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The problem of unexploded ordinance goes back much further than World War I. In 2008, a guy was killed by a canon ball from the U.S. Civil War (140 year old ordinance) http://bit.ly/2O4M7j

The Autodesk opinion is calling you a fucking idiot liar. When you purchase software, you OWN that copy of the software forever.

http://bit.ly/ct8D08 (that is to lawupdates.com)

Where do you people come up with this foolishness? So, you put up your corporation and I will raise you an opinion that really matters.

Government is not charity, it's legalized theft.

According to the "centrist" "founding father" James Madison - the principle task of government is economic regulation,
FP #10 Principle Task of Government.

The U.S. has solved this problem by removing the significance of honesty from party politics.

Understanding the relationship between political parties, and political rhetoric
in the U.S. What is a Political Party?

I_Voter
My very amateur Web Site:
Citizen's Political Power in the U.S.

The only multitouch phone getting Flash anytime soon is the Palm Pre. At least, that has been actually announced.

Bart, get out! I'm piss!

(NWS http://bit.ly/bTTvBz NWS)

From http://twitter.com/wikileaks WikiLeaks now accept credit card donations without paypal. thanks! http://bit.ly/wldonate https://tipit.to/wikileaks.org Unfortunately tipit is down at the moment i write this.

But he's not a citizen! This site proves it definitely!

http://bit.ly/2O6ut4

I just don't know why you think the public can't unite to create lobbying organizations. The public has been uniting to do that very thing since 1944. If you really are interested in donating your $25 to a lobbying organization and don't know how to find one yet, I would suggest starting here: http://bit.ly/7CsOua

Agreed. Here in the UK the Information Commissioner has just received powers to fine up to £500,000 for data breaches: http://bit.ly/69Ufrz. I think that may help address financial incentive balance.

I love discussions like this - it amazes me how corporate IT can think of themselves like vendors, when they typically have minimal skills in that regard. I wrote about chargebacks a few years ago - the good and the bad ... http://bit.ly/6YeInd See also ... http://bit.ly/EwsC ... lots of different ways to think about the business / IT relationship

I love discussions like this - it amazes me how corporate IT can think of themselves like vendors, when they typically have minimal skills in that regard. I wrote about chargebacks a few years ago - the good and the bad ... http://bit.ly/6YeInd See also ... http://bit.ly/EwsC ... lots of different ways to think about the business / IT relationship

The USCG you are great,

I read somewhere that USCG saves somebody's life every 20 minutes. A bit of mundane heroism.

GET OVER IT the arguing and give a few dollars.

Thanks for an excuse to trash my least favorite pundit.

http://bit.ly/8jSlnX

And you credit card companies. If you don't want to be damned for all time. . .

Too late!

I can honestly say that the people from Haiti I have meet have all been wonderful people. I am sure that just like every group of people their are the good, the bad, and the terrible. I don't think one can say that Haitians hate or love any group. They are people. Right now all I can say is that they need our help and we need to help.
Simple as that and I suggest that we stop damning any nation that is helping. Heck Cuba is giving the US overflight rights for relief flights. Iceland is helping out. I have the greatest respect for every group that is helping out. At this point historical grudges are useless. All that matters is the future and helping. So yes Doctors without Boarder you are great. The Red Cross. You are great. American Airline "they flew in 50,000 lbs of supplies yesterday" you are great. The USCG you are great, The USN you are great. Catholic Relief services you are great. The kid that is going to give his or her allowance is great.
GET OVER IT the arguing and give a few dollars. As Clinton said, "right now we need a whole lot of people to each give even just a little". http://bit.ly/4vM63t is a list of some of the best charities to donate to.

And to the scammers out there taking money that should be going to help. I want you found, skinned alive, rolled in rock salt, and dunked in vinegar!

And you credit card companies. If you don't want to be damned for all time wave all credit card fees for donations to reputable charities retroactively.

If you're paying so much for all that gear, you're doing it wrong... ;)
http://bit.ly/8Mjw6x

It's a good thing there's actually a customized version of the Wii just for those girls that don't want their boyfriends to have a proper HD setup...
http://bit.ly/7wnVfm

Developers Developer Developers reference

Here is one example of trademark issue from "nobody". I made a iPhone twitter client called Nukkad (URL: http://bit.ly/Z0uaY). It has capability to use Google Translate to inline translate tweets. It used to be called Twitter World. First I heard from Google. They wanted me to put up "Translated by Google" at the top of every screen which includes translation. Next I heard from Twitter, they wanted me to change the name. All issue were resolvable. I am nobody hardly make any money, but yes the big Corporations do go after nobody even if you are not making any money.

