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# Wanna meet @JustinBieber?? Get the details now- http://bit.ly/4DRUmb
2:41 PM Nov 19th from TweetDeck

But that's all I've seen. What happens if someone delete tweets (I don't do twitter)? Does it leave a notice of deletion?

The guy continued to send out tweets that he was signing autographs after the giant crowd dispersed.

[Citation needed]

From his twitter:

On my way to Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island, NY to sign and meet fans!! im pumped. see u there
11:59 AM Nov 20th from web

they are not allowing me to come into the mall. if you dont leave I and my fans will be arrested as the police just told us.
1:30 PM Nov 20th from web

the event at roosevelt mall is cancelled. please go home. the police have already arrested one person from my camp. I dont want anyone hurt
1:33 PM Nov 20th from web

Im sorry to everyone who was in Long Island at the Mall 2day. I was just trying to come meet fans and never meant to dissapoint anyone.
2:36 PM Nov 20th from web

today was crazy. feel awful about letting fans down. I tried to get there but they wouldnt let me in - http://bit.ly/727AUl
6:53 PM Nov 20th from web

So where exactly are these tweets of which you speak?

Right now the International Governance Forumn is going on in Egypt. This is the UN bunch of wonks that would like to have control of the Internet DNS cause they think US control ism well, it's not them.

They've been meeting for 4 years talking about this. Nobody in the US seems to take them seriously, and it really seems like a way for people in every contry to self select some "internet governance" guy then they all go drink bad wine and listen to bead speeches ad Keiren McCarthy opined.

John Zittrain from Harvard/Berkman was there, and Milton Mueller and the usual US policy wonks. One of Zittrains posters was torn down by a UN security official because the Chinese protested - the poster mentioned the great firewall of China.

The first rule of the great firewall of China at the UN is you don't talk about the great firewall of China at the UN.

http://twitter.com/zittrain
UN security forces destroy our poster at Internet Governance Forum for mentioning China's firewall: http://bit.ly/3nF2AG #IGF09 #UN-FAIL

Hopefully this will make people tweet a tad bit lesser.

I fear it's like hoping a large sponge will be able to lower ocean levels a foot. For some people, I'm sure they would only slack off on their Twitter use if the exploit made your computer grow a foot and kick you in the groin every time you tweeted.

@me: OWIE PC keeps OW kicking OW REALLY HURTS pics here: http://bit.ly/3423dghe

I'm sorry, but there are better methods for rickrolling than using generic URL shortening sites.

Phroggy (44`), When migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 you will not have an "in place upgrade" option. You will however have the option to select "custom" install when prompted. The Windows 7 install process will then copy all of your data in "My Documents" over to a Windows.old folder within Windows 7 itself. All applications and documents stored in other locations will have to be reinstalled / transferred manually. For more information on the Windows 7 Upgrade, please go here: http://bit.ly/3DvynK For additional assistance with the migration of Windows XP to Windows 7, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/mhbep4 When migrating from Windows Vista to Windows 7 you will have the option to select "custom" or "upgrade" install when prompted. By selecting the "upgrade" option, your documents and applications will follow and carry over through the install process. If you select, "custom" however you will be able to perform a clean install and all applications / documents will have to be reinstalled / transferred manually. Jessica Microsoft Windows Client Team

don't click the link. i was fooled. the posting and comments above are sophisticated hacks to get you to click the link and be rickrolled. the tactic recently attempted here: http://bit.ly/3Xdrd

Done by "private" funding of U.S. campaigns?? Yea maybe, but among other things, it's also done by "outlawing," private member based political parties. This tends to leave money as the primary organizing force in politics.

Uniquely, U.S. parties have few powers other than raising $$ - by law! SEE: What is a Political Party? http://bit.ly/117M0o

ALSO: The U.S.:Pathetic Democracy or Failed Constitutional Republic? http://bit.ly/ftukH

I_Voter

Done by "private" funding of U.S. campaigns?? Yea maybe, but among other things, it's also done by "outlawing," private member based political parties. This tends to leave money as the primary organizing force in politics.

