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Mr Stokes said his group had reported numerous discriminatory Blogger journals to Google, both through the "flag" button that appears on each blog and through an email form that Mr Stokes said was "buried in their site, very hard to find".

The "Flag?" button is a means by which readers of Blog*Spot can help inform us about potentially questionable content, so we can prevent others from encountering such material by setting particular blogs as "unlisted." This means the blog won't be promoted on Blogger.com but will still be available on the web -- we prefer to keep in mind that one person's vulgarity is another's poetry. Or something like that.

When the community has voted and hate speech is identified on BlogSpot, Google may exercise its right to place a Content Warning page in front of the blog and set it to "unlisted."

For more serious cases, such as spam blogs or sites engaging in illegal activity, we will continue to enforce our existing policies (removing content and deleting accounts when necessary).

For all the non-Australians with no idea where the uncovered meat reference came from, an Australian sheikh has just managed to more or less publicly blame scantily clad women for inviting rape, causing an uproar there. Condemnation has been quick; John Major already chimed in to call the comments "preposterous."

Having said that, Google has said content would need to be illegal, e.g. spam related before they would actually remove it. Anyone else read this and hear echoes of user 606117 writing yesterday, "Don't come to Australia"?

increase exercise (probably well over 200% average increase in the US - hard to do in our car dependent world)

It is not hard to increase exercise. It just takes a whole different mindset to do it. I used to go to the gym 1 hour, 5 days per week for 4 months and lost like 0.2kg (which is next to nothing). Hell, I lost more time going to and from the gym by car than actually in there! Thinking back, I think my approach to exercise was a bit like this.

So I dropped the gym, started jogging 1+1 hours per day (which only requires time and maybe tennis shoes) and lost over 10x as much weight in less than half the time. Plus I feel better, get some solar rays, and do not pay any friggin gym bills!

Here are examples of my new mindset:

Going by car? Park further away from the place you are going and WALK there.

Need to change a TV channel? Get off the sofa and change the channel on the TV set instead of using the remote.

Take the stairs instead of using the elevator. If you cannot go all the way by stairs because you are terribly out of shape, only take the elevator part of the way.

Jog instead of walking at work. Probably your co-workers will laught at you, the plus side is distracted bosses will think you are a dynamic fellow (while you are getting your exercise while he is paying you). Hah.

If you got spare time after lunch, walk or jog. Besides helping burn the calories off lunch, I find exercise clears my mind even more than resting does. Probably the endorphins from exercise. Better than Heroin, without the side effects, and its free!

Wait, wait, hold the presses! This just in: the man is a college graduate, the CSO of his own company no less. He appears to be over the age of 22. We're still awaiting confirmation on this.

http://www.blogger.com/profile/7837801

He was educated at the University of Arkansas, where he was a Chancellor's Scholar, studying Economics, Political Science, and Philosophy.

A true renaissance man! Who better to teach me the ways of XMLHttpRequest masters?

Is postmodern philosophy not your thing? Then let Skinner woo you with his poetry:

http://www.skinnerlayne.com/

I don't know about you all, but reading that evoked a sense of being punched in the gut. I think I puked a little in my mouth.

Perhaps only one question remains: Was this being cast down into the realm of men explicitly to devour souls, or does he have a day job too?

The day I meet my new manager who introduces himself as Skinner Layne, I think will be the day I end it all.

This is so ungoogle. Google builds, not buys.

  No, Google buys too.

No, I commented on it too. Here's some food for thought:

http://www.matasano.com/log/window-snyder
http://www.blogger.com/profile/13043301

Someone with a hotmail address (windowsnyder@hotmail.com) as a security expert on XP? No wonder Windows is broken. My own tests show that more than 1% of all hotmail addresses are down temporarily on any particular day.

Sure it does

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5955/293/1600/p ano4.jpg

"... since the customer service infrastructure for a MMORPG eats the most revenue and generates less than favorable results, it may be entirely possible to cut customer service offerings down entirely to a set of automated tools and save the money spent designing for satisfied customers."

This sucks! When it comes to customer support for online games I am very enthusiastic about the human touch.

