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I'll take back the fan boy - you must be paid by Nokia. Here you go, fuckhead

http://lmgtfy.com/

Is this cheating? Perhaps not. But would it change your mind if they spent millions of dollars advertising that they were better / different than Google and tried to take away from Google's market share?

This smacks of unfair business practices. Microsoft should be ashamed, but more than that they should be sued.

So... now Bing is the *real* LMGTFY?

Let's see what happens...

Hey sycraft, are you looking for a way to cut off the net at large, but maintain connections to your critical servers?

Really guys. It's not that hard.

Click HERE

When you have a separate app for such useful things as turning the screen black so it can be used as a mirror, well... excuse me if I'm not overly impressed about this achievement.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+mirror+app

I wonder how many Mac Apps were sold the first day.

Evernote doubled their user base in the first week of the Mac App Store's existence (actual googling left as an exercise for the student.) I guess they are snickering all the way to the bank.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Donald+Knuth

Funny you mention that - this very argument shows up on lots of pro-choice web sites as a significant reason why pro-lifers are misguided and wrong.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pro-choice+back-alley

Of course, the form of the argument isn't the important part. The actual numbers and data associated with it, and whether or not they support the conclusion, are what matters, and I think it's safe to say that "illegal abortions" and "open software and standards" have very little common ground when it comes to comparing the validity of arguments about them.

Except this has been done time and time again, and Sony has already been on the bandwagon, and Apple has certainly done the same thing in the past for opening Mac products.

How quick we forget.

Got a Wii? Custom screw heads. Guess what, when you but any 'repair kit' most will have the option to bundle the special 3 blade funky looking screw head with the kit. Thats just the first popular thing that comes to my head that slashdotters will know of for sure. I have a Hitachi Plasma TV, want to replace the bulbs? Its got some funky screw I've never seen before ... looks actually like its just begging to have the head stripped out due to its design. Ever worked on a car? There are thousands of places that require special tools to do the work properly in your car, some of them for engineering reasons, many of them because it limits what the owner can do without any experience.

Lots of products do this, it takes exactly 0 seconds from the time the product is released to the time you can buy a screwdriver to unscrew it. Seriously, I'll even do the work for you:

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=pentabular+screwdriver

You'll find that its rather crowded with stupid crap relating directly to apple at the moment due to the silly buzz about this, but once that dies back down you'll find a nice list of places to buy the screw drivers. If you bother to wade through the results now, you'll already have found a place to buy it by the time you reach the third link as I write this.

'special tools required' for disassembly is not a new practice, Apple didn't invent this, Sony has done it as well.

Nor did they invent a 'new screw head'. They took advantage of something that was already there, just rare, made so intentionally for this VERY purpose by the manufactures of said screws. Rare, but not so rare as to be unavailable or to have no tools source.

I can remember the same thing 25 years ago with Torx head screws and bolts. Torx drivers were hard to find in the US so the end result was the same, it made it so Joe the Plumber couldn't just go take apart the device, unless he happen to have a set of Torx drivers or bits ... which certain people had ... and you could buy from Montgomery Wards if you just bothered to open the catalog and order it.

Could we please stop submitting stories that treat standard operating procedures as new and wholely evil things just because they happen to occur at a popular company? ITS NOT EVEN NEW FOR THE FREAKING COMPANY THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT.

Just because you found some new reason to rage against the machine today, doesn't mean its actually new or news to anyone else. This particular bit of asshatery on Apples part is common practice and knowledge. If we're going to have news for nerds can we please not bring up something that every geek that qualifies for a geek card has known for most of her/his life as it was new ... especially when its been going on longer than we've all been alive. Yes, even the original Ford assembly line used rare tools to slow down casual tinkering and IP theft.

Here's one.

type pentalobular screwdriver in google - how fucking hard can that be?

This hard?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pentalobular+screwdriver

I can't believe you passed up the opportunity.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pentalobular+screwdriver

And, in the spirit of actually being immediately helpful, The Register's article about this subject had a link to a kit with the appropriate screwdriver and replacement non-bondange-and-domination Phillips screws for an iPhone 4. Just don't take it to any Apple service outlet after that; as TFA points out, they'll undo your work and put those ridiculous screws back in.

