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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?

I'm glad you're happy and have discovered a useful feature, however, it's apparently taken you about 5 years to discover this? I know progress happen slowly but that's ridiculous. "This feature sure does irritate me, if only there was some way to change it, oh well!" ~1500 days after the introduction of the ribbon a random slashdot post details a solution.

Seriously though, did you just start using Office or did you buy this /. account? I'll cut you some slack then. We live in the information age and there is frankly no excuse with Google being integrated into nearly every browser (so about 1 click away) why you haven't taken some initiative to become proficient with tools you use. Your sig hints that you're aware of Google.

Where did you get the stats for the five guns per day? Very curious about the accuracy of that one. Not saying you are incorrect, but I would like to check your source(s).

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tsa+5+guns+a+day

did you even google your question? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ubuntu+lockdown maybe this will help you http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=456549 http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linuxkiosk/ubuntu01.htm http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en

I'm dumbfounded that people get to ask such simple questions of /. readers. A simple Google search would have turned up many Debian-based solutions, forget about all the *nix ones out there. I used to think this kind of thing was lazy to ask at Ubuntu forums, but it's way worse here. I am seriously thinking about taking this site out of my rss feeds because I keep getting fooled by this crap. If anything, this is just more filler on a slow day for Ubuntu stories...a very cheap maneuver.

"a passel of USB sticks" WTF is a "passel"

Some of the hallmarks of good communication skills are having a large vocabulary, and knowing how to add new words to it.

Definition of passel

did you even google your question?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ubuntu+lockdown

maybe this will help you
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=456549
http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linuxkiosk/ubuntu01.htm
http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/menustructure-13.html.en

It sure doesn't help that he just linked to wikipedia on coherence and quantum coherence.
At that point, why not just let me google that for you ? Does this really need inclusion? Its almost insulting.

Seriously guys if somebody doesn't understand quantum physics reading the wiki page isn't going to do it.

Let me google that for you.

Nice call on the credibility attack. So you are an expert in such things. Please enlighten us as to the differences in population density.

sure

This is not Wikipedia and you can Google before you ask for it. Whilst you or I wouldn't cry if Apple's app store profit was all we made next year, it's not exactly a major deal for Apple.

Sorry to do this to you, but it is the first link on Google :)

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

Yes, because wikipedia is the source of all human knowledge.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=DMCA+jailbreaking+exemption

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+malware

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=car+manufacturer+sues+copy

Wow.

I tried to understand the utter insanity written there, but I can't move past one line in particular:

I would like to know how you are privy to the inflation rate! The inflation rate I'm talking about is the original definition of the term...

Finding the current inflation rate is a complicated procedure. Apparently we can sidestep all of that by picking an obsolete definition for inflation, which doesn't account for the effects of using debt as currency.

This should prove entertaining indeed, but in the interest of maintaining my sanity, we'll review only a few more key details:

A partial audit of the FED has indicated that very recently they have over $15,000,000,000,000.00 of cash dispensing that they were keeping secret. This is a astronomical amount.

Yes it is, and yet it's inconsequential at the same time. The oft-quoted $16-trillion figure comes from page 131 of the GAO audit report, which is explained on page 130:

For example, an overnight PDCF loan of $10 billion that was renewed daily at the same level for 30 business days would result in an aggregate amount borrowed of $300 billion although the institution, in effect, borrowed only $10 billion over 30 days. In contrast, a TAF loan of $10 billion extended over a 1-month period would appear as $10 billion.

Looking at the actual balances of money loaned out, the peaks of all loan programs totals only about $2.5 trillion, with only about $1 trillion outstanding as of June of 2011 ($900 billion of which is in long-term investments). Notably, all of that "secret" $16 trillion was paid back except for $13 billion (which the report doesn't appear to mention how long its term is). Again, no actual wealth was created. Equal amounts of money and debt were added to the economy, and annihilated shortly thereafter, which is one of the primary raisons d'être of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Nothing grinds to a halt.

Under long-term periods of high inflation (and I mean inflation by the modern, useful definition), yes it can. Saved money loses its purchasing power, so people are less inclined to save. As prices continue to rise, salary increases usually lag well behind the curve, meaning that more of the population are unable to afford the increased cost of living.

...And after that we're back to the ramblings about freezing assets, a secret group of people who can magically steal wealth from others, and utter ignorance the economic importance of the automotive companies. Such a lovely day on Slashdot.

Be careful what you wish for. There was an article - google it - regarding the number of bats killed by wind turbines and the direct cost increase to farmers who had to increase their pesticide usage in response.

