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I'm no classical fan (one of the few genres I don't really listen to), so I can't speak too much about their product, but I can recite what they do/what they're trying to do. Your paragraph 3 adds something that I had forgotten to mention.

Yeah, issues do crop up with lowering the barrier to entry - some people, like DJ Neckbeard and those bad orchestras, should have been left out, even though lowering the barriers also lets in a lot of people that should be there.

Even if you embrace the new industry paradigm, you still need to, ya know, make good music. The types of indies I listen to do get that. The slick mainstream stuff is competition.
One of them, MC Lars, also tries his hand at webcomics. Here's a couple relevant ones:
http://27thstreetcomic.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-4-2010-diy-sellout.html
http://27thstreetcomic.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-30-2009-diy-networking.html

I'm no classical fan (one of the few genres I don't really listen to), so I can't speak too much about their product, but I can recite what they do/what they're trying to do. Your paragraph 3 adds something that I had forgotten to mention.

Yeah, issues do crop up with lowering the barrier to entry - some people, like DJ Neckbeard and those bad orchestras, should have been left out, even though lowering the barriers also lets in a lot of people that should be there.

Even if you embrace the new industry paradigm, you still need to, ya know, make good music. The types of indies I listen to do get that. The slick mainstream stuff is competition.
One of them, MC Lars, also tries his hand at webcomics. Here's a couple relevant ones:
http://27thstreetcomic.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-4-2010-diy-sellout.html
http://27thstreetcomic.blogspot.com/2009/07/july-30-2009-diy-networking.html

basement too long? There are minerals! in Afghanistan.

With the oil transit fees Afghanistan will be earning from transporting all that Iraqi oil, the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex will soon be able to get any rare earth element it needs.

Yours In Samarkand,
Kilgore Trout.

A custom HOSTS file will do what the Privoxy, or Adblock softwares will, for less CPU usage (& very possibly RAM usage also) simply by making it impossible to go into KNOWN BAD SITES/SERVERS.

After all: You cannot get burned by what you cannot touch, essentially... & making it impossible to access known bad sites or servers is ONLY A GREAT PART of what hosts files can do (because they do even more, read on)... sound familiar to this Privoxy software? Yes, it does in that case!

However: Can Privoxy speed you up more, ontop of protecting you? Yes!

HOSTS files can also not only protect you vs. known bad sites or servers, but they can also aid in speeding you up online websurfing even more by avoiding DNS lookups by using hardcodes of hostsnames/domainnames to IP addresses of your favorite websites and by blocking ad banners also (which have also been shown to have malicious script in them many times over the years now no less).

You can keep a hosts file updated daily that way easily, by using the following whitehat sites for information on what are the "latest/greatest" known bad sites &/or servers found daily in fact:

http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm (great overall explanation of what HOSTS files can do for you is here and how to manage them (such as tips on turning off your local DNS Client Cache if you use a "largish" hosts file))
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
http://www.malwareurl.com/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Used in combination with AdBlock for instance? Great layered security, albeit redundant. Used in combination with NoScript though? An EXCELLENT defense vs. malware attacks online.

APK

P.S.=> HOSTS files do what other wares do, albeit, without eating up CPU cycles &/or RAM as Privoxy, DNS servers, or even the NEW "BLADE" software that just came out... & hosts files are not programs, they are filters - They won't have "programming bugs" in them either, because they are NOT code (just IP stack filters)! apk

Google Maps, AFAIK, has _always_ included non-satellite imagery. Higher resolution images have _always_ been from aerial photographs taken by aircraft. From the Google Blog, a few days ago:

...The folks who created Google Earth devised a way to stitch aerial and satellite imagery together into a seamless, searchable map of the world and make it available to anyone with a computer...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/world-as-eagle-and-wild-goose-see-it.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/MKuf+(Official+Google+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Could be. I tried checking: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/07/changing-your-perspective-once-again.html, and on there, "Aerial" isn't an option on the embedded maps, but instead "45" is when you roll-over on "Sat". On the linked map in the submission, you get to the aerial view by explicitly choosing "aerial," which implied to me that it was a different method.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/changing-your-perspective.html Just starting to be available in more places it looks like.