Uniquely, U.S. parties have few powers other than raising $$ - by law! SEE: What is a Political Party? http://bit.ly/117M0o

ALSO: The U.S.:Pathetic Democracy or Failed Constitutional Republic? http://bit.ly/ftukH

I_Voter

Are you really that dense? This has nothing to do with any deception by dhermann. Let me spell it out for you.

His boss may very well have no problem with him reading tech or news sites while he's at work.

Rather dhermann would prefer not to follow a link posted in a discussion at "forums.megaculenewhardwarereviews.com" like this one (yes, this really is NSFW!):

Here's a post on my blog with some test results I got using the new BrandX SSD.

And have the boss red-alerted that dhermann's just paid a visit to PornTube using the company's Net connection.

This is bad enough with URL-shorteners (and one reason why I happen to detest them), but gets even worse when what appears in your status bar uses characters you can't even read.

*Now* do you get it?

The new model of human personality http://bit.ly/L1iM5 suggests that jocks would tend to be high in extraversion and low in agreeableness; whereas nerds would be low in extraversion and high in agreeableness. CEO's, political leaders and pro athletes tend toward the jock version. So if the geeks want to rule, they (ahem, I ) have to create a system that pushes power toward modes of action and decision-making that favor intelligence and agreeableness over bluster and force. Open source government, anyone?

I won an EMMY-award for a documentary I produced that contained 100% Amiga animation, titles and effects. I had three Amigas all genlocked with each other, overlaying multiple graphics in real-time to a 3/4" linear editing system. The trick was to have another operator trigger the effects on the furthest computer, since your arms couldn't reach that far. Otherwise, you had to be quick and have a well-oiled rolling chair. See clips here: http://bit.ly/wvECq

For some reason, I read the headline as "Are Software Developers Naturally Wired?"

On an unrelated note, do you want to try some Snow Crash? Free sample!

Cabjf (710106), Perhaps some of the most beneficial new features Windows 7 offers are in the areas of Virutalization (XP Mode), security (Bit-locker), and performance enhancements. To learn more about Windows 7 and to take a virtual tour, please go here: http://bit.ly/7b1cY Jessica Microsoft Windows Client Team

The following assumes this is a hardware patent you have in mind.

The days of patenting for the lone inventor are over, seriously. And what if you do patent it? You'll end up spend the bulk of your time, brain power, and meager resources defending it. Unless you have the resources to hire a cadre of lawyers, you won't even be able to defend infringements. And we've not even discussed international patents... which still won't stop Chinese knockoffs (at least not for the foreseeable future).

For insights into why the patent process is seldom useful for individuals:
http://bit.ly/12x7EJ
http://bit.ly/3glVfj

There is a lot of money being made in the (e.g.) open-hardware arena: you make a gadget (brilliant idea or not), sell a couple hundred or thousand, make some money and move on to the next thing (see Arduino, Chumby, SeeedStudio, Adafruit, Sparkfun). These guys publish the specs of pretty much everything they make, with enough detail that anybody else could copy it. Yet they are rather successful for small (closely held) businesses.

So my advice is:
Step 1: make
Step 2: publish (gets you publicity for your gadget BTW)
Step 3: open up a store front and sell
Step 4: ??? (there is no step 4)
Step 5: Profit!!!

It's easy to get anything manufactured in small quantities these days. And by the time somebody bothers to clone your idea (which kind proves that you must have made money, in a backhanded compliment kind of way), the hope is you've made some cash, and can spend your time innovating on the next great thing.

This is the secret to happiness my friend.

The following assumes this is a hardware patent you have in mind.

The days of patenting for the lone inventor are over, seriously. And what if you do patent it? You'll end up spend the bulk of your time, brain power, and meager resources defending it. Unless you have the resources to hire a cadre of lawyers, you won't even be able to defend infringements. And we've not even discussed international patents... which still won't stop Chinese knockoffs (at least not for the foreseeable future).