Sorry, but that is totally false myth perpetrated by anti-wind power crowd. Modern wind turbines do not kill birds or bats in any great numbers. Ask any farmer who walks around under the turbines on his land. Ask Google.

.xxx is a porn domain, why would this company want that? The last bit of the GP post should alert you to it not being serious =)

Back in the day, people submitted genuinely challenging questions to this forum. Today, we are bombarded with dull queries that are best answered by Let Me Google That For You or Consumer Reports. I think this is even worse than “How do I securely erase hard drives so that first world governments with infinite resources cannot recover my porn and warez collection?” for the umpteenth time in that little novel discussion will ensue. We are talking about consumer-grade hardware here, and entry level at that.

Seriously, Mister Novice Photographer: if you are just that, you go to your local future shop, find the cameras that look serious (usually having sexy black cases, featuring bigger lenses, and not made with plastic) and fall within your budget. Does the word Nikon or Cannon appear anywhere on the one you like? Great. Buy that one. Then go read books that feature terms like lighting, focus, exposure, and composition— because those are the concerns that result in truly good photographs .

Next on Ask Slashdot: which MacBook Air is right for me?

FTA:

The other issue is the source code. In my opinion, since we taxpayers paid for the development of this piece of shit, we should at least be able to modify and redistrubute the code. Apparently though, the Government doesn't have to supply any information which it considers to be a "trade secret," and OSHA has determined that this crappy source code is somehow a privileged secret. This means that the company which wrote the application was allowed to object to the release of the source code, since the time limit on their objection time has since lapsed and OSHA hasn't sent the source code, I can only assume that they have filed such an objection, making this $200,000 worth of broken proprietary software which the public isn't even allowed to fix.

Or he could do a bit of fact-checking Fuck, the source is not only available on a OSHA's Web site, it's also available on site the article itself links to.

Looking at the iOS version, there is very little code, and essentially no graphic or custom UI design. According to the original iOS developer's blog, there were indeed a lot of change requests that "began to add up." In light of the public outcry, I'd feel bad for the guy even if he had made the full $56,000 for his work on the app, which he clearly didn't.

Finally, compared to the requirements churn I've personally experienced subcontracting on similarly "trivial" projects in the private sector, a "mere" $56K sounds like a good deal. Taking salaries into account, I've seen Fortune 500 companies easily drop $50,000 on what amounts to a two-page proposal for a project with similarly trivial scope.

So even if "government" is the problem, returning to the trees sounds like a more promising solution than "business."

lmgtfy

Ok, these links should work:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows-live-sync-with-windows-7-mobile-phone+site:Microsoft.com
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable-synchronizing-contacts-windows-live+site:Microsoft.com
(first link in search results)

Unfortunately even MS staff does not link to fm but just answers in prods, so still no knowledge base article.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/privacy.aspx#windowsliveid

Ok, these links should work:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows-live-sync-with-windows-7-mobile-phone+site:Microsoft.com
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=disable-synchronizing-contacts-windows-live+site:Microsoft.com
(first link in search results)

Unfortunately even MS staff does not link to fm but just answers in prods, so still no knowledge base article.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/privacy.aspx#windowsliveid

I think you're confusing actual power draw with TDP. So for example, an A8-3500M has a 35W TDP, that's the most it will draw for a sustained period of time. The actual power draw at idle will be more in the neighborhood of maybe 10-20W, something like that. So you take that, you add the screen, the hard drive, memory, wireless, etc. and you get your 50W. The CPU is not the dominant factor. In most cases the screen uses more.

You might be surprised. See below.

Incidentally, Llano has lower idle power consumption than Core i3.

If by that you mean "Llano as tested by AnandTech has lower idle power at the wall, but AT only tested one Lllano system and one i3 system", sure. If you scroll down from the top link on that LMGTFY, you'll discover that results may vary by motherboard:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/45050-amd-a6-3650-llano-apu-review-21.html

When the power measurement includes many things other than the CPU, you have to be careful about sweeping generalizations (the writing in that AT article is not as careful about that as I've come to expect from them, in fact).

Back to Apple. The current MacBook Air with i5 and i7 has lots of hardware sensors, and there's an app which can read them. I own a 13" 1.8 GHz i7 MBA and a copy of that app. Figures from memory when I was playing with it the other night, so take with a grain of salt, but the CPU part of the i7 idles at under 1W and the GPU part at around 3W, or 4W total. The total power drawn from battery with the AC unplugged and a lowish backlight setting and WiFi turned on is about 6.5W, which does mesh with Apple's battery life claims of 7 hours wireless browsing.

