from the google talk faq:
"12. Can you tell me more about Google Talk and privacy?
Google respects and protects the privacy of individuals that use our services. Google Talk gives you control over whom you talk with, whom you block, and who can see your online status. Additionally, Google only requires minimal personal information--just your name and Gmail address--for you to use Google Talk.
Google Talk currently does not encrypt chats or calls. But we are working hard to make many improvements to Google Talk while it is in beta, and we plan to fully support encryption of chats and calls before our official release.
When you use Google Talk, you can choose to have your IM chats stored locally on your own computer so that you have a chat history. Google does not collect the content of instant message chats or voice conversations. As with all major IM services, Google Talk will collect certain log information created in the course of a conversation. This information is for Google's internal use only, to maintain statistics on usage and to improve our service and the user experience. We do not permanently store any personally-identifying information in the Google Talk logs. And we do not log any of the content of your chats or calls."
Good enough for you?
Also notable is that this is the first time I can think of that they've actually alluded to the Official Release of one of their perpetual betas.
but a processor that draws less juice will run longer on a current gen battery. If you can't make longer running batteries then you have to build more conservative components.
They currently have a tool for every popular form of communication on the web accept IM. Blogger, Gmail, Google Groups, and now Google IM.
Lateral Integration.
interesting but what good is that if they combust at 900 kelvin? Even in an inert atmosphere the heat changes their structure. Do the "nano-horns" exhibit the same behavior?
Sending letters to your representative is the least used and most effective way of getting heard. There are staff who read and report on everything that gets sent to legislators.
Without constant feedback from their constituencies legislators are operating in a vacuum, with only their own interests and opinions to guide them. Do you trust a politician to operate honorably in that condition? Making yourself personally heard is important if only to remind politicians that you are listening.
On the other hand, this particular letter sucks. Not only are there a number of innacuracies (IE ONLY runs on Windows? Then how is it possible that I've used it on a Mac?) but his tack is all wrong. The argument for an "open" patent office site has nothing to do with Linux users. It has everything to do with competition, standards, choice in the marketplace, and remaining consistant the government's anti-trust stance with MegaSloth.
I have yet to encounter one of these "broken sites"
The only one I've seen not function first hand in firefox is lotus notes webmail. Maybe I don't even notice what I'm missing...
sorry for the inflamatory title, but can you really be serious?
Rutan et al. are finding creative new ways to loft humans on parabolic trajectories that touch space but they are FAR from LOE. I do not discount their ingenuity or innovation, but they do not have the recourses to launch the kinds of payloads that are going to get us back to the Moon or Mars.
The "little guys" should be welcomed into the process as contractors and researchers. Their fresh ideas can add new vitality to the space program but they are not a replacement.
IMHO the new NASA designs are a breath of fresh air. Simple and effective.
Most likely yes, but below any critical payload.
Without the foam the fuel tank would become covered in ice, needlessly raising the weight of the launch vehicle.
The probably didn't want to announce without final and definitive analysis to back their claim. No harm in being careful. No one wants to go off half cocked.
nor should any developer forget that around ten percent of Joe Users are using firefox.
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Joe Average User doesn't care about W3C standards
I hear this every time someone mentions web standards. The fact is that "Joe User" is not as stupid as we imagine, he just has other things on his plate, but he still wants all his web apps to work.
Thank you once again Megasloth. I've been looking over the fence at all these "firefox" renegades, flouting you with their arrogance. Flaunting their "tabs" and their "security". But now I can browse confident in the fact that my penis is just as large as theirs. You've come through for me again, and right on time!
The author of the article seems to have taken some of their ideas from the recent Discover Magazine article titled Your Brain on Video Games
Actually the author (Steven Johnson) took all of his ideas from the book he wrote on the topic called Everything Bad is Good For You. He's a regular columnist who speaks and writes on these issues often.
The book extends his argument to include not only video games but many other forms of modern media as well. He argues that todays complex, multi-threaded tv dramas (The Sopranos, The West Wing, even Scrubs and Seinfeld) sharpen our social networking skills and enhance our ability to focus and collect information.
Its certainly worth a look, that is if you're not too busy playing video games.
it may be old, but its still the most complex piece of equipment ever built.
Many people thought the failure of the last mission would at least be the end of the shuttle era, if not the era of manned spaceflight. We're lucky the loss of those few brave astronauts didn't turn into a political black hole. We honor their memories by flying again.