For insights into why the patent process is seldom useful for individuals:
http://bit.ly/12x7EJ
http://bit.ly/3glVfj

There is a lot of money being made in the (e.g.) open-hardware arena: you make a gadget (brilliant idea or not), sell a couple hundred or thousand, make some money and move on to the next thing (see Arduino, Chumby, SeeedStudio, Adafruit, Sparkfun). These guys publish the specs of pretty much everything they make, with enough detail that anybody else could copy it. Yet they are rather successful for small (closely held) businesses.

So my advice is:
Step 1: make
Step 2: publish (gets you publicity for your gadget BTW)
Step 3: open up a store front and sell
Step 4: ??? (there is no step 4)
Step 5: Profit!!!

It's easy to get anything manufactured in small quantities these days. And by the time somebody bothers to clone your idea (which kind proves that you must have made money, in a backhanded compliment kind of way), the hope is you've made some cash, and can spend your time innovating on the next great thing.

This is the secret to happiness my friend.

You'd probably have to look at server boards rather than desktop boards.

http://bit.ly/16EUiC

Link to Newegg with filtered set of ECC compatible server boards.

But you'll pay a lot more and probably need a larger case and a bunch of other BS, although it looks like there are some ATX factor boards.

Point-in-time legislative systems such as you describe exist elsewhere -- with notable open-access collections that have them in Canada and Australia. The first was developed in Tasmania some years ago (Google "Tasmania EnAct" to find information about it).

I'm not sure that diffs would do much to increase understanding, as they tend to operate at way too granular a level for people who just want to understand what the damn thing does. Sorta like trying to gauge the purpose and effects of a good-sized piece of software by reading a patch file. Not in my skill set, anyway.

The section-by-section Notes that accompany the United States Code provide a change history in narrative form. The Notes for a particular favorite of mine, the Wild Horse Annie Act, are here : http://bit.ly/ivW2b . Another interesting document tracking the evolution of the law, still more accessible to read, is the Annotated Constitution of the United States, one version of which is here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/index.html

hey "Anonymous" - you're right, i don't know how you figured it out, but you are clearly on to something big.

limor didn't do *any* of the web site or "real coding".

if you're really interested, here's the mastermind behind most of what you see at adafruit and ladyada...

http://bit.ly/sscsd

please keep this to yourself, thanks.

I am not claiming that forming a new political party in the U.S. is necessarily a bad idea. However, people should be aware of, what I believe, since the early 1900's, is the "exceptional" nature of political parties in the U.S..
Can You Define What a Political Party is?

I_Voter

Wld U vote 4 a candidate that fails to mention if any other candidate agrees w/ them on a single (specific) issue!
See some: Modern U.S. attempts at realistic party platforms.

There were infiltrators: http://bit.ly/3lJ6Z2

It was. From Twitter: RT @G20IMC Epic Police Fail: http://bit.ly/3lJ6Z2 Undercover officers attempt to infiltrate a March Against Police Brutality #G20 #reportg20

Windows XP called, they want their security model back.
In Vista and Windows 7, all users are normally regular users, but can run programs as administrators much like sudo.
See http://bit.ly/10KkWr (PDF) for more info.

Second Life is definitely *not* a viable platform for long-term businesses. Why? 1. Linden Lab actively holds hands with long-term Griefers like Tizzers Foxchase (Tizzers Teardrop) - aka the SL Woodbury University group. The new CEO Mark Kingdon doesn't seem to mind long-term griefers casually crashing simulators as well as stealing (copybotting) someone else's work and then selling it. 2. Linden Lab staff does not actually appreciate corporations/customers using it's Second Life VW platform - they'd rather laugh their heads off and call people 'losers' behnd their backs. ( Evidence: http://bit.ly/C0VM4 and http://bit.ly/LT7Hv ) 3. Your business can't grow very far in Second Life unless you actively *suck up* to the Linden Regime - applaud every single move made by Linden in order to gain a *HUGE* advantage over the in-world competition. Illegit *Bribing*, basically. ( Source: http://bit.ly/LT7Hv ) Corporations would be better off using some other platform, like Blue Mars and OpenSim, even though both are currently in public beta. Anonymous Coward? More like, if I reveal my identity, Linden Lab will ban me & take my business away, for whistleblowing! Though, they can't really sue me, since my statements are well backed up with evidence.

