in which you make misinformed statements and promote FUD (albeit unknowingly for the most part, I'm certain).

Always good to make sure your own house is clean before pointing out the mud on your neighbor's floor, you know?

Well, you might want to point exactly to where I did that and, if I wasn't corrected right at the spot by another reader, then, please do so.
I'm always glad when people correct me and show I'm wrong. I read through my first page of comments and couldn't find anything that seemed wrong to me - feel free to help me out. ;)

Nevertheless, it's a flawed argument. Just because I can't shoot a movie, it doesn't mean I can't say a movie sucks and be right about it.

So... publicly, they are against software patents, yet they still hold many?

Isn't that kind of like the owner of a slaughterhouse speaking our publicly against eating meat? Doesn't matter what they say in public, they're still contributing to the problem they claim to be against.

Since software patents are, unfortunately, allowed in the US I'd say it's better to secure as many as you can, even if you're against them. Otherwise, your competitors (which are clearly pro-patent litigation) will grab them eventually and you'll have a much harder time in court when they sue you. This is basic common sense.

What you're saying is equivalent to saying that only murderers should own guns. You can clearly be against murderers and still own a gun. Cops needs guns in order to effectively fight murderers. In fact, this is a much better analogy.

Yea, ok, that's reasonable; accepted.

FTFY. Incidentally, Google-owned/originated patents have been used by handset manufacturers to sue... well, Apple, mainly.

[citation needed]

Here ya go

You first.

On the positive side, at least I'm just another ill-informed consumer, as opposed to a paid shill.

I honestly don't understand what you were implying by linking to my profile. If you go and read my posts you'll basically see a lot of stuff about Brazil, because that's where I'm from. I occasionally comment on other technology and random subjects as well.

Because as I read through the list of comments you've made, I noticed a fair amount (not a lot, but certainly not zero) of posts in which you make misinformed statements and promote FUD (albeit unknowingly for the most part, I'm certain).

Always good to make sure your own house is clean before pointing out the mud on your neighbor's floor, you know?

Am I a paid shill from the Brazilian Govt. trying to spread information about the country on a "News for Nerds" board?

Eh, I was afraid the way I worded that would lead to misinterpretation: I wasn't referring to you in any way in making that statement, that was totally a self-deprecating remark. Sorry for the confusion.

I better go collect my payment then, before a corrupt politician robs it first...

LOL, in "capitalist" Amerika, corrupt banker robs you... then pays off the politicians.

Frankly, neither should be trusted. Fraud has been proven on both sides. For example, scientists that disagreed with the UN report on global warming had their names included as if they signed off on it. Scientists have admitted exaggerating the effects of climate change. Scientists have been caught trying to silence critics of their work.

Citations, please. It is impossible to agree or disagree with an opinion. Please provide citations so those reading can see the basis of your opinions to see if they come to the same conclusion.

...scientists that disagreed with the UN report on global warming had their names included as if they signed off on it...

I can't find the articles explaining who the authors were that were listed as in the IPCC report that disagreed with the conclusion that GW was man made. In the mean time, here is another article by an author who states what I said, that the IPCC was a political body, whose authors were selected by their representative governments, whose purpose was political, for example, to get the US to sign the Kyoto protocol. ...Scientists have admitted exaggerating the effects of climate change....

There was a Slashdot story on this not too long ago. ...Scientists have been caught trying to silence critics of their work....

This one is easy.

So to be rebellious they'll create Assbook.

Judging by your comment I'd be guessing you're new here.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=So+does+zfs+do+checksumming+of+all+files%3F+%20

Ten minutes and Google would have given you all the info you needed.

I was about to ask "what is OCW?" but then I remembered let me google that for you. :-)

OCW is "open CourseWare." Here's the link: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Yeah. . . I think I'm going to need to see some reputable sources for those claims.

I love these requests, in the age of the Internet and Google. Here ya go

From the Article: "It's such a flexible environment that there's a lot of freedom to do things, even things you shouldn't do," he says. "A typical thing in a Windows setting is to establish some usage policies, and set up some limitations on the systems to keep them stable. Linux doesn't have those types of standards out of the box."

This is a training and knowledge issue, not a limitation in Linux. KDE has had Kiosk capability for a long time, we used this at the DOD to do things like limit applications users could access, create a unified look and feel, enforce screen savers and screen locking rules. It was easier to set up and maintain than Windows Group Policies to do the same tasks.

Look, I'm sorry you feel like you have to run Unity or Gnome. Just like Businesses enforce using Outlook or Windows, we enforce a KDE Desktop.

Drivers are an issue? Well I guess with some new devices they are. But just like we see now, as adoption increases Vendors release drivers for all operating systems. Want Apple to certify your printer for a MAC? Then you best get them a working driver. As adoption increased and we saw more MACs in the workplace, the drivers magically became available.

And look, with over what is it.. 600 printers natively supported in Linux I have no idea what this person was claiming. CUPS makes network management simple and even "hackable" for those of us that want to tweak things. Compared to the magical Windows print server and messy registries that constantly corrupt themselves. Windows print services are so bad I can't tell you the last place I heard of that had a Windows print server.

Had ubuntu push a kernel about month ago that decided it'd like to panic every few hours on an old...

And you find it impossible to edit grub and change the kernel back? Wholly crap man, Let me google that for you!

People that constantly change systems in any OS have problems. Why are MACs better? Generally they are not patched that often and you can't toy with them. Linux is meant to run the same way. "If it ain't broken, don't try to fix it!". Microsoft has everyone convinced that you have to constantly patch and fuddle with systems to make them work. Really, that's now how Unix and Linux were designed. (MAC is based on *NIX).

What's with all the strange names?

Let me help you with that