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My biggest problem with the census is that the government is actively trying to include illegal immigrants in the process. My issue with that is that I don't want them counted. They have no right to vote and thus should have no influence on the number of congresscritters each state gets.

This sounds like Lou xenophobia (which is a strange in a country created by immigrants). Should we not count children under 18 then? They sure can't vote. Convicted felons? Maybe we can count every 3/5 of an illegal immigrant. That seemed to be how the Framers of the Constitution wanted to treat adults without the right to vote. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=three+fifths+compromise

Members of Congress (should) represent their constituents regardless of whether they have the right to vote.

How the fuck heavy is 200kg in lbs??

Ironic, isn't it?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=obamacare+outlawing+HSAs

A link to a google search isn't a proper citation, I mean duh anyone can do that.

Nothing in any of the links amounts to outlawing HSAs. Yes, if you enroll in a plan that isn't a qualifying HDP, then you can't contribute to a HSA. Just like you can't today. Provide a reference to the actual legislation and we'll talk. A google search of pundits plying FUD doesn't count.

  I don't know enough about the bill to know if I support it or not - with what I know now I'm leaning towards not. Let's keep the debate factual though, there's enough BS and FUD out there as it is.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=obamacare+outlawing+HSAs

Cobra (or, Corba?)

If only there were some way for you to have found this information before posting.

Really? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=low+income+support+britain

Western Europe also hasn't had to pay to defend itself for the last 60 years either. We pretty much subsidized their defense.

Bullshit. Not to mention the fact that the Soviet Union has been gone for a long time now. Just what belligerent power is threatening Europe, exactly?

Speaking of hospitals not accepting government insurance... Did you hear that walreens is no longer going to accept Medicaid? Apparently they know what to expect and this is what's to come...
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=walgreens+stops+medicaid

Also, do you have a citation?

Sure, plenty.

But yeah, denying claims makes overhead higher, as a percentage.

Anyway, I did happen to come across the first Google result for “medicare overhead rates” (since you didn’t give any citation for your claim, I looked it up myself). Some points:

the public health insurance system has an overhead cost which is about 2% of claims, while the private sector has administrative costs between 20%-25% of claims

taking into account extra legal costs from Medicare adjudication and CMS salaries, the administrative cost ratio increases to 5.2% ... [for private insurance,] If we exclude taxes and profits, as well as sales commissions, then the total administrative costs decrease to 8.9% overall and 8.0% for large group policies

Medicare incorrectly counts its cost of capital as 0. The true cost would take into account the direct cost of hiring IRS workers to collect the taxes which pay for Medicare as well as taking into account the distortionary effects of income taxation on workers labor supply decisions.

Medicare serves the elderly population and thus has a high cost per enrollee. In 2003, the average medical cost for Medicare was $6,600 per person per year, while the same figure for private insurance was $2,700.

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

as for your wp.org graph, it stops in 2004... this is 2010. what about the recent 6 years?

Wow, can you not be lazy for a moment and look something up for yourself? Google has existed for a number of years now, you'd think everyone would've learned to use it by now. Apparently not you.

you can show graphs, talk numbers until you are blue in the face. what counts is this... jobs are lost when not enough people buy stuff our workers have been making.

What counts is numbers. That's how you measure how many jobs are still in the country, and how many new jobs have come up. But it is not surprising that someone who doesn't know how to use Google also isn't interested in real, hard data, and would rather go with some vague concept that supports his point.

scare mongers? you bet.

Good, I'm glad we agree on something. Now, get your head back in reality. Here, let me help you. Science is based in data.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=help+me! is a good site for idiots who can't help themselves to research even the most basic facts, like the person you were replying to.

Sorry but you're extremely misinformed. Please don't make authoritative-sounding comments about things you don't know anything about.

OpenGL tutorial

Okay, I get that folks want to scream foul, but I still haven't seen anyone back up the OP's point

Well, since you put it like that. It's the first link, the one to Wikipedia. There have been smaller instances of this kind of thing before as well. But Apple's current litigiousness is even more outrageous than what they did in the 1980's.

I only have a memory of Apple going after HTC for patent infringement UNLESS they were sued first, a la Nokia.

Your sentence isn't grammatical so it's hard to tell what you are trying to say; are you trying to say that Apple is suing HTC because Nokia is suing Apple? How does that make sense?

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

I [heart] this site... makes me happy every time I provide a link :)

Dental Dam

Back in 2005 all of these had been long invented, and had long been used in mobile devices...just not a phone

Okay, I get that folks want to scream foul, but I still haven't seen anyone back up the OP's point:

(3) a few years later when other people are starting to offer mass market products at mass market prices, Apple starts suing them for patent violations.

