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$45B in gross profits this last year alone, and growing...

"In noisy places like bars and clubs you could make yourself heard without having to shout."

Or more likely, used by men in conjunction with Babel Fish to chat-up women who don't speak English.

Incidentally, AP just released this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_bi_ge/us_postal_future

I hadn't even thought of this possibility:
"While suggestions to close local post offices always draw complaints, Potter said the current system could be improved by opening more postal facilities in places like convenience stores and supermarkets. A few Office Depot stores are already doing this, he said."

Searching for "The best operating system" on : bing google yahoo ask

Brace Placement

K&R brace placement (open brace at end of line of code instead of on a new line) must be used because otherwise semicolon insertion will add a semicolon to the end of the line before the open brace and the code in the braces will be ignored.

As I remember this isn't something that comes up often which is why most people don't notice it if they do it the other way but if you run into it I think it can be a pain to discover. TBH, I can't remember if the error is obvious because I've only ever heard it once in the video and never saw it happen since I don't code with the brace on its own line.

Yes it will update, according to:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100301/tc_pcworld/globalplaystation3glitchwhatweknowsofar_1

They could just rename the game "Activision Ate My Balls." That use should be protected as satire and/or political speech.

I own a decent amount of Activision stock (ATVI), which I purchased primarily for the Blizzard part of the business. It has not performed well over the past year. Cheap entertainment is supposed to be recession-proof, but given the price of video games, they don't seem to qualify as cheap entertainment.

I'm not particularly happy about this move by Activision, ethically, or even from a profit perspective. This will be a ding against them as I reevaluate what to do with this stock.

BTW, for some comic relief, check out the advertisement selection for this Yahoo Directory of Ate My Balls.

That's because they are probably lying to you.

The example I'll use is google but it applies to most companies. Whenever they come out with a press release saying that they're now collecting this or that information it is only to serve you targeted ads, yet every ad I've ever seen while logged in to Google is directly related to my search terms or the e-mail I'm currently reading.

Here is an article from 2006 that states that Google is going to listen in to your microphone and webcam to serve ads. Where are these targeted ads?

Now it's 2010 and most people know about the PA school district dialing into kids' laptops to spy on them with webcams.

There is also a less known PBS documentary from last year called Digital Nation which celebrates the fact that school administrators are spying on kids with laptops and webcams.

I'd love to know what these companies are really doing with the data and the sad fact is we probably aren't suspicious enough about it.

Yeah, lots of noise at the daily level, but beyond that the signals emerge.

e.g.

ftse 100
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^FTSE&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

dow jones
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

The markets are powered primarily by inflation (forget CPI figures, they're heavily manipulated to look good, look at credit creation). August 15th 1971, the fundamental nature of money changed, debt became money, debt pays interest. Expansion in credit loaned into existence (by banks) is followed by collapse because of the interest. You should also take a look at interest rates over the period (couldn't find an online chart).

We've been living on bubbles for the last 30 years (there are many smaller credit bubbles in the charts before that), and will continue to do so until the money men lose their influence with the state... It's been 300 years in the UK so far.

Yeah, lots of noise at the daily level, but beyond that the signals emerge.

e.g.

ftse 100
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^FTSE&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

dow jones
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^DJI&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

The markets are powered primarily by inflation (forget CPI figures, they're heavily manipulated to look good, look at credit creation). August 15th 1971, the fundamental nature of money changed, debt became money, debt pays interest. Expansion in credit loaned into existence (by banks) is followed by collapse because of the interest. You should also take a look at interest rates over the period (couldn't find an online chart).

We've been living on bubbles for the last 30 years (there are many smaller credit bubbles in the charts before that), and will continue to do so until the money men lose their influence with the state... It's been 300 years in the UK so far.

title is misleading. FTFA:

"But this is just temporary. The Morrisons decided they don't want to live this way; they plan to sell their Wisconsin house and Sarah and their youngest son, Austin, will move when the school year ends."

