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Well, then check out Google's own application Blogger: If you are logged on, you can see the delete icon near all your comments (or all comments if you are the blog author), which is just a simple link that deletes the comment without any server side confirmation. This is what the Blogger delete-comment link looks like:
http://www.blogger.com/delete-comment.g?blogID=$bl ogID&postID=$postID

So the 'morons' are everywhere.. Not supporting broken css is one thing, this is more destructive.

"Don't worry. Their motto is 'do no evil', so we can trust them!", say the geek masses.

The reason I personally trust Google is because they've earned it. Their business ethics are far better than most companies out there, so I trust them with the messages people send me, the locations I drive to, my writing, and my interests in general.

I'll wait to see how they use the data they get from this before I consider using it (not that I can now anyway, since it's not available on Linux), but I'm pretty sure what they're going to use it for anyway.

Don't forget they even know your oppinions! But I agree with the parent, I don't think they care. They have no reason to aggregate all of this data together, what would they do with it? Sell it? I think they have enough money as it is. I believe they're just offering a service for people which will enhance their browsing experience. I'm not sure how they will make money on the WebAccellerator but they do a lot of things that do not give them any proffit, so this isn't very alarming. Take your tinfoil hats off...

But being a sound, usable design seems to be a minor concern for Apple's product strategy. The big selling point with all iMacs, starting with the original candy iMacs, is that they look cool. Once familiarity has blunted the coolness factor, an iMac design is discarded -- no matter how good it is.

Pretty sad. When the pedestal iMac came out, I rather hoped that competitors would imitate it. Not its overall appearance -- Apple is notoriously intolerant of that kind of imitation. But the more general idea of a pedestal computer. Alas, nobody did, and now even Apple has lost interest in the idea. It's all about branding these days, not usability. And though Apple's designers are the best, they only live to serve that purpose.

It would be naive to think that Google has so far not been associating searches with Google IDs already. That is the whole idea behind there huge "takeover" of the world, isn't it? To borrow from what I read somewhere when Gmail was released, they know what your interests are, what you buy, who your friends are etc etc.

They're sitting on a gold mine of information. Gmail was the carrot they offered to everyone to get them to sign up, because not everyone blogs but, surely, everyone needs email. And boy were they right! Everyone's moved to gmail and viola - you can now map every little thing they do.

I'm sure they use it internally in one form or the other - evil or otherwise i.e. to give me "better" ads - exactly what I need :roll: Only now they've decided to "open" part of it to the public - "we have all this information with us anyways, let's give some of it to the public and win some more brownie points in the process"

Of course, Yahoo! does that as well, and I'm sure MSN too. They've had the "IDs" all along - Google had it the hard way - they HAD to come up with Gmail or they had no chance.

Blogger is full of this shit, too.

Just keep hitting "Next Blog" and you'll find a ton of blogs set up for advertising, just like those.

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/181/4316/640/628065 07397_3300.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/196/2653/400/everyt imeyoumasturbategodkillsakittenpleasethinkofthekit tens.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/196/2653/400/everyt imeyousendthatfuckingpicturegodkillsadomokun.jpg

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/196/2653/400/everyt imeyoumasturbategodkillsakittenpleasethinkofthekit tens.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/196/2653/400/everyt imeyousendthatfuckingpicturegodkillsadomokun.jpg

Isn't this old news? I've seen the gmail links on google search a while ago. It's not something new to me. They've been sneaking in gmail invites into their popular Blogger service for a while as a way to slowly increase their user base while they probably sit back and build the infrastructure to hold more users. Yeah, gmail's been boosting the amount of invites lately, but I still don't see a signu form on their gmail page. I think this is all just more invite leaking. It's not public until their signup page is public. Just look at the trail of evidence: techwhack guardian.co.uk Some other SEO news

you apparently don't get the joke.

all of blogger developers use Firefox, and they put a nice link on his page 6% use Mozilla Firefox; an up-and-comer, which we all use internally http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=930/

Hold on. They are not giving away $5 for lost data, they are capping the damages. $5 is the most you can get. You accepted the EULA that says $5 is the most you can get from them.

The insult is not that they think you data is worth $5, but telling you that $5 is all you get.

--
Kevin Marquette
Antispyware

Hold on. They are not giving away $5 for lost data, they are capping the damages. $5 is the most you can get. You accepted the EULA that says $5 is the most you can get from them.

The insult is not that they think you data is worth $5, but telling you that $5 is all you get.