I only have a memory of Apple going after HTC for patent infringement UNLESS they were sued first, a la Nokia.

All you need to do to shut me up is give me some non-spurious examples.

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

Share and enjoy!

This is the thing, more than one problem to deal with in the same physical space. Cheap AP equipment may give you issues under load. With just a couple connections a cheap Linksys will work fine, push the load on it and I find that performance degrades exponentially with traffic increase. Home routers are not built/designed for business loads, or 500 user environments.

The problems: limited mounting space, limited frequencies, limited to mix mode, client movement, (re)registration issues and so on.

Since none of us know the exact physical construct of your problem, suggestions of directional antenna systems, alternating channels etc. have to be used. Cellular systems work in similar ways. 11g mode pointing north/south on chan 2 and 8, 11g mode east/west on chans 5 and 11, ne corner with chan 3 etc etc etc. The low tech testing/wardriving to find the right power levels is a solid suggestion, though this might limit your choices of AP equipment. Pick AP gear that can give you flexibility with antenna systems, power levels, op mode and channel settings.

You will also have to adjust your planning to account for movement of clients. If they are likely to move from ne to se physically, will they need to re-register? Is that a problem? It takes a lot of thinking to get this job done. Enterprise gear will take you toward meshing, and on the pricier end of things move the control out of the AP to allow better performance independent of physical movement.

All of this can get a bit trickier if you have multiple floors with large signal loss between floors. At that point, antenna systems become a stronger tool. At some physical point you'll find clients seeing enough sig strength to end up bouncing on/off one ap and off to another, then back again, never really staying registered long enough to do any good. There you have to fine tune signal strength. Some of the higher end meshing gear gives you options to deal with that, but that becomes a budget issue.

Start with your fixed constraints, evaluate how fixed they are. With some antenna systems, you might find that you have room in more than three places to use APs which would dramatically change your overall problems. The actual AP gear you choose will help discern what you can do about the remaining problems. Don't be afraid to call a sales/marketing engineer for advice, it's usually given free at some level of interest. That's not even to mention this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+set+up+mesh+mode+wireless+networking

I think that the process of trying more to understand what the real problems you will have is going to help you further figure out what you need to do.

One last thought, an extra 1500 bucks on the limo now is a lot less than you would spend to find one ready to go on prom night, so to speak. Read to see what the equipment on your short list does under load, how it works in high volume situations etc. that lmgtfy link might show you some good examples to read about.

"Paranoid freak helicopter soccer moms"

What, exactly, does "helicopter" mean here? I mean I get the rest... but that one is just way out there in left field.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=helicoipter+parent

Seriously? You're telling him what to google?

This is slashdot. Where's the snark? The cynicism? The lmgtfy link?

You must be new here.

"... the abortion pill is comparable to the cost of surgical abortion procedures at $300 to $500..."

Still think reaction "beats the hell out of" prevention?

Have any examples of a Windows Update "breaking things"?

Sure...have at it.

What is the superset of OGG, XML, EBML, and every data structure (including values, lists, tables, tensors, trees, etc) ever created?
The GRAPH. That's why I'm working on a general user and programming interface that combines ALL data into one graph.

Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=graph+encoding

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/asd/2010/02/26/01.xml&headline=NASA%20Plan%20Falls%20Flat%20In%20Congress&channel=space

Link fail, you fucking wannabe dufus.

Yeah, youtube wouldn't stop bitching about me using an older version of firefox (to escape the craptastic "awesome bar") on every. single. fucking. page. I finally had to resort to changing the general.useragent.extra.firefox to 3.6.

There are better options.

You seem to know what you are talking about. Can you point to a demonstration that shows CO2 increases temperature? Simple experiment will do.

I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. CO2 doesn't warm as such, it is more like a blanket that traps heat, keeping the earth from loosing heat. The heat itself comes from the sun (mostly) and a bit from radioactive decay in the earth itself. I suppose there is a tiny contribution from cosmic rays.

As for an experiment, try this (alternative link: here. Sorry for the snarky links :o)

Solaris and OpenSolaris have a well defined device driver interface, sample and real driver source code, and a stable ABI, so third-party ethernet and WiFi drivers are available for the common network devices that Sun themselves don't yet support:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=solaris+ethernet+drivers

Put the downloaded drivers on a flash drive or your hard disk.

Let me Google that for you

I think I can explain

I don't think anyone *denies* that climate is changing.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22climate+change+is+a+lie%22

is is NOT caused primarily by man.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+climate+change+caused+by+man

in the past the earth was also hotter and contained more carbon dioxide. Who caused that

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=did+earth+have+higher+co2+levels+and+what+cause

And so on...

