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seriously?

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

its a network technology like GPRS, but better. They call it "4G" in some places, but it should be considered 3.5G.

Let me Google that for you.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22debt+serf%22

Here's a corrected link to the actual article.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Michael+Wesch+ted

If only there were a way to search for information like that

Whoever modded this insightful is retarded. In no point in recorded history, or in the estimation of past CO2 levels, has the level of CO2 ever been 10 times the current amount.

Be careful who you call retarded. You're gonna feel really stupid when someone comes along and proves you wrong.

OOH! OOH! Let me!

HERE ya go!

Did that not work? Try this one:

Present atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are not unprecedented in geological history. Throughout the Phanerozoic spanning the past 600 million years, carbon dioxide concentrations have been sporadically falling from well above 6000ppm (Berner, 2001). Carbon dioxide has risen before, only to be sequestered in its unstoppable decline to an all time low of 200ppm - in the midst of human history.

To put that in perspective, the current levels are around 339ppm. If you are not good at math, 6000 is more than 10 x 339.

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Glad I could help.

"School resources" are still used to read personal email, so the problem of using school resources for something that doesn't violate the AUP couldn't have been avoided by using a different email address when using the university resources to do this.

True only if you they're accessing from campus, you know you can send and receive email from off campus? Don't use your school email account to do things you agreed not to with it. Why is this such a challenge for you (and the students) to understand?

I disagree with your definition of spam (and I believe your definition is contrary to most or all of the common definitions

Except it's not mine, I used the first one returned by Google because I had a hunch you'd have an issue with the definition. Definition of spam per Google, yet another link with an aggregate from multiple dictionary sources. We're in the information age and you're at a computer, take some initiative and back up your claims. So far it's been all about how you feel, not about what the facts are about this situation.

and I find it absurd to assert that completely blocking a web site is in any way appropriate response to emails.

What if it was a gambling or malware site?

Here is the only response I got so far.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Stafford+Masie

Who said founding-fathers, dipshit?

Here, this should help.

Jesus but you're a lazy little fuck, aren't you?

Here. Read. Lazy prick.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/commentary/chn95t1.htm

Dig up the rest yourself. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=videogame+pac-man+copyright+infringement

Fuck em. If they don't know then wait for them to ask.

Besides you'll still have fucking idiots who won't bother to read your post before they post their stupid fucking questions.

You have done nothing helpful.

And neither have you.

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

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=raspberry+pi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Right back at you.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=software+piracy+silence+russia

Accuse the site/opposition of violating software copyrights, send the police to collect the computers, and then sit on the PCs for months effectively killing the opposition.

4) The stimulus funds did not "take over" any industries. Give one example. Just one. Literally, I want you to name a single American business which is now government owned because of the stimulus. Either that, or come back and apologize for lying.

Stimulus funds came with strings... no, ROPES attached and did amount to a takeover. You want an example?

Second, stimulus dollars came with strings attached that are now causing enormous budget headaches. Many environmental grants have matching requirements, so to get a federal dollar, states and cities had to spend a dollar even when they were facing huge deficits. The new construction projects built with federal funds also have federal Davis-Bacon wage requirements that raise state building costs to pay inflated union salaries.

Worst of all, at the behest of the public employee unions, Congress imposed "maintenance of effort" spending requirements on states. These federal laws prohibit state legislatures from cutting spending on 15 programs, from road building to welfare, if the state took even a dollar of stimulus cash for these purposes.

Here is a story about banks either turning down TARP or leaving the program after the government started changing the rules after the money went out.

5) TARP was passed by Bush, and didn't take over banks in any case.

Passed under Bush, about three months before he left office. Completely administered under Obama and extended by Geitner. Geitner, btw, is the guy who didn't pay his taxes that Obama made treasury secretary. I guess you are OK with that too. Seriously, would you have been OK if Bush put a drug addict in charge of the DEA and a Klan Grand Wizard in charge of Civil Rights?

6) The health care law does not take over anything. It puts some new regulations on private insurance companies, prevents individuals from abusing the system with an individual mandate, and helps individuals for whom the mandate would be burdensome by providing them with subsidies. Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh. The man is lying to you.

