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I got that too.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?oe=utf-8&client=mozilla&hl=en&q=cache:3Ltr4XFiuzEJ:http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html+http%3A//www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html&ct=clnk OR http://preview.tinyurl.com/7u9z3j4 for Google's cached copy.

Weird that the non-cached copy worked fine and home page's link to the first page is broken too.

Print pages worked too:
http://www.datamation.com/print/http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html
http://www.datamation.com/print/http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-2.html
http://www.datamation.com/print/http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-3.html

"Watch as this comment goes to -1, while any comments that say it is slashdot-worthy get modded up."

It is Slashdot-worthy! Farkdot is no longer News For Nerds, it's Google News with a different interface.

Fuck it, have some Kardashians while we are at it:

http://tinyurl.com/chcppt2

I was doing some research into TheRaven64 and there's quite a good FAQ on the subject here: http://tinyurl.com/6nq9up3

You're welcome.

Seriously, I just returned six days ago from a week in Lima, where I visited partners who buy used computers (for repair, refurbishing, recycling business). At one of the shops (which had 22 repair employees) they showed me one of the One Laptop Per Child laptops they'd gotten their hands on. They were absolutely ridiculing it compared to the price of used Pentium III laptops they buy in bulk from off-lease. I just wrote about the trip a few days ago. http://preview.tinyurl.com/peruewaste

The refurbishing business itself is falling off in Lima, however. (No joke, I saw used CHINESE CRT televisions - the Chinese cities are upgrading and selling their own used goods to South America and Africa). But the cheap white box models from China show the most growth in the market.

In short it's a mature market and the whole charity command-and-control, of "e-waste" and white box laptop sales, is rife with at best piss poor market research, and at worst just making things up out of thin air. Read Harvard Business Review Article, http://tinyurl.com/chinagoodnuff The Battle for China's Good Enough Market (2007, written by Bain & Co consultants), to see how the changing consumer demand is being mis-marketed to. Lima had 9M residents, I had no problem finding wifi, and the geeks of color in the used electronics markets all had smartphones.

Seriously, I just returned six days ago from a week in Lima, where I visited partners who buy used computers (for repair, refurbishing, recycling business). At one of the shops (which had 22 repair employees) they showed me one of the One Laptop Per Child laptops they'd gotten their hands on. They were absolutely ridiculing it compared to the price of used Pentium III laptops they buy in bulk from off-lease. I just wrote about the trip a few days ago. http://preview.tinyurl.com/peruewaste

The refurbishing business itself is falling off in Lima, however. (No joke, I saw used CHINESE CRT televisions - the Chinese cities are upgrading and selling their own used goods to South America and Africa). But the cheap white box models from China show the most growth in the market.

In short it's a mature market and the whole charity command-and-control, of "e-waste" and white box laptop sales, is rife with at best piss poor market research, and at worst just making things up out of thin air. Read Harvard Business Review Article, http://tinyurl.com/chinagoodnuff The Battle for China's Good Enough Market (2007, written by Bain & Co consultants), to see how the changing consumer demand is being mis-marketed to. Lima had 9M residents, I had no problem finding wifi, and the geeks of color in the used electronics markets all had smartphones.

As journalist Adam Minter (Bloomberg, Shanghai) wrote, the reach of the Chinese Internet censors, while generally exaggerated in the Western Press, can reach pretty deeply when so motivated. The main focus of Chinese internet censorship recently went to COMMENTS to microblogs. In this week's article, "Chinese Internet Censors Decide Comments are Dangerous" http://tinyurl.com/82fpyv8 he describes how the rumors of a Beijing Coup last month were dealt with by erasing comment fields... Like these in Slashdot. (initially China cut off all "comments" functions, then allowed them back but began censoring them).

That could have a chilling effect on people leaving comments and expressing themselves in Weibo (China's Twitter). Perhaps the graffiti by Anonymous is important in reassuring people whose comments are erased that the censors are not invincible. Then again, there are only 32 comments on this /. post... maybe they ARE invincible?

http://tinyurl.com/cnvzt8h - read the reviews. Some of the products work.