Second Life is definitely *not* a viable platform for long-term businesses. Why? 1. Linden Lab actively holds hands with long-term Griefers like Tizzers Foxchase (Tizzers Teardrop) - aka the SL Woodbury University group. The new CEO Mark Kingdon doesn't seem to mind long-term griefers casually crashing simulators as well as stealing (copybotting) someone else's work and then selling it. 2. Linden Lab staff does not actually appreciate corporations/customers using it's Second Life VW platform - they'd rather laugh their heads off and call people 'losers' behnd their backs. ( Evidence: http://bit.ly/C0VM4 and http://bit.ly/LT7Hv ) 3. Your business can't grow very far in Second Life unless you actively *suck up* to the Linden Regime - applaud every single move made by Linden in order to gain a *HUGE* advantage over the in-world competition. Illegit *Bribing*, basically. ( Source: http://bit.ly/LT7Hv ) Corporations would be better off using some other platform, like Blue Mars and OpenSim, even though both are currently in public beta. Anonymous Coward? More like, if I reveal my identity, Linden Lab will ban me & take my business away, for whistleblowing! Though, they can't really sue me, since my statements are well backed up with evidence.

Second Life is definitely *not* a viable platform for long-term businesses. Why? 1. Linden Lab actively holds hands with long-term Griefers like Tizzers Foxchase (Tizzers Teardrop) - aka the SL Woodbury University group. The new CEO Mark Kingdon doesn't seem to mind long-term griefers casually crashing simulators as well as stealing (copybotting) someone else's work and then selling it. 2. Linden Lab staff does not actually appreciate corporations/customers using it's Second Life VW platform - they'd rather laugh their heads off and call people 'losers' behnd their backs. ( Evidence: http://bit.ly/C0VM4 and http://bit.ly/LT7Hv ) 3. Your business can't grow very far in Second Life unless you actively *suck up* to the Linden Regime - applaud every single move made by Linden in order to gain a *HUGE* advantage over the in-world competition. Illegit *Bribing*, basically. ( Source: http://bit.ly/LT7Hv ) Corporations would be better off using some other platform, like Blue Mars and OpenSim, even though both are currently in public beta. Anonymous Coward? More like, if I reveal my identity, Linden Lab will ban me & take my business away, for whistleblowing! Though, they can't really sue me, since my statements are well backed up with evidence.

Had to write a blog post (meant to be humorous...) about this idea. If you are interested: http://bit.ly/3x59Dg If you are not interested, well it is still at that link you just shouldn't go there...

Now including 20% MORE references to Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and his plan to save Social Security by shooting old folks into space! I know lots of folks on the right are taking shots at HIM right now, and this sounds like one of them, but I actually point out that it was in a humor book and not meant to be serious. I don't consider myself part of the left or right. It is just funny to me that he is now a real live senator who really did write that once upon a time.

I would really, really like to go to Mars. But I would really, really, REALLY like to come back when I was done looking at rocks and dust and rocks.

If mankind lasts long enough I suspect we will colonize Mars. I am 100% certain it won't be within my lifetime, I am 90% certain that it won't be within the lifetime of anyone reading this (at the time it is posted... NO FAIR you future archaeologists!), and not willing to put a percentage on my certainty that mankind will last long enough. I don't mean one or two trips either, I mean a real colony that sustains itself and grows by means other than continued ship after ship of doomed people from earth.

Realistically I think we should have several decades of robotic exploration before we decide to send people. You know what? Sending robots is FAR, FAR, FAR cheaper than sending people EVEN ON A ONE WAY TRIP. I like the idea of manned exploration of space as much as anyone, but I think we can learn more from a LOT of unmanned missions instead of a few manned missions.

