> What a load of cock you're writing here. Google doesn't discriminate between what is relevant and what isn't.

The topic we're discussing is that a European court ordered Google to hide information which is "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant". Note two of the three things Google is ordered to decide are relevance - Google must decide if the information is irrelevant or no longer relevant, the court ordered.

The case was a guy who didn't pay his bills and eventually his property was auctioned off to pay the bills. If you're considering hiring the guy to drive an ice cream truck, that information may be irrelevant. If you're considering partnering with him to open a restaurant which will require a $200,000 investment, that information may be very relevant indeed. Google can't possibly decide if the information is relevant since it doesn't know the reader's purpose for seeking information about the guy, but the court ordered them to make that determination.

> and then the classic : you get drunk and do something stupid somebody get a photo. Pre-2000 a good memory to share between friend. Past 2000 google+facebook : a friend which unwittingly may cost you a good job.

Photos of a person getting drunk and acting stupid would be completely irrelevant for some things, very relevant for others. If I'mhiring someone yo replace my roof, I don't care what you do on the weekend. I can decide that's not relevant to my decision. If you're applying for a job on the next Jackass movie, those pictures may help you get the job. If you're applying for a job as an airline pilot, a habit of heavy drinking will negatively affect your prospects. If you've asked me out on a date and I'm a partier, I may see that and think you look like a fun person to hang out with. If you've asked my 16 year old daughter on a date and you like posting "get drunk and stupid" pictures ...

The reader of the information is in a position to consider the totality of the circumstances and decide what's relevant and not. This court ordered Google to decide what's relevant to a given situation without any way to know what the situation is. I think the court may need to look up the word "relevant". No fact is irrelevant itself, it's only relevant or irrelevant in a particular use case.

Funny you should say that, because these are all requests to remove existing links that already appear on Google.

I always thought the biggest iPad, should be called something like the iPad Max, or if that's too cliche, the Maxipad.

Micro payments would need to GENERATE few dollars per day for site owners. That doesn't say anything about what they COST. If I fill out a payment form to pay 10 cents for a howto, that generates 10 cents for the bank and site to split, but it costs a few minutes. The typical Slashdot reader probably sells their time at over $1/minute, so it costs ten times as much as the site owner gets.

Sure there is no law of physics that says it must cost a lot, but if spammers send millions of emails hoping for an average profit of $0.000001 per email, how many millions of fraudulent micropayments would they submit to be paid two cents apiece? The system has to be robust against sophisticated fraud in order to survive, and that will cost users time and the security will cost a lot of money.

On the other hand, if we can come up with a system that keeps the transactional, security, and convenience costs below 50%, we can become billionaires. A company that could do that would be a thousand times larger than PayPal. I did know one guy who ran a successful system like that years ago, and it made him quite wealthy. The key in his case was that he had client web sites that were part of a group that customers would purchase as a package deal. Suppose that for $25 / year, you got no ads and special perks on :
Slashdot
Cnet
SourceForge
Github
Stackexchange
Lots of Maker sites
And 800 other tech / nerd sites.

That might be worth taking a couple of minutes to sign up (and the transaction fee the merchant pays for credit card processing). All the sites could sell subscriptions and receive a cut of the revenue. If 10% of nerds paid each paid $25, that would be a lot of money to split between the participating sites. That's generally how the successful one worked, covering a certain niche.

Just curious, do you watch commentary on Comedy Central and MSNBC?

Would you believe when I moved to that area, there were cattle grazing at the intersection of 183 & 620, which was a stop sign as I recall. :)

About two hours from Austin is College Station, where the cable company has long been providing about 10mbps for $70 or so. They just announced this will be the first place their speed will go to 100Mbps for no extra charge, and gigabit will be available for a little more. I'm thinking they noticed Google fiber down the road and figured they better get their act together.

There hasn't been much real competition until Google fiber - just DSL, at the same slow speed and the same price, but several weeks to get set-up.

If you're in the part of northeast Austin where the tech companies are, I'd think Google would want to get those areas done fairly early. Technology professionals will use fast internet and spend money online. The city government may not give a shit, but I'd expect Google to start with the densest concentrations of good customers.

The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The penis, mightier than the sword.
- Bill Clinton

Supply and demand informs us that a decrease in the value of dollars can be caused in two ways:
An increase in the supply of dollars or
A decrease in the demand for dollars

As the population grows, the number of people who want dollars will increase not decrease, so inflation wouldn't generally be due to falling demand. It must therefore be due to an increase in supply. It must be caused by an increase in supply - somebody's printing money. Who has the capability to print new money? The federal government and their assigns. The government can pay it's bills by just writing itself an IOU, creating new money. That allows the government to pay for products and services without openly voting for an tax.

So it pays for government services, at the cost of devaluing savings. Thus, it's effectively a tax on saving.

It occurred to me you might have run a chrooted environment, where you're running both ChromeOS AND the other Linux distribution simultaneously.
Yeah, a CPU can only run one kernel at a time without virtualization, so if you want to run two operating systems at once they'll share a kernel.

Here are 2.6 and 3.4 kernels with Chromebook drivers:
http://www.chromebook-linux.co...

You don't have to use a kernel built for Chromebook, but it makes sense to in order to ensure you have the drivers you need, without a bunch of other drivers for raid cards and stuff that you don't have.

> ChromeOS tends to ship on Tivoized hardware

Quite the opposite. At least Acer, Dell, Samsung, HP and Lenovo Chromebooks all support developer mode, where you have full root access and can even boot any other Linux from a USB stick or SD card. Is there another manufacturer that makes a Chromebook, and locks it?

Are you trying to say you don't HAVE a smart phone to go measure it yourself?
And apparently don't know how to use Google to look it up?