FYI, you can geotag your pictures using Garmin Basecamp afterwards. The image exif time/date need to be aligned (not perfectly) with the GPS's time however (If you forget to do so it shouldn't be hard to throw together a small script that will offset your picture's exif time to the correct one.)

That's a harsh way to put it. I would call it more of a "Protective Services" product.

You know, it would be terrible if this article came out detailing your illegal business practices...

In all seriousness, I'm curious how they verify submissions. All I could find was "The simplest and most effective countermeasure is a worldwide community of informed users and editors who can scrutinize and discuss leaked documents." What's stopping someone from making up a false story about a political/corporate enemy and submitting it to them?

12000GB * $0.15/GB = $1800 a month. That's $21,600 a year. S3 is great for some things, terabytes upon terabytes of archival storage isn't it. That's not including the time (or bandwidth cost) it will take to upload all the data to the server...

There's more than just reading error codes though. I wanted to install an aux in for my cars stereo. I checked online and I can easily buy the official Saab kit online for ~$40, the install is also fairly trivial, but the dealer wanted $100 to just hook up their computer and enable it on my stereo. Similar thing if I do any other modifications to the car, everything is run through a central computer which only official Saab dealers (or mechanics who want to shell out $20,000+ a year) can access.

Cable: exclusivity deals with towns, limited, if any selection

Internet: exclusivity deals with towns, limited, if any selection

Phone: exclusivity deals with towns, limited, if any selection

Not to mention these three are usually the same company...

I get your point though, I currently have an iPhone from AT&T, but I'm doing some development work on the G1, which conveniently supports all the 3G bands but AT&Ts, and the iPhone supports all the 3G bands but T-Mobile's...

Some quick anecdotal evidence (the best kind), ATI decided to stop supporting the graphics card in my laptop a little while back (the laptop is maybe a little over 2 years old, I think it has an X1400 in it), after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04, the upgrade of Xorg (or Xfree or whatever is used) caused Boxee to stop working because ATI doesn't have a driver available for it, and the open source driver doesn't support the required OpenGL commands yet. However, for 95% of what I use the computer for the free one works well enough, but you can tell that they're not official (the screen has tearing occasionally)

 

To the original poster: I tried to install the proprietary ATI drivers and it killed the display, thankfully envy has an uninstall command as well.

Tools->Options->Applications. Search for 'pdf' and disable it from using the plugin to auto downloading and opening the file.

I also recommend using Foxit Reader instead of Acrobat for viewing PDFs, it too has a in browser plugin, but downloading and opening the application is quicker at least for me; the actual application usually opens in less than a second.

But back on topic, I have been using chrome more and more lately due to the fact that no tab can crash the entire browser. I still use Firefox though due to the plugins and the web developer toolbar with firebug (chrome's inspector is pretty close though). If Firefox doesn't catch up quick enough I might switch over completely when chrome has more advanced plugin support.

The word pants is a British term akin to "rubbish." I believe the British also use the word pants to mean underwear and trousers to mean pants.

Or if you want an alternate DNS that doesn't redirect your traffic, I recommend Level3's DNS servers: 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2.

They're also pretty easy to memorize as well in case you want to check if your ISP's DNS server is down.

One of the classes I took this semester made us read books on modern neuroscience. I remember reading cases of people who are blind due to a brain injury, but have working reflexs in the "blind" eye. For example, if someone were to pretend to punch them in a blind area, they would automatically reach out there arm and block it perfectly, without "seeing" a thing.

Vision in the brain is extremely complex, I don't remember the actual number, but there is something like 19 vision sections of the brain, each one has its own role. I believe vision as we know it only takes up a few of those sections.

To make it more complicated, apparently there are two vision pathways, one new, one old. (By new and old I'm referring to the relative time they developed in the human species, the "new" system has probably been in us for thousands of years) The new one allows us to do more advance processing on images, while the old is used for more reflexes, hence the example above where a blind person can see.

If anyone is interested in reading about modern neuroscience, I'd recommend V.S. Ramachandran's book, Phantoms in the Brain

Yes, it's awesome that there are extremely generous rich people in the US, however, that person who donated $5 million dollars won't see any sort of personal return on it. You know who will though? Everyone else. No matter how indirect, basic research benefits everyone. Better products are created, new jobs are created, society as a whole advances. Why shouldn't the government fund it?

And before someone says it, corporations have no incentive to do basic research, there is no profit motivation for them to do it. Try telling GE 100 years ago to do basic atomic research, at that time there were no known applications for that research. However, after government funded nuclear research, GE now has a nuclear energy division, making a developing better nuclear reactors.