Got it. LINK Warning: NSFW!

this is a common practice. it's called advertising and marketing! see an example from 2003 here: http://bit.ly/MS-ad

He is driving to Tennessee.

He got his oil changed and radiator flushed. He sent two items to Tennessee via fedex with these tracking numbers, "868322701268" and "869744129440". He purchased "Garmin MapSource 24K TOPO - National Parks" at REI so he could stay off of the radar. What has tipped me off to that as he purchased a flash memory card at Best Buy and then returned it because he didn't need it.

He isn't traveling alone as he spent $170 at a restaurant.

It should take him about 5 days to drive to Tennessee. But more than likely he will be taking a few extra days at the National parks. What a vacation if you ask me, all expenses paid.

Nathan

Incorrect. The packages were shipped to DC and Memphis, respectively. http://bit.ly/17KWPG

I think you may have missed the sarcasm in my orginal statement.

If you aren't a shareholder it doesn't involve you...

Nothing could be further from the truth. Decisions are made, both for and against particular corporate policies, strategies and business practices, that affect tens of thousands every day. Love Canal, eWaste shipped overseas to China and India, and inferior construction on nuclear reactors in the US come to mind, there are multitudinous others.

... the shareholders don't seem to think it's good for them: the stock is down on the rumor.

All of which means that smart money is afraid of another TW/AOL debacle. Which if it goes forward would still affect all of the subscribers, who are (I would wager) non-shareholders/investors.

Which amply reinforces my points above.

The short version, the users will get hosed.

Take a look @ http://bit.ly/R7HBx Chapter 16 about Jonathan May. Interesting bit about the fed reserve and its curruption.

From the looks of it it's all base64 encoded shortened URLs.

aHR0cDovL2 is http:///
aHR0cDovL2JpdC5seS is http://bit.ly/

The first one is clipped.
The rest go to a pastebinish sites which have gbpm.exe encoded as Base64. It also appears the base64 is different but the exe has the same name (I'm guessing it's changed 'output'?)

http://rifers.org/paste/content/paste/9507/body?key=upd4t3
http://rifers.org/paste/content/paste/9508/body?key=upd4t3
http://rifers.org/paste/content/paste/9509/body?key=upd4t3

They also use Pastebin (http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=m49f3b4c2) and Debian.net (http://paste.debian.net/44059/download/44059) but both of those file have been deleted.

What view does the UK Pirate Party take of the view that your platform will harm Free (libre) software, as expressed by rms ?

I wonder what the loss of revenue is for companies like Dell who recently posted earnings of $3M from Twitter sales. I know for me, it's an inconvenience as I just released mobile versions of my rpg supplements and twittered about it, which will probably be lost in a see of tweets from various people this morning about twitter being down. I also promote other pdf books through a second Twitter account that is undoubtedly not gaining any referral fees with no one clicking on the links since the site is down. Ultimately though, my loss of revenue will be around $20 LOL so it's not like my mortgage payment or something that will make me a sad panda, but for companies like Dell, I wonder how much they estimate their losses at, probably higher than actual, but still a fair amount I bet.

American consumers MUST have fiber to their homes.

The FCC should at least update their definition of high speed Internet from 768Kbps to 100 Mbps / 100 Mbps, based on Japanese success since 2000, 9 years ago.

Given the current US market, only the following four things give American consumers any hope of freedom, bandwidth and Net Neutrality, but especially true and honest high speed bandwidth.