The modern airliner cabin is pressurized to a pressure altitude of 8,000ft.
That means that as you go from airport altitude to your cruising altitude the cabin only increases
in pressure to feel like 8,000ft.

That's below the 10,000ft where the OP claims cotton-mouth, and below the 14,000 where you
can't breath, and well below the 35,000 OP cites as cruising altitude.

See: http://tinyurl.com/brmpv3j

The original article is just pure hogwash.

E

I worked for an anti-spam provider > 90% of emails were spam some customers > 99%. That said though spam emails tend to be short, almost to the point of ridiculous. I don't remember the exact numbers but say the average email that is legitmate is about 50k (because of attachments skewing it, but still even legitimate email tends to be 5+ sentences). Along comes duffious spammer. Not only are they shooting off 10k emails per bot per hour, but they are all one sentence emails with a tinyurl link in them. The lack of size is one of the key indicators left once you remove the obvious keywords and the sending history. Kind of makes me wonder why the bots spamming other content are so chatty.

I guess if you are spamming forums you have to have a "comment" length message to send sometimes to look legitamate. You can't just say "go to http://tinyurl.com/growyourpenis" with out being obvious. But that said why do spammers get away with it in email but not in forums? I mean someone is clicking the links in the emails because it is a large business (likely multi-billion dollar). Hmm ... I'll start running the unsuspicious botnet on the forums posting email like spam and post forum spam length content to email accounts, I'll make millions, er well a few dollars anyways.

The protein that crawls into your mouth while you sleep. Then you can find financing from USA fast food chains. ( http://tinyurl.com/2aj732 ) Otherwise, not very marketable.

it's amazing, that slashdot "readers" don't have anything to say about nukelies.com and probably never will. Sheeple are everywhere ; http://www.nukelies.com/ ; http://soundcloud.com/ewing2001/out-rageous-nukelies-com-nini http://soundcloud.com/ewing2001/megalomanico-the-bartender-who http://1649beginningofhumanz.tumblr.com/ http://tinyurl.com/occupybeyonce

http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

move quick

http://tinyurl.com/ykoyz35

Ah. You might be interested in this:
http://tinyurl.com/7j5uqml

Just in case that's not all hyperbole.

I know my own psuedo-anonymous internet arguments tend to verge on the mockheroic, so if that's the case with you as well, you can just have a nice laugh at my expense or give me the finger. But as a couple of school tragedies in the US reminded me this week, it's always worth asking someone how they're doing.

You ok?

This has no protections whatsoever against government agents using synthetic telepathy to read your mind remotely. So this is just more government PR baloney based on making people believe that we're still using obsolete technology, when in fact they've been doing the "alien" abductions and putting the electrodes in people's brains for years now.

http://tinyurl.com/7bfsaky

http://pastebin.com/DwtX9dMd

- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/Linux~Bckdr-RKC.aspx
- http://tinyurl.com/Linux-Bckdr-RKC

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Protection available since: 22 Dec 2011 08:23:46 (GMT)
Type: Trojan
Affected Operating Systems: Linux
© 1997 - 2012 Sophos Ltd.

http://pastebin.com/DwtX9dMd

The link above contains a detailed look at this mysterious new trojan targeting Linux.

- http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware/Linux~Bckdr-RKC.aspx
- http://tinyurl.com/Linux-Bckdr-RKC

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Protection available since: 22 Dec 2011 08:23:46 (GMT)
Type: Trojan
Affected Operating Systems: Linux
© 1997 - 2012 Sophos Ltd.

There is/was a movement in Europe for this as well.

FTFA:It recommends revising current threshold values of absorption, while encouraging all member states of the European Union (EU) to “take all reasonable measures to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields.” And by reasonable, the proposal is advocating a ban on Wi-Fi and cell usage in schools

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ezzmm5
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wgd2mu

There is/was a movement in Europe for this as well.

