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UK Student dies in home invasion from gun shot to the head (Yes, I'm assuming you are from the UK)

Now, if you want an example of a firearm being used to DEFEND, well, that would be harder as the UK has disarmed it's victims. One would also be less likely to report such an action as it could be an arrest-able offense (Like force laws being what they are in the UK.)

Oh, bear in mind that if we are in a situation where the honest person could have a gun, then the criminal almost certainally has one.

You are in that situation now.

One must assume that the criminal will have the means to commit the crime. Once you assume otherwise (underestimate you opponent) you are dead. If a thug walks down the street with a had in his pocket, I assume that he has something there that will cause injure (be it a knife or a gun, or whatever) so I make sure to keep track of that.
Oh, and 15 years ago had you been allowed to defend yourself either with a gun or with non-leathal means (Pepper spray) the thugs would probably have run off and there would have been no attacking at all, no deaths, no injuries, no nothing. You would have gone about you business and reported the crime. In the US, pat on the back, in the UK, arrested and tried for brandishing as the thugs didn't have any weapons and you did.

UK Home invasion article

I personally love the UK, but I have always (and will always) question the stripping of the peoples rights to defend themselves. Time and time again, I read articles about UK citizens being arrested for using whatever means it took to defend themselves while the criminal gets to sue them for loss of wages.

And it's not just guns, I'm talking about the basic right to defend oneself. Be in Martial arts, a bat, whatever. The courts may just say "He was trained in martial arts, the criminals weren't, therefore since he was more of a danger to them, we'll throw him in jail."

You question the need for guns. I understand, they are dangerous. But time and time again, they are used for defense (properly) and just the fact that criminals will ALWAYS have them (regardless of the law) shows the overwhelming need to let the citizens own them if they wish.

There are 80,000,000 gun owners in the US yet only 1500 accidental gun deaths per year (FBI stats)

There were 3,306 accidental drownings in 2001 (CDC stats) in the US. I doubt there are 80,000,000 people who own pools, but never the less, I guess we should ban pools as well.

Smarts are supposed to go on sale, direct from Daimler Chrysler here in the US: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13593486/ Too bad by then I'll be a fossil. Chrikety.

There are a number of CEO's that take a $1 paycheck. The CEO of Yahoo for example http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6079650.html

This is not that they are such great CEO's necessarily, but it is also because they are making plenty of money without a large salary. http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P143257.asp

When it was published by a different writer on Newsweek:

Newsweek: Netflix Guilt

Found this at
http://msftee.spaces.msn.com/blog/cns!9886B42853C0 71E0!461.entry?

In our view, the issue here is not about a lack of compliance, it's about a lack of clarity about what the Commission's expectations were for "complete and accurate technical specifications." We began work on the technical documentation immediately upon receiving the Commission decision, and delivered more than 10,000 pages of documentation in December 2004. We did not receive substantive feedback until last September, nine months later. When it became clear that the Commission had different expectations over how the technical documents should be written, we repeatedly pressed for greater clarity. Then we delivered revisions promptly, offered unlimited technical assistance, and even made our source code available to competitors in an effort to resolve the impasse. In short, I truly believe the company responded quickly and in good faith to a government order that was unclear and undefined - and that we have complied with our obligations.

Despite all this effort, we've had a very hard time trying to get a clear statement from the Commission on how they want the technical documents to be written. This spring, we finally made a breakthrough after a group of engineers from Microsoft met with Professor Neil Barrett, the trustee appointed last fall by the Commission. A great deal of progress was made during these face-to-face meetings and an aggressive work plan was put in place to deliver revised documentation through a series of seven milestones, beginning in April and ending on July 18.

To meet the demands of the schedule, a team of more than 300 employees was assembled, including some of the company's most senior engineers. Many of those involved played a central role in writing the protocols covered by the documentation. This team has worked around the clock to successfully meet each of the six previous milestones. Their tireless and persistent efforts and the high quality of their work is a testament to the great things people can accomplish when they pull together in a time of need.
During the last few months, we've been encouraged by positive feedback we've received from EU's trustee. We had hoped that this effort would demonstrate to the Commission that we would be fully in compliance by their July deadline. The fact that the Commission decided to fine us despite our massive compliance efforts is disappointing. And it's hard to understand why the Commission is imposing this large fine when the process is finally working well and the agreed-upon finish line is still nearly two weeks away.

So what's next? First, we will push ahead to finish the technical documentation work later this month to meet the deadline established by the Commission. We are 100 percent committed to compliance, and we will not allow this fine to distract us from meeting our responsibilities.