Turns out you have to actually search for it as it evidence doesn't just appear in your hand. But I assure you its not really that hard. This took me a minute.

I don't think anyone *denies* that climate is changing.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22climate+change+is+a+lie%22

is is NOT caused primarily by man.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+climate+change+caused+by+man

in the past the earth was also hotter and contained more carbon dioxide. Who caused that

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=did+earth+have+higher+co2+levels+and+what+cause

And so on...

Turns out you have to actually search for it as it evidence doesn't just appear in your hand. But I assure you its not really that hard. This took me a minute.

I don't think anyone *denies* that climate is changing.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22climate+change+is+a+lie%22

is is NOT caused primarily by man.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+climate+change+caused+by+man

in the past the earth was also hotter and contained more carbon dioxide. Who caused that

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=did+earth+have+higher+co2+levels+and+what+cause

And so on...

Turns out you have to actually search for it as it evidence doesn't just appear in your hand. But I assure you its not really that hard. This took me a minute.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=temperatures+spike+before+co2+levels

Yes, if all they use is internet, IM, email, then the Windows 7 transition may no be as hard as you think.

You can make most Linux distributions look and feel like Windows XP, but the differences between XP and 7 will still be there with XP and skinned-Linux.

For example, the differences in the Control Panel, Volume Controls, New Dialogs will all be there.

Give one advanced relative Ubuntu and see how they like it. If your use-case proves successful, upgrade the rest one-by one. Just because you are the "technical" resource in the family doesn't mean the other relatives don't talk. Let them decide what they like. Ubuntu spreads word for itself with many non-"Power Users". If you really want to use this opportunity, just plant the seed.

-Tres

Oh cry me a river. I'll help you out. It's not like the very first link gives you a viable solution now is it?

you can "what if" lots of features. As near as I can tell from the quick searching I did, it's not like it's on by default. I didn't think it would be, but I haven't fooled with Win7 wireless much.

Domain Administrators can do this.

Is there an article on Network World that condemns Linux for having this ability? Well I did find this when I searched for Linux and HostAP. Don't see anything in the article mentioned that it too, could be a security risk if used incorrectly. It's not called Beware the rogue Wi-Fi access point in Linux Kernel 2.6.26 and up.

Why should I tell you when you said it yourself?

I'll paypal you $5 if you can show me where I said that.

Please feel free to show where the Bible gives a calculation suggesting Pi equaling 3. Specifics please.

It's really not that hard to find.

Again, I admit that there are arguments for how this can work, but they rely on a number of unfounded (though reasonable) assumptions, and some straight-up guesses. I in no way intend to use this as evidence that the Bible is wrong, only that the amount of mental backflips you have to go through to make even something like this work is astonishing.

Simplistic quotations as the "circle" of the earth, or the earth "hanging upon nothing" fit well for the people at the time, who likely barely grasped what they were recording.

Two large problems with this.

First: If they barely grasped what they were recording, why not give them something more accurate? Indeed, the Muslims got something much more accurate -- that the Earth was not only round, but "egg-shaped", implying it's less than a perfect sphere. I am not defending the Muslim position, either, but it's a hell of a lot better than just "a circle", and I bet those primitive shepherds could've understood it just fine.

Second: It's also entirely consistent with people just making shit up, some of which happens to look very vaguely like what we understand to be truth today, and some of which just sounds stupid unless you assume it's a metaphor. In fact, we understand most of the Bible to be stupid shit people just made up, or at best metaphor -- the sea doesn't really have doors, does it? Does the sky have windows?

Vague and true is better then overly detailed falsity.

Probably, but you have yet to show that it's true, and I wonder what falsity you're comparing it to.

And I'm not convinced of that. "Vague and true" is well and good, unless by "vague" you mean "so vague that it can be interpreted in a billion ways, ten of which have any quality of truth to them." If you know which interpretation has any correlation with truth whatsoever, you probably know that because of other true things you already know, and thus, you don't need the vagueness anymore.

For example: You know as well as I do that the Earth is round. What is the point, then, of having a book which is vaguely true in that it talks about the Earth as a circle, when you already know it's round? If you didn't know it's round, hearing that it was a circle would probably lead you farther away from the truth -- you'd think God told you it was a disc, instead of, like Eratosthenes, going and finding out for yourself.

If science has figured out how the universe was created, lets see the test results. Blow something up, see if it causes a universe that ends up with the perfect balance for life.

Sure, we can do that, just as soon as you find a sufficiently powerful source of energy. Oh, and do you have 14 billion years to wait?