(It has a 50 Wh battery, so 7 hours implies about 7W average power drawn during the 7 hours (as that'd be 49Wh). Web browsing consists of very brief periods of activity interspersed with lots of idle, so idle system power should be a bit less than 7W, but not a lot less.)

The problem with the idea that Apple ever seriously considered AMD for the MBA is that it's an ultralight, ultrathin computer which tries to avoid compromising performance too much. The only CPUs AMD has at the ~17W TDP which fits with what Apple wants to do in that platform are 18W TDP E-350 parts with not-much-better-than-Atom CPU cores. Benchmarks put the i5 and i7 models used in the MBA at easily 2.5x the performance of the E-350.

Let me happily announce that the answer to your question is a definite and resounding YES.

I think you're confusing actual power draw with TDP. So for example, an A8-3500M has a 35W TDP, that's the most it will draw for a sustained period of time. The actual power draw at idle will be more in the neighborhood of maybe 10-20W, something like that. So you take that, you add the screen, the hard drive, memory, wireless, etc. and you get your 50W. The CPU is not the dominant factor. In most cases the screen uses more.

Incidentally, Llano has lower idle power consumption than Core i3.

So as for this:

I'm not sure I've seen a single AMD laptop (that isn't based on the E-350) with battery life over 4 hours.

Here you go. AMD A6, "9-cell (100 WHr): Up to 12 hours and 30 minutes."

I'm in New York north of NYC, and Hurricane Irene passed through in August this year with rain the likes of which I have never seen outside of Florida.

Your memory is too short, grasshopper: In August of 1955, hurricane Dianne dumped almost double the peak amount of rain (24 inches) on your region as compared to hurricane Irene, and the consequences were likewise notable. And no-one, not even the truest climate change believers, are blaming Hurricane Dianne on CO2. Every once in a while, it is normal for a hurricane to do exactly that -- drop a bunch of water on the NY/PA region. It doesn't mean that we're experiencing climate change. It just means a hurricane followed an inconvenient track, while doing exactly what hurricanes always do. Again.

Here you go, boy.

Right now JPEG org promises that you will not be sued for implementing the basic JPEG 2000.

So you are a chick. No surprise, with personal attacks all over the place, clearly a chick SOP.

As to specific cases - clearly I am not going to be provoked on the web to put myself into a situation where I actually start naming names, times, locations. But I do have a resume on line and obviously the cases are linked to the places where I have worked.

Again: this is none of your business. Oracle, MS and others, including HP, IBM, etc. ALL are participating bribing the officials.

As to an UNRELATED TO ME case of Microsoft giving out bribes, that's just TOO EASY,

LMGIFY

and nothing gets done in Russia with buttering the way

As to Oracle, why let's see more.

So you can yell till you are blue in the face. All you are good for is some 'smelly socks' jokes.

So you are a chick. No surprise, with personal attacks all over the place, clearly a chick SOP.

As to specific cases - clearly I am not going to be provoked on the web to put myself into a situation where I actually start naming names, times, locations. But I do have a resume on line and obviously the cases are linked to the places where I have worked.

Again: this is none of your business. Oracle, MS and others, including HP, IBM, etc. ALL are participating bribing the officials.

As to an UNRELATED TO ME case of Microsoft giving out bribes, that's just TOO EASY,

LMGIFY

and nothing gets done in Russia with buttering the way

As to Oracle, why let's see more.

So you can yell till you are blue in the face. All you are good for is some 'smelly socks' jokes.

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/09/petas-euthanasia-rates-have-critics-fuming/

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=peta+euthanasia

Google Lion Adoption

Google Apple fora complaints

IOS5 feature not working

IOS app crashing

Why is it that Apple isn't doing sufficient testing prior to release?

[[citation needed]]

if apps are crashing and drivers don't work and features don't work and data is being lost and batteries are being consumed too fast at release time... they're not doing enough testing. Or is that too complex an idea for you to wrap your head around? Go read the apple support forums, for FSM's sake. Your profound ignorance is annoying.

Why is it that they are leaving so many existing, recent customers out in the cold?

[[citation needed]]

Seriously? Ok, starting with Snow Leopard, there's a huge list. With Lion, I'm just going to point at them dropping the PPC emulator and see if you get it (keeping mind that there are many additional issues similar to those at the above Snow Leopard incompatibility monitor. But, you know, Google it.)

They're aiming at the middle of the Gaussian now... and that isn't, historically speaking, their Mac customer base.

