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To deter colleges from viewing social networking pages, maybe students could post legal terms of service under which colleges agree to go away and ignore the pages. This idea should not be taken as legal advice for anyont, just something to think about. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/11/privacy-advocates-such-as-nyu-professor.html

To deter colleges from viewing social networking pages, maybe students could post legal terms of service under which colleges agree to go away and ignore the pages. This idea should not be taken as legal advice for anyont, just something to think about. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/11/privacy-advocates-such-as-nyu-professor.html

The financial crisis is a strong indictment of Sarah Palin's inexperience.
Why, if she were making policy, the bailout would be at least twice the size of the GDP, instead of the mere $700 billion-ish that was the last "conservative" estimate I saw.
Furthermore, if she were in office, the house of cards would have come tumbling down in nine months at most, instead of the several decades it took to brew under various regimes since 1977, despite all of the calls for reform.
Yep, bringing in somebody from outside to do some house cleaning is the last thing we need now.
Which is why, this year, I will not vote for the lesser evil.
Cthulhu is beyond questions of gender or race: all will be devoured. Now that is a moral exquivalency we can all feel, briefly.

Well, if you are a linux then you have my sympathies! To get the actual dope on Linux and all its so called "benefits" go read http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/. Man, get a life - go get a Mac/PC.

If it's here, Its there! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

`They are wrong too often! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

The average everyday human being don't do programming, bud.

If you tell a bartender what kind of a drink you want, is that programming? If you tell a robot bartender what kind of a drink you want, is that programming?

As someone already pointed out before, the normal person also thinks of algorithms in terms of definitions; that's where functional really shines. And as I already pointed out, functional *can* represent algorithms in steps.

Ok, so how would a functional algorithm to cooking oven baked salmon look like?

this article (JUST READ HIGHLIGHTED parts) http://moralsurgeon.blogspot.com/2007/09/death-fear-psychology-explains-bush.html shows (unless it is a hoax) how powerful and diabolical the manipulation of fears can be. Massively effective.

We have the First Amendment precisely because blogs like Ray's can exist. He defends democracy against RIAA fascism, and is a true patriot. (Said without irony or sarcasm.)

Theres an interesting little article on the future of these virtual data centers and the kinds of management features/software that will be required to drive them over at the 360is blog. They draw parallels with the evolution of storage management and NAS/SAN features we have grown to love over the last 10 years.

AG.

Who is the paranoid fringer joke now?

Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot!

...
  Where are the left-wing wingnuts?

Here are just a few:

Sandra Bernhardt

Charlie Rangel

Kathleen Sebelius

Randi Rhodes

Matt Damon

William Ayers

Geez. That's just in the past few days.

I didn't even bother going for Keith Olbermann videos.

The truth is silly enough without my help.

Yes : Phoenix 2.0 and Closures in C

get bonus points ?

It is good to see that the machines will function properly at the 90 degree range, though living in the Mid-Atlantic, humidity is an issue. We have experienced heat alarms in our labs due to failed AC units, however, the air in the labs wasn't moving. Perhaps some system of venting and intake would help reduce the ambient temperature. Another possibility would be to add green roofs to free standing data centers. Instead of big cubes with flat roofs sucking up the sun's rays, a green roof would cut that heat absorption by about 20% and reducing the surrounding temperature. There was a great article titled "Data Centers Need Green Roofs" at http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/07/data-centers-need-green-roofs.html gives some great examples.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-in-one-more-language.html

Actually Google has had a webkit-based mobile browser for Android since an SDK Release last year.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/web-as-seen-through-googles-mobile.html

Google's had a browser for mobile for quite a while. I seriously doubt it ever sees daylight on PocketPC/Symbian.

So is Mozilla aiming to simply beat pocket IE. Not sure about any immediately upcoming version of pocketIE, but unless it is webkit based, I wager it stinks. The current pocket IE (WM6) is just horrible and the reason for the mini browser war in the first place.

Hi Linux or FreeBSD or was it Michael More or Egil or one of your other many handles?

Paranoia is a survival trait, I am a pirate by nature and we are all paranoid by nature, and talk about it via pirate radio. The one thing we are not are jokes, that is what the Kurobots are. They are jokes if they think smoking a joint or two and getting laid will make all of their problems and troubles just magically go away.

I am results oriented, I do not smoke, I do not drink (except a bit of Rum or Rum Lite aka Diet Coke, heh), and I don't need sex either. I am a rebel, a pirate, a ninja, a space pirate ninja, but one thing I am not is a joke or loser. I do not give up and I do not die and as you may have learned I am very hard to kill. Many have tried, all have failed.