FTFA:It recommends revising current threshold values of absorption, while encouraging all member states of the European Union (EU) to “take all reasonable measures to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields.” And by reasonable, the proposal is advocating a ban on Wi-Fi and cell usage in schools

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3ezzmm5
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wgd2mu

Right, black box testing and exploration testing are the most interesting, it can be like a game. Detective work where good analysis and diagnostics skills are required.

When you find a failure, you have to investigate further to pin point the defect, to have something tangible and accurate to report to the developers (so that they have no other choice than to believe you ;-).

You're not the guy who made the code, but as a developer yourself, you know how it works, and you know where developers sometimes neglet to shield their code or what is likely to fail. You don't see what's inside that "box", but you guess. You have a totally different point of view than the coders who made it, so you see things they don't see.

It can even happen that you end up explaining them how what they wrote works, that you gain a better understanding of what their software does in reality! Think networking for example: with modern high level OO languages, networking is completely burried into many software layers. Opening a remote connection at high level is easy-peasy nowadays, but many programmers (especially youngest ones) don't know (or are not interested to know) what's going on down there on the cable. Your tool will be Wireshark and with it you'll see the live connection, you'll see in details how it works or fails, not how the developer expected it would work.

Software testing can be much more than pressing buttons and ticking PASS/FAIL checkboxes. It's a domain where you can have plenty of freedom and can use all your imagination and skills. Some tasks such as preparing test cases or writing reports can be boring but it's not worse that documenting code for a developer. Some coders will see you as a fellow who helps them while some others with a large ego might not like you very much, especially when they cause many defects and see your name too often! But being a good tester is rewarding. If you can share this job with some programming, you'll be a happy guy.

A book I recommend is "Lessons Learned in Software Testing": http://tinyurl.com/86f9q48

where ya been? http://tinyurl.com/6tcer3h

Why do people post worthless "lazy comments" asking for examples when Google already provides them?

Because not everybody knows how to construct a Google query that will return relevant results on the first page. For one thing, words have synonyms, and you don't necessarily know which synonym was used in a given. For another, Google often digs up results of tests of obsolete versions of computer programs, and there is no obvious indication as to whether the test result has improved in a newer version.

Plus, I don't want to have to learn a new interface every time MS upgrades its OS.

Until your Linux distributor replaces familiar GNOME with the mystery-meat navigation that is Unity. But you're right that Linux distributions at least offer the option to, for example, sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop.

> getting carted off to the gulag by the Belgian military

Oh, that's rich, that is. Last thing you lot saw of our military was the then-minister of defence getting drunk off his arse in a bar in NY, and then getting the (belgian) barmaid who blogged about it fired. Google translated article here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/7zl5o2v

The only thing the Belgian military is likely to do is have a pint with you while explaining how a 10 million inhabitant country has no less than six governments.

Apart from that, you're making valid points, of course :-)

In this case a totally false analogy.

Here is a simply business example. I want some art work a bus in front of Big Ben. They come across the original photo and dislike the framing. So now they a denied the ability to take an alternate photo and use it for the next fifty years. http://tinyurl.com/86wy5u2 well crap all london double decker buses are blue ( and look there are a bunch with buses in front of big ben, umm)

Big Ben also ain't no technicolour edifice, I'll ket you guess what colour it is. Of course what colour are the skies over London typically known for, big hint here it ain't for being clear blue.

So red double decker bus, with grey Big Ben and grey skies is a well known association used for many years by many people. So these copyright interpretation is horrific. It pretty much would force the majority of web sites on the internet to shut down until they come up with alternate layouts for their web site.

For the defence lawyer to lose this case, well, they gotta pretty much suck and the defendant should sue. All this can be demonstrated by a goggle image search, ohh look, no different on Bing http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=london+bus&qpvt=london+bus&FORM=IGRE.

Here's what I use:
http://tinyurl.com/make-a-password

Also, have a few yo-yo's to go with all those u's: yo, yo. Yo ho ho. Bottle of rum optional. That was exactly 5, did you count them? Just the number you needed.