[[citation needed]]

Oh, Jeez, low-hanging fruit. I'm sorry (well, not very): [says nothing, points finger straight at you]

...and so on. Google. It's useful, if you learn how to use it. You just put the question you have in the little box, then press the little magnifying glass picture. You can do it.

PS: Nothing I said was in the least an exaggeration or hyperbole: I'm an active Mac and IOS user and an OS X developer, and in these matters, I am reasonably well informed.

Google Lion Adoption

Google Apple fora complaints

IOS5 feature not working

IOS app crashing

Why is it that Apple isn't doing sufficient testing prior to release?

[[citation needed]]

if apps are crashing and drivers don't work and features don't work and data is being lost and batteries are being consumed too fast at release time... they're not doing enough testing. Or is that too complex an idea for you to wrap your head around? Go read the apple support forums, for FSM's sake. Your profound ignorance is annoying.

Why is it that they are leaving so many existing, recent customers out in the cold?

[[citation needed]]

Seriously? Ok, starting with Snow Leopard, there's a huge list. With Lion, I'm just going to point at them dropping the PPC emulator and see if you get it (keeping mind that there are many additional issues similar to those at the above Snow Leopard incompatibility monitor. But, you know, Google it.)

They're aiming at the middle of the Gaussian now... and that isn't, historically speaking, their Mac customer base.

[[citation needed]]

Oh, Jeez, low-hanging fruit. I'm sorry (well, not very): [says nothing, points finger straight at you]

...and so on. Google. It's useful, if you learn how to use it. You just put the question you have in the little box, then press the little magnifying glass picture. You can do it.

PS: Nothing I said was in the least an exaggeration or hyperbole: I'm an active Mac and IOS user and an OS X developer, and in these matters, I am reasonably well informed.

Google Lion Adoption

Google Apple fora complaints

IOS5 feature not working

IOS app crashing

Why is it that Apple isn't doing sufficient testing prior to release?

[[citation needed]]

if apps are crashing and drivers don't work and features don't work and data is being lost and batteries are being consumed too fast at release time... they're not doing enough testing. Or is that too complex an idea for you to wrap your head around? Go read the apple support forums, for FSM's sake. Your profound ignorance is annoying.

Why is it that they are leaving so many existing, recent customers out in the cold?

[[citation needed]]

Seriously? Ok, starting with Snow Leopard, there's a huge list. With Lion, I'm just going to point at them dropping the PPC emulator and see if you get it (keeping mind that there are many additional issues similar to those at the above Snow Leopard incompatibility monitor. But, you know, Google it.)

They're aiming at the middle of the Gaussian now... and that isn't, historically speaking, their Mac customer base.

[[citation needed]]

Oh, Jeez, low-hanging fruit. I'm sorry (well, not very): [says nothing, points finger straight at you]

...and so on. Google. It's useful, if you learn how to use it. You just put the question you have in the little box, then press the little magnifying glass picture. You can do it.

PS: Nothing I said was in the least an exaggeration or hyperbole: I'm an active Mac and IOS user and an OS X developer, and in these matters, I am reasonably well informed.

Google Lion Adoption

Google Apple fora complaints

IOS5 feature not working

IOS app crashing

Why is it that Apple isn't doing sufficient testing prior to release?

[[citation needed]]

if apps are crashing and drivers don't work and features don't work and data is being lost and batteries are being consumed too fast at release time... they're not doing enough testing. Or is that too complex an idea for you to wrap your head around? Go read the apple support forums, for FSM's sake. Your profound ignorance is annoying.

Why is it that they are leaving so many existing, recent customers out in the cold?

[[citation needed]]

Seriously? Ok, starting with Snow Leopard, there's a huge list. With Lion, I'm just going to point at them dropping the PPC emulator and see if you get it (keeping mind that there are many additional issues similar to those at the above Snow Leopard incompatibility monitor. But, you know, Google it.)

They're aiming at the middle of the Gaussian now... and that isn't, historically speaking, their Mac customer base.

[[citation needed]]

Oh, Jeez, low-hanging fruit. I'm sorry (well, not very): [says nothing, points finger straight at you]

...and so on. Google. It's useful, if you learn how to use it. You just put the question you have in the little box, then press the little magnifying glass picture. You can do it.

PS: Nothing I said was in the least an exaggeration or hyperbole: I'm an active Mac and IOS user and an OS X developer, and in these matters, I am reasonably well informed.

Google Lion Adoption

Google Apple fora complaints

IOS5 feature not working

IOS app crashing

Why is it that Apple isn't doing sufficient testing prior to release?

