But can it snap a towel at the refrigerator's butt?

Nifty page dude, but it suffers from the same usability problems the above was complaining about.

also the link you sent didn't work (google oops message) - is this malware being advertised on /.?

Um, this is the google android you'r talking about right? that company that produces a thingy - um - search engine?

first thing i did when i got my app was google "best android apps" and lo and behold, got reviews and opinions. downloaded three of em, and have subsequently paid for two.

In hindsight, that sounds really pollyanna-ish. I can only hope the system works, but in all honesty it’s broken almost beyond hope of repair...

Amen to that.... we moved our email accounts to Gmail a few years back.

Currently I get maybe two or three spam emails a week across three accounts, two of which have been in active use on the Internet for more than a decade.

Of course if I look in the spam folder, I see that in actual fact anywhere up to 50-100 a day per account. Not my problem. Possibly a problem for Gmail. But they seem happy to undertake to offer the service and remove it for me.

I do have to deal with it elsewhere.. I manage various Google Groups and it is an on going battle to audit membership requests so that you don't get spammed that way.

Actually, I am insane. And wearing this little thing in my ear makes me appear normal!

Not only that, but some guys PAY me money now to look busy and sit in an office!

Which is my point. After Philips raised a stink, the record labels just dropped the "COMPACT disc DIGITAL AUDIO" mark from the packaging and continued on their DRMing ways.

A similar conundrum exists -- where are their tools? Any sufficiently advanced civilization should be able to create self replicating probes. Even without FTL, they should be able to spread to all the stars in the Milky Way in under a half million years.

Of course, even if someone did spread probes, would those probes broadcast in a way we'd hear? If not, even if they aren't "stealthed", how hard would it be for us to build something to detect them? And wouldn't stealthed "hunter" probes overwhelm any "broadcasting" probes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

SF Laos doesn't have to "deal" (legally affiliated) with SF US: they just happen to download stuff they found on SF US website (just like anyone else).

In fact, I would be surprised, if the people in N Korea, Iran etc. haven't set up tunnels to do that.

For us, perhaps but is there a reason why their higher energy makes them less useful? Do they disperse more readiily?

Obviously ET probably wouldn't use lasers in their own SETI programme, but using them doesn't mean you aren't sophisticated. Their characteristics will prove handy when you want covert communication too. We probably won't detect a laser/maser message from the stars, but that doesn't suggest that ET can't be using them

Just hard-wire the garage door opener remote into your car. Most of the remotes use a 12 volt battery anyway. I bought a $2.00 switch from radio shack, hid the donor remote in the overhead console and installed the switch there too.

I switched to Mac from PC because I grew tired of Windows enforcing its dull, witless paradigms on me, but there are many things I actually miss about Windows/hate in Mac culture:

• With Windows, I could quickly find solutions to problems via forums, where most responses to Mac issues include countless "I refuse to acknowledge your criticism of my Apple product" or more often "but it's shiny" responses ... most often you have to reply multiple times with "yes, it is shiny, but I would really like it to do this ..." before finally giving up and living with the issue (example, I don't need to see my desktop when working in Photoshop ... wtf would I want to see unrelated content of any kind??? ... but too bad live with it)
• Mac has some serious/conflicting usability issues (come on, who builds both a three-control key keyboard and a single-button mouse?) like having the apple key (core to most actions) only on the left side of the keyboard ('suck on it, lefty!' seems to be the message) ... but heaven forbid you ever suggest this in public
• Apple's no-competition-when-playing-in-our-house philosophy (message: Apple, your iPhone email app sucks big time; no marking 'all read', no 'send only' accounts, no .... you get the idea) hints of an arrogance and hubris that is counter-apple-culture
• The intellectual vacuum that exists in fanboyism causes the same sort of negative progress in the Mac arena as the self-entitlement that Windows brought to its own products. If you can't question God, how can you evolve?

Anyway, at least it *is* shiny.

Just because some anti-competitive behavior wasn't stopped long ago, doesn't make it right.

How is distributing IE with Windows any different than the distribution of Window Media Player, which was considered anti-competitive years ago?

What is the bandwith to iceland anyways?

Not using something that is famously known to be broken is a bad idea? Uh, sure.

I don't know who Tony Bradley is (and I'm not really interested), but TFA explains who George Kurtz is, and my thinking is that McAfee's entire business model is based on the fact that MS products are insecure and broad targets. Every time a PC gets Windows replaced, he loses a potential customer. Every time Windows gets malware, his existence is justified.

IE has several critical flaws, some of which have been unpatched for years. Recommending to use a known unsafe browser is little different than arguing cars don't need seat belts, or OSHA is a waste, or whatever else flies in the face of safety in a given context.