So how long will it be until vendors of the proprietary MD software start accusing the gov't of unfair competition. Its one thing to use it in VA hospitals which are government run, will there be a legal issue if its used elsewhere?
I suppose they will still have a healthy business supporting it though.
c'mon man, don't be a buzzkill. Look at all these techies flaunting their copyright knowledge! This is a huge self esteem booster for all involved.
Dvorak gets to masturbate all over the pages of pcmag, and we get to catch him at it and tell his mommy! Its win-win!
Which is exactly what should be happening right now. Start writing to pcmag and telling them to staunch the steady flow of missinformation and downright lies. Start Clickin!
I would not necessarily trust Snopes in all instances either.
Consider their entry on the nursery rhyme "ring around the rosie." We have probably all heard that it is about the black plague. Although I do not affirm or contest this myself, Snopes contests it but with questionable evidence. In fact the evidence they use to discredit the claims that it is about the plague seems to discredit them. Observe:
Likewise, multiple meanings are claimed for the repetition of "ashes" at the beginning of the last line:
A representation of the sneezing sounds of plague victims.
A reference to the practice of burning the bodies of those who succumbed to the plague.
A reference to the practice of burning the homes of plague sufferers to prevent spread of disease.
A reference to the blackish discoloration of victims' skin from which the term "Black Plague" was derived.
The word "ashes" cannot be "a corruption of the sneezing sounds made by the infected person" and a word used for its literal meaning. Either "ashes" was a corruption of an earlier form or a deliberate use; it can't be both. Moreover, the "ashes" ending of "Ring Around the Rosie" appears to be a fairly modern addition to the rhyme; earlier versions repeat other words or syllables instead (e.g., "Hush!", "A-tischa!", "Hasher", "Husher", "Hatch-u", "A-tishoo") or, as noted above, have completely different endings.
Is it just me, or do all those sound like sneezing. The sneezing a person afflicted with plague perhaps? They appear to have confirmed this interpretation, which interpretation undermines their whole argument.
So the lession is, just because they are cynical about rumors and urban legends, doesn't mean they are correct.
I've seen a few people on the train during my morning commute watching what appear to be music videos. Far more often they are playing games with annoying sound effects without the courtesy of using headphones.
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Google respects and protects the privacy of individuals that use our services. Google Talk gives you control over whom you talk with, whom you block, and who can see your online status. Additionally, Google only requires minimal personal information--just your name and Gmail address--for you to use Google Talk.
Google Talk currently does not encrypt chats or calls. But we are working hard to make many improvements to Google Talk while it is in beta, and we plan to fully support encryption of chats and calls before our official release.
When you use Google Talk, you can choose to have your IM chats stored locally on your own computer so that you have a chat history. Google does not collect the content of instant message chats or voice conversations. As with all major IM services, Google Talk will collect certain log information created in the course of a conversation. This information is for Google's internal use only, to maintain statistics on usage and to improve our service and the user experience. We do not permanently store any personally-identifying information in the Google Talk logs. And we do not log any of the content of your chats or calls."
Good enough for you?
Also notable is that this is the first time I can think of that they've actually alluded to the Official Release of one of their perpetual betas.
but a processor that draws less juice will run longer on a current gen battery. If you can't make longer running batteries then you have to build more conservative components.
IM grammar, hehehe...heh....*sigh*
They currently have a tool for every popular form of communication on the web accept IM. Blogger, Gmail, Google Groups, and now Google IM.
Lateral Integration.
interesting but what good is that if they combust at 900 kelvin? Even in an inert atmosphere the heat changes their structure. Do the "nano-horns" exhibit the same behavior?
Without constant feedback from their constituencies legislators are operating in a vacuum, with only their own interests and opinions to guide them. Do you trust a politician to operate honorably in that condition? Making yourself personally heard is important if only to remind politicians that you are listening.
On the other hand, this particular letter sucks. Not only are there a number of innacuracies (IE ONLY runs on Windows? Then how is it possible that I've used it on a Mac?) but his tack is all wrong. The argument for an "open" patent office site has nothing to do with Linux users. It has everything to do with competition, standards, choice in the marketplace, and remaining consistant the government's anti-trust stance with MegaSloth.
I have yet to encounter one of these "broken sites" The only one I've seen not function first hand in firefox is lotus notes webmail. Maybe I don't even notice what I'm missing...
so, according the their website, the main reason to go back to space with nuclear tech is that its the logical next step from Extreme Sports?