*shrug* Pretty well, actually.

Try Ted [Torrent Episode Downloader] with PS3 Media Server. You get the same shows you watch now. It costs you nothing. All the commercials are edited out. And you can usually watch them within 3-4 hours of their being broadcast.

The only possible alternative that is similar in functionality (shows WITHOUT commercials, not just commercials you fast forward through) is Amazon VOD. That being said, Amazon VOD is only compatible with certain devices, unlike PS3 Media Server, which works with nearly all DLNA devices. Otherwise, I would probably just buy the shows through Amazon VOD. If it only worked on the PS3, natively.

You can use Amazon VOD, Hulu, and Netflix through PlayOn, but it kind of sucks. Netflix on the PS3 (the version Sony promotes) is using a Bluray disk, and the interface is terrible. One must click through titles one-by-one, with no way to hold down the "forward" button, or flick a page at a time.

The only issue with PS3 Media Server is that you have to organize the files, because although Ted does a great job of downloading the files, they will end up in a giant pile on your drive with crappy "leet speak" names. There are a few automatic renaming utilities, but these are very kludge.

There is a new (free as in beer) DLNA server called Serviio which fixes that, by automagically downloading program names, and presenting a hierarchical interface to the user. That way, you can keep your TV shows in a big pile, and organize them whenever you want. This combination (TED+SERVIIO) represents truly automatic HD video on demand, sans commercials, of nearly any content you would want. And its free.

That being said, Serviio's transcoding is somewhat buggy, so TV Nirvana isn't quite ready yet. But it's almost there.

The funny thing is that I cannot get service this good from any provider at *any* price. I would be willing to pay quite a premium to get truly ad-free TV. But I want my shows to download automatically (or stream), I want it in HD, and I want it to work with a video game console or TV, eliminating a set-top box that would otherwise take up valuable space.

The ironic thing? I prefer watching TV on my PS3s than on my DirecTV HD-DVRs with nearly every channel.

This article sounds like more FUD, probably from some Apple paid astroturf shill. I'm still a big fan of "Fragmentation? More like Fragmentawesome", an article from a developer with experience developing Android software and a decent sized userbase. If a freaking *game* works that well on a variety of Android devices without any tweaking whatsoever, I have to wonder how bad the programmers in the article are to have trouble with something as simple as twitter.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/10/five-steps-to-future-hardware-happiness.html

the android SDK deal with this very well. Quote:"To make life easier every API includes a FEATURE_* constant. To control your app’s availability on the Android Market, you specify the features required for your app to work. I’d like to encourage you to add manifest Feature nodes for every API you use, specifying them as optional, or not, as appropriate using a manifest uses-feature nodes as shown below:"

I don't know a single other evolving platform that deals as well with these issues as android.

You could get some better economies of scale with larger reactors than we build now but it's hard to transmit and distribute electricity from anything much larger then what we build now.

1. The Big Potential of Micro Nukes.
2. Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes.
3. Toshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage?
4. Micro-nuclear plants for local power
5. Bill Gates and Toshiba teaming up to build small, 100-year nuke plant?
6. Scaling nuclear power for villages, apartment buildings, shopping malls, factories, and ships

You were saying what again?

Falcon

You could get some better economies of scale with larger reactors than we build now but it's hard to transmit and distribute electricity from anything much larger then what we build now.

1. The Big Potential of Micro Nukes.
2. Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes.
3. Toshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage?
4. Micro-nuclear plants for local power
5. Bill Gates and Toshiba teaming up to build small, 100-year nuke plant?
6. Scaling nuclear power for villages, apartment buildings, shopping malls, factories, and ships

You were saying what again?

Falcon

If a game like shogi or chess was extended to 19x19 it would be vastly harder for a computer.

To illustrate your point...
Sufficiently motivated players could still win in such a setting. Or so I hear.

Hamas do have the ability to stop the rockets and have done so in the past for long periods of time, those gestures were largely ignored by Isreal.

Hamas has some control and some persuasion. But it can't guarantee a stop to terrorist attacks. Furthermore, even that level of control comes at the cost of imposing a police state on the Palestinians.

For it's part Isreal forcibly evicted all jewish settlers from the west bank, that gesture was largely ignored by Hamas.