The first MMOG I played, There, sported truly revolutionary customer support - players could summon a support technician to "physically" appear before them and help guide them through their issue. People could volunteer to be virtual caregivers to help those with more common and non-pressing issues. Talking to one of these individuals really made me feel like my business was appreciated.

Guild Wars, with no monthly fees, has the best customer support of any software product I've ever owned. A human always gets back to me within 24 hours and their reply always contains personal assistance from a named and individually accountable person, accompanied by 5 automatically chosen "best fit" FAQ links that are suggested by some kind of algorithm (hit and miss). On more than one occasion they have thanked ME for bringing my issues to their attention, and thus, on several occasions I have taken the time to write back to express my great satisfaction with their business model.

Conversely, I required technical support from Blizzard for an issue in WoW. I couldn't find a customer support link anywhere on their site. All I could find was a user forum. I went to the forum and attempted to ask a question but I was prompted to create an account first. I looked and looked for a link to create an account when I finally glanced in the corner to see that the logon server was completely offline! My issue was eventually resolved by a friend that I conversed with over my cell phone at my additional expense. That's what you get for $15/m from Blizzard. That and slow-as-molasses Bittorrent P2P distribution of mandatory patches.

I will not resubscribe to WoW due to Blizzard's atrocious service. However, I will very gladly and readily subscribe to ArenaNet and NCSoft games now that I see how dearly they appreciate my business and how important it is to them that I get the most out of my gaming experience at all times.

But if we're talking about this Window Snyder she is kinda cute. You know, for a former MS security expert.

We can draw two possible conclusions from this.

Ahhh, but you've overlooked the most important factor: Window Snyder is female! Therefore neither of your proposed solutions is correct. Slashdot readers, once they have discovered this will completely forget all context in the discussion. They will find pictures, fawn over teh hotness, and begin building web shrines in their basements throughout the globe.

Gentlemen, ready your hot grits. :-P

didn't read the article then?

he's a she: http://www.blogger.com/profile/13043301

The new blogger beta doesn't allow you to host the blog on your own site anymore....

Addendum:
I have devised a system by which an even older method can be used to detect the vast majority of contemporary terrorists. This method, which involves only a pen and paper, consists of offering each passanger the opportunity to illustrate a cartoon involving the prophet Mohammed* if they desire to be fast tracked through the screening process. Anyone who refuses the fast track process could then be subjected to a system involving far more scrutiny.

*This method is supported by the empirical evidence that has been collected during the Danish Cartoon Riots and Crisis.

"A lot of blogs will take user comments and stick them into their own RSS feeds," he said.

Blogger doesn't (directly) support comment feeds. If you're interested in setting this up on your Blogspot blog (so you can, for example, get truly recent comments), check out this bloghacking wiki.

I can't vouch for the security of these methods, though.

-Thetan.

Targeting Hezbollah installations only? Right.

There is no way they had to cause $60 billion dollar damage to the lebanese infrastructure, because they wanted to destroy some Hezbollah installations.

Blogger has audio CAPTCHAs now. Check out my blog for an example.

I see a non-loading image's alternate text "Visual verification", and the accessibility link takes me to "Page Not Found".

Blogger has audio CAPTCHAs now. Check out my blog for an example.

And they're doing it for accounts too: Check it out.

So yes, now they're doing audio CAPTCHAs.

So of course the first thing I thought of:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/687/3313/1024/s creenshot_004.jpg

Not trying to be a jerk, I really was just wondering what would come up. This is a very interesting search function.

Is this what you're looking for? Or this?

OMG! My brain has to be rewired, it's telling me that the parent is a female http://www.blogger.com/profile/15364702. Please tell me I'll survive.

While we enjoy cooking in the desert summer heat, have fun with your tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, and highly variable temperatures. Living in the desert is awesome. We have continuous temperatures of 75-80 all year. Going outside in the summer during the day sucks but that's why we have A/C, wide roads, and pools which are pretty much standard.

People building also doesn't make everything hotter in the desert. If anything, it cools the desert down because people plant and maintain grass, and trees and which help cool down the soil.