So one job ended, he got another job, and he's been driving back and forth until the school yr ends and then they'll move. Yes he's driving 1,000 miles, but it's just until end of school year, and he already has an apartment at the new place. Who has this not happened to ever? Many times people will find work in other states and the job starts before the house sells, so the spouse stays behind and packs while the other works out-of-state and house hunts.

I find no contact information on Google or Yahoo! or even this site that identifies or lets me get in touch with an actual human responsible for anything. They must also be scam sites. Or perhaps there's a failure in the reasoning that "insufficient contact information" is a real compliance issue here. For all of those sites, including Fabulis, I am able to figure out who the owner is and establish credibility without much work.

Ocean acidification is not a threat. Its been exaggerated by global warming alarmists.

The facts are our oceans have been far more acidic in the past, and we still have corals and shellfish. In fact, these are some of the oldest multi-cellular organisms on the planet, and they have survived.

The recent cold-snap in FL has shown that just a few weeks ago a few days of extreme cold (~59deg F) was enough to kill off millions of corals.

Meanwhile, shellfish are doing fine in higher CO2
lets not forget that the oceans have a pH of 8.1 (alkaline). It needs to be at 7.0 to be neutral, and less than that to be acidic.

According to Yahoo! Answers, H.264 is proprietary.

When I went there a second ago, I couldn't even find the index anymore in all the noise they have on their front page. (Does it even exist?)

http://dir.yahoo.com/

Actually, that is their search engine. What the GP was talking about was Yahoo's directory, and can be found at http://dir.yahoo.com/.

The sad part is that is that the directory page is now mostly "The Spark Blog" and advertising links, with the "real" directory occupying a tiny column on the left side.

I can remember a time when that directory was actually one of the few *useful* sites on the web. Now get off my lawn.

What you are looking for is this, the other is simply their web portal. And I know folks make fun of their "bloated" web portal all the time, but being in PC repair I can tell you the web portal was actually a brilliant idea. Why?

Because working on the PCs of the non tech over 30s I find that nearly all of them, down to the last man and woman, have their home page set to the Yahoo web portal. Either they have it set to Yahoo themselves, or through an affiliate like AT&T, but either way they DO have it set to Yahoo's web portal and will actually get pissed off if you dare touch it. In fact many of the older folks call it their "paper" and spend a huge amount of time there, reading the headlines, checking the weather, even checking their horoscopes for fun, before they use the Yahoo Search at the top to venture out onto the web. That is a whole lot of captive eyeballs for Yahoo and now MSFT. So I would say it is pretty damned smart.

And does anybody know if this will affect Yahoo Mail in any way? I have never read anything one way or another but I always thought search was a trojan horse for MSFT to get their hands on Yahoo Mail. Last I checked Yahoo Mail was the #1 Webmail, and Live Mail a very distant third, so getting a hold of Yahoo Mail would not only catapult them to #1 in webmail, but also give them mountains of data to mine and even more eyeballs hooked, as all the non techs also spend a crazy amount of time in Yahoo webmail. If MSFT ends up getting access to Yahoo webmail this could really be a smart move on their part, already just by taking over Yahoo search they will be the default engine for the portal and webmail users, and that is a hell of a lot of searches.

Whatever.

Yahoo faded from usefulness just as quickly (or slowly) as search engines became useful (rather than being a glorified text search, displayed in no particular order)). I've been around Teh Intarwebs long enough to remember a time when, if you wanted to find something. It was just a big, human-sorted list of sites. It didn't have everything, but it had a starting point for most stuff. There were lots of other lists in no time, but Yahoo's was the largest and broadest.

I remember the birth of Altavista, which was the first nail in Yahoo's coffin (there were other early players which contributed, but none of them sucked less than Altavista).