Israel evicted all Jewish settlers from the West Bank? When? There has been a steady growth since 1972 according to Israel's own data summarized here.

Even if Israel had done that, what would you have expected anyone to do in response? Removing the settlers shouldn't be a bargaining chip, it is a self-evident necessity if there is to be a solution to this conflict. It's like asking people to thank you for not talking with your mouth full.

Perl is actually one of the few languages (perhaps even the only one, but I can't be sure) that try to make sense to someone who's not already well-versed in the field

Hmmm, yeah, I can see exactly what you mean ...

I assume that you're joking, but I want to tell everybody about my blog.

I have a blog to share my experiences in wearing shorts and hosiery [i.e. pantyhose; tights; nylons; etc.] in public. I'm trying to bring this style into the mainstream man's wardrobe, to test my ability to bring about societal change.

Please take a moment to read through some stuff.

• a few photos of me
• places to find me on the web
• my main blog page

I assume that you're joking, but I want to tell everybody about my blog.

I have a blog to share my experiences in wearing shorts and hosiery [i.e. pantyhose; tights; nylons; etc.] in public. I'm trying to bring this style into the mainstream man's wardrobe, to test my ability to bring about societal change.

Please take a moment to read through some stuff.

• a few photos of me
• places to find me on the web
• my main blog page

I assume that you're joking, but I want to tell everybody about my blog.

I have a blog to share my experiences in wearing shorts and hosiery [i.e. pantyhose; tights; nylons; etc.] in public. I'm trying to bring this style into the mainstream man's wardrobe, to test my ability to bring about societal change.

Please take a moment to read through some stuff.

• a few photos of me
• places to find me on the web
• my main blog page

Water tanks have interesting radiological properties. http://mdsolar.blogspot.com/2008/03/lux-lucis-tepida.html They are above ground source radiation and shielded by air and the bottom of a water tank is pretty well shielded from cosmic rays which might help with data integrity.

(Sorry I'm posting so late on this topic...)

If cars drive themselves, google's blog claims this could reduce greenhouse emissions.

This seems wishful thinking at best or greenwashing at worst... autonomous cars will be a disaster that will increase greenhouse gasses substantially.

Why?
1) because now more people can afford, in terms of their time, to drive further for work. So they will. And
2) if transportation of raw materials is cheaper because drivers aren't needed, the volume of material transported will go up, assuming the demand for goods is somewhat elastic with the price. With the amount of material transported increasing, the gasoline required for that transport and thus the carbon emitted will increase.

Color me a pessimist. Autonomous cars will be great for human freedom, and for human safety, but reduced greenhouse emissions is one thing that will not be a benefit.

Now if Google could build us some nice carpool-sharing app hooked to Google directions, with a reputation engine for the fellow passengers (perhaps in conjunction with their autonomous car work) to avoid unpleasant passenger surprises, *that* I could see helping reduce greenhouse emissions.

    --LP

mini's been saying the same thing - that WP7 is the product that will hopefully tie Microsoft together (but comments are weighing heavily towards the "or else" scenario)

And mainly: it's a very poor matter of timing for a break-up. We're about to have a mobile phone come out that actually binds the companies divisions far closer than ever before: Office, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Bing, and Dev Div: this damn thing is the antidote for break-up talk. WP7 wouldn't be impossible to create with a break-up, but it'd be exceptionally difficult. WP7 is pulling together huge resources that none of our direct competitors have.

KIN3 FTW !!!

-- Barbie

I used to like the OSX development tools but they are not portable, I wasted a lot of time with them, so this is as basic as I can make it now, so my software runs everywhere.

That's rich, and what, Microsoft's dev tools are? Just write the MV part of your apps in C++ and V part in the one that best suits the platform. On Windows I assume that's .NET and on iOS / OS X that's Cocoa / UIKit. Besides, you're not going to find a standardized UI API on any platform, be it Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Java, Symbian, Blackberry, WebOS, etc.