--
Kevin Marquette
Antispyware

Because we all know that Google never buys companies just to get at technology, right?

Microsoft also has one of the largest corporate CS research departments in the industry, and they frequently contribute to everything from journals to W3C specification committees.

It's a lot easier to spread into new markets when you can siphon profits from a monopoly you hold in another market.

• Blogger
• Google Maps
• Google Desktop Search
• Google SMS Search
• Picasa
• Keyhole
• Google Video Search
• Froogle Price Search
• GMail

All ancillary products paid for by the main product.

Have a reality check; all companies do this. You have a good product and you put that money back into R&D for new products. Take a look at the cash flow sheet of any publicly traded company, and stop being a basher. Try to put logic into an argument.

• "This may shock you at first so steel yourself for the idea. Ready? We are going to start paying bloggers. Soon you will be blogging for dollars. That's right people, chocolate is to peanut butter like AdSense is to blogs."
  
  and...
  
  "So, if you blog about baseball, there might be ads for Major League Baseball memorabilia next to your post. If you blog about painting, there might be ads for art supplies. In fact, when you blog about something specific, there's a good chance you'll earn more..."

• "This may shock you at first so steel yourself for the idea. Ready? We are going to start paying bloggers. Soon you will be blogging for dollars. That's right people, chocolate is to peanut butter like AdSense is to blogs."
  
  and...
  
  "So, if you blog about baseball, there might be ads for Major League Baseball memorabilia next to your post. If you blog about painting, there might be ads for art supplies. In fact, when you blog about something specific, there's a good chance you'll earn more..."

A "powered by FreeBSD" logo which is actually free for everybody to use would make things much easier.

We already have apowered by FreeBSD logo, but I'm not sure if it's free or not.

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cLive ;-)

You agree to not use the Service to: (a) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
...
(d) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
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(h) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
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Cool Hand Luke, Fight Club, and Free Enterprise.

BG

All I can say is good riddance. I hope that LiveJournal gets bought, sold, transformed, hacked to death, and turned into something useful. Right now. LiveJournal is nothing more than a forum for immature emotional wankery, coupled with exhibitionist users who think that they should post every mundane detail of their life in order to validate their existence. Think I'm kidding? Just pick any random LiveJournal user, and then click on their friends. Here's one:

"I realize that pork doesn't smell great when slow cooked unless it has stuff all over it. But why does the house reek of...gas or something? It's foul, and I just had to open the porch door with the fear that I'd keel over from some sort of poisoning."

Wow, way to enlighten to us there, kid.

But what's really annoying about all this is that it seems to be, largely, a LiveJournal phenomena. Blogger actually has some intelligent blogs hosted on it. Bloggers who host their own domains, by far, have something more substantial to contribute to the community. So what makes LiveJournal the pile of crap that it is?

Here it is converted to a .pdf

What I'd like to see Google do, is incorporate Google Suggest into Google Desktop Search, adding the search-as-you-type functionality one of its competitors already has.

The hard part will be to make sure it does not kill the user's computer - as someone already pointed out, this can place a pretty heavy load on the server, in Desktop's case, the desktop computer itself.

- Noam.

They seem to be using the same blogger theme.

And you thought they got their money how?

You are incorrectly implying I did not think they got any money from advertising; obviously they do, but I figured the following, the first three of which are more in line with what they profess to be their core business (search), would account for a bit more than 2% of their total revenue. I guess not.

http://answers.google.com/answers/

http://www.keyhole.com/

http://www.blogger.com/blogspot-admin/compare.pyra

Why the links to "every other blog"? Those are not blog sites, just links to blogging software. More appropriate links would have been to sites like these.

I was reading through the list of things Microsoft were adding, thinking that it's just another place Google are at already, then I realised that while there's Gmail, there's no Gmessenger or similar as far as I'm aware.

How long do you reckon before Google launches such a thing, potentially pushing MSN Messenger out the market? :-)

On a related note can be found this.

Not entirely true, we also think they're racists.

Note: You have to copy/paste these links, otherwise it'll block you for being referred from outside.
Original Black Mesa Case
Original Black Mesa Case
Half Life 2 Case

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Original Black Mesa Case
Original Black Mesa Case
Half Life 2 Case

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I think you will find that grandparent post uses a more adaptive algorithm *pushes glasses up nose* and can lookup word aliases and also provide character reordering and event prediction (locked caps).

Whilst parent post is a mere random 1:1 letter symbol lookup that uses a bollean flag to determine how large the lookup data is.