The real problems around global warming are places where high temperatures are not expected, A/C is not available, and walking is a necessity to move around. In other cities with temperate climes many people die when there is a heat wave. In Phoenix it doesn't happen as much because people know what to expect and are not crazy enough to hang out in the heat.

BTW, here is a picture of Phoenix surrounded by snow this past winter

FYI: Google already owns Blogger.

I guess it's better than Dilbert security model.

£ 3.50 for a doner kebab, it's pretty clear where he got his inspiration from in trying to sell overpriced stuff. Jeez man, more than 5 euro for a doner, what a scam!!! And it doesn't really look like a top location to ask for such prices. Or maybe if it's a doner plate and they add extra fries and salad and stuff, but it's hard to see on the picture. Or maybe these are normal prices in the UK/london, and I will wonder even more how normal working-class people can survive out there as the income doesn't really seem to scale along with the prices.

For your viewing pleasure:

The original ebay auction (someone might wanna grab a mirror in case ebay decides to pull that down). Up for auction is a refurbished HP laptop with a 2.8 GHz P4 with two gigs of ram, a 15" screen and a DVD+/-RW. Ironically enough, the HD capacity is not listed.

The seller, amir6626, who is no longer a registered ebay member with a feedback score of -2 (0 at the time of the auction with only one or two total feedback tops).

The buyer, spikytom, an ebay member since '02 with a score of 79 (70 at the time of the auction) with a total of 1 negative feedback.

The bid history. Of note here is the fact that the auction was sniped 20 seconds before ending for GBP$350 (roughly US$660), quite a deal on the laptop that was listed.

For your viewing pleasure:

The original ebay auction (someone might wanna grab a mirror in case ebay decides to pull that down). Up for auction is a refurbished HP laptop with a 2.8 GHz P4 with two gigs of ram, a 15" screen and a DVD+/-RW. Ironically enough, the HD capacity is not listed.

The seller, amir6626, who is no longer a registered ebay member with a feedback score of -2 (0 at the time of the auction with only one or two total feedback tops).

The buyer, spikytom, an ebay member since '02 with a score of 79 (70 at the time of the auction) with a total of 1 negative feedback.

The bid history. Of note here is the fact that the auction was sniped 20 seconds before ending for GBP$350 (roughly US$660), quite a deal on the laptop that was listed.

1:) All the people here talking about deleting contents of your harddrive get the point wrong. This guy sold his laptop because it broke and he was too stupid to consider mounting the HD in an other PC and moving the contents before selling it. The HD was still fully functioning, and it took the buyer no effort to get the contents of it, which he was eager to do as he was screwed by buying a broken laptop which status was mentioned as "refurbished".

2:) The buyer is an unreasonable dick, because he could have known that this was not a serious seller. The buyer posts screenshots of the e-bay auction, that make this clear here and here. Just read the text the seller wrote, and you know that this is a no-go. Still, the buyer goes on ranting that the seller described himself as a businessman, yeah, idiot, did he really believe that?

Nasty people will try to screw you when selling material over the internet (and not only there), and stupid people will get screwed at obvious scams. Any interference by law representatives or even the media is just a waste of time in this case.

1:) All the people here talking about deleting contents of your harddrive get the point wrong. This guy sold his laptop because it broke and he was too stupid to consider mounting the HD in an other PC and moving the contents before selling it. The HD was still fully functioning, and it took the buyer no effort to get the contents of it, which he was eager to do as he was screwed by buying a broken laptop which status was mentioned as "refurbished".

2:) The buyer is an unreasonable dick, because he could have known that this was not a serious seller. The buyer posts screenshots of the e-bay auction, that make this clear here and here. Just read the text the seller wrote, and you know that this is a no-go. Still, the buyer goes on ranting that the seller described himself as a businessman, yeah, idiot, did he really believe that?

Nasty people will try to screw you when selling material over the internet (and not only there), and stupid people will get screwed at obvious scams. Any interference by law representatives or even the media is just a waste of time in this case.

Blogger For Word.

And you won't care if someone parked in the handicapped spot!