Ever since, it's just been getting worse for them. Indexes of websites are hardly useful these days. Yahoo tried to branch out, with chat, and news, and forums, and lots of other things... But, ultimately, it seems they're failing because their original focus and purpose has become all but useless, as the slug around the expensive weight of all the other stuff they've tried to do since. When I went there a second ago, I couldn't even find the index anymore in all the noise they have on their front page. (Does it even exist?)

Google's uncanny usefulness was one of the next nails in the coffin. Bing and other useful search engines, have driven the last spikes.

It's very interesting to me that, back in Google's infancy, long before adwords, or any ads at all within Google, their chief source of revenue was Yahoo, who used them as their search engine. That's right: Yahoo used to pay Google for search services. And now the two big search engines both want to pay Yahoo for the same thing.

Buh-bye, Yahoo.

Some athletes compete in both summer and winter games, so biennial would be ok. (not that the parent used biEnnial.)

http://ask.yahoo.com/20060222.html for examples

The Associated Press is covering this (link is to Yahoo; just about any paper will have the same content). Boingboing (who I see no reason to visit) is probably quoting or otherwise parroting the AP. It makes me wonder if jargon82 works for or is part owner of boingboing?

Google News lists 25 separate, highly respected news sites such as the London Telegraph, Philadelphia Enqiuirer, USA Toady, Toronto Star, Ars Technica, The Consumerist... Yet slashdot links boingboing?

WTF?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100217/wl_asia_afp/nkoreapoliticskimfamily_20100217130209

When will Flash 10.1 be available for my Android G1 phone?

AIR and Flash Player coming for Android and Mobile Devices. Adobe has been showing demo videos of Flash running on Android phones since last year. This week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, they showed Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 running on a whole number of devices. It's running on the Motorola Droid, Google Nexus One and other new Android phones like the HTC Desire & Legend.

They've also got it running for Blackberry and Palm Pre. Symbian has been running Flash Lite for some time now, so you'll also see Flash 10.1 and AIR coming to it. Browser Flash has running on Maemo for some time too, so no problem there.

Yes, Adobe's reluctance to support any platform other than a PC is the main reason why I think Flash should die a horrible (but quick) death

On the contrary, Adobe has been making a major effort to provide Flash for every single device and modern OS out there (The Open Screen Project). The fruits of this can now be seen at the Mobile World Congress where they're showing Flash 10.1 and AIR running on a whole bunch of mobile and internet devices. Check out the list of Adobe Open Screen partners (the only one missing is Apple who refuses to have Flash run on the iPhone and iPad, so Adobe got around that by providing export to native iPhone apps with Flash CS5)

When will Flash 10.1 be available for my Android G1 phone?

AIR and Flash Player coming for Android and Mobile Devices. Adobe has been showing demo videos of Flash running on Android phones since last year. This week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, they showed Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 running on a whole number of devices. It's running on the Motorola Droid, Google Nexus One and other new Android phones like the HTC Desire & Legend.

They've also got it running for Blackberry and Palm Pre. Symbian has been running Flash Lite for some time now, so you'll also see Flash 10.1 and AIR coming to it. Browser Flash has running on Maemo for some time too, so no problem there.

Yes, Adobe's reluctance to support any platform other than a PC is the main reason why I think Flash should die a horrible (but quick) death

On the contrary, Adobe has been making a major effort to provide Flash for every single device and modern OS out there (The Open Screen Project). The fruits of this can now be seen at the Mobile World Congress where they're showing Flash 10.1 and AIR running on a whole bunch of mobile and internet devices. Check out the list of Adobe Open Screen partners (the only one missing is Apple who refuses to have Flash run on the iPhone and iPad, so Adobe got around that by providing export to native iPhone apps with Flash CS5)

You're right, but it wasn't on purpose. Still, the iPhone doesn't have the largest market share, let alone "dominating" the market: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100202/tc_nf/71423

Unless all the mobile phone makers settle on one GUI toolkit such as GTK, Qt, etc., there is no easy way for one app developer to target all the phones out there.