And is it any coincidence that a new 3D Replicator has been introduced at CES? http://tinyurl.com/8yoby4j I think not. Code was the conception. Malware is coming manifest in a hardware form. Isn't that how Terminator started?

Bugged planet indeed, I wonder if any of our lovely "free world" companies like Amesys or Siemens are selling the DPI gear, or if China is using a fully homebaked solution.

If you watch the 28c3 Torproject presentation available at http://tinyurl.com/7c893sl then you will learn that western corporations like Intel, Nokia and Cisco are heavily involved in Internet surveillance and censorship around the world.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretense of defending, have enslaved the people.

— James Madison, speech at the Constitutional Convention, June 29, 1787

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear --- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor --- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

— General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964); source: Whan, ed. "A Soldier Speaks: Public Papers and Speeches of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur," (1965); Nation, August 17, 1957.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

— H. L. Mencken

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

— Abraham Lincoln

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

— Edward R. Murrow

The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent."

— Charles Eliot Norton

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

— Helen Keller

PSYOP [Psychological Operations] are essential to the success of PRC [Population & Resources Control]. For maximum effectiveness, a strong psychological operations effort is directed toward the families of the insurgents and their popular support base. The PSYOP aspect of the PRC program tries to make the imposition of control more palatable to the people by relating the necessity of controls to their safety and well-being. PSYOP efforts also try to create a favorable national or local government image and counter the effects of the insurgent propaganda effort.

— US Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces, FM 31.20-3 (2003), WikiLeaks

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

— Dr. Joseph Mengele

It's real, folks. PsyOps is a mature applied behavioral science.

Or, as Pogo might have said, "We have met the enemy and he i

with tinurl, you can ALWAYS change the url so if someone gives you a link of
http://tinyurl.com/6qq9399

instead, change it to
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qq9399
and you'll get this

Preview of TinyURL.com/6qq9399

This TinyURL redirects to:
http://www.youporn.com/search?query=bukkake&a
mp;type=straight
Proceed to this site.

with tinurl, you can ALWAYS change the url so if someone gives you a link of
http://tinyurl.com/6qq9399

instead, change it to
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qq9399
and you'll get this

Preview of TinyURL.com/6qq9399

This TinyURL redirects to:
http://www.youporn.com/search?query=bukkake&a
mp;type=straight
Proceed to this site.

(And, now that everyone's figured out how to turn on TinyUrl previews (hint, here it is))

http://tinyurl.com/7j7qhzz (what is this)
http://tinyurl.com/3mpe88f (move the placeholder)
http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry (click Go to see the pretty)

(compatible with FF, C, O - except for that last one - crashes O hard on Windows, try it yourself)

(And, now that everyone's figured out how to turn on TinyUrl previews (hint, here it is))

http://tinyurl.com/7j7qhzz (what is this)
http://tinyurl.com/3mpe88f (move the placeholder)
http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry (click Go to see the pretty)

(compatible with FF, C, O - except for that last one - crashes O hard on Windows, try it yourself)

(And, now that everyone's figured out how to turn on TinyUrl previews (hint, here it is))

http://tinyurl.com/7j7qhzz (what is this)
http://tinyurl.com/3mpe88f (move the placeholder)
http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry (click Go to see the pretty)

(compatible with FF, C, O - except for that last one - crashes O hard on Windows, try it yourself)

(And, now that everyone's figured out how to turn on TinyUrl previews (hint, here it is))

http://tinyurl.com/7j7qhzz (what is this)
http://tinyurl.com/3mpe88f (move the placeholder)
http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry (click Go to see the pretty)

(compatible with FF, C, O - except for that last one - crashes O hard on Windows, try it yourself)

Temperate methane clathrates are deeper and stabilized by pressure in warmer water. The Arctic clathrates, as mentioned in this article, exist over huge land areas and were stabilized by temperature under permafrost and there is also a lot in the shallow of the arctic, also cold stabilized. Both the water based and tundra based clathrates are being released now. This is very ominous. Nothing we can do will prevent this - not even a total cessation of coal/oil/gas combustion - and we know how likely that is!
Part of the methane from millions of years of vegetative rotting on tundra and shallow seas was trapped in these clathrates. Large areas of tundra are also emitting methane the same way.

dig deeper here http://tinyurl.com/d64n5zb

Bill

It's going to be hard to convince any nation to sacrifice for air quality when China has smog as thick as peas soup over major cities and pretends it is not a problem (link goes to http://observers.france24.com/ article):

http://tinyurl.com/85xkhka

Amazon and feedbooks

http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry

Go ahead, turn previews on. It's not goatse, it's just a javascript/DHTML benchmark.

