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+ - A New AOL? Leaving Google's Silo->

Submitted by Jeremiah Cornelius
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Google continues raising hackles as the company calls into question the commitment to open source roots from which it grew and often promoted. Developer Ken Kinder: "...It seems reasonable to believe that, unlike Eric Schmidt, Larry Page does not believe in open standards or an open Internet. Google has, in just a few short months, dropped support for open standards en masse, including RSS, XMPP, iCal/CalDav, and Podcasts. Additionally, other services are being forcefully “integrated” into Google+, which has no complete public API and no interoperability with other systems. Google, is, in other words, the new AOL: A silo separate from the open web, with very limited interoperability." Kinder's considered and thoughtful blog entry poses a number of alternatives to the services from Google, especially those consumed from Android devices. "I’m trying to pick services... where there’s a clear and predictable business relationship between me and the provider. Moving from Google Calendar to Yahoo Calendar solves very little... because Yahoo’s business interests are exactly the same: advertising and consumer lock-in.""
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+ - Will There Be Pizza on Mars? NASA Sponsors 3-D Printed Food

Submitted by Jeremiah Cornelius
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "From the Earl-Grey-Hot Dept.
NASA granted $125,000, to Systems & Materials Research Corporation, to create a prototype universal food synthesizer. First stop? Pizza. Pizza is an obvious candidate for 3D printing because it can be printed in distinct layers, so it only requires the print head to extrude one substance at a time. If eating something produced in the same kind of 3D printers that are currently being used to make everything from jet engine parts to fine art doesn’t sound too appetizing, that’s only because you can currently afford the good stuff, says founder, Anjan Contractor. Anticipating the needs of a global population, Contractor envisions every kitchen with a 3D printer, with customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store. The NASA award for a “pizza printer” is still at the conceptual stage. It works by first "printing" a layer of dough, which is baked at the same time it’s printed, by a heated plate at the bottom of the printer."

+ - Pentagon Special Ops Chief: "War on Terror" Another 10-20 Years->

Submitted by Jeremiah Cornelius
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Asked last week, at a Senate hearing, how long the war on terrorism will last, Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, answered, “At least 10 to 20 years.” A spokeswoman, Army Col. Anne Edgecomb, clarified that Sheehan meant the conflict is likely to last 10 to 20 more years from today. This is additional to the 12 years this conflict has already been pursued. Members of the Senate panel expressed shock that Sheehan envisioned such a broad, long war, unconfined by defined and measurable objectives or any territorial limitation. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) declared that the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), was specifically bounded to al-Qaida as then defined, for the 9/11 attacks. The AUMF does not contain the words "associated forces", repeatedly invoked in the session by Pentagon chief lawyer, Robert Taylor. John McCain (R-Ariz.), protested the Pentagon’s interpretation of the AUMF. "None of us could have envisioned authority [to strike] in Yemen and Somalia," McCain said."
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Journal: It is certainly not capitalism. 4

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius

"There is no way to vote against corporate power. Citizens have no way to bring about the prosecution of Wall Street bankers and financiers for fraud, military and intelligence officials for torture and war crimes, or security and surveillance officers for human rights abuses. The Federal Reserve is reduced to printing money for banks and financiers and lending it to them at almost zero percent interest; corporate officers then lend it to us at usurious rates as high as 30 percent. I do no

Comment: Re:what mcafee is good for: (Score 5, Interesting) 129

by Jeremiah Cornelius (#43767977) Attached to: John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground

BBC did a viddy on this in 1992.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AUvrPvV-KQo

Just paranoid, bullshit? Sponsored by the CIA and British intelligence, NATO operatives - under the false-front, operating as a "Marxist Terror Gang" kidnapped and murdered the Prime Minister of Italy in 1978.

This was just a single instance of organized para-national political violence including strings of European bombings and assassinations, beginning in the 1940's and continuing at least into the 1990's.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Then, after the cold war, there are no longer "Marxist Terror Gangs". They all just gave up and went home, I guess. Now, there are "Muslim Terror Gangs". Amazing.

PS. Don't look too closely at the Balkans.

Comment: It's just so sad that the practice (Score 4, Insightful) 69

Seems like it will continue - despite any ruling. Look at the overall indicators and trend, not just one specific ruling or data point.

Those cool, adventurous science-fiction dystopias in Bladerunner and the like. Well, they aren't so cool for most people to live in. They certainly aren't cool for the people who witness the transitions - from the 70s to post 2001...

It's a long way from the top, now. And we didn't tie a rope to climbe back.

+ - UK consumers reporting contactless payment errors->

Submitted by leathered
leathered writes "The BBC reports that some customers of UK retailer Marks and Spencer have reported that the store's contactless payment terminals have debited their cards despite being in their bags or pockets, sometimes paying twice when they have used another payment method. The cards are supposed to work only when the card comes within 4cm of the terminal. Customers of fast-food chain Pret a Manger have been reporting similar problems, and in both cases cited the customers weren't even aware they had been issued with NFC-enabled cards by their bank."
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Comment: Re:Bleach Blonde in Red Convertable (Score 1) 5

by Jeremiah Cornelius (#43746321) Attached to: Beam me up, Scotty!

I have one of those memories.

All from recollection of Dr. Demento broadcasts, c. 1978-1980 - prior to Bubblicious joining as a sponsor, cutting the show to less than 1 hr, and padding with ads.

If there's Trek goofiness, he'd have to include these chestnuts - and prolly have to add the audio portion of SNLs "Last Voyage" skit, with Elliot Gould as an NBC exec cancelling the show.

That's when I first heard HHGTG, too. I still find the BBC radiophonic original to be the superior of all incarnations. Funniest, too.

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school. -- George Ade

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