Second, we will appeal this fine. We have great respect for the Commission, but we do not believe any fine - let alone a fine of this magnitude - is warranted given the lack of clarity in the Commission's original decision and our diligent, good-faith efforts to comply over the past two years.

Third, we will maintain our commitment to Europe. We will not allow this fine to affect our important relationship with the European Commission. We will continue to partner with the Commission on important issues like education, innovation, and economic development in Europe.

Finally, we will continue to move forward with our plans for breakthrough products and services. A lot of people are wondering what this fine means for Windows Vista and other future products. The answer is that we have worked hard to ensure that Windows Vista is consistent with the requirements of European law. We began sharing early versions of Windows Vista code with the Commission more than a year ago, and we are working to ensure that any questions they have about

Maybe you forget the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa or status as a central hub of finance, culture, and politics that places like New York have for terrorism or nuclear warfare?

Reversing weight gain is like reversing gray hair. You will lose, and you will make yourself miserable in the process. Unless you happen to be one of the lucky 5% of the people who have a genetic predisposition that allows you to keep it off relatively easily.

I was slipstreaming post XP SP2 to the Windows SP2 installation.

There are plenty of references about slipstreaming.

Too bad the people doing the most agressive hating don't really care if you are Canadian or European...

Profiling potential victims by nationality is as silly as profiling the perpetrators. Your illusons do not hold up well in the real world.

If they want to get rid of search engine spam, they should start with MSN Spaces. Try this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=viagra%20site %3Aspaces.msn.com or this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=cheap+hotels+ site%3Aspaces.msn.com or this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=porn+site%3As paces.msn.com

If they want to get rid of search engine spam, they should start with MSN Spaces. Try this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=viagra%20site %3Aspaces.msn.com or this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=cheap+hotels+ site%3Aspaces.msn.com or this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=porn+site%3As paces.msn.com

If they want to get rid of search engine spam, they should start with MSN Spaces. Try this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=viagra%20site %3Aspaces.msn.com or this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=cheap+hotels+ site%3Aspaces.msn.com or this: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=porn+site%3As paces.msn.com

Or they might sue, which I think is the real incentive.

> Can I use Yahoo or MSN messengers through a webpage?

http://webmessenger.msn.com/. Or Google [Yahoo Web Messenger].

Can I use Yahoo or MSN messengers through a webpage?

Yes:
http://webmessenger.msn.com/

Don't forget Bin Laden was a CIA asset, yes even according to the MSM MSNBC

"As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan after Moscow's invasion in 1979. By 1984, he was running a front organization known as Maktab al-Khidamar - the MAK - which funneled money, arms and fighters from the outside world into the Afghan war.

What the CIA bio conveniently fails to specify (in its unclassified form, at least) is that the MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, the CIA's primary conduit for conducting the covert war against Moscow's occupation.

By no means was Osama bin Laden the leader of Afghanistan's mujahedeen. His money gave him undue prominence in the Afghan struggle, but the vast majority of those who fought and died for Afghanistan's freedom - like the Taliban regime that now holds sway over most of that tortured nation - were Afghan nationals.

Yet the CIA, concerned about the factionalism of Afghanistan made famous by Rudyard Kipling, found that Arab zealots who flocked to aid the Afghans were easier to "read" than the rivalry-ridden natives. While the Arab volunteers might well prove troublesome later, the agency reasoned, they at least were one-dimensionally anti-Soviet for now. So bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle East, became the "reliable" partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3340101/

The analogy to Goldstein as the fallen inner party member in 1984 though not exact is close enough to give one pause as to the uses of propaganda by the Bush regime.

"The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.

As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured -- in some hiding-place in Oceania itself."

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/1/

This is not a prank/crank post....

I am not a physisict but I had a few college level physics classes...

I always wondered why nukes were so devastating, now I think I know why....

Consider a subcritical lump of 'fissile material', it has all 4 forces present in it:
(below bit 'adapted from the 'info box' at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13816702/)

Strong: Glues together the parts of a nucleus. (must be a LOT of energy stored this way!)
Electromagnetic: Holds electrons around atoms; explains light. (and the EM pulse of a nuclear explosion from infrared through the visible spectrum up to X-rays [and beyond])
Weak: Responsible for certain radioactive decays. (mesurable with a Geiger counter)
Gravity: Keeps planets, stars, glaxies from flying apart. (said lump has mass and has a definite 'weight')

Ok, is this sequence of events right? Any physisict here feel free to correct me...anonymously if you need to.... ;)

Compressing said lump to a critical mass would change the EM force present which would affect the strong force and release all the energy stored there with eminently observable results

Is this sequence of events right or wrong? I am curious from a theoretical point of view...