Try a Google search for Ben Goldacre placebo

@ arth1

It is unfortunate that you got your misinformation from the mass media about the source of weapons used in the Mexican drug war, most of that misinformation comes from the anti-gun campaigns who spread it through our mass media networks and which then are repeated by the politicians. The weapons used in the drug war are military type weapons that are fully-automatic rifles and carbines along with some grenades and grenade launcher attachments. These weapons are smuggled into Mexico from other Latin American countries left over after their civil wars or sold by corrupt government officials, from overseas by gun dealers from Asia, Middle East, or Eastern Europe, and captured or taken from willing and unwilling Mexican authorities themselves. A small amount of the weapons do come from the United States because it is the largest producer of modern weapons but very few if any weapons come from the ordinary citizens themselves due to the restrictions and sheer prices that I outline below.

Source: LMGTFY - Mexican Drug War Gun Seizure

National Firearms Act (NFA)

In the United States the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934, amended in 1968, and updated in 1986 controls the purchase and ownership of grenades (aka destructive devices), sound suppressors and parts (aka silencers), short-barreled rifles and shotguns (aka SBRs), fully-automatic guns (aka machine guns). There is a prohibition in effect since May 19, 1986 that prevents the possession and purchase of fully-automatic rifles and carbines (aka "machine guns") by non-government entities (i.e. ordinary citizens) so any machine guns owned by ordinary citizens are usually old guns manufactured and imported before then. There are State laws that also govern the ownership of such weapons that must be followed but most of states in the union do not put any restrictions on the right of ordinary citizens to possess such firearms.

Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tabaco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) - National Firearms Act (NFA)

How To Purchase a Machine Gun, Silencer, or Short-Barreled Rifle/Shotgun Legally!

The NFA allows for the purchase and possession of such devices by ordinary citizens by the completion of ATF Form 1 (5320.1) and the payment of a $200 fee for a tax stamp (a fee that has not changed since 1934!). However, the completion line 13. Law Enforcement Certification on the form requires the signature of the Chief Law Enforcement Officer that is neigh impossible in many urban or even rural locations, but that can be bypassed by the creation of a Living Trust and assigning the NFA regulated weapon to the Trust and making yourself a trustee and giving yourself the power to possess and use the weapon on behalf of the Trust that can be accomplished for as little as $100 online or a bit more if done by an actual lawyer.

So it is possible for an ordinary citizen to purchase such a weapon but this requires a little bit of paperwork, fingerprinting, a $200 fee for the tax stamp, and $100 or more for the creation of a Trust.

Source:
ATF Form 1 (5320.1) - Application to Make and Register a Firearm,
ATF Form 4 (5320.4) - Application for Tax paid Transfer and Registration of Firearm

Expensive Prices for Pre-1986 Machine Guns - $6K, $13K, $18K

The 1986 restriction on machine guns prevents the sale of modern manufactured machine guns so the prices on pre-1986 guns follow economic market scarcity rules since no more can be made available and their prices are highly inflated due to this restriction well above the actual value of the firearm. The most desirab

1) He's off by a factor of 50, which while not great, is still orders of magnitude better than the 1:1 odds of being spied upon that he quotes. Even if both stats are off by a factor of 50, the point still stands; or
2) He's engaging in the ancient and time-honored art of hyperbole, in which case his point STILL stands.

Anything you see in there you can install.

You've totally missed the point. I suspect willfully so.

Here, let me help you out.

Solitary confinement is a lot more than just having cable TV taken away. It really is torture in many ways.

Or, let me google that for you.

Let me Google "angloamerican corporations" for you.

Ironic that the guy with the spelling mistakes, punctuation mistakes, and grammar mistakes is telling me to learn English. Let me guess, English isn't your first language?

and has all the harmful effects of cigarette smoking (except for nicotine addiction) on top of it.

Not sure if you're aware of vaporizing. Also please stop spreading false information, marijuana doesn't contain nearly as many chemicals as cigarettes.

Seems it would be this.

Red Herring. Android phones require contracts too if you want to use them as phones.