The first thing I do when I install XP is disable Luna and all the graphical tweaks except for show window contents while dragging. XP is nice and snappy and stable when you make it look like 95!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7022/1036/1600/ uptime.0.jpg

Just a couple of months ago i visited this page http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500. The ranking now has altered more than expected. Google should have been on the top of the top list, but also think about the research done by comScore Media. Let us take a look at some of the networking sites like http://www.blogger.com/ and http://www.hi5.com/. These site is much popular in the Asian countries like India and China. Huh ... the population matters ... that too to take part freely. I bet it will increase more ... let it ...

Some guy who looks like a crossbreed of hippie and tibetan monk tells that Flash is taking our freedom because his software is lagging behind...

I know he's right, but if didn't know this before, after reading TFA I'd think he's been smoking something.

How suits in management are supposed to believe what he's saying and dump MS Office? Will anyone drop enterprise Java because it's evil as in Vi-Vi-Vi?

The biggest problem facing independent distribution is the signal-to-noise ratio. It's easy enough these days to make a movie, CD, app, or any other sort of media and distribute it -- and people are doing that nonstop. On any college campus, there are more artistic events than crowds to attend them. The problem is sorting out the good stuff and delivering it to passive consumers.

Old Media established itself performing that service. Now, it's becoming clear that we don't really need them to do it for us, with mainstream music and Hollywood blockbusters becoming ever more WTF-ish and handy Web apps making the task of finding high-quality independent stuff ever easier. I don't think consumers a whole see these copyrights as being anywhere near as valuable as the corporate owners do. Remember that Netscape used to sell for $40 [didn't check fact at all], videotapes used to sell for aroun $99, and a CD with one good song would sell for $20 (as opposed to $0.99 on iTunes). I'm suggesting that a media copyright isn't a perfect monopoly: As competitive, free and independent media proliferates, the value of a media copyright approaches zero.

Steve Wozniak, the (co)founder of Apple Computers, once remarked that he thought every one would write the software he or she needed, and people would be free of the big software companies forever! While many quality open source applications are available, there are still many software niches where open source alternatives are either nonexistent or lacking compared to a commercial alternative.

It gets better every year. I've found OOo even more effective than MS Office, at a company where everyone else is using MS Office. That's nuts.

When desktop publishing software became affordable, some analysts predicted that every person could have their own magazine; this is not the case.

Note the following:

• Blogger
• Livejournal
• Myspace
• Purevolume
• MP3.com [RIP]
• CurrentTV
• How are you unable to find pr0n online?

Yes, the analysts were wrong: Everyone actually has several of their own magazines now. The problem is that media isn't worth what it used be. So media companies struggle to hold onto the most valuable things they have, while consumers see less and less importance in any single item.

The Homer character played by Vernon Singleton of Orlando. http://www.blogger.com/profile/10768670 Leap-cf.org

All these features as well as ease of use already exsist at Blogger (a Google company). So should the article read "Typepad and LiveJournal, in the future, will embrace technology like Blogger.com"?

"Ogg, Wavpack, FLAC and MPC can all be played on Ipod "

My gawd that looks like shit:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7140/1647/1600/ RBIpod.jpg

Why in the fuck would you want to destroy an iPod that was designed around simplicity to use this...there are other CHEAPER just as hackable portable music players out there that might actually be improved with this interface, but I have a feeling if the playing screen is going to look this much like shit, the rest of the interface is as well.

I'm sorry, but it sounds like a great experiment and if I didn't have only a 1st Gen iPod I'd probably load it up to serve my geek curiosity, but I can guarentee you it wouldn't last very long. Seriously, that looks like shit and I can't say that enough.

That's a copout. Are Chinese versions of Gmail and Blogger available? They are offered in Chinese (see here and here).

If not, I'm sure that it won't be long. Maybe we can ask them again soon.

You may think it's silly, but there's a new sucker born every day.

Some do, or even crave it. And there are more.

If they need implant these thingies in your bicep, how exactly do they get these thingies out?

Personally, I like the Total Recall exit-the-nose method. Just not sure how it would end up in the nose.