Whoever pays the bills makes the rules. If you don't believe that, you are lying to yourself. If you think that it took over 2000 pages of "we have to pass it to know what's in it" to do nothing more than, "It puts some new regulations on private insurance companies, prevents individuals from abusing the system with an individual mandate, and helps individuals for whom the mandate would be burdensome by providing them with subsidies.", then you should not leave the house without your helmet.

7) New environmental controls?

Do you not watch the news? Look up the Keystone Pipeline. You'll also notice how the rejection of the pipeline helps out Obama supporters, like Warren Buffett. Obama rejecting the pipeline is also a boon for China, who will get the oil instead of us.

Of course, there is also the strict limitations on drilling in the Gulf... or off the east or west coast or on land and especially in Alaska. We can't drill in the Gulf of Mexico, but China can for Cuba. Deep water drilling is banned in the Gulf of Mexico, but Obama funded it in Brazil. That oil and those jobs are also going to China, by the way.

Strange. I just noticed that it seems that China is benefiting much more for Obama's environmental concerns than the actual environment is, which was my point. Obama's regulations do nothing for the environment, harm it if anything. The rejection of the keystone pipeline means that oil w

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tsa+interstate

can't find anything?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=michael+mann+climatology

Please.

I do my best to have facts based opinions.

Well, all I can say is that you've lost touch with reality somewhere. And as far as I can tell, so has much of the Israeli press:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aynetnews.com+eu+anti-semitism

You're bad at this Internet thing. Here, let me Google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=TSA+Highway+stops

If you get questioned and you are innocent you lose 5 minutes of your time.

You should never, under any circumstances, talk to the police; this is why. Summarized: there is no such thing as an innocent person to a cop, only criminals who haven't turned themselves in yet.

If the police doesn't question a suspicious person they risk letting a criminal off the hook.

Untrue: First off, 'suspicious' is subjective; judging from personal experience, a teenager with long hair and a guitar case is considered 'suspicious,' even if he has done nothing illegal.

Secondly, unless a person has been reported for or is in the process of committing a crime, they are not criminals. Traveling in any fashion, whilst looking a certain way, is not a crime. Google 'DWB' to see my point.

Policemen are not mindreaders, they can't decide for sure who is guilty just by looking at them.

Exactly; it is not their duty to judge who is guilty and who is not, because they are not judges. Oh, and FYI, no one can decide who's guilty by cursory glance. Expecting anyone to be able to do so shows a great amount of ignorance regarding the legal system, as well as human nature in general.

Expecting them to only stop criminals is unreasonable.

No it's not, that's their JOB . Just like determining whether the accused is guilty or not is the JOB of judges and juries. See previous point regarding ignorance of the legal system.

You see, those few minutes you spent answering some questions helped the police and made your neighbourhood a safer place. Being infuriated over that is just selfish.

No; what's selfish is expecting the police to make you feel all warm and fuzzy by harassing every person in an x block radius and violating their civil rights, because according to you, everyone in your neighborhood (except you, of course), is a potential threat. Newsflash: You ain't that important, and your stuff ain't that great.

Run, do not walk, to research the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's offerings. And be aware, neo-geos devote their efforts primarily to PostGIS, which builds on the very capable PostreSQL database, adding in geospatial capabilities that by many accounts rival the best that that Oracle Spatial and MS SQL provide.

As always, there are significant tradeoffs to evaluate in your situation. Be ready to study the many evaluations and comparisons of the various solutions.

I don't think you understand how open source works. Not surprised...

I don't think you understand how backdoors work - no surprise, you've never shown to have a fucking clue about anything but posing. Here http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backdoors+in+open+source

Here, let me Google that for you.

Interestingly enough, the bubonic plague may have selected for HIV resistance.

... I'm actually worried about OTHER people's search results. People who don't know any better than to go look for information outside of their social circles.

If I search for "origin of species", I'll see references to Charles Darwin.
If students in Kansas look it up, they'll probably see all kinds of links to creationism and how evolution is wrong/evil.