One of the books in Google Books is this collection of all the articles from the first issues of 1910.

http://bit.ly/7Xwqj5

Wow, if only someone had foreseen all this http://bit.ly/uMzJr

How many here know why greenhouses are green ?

answer: http://bit.ly/864NW3

Because they're full of friggin foliage, that's why. Your link answers the question "why are leaves green" quite nicely though. :)

How many here know why greenhouses are green ?

answer: http://bit.ly/864NW3

"No one will develop", crappy apps, I have a link for you ....

http://bit.ly/7eQb6f/

Lets see, the best mobile browser on the planet, Fennec, is first introduced on exactly what platform? iPhone? Nope. Android? Not. WinCE? Don't think so.

Apple is very cautious about what they allow in the store because they are a VERY big target. The stories about difficulty getting apps approved are not exaggerated. I tried to release a Bobble Head Obama app before the election last year and it was rejected because it "ridiculed a public figure" - I responded that caricature was not the same thing as ridicule and never heard back from anyone. My most recent game took over a month to make it through their hoops - apparently it's ok to show massive amounts of cleavage like the infamous "Asian Boobs" app but if you have cartoon bikini chicks in the icon you've gone too far. I finally got my game in the store but was told that it would not be sold in China. I guess the Chinese hate girls in bikinis too! http://bit.ly/8Q0vyA

Because Twitter is designed around the SMS, which puts a natural limit on the number of characters available per message (160)?

The URL to the story is 90 characters by itself, leaving only 70 for the rest of the message. You only need 20 for a typical http://bit.ly/ URL.

Like I said before, any information medium is going to have it's garbage and it's useful content.

That's obvious. The problem is that twitter is really like reading the graffiti on a bathroom wall. It's random nobodies spewing mostly gibberish. "Call Kate for a good time" may be useful information to someone. It may even be factual. But you have absolutely no idea who said it or if it's true.

Perhaps you're a gamer and would find links to articles about new video games very useful even though I wouldn't be too interested in them.

"Bioshock is the bestest game ever!" "Guys nobody buy Fallout it sucks lol http://bit.ly/273hd"

Yeah, real useful.

If I want information on games, or sports, or the attacks on Mumbai, I'll visit news sites or forums where there's some semblence of coherency and cohesion to the information. And more than that, I can get actual details. You illustrate that quite nicely:

You're going to tell me that "Hi jacked police vehicle had terrorists firing on innocent citizens and drove around Mumbai. No reports if have been apprehended" didn't contain *ANY* useful information?

Yes, I'm going to tell you that. Some guy says that some vehicle, somewhere, had terrorists. Fascinating. Oh, and he adds that he doesn't know if they've been caught. You know, I could have told you that and I wasn't even there. And since you have no idea who I am, my information is about as reliable as his, since you have no idea who he is either.

I don't see how that is functionally any different from "Situation bad, people are fighting," really. There's no context, no accountability, no details, and no actual information beyond some guy claiming that bad guys are driving around shooting. That's not information. That's nonsense. You don't even know where this guy is allegedly getting his information. Was he there? Did he see it? Or he just overheard someone talking about it? Who knows?

Frankly, from looking at that, it seems like he was just "tweeting" what he was hearing on the news. Well, I can turn on the news just as easily as he can.

Everything there was completely devoid of context, and almost completely devoid of information. "more fires". "heard more explosions". "reports of terrorists". "police on the scene".

This tells me nothing. It's aimless rambling from some unknown guy with unknown sources, and quite honestly, reading that gave me zero insight into what was going on in Mumbai beyond a vague sense that, well, the situation was bad and lots of people were fighting. At a hotel, it seems.

Historians use something like Anne Frank's diary to better understand the plight and turmoil of people who lived through that era, because it contained actual information, details, and most of all, context. Do you really think that, decades from now, someone's going to be able to sift through the avalanche of garbage on twitter and come out with a better understanding of the problems in Mumbai because some anonymous twit said that he heard there were terrorists in police cars, or that hospitals need blood?

it just seems unfair to condemn a communications method and everyone who uses it simply because you don't see a use for it for you.

My point is that I have yet to see a use for it for anyone, even when people like you earnestly try to rationalise it. You just stepped up to the plate and the best examples you could find were "I heard someone's driving around shooting" and "Newsflash, hospitals could use more blood."

Having seen that, and countless other examples of the allegedly "useful" information being disseminated on twitter, I've concluded that twitter, as a medium, is abjectly worthless and of no real value to anyone, nor will it ever be. That may sound like a stubborn, heavy-handed, and sweeping conclusion, but I stand by it. It is all vapid, mindless drivel of barely-coherent sentence fragments. It's complete trash.