I've not upgraded yet, (aptitude will sort it out at midnight) but it didn't crash Opera 11.52. It drew a fractal in Javascript. It was about 25% slower than Chromium, and took a similar amount of RAM -- over 500MB. If your PC appears to crash perhaps it doesn't have enough RAM and is swapping?

Firefox had done 25% of it by the time I gave up waiting.

http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry

Go ahead, turn previews on. It's not goatse, it's just a javascript/DHTML benchmark.

http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?num=7yyknry

http://tinyurl.com/7yyknry

Go ahead, turn previews on. It's not goatse, it's just a javascript/DHTML benchmark.

http://tinyurl.com/preview.php?num=7yyknry

Most of the posts are saying the google just shows search snippets. That's not true.

Some of the books just have a snippet view. But there are a lot of books where you can get many pages of the book.

Here is an example
http://tinyurl.com/727xtle

This is from the book "System Dynamics" by Ogata. Several complete & continuous pages can be seen. There are various books where I have seen anything from 20% to 50% of the book being shown on Google books - after every 4-5 pages - couple of pages are not shown & then again 4-5 pages.

The discussion of whether it helps the author or not is irrelevant.

What does SLI give you in CUDA? The newer GeForce cards support direct GPU-to-GPU memory copies, assuming they are on the same PCIe bus (NUMA systems might have multiple PCIe buses).

My research group built this 12-core/8-GPU system last year for about $10k: http://tinyurl.com/7ecqjfj

The system has a theoretical peak ~9.1 TFLOPS, single precision (simultaneously maxing out all CPUs and GPUs). I wish the GPUs had more individual memory (~1.25GB each), but we would have quickly broken our budget had we gone for Tesla-grade cards.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I'm 49 and surviving by trading with "techs of color" overseas. There is a huge aftermarket for older / used / lagging edge technology in "emerging" and "converging" markets outside of the OECD. I can't keep up with the newest display technology. But I can buy and sell what I know about. During the past decade, internet access grew fastest among people in nations earning average of $3500 per capita per year. They aren't buying tablets or twittering about Tahir Square on their IPhones.

The biggest threat to this has been American and EU ignorance of the 6 billion people in non-OECD markets - grouping 6 billion people together under a single "non-OECD" label. They are too frequently depicted as wire burning monkeys in the press. http://tinyurl.com/6thbtf5 If you are willing to do your homework and differentiate between the lowest run / price-cutting technology buyers overseas, and the "fair trade" lagging edge and secondary markets, you can find some great partners. Oh, and by the way, they tend to have a lot of respect for seniors in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The stupid Zedo popups I can't block at a browser level are what's keeping me in FF. And, with the architecture issues in Chrome hindering things like AdBlock (http://tinyurl.com/GoogleChromeBugs), we won't see the same level of plugins.

This benchmark will crash Opera 11.01 (draws the Mandelbrot set).

Windows XP with 2.5 GB of RAM:
Opera silently dies at about 50% through the test, with 1:20 CPU time and 350 MB of RAM.
FF chugs away and finishes it, albeit somewhat slower than Opera... elapsed time 11:56, and eating 900 MB of RAM.

(Yes, it's specifically intended to bring any browser to its knees by overloading its DOM engine. It takes seconds to run the same exact code using a canvas for the output.)

http://tinyurl.com/dea1-with-1t

--
BMO

This guy could have used it: (allegedly) http://tinyurl.com/cd5s57a