One more thing about your "guzzle memory" quip. Before you point fingers at the OS, did you ever think the app you're using might be a at fault? I have several Macs that run non-stop 24/7 until a patch popups up that wants a reboot. I have never seen the problem you mention. I think you're getting confused about how OS X manages memory. I suggest you read this and take another look at what's running on your MBP:

Is my Mac using too much memory

First of all: Per subject-line above, a custom HOSTS file will do most of what this "BLADE" software will, simply by making it impossible to go into KNOWN BAD SITES/SERVERS.

(After all: You cannot get burned by what you cannot touch, essentially... & making it impossible to access known bad sites or servers is what hosts files can do... sound familiar to this "BLADE" software? Yes, it does, but blade cannot speed you up more, and HOSTS files can ontop of protecting you (HOSTS files can also not only protect you, but they can also aid in speeding you up online websurfing even more by avoiding DNS lookups by using hardcodes of hostsnames/domainnames to IP addresses of your favorite websites and by blocking ad banners also (which have also been shown to have malicious script in them many times over the years now no less)).

You can keep a hosts file updated daily that way easily, by using the following whitehat sites for information on what are the "latest/greatest" known bad sites &/or servers found daily in fact:

http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
http://www.malwareurl.com/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

HOSTS files also do all that, without eating up CPU cycles &/or RAM as DNS servers do, or this "BLADE" software... & hosts files are not programs, they are filters... they won't have "programming bugs" in them either!

APK

P.S.=> HOSTS FILES ARE ALSO SUPERIOR TO ADBLOCK ON THESE SPECIFIC GROUNDS - 10 ADVANTAGES OF HOSTS FILES OVER BROWSER ADDONS ALONE, & EVEN DNS SERVERS:

----

1.) HOSTS files eat A LOT LESS CPU cycles than browser addons do no less (since browser addons have to parse each HTML page & tag content in them)!

2.) HOSTS files are also NOT severely LIMITED TO 1 BROWSER FAMILY ONLY... browser addons, are. HOSTS files cover & protect (for security) and speed up (all apps that are webbound) any app you have that goes to the internet (specifically the web).

3.) HOSTS files allow you to bypass DNS Server requests logs (via hardcoding your favorite sites into them to avoid not only the TIME taken roundtrip to an external DNS server, but also for avoiding those logs OR a DNS server that has been compromised (see Dan Kaminsky online, on that note)).

4.) HOSTS files will allow you to get to sites you like, via hardcoding your favs into a HOSTS file, FAR faster than DNS servers can by FAR (by saving the roundtrip inquiry time to a DNS server & back to you).

5.) HOSTS files also allow you to not worry about a DNS server being compromised, or downed (if either occurs, you STILL get to sites you hardcode in a HOSTS file anyhow in EITHER case).

6.) HOSTS files are EASILY user controlled, updated and obtained (for reliable ones see mvps.org ) & edited too, via texteditors like Windows notepad.exe or Linux nano or kate (etc.)

7.) HOSTS files aren't as vulnerable to "bugs" either like programs/libs/extensions of that nature are, OR even DNS servers, as they are NOT code, & because of what's next too

8.) HOSTS files are also EASILY secured well, via write-protection "read-only" attributes set on them, or more radically, via ACL's even.

9.) HOSTS files

"Great idea, and I can't wait for it to surface" - by Rurik (113882) on Sunday October 10, @03:09PM (#33853662)

It's been "surfaced" for AGES online now, albeit in the form of CUSTOM HOSTS FILES!

Per subject-line above, a custom HOSTS file will do most of what this "BLADE" software will, simply by making it impossible to go into KNOWN BAD SITES/SERVERS.

(After all: You cannot get burned by what you cannot touch, essentially... & making it impossible to access known bad sites or servers is what hosts files can do... sound familiar to this "BLADE" software? Yes, it does, but blade cannot speed you up more, and HOSTS files can ontop of protecting you (HOSTS files can also not only protect you, but they can also aid in speeding you up online websurfing even more by avoiding DNS lookups by using hardcodes of hostsnames/domainnames to IP addresses of your favorite websites and by blocking ad banners also (which have also been shown to have malicious script in them many times over the years now no less)).