[[citation needed]]

if apps are crashing and drivers don't work and features don't work and data is being lost and batteries are being consumed too fast at release time... they're not doing enough testing. Or is that too complex an idea for you to wrap your head around? Go read the apple support forums, for FSM's sake. Your profound ignorance is annoying.

Why is it that they are leaving so many existing, recent customers out in the cold?

[[citation needed]]

Seriously? Ok, starting with Snow Leopard, there's a huge list. With Lion, I'm just going to point at them dropping the PPC emulator and see if you get it (keeping mind that there are many additional issues similar to those at the above Snow Leopard incompatibility monitor. But, you know, Google it.)

They're aiming at the middle of the Gaussian now... and that isn't, historically speaking, their Mac customer base.

[[citation needed]]

Oh, Jeez, low-hanging fruit. I'm sorry (well, not very): [says nothing, points finger straight at you]

...and so on. Google. It's useful, if you learn how to use it. You just put the question you have in the little box, then press the little magnifying glass picture. You can do it.

PS: Nothing I said was in the least an exaggeration or hyperbole: I'm an active Mac and IOS user and an OS X developer, and in these matters, I am reasonably well informed.

Hmm.

Is there a way to get a rather complete list of IP blocks per country?

No, isn't possible.

Only kidding! Here:

IP block list by country

The /. summary should explain the necessary background information.

It does. It includes the name of the product in question. You can then use that information and enter it into your preferred search engine, which will provide further elucidating information.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=occupy+crime

http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=occupy+unsanitary

I clicked on the first link and all I found was a bunch of crap links leading to the same powerturd blog that is not a reputable news source and one piece on a metro.us site where Mr Bloomberg was moaning that they did not report crimes to the police, instead they just stop them by themselves. Mr Bloomberg is not exactly an impartial source when being interviewed about Occupy either but if this is the best slur he can come up with then I have even more time for the people occupying the park than I thought.

On another note you might want to try throwing that lmgtfy scam site in the bin. If I wanted to use Google with adverts on the home page I would have stuck with Yahoo in the 90's

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=occupy+crime

http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=occupy+unsanitary

I clicked on the first link and all I found was a bunch of crap links leading to the same powerturd blog that is not a reputable news source and one piece on a metro.us site where Mr Bloomberg was moaning that they did not report crimes to the police, instead they just stop them by themselves. Mr Bloomberg is not exactly an impartial source when being interviewed about Occupy either but if this is the best slur he can come up with then I have even more time for the people occupying the park than I thought.

On another note you might want to try throwing that lmgtfy scam site in the bin. If I wanted to use Google with adverts on the home page I would have stuck with Yahoo in the 90's

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=occupy+crime

http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=occupy+unsanitary

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=occupy+crime

http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=occupy+unsanitary

using Google, you're doing it wrong.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Bpepsi

Hate to break it to you but this is absolutely not the same and not better. If you type www.facebook.com/business you land on the business page straight away, and the first thing you see is whatever content business placed there.

If one follows your method, you land on a Google search page where the page you look for is one of many links. Yes, it is the top link but you are still on google, you still see the listing of other random crap (or related crap if you're [un]lucky). It takes an extra click to get to the goods, and all the extra links are potential distractions that in some cases will take you away from the business you were looking for originally. plus.google.com/business would be a much cleaner solution.

using Google, you're doing it wrong.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Bpepsi

using Google, you're doing it wrong.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Bpepsi

You don't have to know the operators; that's what the "advanced search" button does for you. You then look at the query, and remember the ones you might use often. I use "word * otherword" -"word badphrase" pretty often when I need to filter results more, for example.

For learning the terms to search, I find that searching for something close enough usually helps me stumble upon the right search terms sometime in the first page or two.

All that learning does come from experience with searching - not from having the answers spoon-fed to you by asking on Slashdot. :) In this specific case, I typed "windows fake bounce email", and got a program that can do it on the first hit. I tries "spoof" rather than "fake", and ignoring the first four hits on Slashdot, the first link (which would've been returned before this question existed) provided a solution. But you're right - the original link was mildly offensive; he should've used lmgtft, as in http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+fake+bounce+email. That does a way nicer job of teaching how Teh Googles works. ;)

"Let me google that for you" http://lmgtfy.com/ would seem to make a lot more sense, since you would actually be helping someone learn a search term that works, vs the thousands that don't.

But of course, if you're just trying to be a dick, your link is much better.

Really? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=toxic+mold gives me wikipedia at the top, CDC information, an article from Time, and a few other interesting articles on the front page.... Sure there are some junky ones there too, but it looks like a good result set to me.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Hey+guys%2C+where+else+can+we+find+more+drivel+to+dilute+our+search+results%22