End of rant.

Given how bloated Emacs is, you're more likely to be able to get Firefox for Emacs.

You jest, good sir, but I have been toiling on just such a foul creation. They said I was crazy, but could a crazy person really embed the Uzbl web browser into Emacs? NO! Those cowards were merely afraid of the infinite power I would wield by putting a browser in Emacs. Think, then, of their horror when they learn that someone put an Emacs clone in the browser.

Behold, the fruit of my demonic labors: Ymacs in Uzbl in Emacs. IT'S ALIVE!!!

Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

and their reward: http://bit.ly/5gL0ll

Can you imagine if Chase had to donate $1M to the Marijuana Policy Project?

That's even more difficult to imagine than a Rage Against The Machine song topping the charts at Christmas. Oh wait...

Fart jokes actually came first, per one of the earliest tweets in the stream, he based his design upon a fart detecting office chair over at instructables(twitter-style shortened, just because).

What's next? Fart jokes?

From The Article:

Before I go any further I should say 90% the tech is ripped from http://bit.ly/kvALJ with a load of motion sensing tech added instead.

Follow the link. It's a fart detecting chair.

I absolutely agree. In fact, this new technology I've patented has produced better than HD compression with unparalleled image quality. Contact me if you're interested in licensing.

Here's my (very close) recreation of the events:

http://bit.ly/5qPnvJ

Don't worry if you clicked the link, you are one of the 198,052 who did the same.

To get the metrics on the link just type /info/ between bit.ly and the unique identifier like this http://bit.ly/info/4kb77v

Hmm...

http://bit.ly/4kb77v+#conversations_data

Most of the time I cross such a shortened url, I want to see the full url before the redirect is completed. Tinyurl's preview option let me do that, without an account/login, it just saves the setting in a cookie.

Bit.ly has a Firefox plugin to preview urls, but I don't want to install a browser plugin for each service. And what if I'm using another browser?

I'm hoping Google will implement something similar to Tinyurl's system.

Check out this awesome new site I found! http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ [thelongest...nglast.com]

This one I can reasonably assume has something to do with things that are long.

Check out this awesome new site I found! http://bit.ly/PFfFp [bit.ly]

This one could be anything from Rickroll to malware to goatse.

Which one would you rather click on?

Here's your answer: http://bit.ly/4kb77v

Bastard!

Aside from twitter and SMS which both have self-imposed limits, what's the point of these things?!

A demonstration is in order!

Check out this awesome new site I found! http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com

Versus

Check out this awesome new site I found! http://bit.ly/PFfFp

In fact, that first url will not let me post because it says "Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there." So there's a good reason!

[bbc.co.uk]

Here's your answer: http://bit.ly/4kb77v

We keep giving more of our independence and power to Google. Google, have mercy!

Fortunately, for folks such as yourself Google has provided an opt-out service for you: http://bit.ly/4kDFIH

the "hide" option, as its name declares only hides the posts from that application, it doesnt stop that application from harvesting your facebook profile data, or from other people inviting you to add that application or notifications from that application. one solution is the facebook purity script available from http://bit.ly/fbpure which adds a "block app" function to each post from any application, which allows you to actually block the application with just a couple of quick clicks. blocking the application means you will no longer see posts from that app, it will not be able to harvest any data from your profile, you will not ever be invited to add that application, you will not receieve notifications from that application. it also automatically hides all application posts, transferring them to a separate section, and also includes a whitelisting capability to allow app posts from apps you want to see.

You're looking for Facebook Purity.

Requires Greasemonkey.

Do you want to make a difference in this?

Start Twittering http://bit.ly/jurynull with the hashtag #jury-nullification.

To HELL with the law, bring justice back to the hands of the people.

Is Mafia Wars one of those annoying applications that comes up every five seconds if you know more than three morons?

I started running FB Purity* and now I don't get to see all those games and things any more.

*Requires Greasemonkey
I'm not affiliated with Greasemonkey or FB Purity

Dell did respond to the question with what they call a fix. They say the "issues arose under more extreme thermal and usage models" Not sre what that means - perhaps it occurs where people are actually using the laptop. They also claim not to have banned anyone. Tinkerdude responds with more data, see the Dell blog (Direct2Dell) at http://bit.ly/6IsqaF

This is actually not true. Windows 7 beat Harry Potter for highest pre-sale item in Amazon.com history. http://bit.ly/7hnx8i

A good chunk of our revenue comes from the box actually, even with Vista.

I work at Microsoft :)

Gold Base would be a GREAT place for a flash mob. http://bit.ly/4ZyrZz : Replies denote interest.

I see your boat and raise you one Rick http://bit.ly/3bSd3B