Thank you for your consideration.

I second the dschmelzer's recommendation of RLV and Space Transport News. A more easy-to-remember URL for them is http://rlvnews.com/. For other good sites to monitor for private spaceflight news, there's a number of links in the right column of the RLV News page. I personally prefer Alan Boyle's Cosmic Log and Transterrestrial Musings.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond....

Outsourced the shuttle to a private company
Nasa is looking to outsource even more!
The article title made me laugh in light of your comment.

Like almost every other branch of the government, NASA does outsource. They contract out the building of almost any sort of vehicle out to private companies who are all competing for it.

Now if you think I'm just picking apart your statement for fun, you're only half right, look at this:

In light of this article, scary.

That caused one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions the world has ever seen and significant damage to the Soviet economy?

THE ARGUMENT over whether the national press is dominated by liberals is over. Since 1962, there have been 11 surveys of the media that sought the political views of hundreds of journalists. In 1971, they were 53 percent liberal, 17 percent conservative. In a 1976 survey of the Washington press corps, it was 59 percent liberal, 18 percent conservative. A 1985 poll of 3,200 reporters found them to be self-identified as 55 percent liberal, 17 percent conservative. In 1996, another survey of Washington journalists pegged the breakdown as 61 percent liberal, 9 percent conservative. Now, the new study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found the national media to be 34 percent liberal and 7 percent conservative.

Over 40-plus years, the only thing that's changed in the media's politics is that many national journalists have now cleverly decided to call themselves moderates. But their actual views haven't changed, the Pew survey showed. Their political beliefs are close to those of self-identified liberals and nowhere near those of conservatives. And the proportion of liberals to conservatives in the press, either 3-to-1 or 4-to-1, has stayed the same. That liberals are dominant is now beyond dispute.

Study showed G-rated movies most profitable. Why aren't they the most made? It makes no sense if one assumes a normal capitalist market.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8123387/
Perhaps because the producers have the delusion that they are "artists". A few are. Most are just hacks who like to feel superior to those who disagree with them.

Babes of physics! Time to switch majors from EE ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7374458/page/3/

even the link is the same

Yes, here's some physical proof to save you all some time, but note the slight difference (you will see it because its the only bold text).

BusinessWeek: ( JULY 17, 2006)
Consumers have strong opinions about Direct Revenue's software. "If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," a person who identified himself as James Chang said in an e-mail to Direct Revenue last summer. "I will f------ kill you and your families." Such sentiments aren't unusual. "You people are EVIL personified," Kevin Horton wrote around the same time. "I would like the four hours of my life back I have wasted trying to get your stupid uninvited software off my now crippled system."

MSNBC: ( Updated: 5:51 p.m. CT July 7, 2006 )
Consumers have strong opinions about Direct Revenue's software. "If I ever meet anyone from your company, I will kill you," a person who identified himself as James Chang said in an e-mail to Direct Revenue last summer. "I will f------ kill you and your families." Such sentiments aren't unusual. "You people are EVIL personified," Kevin Horton wrote around the same time. "I would like the four hours of my life back I have wasted trying to get your stupid uninvited software off my now crippled system."

The text is exactly the same, only the date is different. Seems like this cover story that was either launched too early or it was an unintentional error. No big news here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13759007/from/RS.2/

When Islam comes to your town you'll be singing a different tune.

Islam alredy has their claws in Europe. Who's next, suckers?

Looking at skin color cannot tell me anything about a person's culture. In fact, looking at skin color cannot tell me anything about that person except the level of melatonin in their skin, which really isn't useful at all. My skin has very little melatonin. What's my culture? Russian? German? French? American? Spanish? Canadian? African? Mid-Eastern? You could make a better guess based on my IP address than skin color.

And last time I checked, there was only one race, Human.

Skin color is not not a useful attribute or statistic. Perpetuating the myth that skin color matters only breeds more racism. Its counter-productive to say that skin color doesn't matter but then use it to categorize people. I loved it when Morgan Freeman came out against "Black History Month" here in the US. He's absolutely right when he says the only way to get rid of racism is to "stop talking about it." "I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man," Freeman says.

You want to differentiate based on culture? Go ahead. But don't assume that culture and skin color are the same thing.

Actually, Kmart own Sears

There's no guarantee that Microsoft will be able to negotiate the same rates with the recording labels that Apple has.

Because burning iTMS songs to CD and converting those back to mp3 is a pain in the ass and you lose sound quality in the process.

Redownloading the songs from Microsoft's store is more convenient.
Also, iTMS songs are 128k AACs while Micrsoft's are 160kbps WMAs (that's what they are at the MSN Music Store, so by redownloading the songs from Microsoft for free, you actually get an increase in quality.