Hmmmm, OK, it's hard to install on Windows. In the first place, you're installing a piece of cross-platform software (try installing a Windows program on Linux and running it with WINE sometime. Fun!). In the second place, I can remember plenty of programs on Windows that needed special versions of ActiveX or dll's that I had to go chase down. I have no idea why this is a specific problem that just Gimp has. I would definitely advise using live CD's (I can only think of about five Linux distros that *don't* include Gimp. Even FreeSBIE, a BSD distro, has Gimp.): no install problems that way, and you can save your work to writable media. But granted, the Gimp team should get their installer to do it in one whack... they're probably thinking too much of Linux package management, where it all gets installed from one command, regardless of what you have and what it depends on. Once again, Gimp is blamed for problems that it turns out are just as much the fault of the non-native host system.

Just about the rest of your refutations fall mostly apart. Alpha channel handling doesn't confuse me, regardless of whether it's in Gimp, Cinepaint, Image Magick, or SDL programming. It's termed "transparency" in the menus. You want to click with the left-mouse button instead of the right, is that it? Or you want that Gimp derivative somebody's writing that does the menus the exact way PS is laid out? (I forget what it's called, and I'm sick of Googling today. It was covered on Slashdot a while back.) And Windows COM scripting...you DO know that FOSS has programming languages Windows never even can dream of hosting, right? Meanwhile, if the FOSS world tries to make a move for DOM, either it will get patented (or is it already?), or GNU will get sued for another look-n-feel number, or they'll just add a new beanie feature and PS will be one feature ahead of Gimp again and then Gimp-vs-PS will rage on for another version because Gimp doesn't have beanies.

Don't tell me you want to get me started on the features missing in Windows and Adobe that GNU, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and even plan9 from Bell Labs have. I haven't that long to live! But thank you anyway. This tells me something: the problems with Gimp that everybody complains about are actually problems with the *Windows* port of Gimp. Here's a good catch-all: Try Mediainlinux, see if you can get that downloaded and burned and running. It includes more image-editing tools than even *I* can remember, it runs live so you have nothing to worry about on installing, and it will expose you to more than *one* FOSS program, so you can get a better idea of this Unix-based thing, which, by the way, was thriving for years before Bill Gates ever *touched* a computer. Consider that pictures like this, this, and this were done from scratch using only the same tools you get on Mediainlinux. Surely, *somebody* can get use out of these tools, eh?

Hmmmm, OK, it's hard to install on Windows. In the first place, you're installing a piece of cross-platform software (try installing a Windows program on Linux and running it with WINE sometime. Fun!). In the second place, I can remember plenty of programs on Windows that needed special versions of ActiveX or dll's that I had to go chase down. I have no idea why this is a specific problem that just Gimp has. I would definitely advise using live CD's (I can only think of about five Linux distros that *don't* include Gimp. Even FreeSBIE, a BSD distro, has Gimp.): no install problems that way, and you can save your work to writable media. But granted, the Gimp team should get their installer to do it in one whack... they're probably thinking too much of Linux package management, where it all gets installed from one command, regardless of what you have and what it depends on. Once again, Gimp is blamed for problems that it turns out are just as much the fault of the non-native host system.

Just about the rest of your refutations fall mostly apart. Alpha channel handling doesn't confuse me, regardless of whether it's in Gimp, Cinepaint, Image Magick, or SDL programming. It's termed "transparency" in the menus. You want to click with the left-mouse button instead of the right, is that it? Or you want that Gimp derivative somebody's writing that does the menus the exact way PS is laid out? (I forget what it's called, and I'm sick of Googling today. It was covered on Slashdot a while back.) And Windows COM scripting...you DO know that FOSS has programming languages Windows never even can dream of hosting, right? Meanwhile, if the FOSS world tries to make a move for DOM, either it will get patented (or is it already?), or GNU will get sued for another look-n-feel number, or they'll just add a new beanie feature and PS will be one feature ahead of Gimp again and then Gimp-vs-PS will rage on for another version because Gimp doesn't have beanies.