You can keep a hosts file updated daily that way easily, by using the following whitehat sites for information on what are the "latest/greatest" known bad sites &/or servers found daily in fact:

http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
http://www.malwareurl.com/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

APK

P.S.=> HOSTS files also do all that, without eating up CPU cycles &/or RAM as DNS servers do, or this "BLADE" software... & hosts files are not programs, they are filters... they won't have "programming bugs" in them either! apk

I'd be happy to listen to an actual argument, backed by facts and research. If it was actually published and peer-reviewed, that'd be great!

Sure.

Here's one specific one:

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.html

And here's a whole list:

http://petesplace-peter.blogspot.com/2008/04/peer-reviewed-articles-skeptical-of-man.html

Please feel free to discredit their *arguments*, and restrain yourself from simply attacking their character because they disagree with you :) If you find a single one of those arguments to be unbiased and honest, you can thank me for opening up your worldview :)

Oh, and regarding my typo of "5 years" instead of "25 years", I must admit, I'm chagrined that I made the same type of mistake that the IPCC made :)

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/16/glaciergate-ipcc/

Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in [the IPCC's] publications, in their website, was a straight line--suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge. And that didn't look so nice. It looked as though they had recorded something; but they hadn't recorded anything. It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a "correction factor," which they took from the tide gauge. So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow --I said you have introduced factors from outside; it's not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don't say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we would not have gotten any trend!

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project Interview

Ahh, the good old correction factor.

Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in [the IPCC's] publications, in their website, was a straight line--suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge. And that didn't look so nice. It looked as though they had recorded something; but they hadn't recorded anything. It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a "correction factor," which they took from the tide gauge. So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow --I said you have introduced factors from outside; it's not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don't say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we would not have gotten any trend!

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project Interview

Ahh, the good old correction factor.

Then, in 2003, the same data set, which in [the IPCC's] publications, in their website, was a straight line--suddenly it changed, and showed a very strong line of uplift, 2.3 mm per year, the same as from the tide gauge. And that didn't look so nice. It looked as though they had recorded something; but they hadn't recorded anything. It was the original one which they had suddenly twisted up, because they entered a "correction factor," which they took from the tide gauge. So it was not a measured thing, but a figure introduced from outside. I accused them of this at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow --I said you have introduced factors from outside; it's not a measurement. It looks like it is measured from the satellite, but you don't say what really happened. And they answered, that we had to do it, because otherwise we would not have gotten any trend!

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project Interview

Ahh, the good old correction factor.

The Meaning Of Life, for me, is nothing more than that of Learning and acquiring as much knowledge as I can. I feel fulfilled when I learn something new and investigate on it. I don't know how other people live just to kick balls or go to nightclubs, as I trully want to study forever and know about everything.

I look into this issue in this blogpost: http://jorl17.blogspot.com/2010/07/algumas-reflexoes-interessantes.html (It's in Portuguese, though).

What else is there for me to do? I do not believe in any god, and I want to live my life at full -- that implies taking the best decisions I can and that, in itself, implies knowing the most I can as well. Who can live without the constant pleasure of learning and knowledge? Not silly things such as general knowledge (i.e.: When did xx war occur?), no, no that. I am talking about logical and rational knowledge, that instantly triggers your brain to start singing like it's never going to end. It's an incredible thrill.

(if you want conservatives to read your comments): discussion on TPA blog

The copy of the tape was found in 2007. Have there been "various trials and news specials" in the last 3 years about an event that's 40 years old?

Huh? Not that I know of in the past 3 years. Other copies of the same tape have been in use for 40 years. I hope that eases your confusion. He got the post finished here.

Here's the official blog announcement since I didn't see it in the summary or article.

Try one of cc's Free licenses and I would love to. If you need to use NC though I will pass on that.

all the best,

drew
http://freemusicpush.blogspot.com/

I started to post in order to question your claim, googled, and found lots of news making similar unfounded claims. Every article or blog said piles of people were affected, but then they give a single example. In many cases it's the same example. I'm not questioning that it happens, but it seems more likely to be

1) legitimate claims where BMI-licensed music was played in a place without a license, and they legitimately need to pay (according to law, not me)
2) a number of anecdotes of intimidation without any actual legal action, where either nothing happens or the owner gives up

What I do not see is anywhere that BMI or ASCAP have ever shut someone down. They intimidate, the owner rolls over, and the owner shuts the place down. If you're clicking the reply button to chastize me, read on please before doing so. They can claim anything they want, but "try to shut [them] down"? Only through intimidation. Kinda like me repeatedly asking for my two dollars.