Actually, this is precisely what Steve Jobs predicted in January in an interview with Newsweek.

"The problem is, the PC model doesn't work in the consumer electronics industry, where you've got all these companies and some does one thing and another does another thing. It just doesn't work. What's going to happen is that Microsoft is going to have to get into the hardware business of making MP3 players. This year. X-player, or whatever."

The link is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10853916/site/newsweek /

I'd be willing to bet the farm that the phone records (and bank records) collected by the NSA have been used primarily to build DEA cases... The article I read http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12753284/ said they were "talking" about giving access to the records to the FBI, DEA, and CIA - translation : those agencies already have access.

When all the information was obtained illegal anyways, it simplifies what can be "leaked" - none of it. Oops.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13679095/

Read that bullshit, motherfuckers! There's something serious going down here.
 
Oh, for you faggot mods who are going to mod this as offtopic or flamebait; go fuck yourselves. If you mod this as flame bait that means you don't know what the tag is about and anyone metamodderating this should mark it as unfair.
 
Cheers
 
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Even better.

http://search.msn.com/

they are a freakin' search company, and MS is not a search company.

...*cough*

Funnily, if you read the EULA, it informs you that WMP and IE are not free, but are licensed to users of the commercial Windows product...

What is KinderStart anyway? I searched for it, and it seems that there are plenty of results completely unrelated to the plaintiff.

I'm taking it upon myself to get some solar panels, an inverter, and a nice bank of batteries. Even if they ever stabilize the grid, I'll still save a few bucks on my power bill.

Just a note for anyone else who's thinking of doing this — you can get a nice tax deduction of up to $4000 for installing solar panels in your house. I'm thinking about doing it myself once I scrape together enough cash. They're expensive, but it's a nice DIY project. You don't even have to make a huge setup to run your house off of. Without bothering with the inverter and a huge array of panels, you can run some 12V garden lights off a panel or two, a 12V battery, and a timer. Linked article also suggests that you can claim a tax credit just for making your house energy efficient, which is pretty cool! Who said the Bush tax cut is only for the rich.

Low beta can imply significant crossrange, but the real advantage of it is that you have more time to radiate off your heat.

This is of no real value in terms of weight or reusability.

Yes, but they also do lovely things like crash through frozen lakes and nearly roll off cliffs (see Soyuz). Steerable chutes are definitely an improvement, but they're not a catchall. And, unlike wings, all the mass of a chute is wasted; they don't give you more surface area, more storage space, etc.

Not very likely given that the CEV landing site is a dry lake. It is pretty well established that chutes are more weight efficient than wings. That is not an argument you are likely to win. Ofcourse the well designed Kliper will use both. Furthermore, the Kliper design is not very flexible. It cannot be used for a lunar mission, it lacks significant propulsion, interior volume, adaptability to a translunar stage etc.

There's a reason why Japan, NASA, ESA, and Russia are all pushing toward reusables with their next generation vehicles.

Japan and Europe are not yet space faring nations. Neither is even developing a manned capability. Russia has no reusable program beyond Kliper. The CEV is reusable 20 times, like Kliper. What are you talking about? There is no fully reusable system in any real stage of planning by anyone.

So? It's not to be side mounted, so what's the problem?

During the last shuttle launch the ET impacted with a turkey vulture. Had the strike occured at a higher speed and altitude the vehicle could have been brought down. Exposure of the heat shield to the ascent environment is a high risk over many flights. Again, this is well established. The CEV designers happily relearned this lesson from Apollo in robust design.

Seriously, though: present day, who has the better rockets? Russia's been moving at a snail's pace, but at least they've been moving. Who would have guessed, at the time of the N1 disaster, that the Russian space program would have cheap, reliable rockets compared to the US *after* their economy tanked and the country broke up?

Seriously, the recent Russian track record is abyssmal. Unlike LockMart or Boeing who have a huge string of successes going. Ask the satellite insurers. When a failure does occur they resort to KGB mode and keep the investigation shrouded in secrecy. How many Block DM stages will fail before they get it right.. It is only a matter of time before it creeps into their manned systems. Their manned program is going nowhere beyond supplying the few people who are marooned on the ISS some emergency rations.

Hotmail uses Sender_id verification on all emails. If you do not have an SPF record properly set up your email will go into the Junk box. Hotmail does not have its own whitelist but uses a third party whitelist such as bonded sender.