(and no, i don't mean to start a flamewar with that. it's just the first example that popped into my head where different social circles could see completely different results.)

This personalization of search results is gonna make http://lmgtfy.com/ obsolete too. And that makes me a saaaaad panda.

Yes...One really does wonder why Google doesn't set up YouTube channels with original content.

Wow. Is it really that hard? OK, I'll help you out. Here's a link:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=stephen+hawking+punished+by+god

Allow me to help you.

If you believe the scientists to be unqualified or the IPCC to not be a legitimate source of scientific analysis, please explain why.

Read and learn.

A quick Google Search shows that it varies greatly from state to state. Mine it's all the way up to 10k, of course, my state's so corrupt it doesn't matter anyway, the judge'll get bought for $500...

Sure: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=documentary+election+diebold+access

See first hit

How would climber's sunglasses, which normally protect the nose and shield the eyes, work for this?

Here, let me google that for you...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+does+facial+recognition+work

-AI

They have had protests which have involved hundreds of thousands of people.

On left-leaning news stations, there was a total blackout of coverage, while on the right-leaning news station it was akin to the second coming.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tea+party+protests+wikipedia&l=1

I remember watching CNN on a night when I knew that the protests were occurring, and not one mention was made, so it's really not surprising people haven't heard about them.

China is the largest investor in renewable energy of any country in the world. [ http://lmgtfy.com/?q=largest+renewable+energy+investor+by+country ]

Sorry. I trimmed the last line. Let me add it back:

How about you don't be a fucking retard and learn how to do a web search?

I'll help even more since you are obviously more retarded than I first thought:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=QR+decoder
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=QR+decoder+firefox

And for even more help - the first result in each case.

Of course I suspect clicking a link is beyond your mental abilities, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering.

Sorry. I trimmed the last line. Let me add it back:

How about you don't be a fucking retard and learn how to do a web search?

I'll help even more since you are obviously more retarded than I first thought:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=QR+decoder
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=QR+decoder+firefox

And for even more help - the first result in each case.

Of course I suspect clicking a link is beyond your mental abilities, so I'm not sure why I'm bothering.

No, no that's okay, here let me Google that for you

If the summaries include descriptions of all possible acronyms or phrases included in the discussion, it's not really a summary is it?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=QR+Code

Ah, never mind, I sent myself to http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=1%261+sopa and found it. Good, now I don't have to move my domains.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=best+android+tablet+travel# Is this what Ask Slashdot has become? Seriously, are tablets in general not designed for travel? Please lets get some worthwhile questions on here, I don't know maybe something related to NEWS FOR NERDS or STUFF THAT MATTERS? "Asus Transformer Prime: This is currently my favorite, for a few reasons:" There you go, you answered your own question. All you are going to get is 100 other people's "favorites". Mod this comment down now.

Shhh.. the sheeple who are following everybody else don't like to be made aware that what everybody else is doing is stupid and unnecessary. They _really_ don't like for you to correctly observe their inability to solve even the most everyday and trivial of their own problems. What they REALLY, REALLY can't stand is the idea that maybe one shouldn't be so helpless.

These are not philosophers or people of substance. They don't care if what they do is pointless and makes no sense. They just want to see lots of other people doing it too. They are comfortable with you if you argue within the boundaries of the question, like saying you prefer this tablet but not this other one. But by disagreeing with the premise of the discussion you are questioning the purpose and worthiness of the question itself. This is a display of independent thought and it frightens them. It also makes the ones who would ask the same stupid questions aware of how insecure they are about their intelligence and ability to handle basic things. They don't have the balls to admit that none of this is your fault and you are merely asking valid questions. So they will blame you for "making" them uncomfortable as if you had such power. They will want to shut you up.

I tried to mod you +1 Informative but you were already headed towards -1 territory. The childish idiots who can't handle a questioning mind vastly outnumber the rest of us. Sorry man, I tried.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=best+android+tablet+travel# Is this what Ask Slashdot has become? Seriously, are tablets in general not designed for travel? Please lets get some worthwhile questions on here, I don't know maybe something related to NEWS FOR NERDS or STUFF THAT MATTERS? "Asus Transformer Prime: This is currently my favorite, for a few reasons:" There you go, you answered your own question. All you are going to get is 100 other people's "favorites". Mod this comment down now.