You pathetic kurobots have given up trying, you smoke dope, you have sex with anything living or dead, you abuse any drug or booze you can get your hands on, but at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. Your problems are obvious, and that is why you are the joke! Because there are more to two sides to every story but either you fight and become a pirate like me, or give up and join them and become a socialist zombie or liberal nazi or Kurobot whatever you call yourselves.

This has gone on for almost forever and if you refuse to learn from your failures and mistakes and the failures and mistakes of others in history you will end up just like them! As for me, my pirate life gives me freedoms and liberties and a good feeling better than any drug, sex, drink, smoke, or video game.

You call it paranoid fringer joke, I call it stating the obvious and knowing what is coming before it happens. When 2017 gets here, you'll see that I wasn't so paranoid and I am not the one who was a joke.

Hi Linux or FreeBSD or was it Michael More or Egil or one of your other many handles?

Paranoia is a survival trait, I am a pirate by nature and we are all paranoid by nature, and talk about it via pirate radio. The one thing we are not are jokes, that is what the Kurobots are. They are jokes if they think smoking a joint or two and getting laid will make all of their problems and troubles just magically go away.

I am results oriented, I do not smoke, I do not drink (except a bit of Rum or Rum Lite aka Diet Coke, heh), and I don't need sex either. I am a rebel, a pirate, a ninja, a space pirate ninja, but one thing I am not is a joke or loser. I do not give up and I do not die and as you may have learned I am very hard to kill. Many have tried, all have failed.

You pathetic kurobots have given up trying, you smoke dope, you have sex with anything living or dead, you abuse any drug or booze you can get your hands on, but at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. Your problems are obvious, and that is why you are the joke! Because there are more to two sides to every story but either you fight and become a pirate like me, or give up and join them and become a socialist zombie or liberal nazi or Kurobot whatever you call yourselves.

This has gone on for almost forever and if you refuse to learn from your failures and mistakes and the failures and mistakes of others in history you will end up just like them! As for me, my pirate life gives me freedoms and liberties and a good feeling better than any drug, sex, drink, smoke, or video game.

You call it paranoid fringer joke, I call it stating the obvious and knowing what is coming before it happens. When 2017 gets here, you'll see that I wasn't so paranoid and I am not the one who was a joke.

Hi Linux or FreeBSD or was it Michael More or Egil or one of your other many handles?

Paranoia is a survival trait, I am a pirate by nature and we are all paranoid by nature, and talk about it via pirate radio. The one thing we are not are jokes, that is what the Kurobots are. They are jokes if they think smoking a joint or two and getting laid will make all of their problems and troubles just magically go away.

I am results oriented, I do not smoke, I do not drink (except a bit of Rum or Rum Lite aka Diet Coke, heh), and I don't need sex either. I am a rebel, a pirate, a ninja, a space pirate ninja, but one thing I am not is a joke or loser. I do not give up and I do not die and as you may have learned I am very hard to kill. Many have tried, all have failed.

You pathetic kurobots have given up trying, you smoke dope, you have sex with anything living or dead, you abuse any drug or booze you can get your hands on, but at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. Your problems are obvious, and that is why you are the joke! Because there are more to two sides to every story but either you fight and become a pirate like me, or give up and join them and become a socialist zombie or liberal nazi or Kurobot whatever you call yourselves.

This has gone on for almost forever and if you refuse to learn from your failures and mistakes and the failures and mistakes of others in history you will end up just like them! As for me, my pirate life gives me freedoms and liberties and a good feeling better than any drug, sex, drink, smoke, or video game.

You call it paranoid fringer joke, I call it stating the obvious and knowing what is coming before it happens. When 2017 gets here, you'll see that I wasn't so paranoid and I am not the one who was a joke.

Hi Linux or FreeBSD or was it Michael More or Egil or one of your other many handles?

Paranoia is a survival trait, I am a pirate by nature and we are all paranoid by nature, and talk about it via pirate radio. The one thing we are not are jokes, that is what the Kurobots are. They are jokes if they think smoking a joint or two and getting laid will make all of their problems and troubles just magically go away.

I am results oriented, I do not smoke, I do not drink (except a bit of Rum or Rum Lite aka Diet Coke, heh), and I don't need sex either. I am a rebel, a pirate, a ninja, a space pirate ninja, but one thing I am not is a joke or loser. I do not give up and I do not die and as you may have learned I am very hard to kill. Many have tried, all have failed.