You can also sign up for a service that gives you information if your email was marked as SPAM due to content at:

http://postmaster.msn.com/SNDS/

Hotmail's postmaster site is.
http://advertising.msn.com/adproducts/Email_BulkDu pe.asp

Hotmail uses Sender_id verification on all emails. If you do not have an SPF record properly set up your email will go into the Junk box. Hotmail does not have its own whitelist but uses a third party whitelist such as bonded sender.

You can also sign up for a service that gives you information if your email was marked as SPAM due to content at:

http://postmaster.msn.com/SNDS/

Hotmail's postmaster site is.
http://advertising.msn.com/adproducts/Email_BulkDu pe.asp

Not true that only Bill Gates wanted it. Ray Ozzie did, too, and he's taking over as Chief Software Architect.

See Ray's blog from November 2003 -- before Microsoft bought Groove: http://spaces.msn.com/editorial/rayozzie/old/blog/ stories/2003/11/14/640kbOughtToBeEnoughForAnyone.h tml

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13509704/ Go read it motherfuckers.

I work for an ESP, and frankly, I spend all day making sure people don't get things they don't want...

Domain Keys are also an excellent addition to having SPF. Different people trust different technologies, so using both is always a good idea.

To increase your chances of mail delivery to Hotmail, have a look at this: http://postmaster.msn.com/Services.aspx#JMRPP

You'll figure out why your messages are being junked. Most of the biggies have some sort of feedback loop/whitelisting procedure. If you business depends on these people recieving your mail, you're doing stakeholders a terrible disservice in not using them.

Welcome to my world. I work on email deliverability for a financial services company, so no, I'm not a spammer. Hotmail makes two tools available to you to help you get your email delivered:

MSN Smart Network Data Services: http://postmaster.msn.com/snds/
This will let you put in your SMTP's IP address and it will give you consolidated stats on how much mail was received, and how much was filtered as spam.

Sender Score Certified: http://www.senderscorecertified.com/
This company will "certify" you as a safe sender, and Hotmail will let your emails in unfiltered. The catch is you have to pay for this.

Good luck. It isn't easy, but at least there are some tools at your use.

Interesting. Maybe I should give ask a try then.

Google makes it seem they have better results by plain lying about the result count.

For example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=wifstream+site:msdn .microsoft.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&filter=0

Only MSN returns the correct count:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=wifstream+sit e%3Amsdn.microsoft.com&FORM=QBHP

Yahoo has a poor duplication elimation algorithm thereby exagerating their results.

Yeah really. It's just like the MSM, like that Dateline special where they entrap people to come visit underage girls. Not only is the show appealing to our worst instincts with a thin veneer of outrage, but entrapment is facilitating these crimes and even creating them out of thin air. The MSM often egages in the very crimes it wants to smear people for, for the purpose of creating fear. Where is the outrage over that?

But having some movement/sensation is good

Having some asshat steal a computer full of data doesn't really happen that often to people who keep their computers locked in an office at their employer's campus.

Except when the people stealing the computers know exactly what they want and are usually rewarded by machines that are not as well protected/encrypted as some mobile machines are.

http://www.saic.com/cover-archive/announce/012805. html SAIC Defense Industry Big Wigs Data stolen

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13327187/ AIG customer and prospective customer data stolen "machine was password protected"

"Vole" insider here...

I've used Google for ages now (6 or 7 years?). In my pre-"Vole" days I worked at a web startup and was constantly recommending Google to our customers - as well as working hard to make sure we showed up on Google.

But recently I've found Google to be doing a worse job when I'm searching for things I care about at work. It used to be the exact opposite. MSN used to never return anything close to what I wanted. Instead it gave me a bunch of jibber-jabber that I didn't care about. Today Google is the one full of jibber-jabber, and MSN is right on.

I'll give you an example. Now, if you're not an MS employee YMMV (FileSystemWatcher).

Google
MSN

Google: MSDN shows up #6
MSN: It's #1

Another example - if you're more into win32 vs .NET (CreateProcess):

Google
MSN

Google: The MSDN documentation isn't even on the first page
MSN: It's #1

Ok, maybe it's just MS documenation where MSN is excelling... Let's try something else (fwrite):

Google
MSN

Ok, #1 is PHP for both, not what I expected, but hey, they're equal.

Google #2 is also PHO. #3 is opengroup, discussing C. So is #4. #5 is cplusplus.com, discussing C. #6, some .ru, discussing C. #7 cppreference.com, C. #8 more PHP. #9 MATLAB. and #10, more CPP.

MSN gets PHP (as mentioned) for #1, C++ (cplusplus.com) as #2, and MATLAB as #3. From there on out it's a mixed bag of C and PHP, but most likely what you wanted was in the top 3.

It's a strange shift, but it seems like Google is starting to lose its edge.