Oh really?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=prepaid+android+phone

Look at those Android prepaid phone reviews on Amazon. A lot of pain with those orphaned Android phones that exemplify the crap flooding the low end market.

People love them compared to a non smart-phone but that doesn't justify having to deal with Android on that hardware. Some do not even realize it is also flaws in Android itself that is causing them so much pain and poor battery life.

Red Herring. Android phones require contracts too if you want to use them as phones.

Oh really?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=prepaid+android+phone

What on earth are you talking about? The incident I mentioned had nothing to do with refusing to issue papers or foreign diplomats violating US laws. As for your citation request, here you go.

Researchers working at Vostok Station produced one of the world’s longest ice cores in 1998. A joint Russian, French, and U.S. team drilled and analyzed the core, which is 3,623 metres (11,886 ft) long. Ice samples from cores drilled close to the top of the lake have been analyzed to be as old as 420,000 years, suggesting that the lake has been sealed under the icecap for between 500,000 and more than a million years. Drilling of the core was deliberately halted roughly 100 metres (300 ft)[5] above the suspected boundary where the ice sheet and the liquid waters of the lake are thought to meet. This was to prevent contamination of the lake from the 60 ton column of freon and aviation fuel Russian scientists filled it with to prevent it from freezing over.

But perhaps most interestingly, there actually is absolutely no proof that the lake itself is oligotropic. They only sampled ice directly above it. Using this as 'evidence' of oligotropism is questionable at best.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=firefox+plugin+google+spam+report
is the 3rd one down the one ur looking for?

Here you go: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Those+who+cannot+remember+the+past+are+condemned+to+repeat+it.

adblock FAILED AT ARSTECHNICA

No, I think you mean that ArsTechnica FAILED AT BLOCKING adblock, because people forced them to stop. And that’s not even to say that the correct set of filters wouldn’t have blocked their ads without them being able to detect it, anyway.

I stated this, verbatim, this in that very same post you're avoiding:

You agreed with me, you stated I was right, and then you spouted a line of diarrhea about hosts.

Ahem: BULLSHIT - is there an adblock for ANDROID, for example?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=firefox+for+android, dumbass.

I've won, everytime, because not a SINGLE ONE OF YOU, has disproven any of the points in my HOSTS file pros list!

In APK trollspeak, disproven = not disproven and never = everytime. Same old same old, APK.

you FAIL, clone, badly

I fail at forcing you to act halfway intelligent, LOL, but then of course that’s impossible since you’re such a complete moron.

Anyway, anyone with half a whit of sense already knows who the “winner” and “loser” here is, troll. It’s been nice pwning you.

There is still the theory that once you teach someone basic it becomes impossible to teach them programming. /running and ducking...

Know the difference between Theory and Hypothesis...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=theory&l=1

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fairness+doctrine+white+house+czar Fixed that for you.

Here you go:http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Cass+Sunstein+internet+fairness+doctrine

Now was that so hard?

I never cease to be amazed that people use this as an example of "deregulation gone wrong", when it is actually an example of over regulation by a lobbyist corrupted government.

Orwell fans wouldn't be terribly amazed..

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

Two words: Public Choice. Here, let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com?q=Public%20Choice

If you don't mind could you please share more about your setup and what your user experience is compared to any other x86 systems you have? Thanks

This might help

Slightly less flippantly: Netwinder, empeg car, various prototype boards, various MP3 players. Just irks me that apparently this stuff is news to people.

Read Slash Dot occasionally and notice that WEP is insecure. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=WEP+insecure+site%3Aslashdot.org

Move away from WEP (its been known for 5 years to be easily hacked).

WPA2 is where you want to be. I had a laptop with a mini-pci network adapter built in that was old enough that it didn't support anything but WEP. 8 bucks got me a replacement card from Amazon, which did WPA2.

Computers are easy to upgrade. Some stuff is harder.

Some stuff is a lot harder. There are many legacy network devices that only support WEP (Wii, DS, Roku, not sure about XBOX, many wireless printers etc). Most do not offer firmware upgrades, so what is the average end user supposed to do? Stop using the stuff or go out and spend thousands on replacement gear. The worst part is much of this was released well after it was known that WEP was broken but they kept releasing products that just use WEP.