You pathetic kurobots have given up trying, you smoke dope, you have sex with anything living or dead, you abuse any drug or booze you can get your hands on, but at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. Your problems are obvious, and that is why you are the joke! Because there are more to two sides to every story but either you fight and become a pirate like me, or give up and join them and become a socialist zombie or liberal nazi or Kurobot whatever you call yourselves.

This has gone on for almost forever and if you refuse to learn from your failures and mistakes and the failures and mistakes of others in history you will end up just like them! As for me, my pirate life gives me freedoms and liberties and a good feeling better than any drug, sex, drink, smoke, or video game.

You call it paranoid fringer joke, I call it stating the obvious and knowing what is coming before it happens. When 2017 gets here, you'll see that I wasn't so paranoid and I am not the one who was a joke.

Hi Linux or FreeBSD or was it Michael More or Egil or one of your other many handles?

Paranoia is a survival trait, I am a pirate by nature and we are all paranoid by nature, and talk about it via pirate radio. The one thing we are not are jokes, that is what the Kurobots are. They are jokes if they think smoking a joint or two and getting laid will make all of their problems and troubles just magically go away.

I am results oriented, I do not smoke, I do not drink (except a bit of Rum or Rum Lite aka Diet Coke, heh), and I don't need sex either. I am a rebel, a pirate, a ninja, a space pirate ninja, but one thing I am not is a joke or loser. I do not give up and I do not die and as you may have learned I am very hard to kill. Many have tried, all have failed.

You pathetic kurobots have given up trying, you smoke dope, you have sex with anything living or dead, you abuse any drug or booze you can get your hands on, but at the end of the day you have nothing to show for it. Your problems are obvious, and that is why you are the joke! Because there are more to two sides to every story but either you fight and become a pirate like me, or give up and join them and become a socialist zombie or liberal nazi or Kurobot whatever you call yourselves.

This has gone on for almost forever and if you refuse to learn from your failures and mistakes and the failures and mistakes of others in history you will end up just like them! As for me, my pirate life gives me freedoms and liberties and a good feeling better than any drug, sex, drink, smoke, or video game.

You call it paranoid fringer joke, I call it stating the obvious and knowing what is coming before it happens. When 2017 gets here, you'll see that I wasn't so paranoid and I am not the one who was a joke.

I figure a good donation amount would be the cost of one average RIAA CD. Wouldn't take too many people donating that to cover his legal expenses... All we need is a paypal link

Here's a PayPal link.

they use /b/ like a drug to control people's behaviors with it. This is not something the neocons, conservatives, moderates, libertarians, or even independents do, but only liberals do. It is all part of a much bigger plan that I and others have talked about for the past decade or so.

It is actually a part of the liberals' plan to take over the world one Internet web site at a time. They borrowed from Hitler's book, that is how evil it really is, and what we can expect from them.

why is this story, about a totally ridiculous and doomed motion, getting so much attention, when the story I submitted about the landmark Atlantic v. Brennan case languishing in the Firehose? Mr. Brennan doesn't even have a lawyer to defend him.

OK sorry about that. To make a contribution to Ms. Lindor, go here and click on PayPal button.

"in my opinion" is not a magic word that lets you defame people with impunity.

Actually, that phrase provides lots of free speech protections. I can say that I think taking the oil company profits and capping the price will cause oil shipments to stop to the US just like they did in the 1970's. I can say In my opinion, I think someone is an idiot for suggesting it. This is not defamation. This is stating what someone is suggesting and my opinion of his suggestion.

Mentioning that I think there is reason to believe he is not a native born citizen and therefore ineligible to run for president is also not defamation. It is based on the lawsuit that he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii. This is not defamation. References provided.

http://bobmccarty.com/2008/08/23/lawsuit-challenges-barack-obama-citizenship/
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/080214
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/08/barack-obama-is-citizen-of-kenya.html

If he was born here, how does he have citizenship of Kenya?
If he wasn't born on American soil, how is he qualified to run for President?

Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.

Read the truth about the RIAA here.

Thanks kimvette, good idea.

That is a good idea so I decided to join in. I've created a blog (a bit lite on content, I know! :-) ) as well. You can read all about the RIAA, it's litigation history and the truth about their conduct on Ray's blog, Recording Industry vs. The People

Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.

Read the truth about the RIAA here.

Thanks kimvette, good idea.

That is a good idea so I decided to join in. I've created a blog (a bit lite on content, I know! :-) ) as well. You can read all about the RIAA, it's litigation history and the truth about their conduct on Ray's blog, Recording Industry vs. The People

Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.