*silence* oh I see you were joking... I have gone and published this in the ACM website too... feel so silly...

to make up for it, I wrote a perl script that uses SOAP to connect to google and groups.google and does realtime lookups on current jibe talk or selected dialects and does a quantization approach and entropy coding to provide accurate and hilarious results.

Sourceforge project

I also wrote an AI interface which makes its own blog, twice daily:

here

Good catch!

I think we've identified "Dianne" as Lindsey from the Vanderbilt Kappa Delta sorority.

Would you really claim as yours a memory stick that includes a rather juicy photo of cannabis sativa being cultivated in a shower?

Considering that this is the first photo blogged, it's clear that the blogger knows that the owner has no leverage to pursue the matter legally.

See, "James" ( Sept 15 post) is clearly a derivative of Darl McBride (see, e.g., his business card), so the blogger will soon be hauled into court and feel the Wrath of Caldera/SCO! $1B damages easily!

This woman "Dianne" in the blog is found here from the Vanderbilt Kappa Delta site. Here name is...well, you can figure it out.

Here you go people.

First a picture from "I Found Some of Your Life"

Dianne

Now a picture from KappaDelta

Lindsey

That's basically the comment that got deleted.

And those are the same person!

ok look at this picture. The girl in the left side with the with skirt has a tag that says says that she loves linux! It has 3 pictures of tux! oh wait... it seems it says "I love delta delta delta".... or is it?

Google seems to be expanding with their own projects, but I'm betting it will be a while before they start buying up outside companies like this

Not to negate your point, but there is still a small problem with your solution: Any links going off the main page of the submitted site will still not be Coralized.

Any ideas about how to help with this limitation?

<A HREF = "http://www.cookingforengineers.com/foo/bar.html" >

<A HREF = "/foo/bar.html">

This is how our current mainstream political climate functions one of attack on character with use of a language of contradiction. Moore is engaging in that language of contradictions. All his ideas are not without merit infact I find many of them briliant, but he is engaged in a language of attacks, name-calling and taking sides. This approach diminishes his capacity for contradiction-free intellectually convincing arguments, but simultaneously allows him to be become a successful information distributor making millions of dollars reaching a large audience spawning websites that criticism/attack him etc. just like his parallels on the "right".

Christopher Hitchens pice can be compared to Al Franken book where he rips apart Ann Cultures work via an array of contradictory "facts". But I wonder how productive it is to buy into this Michael Moore bashing, I did not finish Al Frankens book because of its endless attacks of character statments rather then systemic analysis, which was entertaining but not intellectually convincing. When people ask question like why does Michael Moore hate America they are not really dealing with any ideas he might have presented, rather are engaged in endless mindless attack gibberish. In that way their criticism adopts Moores language and often fails to impress. Not that Hitchens piece was not well written, its just that it points out what should be obvious. Moore is presenting a biased one-sided perspective and from the opposite side of that perspective it is going to seem like he is sadistically lying like crazy, from a perspective with some shared values, it is going to look like he is using selective information and engaged in the language of those he is criticizing.

I don't understand why people expect to get contradiction free political commentary from someone that is admittedly bias and is perusing has a stated agenda. At least he does not say he is objective like some entities seem to be capable of claiming.

Oreilly vs Moore can help illustrates this:)

Until Google offers an API for services like this to access it (which I doubt they ever will), any system based on GMail will be quite unstable. So, for any serious blog, this wouldn't be an option.
Since Google bought Blogger, and Blogger has its own Blogger API and is collaborating on the will-it-ever-release Atom API to eventually replace it, it seems very unlikely indeed that Google would offer a blogging API to their email service.

Of course, another benefit is that using Google's blogging API to access their blogging service is nicely in line with the TOS.

Still a cool hack, mind.

If only google had a blogging service, hacks such as this wouldn't be necessary.

I thought Google already provided a free blogging service?

Google does, it's called blogger. And it has an email account you can email to update your page.

What exactly is a Cyberlawyer anyway?

Is that some kind of half-human, half-robot lawyer?

There is a photo of the rapacious "cyberlawyer" on this page of her blog. Underneath the thumbnail it says "View full size". I declined to do so because my monitor is only 1024x768.

The blog market is saturated? Oh, fiddlesticks. I just relaunched my free blog hosting service a few weeks ago. Now powered by WordPress, and so much better for it. I present: blogthing.

(And, if I remember correctly I initially launched blogthing just before Google bought Blogger. I sure can time things well, huh?)