So if I am mistaken then so is the dictionary

Should I start looking at a rack system?

Well, how should we know what price you're willing to spend? If you're just wanting to know what rack systems are available that can support 10 hard drives and how much they cost, can't you just Google that?

Also, what about location — I could run some cat6 to the garage and move it out of the house, in case noise is an issue.

How could we answer this? We don't know what location is most convenient for you. We don't know how much physical space you have available in your house or your garage. Are your family's file-serving needs so extreme that you can't even rely on wireless networking?

Finally, what about file format, file system, and OS/software? I'm currently running with ext3 and Debian Squeeze. Happy with my audio encoding choice, but not sure about x264 and mkv. I'd also consider different media server software, too. Any comments appreciated.

You're running out of disk space, yet you're encoding audio with a technically inferior format that uses more space for less quality than other formats.

Honestly, based on the rattling off of technical specs, it sounds like this project is more about tinkering and tweaking. There are plenty of pre-built Linux-based media server projects (I'd suggest other operating systems, but I know you'll only accept Linux), but you're not going to accept those solutions because you want to tweak and do it all yourself. For crying out loud, you're running your own family mail server and 8TB file server in an era of Facebook-based communication, web-based email, and cloud storage/streaming services.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Google+market+share

I'm really curious if any patent lawyers include a google search of slashdot when they do prior art discovery

Screw the lawyers its their job to get these "processes" patented. The patent office on the other hand we should send http://lmgtfy.com/?q=prior+art to.

if the lights are on, you can't regulate your body temperature, and you're being constantly bothered with noise, you can't get REM sleep most of the time.

Wow. I'm not sure if there's a nice way of saying that you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

you can just give out your PGP public key to everyone and they'll be able to decrypt their email.

If I give you my PGP public key, it lets you do two things: encrypt email that you send to me, and verify my signatures.

In any case, it's not an interoperability problem -- the people who don't care about PGP won't use it, which means they'll just see a weird attachment (my signature) when I send them email, assuming I do use it.

Some people are on smartphones too, and have the AUDACITY to want to be able to read the emails I send them on their iPhones?

In the immortal words of Apple's marketing campaign, there's an app for that.

So tell me, o mighty spouter of clichés, what the fuck your statement has it to do with the question at hand?

If you can't immediately see the answer to that question, then you could always look up the old legal concept properly and educate yourself. Here, let me Google that for you. Perhaps next time, you'll have the courtesy to do so before you resort to knee-jerk ad hominem attacks.

The point of the original legal idea was that if you start enumerating specific counter-examples then you are creating a presumption that the general case holds. In this context, while obviously we're talking about economics rather than law, the same basic idea makes sense: any time someone asks about commercial viability of GPL'd software, the same tiny number of companies that make money based around such software get trotted out as counter-examples. (Don't agree? Try Google again, this time to see how many other examples you can find by searching the history of Slashdot. It won't take you long.) Given that it is easy to cite numerous companies that make money via other means, this suggests that perhaps making money from GPL'd software really is relatively difficult, thus backing up the comment by InsightIn140Bytes above.

The author of that paper claims he couldn't find research on gamma ray bursts. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=deadly+gamma+ray+burst

Hey! Don't be so hard on the English! ;-)

If you make someone ill with your poisoned food, you're criminally liable. No if's, and's, or but's. No CNN articles make that untrue. End of story.

Now again, go google "pollution private property" or something similar so you can stop making these stupid-ass straw-man arguments. Private property does NOT EVER mean that some other company can dump toxic chemicals on my land without permission. No if's, and's, or CNN articles about it. End of story.

What "tragedy of the commons" are you talking about?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tragedy+of+the+commons Rinse, repeat for all the other questions you have about the formally defined economics terms that I use. Got it?

While I'm at it: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=straw+man Are we getting the picture now?