Don't tell me you want to get me started on the features missing in Windows and Adobe that GNU, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and even plan9 from Bell Labs have. I haven't that long to live! But thank you anyway. This tells me something: the problems with Gimp that everybody complains about are actually problems with the *Windows* port of Gimp. Here's a good catch-all: Try Mediainlinux, see if you can get that downloaded and burned and running. It includes more image-editing tools than even *I* can remember, it runs live so you have nothing to worry about on installing, and it will expose you to more than *one* FOSS program, so you can get a better idea of this Unix-based thing, which, by the way, was thriving for years before Bill Gates ever *touched* a computer. Consider that pictures like this, this, and this were done from scratch using only the same tools you get on Mediainlinux. Surely, *somebody* can get use out of these tools, eh?

Hmmmm, OK, it's hard to install on Windows. In the first place, you're installing a piece of cross-platform software (try installing a Windows program on Linux and running it with WINE sometime. Fun!). In the second place, I can remember plenty of programs on Windows that needed special versions of ActiveX or dll's that I had to go chase down. I have no idea why this is a specific problem that just Gimp has. I would definitely advise using live CD's (I can only think of about five Linux distros that *don't* include Gimp. Even FreeSBIE, a BSD distro, has Gimp.): no install problems that way, and you can save your work to writable media. But granted, the Gimp team should get their installer to do it in one whack... they're probably thinking too much of Linux package management, where it all gets installed from one command, regardless of what you have and what it depends on. Once again, Gimp is blamed for problems that it turns out are just as much the fault of the non-native host system.

Just about the rest of your refutations fall mostly apart. Alpha channel handling doesn't confuse me, regardless of whether it's in Gimp, Cinepaint, Image Magick, or SDL programming. It's termed "transparency" in the menus. You want to click with the left-mouse button instead of the right, is that it? Or you want that Gimp derivative somebody's writing that does the menus the exact way PS is laid out? (I forget what it's called, and I'm sick of Googling today. It was covered on Slashdot a while back.) And Windows COM scripting...you DO know that FOSS has programming languages Windows never even can dream of hosting, right? Meanwhile, if the FOSS world tries to make a move for DOM, either it will get patented (or is it already?), or GNU will get sued for another look-n-feel number, or they'll just add a new beanie feature and PS will be one feature ahead of Gimp again and then Gimp-vs-PS will rage on for another version because Gimp doesn't have beanies.

Don't tell me you want to get me started on the features missing in Windows and Adobe that GNU, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and even plan9 from Bell Labs have. I haven't that long to live! But thank you anyway. This tells me something: the problems with Gimp that everybody complains about are actually problems with the *Windows* port of Gimp. Here's a good catch-all: Try Mediainlinux, see if you can get that downloaded and burned and running. It includes more image-editing tools than even *I* can remember, it runs live so you have nothing to worry about on installing, and it will expose you to more than *one* FOSS program, so you can get a better idea of this Unix-based thing, which, by the way, was thriving for years before Bill Gates ever *touched* a computer. Consider that pictures like this, this, and this were done from scratch using only the same tools you get on Mediainlinux. Surely, *somebody* can get use out of these tools, eh?

And big G is here to save the day, except that weird thing about going beyond flagging spammers to "potentially offensive or illegal" content.

or is there something wrong with this picture? Eye straining

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/152/1924/1600/R hettAultman.2.jpg

Rule 0: The barber is your FRIEND!

Here is your chance to test a new law

From this link:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15479871&p ostID=112508574061695622

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Ray Beckerman said...

        Dear "anonymous":
        I guess if you want to contribute to Ms. Santangelo's defense, you can send the check to "Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, As Attorneys" and mail it to Ray Beckerman, Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, 99 Park Avenue (16th Floor), New York, NY 10016, and we will do with it as we are instructed by Ms. Santangelo.
        Best regards,
        -R.B.

        3:27 PM

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> Now that you're no longer a broke college student, why not find a shark of a lawyer and sue the judge and police for the massive "pain and suffering" you've endured because of them?

Looking at KingSkippus' blogspot link, I found this, which states he's at least 34 years old. It's possible that the statute of limitations has run out or that he just doesn't want to get F*(&ed by the courts again.