This article has the claim that it's happening all over but has a single example and one that's not clearly legit or not. It also says that license costs are being pressured down, probably due to people not wanting to pay license fees:
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2009/0109/p14s01-almp.html

Here's "one" illigitimate claim, can't tell if it's the same one:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090109/1823043352.shtml

Here's a guy who keeps getting invoices, but because he hasn't been caught with licenseable music nothing has happened, which is typically how it happens and not actually shutting anyone down.
http://www.viewnews.com/2010/VIEW-May-18-Tue-2010/Henderson/35878176.html

Here's an entire essay using the word extortion instead of license, and they managed a single example (I skimmed it), and it names the musician, not the places that hired him.
http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.com/2010/08/bmiascapsesac-legal-extortion-scam.html

It links to this guy, with the title being "HOW ONE INDEPENDENT MUSICIAN DEFEATED BMI". Although he didn't get hired by these places, the US Copyright Office told BMI to sodomize themselves with a rusty baton.
http://www.woodpecker.com/writing/essays/phillips.html

In short, there is no difference between the establishments that shouldn't pay BMI but do, and the people who give their bank accounts to Nigerian scammers. They make it bad for everybody, and they need to grow a sack. Go ahead and sue me, I have playlists for every night I've been in business. Hell, I taped every show. Tell me what night, and what was played, and I'll show you the video.

Businesses shut themselves down out of ignorance. BMI and ASCAP are some shady bastards who need to be beaten with pillows until bruised at the very least, but business does this to itself.

There are a ton of Google services. I think the ones that would
surprise most people are:

• Google Health
• Google Trends
• The Google Pack
• Aardvark

Then of course, there's their non-Web site features. For example,
they have a VC group called Google Ventures; a whole series of public
policy and government-related initiatives such as their work with enabling
public Q&A and CitizenTube, YouTube's public
policy blog about "developing trends in the use of YouTube by news
organizations, activists, politicians, and governments."

They're also a major developer of FOSS. Sometimes this takes the form
of giant systems like Android or Chromium, but just as often, it's
little things like their new Image format, WEBP (my
analysis of WEBP for screenshots, here).

Google does so much that they really do have to mercilessly kill
things like Wave and GOOG-411 when their either outlive their planned
purpose (like the latter) or don't achieve critical mass (like the
former). Otherwise they'd be buried under an avalanche of
half-finished products.

And in related news George Mason University opens an investigation into professional misconduct and plagiarism by Ed Wegman. Wegman, you may remember, prepared a hit piece on Michael Mann for Rep Joe Barton, but was a wee bit careless as have been his students and collaborators

There's also the fact that it hammers the network connection incessantly, which absolutely kills the battery

Network access is actually not the main reason it uses more battery power than you'd expect (although that might also be a factor depending on the website). The main reasons are timers and various miscellaneous inefficiencies. But the good news is that a large portion of that work has recently been finished, and consequently the current nightly builds will use much less power than the just-released beta. So by the next beta things should be much improved, and by the final release they should be even better, on par with other apps.

If you're curious, here's a technical blog post about the methods being used.

There's not enough data for that to mean much of anything. Additionally, the Republican party radically changed their platform with the Reagan revolution in '80, so any data before that for Republicans is especially meaningless.

Also, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2008/10/republicans-democrats-and-stock-market.html

Statistics, misused, are useless.

Looks to me like they were used precisely in the manner for which they were intended.

"There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." - Variously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Marshall, Mark Twain and many other dead people.

Six months immediately struck me as peculiar.

I, for one, would NEVER pay Best Buy $30 to update my firmware.

However, I'd most definitely part with $30 to get it done by the Nerd Herd over at the Buy More.

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I guess insisting on your privacy is taboo now. Even if you're a good kid, if you refuse to let the police into your private files just on principle, you're boned.

... or if you refuse to let the police into your house, on principle, when they turn up with a warrant.