Say hello to Adobe AIR 2.0 on mobile. Flash/Flex/Javascript developers will soon be able to deploy their apps everywhere
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Adobe-Unveils-AIR-on-Mobile-bw-730511059.html?x=0&.v=1

All major phone manufacturers & platforms except for Apple will be supporting it by late 2010.
http://www.openscreenproject.org/partners/current_partners.html

For iPhone and iPad, you can use Flash CS5 to build native iPhone apps, so your project can easily be published for iPhone OS too.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

has any of it worked? no

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft

You have a funny definition of "has not worked" ...

Yes, they do. They paid a (large) one time dividend a few years ago and have been paying a quarterly dividend since then:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=MSFT&a=02&b=13&c=1986&d=01&e=14&f=2010&g=v

The world, it changes.

Yeah lets make fun of southerners, when we could just as easily look at the long story of blacks hating space spending. I mean, if we're going to make fun of white people, let's have a look at the other side.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081129115539AABRPXx

http://www.niggaknow.com/technology/white-people-dont-know-shit-about-space/

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911165052AAbljAt

http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/09/09/space-race-matters/

and it goes on and on...

and then you have Obama's own plan to cut NASA manned space flight and dole out bucks to the third world...

Yeah lets make fun of southerners, when we could just as easily look at the long story of blacks hating space spending. I mean, if we're going to make fun of white people, let's have a look at the other side.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081129115539AABRPXx

http://www.niggaknow.com/technology/white-people-dont-know-shit-about-space/

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911165052AAbljAt

http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/09/09/space-race-matters/

and it goes on and on...

and then you have Obama's own plan to cut NASA manned space flight and dole out bucks to the third world...

If we can get an AI to fake an orgasm that passes the Turing test, perhaps we can focus on "higher" standards.

Just have it screen "When Harry Met Sally".

On a side note - I had a friend who, as a joke, put that on their answering machine - and forgot to take it off after they finished pranking someone.

TBDR. Too boring, didn't read. Is Haselton trying to kill us?

Here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=296b01a23fd9f37289b4c61d63fa8519

It's a RSS feed for Slashdot without kdawson's submissions.

Now can we please move on?

If the routers are just as good as the "genuine" except that Cisco didn't get paid for the use of their name, then is not this another case, when the imaginary property (on "trademark") rears its ugly (if imaginary) head?

Yes, the buyers were lead to believe, they are buying the "real" thing, but that's between them and the seller.

But the US government is involved — on behalf of a fat corporation, which means, Cisco ought now to be frowned upon, just as the mafiAA members are.

And yet, kdawson seems to be giving Cisco a much easier time in his write-up, than usual in such cases... The New York Country Lawyer and the "I don't believe in Imaginary Property", who denounce entertainment-owners for trying to enforce their (imaginary) property rights, and fight them on any technicality imaginable, aren't anywhere in sight either... Is this because these people only want freedom to steal for the stuff, they might be interested in themselves?

Don't rip on au courts. They do lots of important work, for example: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_asia_afp/australiamusiccourtoffbeat

Sure, the scientists who are busy researching the matter, as opposed to creating phony "doubter" websites, use only those faulty stations that said doubters managed to find and photograph, and never cross-check these data with other sources.

The front page of surfacestations.org has a funny image: a location photo made in 2000s with a parking lot, a cell tower and its AC exhaust ducts near where the temperature sensor is supposedly hosted, superimposed with the graph from the same sensor that shows a steady rising trend since about 1950s. So all those asphalt coatings over the years, the cell tower installation and so on all conspired to create a neat smooth trend that keeps rising. The asphalt must have been aging without renewal, cars radiate ever more heat, and the ACs are dutifully cranked up a notch every few years. Finally, some solid debunking of climate change.

And I wrote the above even before I did a two-minute Google search that gave me more than enough information as to why surfacestations.org is full of shit.

Why are we all being told to cut back and make do with less, when our leaders insist on taking more and spending more of our money?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_debt_limit

If you're too dumb to understand this basic inequality, then you have no business running for public office: if (money_in - money_out is less than 0) then (bad_things_happen). I keep wondering when China is going to cut up our credit card. Perhaps if we keep interfering with Taiwan?