Read the truth about the RIAA here.

Thanks kimvette, good idea.

That is a good idea so I decided to join in. I've created a blog (a bit lite on content, I know! :-) ) as well. You can read all about the RIAA, it's litigation history and the truth about their conduct on Ray's blog, Recording Industry vs. The People

Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links. Read the truth about the RIAA here.

Thanks kimvette, good idea.

Thanks for the support. The RIAA's motion is frivolous, and I will be responding to it in short order. The responsive papers are due October 13th.

It's just an obvious attempt on their part to weasel out of their liability for attorneys fees, after torturing this innocent woman for the past 3 years.

Some folks have indicated an interest in contributing financially.

Anyone who wants to contribute to Ms. Lindor can do so here. Anyone who wants to contribute to the Expert Witness Defense Fund, which helps people like Ms. Lindor with hiring experts and tech consultants can do so here. Anyone who wants to contribute to me, to help me with the work I do in my blogging and getting the word out, can do so here. Another way to help out my blog is to make purchases through the affiliate ads I post on the blog. (If there are products or services you're looking for that aren't represented there, let me know, and I'll try to get affiliate ads posted for them.

Here is my post providing the details of the accusations.

The RIAA's litigation campaign is in its death throes, as are the 4 big record companies who are behind it. I guess this is the way dying hyenas act, they lash out. Not to worry, they will still lose.

Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.

Read the truth about the RIAA here.

Any record destruction policy must include a "litigation hold". A litigation hold means that record destruction must stop when litigation is anticipated or pending. But in a complex enterprise, it is tricky to know what litigation the enterprise anticipates. It was the trickiness of litigation hold that led to the demise of Arthur Andersen. The risks associated with litigation hold give enterprises incentive to store lots more records. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/07/document-discovery-litigation-hold.html

And here is a post from the company's CEO admitting that Language Log is essentially correct; the program does nothing but process user-submitted judgments.

Well Anonymous must want McCain to win for the lulz then? Because they are racist against Obama. I posted before about liberal racism and bigotry in my pirate group. Liberals can be bigoted and racist as well, you know.

She should have had Hotmail! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Actually, recumbents are just fine on hills, they just use different, rather untrained muscles - it takes time to get these into shape. Human power production and biomechanics are my area of study, and I've just finished a project developing a human-powered utility vehicle. It is truly amazing what you can do with 150 watts of power and some creative design.

I'd really like to see recumbents become more mainstream here in the US. They can make riding a lot more pleasant, and can make trips of up to 20-30 miles feasible for many people who thought otherwise. With the small market penetration though, they're in a vicious circle of high cost (typically >$1.5k). You can see my HPUV in action here.

The one whose study said a handgun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a family member than a criminal. Of the 43 deaths reported in his flawed study, 37 (86%) were suicides. Other deaths involved criminal activity between the family members (drug deals gone bad).

Kellerman admits that his study did âoenot include cases in which burglars or intruders are wounded or frightened away by the use or display of a firearm.â He also admitted his study did not look at situations in which intruders âoepurposely avoided a home known to be armed.â This is a classic case of a âoestudyâ conducted to achieve a desired result. In his critique of this âoestudyâ, Gary Kleck notes that the estimation of gun ownership rates were âoeinaccurateâ , and that the total population came from a non-random selection of only two cities.

Totally debunked

Welcome to the internet. People here aren't known for telling the truth and like to cut and paste cute stories like this over and over. In fact, here you go, I will do a search on a random phrase from the story ... and viola, here is where it was originally posted in 2007: http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/10/bloodsuckers-in-blue.html

Let's see what Barclay's has to say about this. What would be cool is if Barclay's would retrofit the data centers with green roofs. They would save about 20% on hvac, making the buy an even better deal. i read about this type of thing in an article called "Data Centers Need Green Roofs" found at http://cleanerairforcities.blogspot.com/2008/07/data-centers-need-green-roofs.html Good luck finding good work!

unemployment is at a record high

Not even close.

while some companies enjoy $11 billion-a-quarter profits

Yes, the employment situation would be much better if no companies were making money. By the way, Exxon paid $32 billion in taxes for that quarter. If you succeed in strangling their profits, you'll need to make that up somewhere.

Inflation is, well, inflating the price of goods, while most Americans' spending power is diminished.

Quite true. Perhaps we should stop burning food and causing its price to rise substantially.