Look up cosmic background radiation. "Testable" doesn't require that we be able to reproduce all of the effects in a controlled environment -- was Einstein required to accelerate people to near-light-speed? No, we can test things very accurately merely by making predictions and then confirming them -- Einstein predicted the path of Mercury, to a high degree of accuracy. Similarly, the Big Bang Theory predicted the existence of cosmic background radiation -- before we found it.

And for art appreciation showing up in Math class, if done correctly, it probably would be a benefit.

Nope, "done correctly" would be adding an art appreciation course to a Math major.

Might have helped me to focus better through the middle school years.

Would it really?

But that's beside the point

http://lmgtfy.com/?q="a href"

Is it too much to ask that people type some words into a box at the top of the browser, and then actually contribute to the discussion? FFS, it's the first result:

Today we are happy to release the specification for the Scope protocol. This is the protocol used for communication between the Opera browser and Opera Dragonfly.

Let me Google that for you

Hulu content is protected?

For example, from your quote alone: "excessive" caloric intake? What is that? What's excessive, anything over 2,000 calories? What about athletes? What about persons with a higher than average metabolism?

2000 calories is a rough guideline that we all know must be adjusted for your specific situation. A simple Google search turns up several calorie intake calculators that produce a better estimate, but even those aren't completely accurate.

There is no precise number of calories that everyone must take in, but that doesn't mean there's no such thing as excessive calorie intake. "Excessive" simply means more calories than you need to maintain your current weight, and you can determine what's excessive for you (given your current size and activity level) by keeping track of what you eat and charting your weight: if you're eating too much, your weight will trend upward.

Fat is assumed to be bad and wrong because it is allegedly unhealthy. And yet, do we really know if it - being fat - is unhealthy? No, we don't. We know that many fat people tend to have heart problems, or diabetes. But are those conditions related to their weight, or are they related to the underlying behaviours or traits which caused their larger-than-average weight? No, we don't.

Actually, we have a pretty good idea. Here's one study which found independent associations between obesity and diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol: independent as in it's predicted by obesity itself, not by the other factors that predict obesity (age, economic status, etc.).

These issues began to occur to me when I was 17 years old and playing at a World Cup athletic event. I was 5'8", fit as a horse, with a six pack, and about 180 pounds. I had my BMI done and, if I recall correctly, I was rated "scientifically" as morbidly obese. What a joke. It reminded me that the BMI, the 2,000 calorie diet and all the assumptions these things and their kin are based on are all bunk. They are tautological in the sense that they can only be used on the very populations for which they were defined to be used: "normal" people. And when you think about it, what use at all is that?

Yes, BMI is well-known to be inaccurate for bodybuilders and athletes, because muscle is denser than fat, and if whoever tested your BMI didn't tell you that, they weren't doing their job.

But BMI is still quite useful, because most people aren't bodybuilders or athletes. Most people whose BMI is rated as "overweight" really are overweight.

I'm a geek and I didn't (and still don't) know who Kevin Smith is.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=who+is+kevin+smith

"Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, is prohibited,"

And the best part is this is not true.

They can STATE whatever they want and it doesn't alter the law. Too bad many people don't know that.

FTFA:

The accused blogger must file a counter-claim or, after an unquantified number of complaints -- valid or otherwise -- the law forces Google (or any other blogging platform) to terminate the accounts of "repeat offenders," even if their only mistake was not to file paperwork against the accusations of an anonymous robot -- sad and wrong, but mandated by current law.

"Unfortunately, I never filed the counter-claims," Pop Tarts Suck Toasted's Patrick Duffy told Wired.com. "For starters, you're right, it does seem like a lot of extra work, but mostly I just thought taking down the infringing MP3s would be enough to satisfy the complaint.

—(emphasis mine)

Not knowing the law - understandable
Not doing any research whatsoever (or at least consulting a lawyer!) when sent a takedown notice - F A I L

Let me Google that for you.

As to Schmidt, I believe you're paraphrasing and putting a ludicrously positive spin on:
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it's important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

Let's recap the most important points he's made there:

1. Don't do something if you don't want others knowing about it. This is the most anti-privacy argument one can possibly make.

2. Google keeps data for an unnecessarily long time, and if that causes you to get into trouble, well... it's the PATRIOT Act's fault, somehow.

Basic research to answer your remaining questions can be done with, you know, well... LGMTFY heheh.

(FWIW, the most hilarious article is Google's astroturfer, Matt "this is my personal opinion, the fact that I work for Google is irrelevant" Cutts, writing a fictional conversation to somehow disprove Google's association with the CIA. But it proves nothing either way.)

Yeah, because slipstreaming is so darned hard to do that it's easier to buy a pirated version.

Jeebus, kids these days. Ugh.