Rutan et al. are finding creative new ways to loft humans on parabolic trajectories that touch space but they are FAR from LOE. I do not discount their ingenuity or innovation, but they do not have the recourses to launch the kinds of payloads that are going to get us back to the Moon or Mars.
The "little guys" should be welcomed into the process as contractors and researchers. Their fresh ideas can add new vitality to the space program but they are not a replacement.
IMHO the new NASA designs are a breath of fresh air. Simple and effective.
Most likely yes, but below any critical payload.
Without the foam the fuel tank would become covered in ice, needlessly raising the weight of the launch vehicle.
Its one thing to refuse to divulge the information. Its quite another to purjure yourself by denying its existance.
The probably didn't want to announce without final and definitive analysis to back their claim. No harm in being careful. No one wants to go off half cocked.
um, oops, who knew that was on my clipboard. please disregard that...please. should've used the damn preview button.
nor should any developer forget that around ten percent of Joe Users are using firefox.
I hear this every time someone mentions web standards. The fact is that "Joe User" is not as stupid as we imagine, he just has other things on his plate, but he still wants all his web apps to work.
Can a post on the main page get (score: -1 troll)?
Thank you once again Megasloth. I've been looking over the fence at all these "firefox" renegades, flouting you with their arrogance. Flaunting their "tabs" and their "security". But now I can browse confident in the fact that my penis is just as large as theirs. You've come through for me again, and right on time!
Actually the author (Steven Johnson) took all of his ideas from the book he wrote on the topic called Everything Bad is Good For You. He's a regular columnist who speaks and writes on these issues often.
The book extends his argument to include not only video games but many other forms of modern media as well. He argues that todays complex, multi-threaded tv dramas (The Sopranos, The West Wing, even Scrubs and Seinfeld) sharpen our social networking skills and enhance our ability to focus and collect information.
Its certainly worth a look, that is if you're not too busy playing video games.
Many people thought the failure of the last mission would at least be the end of the shuttle era, if not the era of manned spaceflight. We're lucky the loss of those few brave astronauts didn't turn into a political black hole. We honor their memories by flying again.
sp what happens when you lose the machine with the data on where your stored data is? How does the system track where you pieces go?
So how long will it be until vendors of the proprietary MD software start accusing the gov't of unfair competition. Its one thing to use it in VA hospitals which are government run, will there be a legal issue if its used elsewhere? I suppose they will still have a healthy business supporting it though.
c'mon man, don't be a buzzkill. Look at all these techies flaunting their copyright knowledge! This is a huge self esteem booster for all involved.
Dvorak gets to masturbate all over the pages of pcmag, and we get to catch him at it and tell his mommy! Its win-win!
Which is exactly what should be happening right now. Start writing to pcmag and telling them to staunch the steady flow of missinformation and downright lies. Start Clickin!
Consider their entry on the nursery rhyme "ring around the rosie." We have probably all heard that it is about the black plague. Although I do not affirm or contest this myself, Snopes contests it but with questionable evidence. In fact the evidence they use to discredit the claims that it is about the plague seems to discredit them. Observe:
Likewise, multiple meanings are claimed for the repetition of "ashes" at the beginning of the last line:
A representation of the sneezing sounds of plague victims.
A reference to the practice of burning the bodies of those who succumbed to the plague.
A reference to the practice of burning the homes of plague sufferers to prevent spread of disease.
A reference to the blackish discoloration of victims' skin from which the term "Black Plague" was derived.
The word "ashes" cannot be "a corruption of the sneezing sounds made by the infected person" and a word used for its literal meaning.
Either "ashes" was a corruption of an earlier form or a deliberate use; it can't be both. Moreover, the "ashes" ending of "Ring Around the Rosie" appears to be a fairly modern addition to the rhyme; earlier versions repeat other words or syllables instead (e.g., "Hush!", "A-tischa!", "Hasher", "Husher", "Hatch-u", "A-tishoo") or, as noted above, have completely different endings.
Is it just me, or do all those sound like sneezing. The sneezing a person afflicted with plague perhaps? They appear to have confirmed this interpretation, which interpretation undermines their whole argument.
So the lession is, just because they are cynical about rumors and urban legends, doesn't mean they are correct.
I've seen a few people on the train during my morning commute watching what appear to be music videos. Far more often they are playing games with annoying sound effects without the courtesy of using headphones.
You've seen music videos on MTV/VH1? All I get is yet another episode of Real World Road Rules Challenge or I Love the Seventies.