1. Government Deregulation. (This is how Japan got first 100 Mbps / 100Mbps and now get 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps for less per month)
2. Google via laying undersea cables, http://bit.ly/y8Ra7, they may be the only company large enough in America currently to pull this off. And they have the need from a bandwidth perspective with their business.
3. Greenlight, http://bit.ly/JKiSo, assuming the Cable Companies and Telcos have not paid off your elected officials already to prevent them from coming into your town, city and/or county. As many have already posted around the net, this has happened in their areas, politicians are bought and paid for. Also assumes that peering agreements can be reached. (Net Neutrality also) The American Telco / Cable Co / Wireline / Wireless Co oligopoly is lobbying D.C. at the rate of $1.5 million per week to protect their tiered pricing. Imagine if they put this plus the estimated $300 Billion they have received in government money + taxes + fees since the 1990s into new Fiber, we would already have Fiber to our home. When you think about it, it is criminal!
4. A new telco / fiber company enters the American market without peering agreements with any American telco and thus Cable Companies, Wireless companies, etc.... And is able to successfully put their own fiber in the ground or purchase dark fiber and light it up across the country.

Those are the ONLY solutions to the telco - cable company - wireless oligopoly and political lobbying that has been hurting Americans since 1990, preventing innovation. There was a reason AT&T was broken up, remember that, if the problems were not addressed and fixed, blame your elected officials. (Especially if they are in the committees changing the bills and laws for the lobbyists) The buck MUST stop with them. If American companies wanted to give Americans 100Mbps / 100Mbps for $55 or less per month (as in Japan since 2000, 9 years ago) or 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps for $52 or less per month (since 2006, 3 years ago) it would have already happened. It has not. The only logical reason for this not to have already occurred is the oligopoly greed of tiered pricing. This fact alone speaks volumes, all bad, the industry screams regulate me or I will continue to screw you, based on their actions. Their words are lies and FUD. History is loud and clear.

Remember the technology to increase bandwidth on a single strand of fiber from X1 to X1024 has existed since before 2000! As of 2006, the Japanese are using this technological innovation to increase bandwidth from 100Mbps / 100Mbps up to 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps. They can go higher still with the same fiber that was put into the ground way back in 2000 and before. Bandwidth scarcity is a MYTH!

You have to love this quote, we can hope but we should not leave it to hope alone, we must act:

upgrade your infrastructure and don't even think about blocking or degrading traffic. The war over network neutrality has been fought in the last two Congresses, and last week's introduction of the 'Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009' [PDF] means that legislators will duke it out a third time.

You mean a fight over pro-anything-consumer has not won against the over $1.5 million spent every week lobbying our elected officials has not been won after two fights and we are going for a third attempt and expect a different outcome, why? Seems crazy to me also, to do the same thing and expect a different resul

American consumers MUST have fiber to their homes.

The FCC should at least update their definition of high speed Internet from 768Kbps to 100 Mbps / 100 Mbps, based on Japanese success since 2000, 9 years ago.

Given the current US market, only the following four things give American consumers any hope of freedom, bandwidth and Net Neutrality, but especially true and honest high speed bandwidth.

1. Government Deregulation. (This is how Japan got first 100 Mbps / 100Mbps and now get 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps for less per month)
2. Google via laying undersea cables, http://bit.ly/y8Ra7, they may be the only company large enough in America currently to pull this off. And they have the need from a bandwidth perspective with their business.
3. Greenlight, http://bit.ly/JKiSo, assuming the Cable Companies and Telcos have not paid off your elected officials already to prevent them from coming into your town, city and/or county. As many have already posted around the net, this has happened in their areas, politicians are bought and paid for. Also assumes that peering agreements can be reached. (Net Neutrality also) The American Telco / Cable Co / Wireline / Wireless Co oligopoly is lobbying D.C. at the rate of $1.5 million per week to protect their tiered pricing. Imagine if they put this plus the estimated $300 Billion they have received in government money + taxes + fees since the 1990s into new Fiber, we would already have Fiber to our home. When you think about it, it is criminal!
4. A new telco / fiber company enters the American market without peering agreements with any American telco and thus Cable Companies, Wireless companies, etc.... And is able to successfully put their own fiber in the ground or purchase dark fiber and light it up across the country.