This isn't just a case of a police officer saying "ooh you have password-protected files, hand over the password or we won't let you go", this is the police going to a judge (etc.) during an investigation into that person and saying "we have seized this material as part of an investigation and have reasonable grounds to suspect this guy has the key and that the information is important to the investigation" (actually, the judge needs the "reasonable grounds", but you get the picture). I would imagine that both the initial order (if granted) and the trial for non-compliance can both be contested.

Reading the (very limited) articles, there is nothing here to indicate he did this "on principle". No statement from him about how it is a stupid law, no obvious attempt to get privacy groups (PI, ORG, even PPUK) involved, no signs that this is anything other than someone deciding that six months in prison and a criminal record is less than what he would get if the information was made available.

Of course, I don't know if he contested the charges etc. but anyway; RIPA Part III is a tricky piece of legislation; it seems to be an attempt to apply the idea of a warrant to technology, whether or not successfully. Like a lot of other New Labour laws, it seems to depend entirely on how sensible those applying it are - which given things like this, makes me very glad that judges are involved, not just the police and the CPS....

See this blog post to understand why the notification icon is needed:

Services can further negotiate this behavior by requesting they be considered "foreground." This places the service in a "please don't kill" state, but requires that it include a notification to the user about it actively running. This is useful for services such as background music playback or car navigation, which the user is actively aware of; when you're playing music and using the browser, you can always see the music-playing glyph in the status bar. Android won't try to kill these services, but as a trade-off, ensures the user knows about them and is able to explicitly stop them when desired.

So if you want it to keep running as a background service to be able to receive incoming calls, this is the standard procedure. And I seriously think Android notifications are one of the best thought parts of the system.

Another thing is the inability to leave the application screen by pressing the back button (you can use the home button though, but that's so un-androidy...) You can force the application to quit completely via a menu option in one of the screens.

Android applications are left running in the background by the operating system until the memory they use is needed, and the application process is killed in order to reclaim it. For services running in the background (as required for receiving incoming calls), displaying a notification icon will flag the process as "less killable".

See this blog entry:

Services can further negotiate this behavior by requesting they be considered "foreground." This places the service in a "please don't kill" state, but requires that it include a notification to the user about it actively running. This is useful for services such as background music playback or car navigation, which the user is actively aware of; when you're playing music and using the browser, you can always see the music-playing glyph in the status bar. Android won't try to kill these services, but as a trade-off, ensures the user knows about them and is able to explicitly stop them when desired.

There's a menu option to totally kill the program in one of the screens. But the thing about not being able of exiting the Skype screen to the Home screen by using the back button (you can use the Home button) is another, very different thing. It's so un-androidy... :-(

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In a Linux server you have the ability to turn GUI on and off, as you wish. All services are running and can be configured by CLI anyway.

512 MB RAM as the minimum requirements is a lot for a bunch of services. How much do you waste it for a GUI that you almost never see?

And, as I said, it's not only the resources, but the security threats. A GUI have a few millions SLOC more then just a command line. There are some like about 15 - 50 errors per 1000 lines of [...] code. And if you run/configure services with it some of it have to be running as root/Administrator rights, which increases the threats dramatically.

Also, I've heard a lot about Dvorak, most recently from some other students in my program ( http://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2010/09/paradigm-shifts-2-paradigm-shifter-last.html ). I guess I should go ahead and take the plunge some week when I don't have a lot of stuff I need to get done.

Also, unrelated but worth a mention anyway:

Secbrowsing - plugin version checker (by a Google employee. Read the SecBrowsing blog for Chrome security news).

Verizon mathematicians don't know the difference between dollars and cents.

This is my favorite story about smartass tattoo artists: http://soufoaklin.blogspot.com/2002/09/disgruntled-asian-tattoo-artist-inks.html

Highlights:

Guy wanted Chinese characters for "strength" and "honor." Got "small penis" instead.
Girl wanted "beautiful goddess" around her belly button, got "Insert General Tso's Chicken Here" instead. (She was mostly upset on account of being a vegetarian.)

Seriously, people: if you aren't certain what the foreign characters actually mean, you probably shouldn't be getting it as a tattoo. Find someone who is fluent and whom you can trust to give you the real deal, don't go to a random tattoo artist who might be a sadistic asshole.