Luckily, I tracked this down and secure further the network, but without proper tools, what can a normal user do against these smart asses?

Read Slash Dot occasionally and notice that WEP is insecure.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=WEP+insecure+site%3Aslashdot.org

Move away from WEP (its been known for 5 years to be easily hacked).

WPA2 is where you want to be.
I had a laptop with a mini-pci network adapter built in that was old enough that it didn't support anything but WEP. 8 bucks got me a replacement card from Amazon, which did WPA2.

Computers are easy to upgrade. Some stuff is harder.

Where are the research papers about how to get more men into Nursing? Or men into elementary education? How about Men into being stay at home dads? Men being "Admin Assistants"?

Why does it seem that "gender equality" only a one way street?

Yeah, there's absolutely no interest in getting men into primary education or nursing or anything like that. It's ridiculous. Now, if I can just continue to fail to look for any such things, I can continue to believe they don't exit.

Where are the research papers about how to get more men into Nursing? Or men into elementary education? How about Men into being stay at home dads? Men being "Admin Assistants"?

Why does it seem that "gender equality" only a one way street?

Yeah, there's absolutely no interest in getting men into primary education or nursing or anything like that. It's ridiculous. Now, if I can just continue to fail to look for any such things, I can continue to believe they don't exit.

I'm glad the ITU apparently caved, the tech world is confusing enough as it is without one term meaning many different things.

So instead of having a standards org define 4G your glad 4G means whatever the fuck the each individual cell phone carriers marketing department says it means?! Hell its not that unusual for the new 4G to be slower than the old 3G in the same damn spot. Here let me Google that for you. How is this logic, much less interesting? Can we have a +1 cognitive dissonance button?

You mean the top Google search result for "Slashdot-de Raadt interview"?

For almost any point of view I could come up with there is probably an example of someone with that same view earlier anyway. Should I refrain from posting anything that resembles anything has been posted or said before by anyone anytime?

It's also not my fault if people rate my comments higher than they are worth, the opposite also happens. Moderation can never be perfect and it is also often opinion.

nothing is perfect. Except a troll's arrogance and, or ignorance.

If I wanted to troll I'd go do it on some other site.

Anyway, is it possible to write an algorithm that adds to numbers together that is bug free? Yes:

int add(int a, int b) { return a+b; }

Now what about something a little more complicated? And then again, and again. Obviously every time you add complexity it adds to the possible bugs, but nonetheless it is possible to write bug free code.

Obviously it will take an enormous amount of effort, but such effort is necessary.

Click: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Michael+Moore+Lying

Begin reading.

There are plenty of "actual factual, verifiable" examples of him being wrong, lying, and/or misrepresenting the facts out there. If you're unable to find a single example of this, then you're simply not trying.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=change+wlan+mac+address

Of course the GPL doesn't. Contributors to OpenJDK give Oracle their copyrights, and Oracle does whatever Oracle damned well wishes.

And if you wish to become a clueful troll (which I trust you don't)...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+tck+trap

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pentagon+papers

I heard the same story on the radio yesterday and it is the papers. Check out the Google search. Here's some articles on it:

Here's The Guardian's article on it, from today. Here's another from The Independent

The original url looks about the same size as the tinyurl: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Kongsberg+RWS. Oh wait, am I reducing your ability to track people who click your link? I'm sorry.

Or are you just trying to hide the fact that the final landing is http://www.google.com/search?q=Kongsberg+RWS (again, not long enough to warrant a shortener)?

discovering something that you're supposed to know is a lot harder.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22area+under+a+curve%22

You can do it with software. Look over this for starters.

As I understand, there are 1,000s of pages of documents involved in the current Wikileaks releases. I don't have time to review these, so I'd like to see a summary of the interesting (more than "symbolic") material. Can somebody direct me?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=summary+of+wikileaks+cables+news

And what are "cables" anyway? Are they like email messages?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_cables

Also, considering the timing of the unrelated legal assaults against Assange, I assume they are contrived. But as a more appropriate retaliation, couldn't the US gov just publish all the damning material they have on him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_arrest_warrant_for_alleged_sex_offenses