Those are the ONLY solutions to the telco - cable company - wireless oligopoly and political lobbying that has been hurting Americans since 1990, preventing innovation. There was a reason AT&T was broken up, remember that, if the problems were not addressed and fixed, blame your elected officials. (Especially if they are in the committees changing the bills and laws for the lobbyists) The buck MUST stop with them. If American companies wanted to give Americans 100Mbps / 100Mbps for $55 or less per month (as in Japan since 2000, 9 years ago) or 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps for $52 or less per month (since 2006, 3 years ago) it would have already happened. It has not. The only logical reason for this not to have already occurred is the oligopoly greed of tiered pricing. This fact alone speaks volumes, all bad, the industry screams regulate me or I will continue to screw you, based on their actions. Their words are lies and FUD. History is loud and clear.

Remember the technology to increase bandwidth on a single strand of fiber from X1 to X1024 has existed since before 2000! As of 2006, the Japanese are using this technological innovation to increase bandwidth from 100Mbps / 100Mbps up to 1 Gbps / 1 Gbps. They can go higher still with the same fiber that was put into the ground way back in 2000 and before. Bandwidth scarcity is a MYTH!

You have to love this quote, we can hope but we should not leave it to hope alone, we must act:

upgrade your infrastructure and don't even think about blocking or degrading traffic. The war over network neutrality has been fought in the last two Congresses, and last week's introduction of the 'Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009' [PDF] means that legislators will duke it out a third time.

You mean a fight over pro-anything-consumer has not won against the over $1.5 million spent every week lobbying our elected officials has not been won after two fights and we are going for a third attempt and expect a different outcome, why? Seems crazy to me also, to do the same thing and expect a different resul

there are more serious things going on: "Those With Goals Need Not Apply"; a commentary on the current unemployment crisis http://bit.ly/367z2Y

This site is along a mountain ridge while this site is offshore.

This site is along a mountain ridge while this site is offshore.

It's not dead yet anyway. This morning the House Appropriations Committee voted to continue support for the program. There's a vote coming up in the House about it, if it survives that it will have to be resolved in committee. http://bit.ly/12vABC

http://bit.ly/12S4a8 Feel free to join and ask questions!

... is not being spammed with 200 goddamn "Mafia Wars" requests every time I log in. Seriously, Facebook is slowly approaching MySpace levels of obnoxiousness... and it hasn't gotten better as Facebook started trying to "out-Twitter" Twitter. I used to log in multiple times a day... now I only log in once a week or so to clean up all the annoying notifications. Zuckerberg should have sold back when the economy was booming and his company wasn't facing exposure as a mere fad.

Facebook Purity will clean up the main page. And you can block applications and/or application invites from particular people as desired. You know, where it says "Block this application | Ignore all invitations from this friend" under every single one of those requests?

can people please verify this as accurate?

--- URGENT WARNING ABOUT USING PROXY SERVERS IN IRAN ---
from http//:spectregroup.org, a collaborative research aggregate
(we believe this information to be correct, but do please check for yourself)

excerpted from: http://bit.ly/xJ9aj
http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/what-tipped-you-off/

EVERY IRANIAN PLEASE USE SSL ENCRYPTION STARTING TOMORROW OR
THE USE OF ANONYMOUS PROXY SERVERS BY IRANIANS IS EXTREMELY UNSAFE

People in Iran please tell every person you know: EVERYONE use SSL proxy servers starting tomorrow on all internet traffic, or please stop using proxies! In spite of everyone's best intentions, when used in limited numbers as they are now, it's likely that internet proxies are simply automating an opposition arrest list (or death list) for the regime.

Please understand that Iran's network-control is state of the art, and Iranian security can inspect ALL traffic easily in an automated fashion, through its centralized choke point. It's likely that anyone using a proxy is quickly spotted and tracked. Proxies are an effective way to get information out, but the use of proxies will not be safe unless EVERY SINGLE PERSON in Iran uses one. EVERYONE.