Hi, on the contrary, this is not just another layer of software. First, our software is alternative replication that fixes a number of problems with existing mechanisms like MySQL replication . Second, it provides replication (or will when we release) where it is sorely needed, namely low-end Oracle implementations. Whoever put this on Slashdot got the title right. Third, cross-database replication is a big problem for a lot of people and there's nothing in open source right now that addresses it effectively. Taken together this sounds pretty innovative to me. But then I wrote the original post, so these arguments are perhaps not unexpected. :)

when the site relies on input from people who have the time to provide feedback, and I don't think there's any credentials system to verify that people know what they are talking about.

I'm not trying to shoot down this goal, just noting some points brought up by sites that seem to already dislike this effort.

The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is nothing new. From their creation in the 1930s, these entities were government controlled. Whether government controlled them outright or had partially privatized them, government always called the shots. Government set terms on what types of mortgages they could offer, to whom, and in what amount. Most importantly, government provided a widely understood "implicit" guarantee of the debt issued by these entities. Unlike other financial institutions, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could issue debt (which was then lent out to mortgage borrowers) with the backing of the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve. That gave Fannie and Freddie an edge over private banks in making mortgage loans, by design. Reportedly, 50% of all outstanding mortgages are guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie, and as much as 75% of all new mortgages in recent years were issued by these agencies.

The government's purpose in forming these entities was to make mortgages more widely available. Absent Fannie and Freddie, the other way to get mortgages has always been from private, profit-seeking banks, banks that had to safeguard their credit by striving to lend their money only to creditworthy borrowers. The only way Fannie and Freddie could out-compete these banks was by doing the one thing its government backing enabled it to do: lend to less creditworthy borrowers. This is a case of the bad credit driving out the good credit. In the space of 70 years, millions of uncreditworthy borrowers got mortgages as these government agencies pushed out the more prudent private banks and gained the largest market share in the mortgage market.

Now the loans are being called. The credit and stock markets are calling these loans en masse. The sheer weight of thousands of deadbeat borrowers has created a crisis that even the implicit guarantee of Fannie and Freddie's debt by the U.S. government cannot ameliorate. So, this weekend the implicit guarantee has been made explicit.

That should make it fully clear to everyone, if it wasn't during the past 70 years of the "implicit" guarantee. The lender to all these deadbeat borrowers, borrowers who didn't qualify to get loans from private banks, is you, me, and everyone else in this country. We are all on the hook for the bad loans to our neighbors. That is socialism, and now it has been made explicit.

The issues most important, in order:
1. Education
2. Healthcare
3. International Trade
4. Energy.

Obama obviously leads on first 2.
( but he isn't likely to win, now with Palin putting the white women's vote, and the Latina vote, to McCain .. http://alisavaldesrodriguez.blogspot.com/2008/09/latinas-and-palin.html )

If the first most important items are dealt with Right Now,
then we'd be in much better shape to muscle the rest into line, right?

Triage.

Too bad it's going to be McCain, though..

I think , so they released the source for their 'better replication' technology.

And we know that while MySQL replication has many wonderful features like simple set-up, it also has many deficiencies that have persisted for a long time. Monty Widenius, a widely respected MySQL engineer, summarized some of the key problems last April:

- replication is not fail safe
- no synchronous options
- no checking consistency option
- setup and resync of slave is complicated
- single thread on the slave
- no multi-master
- only InnodDB synchronizes with the replication (binary) log

Hopefully this will lead to a better (ie fixed) eplication system for MySql.

Both the IDEs have syntax checkers - this is especially useful if you write some of your code on an editor like vim/emacs/gedit etc. and want to start editing that code in IDEs.

My advice is to choose an IDE and stick with it. Avoid shifting IDEs for python because of the indentation requirement and how each IDE might handle it differently.

komodo edit is an extremely powerful editor that works with a slew of languages on Windows, Mac and Linux. It is free as in beer. It is packaged by ActiveState as just an editor - but really it has many features that fall more into the IDE camp - yet it is light-weight and responsive - more like an editor. This review of komodo edit may be helpful.
 
  Komodo IDE is the big brother to Komodo edit I guess. I've never used it because the cost is outside my budget. ($295 for a full single user license - there is a student version but I don't know what it costs)
 
  SPE is free/free I believe. It is multiplatform and the price is right to at least give it a try.
 
All these and more are listed on the python ide page of the python.org wiki.
 
Personally - right now I use Komodo edit while I wait for python support in netbeans.

...so nothing new here for me really. I had this entry in the webstats of my weblog at the time of the USA 193 spy satellite shootdown: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2008/03/interesting-visitor.html