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
--Barack Obama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/bs_nm/us_budget_backdoortaxes

"I see people play games on their phone all the time. Every phone is a gaming phone."

Agreed, and I think the Sony's trying to save face. After pre-ordering a PSP back in 2005 and starting the largest PSP group on Yahoo Groups, I sold my PSP after a month with the iPhone 3GS. Larger selection, direct input to developers, visible feedback and ratings from users, an abundance of free "lite" games and most games costing $1-$3 finally put the nail in the coffin for the PSP.

I really can't imagine ever buying another portable gaming system that didn't include those features. Shame Sony didn't introduce those features themselves, they have a store and the PSP has wifi, they could had offered everything the iPhone does but they decided not to. I don't see a future for the PSP without major changes. If you don't want an iPhone, get a iPod Touch. All the games still work and it's cheaper than a PSP.

The mayor of a U.S. city, for crying out loud? Really?

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100128/480/b07861589f354ce698c3bf88b741d692/

Remember, you are posting on Slashdot. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100110/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_sex_robot

Not at all. Actually if all you want is something small and portable to surf the web, a netbook makes more since than an iPad. All it adds is a tablet, but it uses a crippled OS. Actually after he saw a netbook in Target my brother-in-law asked me what I thought of it, he said he thought about getting one. But I hadn't seen one there so I couldn't say. I did tell him they were fine for causal web surfing and editing simple documents. Now I don't know if he got the one Target had but my sister now carries one around.

I've seen complete computer novices go out and buy those, and be completely fine with 10'' screens

I want something I can use for photography as well as development, a 10" screen does not cut it. Actually many photographers say the minimum size of monitor for editing photos is 21". Photo.net has a number of threads on monitors in it's forums, in some people ask what size monitor they should use, in some people say they use 27", 30", or bigger monitors that cost above US$2000. I want one 24" and am thinking of getting a 24" HP LP2475w, which costs about $600. It has an H-IPS panel, is wide gamut, and has been gotten good reviews from photographers. I'd then use my MBP's LCD to hold the panels and toolbars. That is when using my laptop. When using my desktop, er tower, PC I can use my 21" monitor, an old CRT, for them.

And I've never seen a website tell me to update my version of Flash, unless you're running an entire version behind. :P

I posted the Flash player version, 10,0,42,34, which is the latest. I even copied and pasted it from the Adobe test page I linked to.

• You Tube keeps saying i need to upgrade my adobe flash player but still cant play videos. Help!?
• "You need to upgrade your Flash Player by clicking this link" I did but still not working
• You need to upgrade your Flash Player

Google has many more results for need to upgrade flash player.

Falcon

Yes, Minister :: Open Government http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/3502063/9727741

"Many residential homes in the US have 100 amp service.

Most have 200. 400 is usually available at extra cost.*"

*citation need

Got it right here, says you're wrong

New construction homes get 200 amp, but even as recent as 2006 builders were providing 100 amp and 200 amp as an upgrade. This electrician in Wisconsin recommends 100 amps for house under 2,000 sq/ft. I don't exactly know date when 200 amp became the standard for new construction but it's clear 100 amp is the norm for your average pre-owned home. 400 amp service for a residence basically doesn't exist unless you have extreme circumstances, like you were dumb enough to buy a 15kW tankless electric water heater (idiot should have bought gas) that's sucking down 130 amps when in use.

...sets the default power output levels to FUCKING LOUD.

I think some lady in the UK got in trouble for that.

OMFG is is MSFT!!!! THE are EVILZ!!11!

I won't accpet anything that they do. They are impossible to do anything good!!11!!!
I will keep using Google because they 'do no evil'.

I used to HATE Microsoft. Their products were not the best out there word v word perfect, excel v lotus 123. They used cost manuvers, and rapid improvments to gain insane amounts of market share. But they don't put out 100% bad and evil stuff.