SSL/TLS (https) can be about 4 to 5 times the packet size in transmission, which makes the bandwidth throttling of the Iranian Security forces more difficult (the Iranian internet is painfully, selectively, slow since it was shut down). If everyone were to use it, for all communications, then all traffic would look the same, and dissidents could not be so easily singled out. This is sometimes called 'faking the weather.' We must recommend either EVERYONE uses SSL proxies, in order to protect each other, or NO ONE does.

IT/Networking professionals will recognize the tactics in commonplace IPS or IDS systems. Iran is clearly using payload inspection and filtering systems- both for blocking, and collecting information. This is done easily, since (without SSL) none of the material being sent is encrypted. (TOR encryption, btw, can be blocked.) Security professionals will understand that scaling firewalls to a national size is a solved problem. Cisco's Netflow is used in network gear throughout the world to record network traffic, and common new style 'deep packet inspection' network products are capable of extremely efficient real-time network processing and data collection.

The longer you wait the more proxy users will be arrested. Tell your grandmothers, tell everyone you know: find a safe SSL proxy, learn to use it, and only use SSL/TLS proxies from now on. They are not difficult to use. If everyone does this, Iran will have an unfiltered internet; to block it the Iranian government would be forced to turn off their WHOLE internet connection (again). Also remember, anonymous proxies can be hijacked: SSL provides validation that you're talking to the right person.

In Summation: Without maximum use in Iran of these SSL/TLS proxy technologies, in spite of best intentions, and with incredible efficiency, the outside internet community is most likely helping to automate an Iranian dissident death/arrest list. I can not overstate this.

Everyone in Iran please start using ssl proxies immediately. today. now.

SSL/TLS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
http://www.openssl.org/

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD:
EVERY IRANIAN USE SSL CRYPTO STARTING TOMORROW!
OR IRANIANS USING PROXIES ARE NOT SAFE

Say it again once more, simply?
On the outside, https proxies (SSL/TLS) for encryption and server validation* are absolutely necessary. Please set them up. (* validation to defend against Iran Security Forces performing man-in-the-middle attacks)

On the inside, EVE

I am using Twitter World - Breaking Borders to auto translate Farsi Tweets to English on my iPhone. Cool. Helps. Helps

Bozeman is having a City Commission Meeting Monday, June 22nd. We need to get as many people writing emails to them as possible to let them know this is unacceptable and ask them to reverse their policy. I've contacted the City Clerk's office and have learned that EVERY email that we send with the words "PUBLIC COMMENT" in the subject will be printed and a copy given to each Commissioner and the Mayor. How many REAMS of paper can we get stacked on their desks in time for the City Commission Meeting? I've sent mine! The address, names, and a sample letter are available here: http://bit.ly/ZBCxa

One of the most fun things about Opera Unite is that it allows standard users to enable it and run websites from behind the corporate firewall. As long as Opera has been installed on a computer, a standard user doesn't need admin privileges to enable Unite. Most corporate firewalls won't block the traffic because the local version of opera will establish the session tunnel to the opera unite servers, through which all incoming web traffic will travel. More here: http://bit.ly/4gmpFv

Sentences like this are silly: "His theory states that the known universe is only a 2D construct in anti-de-Sitter space, projected into 3 dimensions."

No, the Universe has 3 spatial dimensions and one for time. If you take spacetime seriously, writing software to animate equations in 3D space + time, then you can get visual insights into physics that make sense.

Take EM. It has a symmetry called U(1), but non-technical people can understand it as a circle (in the complex plane for the technical folks). If you have an electrical charge, then you have a circle in a complex plane so you have the symmetry U(1), visualphysics.org/forums Why is electric charge quantized? Because you can count circles.

Doug
http://VisualPhysics.org

I agree, bit.ly & such are good for texting, but not for publishing. lol

You know, they can even get altered like bit.ly did with http://bit.ly/h4PCD

called "Scientology and me". A guy from the investigative reporting show "Panorama" went to the US to interview members of the cult, its former members and current opponents. He ends up being spied on and hassled in a very in-your-face fashion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_Me And here's the episode: http://bit.ly/snNZ4