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Ufff, Android is not free! The license to use the name, Google maps, market, etc. is around $15.

Is there an Ubuntu stick that will support 2560x1440 resolution?

The approach you're suggesting sounds extremely naive - Google won't respond to an email, other ppl will throw accusations, etc.

This is a possible scenario.

On the other hand I've heard first hand a story about MS devs being ordered to break an MS web property on a competing browser. The manager who gave that order now works for Google.

Professional sports are the modern circuses (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses ). The powers that be are constantly pushing sports through mainstream media to keep ppl away from the important things in life - power, politics, finance, economy, etc.

Or you just have no idea what you're talking about.

Of course corrupted governments don't want criticism from anonymous, hard to find sources.

Great idea d0ne. I hope you do understand, that what the boys in Washington hate most, are people thinking they have rights and taking actions to protect them. If this gets any coverage, don't be surprised by the pressure to give up (tax audits, no-flight list, credit ratings).

So true. Most of the democracies/republics in human history were destroyed by power concentration in the hands of a few.

No, a possible scenario is there was a group of Pentagon employes that knew about the missing money and were pushing for investigation for months. 9/11 was (among other targets) a way to delay the investigation, eliminate key people/evidence and give a lesson to the rest.

Rules are made to broken (especially on a site called Hacker News) ;-) Plus I don't think jacquesm's "Please leave" has anything to do with the rules.

Anyway, out of the numerous reasons I believe 9/11 was an inside job, here's my favorite:

1. On 9/10 David Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defense, hold a pres conference (it's on CNN.com, etc.) and stated there are 2.3 trillion dollars, that the Pentagon cannot account for.

2. On 9/11 a part of the Pentagon, including the budget analysis department rooms, was destroyed. Most of the victims were accountants.

3. Same day WTC building 7 (not mentioned in 9/11 commission report, not investigated by any other authority) was destroyed in NY. Pentagon's primary financial information backup site was inside.

One out of the many, many "coincidences" on 9/11 ...

Why?

The profits from Samsung mobile business are something like 20x those from their electronic component division.

E.g. by buying a fake russian passport for $200, stating your nationality is Jewish.

9/11 was an inside job, designed (along other things) to take away personal freedoms.

Interesting, do Arabs pretend to be Jews to pass the security?

>> we don't need more atomic weapons

Speak for yourself, the Pentagon, UK, France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea, possibly others still replacing and/or building tons of those.

Unless it was posted by norvig, or one of the other Google employes here.

Insane comment ;)

There were quite a few stupid people saying things were impossible before. Don't worry, let your children worry is a sure recipe for failure. There are so many possible huge problems with AI, including an unfriendly one.

During human history the technology has played a huge role in determining the structure of societies. When the modern killing devices are cheap - bronze swords in Ancient Greece and Rome, muskets in per-revolutionary US and France - there is a lot of individual freedom, as the elite is incapable of ignoring the will of the masses. On the other hand when those devices are extremely expensive - knight armor in European Dark Ages - there is absolute control in the hands of a very few. Modern AI driven drones and robots are extremely anti-democratic, they allow a small elite to employ a few expert button pushers to destroy any kind of opposition. With CCTV, Facebook, WireTrap, Internet monitoring and logging, etc. your children will stand no chance to change the Orwellian future your stupidity has doomed them to.

Ufff, Eternal September on HN. 10 woman vs Darwin /s

The problem is switching not occurring, or occurring too late - with the OS shuffling a single threaded app around I/O units it looks like the CPU usage is say 20% so no need to move to higher clock.

Do not buy. These are from the evil LeadLander guys: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4891637

Money are of no objection to that industry. The combined budget of NSA, CIA, FBI, Pentagon, foreign bases, Afghanistan and Iraq occupation, etc. is in the trillions. Why trust FB or Google if all it costs to capture and store the information are money.

The porn is in the top ten of their priority list. A great way to find the weak points and blackmail possibilities for current and future opposition leaders.

Talking about simplification ...

Yeah, that's an excellent selling/lobbying tactic - limit the choice to as few alternatives as possible, ideally two. E.g. the alternative to smoking is drug abuse, so smoking is not simple... How do you see an industrial secret being an alternative for a video game (the original post)??

Current patents are not about exchange of knowledge (I'd ask what have you been smoking, but it's against the HN guidelines, in your view the patent trolls must be the bringers of fire) - Apple patents on rectangular form, Monsanto and Co patents on genes, the mind blowing obvious software patents.

>> rate of advancement is likely going to seem slower

Wow, it's amazing how different our views of the world are. IMHO the rate of advancement is now far, far, far surpassing any other time in the known history. The PC (1975), Web(1991), FB(2004), iPhone(2007) have created such an enormous change so fast. Have a look at "How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought" by Ray Kurzweil to see how crucial sciences nowadays are advancing by the month.

So you're saying: "It's very complicated, you won't understand my arguments."

It is simple, IP laws lead to slower development of science and industry and accumulation of huge amounts of money and power in the hands of a few. Classical example is 19th and early 20th century British Empire - it's IP laws are what to a big degree allowed US and Germany to catch up and surpass it.

Good think people like Isaac Newton (standing on the shoulders of giants) did not know about IP, or the humankind would still live in caves.

You can take any complex web site or app and say it has functions beyond some math theory. But just hacking around is often enough for a good enough solution.