Google isn't all nice and open. Android is 'open' but isn't really. Their Android apps can't be distributed by anyone. Their office/email is so closed they don't even let you run it locally. Sure they use Linux servers, because it is less expensive for them, and they can tivker and optimize for their odd usage. Google only looks open because they don't sell software (when they do it is just as locked down as MSFT), their drafting program. They sell ads, and they give you software so you can see more ads. For all the ad hating that Slashdot has I am amazed with the blind Google love.
Bing and Google have the same notifications for changing their privace policys. Whith the caveat that if anything Material changes BING MUST notify in some way, Google and Yahoo only notify if there are important changes, or start limiting privacy.

http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/fullnotice.mspx#EKDAC
http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/details.html

Wow this is great news ! Oh but wait, the fees will probably go down now. Yeah now that Bell has entered the market, I will see a tremendous price drop.
Bell has been there with Fido for a long time now. They have similar price plan. They have no incentive to lower any price. Competition is non existent
when companies agree to keep fees high.

"The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development says Canadian cellphone rates are the third-highest amongst surveyed countries, behind the United States and Spain."
from here http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090811/090811_cell_fees/20090811/?hub=CP24Morning

And there is competition coming here but if you look at what the CEO says : "Price is not the way to differentiate yourself in the marketplace," said president Dave Dobbin. "It's about value. It's about being simple."
from here http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/28122009/2/biz-finance-consumers-rogers-bell-telus-new-wireless-companies.html

As long as consumers are willing to giveaway 55 dollar a month for a phone they will have a price gadget that matches the market.

Just an example: company I am working for hired several engineers in their early 30s with pay well over $100k a few years ago now we know that best of them is no more than barely OK, the most of them mediocre and few did a lot damage - and it has nothing to do with careless hiring we simply could not find anybody better.

So, if you are good it will be noticed pretty soon and you will make good money while having pretty interesting work (use #2,5,8 and 10 on this list as an example http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/108648/25-top-paying-companies?mod=career-salary_negotiation).

If you are not so good, it usually takes years to be discovered by your coworkers and mangers and then there is a good chance that there will be nobody better around, the pay will be still pretty decent with interesting work and in the worst case you will have to move once in a few years when your professional problems will become apparent.

Just do not work for IT departments/services, IT has reverse reward scale: worse people get rewarded and the best ones go unnoticed and the absolute worst morons become IT managers - nothing could be done about it, it is the ingrained the nature of IT services, deviations from this common pattern are no more than deviations.

People who live in cold climates (especially those with a car with a few miles on it) who frequently park outside like them.

You really shouldn't drive away until your car has had some time to warm up and reach a stable idle. Your car is also really cold so you don't want to sit in it for a couple of minutes while the engine warms up when the heater core also has to warm up. Hit the remote start button while you are putting your coat on and your car is ready to go when you get there. Also a lot of people used to install remote start systems in cars because it went hand in hand with remote locks on cars that were too old to have them originally.

That's old advice. Modern engines warm up perfectly well (and faster) as long as you don't drive it hard when it's cold. A minute or two at most is all that is ever needed: http://ca.autos.yahoo.com/p/1663/do-you-need-to-warm-up-your-car

Bullshit. $54,000 is one THIRD of the median home price. Where do you get your information, and why did you bother posting that?

Here's where you can get the MEDIAN home price of Brainerd, Minnesota:

http://realestate.yahoo.com/Minnesota/Brainerd

Bad information & lies makes people doubt the truth - and your side of the argument.

I just double checked, and I still get the 'mac' result in the U.S. Very curious that Canada gets a different result. Can someone else confirm?

Here's the first returned link in the U.S. for Bing if anyone is curious:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061212021150AAOfyNz

If you search the return link however, there are no phrases matching "why is windows so expensive" or "why is microsoft windows so expensive", or any other variant of that phrase that I can see.